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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: MacMillan has returned. Yes.
* [[Anvilicious]]: Though it's hard to spot between the overusing of [[Rule of Cool]] in ''MW2'', the series has an [[War Is Hell|anti-war theme]], and the first game is not at all subtle in its imagery. There's a reason they included all those quotes.
* [[Broken Base]]:
** ''Modern Warfare 2''. Its sequel ''MW3'' didn't help matters either.
** The PC gaming community had a fit when Infinity Ward announced that there would be no dedicated servers for the second game, and that's nothing compared to the massive, massive split between players who think the campaign is good and players who think it's rubbish.
* [[Complacent Gaming Syndrome]]:
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** With the introduction of Support killstreaks that don't reset upon death in ''3'', some players opt for the handful of offensive killstreaks in the list, such as the Stealth Bomber, EMP, and Juggernaut Recon. You'll hardly go into a game without either one of the three going off. (Bonus points if a single player uses both the Stealth Bomber and EMP/Juggernaut.)
** Assassin Pro makes all the above even worse.
* [[Complete Monster]]:
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** This stament from Makarov sums up just how monstrous he is: ''"Russia will take over all of Europe, even if it must stand on a pile of ashes."''
** [[Sociopathic Soldier|The entire Russian Army]] during Warfare 2 and 3, are shown gleefully murdering civilians, even wanting a thousand dead Americans in return for each dead Russian.
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** In Surival Mode, the enemies get stronger and stronger as the rounds go up, meaning in later rounds you'll be facing swarms of Russian commandos decked out in heavy body armor and armed with top of the line weapons. Their aim is near perfect, their weapons can kill you in a few hits, they are armed with the best weapons in the game, and they constantly spam grenades with terrifying accuracy.
** Little Bird attack helicopters in Survival can be a severe threat, not simply for their firepower but for the fact that as long as they're flying, your maneuverability options are severely limited, as you're stuck in areas with overhead cover (and they can still pick away at you through high windows). Not quite so bad on easier maps, as the helicopters spawn at the same time as the rest of the wave so you can take them out quickly with concentrated light machinegun fire before the rest of the wave arrives, but on the higher-difficulty maps, the helicopters spawn in the ''middle'' of the existing wave (which usually includes Juggernauts, bomb dogs, and suicide bombers) so you'll be in the middle of fighting/fleeing from the close-assault troops when the Little Bird shows up and perforates you if you're not in overhead cover, and if you are in overhead cover, you're stuck there until you can kill all the enemy infantry and concentrate on the Little Bird - easier said than done when three Juggernauts are closing in.
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Gaz was immensely popular with fans, so much so that {{spoiler|despite the fact that he died}}, Infinity Ward brought in the character of Ghost, who was played by the same actor and more or less fulfilled the exact same role Gaz had in the last game. {{spoiler|Furthermore, his death at the hands of Shepherd is what put Shepherd firmly into [[Complete Monster]] territory for most fans.}}▼
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]:
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** Ghost himself seems to be one as well. If there's any fan made work (be it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMrwNz24j_g parody] or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzQMGMuD1sU&feature=relmfu tribute]) it will usually star Ghost, or have someone who looks [[Expy|suspiciously like Ghost]]. The guy even got his own comic!
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* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: There's a disturbing amount of people who think Makarov is "sexy." To some, he looks an awful lot like [[Lost|Michael]] [[Saw|Emerson]]. Considering the [http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/File:Artbook2x.jpg concept art...]{{Dead link}}▼
▲* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: There's a disturbing amount of people who think Makarov is "sexy." To some, he looks an awful lot like [[Lost|Michael]] [[Saw|Emerson]]
* [[Fan Dumb]]: When Infinity Ward announced the changes to the PC version's online matchmaking system, fans cried "[[Ruined FOREVER]]!", and many formed groups swearing to boycott the game. [http://kotaku.com/5403286/what-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-are-playing This screencap was taken the day after the game's release].
** Then again, it's now believed that quite a few ended up choosing to "protest" by hacking the PC game, so this may have been a sign of them getting started on it right away.
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* [[First Installment Wins]]: The first game has been cited in recent years by many as "the last good game of the franchise".
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: In the sixth mission of the single player campaign "Back On The Grid". {{spoiler|Price tells Soap to "try not to die this time", guess what winds up happening to Soap later on.}}
* [[Game Breaker]]:
** The grenade launcher. It's basically a bolt-action rifle... that fires grenades (with the predictable accuracy of one) that detonate on impact. With predictable results of general rage and gnashing of teeth for the other team. It seemed to be less so in ''Modern Warfare 2''... until [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ziSCrNeCHBc the One Man Army exploit] happened. Watch as the guy uses his grenade launcher and claymores to earn easy killstreaks, uses those killstreaks to get [[Death From Above|a Chopper Gunner]], then proceeds to lay waste to the enemy team. The final result? Over ''100 kills and 3 deaths'' in about 5 minutes, in a game where getting 30-40 kills with 10 or so deaths is considered to be pretty damn good.
