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=== Homefront provides examples of: ===
* [[Action Girl]]: Rianna.
* [[AKA
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Although in the game it was developed and built by the KPA, the Goliath is based on an American unmanned combat ground vehicle called the [http://www.rec.ri.cmu.edu/projects/crusher/Crusher_Brochure.pdf Crusher]. It was built back in 2006 for DARPA, and like the Goliath, [
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Conner is this in spades.
{{quote| '''Hopper:''' ''(after Conner's [[Berserk Button]] has been pressed and the team has to kill a rather large platoon of soldiers where the original plan was simply to sneak by)'' Everyone's dead. You happy now?<br />
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* {{spoiler|[[Doomed Hometown]]: The North Koreans carpet bomb your Colorado hometown after you mount a successful raid which kills hundred of Korean soldiers.}}
** {{spoiler|[[Everybody's Dead, Dave]]: The fate of ''everyone'' when you return to the Oasis and the people of Montrose}}.
* [[Double
* [[Eagle Land]]: Type I obviously. Though not played as straight as most examples since the American populace in the game is heavily fractured amongst resistance fighters, civilians, survivalists, and the military.
** Type II is heavily parodied in an in-universe music video made by nationalists on the official website.
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{{quote| "...we went to a very rigorous, academic research process to make sure to not only look at North Korea's current state but to look at historical examples how things could parallel and turn events. History repeats itself. From today to the day the invasion starts in the game, if you combine everything, the odds are very very slim this becomes true. But when you look at the storyline step by step, every step is a coinflip but a plausible step. So once you get there, it's plausible. And from there the next step is plausible as well. Even though the whole thing is fictional, it comes with plausible baby steps."}}
* [[Genghis Gambit]]: The collectible news articles reveal that Kim Jong-un was able to reunify Korea peacefully by making Japan their shared enemy, largely by taking advantage of the fact that South Koreans hate the Japanese much more than they hate North Koreans (in fact he was able to incorporate most of the smaller Southeast Asian nations in the GKR in large part due to their shared grievances against the Japanese stemming from [[WW 2]]). It's strongly implied that quite a lot of the Korea military forces are actually South Koreans who are willingly and happily taking part in the process of bringing America down a peg.
* [[Good Guns, Bad Guns]]: Averted real hard. The Korean forces use entirely NATO or American firearms, instead of the Soviet overstock they have in real-life. Justified because of the reunification, which made former South Korean weapons accessible to the North and they have seized the American factories and armories. The German Panzerfaust 3 is justified since Japan and South Korea produces them (though still doesn't explain why they also show up in the hands of American soldiers in multiplayer). The only non-NATO firearm you'll encounter is the Chinese-made PLA-issue QBZ-03 assault rifle.
* [[Harder Than Hard]]: Guerilla difficulty, in which the enemies all have perfect aim and can pretty much kill you in a split second. Fortunately, it's still not as hard as [[Modern Warfare]]'s Veteran difficulty.
* [[Hates Everyone Equally]]: Conner has quite a lot of this. While he has a burning, borderline sociopathic hatred for the Korean Occupation, in the later levels it becomes pretty clear this is purely nationalistic and not racial. He also strongly loaths the American Survivalist movement, civilians who don't participate in the Resistance, his own teammates when they fail to give 100%, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and annoying kids]]. He also openly disdains the Survivalists because their cruelty towards Korean prisoners is purely for sick fun rather than serving any greater purpose.
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* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: The writers of ''Homefront'' actually predicted the actual cause as well as the time of Kim Jong-Il's death more or less right (arguably they were only off by a couple of weeks). So far they were wrong about Kim Jong-Un being a dangerously competent and charismatic [[Evil Genius]], but the decade is still young.
* [[History Repeats]]: If the world would have woken up when the Greater Korean Republic invades Japan, then we wouldn't have this story at all. [[World War II|Sounds a bit familiar, doesn't it?]]
* [[Hot
* [[Improbable Power Discrepancy]]: The unarmored, t-shirt wearing survivalists can survive more damage than the body armor-wearing KPA soldiers that serve as the game's standard Mooks, simply by virtue of being fought later in the game.
