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* [[All Theories Are True]]: The ''Red Alert'' series uses Tesla coils in ways that were once thought possible.
* [[Alternate History]]: ''Red Alert'' being the result of Hitler's removal from the timeline. Furthermore, the game used to be a prequel to the ''[[Command and Conquer Tiberium|Tiberium]]'' series, before more time travel threw in further alternate timelines.
* [[A Million Is a Statistic]]: Stalin (to whom the phrase is commonly credited, apocryphally) throws this line out there in the first ''Red Alert''. It can also be heard in the remixed "Radio 2" song which is included in the CD of ''Counterstrike'' and ''Aftermath''.▼
* [[Artistic License History]]: Ignoring the alternate paths that history takes and the futuristic technologies that develop in the actual games (which are just [[Rule of Cool]]), artistic license is taken with the backstory. [[Adolf Hitler]] was removed from history when Einstein travelled back in time to 1924, partly explaining the lack of opposition to Soviet expansion, but how did the Soviet Union spontaneously transform from one of the most economically underdeveloped countries in Europe into a massive superpower armed with atomic weapons ready to take over the entire continent<ref>The aggressive [[Take Over the World]] plan is in itself already ignoring [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]'s cautious nature and "Socialism in one country" policy.</ref>? Also, why are all the borders in their post-1945 state? It's also stated at one point that there is a United Nations. What happened to the League of Nations?
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Kane
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* [[Let No Crisis Go to Waste]]: In the Soviet victory scenario in the first game, the entire Russian war effort was a huge [[Xanatos Gambit]] by Kane to expand the USSR, then topple it, and use the ensuing chaos to strengthen the Brotherhood of Nod.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: {{spoiler|Stalin comments on how excellent the tea is and Nadia comments that she made it herself. She said the exact same thing when she killed Marshal Gradenko. Both cups were poisoned.}}
▲* [[A Million Is a Statistic]]: Stalin (to whom the phrase is commonly credited, apocryphally) throws this line out there in the first ''Red Alert''. It can also be heard in the remixed "Radio 2" song which is included in the CD of ''Counterstrike'' and ''Aftermath''.
* [[Name of Cain]]: The first Red Alert game is where it's first implied that Kane is actually the Biblical Cain.
{{quote|'''Nadia:''' "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord...and took up residence...in the Land of Nod!"}}
* [[Nuke'Em]]: Employed by the Soviets in the Allied campaign. As the Allies turn the tide of the war and are steadily advancing across Europe into the Soviet Union, Stalin decides to destroy the primary capitals and cities of the European Allies with the nuclear weapons his scientists have recently developed, while using his own forces as a sacrificial lamb to draw attention away from the missile sites. The player has to capture and then infiltrate the facility to safely dismantle the weapons.
* [[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-Tech]]: The technology is all over the place, with assault rifles from '49, helicopters from '72, and ''GPS'' mounted on ''Sputnik-like'' satellites. On a general scale, the tech level is that of 'Nam.
* [[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.
* [[Tampering with Food and Drink]]: At the end of the Soviet campaign, {{spoiler|Nadia}} successfully kills {{spoiler|Joseph Stalin}} by tricking him into drinking a poisoned cup of tea.
▲* [[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.
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Black-Out de base and nothing will stop you.
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