Even worse when they're depicted as narrow-minded, incapable of independent thinking, inappropriately sadistic, openly homophobic, chauvinistic, cowardly (e.g. in the face of superior space alien force) and devoid of common sense. This was more prevalent in the 90's. I think of the one peace-loving ( = anti-gun) protagonist who saves the day with intelligence. He's usually opposed by hard-headed military who have no tactical sense other than violence and fall for every trap set by the monster(s)/aliens(s) despite warnings by the hippie protagonist (and usually his girlfriend).As a former soldier, I'm sick of soldiers being characterized as psychos and bloodthirsty. Really prevelant in sci-fi. Neill Blomkamp does this a lot and frankly, it's offensive to me to see career military types being portrayed this way so often in film.
hate that.