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

[open trap]

colonial marines unless we have predator on our side then idk but with out a predator those guys r screwed.

 

[Amondren]

I think Halo Grunt cuz in halo EVERYONE T bags corpses!

 

[Amnestic]

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.

The Sons of Russ beg to disagree.

 

[LilGherkin]

It would suck to be the space marine for the alien series, you don't just die, you get an alien seed that blows up your stomach which would be a pretty terrible and painful way to go.

 

[Grubnar]

That's working well with the Tryanid and Necron problem pretty well, isn't it? Oh, wait, we actually RAN OUT of guardsman? How is that even possible?

Though, I thought the IG was only there to have their morale break before they encountered the enemy.

Thats why they have commisars. When you have something scary at the front, but something even scarier at the back!

 

[Captain Pancake]

Starship troopers. The only soldiers who can wage war against a conglomeration of insects and still get their asses handed to them. Mind you, the bugs did look like this...

Spoiler: In other words, you are fucking screwed...

 

[Dr.Sean]

Combine. DO you realise how much it would suck to be beaten by a crowbar-wearing bespectacled scientist who has better armor than you even though yours is thick and has a helmet?

 

[joschen]

Combine. DO you realise how much it would suck to be beaten by a crowbar-wearing bespectacled scientist who has better armor than you even though yours is thick and has a helmet?

Well, that plus having several organs replaced whit synthetic ones.

 

[Buizel91]

any of the soldiers who face the stabing, slashing, and the gouging on the Wolverine game...i mean...ouch!

 

[titanium turtle]

A conscript from red alert 2, spawn 200 hundred than get owned by those rocketeer guys... damn

I actually won a skirmish by conscript whoring, it totally (possibly) works

Until the opposition builds a small wall.

which surprisingly they never seem to do

oh, also on ra3 I beat a difficult enemy using nothing but kirovs

 

[FallenRainbows]

Imperial; Guardsmen. You seen the shit they have to fight? They are designated cannon in a universe existing solely to have the shit blown out of it.

 

[aebonhawk]

Also, they aren't called "Starship Troopers". They're Mobile Infantry. Fail #1
"Halo Grunt"? Meaning WHAT? Covenant Grunts? UNSC Marines? Spartan III's? Fail #2
Bond Villain Henchmen are not foot soldiers, they're HENCHMEN. Hence the NAME. Fail #3
NO TERRAN MARINE. Fail #4
No Battlestar Galactica Colonial Marines or Cylons? Fail #5

And many more you missed.

1 I don't care Starship Troopers sounds cooler and it is what I always call them.
2 I tried to use only one from each universe and the term "Grunt" has a fairly obvious since they seem to die more regularly than any other troops in that universe.
3 I acknowledged the fact that henchmen are not foot soldiers in the poll. However they are still expandable and die in record numbers keeping to the spirit of the poll.
4 I don't play StarCraft.
and finally 5 Colonial marines and Cylons in BSG don't die off in the numbers needed for me to consider them part of this poll (although I am a big fan of the series).

1. Sorry, but Rule of Cool only goes so far. Besides, "Starship Troopers" sounds stupid compared to Mobile Infantry.
2. Except that there are many different kinds of grunts in the Halo universe: Covenant Grunts, UNSC Marines, Spartan III's, any human compared to the Covenant, any Covenant compared to Master Chief, etc. etc.
3. Except they really don't. Bond is a spy, usually he only kills his target and a couple other big-name guys. He prefers to not go around blasting away at everyone that looks at him funny. Henchmen =/= Foot soldiers, and therefore do not belong on this poll.
4. Too fucking bad, a lot of us do. That is still no excuse for not including them when you included Imperial Guard from WH40K.
5. Which series have YOU been watching?

1 That is a matter of opinion.
2 There is only one unit literally named "Grunts" in Halo.
3 Again as henchman can be classified as cannon fodder due to their high death rate so it is still in the spirit of the poll.
4 my poll my choices.
5 The re imagined one.
There are only 40 some thousand humans left in the series. even if they were all conscripted into service and they all died in one massacre they wouldn't die in the numbers that some of the other choices do (with the possible exception of Bond Henchmen) And Cylons Centurions don't get free will till the last part of the series so they probably wouldn't care if their lives sucked or not until then.

 

[aebonhawk]

I just thought of another possibility: CoD Modern warfare series player characters.

Here are the ones that survive:
Soap MacTavish (MW1 and MW2)
Private Ramirez (MW2)
Anonymous Specter Gunship Gunner(MW1)
Captain Price ( Sniper level in MW1)

Now lets look at the ones that were Killed:
President Al-Fulani (Executed by Al-Asad MW1)
Sgt. Paul Jackson (Nuked in MW1)
PFC Allen (Shot by Makarov MW2)
Roach (Shot by Shepard MW2)
Anonymous Astronaut (Nuked by Captain Price MW2)

So you have a roughly 4/9 or 44% chance of living when you play that game.
That is pretty low.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

The Imps. I give each one two weeks, if they're lucky...and they're not
[HEADING=1]Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium![/HEADING]

That's actually if they are lucky. Average lifespan of an IMP guard after being shipped out is 15 hours.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

The Stormtroopers from Star Wars.

They're in all means fodder, and they lose 90% of their mental capacity everytime a main character.. or character that actually has purpose, comes into the scene. Also, they cant even shoot someone if they were two fucking inches infront of them.

..Then again, they are all clones. If one fails, they all have to fail.

 

[Amnestic]

..Then again, they are all clones. If one fails, they all have to fail.

Not an expert on Star Wars by any means, but most clone troopers were retired by the time Episode 4 started as far as I know. They were just recruited people at that point.

The 501st are a major exception of course, but those guys can shoot.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

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.

The Sons of Russ beg to disagree.

Huzzah! Instead, you live on a frozen iceball and act like a hideous crossbreed between a Viking and a pirate, never get to shave and have to continually explain to the everyone how the hell you managed to 'mislay' an entire Great Company.

 

[orangebandguy]

No more options?

Damn, I was gonna say the Kamikazees from Serious Sam.

[sub]aaaaaaa[/sub]aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

It sucks to be them.

But from the options I'd say Stormtroopers, since their ability to die is part of a condition called "stormtrooper Syndrome." I'm not kidding.

 

[park92]

the guy with a moustache lol

 

[ucciolord1]

What about the Doom Marine?
Oh and having your insides ripped out in a meaningless war against an unwilling enemy all for the sake of fascist/military propaganda is sort of........
Yeah. it would suck to be a Starship Trooper.