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[[File:silent_bomber_4636silent bomber 4636.jpg|frame|Louder than you'd think...]]
 
 
{{quote|"''Seven years ago, on a battlefield...I lost what I believed in. Each time I went into battle, another piece of my soul died. I'm a mere shell of a man now. Nothing more than a killing machine.''"|'''Jutah Fate'''}}
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It's cool though. He's got this.
 
The combat system is the game's real draw: as Jutah eschews the use of anything other than explosives, his entire fighting style demands that the player races around areas as quickly as possible, setting bombs on weak points in enemy fortifications and detonating them the moment he gets clear so that he can set up the next volley of incendiaries, all the while dodging [[Bullet Hell|storms of ordnance]] from all angles. He isn't left wanting for ranged attacks either; the E-Unit has an auto-locking system for launching bombs on to foes at long range, allowing him to take down even the nippiest of adversaries. What's more, his bombs can be stacked on top of eachother to increase the damage they cause and the radius they effect. When you add to this three different kinds of special liquid explosives that can also be stacked to glean deadlier effects ([[Shock and Awe|Lightning]] [[Gravity Sucks|Black Hole]] [[Incendiary Exponent|ON FIRE ATTACK!]]}), an RPG levelling system that has you choose your favoured advantages carefully, some of the best graphics the [[PS 1]] has to offer and an unlockable fighting mode that lets you and a friend play as the bosses against eachother, and you have a vastly underrated classic on your hands.
 
