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* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: There's an escape using one in the level after {{spoiler|Kane's Stroggification}}, just before Kane's first encounter with {{spoiler|a Teleport Dropper}}.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: A conversation overheard hints that the victims that are Stroggified are, for a time, aware of their actions but can not stop them. {{spoiler|This is later shown to be true when [[Tragic Monster|Voss becomes Stroggified]].}}

* [[Animal Motifs]]: The squad names: Badger, Bison, Cobra, Eagle, Kodiak, Scorpion, Viper, Warthog, Wolf, and, of course, the Rhino Squad. There's also the [[Author Avatar|Raven]] squad, composed by members with the same names as the developers of the game.

* [[Back From the Brink]]

* [[Badass Driver]]: Whoever is driving the truck in the early Nexus mission in ''Quake 4'' has got to be crazy.

* [[Beam Spam]]: The Lightning Gun.

* [[BFG]]: The Dark Matter Gun.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: When {{spoiler|the Rhino Squad}} saves {{spoiler|Kane}} from the final part of the Stroggification process.

* [[Body Horror]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3clVvh5gbGE The Stroggification process], where the subjects are put into heavy sedation and, as a result, are [[And I Must Scream|75% paralyzed]]. Through an assembly-line-like process, they ''rip open your stomach, saw off your legs, fuse new legs and armor to your skin, put a big helmet on you, insert a control chip into the victims brain, and then activate said chip so he/she can serve the Strogg.'' Fortunately, {{spoiler|Kane}} is saved from that last part by {{spoiler|the Rhino Squad}}. Too bad the same can't be said for the many other poor souls before you that already completed the process, which you can see in the [[People Jars|body jars]] moving around the facility.

* [[Boring but Practical]]: The Machinegun in single-player, especially because it's one of two weapons with a flashlight, the other being the Blaster.

* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: Many examples in the fourth, specially Gladiators. Heavy Hovertanks are this plus outright [[Demonic Spiders]], while Light Tanks are fairly [[Level Five Onix]] provided you've got enough room to keep backing away from them. They're a pain in the ass, anyway.

* [[Boss Rush]]: Just before the final battle, {{spoiler|Kane}} is locked in a small-medium sized room and forced to fight 3 consecutive groups of the [[Boss in Mook Clothing]] enemies: 3 Light Tanks, 3 Heavy Hovertanks, and 3 Stream Protectors.

* [[Cypher Language]]: The Strogg languange.

* [[Degraded Boss]]: The Harvester first appear as a [[Mini Boss]]-type encounter, then as a regular [[Giant Mook]] later.

* [[Dramatic Space Drifting]]: In the intro. Seems that is's just a marine contemplating the emptiness, then he turns to reveal a disfigured face and then half a body missing.

* [[Enemy Summoner]]: The Teleport Dropper, that Strogg which looked like a bulldog, and could disperse several teleporters which summoned several Mooks. These can also appear at the Strogg teleporters on the game. {{spoiler|Strogg!Voss}} also has this ability.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: The Strogg voices heard throughout the game, including the Makron's voice.

* [[Giant Spider]]: The Harvesters are ''enormous'' and rather spider-like in appearance.

* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: This happens to an unfortunate Marine who attempts to enter a Strogg teleporter.

** [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: Although it's somewhat unique in that {{spoiler|Kane ''does'' have to damage him significantly}}, otherwise he just straight out kills him (game over man, game over) instead of immobilizing him with his tractor beam.

* [[Human Resources]]

* [[Lightning Gun]]

* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: When on the first to the Hannibal, you can hear this exchange when exiting for the field:

'''Marine''': I know... I'm looking at it right now. }}

* [[More Dakka]]: Some vehicles.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: General difficulty. The weakest, basic enemy Mooks can kill you in just a handful of shots. All enemies have noticeably more health, so that even mid-level enemies like Berserkers and Gunners take more than a full clip of assault rifle fire to kill. Your teammates are no longer invincible powerhouses, making all levels with them into [[Escort Mission|Escort Missions]]. The game is already fairly stingy with Health and Armor on ''Normal'', so imagine what all this is like on [[Harder Than Hard]]. [[Halo|Legendary]] has ''nothing'' on this.

* [[Nitro Express]]: One [[Escort Mission]] has a demolitions expert carrying explosives that will "take out half the mountain" if set off.

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: Any Strogg facility you could think.

* [[Not Using the Z Word]]: Played straight with the actual monster names, averted in-game where one of the marines panics after getting bit by a "zombie" before being corrected that they're just botched Strogg.

* [[Point of No Return]]

* [[Smashing Hallway Traps of Doom]]

* [[Space Marine]]

* [[Spider Tank]]: They're called the Harvesters and Kane find them four times: the first two before the Nexus tower as a human, the second when {{spoiler|Bidwell dies}} and the last once you've escaped from the Strogg Medical Facility {{spoiler|as a Strogg}}.

* [[Translator Microbes]]: When {{spoiler|Kane}} is Stroggified, the chip implanted in his brain lets him read and hear the Strogg language as English.

* [[Unwilling Roboticisation]]

 

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