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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Bill and Lance, especially in the original game, are obvious pastiches of '80s movie stars [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] and [[Sylvester Stallone]].
** A [http://www.destructoid.com/elephant//ul/9855-550x-contra-poster-2-dsf.jpg poster] for ''Contra 4'' included in ''Nintendo Power'' followed suit by depicting "newcomers" Mad Dog and Scorpion as pastiches of [[Wesley Snipes]] and [[Vin Diesel]].
* [[No Export for You]]: ''Contra Force'' was only released in North America, even though its Famicom counterpart (''Arc Hound'') was canceled.
** The Appaloosa-made titles, ''Contra: Legacy of War'' and ''C: The Contra Adventure'', were never released in Japan either. Also, ''Contra Adventure'' never came out in Europe, even though ''Legacy of War'' did.
** The MSX2 version of ''Contra'' was only released in Japan and did not have an official release in Europe, even though ''Nemesis'' (aka ''[[Gradius]]''), ''Vampire Killer'' (the MSX2 equivalent of the first ''[[Castlevania 1986]]'') and ''[[Metal Gear 1987|Metal Gear]]'' were all released there. However, many ROM sites incorrectly list the game under the title of ''Gryzor'' (the European name of the first arcade game).
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: Every game except the MSX2 port of the first ''Contra'' and the Japanese version of ''Contra: Hard Corps''. Oddly, Konami took this feature ''out'' of the [[Difficulty by Region|overseas versions of the game]], feeling it would water the challenge down too much.
* [[One-Hit Kill]]
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