Silent Bomber is available through the Playstation Network in some regions, but can be tricky to find otherwise.
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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Although the waste ducts Jutah uses to reach the prison sector ''are'' part of the Dante, so this is probably [[Justified Trope|justifiable]].
* [[Ace Pilot]]: Tim, the team's pilot is known as "Mr Escape" for his prodigious talent for escaping against the odds during his life as a professional prison-breaker.
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* [[Attack Drone]]: The Dante's largest defensive compliment is made up of various automated robo mooks.
* [[Badass]]: Jutah.
** [[Badass Back]]: {{media|[[Silentmedia:SilentBomber Bomber]]_14561456.jpg| The UK Cover art}}]].
* [[The Big Guy]]: John, who towers above his comrades and is built like an [[Space Marine|Adeptus Astartes]].
* [[Chess Motifs]]: Everything about Benoit. Up to and including his {{spoiler|boss battle.}}
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* [[Colossus Climb]]: Giant Hardshell.
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: As a reward for [[One Hundred Percent Completion]], you get to play as the Neko Tank from ''[[Tail Concerto]]'' in the VR Arena.
* [[Cool Starship]]: The Dante. It makes [[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]] look like a toothpick, has a crew of thousands, has automated death-robot development facilities providing a machine army of millions, an operational army of [[Space Fighter|SpaceFighters]] that it can launch, repair and refuel, research centres for developing new weapons, an onboard city for the crew and a planet destroying [[Wave Motion Gun]].
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|Benoit, pariah of genre-savvy villains everywhere, understands perfectly that even with the gigantic forces of the Dante on his side, Jutah is Badass enough to still be a signficant threat. So rather than have a straight fight with Jutah, he gives him exactly ''one'' chance to join him then [[Thrown Out the Airlock|purges the entire part of the ship that Jutah is on, jettisoning him into space]]. If it weren't for his friends being there to pick him up almost immediately, Jutah's story would have ended right there.}}
* [[Determinator]]: Jutah Fate. If it's in his mission directives, he will accomplish it. Whether it is to battle a legion of tanks, rescue a superior from an impregnable robotic prison or destroy a battleship the size of the Eurasian landmass single-handedly, literally nothing can stop him.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Micino. Forgoing any attempt at stopping the Dante with her seductive wiles, she instead orders Jutah to destroy the oxygen production plants inside the Dante's civilian sectors to provide her with enough chaos to escape {{spoiler|in exchange for information as to Annri's whereabouts.}}
* [[Double Jump]]: Jutah has an Air Dash at his disposal as well as a [[Wall Jump]], with the former being absolutely crucial for escaping not only the attacks of his enemies, but his own too.
* [[Dual -Wielding]] and [[Guns Akimbo]] - Jutah has an E-Unit mounted on each arm, while Benoit makes do with one. It's not clear how much of an advantage Jutah's configuration gives him, though [[Rule of Cool|it does have one obvious perk.]]
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: No, Jutah is ''not'' [[Judi Dench]]. Shut up.
* [[Dull Surprise]]: Jutah. Nothing really shakes him, and it is both [[Narm]] and [[Badass]] at once.
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* [[He's Back]]: {{spoiler|Jutah after the credits. Aw.}}
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Jutah sans the prologue on Tarakhan. Notable in that he never got reset, and stays on the far side of the [[Despair Event Horizon]] throughout the game.
* [[Hey, ItsIt's That Guy!]]: So wait a second, [[Cowboy Bebop|Vicious]] is battling against {{spoiler|[[Trigun|Legato Bluesummers]]!?}} While being ordered around by [[Ghost in Thethe Shell|Kusanagi]] and hit on by [[Lucky Star|Inori]]?! And hang on, isn't that Navajo/Space Marine over there [[Kingdom Hearts|Saix]]?!
* [[In Medias Res]]: After a brief prologue that explains almost nothing, the game starts off minutes before the party reaches the Dante. The subject of the team's nature as a penal squad is only detailed in the manual, the reasons for the attack are given next to no lip service, and Jutah is the sole recipient of some meagre backstory.
* [[Just a Kid]]: Averted by Tim. Despite being a pre-teen his skills are respected and made the most of by his comrades. John is quick to chastise him when he start blubbering with fear however.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: The napalm sub-weapon.
* [[Killer Yoyo]]: An attack used by the Blue Mist commander.
* [[Lady of War]]: Subverted by Annri, who despite being the team's superior officer has the least combat experience. Which is to say no combat experience at all, outside of simulations and studying combat theory.
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* <s> [[Large Ham]]</s> [[World of Ham]]: Pretty much all of the voice acting, but special praise must go to Hard Shell Yellow, who seems to bellow ever single line from the very bottom of his diaphragm.
* [[Laser Blade]]: Wielded by some enemy mooks, notably the Hard Shells. They subvert their usual "Ultimate Weapon" status, as they are trumped by the E-Unit in this regard. That won't stop one from completely ruining Jutah given half a chance though.
* [[Mirror Match]]: {{spoiler|The final battle with Benoit turns out like this, as Benoit is a neigh-peerless E-Unit specialist too. Quite apart from being the only boss who fights Jutah on foot without power armour or a tank, his techniques are identical to your own. Being a thoroughly dishonourable prick however, Benoit still uses the Brain Room's holographic display system to create [[Doppelganger Attack|illusionary clones of himself]] and [[Attack of the Fifty 50-Foot Whatever|seize you with a gigantic image of himself that crushes you]]. Not only that, but throughout the battle he displays images of Dante's impact with Hornet in an attempt to make you think you are too late to stop him anyway.}}
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The game briefly segues into {{spoiler|survival-horror territory when the Bio-weapons are introduced}}.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Quite a difficult game on its own right, but merciless in ranking high on the levels.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: {{spoiler|Benoit is probably one of the most transparently untrustworthy characters imaginable. His first line of dialogue is overtly sinister and clues in any viewer still awake to his malignant intentions.}}.
* [[One -Man Army]]: Jutah. Has he been ordered to destroy your army, your ship and your [[Humongous Mecha]] with you still driving it? You probably already have a bomb stuck to your face.
* [[Powered Armor]]: The Hard Shells and Blue Mist units both incorporate top-of-the-line power armor and field [[Humongous Mecha]] for their commanding officers.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Arguably subverted. Jutah never has an epiphany regarding his own self worth no matter how much his comrades reach out to him, and the reason that he adamantly refuses to die and kicks the villain's arse is the fact that he's just that badass.
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* [[Recurring Boss]]: Hardshell Yellow harries you throughout the first half of the game, each time leaving battle with his [[Power Armor]] severely damaged and angrily demanding vengeance. He isn't even a particularly tough adversary, just an egotistical [[Jerk Jock|meathead]] who can't accept defeat.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Micino's costumes leaves nothing to the imagination, but seeing as she fancies herself as a vampish manipulator it's quite intentional on her part.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Jutah's prisoner number, 655321, is directly taken from Alex [[De Large]]'s prison number in A Clockwork Orange.
* [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]]: Subverted quite hard by Jutah. When Annri breaks down {{spoiler|after being captured and ostensibly failing the mission}}, it's Jutah who encourages her in an honest, considerate way, praising her for the humanity she still has when compared to him. Given that up until this point Jutah has given every appearance of a callous, solitary hard-case who regards all of his comrades as pointless dead weight, this is an important moment for both characters.
* [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]]: The plot and voice acting are at times incredibly hammy, but this just makes the experience as a whole even more like a fun late-eighties anime pastiche. Arguably it wouldn't be as fun without these elements.
* [[Stealth Expert]]: {{spoiler|Benoit is implied to be one, as he managed to unleash the Bio-Weapon horde and murder the entire command deck apparently without being detected by any party until it was too late.}}
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: There's "Bomber" in the title for a reason.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: {{spoiler|Tim calls into question the reliability of the access codes that will get the team on to the Dante. Soon after the codes fail and the entire sabotage mission, barring one ship, is torn to shreds in minutes. However, the reason for this is that Benoit sold out the mission to provide a cover for his one-man invasion attempt.}}
* [[The Stoic]]: Jutah by far.
* [[Thousand -Yard Stare]]: The only kind Jutah knows.
* [[Timed Mission]]: The entire game takes place under the threat of the Dante's destruction of Hornet, thus this is a motif throughout. However, many of the game's most challenging and exciting sequences take place with a countdown.
* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]: Jutah. [[Determinator|He walks it off though]].
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: As Jutah you find yourself staring down the barrels of a few of these. The real show stealer has to be the Dante's main cannon, which {{spoiler|obliterates Hornet's entire navy in one half-charged shot and then attempts to destroy the entire planet with the following salvo}}.
* [[We Can Rule Together|We Can Cause Chaos And Suffering For The Lulz Together]]
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]: Jutah
* [[X Meets Y]]: It's [[Devil May Cry]] meets [[Bomberman (Video Game)|Bomberman]]!
** As noticed by reviewers at the time, Bomberman meets Soukyugurentai (mostly due to the lock-on cone mechanic).
 
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