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Ace Combat (Video Game)

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Ace Combat (Video Game)	comment	Ace Combat is a series of arcade-style combat flight games, involving flight sim levels of graphical detail but without all the fiddly realistic controls; the play style is something between Shoot Em Ups and the Action Game. Developed and published by Namco / Bandai Namco Entertainment under the Project Aces production team, the games are semi-realistic, featuring real-life aircraft and such things as planes stalling if they slow down too much, but combined with aircraft that carry hundreds of missiles at once and unlimited fuel. Most of the games take place in a Fictional Earth named Strangereal, one similar to and yet very different from our own due to existence of various powerful superweapons reigniting wars all over the world.Part of Ace Combat 's appeal is that the games, starting from Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, featured real-life planes and experimental fighter jets, often working with well-known aerospace manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin, Fairchild Aircraft, Boeing Defense, Space & Security and Northrop Grumman, among many others, to achieve the impressive amount of authenticity and realism seen with the planes of the real-life military.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_116f6f1c	type	Self-Plagiarism
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_116f6f1c	comment	Self-Plagiarism: The arcade game Mach Storm basically consists of the scripted DFM sequences in Assault Horizon stitched together in a full game. Infinity in turn is essentially taking iconic levels from previous games and turning them into four- to eight-player co-op missions, though for the latter it does have an original (if still Mythology Gag-filled) story and has many a Remixed Level.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: As the game mainly features air combat. However exception exists: In Assault Horizon in a cutscene where Markov betrays his conspirators. In Skies Unknown when the Scrap Queen plane crashes. She survives though, as it is the first video cutscene of the game and she plays a major role in the game proper.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_13f5b1b	type	Instant-Win Condition
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_13f5b1b	comment	Instant-Win Condition: Some missions only need you to make a point limit and then it will be completed when time runs down regardless of enemy survivors. In others focusing on only the needed targets is enough to win. Subverted, however, as it's still possible to crash in the time between "Mission Accomplished" and getting to the results screen, causing a failure (from AC04 onward,) or in AC2's case, still finishing the mission but losing money due to having your downed plane replaced.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_13f7da6	type	Instant Expert
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert: The player characters can switch between plane types with ease.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_143e6c8d	type	Heroic Mime
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_143e6c8d	comment	Heroic Mime: The main character almost never speaks — bizarrely enough, this is true even in later games, where you have dedicated wingmen to whom you can give orders with an almost too simple "Yes/No" command, or call for Attack or Cover. Fanfic retellings have been known to fill these in.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_1527d90d	type	Early Game Hell
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_1527d90d	comment	Early Game Hell: You often start off with planes that simply aren't very effective at what they do, have slow acceleration and deceleration, and basic machineguns and missiles. Half the fun of the games are the numerous planes and armaments you unlock with progression, almost inevitably ending up with the best in the world or even a Super Prototype as you tear your way through formerly-significant threats like a hot knife through butter, especially on replays.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_15385326	type	You Can't Thwart Stage One
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_15385326	comment	You Can't Thwart Stage One: The final missions of Ace Combat 04 and 5, twice in Zero (the Belkans deploying nuclear weapons and V2) and the start of 6. Not helped by how difficult it is to even try thwarting stage one.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The full history of the Ulysses asteroid is never fully explored in any of the games. Project Aces released "Aces at War: A History" before the release of Ace Combat 7 to help better explain in good detail more background behind various characters and events in the franchise.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The EU non-numeric titles Distant Thunder, Squadron Leader and The Belkan War all show up in their respective games. There's also Shattered Skies — both a dialogue phrase and the name of AC04's eighth mission and as a dialogue while selecting a plane for the last mission. The Unsung War and Zero also serve as the names for their respective games' final missions and their Ominous Latin Chanting final themes, the latter also showing up in a dialogue phrase during it.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_1aa08f77	comment	Two Ace Combat games include major story branching: Electrosphere and Skies of Deception. However, only the former has Multiple Endings; in the latter, all branches converge for the final mission. Minor branching is present in other games, as well, but it usually avails to one or two mission-long branches, which converge back again into the linear storyline.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_1c0d4155	type	Necessary Drawback
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_1c0d4155	comment	Necessary Drawback: QAAMs have the same short range as regular missiles to balance their high accuracy/maneuverability, long-range missiles tend to be inaccurate unless launched at the right angle, and SAAMs could have been overpowered in combining XLAA range with QAAM maneuverability... were it not for you having to keep your aircraft's nose pointed at the target (and the target within a SAAM-exclusive circular reticle) for the duration of the SAAM's flightnote although if you can bring a target back within the reticle in time, the missile will continue tracking, which can make you a sitting duck while the missile is flying. The air-to-ground weapons and parts have similar issues.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: In real life, air superiority and ground attack missions are generally given to units dedicated to those roles. In these games, not only do you get multiple types of missions, but you can easily swap out your planes to match whatever role is needed.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_1e75509c	type	Adventure-Friendly World
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_1e75509c	comment	Adventure-Friendly World: Strangereal was created solely as a setting which permitted repeated full-theater international conflicts for Ace Pilots to participate in, which have been non-existent in Real Life since the development of nuclear weapons - see Broken Aesop.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_22725d56	type	Nom de Guerre
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_22725d56	comment	Nom de Guerre: All pilots have at least one callsign. These are either squadron identifiers (Galm 1, Wardog 2, Yellow 13, etc.) or unique nicknames (Cipher, Edge, Heartbreak One) and many pilots have both.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_232aa245	type	Laser Cutter
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_232aa245	comment	Laser Cutter: The Tactical Laser System's shot.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_246c9dc5	type	Unknown Rival
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_246c9dc5	comment	Unknown Rival: ZigZagged. Each game in the series has a rival ace for the Player Character to eventually dogfight against later on in the games. Thing is though, the Player Character of each game is a Featureless Protagonist, so we never learn what the player characterâ€™s opinions on the rival ace is, or if they even acknowledge them.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_251bbe0e	comment	Genre Blindness: At least once a game, a character will say something that will make you have to pause the game and cover your face in shame. For example, Ace Combat 6's "final" mission. You've won the war, people are celebrating, and your "mission" is to do a patrol while fireworks explode in the sky. Then one of your wingmen says "I'd like to say: Mission Accomplished". Cue enemy fighters and transcontinental missiles.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_263bb4ec	type	Wave-Motion Gun
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_263bb4ec	comment	Wave-Motion Gun: The series has several superweapons that qualify, including the XR-900's Heavy Laser from Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, the Arkbird's laser cannon, Excalibur from Ace Combat Zero, and the ADF-01 FALKEN's Tactical Laser System. The TLS returns in both Zero onboard the FALKEN and the ADFX-01 "Morgan" (which has only half the number of shots), and has a spiritual successor in Ace Combat 6 with the Electromagnetic Launcher (EML) onboard the CFA-44 "Nosferatu."
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_26f41623	type	Kill Sat
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_26f41623	comment	Kill Sat: Featured in Ace Combat 3, Ace Combat 5 and Ace Combat 7. The one in Ace Combat 3 was available as a special weapon. The one in 7 fires unavoidable, extremely powerful AA missiles at you if you stay above the cloud layer for too long, so it's more an environmental hazard than something you can fight directly.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_273b4c2a	type	Some Dexterity Required
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_273b4c2a	comment	Some Dexterity Required: Some games in the series have "Expert" controls, which are actually not expert, they're just normal... for real airplanes. Standard controls involve the plane's nose going left and right when you press those directions on the stick (this is called "yaw"), the same as it would if it were a car. Expert controls involve the plane rolling left and right, with the actual turn accomplished by then pushing up on the joystick to make the plane's nose "pitch" up (which, if the plane is rotated 90 degrees, means "to one side"). The dexterity required for this control scheme is mental rather than physical, as you have to completely reconceptualize how to turn your plane.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_276ad49e	type	Karma Meter
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_276ad49e	comment	Ace Combat Zero features three branching missions with three different paths, each being split between anti-air, anti-ground, and anti-air/ground missions, but this has little to no impact on the progression of the story. In a subtler way, the story also branches based on your Ace Style.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2804d516	type	Master of None
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2804d516	comment	Multirole aircraft in general are built around this, being able handle both fighter and attacker duties equally, though in return, they are less effective than their specialized counterparts in their respective roles.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2905964a	type	Manual Leader, A.I. Party
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2905964a	comment	Manual Leader, A.I. Party: In the Ace Combat installments that give you permanent wingmen, you can usually select their planes and give them orders but you only steer your own plane on missions. Ace Combat 5 is the only one, however, where you can speak of a "party" (it had three wingmen as opposed to one in other games).
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: In one mission a pilot starts talking about his personal life, as pilots in the game are want to do. He is promptly told to shut up and concentrate on fighting.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: A staple of the franchise. Due to how impossibly good your characters are, enemies crap their pants in fear at THE VERY POSSIBILITY of your presence. A few enemy squadrons also have the same reputation, until they're shot down by you.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Joint Assault has BNN. 5, Zero and 7 have OBC. 7 also has ENN.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2f253c94	type	Glass Cannon
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2f253c94	comment	Glass Cannon: The F-5E and MiG-21 in the PS2 games, and the A-4 in 2 are this, though since you usually get these in the beginning of the game, the player doesn't need to worry about biting the bullet. The Mobius F-22 and Yellow Su-33 in AC6 (as downloadable content) are also this, but it pays off when you have wicked manuverability. On Ace mode all your planes are a One-Hit-Point Wonder against missiles, so the question is how much Cannon and Speedster/Lightning you're packing.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_2f329e3c	comment	The only detail you'll get about the player characters is their gender. To that end, most of the games' stories focus on people affected by the protagonist's actions (04 being the biggest example). A few of the games have played with this, notably Electrosphere, where it turns out the PC is an AI running several different versions of a hypothetical conflict, designed to test whether he can kill a specific person as revenge for the guy who programmed the simulation. Hell, one of the most detailed protagonists so far is Blaze - and all that's known about him is his gender and his hair color. Gryphus One also has one identifying detail: judging from the way he is described as a veteran and how AWACS Crux constantly addresses him as "sir" and acts very subordinate to him, it can be inferred he is a commissioned officer. If this is true, he would be the only player character who is one in the whole series, as opposed to a mercenary or a low-ranking pilot. In that same game, Mission 13 also has a few lines of dialogue from Falco One, who is the hero of Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion and he mentions he has a son.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: Mentioned a few times in various titles, particularly in 04, where the viewpoint character for the story outside of gameplay fell in with them.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_36249acd	type	Lethal Joke Character
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_36249acd	comment	Lethal Joke Character: Assault Horizon Legacy includes the sub-sonic propeller-driven World War II-era F6F-5 Hellcat and A6M5 Zero. They lack the speed necessary to chase after a critical target in a later mission in the story and cannot use missiles, and aren't meant to be taken seriously in general. However, they have extremely powerful guns to make up for it, the Hellcat has a higher mobility potential than every other plane in the game except for the XFA-27.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_363e9631	type	Sequential Boss
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_363e9631	comment	Sequential Boss: Every flying fortress mission is the series counts for this.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_36e63b81	comment	The X-02 Wyvern, a fictional super-plane, has forward-swept swing wings, which would be likely to snap off under high-G maneuvers; those wings swing inward to form a large delta wing, which is certainly good design but requires the leading edges of one (or both!) wings to be soft enough to merge together when the are swung and strong enough to withstand the rigors of flight; and the diagonal canards and tailplanes swing downward to join the giant delta wing, which looks awesome but must result in a great deal of yaw instability at supersonic speeds. Flying wings do work, or the Stealth Bomber wouldn't be able to fly, but it also doesn't break the sound barrier.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_391d6577	type	Sequel Escalation
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_391d6577	comment	Sequel Escalation: Subverted by the superfighters, with the Falken being one of the first introduced and easily being the most over-the-top, though it wasn't playable until the fifth game (although it got a bit crazier by then). Later planes have at least looked more down to earth, with the CFA-44 looking more like a modern, fifth generation fighter.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3931557e	type	Storming the Beaches
