Command & Conquer: Tiberium: Difference between revisions

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The novelization, game manuals, various developer blogs, in-game database entries, and official website provide information that wouldn't be revealed during the cutscenes or gameplay.

* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: {{spoiler|Kane has been on Earth for thousands of years, since "humans lived in caves and mud huts". He's been subtly and not-too-subtly guiding humanity since then and helping it advance so he can get off this rock}}.

* [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence]]: {{spoiler|It is debatable whether it is another plane or not but both Kane and the Brotherhood of Nod finally ascend in the end of ''Tiberian Twilight''}}.

* [[Attack Drone]] / [[Mecha Mooks]]: The Scrin "army" (actually an escort for the mining fleet) seems to be composed of automated troops commanded by Scrin Foremen in spaceborne Motherships. All of their units and even their buildings immediately shutdown and decompose once their {{spoiler|Relay Node is destroyed}}.

* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The GDI Disruptors from ''Tiberian Sun''. At 1300 credits a pop, they weren't too difficult to mass produce. However, each had its own [[Wave Motion Gun]] with a decent range that damaged everything in it's path ''except'' other disruptors. Having any other unit fight alongside these bad boys would be [[Idiot Ball|foolish]]. [[Game Breaker|But an army of them is effective against everything]]. The only weakness they have is a lack of effective air protection (but since air support is a joke in Tiberian Sun, you won't lose very many by the time they blow up the enemy's helipads).

** It carries over with the Shatterer hovertanks of ''Kane's Wrath''. They can kill almost anything on the ground, and have the added advantage of being fast about it.

** Havoc, of course. Well, there's dozens of these throughout the series, really, so it's easier not to list them.

* [[Badass Army]]: GDI has overwhelming firepower an a ''lot'' of money, Nod has fanaticism and advanced technology, and the Scrin have all sorts of space-bending nastiness and Tiberium tricks.

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Anton Slavik. Nod seems to love [[Hair Tropes]].

* [[Body Backup Drive]]: ''Tiberian Twilight'' confirms that {{spoiler|Kane is in fact an extraterrestrial being in human form, and resurrects via cloning devices like those shown at the end of Firestorm.}}

** The Commando is full of 'em. "That was left-handed!" "KEEP 'EM COMING!" "Real tough guy!" And, of course, "Gotta present for ya!"

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Averted in ''Tiberian Twilight'', where many bullet-firing units must eventually hold fire and switch over to another ammo belt, or reload rockets into launchers after discharging those already loaded.

** About half the time in ''Twilight'', which is essentially a three way struggle between Gideon (Nod Separatists), Kane (Nod with GDI support) and James (GDI Separatists).

* [[Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive]]: Kane occasionally does this along with a self-satisfied smirk when he's in scheming mode. Example on the [[Dark Messiah]] page.

** Color coding is taken to the extreme in ''Tiberian Twilight'' with color codings extended to weapon classes, apparently for [http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Tiberian_Twilight#Damage_and_Armour_Types visual cues].

* [[Continuity Nod]]: ([[A Worldwide Punomenon|Get it? Nod! Haha.]]) The Database entries in the ''Tiberium Wars'' are rife with references to previous games, even ''Renegade''.

* [[Expy]]: The standard assault rifle in ''Renegade'' is basically the [[Alien (Film)|M41A pulse rifle]], minus a working grenade launcher.

** A number of units from the games are borrowed from Westwood's earlier [[Dune II]]. The Mammoth Tank is the Harkonnen Devastator: Both are twin turreted, double barreled supertanks. The Disruptor and Shatterer tanks are based off the Atreides Sonic Tank. The Nod Saboteur is more of a [[Shout Out]] to the Ordos unit, since Nod's version is merely an Engineer.

* [[Free Wheel]]: In ''Tiberian Sun''.

* [[Got the Whole World In My Hand]]: The Hand of Nod (in all but ''Tiberian Sun'' incarnations), the Brotherhood's infantry-producing structure, takes the form of a giant metal hand usually clutching a globe.

* [[Gray and Gray Morality]]: With ''Tiberium Wars'' Nod went from clearly villainous to the only group caring about the people trying to survive in the Yellow Zones, which also undermined GDI's status as the only good guys.

** Just about everyone in ''Twilight''. Kane won't reveal his (rather harmless) goal, so half of the GDI accuses him of having evil plans, half of Nod feels betrayed, and everyone else gladly fights for Kane without knowing the truth.

* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: Nod loves stealth, be it in the form of Stealth Tanks or generators that can cloak an entire base.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|After starting four wars that devastated the planet and cost millions, if not billions of lives, Kane ascends at the end of ''Tiberian Twilight'' ''in both endings.'' That's right, whether you side with GDI or Nod, Kane still gets away clean.}}

** Although he does sort of help to clean up his mess by helping to create the network.

* [[Never My Fault]]: A particularly amusing example in the beginning of the ''Tiberium Wars'' Nod campaign, where Killian goes on and on about how wonderful the Brotherhood is for spreading Tiberium to those who needed it most, before bitching out GDI for leaving them with all the Tiberium-infected territory. Someone never took lessons on cause and effect, it seems.

