History Franchise / StarshipTroopers

* ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'': The work that started the entire franchise. Written by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, a noted science fiction author. The book explores a variety of political, social, and military themes. It is often noted as being controversial for said themes. Examples include citizenship gained via serving in the military,[[note]]Technically, there are a number of services one can perform, military service simply being the highest on Rico's list of choices that he was qualified for[[/note]] co-ed service which at the time was quite controversial, themes of corporal punishment such as public lashings, and (other than the Literature/{{Lensman}}) being one of the first notable use of power armor in literature. The book is notably popular among the members of the U.S. military.

* ''Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation'' - (An all new cast!) The last remaining survivors of a Mobile Infantry force are taking cover in an abandoned outpost, waiting for a transport to escape an approaching bug army. Unfortunately, they don't realise that there's a new kind of bug, a parasitic mind-controlling bug, and they want to go back to Earth, too...
* ''Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder'' - Sky Marshall Omar Anoke is on a tour, performing his smash hit ''"It's A Good Day To Die! (When you know the reasons why!)"'' to the frontline troops. His ship is forced to make an emergency crash-landing on a bug-infested world, where his guards are picked off one by one, and he struggles to survive till a rescue party gets there. Meanwhile, Johnny Rico returns to lead the new Marauder power-suit team. But will he reach the Sky Marshall in time!?
* ''WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion''
* ''WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersTraitorOfMars''

* ''Anime/StarshipTroopers'': The anime more closely followed the book, to a point. It had powered armor more inline with what the book envisioned. The bugs even had energy weapons. However, the bugs start the war via a series of attacks on civilian and military targets, which is more in line with the main plot driver of the movie.

* ''Pinball/StarshipTroopers'': A pinball machine based on the film adaptation.

* ''Starship Troopers'' This 1976 Creator/AvalonHill game used the conflict-zones of the book as a setting, without getting into anything beyond the strategy/tactics of warfare with the PoweredArmor and other tech-items. It was one of Avalon Hill's entry level games, meaning that its seven levels could be easily set up and played in under a couple of hours. For a stone strategy gamer it wasn't very satisfying. You had to practically try to lose, for the Bugs or Skinnies to come out the winner. Some issues of ''The General'' (Avalon Hill's in-house magazine) included new scenarios along with rules for [[KillSat orbital bombardment]], [[HeroicDog neo-dogs]], and [[TankGoodness Bug and Terran heavy weapons]], among other things.
* ''Starship Troopers: The Roleplaying Game'', and ''Starship Troopers: The Miniatures Game'', released in 2005 by Mongoose Publishing, is at its core based on the "Roughnecks" series if you must be specific, but basically says ThrowItIn to elements from just about everything else from the other sources. A Mobile Infantry unit, for example, can be made up of standard Roughnecks troopers, Movie-style "Light" Troopers, Marauder {{Powered Armor}}ed troops, or a mix of all three and then some.

* ''VideoGame/StarshipTroopers'': Simply called ''Starship Troopers'', published in 2005 by Empire Interactive and set after the events of the movie, the FPS game managed to be incredibly fun despite having absolutely no right to be. Of the 9 weapons available, 7 were rapid fire, including the [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile launcher]]. 5 of those were just variations on the Morita [=Mk2=] rifle seen in the movie. The Nuke Launcher also made an appearance, but rare ammo and ever bigger and harder battles meant it was often TooAwesomeToUse. Enemies came in two varieties: [[GoddamnedBats ones you couldn't kill because you couldn't hit them]], and [[DemonicSpiders ones you couldn't kill because they had absurd amounts of health and armour]] and could often only be hurt by attacking [[AttackItsWeakPoint tiny, constantly moving weak spots]]. This also lead to bosses regularly taking over an [[MarathonBoss hour to kill]]. Both kinds of enemies appeared in droves: the CD case boasts about the game's revolutionary SWARM engine being capable of fielding over 300 enemies at once, but apparently no one told Strangelite, the developers, that this didn't mean they had to always have 300 enemies attacking you at any one point. Expect body counts well into the thousands even in the first level. Cutscenes consisted largely of footage taken from the films, which in turn led to the majority of the game locations looking identical to film locations, despite being allegedly different places.
* ''Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy''
* ''VideoGame/StarshipTroopersTerranCommand''
* ''VideoGame/StarshipTroopersExtermination''

* ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles'': A CGI animated series that takes elements from both the original book and the Verhoeven film. It follows "Razak's Roughnecks" through their conflict with the bugs. The series was divided up into a series of five episode long arcs, each one covering the Roughneck's battles through a campaign on one planet.

