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* InsectoidAliens: the Chigs are so named because their environmental suits make them resemble chiggers, although Wang points out they look more like praying mantises or walking sticks to him.
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* InsectoidAliens: IWillFindYou: West spends the entire series searching for his girlfriend, whose colony ship was attacked by the Chigs are so named because their environmental suits make them resemble chiggers, although Wang points out they look more like praying mantises or walking sticks to him. shortly after he was pulled off the colony mission. [[spoiler: He and his squadron rescue her and the other surviving colonists in the series finale.]]
* InformedAbility: Played with. The Angry Angels are reputed as the top pilots in the Marine Corps, so much so that they get a CustomUniform. The entire unit is obliterated in the first major battle with the Chigs in the pilot. Possibly {{justified}}: it's indicated in the pilot that there hasn't been a major Earth conflict since the A.I. War about twenty years earlier, so it would appear the Angels actually attained their reputation during military exercises in peacetime. [[spoiler:It's only ''much'' later in "The Angriest Angel" that we see their real skill, when T.C. [=McQueen=], the only member of the unit to remain on active duty after the battle in the pilot, personally goes out and kills [[TheDreaded Chiggy von Richthofen]] in a solo sortie despite having been crippled during the Angels' last battle.]]
* InsectoidAliens: the Chigs are so named because their environmental suits make them resemble chiggers, although Wang points out they look more like praying mantises or walking sticks to him.
* InsectoidAliens: the Chigs are so named because their environmental suits make them resemble chiggers, although Wang points out they look more like praying mantises or walking sticks to him.
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* IWillFindYou: West spends the entire series searching for his girlfriend, whose colony ship was attacked by the Chigs shortly after he was pulled off the colony mission. [[spoiler: He and his squadron rescue her and the other surviving colonists in the series finale.]]
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* {{Ultraterrestrials}}: [[spoiler:In the final episode the Chig ambassador claims that his species evolved on Earth before humans did, but left before it became suited to oxygen-breathing life.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary[=/=]HollywoodLaw: [[ArtificialHuman Cooper Hawkes]] ends up getting arrested due to a combination of FantasticRacism and a misunderstanding with the police after a group of thugs try to hang him in an alleyway. The judge sentences him to [[TradingBarsForStripes serve his debt to society via military service]]... by putting him through a commissioning program to become a space fighter pilot in the Marine Corps. The DrillSergeantNasty even goes so far as to describe the entire situation as a cruel prank played at his (the drill sergeant's) expense. While the US military ''did'' do this in the past, A) they only recruited enlisted men this way, not officers, and B) they officially ended this practice several decades before the series was ''made'', never mind set. Hawkes would have had to obtain a waiver after the fact; he most certainly would not have been shipped from jail still in a prison jumpsuit and shackles.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary[=/=]HollywoodLaw: ArtisticLicenseMilitary:
** [[ArtificialHuman Cooper Hawkes]] ends up getting arrested due to a combination of FantasticRacism and a misunderstanding with the police after a group of thugs try to hang him in an alleyway. The judge sentences him to [[TradingBarsForStripes serve his debt to society via military service]]... by putting him through a commissioning program to become a space fighter pilot in the Marine Corps. The DrillSergeantNasty even goes so far as to describe the entire situation as a cruel prank played at his (the drill sergeant's) expense. While the US military ''did'' do this in the past, A) they only recruited enlisted men this way, not officers, and B) they officially ended this practice several decades before the series was ''made'', never mind set. Hawkes would have had to obtain a waiver after the fact; he most certainly would not have been shipped from jail still in a prison jumpsuit and shackles. Besides which, becoming an officer in the US military requires a college degree (whether from a civilian university or a service academy).
** [[ArtificialHuman Cooper Hawkes]] ends up getting arrested due to a combination of FantasticRacism and a misunderstanding with the police after a group of thugs try to hang him in an alleyway. The judge sentences him to [[TradingBarsForStripes serve his debt to society via military service]]... by putting him through a commissioning program to become a space fighter pilot in the Marine Corps. The DrillSergeantNasty even goes so far as to describe the entire situation as a cruel prank played at his (the drill sergeant's) expense. While the US military ''did'' do this in the past, A) they only recruited enlisted men this way, not officers, and B) they officially ended this practice several decades before the series was ''made'', never mind set. Hawkes would have had to obtain a waiver after the fact; he most certainly would not have been shipped from jail still in a prison jumpsuit and shackles. Besides which, becoming an officer in the US military requires a college degree (whether from a civilian university or a service academy).
