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"cannon fodder" Definitions
  1. soldiers who are thought of not as people whose lives are important, but as material to be used up in war

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The Shoreline grunts exist exclusively as cannon fodder—albeit cannon fodder that bites back, hard, so don't be surprised if you're not exactly coasting through gunfights on the game's "moderate" difficulty level.
Yet more cannon fodder for the oldest debate in history.
Those without firm ideological commitments are used as cannon fodder.
These orcs aren't your typical video game NPC cannon fodder.
They're great cannon fodder because there's no moral ambiguity to them.
They're cannon fodder, of course — it's a no for Room 2.
Plenty of people benefit from war except, inevitably, the cannon fodder.
Suddenly there were all these characters—but they were just cannon fodder.
At UCLA you were either a starter or you were cannon fodder.
Some are, the author notes, "college-girl cannon fodder" for the someday revolution.
They are less citizens than subjects, taxpayers in peacetime, cannon fodder during wartime.
Everyone else is either tanking, rebuilding, or just playing the role of cannon fodder.
One male senator clumsily called the protesting women "cannon fodder" being used by the opposition.
When we became young men, we were in high school, we were just cannon fodder.
The former weren't exactly advanced when Doom came out, so they're pretty much cannon fodder.
It's fairly rare for a house track to be anything but, well, dancefloor cannon fodder.
Shepard's are your standard cannon fodder, capable of hiding behind cover and coordinating basic ambushes.
Stormtroopers are cannon fodder on-screen, but when you see a stormtrooper offscreen, suddenly they're individuals.
And they&aposre use to what happened is Hamas is actually using civilians as cannon fodder.
That was when he became cannon fodder for one of his siblings and her gym mates.
Nothing can save us when these events unfold, no claim of innocence: We are cannon fodder.
In 1975, cops and firefighters used tourists as cannon fodder in their war with City Hall.
In the ruthless pecking order of the Islamic State, many of the others amounted to cannon fodder.
Lower-level appointees, in particular, have become cannon fodder in a procedural war of "holds" on nominees.
Napoleon and his "cannon fodder," slavery and its ever-renewed human merchandise — they both fit in here.
And it&aposs using human beings and Palestinians, essentially, as cannon fodder, that&aposs what Hamas has done.
Families are herded into kill zones, unwilling cannon fodder as the group desperately tries to cling to control.
The Syrian refugee crisis has become political cannon fodder for a supposed clash between Muslim and western values.
In Syria, the Islamic State's Central Asian recruits are often given menial jobs or used as cannon fodder.
The Syrian refugee crisis has lately become political cannon fodder for a supposed clash between Muslim and Western values.
Though British wild cards often prove to be overmatched cannon fodder in the qualifying tournament, Willis played with confidence.
In the world of The X-Files, you are only useful to institutions — whether public or private — as cannon fodder.
The FARC has long been accused by the government and human rights groups of using child solders as cannon fodder.
So Lara knows she was lied to, even she can be cannon fodder, and Axe is nowhere to be found.
To be clear, this is not the first time that women have become cannon fodder in interstate or civil conflicts.
You need to think about how you're going to do this and refrain from using the kids as cannon fodder.
Most of their dogs never came back, since the army carted them off into battle as little more than cannon fodder.
Clearly, by closing UNRWA schools the U.N. employees meant to encourage youngsters to become cannon fodder for Hamas' deadliest macabre theatre.
Not all ISIS fighters from Central Asia are cannon fodder for attacks -- some have attained senior positions within the terrorist infrastructure.
Khalil was ferried to the front lines along with a unit of children who served as little more than cannon fodder.
The dads who throw comical tantrums, or who keep using kids as cannon fodder in an attempt to rule the galaxy.
So they should have been cannon fodder for the Edmonton Oilers, playing on home ice and with three days of rest.
Instead the Assad regime has turned to Shia militias, often made up of Afghans drafted and organised by Iran, as cannon fodder.
