canon is Red Dawn (2012)

[usmc]

You know, there are more important things going on than your "voice testing." I have a bunch of kids who are going to be killed if I can't get them in fighting shape, and I don't need you tearing away my focus.

I don't care if the fact that I happen to look like some guy from some comic book flick makes you want to "thread" me with some other guy who I don't even know, and don't care to, I won't let you distract me from the war at hand.

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[sixthanimorph]

That's intense. Are you talking about what's going on over in the Middle East, or...?

[He trails off, not willing to say it out loud on the slim chance this guy is just talking about the Middle East.]

whoops, spoilers except not really 'cause it's the whole premise of the movie

[usmc]

No, the Middle East I can handle. This is North Korea coming to us, invading our home.

no worries about spoilers, saw the movie last week

[sixthanimorph]

... Oh.

[He doesn't sound all that surprised.]

So that means you're with the army then, right? Are they sending troops out here?

good then

[usmc]

The army's abandoned us. It's up to us to fight.

[sixthanimorph]

Wait, what? Since when? Why the hell would they do that?

[usmc]

Since the Koreans parachuted into our cities and basically took over. It's been days and I haven't seen a single sign of military response. Probably because all our guys are overseas. [ Where Jed should be. ]

[sixthanimorph]

So that's how it went down... but if you're not with the military, who are you with? Are you like some kind of private contractor?

[usmc]

Oh, I'm with the military. Marines. Just not now. Now I'm with my kid brother and a bunch of kids who managed to escape the city. We're calling ourselves the Wolverines.

[sixthanimorph]

And you guys are hiding out in the woods somewhere? Dude, what are you still doing here? They're gonna come after you and if it's just you and some kids, you're all gonna get killed.

[usmc]

They've already come after us and we got away before. There's nowhere to go, and we're not going to lay down and give up without a fight.

[sixthanimorph]

It's suicide. Steal a convoy, drive outta here, head down south. They haven't gotten everywhere yet. You could join back up with your unit, come back. But if you stay you're gonna get killed for sure. There's more of them coming.

[usmc]

[ Kid don't tell him what to do. ]

You don't understand. I watched my father get shot in the head just for telling us to stand up to these bastards. I'm not leaving.

[sixthanimorph]

[He's speechless for a moment. Because, really, what the hell can he say to that?]

... Alright. I get it. But you've gotta know they're gonna come after you. And it could take days for the military to get here. Maybe even weeks. What then?

[usmc]

Then they help us. Or we help them. But if they want us to fall back, well. That's not gonna happen.

[sixthanimorph]

You could be dead by then. I don't know how many guys you've got, but they've got hundreds. Maybe thousands. How are you gonna fight back against that?

[usmc]

You see it in Iraq all the time. A small group of insurgents can cause the big guys a lot of pain. We're the flea on their backs, the flies buzzing in their face.


We are the Wolverines.

[sixthanimorph]

I'm not gonna talk you out of this, am I? They crossed a line. You're not gonna fall back after that.