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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: The [[Overly Narrow Superlative|best]] [[Paintball Episode|paintball-based]] [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche]] of [[Post Apocalyptic]] and [[Heroic Bloodshed]] [[Overly Narrow Superlative|action movies since]] ''[[Spaced]]''.

* [[After the End]]: The majority of "Modern Warfare" takes place after Dean Pelton announced the prize to the school's paintball competition, causing almost all of the students to destroy each other almost immediately.

* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Jeff, Britta, Abed and Shirley near the end.

* [[Badass Crew]]: The study group as a whole, for surviving as long as they did in such hellish conditions.

* [[Battle Royale With Cheese]]: see [[Whole-Plot Reference]].

* {{spoiler|[[Black Dude Dies First]]: Troy}} is the first of the study group to go down in the paintball game after {{spoiler|he}} "made God mad".

* [[A Bloody Mess]]: Inverted; "It's blood! I thought it was paint but I'm just bleeding! Thank god for that..."

* [[Bodyguard Betrayal]]: Pierce's defection from Starburns.

* [[Camping a Crapper]]: Britta's group's strategy is the [[Trope Namer]].

{{quote| '''Abed:''' Come with me if you don't want paint on your clothes.}}

** As other episodes show, Jeff getting his clothes ruined would be worse than death for him...

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: The study group encounters the glee club, an [[Expy]] for the cast of ''[[Glee]]''. After the study group defeats them, Jeff tells them "Write some original songs!" In February of 2011, it was announced that ''[[Glee]]'' would be doing an episode with original songs.

* [[Homage]]: Tons.

** Chang's {{spoiler|paint bomb}} plays out like the end of ''[[Predator]].''

** Chang's entrance to the study room is straight out of a [[John Woo]] movie... minus the [[Disturbed Doves]]. [[Word of God]] says they didn't have the budget for them.

* [[I Feel Guilty You Take It]]: Jeff gives his prize to Shirley so she can spend more time with her children.

* [[If We Get Through This]]: "What are you guys gonna do if you win priority registration?" As soon as Shirley mentions her kids, you know she's out the game.

* [[I've Heard of That! What Is It?]]:

{{quote| '''Dean:''' The prize was a Blu-ray DVD player... but it got stolen. So now it's TBD!<br />

* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: The plot of "Modern Warfare" can be construed as a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to ''at least'' one movie:

** ''[[Battle Royale]]'': A schoolmaster forces his students into a competition where they have to finish each other off one by one. He also enters a ringer who wishes to enter for fun, and one who has played the game before. At the end, {{spoiler|the last man standing breaks into his ivory tower and finishes him off}}.

* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Discussed.

** [[They Do]]: Sarcastically teased, {{spoiler|then played straight}}.