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A Let's Play of XCOM: Enemy Unknown on the Something Awful forums by Speedball. In addition to covering Enemy Unknown and its expansion Enemy Within, it also ties in The Bureau: XCOM Declassified while fleshing out the squaddies into fully fleshed out characters.Archived here. Original thread here. |
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Only Sane Man |
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Only Sane Man: Zhang plays this role. |
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Hurricane of Puns |
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Hurricane of Puns: One mission takes place on a dam. The inevitable ensues. |
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Gender Bender |
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Gender Bender: Cammy and Allen have their bodies switched while undergoing genetic enhancement. Cammy eventually decides to stick with her new appearance (and even adopts female pronouns). A lot of that has to do with her genetic enhancements, but she also suggests that she might be genderfluid. She later refers to herself as transgender. |
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Warrior Therapist |
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Warrior Therapist: Dr. Gomez is a very literal incarnation of this trope, using her knowledge of psychology to counter the Thin Men's attempts at psychological warfare. |
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Shotgun Wedding |
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Shotgun Wedding: Hilda asks Cammy to marry her right before the start of a mission. Not proposes - she did that already - but to have the actual wedding right now. Cammy says yes, the Commander performs the ceremony, and they then head into battle wearing white armor. |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: A common reaction to the Thin Men's attempts at psychological warfare. |
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Becoming the Mask |
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Becoming the Mask: Bar-Lev was originally sent to XCOM by Israeli intelligence. However, she eventually becomes more loyal to XCOM than her superiors and stops communicating with them. |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Hogan, who seems to believe that he's Hulk Hogan. It's all a cover as he's actually a spy for EXALT. |
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Heroic Sacrifice |
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Heroic Sacrifice: While Cammy is the Volunteer, Latisha ends up being the one to sacrifice herself to save the world, her daughter included. |
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Battle in the Center of the Mind |
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Battle in the Center of the Mind: The Sectoid Commander inflicts this on the team during the raid on the alien base. Cammy gets the worst of it, but is aided by a mental clone of Allen. |
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Four-Star Badass |
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Four-Star Badass: General Van Doorn, who fought off several aliens before XCOM rescued him, and later joins the squad. |
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Blood Knight |
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Blood Knight: Several. General Van Doorn takes this to ridiculous levels. Latisha Watkins is a bit more subdued, but is still way more gung-ho than the rest of the team (except Van Doorn). Yoko and Annette are extremely eager to get some payback for what the aliens did to them. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: EXALT are a pastiche of Cobra and Comic Book/Hydra, using the creed of "Hail Exalt!" while their leader's portrait is literally Cobra Commander. |
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Race Lift |
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Race Lift: Happens in-universe as accidental exposure to Meld causes several characters to have radical changes in hair and skin color, such as the Israeli Bar-Lev looking like a black woman with bright red hair. |
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Amazon Brigade |
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Amazon Brigade: Almost! By coincidence, the vast majority of the squaddies (especially the better ones) are women (although Cammy was originally male). |
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Battle Couple |
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Battle Couple: Multiple. Bar-Lev and Leroy, Queen and Cammy, Eva and Hugo... |
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Mama Bear |
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Mama Bear: Latisha Watkins, Cammmy's mother and a veteran soldier. |
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Ragtag Band of Misfits: The Commander deliberately invoked this trope, wanting people who would think out of the box rather than a bunch of by-the-book soldiers. The team soon take pride in this, calling themselves "The losers who are also winners." |
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The Mole |
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The Mole: Hogan turns out to be an agent for EXALT. |
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Cloning Blues |
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Cloning Blues: Yoko discovers that she isn't a Japanese woman put into a Belgian woman's body by the aliens, but a mental clone of a Japanese woman put into a Belgian woman's body, compounding her identity crisis. She starts going by Zero instead. |
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Exact Words |
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Exact Words: On one mission, Zinchenko suggests to a Thin Man that they fight "like honest men" without guns. The Thin Man agrees, not realizing that Zinchenko really loves grenades. |
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Adult Adoptee |
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Adult Adoptee: General Van Doorn adopts Eva after she is rejected by her family. |
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