Although it is a series based on a wartime story, the violence and gore is tamed down considerably from its live-action film incarnation. Bugs are usually seen shot dead onscreen. Other times, the bugs are seen blown to pieces by rockets, missiles and grenades, sometimes stunned by tasers or sometimes fatally electrocuted. Troopers are sometimes seen knocked down by bugs but never killed. Injuries to troopers are generally light. Any trooper deaths have generally been offscreen.