* ''Starship Troopers: Extermination''

''Starship Troopers'' has spanned across multiple media related franchises. It started off with [[Literature/StarshipTroopers the politically controversial Robert A. Heinlein novel]]. It was later followed by a short-lived (and quasi-legal) [[Anime/StarshipTroopers Anime adaptation]], a polarizing [[Film/StarshipTroopers Paul Verhoeven film]] and [[Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation its]] [[Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder sequels]], a CGI [[WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles animated TV series]], and [[WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion two]] [[WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersTraitorOfMars CGI films]]. There was also a pair of table-top strategy games that had some limited success, a UsefulNotes/D20System RPG, and at least two computer games. There was even a comic book series done by three different publishers.

* ''Starship Troopers - Terran Command''

* ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles''

* ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'': The work that started the entire franchise. Written by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, a noted science fiction author. The book explores a variety of political, social, and military themes. It is often noted as being controversial for said themes. Examples include citizenship gained via serving in the military[[note]]Technically, there are a number of services one can perform, military service simply being the highest on Rico's list of choices that he was qualified for[[/note]], co-ed service which at the time was quite controversial, themes of corporal punishment such as public lashings, and (other than the Literature/{{Lensman}}) being one of the first notable use of power armor in literature. The book is notably popular among the members of the U.S. military.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersTraitorOfMars''

* ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'': The work that started the entire franchise. Written by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, a noted science fiction author. The book explores a variety of political, social, and military themes. It is often noted as being controversial for said themes. Examples include citizenship gained via serving in the military[[note]]Technically, there are a number of services one can perform, military service simply being the highest on Rico's list of choices that he was qualified for[[/note]], co-ed service which at the time was quite controversial, themes of corporal punishment such as public lashings, and other than the Literature/{{Lensman}} being one of the first notable use of power armor in literature. The book is notably popular among the members of the U.S. military.

!The Book

![[TheFilmOfTheBook The Films]]

!The Anime

!TabletopGames

!VideoGames

!WesternAnimation

''Starship Troopers'' has spanned across multiple media related franchises. It started off with the politically controversial Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel. It was later followed by a short-lived (and quasi-legal) [[Anime/StarshipTroopers Anime adaptation]], a polarizing [[Film/StarshipTroopers Paul Verhoeven film]] and [[Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation its]] [[Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder sequels]], a CGI [[WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles animated TV series]], and [[WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion two]] [[WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersTraitorOfMars CGI films]]. There was also a pair of table-top strategy games that had some limited success, a UsefulNotes/D20System RPG, and at least two computer games. There was even a comic book series done by three different publishers.

''Literature/StarshipTroopers''

The work that started the entire franchise. Written by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, a noted science fiction author. The book explores a variety of political, social, and military themes. It is often noted as being controversial for said themes. Examples include citizenship gained via serving in the military[[note]]Technically, there are a number of services one can perform, military service simply being the highest on Rico's list of choices that he was qualified for[[/note]], co-ed service which at the time was quite controversial, themes of corporal punishment such as public lashings, and other than the Literature/{{Lensman}} being one of the first notable use of power armor in literature. The book is notably popular among the members of the U.S. military.

''Film/StarshipTroopers''

There were two Live-Action sequels, then the animated sequel listed below. The film plots were:

''Starship Troopers'' - The Federation is going to war! Buenos Aires was hit by an asteroid sent by those dirty bugs! We're gonna ship out to Klendathu, the bug homeworld, and wipe out every last stinking bug we see!

''Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation'' - (An all new cast!) The last remaining survivors of a Mobile Infantry force are taking cover in an abandoned outpost, waiting for a transport to escape an approaching bug army. Unfortunately, they don't realise that there's a new kind of bug, a parasitic mind-controlling bug, and they want to go back to Earth, too...

''Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder'' - Sky Marshall Omar Anoke is on a tour, performing his smash hit ''"It's A Good Day To Die! (When you know the reasons why!)"'' to the frontline troops. His ship is forced to make an emergency crash-landing on a bug-infested world, where his guards are picked off one by one, and he struggles to survive till a rescue party gets there. Meanwhile, Johnny Rico returns to lead the new Marauder power-suit team. But will he reach the Sky Marshall in time!?

!The Series

''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles''
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''Anime/StarshipTroopers''

The anime more closely followed the book, to a point. It had powered armor more inline with what the book envisioned. The bugs even had energy weapons. However, the bugs start the war via a series of attacks on civilian and military targets, which is more in line with the main plot driver of the movie.