For over a decade, Arabic has been the voice of the enemy, shouted in barks from cannon fodder out to kill you.
That a trivial, mindless video game uses a real and active terrorist group as cannon fodder is strange in its own right.
In the jail, you join the Spare Squadron, other prisoners who have been corralled into being cannon fodder in not-exactly-regulation aircraft.
Even the remarkably similar recent space-horror story Life took time to give its cannon-fodder crew at least one backstory element apiece.
Some accused the group of cynically hijacking the demonstrations to serve its own purposes, while still also using young men as cannon fodder.
This is an unusually complex take on video game Nazis, who are often depicted as generic cannon fodder on par with aliens or zombies.
"They were having difficulty breathing when the police got them out," Boccassini told reporters, adding that the smugglers treated the migrants like "cannon fodder".
ISIL is adept at using cultist tactics to attract mostly disaffected and vulnerable young men and women who end up becoming its cannon fodder.
As an added bonus, you get to name all of your soldiers and there's nothing stopping you from naming cannon fodder after annoying relatives.
In its 2014 predecessor Wolfenstein: The New Order, developer MachineGames was tasked with making Nazis feel like meaningful enemies instead of warmed-over cannon fodder.
All that's strictly necessary is to be able to pour enough cannon fodder into the fight to prolong it until you can mobilize new forces.
You betcha—as pretty as those alien landscapes are, you're only ever funneled in one direction, towards and through hordes of cannon-fodder foes. Shiny?
It comes shortly after frontline National Health Service doctors said they felt like "cannon fodder" while treating an influx of patients with COVID-19 symptoms.
In fact, projections show what will likely happen: The boy appears in a soldier's uniform with a rifle, cannon fodder for the war to come.
A spokesman for the Indian military warned against using Kashmiris as "cannon fodder" and said he hoped Pakistan would ensure the LOC was not breached.
Try not to sweat the small stuff in Reigns, your kingdom will live on without you, your bloodline is ultimately cannon fodder for a bigger picture.
Similar techniques could lead to huge leaps in the abilities of AI in all kinds of games: NPC companions, opposing sports teams, and cannon fodder mobs alike.
" This has been construed to be an admission that Hamas is "deliberately using peaceful civilians at the protests as cover and cannon fodder for their military operations.
Tasha: It certainly was an effective way of building tension, but yes, they seem like cannon fodder, and for me, it's the bridge too far for this movie.
On to Boyd, he's always been so squirmy to me and he always seems spooked, so of course he made for some pretty great cannon fodder this week.
They wouldn't have to subsidize their athletic departments with grueling schedules—serving as road warriors and cannon fodder in guarantee games—and could instead focus more on academics.
The lesson for Brennan's generation of C.I.A. officers was a demoralizing one — that serving the president could sometimes mean acting as political cannon fodder when things went wrong.
Studios he worked with included: Reflections (Driver, Driver 2), Virgin Games (Screamer, The Dragon, Cannon Fodder), Codemasters (The Dizzy range of games) and Chris Sawyer Studio's (Roller Coaster Tycoon).
So it is best not to dismiss as cannon fodder whichever underdog emerges from the other semifinal between Pablo Carreño Busta of Spain and Kevin Anderson of South Africa.
We don't know what their daily experiences were like, to be underarmed and often on the outer edge of the defenses, sometimes deployed as little more than cannon fodder.
The Internet Archive's emulator lets you launch the operating system and use many of the applications that were popular at the time, including games like Risk, Cannon Fodder, and Shufflepuck.
"World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the crises in between no longer make young American males joke about being future cannon fodder," noted the editorial board of the Baltimore Sun.
Sometimes that catches you out, but for the most part it makes even the largest enemy forces into cannon fodder who who will walk into your guns again and again.
Seemingly within minutes after I'd graduated from George Washington University that May, my draft board in Hillside, N.J., changed my status from II-S (student) to I-A (cannon fodder).
