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The third main series installment of the ''[[Command
An expansion pack
'''Please note that this page is for tropes that feature in this game and its expansion only. Please add tropes relating to other games as well on the main ''Tiberian''
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* [[Action Bomb]]: Fanatics
* [[Airstrip One]]: The world, since it's been divided into "Blue", "Yellow" and "Red" zones.
** Blue Zones are ones with little to no Tiberium infestation, look fairly normal, and are where humans can live somewhat decent lives.
* [[Alien Invasion]]: {{spoiler|[[Invoked]] by Kane}} with the Scrin. Except it's {{spoiler|not really an invasion, but they try to make it look like one, to divert attention from their mining operations. Kane is very much aware of this, but said aliens ''aren't'' aware that they have been brought to Earth earlier than they planned}}. ▼
** Yellow Zones have a moderate degree of Tiberium. You can live there, but you have to be super careful to avoid the Tiberium lest it mutates or kill you, and the degree these places are livable is dependent on how severe the infestation is.
** Red Zones are [[Death World]]s in miniature. Nothing can live in these without hazard suit protection, and even then it's dangerous because Tiberium has utterly subsumed all normal biological life to the point these areas are no longer able to support anything not explicitly adapted to Tiberium or immune to it first.
▲* [[Alien Invasion]]:
* [[Aliens Steal Cable]]: The Scrin use a satellite news broadcast to learn English; it takes them less than 10 seconds. It [[Chekhov's Gun|comes in mighty handy]] when they {{spoiler|come across a classified transmission by Kane, explaining his scheme}}.
* [[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
* [[Bread and Circuses]]: Nod for the people in the Yellow Zones in ''Tiberium Wars''. Overlaps with [[Villain with Good Publicity]].
* [[Crapsack World]]: Tiberium's effect on the Earth are so damaging that by 2047, 20% of Earth surface is uninhabitable to humans, and most of it remains dangerous to humans. And this is actually better conditions than the previous game...
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: The Scrin attempt to pull this off in their "invasion" by deliberately attacking cities and monuments.
* [[Didn't See That Coming]]:
* [[Family-Friendly Firearms]]: As a result of a continuity error in the [[Novelization]]: suddenly, Nod grunts are using laser rifles!▼
▲* [[Family-Friendly Firearms]]: As a result of continuity error in the [[Novelization]]: suddenly, Nod grunts are using laser rifles!
* [[Game Mod]]: A number of notable ones have popped up over the years.
** ''[http://www.moddb.com/mods/cc-3-the-forgotten The Forgotten]'' brings back the tiberium-mutated faction from ''[[Command
** ''[http://www.moddb.com/mods/tiberium-essence Tiberium Essence]'' overhauls the entire game to be much more like an updated ''Tiberian Sun'' while keeping the general premise intact, with new abilities and units ([[Humongous Mecha|including the Mammoth Mk. II]]).
** ''[http://www.moddb.com/mods/mideast-crisis-2 Mideast Crisis 2]'', a sequel to a ''[[Command and Conquer Generals]]'' mod involving a near-future conflict in the Middle East.
* [[Hollywood Science]]:
* [[Humans Are Warriors]]: Why the harvesting operation goes bad for the Scrin in ''Tiberium Wars''. While it's true that the Scrin's "invasion" was actually just a ''mining operation'' that harvests Tiberium-infested planets when all the inhabitants are dead, they still view humanity as "warlike to the extreme" and a major threat to the survival of their entire race.
* [[The Hypnotoad]]: Scrin Masterminds and their advanced Traveler-59 cousins, the Prodigies.
▲* [[Hollywood Science]]: in the [[Novelization]] of ''Tiberium Wars'', radioactive rainwater kills plants and trees within minutes while leaving the rest of the landscape, including the people who live in the area, unaffected. ''Radiation does not work that way.''
▲* [[Humans Are Warriors]]: Why the harvesting operation goes bad for the Scrin in ''Wars''. While it's true that the Scrin's "invasion" was actually just a ''mining operation'' that harvests Tiberium-infested planets when all the inhabitants are dead, they still view humanity as "warlike to the extreme" and a major threat to the survival of their entire race.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The GDI campaign has many homages to the Soviet Campaign from ''Red Alert 2'', including a first mission involving the Pentagon and a virtually identical opening to the second mission.
* [[Never My Fault]]: A particularly amusing example
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:
** Boyle ordering the use of the ion cannon on Temple Prime, which was exactly what Kane was goading
** The player character, if he decides to use the liquid tiberium bomb at the end of the game.
** The Scrin Foreman's rather ill-judged attacks.
* [[No Campaign for the Wicked]]: Inverted in ''Kane's Wrath''. The bad guys are the only campaign available.
* [[Novelization]]: There is one
* [[Peace Through Superior Firepower]]: GDI just prior to ''Tiberium Wars''. They have dozens, if not hundreds, of ion cannons orbiting the Earth, ready to blow any baddies off the face of the planet. And that's not counting their nigh-indestructible railgun-armed Mammoth tanks.
* [[Perspective Flip]]: The campaigns generally follow the same line of events, albeit told through GDI, Nod, and
* [[Starfish Aliens]]: The Scrin. So alien in fact, that we don't even know how they ''look'' like. All we get is the shimmering, cephalopoidal avatar of the Supervisor during his Warp-Link transmissions.
* [[Suicide Attack]]: Nod Fanatics are suicide bombers hopped up on Tiberium infusions and religious zeal.
* [[Title Drop]]: ''Kane's Wrath'' has Kane title dropping two of the missions, "Persuade Him" and "A Grand Gesture".
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: The person Kane was talking to in ''Kane's Wrath''
* [[Tuckerization]]: One of the maps, "Black's Big Battle", is likely named for multiplayer designer Greg Black. Ingame art shows a soldier with the nametag "Vessella", a reference to associate producer Jim Vessella.
* [[Useless Useful Spell]]: The Nod Avatar's scavenge ability.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Kane after Sarajevo
* [[We Have Reserves]]: After that, it was clear that the Scrin were {{spoiler|fooled by Kain to attack Earth}},
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: If you use the liquid Tiberium bomb in the last GDI mission in ''Tiberium Wars'', {{spoiler|you end up killing over twenty million people
▲* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: If you use the liquid Tiberium bomb in the last GDI mission in Tiberium Wars'', {{spoiler|you end up killing over twenty million people.}} Granger immediately calls you out on it and accuses you of being a war criminal.
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