History Quotes / SuperSoldier

-> War is the only place where we can be complete. Battle can be the only activity where excellence can be meaningful. Do not believe that you can be scholar, a philosopher, or a leader of men. You are a warrior. When you are not inflicting death, you are not justifying your life.

-> Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or failing that, a thousand other troops.

-> Soldiers? I hardly think they fit that description. Do you know how they make them, Threlnan? No, of course you don't. They find some barbaric planet where children fight before they can walk, and they hunt down the most bloodthirsty killers. They recruit them when they're twelve, thirteen, fourteen, with all that hate and that arrogance, just at the age when you think you're bulletproof and nothing can kill you. Then they keep them like that, give them a gun and some armour, and point them at the nearest enemy. They're not soldiers, colonel, they're maniacs. [[{{Pride}} They won't answer to anyone save their own kind.]] And have you seen how they fight? They find the closest enemy and try to cut them up with swords. Madness. Just madness. Just so there can be something to carve on the cathedrals and put in children's stories. Now I've got a hundred of them just waiting to [[LeeroyJenkins bend all my battle-plans out of shape.]]

-> No, it is the his Faith that makes the Space Marine such a terrible foe. Purpose of will unlike any seen in Xeno or Men, He knows no doubt or fear, never shall he waver from the destruction of his enemies. Remember: all the guns in creation are worthless without the will to pull the trigger.

->''"But here's the thing -- creating supersoldiers doesn't make the slightest bit of rational sense. First of all, you're basically creating an entity whose only purpose is to fight, so what the hell are you going to do with them during peace time, pack them in a box? And this is assuming you could even control them. If they haven't regressed to a slavering bestial state or been driven insane by the monstrosity they have become, how are you going to make them do your bidding, Mr. Small Fragile Human General? You really want to start issuing threats that might come back to haunt you when some leashes get slipped? To say nothing of the fact that the ethical lapse involved would be ruinous in a country where people fight for the rights of embryonic cell clusters, and that most supersoldiers could be effectively countered by, say, dropping a great big bomb."''
-->-- '''Creator/BenCroshaw''' [[https://www.escapistmagazine.com/supersoldiers/ on some of the inherent logical flaws involved in this trope]]

-->-- '''Creator/BenCroshaw''' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/6530-Extra-Punctuation-Supersoldiers on some of the inherent logical flaws involved in this trope]]

->Send in a Silencer and the job gets done.
-->--'''[[MegaCorp WEC]] proverb''', ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}: No Regret''

->She's not just a [[PsychicPowers psychic.]] Given the proper triggers, [[TheWoobie this girl]] is a [[OneManArmy living weapon]].
-->--'''Film/{{Serenity}}'''

->'''General Ross''': You're aware that we've got an infantry weapons development program. Well, [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica in WWII]] they initiated a sub-program for bio-tech force enhancement.\\

-->--''Film/TheIncredibleHulk''

-> "But here's the thing - creating supersoldiers doesn't make the slightest bit of rational sense. First of all, you're basically creating an entity whose only purpose is to fight, so what the hell are you going to do with them during peace time, pack them in a box? And this is assuming you could even control them. If they haven't regressed to a slavering bestial state or been driven insane by the monstrosity they have become, how are you going to make them do your bidding, Mr. Small Fragile Human General? You really want to start issuing threats that might come back to haunt you when some leashes get slipped? To say nothing of the fact that the ethical lapse involved would be ruinous in a country where people fight for the rights of embryonic cell clusters, and that most supersoldiers could be effectively countered by, say, dropping a great big bomb. "
-->-- '''Ben "[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]" Crowshaw''' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/6530-Extra-Punctuation-Supersoldiers on some of the inherent logical flaws involved in this trope]].

-> "The earlier projects sought to alter their subjects biologically using radioactive chemicals. First was PROJECT: ARES. Of 104 volunteers, Captain Jansen was the only subject who survived ... intact."
-->-- '''Dr. Kate Smallwood''', The Specialists [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-89/ Page 89]]

->"In the 1960s, with war in Asia looming, The US began research into Operation Black Tower; what we've now come to call the Universal Soldier Program. A high-response, self-sustaining, quick-healing, stronger, faster soldier; fueled by high-concentrate nutritional supplements, a soldier that operates without conscience, or hesitation. By freezing a Human body with nitrogen-based gas, repairing it and reheating it through pituitary and thyroid augmentations, We were able to revive a recently deceased soldier, and in the process, improve them. Programmable and erasable. One that you could turn on, and one that you could turn off."

