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* [[Abridged Arena Array]]: ''
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: MacMillan has returned. Yes.
* [[Anvilicious]]: Though it's hard to spot between the overusing of [[Rule of Cool]] in ''
* [[Broken Base]]:
** ''Modern Warfare 2''. Its sequel ''
** 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]]:
** The first two games had serious issues with this (mostly in the form of quickscoping and One Man Army abuse), but the third is the worst by far. There are four primary strategies employed by the majority of players: Striker rushing (with a shotgun that averts the usual [[Short-Range Shotgun]] rules of these games), [[Guns Akimbo|akimbo FMG]] [[More Dakka|'spray and pray']], [[Game Breaker|Type 95/PP90M1 abuse]] and, once again, [[Short-Range Long-Range Weapon|quickscoping]].
** With the introduction of Support killstreaks that don't reset upon death in ''Modern Warfare 3'', some players opt for the handful of offensive killstreaks in the list, such as the Stealth Bomber, EMP
** Assassin Pro makes all the above even worse.
* [[Complete Monster]]:
** Al-Asad and Zakhaev in ''Modern Warfare''. However, both "No Russian" in ''Modern Warfare 2'' and ''all'' of ''Modern Warfare 3'' unquestionably confirms Makarov's status as the total king of bastardry.
** 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 ''Modern Warfare 2'' and ''Modern Warfare 3'', are shown gleefully murdering civilians, even wanting a thousand dead Americans in return for each dead Russian.
** Also, African warlord Waraabe in ''Modern Warfare 3''. It's stated in-game he had been leading a genocide campaign for months before Price finally killed the bastard.
* [[Contested Sequel]]: It may have set records in sales, but the quality of ''Modern Warfare 2'' compared to the first one is debated hotly. The primary points against it are the removal of many PC tools and the more major use of the [[Rule of Cool]].
* [[Creator Worship]]: Don't you dare suggest it's possible to enjoy both the fourth and fifth games in the series. One of them wasn't made by Infinity Ward, after all.
** [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Zig-zagged]] with ''Modern Warfare 2'''s [[Internet Backdraft|dedicated server incident
* [[Demonic Spiders]]:
** Those blasted Riot Shield users in ''Modern Warfare 2''. This is about half the reason the Shower Block of the Gulag is so damn difficult to get through, with around
** Dogs. The first time you get tackled by one, you're dead. The [[Action Command]] is just too unforgiving for you to reliably kill them in melee combat. For perspective, you only get one chance to press "melee attack", and you have to be pinpoint with your timing where in World at War, you could just mash it and win.
** Those goddamn Juggernauts, elite [[Giant Mook
** 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
** 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!
** Despite appearing in only two levels, Capt. MacMillan is easily one of the most popular characters in the game, though this may be due to the fact that he was actually a useful NPC and, even when his legs were crippled, was still a [[Badass]]. {{spoiler|1=Captain MacMillan appears in ''Modern Warfare 3'' as "Baseplate" the CO of the SAS at Hereford, and another SAS sergeant appears in one level that sounds a lot like Gaz/Ghost}}.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: There's a disturbing amount of people who think Makarov is "sexy
* [[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.
** As mentioned below, a lot of people declared that they would boycott the game just because [[50 Cent]] did some voice work for the Multiplayer modes.
** Some fans are already complaining that ''Modern Warfare 3'' 'isn't anti-war enough'. Dude, if you don't like at least semi-glorious fictional depictions of warfare, why are you buying ''Call of Duty'' games?
* [[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
** [[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:
** Assassin Pro. The normal version makes you undetectable on any UAV unless somebody has Recon and you were caught in an explosive blast. Pro makes it even worse by making it so you cannot be affected by Counter UAV or EMP. Everyone uses it now that Stopping Power has been removed, so get used to having any radar-related killstreaks become utterly useless. Unlike in ''Black Ops'', the "advanced radar-related killstreak" does not do anything to deal with this, meaning that a player could theoretically camp in a corner for the entire game.
