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Johnny Rico (not to be confused with that other Johnny from the novel) is the main protagonist of the movie Starship Troopers.
Bio[edit | edit source]
Born to affluent parents in the city of New Buenos Aires, Johnny could have lived a cozy live as a football star; but when his girlfriend decided she would join the military, Johnny entered the recruitment office with her in order to stay with his girl. The recruitment office then assigned said girl to a (relatively) cushy job in the fleet and she promptly dumps him, while Johnny gets assigned to the foot-slogging ground forces. Smart move, Johnny.
Essentially existing as a token character to show how grossly incompetent the UFC is, Johnny himself gets one of his squad mates killed while they're both still in boot camp, and later gets almost killed himself when the powers that be decide dropping hordes unsupported of infantry on an entire planet's worth of dramatically oversized bugs is a valid military strategy. It gets worse when considering the powers that be likely blotched that stunt on purpose; namely to establish aforementioned bugs as an existential threat to humanity and cement its authoritarian rule back at home.
Of course, all of the above is vile bug propaganda, and you should immediately report to the nearest recruitment office. Would you like to know more?
In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]
Johnny Rico fought in the inter-board tournament of 8chanmania XXVIII, where he represented /argentinia/ (being from Buenos Aires, and all). He crushed /a/'s HoiHoi, but couldn't handle the Australia-tier bantz of old Dan Murphy.