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Simulated Urban Combat Area

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34 feature instances
14 referencing feature instances

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Simulated Urban Combat Area	label	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area	page	SimulatedUrbanCombatArea
Simulated Urban Combat Area	comment	Or SUCA for short. A Simulated Urban Combat Area is a very realistic simulation of an urban area, complete with realistic signage, buildings and other stuff like that. These make good places for tricking the audience into thinking the heroes are about to die horribly. It can also be used for espionage training. Participants in these exercises usually use non-lethal weapons/equipment/techniques to make sure that they don't get hurt or killed, but can be a Deadly Training Area for those with No OSHA Compliance. Sister Trope to Shooting Gallery, which tend to be smaller and indoors. Can be considered a subtrope of Fake Town. Truth in Television, as some militaries/law enforcement agencies do make use of these as part of their training courses.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_22119589	comment	Although it's another training place for spies, Alias features a mock-up of a US town in Russia.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_25ebaf6	comment	A SUCA simulating the Camp David compound is used in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare to introduce the player to Mitchell's ATLAS-supplied equipment and foreshadow the issues with his mechanical arm.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_2aaa6ba	comment	The Grand Tour uses the KASOTC (see the Real Life section below) as the grounds for a challenge for the presenters: they must get a VIP off a hijacked airliner to safety. But, if any of them die, they have to start the entire mission over again. Clarkson, Hammond, and May adequately demonstrate several times they are TV presenters and not trained military or law enforcement personnel.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_36ee2abe	comment	One encounter in the Paranoia adventure "Paranoid Clones in Savory Vulture Stew" takes place in a military training course like this, designed to simulate an ambush. The PCs are not informed there will be an ambush.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_3fe6b4fb	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	The New Jedi Order novel Star By Star featured two facilities of this sort. One was built for the YVH-class droids, and was accurate down to the "pedestrians" (actually weapons techs, who knew the droid wouldn't target them) - and absolutely no challenge whatsoever for the YVH. The other was designed to train voxyn and included not just buildings and walkways but (nonfunctional) vehicles, aircraft, and even a wrecked AT-AT, along with a sizable slave population to play the "residents".
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_4515faf0	comment	Danger Man: In "Colony Town", British communists are disappearing behind the Iron Curtain. Drake follows their trail to a replica of a British town used to acquaint Russian infiltrators with British ways.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld fanfic Why and Were, it is revealed that Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch has provided such a training facility for recruit Watch members, at his own expense. This is nicknamed "Toytown", possibly by multiversal resonance with the British Army version (below).
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_502c87a3	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_502c87a3	comment	There are a couple of these in CHERUB, including an SAS training facility near the campus, and an American version where a group of the kids are part of the Red Team against American military personnel.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_5178149f	comment	Batman: The Brave and the Bold had a Batman Cold Open where he was training the Outsiders this way.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_54db1c34	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_54db1c34	comment	My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister features a virtual reality simulation of Kukyou City in its first volume. Erika and Ayumi use it in a battle to determine which is superior: vampire or zombie.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_60f02ddb	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!, with Stan's job at the CIA, features this. Witty comments are graded.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_663261c	comment	A training place for KGB spies and saboteurs, with mock-ups of many areas of the West, is the source of the climax of The Bourne Ultimatum.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_6a7fd233	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_6a7fd233	comment	In Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Woods and Bell fight through a Soviet training area modeled after an American small town, much like the mythical example in the Real Life section.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_76e539c2	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_76e539c2	comment	Riot Force 6 in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS erects an entire city block Made of Magic over the nearby ocean bay to provide cheap training grounds for the Forwards. Lutecia also has one that everyone uses during the vacation arc of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid and ends up being the site of Fuka and Rinne's final battle in ViVid Strike!.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_81692f99	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek's holodecks, which can recreate any environment, are often used for combat training. Such as with Voyager'' trying to get the hunt-happy Hirogen to use a SUCA.
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Star Trek (Franchise)	hasFeature	Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_81692f99
