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[[Training from Hell]] on an industrial scale.

 

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]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]? Fumoffu'', Sousuke subjects his high school rugby team to this, in a not-so-subtle [[Shout-Out]] to ''Full Metal Jacket''.

 

 

* Divine Assassin training in ''[[The Open Door]]''. It starts with a five-kilometre run on hot asphalt immediately followed by a two-kilometre swim across the Aegean sea, with burnt feet still smarting, and the four-year training includes torture and a week-long [[Mind Rape]] session at the hands of an [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Complete Monster]]. The end result kills 37 excessively gung-ho trainees out of the 120 volunteers, with the rest washed out to less intense courses, which admittedly does not look very severe. Space Marine trained inherited from canon!40k most likely follows the old vein too.

 

* The Peacekeepers of ''[[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-Villain]] Crais was drafted as a boy along with his doomed younger brother - he was actually raised on a farming colony, by a clearly loving father.

* It could be argued Dean and Sam Winchester of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' were raised this way after their mother's death when Dean was four and Sam six months old.

* On ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'', most of the subjects are claimed to have gone through something like this, having fought since childhood and/or been trained harder than anyone else. [[Hollywood History|The accuracy of these claims varies from case to case.]]