Poll: Which Fictitious Foot Soldier Would it Suck to be the Most?

[Kilo24]

Colonial Marine. Most of the rest of the other guys die quickly face-to-face battles; Marines spend most of their time knowing they're *almost* certainly dead, but maintain a faint glimmer of hope until they hear the motion detector pinging.
And they also run the risk of being kept alive while facehuggered.

Being sliced up by a Jedi, blown up by James Bond, or just stepped on or run over by a bug or Warthog or Tyranid just doesn't compare to that.

 

[Highlandheadbanger]

I think Redshirts are an important ingredient missing from this list.

Bond villian henchmen die by the baker's dozen, with a smarmy Edinburgher making a stupid pun for a vaunting speech.

 

[Pyro Paul]

it isn't that you will die, it is how you will die.

all of them are basically assured death being the cannon fodder of their assosiated orginizations, however the Col. Marine of Aliens has to suffer the fate of being raped in the mouth by a facehugger then watch in horror as an mini-rat-alien thing bursts from your chest while you're still alive before dying...

yeah, not the best of ways to go.

 

[Stu1701]

You forgot red shirt. No matter what, if you go on the away team, meet a strange alien entity, go to fix something, are tasked with guard duty, go skydiving from a shuttle onto a drill platform, find something shiny, or simply show up for work odds are you'll end up dead, blown up, vaporized, poisoned, or have all the salt sucked out of you.

 

[Megacherv]

A Stormtrooper, because then you'll never find those droids you're looking for

 

[CloggedDonkey]

I say the guys from aliens. If you kill the aliens to close to you, you die, if you stand around the body's, you die, and you fight the damn predators, and there's no competing with that.

 

[Chorionicstu]

Hands down the Imperial Guard. They basically face all of the problems the other choices have on a daily basis.

 

[BenzSmoke]

Colonial Marine because acid blood or mouth-tongue through the skull would be horrible ways to die.

 

[Ishnuvalok]

The Imperial Guard. Armor equivalent to strapping cardboard around your chest and a flash light. Then a weeks worth of training until they toss you out onto the battlefield amongst untold millions of others just like you, destined to face the most horrific enemies known to mankind.

And if that's not enough, you can get shot by a commissar if you show signs of your moral breaking ever the slightest. Or if the commissar wants to set an example to the other troops.

Yeah, they've got all the problems of the other choices and more.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Grunt, they get treat like shit even if they are a war hero

 

[silverbot01]

Hey, you guys aren't really thinking outside of the box on this.

Think about the lemmings!

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Imperial Guard. Millions of them die to just hold the line. Not to win, not to escape, just to protect the 2x2 square there body occupies. And if you decide to leave that 2x2 square, you get shot by your squad captain. That sounds like the life

 

[Nouw]

Space Marines from Warhammer 40,000. You can't drink, you can't screw, you can't so much as have a modicum of fun, you've got no chance of surviving (you fight until you die), all your armour and superior training is rendered worthles the minute someone so much as aims a large cannon or plasma weapon in your direction, you're always outnumbered, most often outgunned, your armour is usually a stupidly bright blue colour, and, to top it off, you're commander is usually only twelves years old.

Sorry. Obviously you do not understand the concept of Space Marines and I must add a double face palm. I don't even know where to start. Firstly, Space Marines find drinking and screwing heresy. They don't exist to have fun. They exist to serve the god-emperor. If you find that kind of stuff good or fun they you'll be purged and cleansed ( burnt to death) Commander? Twelve? More like 120. Bright blue? 1000 frikkin colours boy. Outnumbered? 1 spacemarine can top 1000 mortal men. 1000 orks. 1000 guardians and probably 1000 gaunts. See your failure? See it good.

OT: I'm stuck between Imps and Troopers. Imps have 1 minute to live. Troopers have 1 minute to live. I'm going to choose 'troopers. This is an awesome thread by the way. Life-span of 1 minute lol

 

[Citrus]

Living in the Warhammer 40k universe at all would suck more than any of the other options, let alone living in the Warhammer 40k universe and being the most disposable military unit around.

 

[WolfThomas]

well considering they were also handicapped by an incompetent commanding officer with no combat experience, i agree they are damn badass

It's a shame the original idea for Aliens 3 wasn't made a film, the concept was a Blade Runner-esque city of the future (bleak skyscrapers, unexplained steam), were the Aliens gestated in the sewers before spilling forth in thousands as battalions of colonial marines fight them in the city.

 

[Keepitclean]

WTF is grunt on that list for??? Being a grunt would be awesome!!

I rekon stormtrooper would suck the most coz that white plastic armour doesnt look very protective, plus keep in shiny and white all the time would suck.

 

[Downfall89]

Which fictitious basic foot soldier would it suck to be the most.

Personally I would choose the Guardsmen as having an average life expectancy of 15 hours after my first combat would really suck.

A close second is the Stormtrooper as I would mysteriously forget my basic training and marksmanship whenever a main character comes on screen.

As always introduce any other candidates and discuss any of the listed ones.

Ahahaha, I love the fact you point out the HUGE fault of stormtroopers. I seriously hated that in Star Wars.