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* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Fail an objective and you'll be called back to base to get shouted at by a pixelly Stormin' Norman. In the Playstation games, you can even go rogue and have your allies hunt you down if you refuse to return when ordered. Eventually they'll push the self-destruct button for, of all things, refueling too many times after you are recalled.

* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: "Over here!"

* [[Ripped ~~From~~ the Headlines]]: Most obvious in ''Desert Strike'' and ''Soviet Strike'' in relation to the Gulf War and 1991 Soviet coup attempt respectively.

* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: Most obvious in ''Desert Strike'' and ''Soviet Strike'' in relation to the Gulf War and 1991 Soviet coup attempt respectively.

* [[Shout Out]]: The terrorist combi van that's the first enemy you're likely to see in the second game is ripped right out of ''[[Back to The Future (Film)|Back to The Future]]''.

* [[Stock Footage]]: Soviet and Nuclear Strike use this for pretty much everything that doesn't need to have the game's own characters shown. The scene of Strike Team Echo being caught infiltrating for example is actually from the real life Operation Nimrod.

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* [[Too Soon]]

* [[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]]: Several of your copilots have to be rescued by you

* [[~~Twenty Four~~ Hour News Networks]]: The plot is delivered by a [[Lawyer Friendly Cameo]] version of CNN, the GBS. {{spoiler|As if this isn't obvious enough, GBS is basically the information arm of STRIKE}}.

* [[24-Hour News Networks]]: The plot is delivered by a [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] version of CNN, the GBS. {{spoiler|As if this isn't obvious enough, GBS is basically the information arm of STRIKE}}.

** The 16-bit installments featured EANN, in the levels and some of the cut-scenes between missions

* [[Qurac]]: The actual country involved in ''Desert Strike'' is never named.

* [[Universal ~~Drivers~~ License]]: In ''Jungle Strike'', ''Urban Strike'' and ''Nuclear Strike'', the player operates additional vehicles, including a (not so) stealth fighter, a hovercraft, an armed motorcycle, a cargo helicopter and an experimental "Ground Assault Vehicle".

* [[Universal Driver's License]]: In ''Jungle Strike'', ''Urban Strike'' and ''Nuclear Strike'', the player operates additional vehicles, including a (not so) stealth fighter, a hovercraft, an armed motorcycle, a cargo helicopter and an experimental "Ground Assault Vehicle".

* [[~~Videogame~~ Caring Potential]]: Trying to rescue every civilian, allied soldier, and enemy non-combatant in every mission, even after you've rescued enough to achieve the mission objective.

* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: Trying to rescue every civilian, allied soldier, and enemy non-combatant in every mission, even after you've rescued enough to achieve the mission objective.

** Though, there is the benefit of gaining/recovering some hitpoints from dropping them off at landing zones.

* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: Chemical, bio and nuke weapons in the ''Desert Strike'', nukes in ''Jungle Strike'', super-lasers in ''Urban Strike'', nukes in ''Soviet Strike'' [[Captain Obvious|and Nuclear Strike]].

* [[We Do the Impossible]]: Take on a battalion of tanks alone, check; sink nuclear submarines with a hovercraft, yep; destroy an air defense network consisting of Patriots, AA Guns, RPG-armed soldiers, radar and patrolling helicopters with your one chopper, no problem. And that's just in one game.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The ending of ''Nuclear Stike'' includes a trailer for another game, ''Future Strike'', that was never made. It was instead [[Divorced Installment|developed into]] ''[[Future Cop LAPD]]''.

* [[What Happened to The Mouse]]: ''Soviet Strike'' shows a shadowy character only known as the Security Czar running Strike, with associated overtones of a sinister conspiracy. He is gone in ''Nuclear Strike'' without a single mention.

* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: ''Soviet Strike'' shows a shadowy character only known as the Security Czar running Strike, with associated overtones of a sinister conspiracy. He is gone in ''Nuclear Strike'' without a single mention.