History Main / PreBattleBanter

* In ''Film/StarWars - Film/ANewHope,'' Luke Skywalker tries to persuade Han Solo to help in the upcoming battle and also exchanges words with friends from Tatooine before going into battle.

* Lampooned in the ''Film/StarWars'' parody webcomic ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', in the same pre-battle scene as the film.

[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Theatre/HenryV'' by Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Harry overhears some of his men doing this.
* Shows up in ''Literature/TheIliad'' several times.
* Both ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'' and ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' by David Weber couldn't be complete without main (or just [=POV=]) characters exchanging some banter before the battle. There's enough of those in the former to support a drinking game.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* The conversation between Lafayette and Theatre/{{Hamilton}} just before the eponymous battle in "Yorktown" is remarkably calm, considering the fact that this is Hamilton's first time leading troops.
* "Drink With Me" in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' is the revolutionaries getting one last bittersweet hurrah before they are [[spoiler:slaughtered by the French army the next morning]]. The majority of it is lighthearted banter and reminiscing until Grantaire reminds them that, not only will they likely die, there deaths will be pointless.

[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Lampooned in the ''Film/StarWars'' parody webcomic ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', in the same pre-battle scene as the film.
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', before the siege of Azure City Haley [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0417.html attempts this]]. O-chul is not impressed.

[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', there's a scene just before the final push where Shepard can share banter with just about anyone who's still alive. Much of it overlaps with ItHasBeenAnHonor.
* The ''Suikoden'' games show montages of the various characters in conversation the night before the anticipated big battle.'
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem''
** There's quite a few ribbings to be had in the early pre-battle segments of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', both hero and villain alike. Anything to do with villains Victor and Vincent, for example, has a fair deal of banter before the battle actually commences.

This trope does not apply to the official briefing before the battle, although it may apply to banter exchanged between fighters during the briefing.

* Lampoonded in ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'': before they parachute into enemy territory, Rabinowitz tells Topper what he's going to do when the mission is over

* In ''Film/StarWars'' - A New Hope, Luke Skywalker tries to persuade Han Solo to help in the upcoming battle and also exchanges words with friends from Tatooine before going into battle.

* The ''Suikoden'' games show montages of the various characters in conversation the night before the anticipated big battle.

* Lampooned in the ''Film/StarWars'' parody webcomic ''DarthsAndDroids'', in the same pre-battle scene as the film.

* Lampoonded in the second ''Film/{{Hot Shots}}'' movie: before they parachute into enemy territory, Rabinowitz tells Topper what he's going to do when the mission is over

* In ''Theatre/HenryV'' by WilliamShakespeare, Harry overhears some of his men doing this.

-->Captain Wilder: You scared, man?
-->Captain Hiller: No. You?
-->Captain Wilder: No. (mock fear) Hold me!
-->Captain Hiller: Hey, pay attention!

-->Captain Wilder: Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!
-->Captain Wilder: ...As the Good Reverend would say: [switches to Southern preacher voice] Why we are on this particular mission, we'll never know. But I do know, here today, that the Black Knights will emerge victorious once again.

-->Hudson: Ready to get it on? You know it!
-->Hudson: I'm ready, man! Ready to get it on!
-->Hudson: We're on an express elevator to hell! Going down!

-->Ripley: How many drops is this for you, Lieutenant?
-->Lt. Gorman: 38. Simulated.
-->Ripley: How many combat drops?
-->Lt. Gorman: Uh, two..including this one.
-->Other Marines: [roll their eyes]

-->Frost: [[GutFeeling I got a bad feeling about this drop]].
-->Crowe: You always say "I got a bad feeling about this drop".
-->Frost: OK, OK. When we get back without you, I'll call your folks.

-->Gimli: Most have seen too many winters.
-->Legolas: Or too few. Look at them. They're frightened. I can see it in their eyes.

* In MassEffect3, there's a scene just before the final push where Shepard can share banter with just about anyone who's still alive. Much of it overlaps with ItHasBeenAnHonor.

* Shows up in ''Literature/TheIlliad'' several times.

This trope is probably [[OlderThanTheyThink older then you think]]

* In ''Theatre/HenryV'' by William Shakespear Harry overhears some of his men doing this.

* Lampooned in the ''Film/StarWars'' parody webcomic, Darths & Droids in the same pre-battle scene as the film.

* Shows up in ''literature/TheIlliad'' several times.

* In ''theatre/Henry V'' by William Shakespear Harry overhears some of his men doing this.
* Shows up in ''literature/The Illiad'' several times.

* In ''Play/Henry V'' by William Shakespear Harry overhears some of his men doing this.
* Shows up in ''Epic Poem/The Illiad'' several times.

This trope is all about the pre-battle scene. Almost inevitably, some of the fighters will know each other from their days "on the farm" and they'll discuss "old times". Occasionally the more nervous fighters will talk about their chances of getting through the battle alive, but most of the fighters will studiously avoid that subject, as though simply talking about it will somehow call down the wrath of the gods upon them and cause them to die when they wouldn't have otherwise. Instead, the fighters will discuss "what I'm going to do after the war", as though there was no chance of them dying.