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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)

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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	comment	In the seventh game in the Ace Combat series, released in 2006, a journalist from the Osean Federation named Brett Thompson films a documentary on the history of the Belkan War, which was alluded to in the previous game. In 1995, the Belkan Federation began an invasion of the newly-autonomous Republic of Ustio, hoping to reclaim the resource-rich territory that had once been theirs. 90% of Ustio's air force was destroyed in the opening days of the war and as they were overrun, Belka turned its attention towards the Osean Federation, the Union of Yuktobanian Republics, and their allies. Unamused, the allied nations sided with Ustio and delivered a smackdown of national proportions and everyone lived happily ever after, right? Well...In the war's final days, Ustio took desperate measures and recruited a number of mercenary pilots in a last-ditch effort to fend off the encroaching Belkans. One of these pilots is the true interest of Thompson, a legendary ace known as the Demon Lord of the Round Table. In his time, he was known by the callsign Cipher, and was number one of the Galm Team alongside Larry "Pixy" Foulke, aka Solo Wing. As Cipher, you play through the most famous battles of the Belkan War and deal with its bloody and tragic aftermath, as Thompson interviews the various people that encountered the Demon Lord and lived to tell the tale, as he tries to find out the identity of this mercenary, and with him, the truth of the Belkan War.In terms of the Ace Combat series, The Belkan War differs mainly in its presentation of the story. It takes the form of a retrospective using live action actors to play the parts, and invests a significant amount of effort in demonstrating the extent to which the Demon Lord affected the lives of everyone who fought him. It is also the only installment that features a Karma Meter: based on whether you spare non-hostile targets or destroy them for more cash, the game identifies Cipher as either a Knight, a Soldier, or a Mercenary, which determines how other characters treat you and which bosses you face.The events that take place in this game are not to be confused with the other Belkan War that brought about the downfall of an ancient empire, though the similarities are strong and Shout Outs to this game abound.Watch the game's E3 2006 Trailer here.Please put all character-relevant tropes in the associated character sheet.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_10b6b5f7	comment	Cherry Tapping: Beating Pixy with the A-10 Thunderbolt/Warthog (close air support attacker), F-117A Nighthawk (stealth attacker) or EA-6B Prowler (electronic warfare attacker), none of which are meant to be an air superiority fighter... or try a gunkill. On Ace. Then Serial Escalation kicks in with the Gauntlet, ending with Mobius One and his Raptor gunned down by a Nighthawk on Ace. Or take a ride in a J35J Draken and Hoist Alberto "Espada One" Lopez By His Own Starting Plane.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Especially compared to the previous two entries in the series. Usually, the lines between the "good guys" and the "bad guys" are pretty clear-cut. Here, however, while the Belkans are clearly the aggressors, the Allied Forces demonstrate themselves to be both willing and eager to extract their pound of flesh for no better reason than simple revenge. It's also the only game in the series that lets you deliberately target non-combatants. Not to mention that the Final Boss of the game is your own brother-in-arms.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Belka nuked itself on June 6, 1995. Might cross over with the Rule of Symbolism, since this is the earliest mentioned canonical use of nuclear weapons in Strangereal.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_1686e91	comment	Live-Action Cutscene: Used as a deliberate stylistic choice. The Framing Device is an Osean journalist conducting a series of interviews with Belkan War veterans to investigate the mysterious pilot going by the callsign "Cipher". Said interviews star live actors (who were still dubbed over by voice actors) and punctuate gameplay segments where their characters fight either alongside or against Cipher.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "We'll start over from 'zero' with this V2..." (complete with quotation marks in the subtitles).
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: Larry "Solo Wing" Foulke starts the game more notorious than the player character Cipher, and mentions at the end of the first mission that "he had potential." He goes on to have a friendly relationship with Cipher and refers to him as "Buddy" whenever possible, even after turning on you and becoming the final boss.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_1a2dc1fd	comment	Mission-Pack Sequel: Serves as a prequel to Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, greatly expanding upon the titular Belkan War and having a handful of 5's characters in cameos. Fittingly, the game itself looks and plays more or less exactly like 5, and even features a couple of the same areas.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_1c3d047e	comment	An optional ace on the Knight variation of mission 10 uses the paint scheme of Yellow 13, Mobius 1's rival.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: The commander of the Belkan Ruchs transport unit and his second-in-command Johan. They never appear in person, but their radio chatter can be heard in a few missions as a sort of Running Gag. They can be heard in missions 2 (where the commander tells Johan that they're going to break through the Allied offensive to deliver their cargo), 11 (where they flee Hoffnung in trucks, carrying a wounded soldier with them), and 14 (where they supply renegade Belkan troops with ammunition).
