Civil Protection: Difference between revisions

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* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Mike is extremely cynical and never misses an opportunity to show it. Example:

'''Mike''': Wish I was never born. }}

* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Mike and Dave fall victim to this at the end of nearly every episode.

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: {{spoiler|The journal in ''The Tunnel''.}}

* [[Armor Is Useless]]: Averted;

* [[Buddy Cop Show]]

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] - Dave strays into this territory at times.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Illustrated quite specifically in "Aliens".

'''Mike''': Okay, what if we had been ready for them? [[Crowning Moment of Funny|We'd call it the Ten Hour War?]] }}

* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: Lampshaded in "What is Machinima?"

'''Mike''': Yup. So...uhh... don't do that! }}

* [[Enemy Chatter]]: In this case, the whole point of the series.

* [[Oh Crap]] - Mike's reaction to pretty much any alien. Dave is often the exact opposite.

** A combined<ref> Heehee</ref> one, after they've both been talking to a citizen for a few moments, Mike and Dave both suddenly realise something peculiar about him...

'''Mike''': Oh, it must be the angle. We're probably not casting shadows eit- ''[looks down]''...What the- ''[looks up at the sun]''...'''''holy crap''''', you're ''right''! }}

* [[Oh, No, Not Again]] - Mike uses this line at the end of the "Morning Patrol" episode.

* [[Radio Voice]] - The voices of the main characters are filtered through the vocoders in their masks, much like Civil Protection officers in the game.

* [[Room Full of Crazy]] - Apparently, whenever Dave blows the faces out of his paper shooting range targets, he draws smiley faces in the gaps and uses them to decorate his apartment.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Mike and Dave, as described above, are just in it because they don't have any qualifications for another job, and rarely ever abuse their power like the CP's you see in Half life 2. In fact, it is even debatable whether they count as villains in the first place, as, judging by the new episode, they go out of their way to help someone when they think they are trapped in a cave with something attacking them. And in the first episode, Mike asks Dave to stop bothering the citizens, because they're "Just on their way to work". They also are happy to give The Guy With No Shadow directions to the train station (until they discover his...anomaly). Aside from him, the only other person they even talk to face-to-face is a Vortigaunt, and despite his suspicious behaviour, all they want is to ask him if "Combine" is a stupid name for an alien race.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Dave is an extremely minor version, as he is not actually very violent or psychopathic. He is mostly just a happy and cheerful [[Cloudcuckoolander]] but, as described above, he apparently has a few mental problems.