Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (video game): Difference between revisions

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=== The game series contains examples of: ===

* [[AFGNCAAP]] - Generic Rainbow troopers you can use in place of teammates in the first game, and Bishop.

* [[America Saves the Day]]: Subverted to a degree in ''Vegas'' in which {{spoiler|even though you stopped the crisis, the [[Big Bad]] gets away and plans to sell every Rainbow member's personal information out to the highest bidder.}} And in ''Vegas 2'' {{spoiler|Gabriel screws up your mission in the opening and you fail to save not only an NSA spy but also an entire room full of civilians from a very grisly death. Also, Echo Team bites the dust. It looks as though you're fighting a losing battle until the game plays it straight by letting you come out on top.}} Also, Bishop, Keller and Six are about the only Americans on the team. Michael Walters is British, Jung is South Korean, the intel officers are Israeli and Canadian and the helicopter pilots are from Russia and New Zealand. Plus the US is the one under attack. So it's more like the rest of the world saving America.

* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Bastian Vanderwaal in ''Lockdown'' and Irena Morales in ''Vegas''. ''Vegas 2'' ends with a one-on-one quickdraw between you and [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Gabriel Nowak}}, which might have worked, except he gives a long [[Motive Rant]] before either of you draw your pistols, and once you do he ''continues'' to rant on while you have your pistol ''aimed right at his head''. Miguel Cabrero can be something of a [[Kaizo Trap]] though; he dropped his gun earlier, but he has another one in his holster and will pull it out once you've finished talking to him.

** Right before {{spoiler|Nowak gets his head blown off}}, he sicced an attack helicopter on you. So yeah, the unfair quickdraw was more or less payback. To make it even more ridiculous, {{spoiler|prior to going to face Nowak, Bishop orders the rest of his\her team to hold position. So, Bishop basically wanted a one-on-one confrontation, and got an assault helicopter for his trouble}}.

* [[Artifact Title]]: The 'Six' in the title comes from the fact that the player originally took on the role of Team Rainbow's commanding officer, which hasn't been the case since ''Raven Shield''.

** The Six in the original novel's title referred to John Clark being the leader of Rainbow, but as with the game based on it, it focused more on Domingo Chavez and his Team Two than it did on Clark.

* [[Broken Pedestal]]: {{spoiler|John Brightling to Catherine Winston, who says before the final mission that she worked with Horizon to make a difference, and never imagined that her research would be used for what it was}}

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Not so much in the original games, but quite common in the ''Vegas'' games.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: The NSA Agent in ''Rainbow Six: Vegas 2'' dresses exactly like a [[Splinter Cell]] Agent.

** And the "My Name is Sam" Achievement for 5 consecutive silenced headshots, which has an icon very much like Fisher's trifocal NVGs.

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Gabriel Nowak in the "Five Years Ago" prologue mission of ''Rainbow Six Vegas: 2''. He makes numerous tactical mistakes due to his gung-ho attitude, gets a hostage negotiator killed, and is generally regarded as the team screw-up by everyone else. Even for the FNG, one wonders how someone who managed to get into Team Rainbow could be so unprofessional, given that the backstory suggests they only take the top alumni from special forces groups like the SAS or Navy SEALs. Maybe he's secretly Bishop's kid or something. In which case Bishop should have gotten the boot for the nepotism to have put Rainbow at risk with Nowak, instead of {{spoiler|becoming deputy director of Rainbow after killing Nowak}}.

** A special forces unit founder's autobiography talks of one member that had to leave the unit after his pistol <s>accidentally</s> negligently discharged on base even while not on a mission, so high standards and the mental fortitude required to pass selection for special forces ''really'' makes this implausible. It gets moreso when reading ''Blackhawk Down'', in particular where one special operations soldier shows his... distaste for gung ho, and where the mindsets of his unit compared to a "lower" unit are strongly contrasted.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Nowak is a Polish surname derived from the word for "new", and was a nickname for people new to a profession or village. {{spoiler|It's not surprising Gabe turned out the way he did, considering his name essentially means "n00b".}}

* [[The Mole]]: Rainbow operative {{spoiler|Gabriel Nowak}}, who's revealed to be the [[Big Bad]] in the second game. Too bad he rapidly goes through [[Villain Decay]] in the process.

* [[Teleporting Keycard Squad]]: Overused in the more recent games. Even the original series did it in some really annoying places, e.g. after rescuing hostages. The good guys do it too, in the final mission in ''Vegas 2'', Logan's Charlie Team seems to show up out of nowhere.

** Made especially obvious in the ''Vegas'' games with the inclusion of a thermal scan (basically heat-based radar), where you can activate it, walk into a purportedly empty section of the level and watch as a half-dozen armed heat sources spontaneously appear, come out of hiding and fire at you.

* [[Third Person Seductress]]: One of the female Bishop's potential uniforms is a rather tactically impractical low-cut tank top. Which is for naught, as almost any player will wear a bulletproof vest, at minimum.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: The first mission in Rainbow Six dealt with 'Free Europe', a band of Neo-Nazis. Raven Shield also mainly dealt with these guys.