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* {{Gainaxing}}: One series of strips has some "Suspicious Movements" on the horizon, consisting in a pair of boobs (and occasionally a butt) bobbing vigorously up and down. Eventually one soldier gets fed up and retorts... by stripping naked and jumping up and down on the trench's border, making grimaces and gestures at the enemy.
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The whole thing comes out as an anti-war comic and is filled with criticism against the "blind obedience to authority'', the absurdity of war and military bureaucracy (Bonvi was an anarchist and proud of it), and the implications that military and civilian aren't so different as seen in the quote above. In other words, there's more than the eye met in these strips.
There are two film adaptations (one of which starring Bonvi himself) which, however, weren't well received at all by everyone.
There are two film adaptations (one of which starring Bonvi himself) which, however, weren't well received at all by everyone.
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The whole thing comes out as an anti-war comic and is filled with criticism against the "blind obedience to authority'', the absurdity of war and military bureaucracy (Bonvi was an anarchist and proud of it), and the implications that military and civilian aren't so different as seen in the quote above. In other words, there's more than the eye met in these strips.
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There are two film adaptations (one of which starring Bonvi himself) which, however, weren't well receivedat all by everyone.
There are two film adaptations (one of which starring Bonvi himself) which, however, weren't well received
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* EpicFail: Used in many gags.
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* EpicFail: Used in This is the basis of many gags.
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* EpicFail: Used in many gags. Including one where the new sniper squad is training with bad results. We see one of the soldiers firing his rifle... and missing the huge target board which was ''literally an inch away from the gun's muzzle.''
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* EpicFail: Used in many gags. Including
**There is one where the new sniper squad is training with bad results. We see one of the soldiers firing his rifle... and missing the huge target board which was ''literally an inch away from the gun's muzzle.''''
**A firing squad tries to execute a prisoner. Repeatedly. [[BeyondTheImpossible They somehow manage to miss him and hit the wall behind him while he was holding their rifles pressed directly against his]] '''[[BeyondTheImpossible chest.]]'''
**There is one where the new sniper squad is training with bad results. We see one of the soldiers firing his rifle... and missing the huge target board which was ''literally an inch away from the gun's muzzle.
**A firing squad tries to execute a prisoner. Repeatedly. [[BeyondTheImpossible They somehow manage to miss him and hit the wall behind him while he was holding their rifles pressed directly against his]] '''[[BeyondTheImpossible chest.]]'''
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Invoked in a stripe where a soldiers begs the Sergeant to let him do something and that he behaved very well so far. Cue to the Sergeant angrily telling him that no, ''scalping enemy corpses'' is not allowed.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Invoked in a stripe strip where a soldiers begs the Sergeant to let him do something and that he behaved very well so far. Cue to the Sergeant angrily telling him that no, ''scalping enemy corpses'' is not allowed.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: The Sergeant, who actually draws a [[ImmodestOrgasm perverse, sadistic pleasure]] from torturing newcomers and lord over the soldiers and bully them in general.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: The Sergeant, who actually draws a [[ImmodestOrgasm [[TheImmodestOrgasm perverse, sadistic pleasure]] from torturing newcomers and lord over the soldiers and bully them in general.
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry.
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* IAteWhat: Played straight when is revealed that the Cook often use suspicious ingredients like [[SerialEscalation boiled tires, motor oil, horses' carcasses, leaves and dangerous chemicals]] in his food. Inverted when a soldier tries to murder the Sergeant by putting a rattlesnake in his mess tin. The Sergeant mistakes it for an [[ExtremeOmnivore eel and devours it with much pleasure.]]
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* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: {{Defied}}: the characters are hardly heroes but are still soldiers, and they ''know'' how stupid it is to not wear helmets unless they're under cover (though not as stupid as intentionally staying in the open for more than necessary). Notably, in the infamous arc where the soldiers discovered [[ExactWords the regulations don't say they have to wear their uniforms, only keep them in perfect order]] [[NakedPeopleAreFunny they would go around completely naked]] ''except'' for the helmet.
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* FunetikAksent: All characters (except Galeazzo Musolesi and the Japanese "Ally from the Rising Sun") speak an improper, German-mocking language, gratuitously adding an -en desinence to most words, exchanging the V with F and exchanging C and Q with K.
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* FunetikAksent: All characters (except Galeazzo Musolesi and the Japanese "Ally from the Rising Sun") speak an improper, German-mocking language, gratuitously adding an -en desinence to most words, exchanging the V Vs with F Fs and exchanging C Cs and Q Qs with K.Ks.
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* TokenMinority: The only two non German characters are the Italian Galeazzo Musolesi and a Japanese known only as "the Ally of the Rising Sun." They're also the only characters whose speeches are written through correct language instead of FunetikAksent.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: PlayedWith. All characters are part of the German army and, as apathetic and lazy as they can be, we never get to see actual dissidents who are overtly anti-Nazi. But what makes it complicated is Nazism isn't referenced ''at all'' in the comic: no swastika is ever shown, Hitler is never mentioned, no character ever voices Nazi ideals[[note]]there are ''very rare'' exception from early black-and-white strips[[/note]]. It's almost as if ''Sturmtruppen'' took place in some alternative reality where Nazis don't exist, and the German army is just under the order of a generic and depersonalised German regime.
