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Contents 1 Order to the list 2 Edits 3 Actual Supersoldiers 4 Ender's Game

[edit] Order to the list

Shouldn't there be some order to the list of examples ? -- Beardo 05:45, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Some of the examples fall outside the definition of supersoldier (one whose body & mind is augmented). Suit-wearing soldiers in particular should NOT be listed as supersoldiers unless their bodies have been modified to work with the suits. Examples include Freeman, Mobile Infantry, etc. A soldier in a suit is an armoured soldier, in the same way as fighter pilot, tank driver or AT-AT driver (etc.) is not a super-soldier.

The list is simply arbitrary, and needs heavily cut down. I've tagged it for future work. Chris Cunningham 16:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, it should at the very least be ordered by medium (literature, computer games etc.). Scoo 10:22, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

I suggest separating it into categories: Science fiction books, TV/movies, RPG's, videogames, miscellaneous (fantasy?). Maybe add a sentence or two at bottom about battlesuits/MI's, etc., being debateable.

68.58.123.201 04:19, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Done! Noclevername 04:57, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edits

I trimmed down some of the extraneous details from some descriptions. If people want to know that much about a story, they can just go to the main article about it. -- Noclevername 10:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Actual Supersoldiers

Have any militaries actually experimented with or created supersoldiers? While genetic alterations probably haven't been attempted, perhaps there has been brainwashing and physical conditioning that counts. Ivanov's experiments with human/ape hybrids might also count. Stargate70 02:37, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

None successfully, as it says in the article. If you want to start a sub-article about real-life attempts, please make sure the examples are all well-cited. (Also, brainwashing/conditioning can't make you superhuman, just more-effective-human. Make sure your examples only include attempts to actually exceed human limits.) --Noclevername (talk) 18:08, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ender's Game

I took out that example, since while the children are brilliant, they aren't actually superhuman, just very smart humans. They are at the upper edge of the limit of real-life human ability, but still within that limit.

* Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game features genius children who are slected from a very young age to undergo rigorous physical and psychological training by the military in order to defeat an alien enemy.

--Noclevername (talk) 16:33, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

And before the question is asked, yes, I think we should keep in the Clonetroopers. Individually, they are "very good" rather than "super", but the fact that they could be mass-produced in bulk in a relatively short time (compared to normal humans) and were genetically specialized for their task qualifies, IMO. --Noclevername (talk) 16:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)