Basic Trope: When military fiction focuses on elite/famous units.
- Straight: The Troper Army is made up of all kinds of troops, but All Quiet On The Troper Front focuses mainly on the highly trained space marines.
- Exaggerated: The Troper Army consists of billions of individual soldiers, but Saving Private Troper focuses on the most elite fireteam in the best squad in the most qualified platoon in the finest company, which is the best in the greatest brigade...
- Downplayed: The Troper Army has all sorts of special units and teams; Apocalypse Trope focuses on them as well as ordinary soldiers, but gives more screen time to the former.
- Justified: The Troper Army is an entirely elite force in and of itself, and has no "regular units" for the creators of Full Metal Trope to focus on.
- Inverted: The Flags Of Our Tropers focuses on ordinary grunts.
- Subverted: The Hurt Troper initially focuses on an elite unit, but they all die, leaving the ragtag bunch of misfits up to save the day.
- Double Subverted: But then they all die, and a new elite unit comes into play.
- Parodied: The Longest Trope focuses on Badass on Paper elite units that are elite in name only.
- Zig Zagged: Black Trope Down focuses on elite units, then regular soldiers, then shows th elites being badass in name only while the regular soldiers begin to seem the true elites, but then the elite units and regular units get mixed together as their numbers dwindle.
- Averted: Eat. Pray. Trope. isn't about war or military units at all.
- Enforced: "Navy SEALS are cool. Why not focus on them?"
- Lampshaded: "I wonder what the regular guys are up to."
- Invoked: A found-footage documentary about a spec-ops mission by nature focuses on spec-ops troops that embarked on it, since they had the cameras.
- Exploited: A producer thinks making a movie about an elite unit will make more money than one that focuses on an elite unit.
- Defied: A reporter dropped into a war zone seeks to interview normal troops.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Drama: A Trope Too Far focuses on the tragic story of an elite unit whose belief in their own greatness ends up getting most of them killed.
- Deconstructed: Everyone is an "elite", and the status is meaningless because of the Troper Army's blatant corruption.
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