** In ''Modern Warfare 2'', MLC. Short for "Marathon, Lightweight, Commando". This combination of perks gives you infinite sprint, a faster sprint, and the ability to knife someone from ridiculous range. The Pro versions of these let you climb ladders and hop over obstacles faster, fire your weapon immediately after sprinting, and take no damage from falling. Sounds pretty broken already, right? Use a sub-machine gun and have a pistol with a Tactical Knife attached, and behold as you become the equivalent of [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]. You are now able to easily avoid incoming fire and stab all that cross your path.
** [[Grenade Launcher|Grenade launchers]] in ''Modern Warfare'' were a minor annoyance when compared to the "3x frag" perk. Smaller maps were literally unplayable due to [[Grenade Spam]], moreso in the PC version where you could have up to ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK4WXnfOiLU 50 players at once]''.
** ''Modern Warfare 3'' brings in:
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* [[Genius Bonus]]: The corkboard in the kitchen in the ''Modern Warfare 2'' mission Loose Ends (Makarov's safehouse) has a chemical structure drawn on it - [[wikipedia:RDX|RDX]], a military-grade high explosive.
* [[Goddamned Bats]]:
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** In ''Modern Warfare 2'', the Perk "Cold Blooded Pro" required you to shoot down 40 helicopters with Cold Blooded active. However, if you shot a helicopter while it was crashing, each bullet that hit the helo on the way down registered as a kill. Players with rapid fire machine guns and a little luck could get CB Pro in a single match.
** In All Ghillied Up, a bug can occur that will cause [[Badass|MacMillan]] and the enemies to be unable to shoot each other, even at point blank range, leading to gems like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sniSxHJ8Gk8 this.]
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]:
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** ''No Russian'', due to the [[wikipedia:2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing|recent blast at a Russian airport.]]
* [[Hate Dumb]]: Despite gamers threatening to boycott Modern Warfare 2 and saying it was going to ruin gaming forever, a bunch of gamers all bought it anyways - even the PC version.
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** It's especially shocking if {{spoiler|you live in or visited DC. All of those areas that are now battlefields? You've been to them.}}
** Pick a mission in ''Modern Warfare 3''. One mission opens with you smashing through the front gates of an enemy base while a Hind provides overhead cover. Another has a high-speed subway chase. A third involves an amphibious assault on Hamburg. A fourth involves the player getting into a gunfight with hijackers on an airplane, complete with fighting the hijackers in ''zero gravity'' like something straight out of ''[[Inception]]'', and that's before the plane is forced into an emergency landing and gets ripped apart.
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: {{spoiler|With the degree of surprise the attack took place, there's no possible way the US Army could have evacuated ''all'' of the civilians from Washington DC, to say nothing of the EMP likely hitting ''before'' all the evac choppers would've been out of range. Finally, how many civvies are going to die on account of the East Coast being hit by the EMP? Watch how much of the country goes dark when the nuke explodes. Though Modern Warfare 3 retcons it, so that New York was not effected.}} You can see a few friendly helos going down. And a few minutes later you see what looks like a crashed Boeing 737. Uh oh..
** ''Modern Warfare 3'' takes the inferrence out with {{spoiler|nerve toxin attacks launched against London, Paris, Hamburg, and other major cities in Western Europe.}}
* [[Internet Backdraft]]: ''Modern Warfare 2'' even has two different flavors: "No Russian", and the lack of dedicated servers on the PC version. For the latter, much like ''[[Spore]]'''s DRM debacle, irate gamers are giving it bad reviews and downvoting even the videos on Gametrailers. It still didn't stop the game from being one of the highest-selling titles of the year.
** With server support, it's a [[Morton's Fork|catch-22]] situation; if PC gamers buy the game without dedicated server support, obviously they don't care it isn't there so Activision didn't need to add it. If everyone ''had'' boycotted it, they would simply have shown there was no market for a PC version, so Activision would ''still'' have taken it as justifying not adding dedicated server support. Either way, PC gamers lose.
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** A hacker later found [[Dummied Out]] code apparently for multiplayer modes not in the final game, and posted that the modes would be "released" as DLC later. PC gamers, already angry over the server thing, [[Fan Dumb|embraced this theory wholeheartedly]].