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: A documentary written by Brett Thompson, an Osean journalist; according to Thompson, he discovered several files alluding to an unknown mercenary who played a major part in the outcome of the war, said mercenary being Cipher himself. To uncover Cipher's identity, Thompson begins interviewing pilots who encountered him, and the game plays out during the course of the documentary, with the gameplay segements depicting Cipher's actions and choices during the war, and the interviews showing how he affected pilots who fought against him.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_1f6ec528	comment	Would Not Shoot a Civilian: Played straight with your allies Pixy and PJ, who will only target combatants. Playing as a Knight involves the player as Cipher adhering to this as well. Averted with the Allied Forces in Mission 11, when you're tasked with accompanying a supposed surgical strike that quickly turns into saturation bombing.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_1f7b2d59	type	Law of Chromatic Superiority
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_1f7b2d59	comment	Law of Chromatic Superiority: Used with Pixy's colour scheme, though only on the right wing. Averted with Cipher, who is most associated with the same F-15C as Pixy, but with a blue-themed paint scheme.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: "Zero". But in truth, seeing as it's a remix of "The Unsung War", it's actually heroic Latin chanting.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_251bbe0e	comment	Genre Blindness: A particularly cruel example: "Now the war is finally over. I got a girlfriend back at the base. I'm gonna propose to her when I get back. I even bought flowers." Three seconds later, PJ is blown out of the sky.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_259d5879	comment	Zero's setting of 1995 also makes some of the planes anachronistic at least as far as real history goes, such as the production version of the F-22 (finalized 1997), the aforementioned EA-18G Growler (first flight in 2006; this is interesting in contrast to the use of the regular Hornet, since the Super Hornet's own first flight wasn't until the final weeks of 1995), or the Su-47 Berkut (the first flight of the last version was in 1997, and it wasn't officially named the Su-47 until 2002).
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_276ad49e	comment	Karma Meter: Knight/Soldier/Mercenary. Mercenary is as evil as the game allows you to be, as pilots see you as a despicable bastard who's only concerned with money. Soldiers are more neutral, as you're only following orders and doing whatever it takes to turn the tide of battle, and knight is not-quite-good but at least honorable in battle.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: Ustio and Sapin are this to Osea and Yuktobania, despite the fact that the player character is from (or at least working for) one of these Third-Party Countries.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_294ed981	comment	Grun Squadron all fly F/A-18C Hornets. In other words, they're all Green Hornets. As an added bonus, they all actually use a green paint scheme◊.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: In the final mission, just before the last phase of the fight, Pixy, who has become disillusioned with the nature of war, remarks that "this twisted game needs to be reset." For bonus points, it's then followed up with the Title Drop mentioned further down in the article. While it's unlikely the character knows he's in a game, it's still a great moment, especially if you've been playing the game as a Mercenary Ace, reminding you of just how much of a bastard you've been for blowing up defenseless targets just for extra cash.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_2a3aa1a5	type	Peace Conference
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_2a3aa1a5	comment	Peace Conference: According to the narrator in Zero, a peace conference was held in Lumen, a city on the border between Belka and Osea, to end the Belkan War. The player doesn't see it happen, but it can be overheard while fighting what's left of the Belkan military.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_2f75473	comment	Number of the Beast: Galm Team is the Ustio 6th Air Division, 66th Squadron. Demon Lord indeed.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_30c40e9a	type	Deconstructor Fleet
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_30c40e9a	comment	Deconstructor Fleet: This game questions a lot about the franchise. The concept of the Featureless Protagonist. People know almost nothing about you except your skills, to the point that you're seen as a demon on the battlefield because that's all people really know. Years later, because you disappear after the events of the game, people don't even remember you existed until Brett Thompson finishes his report, and even he still only knows of the "legendary ace Cipher, called The Demon Lord of the Round Table". He has no idea who Cipher actually is. And the ultimate reason he ended up fighting Pixy is unknown to anyone but himself. The game also takes what happened to Yellow Squadron in the fourth game and ramps it up to the max, with bios for all 169 aces you can shoot down. The game also shows exactly what happened during the Great Offscreen War that was the Belkan War, as well as why the Gray Men from the last game were so angry about all of it. You thought Belka was just being petty? You have no idea. In-universe, of the Belkan War. Those who played Ace Combat 5 first will be told that the evil Belkans invaded other countries and the heroic Allies liberated them. That happened, sure, but after Ustio was liberated, Thompson says it perfectly, "The true nature of the war begins from this point forward." Not all Belkans were evil, as evidenced by the interviews. And the Allied Forces invaded Belka in the first place to secure "resource interests." Come Mission 11, Allied bombers destroy an entire Belkan city, and the Belkans rush frantically to defend it... before deciding to burn it anyway just so the Allies can't say they did or claim any material they happen to miss. To quote Thompson again, "Everyone is a hero and a villain. And no one knows who's the victim or who's the aggressor." Pixy didn't know either, so he defected to a third party who had no interest in the war except in making sure ones like it never happen again, by any means necessary.