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Illegal armed groups are still recruiting children in Colombia, subjecting them to sexual abuse and using them as cannon fodder in armed conflict, humanitarian groups said on Thursday.
It's a core tension of the series that these one-scene or one-episode characters — who often become cannon fodder in Philip and Elizabeth's great patriotic war — have lives too.
While more skilled Wagner operatives trained specialized Syrian army and pro-Assad militia units, the so-called cannon fodder filled out the front lines in battles against ISIS and rebel forces.
Halloween also helped establish the rules of the slasher genre — the hulking, silent masked killer; the horny, boozing teens who serve as cannon fodder; and the one innocent girl who survives.
Those humans, with their fleshly fragility, inconvenient emotions, and sense of entitlement, are nothing but cannon fodder when seen through David's removed gaze, undeserving of the galaxies they intend to settle.
HBO even advertised its final season using #DemThrones — a cynical co-optation, given how the show treated anyone with dark skin (as exotic savage, white-savior dependent, sexual object, cannon fodder).
Let's stop allowing our young women to be sexual cannon fodder,and let's remember that Harvey is an emblem of a system that is sick,and that we have work to do.
Excellent martial artists like Miesha Tate and Cat Zingano—neither of whom have a deficit of skill or fascinating back stories—were treated as little more than foot notes and cannon fodder.
Late-Night Talk Shows Imagine late-night talk shows as the cannon fodder front-line soldiers in the strike war — they're expected to immediately drop to repeats despite mostly consisting of celebrities interviews.
When I was a kid and the US military was trying to bring in cannon fodder for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (still going strong, btw), its recruitment tactics were fairly straightforward.
However, our searching couldn't find a number of well-loved Amiga titles, such as Elite, Cannon Fodder, and The Secret of Monkey Island (all of which were available on other platforms as well).
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Watch Miranda Lambert's Throwback to Her Nashville Star Audition But D-I-V-O-R-C-E, of course, is exactly the kind of emotional cannon fodder that immortal country songs are made of.
" She concluded: "Let's stop allowing our young women to be sexual cannon fodder,and let's remember that Harvey is an emblem of a system that is sick,and that we have work to do.
Frontline doctors have warned they do not have enough personal protective equipment and feel like "cannon fodder" in the fight against the virus and have complained about a lack of testing for healthcare workers.
Frontline doctors have warned they do not have enough personal protective equipment and feel like "cannon fodder" in the fight against the virus and have complained about a lack of testing for healthcare workers.
One of the versions I still have at home is this plug-in-and-play model, which also has Cannon Fodder and Mega Lo Mania built in, two more classics from the Sensible catalogue.
Oh, and The Bachelor Winter Games — ABC's Tuesday and Thursday filler during the Olympics — pretty much flopped, as cannon fodder against the Olympics is likely to do (though CBS's Big Brother: Celebrity Edition did fine).
With some doctors saying they felt like "cannon fodder", the government said the military would help ship millions of items of personal protective equipment (PPE) including masks to healthcare workers who have complained of shortages.
According to the conventional wisdom, that series is the real Eastern Conference final, and the winner of the Islanders/Lightning series will get the honor of playing third-round cannon fodder to make it official.
"[When] you stoke these flames, and you go to public meetings and you scream at the elected officials, you threaten them — you make us expendable you make us part of the cannon fodder," Arizona Rep.
In her diptych "Cannon Fodder / Cheering Crowds" (2018), the Peruvian artist Claudia Martínez Garay has abstracted the geometric forms and color schemes of political posters and leaflets into an approximation of Minimalist paintings on one wall.
The game revolves around what you say and what you hear, trying to keep the young hapless group from becoming cannon fodder, and listening to the radio's white noise to discover what the fuck is going on.
Faced with telling a story in a world where half the characters are random cannon fodder, action games often retreat into jokey absurdism or cynical meta-commentaries, or attempt serious stories that are undercut by their mechanics.