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* FunetikAksent: All characters (except Galeazzo Musolesi and the Japanese "Ally from the Rising Sun") speak an improper, German-mocking language, gratuitously adding an -en desinence to most words, exchanging the V with F and exchanging C and Q with K.
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* GratuitousGerman: German words are frequently tossed around together with FunetikAksent.
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The whole thing comes out as an anti-war comic and is filled with criticism against the "blind obedience to authority'', the absurdity of war and military bureaucracy (Bonvi was an anarchist and proud of it), and the implications that military and civilian are NotSoDifferent aren't so different as seen in the quote above. In other words, there's more than the eye met in these strips.
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* AndIMustScream: The exalted Private Siegfried Von Nibelungen steps on a friendly mine during his first charge and ends up as a pathetic, limbless thing all bandaged up, with all his senses gone and unable to even call the nurses when he shit himself.
** [[ShoutOut This may seem]] [[{{Music/Metallica}} a little]] [[Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun familiar.]]
** [[ShoutOut This may seem]] [[{{Music/Metallica}} a little]] [[Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun familiar.]]
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* AndIMustScream: The exalted Private Siegfried Von Nibelungen steps on a friendly mine during his first charge and ends up as a pathetic, limbless thing all bandaged up, with all his senses gone and unable to even call the nurses when he shit himself.
**himself. [[ShoutOut This may seem]] [[{{Music/Metallica}} a little]] [[Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun familiar.]]
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: When the Medic believes to have become invisible, he start going around all naked, much to the embarrassment of the battalion.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: NakedPeopleAreFunny:
** When the Medic believes to have become invisible, he start going around all naked, much to the embarrassment of the battalion.
** When the Medic believes to have become invisible, he start going around all naked, much to the embarrassment of the battalion.
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* CreepyCentipede: Subverted, in one strip a soldier hears something moving behind him and turns around in time to see a monstrous, black, skull-headed caterpillar. He's relieved to find out it's not the Sergeant.
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* CreepyCentipede: CreepyCentipedes: Subverted, in one strip a soldier hears something moving behind him and turns around in time to see a monstrous, black, skull-headed caterpillar. He's relieved to find out it's not the Sergeant.
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* OneSteveLimit: Inverted, all the soldiers have names like Otto, Franz, Fritz, Heinz. Most of the other character are nameless, though apparently the Sergeant's name is Giuseppe (Joseph).
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* OneSteveLimit: Inverted, all the soldiers have names like Otto, Franz, Fritz, Heinz. Most of the other character are nameless, though apparently the Sergeant's name is two Sergeants have been revealed to be named Herod Muller and Giuseppe (Joseph).
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* ThePigPen: The Sergeant can boast about having 6-7 pounds of dirt and filth on his body, forming a sort of natural armor against splinters and projectiles. Another example is how they used sandpaper and ''industrial acids'' just to wash him. And that's for the outer layers.
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* ThePigPen: The One Sergeant can boast about having 6-7 pounds of dirt and filth on his body, forming a sort of natural armor against splinters and projectiles. Another example is how they used sandpaper and ''industrial acids'' just to wash him. And that's for the outer layers.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The 27th Armoured Battalion (of Discipline), two rough veterans who can force the Sergeant to crawl around squirming and get away with that.
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{{Gainaxing}}: One series of strips has some "Suspicious Movements" on the horizon, consisting in a pair of boobs (and occasionally a butt) bobbing vigorously up and down. Eventually one soldier gets fed up and retorts... by stripping naked and jumping up and down on the trench's border, making grimaces and gestures at the enemy.
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* {{Gainaxing}}: One series of strips has some "Suspicious Movements" on the horizon, consisting in a pair of boobs (and occasionally a butt) bobbing vigorously up and down. Eventually one soldier gets fed up and retorts... by stripping naked and jumping up and down on the trench's border, making grimaces and gestures at the enemy.
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The whole thing comes out as an anti-war comic and a is filled with criticism against the "blind obedience to authority'', the absurdity of war and military bureaucracy (Bonvi was an anarchist and proud of it), and the implications that military and civilian are NotSoDifferent as seen in the quote above. In other words, there's more than the eye met in these strips.
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* CreepyCentipede: Subverted, in one strip a soldier hears something moving behind him and turns around in time to see a monstrous, black, skull-headed caterpillar. He's relieved to find out it's not the Sergeant.
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{{Gainaxing}}: One series of strips has some "Suspicious Movements" on the horizon, consisting in a pair of boobs (and occasionally a butt) bobbing vigorously up and down. Eventually one soldier gets fed up and retorts... by stripping naked and jumping up and down on the trench's border, making grimaces and gestures at the enemy.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: In one strip, a soldier tells his companion that he feels that soon it will be all over. When the other one asks if he means that the war is about to end, the former replies that "[[SelfDeprecation ze author of zis strip is running out of ideas]]". In another one, when two soldiers inform the Captain that the Cook asked for a firethrower because the lunch became alive and is now slithering towards the trenches, the Captain angrily tells them that if they want to work in an horror comic they should at least find a better excuse.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Frequently used in many strips.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Frequently used in many strips. A notable example is when the Sergeant has a soldier buried alive ''in an anthill'' for sleeping on his turn of sentinel. When the terrified soldiers begs for mercy and reminds him that he has three sons, the Sergeant angrily retorts that he doesn't have so many anthills at his disposal.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Invoked in a stripe where a soldiers begs the Sergeant to let him do something and that he behaved very well so far. Cue to the Sergeant angrily telling him that no, ''scalping enemy corpses'' is not allowed.
