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The general tone is more ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]'' than ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''; the horrors of war are still there, but they don't overpower the stories. Over the years, the "Boy's Own Adventures" attitude has been toned down a bit, but it's still a mostly optimistic view of war, viewing it more as a necessary evil than a fun time for the boys.
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* [[Aussies With Artillery]]: Stories about [[Only Known by Their Nickname|Anzacs]] have long been a favourite for ''Commando'' readers; kind of an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]], but for an entire armed force.
* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: In ''Charlie's Tank'', a group of plucky British soldiers trapped in occupied France liberate a World War I tank from a museum and use it to escape the Nazis.
* [[
** ''#3888 Time Of Fear'' is one example. Though to be fair, the device that caused it was supposed to have a completely different function.
** And at one point, His Majesty's Armed Forces [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|fought ninjas]].
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Quite a few mavericks and [[I Work Alone|lone wolves]] appear in ''Commando'', and more often than not they're left to get on with things because [[Crazy Awesome|they're that good at what they do]], [[The Wonka|any eccentricities]] are overlooked.
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* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: There has '''never''' been a [[Karma Houdini]] in '''any''' issue of Commando. '''''Ever'''''.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: The standard reaction to anything which possibly affect fate, such as good-luck charms.
* [[The Neidermeyer]]: Officers who aren't well liked by the enlisted men often show up. If they're seen from the perspective of the troops, they're usually of the aforementioned [[General Failure]] type, but when they're an important character themselves, their story is typically about them winning the respect of their troops. A relatively popular example is to team up a unit of rough and ready [[
** It's not too uncommon to have a [[Sergeant Rock]] mistaken for a Neidermeyer.
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* [[Recurring Character]]: Usually averted, owing to the fact that that [[Loads and Loads of Characters|there's too many to keep track of]]. However, ''Commando'' has been sneaking in a few recurring characters over the years, mostly by writers who are so established within the company that they can more or less get away with it.
** The most notorious example is the [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] Ramsey's Raiders, who've made it through an astonishing '''''17''''' issues. [[Take Our Word for It|That's a lot]].
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** Though it's far from unusual to see at least some Nazis depicted as honest, dutiful and brave, albeit on the wrong side.
* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]] / [[How We Got Here]]: It'd be quicker to list the issues of Commando that '''don't''' use these tropes.
* [[World War Two]]: For the most part; due to both writers and readers getting a little bored with nothing but stories about six years of human history, writers will branch out with stories set as far back as [[Ancient Rome]], and other eras relevant to Britain's history, such as The [[English Civil War]], The [[Second Boer War]] and [[World War
** Interestingly, although not too surprisingly, The Holocaust has only been mentioned in a few issues.
** The most recently-set issues were about a cell of [[Western Terrorists]] taking over an oil rig in [[The Nineties|1990]] and [[Turn of the Millennium|2008's]] #4123: ''Nightmare Holiday''; set in the same year, it deals with a Japanese civilian fleeing North Korean troops after 30 years of imprisonment.
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