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3931557e	comment	Storming the Beaches: Many games have the player providing air support for an amphibious landing at some point. Examples include Operation Bunker Shot in 04, Lit Fuse in 5, and the Aenea Landing in 6. 5 also has the player repel a landing in Front Line.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3bb81225	type	Recurring Boss
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3bb81225	comment	Recurring Boss: Most often a named enemy ace squadron plays this role, such as the Yellow Squadron in 04. A more minor example would be the Scinfaxi-class submarines in The Unsung War, as you end up fighting both in short order. In 2 and its remake Assault Horizon Legacy, this happens with ZOE, who you encounter at certain intervals. Beast Squadron from AHL comes in twice, but only on a certain route.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3bf3244e	type	Good Weapon, Evil Weapon
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3bf3244e	comment	Good Weapon, Evil Weapon: It has been noted that in almost every game, the protagonist squadron and sometimes his allies usually fly Western fighter aircraft (usually American, and more often than not the F-22 Raptor) whereas the antagonist ace squadron(s) usually use high-tier Russian fighters (often a variant of the Su-27 Flanker). This is however subverted multiple times. Phoenix, a.k.a. Scarface One from 2, prefers to fly the Su-35 Super Flanker (which is statistically the best normal plane in the game, matching or surpassing even the F-22 in six of seven attributes) whereas four of the five Z.O.E. aces use American jets (the fifth uses one of the series' first two fictional superfighters). This is played straight however in the remake when he uses the F-22 as his aircraft of choice. Of course this gets subverted somewhat for the enemy in the remake, as only one of the five major ace squadrons (including the aformentioned Z.O.E.) flies Russian aircraft. Justified in all cases however, as both the original, and more poignantly in the remake, shows that this is the closest the series has gotten to depicting a Civil War, and would use Western fighters in its inventory. The squad flying the Russian aircraft are from Erusea, the antagonist country in 04 whose premier ace squadron also flies the Russian-built Su-37 Terminator. In 04, ISAF would deploy a mix of Western- and Russian-made fighters during missions that are considered pivotal story-wise: a flight of MiG-29s fly top cover for you and a few other F/A-18s during the assault on Stonehenge, whereas the Siege of Farbanti has you accompanied by a mix of F-15s and Su-35s at its beginning as you shoot down enemy F-15 S/MTDs and Su-47s. Mobius One is often portrayed with the Raptor here as well. In 5, the 8492nd Squadron flies the F-15 S/MTD up until the final mission, where they fly Su-47s instead. Your squadron's official plane is the F-14A Tomcat. In Zero, out of the 12 major ace squads you face in the game, only three (Gelb [Su-37], Schwarze [MiG-31] and Gault [Su-47]) play this trope straight, the rest primarily flying American jets with a few multinational-European (Rot [Eurofighter]), French (Espada Two [Rafale]) and Swedish (Indigo [Gripen], Espada One [Draken]) ones thrown in as well. Meanwhile, your team is shown flying the F-15C. In X some of the Redshirts fly Flankers. The Rigel Squadron in Joint Assault mostly avert this at the start, with three of the four flying Russian jets, but then switch over to playing it mostly straight when they defect to Valahia in the fourth mission. Interestingly, the one guy among them flying an American jet is also the only one who is actually nice to the player character before the defection. Averted in Infinity. Enemies will fly Fulcrums and Flankers alongside Harrier IIs and Raptors; allies can fly whatever they have available, whether they're Japanese F-2s, the Russian MiG-29, the American F-15, or otherwise. Story-wise it's zig-zagged with the Bone Arrow flight, with Omega flying a Eurofighter and Bronco flying an F-16F, whereas Viper flies a MiG-21 and Zebu a MiG-29; the player obviously has their own choice of craft, though the rental sets alzo zig-zag this, such as mission 2 suggesting an F-16C and then mission 3 suggesting a Su-25. The very well known American AH-64 Apache helicopter is, in Strangereal, used mostly by the enemy forces. 7 has a strong mix of Eastern and Western fighters present as enemies throughout the entire game. Almost every mission features a Russian Mig or Sukhoi, with star enemy ace Mihaly using a Su-30 in most of his appearances, but European Gripens, Rafales, and Typhoons are added into the mix in the midgame, and American F-117s, A-10s and A/V-88s appear now and then. The penultimate mission features numerous enemies using F-22s, Su-47s, Su-57s, YF-23s, F-15Js, Typhoons, and others.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3e9403d8	type	Fighter-Launching Sequence
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3e9403d8	comment	Fighter-Launching Sequence: A few times, naturally. Sometimes you have to actually play through the takeoff sequence yourself, to boot.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: To the point that two of the three PS2-era games even have the exact same number of missions. Ace Combat 5 initially follows much of 04's formula, but begins to diverge a little over halfway through.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In Mach Storm, the CFA-44 Nosferatu from Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation is apparently a US Air Force plane, as you take off from an aircraft carrier commanded by Captain Nicholas Andersen and fight Russian planes straight from Ace Combat: Assault Horizon.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3f71b00e	type	Point Defenseless
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_3f71b00e	comment	Point Defenseless: AA guns usually aren't much threat on lower difficulties, much less able to take down your missiles and bombs, such that when "high-performance" triple-A that can show up in X: Skies of Deception, the briefing and AWACS guy feel a need to emphasise it. Also, Sulejmani's Varcolac from Joint Assault mounts a rear-facing anti-missile Gatling. Assault Horizon averts this in a mission tasking you with destroying an enemy naval fleet, where their CIWS defenses actually are capable of shooting down your missiles, thus requiring you to coordinate with several pilots and launch enough ordnance to overwhelm those defenses. On the player's side, they can also destroy shoulder-fired SAMs with their guns in helicopter missions. Infinity includes lasers mounted on UAVs (in the campaign) and a special gold-painted variant of the P-1112 Aigaion from 6 (in co-op), which could shoot down missiles launched within their attack range. Aegis vessels zig-zag this; in co-op they're as useless as ever, but in Naval Fleet Assault, they can shoot down missile-type weapons... but not bombs, or even other air-to-ground weapons that work exactly like missiles.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: The games like to talk about how terrible nuclear weapons are... despite that the Strangereal setting needed to be made in the first place because nuclear arms have prevented the kind of all-out wars between major military powers that the plotlines are built around. So nukes are bad, as we are told by a world that collapses into gigantic, pointless wars every five or so years because nobody has an effective deterrent against them. Historically, nuclear weapons were not developed in Strangereal until the 1980s by Belka (Strangereal's version of Nazi Germany). Superweapons such as airborne fortresses, railguns and laser platforms are supposed to fill the deterrent role that nuclear weapons normally would, but they do a poor job of it, not least for the fact that they aren't actually meant to be one in-universe; although some could act the role due to being well-known, built for a different purpose but also being effective as a weapon (Stonehenge was built and highly-publicized for the purpose of protecting the continent from the Ulysses asteroid, Excalibur was meant for missile defense, Chandelier also for shooting down asteroids, Arkbird was already fitted with lasers for destroying asteroid fragments still in orbit), for the most part they are in fact meant to be used in a shooting war, most of them being purpose-built for killing people and introduced to the world at large by firing the opening shots of a war (most of the airborne fortresses such as the P-1112 Aigaion from 6 or the Gleipnir from X) or quickly finished, repaired, or otherwise repurposed to turn the tide of a war that's gone badly (stuff like Megalith from 04, Arkbird and then the SOLG from 5, Chandelier from 6, etc.) The "Nukes are bad" message that's often presented in the games is even more undermined by the fact that the massive conventional wars the series portrays are only possible because Strangereal is a world where nuclear proliferation never occurred, and thus no doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction arose to discourage overt conflict between superpowers. Even worse, the still-legitimate part of that message is broken by the fact that Belka, the only country in Strangereal known to have access to nuclear weapons as above, has since gone on to have a hand in, if not be directly responsible for, every single bad thing that's gone on in the series since the events of Zero. The only mainline games the Belkans and/or GrÃ¼nder Industries don't have any hand in are Air Combat,note A self-contained conflict set concurrently to the Belkan War, which Project Aces has no reason yet to acknowledge as canon except as Scarface 1/Phoenix's backstory due to what little narrative there is Ace Combat 04,note A conflict which was caused due to the direct aftermath of the Ulysses asteroid impact and Ace Combat X.note A War for Fun and Profit that severely backfires on the instigator This turns what could have been a still-legitimate aesop of "nukes are bad because they could destroy the world if left unchecked and used with reckless abandon" into an overly-simplistic Hitler Ate Sugar moral, that "nukes are bad because only the bad guys use them". Most egregious is that there doesn't appear to be any kind of interventionism in Strangereal. Two countries can go to war with each other for reasons ranging from legitimate "not wanting to take in any more refugees" as in 04 to simply "wanting to test out their leader's new toys" as in X, and other countries (not even the superpowers like Osea or Yuktobania) will never involve themselves or attempt to broker a truce unless the conflict spills over their border. This is especially evident in the Aurelian War of 2020 (the aforementioned X) and the Anean Continental War of 2015-2016 (6); both wars took place on the borders of a major superpower (Osea in the former and Yuktobania in the latter) and neither country was known to have stepped in. Erusea is able to occupy Usea, a continent roughly the size of Asia for no less than two years, while utilizing a massive railgun network to maintain air dominance, yet no other nation ever intercedes on Usea's behalf, though this is averted in Ace Combat 7; at the beginning of the Lighthouse War, the official two major factions are the Kingdom of Erusea and the IUN, but the IUN is essentially a proxy of Osea and its allies, and much is had about the opinions of other countries who side with either the IUN or with Erusea. Erusea manages to score major moral and strategic victories by not only severely damaging Osea and the IUN in the opening volleys, but doing so without inflicting a single civilian casualty thanks to their advanced drones, whereas Osea's counter attack not only fails to inflict any strategic damage at all but does cause damage to civilian infrastructure, turning several neutral countries against them as a result. A later mission also deals with escorting an Osean plane across the border between Erusea and an Osean-aligned neutral country, and the neutral country's army units express frustration at being able to literally see the Oseans battling for their lives in the air above but are unable to do anything about it since they're still on the Erusean side of the border. The Eruseans, on the other hand, are anxiously waiting for the neutral country to make a wrong move, and even have combat engineering vehicles lined up on their side of the border simply waiting for the order to breach their defenses the moment it happens. On top of that, no sense of military reduction or oversight is ever implemented for belligerent nations; Belka is able to keep a significant portion of its once mighty air force and military, and Erusea is able to rebuild and revitalize its military 14 years after a devastating two-year occupation of an entire continent. For comparison, East and West Germany were founded in 1949, but didn't have their own militaries until early 1956 and late 1955, respectively, while Japan either gave up or was forced to give up its right to declare warnote While the post-war Japanese constitution was primarily drafted by the Allies, there were some Japanese politicians involved, and there is some debate as to who came up with Article 9, which gave up their right to declare war and refuses to maintain any weapon they think can't be used for defence.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_427ca0d0	type	Animal Theme Naming
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_427ca0d0	comment	Animal Theme Naming: The Yellow Squadron's official designation is "Aquila" (Latin and Italian for "Eagle"). Over two dozen Belkan aces are named after various birds (in German), and another dozen, after animals (ditto). Aurelia's air force likewise have bird genera for squadron names, as do the individual pilots of Emmeria's 15th squadron.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Due to the reputation of the various player characters, the enemy's top aces all wish to fight you.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_4691c64f	type	Mission Briefing
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_4691c64f	comment	Mission Briefing: Every mission starts with a summary of objectives and a map displaying enemy forces and any allied ground forces, zooming in on certain areas by pushing left or right on the directional pad, as well as hinting by the number of each enemy type which plane type would be best-suited. 6 would dub these Operations, since in these areas you're to provide close air support against surface targets, achieve air superiority over aerial targets or both, and letting you benefit from a captured airfield, electronic (increased missile guidance) or fire support courtesy of the assisted allies. The briefings are more useful for some missions than others. If a briefing suggests that the flight will be quiet, such as a ceremonial flight above a rally or a patrol during ceasefire, assume the worst. The only truly non-eventful flight is a Free Flight, which can only be done after you clear the campaign at least once.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_469e3e2f	comment	Subverted with the implicitly stated and sometimes detonated nuclear arsenal from various games. What's interesting about this is that although nukes exist, nuclear proliferation doesn't seem to. As such, nuclear weapons are seen as more frightening In-Universe than they are in Real Life, which is the reason The 'Verse exists in the first place.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_47bbbb28	type	We Do the Impossible
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_47bbbb28	comment	We Do the Impossible: The player characters uniformly have or earn a reputation as aces that can do anything behind the sticks of a fighter plane.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_480c69ba	type	Infinity -1 Sword
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_480c69ba	comment	Infinity -1 Sword: Of course, if it's too much effort for you, you can get high-tech planes like F-22, Su-37, Su-47, Su-57, and YF-23 much more easily.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	comment	One Nation Under Copyright: Electrosphere, where corporations have long superseded governments in economic and political control.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_4b4ac0ca	type	Homing Projectile
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_4b4ac0ca	comment	Homing Projectile: Missiles, both friendly and not.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_4cfd9825	type	Colourful Theme Naming
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_4cfd9825	comment	Colourful Theme Naming: Both Belka and Erusea's Air Forces use colors in their squadron names, though Erusea's squadrons are formally named after birds, with the colors being nicknames (e.g. the Aquila (Eagle) Squadron going by Yellow Squadron because of the yellow wingtips and numbers on their planes).
