Funny / Sturmtruppen

• One of the earliest strips has the Captain ordering Heinz, his "Trusted Lieutenant", to send "the bulk of the army" in the fray. Cue to Heinz screaming orders at an incredibly fat soldier who's rushing screaming to battle as the Captain looks shocked. After the battle, a set of soapbars branded "Trusty Lieutenant" are distributed to the soldiers.
• In an early strip, the captain is shouting at the phone that the guy on the other side, announcing their attack has failed and their second and third lines have been broken through, is a defeatist and should be shot, and demands to know his name. The last panel has terrified captain whispering "... Ike D. Eisenhower?..."
• In another early strip, a captain was leading an assault and shouted "If I advance follow me! If I go back shoot me!"... And promptly reached the edge of a cliff, under the eyes of his grinning soldiers. It's not shown how it ended, but we can guess.
• The Running Gag of the Third Anti-Aircraft Battery shooting down the absolutely wrong things. In order, they shot down: Santa Claus; Superman (not really, but he still came down. To beat them up); a literal angel trying to end the war; a Persian flying carpet (the battery crew asked their command if they were at war with Persia, because otherwise they had caused a mess. They had); a flying saucer.
• "Halt! Who's there?! Friend or foe?!" "Just acquaintances!"
  • The fact Bonvi managed to get half a dozen strips out of that gag and the reactions of the sentinel, the sergeant and the captain.
  • And many strips later, a sentinel made the same question and added "And don't say "just acquaintances", they already used it many strips ago!"
• The infamous story arc when the soldiers realized the rulebook didn't say they actually had to wear their uniforms, only to keep them in perfect order.
• The SS Execution Squad trying to exterminate a Jewish prisoner only to fail miserably every time.
  • Possibly the best moment of the early part of the arc: after the SS officer managed to get shooting squad, rifles, munitions and prisoner before a decent wall and in the right disposition, he quipped that they could finally do the job without interferences or getting anymore late. Then...
  "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, GENERAL RETREAT?!"
  • The time when everything looks good and normal, the following exchange happens:
  Captain: "Ready! Aim..."
  Prisoner: "Fire!"
  Captain: "You... you... you.."
  Prisoner: (smiling) "I couldn't resist..."
  • On another occasion, we had this happen:
  Captain: "Ready! Aim! Fire!"
  Soldiers and prisoner:*pull out their lighters and offer him fire*
• Musolesi's introductory strips have the captain showing off Germany's best weapons... And Musolesi always dismissing them before showing off the fruit of the Italic war genius: the victory garden.
  • Musolesi being awarded the iron cross for the victory garden. And promptly earning himself the eternal annoyance of the troopers by planting new gardens everywhere, including a helmet that had been discarded for a couple seconds.
  • Musolesi annoying the SS Execution Squad.
  • In his early antics, Musolesi tripped while bringing a scalding hot coffee to a general, and immediately bragged home and to Mussolini he had fallen heroically in the course of his duty, and the bureaucracy takes him at his word. Hilarity Ensues:
    • Mussolini gifts him a medal to the memory... And a large flower crown and a coffin.
    Musolesi (groping his groin ^note  a traditional italian gesture against bad luck) "I don't care if it's from the Duce, send it back!!"
    • A group of soldiers seize his possessions... To give them to the family of the fallen.
    • Musolesi protesting on the phone that he's not dead, only to learn that his heirs have already got his inheritance.
    • The cook refusing to feed him because he's not enrolled anymore.
    • How Musolesi solved it: Mussolini had him re-enrolled as the "Soul of a Heroic Fallen". Cue to Musolesi, sitting on the ground and holding an empty cauldron of food whil asking for two more pots.
• In one strip, the captain ordered the sergeant to play the record of the battalion hymn... Except some clown swapped it for Bandiera Rossa. The captain preparing to shoot himself over this sells it.
• "Messiah" Heinz's story, when he believed himself Jesus and somehow had the powers to back it up... But was too stupid to do it right. Then Musolesi installed himself as his Pope to make money off him...
  • The officers are being driven mad by the situation, and quip they'd be willing to pay to get rid of him... And Musolesi of course offers to do the job for thirty Reichmarks (yes, they were silver coins). Cue a long preparation for Musolesi to nail Heinz to a cross... And then Musolesi screams in rage when the crisis wears off at the last moment, right after he sold out the tickets for the show.
  • The end: Heinz has a new crisis and believes himself Muhammad, the captain, furious, sends the sergeant to put a stop to it... Then the sergeant reports that now Heinz can solve all their fuel troubles.
• The entire "Jonah" Franz storyline, but especially when Musolesi gets in a society with him to sell insurances against bad luck.
• In one of the last storylines, Musolesi's many attempts at faking being ill to get a special lunch.
• Also in one of the last storylines, the Doctor growing obsessed with eternal youth-especially when Musolesi shows up to get a medical certificate to finally get the special lunch and scams him into believing he can teach him how to make a Deal with the Devil in exchange for the certificate.
  • After the first attempt at summoning the devil miserably failed, Musolesi shows up again-and the Doctor wonders out loud why he has to give him his immortal soul when he has some perfectly good gold to pay. Musolesi promptly teaches him a "better method" and impersonates the devil.
• The storyline of the soldier that paid to join the army, the recruiter having convinced him it was a military-style holiday resort with the other vacationers often playing weird pranks to newcomers such as trying to convince them they're actually in the army.
• Musolesi's failed attempts to get the Sergeant to slim down in time for an inspection.
  • The eventual solution, that Musolesi didn't want to try: a corset. That results in the Sergeant's belly flattening... And him gaining enormous tits. And that opens a whole new can of issues when the inspecting general arrives and turns out to be a Dirty Old Man...
• The storyline where three new recruits arrive at the battalion, to the sergeant's happiness as he can boss them around at a whim when the normal soldiers are starting to have the courage to stand up to him... Only for the recruits to turn out so stupid one was wearing the boots with the point behind the heels.
• In one storyline the troops told the cook his lunches were plain and barely edible, and suggested him to experiment. The soldiers regretted it immediately the moment they saw him throw random stuff in the cauldron.
  • The result: a concotion that turned the eater in a monster version of himself, and addicted to the concotion. Good thing the cook decided to test it on a single soldier first...
• In one occasion the Military Cook had nothing to lit the fire and actually cook the lunch... So he resorted to try and summon lightning. The soldiers started making Frankenstein comparisons even before a lightning struck the kitchen and the lunch became alive... And started eating the troops. And then there were the soldiers' attempts at fighting back:
  • The first attempt was a soldier that decided to treat the lunch as, well, a lunch, and tried to eat it. That's when the soldiers discovered the lunch was trying to eat them.
  • One trooper tried a cross. He came back insulting the obviously atheist lunch for eating the cross.
  • Holy water was suggested, and a soldier volunteered... And started peeing. His mother used some weird euphemisms when he was a child...
  • A more pragmatic guy grabbed a flamethrower... And discovered the lunch had improvised one.
  • Eventually the lunch attacks the battalion's fattest soldier... That is, "Big Eater" Franz. Who promptly eats the living lunch by himself - and it was supposed to feed the entire battalion. He later has digestive problems.
• On one infamous occasion, the troopers asked what was in the lunch, and the cook replied cholera and left laughing. The troopers didn't dare to eat and see if he was joking.
  • Eventually a soldier decided the cook was trolling them and gulped down his lunch. The others promptly saw from his pants it was not a prank.