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| “ | If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day, you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human f***ing beings. You are nothing but unorganized grab-a**tic pieces of amphibian s***! Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on n*****s, k***s, w**s or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that? | „ |
| ~ Some of Sgt. Hartman's first lines. |
| “ | What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child? | „ |
| ~ Sgt. Hartman's poor handling of Private Pyle's murderous insanity. |
Sgt. Hartman is the main antagonist of the first half of the 1987 war film Full Metal Jacket. He is the film version of Gunnery Sergeant Gerheim from the novel in which the film is inspired, The Short-Timers.
He was portrayed by the late R. Lee Ermey, who also portrayed Sheriff Warren Pike in Life and Sheriff Hoyt in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.
What Makes Him A Hate Sink[]
- He verbally abuses his troops, though he is at least not racist.
- Admittedly, some of his behavior can be justified by him being a drill sergeant. However, he spends more time berating his troops than training them.
- Additionally, he uses physical force against the troops, which is illegal. For example, he punched Joker in the gut to test his toughness and forced Pyle to choke himself for smiling. He also smacked Joker in the face after he believed he was offending him for not believing in or loving the Virgin Mary, and also smacked Pyle in the face for confusing right from left. He then has Pyle march apart from the platoon with his pants down and sucking his thumb just for being stupid.
- While he does have a lot of comedic moments, most of them show just how abusive he really is and can be.
- He swears constantly and makes graphic threats to some of the recruits, such as threatening to castrate Pyle.
- He went berserk over Pyle having a jelly doughnut in his locker, and punished the entire platoon over it to make them angry at Pyle instead of punishing Pyle himself.
- He encouraged the recruits to gang up on Pyle and torment him in an attempt to break his mind, which eventually leads to the entire platoon hazing Pyle with a blanket party.
- He ends up driving Private Pyle to murderous insanity, which could've endangered the entire platoon without his interference. After Pyle has a mental breakdown in the bathroom, he stupidly torments him even further instead of finding alternative ways to defuse the situation, which eventually leads to Pyle killing him. Pyle then commits suicide, which not only kills him, but traumatizes Joker.
- Gunnery Sergeant Gerheim, the original novel version from which he is based on, is even worse than him. As while Hartman has the justifiable intent of toughening his troops in the hell of Vietnam, Gerheim tortures his troops out of sadism.
- Just when Pyle shot and killed Gerheim, he smiled sadistically, congratulating him in his transformation in being a killer.
Trivia[]
- There are several villains that pay homage to Sgt. Hartman, such as the Smile Away Reformatory School Sergeant from Phineas and Ferb, the Warden from SpongeBob SquarePants (which R. Lee Ermey also played), and Coach Bradley Buzzcut from Beavis and Butt-Head.
- His novel adaptation, Gunnery Sergeant Gerheim, only qualifies as Near Pure Evil due to his sadism, but he doesn't qualify as a hate sink as the theme of the novel is about war's negative consequences.
- He along with the Overlook Hotel, the Door Gunner and General Mireau are the four characters from Stanley Kubrick's works to be qualified as hate sinks.
- The believability of R. Lee Ermey's performance stems primarily from the fact that he was once a US Marines drill sergeant in real life (though his gunnery title, which his character bears, was only honorary in reality).
- R. Lee Ermey has said in many interviews about the film that Hartman was supposed to be an example of how a drill instructor should not do their job. As a real-life D.I., he said that no D.I. should ever physically abuse his recruits, and any competent D.I. would have noticed that Pvt. Pyle was suffering a mental breakdown. He has said that he's shocked that so many people seemed to admire Hartman, since he always saw him as an inept instructor whose ego and overly cruel methods caused his own death.
- He was originally on the Villains Wiki due to his abuse and tormenting of his soldiers making him stand out. However, he was eventually removed because it was simply believed that he wasn't a true villain and was only doing what he was obligated to do, which is toughening up his troops for war.
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