** The once-smouldering backdraft flared up again with the Map Packs. 1200 MS points or 15 bucks for 3 new maps and 2 ports from ''4''.
* [[It's the Same, Now It Sucks]]: Some people criticized the second game for not vastly improving on the first, even going so far as to complain about [[Sequelitis]]. Gameplay trailers for MW3 are FILLED with people saying either they are going to buy Battlefield instead or "This is the same thing as MW2". And now that MW3 is released, as of this writing, it has a 3.2 User Score on Metacritic, with many of the negative reviews citing this trope as the reason, and almost all of them from the [[Hate Dumb]].
* [[It Was His Sled]]: ''No Russian'', oh ''No Russian''. Also, both nukes.
* [[Memetic Badass]]:
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** Price and Soap as well.
** [[It's Up to You|RAMIREZ!]] [[Up to Eleven|USE YOUR THROWING KNIFE TO TAKE DOWN THAT AC-130!]] [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|RAMIREZ!]] [[Serial Escalation|STOP THAT NUKE WITH YOUR RIOT SHIELD!]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse|RAMIREZ!]] [[Running Gag|GET ON THAT WATER-BALLOON CATAPULT AND TAKE OUT THAT BTR!]]
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
** "Grenade of Grenade: Grenade Grenade" (when referring to ''Modern Warfare'')
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** Since the inclusion of authentic military dialog like saying "Oscar Mike" for "On The Move," and "Hooah" for "Affirmative," and the sheer amount of times you hear those two words when playing as a Ranger, ''MW2'' has come be known as "Call of Oscar Mike: Modern Hooah."
** Or hell, "Stay Frosty." Even {{spoiler|Shadow Company}} uses it! ("Stay frosty, hunt them down!")
** Thanks to ''[[Arby 'n' the Chief]]'', there's also "Cock of Doody 4: Modern Gayfuckstupid" (coined by Master Chief, who in that series is a parody of your typical ''[[Halo]]'' fanboy). [[Fan Hater|Parody?]]
** A scan of the [[GameFAQs]] message board would suggest Foley's usage of the term "Oscar Mike" (On the Move), alongside the fact that he pretty much entrusts everything to Ramirez, is becoming one.
*** RAMIREZ! [[It's Up to You|DO EVERYTHING]]!
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** The player character in the level "No Russian" of ''Modern Warfare 2''. You can either cross it by shooting civilians<ref>like every beta tester who played that level, apparently</ref> or not cross it by just staying out of the terrorists' way. If you shoot the civilians and ''[[Video Game Cruelty Potential|laugh it up]]'', [[You Bastard|you've pretty much crossed the Moral Event Horizon yourself.]] {{spoiler|No matter what you do during the level, it ends with the [[Big Bad]] figuring out that you were a CIA agent and shooting you down as he gets away in a ambulance.}} It can be averted by skipping it whenever asked if you want to play this level or not, such as at the beginning of the game, and may be skipped during the level.
** Nothing compares to {{spoiler|General Shepherd shooting Roach (who you are playing as) and Ghost, and then having his men ''dump kerosene on the two of you, and burning you alive''}}. Regardless of his motivations, after that scene [[Complete Monster|it's nearly impossible to have any empathy whatsoever for him]]. {{spoiler|After tracking him down, he stabs you (as Soap) in the chest with your own knife and nearly kills Price in a fistfight. Thankfully, you rip the knife out of your chest and throw it right at his face, killing the bastard with an [[Eye Scream]]}}.
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{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Price''': [[Ironic Echo|Since when does Shepherd care about danger close?]]}}}}
* [[More Popular Spinoff]]: ''Call Of Duty'' is a pretty well-known franchise, but ''Modern Warfare'' has a massive impact upon pop culture and is one of the most successful series in the history of video games. Indeed, a vast majority of ''Modern Warfare'' players have never played the first three ''Call of Duty'' games.
* [[Older Than They Think]]: It's surprising how many fans of the first game think the term "noob tube" is unique to the series; in fact, it's been around since the M203 first started appearing in multiplayer games. The classic noob tubes were actually ''worse'', typically being an instant-access alt-fire with a huge, totally lethal blast radius that sometimes even ignored walls. Picture the Javelin glitch being how the game is ''supposed'' to work. Ironically, this is actually more ''realistic;'' forty-milimeter grenades are actually less tame than they appear in ''Modern Warfare''. A lot of things people think are original to CoD 4 and MW2 were in the earlier games too, most notably Captain Price and the teddy bears.
* [[Player Punch]]: Dear God:
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