Starship Troopers (film): Difference between revisions

* [[Physical Fitness Punishment]]: In the first movie, one of several methods of punishment used by the instructors in boot camp. One trooper is sent running around a distance armory (with a Corporal swatting him with a cane to keep pace) as punishment for failing to address his instructor as "Sir".

** [[Played With]] in the second film. A group of troopers are couped up in an abandoned outpost waiting for rescue, and a comely female trooper<ref> who is possessed by a [[Puppeteer Parasite]] that she is trying to spread</ref> makes a pass at Captain Dax, claiming that she needs to burn off "excess energy". So he decides to help her out by having her do a hundred pushups [[Not Distracted by the Sexy|as he walks off]].

* [[Planetville]]

* [[Plot Armor]]: Any character that needs to survive a bug attacking them for the purposes of plot get stabbed in [[Only a Flesh Wound|the shoulder or leg]]. Anyone else gets it right through the chest multiple times.