He tells Axe this must be an omen for him, but, again, to Axe everyone is cannon fodder so he quips right back that his future is just watching Chuck arrest someone else while he gets away.
For all the Jody Mills and badass villains like season 9 big bad Abaddon (Alaina Huffman), we got random female cannon fodder and killed-off characters like Jo (Alona Tal), Ellen (Samantha Ferris), and Charlie (Felicia Day).
But Peter Strzok's role on the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, combined with his help opening the investigation into Trump campaign associates' links to Russian operations, has served as cannon fodder for Republicans looking to discredit Mueller's probe.
" To the point that the military can be beneficial to queer and trans people, something Spade and Haidar hear often, Spade argues that LGBTQ people should demand "actual economic justice instead of being cannon fodder for this horrible system.
The best moment of Westworld this week involved a character who was barely a character, more properly a redshirt — the collective nickname for easily dispatched cannon fodder in sci-fi shows, who exist mainly to show up and die.
The following year, and also released for PlayStation, Dino Crisis 2 was very much Aliens to its predecessor's Alien—a lot more focused on action, with the once-terrifying dinosaurs now little more than cannon fodder in several sequences.
Playwright George Bernard Shaw, an opponent of the war, popularized the once-uncommon phrase "cannon fodder," which suggested that soldiers of all nations had been impersonally requisitioned to feed the guns or duped into enlisting by interchangeably imperialist rulers.
The alienation that makes a small minority of these young people ideal candidates to serve as cannon fodder for the Islamic State is obvious to anyone who spends any time in the suburbs of Paris, Brussels, Berlin or London.
The Russian Empire forced conscription on Jews between the ages of 12 and 25, and they would often send the Jewish soldiers to the front line for cannon fodder, so understandably my great-great-great-granddad opted to escape.
As simple as the case is for turning a young, minority judge into cannon fodder, if you're that judge, you might be apprehensive about playing along and Obama might be apprehensive about damaging the career of such a promising jurist.
The opening mission puts the player inside of a first-person characters who die in sequence, their names, birth dates, and death dates flashing on the screen as the player warps into the body of another piece of cannon fodder.
"We won't allow the Iraqis to be cannon fodder for the wars of others nor be used in proxy wars outside Iraq," said Jumah Bahadily, a member of the outgoing parliament who belongs to the Sadrist movement, referring to Syria.
"There's no other reason [this law] would come about now," said Philip Smyth, a researcher at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who monitors Iranian-backed forces in Syria, where he said Afghan migrants are treated like cannon fodder.
BJ is big, tough, and capable of going toe-to-toe, knife-to-knife, with most enemies on a one-on-one basis; but against legions, he's just a man, soft and pulpy cannon fodder for the advanced German War Machine.
Still, midfielder Wahbi Khazri, one of a handful of Tunisians who play in Europe, has suggested the team should not be going to Russia simply as cannon fodder, and surviving a tight qualification campaign should infuse them with plenty of confidence.
Still, midfielder Wahbi Khazri, one of a handful of Tunisians who play in Europe, has suggested the team should not be going to Russia simply as cannon fodder, and surviving a tight qualification campaign should infuse the Tunisians with confidence.
Asian and Middle Eastern characters are placed strictly as the enemy, cannon fodder in Call of Dutys and Battlefields or minor gangs in Grand Theft Autos, without the tonic of more nuanced representation elsewhere that might quell the dehumanizing effect of social stereotypes.
There are plenty of big-eyed child extras roaming around the village that I was sure were going to be used as some kind of gut-punch cannon fodder later, so hat tip to the This Is Us writers for not doing that.
For her jazzy pair of mural-size reliefs, "Cannon Fodder / Cheering Crowds" (2018), she mounted, on one wall, cutout paintings on wood of historical activist imagery, most of it obscure to me but including the Black Panther (from the movement, not the movie).
In that way, Pelosi has forged a new image of the woman in power in the age of Trump -- one agile enough to engage the President (without becoming cannon fodder), and a force in her own right determined to rise above the fray.