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** No, [=Colonel McQueen=], the real Marine Corps does ''not'' routinely send naval aviators in as infantrymen. Despite the Marine creed that every Marine is first a rifleman, that would be a stupid risk of very expensively trained officers.
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* DoAnythingSoldier: The 58th are ostensibly fighter pilots but more than half the episodes have them sent in as infantry or recon instead (see ArtisticLicenseMilitary).
** {{Lampshaded}} in one episode when the 58th complain about this; Colonel [=McQueen=] justifies it with the Marine creed that every Marine is a rifleman.
** {{Deconstructed}} in "Sugar Dirt". The 58th are ordered to land their planes and join in ground combat, which lets their fighters be destroyed on the ground when the Chigs spring their trap.
** {{Lampshaded}} in one episode when the 58th complain about this; Colonel [=McQueen=] justifies it with the Marine creed that every Marine is a rifleman.
** {{Deconstructed}} in "Sugar Dirt". The 58th are ordered to land their planes and join in ground combat, which lets their fighters be destroyed on the ground when the Chigs spring their trap.
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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Most of the male cast aren't (among other things, [=McQueen=] is a divorcee), but in "R&R", West hires a prostitute to take Hawkes' virginity. Rather understandable that the socially stunted runaway with no family (other than his unit) would be one.
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* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: {{Inverted}}, albeit under protest, in "Sugar Dirt". A landing to capture a strategic airstrip goes south because the Chigs suckered the UN high command, but the Navy realizes that in order to pull this off the Chigs withdrew forces from an even ''more'' strategic target, which is now open to attack. But there isn't time to retrieve the troops already on the ground so the ships are forced to abandon 25,000 troops, including the 58th, for two months until they've captured the new target and can return to retrieve them... by which point the 58th have nearly starved to death and only 2,000 survivors remain. Commodore Ross says it best at the end:
-->"As a commander, I feel no obligation to explain my actions. But as a ''man'', I have never been more ashamed of myself, or [[SoProudOfYou more proud of you]]."
-->"As a commander, I feel no obligation to explain my actions. But as a ''man'', I have never been more ashamed of myself, or [[SoProudOfYou more proud of you]]."
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* DueToTheDead: A number of episodes feature memorials for fallen comrades of one kind or another, notably for [[spoiler:Pags]] in the pilot and [[spoiler:Winslow]] in "The Angriest Angel." Averted by the Chigs, who not only practice no such rituals but also dismember any human remains they find. [[spoiler: Not believing in any form of afterlife, they took the human belief in "life after death" a little too literally...]]
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* SoleSurvivor: A few characters are depicted as the last surviving members of their (former) units.
** Major McKendrick's ordeal behind enemy lines began when his unit was wiped out.
** Lt. Col. Butts is ultimately revealed to be this; one of his motives for taking command of the 58th was to return to the site of his previous unit's last stand and [[DueToTheDead give them a proper burial.]]
** Possibly McQueen himself, as he is the only member of the Angry Angels explicitly shown to have survived their battle with the Chigs.
** Major McKendrick's ordeal behind enemy lines began when his unit was wiped out.
** Lt. Col. Butts is ultimately revealed to be this; one of his motives for taking command of the 58th was to return to the site of his previous unit's last stand and [[DueToTheDead give them a proper burial.]]
** Possibly McQueen himself, as he is the only member of the Angry Angels explicitly shown to have survived their battle with the Chigs.