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_547b632	type	Space-Filling Empire
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_547b632	comment	Space-Filling Empire: Osea, the largest country in Strangereal, occupies most of the continent of the same name; essentially everything west of Belka and Sapin, whereas Yuktobania is of similar scale on the Verusean continent. Assuming that Strangereal is the same size as Earth and that the map given in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War is an equal-area projection (which seems likely, given that the unchanged continent of Antarctica is more in line with a Gall-Peters projection), Osea is about the size of Russia, India, and Mexico combined and Yuktobania is slightly smaller, at about the size of Russia, India, and South Africa combined. Both of these nations, fittingly, are the setting's superpowers, though Osea is the larger of the two. Compare to the Usean Continent, which is stated to have at least 18 different nations but is far smaller in size (albeit most of them are part of various alliances like the Federation of Central Usea and/or ISAF).
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5560dbb5	type	Airborne Mook
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5560dbb5	comment	Airborne Mook: Enemy aircraft, naturally. Enemy aces qualify as Elite Mooks or better, especially when they come in squadrons.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: The majority of allied pilots are considerably less capable than the PC.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c	type	Bragging Rights Reward
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c	comment	Bragging Rights Reward: You can't unlock the respective superplanes of each game without completing story mode at least once, depending on the game (and that's not even getting into unlocking the bonus paint schemes for them, which requires beating the game at the highest difficulties). 5 requires taking both story branches and finding specific ground targets to destroy; Zero, without Old Save Bonus, requires beating the game twice with different Ace Styles to unlock the X-02, and beating it three times with all the different Supreme Ace medals to unlock the ADF-01; and the PAK FA can't even be used in the story mode in Assault Horizon.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_56863152	type	Operation: [Blank]
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_56863152	comment	Operation: [Blank]: Most missions have titles of this form displayed during the briefing; this is usually completely independent of the actual stage name. Exceptions include: Operation Free Gracemeria in Ace Combat 6. Ace Combat 5 has the Operation Desert Arrow mission, though the stage name omits the word 'Operation.' There is also Operation Desert Blitz, with the stage name being Desert Lightning, a lesser extent of this. Operation Bunker Shot in Ace Combat 04.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_568b9d5	type	Orphaned Etymology
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_568b9d5	comment	Orphaned Etymology: The aircraft names and designations are an example for the entire series, since they are real-world aircraft being used on a planet where the countries that manufactured and designated them do not exist. For example, the F-14 Tomcat is called such even though there was never an America — nor, for that matter, a North American continent — to give it that specific name (the closest equivalent being Osea), but it could also have been the F-112 if the Tri-Service Aircraft Designation System of 1962 had not passed. It gets even more ridiculous when you consider that the game uses fictional manufacturers (such as North Osea Grunder Industries) that manufacture all sorts of planes, even those made by different countries, while still keeping their original designations. A special mention to the MiG-29A in Ace Combat 7, whose hangar description specifically mentions how it earned its real life nickname.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_581f6468	comment	Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion*: In 2020, the Democratic Republic of Leasath launches an attack on its southern neighbour, the Federal Republic of Aurelia, nearly overrunning the latter within ten days thanks to their airborne fortress Gleipnir. You play as Falco One, another Ace Squad who took part in the same war with Gryphus One, in an attempt to liberate your country from Leasath's control.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5979acea	type	Fragile Speedster
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5979acea	comment	Fragile Speedster: The X-29 has incredible acceleration and max speed but takes hits poorly. So do its "cousins" the F-5E and F-20A in their respective games. The Cariburn is fast, but since a single missile hit can take the damage meter up to 51% even on Normal, damages easily. It blends with Glass Cannon as it can equip QAAMs.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5be08bdf	type	Dodge by Braking
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5be08bdf	comment	Dodge by Braking: The Pugachev's Cobra and its variants are maneuvers both you and some enemy aces can pull off. Just make sure that they're not flying at the same altitude as you are, or they'll opt for a very humiliating machine-gun-kill. The Yellows are fond of doing this. On the other side, if they try to Cobra and you are going slowly enough to not overshoot, it's a big invitation to light 'em up; one of the signs that the new Yellow Squadron from the final level are not nearly as skilled as the old group is that they use the Cobra to evade your squadmates without considering that maybe you or one of your other squadmates are then given a clear, easy shot at them while they're stuck in place.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: The entire series is based on this trope and Improbable Piloting Skills, wingmen and allied aircraft excepted. Supposedly Mobius One may be considered the trope namer for 04, 5, Zero, 6 (and maybe X), especially if you take Ace Combat 5's Arcade Mode ("Operation Katina") as canon, where Mobius One (with the help of AWACS SkyEye) defeated a de facto resurgent Erusean military and at the final battle six X-02 Wyverns using only a F-22 Raptor a year after the events of Ace Combat 04, where he was the lead element in every major ISAF operation of the Usean Continental War of 2003-2005.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5e782d0c	type	Super Prototype
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5e782d0c	comment	Super Prototype: Most of the superfighters, though some of them are subversions.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: All of the optional Erusean aces are named after famous astronomers.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	type	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	comment	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Enemies usually can maneuver better and lock-on much faster than you can even when using the same plane as you, and some bosses' superfighters have capabilities you'll never get. You know this trope is in full effect in AC5 when enemy planes can fly through the goddamn ground to evade you. When it's the last target on a timed mission with 10 seconds left, controllers will be thrown through television sets.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_608b26d	type	Uniqueness Decay
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_608b26d	comment	Assault Horizon Legacy nerfed the tactical laser system from a near instant-kill beam of death (as in Ace Combat 5 and Zero) to a whiffle bat that needs several seconds on target to score a kill. It was also nerfed in Infinity and 7 for multiplayer balance reasons. 7 in particular is a case of in-universe Uniqueness Decay as a weaker mass-produced version was added to common planes while the original overpowered versions remained on the FALKEN and Morgan.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_60ac73a2	type	Americasia
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_60ac73a2	comment	Americasia: The Osean Federation downplays this and combines with Fantasy Counterpart Culture by being Strangereal's version of the United States of America with a decided use of the Japanese Self Defense Forces and their military ranking system.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: In an unusual twist, it's the player, who, depending on the game, may be the Grim Reaper, the Demons/Ghosts of Razgriz, or the Demon Lord of the Round Table, among others. The enemy forces usually start to cower at the mention of your name.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6156eafa	type	So Last Season
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6156eafa	comment	So Last Season: Zig Zagged with starting planes. See the article for the rundown. To summarize, your starting plane varies in effectiveness and reliability over the course of the game You mostly start out with either cheap F-4s or F-5s, in 6 you have a reliable F-16C that can reasonably carry you through the game, in 3 you have a Typhoon, a high-end plane... for the other games that don't take place 20 Minutes into the Future, but for this one is woefully inadequate.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_61a35c24	type	Improbable Piloting Skills
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_61a35c24	comment	Beautifully averted; by the time you're halfway through a given game, your Improbable Piloting Skills will be legend among friend and foe alike. Half the fun is listening to the enemies panic when they find out you're on the field.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6320eced	type	Gameplay and Story Segregation
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6320eced	comment	This in and of itself is an example of Gameplay and Story Segregation, as storywise logistics do matter; just see the 04 missions where you take out a group of Erusean transport planes and then a forward operating base as the prelude to wrecking the "Invincible" Aegir Fleet, then afterwards destroy solar power generator facilities to both damage the enemy war machine and divert attention from an upcoming invasion. The third and fourth missions in 5 force you to keep flying the F-5, as well, because there's no time for you to switch. Fuel limitations are also shown in a few other missions, such as the squad requiring to stop off at a different air base after "Rendezvous" because they're low on fuel and can't get a tanker aircraft to them (and as such you're once again stuck doing "White Bird (Part 1)" with whatever craft you took to "Rendezvous"), and missions which start or end with aerial refueling are noted to take place quite a ways away from where you took off from, particularly ones directly over Yuktobania in the first half of the game.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_637ef67	type	New Game Plus
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_637ef67	comment	New Game Plus: You can start a SP New Game to restart the campaign with your attained money, unlocked planes and paint jobs (and in Zero with your Ace Style Gauge where you left it in the previous campaign), or do Free Mission(s) to bump up your ranking and/or time, shoot down named aces, and in 5, Zero and X gain money. Note that in Zero your Ace Style Gauge is only affected by the campaign, so feel free to be merciless in Free Mission. Free Mission also has a Free Flight option (except in X) where you can fly around all by yourself with no time limit or objectives and explore the maps. In addition, all three PS2-era games require using New Game+ to unlock their super-planes, in addition to other requirements.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_64dad36b	type	Missile Lock-On
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_64dad36b	comment	Missile Lock-On: Missiles generally take a second or two to lock on to a target, if it stays near the center of the screen. Each plane has its own "Anti-Air" and "Anti-Ground" stat which shows how fast that lock-on is. Enemy aces generally maneuver violently enough to make locking on to them quite difficult.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_65ce79f1	type	High-Speed Missile Dodge
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_65ce79f1	comment	High-Speed Missile Dodge: Without countermeasures it's the only defense against enemy missiles. Yes, despite what some people claim, this is a basic tactic taught and used in Real Life. It just doesn't look the same as it does in (most) fiction because fictional missiles usually lack proximity fuses.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6638c7f7	type	Stealth-Based Mission
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6638c7f7	comment	Stealth-Based Mission: 2, 3, 5 and X have missions that force you to fly below a certain altitude, avoid circles representing radar coverage, or both. 5 gets one odd version in an Escort Mission where you can fly through circles representing radar coverage just fine, but then the cargo plane you're escorting will follow you through it and promptly get blasted by friendly SAMs.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: The above-mentioned "United Galaxy Space Force" is an attempt to merge a number of their series with futuristic installments into a single continuity, with Electrosphere as its first installment chronologically. Ace Combat 7 has numerous plot threads that connect back to 04, 5, and Zero, and even some very specific minor allusions to 2 and Electrosphere.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a	type	And Your Reward Is Clothes
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a	comment	And Your Reward Is Clothes: Shoot down enemy aces and you can slap on their paint jobs on your planes.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs. The callsigns of all named aces in the penultimate mission of Ace Combat Zero are the names of chess pieces in German and Russian.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709	type	Cosmetic Award
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709	comment	Cosmetic Award: Medals and paint schemes, especially ones acquired by downing enemy aces.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6f32609a	type	Spinventory
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6f32609a	comment	Spinventory: In almost every game, when selecting the plane, the camera will start rotating around the plane to give a full view. Some of them let you manually rotate the camera and look at the planes at your own leisure.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: When appearing in other games as cameos, the protagonists (and when applicable, their famous rivals) always appear with their signature plane and their Nose Art. Lacking either one, and it definitely isn't them.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6fb7cf97	type	Bigger Stick
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6fb7cf97	comment	Bigger Stick: Getting better planes or better upgrade parts for planes you already have.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6ff1a0bd	type	Minimalist Run
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_6ff1a0bd	comment	Minimalist Run: Using only the starting plane. Probably most easily done on 6, because although the F-16 isn't spectacular, it's still far better than the F-4 or F-5 the player usually starts with in the earlier games.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_714741cc	type	Like Reality, Unless Noted
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_714741cc	comment	Like Reality, Unless Noted: Although Strangereal is a rather different alternate Earth from ours, it uses the same planes with an occasional twist or two, and many countries and events have clear parallels to those on our Earth. And then of course the physics breaking arcade elements the game adds for fun.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_71bd62b9	type	Calling Your Attacks
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_71bd62b9	comment	Calling Your Attacks: From 04 and beyond, characters use the "Fox" brevity codes when launching missiles (04 using Fox 2 for the standard heat-seeking missiles and Fox 1 or Fox 3 for missile-based special weapons), with later games adding more appropriate codes as necessary (5 reshuffling what missiles go by Fox 1 or Fox 3, adding Magnum for air-to-ground missiles, etc).