Sure, new abilities are fun, but the joy of Diablo bubbles up from the feeling of power that comes from earning a legendary item that gives you such a large stat boost that previously difficult hordes of enemies suddenly turn into walking cannon fodder.
Yang Tingwu, vice general manager of Tongheng Investment, a hedge fund house in Fujian province, said he viewed 80% of listed companies as "cannon fodder", but the chance of the remaining 20% producing China's next Tencent or Huawei made the market turmoil worth it.
It would, perhaps, be understandable if those condemned to a life as cannon fodder resented this state of affairs, if they felt that such a drastic contrast blunted their enjoyment and soured the Premier League's appeal, but there is no bubbling sense of mutiny.
Using your chosen character's unique abilities, you want to kill enemy players and their droids in order to push your own droids up to their turrets, basically using them as cannon fodder while you attack the turret and open up a path to the enemy base.
One of Lara's main values on this show is her closeness to Axe (he tells her that she and the kids are the only people who aren't cannon fodder to him), but I'm hoping that, as viewers, we're underestimating her and she's going to turn on Axe this season.
From workers set to lose jobs, to those on the much-debated Irish border and hundreds of thousands of expats across continental Europe whose visa fates are uncertain, the lives of millions have been reduced to percentage points on GDP, cannon fodder in the illusory crusade for sovereignty.
Without his iconic depictions of the reanimated monsters, zombies may never have impacted on fantasy media in the way they've managed, across TV, movies and, naturally, video games, which have long used the sometimes shambling, sometimes sprinting nasties as cannon fodder, level-ending bosses and, just sometimes, something rather more unsettling.
For years they've acted essentially as a black-market version of nation-states, charging taxes and fees for immigrants crossing through their territories, dictating what roads, buses, or trains they can take, and often forcing them to become cannon fodder for the gangs' seemingly endless wars against one another and the government.
" According to Dwayne 'The Rock" Johnson, whose use of "jabroni" became his mark in trade, the moniker was commonly used backstage by the Iron Sheik as carnival-slang to describe 'jobbers,' or the pro wrestlers hired as cannon fodder so that the league's superstars could win — and look good in the process.
So in horror movies with any significant body count (unlike, something like Get Out or The Visit, which focus on one or two desperate, sympathetic protagonists), it's become fairly standard to make sure the early cannon fodder consists of people who've marked themselves as worthy of death via selfish, reckless, or outright dumb behavior.
If the ACM wants to actually celebrate the legacy and music of Merle Haggard, they should drop all the formulaic cannon fodder bullshit they've been pumping down rural America's throat for the last 30 years along with all the high school pageantry, meat parade award show bullshit and start dedicating their programs to more actual Country Music.
Its success hinged on casting the lead role and, after auditions, Mr. Strong found his Salinger in Mr. Hoult, the polymorphous 26-year-old British actor whose previous roles include playing a lovestruck zombie ("Warm Bodies"), a brainiac mutant (three "X Men" films), conflicted cannon fodder ("Mad Max: Fury Road") and Jennifer Lawrence's boyfriend (in real life, until 2014).
As America entrenches its plutocracy and as income and wealth are shifted ever more to the very richest while labor laws and safety regulations are repealed or not enforced, the U.S. comes to resemble the sharply divided societies in Mexico and other Latin American countries in which the poor are treated as so much cannon fodder.
Shabaev, who says he is in touch regularly with these mercenaries, and has helped to file a petition with the International Criminal Court on their behalf, said in a phone interview that those recruited as so-called cannon fodder for Wagner tend to be poor, lured by the promise of decent pay they couldn't find otherwise in Russia's faltering economy.
The Justice Department has also approved a slew of Justice and FBI officials to be interviewed by the committee in January, including former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, an official with ties to Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the Trump dossier; embattled FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, whose text messages trashing the President became cannon fodder for congressional Republicans last month; and recently reassigned FBI General Counsel James Baker.

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