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* LackOfEmpathy: A wounded soldier stuck into a mine field yelling in the night because of his terrible wounds? A sleeping soldier angrily tells him to be quiet, as they want to sleep, and leaves him to complain under his breath.
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* LiteralMinded: As a parody of blind obedience, this is often employed as a gag at the expenses of the soldiers.
-->'''The Sergeant''': "Okay, Little Prussian Outlook, you now stand on ze tree with binoculars in one hand and ze rifle in ze other. You can start your watch."
-->'''Little Prussian Outlook''' (falls from the tree headfirst) "I insist in saying that something's wrong with this command".
-->'''The Sergeant''': "Okay, Little Prussian Outlook, you now stand on ze tree with binoculars in one hand and ze rifle in ze other. You can start your watch."
-->'''Little Prussian Outlook''' (falls from the tree headfirst) "I insist in saying that something's wrong with this command".
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* SerialEscalation: Inverted in an early strip, where a Captain is about to order an attack.
-->'''Captain''': "Send in the tanks!"
-->'''Sergeant''': "All tanks destroyed."
-->'''Captain''': "Fire at will!"
-->'''Sergeant''': "Out of ammo!"
-->'''Captain''': "Bayonet charge!!"
-->'''Sergeant''': "We don't have bayonets!"
-->'''Captain''': "Sergeant, how about we challenge the enemy to a game of soccer?"
-->'''Captain''': "Send in the tanks!"
-->'''Sergeant''': "All tanks destroyed."
-->'''Captain''': "Fire at will!"
-->'''Sergeant''': "Out of ammo!"
-->'''Captain''': "Bayonet charge!!"
-->'''Sergeant''': "We don't have bayonets!"
-->'''Captain''': "Sergeant, how about we challenge the enemy to a game of soccer?"
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* {{Valkyries}}: In one strip, a dying soldier proves he belongs to the "pure Aryan race" when Valkyries descend from the sky to take him away.
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* AssShove: In one series of strips, the Medic has to operate a soldier who got shot in the backside, but mistakes the... natural opening for the bullet wound, and in an attempt to extract the bullet he ends up removing the poor sod's coccyx... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint wondering about the odd shape of the bullet]].
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* TheGhost: A notable characteristic is that the so-called "enemy" is never, ever shown and only identified by name in passing once (it's the Americans).
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* TheGhost: A notable characteristic is that the so-called "enemy" is never, ever shown and only identified by name in passing once (it's the Americans).(Eisenhower had broken through their lines and made a phone call to gloat).
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* DepthDeception: Used in a CrowningMomentOfFunny involving a one-inch tall palm tree.
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* DepthDeception: Used in a CrowningMomentOfFunny SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} involving a one-inch tall palm tree.
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* TheGhost: A notable characteristic is that the so-called "enemy" is never, ever shown.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The earlier strips made much clearer the soldiers were World War II Germans, making numerous references to Nazi policies, identifying the enemy as the Americans, and even gettin a phone call from UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower gloating he had just broken through their lines.
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The comic focus on the life and misadventures of an anonymous German battalion during (supposedly) WorldWarII, showing the daily life, problems and joys of the various, anonymous soldiers and a small cast of fixed characters. Some strips form story arcs that deals with several, hilarious events, sometimes mundane (a maniac sniper soldier, die-hard lices, an attempted "extermination" of a Jewish prisoner) sometimes crazier (a deluge that turns the trench in ponds, a DemonicPossession and a soldier who appears to be the Messiah).
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The comic focus on the life and misadventures of an anonymous German battalion during (supposedly) WorldWarII, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, showing the daily life, problems and joys of the various, anonymous soldiers and a small cast of fixed characters. Some strips form story arcs that deals with several, hilarious events, sometimes mundane (a maniac sniper soldier, die-hard lices, an attempted "extermination" of a Jewish prisoner) sometimes crazier (a deluge that turns the trench in ponds, a DemonicPossession and a soldier who appears to be the Messiah).
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* CameraFiend: The Ally of the Rising Sun is initially shown as the typical japanese tourist stereotype.
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* CameraFiend: The Ally of the Rising Sun is initially shown as the typical japanese Japanese tourist stereotype.
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* GagBoobs: While trying to make the Sergeant look slimmer for the General's Ispection, they put him in a bustier that ends up squeezing all his fat upwards, resulting in a pair of massive, bouncing boobs that becomes the main source of humor for the following stripes as we find out that the General is also a DirtyOldMan....
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* GagBoobs: While trying to make the Sergeant look slimmer for the General's Ispection, Inspection, they put him in a bustier that ends up squeezing all his fat upwards, resulting in a pair of massive, bouncing boobs that becomes the main source of humor for the following stripes as we find out that the General is also a DirtyOldMan....
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* GeneralFailure: A succesful military action is rarely seen or even implied.
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* GeneralFailure: A succesful successful military action is rarely seen or even implied.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: When the Medic believes to have become invisible, he start going around all naked, much to the embarassment of the battalion.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: When the Medic believes to have become invisible, he start going around all naked, much to the embarassment embarrassment of the battalion.
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* OneLastSmoke: Parodied when a soldier can't have cigarettes because the Colonnel is trying to stop smoking, so he's given bubble gum instead.
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* OneLastSmoke: Parodied when a soldier can't have cigarettes because the Colonnel Colonel is trying to stop smoking, so he's given bubble gum instead.