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_72e63a8b	type	Radio Silence
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_72e63a8b	comment	Radio Silence: A few mission across the series impose this for storyline reasons, sometimes combined with altitude restrictions or avoiding enemy radar. At most, this is just a break from your wingmen's chatter until you arrive where you need to be or are inevitably discovered early.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_7316ccf8	type	OldSchoolDogfighting
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_7316ccf8	comment	Old-School Dogfighting: the emphasis of the series. All balancing and adjustment is centered on the idea of close-in knife fights between planes, even though long-range missiles have reduced, if not eliminated, the prevalence of such things. As a simple example, the F-14 Tomcat may be armed with (something that looks like) the AIM-54 Phoenix, but the weapon system cannot be used beyond visual range; instead, you can fire eight of them at once. (Even though the F-14 can only carry 6 at a time.)
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: You can run out of regular missiles and/or special weapons, and some games and difficulties give you limited cannon ammo, but you never run out of fuel; aerial refueling is just an interactive cutscene. In missions where you can Return To Base, once you successfully land or skip the landing interactive cutscene your plane is immediately repaired (except on harder difficulties) and rearmed. If you switch special weapons for yourself and your wingman (the latter in Zero and 6), the change and reload occurs instantaneously. This in and of itself is an example of Gameplay and Story Segregation, as storywise logistics do matter; just see the 04 missions where you take out a group of Erusean transport planes and then a forward operating base as the prelude to wrecking the "Invincible" Aegir Fleet, then afterwards destroy solar power generator facilities to both damage the enemy war machine and divert attention from an upcoming invasion. The third and fourth missions in 5 force you to keep flying the F-5, as well, because there's no time for you to switch. Fuel limitations are also shown in a few other missions, such as the squad requiring to stop off at a different air base after "Rendezvous" because they're low on fuel and can't get a tanker aircraft to them (and as such you're once again stuck doing "White Bird (Part 1)" with whatever craft you took to "Rendezvous"), and missions which start or end with aerial refueling are noted to take place quite a ways away from where you took off from, particularly ones directly over Yuktobania in the first half of the game. The ending to Zero is a zig-zagging instance. The mission to Avalon has such a long travel time that from mission 16 to the end, you cannot switch, buy, or sell planes or special weapons. Then again, the at-most three minutes between the end of "Avalon" and the beginning of "Zero" somehow completely restocks and repairs your already flying plane (and rather bafflingly, removes all of your allies from the area). Air Combat and Ace Combat 2 do have a fuel meter, but this is really just a disguised timer, since it empties at a steady rate regardless of how you fly.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_75f38750	type	Kaizo Trap
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_75f38750	comment	Kaizo Trap: In almost all the titles you can still crash or even get shot down after the "Mission Accomplished" but before you go to the mission results screen. This is particularly possible in 5, where sometimes the enemy AI glitches out and continues attacking you after the mission is over (realistic as it may be, they're not supposed to do that). Averted in 2: control of your plane is completely taken away after you complete the mission. To avoid this issue, your plane just de-spawns entirely in missions where that would inevitably lead to a crash, and in every other one it will automatically pull up a couple hundred meters as soon as control is taken away from you; if it manages to crash at this point anyway, you lose credits to replace the plane but the mission is still completed. Assault Horizon Legacy, a remake of 2, is more in line with the rest of the series.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_78ad42bd	type	The War Sequence
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_78ad42bd	comment	The War Sequence: Several missions in the games really drive home the point that you are fighting a war. A case of Real Life Writes the Plot with 6, as a better graphics engine allows for nearly every mission to have this scale.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_7bf14666	type	And Now for Someone Completely Different
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_7bf14666	comment	And Now for Someone Completely Different: The only player characters to definitely return in a later game are Mobius One (player character of 04, the arcade mode of 5 and the VR mode of 7) and Phoenix (protagonist of Air Combat and Ace Combat 2/Assault Horizon Legacy), though the latter's paint schemes are entirely different.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_7e716d9f	type	Expansion Pack World
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_7e716d9f	comment	Expansion Pack World: Each new game that came out in the series reveals more and more about Strangereal's geopolitical setup and history. A world map of Strangereal was revealed early on, but there's still a significant number of countries that haven't even been identified yet, much less a war between two of them to flesh them out. Downplayed with 7 which actually returns to the same continent where 04 took place, although it does add a little more detail about some of the smaller countries and regions in that area. In contrast, none of the three games that take place on Earth are connected to each other.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_7ed25068	type	Video Game Caring Potential
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_7ed25068	comment	Videogame Caring Potential: There's satisfaction to be gained from helping the Redshirt Air Force out rather than just gunning for the targets and leaving them to die. 6 rewards this by giving you extra points, and allowing you to request fire support from said allies.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_7fc8cf2c	type	Airstrike Impossible
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_7fc8cf2c	comment	And of course, tunnel flights, canyon flights and fights against humongous superweapons.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_82da9d46	type	Mundane Fantastic
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_82da9d46	comment	Mundane Fantastic: The setting that the series takes place is a relatively grounded world thatâ€™s not so different from Modern Day Earth. Despite that, nobody seems to make a big deal over the fact that airships, laser weapons, and giant railguns have been used in several wars since the Belkan War in 1995.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Both used and averted. Your character does become a One-Man Army with many kills to his name, but any time an ace squadron shows up you will face a much tougher fight since they'll attack together.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8430699a	comment	Alternate Universe: Strangereal, a Constructed World similar to ours in many ways, except without nukes and continents closer together.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: With the sole exception of Mobius 1, and to a lesser extent Phoenix, every Player Character disappears after their game is over, with nothing to indicate where they went and why. Phoneix returned after the Scully Islands Insurrection to deal with the Usean Coup D'etat and presumably retired afterwards as he was hired as a mercenary. Cipher was also hired as a mercenary and presumably used his payout from the Belkan War to disappear from public eye as well. Mobius One returned for 5's Arcade mode and 7's VR mode and was presumably involved in 7's storyline as Erusea is not shown to be in control of North Point at any point. Blaze and Wardog/Razgriz Squadron had to disappear as they were framed for treason, though Nagase was tasked by Harling to go on a 7 year mission to destroy an asteroid and returns at the end of 7, and presumably Swordsman, who joined after Wardog Squadron was framed, continued to serve in the Osean Navy. Talisman presumably stayed in the Emmerian Air Force or retired.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Most of the planes and how they perform too.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8976acda	type	Civil War
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8976acda	comment	Of course this gets subverted somewhat for the enemy in the remake, as only one of the five major ace squadrons (including the aformentioned Z.O.E.) flies Russian aircraft. Justified in all cases however, as both the original, and more poignantly in the remake, shows that this is the closest the series has gotten to depicting a Civil War, and would use Western fighters in its inventory. The squad flying the Russian aircraft are from Erusea, the antagonist country in 04 whose premier ace squadron also flies the Russian-built Su-37 Terminator.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Getting hit by the Chandelier missiles in 6. There's a launcher with a barrel so big you can (and need to) fly a plane down it, and it fires a missile in timed intervals. It's worth mentioning that getting shot down by the Chandelier literally maxes out the Xbox 360's processing power! The amount of power needed to render the cannon's special effects when it fires combined with your plane disintegrating in the air drops the framerate down to about 3 frames per second. Overkill indeed. On your side it's easy to single a target out for a full "burst" of special missiles, heaters and gun rounds. Or drop a FAEB/LSWM/MPBM on a single ground target. It's wasteful to the max, but overkill man!
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8b93a168	comment	Assault Horizon averts this in a mission tasking you with destroying an enemy naval fleet, where their CIWS defenses actually are capable of shooting down your missiles, thus requiring you to coordinate with several pilots and launch enough ordnance to overwhelm those defenses. On the player's side, they can also destroy shoulder-fired SAMs with their guns in helicopter missions.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: The real-life planes are almost always outdone statistically by the game-original super fighters. Of course, unlocking them is also easier, making them more frequently used anyway. Besides, the fifth gen fighters certainly aren't lacking at all.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8df14c99	type	One-Hit-Point Wonder
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8df14c99	comment	One-Hit-Point Wonder: The player's plane on Ace difficulty, at least against missiles.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8f233b1b	type	Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8f233b1b	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness: With few exceptions, the later a plane is available, the statistically superior it is. On the other hand, missiles and other special weapons don't get better on later planes.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8f5247eb	type	Arrow Cam
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_8f5247eb	comment	Arrow Cam: Holding down the missile button in most of the games will cause this to happen.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_92b95d47	type	Prolonged Video Game Sequel
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_92b95d47	comment	Prolonged Video Game Sequel: The Ace Combat series has done this so often, it should be called "Sequel Longevity Sinusoid". Most games in the series have between 15 and 20 levels, with the exceptions ofAce Combat: Joint Assault (26 levels), Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (29), Ace Combat 2 (30), Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (32), and finally, Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere with a whopping 52 levels, the most of any series title so far. Note, however, that these "prolonged" sequels feature some degree of non-linearity, while the games of default length are mostly linear.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: The A-10 Thunderbolt II, usually having the worst speed, but having the most powerful machine gun and toughest defense by a landslide.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_955aba87	type	Mook Chivalry
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_955aba87	comment	Mook Chivalry: Generally averted; although individual mooks tend to hang out at specific areas and only actively chase you when you get close, enemy squadrons have no qualms against taking your lonely self on all at once. It becomes justified later in each game, where you're infamous enough among them that they can't possibly expect to take you out one-on-one.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Several annoying minor changes in the control settings across titles. There's also severe differences between how to evade all the different superweapons, as well. In particular, Stonehenge in 04 requires you to be below 2000 feet, whereas burst missiles from 5 require you to be above 5000 feet. Then come the Gleipnir in X, where its shockwave ballistic missiles require you to fly below 2000 feet again, but its shock cannon requires you to climb above the Gleipnir... and then in its last appearance it turns upside down at one point, forcing you to fly below it again to dodge the same weapon. Try switching between Ace Combat and H.A.W.X.. The controls are virtually identical... except the buttons for guns and missiles are switched. Thankfully, the PC version of the latter lets you rebind your controls. The SAAM weapon got hit with this hard in the jump from PS2 to PSP and beyond, and with the equivalent weapon in HAWX. In 5 and Zero, among other tricks, you can launch an SAAM early, before an enemy enters the maximum lock-on range, and still get a kill on it because the SAAM will start properly tracking the target once you lock on. In X and later games SAAMs are now dedicated to whatever target you were locked onto when you fired them, meaning you can't do the above trick or redirect them in the case of kill-steals anymore, but you can actually target two enemies at the same time if you can keep them both within the missile's steering circle. Then in HAWX, if you try to do any of the above, or even so much as have the target leave the steering circle for a second, it's counted as a miss.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_963d947b	type	It's Personal with the Dragon
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_963d947b	comment	It's Personal with the Dragon: A staple of the series. In many games, there is an Arch-Enemy or personal rival for you that isn't the Big Bad, and who is your greatest enemy. The straightest examples are with 4, 6 and Zero. 4 takes the cake in that all of the cutscenes in the game are about your rival, developing and building up to your final clash with him.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_978355c	type	Orchestral Bombing
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_978355c	comment	Orchestral Bombing: Later games in the series have orchestra for a lot of their music. Come the or certain boss battles, and Ominous Latin Chanting sets in as well.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_97f53f5b	type	Superweapon Surprise
