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* [[Action Girl]]: Noemi Laporte and Lorna Simms. Taylor in ''Age of Aquarius'', along with many others.

* [[The Chosen One]]: {{spoiler|First Samuel Bei, then Noemi Laporte.}} Or, to be more accurate, the [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]]'s.

* [[Cool Ship]]: The United Earth Federation's ''Solaris''-class destroyer is the biggest example, both in the literal and metaphorical sense. But on the whole, nearly ''every'' ship introduced in the Blue Planet series, both on a fighter and capital ship level, are this. Special mentions go to the {{spoiler|Vishnan ''Perserver'' and Shivan ''Dante'', who both surpass Juggernaut classification by ''five-fold'', and hammer away at each other with weapons that could oneshot any other ship in the game for several minutes, yet never drop below 75% hull integrity.}} Unique mention goes to the ''GTD Carthage'', an [[FS 2]] veteran destroyer that was built near the end of the Great War ([[FS 1]]), heavily retrofitted and equipped with experimental technology, and now presents a totally unique and ''very'' powerful threat to any battle-group. To give you an idea, this ship would have likely wiped the floor with [[FS 1]]'s ultimate [[Cool Ship]], the ''SD Lucifer''.

* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Samuel Bei and Elder Mandho do this quite often.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Admiral Steele ''has contingencies for the contingencies''. He, and often the SOC as well, often do things that are disadvantageous, but can potentially end up as crucial elements in setting up a gambit in the future. In other words, they'll take a small loss to set up something that, for the foreseeable future, has no use whatsoever, just because at some point it might be very useful in whatever gambit they come up with down the line. This allows them to pull off [[Xanatos Gambits]] with alarming frequency. Thankfully, the UEF officers aren't slouches, either.

* [[Death Seeker]]: {{spoiler|Captain Gennady of the Katana}}, in the extra mission included you see why he choose to {{spoiler|stand back and hold the line to allow the Indus and Yangtze to escape.}}

** Not exactly an [[Epiphany Therapy]], though, as Simms is more on the ''verge'' of a specific [[Despair Event Horizon]], rather than actually being depressed or traumatized. The epiphany isn't some new information, it's reminding Simms of a perspective that Simms herself once had, and simultaneously providing reassurance and credibility that that perspective has merit. That, and [[The Power of Friendship]] and [[The Power of Love]]. Simms doesn't "snap out of it" even then, though, as its a gradual process (but the very fact that Simms takes even a step in the other direction is very noticeable to everyone else and a huge relief.

* [[Hundred-Percent Completion]]: Most people will try at some stage, such as making sure almost every friendly capital ships survive, and ensuring the destruction of every single non-plot critical enemy ships.

* [[Knight Templar]]: The Wargods as well as those on the ''Toutatis'' have become like this near the end, forgetting their Ubuntu principles, especially when hunting the GTD Carthage: not only is Admiral Lopez not [[A Father to His Men|exactly a bad person]], but they are willing to sacrifice hundreds of civilians in doing so and label them collateral damage.

* [[Last Stand]]: Many, {{spoiler|1=The UEFg ''Yangtze'', after its subspace drive is shot out leaving it unable to retreat, turns back towards the GTVA fleet in a desperate, suicidal attack.}} ''Age of Aquarius'' features at least half a dozen of these, with the player alternating between being the [[Big Damn Heroes]] or [[Do Not Go Gentle|one of the people going down with a fight.]] ''Delenda Est'', the final mission of the first chapter of ''War In Heaven'' is notable for feeling like this for ''both'' sides of the battle, simultaneously and throughout. It even features [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]'s on both sides at the beginning, middle, and end.

** The Solaris is the pinnacle of this of course, with 12 torpedo launchers (each fires 4 Apocalypse torpedoes each salvo) and the railguns are mounted on turrets allowing it to engage enemies in any direction. In addition, its numerous burst flaks and PDS will send any enemy bombers that comes close into a [[Bullet Hell]] nightmare (just see how many torpedoes the Toutatis unloaded on the Hood).

** A lot of people are calling the GTVA on this in regard to their invasion of Sol.

* [[You Are in Command Now]]: How Admiral Netreba obtained his position apparently.