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* [[Fridge Horror]]: Imagine what might have happened when he started playing the game-that-wasn't-a-game with the computer controlling the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal if David had decided to start launching missiles from the U.S. side...
** Nothing. NORAD would detect missile launch, call up the silos and find out that this is a simulation. Soviets would never know anything is happening because they aren't getting data from JOSHUA.
** Was WOPR ''only'' given control of the nuclear arsenal, or might it have been responsible for other WMDs as well? If so, what might have happened if David had opted to play Theaterwide Biotoxic And Chemical Warfare instead?
*** Nothing. For one thing, we don't really have those in deployable form -- the only reason we have map exercises involving biological and chemical warfare is to plan what to do in case we're attacked by them. For another, even if they did exist they would hardly be turn-key systems -- human beings would still have to take the damn shit out of the incubators/storage tanks, load it, prep it, and fire it... and human beings, of course, would first pick up phones and call NORAD for voice confirmation of their orders.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: "Shall we play a game?"
** [[Memetic Mutation]] + [[It Was His Sled]]: "The only winning move is not to play."
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** {{spoiler|"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"}}
** It's a rare movie that does it without demonizing anyone on either side or reducing them to [[Straw Political|cliche' stereotypes]].
* [[Values Dissonance]]: How many modern viewers [[Face Palm]] when they see the list of passwords on a sheet of paper right next to the computer? In fact, if you're reading this website, that's likely exactly what you've been told ''not'' to do ever since you were big enough to hit a spacebar. (Anyone in tech support, or who enjoy [[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]] and similar "customer service hell" anecdotes, knows that this still happens today.)
=== Tropes found in ''War Games: The Dead Code'' include: ===
* [[Anvilicious]]: Dr. Falken gives a little speech about how he designed the WOPR to work in tandem with RIPLEY rather than against her. The last word of his speech is "Bipartisanship". This in a movie that came out the same year [[Barack Obama]] was elected President.
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