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* RightBehindMe: There's one strip where the Captain calls the General (who was supposed to assist to the execution) an old moron, and the General is right behind him with an anrgy frown on his face.
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* RightBehindMe: There's one strip where the Captain calls the General (who was supposed to assist to the execution) an old moron, and the General is right behind him with an anrgy angry frown on his face.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Galeazzo Musolesi is the straightest example, as a direct parody of fascist soldiers during the WorldWarII.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There are only four main female characters so far: the Battalion's Bitch, Sergeant Olga, Caporal Helga and Private Tilda.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There are only four main female characters so far: the Battalion's Bitch, Sergeant Olga, Caporal Helga and Private Tilda.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Galeazzo Musolesi is the straightest example, as a direct parody of fascist soldiers during the WorldWarII.
UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There are only four main female characters so far: the Battalion's Bitch, Sergeant Olga,Caporal Corporal Helga and Private Tilda.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There are only four main female characters so far: the Battalion's Bitch, Sergeant Olga,
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* BadAss: The Drunken Captain, whose deeds include destroying a tank using his liquor bottle as an improvised Molotov Cocktail and defying the enemy fire by standing still on the trench's border shouting "[[BadassBoast I'll crush you all like wasps!!"]]". Even the resident badass veterans admit that he was the best around.
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** [[ShoutOut This may seem]] [[{{Music/Metallica}} a little]] [[Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun familiar.]]
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->"Zis damned military service vill haff to end sometime. I've grown tired of hafing to say 'Yes, sir' to anyone with a higher ranken. I kan barely vait to return to being an anonymous civilian and being able to zay 'Yes, sir' to any of my superiors..."
-->-- '''Anonymous Soldier'''
''Sturmtruppen'' is a popular and succesful satiric comic, written and drawn by Bonvi (real name: Franco Bonvicini). They started as four-frame comic strips back in 1968 and slowly evolved into full-sized collector books up to 1990s, gathering something like 6000 strips in total.
The comic focus on the life and misadventures of an anonymous German battalion during (supposedly) WorldWarII, showing the daily life, problems and joys of the various, anonymous soldiers and a small cast of fixed characters. Some strips form story arcs that deals with several, hilarious events, sometimes mundane (a maniac sniper soldier, die-hard lices, an attempted "extermination" of a Jewish prisoner) sometimes crazier (a deluge that turns the trench in ponds, a DemonicPossession and a soldier who appears to be the Messiah).
The whole thing comes out as an anti-war comic and a filled with criticism against the "blind obedience to authority'', the absurdity of war and military bureaucracy (Bonvi was an anarchist and proud of it), and the implications that military and civilian are NotSoDifferent as seen in the quote above. In other words, there's more than the eye met in these strips.
There are two film adaptations (one of which starring Bonvi himself) which, however, weren't well received at all by everyone.
''Sturmtruppen'' contains examples of:
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: According to an opinion poll, the 50% of the soldiers believes that the Sergeant should be fried in boiling oil. The other half would rather use kerosene.
* AfraidOfBlood: Sadly enough the Medic.
* TheAlcoholic: The drunken captain (implied to be a sort of AuthorAvatar). To the point that when he's mortally wounded the blood from his wounds emit a strong smell of Alcohol.
* AndIMustScream: The exalted Private Siegfried Von Nibelungen steps on a friendly mine during his first charge and ends up as a pathetic, limbless thing all bandaged up, with all his senses gone and unable to even call the nurses when he shit himself.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Private Humbert, who was left forgotten for five years in a desolate outpost and now looks like a huge, hairy brute with revolting habits. His true nature is often questioned, especially when [[spoiler: after shaving him they find out that he was made of hair.]]
* ArmiesAreEvil: The general message, thought this army looks more goofy and stupid than evil.
* BadAss: The Drunken Captain, whose deeds include destroying a tank using his liquor bottle as an improvised Molotov Cocktail and defying the enemy fire by standing still on the trench's border shouting "[[BadassBoast I'll crush you all like wasps!!"]]". Even the resident badass veterans admit that he was the best around.
* BestialityIsDepraved: When we see the stableman in charge of the camels (who hasn't seen a woman in years) we see him sitting between two camels with lipstick and eyelashes. He also brings them on a date or dance with them amongst various things.
* {{BFG}}: The Second Lieutenant volunteers for creating a new, powerful rifle for the army. He ends up creating the same rifle, but now ''howitzer-sized'' complete with wheels.
* BlackComedy: Including an early and a bit poignant strip about the Gas chambers/showers.
* BlackComedyRape: When a soldier is turned into a savage brute by the Cook's latest experiment he ends up on a rampage and kidnaps Galeazzo Musolesi, and later tries to force himself on him.
* BlobMonster: The Cook ends up turning the lunch into an amorphous, NighInvulnerable monster that feeds on soldiers.
* BrotherChuck: The Little Prussian Vedette (a parody of a character from another Italian work).
* ButtMonkey: Everyone, usually the soldiers.
* CameraFiend: The Ally of the Rising Sun is initially shown as the typical japanese tourist stereotype.
* CampGay: An early series of strips features a new Captain with "particular tendencies".
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Played for laughs: when the old general is recovered and removes his uniform everyone treats him like an old worthless geezer. As soon as he put back that uniform he's once again feared and respected.