-->--'''[[MissionControl Spartan Sarah Palmer]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}: Spartan Ops''

->''Every world begins as a big pebble lost among trillions of pebbles. Every worthy sun was once cold hydrogen spread thin across the vacuum. Even the universe, this cosmic garden that surrounds us and awes us...this monument to Creation was once the size of an apple seed. And everything that's splendid and great stands at the end of incalculable chance and mayhem.''\\
''[[FunctionalMagic Yes, you have talents.]] [[OneManArmy Enormous, wondrous powers.]] But you should put the smirk away. Do you know what a [[TheChosenMany Guardian is?]] Not yet. [[YouAreNotReady Your name is another pebble. You are a cold apple seed.]]''\\
''[[DareToBeBadass But you will grow.]] ''
-->--'''Ghost Fragment: Guardian Abilities''', ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}''

-->--'''Col. Chester Phillips''', ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''

->'''Ford''': This. What is this?\\
'''Wafner''': Our greatest achievement. With it, we create super-Nazis; A thousand year army and its thousand year soldiers.
-->--''Film/Overlord2018''

-> Soldiers? I hardly think they fit that description. Do you know how they make them, Threlnan? No, of course you don't. They find some [[DeathWorld barbaric planet]] where children fight before they can walk, and they hunt down the most bloodthirsty killers. They recruit them when they're twelve, thirteen, fourteen, with all that hate and that arrogance, just at the age when you think you're bulletproof and nothing can kill you. Then they keep them like that, give them a gun and some armour, and point them at the nearest enemy. They're not soldiers, colonel, they're [[AxeCrazy maniacs.]] [[{{Pride}} They won't answer to anyone save their own kind.]] And have you seen how they fight? They find the closest enemy and try to cut them up with swords. Madness. Just madness. Just so there can be something to carve on the cathedrals and put in children's stories. Now I've got a hundred of them just waiting to [[LeeroyJenkins bend all my battle-plans out of shape.]]

->''They shall be my [[BadassArmy finest warriors]], these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall [[BioAugmentation mould them]], and in the furnace of war [[TrainingFromHell forge them]]. They will be of [[{{Determinator}} iron will]] and [[SuperStrength steely muscle]]. In [[PoweredArmor great armour]] shall I clad them and with the [[{{BFG}} mightiest guns]] will they be armed. They will be [[TheNeedless untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them]]. They will have [[BigBookOfWar tactics]], [[TheStrategist strategies]] and [[TankGoodness machines]] so that no foe can best them in battle. [[HoldTheLine They are my bulwark against the Terror.]] [[ProHumanTransHuman They are the Defenders of Humanity.]] [[BadassCreed They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear.]]''

->''They shall be my [[BadassArmy finest warriors]], these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall [[BioAugmentation mould them]], and in the furnace of war [[TrainingFromHell forge them]]. They will be of [[{{Determinator}} iron will]] and [[SuperStrength steely muscle]]. In [[PoweredArmor great armour]] shall I clad them and with the [[{{BFG}} mightiest guns]] will they be armed. They will be [[TheNeedless untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them]]. They will have [[BigBookOfWar tactics]], [[TheStrategist strategies]] and [[TankGoodness machines]] so that no foe can best them in battle. [[HoldTheLine They are my bulwark against the Terror.]] [[ProHumanTransHuman They are the Defenders of Humanity.]] They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear.''

''[[PracticalMagic Yes, you have talents.]] [[OneManArmy Enormous, wondrous powers.]] But you should put the smirk away. Do you know what a [[TheChosenMany Guardian is?]] Not yet. [[YouAreNotReady Your name is another pebble. You are a cold apple seed.]]''\\

->'''General Ross''': You're aware that we've got an infantry weapons development program. Well, [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica in WWII]] they initiated a sub-program for bio-tech force enhancement.
->'''Emil Blonsky''': Yeah, a Super Soldier.
->'''General Ross''': Yes. An oversimplification, but yes... Across the hall they're trying to arm you better? We're trying to make ''you'' better.

-->-- '''Dr. Catherine Halsey''', '''''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'''''

-->-- Dr. Kate Smallwood, The Specialists [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-89/ Page 89]]

->Every world begins as a big pebble lost among trillions of pebbles. Every worthy sun was once cold hydrogen spread thin across the vacuum. Even the universe, this cosmic garden that surrounds us and awes us...this monument to Creation was once the size of an apple seed. And everything that's splendid and great stands at the end of incalculable chance and mayhem.\\
Yes, you have talents. Enormous, wondrous powers. But you should put the smirk away. Do you know what a Guardian is? Not yet. Your name is another pebble. You are a cold apple seed.\\
[[DareToBeBadass But you will grow.]]