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The fourth main game in the ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' series, ''Red Alert 2'' is set during the 70's, when the supposed puppet-Premier of the USSR leads a world communist alliance in a surprise invasion of the United States, with the help of the mindbending psychic Yuri. Though once more the Allies rally to win the war, the now-renegade Yuri has his own plans and steals a time machine in an attempt to conquer the past. He's thwarted, but the time travel shenanigans aren't finished.
The game was followed-up by an expansion, ''Yuri's Revenge'' on October 2001.
'''Please note that this page is for tropes specific to this game. Please add tropes relating to multiple games to the [[Command and Conquer Red Alert Series|Red Alert series]] page.'''
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* [[All Up to You]]:
** Justified in the Allied campaign, as you're the only battlefield commander still alive in the U.S. East Coast following the initial Soviet attacks.
** In ''Yuri's Revenge,'' the Soviet commander ultimately gets Premier Romanov's full trust as he's not only about the only truly loyal one left but is also aware of the [[Bad Future]] Yuri intends to bring about.
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* [[Bald of Evil]]: Yuri.
* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: Premier Romanov {{spoiler|even without Yuri's influence}} isn't ''himself'' a threatening villain.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: A number of tracks in the game's music contain audible lines in various languages such as French, Russian and German.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: McBurger Kong, a spoof of McDonald's and Burger King.
* [[Brick Joke]]: The Soviets momentarily wind up ''too'' far in the past in ''Yuri's Revenge'', fending off dinosaurs before arriving at the correct time due to overcharging the time machine. {{spoiler|This comes back to bite Yuri in the ass when the Soviets repeat the same thing as he steals the time machine, only this time draining the power reserves so he can't come back.}}
* [[Broad Strokes]]: How the game treats the first ''Red Alert'', with its events more or less having happened, including an Allied victory. It's implied as well that the ''Red Alert 2'' timeline also diverged at an unspecified point.
* [[Cartoonish Supervillainy]]: Pretty much the entire premise of Yuri and his faction, which ups the somewhat ridiculous RA arsenal [[Up to Eleven]] with the addition of genetically mutated Hulk look-a-likes, psychically powered infantry, [[UFOs]], and so on. Then there's the expansion campaign, which features such gems as weaponized Moai statues, an Arctic/Moon base, and a gothic Transylvanian mansion headquarters. Regardless of which campaign, all of Yuri's plans end up failing spectacularly and then Yuri himself eventually being submitted to some humiliating fate.
* [[Casting Gag]]: Barry Corbin, who plays General Carville in ''RA2'', is basically reprising his role as General Berringer from ''[[
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: General Vladimir, who was an important supporting character in ''Red Alert 2'', is nowhere to be seen in ''Yuri's Revenge'', its expansion pack.
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: Yuri. Sure he's part of a villain faction, but he's [[Obviously Evil]] even compared to the other characters, and nobody but the brainless [[General Failure]] suspects him of treachery. See also, [[Obvious Judas]] below.
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* [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke]]: Literally; Yuri's "Genetic Mutator" superweapon instantly converts a bunch of people into massive musclemen.
* [[The Good, the Bad, and The Evil]]: The Allies, the Soviets and Yuri (and his faction).
* [[Government in Exile]]: President Dugan and what's left of his staff eventually wind up in an undisclosed location in Canada.
* [[Historical In-Joke]]: Possible example in the briefing for one of the Soviet missions. The player is shown a [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060622235058/cnc/images/b/be/Yuri_and_Stalin.jpg picture] of [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], with Yuri edited in on his right. This picture [http://www.harrymcfee.com/StalinGorki1922.jpg really exists] and is famous for being doctored, the real life version showing Stalin sat next to [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], who bears a fairly strong resemblance to Yuri. This version of the picture, created at the behest of Stalin, is a forgery to try and give him more credibility as one of Lenin's closest collaborators.
** Towards the end of the Allied campaign, the Cuban Missile Crisis is recreated. Except this time around, the Soviets and Allies are already at war and the outcome doesn't result in nuclear apocalypse.
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* [[Monumental Damage]]: A lot of landmarks get blown up or are at least damaged considerably over the game, including the Pentagon. Averted with the Eiffel Tower in the Soviet campaign, however, which is used as a gigantic ''Tesla coil'' to destroy the rest of Paris. In ''Yuri's Revenge'' meanwhile, it's also possible to destroy the Apollo Lunar landing site at one point in the Soviet campaign.
* [[Mood Dissonance]]: The game's cheery atmosphere gets a bit more serious when Carville dies.
* [[Multinational Team]]:
** The Allied forces, while having a much more pronounced American element, are still comprised of units from various countries.
** Downplayed with the Soviets. While the majority by and large come from the USSR, there are units from Cuba and the Middle East.
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** If Boris dies early on in the first Soviet mission in ''Yuri's Revenge,'' not only is there unique dialogue. But Boris himself reappears once your forces successfully return to the past, momentarily puzzled as he hadn't died at that point.
* [[Title Drop]]: "The entire world and all of its history is mine to '''command and conquer'''."
* [[Unperson]]:
** Yuri brands general Vladimir a traitor and a "non-person" after setting him up for Romanov's murder. Having known Stalin personally, he probably picked up the habit from the man himself.
** By the expansion, the Soviets generally refer to Yuri as the "''[[Insistent Terminology|Traitor]]'' Yuri."
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* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: The crew of the Allied [[Tank Goodness|Battle Fortress]] in ''Yuri's Revenge'' certainly qualifies, though the accent is pretty bad.
** '''Battle Fortress''': ROLLING THUNDER!!
* [[Washington,
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