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* FantasticSlurs: One or more exists for just about every race in the series. Notably:
** "Chigs" or (less commonly) "Chiggers" for the aliens - to the point of being OnlyKnownByTheirNickname.
** The [[ArtificialHumans [=InVitros=]]] are called "Tanks" or occasionally "Nipplenecks."
** The name "Silicates" may itself have originated as a slur in the AI Wars.
** "Chigs" or (less commonly) "Chiggers" for the aliens - to the point of being OnlyKnownByTheirNickname.
** The [[ArtificialHumans [=InVitros=]]] are called "Tanks" or occasionally "Nipplenecks."
** The name "Silicates" may itself have originated as a slur in the AI Wars.
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* SupernaturalFearInducer: In the episode "The Enemy", US troops on a desolate planet the 58th have been sent to resupply are reported to be stuck in a meat grinder of a battle. It turns out that there aren't actually any Chigs on-planet, but they left behind a panic-inducing weapon that's causing the troopers to turn on each other or blunder into minefields.
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** The military had long since abandoned the issue of sending letters to inform families of their dead loved ones. Appropriately, to avoid exactly the sort of situation Nathan finds himself in one episode. [[spoiler: His parents not getting the letter and still believing their son is alive.]]
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* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: both averted and played straight in different episodes. Some planets can be operated on in plainclothes, while others require full space suits.
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* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: both averted and played straight in different episodes. Some planets can be operated on in plainclothes, while others require full space suits. The Chigs' native atmosphere is apparently methane-based.
* AncientAstronauts: It's all but confirmed in "Stardust" that the Chigs have encountered humans for a long time: they can apparently understand Navajo [[spoiler:enough that the Marines are able to successfully plant disinformation written in it]]. [[spoiler:In the series finale, the Chig ambassador claims his people are originally ''from'' Earth, but left home hundreds of thousands of years before humans evolved.]]
* AncientAstronauts: It's all but confirmed in "Stardust" that the Chigs have encountered humans for a long time: they can apparently understand Navajo [[spoiler:enough that the Marines are able to successfully plant disinformation written in it]]. [[spoiler:In the series finale, the Chig ambassador claims his people are originally ''from'' Earth, but left home hundreds of thousands of years before humans evolved.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary[=/=]HollywoodLaw: [[ArtificialHuman Cooper Hawkes]] ends up getting arrested due to a combination of FantasticRacism and a misunderstanding with the police after a group of thugs try to hang him in an alleyway. The judge sentences him to [[TradingBarsForStripes serve his debt to society via military service]]... by putting him through a commissioning program to become a space fighter pilot in the Marine Corps. The DrillSergeantNasty even goes so far as to describe the entire situation as a cruel prank played at his (the drill sergeant's) expense. While the US military ''did'' do this in the past, A) they only recruited enlisted men this way, not officers, and B) they officially ended this practice several decades before the series was ''made'', never mind set. Hawkes would have had to obtained a waiver after the fact; he most certainly would not have been shipped from jail still in a prison jumpsuit and shackles.
* AsianAndNerdy: Wang is an interesting take on this trope, as he's a ''sports'' nerd (his parents send him sod from Wrigley Field, and he claims he can figure out where exactly in the field it's from from its smell)
* AsianAndNerdy: Wang is an interesting take on this trope, as he's a ''sports'' nerd (his parents send him sod from Wrigley Field, and he claims he can figure out where exactly in the field it's from from its smell)
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary[=/=]HollywoodLaw: [[ArtificialHuman Cooper Hawkes]] ends up getting arrested due to a combination of FantasticRacism and a misunderstanding with the police after a group of thugs try to hang him in an alleyway. The judge sentences him to [[TradingBarsForStripes serve his debt to society via military service]]... by putting him through a commissioning program to become a space fighter pilot in the Marine Corps. The DrillSergeantNasty even goes so far as to describe the entire situation as a cruel prank played at his (the drill sergeant's) expense. While the US military ''did'' do this in the past, A) they only recruited enlisted men this way, not officers, and B) they officially ended this practice several decades before the series was ''made'', never mind set. Hawkes would have had to obtained obtain a waiver after the fact; he most certainly would not have been shipped from jail still in a prison jumpsuit and shackles.
* AsianAndNerdy: Wang is an interesting take on this trope, as he's a ''sports'' nerd (his parents send him sod from Wrigley Field, and he claims he can figure out where exactly in the field it's from from itssmell) smell).
* AttackItsWeakPoint: [[spoiler:How T.C. finally takes down Chiggy von Richthofen: by planting a salvo of missiles in its engine intakes, apparently the only part of the fighter that isn't armored to shrug off human weapons.]]