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_97f53f5b	comment	Zero has a spectacular one when Excalibur makes its debut. One second, all the pilots in the operation relax after having cleared the airspace from enemy fighters, Cipher and Pixy form up with a flight of five cargo planes for what looks like an Escort Mission... then suddenly a laser beam sweeps down from the sky and insta-kills three cargo planes with zero warning. Cue everyone still alive screaming over each other in confusion and panic as this kicks in - including resident wisecracker Pixy, who for the first time in the game sounds more than a little nervous.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": Usually signaled by the arrival of your squadron. Zero has a spectacular one when Excalibur makes its debut. One second, all the pilots in the operation relax after having cleared the airspace from enemy fighters, Cipher and Pixy form up with a flight of five cargo planes for what looks like an Escort Mission... then suddenly a laser beam sweeps down from the sky and insta-kills three cargo planes with zero warning. Cue everyone still alive screaming over each other in confusion and panic as this kicks in - including resident wisecracker Pixy, who for the first time in the game sounds more than a little nervous.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_98a79aed	type	Occupiers Out of Our Country
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_98a79aed	comment	Occupiers Out of Our Country: In most games, once you start to liberate enemy territories, you're likely to hear someone invoke this trope. The liberation of Directus in Ace Combat Zero is the most notable example. After you begin your fight against Belkan forces, the citizens of Directus decide to join in and fight back with whatever they can get their hands on. With you and Pixy covering the air, they take back the city by themselves.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9a117348	type	Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9a117348	comment	Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels: The highest difficulty level is Ace.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9aa17eb0	type	Story Branching
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9aa17eb0	comment	Story Branching: Two Ace Combat games include major story branching: Electrosphere and Skies of Deception. However, only the former has Multiple Endings; in the latter, all branches converge for the final mission. Minor branching is present in other games, as well, but it usually avails to one or two mission-long branches, which converge back again into the linear storyline. Ace Combat 2 has your allies launching two simultaneous operations against the enemy, "Alphaville" and "Bellissima", and lets the player decide which operation they want to support. It also has hidden missions that can be unlocked by destroying certain targets in specific missions, but which overall have no effect on the progression and can be skipped. Like Electrosphere, there are also multiple endings, though they're all basically different versions of the same ending depending on whether you shoot down a recurring enemy every time he shows up and, if you do, whether you succeed in shooting down a cruise missile before it can impact with a city. Ace Combat 5 branches off at two different times before converging back into the main story. Your wingman Chopper asks you a question in the middle of a mission and your Yes/No answer determines the choice. The question he asks has nothing to do with anything relevant to the missions. Arcade Mode also has a mission path that branches at two separate points, though it still sends you through the same number of missions per playthrough and the last level is the same for all four paths, other than the placement of enemies and whether the final encounter is four (top path) or six (every other path) X-02s; the paths are basically more of a difficulty select than actual branching. Ace Combat Zero features three branching missions with three different paths, each being split between anti-air, anti-ground, and anti-air/ground missions, but this has little to no impact on the progression of the story. In a subtler way, the story also branches based on your Ace Style.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb	type	Difficult, but Awesome
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb	comment	Difficult, but Awesome: SAAMs usually fall into this. They require you leave yourself vulnerable and keep a target in your sights for the duration of the missile's flight, but they are some of the most accurate missiles in the series, making them extremely useful against enemy aces if conditions permit their use.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137	type	Hyperspace Arsenal
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137	comment	Hyperspace Arsenal: The least number of missiles any plane in the series carries is around 50, frequently you'll have many more, and then you have special weapons on top of that - don't be surprised when you see ordnance 'magically' rematerialize on your plane's wings in third-person view! Oh, and ditto for the gun both due to a lot of — or on some difficulty levels infinite — ammunition and a slower rate of fire than in real life where you have cannons with hundred-round bursts at around six-thousand rounds per minute.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e	type	Interface Spoiler
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e	comment	Interface Spoiler: In most games there will be unselectable or empty boxes in the plane buying and selecting screens, giving away the total number of available planes. in Zero, the named aces list has 169 entries, in rows of 5. Normally this would leave one blank space after the 169th ace (Pixy), suggesting there is a secret 170th ace. There technically is one: Mobius freaking One with his signature F-22 Raptor. Subverted, however, as there isn't a profile to unlock, since he appears in a bonus mission out of the storyline.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9cd91b8a	type	Enemy-Detecting Radar
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9cd91b8a	comment	Enemy-Detecting Radar: Your fighter's radar will show the location of enemies nearby, though stealth planes will fade in and out. Some games use different colored icons to indicate which targets are mission-critical (Zero). Others use the same colours to show how much health each target has left (5). Most of the games that came out after Ace Combat 6 often have stealth planes only show up on radar when they are in the front half of your plane's radar field.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9d3f4777	type	My Nayme Is
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9d3f4777	comment	My Nayme Is: The usual Japanese L/R translation issues are found throughout the series.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9e8aa11e	type	Friendly Fireproof
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9e8aa11e	comment	Friendly Fireproof: Go ahead, drop that cluster bomb ten feet from friendly ground forces. They won't feel a thing. Or try to send a couple rounds through your wingman's cockpit if he's being annoying.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: In the original Air Combat, Phoenix is literally the only one driving back the rebellion. In 2, Phoenix can invoke this by choosing to not hire a wingman. Deliberately invoked in "Operation Katina" in 5, as Mobius 1 and Sky Eye are sent to fend off Erusean rebel forces. Galm 1 from Zero is eventually acknowledged as "an indispensable component in (the) war".
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: A portion of The Unsung War has found its way in every game since 5. Yes, even Assault Horizon.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_9fde2eb1	comment	Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "<player character>, engage."
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a1d927ea	type	Wingman
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a1d927ea	comment	Wingman: Right from the beginning, with the exception of Ace Combat 04. They were a complete waste of money in the first couple games. Quiet wastes of money.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a1f82f86	type	Enemy Chatter
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a1f82f86	comment	Enemy Chatter: A staple of the series: it seems that everyone and his mother — including allied ground units in the middle of raging battles, enemy air and ground units, police CBs and even civilian radio stations — are all broadcasting on your presumably encrypted and frequency-shifting channel, and (other than your wingman commands) vice versa. Strangely enough, it compels the drama factor of the series. Lampshaded late in Ace Combat 5, when Archer incredulously announces "the radio is picking up the enemy communications!" Which it's been doing the whole time. It is likely that the enemy chatter isn't actually broadcasting over the radio all the time; more realistically, only the player can hear it, which is why the game will occasionally have the characters take notice when the enemy really is speaking on the same channel, for the convenience of knowing when the characters can actually hear the enemy. Assault Horizon dropped it altogether save for when some enemies (mostly Markov and Illich) state that they deciphered your radio encryption and knew your frequency and the mission where you save the Russian prime minister.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: Although not outright stated, the games that are set in the real-world Earth instead of Strangereal are clearly independent from each other, with no story reference toward each other. Ace Combat Infinity stands out, as it meshed both a plot set in the real world with special encounters of the Strangereal settings. The game was also focused around online multiplayer and was designed to be different in the first place.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	comment	Usually (but not always) you start off with a dinky outdated plane. May be justified considering you generally start out as an unproven rookie and your army needs to come Back from the Brink.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a47340fe	type	One Riot, One Ranger
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a47340fe	comment	Lampshaded in the arcade mode of Ace Combat 5, where it's revealed that the hero of Ace Combat 04, Mobius One, was proven to be more effective than an entire squadron, hence why ISAF sent him to deal with the issue alone.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e	type	Infinity +1 Sword
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e	comment	Infinity +1 Sword: Almost all the superfighters have hard-to-achieve requirements, but the effort's well worth it. Infinity -1 Sword: Of course, if it's too much effort for you, you can get high-tech planes like F-22, Su-37, Su-47, Su-57, and YF-23 much more easily.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c	type	Unusable Enemy Equipment
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c	comment	Unusable Enemy Equipment: There are some fighter-ish planes you can't acquire for your collection, and non-fighter types i.e. bombersnote except in Infinity, as of the December 2014 update, recon, and AEW&C are wholly unusable. The Harrier, SR-71, Tu-95 Bear, and B-52 are common examples. The enemy controlled variations of the FALKEN in 2, Morgan in Zero, and Nosferatu in 6 all have special features that the player versions never had, although in the FALKEN's case this is turned on its head by giving the playable version something else entirely that the NPC version didn't have.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: By Electrosphere in the Strangereal continuity, even powerful corporations have their own militaries, including air forces.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Typically, as your skills become more and more recognized, you or your squadron get a nickname, referring to a plot point or squadron logo. For instance, Gryphus One from Ace Combat X becomes known as "Nemesis" by the obviously uncreative enemies, and "the Southern Cross" by allies, since the constellation is painted on your aircraft, there's the "Ribbon" in 04, and the Razgriz squadron (alternately the Demons or Ghosts thereof) in 5. Possibly the hardest to top would be the "Demon Lord of the Round Table" in Zero. Possibly rivalling that, one enemy in the sixteenth mission refers to Mobius One as "the Grim Reaper." And one of the minor allied pilots from Ace Combat 6 (e.g. one of the ones you can't unlock a profile about, but is still identified by name in subtitles) is literally the Red Baron, albeit named for the character from Namco's earlier arcade game Sky Kid (his two wingmen are Sky Kid, named after the game, and Blue Max, the other playable character from it). It first applies to your wingman in Zero; Pixy already has the nickname "Solo Wing" (he completed a mission and crash-landed his F-15C Eagle despite losing its right wing), he has a custom paint scheme (his new Eagle's right wing is painted red), and your opposition has already heard of him.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ac9f78d9	type	Jack of All Stats
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ac9f78d9	comment	Jack of All Stats: The MiG-29 Fulcrum usually is this. So are F-16s, though it often has multiple role-specific variants. Multirole aircraft in general are built around this, being able handle both fighter and attacker duties equally, though in return, they are less effective than their specialized counterparts in their respective roles.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Enemies have this reaction when your characters show up in later parts of the games. Your allies have this reaction when they get targetted by the local superweapon. The two words are explicitly dropped in X: Skies of Deception when your allies see that there's another Fenrir in Archelon Fortress trying to escape to Leasath and they can't do anything about it themselves. Zero has a rather good example in the first Round Table mission if the player is up against the Rot Squadron. And in the penultimate mission:
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ae6adc36	type	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ae6adc36	comment	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Lots of it in ACZ. Also, Scinfaxi, Hrimfaxi, Arkbird, Grabacr, and Ofnir in AC5.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_b6203862	type	Interquel
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_b6203862	comment	Interquel: With the retcon of Air Combat being the very first game of the Strangereal timeline, every game after Electrosphere (currently the last game of the timeline) retroactively becomes this.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_b6e1d40b	comment	For balance reasons, every plane in the game is armed with a gun, even those that don't have them in real life (such as the F-117A, the F-35C or the EA-18G) or even couldn't have an internal gun (such as the F-15 S/MTD, whose right canard would be right in the way of a regular Eagle's gun; later games would at least put them in gunpods underneath the planes that didn't or couldn't carry an internal one), as well as dozens of missiles (such as, again, the F-117 and unarmed tech demos) that, unlike in reality, are viable and equally effective against both fast air targets and unmoving bunkers. Special weapons don't get much better, as even their lower numbers are still more than double what some of the most well-armed planes could carry, and while there is a distinction between weapons that can only target aircraft but not ground targets and vice versa, there's no similar distinction between ground targets on land and ground targets at sea, allowing you to e.g. fire an anti-ship missile designed to skim the surface of the water and still hit a hardened bunker built into the side of a mountain. 6 also allows every plane to perform tight High-G turns, which would normally tear some of said aircraft apart.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_b9e82f09	type	Playable Epilogue
