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*** The [http://medalofhonor.wikia.com/wiki/Medal_of_Honor_%28book%29 prologue novel] includes an SAS operator in AFO Neptune (although this may have something to do with [[wikipedia:Chris Ryan|who wrote it]]).
** Averted in ''Warfigher''. Due to a global threat called PETN, Tier 1 Operators from around the world are tasked to stop it. Players are confirmed to return to Afghanistan and will also take on the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in the Philippines.
* [[Artificial Brilliance]]/[[Artificial Stupidity]]: ''Medal of Honor'' is usually either praised for above-average AI or condemned for generally stupid AI. It's never in between. Though, Germans [[Jumping
** In the first game, [[Grenade Hot Potato|they would sometimes kick it back at you. In the second, they could actually catch the things in midair and throw it back at you.]]
** You can have SO much fun with that too...
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{{quote| '''Dusty:''' ''"That's why they're Rangers."''}}
** The Tier 1 operators know that they would have serious difficulty in doing the same thing {{spoiler|and in fact, AFO Nepture does}}. Their focus is much narrower, based on speed, stealth and tactical exfil at the end of the day. Tier 2 Rangers are more focused on conventional warfare, and they're better at it.
* [[Bad Boss]]: [[General Failure|General Flagg]], from ''Medal of Honor'' (2010). Not only does he seem dead set on not letting the commander on the ground run the operation, he's giving orders by ''[[Voice
* [[Bag of Spilling]]: Weapons do not carry over between major missions.
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: [[Colonel Badass|Colonel Drucker]], who does his best to shield his troops from the General's micromanaging.
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* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|The reboot has one of the main characters captured by the terrorists. A friendly squad comes in at the last minute and extracts him and his friend, and the point of view switches to the injured protagonist's first person view again, as he keeps blacking out and his squadmates try to encourage him to hold on to life, as a rescue helicopter is coming. The audience expects him to get better. [[Tear Jerker|He doesn't. Cue white-out...]]}}
** Also happens in ''Rising Sun''. In the last mission, {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] slits the throat of fellow soldier Tanaka right after he frees you from captivity aboard a supercarrier. He also manages to escape with your kidnapped brother}}
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: From the intro of the 2010 game, you can overhear a radio broadcaster saying "It's another quiet Tuesday morning in the Big Apple..." The next thing you hear is another news broadcast talking about [[The War
* [[Dressing
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] / [[Expy]]: In ''Pacific Assault'', there's a drill sergeant who looks and acts suspiciously like R. Lee Ermey.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: On Nijmegen Bridge, if you shoot all but one of the snipers off the top of the bridge, the lone sniper will take his chances and jump off the bridge.
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** Averted in ''Medal of Honor'' (2010) - You get 2 high-power weapons (assault rifles, sniper rifles, etc) and one pistol, as well as some grenades.
* [[Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball]]: In the first game there was a cheat that allowed for bouncing bullets and bouncing grenades.
** Make sure you have [[God Mode]] employed when using it though, otherwise it becomes a [[Hoist
* [[Iconic Item]]: In the latest game, [[Player Character|Rabbit's]] Lucky Rabbit's Foot, which we get to see him pull out just before making any [[Leap of Faith]] {{spoiler|and when Preacher is mourning his death.}}
* [[It's Raining Men]]: The whole point of ''Airborne'', and the player can control their descent to land almost anywhere on the map. The Allied players in multi-player could do it too.
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* [[Med Kit]] - Three types - bandages, "battle rattle", and a canteen in the first game.
* [[Minecart Madness]] - The level "Enemy Mine" (no relation to the [[Enemy Mine]] trope) in ''Frontline''.
** Which was a [[Shout-Out]] to the mine cart sequence from ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
* [[Moral Guardians]]: Caused quite a flap that nearly kept the reboot from being released when it was revealed that in multiplayer you'd get to play as the Taliban. The military went as far as to ban its sale in any military compounds, and eventually the developers chickened out and just copied ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' by changing the name to "[[Op For]]".
* [[Multi Platform]]
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** The 2010 game is somewhat more realistic. You still rack up hundreds of enemy kills, but you're in a squad, against mooks with little practical training, and when the time comes for more explosions, you have to all in other assets. In the end, {{spoiler|all that happened in a two day period is that some of your soldiers died, and a lot of theirs died.}}
* [[Out-of-Genre Experience]]: After a previously realistic campaign, ''Airborne's'' last two missions pits you against [[Gas Mask Mooks|gas-masked]] [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]] toting [[BFG|machine guns]].
* [[Parachute in
* [[Real Is Brown]]: Many of the games.
** Especially the 2010 reboot. Then again, Afghanistan is not known for its colour palette.
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*** Actually, while it's not real blood, in the early games and ''Allied Assault'', I believe there would be pinkish puffs wherever you shot somebody.
**** Not in Allied Assault, it was just a smoke/dust puff. Among the Allied Assault modding community, Blood mods are numerous.
* [[The War
* [[We Have Reserves]]: [[General Failure|General Flagg]], who insists on committing the Rangers and the 10th Mountain Division to fight in a heavily contested region rather than letting the Tier 1 troops do their job first.
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