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Also doubles as Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!—in Mission 12, when you learn about the bombers carrying nukes, a large squadron of neutral Belkan aircraft show up and tell the target aircraft that if they do not immediately turn around and return to base, the neutral squadron will destroy them themselves.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: One mission has you assisting Allied bombers destroying a Belkan munitions facility, but they make it known right from the start that they're prioritizing destruction over accuracy. The whole mission is a reference to the firebombing of Dresden during World War II, where the real-life Allies were equally indiscriminate. It's not just a munitions facility—it's the entire city of Hoffnung. And the Allied forces aren't the only ones kicking the dog; Belkan forces are committing arson to many buildings (some of them privately owned) on their way out, just to deny the Allies use of anything that they don't bomb. Even more disturbingly, it's implied that the Belkan Army is doing it to Belkan civilian homes and then retreating from the city and leaving those civilians to burn. If you slightly graze one of the factory targets with bullets, there is a chance they'll tell you over the radio that that's not a weapons factory. And yet, it's still listed as a target. The bombers' radio chatter is borderline Ax-Crazy as well: Playing as a mercenary is this in a nutshell, as you rack up kills, including on noncombatants and even civilian targets, for the sole purpose of building up more dosh.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: Subverted. All of the Belkan Air Force ace pilots are named with German words such as Schnee (Snow), Rot (Red) and Schwann (Swan), though sometimes they do get the translations wrong (for example, Grun is supposed to have an umlaut over the U, several adjectives are gendered wrong for the nouns they're attached to, and Trombe is incorrectly translated as "tornado"). On the other hand, Belkan may not actually be 100% identical to real life German.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_363e9631	comment	Sequential Boss: Morgan. First, it only uses its Tactical Laser System. After a few hits, it follows up with its Multi-Purpose Burst Missiles. After dealing more damage, its pilot then launches V2, and you have 5 minutes to shoot down the Morgan by literally jousting it from the front with arrowhead attacks. Justified, as the first two phases are Cipher stalling for time as his AWACS analyzes the Morgan for any weaknesses.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Probably the most cynical Ace Combat game to date, with it being more or less cynical based on your Ace Style.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: The intro cutscene for the fight against Wizard Squadron has PJ exclaim there are four enemy planes, right after their dialogue involves the lead talking to a fifth member. Sure enough, mere moments into the fight another four stealth fighters pop up out of nowhere to ambush you while you're busy with the first four.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_3a552069	comment	Kill Tally: Since Cipher is a mercenary, the game keeps track of how many kills you rack up with each plane by representing marks for every 1, 10, and 100 kills. When you reach 765 kills total, the kill tally icons are replaced with pellets, ghosts, and Pac-Man respectively.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: If you've played 5, you already know that the Belkans lose, and that they drop nukes on their own territory. But despite knowing that, the major twist is that's not the end of the game. The failure of the Belkans and AWWNB, and their goals to change the world, is all but outright stated to be the inevitable conclusion by the last text slide of the intro video.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Zero takes place in 1995 and features squadrons of both the Su-47 and F-35C, years before the only Real Life prototypes for each were ever flown.note The only plane using a period-appropriate model is the F/A-18C Hornet, rather than the Super Hornet, but you also get an even more anachronistic electronic-warfare plane based on the Super Hornet. You can also own a fully operational and in fact has-more-options-than-a-later-version ADF-01 FALKEN at a time when its immediate predecessor is the most amazing plane in the world and a treasure trove of otherwise one-of-a-kind technology. In the FALKEN's case, its inclusion, along with the inclusion of the X-02 Wyvern, is most likely non-canon. Since this is an alternate world, the inclusion of the Su-47 and such fits in with this world's more advanced technology.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_3f8ef764	type	Bleak Level
