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If you hear the term "[[Super Soldier]]", it will usually involve this. This will often result in a [[Badass Army]] if done properly and taken to the proper level. May result in [[Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training]] if the soldiers aren't given a balanced education outside of warfare. When the training is actually simply a way of living, you get [[HAD to Be Sharp]].
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* Spoofed on ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where a regiment of Scottish kamikazes have a 100% fatality rate in training.
** Of course, the reason that only one person survived the training regimen of the McKamikaze Highlanders is not due to the harshness of the training, but because they were so eager to die for their country that they couldn't bring themselves to wait until they were ordered to do so (The one person to survive was forcibly restrained so that he would stay alive until he actually received his orders).
* The Peacekeepers of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' are usually raised this way. In most cases, procreation is assigned, parental love is frowned upon if not outright illegal, and children are trained from birth to be [[The Stoic|stoic]], [[Tyke Bomb|obedient]] [[Punch Clock Villain|goons]], with emotional attachment seen as an unforgivable weakness. Heroine Aeryn Sun's entire character arc is about overcoming the mindset this loveless, violent upbringing has given her. In an interesting subversion, [[Anti
* It could be argued Dean and Sam Winchester of ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'' were raised this way after their mother's death when Dean was four and Sam six months old.
* ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' implies that what the [[School for Scheming|Academy]] was doing to River and the other test subjects is a small-scale, prototype version of this, intended to create [[Super Soldier|psychic killing machines.]]
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