Talk:Cannon fodder

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[edit] Starship Troopers

Removed the following from the page:

• In the movie Starship Troopers, the motto for enlisting troops is "You want to live forever?", an allusion to US Marine Dan Daly's famous quote, "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" Both imply that enlistees may as well die serving in the armed forces as they will inevitably die. As the troops in Starship Troopers are invariably vastly outnumbered by the alien enemy, they can be seen as examples of "cannon fodder".

This is exactly backwards. The Arachnids use disposable soldiers who can be replaced merely by 'warming up' more 'breeding reactors' and who consider themselves (very) expendable. The MI are explicitly *not* cannon-fodder. MilesVorkosigan 16:10, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Now you're Bantha Fodder

"In the Star Wars universe there is a term called Bantha Fodder referring to canon fodder"

Most likely not, actually. It just means that the person being addressed is as good as dead.

Removing the line. 136.159.234.163 22:53, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I believe that line in the movie is addressed to someone who is about to literally be eaten by a Bantha, which pretty much negates the metaphor in this case. --Lurlock 03:40, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survival rates

Is there anything to back up the statement that survival rates in different branches of the armed forces have greater survival rates? I thought that a new fighter pilot's average survival time both in the first and second world wars were measured in minutes. In the second world war, bomber crews were unlikely to survive a single tour of duty. Bryces 23:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)