* AsianAndNerdy: Wang is an interesting take on this trope, as he's a ''sports'' nerd (his parents send him sod from Wrigley Field, and he claims he can figure out where exactly in the field it's from from its
* AttackItsWeakPoint: [[spoiler:How T.C. finally takes down Chiggy von Richthofen: by planting a salvo of missiles in its engine intakes, apparently the only part of the fighter that isn't armored to shrug off human weapons.]]
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--> '''Interrogator:''' Is your full name Colonel Tyrus Cassius [=McQueen=]?
-->'''[=McQueen=]:''' I always thought T.C. stood for "Top Cat".
-->'''[=McQueen=]:''' I always thought T.C. stood for "Top Cat".
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--> '''Interrogator:''' Is your full name Colonel Tyrus Cassius [=McQueen=]?
-->'''[=McQueen=]:'''[=McQueen=]?\\
'''[=McQueen=]:''' I always thought T.C. stood for "TopCat".Cat".
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Commodore Ross, the CO of the ''Saratoga'' and the guy who gives [=McQueen=], essentially the ship's Commander, Air Group, his orders (as well as being as close to a best friend as commander and subordinate can be). He's the only major black character other than Damphousse.
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'''[=McQueen=]:''' I always thought T.C. stood for "Top
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Commodore Ross, the CO of the ''Saratoga'' and the guy who gives [=McQueen=], essentially the ship's Commander, Air Group, his orders (as well as being as close to a best friend as commander and subordinate can be). He's the only major black character other than Damphousse.
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* BellyButtonless: The [=InVitros=] lack standard belly-buttons. Instead, they have nipple-like bumps on the back of their necks from there the artificial placentas attached to them in the womb-tanks.
* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler: One of the Wildcards almost certainly dies in a firefight while two others are falling in an escape pod into enemy territory; [=McQueen=] is severely injured in an explosion that kills a handful of important human officials; the war, once within sight of peace, now rages as intense as ever and the human forces have lost the initiative, making Operation Roundhammer irrelevant. On the other hand, the colonists held captive since the series pilot, including West's girlfriend, have been successfully rescued. We also learn that the alien aggression might not have been as unwarranted as we've been told. All in all, it would have been a very interesting second season.]]
* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler: One of the Wildcards almost certainly dies in a firefight while two others are falling in an escape pod into enemy territory; [=McQueen=] is severely injured in an explosion that kills a handful of important human officials; the war, once within sight of peace, now rages as intense as ever and the human forces have lost the initiative, making Operation Roundhammer irrelevant. On the other hand, the colonists held captive since the series pilot, including West's girlfriend, have been successfully rescued. We also learn that the alien aggression might not have been as unwarranted as we've been told. All in all, it would have been a very interesting second season.]]
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* BellyButtonless: The [=InVitros=] lack standard belly-buttons. Instead, they have nipple-like bumps on the back of their necks from there the artificial placentas attached to them in the womb-tanks.
womb-tanks (hence the FantasticSlur "nipple-neck").
*BitterSweetEnding: BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: One of the Wildcards almost certainly dies in a firefight while two others are falling in an escape pod into enemy territory; [=McQueen=] is severely injured in an explosion that kills a handful of important human officials; the war, once within sight of peace, now rages as intense as ever and the human forces have lost the initiative, making Operation Roundhammer irrelevant. On the other hand, the colonists held captive since the series pilot, including West's girlfriend, have been successfully rescued. We also learn that the alien aggression might not have been as unwarranted as we've been told. All in all, it would have been a very interesting second season.]]
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* ColonelBadass: T.C. [=McQueen=] repeatedly was shown to be the only guy who knew what the Hell he was doing - [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome especially when he fought Chiggy Von Richthofen).]]
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* ColonelBadass: ColonelBadass:
** T.C. [=McQueen=] repeatedly was shown to be the only guy who knew what the Hell he was doing - [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome especially when he fought Chiggy Von Richthofen).]]
** T.C. [=McQueen=] repeatedly was shown to be the only guy who knew what the Hell he was doing - [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome especially when he fought Chiggy Von Richthofen).]]