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_b9e82f09	comment	Playable Epilogue: The games typically include the so-called "Free Mission mode", where you can fly individual campaign missions out of order as often as you want on any difficulty. This mode (along with New Game Plus) is usually unlocked after completing the campaign on any difficulty and lets you use all hitherto unlocked planes and upgrades, in order to e.g. hunt down the remaining aces or improve your completion ranks. Ace Combat 7 averts this, by making Free Mission available right away... which makes grinding, unlocking, and playing through the Campaign on the first playthrough with any plane on the aircraft tree possible to those who have the patience to do so.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ba6baee1	type	High-Altitude Battle
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ba6baee1	comment	High-Altitude Battle: Although every battle in the series takes place in the air (even if it's a helicopter flying only a few feet off the ground), a few stand out for pushing the limits of your airframe: "Rising High" from Ace Combat 2 and Assault Horizon Legacy takes place so high (above 40,000 feet) that most aircraft will constantly stall if you try to climb at too steep an angle or if you lose too much thrust. Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere has high altitude missions for the RF-12A2 (a futuristic relative of the SR-71 Blackbird), as well as a mission in orbit involving a weaponized space shuttle. You have to survive re-entry too.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be	type	Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp"
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be	comment	Air Combat and Ace Combat 2 do have a fuel meter, but this is really just a disguised timer, since it empties at a steady rate regardless of how you fly.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba	type	Timed Mission
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba	comment	Timed Mission: Every one. In the first two games this was represented by a fuel meter, making it slightly more plausible, though oddly enough RTB was almost never an issue and the meter depleted at the same rate regardless of what you did.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Some of the player characters get this treatment.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: An Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) aircraft constantly supervises you, providing mission and story updates as well as things like reminding you that you've locked on to an enemy or vice versa, that you or the enemy has launched a missile at the other, or you're in gun range, as well as whether a missile hit or missed. Amazingly, it's not actually as irritating as it sounds. To the developers' credit, his information is usually useful and the guy comes off as friendly and genuinely concerned about the pilots. It also helps that there is enough dialogue played infrequently enough to keep it from getting stale.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_bf17a64e	type	Germanic Efficiency
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_bf17a64e	comment	Germanic Efficiency: Being the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Germany, Belka has the most advanced technologies (many of the original fighters and superweapons in the series are attributed to Belkan engineering), the most efficient air force (they have the most Aces in any Ace Combat game to date; out of 169 named Aces in Zero, 139 of them are of Belkan nationality) and very skilled engineers (in the form of Gault 1/Anton "Dr." Kupchenko, who designed the superweapons of Ace Combat Zero as well as the ADFX-01/02 Morgan, and Gault 7/Lorenz "Feniks" Riedel, who designed the Battle Fleet for the Eastern Faction during the Estovakian Civil War and the subsequent Emmerian-Estovakian War). This dies down in between the Belkan War and the events of 5 due to painful punishments from causing the War. It's also implied that General Resource, Ltd. from Electrosphere traces its origins to a state-run South Belkan munitions firm, and carries on that tradition in its own corporate power schemes.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_bf4fb49b	type	Aerial Canyon Chase
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_bf4fb49b	comment	Aerial Canyon Chase: Pretty much every Ace Combat game requires the player to do this for some reason, most often because an enemy base is within the canyon and they have an undefeatable network of surface-to-air missiles covering the airspace above. Sometimes there are enemy planes or helicopters skulking in the canyons or other narrow passageways or tunnels, just waiting to achieve missile lock.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_bf698238	type	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_bf698238	comment	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦: Your offensive options in the first two games consisted entirely of short-ranged missiles and an even-shorter-ranged Vulcan cannon. Electrosphere allowed you to swap those out for weapons with differing powers and ranges, and every game after that added special weapons such as bombs.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c18d469b	type	Mutually Assured Destruction
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c18d469b	comment	The "Nukes are bad" message that's often presented in the games is even more undermined by the fact that the massive conventional wars the series portrays are only possible because Strangereal is a world where nuclear proliferation never occurred, and thus no doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction arose to discourage overt conflict between superpowers. Even worse, the still-legitimate part of that message is broken by the fact that Belka, the only country in Strangereal known to have access to nuclear weapons as above, has since gone on to have a hand in, if not be directly responsible for, every single bad thing that's gone on in the series since the events of Zero. The only mainline games the Belkans and/or GrÃ¼nder Industries don't have any hand in are Air Combat,note A self-contained conflict set concurrently to the Belkan War, which Project Aces has no reason yet to acknowledge as canon except as Scarface 1/Phoenix's backstory due to what little narrative there is Ace Combat 04,note A conflict which was caused due to the direct aftermath of the Ulysses asteroid impact and Ace Combat X.note A War for Fun and Profit that severely backfires on the instigator This turns what could have been a still-legitimate aesop of "nukes are bad because they could destroy the world if left unchecked and used with reckless abandon" into an overly-simplistic Hitler Ate Sugar moral, that "nukes are bad because only the bad guys use them".
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c250c2cb	type	Midair Collision
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c250c2cb	comment	Midair Collision: This is one of the most embarrassing ways to fail a mission in the games, especially crashing into a bomber you are chasing or a plane you already shot down.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c267c2b4	type	Cataclysm Backstory
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c267c2b4	comment	Cataclysm Backstory: The Ulysses meteor defined the Strangereal universe. When it was first discovered, many countries scrambled to create weapons capable of destroying it, leading to the building of the many doomsday weapons faced in the franchise. When it actually crashed, the economic and political consequences led to two of the wars in the games, the Anean and Second Usean Continental Wars. The devastation of Ulysses also ultimately spurred the construction of the Lighthouse Space Elevator in the early 2010s, as a means to assist with the rebuilding of the Usean continent with a strong supply of solar energy. This also applies to the Infinity universe, where the "Ulysses disaster" led to the setting of the game being what it is.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c2b28f75	type	A.K.A.-47
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c2b28f75	comment	A.K.A.-47: Weapons are referred to with generic descriptors instead of real names; thus in, for example, Ace Combat Zero, the F-14 Tomcat, Su-37 Terminator, JAS Gripen, and Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon all use XLAAs whereas the real planes would probably use different missiles for the long range role. The actual models of the missiles are all different and accurately based on a real missile at least similar to the missile's role, though; for example on the F-14 the XLAA resembles the AIM-54 Phoenix, whereas the Typhoon uses Meteor BVRAAMs. Also, Electrosphere gives the airplanes slightly different names as part of the game's futuristic feel, such as the Eurofighter 2000E Typhoon II. Justified with the minor mistakes the games sometimes make. They sometimes use prototype aircraft, so certain planes have names and functions different from usual (e.g. the F-16E Block 60 was named the F-16C Block 60, and in Ace Combat 2, the Raptor wasn't released yet, so they modeled the YF-22, the prototype version, instead).
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c32201f6	type	Good Colors, Evil Colors
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c32201f6	comment	Good Colors, Evil Colors: Radar signatures. The colors used change depending on the game, but typically retain green for allies and red for required targets. This carries over into countries as well, with the flags of "good" countries typically being blue, whereas the flags of "bad" countries are usually in red.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: Although wide and varied, and still capable of damaging you significantly, it's present in all games where you take on whole squadrons of fighters. Especially early on in the American version of Electrosphere, all of Neucom's fighters are the same plane. Averted of course by the ace squadrons; even when your plane is superior (in their first appearances on non-SP playthroughs it's not) they tend to be better pilots. Gets iffy though when for gameplay reasons the difference becomes really marked (Espada 1 in Zero flies a starting plane and is still one of the most difficult aces in the entire game).
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c513249	type	Harder Than Hard
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c513249	comment	Harder Than Hard: Ace Combat 04 and subsequent games have Expert and Ace difficulties. They also have an Easier Than Easy difficulty (Very Easy). Note though that some goodies (mainly ace appearances) only occur on certain difficulties. Just to clarify for anyone not clear on the concept: on Expert difficulty, one missile instantly kills you, and that's not the hardest difficulty. Ace Combat 6 had "Ace of Aces" difficulty available to purchase as DLC. It only took about 3 bullets to down your craft.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c5ddc769	type	Armored Coffins
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c5ddc769	comment	Armored Coffins: All the planes in 3 are piloted via a so-called COFFIN (COnnection For Flight INterface) system, which is a kind of neural interface that allows you to steer them with your brain but has no ejection seats whatsoever.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c62aee4c	type	From Zero to Hero
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c62aee4c	comment	From Zero to Hero: Almost every entry in this franchise has the Player Character start off as an anonymous low-ranking fighter pilot who quickly becomes a One Man Armies who is The Dreaded and Famed In-Story. As the game progresses, allied units will start breathing a sigh of relief now that their premier ace pilot is here to provide air support, while the enemy side will either see the pilot's arrival as an Oh, Crap! moment or, if it's an enemy ace, as a Worthy Opponent.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c6dccfb7	type	Musical Spoiler
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c6dccfb7	comment	Musical Spoiler: You can tell that something is about to happen if the music suddenly goes quiet or changes.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c7270d1c	type	With This Herring
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c7270d1c	comment	With This Herring: Usually (but not always) you start off with a dinky outdated plane. May be justified considering you generally start out as an unproven rookie and your army needs to come Back from the Brink. Double Subverted in Electrosphere, where you start with a sleek, snazzy 2003 Eurofighter Typhoon... in 2040, when fusion-powered super planes equipped with superpowerful lasers are under development.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c83f40d8	comment	Most egregious is that there doesn't appear to be any kind of interventionism in Strangereal. Two countries can go to war with each other for reasons ranging from legitimate "not wanting to take in any more refugees" as in 04 to simply "wanting to test out their leader's new toys" as in X, and other countries (not even the superpowers like Osea or Yuktobania) will never involve themselves or attempt to broker a truce unless the conflict spills over their border. This is especially evident in the Aurelian War of 2020 (the aforementioned X) and the Anean Continental War of 2015-2016 (6); both wars took place on the borders of a major superpower (Osea in the former and Yuktobania in the latter) and neither country was known to have stepped in. Erusea is able to occupy Usea, a continent roughly the size of Asia for no less than two years, while utilizing a massive railgun network to maintain air dominance, yet no other nation ever intercedes on Usea's behalf, though this is averted in Ace Combat 7; at the beginning of the Lighthouse War, the official two major factions are the Kingdom of Erusea and the IUN, but the IUN is essentially a proxy of Osea and its allies, and much is had about the opinions of other countries who side with either the IUN or with Erusea. Erusea manages to score major moral and strategic victories by not only severely damaging Osea and the IUN in the opening volleys, but doing so without inflicting a single civilian casualty thanks to their advanced drones, whereas Osea's counter attack not only fails to inflict any strategic damage at all but does cause damage to civilian infrastructure, turning several neutral countries against them as a result. A later mission also deals with escorting an Osean plane across the border between Erusea and an Osean-aligned neutral country, and the neutral country's army units express frustration at being able to literally see the Oseans battling for their lives in the air above but are unable to do anything about it since they're still on the Erusean side of the border. The Eruseans, on the other hand, are anxiously waiting for the neutral country to make a wrong move, and even have combat engineering vehicles lined up on their side of the border simply waiting for the order to breach their defenses the moment it happens.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c96c96d	type	Unlockable Difficulty Levels
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c96c96d	comment	Unlockable Difficulty Levels: In the older titles, unlocking the ultimate Ace difficulty mode requires you to finish the campaign at least once on Normal or Hard.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: Subverted in most games after 2. Especially considering when you see cutscenes of pilots and soldiers from the opposing army doing what they were trained to do without any complaints.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c9e5a0db	type	Legacy Character
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_c9e5a0db	comment	Legacy Character: Kei "Edge" Nagase is likely to appear in some form throughout each game: as a mercenary, defector, airline pilot, The Lancer, The Cameo in a real NATO squadron, a pilot for Strangereal's version of NATO, writing a Character Blog on development of one of the games...