** The akimbo FMG-9 machine pistols. A benign [[wikipedia:Magpul FMG-9|easily-concealed Glock 18 variant]] in real life, it turns into an ''unstoppable sword of pain and fury'' once you reach the requisite proficiency level and unlock Akimbo. With an obscene fire rate and more ammo than [[Bottomless Magazines|your average action hero's machine gun]], it would be overpowered as a primary weapon... but instead it's a ''secondary''. Laugh maniacally as you surprise snipers... and then scream in frustration as they whip out their portable bullet hoses and kill you in a millisecond.<ref>
** With the removal of the FAMAS, and the nerfing of the M16, players cried for a new 3-round burst weapon. Enter the Type-95. This thing is pure evil, able to kill anything at range within one burst. If you ever get randomly killed without even getting a bloody screen, there's a high chance your killer is using this weapon. It's also super-accurate and practically never misses unless at close range. What's worse is that you can equip Rapid Fire to it, boosting its already amazing fire rate, and essentially making it a long range shotgun.
** Ah, the Type 95. In real life, an interesting and mildly enigmatic bullpup rifle, more commonly known as the QBZ-95. It was invented by the Chinese in [[The Nineties]] to break up an endless parade of AK clones. In ''Modern Warfare'', quite possibly the most broken FPS weapon since the infamous "[http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Noob_Combo Noob Combo]" of ''[[Halo]] 2''. Equally overpowered as a long-range DMR and a close-quarters weapon, it is possibly the only assault rifle which allows its user to quickscope. As mentioned above, its already ludicrous fire rate can be further boosted, to the extent where the three shots function in essentially the same way as a single round. Were the actual service rifle of the [[Chinese With Chopper Support]] to have its in-game characteristics, it's safe to say that the PLA would be an unstoppable juggernaut of doom and destruction, training its soldiers to run around quickscoping and camping on top of cars.
* [[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
* [[Goddamned Bats]]:
** Chemical troops in Survival. They're no tougher than regular soldiers and poorly armed, but their gas clouds slow you down, and they plant gas claymores that will hit you and slow you at the ''worst'' possible moments.
** Claymore specialists. Like chemical troopers, they're not well-armed or armored, but they leave surprises lying around the map that you will likely not notice when running from Juggernauts and bomb-dogs. They're not powerful enough to kill you outright unless you're already wounded, but setting off one while getting shot at is a death sentence, and their mere presence on the map will leave you ''very'' paranoid.
* [[Good Bad Bugs]]:
** In the first TF141 mission, you can get MacTavish to push you off a cliff. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2bWMvaqxfU He loves hearing you scream
** Some of the challenges for titles are glitched. I've gotten Perfectionist by firing one shot in my Intervention, Grim Reaper by killing two people with a Predator, and Cluster Bomb by getting a triple kill with the Harrier bomb run and then a double kill with a Precision Strike bomb run when the description says: Kill five enemies with a ''single'' airstrike.
** 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]]:
** The gunship level in
** ''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
** ''[[Battlefield: Bad Company|Bad Company 2]]'''s fanbase seems to be entirely made of people who didn't buy ''Modern Warfare 2'' just because of the dedicated server issue.
** It is the norm in every single military-related video in [[YouTube]] to have several hundred comments attacking "retarded call of duty fans" for getting military facts wrong.
** Same goes for any and all ''Battlefield 3'' trailers, which are populated almost exclusively with guys ranting about how "this game will DESTROY
*** It's made somewhat worse by the fact that EA is [[Pandering to the Base|actively feeding the flames]] of this particular rivalry. [[Take That|"Above And Beyond The Call"
** ''Modern Warfare 3'', while still successful, seems to be getting a lot of flak from a LOT of people. This has gotten to the point where a lot of user reviews on Metacritic have given it scores like "0" (average is 2). This in turn has caused [http://ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1212114p1.html one of
* [[Hell Is That Noise]]:
** The distinctive "clink" of a grenade landing nearby. [[Spam Attack|Better get used to it...]]
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** The Juggernauts have an ominous theme that plays when they approach you. [[Demonic Spiders|RUN]].
