Johnny Rico
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Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But more than that, she was a citizen of the Federation.
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This is for all you new people: I only have one rule. Everyone fights. No one quits. You don't do your job, I'll shoot you myself. Do you get me?
Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
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This is for all you new people: I only have one rule. Everyone fights. No one quits. You don't do your job, I'll shoot you. Do you get me?
Carl Jenkins
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One day it will all be over. And everyone will forget that this was the moment. This was when it turned. It wasn't the mighty fleet, it wasn't some fancy new weapon. It was a drill instructor named Zim, who captured a brain.
Others
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Sky Marshall Diennes: We must meet this threat with our valor, our blood, indeed with our very lives to ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy
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Sgt Zim: I wonder if there's a handful of guts in the whole bunch of you. Now, who here thinks they got what it takes to knock me down?
Dialogue
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[first lines]
Newsreel announcer: Young people from all over the globe are joining up to fight for the future.
Soldier #1: I'm doing my part.
Soldier #2: I'm doing my part.
Soldier #3: I'm doing my part.
Young kid: I'm doing my part too.
[other soldiers laugh]
Newsreel announcer: They're doing their part. Are you? Join the Mobile Infantry and save the world. Service guarantees citizenship.
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Newsreel announcer: Every day, Federal scientists are looking for new ways to kill bugs.
Colonel Carl Jenkins (listed as "Federation Scientist"): Your basic Arachnid warrior isn't too smart, but you can blow off a limb...
[shoots an Arachnid warrior's limb off] and it's still 86 percent combat effective. Here's a tip: Aim for the nerve stem, and put it down for good.
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Jean Rasczak: All right, let's sum up. This year in history, we talked about the failure of democracy, how the social scientists of the 21st Century brought our world to the brink of chaos. We talked about the veterans, how they took control and imposed the stability that has lasted for generations since. We talked about the rights and privileges between those who served in the armed forces and those who haven't, therefore called citizens and civilians.
[to a student] You. Why are only citizens allowed to vote?
Student: It's a reward. Something the federation gives you for doing federal service.
Jean Rasczak: No. Something given has no basis in value. When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
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Dizzy: My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything.
Jean Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that.
[to Carmen] You.
Carmen: They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed.
Jean Rasczak: Correct. Naked force has resolved more issues throughout world history than any other factor. The contrary opinion that violence never solves anything is wishful thinking at its worst.
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Ace Levy: Sir, I don't understand. What good's a knife in a nuke fight? All you have to do is press a button, sir.
Career Sergeant Zim: Put your hand on that wall, trooper.
[Ace hesitates] PUT YOUR HAND ON THAT WALL!
[Zim throws a knife and hits Ace's hand, pinning it to the wall] The enemy cannot press a button... if you have disabled his hand. Medic!
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Lt Jean Rasczak: Rico, you once asked me for advice. You want some now?
Cpl John Rico: Yes, sir!
Lt Jean Rasczak:
[glancing over at Dizzy, dancing with another soldier] Never pass up a good thing!
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Cameraman: You're on.
Military reporter: We've just landed on Klendathu on an area they call Big K
(MI soldiers run past him as they are routed by the Bugs) with the 6th Mobile Infantry Division. It's an ugly planet, a Bug planet! A planet hostile to life as we know-
(gets attacked by a Bug) AAAAAAHHHHH!! HELP ME!
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Newsreel Announcer: We have the ships. We have the weapons. We need Soldiers. Soldiers like Lieutenant Stack Lumbreiser.
Lt. Stack Lumbreiser: We're over the target area now, Captain.
Newsreel Announcer: And Captain Carmen Ibanez.
Capt. Carmen Ibanez: This is the Captain speaking. All personnel prepare to drop.
Newsreel Announcer: Soldiers like Private Ace Levy and Lieutenant John Rico.
Lt. John Rico:
Come on you apes, you wanna live forver?!
Newsreel Announcer: We need you all. Service guarantees citizenship.
About Starship Troopers (film)
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If I tell the world that a right-wing, fascist way of doing things doesn't work, no one will listen to me. So I'm going to make a perfect fascist world: everyone is beautiful, everything is shiny, everything has big guns and fancy ships, but it's only good for killing fucking bugs!
Taglines
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When you battle 6 trillion enemies that will eat you alive, there are only two rules... EVERYONE FIGHTS. NO ONE QUITS.
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In Every age there is a cause worth fighting for, but in the future the greatest threat to our survival will not be man at all. Now the youth of tomorrow must travel across the stars to face an enemy more devastating then any ever imagined.
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They Came to Our Planet, They destroyed our cities, But on November 7, They'll learn, They messed, With the wrong species.