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* FantasticDrug: "Green meanies", a painkiller in the form of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin green pills]] that In Vitros find highly addictive. [[spoiler: Hawkes is prescribed them by an unthinking doctor and spends the rest of the episode either addicted or detoxing; when he offers to help get him clean, Col. [=McQueen=] mentions he also had gotten addicted during the AI Wars.]]
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* FantasticDrug: "Green meanies", a painkiller in the form of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin green pills]] that In Vitros [=InVitros=] find highly addictive. [[spoiler: Hawkes is prescribed them by an unthinking doctor and spends the rest of the episode either addicted or detoxing; when he offers to help get him clean, Col. [=McQueen=] mentions he also had gotten addicted during the AI Wars.]]
* FantasyConflictCounterpart: Late battles are directly based on parts of the Pacific and Normandy campaigns in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, with the similarities directly called out in the episodes.
** "Stardust" = a disinformation op in the leadup to D-Day. [[spoiler:Also referenced are the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker code talkers]], with the Marines using missives written in Navajo and attached to corpses to mislead the Chigs.]]
** "Sugar Dirt" = Guadalcanal, with a landing force being abandoned to fend for themselves for months in favor of taking advantage of a more strategic position elsewhere (New Guinea in real life, the planet Ixion near the Chig homeworld in the episode). Complete with a VanityPlate dedicating the episode to Guadalcanal veterans.
** Round Hammer itself is inspired by the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands. [[spoiler:But unlike the real one that never happened because the Japanese surrendered after the American nuclear attacks, Round Hammer is called off in the finale because the Wild Cards screw up and give away the battle plan to the Chigs,[[note]]They meet an unarmored Chig while scouting a moon of the Chig homeworld and, not knowing what unarmored Chigs look like, mistake him for a different alien species and tell him about the planned assault to save his life. He is apparently a guardian of a Chig breeding ground and tells his government about the invasion.[[/note]] who offer to open peace negotiations instead of taking advantage. The negotiations go badly awry and the war restarts, but the UN has lost the initiative.]]
** "Stardust" = a disinformation op in the leadup to D-Day. [[spoiler:Also referenced are the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker code talkers]], with the Marines using missives written in Navajo and attached to corpses to mislead the Chigs.]]
** "Sugar Dirt" = Guadalcanal, with a landing force being abandoned to fend for themselves for months in favor of taking advantage of a more strategic position elsewhere (New Guinea in real life, the planet Ixion near the Chig homeworld in the episode). Complete with a VanityPlate dedicating the episode to Guadalcanal veterans.
** Round Hammer itself is inspired by the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands. [[spoiler:But unlike the real one that never happened because the Japanese surrendered after the American nuclear attacks, Round Hammer is called off in the finale because the Wild Cards screw up and give away the battle plan to the Chigs,[[note]]They meet an unarmored Chig while scouting a moon of the Chig homeworld and, not knowing what unarmored Chigs look like, mistake him for a different alien species and tell him about the planned assault to save his life. He is apparently a guardian of a Chig breeding ground and tells his government about the invasion.[[/note]] who offer to open peace negotiations instead of taking advantage. The negotiations go badly awry and the war restarts, but the UN has lost the initiative.]]
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** As the 58th is composed entirely of officers, each member should be ''leading'' ground units of enlisted soldiers (or at least be attached individually to such a unit as forward air controllers), not acting as cannon fodder. This is particularly egregious when the unit is depicted fighting alongside a conventional infantry unit, commanded by a lieutenant - he is outranked by ALL members of the 58th.
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** As the 58th is composed entirely of officers, each member should be ''leading'' ground units of enlisted soldiers (or at least be attached individually to such a unit as forward air controllers), not acting as cannon fodder. This is particularly egregious when the unit is depicted fighting alongside a conventional infantry unit, commanded by a lieutenant - he is outranked by ALL members of the 58th. It's TruthInTelevision when they're acting as pilots, however: In the US military, fixed-wing aircraft pilots are all officers.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:The series finale has Wang cover the escape of West, Hawkes, and Kylen and the other captured colonists by separating the cargo compartment of an APC with him in it so West can grab the one from the other, disabled, APC. He blows away several Chig fighters with a mounted gun before one crashes into him. WordOfGod is that, had the series not been cancelled, the death would still have stuck.]]