** The "beep beep BEEEEP" of a Semtex landing nearby.
* [[He's Just Hiding]]:
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: One of the first demoed missions in
* [[Holy Shit Quotient]]:
** ''Modern Warfare 2'''s controversial "No Russian" mission where the player is undercover as a terrorist group massacring an airport. {{spoiler|Turns out the whole thing was a [[Batman Gambit]] to frame America for the attack. By leaving the [[Player Character]]'s body behind
** "Wolverines!" involves {{spoiler|the US being invaded. Imagine intense fighting house-to-house in the suburbs of frakkin' ''Virginia''
** It's especially shocking if
** 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]]:
** ''Modern Warfare 3'' takes the inferrence out with
* [[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
** There's also the [[Misplaced Nationalism|outrage of Russian gaming community]] about the "No Russian" level. Everyone screamed "Damn Americans! How dare they let player
** 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
* [[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
* [[It Was His Sled]]: ''No Russian'', oh ''No Russian''. Also, both nukes.
* [[Memetic Badass]]:
** MacMillan, overlapping with [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]. He's pretty [[Badass]] in the game, as even [[The Captain|Captain Price]] looks up to him, but the fandom took it and ran with it.
** Price and Soap as well.
** [[It's Up to You|RAMIREZ
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
** "Grenade of Grenade: Grenade Grenade" (when referring to ''Modern Warfare'').
** In general, it's Grenade of Grenade. some popular subtitles are Modern Grenades, More Grenades, Grenades Grenades, Grenade Warfare
** Since the inclusion of authentic military dialog like saying "Oscar Mike" for "On The Move
** Or hell, "Stay Frosty
** 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]]!
** Infinity Ward briefly released [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td352xP-NZ8 a mock-PSA] (starring [[Baseball|Cole Hamels!]]) about Grenade Spam, but then pulled it because of their juvenile [[Fun with Acronyms]] (
** And on a bit darker side,
** Ramirez, America is under attack! Defend Burger Town!
** A more recent one is parodying
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq7Pnt0GD8Y&feature=related "TANGO SUCKA!"]
*** '''YOUR MOTHER!'''
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** Captain Price's [[Porn Stache]] symbolizes this trope.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]:
** The player character in the level "No Russian" of ''Modern Warfare 2''. You can either cross it by shooting civilians<ref>
** 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]].
** If ''Loose Ends'' didn't drive the point home how willing Shepherd is to sacrifice his men,
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Price''': [[Ironic Echo|Since when does Shepherd care about danger close
* [[More Popular Spinoff]]: ''Call
* [[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
* [[Player Punch]]: Dear God:
** ''Modern Warfare 1'':
** ''Modern Warfare 2'' was even worse. If the death of
{{quote|Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it sir!."
Shepherd:
*** Even worse is Ghost's anguished scream right before
*** Then there's the state of
** ''Modern Warfare 3
***
* [[Porting Disaster]]: To many, the PC version of ''Modern Warfare 2
** To add insult to injury, the pirated version, whose owners paid $0.00 for, has re-enabled the console, allowing pseudo-dedicated servers. Along with dedis, the host of games can function as an admin of sorts, kicking griefers and cheaters from the game, as well as extending the time limit, what map is being played, to even ''adjusting the gravity
** [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/07/26/valve-anti-cheat-software-goes-a-bit-glados/ Add the recent problems with the apparently sloppy implementation of the Valve Anti Cheat system to the entire fiasco], and... well, [[It Got Worse|shit just got real]].
* [[Ruined FOREVER]]: Quite a large number, over 150,000 according the online petition, of PC gamers anticipating ''Modern Warfare 2'' equate the news of the game lacking dedicated servers as Infinity Ward crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. The obligatory [[Memetic Mutation|Angry Hitler]] didn't take long to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FKty5Kpf4w appear
** Even better, the XBL list of players that are part of the "Boycott
*** Although it's been suggested that they were working on a way to hack the game, and someone certainly has, going as far as making an unofficial dedicated server.
