History Main / MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong

** I think [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld China]] puts it nicely by saying [[BigNo Noooooooooooooooooooooononononono!!!]]
*** Don't you mean, "[[BlindIdiotTranslation Doooooooooo noooooooottttttt waaaaaaaant!!!]]"?

** Russian ''[[ChrisJericho Arm]]'' '''[[MemeticMutation BAR]]'''! ?

** Russian [[ChrisJericho ''Arm]]'' '''[[MemeticMutation BAR]]'''! ?

[[caption-width:350:[[strike:[[TeamFortressTwo Sandvich]]]] [[strike:[[VodkaDrunkenski Vodka]]]] [[FrothyMugsOfWater Soda]] will make [[HuskyRusskie you]] strong!]]

* The Heavy from ''TeamFortress2''. His fists do the same amount of damage as a [[BFS sword]] in game.

* The Heavy from ''TeamFortress2''

* Mikhail on ''{{Lost}}'': stoic, evil, gives Sayid a run for his money in combat, and nigh unkillable. He also has Dharma vodka at the Flame.

* The Recent AssassinsCreed comic reviles that the Russian tsars run on AuthorityEqualsAsskicking, as shown wend Alexander III takes down an Assassin unarmed, after walking off his train crashing, and giving his piece of Eden to said Assassin.

* The Reccent AssassinsCreed comic reviles that the Russian tsars run on AuthorityEqualsAsskicking, as shown wend Alexander III takes down an Assassin unarmed, after walking off his train crashing, and giving his peice of Eden to said Assassin.

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2cW-aAvACU&feature=player_embedded This video]] depicts a group of Russian guys casually ''driving through a forest fire''. What's even more mind bendingly insane is that they encounter other vehicles during their death-defying commute. Yes, that's right, only in Russia can you ''get stuck in traffic in the middle of a goddamn forest fire''.

* TruthInTelevision: VladimirPutin, a [[SecretPolice KGB]] [[ColonelBadass Colonel]] who holds a [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking 6th dan in judo]] and runs the St. Petersburg dojo. Of course, much of this talk about his judo skills and so forth is a result of massive MemeticMutation, given a boost by the fact that Russian pop culture is very susceptible to said MemeticMutation.

* TruthInTelevision: VladimirPutin. [[http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20070814elpepuage_7/LCO340/Ies/Vladimir_Putin_pesca.jpg Just look at the guy]].
** Looks like most of the guys from my home town. Of course, they're rather aggressively [[{{Prussia}} German]].
*** Well, he did serve in EastGermany during his KGB days.
** To elaborate: Putin is a [[SecretPolice KGB]] [[ColonelBadass Colonel]] who holds a [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking 6th dan in judo]] and runs the St. Petersburg dojo. It seems you need to be even tougher than an average Russian to be their efficient leader.
*** I call bullshit. The guy is barely over 160cm tall, making him below average by even Japanese standards, and a veritable runt of a Russian. In fact, his hand-picked successor MiniMe "President" Medvedev was clearly selected mainly for being both spineless AND 3 inches shorter yet. Tough guys would never, ever fret so much about selecting such extremely inferior-looking sidekicks for the sake of avoiding future competition from them. Also, Putin only made Colonel as a political appointment in already-Russia, while his Soviet assignment was something like Lieutenant JG, secretarial paper-pusher. And no-risk, vaguely defined job description tours of duty abroad were a fashionable assignment attained exclusively through powerful connections, never merit. It's the equivalent of American bigwigs' sons' Champagne Squadrons in never-ever-Active Duty Air Force squadrons. It's posh, it looks good on a resume, and you get to party with other privileged kids, but it has shit-all to do with a true military posting.
*** Also, at the time when he was elected he looked like a complete subversion - a young, short, soft-spoken, teetotal guy from St Petersburg (a city most strongly associated with the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia intelligentsia]]''; that is, before it [[TheNewRussia became associated]] with TheMafiya) whose speeches sounded like he had a bad case of stage fright. Compared to his predecessor, a politically-experienced, imposing, loud, hard-drinking man from [[RatedMForManly the Urals]], Putin looked like a nobody. Of course, he did become more assertive as the time passed.
** People who take claims of Putin's awesomeness and badassness at face value tend to forget (or they don't even realize) that Putin has been building a sort of personality cult for himself ever since he came into power. So yes, while he probably is good at judo and has an assertive and cunning personality, tales of his past and present exploits are just officially engineered and bloated hype built around a tiny grain of truth.
*** Oh come the ''[[UnusualEuphemism truck]]'' on. "Officially engineered"? He didn't even ''have'' a {{Propaganda Machine}} running. All of this talk around his judo skills and such is a result of a massive {{Memetic Mutation}}, given a boost by the fact that Russian pop culture is very susceptible to said {{Memetic Mutation}}. And it's [[BizarreAndImprobableGiraffeHerdingTechniques kind of hard to engineer]] a {{Memetic Mutation}}. This troper ''lives'' in the darn place, and he's yet to hear any "officially engineered" praise for the man. "Officially engineered" dirt-slinging directed at him, on the other hand... let's just say that he's nowhere near [[EvilOverlord the type]] [[ManipulativeBastard he's usually cast as]]: [[TheSpock his style]] was indeed doing things [[TheChessmaster without much fuss]], but it was by no means secret. If one could see him as badass, it should have been due to his aforementioned spockiness.

** And fixes the space shuttle's navigation system by [[PercussiveMaintenance assaulting it]], because that's how they do it in the Russian space program.

* Even robots are not immune. The Russian-accented Decepticon Strika is built like a titanium outhouse and turns into a futuristic tank, making her one of the largest fighters in her faction. On Soviet Charr, tank drives ''you''.

*** Oh come the ''[[UnusualEuphemism truck]]'' on. "Officially engineered"? He doesn't even ''have'' a {{Propaganda Machine}} running. All of this talk around his judo skills and such is a result of a massive {{Memetic Mutation}}, given a boost by the fact that Russian pop culture is very susceptible to said {{Memetic Mutation}}. And it's [[BizarreAndImprobableGiraffeHerdingTechniques kind of hard to engineer]] a {{Memetic Mutation}}. This troper ''lives'' in the darn place, and he's yet to hear any "officially engineered" praise for the man. "Officially engineered" dirt-slinging directed at him, on the other hand... let's just say that he's nowhere near [[EvilOverlord the type]] [[ManipulativeBastard he's usually cast as]]: [[TheSpock his style]] was indeed doing things [[TheChessmaster without much fuss]], but it was by no means secret.

* [[Collar 6]]: [[spoiler: Stella, Claire, and through them Ginger]].

Most Russian characters in media, at least since the ColdWar started, are depicted as hard fightin', heavy-drinkin', manly, boorish creatures. Even their females border on being TheBaroness or the FemmeFatale. So what's a troper to do? Even those times when you do see a [[SensualSlavs soft, sophisticated Russian]], they're evil. So much, in fact, that a non-evil, cultured Russian character is a rarity. And before the Cold War it was a Wild Communist, and even before, in XIX century, it was a hard-fighting, heavy drinkin', boorish guy in furs, with a wild beard and a pet bear. So this trope [[OlderThanTelevision predates the television by some 150 years]] (it goes all the way back to 1813, in fact). And it would be probably even older if people before 1813 had registered Russia's existence.

* Not to mention the "classic" literary work ''Literature/TheMostDangerousGame''.

* Colossus of the ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' is an aversion, but Omega Red plays it straight.