Fallout does not deserve to be the work of fiction that has the best depiction of a US/Canadian conflict, like there’s shitty comedy movies, and maybe a Turtledove book that even deals with it. But all of them treat it as a joke, like the second closet thing I can think of treating it somewhat seriously is maybe infinite jest but it’s like Quebec and French people aren’t real and their struggle was like a a school production with cardboard to like the IRA.
Idk, I’m done ranting.
In Metal Slug the bad guy is Canadian Hitler and takes over the whole of North America in a coup de tat
Can't forget the fact that his number 2 never wears a shirt
It's basically if Mr. Lahey and Randy got their shit together
Also, despite his army's sus imagery, the reason he 'turns evil' is because his wife and daughter were killed in a terror bombing that the Regular Army were "too incompetent" to stop
Which is like if Colin Powell's family was killed in 9/11, and in response he started a second US Civil War (i.e. extremely based)
the Canadians will greet us as liberators
President James Madison was intrigued by the analysis of Major General Henry Dearborn that in the event of war, Canada would be easy pickings — even that an invasion would be welcomed by the Canadians. [source]
it’s like Quebec and French people aren’t real and their struggle was like a a school production with cardboard
This is basically what my education in BC portrayed them as
Canadian Bacon starring John Candy is pretty good. It's a comedy though.
The US annexing Canada is such a funny politico-historical concept, and frankly the Canadians deserve it
if the canadians want more of a fuss about the times we invaded them they need to make the films about it themselves, because american egos are fragile and we can't even make a movie about how sad it made the soldiers to massacre canadian civilians cause it didn't even get to that point
- Show
There is a short comicbook series called "We Stand On Guard". Text is Straight from Wikipedia. The series is set in Canada in the years 2112–2124, in a time when it has been invaded by its neighbour the United States of America. The story centres on a band of resistance fighters in the seemingly vanquished Canada, and their exploits involving skirmishes with the United States Army and its vast supply of mechanised weapons, including giant robots
The Fallout Lore is insane but entirely plausible because it accurately depicts the US, as "we can do this anyway and you can't stop us" prior to the nuclear Armageddon
I love finding the lore of pre-war life like a union busting ring in a former corporation PC
Unavoidable tangential observation: over the years in addition to communists it seems to me that for some reason hexbear has attracted one the highest internet populations of Infinite Jest readers I have ever seen and I don’t know what to make of that.