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: Judging by some of the gameplay videos, backstory, and trailers, it appears that the Greater Korean Republic army kills everyone indiscriminately when they invaded the United States. Their occupied Asian states like Japan probably suffered the same fate as well.
** Of course, like the [[Imperial Japan]] expansion, there are going to be [[The Quisling|quislings]] in the occupied United States who want to save their own asses or get themselves out of the bad economic situation.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Connor refers to the KPA as "Kims", a reference to their leader. The right-wing survivalists call them "NorKs".
* [[Insurmountable Waist
* [[Invaded States of America]]: The whole point of the game. It's called New Korean Federation of Occupied America.
* [[Invisible Wall]]: ''Everywhere''. If it's a path the developers don't want you to take, it will be impassible, even if there is no barrier there. If it's a path that you ''are'' supposed to take but that you're not intended to go through ''yet'', it will be impassible. Even the few brief areas where you are given liberty to explore are littered with invisible walls so you don't explore the wrong places. Humorously, some of the invisible walls are rather poorly placed, with little gaps it's possible to slip through to get to places the developers don't want you to be. There's rarely any point in doing so, though.
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* [[No Koreans in Japan]]: Heavily averted, with an [[Ironic Echo]]. [[Inferred Holocaust|And the fate of Japanese people probably wouldn't be pretty either]] judging how [[Imperial Japan]] had occupied Korea in the past.
* [[No Sidepaths No Exploration No Freedom]]: The singleplayer campaign is basically just a long linear progression from one non-interactive scripted event to another, in the style of the [[Call of Duty]] series.
** There are collectables, like the newspapers that explain the backstory, and hidden weapons that are better than the typical guns found. However, you probably won't find most of 'em as your allies keep telling you to [[Continue Your Mission, Dammit!]], causing you to miss most of these unless you deliberately look for them.
* [[North Koreans With Nodongs]]: Rather, a ''unified Korea''.
* [[Not What I Signed On For]]: Though she does it anyway, Rianna isn't too fond of killing fellow Americans, even the [[Crazy Survivalist|CrazySurvivalists]] who earlier wanted to rape her and lynch Hopper.
* [[Nuke'Em]]: Probably what the North Koreans did in order to irradiate the ''entire Mississippi river''. Alternately, they may have set up some radioactive materials dump in or near [
* [[Oh Crap]]:
{{quote| '''Hopper:''' Oh, ''shit!'' Misfire! ''MISFIRE!''}}
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* [[Semper Fi]]: [[All There in the Manual|Supplementary materials]] state that Jacobs is a former Marine pilot, though the game itself doesn't mention it.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: The game ends with {{spoiler|the European Union thinking about helping out America, but the occupation still continues in a [[World of Warcraft|"The Battle is Won, The War Goes On"]]-type deal.}} A sequel has been confirmed by THQ despite closure of the game's developer.
* [[Short
* [[Shout
** A team of Navy SEALS infiltrate [[The Rock|Alcatraz]] and they succeed in capturing it. They use green smoke grenades to signal their victory.
** Near the start, the driver of the prisoner bus says that he is taking the prisoners to facility [[Star Wars|1138]].
** One of the labor camp inmates says: "[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|You wanna talk to El Rey? That's cool.]]"
** [[Call of Duty Black Ops (Video Game)|"Who should we shoot?" "Shoot 'em all."]]
** The game also features the quote: "Hail to the king, baby." and several other [[Shout
** May or may not be intentional, as he only shows up for the {{spoiler|first part of the golden gate assault}}, but there's a [[Modern Warfare|(presumably) Mexican-American soldier named Hernandez, who is responsible for doing every necessary action]] the player character does not. The squad leader even says "Hernandez, do/open/etc X" with similar voice inflection to Foley.
** Boone is a black police officer who's "[[Lethal Weapon|getting too old for this shit.]]"
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* [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters]]
** [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized|The Resistance Will Not Be Civilized]] The Montrose Resistance commits a couple of war crimes during their guerrilla war against the KPA. However, they're contrasted strongly against {{spoiler|the [[Crazy Survivalist|Crazy Survivalists]] who have done much much worse.}}
* [[Zero
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