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*** If you don't eventually go for the [[Big Bad]] in ''TFTD'', alien bases will start to proliferate faster than you can keep up with them.

**** This is the whole point: you are fighting a losing war against superior technology. If you do not exploit their weak point by finding the [[Big Bad]], the enemy will become stronger and stronger until you have no chance of survival. This is done on purpose.

* [[Early Game Hell]]: The series in general is this as well as [[Nintendo Hard]]. Missions can quickly go south early on if you're not careful. And even if you ''are'', they're still perilous slogs as your initial squads of rookies and standard-issue equipment are usually just barely enough to get the job done.

* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: ''Interceptor'''s Nova Bomb is designed to take out a star and everything orbiting it (a lower-level Class X-2 on the [[Apocalypse How]] scale).

** Blaster Bombs could certainly count, as well as Cyberdiscs, particularly when chain reactions are caused. But as we already know, they're [[Made of Explodium]].

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* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|By the end, even as ADVENT begins to crumble, the Ethereals drop vague hints to the Commander of another threat. In addition, there are more than a few hints that Dr. Vahlen is still out there, working on ''something''.}}

* [[Serial Escalation]]: XCOM's arsenal is decidedly beefier and grows increasingly overpowered over the course of the game. This is balanced out however by ADVENT and the aliens being ''even more'' powerful.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: A number of XCOM's soldiers have this as their backstory, having gone AWOL and generally shaken upon the realizing that the war was lost.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: A number of XCOM's soldiers have this as their backstory, having gone AWOL and generally shaken upon the realizing that the war was lost. ''War of the Chosen'' meanwhile makes it possible for soldiers on the field to become this if they're sent to the thick of the action for too long or get shaken.

* [[Shut Up Hannibal]]: The final mission. {{spoiler|The Elders/Ethereals and ADVENT Speaker try to [[Break Him By Talking|break the Commander by talking]], [[The Reason You Suck Speech|insisting in length how XCOM's sacrifices are for nothing]] and that all humanity can do to bring lasting peace is to accept the Elders' uplifting. Neither the Commander nor XCOM buy it.}}

* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: ''War of the Chosen'' reveals that the titular Chosen, while following the commands and seeking the favor of the Elders, ''hate'' each other.