* [[New Era Speech]]: The Nod ending of ''Tiberian Sun'', and both endings of ''Tiberium Twilight''.

** Nice job blowing up Temple Prime, Boyle.

** Nice job invading Earth, Foreman.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: In ''Tiberium Wars'', Kane thanks the commander ("The Legendary Insurgent") for his efforts in Honduras, Jericho and "The Great Rio Insurrection," though the later is the first mission of ''Kane's Wrath''.

** Again in ''Twilight'', where the commander is given some backstory as a scarred war hero that lost his eyesight, instead relying on implants that also serve as commanding interface, among other things.

* [[Novelization]]: Based on ''Tiberium Wars'', full of [[Hollywood Tactics]] and [[Did Not Do the Research]]. One of the few good things to come from it was one [[Fanfic]] author's [[Tiberium Wars (Fanfic)|response.]]

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: According to Nod, the GDI are interchangeably filled with these and [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Corrupt Corporate Executives]].

* [[Super Prototype]]: In the last Nod mission of ''Twilight'', GDI sends in a ''Prototype'' bomber as a last ditch effort to stop you. It's by far the most powerful unit ''anywhere'', being able to destroy even Crawlers with little effort. It's only weakness is the fact that it has to land to call in reinforcements (the three GDI AI's just give up before it arrives).

* [[Super Soldier]]: The Enlightened from ''Kane's Wrath'' are extremely tough, [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|unflinchingly loyal cyborgs]] [[The Undead|built from corpses]]. They can paralyze vehicles with EMP guns, or just blast the hell out of them with their [[Arm Cannon|particle beams]]. Upgrade their cannons and give them cybernetic legs, and you have squads of [[Lightning Bruiser|lightning bruisers]].

* [[Tank Goodness]]: The Mammoth Tank. The offense class in ''Twilight'' is all about tanks (with a few mechs sprinkled in for good measure).

* [[Technology Marches On]]: The original game plays around with this with the weapons presented in game - then-new weapons like the M4 rifle and F-22 Raptor had been effectively abandoned by the US military in-series, allowing Nod to get their hands on them.

* [[Units Not to Scale]]: Averted in ''Tiberium Wars'' - aircraft carriers take up a good chunk of the map, but due to pathfinding issues, these realistically large ships only appear in a select few missions and are unbuildable.

** ''Tiberian Sun'' gets around most of the problems due to not having any naval units as all (supposedly because Tiberium-mutated weeds have choked the seas). However there is one issue with the GDI's mobile command centre spaceplane, the ''Kodiak''--it appears landed in one mission the same size as a building, far too small to reflect how it looks in the cutscenes. This was belatedly fixed in the expansion pack ''Firestorm'' when it crashes--now the Kodiak's wreck fills the whole screen and is literally about 20 times larger than it was in the aforementioned mission.

* [[United Nations Is a Super Power]]: Implied when it is mentioned that the UN has a Secretary of Defense.

** Additionally, the GDI (official name: UNGDI), while originally founded as a UN-sponsored black-ops unit, is not only reformed into the UN's de facto military branch, but eventually either outlives the UN itself while assuming its original functions, or subsumes the parent organization outright.

* [[We Will Not Use Photoshop in The Future]]: Occurs in the first game, in which Nod uses a green screen and a reporter to frame GDI for a massacre.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: ''Tiberium'' would have featured a new generation of Titan walkers, a modular weapon called the <nowiki>GD=10</nowiki> that could fire rockets, grenades, railgun rounds, or ion blasts, and would have been in 2058 Italy during the second Scrin invasion.

** Apparently, the Scrin are still cooking up something ''big'' in deep space, and LEGION is what helped Kane interface with the Tacitus and the Tower in the first place.

** LEGION seems to be the equivalent of GDI's EVA in ''Twilight'', since there's a support power called "Hand of Legion".

* [[I Work Alone]]: Nick "Havoc" Parker invokes this repeatedly in ''Renegade''. He doesn't want to work with his old team again (all soldiers equally as compotent as he) to begin with, when he does meet up with them he orders them to sit around doing nothing while he retrieves the scientists all by himself (and screws this up), and leaves them standing on the sidelines for the rest of the game.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Kane's strategies tend to hinge on these, bordering on [[Gambit Roulette]] at times - though in ''Kane's Wrath'' we get to see just how much planning and effort went into making ''Tiberium Wars'' unfold the way it did. In the first game, however, Kane gets played by GDI, which faked having its UN funding cut in order to lure Nod into the open, before hitting them with their latest wave of weapon technology.