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''Iron Brigade'' AKA ''Trenched'' is Double Fine's fourth downloadable game as part of their Amnesia Fortnights venture, changing the studio from making one large title every few years, to making multiple small games in one year.
 
The world is being invaded by monsters made completely out of primitive television sets known as ''Monovisions,'' and they completely wiped out the Army, Air Force and Navy. The only force remaining is the Mobile Trench Brigade. An elite squad of soldiers trained to use [[Humongous Mecha]] known as Mobile Trenches. Mobile Trenches are quite literally [[World War OneI]] trenches slapped on a pair of robot legs, with a human soldier standing in the trench, operating the robot and guns.
 
The story revolves around the [[Big Good]] and [[Big Bad]], while the player controls a separate protagonist. During [[World War OneI]], Woodruff and Vladimir Farnsworth were serving the allied countries. But the war effort found a positive use for disabled veterans, having them serve as code-breakers. While working, they intercepted an unknown signal that killed all who heard them except for Woodruff and Vlad. Instead, they gained supernatural genius.
 
Woodruff used his newly found genius to invent mobile robotic legs to help his fellow disabled veterans. Vlad, the Russian survivor, used his gifts to invent television in an attempt to bring the world to the comfort of your home. Unfortunately, the end result was the horrors of the world coming straight to him (along with really crappy programming), which [[Old Media Are Evil|drove him to insanity]]. Vlad then created a race of mechanical monsters made entirely of television sets, known as The Monovisions, or "tubes." Colonel Woodruff uses his Mobile Trench Brigade to fight his old friend.
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* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Trenches, before they were re-purposed as battle-mechs, would appear to have been very ungainly as a prosthetic, being very bulky and adding at least 5-feet to the operator's height.
** Gameplay wise, Artillery Cannons. Single shot, arcing projectile, long reload, big explosion, and high damage. Also Gungnir the Sniper Cannon, though it swaps arcing shot for fast shot.
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Vlad.
** On the cover of Mad Scientist magazine in-universe, one article is titled "Which Sinister Beard is Right for Me?"
* [[Badass Mustache]]: Several.
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* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]
* [[Cool Boat]]: The USS Mckinley, a re-purposed battleship ''with legs''!
* [[Death Ray]]: Broadcasters, weaponized [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|broadcasters]] which also have some gameplay elements reminiscent of [[Video Game Flamethrowers Suck|flamethrowers]].
* [[The Engineer]]: The player characters, all of whom can place [[Sentry Gun|turrets]] almost anywhere. Different trench chassis play the trope slightly differently, being able to deploy different turrets.
** Engineer-type chassis trade firepower for the ability to place a wider variety of turrets.
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* [[Orwellian Retcon]]: Due to the copyright issues with the name ''Trenched'', a forthcoming update will ''change the name of the game'' in ''all'' territories to ''[[Iron Brigade]]''.
** There is a techinical reason for the change affecting all regions, apparently: If the EU was the only region going by ''Iron Brigade'' and everywhere else was ''Trenched'', EU players would be limited to multiplayer with only other EU players (some sort of issue with games with two different names connecting over Xbox Live, supposedly).
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: Double Fine was inspired by silly [https://web.archive.org/web/20110504111630/http://bitmob.com/articles/the-manly-mans-mens-magazines-of-double-fines-trenched-for-men "manly man" magazines] from The Forties and [[The Fifties]]. They use the magazine shown in this trope's page as source material!
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Woodruff and Farnsworth inventions are spiritual opposites of each other. Woodruff's [[Humongous Mecha]] are intended to let disabled veterans walk again. Farnsworth invention, Television, was intended to being the world to you instead.
* [[Real Is Brown]]: [[Defied Trope]].
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* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Monsters made out of TV sets, trenches slapped on mech legs, and one gigantic battleship with legs to walk on land.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: Even after defeating Vlad, Woodruff states that the source and purpose of the Broadcast is unknown and that it may return.
{{quote| Woodruff: "I do know one thing, that we'll be ready for it."}}
* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: In addition to shotguns for your Trench, your most basic turrets are shotguns.
* [[Shout-Out]]: "Sucks to be you, Tube!"
** Players can dress up their avatar like [[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Razputin.]]
* [[Show Runner]]: Brad Muir
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Woodruff, hilariously, has an attachment on his iron lung meant specifically to hold his cigar.
** The Marine also dons a cigar before repairing his trench, should it be downed.
* [[Suicide Attack]]: Blitzers.
* [[Taunt Button]]: While on the ship, the fire buttons (LT/RT for Xbox, L2/R2 for [[PSPlay Station 3]]) instead let your marine "salute". And by salute, it's really "silly gesture".
* [[Taking You Withwith Me]]: The Blitzers's only form of attack, consisting of running to your location and blowing up in your face.
* [[Title Drop]]: "DOUBLE FINE! *[[Evil Laugh]]*"
* [[X Meets Y]]: [[Tower Defense]] meets [[Battle TechBattleTech|Mechassault]]
** Double Fine likes to call the game "[[Chrome Hounds|Trench Hounds.]]"
* [[Voice of the Legion]]: Vlad. The monovision are his way of "bringing the world to him."
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