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_3f8ef764	comment	Bleak Level: Mission 11, "The Inferno", involves the Allied Forces indiscriminately bombing the Belkan industrial city of Hoffnung and setting it ablaze, killing scores of Belkans (including civilians). Retreating Belkan troops then set fire to their own city's buildings. Even the mission's music sounds like a dark reprise of the upbeat music that plays during the liberation of Ustio's capital earlier in the game. The horrors of the bombing lead to Pixy's Faceâ€“Heel Turn and eventual defection to A World With No Boundaries.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: On various fronts. The Allied counterattack arc of the game, spanning from missions 7 through 12, ends with Belka being decisively defeated and the war officially coming to an end. However, this only comes after the Allied Forces' bombing of Hoffnung and Belka detonating nuclear weapons on their own soil in an attempt to stave off the invasion. Worse still, the combined weight of these events causes your wingman Pixy to go rogue and attack you, not to be seen again until the final level. The final third of the game ends this way as well, arguably more bitterly than the former example. Cipher's new wingman PJ is shot down and killed by Pixy, who proceeds to engage in a battle to the "death" with Cipher. Cipher successfully manages to shoot him down during their battle, thus preventing a nuclear apocalypse in the process. For reasons unknown to anyone but himself, Cipher disappears from the battlefield and from history shortly afterwards, never to be seen again. For Thompson: Despite interviewing every surviving ace pilot who faced Cipher in battle, he is ultimately unable to uncover the mysterious Demon Lord's identity. However, he notes at the end of his documentary that all the pilots had the same smile on their face when they spoke of Cipher, and concludes "that, perhaps, may be my answer."
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Two examples in the game: Cipher's wingman, a well-known mercenary flying one of the best fighters in the skies (the F-15C) and threatening to nuke the world at the end, has the callsign Pixy. The experimental combat aircraft ADFX-02 equipped with an assortment of missiles, air-bursting missiles, and a laser cannon that Pixy pilots and has the controls to the V2 nuclear weapon, is nicknamed "Morgan".
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_42368755	type	Weather Report Opening
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_42368755	comment	Weather Report Opening: Pixy at the beginning of "Zero".
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_43eeaee8	type	The Republic
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_43eeaee8	comment	The Republic: Ustio, which also happens to be an actual republic.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d	comment	For Thompson: Despite interviewing every surviving ace pilot who faced Cipher in battle, he is ultimately unable to uncover the mysterious Demon Lord's identity. However, he notes at the end of his documentary that all the pilots had the same smile on their face when they spoke of Cipher, and concludes "that, perhaps, may be my answer."
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe, the FALKEN is just given to you when you unlock it. It really has no mention anywhere in the storyline. This is Gameplay and Story Segregation, as the Morgan is very clearly an early version of the FALKEN, with standard jet engines, a normal cockpit, and a less efficient laser weapon. The FALKEN doesn't even exist when Zero takes place (later materials mention it was built in response to the Belkan War's outcome); it's just a bonus.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: The Hresvelgr mission opens with your air base being bombed to flaming ruins by what is basically a flying aircraft carrier/battleship. And you see it happen in first person, from the cockpit of your plane still on the ground. The entire level takes place at ground zero of the bombing, as you fly over the desolate landscapes of the mountains.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Some of the pilots that you (have to) shoot down do not have happy endings, or at least must have taken quite the hit to the ego in their postwar lives: Anthony "Bedivere" Palmer works for an insurance company. Dominic "Vulture" Zubov is a fugitive war criminal. Franz Breitner (Indigo 4) was killed after the Belkan War in a crossfire with guerrillas while visiting a village on behalf of a children's charity. Marcela "Macarena" Vasquez's beloved flight lead Alberto Lopez does not survive long after being shot down by Galm 1: in the Mercenary story path, he's killed when his J35J Draken is destroyed, in Soldier he eventually passed away from his injuries suffered that day, and in Knight he eventually returned to the sky only to get shot down again and die. Possibly the most visible would be former Belkan Air Force poster boy turned history professor Detlef "Red Swallow" Fleisher, who wouldn't even look directly at the camera, still unable to swallow his pride a decade later and accept his defeat by mercenaries. Named aces whose defeat is not required include: Hariman Reinhardt, who had to retire due to vision problems. Dietmar Wolf, who was dubiously tried as a war criminal (though the charges were dismissed). Yuri Dashkov, whose own wingman testified against him after their capture. And then there's Daniel Bierofka, the car salesman... On the other hand, the narrator later says that "they always had a slight smile on their faces" whenever they talked about the Demon Lord. Perhaps the point of the interviews is to say that the only glory in war is to live long enough to see its end. In fact, the final line in the trailer of Zero is "There is only one rule in war: Survive".