* ColdSniper: Averted, in a series of strips the resident sniper goes obsessed with gaining a high score and starts shooting on his own soldiers and officers.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Frequently used in many strips.
* CyanidePill: Played for laughs: when the "Oldest Spy in the Army" (actually Galeazzo Musolesi) starts teaching his arts he instruct his pupils to swallow a breath mint if discovered. That's why he's "The ''Oldest'' Spy in the Army".
* DeadpanSnarker: Interestingly enough, there's no fixed snarker, and usually anyone get a chance.
* DemonicPossession: Soldier Fritz is possessed by a demon while patrolling the postation 666 and ends up flying around, vomiting green goo and turning his head around. He's finally defeated when Musolesi [[ImprobableWeaponUser crush him with a giant wooden crucifix]].
* DepthDeception: Used in a CrowningMomentOfFunny involving a one-inch tall palm tree.
* DisguisedInDrag: Private Otto in the Africa Korps disguise himself as a BellyDancer for his secret mission, but this tends to backfire with predictable results. There are also many strips in which soldiers are put in drag and forced to attend parties for officers.
* TheDitz: The Second Lieutenant, seriously bordering with TooDumbToLive (to the points that some soldiers once wondered out loud how could he be still alive in spite of his own idiocy).
* DrillSergeantNasty: The Sergeant, who actually draws a [[ImmodestOrgasm perverse, sadistic pleasure]] from torturing newcomers and lord over the soldiers and bully them in general.
* EpicFail: Used in many gags. Including one where the new sniper squad is training with bad results. We see one of the soldiers firing his rifle... and missing the huge target board which was ''literally an inch away from the gun's muzzle.''
* ExactWords: In one arc, the soldiers are going around naked. Furious and perplexed, the Sergeant points out that the rules says that a soldier must have and keep his uniform in perfect order. Cue to the naked soldiers going around while holding their perfectly-neat uniforms in one hand.
* FatBastard: The Sergeant. In one story arc his fatness becomes a plot point and trouble.
* FearlessFool: [[LargeHam Private]] [[MeaningfulName Siegfrid Von Nibelunghen]], who's a jab at and a parody of the concept that WarIsGlorious.
* GagBoobs: While trying to make the Sergeant look slimmer for the General's Ispection, they put him in a bustier that ends up squeezing all his fat upwards, resulting in a pair of massive, bouncing boobs that becomes the main source of humor for the following stripes as we find out that the General is also a DirtyOldMan....
* GallowsHumor: Literally in a series of strips.
* GeneralFailure: A succesful military action is rarely seen or even implied.
* GeneralRipper: There's not enough food for all the soldiers? Order an attack right before lunchtime!
* TheGhost: A notable characteristic is that the so-called "enemy" is never, ever shown.
* GiantMook: "Gorilla" Franz, who's employed by Galeazzo Musolesi as his trusty bodyguard/minion.
* HiddenDepths: See above in the description.
* IAteWhat: Played straight when is revealed that the Cook often use suspicious ingredients like [[SerialEscalation boiled tires, motor oil, horses' carcasses, leaves and dangerous chemicals]] in his food. Inverted when a soldier tries to murder the Sergeant by putting a rattlesnake in his mess tin. The Sergeant mistakes it for an [[ExtremeOmnivore eel and devours it with much pleasure.]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The new team of snipers. The huge glasses they're wearing should give you a clue. This is also used as a gag during the "extermination" arc.
* InscrutableOriental: Parodied with the Japanese soldier, who tries to hump the crossdressing soldier spy Otto the istant he crosses his line of sight.
* {{Invisibility}}: A story arc has the Medic obsessed over trying to make the invisibility potion, and believes to have become invisible himself after drinking a whole becher of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grappa grappa]]. And [[RuleOfFunny being a Major, he has the highest rank in the battalion and can consider himself invisible as he wishes.]]
* JerkAss: Most of the cast, usually the Sergeant and Musolesi.
* TheJinx: The infamous and dreaded soldier "Jonah" Franz.
* JustAStupidAccent: One of the main characteristic of this comic is that anyone (except the female characters, Galeazzo Musolesi who's Italian and the Japanese soldier) speaks in a mocking German-sounding Italian (usually adding -en at the end of the words).
* KickTheDog: The Sergeant is proud of doing this.
* LaserGuidedKarma: In a story arc the private Otto tries to be recognized as clinically insane so that he can leave the army. After being thwarted and forced to handle some highly dangerous explosive he goes insane for real and can leave the army.
* LeanAndMean: The Captain, the Medic and all the other officers.
* LethalChef: The Cook. One simple yet effective example is found in his spaghetti, which apparently can move on their own and maul soldiers.
* LovableCoward: The Proud Ally Galeazzo Musolesi of San Giovanni in Persiceto, a parody of fascists, will shit himself, duck for cover, tremble in fear and faint at the minimum danger.
* MadScientist: The Medic believes to have discovered the Invisibility Elixir without going mad. Is actually the other way around.
* MadeOfIron: Private Humbert, who can actually gulp down the Cook's cuisine without ill effect and was totally unharmed after crossing a demonic radioactive cloud.
* {{Mooks}}: The various soldiers.
* MsFanservice: Private Tilda and also the Battalion's Bitch. Furthermore Bonvi wasn't too shy about putting around attractive, often naked hotties here and there.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: When the Medic believes to have become invisible, he start going around all naked, much to the embarassment of the battalion.