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** Technically not "baby" factories, as they are decanted at 18.
** Technically not "baby" factories, as they are decanted at 18.
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Invoked when Lt. Herrick hands over his rifle to [=Mcqueen=]... and is immediately (and correctly) chewed out for not opening the breech and checking the chamber first.
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Invoked when Lt. Herrick hands over his rifle to [=Mcqueen=]... [=McQueen=]... and is immediately (and correctly) chewed out for not opening the breech and checking the chamber first.first.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary[=/=]HollywoodLaw: [[ArtificialHuman Cooper Hawkes]] ends up getting arrested due to a combination of FantasticRacism and a misunderstanding with the police after a group of thugs try to hang him in an alleyway. The judge sentences him to [[TradingBarsForStripes serve his debt to society via military service]]... by putting him through a commissioning program to become a space fighter pilot in the Marine Corps. The DrillSergeantNasty even goes so far as to describe the entire situation as a cruel prank played at his (the drill sergeant's) expense. While the US military ''did'' do this in the past, A) they only recruited enlisted men this way, not officers, and B) they officially ended this practice several decades before the series was ''made'', never mind set. Hawkes would have had to obtained a waiver after the fact; he most certainly would not have been shipped from jail still in a prison jumpsuit and shackles.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary[=/=]HollywoodLaw: [[ArtificialHuman Cooper Hawkes]] ends up getting arrested due to a combination of FantasticRacism and a misunderstanding with the police after a group of thugs try to hang him in an alleyway. The judge sentences him to [[TradingBarsForStripes serve his debt to society via military service]]... by putting him through a commissioning program to become a space fighter pilot in the Marine Corps. The DrillSergeantNasty even goes so far as to describe the entire situation as a cruel prank played at his (the drill sergeant's) expense. While the US military ''did'' do this in the past, A) they only recruited enlisted men this way, not officers, and B) they officially ended this practice several decades before the series was ''made'', never mind set. Hawkes would have had to obtained a waiver after the fact; he most certainly would not have been shipped from jail still in a prison jumpsuit and shackles.
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* HollywoodLaw: [[ArtificialHuman Cooper Hawkes]] ends up getting arrested due to a combination of FantasticRacism and a misunderstanding with the police after a group of thugs try to hang him in an alleyway. The judge sentences him to serve his debt to society via military service... by putting him through a commissioning program to become a space fighter pilot in the Marine Corps. The DrillSergeantNasty even goes so far as to describe the entire situation as a cruel prank played at his (the drill sergeant's) expense.
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* NoseArt: Chiggy Von Richtofen's AceCustom has a human skull painted on the nose, and the words "Abandon All Hope".[[note:In ''English.'']]
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* NoseArt: Chiggy Von Richtofen's AceCustom has a human skull painted on the nose, and the words "Abandon All Hope".[[note:In [[note]]In ''English.'']]''[[/note]]
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* CassetteFuturism: The show had lots of CRT screens (not disguised) as well as [=CDs=] and other mid-nineties tech.
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* FantasticShipPrefix: The ''Kennedy''-class space carriers took the current hull classification for a nuclear carrier, CVN, and put an 'S' (for Space) in front resulting in SCVN. ''Saratoga'' is SCVN-2812.
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** [[FullMetalJacket Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann]] reappears, only this time he insists his name is Bogess... and he has toned it down to PG-13 dialogue.
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** [[FullMetalJacket [[Film/FullMetalJacket Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann]] reappears, only this time he insists his name is Bogess... and he has toned it down to PG-13 dialogue.
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* ScrewThisImOutaHere: The [=InVitros=] awoke from their tanks, were informed they had been created to fight a war they had no stake in, and promptly deserted.
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* ScrewThisImOutaHere: ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The [=InVitros=] awoke from their tanks, were informed they had been created to fight a war they had no stake in, and promptly deserted.
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* RecoveredAddict: The [[ArtificialHuman In Vitros]] have severe problems with addictions to certain pain meds. Col. [=McQueen=] has had problems with the same "Green Meanies" prescribed to Hawkes in one episode.