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: It snows during both the first and last missions of the game—that is, when Cipher and Pixy first meet each other, and when they last fight each other. The latter even makes note of it both times.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: Belka.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5a5de5ca	type	Boss Rush
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5a5de5ca	comment	Boss Rush: The bonus stage "The Gauntlet" allows the player to face four randomly chosen enemy ace squadrons in a row.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5a6c9d5c	type	Combat Commentator
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5a6c9d5c	comment	Combat Commentator: Pretty much any radio chatter that doesn't pertain to your mission objectives.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d	type	Disc-One Nuke
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d	comment	Disc-One Nuke: The F-5E, one of your three starting planes, is equipped with QAAMs, which can down non-ace squad enemies in one shot and don't require constant target painting like the Draken's SAAMs, and is nearly as agile as midrange planes that unlock quite a bit later, like the F-20A and F-16C. Have a save file from the previous two games and you can unlock superfighters from both as early as mission 1. Play as a mercenary, and you'll soon rake in enough cash to afford either one, and you can basically cruise through the rest of the game easily. Even without an Old Save Bonus, if you either kill or spare every single yellow target in missions one and two, you can just barely push the ace style gauge into the Mercenary or Knight styles, respectively, in time for the first battle at the Round Table. Playing as a Mercenary nets you the Typhoon, which is just barely inferior to end-game planes like the F-22A and Su-47, while playing as a Knight nets the Gripen, which is only slightly inferior to the Typhoon, but equal to or better than mid-game planes like the F-15C. And at the end of what could be considered "disc one", no matter your ace style, you unlock the Su-37 Terminator after mission six, which is fully equal to planes like the F-22A and Su-47, has some of the best SP weapon options in the game (XLAA and FAEB), and can easily carry you through the entire rest of the game once you can afford it.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Darren Knowles (aka Sorcerer 2) died on impact when his parachute caught fire after ejecting from his plane.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: "Perspective" Many factions and individuals have different viewpoint on the same events, and true understanding can only be achieved by examining all of them together. Belka harsh nationalistic movement is seen by its own government as a justified response against Osea's ugly meddling (that caused Belka's economy to collapse in the first place), but nations Belka stomped in their path deemed the war very much uncalled for. Individuals have their own motives, opinions and lives that is beyond the confine of specific events, nations or factions. Schnee 1 for example wanted a rematch against Galm Team simply because it sounds enjoyable to him. Silber 1 held no grudge against Cipher despite being on opposing side of war having based his purpose on teaching pilots. While Espada 2 flew out of nothing but romantic love for her flight lead. Belka's invasion is not a totally spontaneous event but a result of worsening problems over the decade. Bombing of Hoffnung saw military personnel ditch their own nations to join A World with No Boundaries for their own reasons. And Galm 1 himself would continue to go on missions after the Belkan War officially ended, most of which are never recorded in history books. Another thing of note is that one's perspective of events and how others perceive the same people can changes over time. Stage of Apocalypse is most likely to make many players change their Ace Style mid-way through the game. Cipher's appearance eventually has the interviewed ace pilots reviewing their worldview in light of the society following the war. And having the story presented in mock-documentary format of past events helps the player better understand the motivations of various organizations and people beyond just immediate enemies and allies in retrospective manner.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5cfa64d0	type	Dashing Hispanic
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5cfa64d0	comment	Dashing Hispanic: Espada Team is a Battle Couple made up of two. On a musical level, the flamenco parts of "Zero" are part of what makes it one of the most badass, if not the most badass, tune in the series.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5e2f5ad2	type	You Kill It, You Bought It
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5e2f5ad2	comment	You Kill It, You Bought It: A bit more literal than other examples in the series, in that most jets available to the player are unlocked by shooting down enemy aces flying them via the squadron boss fights at various points determined by the Ace Style gauge; a byproduct of this is that the SP paint schemes for a lot of planes don't require any particular extra effort to get, because getting them is still tied to shooting down the aces that give you the plane in the first place. This also results in the odd situation that a Knight player will unlock the excellent Su-37 four missions before the F-4E, which is a flying brick in comparison—but won't be able to afford it for six more missions or so, especially if they bought the Gripen or Hornet they already unlocked three missions before that.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5e782d0c	type	Super Prototype
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5e782d0c	comment	The experimental combat aircraft ADFX-02 equipped with an assortment of missiles, air-bursting missiles, and a laser cannon that Pixy pilots and has the controls to the V2 nuclear weapon, is nicknamed "Morgan".
