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* [[Art Deco]]: A major inspiration for the gameplay interface for ''Civilization V''.

* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: So much over the various installments that all the examples were moved to the trope page.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: By the time the ''Brave New World'' DLC for ''Civilization V'' was released, previously ignored countries like Austria, Poland and Brazil finally got their time to shine as playable civilizations.

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Aside from the first game, all the following games have been designed by people other than Sid who has generally only acted as an overwatching executive producer. Most notable in ''Civilization V'' in which the lead designer came from the modding community and is only around 25 years old.

* [[Ascended Meme]]: ''Civilization V'' has three: at the end of the tech tree are Giant Death Robots, a long running joke on several fansites; using a Great Artist to make borders expand is now explicitly named a "Culture Bomb", which was a [[Fan Nickname]] for the process in ''Civ IV''; and [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]]'s AI is tailored to put all his resources to building nukes.<ref>They must have been thinking about [[wikipedia:Indira Gandhi|a different Gandhi]].</ref>

** Also, the option to continue playing a game after you won or lost is labeled [[Just One More Level|"Just...one...more...turn"]])

* [[Astronomic Zoom]]: In ''Civilization IV'', it's possible to zoom out far enough to view the entire game map as a globe from an orbital view.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Averted with Great Generals (and the mongol equivalent the Khan), who are [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|One Hit Point Wonders]] whose only offensive capability is to make other units stronger. But to be fair, the Great General is just one guy while the regular units presumably represent regiments (give or take depending on the era).

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Internet wonder from ''Civilization IV'' grants you any tech known by two other civilizations. This would be awesome but for the fact that it's at the very end of the tech tree for most players, meaning that either it'll be built after it's needed or the AI will get it first. However, there is a specific strategy that ignores all other endgame tech to get the Internet built early, making it actually useful.

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* [[Permanent Elected Official]]: You. Heck, not even ''TIME'' will free them from your rule.

* [[Please Select New City Name]]: The [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Political Ideologies]]: Play a major role in the ''Brave New World'' DLC for ''Civilization V''.

* [[Political Ideologies]]: Play a major role in the ''Brave New World'' DLC for ''Civilization V''. Particularly highlighted by the three ideological paths your civilization can follow, roughly corresponding to Fascism, Capitalism/Democracy and Socialism/Communism.

* [[Politically-Correct History]]: As mentioned elsewhere on the page, the Civilopedia and leader descriptions desperately try to portray all civilizations in an entirely positive light. They glorify expansion without necessarily mentioning what that entailed (say, for the Spanish or Mongols), and gloss over some inequality. For instance, Korea's Joseon Dynasty is praised as intellectually and culturally enlightened, while not mentioning how conditions were [[No Woman's Land|for females]].

* [[The Power of Rock]]: Rock 'N Roll is a constructable Wonder of the World in ''Civ IV''. It even plays [[The Velvet Underground]]'s "Rock and Roll" during the movie. Thanks to the [[Tech Tree]], it usually gets finished around the same time a Diplomatic Victory becomes possible. Since building it allows you to export "Hit Singles," you can build global good will by giving them away for free right before elections are held, thereby literally winning the game via [[The Power of Rock]].

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*** Puppeted towns are also automatically set to focus on gold production, making them fairly useless for any other purpose.

* [[Random Event]]: Introduced in the ''Civilization IV'' expansions. A lot of them are just random things that affect improvements and tile output (mine collapses, tornados, striking a deposit of jade), while others can change your relationship with your neighbors, such as a politically-arranged marriage collapsing or a high-ranking intelligence agent defecting. Other Random Events depend on your government, such as your hereditary dynasty dying out or [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|an election being too close to call and being settled by the courts]], giving you an incentive to try out as many Civic combinations as possible.

** ''Civilization V'' uses this for city state requests. Especially when they ask for a certain resource or want another city state eliminated.

** ''Civilization V'' uses this for city state requests. Especially when they ask for a certain resource or want another city state eliminated. ''Brave New World'' meanwhile brings back certain elements from ''IV'' in terms of random events.

* [[Randomly Generated Levels]]

* [[Redshirt Army]]: "Nationhood" allows you to draft military units, but they are less effective than ones built the normal way and cost population.

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* [[Symbology Research Failure]]: The Kremlin world wonder... [[Running Gag|is actually]] [[wikipedia:Saint Basil's Cathedral|St. Basil's Cathedral]]. By ''V'', this has become a running gag since the wonder portrait that pops up when you build the Kremlin depicts the actual Kremlin, while the wonder still looks like a cathedral on the world map.

* [[Take That]]: After your score is computed, it shows where you rank among a list of historical leaders. At the top are people like [[Emperor Augustus|Augustus Caesar]], [[Abraham Lincoln]], Hammurabi, Charlemagne, and [[Winston Churchill]]. At the very bottom? [[Dan Quayle]]. Quayle's "the future will be better tomorrow" quote is also read by Nimoy in ''IV'' when you research your first Future Tech.

* [[Tech Tree]]: Generally containing upwards of 80 technologies. Of course, it does take 6,000 years to climb to the top of it.

* [[Tech Tree]]: Generally containing upwards of 80 technologies. Of course, it does take 6,000 years to climb to the top of it. In later games, there's generally enough flexibility to pursue certain tech paths far ahead of their historical equivalents.

* [[The Theme Park Version]]: ''Revolution'' is definitely the "kiddie introductory Civilization game." Not that it's bad, per se, but it's very simplified and over-exaggerated, especially in art style and presentation.

* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: Deity difficulty in ''Civilization IV''. "Muahahahaha! Good luck, sucker!"