!The All-CGI Movies

''WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion''

''WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersTraitorOfMars''
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!The Strategy Game

This 1976 Creator/AvalonHill game used the conflict-zones of the book as a setting, without getting into anything beyond the strategy/tactics of warfare with the PoweredArmor and other tech-items. It was one of Avalon Hill's entry level games, meaning that its seven levels could be easily set up and played in under a couple of hours. For a stone strategy gamer it wasn't very satisfying. You had to practically try to lose, for the Bugs or Skinnies to come out the winner. Some issues of ''The General'' (Avalon Hill's in-house magazine) included new scenarios along with rules for [[KillSat orbital bombardment]], [[HeroicDog neo-dogs]], and [[TankGoodness Bug and Terran heavy weapons]], among other things.

!The First Person Shooter

''VideoGame/StarshipTroopers''

Simply called ''Starship Troopers'', published in 2005 by Empire Interactive and set after the events of the movie, the FPS game managed to be incredibly fun despite having absolutely no right to be. Of the 9 weapons available, 7 were rapid fire, including the [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile launcher]]. 5 of those were just variations on the Morita [=Mk2=] rifle seen in the movie. The Nuke Launcher also made an appearance, but rare ammo and ever bigger and harder battles meant it was often TooAwesomeToUse. Enemies came in two varieties: [[GoddamnedBats ones you couldn't kill because you couldn't hit them]], and [[DemonicSpiders ones you couldn't kill because they had absurd amounts of health and armour]] and could often only be hurt by attacking [[AttackItsWeakPoint tiny, constantly moving weak spots]]. This also lead to bosses regularly taking over an [[MarathonBoss hour to kill]]. Both kinds of enemies appeared in droves: the CD case boasts about the game's revolutionary SWARM engine being capable of fielding over 300 enemies at once, but apparently no one told Strangelite, the developers, that this didn't mean they had to always have 300 enemies attacking you at any one point. Expect body counts well into the thousands even in the first level. Cutscenes consisted largely of footage taken from the films, which in turn led to the majority of the game locations looking identical to film locations, despite being allegedly different places.

!The Other Strategy Game

''Starship Troopers: The Roleplaying Game'', and ''Starship Troopers: The Miniatures Game'', released in 2005 by Mongoose Publishing, is at its core based on the "Roughnecks" series if you must be specific, but basically says ThrowItIn to elements from just about everything else from the other sources. A Mobile Infantry unit, for example, can be made up of standard Roughnecks troopers, Movie-style "Light" Troopers, Marauder {{Powered Armor}}ed troops, or a mix of all three and then some.
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''Starship Troopers'' has spanned across multiple media related franchises. It started off with the politically controversial Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel. It was later followed by a short-lived (and quasi-legal) [[Anime/StarshipTroopers Anime adaptation]], a polarizing [[Film/StarshipTroopers Paul Verhoeven film]] and [[Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation its]] [[Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder sequels]], a CGI [[WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles animated TV series]], and [[WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion two]] [[WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersTraitorOfMars CGI films]]. There was also a pair of table-top strategy games that had some limited success, a TabletopGame/D20System RPG, and at least two computer games. There was even a comic book series done by three different publishers.

The film that "parodied" the book. Verhoeven was critical of the themes and did his best to make fun of the book. The end result was seen more as over the top Sci-fi popcorn-action shlock then a worthy satire. The film gained a large following leading to spin offs the franchise in various ways.

''Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder'' - Sky Marshall Omar Anoke is on a tour, performing his smash hit ''"It's A Good Day To Die! (When you know the reasons why!)"'' to the frontline troops. His ship is forced to make an emergency crash-landing on a bug-infested world, where his guard are picked off one by one, struggling to survive till a rescue party gets there. Meanwhile, Johnny Rico returns to lead the new Marauder power-suit team. But will he reach the Sky Marshall in time!?

Simply called ''Starship Troopers'', published in 2005 by Empire Interactive and set after the events of the movie, the FPS game managed to be incredibly fun despite having absolutely no right to be. Of the 9 weapons available, 7 were rapid fire, including the [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile launcher]]. 5 of those were just variations on the Morita Mk2 rifle seen in the movie. The Nuke Launcher also made an appearance, but rare ammo and ever bigger and harder battles meant it was often TooAwesomeToUse. Enemies came in two varieties: [[GoddamnedBats ones you couldn't kill because you couldn't hit them]], and [[DemonicSpiders ones you couldn't kill because they had absurd amounts of health and armour]] and could often only be hurt by attacking [[AttackItsWeakPoint tiny, constantly moving weak spots]]. This also lead to bosses regularly taking over an [[MarathonBoss hour to kill]]. Both kinds of enemies appeared in droves: the CD case boasts about the game's revolutionary SWARM engine being capable of fielding over 300 enemies at once, but apparently no one told Strangelite, the developers, that this didn't mean they had to always have 300 enemies attacking you at any one point. Expect body counts well into the thousands even in the first level. Cutscenes consisted largely of footage taken from the films, which in turn led to the majority of the game locations looking identical to film locations, despite being allegedly different places.