** Also, in one arc a soldier discovered that the regulations don't actually say you have to wear your uniform, only that it must be in perfect order. Cue the entire battalion starting to go around naked and [[ExactWords keeping their uniforms in perfect order in their closets]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Galeazzo Musolesi is named after Mussolini and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeazzo_Ciano Galeazzo Ciano]].
* NoNameGiven: Many high-ranked officer, the Battalion's Bitch and the Jewish prisoner.
* TheOldestProfession: The Battalion's Bitch. Her "boyfriend" Otto tries to romanticize it by giving her flowers and chocolates, but the poor sop hasn't much success.
* OneLastSmoke: Parodied when a soldier can't have cigarettes because the Colonnel is trying to stop smoking, so he's given bubble gum instead.
* OneSteveLimit: Inverted, all the soldiers have names like Otto, Franz, Fritz, Heinz. Most of the other character are nameless, though apparently the Sergeant's name is Giuseppe (Joseph).
* OnlySaneMan: The Captain.
* OnlySixFaces: Done on purpose. All the soldiers looks the same (except for some "veterans" who have traces of beard), the Sergeant and the Cook looks like slightly bigger soldiers and the other officers are pretty much alike, except for the uniforms and the nose shape.
* ThePigPen: The Sergeant can boast about having 6-7 pounds of dirt and filth on his body, forming a sort of natural armor against splinters and projectiles. Another example is how they used sandpaper and ''industrial acids'' just to wash him. And that's for the outer layers.
* RecklessGunUsage: In an interesting variation: "Air-Headed" Franz wields his gun with the [[BayonetYa baionet]] mounted, and often ends up [[EyeScream stabbing eyes]] and ripping ears by accident.
* RightBehindMe: There's one strip where the Captain calls the General (who was supposed to assist to the execution) an old moron, and the General is right behind him with an anrgy frown on his face.
* {{Seppuku}}: Musolesi almost drive the Rising Sun Ally to do this. However, after the Captain talks to him, he decides that there's no need to spill ''his own'' blood... [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and promptly chase Musolesi sword-first.]]
* ShotAtDawn: There are some strips that have this outcome, plus the hilarious subplot about the Firing Squad.
* ShownTheirWork: Bonvi fought in war, and he did a good job at representing uniforms, machines and weapons.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Galeazzo Musolesi is the straightest example, as a direct parody of fascist soldiers during the WorldWarII.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There are only four main female characters so far: the Battalion's Bitch, Sergeant Olga, Caporal Helga and Private Tilda.
* TanksForNothing: Tanks are often played for laughs as they fall apart, run out of gasoline and fall into pits of various kinds. The few time they're efficient they'll end up running over their own soldiers.
* TakeThat: Against the Army and the concept of WarIsGlorious and many other things. See the description above for more details.
-->'''The Sergeant''':" You're not insane, you're a moron, and morons are ze spine of ze army!"
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Galeazzo Musolesi and the Ally of the Rising Sun.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The 27th Armoured Battalion (of Discipline), two rough veterans who can force the Sergeant to crawl around squirming and get away with that.
* ToiletHumor: Whenever the latrines are involved. There's also a picture of an unfortunate soldier frozen solid as he was crapping.
* VillainousBreakdown: The Captain in charge of the "Extermination" ends up crazy because of his obsession with Exterminating the jewish prisoner.
* VolleyingInsults: The Sergeant and the Cook, and also Musolesi and the Japanese ally.
* WarIsHell: Played straight.
* WeHaveReserves: And curiously the army never seems to exhaust soldiers, no matter how many of them died.
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-->-- '''Anonymous Soldier'''
''Sturmtruppen'' is a popular and succesful satiric comic, written and drawn by Bonvi (real name: Franco Bonvicini). They started as four-frame comic strips back in 1968 and slowly evolved into full-sized collector books up to 1990s, gathering something like 6000 strips in total.
The comic focus on the life and misadventures of an anonymous German battalion during (supposedly) WorldWarII, showing the daily life, problems and joys of the various, anonymous soldiers and a small cast of fixed characters. Some strips form story arcs that deals with several, hilarious events, sometimes mundane (a maniac sniper soldier, die-hard lices, an attempted "extermination" of a Jewish prisoner) sometimes crazier (a deluge that turns the trench in ponds, a DemonicPossession and a soldier who appears to be the Messiah).
The whole thing comes out as an anti-war comic and a filled with criticism against the "blind obedience to authority'', the absurdity of war and military bureaucracy (Bonvi was an anarchist and proud of it), and the implications that military and civilian are NotSoDifferent as seen in the quote above. In other words, there's more than the eye met in these strips.
There are two film adaptations (one of which starring Bonvi himself) which, however, weren't well received at all by everyone.
''Sturmtruppen'' contains examples of:
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: According to an opinion poll, the 50% of the soldiers believes that the Sergeant should be fried in boiling oil. The other half would rather use kerosene.
* AfraidOfBlood: Sadly enough the Medic.
* TheAlcoholic: The drunken captain (implied to be a sort of AuthorAvatar). To the point that when he's mortally wounded the blood from his wounds emit a strong smell of Alcohol.
* AndIMustScream: The exalted Private Siegfried Von Nibelungen steps on a friendly mine during his first charge and ends up as a pathetic, limbless thing all bandaged up, with all his senses gone and unable to even call the nurses when he shit himself.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Private Humbert, who was left forgotten for five years in a desolate outpost and now looks like a huge, hairy brute with revolting habits. His true nature is often questioned, especially when [[spoiler: after shaving him they find out that he was made of hair.]]
