Starship Troopers

On the data. Five films and two animated series, and almost none of it is connected in the way the numbering suggests. The 1997 film is a satire. Paul Verhoeven has said plainly that he was mocking the politics the film appears to celebrate, and the newsreel segments are the joke made visible. A great deal of writing about the film in 1997 missed this. The sequels fall off sharply. The second was made for television by the first film's effects supervisor with hardly any returning cast. The third went straight to video but did bring Casper Van Dien back. The fourth and fifth are computer animated films made in Japan and share no cast at all with the live-action ones. There are two separate animated series and they are twenty-one years and one ocean apart. The 1988 one is Japanese, six parts, and adapts Heinlein's novel directly without any reference to the film, which did not exist yet. Roughnecks came in 1999 from Sony and was told in five story arcs. Roughnecks is the count worth being careful about: thirty-six episodes were made as the arcs, plus four clip shows, so sources give 36 or 40 depending on what they include. Its final arc was never completed, which is why it ends where it does. The number here is marked as unconfirmed for that reason.

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