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{{quote|''"Let me tell you about the man I met when I was young."''}}

In order to accomplish his mission, Ladd uses his team's helicopter to move from stage to stage in a [[Game Level|lattice fashion]]: he can move from stage to stage and complete them in any order, although some stages (notably the later ones) require "more power" to reach.

Oh, and this game is very [[Nintendo Hard]]. Don't say you weren't warned.

The series remained dormant for several years before being revived. First an [[Video Game Remake|enhanced remake]] of the original NES game titled ''Bionic Commando [[Pun-Based Title|Rearmed]]'' was released for [[Playstation Network]] and [[Xbox Live Arcade]] in 2008. Then in 2009 a [[Darker and Edgier]] sequel was produced, named simply ''Bionic Commando'', and released for [[Xbox 360]] and [[Play Station 3]]. An [[Interquel]] to the said two games, ''Bionic Commando Rearmed 2'', was released in 2011.

The ''Rearmed 2'' website can be found [http://www.bioniccommando.com/rearmed2/ here].

* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: "This base will explod in 60 seconds."

** [[Half Life: Full Life Consequences|IT WILL EXPLOD!]]

* [[Book Ends]]: The game begins with Joe telling the story of a man he met when he was young. It ends with him finishing it, and hoping it will be told for a long time.

** "Damn rookies."

** What's sort of ironic is that the ''[[Worlds of Power]]'' book based on this game is one of the few in the series where people actually died.

** ''Bionic Commando Rearmed'' is mostly unchanged in the Japanese version too, making this somewhat of a [[Recursive Import]].

** The sequel has a couple of these too: "[[Medium Awareness|Is that a long health bar,]] [[Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?]]"

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The sequel is much, much more grim and apocalyptic(most of the game takes place in a nuked mega city) than any of the prior games, including the company's own remake of the NES game. Super Joe's is shown to be an ass, but then again so has Spencer. Spencer spent a better part of 10 years in prison, without his bionic arm, after witnessing the death of two rouge bionic agents. 10 years after fighting [[Those Wacky Nazis|Badd]], [[The Federation]] has turned into a cruel and cynical the-end-justifies-the-means regime. The terrorists opposing it are even worse, nuking a capitol city IN THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME. Oh, and apparently Spencer got his bionic arm by {{spoiler|said Federation possibly sacrificing the life of his wife to make it}}. Whether all this is good or bad is up to you.

* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: In the sequel, {{spoiler|Super Joe isn't really the final boss: it's more of an interactive ending sequence. Still, take one look at that suit and you'll lament the boss fight that could've been}}.

* [[Difficulty by Region]]: The NES game had some changes to difficulty scattered about from the Famicom version. Rather than making the entire game easier or harder, they change the difficulty of certain segments: generally speaking, the earlier parts of the game are harder and the later ones easier in the NES version.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Spencer was on death row, just cause he didn't follow one single order. Surely such a stunt would just have him stripped off of his Bionic Arm and position within military?

** The online comic reveals that "one single order" was murdering two bionics who didn't want to be stripped off of their life-supporting implants.

* [[Downer Ending]]: By the end of the game, {{spoiler|Mag is apparently dead, Emily has been revealed to have been changed in an unknown process into Rad's bionic arm, Super Joe is a (dead) scumbag, and the last we see of Rad is him plummeting from several thousand feet up}}.

* [[Down the Drain]]: Area 2 is an underground chemical waste dumping site.

* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: You have Super Joe's machine gun for the final 3 levels of ''Bionic Commando Rearmed'', and the upgraded rocket launcher only for the final boss fight.

** You supposedly receive the special bazooka at the end of the original NES game, but despite three levels of explaining how powerful it is, it's exactly the same as the rocket launcher you've been carrying since Area 5.

* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]}}: {{spoiler|Super Joe}}.

* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Mag, in the modern sequel. Introduced as a possible rival or boss, she then {{spoiler|does nothing of import, and gets [[Your Head Asplode|Hitler'd]] by the [[Big Bad]]}}.

* [[Floating Platforms]]: Averted: just about everything Rad can attach his arm to is conceivably attached to the ground in some manner (for example, the various poles scattered across the stages).

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Probably the most famous example of this trope in an NES game, next to Golgo 13.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: An enemy soldier in Area 16 will tell you to "Get the heck out of here, [[Narm|you nerd]]!"

* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]: Your bionic arm.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: In the NES version, the player can abort a mission by pressing Start+A+B simultaneously and return to the map screen. This would've come in handy if you enter a stage without having the proper equipment... if it weren't for the fact that the manual doesn't tell you this. Because of this, many first-time players often reset the game when they enter Area 6 without the Rocket Gun.

* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: When not angsting about his missing wife or that his country has betrayed him in the most vile way possible, Spencer takes a little too much joy in throwing people off cliffs and shooting them in the head.

* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: Yes indeed, although the sequel tries to real-physics it up a bit.

* [[Hollywood Hacking]]: Intercepting enemy communications in ''Bionic Commando Rearmed'' requires you to play a short minigame; in the full console sequel, you just grapple the computer and hit B (or "O," or whatever the action button is for the PC version). In the original, you could simply listen in on [[Enemy Chatter]] by going to a comm room with the right transceiver.