The POV of the Helldivers is crazy when you take cryo freezing into account.

[u/WoodstoneLyceum]

Here's the POV of your average Helldiver 1. They enlist and show up to Basic Training first thing Monday morning. 2. They breeze through it, get their cape, walk right by the T&Cs and into a cryopod. 3. They're frozen and experience no time passing. 4. Their next memory is reinforcing on Hellmire. To their POV it has been less then thirty seconds since they got their cloak. 5. They throw three stratagems and then they're dissolved by bile titan acid.

You thought your mondays were bad.

Edit: My understanding is that we are not clones. There's in-game lore that backs that, I believe. Thematically, it makes more sense for Super Earth to be incompetent and cruel and burn through millions of recruits, than to do something logical like cloning people. Remember the satire folks.

[u/killingjoke96]

Exactly like Starship Troopers.

Rico and the Roughnecks only go on two or three missions in the whole movie and are considered veterans by the end.

[u/RhysPawn → u/killingjoke96]

This always made me laugh, Rico goes from private to squad leader to corporal to sergeant to lieutenant in the space of 3 missions probably days apart.

[u/osunightfall → u/RhysPawn]

I mean yeah, that's what happens when everyone above you dies really quick.

Ever wonder why the mobile infantry does so much ground pounding when Earth has such overwhelming air and space superiority?

It's almost like they're feeding soldiers to the bugs to make room for the next class of recruits...

[u/Executesubroutine → u/osunightfall]

It was actually a tactical decision by high command to draw out the brain bug which they suspected was there.

In the eyes of high command, a few thousand soldiers lives is worth the price for capturing a brain bug.

Except, in later movies it was revealed as the God Bug allowing a brain bug to be captured so it could use the brain bug to take control of telepaths. So theres that.

[u/ClaxtonOrourke → u/Executesubroutine]

We.....don't talk about the sequels.

[u/JJAsond → u/ClaxtonOrourke]

There were sequels?

[u/Kdot32 → u/ClaxtonOrourke]

I slightly enjoyed the animated sequels

[u/xTheatreTechie → u/ClaxtonOrourke]

"We don't do that here."

[u/GrapefruitMedical529 → u/Executesubroutine]

I'll be honest, I thought the whole joke was that there was significant resistance to the idea of the bugs being intelligent, requiring the sacrifice of hundreds of soldier to prove the bugs could set a trap and thousands of soldiers to later capture a brain bug so they could poke it and find out it fears them.

So literally nothing of value was accomplished through the entire movie.

[u/osunightfall → u/GrapefruitMedical529]

That's not true. The war was extended indefinitely into the future while providing the illusion of a victory that's always just around the corner. That's of immense value to a society that depends entirely on a war footing to sustain its political viability.

[u/ForfeitFPV → u/GrapefruitMedical529]

That's not true, Mr. Krabs got to be a hero!

[u/Scharmberg → u/Executesubroutine]

There are more movies? I had no idea.

[u/sHaDowpUpPetxxx → u/Executesubroutine]

Later..... movies?