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: The Belkans' detonation of seven nuclear weapons on their own soil is one of these, as it was given away at the start of the previous game as part of the backstory.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_61a35c24	type	Improbable Piloting Skills
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_61a35c24	comment	Improbable Piloting Skills: While superhuman piloting performance is to be expected of both the Player Character and ace opponents, it is taken to the extreme in the final battle—according to the Aces At War: A History art book, Cipher forced Pixy to override the 7 G limit on the "Zoisite" Tactical Laser System cannon, and the stress of the high G loads explicitly exceeding 11 G'snote (sustaining 9 G's is just about the upper end of G-suit augmented human limits before succumbing to G-LOC) was at least as important to destroying his TLS as actual battle damage.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_6320eced	type	Gameplay and Story Segregation
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_6320eced	comment	Gameplay and Story Segregation: According to Aces At War: A History, the TLS used on the Morgan (both ADFX-01 and ADFX-02 variants) necessitates a G-limiter preventing the plane from exceeding 7 G to avoid damage to the laser. Neither plane is actually restricted from performing extremely high-G maneuvers (justifiable as overriding or disabling the G-limiter) or suffers loss of use of its TLS during or after high-G maneuvers.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_637ef67	type	New Game Plus
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_637ef67	comment	Mission 2 has a couple AA guns hidden among a clutter of yellow targets (civilian farms and houses); Pixy will note this and, unless you're coming in from a previous playthrough on the Mercenary path, claim that he's not sure Cipher wants to go through with the mission. It takes some effort, but you can pick off those AA guns using missiles without harming the houses.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	type	Interface Screw
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	comment	Interface Screw: The briefing interface is screwed with by the Hresvelgr bombing the base. And then there's mission twelve, where not only does the screen shake, everything also goes all fuzzy and your radar range is cut nearly in half (and stays that way until the mission ends) due to the EMP from the Belkan nukes somewhat scrambling your jet's electronics.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Also, Solo Wing having kept his plane in the air after losing a wing is based on real-life pilot Zivi Nidivi doing just that. F-15Cs have bodies that can stay stable that way; Nidivi himself later commented that past certain speeds, the F-15 was "like a rocket" and would have been able to keep itself in the air even if it lost both wings.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: Ustio hires several mercenaries to bolster its forces. Belka also hired a squadron—Schwarze—to do their dirty work.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Ace Combat Zero has this in spades, though it is possible by attaining Supreme Knight to make Cipher almost totally "white".
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: The true strength of a Soldier Ace, according to Bernhard "Grun One" Schmidt:
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_742a6e78	type	Gameplay Ally Immortality
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_742a6e78	comment	Gameplay Ally Immortality: Averted with the mission-critical carrier OFS Kestrel, and only if you choose Operation Costner for your fourth mission. Similarly averted by various allied units who call for aid, such as allied tanks under attack by an A-10 in mission 6, or an F-20A that's being chased by four Belkan aircraft, who flies into the operation airspace asking Cipher and Pixy to save his skin in mission 8C. Save them and they'll thank you, or ignore them and they die, but nothing else happens. Played straight by most other allies.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_76c72a08	type	SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_76c72a08	comment	SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun: Played straight in most ace squadron battles, but with Silber, Gelb and Espada, the surviving pilots will react accordingly depending on who you shoot down first.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_77f6cc58	type	100% Completion
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_77f6cc58	comment	100% Completion: Getting an S rank on all missions on Ace difficulty gives you a few cosmetic bonuses.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_79b16b48	comment	Japanese Ranguage: Galm Team is named after Garm. Likewise, the briefing text for one of the missions in Zero refers to "Operation Broom", whereas the spoken briefing clearly calls it "Operation Bloom".