* ArmiesAreEvil: The general message, thought this army looks more goofy and stupid than evil.
* BadAss: The Drunken Captain, whose deeds include destroying a tank using his liquor bottle as an improvised Molotov Cocktail and defying the enemy fire by standing still on the trench's border shouting "[[BadassBoast I'll crush you all like wasps!!"]]". Even the resident badass veterans admit that he was the best around.
* BestialityIsDepraved: When we see the stableman in charge of the camels (who hasn't seen a woman in years) we see him sitting between two camels with lipstick and eyelashes. He also brings them on a date or dance with them amongst various things.
* {{BFG}}: The Second Lieutenant volunteers for creating a new, powerful rifle for the army. He ends up creating the same rifle, but now ''howitzer-sized'' complete with wheels.
* BlackComedy: Including an early and a bit poignant strip about the Gas chambers/showers.
* BlackComedyRape: When a soldier is turned into a savage brute by the Cook's latest experiment he ends up on a rampage and kidnaps Galeazzo Musolesi, and later tries to force himself on him.
* BlobMonster: The Cook ends up turning the lunch into an amorphous, NighInvulnerable monster that feeds on soldiers.
* BrotherChuck: The Little Prussian Vedette (a parody of a character from another Italian work).
* ButtMonkey: Everyone, usually the soldiers.
* CameraFiend: The Ally of the Rising Sun is initially shown as the typical japanese tourist stereotype.
* CampGay: An early series of strips features a new Captain with "particular tendencies".
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Played for laughs: when the old general is recovered and removes his uniform everyone treats him like an old worthless geezer. As soon as he put back that uniform he's once again feared and respected.
* ColdSniper: Averted, in a series of strips the resident sniper goes obsessed with gaining a high score and starts shooting on his own soldiers and officers.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Frequently used in many strips.
* CyanidePill: Played for laughs: when the "Oldest Spy in the Army" (actually Galeazzo Musolesi) starts teaching his arts he instruct his pupils to swallow a breath mint if discovered. That's why he's "The ''Oldest'' Spy in the Army".
* DeadpanSnarker: Interestingly enough, there's no fixed snarker, and usually anyone get a chance.
* DemonicPossession: Soldier Fritz is possessed by a demon while patrolling the postation 666 and ends up flying around, vomiting green goo and turning his head around. He's finally defeated when Musolesi [[ImprobableWeaponUser crush him with a giant wooden crucifix]].
* DepthDeception: Used in a CrowningMomentOfFunny involving a one-inch tall palm tree.
* DisguisedInDrag: Private Otto in the Africa Korps disguise himself as a BellyDancer for his secret mission, but this tends to backfire with predictable results. There are also many strips in which soldiers are put in drag and forced to attend parties for officers.
* TheDitz: The Second Lieutenant, seriously bordering with TooDumbToLive (to the points that some soldiers once wondered out loud how could he be still alive in spite of his own idiocy).
* DrillSergeantNasty: The Sergeant, who actually draws a [[ImmodestOrgasm perverse, sadistic pleasure]] from torturing newcomers and lord over the soldiers and bully them in general.
* EpicFail: Used in many gags. Including one where the new sniper squad is training with bad results. We see one of the soldiers firing his rifle... and missing the huge target board which was ''literally an inch away from the gun's muzzle.''
* ExactWords: In one arc, the soldiers are going around naked. Furious and perplexed, the Sergeant points out that the rules says that a soldier must have and keep his uniform in perfect order. Cue to the naked soldiers going around while holding their perfectly-neat uniforms in one hand.
* FatBastard: The Sergeant. In one story arc his fatness becomes a plot point and trouble.
* FearlessFool: [[LargeHam Private]] [[MeaningfulName Siegfrid Von Nibelunghen]], who's a jab at and a parody of the concept that WarIsGlorious.
* GagBoobs: While trying to make the Sergeant look slimmer for the General's Ispection, they put him in a bustier that ends up squeezing all his fat upwards, resulting in a pair of massive, bouncing boobs that becomes the main source of humor for the following stripes as we find out that the General is also a DirtyOldMan....
* GallowsHumor: Literally in a series of strips.
* GeneralFailure: A succesful military action is rarely seen or even implied.
* GeneralRipper: There's not enough food for all the soldiers? Order an attack right before lunchtime!
* TheGhost: A notable characteristic is that the so-called "enemy" is never, ever shown.
* GiantMook: "Gorilla" Franz, who's employed by Galeazzo Musolesi as his trusty bodyguard/minion.
* HiddenDepths: See above in the description.
* IAteWhat: Played straight when is revealed that the Cook often use suspicious ingredients like [[SerialEscalation boiled tires, motor oil, horses' carcasses, leaves and dangerous chemicals]] in his food. Inverted when a soldier tries to murder the Sergeant by putting a rattlesnake in his mess tin. The Sergeant mistakes it for an [[ExtremeOmnivore eel and devours it with much pleasure.]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The new team of snipers. The huge glasses they're wearing should give you a clue. This is also used as a gag during the "extermination" arc.
* InscrutableOriental: Parodied with the Japanese soldier, who tries to hump the crossdressing soldier spy Otto the istant he crosses his line of sight.