*** The unofficial dedicated server was pretty much just someone using the console to modify that server for everyone. The ability to access the console was removed in a recent patch. A fan-made mod that was being made [http://www.teknogods.com/ here] would have given players similar abilities to dedicated servers. At the time of writing (May 2010) it is mostly dead, although a working version known as [http://alteriw.net/ AlterIW] allows pseudo dedicated servers, and pseudo admins.
** After release, the consensus among PC gamers who bought the game seems to be "It's functional and worth playing, just not as good as it could've been."
** To be fair, there were a number of existing multiplayer FPS games on the PC that used p2p networking sucessfully. The real problem lies [[They Just Didn't Care|elsewhere]].
* [[The Scrappy]]: General Shepherd is hated by fanboys everywhere for
* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: When ''Call of Duty 4'' came out, it was cited as a great FPS which managed to at least help to revolutionise the genre, noob tubes and Juggernaut aside. Now
* [[Sequel Displacement]]: While the first ''Modern Warfare'' was [[wikipedia:Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare#Sales|well received, getting over $600 million in 8 months]], the sequel [[wikipedia:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2#Sales|sold even better, getting over $1 billion in two months]].
* [[Subbing Versus Dubbing]]: [http://kotaku.com/5415904/gamers-not-happy-with-japanese-modern-warfare-2 Japanese players saw themselves in the debate] over ''Modern Warfare 2''.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: ''Modern Warfare 2''. Complaints include the shorter campaign, the [[Continuity Lock Out]], and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|most damning of all]], the plot's ''resemblance to a [[Michael Bay]] film''. Some even went so far as to complain about [[Sequelitis]]. See Your Mileage May Vary, below.▼
* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: The TAR-21 assault rifle ''doesn't have iron sights''. It was designed to make use of an integral red dot sight that draws power from a battery ''in'' the main gun body. This is a case of balancing for the sake of balancing, but they really should have just not used the weapon.▼
** That said, if one equips a Red Dot Sight onto the TAR-21, it takes the form of the familiar MARS sight rather than the generic sight that otherwise appears.▼
* [[That One Level]]:
** ''That Ferris wheel''...
** ''Mile High Club'' on Veteran.
** There's a special level of hell reserved for the designer of the Rio levels in the second game. Welcome to [[Urban Warfare]], where you can and here ''will'' be shot at from ''everyfuckingwhere at once''.
** The Gulag's shower block. If you'd been breezing through ''Modern Warfare 2'' to that point, those shower blocks will make you cry. Can you say ''vertical'' outflanking?
** You think that's bad? Try defending a portable hard drive from constant Russians. They throw ''flashbangs'', love to waste you the second you leave the house, will one-hit-kill you by striking you if you try to shoot them up front, and eat up all your claymores like there's no tomorrow. And after ''that's'' done, good luck getting to the escape chopper with mortars bracketing your path and swarms of RPG-carrying enemies bearing down upon you... "Roach, go put claymores on the front lawn! The one currently being hit with hundreds of rounds per second!" As frighteningly impossible as it may see once you see the data transfer rates early on, if you preposition claymores in the right place and put yourself in a good position with appropriate weapons, defending the DSM can be quite simple, even easy. Getting the hell out isn't.
** The very last level on the speedboat, once you exit the caves and are out in the open. Despite Price's remarks to stay out of the open, the only thing that seems to work is to go out in the open, and zig zag a lot. Even then, it's a crapshoot. It's safe to say that every Call of Duty game will have a [[That One Level]] for someone, ''especially'' in Veteran mode.
** Half of all Spec Ops missions fall under this on Veteran, especially the last two, in which you must kill 10 and 15 [[Demonic Spiders|Juggernauts]], [[Nintendo Hard|often more than one at a time, with only explosives and a knife]] (for the second-last one, anyway).
