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Planes and Mercs contains examples of:
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] - The incidentals that the Black Aces rack up range from horrifying to downright silly. One missions incidentals were: 34 Hydro workers, gardening shed and a family of ducks.
* [[Car Fu]] - Or at least, it would have been if the truck-bomb plan had come through...
* [[Fighter Launching Sequence]] - Happened once before a British airstrike on their operating base. More often than not, though, it's the enemy who need to launch... Then it happened again, with Djibouti airport being raided by Iran.
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* [[Affably Evil]] - Hell's Black Aces, the PCs from the original Planes and Mercs, are routinely described in near demonic terms; but seem quiet and polite whenever anyone meets them.
* [[Anti Air]] - The Yemeni rebels have so much AA they would put the Serbs to shame.
* [[Anti
* [[A Nuclear Error]] - During Operation Babylon it seems that regular laser guided "bunker buster" bombs had been swapped out for low yield nuclear weapons. As to who did this, it is unknown. One was dropped, another came back and was turned in as "evidence" (most likely to disappear) and another somewhere at the bottom of the Strait of Hormuz.
* [[Anyone Can Die]] - In the very first mission two pilots died; Canadian Ross "Suit" Cameron , flight lead for the Musketeers, was killed when a Mig 21 blew apart his Falcon with 23mm cannon fire over the Red Sea. Fellow American Musketeer Henry "Guv" Dravot was seriously wounded when he crashed his damaged F-5 Tiger II into the runway. Patrick "Creek" Dawson of Swart Katte flight was injured while attempting a gun run on an armoured convoy. He managed to make it back to base but crashed on the surface and ejected straight into the asphalt.
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* [[Elites Are More Glamorous]] - Depends on the character. Some like Julienne "Witch" Nikarova was nearly tasked with flying the French Nuclear Mirage 2000 variant before budget cuts ruined her chances. Sajjad "Beady" Azzam was an aggressor pilot in the PAF. On the other end of the scale you have Walter Johannes, a flight technician who became a merc to get his chance to fly, as well as a man only known as "Goatie", an Australian drover who hasn't done more than dust crops, but is sure he'll 'get the hang of it'.
* [[Elite Mooks]] - The Swart Kattes were the first flight to encounter something other than ageing Soviet equipment, in the form of a pair of F-14s. Sophie "Kermit" Duprac, flying a Mig-21bis didn't give a fuck and shot both of them down.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]] - The local bartender is simply known as "Heyu" (Hey You!). His actual name is Julian Debere but it's only mentioned once in passing.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]] - The player characters might fight for different reasons but all in all, they're here for money and are not much better than the Iranians/Vietnamese/Indonesians/etc.
* [[Faceless Goons]] - No one really knows where all the enemy pilots come from, at least until Iran played its hand by attacking the mercenaries directly and *cough cough* shooting a civilian airliner down in the middle of the flight.
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* [[Follow the Leader]] - Steve's game was the progenitor and origination of the concept in action. Firestorm and other assorted Planes and Mercs games are technically the spin-offs. All of them are entertaining.
* [[Former Regime Personnel]] - With the massive downsizing of military budgets in the Firestorm timeline, nearly all of the player characters are out of work military personnel.
* [[Friend in The Black Market]] - Crazy Achmed is an NPC in the local bar who will deal in firearms. James Kennedy is a PC North Irish gun runner with ties to the IRA. Though depending on future events, they may become [[Honest
* [[General Ripper]] - The Iran-Iraq War left Jamail "Fossil" Al Baghdadi with an extreme aversion of Iranians. He never misses an excuse to launch an attack on them and would love nothing more than Iran-Iraq War Part Two.
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]] - Arguable for many pilots but the most effected by the manipulation of events by Eagle Corp seem to be Sabine "Hamlet" Eichler, who is appalled that she willingly helped kill an entire family, and members of Aquila flight who found out they were toting nuclear weapons, suspected to have been planted by Eagle's backers.
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* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]] - Subverted. Jamail doesn't seem to mind the deaths of the enemy pilots because they're Iranian and in his mind, all of them deserve to die.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] - The whole reason for [[Swat Kats (Animation)|Swart Kattes]] existence.
* [[I See Dead People]] - Arguably Jamail. He seems to go in and out of hallucinations varying from seeing family members to outright talking to the ghosts of [[
* [[Large Ham]] - McCleach.
* [[Legion of Lost Souls]] - All the pilots in the game are a foreign legion working for the Yemeni government. Many of them are running from dark pasts while others are in it for the money or excitement of air to air combat.
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