* {{Invisibility}}: A story arc has the Medic obsessed over trying to make the invisibility potion, and believes to have become invisible himself after drinking a whole becher of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grappa grappa]]. And [[RuleOfFunny being a Major, he has the highest rank in the battalion and can consider himself invisible as he wishes.]]
* JerkAss: Most of the cast, usually the Sergeant and Musolesi.
* TheJinx: The infamous and dreaded soldier "Jonah" Franz.
* JustAStupidAccent: One of the main characteristic of this comic is that anyone (except the female characters, Galeazzo Musolesi who's Italian and the Japanese soldier) speaks in a mocking German-sounding Italian (usually adding -en at the end of the words).
* KickTheDog: The Sergeant is proud of doing this.
* LaserGuidedKarma: In a story arc the private Otto tries to be recognized as clinically insane so that he can leave the army. After being thwarted and forced to handle some highly dangerous explosive he goes insane for real and can leave the army.
* LeanAndMean: The Captain, the Medic and all the other officers.
* LethalChef: The Cook. One simple yet effective example is found in his spaghetti, which apparently can move on their own and maul soldiers.
* LovableCoward: The Proud Ally Galeazzo Musolesi of San Giovanni in Persiceto, a parody of fascists, will shit himself, duck for cover, tremble in fear and faint at the minimum danger.
* MadScientist: The Medic believes to have discovered the Invisibility Elixir without going mad. Is actually the other way around.
* MadeOfIron: Private Humbert, who can actually gulp down the Cook's cuisine without ill effect and was totally unharmed after crossing a demonic radioactive cloud.
* {{Mooks}}: The various soldiers.
* MsFanservice: Private Tilda and also the Battalion's Bitch. Furthermore Bonvi wasn't too shy about putting around attractive, often naked hotties here and there.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: When the Medic believes to have become invisible, he start going around all naked, much to the embarassment of the battalion.
** Also, in one arc a soldier discovered that the regulations don't actually say you have to wear your uniform, only that it must be in perfect order. Cue the entire battalion starting to go around naked and [[ExactWords keeping their uniforms in perfect order in their closets]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Galeazzo Musolesi is named after Mussolini and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeazzo_Ciano Galeazzo Ciano]].
* NoNameGiven: Many high-ranked officer, the Battalion's Bitch and the Jewish prisoner.
* TheOldestProfession: The Battalion's Bitch. Her "boyfriend" Otto tries to romanticize it by giving her flowers and chocolates, but the poor sop hasn't much success.
* OneLastSmoke: Parodied when a soldier can't have cigarettes because the Colonnel is trying to stop smoking, so he's given bubble gum instead.
* OneSteveLimit: Inverted, all the soldiers have names like Otto, Franz, Fritz, Heinz. Most of the other character are nameless, though apparently the Sergeant's name is Giuseppe (Joseph).
* OnlySaneMan: The Captain.
* OnlySixFaces: Done on purpose. All the soldiers looks the same (except for some "veterans" who have traces of beard), the Sergeant and the Cook looks like slightly bigger soldiers and the other officers are pretty much alike, except for the uniforms and the nose shape.
* ThePigPen: The Sergeant can boast about having 6-7 pounds of dirt and filth on his body, forming a sort of natural armor against splinters and projectiles. Another example is how they used sandpaper and ''industrial acids'' just to wash him. And that's for the outer layers.
* RecklessGunUsage: In an interesting variation: "Air-Headed" Franz wields his gun with the [[BayonetYa baionet]] mounted, and often ends up [[EyeScream stabbing eyes]] and ripping ears by accident.
* RightBehindMe: There's one strip where the Captain calls the General (who was supposed to assist to the execution) an old moron, and the General is right behind him with an anrgy frown on his face.
* {{Seppuku}}: Musolesi almost drive the Rising Sun Ally to do this. However, after the Captain talks to him, he decides that there's no need to spill ''his own'' blood... [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and promptly chase Musolesi sword-first.]]
* ShotAtDawn: There are some strips that have this outcome, plus the hilarious subplot about the Firing Squad.
* ShownTheirWork: Bonvi fought in war, and he did a good job at representing uniforms, machines and weapons.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Galeazzo Musolesi is the straightest example, as a direct parody of fascist soldiers during the WorldWarII.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There are only four main female characters so far: the Battalion's Bitch, Sergeant Olga, Caporal Helga and Private Tilda.
* TanksForNothing: Tanks are often played for laughs as they fall apart, run out of gasoline and fall into pits of various kinds. The few time they're efficient they'll end up running over their own soldiers.
* TakeThat: Against the Army and the concept of WarIsGlorious and many other things. See the description above for more details.
-->'''The Sergeant''':" You're not insane, you're a moron, and morons are ze spine of ze army!"
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Galeazzo Musolesi and the Ally of the Rising Sun.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The 27th Armoured Battalion (of Discipline), two rough veterans who can force the Sergeant to crawl around squirming and get away with that.
* ToiletHumor: Whenever the latrines are involved. There's also a picture of an unfortunate soldier frozen solid as he was crapping.
* VillainousBreakdown: The Captain in charge of the "Extermination" ends up crazy because of his obsession with Exterminating the jewish prisoner.
* VolleyingInsults: The Sergeant and the Cook, and also Musolesi and the Japanese ally.
* WarIsHell: Played straight.
* WeHaveReserves: And curiously the army never seems to exhaust soldiers, no matter how many of them died.
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