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A film adaptation is currently in the works, though plagued with [[Development Hell]], and the third game will be the last to feature Delta Squad. A series of comic books [[Expanded Universe|expand on the backstory and what happens between the games]], alongside a collection of five novels, with the final installment released in 2012.
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* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: The New Hope facility and the multi-player level "Blood Drive".
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Nemacysts are huge, [[Flying Seafood Special|flying, squid-like creatures]] who constantly vent toxic sludge, and are fired as flak or hunter-killer missiles from Seeder arthropods. The Ink/Smoker grenades are actually baby Nemacysts tied to a Bolo Grenade handle. The Digger Launcher in the third game fires a small burrowing creature which digs through the ground ignoring any cover in its path, popping out from the ground if there's any enemy in its trajectory then detonating itself.
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** The third game actually features the characters reacting with joy to see backup and saying, "It's Carmine!".
** One of the Stranded in Char asks "Show me that two piece again!". Two-piecing was the [[Fan Nickname]] for the melee -> shotgun combo that dominated the original ''Gears of War'' multi-player.
** When playing as Adam Fenix in multi-player, and beating the crap out of someone with the extended face punch, he'll sometimes say: [[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|"Your mother is a classy lady!"]]
** Lieutenant Kim's "I've got the code" shows up twice in ''Gears of War 3'': as the Onyx medal for interacting with objects and as a [[Continuity Nod]] in "RAAM's Shadow".
{{quote|'''Barrick''': Do you have the code?
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** ''Gears of War 3'' introduces the Lambent Berserker. Everything that is makes the originals tough is there, only it is capable of surviving multiple Hammer of Dawn attacks, has tentacles that gives it a longer reach, will ''jump'' and land like an Imulsion bomb and eventually start leaving Imulsion trails and toxic vapors limiting your movement. All the while still screaming and rushing at you.
** Cole has tendencies toward exhibiting a few traits, but is more in tune to the [[Boisterous Bruiser]].
* [[BFG]]: Virtually every gun in the game is oversized, and it wouldn't do to list every gun that isn't a sidearm here, so we'll just list the most notable:▼
** The [http://vaultlol.com/?p=334 Retro Lancer], (the one on the right) a rifle with a bayonet the size of a cutlass that looks like a hybrid of an FN-SCAR-H and an M60, which could double as a mounted machinegun turret.▼
** The Boomshot, an enormous grenade launcher with a 60mm bore that shoots grenades in four-round bursts.▼
** The One-Shot, which can only be described as a sniper cannon.▼
** The Mulcher and Vulcan Cannon, which are both man-portable miniguns.▼
* [[Big Bad]]: Myrrah. Note that Epic Games use the term "[[Big Bad]]" to refer to the final bosses of each game (General RAAM in the first, and Skorge in the second), but they are more like [[The Dragon|Dragons]] in trope-speak.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:
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** {{spoiler|Clayton shows up during the final battle of ''Gears of War 3'' in a King Raven and starts tearing into the Lambent and Therons with a gatling gun. He gets shot down by Myrrah's Tempest [[Screw Destiny|but survives]]}}.
** The Command Center fortification for Horde 2.0 gives you the opportunity to call in support, starting with a quick sniper support and being able to upgrade through mortars and the [[Kill Sat|Hammer of Dawn]]. Unsurprisingly, it is quite satisfying to call in for help and see the screen light up with kills.
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▲** The [http://vaultlol.com/?p=334 Retro Lancer], (the one on the right) a rifle with a bayonet the size of a cutlass that looks like a hybrid of an FN-SCAR-H and an M60, which could double as a mounted machinegun turret.
▲** The Boomshot, an enormous grenade launcher with a 60mm bore that shoots grenades in four-round bursts.
▲** The One-Shot, which can only be described as a sniper cannon.
▲** The Mulcher and Vulcan Cannon, which are both man-portable miniguns.
* [[Bigger Bad]]: {{spoiler|Imulsion itself, which is really a single, planet-wide parasitic organism}}.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The second and third games feature victory and ultimately survival, but at a great cost. {{spoiler|Myrrah is dead, the Lambent are destroyed for good, and the last stand of organized Locust falls, yet Marcus has lost his best friend Dom and his father Adam Fenix in the struggle. Cynically lampshaded by him in his final line of dialogue}}.
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