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* [[Misplaced Nationalism]] / [[Internet Backdraft]]: Unfortunately the shift from Strangereal to the real world with ''Assault Horizon'' provoked this. Several flavors have cropped up so far:
** [[Cultural Cringe|Disaffected Americans]] and non-Americans alike frothing at the mouth over ''Assault Horizon's''' announcement trailer, furious that Americans are implied to be the protagonists, especially at the implication that the enemies are Russians (regardless of whether they are [[Renegade Russian|rogues]] [[Make the Bear Angry Again|or not]]).
** [[Flame War|Flame Wars]]
** Not to mention the initial reaction to [[Action Commands]].
* [[Monumental Damage]]: {{spoiler|You sometimes end up flying past the Washington Monument while chasing after Akula in Washington D.C.}} While no damage is shown, a stray missile hits it during your fly-by.
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* [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo]]: Trinity is, for all intents and purposes, a tactical nuke, yet the game carefully avoids calling it such and the topic of nuclear fallout is never brought up.
** Which would indicate that it's not nuclear, just a conventional explosive with a similar blast radius.
** The fact that a Trinity missile causes a mushroom cloud
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2nRsXeTTho "Release"], the theme that plays during the last mission in {{spoiler|Washington D.C.}}, uses both this and Ominous English Chanting. The lyrics in the later part are from "Dies Irae".
* [[Point Defenseless]]: Averted in one mission where you must destroy a number of naval vessels. The larger ships, such as cruisers and carriers, will shoot down your missiles with [[More Dakka|lots and lots]] [[Gatling Good|of Gatling guns]]. The only way to get past this defense is to coordinate with your flightmates and shoot [[Macross Missile Massacre|tons of missiles at the ships]].
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** It continues to happen irregularly at various points if you fail to press the button to trigger the in-flight cinematic, which it interprets in such ways as failing to notice certain important things like Trinity missiles, thus resulting in mission failure. Don't worry though, the reload point is literally right when the button shows up, and while it's loading, it will actually tell you that pressing X will make you not die and not fail the mission there.
* [[Private Military Contractors]]: Averted. You're part of both the United States Air Force and a NATO task force. This is the first game in the series that doesn't assign point values to targets or requires you to earn money to buy new planes. The planes are given to you before each mission. [[Ace Combat 04 Shattered Skies|Mobius 1]], [[Ace Combat 5 The Unsung War|Wardog Squadon]], and [[Ace Combat 6 Fires of Liberation|Garuda Squadron]] all worked for their governments, and even they still had to buy their own weapons.
* [[Promotional Powerless Piece of Garbage]]: The European Limited Edition and Gamestop pre-orders came with a free DLC
* [[Regenerating Health]]: First for the series. In a plane that's designed to house hundreds of missiles, only the fanatics are complaining.
** As it turns out, it's very slow regenerating health to boot, and you're generally worn down to dead about as quickly as in the previous games.
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