''Starship Troopers'' has spanned across multiple media related franchises. It started off with the politically controversial Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel. It was later followed by a short-lived (and quasi-legal) [[Anime/StarshipTroopers Anime adaptation]], a polarizing [[Film/StarshipTroopers Paul Verhoeven film]] and [[Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation its]] [[Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder sequels]], a CGI [[WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles animated TV series]], and [[WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion a newer CGI film]]. There was also a pair of table-top strategy games that had some limited success, a TabletopGame/D20System RPG, and at least two computer games. There was even a comic book series done by three different publishers.

Literature/StarshipTroopers

Film/StarshipTroopers

VideoGame/StarshipTroopers

''Starship Troopers'' has spanned across multiple media related franchises. It started off with the politically controversial Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel. It was later followed by a short-lived (and quasi-legal) [[Anime/StarshipTroopers Anime adaptation]], a polarizing [[Film/StarshipTroopers Paul Verhoeven film]] and [[Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation its]] [[Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder sequels]], and a CGI [[WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles animated TV series]], and [[WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion a newer CGI film]]. There was also a pair of table-top strategy games that had some limited success, a TabletopGame/D20System RPG, and at least two computer games. There was even a comic book series done by three different publishers.

''Starship Troopers'' has spanned across multiple media related franchises. It started off with the politically controversial Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel. It was later followed by a short-lived (and quasi-legal) [[Anime/StarshipTroopers Anime adaptation]], a polarizing [[Film/StarshipTroopers Paul Verhoeven film]] and [[Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation its]] [[Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder sequels]], and a [=CGI=] [[WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles animated TV series]], and a newer CGI film. There was also a pair of table-top strategy games that had some limited success, a TabletopGame/D20System RPG, and at least two computer games. There was even a comic book series done by three different publishers.

''Starship Troopers'' has spanned across multiple media related franchises. It started off with the politically controversial Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel. It was later followed by a short-lived (and quasi-legal) [[Anime/StarshipTroopers Anime adaptation]], a polarizing [[Film/StarshipTroopers Paul Verhoeven film]] and its sequels, and a [=CGI=] [[WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles animated TV series]], and a newer CGI film. There was also a pair of table-top strategy games that had some limited success, a TabletopGame/D20System RPG, and at least two computer games. There was even a comic book series done by three different publishers.

''Starship Troopers'' has spanned across multiple media related franchises. It started off with the politically controversial Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel. It was later followed by a short-lived (and quasi-legal) {{Anime}} adaptation, a polarizing [[Film/StarshipTroopers Paul Verhoeven film]] and its sequels, and a [=CGI=] animated TV series, and a newer CGI film. There was also a pair of table-top strategy games that had some limited success, a TabletopGame/D20System RPG, and at least two computer games. There was even a comic book series done by three different publishers.

The anime more closely followed the book to a point. It had powered armor more inline with what the book envisioned. The bugs even had energy weapons. However the bugs start the war via a series of attacks on civilian and military targets, which is more in line with the main plot driver of the movie.

WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles

Anime/StarshipTroopers

!The All-CGI Movie

WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion

'''''Starship Troopers''''' has spanned across multiple media related franchises. It started off with the politically controversial Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel. It was later followed by a short-lived (and quasi-legal) {{Anime}} adaptation, a polarizing [[Film/StarshipTroopers Paul Verhoeven film]] and its sequels, and a [=CGI=] animated TV series, and a newer CGI film. There was also a pair of table-top strategy games that had some limited success, a TabletopGame/D20System RPG, and at least two computer games. There was even a comic book series done by three different publishers.

This 1976 Avalon Hill game used the conflict-zones of the book as a setting, without getting into anything beyond the strategy/tactics of warfare with the PoweredArmor and other tech-items. It was one of Avalon Hill's entry level games, meaning that its seven levels could be easily set up and played in under a couple of hours. For a stone strategy gamer it wasn't very satisfying. You had to practically try to lose, for the Bugs or Skinnies to come out the winner. Some issues of ''The General'' (Avalon Hill's in-house magazine) included new scenarios along with rules for [[KillSat orbital bombardment]], [[HeroicDog neo-dogs]], and [[TankGoodness Bug and Terran heavy weapons]], among other things.