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Subject: I FOUND WHERE THEY GOT THE MARINES FROM!
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I just watched an old favourite film of mine, Starship Troopers. When it got to the bit where they get in combat uniform, I was dumbfounded. Apart from the colour, they look exactly like marines! EXACTLY! Then other suspicous thing started appearing. The guns look intensely like battle rifles from Halo: CE. The aliens they fight have unique blood colours, and they are almost all the ones the covies have. The big ships they use could almost be the double of the ones like Pillar of Autumn and In Amber Clad. If oyu want proff, look at these links.

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0120201/Ss/0120201/2?path=gall ery&path_key=0120201
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0120201/3?path=gallery&pat h_key=0120201
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0120201/10?path=gallery&pa th_key=0120201

The second one looks like OSDTs.
This is far too similar to Halo to just be a coincidence...

  • 12.14.2004 10:41 AM PDT
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The Halo Marines are more from Aliens than Starship Troopers. The armour the Marines wear in Halo 1 is made up of thin plates (presumably meant to be some sort of ceramic composite) while the MI in Starship Troopers wear stuff more cimilar to modern armour. The helmets in the first Halo are also very similar to the helmets in Aliens than the chunky ones from Starship Troopers. The Weapons in Starship Troopers are also rediculously oversized, while they are more prortioned in halo, and I would say they are more based on real life weapons.

  • 12.14.2004 10:45 AM PDT
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Posted by: Socialist
The Halo Marines are more from Aliens than Starship Troopers. The armour the Marines wear in Halo 1 is made up of thin plates (presumably meant to be some sort of ceramic composite) while the MI in Starship Troopers wear stuff more cimilar to modern armour. The helmets in the first Halo are also very similar to the helmets in Aliens than the chunky ones from Starship Troopers. The Weapons in Starship Troopers are also rediculously oversized, while they are more prortioned in halo, and I would say they are more based on real life weapons.



mmm yes.But he may be talking about Halo2 wich i thingk there is little bit of a crossover between those 2 films into Hlo2 marines.But id hve to agry with socalist on the weapons the ones in starship troopers were oversized and in Halo and Halo2 they were more acuratly proportiond...

  • 12.14.2004 10:53 AM PDT
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Oh right. I havent yet played Halo 2. I will finally get to on Friday. Been at uni and I dont have a tv, so there was no reason to bring my xbox, and so I had my pre ordred copy go to my home. So technically I have owned a copy sinse about 2 days after it came out, but I havent played it yet.

  • 12.14.2004 11:05 AM PDT
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its a bit of both

  • 12.16.2004 11:30 AM PDT
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i think this has come up before

  • 12.16.2004 12:22 PM PDT
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or mayby the staff subconciencly (cant spell hehe) made them like that!

  • 12.16.2004 12:23 PM PDT
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Finally someone brought this up!!!!
Ive always thought about that. But Socialist is exactly right, they are JUST like the marines from Aliens 2. Im mean just listen, they even sound the same when there fighting. and LOOK AT THE TWO SARGES. they talk and look exactly the same.

Aliens "OH GOD, WERE ALL GONNA DIE MAN WERE ALL GONNA DIE"
thats right after their transport crashes.
Halo "OH GOD GET IT OFF AHHHHHH" when marines find flood or "THERE EVERYWHERE OH MY GOD" when the flood swarms them.

Anyone here play starcraft. Now thats the game that is like starship troopers. Of course the only problem is that i dont know when any of these movies or games started being made so i dont know who was influenced by who. Anyone know?

  • 12.16.2004 12:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: Silent_Death
Anyone here play starcraft. Now thats the game that is like starship troopers. Of course the only problem is that i dont know when any of these movies or games started being made so i dont know who was influenced by who. Anyone know?

The movie Starship Troopers is actually based on a book(probably more than one) which according to this site was "First published in 1959". So I guess Starcraft might have been a bit influenced by that.

I think that both Starcraft and the Starship Troopers movie were released in the same year (1997). Not entirely sure though.

One thing I've noticed is the similarity in structural design on the hallways/doors in covenant cruisers and on Andromeda in the TV series by the same name.

  • 12.16.2004 2:24 PM PDT
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Ever seen the movie Aliens?

Starship Troopers was a cheap rip off it.

  • 12.16.2004 3:23 PM PDT
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actualy jumping on that scarab felt a lot like when rico jumped on that gient bug

  • 12.16.2004 3:32 PM PDT
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Bungie used a lot of sources for their Marines. The Armor and weaponry came from Aliens, and Sgt. Johnson IS Sgt. Apone (from Aliens). They are litteraly almost identical charecters. Starcraft was definitly an inspiration, but i think Starship Troopers was just a rip off of Aliens

  • 12.19.2004 8:00 AM PDT
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Wow, this thread is still going! I posted it like, ages ago! Great!

(P.S. I don't care about alien 2 Starship Troopers was GREAT)

  • 12.19.2004 8:03 AM PDT
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Posted by: DrummDragon
Ever seen the movie Aliens?

Starship Troopers was a cheap rip off it.
um there nothing alike. Like that one guys said, starship troopers is based off a book.

  • 12.19.2004 8:37 AM PDT
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Yeah, and the big bug thing shoots stuff that looks like the stuff the wraiths shoot.

  • 12.19.2004 8:57 AM PDT