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_960062b7	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_960062b7	comment	U.A. High School has several in My Hero Academia. They use them to both teach students how to be heroes in urban areas as well as carry out rescue scenarios.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_996edf24	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_996edf24	comment	Wonder Woman Vol 1: In preparation for his attack on earth Uvo had several scale city blocks of New York, Paris and London constructed and then filled with unarmed manacled prisoners in order to test out their planned attacks on the real cities in question.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_9990177f	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_9990177f	comment	The "rent-a-terrorists" of Erewhon in Role of Honour have an area of houses called The Charnel, which is used as a training ground against anti-terrorist attacks.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_b3690647	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_b3690647	comment	After X-Men: The Last Stand's past prologue, the X-Men are fighting an off-screen enemy (a Sentinel) in a burned-out urban wasteland. After Wolverine and Colossus take it down with a Fastball Special, the Danger Room is deactivated and the session ends.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_b4fe32c9	comment	On Invader Zim, Zim can apparently pull this off with holograms, as seen in "GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff." It includes a holographic Dib that uses Hulk Speak.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_bc7736c8	comment	Suicide Squad #1 opens with a terrorist attack by the Jihad at an American airport intended to assassinate the US president. The mission is a total success. It is then revealed that the attack was a training run conducted at a mockup of the airport constructed in Qurac, with actors hired to play the roles of the victims. Mind, nobody told them the ammunition and blades used by the assassins would be very, very real...
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: One of the Tau codexes has an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor making a diplomatic visit to a Tau world. The Tau dignitary coincidentally leads him past a training area full of drilling Fire Warriors that just happens to bear great resemblance to a gutted Imperial city, with mock-up burned and wrecked vehicles that look suspiciously like Imperial Guard tanks.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_bf42e29d	comment	Hitman (2016) opens with Agent 47 being trained by the ICA through recreations of previous assassinations conducted by the organization. Contained inside what appear to be decommissioned missile silos, the sets are constructed of fairly simple materials but are carefully designed to simulate the environment of each historical assassination (a party at a docked yacht and a Cuban airstrip, respectively), with a horde of actors filling in for the named characters, guards and civilians. The weapons involved are "simulated", though that doesn't stop 47 from subjecting the actors to all manner of unpleasant fates (including, canonically, the second assassination target being launched from of a very real jetplane ejector seat and out of the silo, seemingly to his actual death).
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_c2297a9c	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_c2297a9c	comment	Early issues of Judge Dredd depicted cadets training in giant, indoor facilities that replicate the streets outside, complete with criss-crossing highways overhead!
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_c3e7ab30	comment	The Game Boy Color version of Perfect Dark.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_c4a1d59e	comment	The Call of Duty series often uses these as tutorial sections or as a Danger Room Cold Open. A SUCA simulating the Camp David compound is used in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare to introduce the player to Mitchell's ATLAS-supplied equipment and foreshadow the issues with his mechanical arm. In Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Woods and Bell fight through a Soviet training area modeled after an American small town, much like the mythical example in the Real Life section.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_cac20f89	comment	The JAG episode "Force Recon", filmed on location at Camp Pendelton.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_d31cdea	comment	The third book of The Hunger Games trilogy features Katniss training for the invasion of the Capitol in one of these called the Block in District 13
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_d8548dc8	comment	Red Nightmare warns the American public that behind the Iron Curtain, an exact replica of small town America is being used to train Dirty Communists to infiltrate and take over your country!
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_e125e86e	comment	The Expendables 2 has the heroes bivouac in one of these in Eastern Europe while tracking down the Sang, then get ambushed by them the following morning. The fake town resembles a fairly accurate idyllic American cityscape from the 70s, including an actually-working jukebox in the fake diner.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_f53fe2fa	comment	Mission: Impossible: In "The Carriers", in order to stop an expert in American traditions, slang, and customs from conducting his plan of bacteriological warfare against the U.S. and to put him permanently out of business, the IMF team infiltrates a mock-up of an American town located behind the Iron Curtain where enemy agents learn to act as Americans.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_f9e57af5	comment	America's Army basically uses this for half of its maps. Now, since the players effectively make each map a warzone, there are very few civilians around. Those that are still in the area are usually hostages.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_fcf0b6c3	comment	In the Galaxy Rangers episode "Supertroopers," Shane was spending a lot of time in one of these, avoiding his hostile fellow Supertroopers. It was because he was spending so much time there that he avoided getting dosed with the Psycho Serum Wheiner circulated in the barracks.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area / int_fe94578f	comment	Alex Rider is trained in a Scorpia SUCA in the Alex Rider book Scorpia.
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Simulated Urban Combat Area	processingCategory2	Settings
Simulated Urban Combat Area	processingCategory2	Skills and Training Tropes
Suicide Squad (Comic Book) / int_ecf72398	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
X-Men: The Last Stand / int_ecf72398	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
CHERUB Series / int_ecf72398	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Mockingjay / int_ecf72398	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
RoleOfHonour	seeAlso	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Danger Man / int_ecf72398	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
JAG / int_ecf72398	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Mission: Impossible / int_ecf72398	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Quantico / int_ecf72398	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
The Grand Tour / int_ecf72398	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Voltes V: Legacy / int_ecf72398	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Video Game) / int_ecf72398	type	Simulated Urban Combat Area

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