** "Homeland Security" is pretty brutal as well, even on regular difficulty, most of the difficulty comes from that goddamned Predator Drone bombing you like crazy almost everytime you set foot outside of a building, and if that wasn't hard enough, you also have to deal with choppers and BTR's, the last wave has TWO choppers and a BTR, you have to be masochistic to even ATTEMPT beating that mission on Veteran.
** "Dust To Dust". ''Painful'' in Hardened and Veteran, especially once you lose your {{spoiler|Juggernaut armor}}. Grenade-spamming enemies who can get around your cover using balconies, blind corners, way too many open windows and doors to be shot through... oh, and it's timed.
▲* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: ''Modern Warfare 2''. Complaints include the shorter campaign, the [[Continuity Lock Out]], and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|most damning of all]], the plot's ''resemblance to a [[Michael Bay]] film''. Some even went so far as to complain about [[Sequelitis]].
▲* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: The TAR-21 assault rifle ''doesn't have iron sights''. It was designed to make use of an integral red dot sight that draws power from a battery ''in'' the main gun body. This is a case of balancing for the sake of balancing, but they really should have just not used the weapon.
▲** That said, if one equips a Red Dot Sight onto the TAR-21, it takes the form of the familiar MARS sight rather than the generic sight that otherwise appears.
* [[Tough Act to Follow]]: ''[[Call of Duty]] 4: Modern Warfare''. It is very hotly debated as to whether either of the sequels compare to the first installment.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Averted chillingly. In one sequence, the player rappels down right above a guard, and is prompted to silently knife him in the chest. Your character reaches around to cover his mouth, which ''lets you watch his eyes in utter shock as he bleeds out
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The change in a ''Modern Warfare 2'' torture scene, where in early footage it showed a 'generic' Task Force 141 member preparing contacts from a car battery for use against a hooded captive, with another member shutting the gate; this wasn't so bad until the changes, where on the one hand, {{spoiler|the captive is now the unit's target who shot/killed your driver at the beginning of the Takedown mission}}. On the other hand, {{spoiler|1=the 'generic' TF141 member now the hapless driver, while in his place is Ghost, and the one shutting the gate was confirmed to be none other than Captain "Soap" MacTavish, implying that both of the game's resident badasses-at-first sight, and in Soap's case ''yourself'' from the previous game, are participating first-hand in [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]}}.
** One blogger found these in that Brazilian and Russian citizens can be seen (and shot) in the game, but there are no civilian casualties seen in the American levels, outside of {{spoiler|one dead VIP}}.
*** Although no actual bodies are seen, you do see evac helicopters being destroyed by the Russians. Sure, you don't see any bodies, but I find the heli-destruction to be a bit more horrific. Also, there are a few special ops missions where you are required not to kill any civilians at all.
***
** There are no women in the armed forces only as civilians who you can kill.
*** Well, to be fair, you usually play as "elite" groups (Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, SAS) which tend to contain fewer or no women than the regular armed forces. The only women you might see as soldiers would be as Ultranationalist [[Mook|mooks]] or regular US Army soldiers; you can see a soldier NPC named [[Call Back|Pvt. Pelayo]] standing against a wall in S.S.D.D., who looks distinctly feminine from what you can see of their face. There is also at least one female character in the military: the ''actual'' Captain Pelayo in ''[[Modern Warfare]]'', a female helicopter pilot.
*** Continuing the above point, at one point you have to go back and save the (female) pilot. Going back will mean that you won't be
*** There are a few. The Cobra pilot callsign "Deadly" in the first game, and the third game features a female AC-130 Fire Control Officer and a female A-10 pilot, though the latter two are only heard over the radio as you spot targets for them.
*** That and Bobby Kotick out right said that he doesn't want women in leads because they don't sell as many games.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?]]: A lot of the death quotes in ''Modern Warfare 2'' warn about the dangers of excessive patriotism.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: Shepherd's name.
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