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''C&C: Generals'' is a [[Real Time Strategy]] game set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], using more-or-less existent, in-development, or theorized technology. The [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|Global Liberation Army]], an Arab-ish terrorist organization [[Ripped from the Headlines]] after 9/11, has declared war on the People's Republic of China and the United States of America, forcing the two superpowers to cooperate against the militants. An [[Expansion Pack]] followed, ''Zero Hour'', which introduced more missions, more units, and three specialized generals to choose from within each main faction. The game is canonically unconnected to the other ''C&C'' series, and in fact bears more resemblance to Ensemble's ''[[Age of Empires]]'' and Blizzard's ''[[Starcraft]]'' and ''[[Warcraft]]'' series.

* [[Book Ends]]: The game begins and ends with a Chinese military parade.

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by one of the Gatling Tank crewman's quotes.

* [[Beam Spam]]: The American AN/TWQ-1 Avenger Humvee is nothing but lasers. Let's have a look, shall we? Two [[Anti-Air|anti-aircraft lasers]], four [[Point Defenseless|point-defense]] lasers for [[Destructible Projectiles|shooting down missiles]], and one [[Laser Sight|ground-only targeting laser]], which are [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|colored red, yellow and blue, respectively, for your viewing convenience]], of course. Now, take note: the Avenger can use ''all'' of them at once at multiple targets.

* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: The GLA, for all their talk, are horrible people and arguably the most evil faction the series. But on the other hand, the "good guys" aren't ''entirely'' altruistic on their part. The Chinese don't seem to have second thoughts about torching or nuking their way to victory if they have to, nor do they have second thoughts about blowing up large portions of their own cities or handing ''tactical nuclear weapons'' to terrorist turncoats. Also, one has to wonder how they're running their occupied portion of Kazakhstan if a general there defects and the GLA was able to convince mobs to burn down Astana and recruited several anti-China militiamen from an occupied fishing village in the first mission.

* [[In Name Only]]: The gameplay is more like ''[[Starcraft]]'' than traditional [[Command and Conquer]] gameplay, although it draws a lot of elements from the ''C&C'' series, particularly ''Red Alert'' for actual units.

* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: Among some of the things: Stealth Fighters, Pathfinders, Radar Vans, Demolition Traps, and a whole Stealth General army.

* [[Kill Sat]]: The Particle Cannon, [[Subverted Trope|subverted]]. The Particle Beam actually fires up from a ground installation and reflects off an orbiting satellite. ''Then'', it hits the battlefield.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: The PRC have flamethrowers, incendiary shells and napalm missiles. They're capable of walling off approaches with constant firestorms.

* [[Land Mine Goes Click]]: Careful, now. Make sure that you have your surroundings checked before capturing that building, because it's probably going to be set up with traps, and it'll be too late to fall back when one of these things beep.

* [[Large Ham]]: In the ''Zero Hour'' Generals' Challenge, you face against (nearly) all the specialized generals in succession, and in each mission [[Trash Talk|they constantly taunt you with radio messages]].

'''Gen. Tao''': The glow! The wondaful ''glow!'' [[You No Take Candle|Can you no see it, general?!]]<br />

'''Dr. Thrax''': See, you can tell when it's *mwah* just right, when the flesh falls off the bone!<br />

* [[Meaningful Name|Meaningful Nickname]]: Dr. Thrax, Gen. Tsing Shi "Nuke" Tao and Gen. "Pinpoint" Townes.

* [[Metaphorgotten]]: One of the Tigress' taunts.

* [[Misplaced Nationalism]]: Considering the first Generals game was released right during the buildup to the American-led invasion of Iraq, this game attracted a megaton of vitriol. The official EA discussion forum for ''Generals'' was full of people sounding off on how much they hated Americans and the United States, with [[Eagle Land|every popular form]] of [[Demonization]] represented. The [[China Takes Over the World|outcome]] of ''Zero Hour'' was likely designed to [[Pandering to the Base|placate the anti-American crowd]].

* [[Molotov Cocktail]]: GLA's Angry Mobs throw them.

* [[More Dakka]]: More or less what Chinese Gatling operators want the longer they're putting their weapon in action. The Gatling Tank crewmen invoke More Dakka. Hell, it's even in their selection quote: "Need a [[Bullet Barrage]]?"

''Don't stop till it's over!''|Gatling Tank crewman}}

** Also done [[Training the Peaceful Villagers|when arming the (pistol-wielding) Angry Mobs with AK-47s]].

* [[Power Glows]]: Max veterancy units get red tracers for their weapons.

* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: Gen. Kwai, the [[Large Ham]] he is.

* [[Punny Name]]: PRC Tank Gen. Ta Hun Kwai. [[Gratuitous Foreign Language|Broken Mandarin]] for "He (is) very fast."

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The whole plot involve an Al-Queda inspired organization managing to wage open war on American and China AT THE SAME TIME, using out of date weapons and [[Weaponized Car|converted civilian vehicles]] that wouldn't even scratch their intended targets in real life.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not an Index?|What Do You Mean,]]

** [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?|It's Not Political?]]: Take just about any faction unit at all: lots of its quotes are subtle messages of, well... overblown fanaticism.

'''PRC Red Guard''': Foreign devil! }}

** [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|It's Not Symbolic?]]: The American [[Tank Goodness|main battle tanks]] are named the Paladin tank and the Crusader tank. This could be a subtle comparison of [[The War on Terror]] to [[The Crusades]].