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: In addition to the player characters, several enemy aces like Yellow 13 and most of the AWACS spokesmen go only by callsign.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cc374ba6	type	It's Up to You
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cc374ba6	comment	It's Up to You: In real life, squadrons generally specialize, with different units being assigned close air support, getting air superiority or doing bombing runs. Your characters do all of them over the course of the game, sometimes at the same time. The main character (and sometimes his squadron) can always and sometimes is singlehandedly turning the tide of the war. It also becomes a driving factor in the game where radio chatter reflects the infamy and fear of your allies and enemies when you appear on the battlefield, especially in Ace Combat 5. Lampshaded in the arcade mode of Ace Combat 5, where it's revealed that the hero of Ace Combat 04, Mobius One, was proven to be more effective than an entire squadron, hence why ISAF sent him to deal with the issue alone. And generally even when you do have a squadron, their AI is so passive that most players will end up with ten or more kills for every one they make between them.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Z.O.E, or "Zone of Endless" for the player's sake, first appeared in Ace Combat 2, and is given literally no explanation or acknowledgement. Its remake, Assault Horizon Legacy, acknowledges this mysterious enemy plane that sometimes shows up to challenge Phoenix, but still leaves Commander Olsen and everyone else confused as to just what the heck it is. There are vague hints about a secret Belkan program being developed in Zero and 5, but it isn't until 7 that the players learn that the Z.O.E are all advanced AI drones. In all of this, there's no in-game acknowledgement, mention, or discussion about "Zone Of Endless" anywhere. It still remains something that only the players know about.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ccee5e5e	type	Defenseless Transports
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ccee5e5e	comment	Defenseless Transports: Transport planes (and ships, less often) appear from time to time as either NPCs that must be escorted or targets to be destroyed. They can usually survive a few hits but can't fight back in any way.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cd8ca67a	type	DoubleSubverted
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cd8ca67a	comment	Double Subverted in Electrosphere, where you start with a sleek, snazzy 2003 Eurofighter Typhoon... in 2040, when fusion-powered super planes equipped with superpowerful lasers are under development.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	comment	Nuclear Weapons Taboo: Subverted with the implicitly stated and sometimes detonated nuclear arsenal from various games. What's interesting about this is that although nukes exist, nuclear proliferation doesn't seem to. As such, nuclear weapons are seen as more frightening In-Universe than they are in Real Life, which is the reason The 'Verse exists in the first place.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: The Neucom's R-series (at least the more advanced ones). The R-211 Orcinus and R-102/3 shouldn't be able to fly with what we currently know about aerodynamics. Questionable with the ADF-01 FALKEN: It flies well enough in X-Plane, which is one of the most realistic flight sims, but some things have been done in reality that simulators could not replicate and vice versa. Short of an extremely rich and well-connected fan building his own, we may never know. It's also one of the most over the top Superplanes, oddly (see Serial Escalation below). The X-02 Wyvern, a fictional super-plane, has forward-swept swing wings, which would be likely to snap off under high-G maneuvers; those wings swing inward to form a large delta wing, which is certainly good design but requires the leading edges of one (or both!) wings to be soft enough to merge together when the are swung and strong enough to withstand the rigors of flight; and the diagonal canards and tailplanes swing downward to join the giant delta wing, which looks awesome but must result in a great deal of yaw instability at supersonic speeds. Flying wings do work, or the Stealth Bomber wouldn't be able to fly, but it also doesn't break the sound barrier. This trope can also go the other way with very old aircraft that have been long out of production or retired. The most notable would be the F-14, of which most were retired and subsequently destroyed, and the remaining handful are sitting in museums. Unless you count the ones Iran has, of course. The F-22 Raptor (which is only in service with the United States Air Force in reality) is in service with just about every nation in Strangereal, with even the unaffiliated mercenary Scarface squadron of the first two games able to get their hands on several right about when it first entered production. The Su-37, of which only two were built, is a mainstay advanced fighter in Strangereal. In reality, it was designed as a technology demonstrator and was declared technologically obsolete with the advent of the Su-35S in 2010. For balance reasons, every plane in the game is armed with a gun, even those that don't have them in real life (such as the F-117A, the F-35C or the EA-18G) or even couldn't have an internal gun (such as the F-15 S/MTD, whose right canard would be right in the way of a regular Eagle's gun; later games would at least put them in gunpods underneath the planes that didn't or couldn't carry an internal one), as well as dozens of missiles (such as, again, the F-117 and unarmed tech demos) that, unlike in reality, are viable and equally effective against both fast air targets and unmoving bunkers. Special weapons don't get much better, as even their lower numbers are still more than double what some of the most well-armed planes could carry, and while there is a distinction between weapons that can only target aircraft but not ground targets and vice versa, there's no similar distinction between ground targets on land and ground targets at sea, allowing you to e.g. fire an anti-ship missile designed to skim the surface of the water and still hit a hardened bunker built into the side of a mountain. 6 also allows every plane to perform tight High-G turns, which would normally tear some of said aircraft apart. Sometimes justified when the game uses production or prototype concepts of planes and weapons before the final testing is finished (e.g., the production model of the Raptor is used in AC04, after the first two games used the prototype YF-22, and in trailers for AC7 Raptors are shown using external weapon pods, which were in testing for the FA-18C). The Su-33 Flanker-D is consistently modeled with a catapult connecting bar that is not present on the real plane, enabling it to perform catapult-assisted takeoff like NATO carrier-based planes in addition to doing ski-jump takeoffs from enemy carriers.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb	type	Escort Mission
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb	comment	Escort Mission: There is at least one per game in the PS2 era. A notable example in Ace Combat: Joint Assault has one of the players control a 747 jet while the others escort them.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: More dramatic and realistic elements have crept in over time, the biggest examples being Zero and Electrosphere.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: The PS2 series hammer in the fact that your enemies are people too, with the wars being waged due to economic strife caused either by the Ulysses meteor or from the country itself.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_d043100b	type	Nose Art
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_d043100b	comment	Nose Art: A staple of the series, from about Ace Combat 3 onwards. Shooting down certain enemy Ace Pilots allows you to slap their paint jobs onto your planes of the same model. Other special paint jobs were unlocked by completing certain plot missions. Ace Combat 6 also introduced downloadable custom paint jobs.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_d5995bfd	type	Roboteching
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_d5995bfd	comment	Roboteching: The key ability of QAAMs; some cruise missiles also give you quite the spinny chase.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_d70ade70	type	Fictional Earth
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_d70ade70	comment	Fictional Earth: Strangereal is Earth in every possible way except for landmasses (which for the most part are Earth continents shifted in different directions and visually modified) and nations. You can even tell what real world counterparts the nations are based on. It has an Antarctica no different from the real one. It even has its own Pacific and Arctic Oceans. Almost all the aircraft used in the game exist in reality.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_da006328	type	Earn Your Title
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_da006328	comment	Earn Your Title: The player's accomplishments in battle are what eventually lead them to earning their notorious titles among both allies and enemies alike.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_daa710c8	type	Try Not to Die
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_daa710c8	comment	Try Not to Die: On occasion. 5 and Zero in particular punctuate the briefing for their respective final missions by saying that any outcome other than you returning safely is unacceptable. Zero also has a humorous variant, where Pixy tells PJ in their first meeting that, if he gets shot down, he should crash somewhere where Pixy can't see it.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: Most of the late-/end-game planes can tank more hits than earlier ones while still being faster, more agile, and carrying more ammo. Especially the super fighters.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	type	Artificial Brilliance
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	comment	Artificial Brilliance: Ace pilots, when compared to the standard mooks. Yellow Squadron in 04 will use the Pugachev Cobra maneuver to get behind you, for instance.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_df3b0af7	type	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_df3b0af7	comment	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon: The missile ranges are below their real-world equivalents' (the standard missiles are consistently given a range of about 900 feet). The XLAA ones, in particular, are ridiculously short.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_df514fe9	type	Crew of One
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_df514fe9	comment	Crew of One: In all the games, whenever the player flies an aircraft that in the real world would require a crew of 2 or more to operate effectively, the empty seats are automatically filled in the aircraft's third-person models and the plane is able to execute all functions flawlessly.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e3f34fb4	type	Featureless Protagonist
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e3f34fb4	comment	Featureless Protagonist: The only detail you'll get about the player characters is their gender. To that end, most of the games' stories focus on people affected by the protagonist's actions (04 being the biggest example). A few of the games have played with this, notably Electrosphere, where it turns out the PC is an AI running several different versions of a hypothetical conflict, designed to test whether he can kill a specific person as revenge for the guy who programmed the simulation. Hell, one of the most detailed protagonists so far is Blaze - and all that's known about him is his gender and his hair color. Gryphus One also has one identifying detail: judging from the way he is described as a veteran and how AWACS Crux constantly addresses him as "sir" and acts very subordinate to him, it can be inferred he is a commissioned officer. If this is true, he would be the only player character who is one in the whole series, as opposed to a mercenary or a low-ranking pilot. In that same game, Mission 13 also has a few lines of dialogue from Falco One, who is the hero of Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion and he mentions he has a son. This trend was finally broken by Assault Horizon, which has multiple playable characters with visible faces and speaking roles: William Bishop, Doug Robinson, and Janice Rehl.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: You never get to see the main character either which is especially obvious in Ace Combat 5, where the between-mission cutscenes show the rest of your squadron frequently, as well as some other allies and enemies. Even when you try zooming in on the cockpit of your plane during a mission the pilot's face is hidden by a tinted visor and an oxygen mask.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e545e190	comment	Nerf: Certain SP weapons have been subjected to significant nerfs after they prove particularly dominant. QAAMs were nerfed heavily from Shattered Skies to Unsung War, going from nearly perfect seekers to barely better than regular missiles. Zero gave SAAMs a de facto nerf without actually changing their parameters by making the AI much more aggressive, which makes it much harder to keep them on target, both because the plane you're shooting at will try much harder to escape the circle, and because other enemies will be much more likely to force you to take evasive maneuvers of your own and break your lock. Assault Horizon Legacy nerfed the tactical laser system from a near instant-kill beam of death (as in Ace Combat 5 and Zero) to a whiffle bat that needs several seconds on target to score a kill. It was also nerfed in Infinity and 7 for multiplayer balance reasons. 7 in particular is a case of in-universe Uniqueness Decay as a weaker mass-produced version was added to common planes while the original overpowered versions remained on the FALKEN and Morgan.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e57bd3dd	type	Wolfpack Boss
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e57bd3dd	comment	Wolfpack Boss: All the time against enemy ace squadrons.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e62ce652	type	Superweapon
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e62ce652	comment	Superweapon: The series tries to include at least one per game. Many of them were built as a response to the Ulysses meteor that threatened Strangereal in 1994. In Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies features two: the Stonehenge was built as a series of rotating cannons capable of shooting down the Ulysses meteor and any other fragments from it. For the first half of the game, it serves as a long-range anti-air weapon against the ISAF forces that forms a perimeter that prevents them from advancing. It can shoot down any bombers attempting to get too close. One mission tasks you with destroying the solar farms that provide power to it, but then you have to avoid getting shot down by it by staying below a certain altitude and flying through a series of canyons just to escape its range. Once Stongehenge was destroyed, the Eruseans fall back to the Megalith, which was capable of firing ballistic missiles anywhere across the Usean continent. Failure to blow it up before it activates is an instant game over. Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War has the SOLG. It's a Kill Sat that can launch nukes. Should it lose contact from whoever is controlling it on the surface, it is programmed to fall from orbit and destroy a pre-determined city. Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War has the Excalibur, a Wave-Motion Gun that catches the allied forces off-guard when giant lasers start blasting at them from long distance. The assault to destroy it proved daunting, as it can still fire at anything approaching it only until they actually get within half a mile. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown features the Arsenal Birds, two gigantic AI-controlled airborne carriers that are able to dispense dozens of Attack Drones to do its fighting. They also have Deflector Shields that prevents damage from conventional weapons. All throughout the story, their arrival on the battlefield forces the Osean forces into retreating, because the two of them form a perimeter around the Space Elevator that is key to winning the war. It takes the final cannon from Stonehenge that wasn't destroyed in Ace Combat 4 to pierce through the shields and destroy one of them.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e76151c3	type	Battleship Raid
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e76151c3	comment	Battleship Raid: Most games feature boss stages where you face a giant enemy aircraft, battleship or group of such aircraft: the Aigaion, Hresvelgr, Arsenal Birds, Arkbird and SOLG are all examples of this trope. Even the first game ended with a giant flying battleship.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e91cc721	type	In the Style of
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_e91cc721	comment	In the Style of: Directly comparing the "Megalith ~Agnus Dei~" with the standard rendition, or "Zero" with "Unsung War", the differences in rendering make it difficult to tell that they are meant to have the same lyrics. "First Flight" from 5 is listed in the OST as an arranged version of "Blockade" from 04, but there's really not much similarity between the two unless you can slow the latter down massively. Operation Katina also has a remix of "Elemental Particle" from 2.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: To the setting as a whole due to Electrosphere being set in the 2030s in a world where technology corporations and the military-industrial complex dominate most of the world and having a Gainax Ending that creates more questions than it answers. Due to the game's low sales, developer Project ACES has refused to continue the story and instead have focused on conflicts set before the Corporate War while still foreshadowing its eventuality.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_eb7b1a84	type	Multiform Balance
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_eb7b1a84	comment	So are F-16s, though it often has multiple role-specific variants.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ef2c9b2d	type	Arbitrary Mission Restriction
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_ef2c9b2d	comment	Arbitrary Mission Restriction: Each game typically includes at least one mission where the player is required to fly through a trench, staying below the lip of the trench. It usually has one of two justifications: Either the mission is a stealth-recon mission, and flying above the trench will result in detection and immediate failure, or there is heavy anti-aircraft fire that can't reach the player in the trench, but will instantly kill them if they fly too high.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Assault Horizon is brought to you by the US Air Force. "It's not science fiction."
