Starship Troopers Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details

The cast agreed to do the co-ed shower scene only if the director, Paul Verhoeven agreed to direct the scene naked, which he did.

When we first see Carmen piloting, the screen indicates she's flying a training ship.

Carmen's Dad was suddenly afraid that he's never going to see her again. He was killed later when a meteor hit Buenos Aires. This was an allusion to the psychics that the Federation is seeking in the early movie propaganda.

Rico is talking to his parents and his dad mentions he would rather take 10 lashes than see his son join the military (which he thinks is a mistake). Later, Rico makes a huge mistake, and is given 10 lashes as punishment.

: In their television ad, the Federal Network have censored a cow being slashed, but outright show mutilated human bodies in the following shot.

One of the propaganda clips is of a murderer being captured that morning, and was set to be executed at 6 PM. Even if the murderer was captured at 12 AM exactly, that means he was captured, tried, convicted, sentenced, and executed in no more than 18 hours.

. During the background of the Klandathu Drop sequence, we can see a Mobile Infantry solider fall over, this same solider is then seen running back to re join the retreat, re-entering the screen from the left.

The TV journalist killed at the beginning of the film was the first to be shown covering the invasion.

Dizzy gets taken down and is almost suffocated by Sgt. Zim. In the next scene, she has a bruise covering most of her neck