#Roughneck: Starship Troopers Chronicles

[kwebtv]

Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles - Syndication - August 30, 1999 - April 3, 2000

Animated / Science Fiction (40 episodes) (4 clip shows)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Voice Stars:

Private/Corporal/Sergeant/Lieutenant John T. "Johnny" Rico (voiced by Rino Romano)

Private Isabelle "Dizzy" Flores (voiced by Elizabeth Daily) 

Lieutenant Jean Razak (voiced by Jamie Hanes)

Sergeant Francis Brutto (voiced by David DeLuise)

Corporal Richard "Doc" LeCroix (voiced by James Horan)

Corporal Jeff "Goss" Gossard (voiced by Bill Fagerbakke)

Lieutenant/Ensign Carmen Ibanez (voiced by Tish Hicks) 

Lieutenant/Major Zander Barcalow (voiced by Nicholas Guest)

Special Operations Tactician Carl Jenkins (voiced by Rider Strong)

Private Robert "Paperboy" Higgins (voiced by Alexander Polinsky)

Private "Colonel" T'Phai (voiced by Steve Staley) 

Commander Marlow (voiced by Thomas Wagner) 

General Miriam Redwing (voiced by Irene Bedard) 

Sky Marshal Sanchez (voiced by R. Lee Ermey) 

Lt. Earl Walker (voiced by Michael Harrington) 

C.H.A.S. (Cybernetic Humanoid Assault System) (voiced by Ed Hopkins)

Drill Instructor/Sergeant Charlie Zim – (voiced by Clancy Brown)

[grayrazor]

It seems like a recurring thing throughout my life that I discover years later that a movie I saw got a TV show/cartoon that had been running all that time (or that started decades later).

[monarch-sparrowhawk]

They're siblings your honor! Probably one of my favorite things about this niche little series is the found family dynamics. Higgins was definitely the baby of the team, and Rico and Dizzy are his protective older siblings!

[pigtailedgirl]

In High Quality!

This moment is so fucking pure.

Took a throw-away from the film and said yeah, let's make it the moment you know this is gonna go different. The moment it's gonna be this ship is the love bitches no doubt.

Sure he's getting the attention and shot with the girl he's always wanted. But when it comes to who's love and heart saved him, who got through to him in his coma state and brought him here and back, and their closeness always known and shown? Here is your kiss.

[paladinguy]

The forgotten gem that is, essentially, the Saturday morning action/adventure adaptation of Starship Troopers. Combining elements of both the original book by Robert Heinlein and the Paul Verhoeven film.

[i-am-trans-gwender]

Throwback to when it was socially acceptable to make kid friendly cartoons based on R rated movies.

Examples: Rambo The Force of Freedom, RoboCop, Highlander The Animated Series, Toxic Crusaders, Police Academy The Animated Series, Conan The Adventurer, Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles

[morealias]

"Why are they bothering making a Fallout show now?"

Optimism: Someone has finally decided they can do it and make it good.

Cynicism: Bethesad wants to spend a few seasons of advertising via tv show to drum up nostalgia for "how Fallout could be good" before they release their next abomination of a game.

As for your cartoon idea?

/gets spray bottle Bad foone! Bad foone!

As a midnight adult cartoon on Toonami or Adult Swim? Sure. But some bullshit "GI Joe" rip-off? Fuck no. And that's all it could have been as an afternoon cartoon in the late '90s. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles was a weird outlier, I doubt Fallout could have pulled off the same level of serious adult cartoon vibes.

Why are they bothering making a Fallout show now?

This isn't the time for that. The time to do that would have been in 1999 as an afternoon cartoon.

[dgcatanisiri]

Oh.

Right.

It's the time of year when new seasons are being put out on DVD. Because they haven't COMPLETELY killed that market.

*sigh*

All I ask. All I ask. Just ONE "money is no object" run through Amazon, knock off the things on my list that can be so that it doesn't feel so overwhelmingly impossible that it'll be cleared out. Like sure, there are a couple of things on the list that have been on there long enough that I've accepted there's not a chance in hell I'll ever actually get them (Roughnecks: The Starship Trooper Chronicles is the top contender on that count), but...

Let me have my media library as complete as possible, dagnabbit!

[vassalex]

My girlfriend wanted me to upload this old Starship Troopers fan art so uh, HERE YOU GO. 

Someone please tell me they watched Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles there’s like no fandom for this old show rip 

[grayrazor]

Total Annihilation somehow has the vibes like it should have gotten an early CG animated series.

[monarch-sparrowhawk]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Robert "Paperboy Higgins & Johnny Rico & Dizzy Flores & Carl Jenkins Characters: Robert "Paperboy" Higgins, Johnny Rico, Dizzy Flores, Carl Jenkins, Jean Razak (Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles), Jeff Gossard, Richard LaCroix, Francis Brutto Additional Tags: Not Canon Compliant, Team as Family, Adopted Sibling Relationship, No Romance, No T'Phai either yet, I'm sorry I love him too but the timeline doesn't fit, Head Injury, Fluff and Angst, Razak is a Tired Dad Series: Part 1 of Blood of the Covenant Summary:

Rico, Jenkins, and Dizzy adopt Higgins as their little brother. He doesn't really get a say in any of it.

[jupijitter]

Can not unhear

[skyfire85]

Thank you! Verhoeven's movie was yet another example of "No one will make my shitty, shitty movie unless I slap someone else's IP on top. " The Roughnecks cartoon was closer to Heinlein's actual story.

I have an abiding disdain of Warhammer 40K because, as it turns out, you can't hide behind 'this is satire' when the overwhelming majority of your texts is from the perspective of fascist propaganda and they're ultimately right in some capacity to behave as awfully as they do because of the in-universe logic. At that point, it ceases to be satire and becomes pure fascist crap. (Which is what Paul Verhoeven understood about Starship Troopers, hence how he handled the adaptation into film.)

Obligatory relevant meme:

I also just hate grimdark in general because, in order to maintain the tone of unrelenting misery with no hope (unlike dark fiction, which allows for some good despite everything), it inevitably evolves into grimderp- Characters all have to be utter morons for the story to still function in that extremely dark tone continually.

Likewise, the inevitability of grimdark runs up against the status quo of not being allowed to fundamentally change, so humanity remains forever locked in equal battle with a variety of alien species in WH40K, despite how the whole tone is supposed to be that this is all done in desperation and because it's humanity's only shot. Which is to say, it becomes fundamentally ridiculous despite its attempts to be serious, leading again into grimderp.

[aboyandhisstarship]

what are your big influences for your humans are weird stories?

Uhh the two big ones are HALO and the starship troopers cartoon

[anyanp]

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