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* [[Classic Cheat Code]]: ''Contra'' wasn't the first game to use the classic [[Konami Code]] (that honor goes to ''[[Gradius]]''), but this game was the one that made it popular in North America.
* [[Cloning Blues]]/[[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|Bill Rizer}} in ''Neo Contra''.
* [[Color-Coded Multiplayer]] -: In the NES versions of ''Contra'' and ''Super C'', Bill and Lance are distinguished by the color of their pants. This was mainly done due to hardware limitations, since Bill and Lance in the arcade version actually have different sprites (though, they did wear color-coded bandannas), but ''Contra III'' for the SNES and ''Contra 4'' for the DS both kept the tradition. In the arcade version of ''Super Contra'', Bill and Lance actually wore green and purple respectively, which became the colors for "Mad Dog" and "Scorpion", the extra characters in ''Contra 4''.
* [[Combining Mecha]]: One of the stages in ''Hard Corps'' has an aeroplane robot, a sea-urchin robot and a dolphin robot as the minibosses. After the three get their asses handed to them (and escape), they merge together to form a large running robot, a robot bird, and a robot-tank hybrid respectively ([[Shout-Out|a]] [[Getter Robo]]??) before attempting to merge one last time and exploding spectacularly instead.
* [[Continuing Is Painful]]: In the early ''Contra'' games, losing a life will revert the player's weapon back to the default Normal Gun, which can be especially painful in the middle of a boss battle. To fix this problem, the automatic Machine Gun was made into the default gun from ''Operation C'' and onward (with only ''Contra 4'' reverting back to the "peashooter"-style Normal Gun from the arcade and NES games), while ''Contra III'' and ''Hard Corps'' allowed players to carry more than one weapon at the same time (giving players the option to have a backup weapon in case they lose a life). Averted in ''Shattered Soldier'' and ''Neo Contra'', which gave the player fixed weapon configurations.
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* [[Fallen Hero]]: {{spoiler|Lance Bean, Player 2 in the original ''Contra'', turns out to be the Blood Falcon Commander, the apparent [[Big Bad]] of ''Contra: Shattered Soldier'' (although he did go a little nuts toward the end, his dying confession reveals he was really a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] trying to fight the [[Government Conspiracy]] that was ''really'' behind the whole alien war from the beginning)}}.
** {{spoiler|Likewise, Lucia, Player 2 in ''Shattered Soldier'', ends up as a member of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] in ''Neo Contra'', where she participates in a conspiracy to destroy the human race, and is fought and killed by the players}}.
** Colonel Bahamut, the [[Big Bad]] from ''Hard Corps''. In the prequel, ''[[Hard Corps: Uprising]]'', he's the '''[[The Hero|hero]]'''.
* [[Five-Bad Band]]: In ''Neo Contra'':
** The [[Big Bad]]: Master Contra {{spoiler|Bill Rizer (Project C)}}.
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