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** Often zigzagged during space combat sequences. While the Hammerheads are typically seen executing maneuvers that wouldn't look out of place for a WorldWarI or WorldWarII fighter, they are also shown to be capable of feats of agility matched only by present day attack helicopters and aircraft like the Harrier... [[FridgeBrilliance as befitting craft maneuvering via thrust vectoring and operating outside of an atmosphere.]]
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* LeftHanging: Like many, many, many other Fox shows, due to premature cancellation.
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* LeftHanging: Like many, many, many other Fox shows, due to premature cancellation. WordOfGod is that the creators did this deliberately in hopes that the show might someday be brought back.
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* GovernmentConspiracy: It turns out the human higher-ups were aware of the Chigs' existence before they established the colonies at Vesta and Tellus.
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* GovernmentConspiracy: It turns out the human higher-ups were aware of the Chigs' existence before they established the colonies at Vesta and Tellus. According to them, when the Chigs warned them against settling those worlds, they concluded that the Chigs had no legal claim to planets so far outside their sphere of influence. The Chigs disagreed.
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** Later the Chig are show to be grown in bee hive like domes and when ready are planned under ground, making them part bee part plant.
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** Later the Chig are show to be grown in bee hive like domes and when ready are planned under ground, making them part bee part plant.plant.
** Also, since [[spoiler:they have evolved from microorganisms brought from Earth by a comet]], it doesn't make sense for them to be [[spoiler:allergic to water]].
** Also, since [[spoiler:they have evolved from microorganisms brought from Earth by a comet]], it doesn't make sense for them to be [[spoiler:allergic to water]].
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* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler: One of the Wildcards almost certainly dies in a firefight while two others are falling in an escape pod into enemy territory; [=McQueen=] is severely injured in an explosion that kills a handful of important human officials; the war, once within sight of peace, now rages as intense as ever and the human forces have lost the initiative, making Operation Roundhammer irrelevant. On the other hand, the colonists held captive since the series pilot, including West's girlfriend, have been successfully rescued. We also learn that the alien aggression might not have been as unwarranted as we've been told. All in all, it would have been a very interesting second season.]]
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* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler: One of the Wildcards almost certainly dies in a firefight while two others are falling in an escape pod into enemy territory; [=McQueen=] is severely injured in an explosion that kills a handful of important human officials; the war, once within sight of peace, now rages as intense as ever and the human forces have lost the initiative, making Operation Roundhammer irrelevant. On the other hand, the colonists held captive since the series pilot, including West's girlfriend, have been successfully rescued. We also learn that the alien aggression might not have been as unwarranted as we've been told. All in all, it would have been a very interesting second season.]] ]]
** WordOfGod is that [[spoiler:the ending, had the series continued into the second season, would still be bittersweet, as the war would've ended not with a victory but with a tenuous peace treaty, in part thanks to a major Earth offensive failing. While the two women would have survived, they would be enslaved and taken to a brothel. Wang would still be dead]].
** WordOfGod is that [[spoiler:the ending, had the series continued into the second season, would still be bittersweet, as the war would've ended not with a victory but with a tenuous peace treaty, in part thanks to a major Earth offensive failing. While the two women would have survived, they would be enslaved and taken to a brothel. Wang would still be dead]].
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* FakingTheDead: In "Stay with the Dead", the 58th use this as a ploy against the Chigs. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, their fellow Marines believe it too.]]
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Major McKendrick, a slightly crazy British guy who got stuck on a planet with nothing to do but listen to Chig transmissions on a broken radio all day, who has managed to at least start to understand the Chig language. [[spoiler: he refuses to be evacuated in order for him to finish the job]]
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Major McKendrick, [=McKendrick=], a slightly crazy British guy who got stuck on a planet with nothing to do but listen to Chig transmissions on a broken radio all day, who has managed to at least start to understand the Chig language. [[spoiler: he refuses to be evacuated in order for him to finish the job]]
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* StiffUpperLip: Major McKendrick, a British logistics officer who refuses to let his being trapped alone behind enemy lines after the loss of his entire unit get him down. Instead, he forges on finding ways to keep himself occupied, including monitoring and analyzing the Chigs' communications to try and gain intel on them.
