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{{quote|'''Assistant:''' Did you find him?<br />
'''Einstein:''' Hitler is... [[Ret
'''Assistant:''' Congratulations, professor! With Hitler removed-<br />
'''Einstein:''' Time will tell. Sooner or later... time will tell...|''Red Alert'''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDm2JcnTPs intro]}}
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The ''Red Alert'' series is a spin-off of the original ''[[Command and Conquer|Command & Conquer]]'', using the same engines and gameplay as the ''[[Command and Conquer Tiberium|Tiberium]]'' saga to tell a story of [[Time Travel|time-travel]], [[Nikola Tesla|Tesla]]-powered [[Red Scare|communists]], and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|parachuting]] [[Everything's Worse With Bears|bears]]. [[Holy Shit Quotient|Plausibility can]] [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|take a backseat, now]].
The premise is simple: in 1946, operating out of a laboratory in Trinity, New Mexico, [[Albert Einstein]] uses a time machine to travel to Landsberg, Germany in 1924 and removes [[Adolf Hitler]] from history. While this prevents the Nazis from rising to power and keeps Germany docile, unfortunately it leaves [[Josef Stalin]] with no obstacle to the Soviet Union’s expansion. This sparks an even worse version of [[World War Two]] during the 1950's as the Allies try to withstand the endless hordes of the Red Army, backed by deadly Tesla-based technology. But thanks to Einstein’s chronosphere and [[Non
'''Please note that this page is for tropes specific to this game. Please add tropes relating to multiple games to the [[Command and Conquer Red Alert Series (Video Game)|Red Alert series]] page.'''
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* [[Piggybacking On Hitler]]: {{spoiler|Kane is doing this with Stalin}}.
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: Stalin warns the player "If you fail, do not return", and later snaps an underling's neck for faulty intelligence ("You disappoint me, Kukov"). This was just after he ordered you executed.
* [[Schizo
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Chillingly so, from how the Allies would function in such a war (heavily dominated by European forces rather than US), to the nature of the Soviet Union and Stalin himself.
* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: Compared to its two sequels in the series, this game retains the most serious tongue.
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