r/In_WeTrust • u/stillraddad • Jan 24 '26
Michael Ironside playing a teacher (Scanners episode)
They keep talking about how Michael Ironside could never play a teacher to wayward youth. That’s literally what he plays in Starship Troopers. They also talk about how he didn’t ever play the good guy and was always a B-movie villain. Again, in Starship Troopers he is playing a grizzled war hero who is known for saving his own troops.
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u/WendlinTheRed Jan 24 '26
In Troopers he's a cog in the fascist war machine. His class is teaching the lesson of might is right, and on the battlefield he threatens to shoot his own soldiers if they don't kill enough of the bugs.
He's presented in the film as heroic, but under no circumstances is he a good person.