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* StiffUpperLip: Major McKendrick, [=McKendrick=], a British logistics officer who refuses to let his being trapped alone behind enemy lines after the loss of his entire unit get him down. Instead, he forges on finding ways to keep himself occupied, including monitoring and analyzing the Chigs' communications to try and gain intel on them.
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* NoseArt: Chiggy Von Richtofen's AceCustom has a human skull painted on the nose, and the words "Abandon All Hope".
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* NoseArt: Chiggy Von Richtofen's AceCustom has a human skull painted on the nose, and the words "Abandon All Hope".[[note:In ''English.'']]
** When the 58th becomes operational late in the the pilot episode, several of their Hammerheads have slogans painted on, including "Pags' Payback" (on Hawkes' fighter) and "Above and Beyond" (on West's).
** When the 58th becomes operational late in the the pilot episode, several of their Hammerheads have slogans painted on, including "Pags' Payback" (on Hawkes' fighter) and "Above and Beyond" (on West's).
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* WhoWatchesTheWatchmen: In a flashback sequence in "Who Monitors the Birds?", [[MeaningfulName Hawkes]] asks one of his indoctrination monitors the eponymous question. When the monitor replies, "I monitor the birds," Hawkes' next question is, "Who monitors you?" The monitors decide Hawkes must be eliminated at that point.
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*** It's lampshaded pretty early on. Col. [=McQueen=] takes time during a briefing to chew the team out for whining about ground duty, remind them that "every Marine is a rifleman!" and that they'll damn well keep their traps shut.
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*** [[spoiler: Then again, Damphousse might have a degree in ArtMajorBiology, since she started pumping water into what was obviously a gill used for breathing. Odds are, if the first one didn't commit suicide, it drowned.]]
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* DuringTheWar: T.C. [=McQueen=] recounts some stories about the [[RobotWar Silicate War]] where his kind were discriminated against. Likewise, the leader of the squadron has flashbacks to her childhood.
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* DuringTheWar: T.C. [=McQueen=] recounts some stories about the [[RobotWar Silicate War]] where his kind were discriminated against. Likewise, the leader of the squadron has flashbacks to her childhood. Hawkes also spends an episode having flashbacks to his training in preparation for fighting against the Silicates.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Lt. Col. [=McQueen=], even if it's often the stern-father archetype. As the series goes on it becomes increasingly clear that the Wildcards are incredibly important to [=McQueen=], and whenever it appears they are dead or lost his distress is obvious. This all counts double for Hawkes, given that both are [=InVitros=] and [=McQueen=] begins to serve as a ParentalSubstitute to him.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Lt. Col. [=McQueen=], even if it's often the stern-father archetype.archetype (although he is often kinder to them when they are under severe stress, like when [[spoiler:Nathan's brother was killed]]). As the series goes on it becomes increasingly clear that the Wildcards are incredibly important to [=McQueen=], and whenever it appears they are dead or lost his distress is obvious. This all counts double for Hawkes, given that both are [=InVitros=] and [=McQueen=] begins to serve as a ParentalSubstitute to him.
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* ManchurianAgent: "Eyes" involves the possibility that one of the 58th's own might be one. [[spoiler: It turns out to be one of the squadron's new replacements.]]
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* ManchurianAgent: "Eyes" involves the possibility that one of the 58th's own might be one. [[spoiler: It turns out to be one of the squadron's new replacements.replacements, although Hawkes finds himself getting this treatment as well and coming within a hair of killing his target.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Vansen goes on one when she learns why the Silicates killed her parents: [[spoiler: they flipped a coin,[[note[[Heads, they kill Vansen's family. Tails, the family across the street[[/note]] as Silicates view betting as a semi-religious experience]]. She starts her rampage off by [[spoiler: beating a Silicate to death with her bare hands]].
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Vansen goes on one when she learns why the Silicates killed her parents: [[spoiler: they flipped a coin,[[note[[Heads, coin,[[note]]Heads, they kill Vansen's family. Tails, the family across the street[[/note]] as Silicates view betting as a semi-religious experience]]. She starts her rampage off by [[spoiler: beating a Silicate to death with her bare hands]].
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* CrimeOfSelfDefense: How Cooper ends up in the Marines, thanks to some creative sentencing by the judge.