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f62cc38a	type	Stone Wall
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f62cc38a	comment	Stone Wall: Bombers in the later games, which are absolute crap at air-combat and getting anywhere fast, but have unbeatable defense and anti-ground capabilities.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f6e10f3e	type	Big-Lipped Alligator Moment
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f6e10f3e	comment	Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In-Universe, most of the fictional superfighters come out of nowhere with little explanation, like the ADF-01 in 2 (and especially its reappearance in 5). Starting from Zero and X these start getting some justification, most often being a sort of last-resort superweapon the enemy hopes to turn the tide with.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Always happens in the last mission, the exception goes to Zero where it happened 4 missions before the last one.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: Beautifully averted; by the time you're halfway through a given game, your Improbable Piloting Skills will be legend among friend and foe alike. Half the fun is listening to the enemies panic when they find out you're on the field. That said, despite their legendary accomplishments, every playable pilot disappears from history shortly after their final victories. Probably voluntarily. The sole exception seems to be Mobius One, who continues serving ISAF after the end of 04's Usean Continental War, putting down a Free Erusea movement in 2006 (AC5's Arcade Mode) and helping put down another uprising in 2014 (AC7's VR missions).
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f903ab4b	type	Squad Controls
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f903ab4b	comment	Squad Controls: Ace Combat 5, Ace Combat Zero, and Ace Combat 6 gave you control over your wingmen. Seeing how the game is about aerial combat, your options are usually "Concentrate Fire", "Disperse and Engage", and "Cover Me". You can also toggle permission to use special weapons. Unfortunately, in AC6, the controls were already simplified compared to ACZ and this feature seems to have been abandoned completely in later Ace Combat games (where the wingmen are completely AI-controlled).
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: Erusea does this not once but twice. Leasath also does this.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_fb9afaab	type	Attack Drone
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_fb9afaab	comment	The earliest example of these fantasy aircraft being the XFA-27. It's a nimble little knife-fighter of a jet that can spam four missiles at once, and it looks like it came in from Macross. It's just a shame it can't turn into a mech. The sixth game gives us the CFA-44 Nosferatu, a plane so high-tech it nearly destroyed the economy of the nation that produced it (much like its vampiric namesake) - it can fire twelve missiles at once, it has twin railguns, stealth technology, and can deploy a pair of supporting Attack Drones. To hammer home the point of how utterly insane these fiction fighters are, in the third game Electrosphere, the Eurofighter Typhoon is one of the lamest planes you can acquire. In Real Life the Eurofighter Typhoon is one of the few jets in the world able to match the F-22 Raptor.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_fca96b8e	type	Cherry Blossoms
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_fca96b8e	comment	Every main-series game since the fourth has included Mobius One's paint scheme for the F-22A and Yellow 13's paint scheme for the Su-37 or its nearest equivalent. Later games have added more character references, such as the Wardog/Razgriz and Zipang from 5 and Scarface One from 2.
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Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The series loves doing this. Colors, animals, famous people, they've all been done. Osean fighter squadrons are mainly named after fantasy elements, with Wardog being the exception.*A possible explanation could be that Wardog was originally a training squadron not meant to see active combat but was rolled into an active squadron due to the suddenness of the war and the need for combat personnel in the face of Yuktobania's surprise attacks. Between Ace Combat 5, Zero, and 7, there's the Razgriz, Golem, Skeleton, Basilisk, Cyclops, Salamander, Gargoyle, Wizard, Sorcerer, Mage, Mimic, Strider, Salamander, Mace, Wand, Drake, and Enchanter squadrons. With one special exception, all Osean naval vessels are named after birds. Examples include: Albatross, Kestrel, Kestrel II, Vulture, Egret, Crane, Pheasant, Ptarmigan, Hornbill, Shoehorn, Stork, Bunting, and Sunbird, and many more. At least two Erusean squadrons are named after birds. Although they're known as the Yellow Squadron in Ace Combat 04, their official name is "Aquila" (Eagle). This follows the story precedent set after the death of Edgar Grint (Albireo One) in Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy. By 2019, however, their squadron names have more to do with various European mythologies, like Skoll and Sigurd squadrons. Belkan fighter squadrons are named after colors in German. Chess Motifs. The callsigns of all named aces in the penultimate mission of Ace Combat Zero are the names of chess pieces in German and Russian.
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Crossover / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Ace Combat (Video Game)
Ace Combat (Franchise)	seeAlso	Ace Combat (Video Game)
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Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	A.K.A.-47 / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ace Custom / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Adventure-Friendly World / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Aerial Canyon Chase / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Affectionate Nickname / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Airborne Aircraft Carrier / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Airborne Mook / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Airstrike Impossible / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Americasia / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	And Your Reward Is Clothes / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Animesque / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Annoying Video Game Helper / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Anthropic Principle / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Anti-Air / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Arbitrary Mission Restriction / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Arc Fatigue / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Arrow Cam / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Artificial Brilliance / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Artificial Intelligence / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Attack Drone / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Attract Mode / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Back from the Brink / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Badass Army / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Badass Crew / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bastard Understudy / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Battleship Raid / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Belly-Scraping Flight / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Beyond Redemption / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Big Badass Battle Sequence / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Big, Bulky Bomb / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bigger Stick / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Blamed for Being Railroaded / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bloodless Carnage / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Border Patrol / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Boss in Mook Clothing / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Boss Subtitles / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bottomless Magazines / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bragging Rights Reward / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Break Out the Museum Piece / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Brutal Bonus Level / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Call to Agriculture / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Camera Centering / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Capital Offensive / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cataclysm Backstory / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Character Overlap / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Character Tiers / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Chess Motifs / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Chromatic Arrangement / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Climactic Music / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Clown Car / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Clown-Car Base / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Code Name / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Colony Drop / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Colourful Theme Naming / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Coming in Hot / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commissar Cap / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Constructed World / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cool Boat / int_85635e84
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Creator Provincialism / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Crew of One / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Critical Annoyance / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Culture Chop Suey / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Deadly Walls / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Defenseless Transports / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Dialog During Gameplay / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Didn't Need Those Anyway! / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Diegetic Interface / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Diegetic Switch / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Disc-One Nuke / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Doctor von Turncoat / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Dodge by Braking / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	DoppelgÃ¤nger Spin / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Drone Deployer / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Duel Boss / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Dwindling Party / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Earn Your Title / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Earth Drift / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ejection Seat / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Enemy Chatter / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Enemy-Detecting Radar / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ensign Newbie / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Epic Battle Boredom / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Escort Game / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Expansion Pack World / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Exploding Barrels / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Faceless Goons / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fantastic Ship Prefix / int_85635e84
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fanvid / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fauxrrari / int_49aa2aa4
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Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fictional Earth / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fictional Geneva Conventions / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fictional United Nations / int_49aa2aa4
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Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fighting Fingerprint / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Former Regime Personnel / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Four Eyes, Zero Soul / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Framing Device / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	From Zero to Hero / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Gameplay Ally Immortality / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Gameplay Automation / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Gameplay Grading / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Gender Flip / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Glorious Mother Russia / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Goldfish Poop Gang / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Good Colors, Evil Colors / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Good Weapon, Evil Weapon / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Graceful Loser / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grand Theft Prototype / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Gratuitous Latin / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Gunship Rescue / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Guy in Back / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Harbinger of Impending Doom / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hard Mode Mooks / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Harder Than Hard / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	He Knows Too Much / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Heads-Up Display / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hero of Another Story / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Heroic Mime / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	High-Altitude Battle / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	High-Tier Scrappy / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hitscan / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Homing Projectile / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hopeless Boss Fight / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	100% Completion / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	I Got You Covered / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Improbable Piloting Skills / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Infinity -1 Sword / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Informed Equipment / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	"Instant Death" Radius / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Interface Screw / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Interface Spoiler / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	It's Raining Men / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	It's Up to You / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Jack of All Stats / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Japanese Video Games / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Joke Character / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kaizo Trap / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kill Sat / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kill Tally / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Laser Cutter / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lead the Target / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lens Flare / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Level-Map Display / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Life Imitates Art / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Like Reality, Unless Noted / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Loading Screen / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Luck-Based Mission / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Magnetic Weapons / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Manual Leader, A.I. Party / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Merging the Branches / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Midair Collision / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Military and Warfare Video Games / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mini-Boss / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Minimalist Run / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Misfit Mobilization Moment / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Missile Lock-On / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mission Briefing / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mission Control / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mission-Pack Sequel / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Moe Anthropomorphism / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mook Chivalry / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Multiple Government Polity / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mundane Fantastic / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	N.G.O. Superpower / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Necessary Drawback / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nerf / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Never Was This Universe / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	New Game Plus / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	New Meat / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Next Sunday A.D. / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Endor Holocaust / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nom de Guerre / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nominal Importance / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Non-Linear Sequel / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Non-Standard Game Over / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nose Art / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Number of the Beast / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Old-School Dogfight / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	One-Hit-Point Wonder / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	108 / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	One Nation Under Copyright / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	One-Woman Wail / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Operation: [Blank] / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Optional Boss / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Orchestral Bombing / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Orphaned Etymology / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Out of Focus / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Overly Generous Time Limit / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pixel Hunt / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Player-Guided Missile / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Plot Armor / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Plot Tumor / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Plotline Death / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Point Defenseless / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Predecessor Villain / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Prolonged Video Game Sequel / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Protection Mission / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Radio Silence / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rare Vehicles / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Real-Time Weapon Change / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Recurring Boss / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Recurring Riff / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Redshirt Army / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Regenerating Health / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Retirony / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Reverse Escort Mission / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Revisiting the Roots / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Roboteching / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ruder and Cruder / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ruritania / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Same Surname Means Related / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scrappy Weapon / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sentry Gun / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sequel Series / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Short-Lived Aerial Escape / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sitting Duck / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sky-Consuming Dogfight / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space-Filling Empire / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Spinventory / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Squad Nickname / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stalked by the Bell / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stealth-Based Mission / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stealthy Colossus / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stopped Numbering Sequels / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Storming the Beaches / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Story Branching / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Story-Driven Invulnerability / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stupid Jetpack Hitler / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Subsystem Damage / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sunken City / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Super-Persistent Missile / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Super Title 64 Advance / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Superboss / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Superpowered Mooks / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Superweapon / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Superweapon Surprise / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Supporting Protagonist / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Surprisingly Improved Sequel / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tech Tree / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Terror Hero / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Battle Didn't Count / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Big Board / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Cavalry / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Good Captain / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Last DJ / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Law of Conservation of Detail / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Main Characters Do Everything / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Republic / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The War Sequence / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	The World Is Just Awesome / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	13 Is Unlucky / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	This Is Not a Drill / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Time-Limit Boss / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Timed Mission / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Title Theme Drop / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Token Minority / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	20 Minutes into the Future / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	20 Minutes into the Past / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Underused Game Mechanic / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unfriendly Fire / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unique Enemy / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unlockable Difficulty Levels / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Vehicle-Based Characterization / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Veteran Instructor / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Game Long-Runners / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Games of 2010â€“2014 / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Game Caring Potential / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Violation of Common Sense / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Walkie-Talkie Static / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wave-Motion Gun / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Weapon of Mass Destruction / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Weapon Specialization / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wind Turbine Power / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingman / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wolfpack Boss / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Won the War, Lost the Peace / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	"X" Makes Anything Cool / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	You Are in Command Now / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	You Are Number 6 / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	You Can't Thwart Stage One / int_49aa2aa4
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zig-Zagging Trope / int_49aa2aa4
Steel Diver (Video Game)	seeAlso	Ace Combat (Video Game)
AceCombat	sameAs	Ace Combat (Video Game)
Ace Combat (Video Game)	hasFeature	Law of Chromatic Superiority / int_49aa2aa4

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