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_7bd657f	type	White Collar Worker
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_7bd657f	comment	Anthony "Bedivere" Palmer works for an insurance company.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_7c58fe32	type	Louis Cypher
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_7c58fe32	comment	Louis Cypher: Cipher... sort of.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: Inverted. Almost every single one of the 169 named aces you shoot down has a unique brief biography written for them, but it is only unlocked after you defeat them, and being defeated by you is also their single purpose in the game. Whether or not they die or become better afterwards zigzags this trope.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: Belka has lost much of its territory due to economic troubles and past wars, leading to a radical faction seizing power and attempting to reclaim old territory by force.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: "[Morgan]'s only weak point is in the front air intake. You'll have to attack it head-on!"
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8510bb62	type	Saved by the Church Bell
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8510bb62	comment	Saved by the Church Bell: As the Belkans were pushed out of Directus, the resisting citizens took the opportunity to climb up and start ringing the church bell to signal to the entire city that they were finally free. Ace pilot Rainer Altman would be shot down by Cipher that day, but he remained in Directus after the war in order to become a writer. During his interview with Thompson, the church bells begin ringing. He mentions that they ring every day at 5:00 PM to symbolize the moment that Galm Team brought them freedom.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Though Patrick James "PJ" Beckett was never considered the sharpest tool in the shed, his sense of Genre Blindness reaches a head when the last words out of his mouth are "I'm gonna ask her to marry me when I get back. I even bought flowers!" Boom.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: For a Well-Intentioned Extremist organization, A World With No Boundaries gets a pretty one.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Though the times and planes are different, Belkan enemy pilots seem to adhere to the code of Chivalry. In real life, early World War I pilots did much the same. Also, Solo Wing having kept his plane in the air after losing a wing is based on real-life pilot Zivi Nidivi doing just that. F-15Cs have bodies that can stay stable that way; Nidivi himself later commented that past certain speeds, the F-15 was "like a rocket" and would have been able to keep itself in the air even if it lost both wings.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	type	Old Save Bonus
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	comment	Old Save Bonus: You can unlock the X-02 Wyvern and ADF-01 FALKEN superfighters more easily if you have save data from 04 and/or 5, respectively. Players with save data from both games need only complete Mission 1 to unlock both superfighters for purchase. Affording them, on the other hand... is fair game on a mercenary playthrough.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The Belkan Air Force.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_88792708	type	Badass Back
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_88792708	comment	Badass Back: Gelb Team's Su-37s can fire missiles backwards, as can Mobius One's F-22A Raptor. Truth in Television—some of the latest AAMs, like the Python 4/5 or AA-11/R-73, have a 360-degree targeting capability.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: Used symbolically. The final mission takes place on December 31. 15 years before the Final Boss of the last game.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8acf3a97	type	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8acf3a97	comment	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic: The story tells how Belka's poor economy allowed the eastern portion of the country to secede and become independent nations, one of which was Ustio. Belka's economic problems didn't end, and their borders continued to shrink, allowing those new nations to further expand and allowing Osea to claim some of the country's western borders. Belka went to war to reclaim their lost borders and acquire more resources, even invading the southern country of Sapin, who previously wasn't involved at all.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8d219876	type	Air Jousting
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8d219876	comment	Air Jousting: The final mission has you do the closest equivalent fighter jets can get to knightly jousting. Considering the Arthurian motifs present, it is absolutely deliberate.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Missions 11 and 12. The first has your allies indiscriminately flatten a Belkan city with bombs and cruise missiles, while the Belkans themselves start burning whatever escapes the attacks to deny the enemy anything useful before they retreat. In the very next mission, you're sent to intercept Belkan bombers carrying nukes. Except it turns out that the planes you're sent out after aren't the ones carrying the bombs after all, as you learn when one detonates nearby, nearly frying your plane's electronics. While you're still reeling from that, your wingman, who has obviously been rattled since the bombing mission, opens fire on you and deserts.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8e4fc189	type	Sphere of Destruction
