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In the movie Patton, as the Nazis are losing the war one of them holds up a picture of their American archnemesis General Patton as bombs shake their crumbling building and says, "He will be destroyed, too. The absence of war will kill him. The pure warrior...a magnificent anachronism."

Some background about that, General Patton had a reputation even among the Nazis of being crazy. He believed he was reincarnated from historical warriors from the distant past and famously got in trouble for smacking a soldier who was suffering from PTSD and calling him a coward. He was a piece of shit in many ways, but there's a sense of melancholy conveyed in the movie about a man who doesn't fit in and doesn't know his purpose as the war winds down. Society created this hardened warrior through WW1 and WW2 and then no longer needs him in the post-war era.