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8e4fc189	comment	Sphere of Destruction: The V2 at the end. Random little beamlets of light even shoot out as well. The Multi-Purpose Burst Missile the Morgan fires also results in a spherical blast.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8fcb1ef4	type	Pixel Hunt
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_8fcb1ef4	comment	Pixel Hunt: A few ace squadrons have at least one of their pilots flying electronic-warfare planes to hide their radar presence.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_90631787	type	Vehicle-Based Characterization
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_90631787	comment	Vehicle-Based Characterization: Dietrich "Boss" Kellerman, the flight lead of the Silber squadron that's encountered in the Knight path of the mission "Mayhem", flies an F-4 Phantom, while his students fly F-16 Falcons. Dietrich flying a Phantom represents how he's an old soldier, while his students flying F-16s are a representation of how they're a new generation of fighter pilots. However, despite Dietrich's students flying aircraft that are superior to his Phantom, he's still a better pilot than them, as he's harder to shoot down than his students.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_90f48bb1	type	Hard Mode Mooks
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_90f48bb1	comment	Hard Mode Mooks: A lot of named aces only appear on Hard, Expert, and Ace difficulties.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: In contrast to the anime-style video cutscenes of Ace Combat 3, the slideshows of Ace Combat 4 and Ace Combat X, and the CGI-based video cutscenes of Ace Combat 5 and later games, Zero features live-action video cutscenes.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Zero easily beats the rest of the series combined in the sheer number of symbolic allusions, ranging from The Bible, through Norse Mythology, to the King Arthur. The game's story even follows the symbolism of the fictional legend of Razgriz featured in 5.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_927d046a	type	Accidental Pun
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_927d046a	comment	Accidental Pun: In Mission 13, PJ will comment that he should be able to fly more like Cipher, and while he praises Cipher's efficiency if he's a Knight or Soldier ace, as a Mercenary, PJ comments that "Cipher's actions are inhuman", alluding to both Mercenary Cipher's incredible skill as a pilot and lack of regard for his victims, but the way he says it, PJ seems unaware of the wordplay and seems to have been only intending the former meaning.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_949291d1	type	Merging the Branches
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_949291d1	comment	Merging the Branches: Cipher fights five out of eleven elite Belkan squadrons in any given playthrough (which ones depends on your Karma Meter). However, the in-game Assault Records and later lore implies that at the branching points, Cipher faced all three respective bosses at the same time.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9492d6a5	type	Evil Is Easy
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9492d6a5	comment	Evil Is Easy: Not so much. You get better planes, yes, but you have to defeat ace squadrons flying them against you first, and you have to take time to destroy yellow targets to stay evil. It definitely pays better, though. That's not to say the ace squadrons specific to that path are much more difficult than the others, but they do tend to outnumber you more severely than other squads (Schwarze has eight planes, for instance, while Silber and Schnee have four fighters and one backup).
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark:
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9aaf8eca	comment	In real life, Galm Team would suffer a huge case of Crippling Overspecialization, as the F-15C was specifically made for air superiority—"not a pound for air-to-ground", as the F-15 Special Project Office put it. The fact that it carries bombs means it's a jury-rigged Japanese F-15J or Israeli F-15I. Many other planes have similar equipment oddities, such as the Su-27 and MiG-31 also being fitted for the UGBL despite neither being provisioned for dumb bombs or bombs over 500 kg (which would more likely be the UGB than UGBL), and the weapon in question not seeming to accurately correspond to the design of any common Russian bomb. And, as is common in Ace Combat games, there are armed versions of experimental planes that were never intended to be armed, such as the F-15 S/MTD and X-29, as well as the addition of guns to the F-117 and EA-18Gnote (though the presence of an internal gun on the F-35C is more a case of Technology Marches On - at the time, it was believed that the C model would have an internal gun like the A model) and the fitting of the F-117 with any air-to-air weapons whatsoever.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: Seen in the penultimate level, where Galm and the Allied Forces launch a massive air raid on Avalon Dam, the headquarters of A World With No Boundaries. Since the dam is blanketed by anti-air fire, the Allied pilots fly en masse against its defenses to give Galm Team a chance to get to the dam in the chaos. Most of them are killed or at least shot down, though a handful may survive long enough to engage the enemy pilots above.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Pixy's dialogue with a Wizard Squadron member in an early mission foreshadows their creation of A World With No Boundaries. A second bit of dialogue he has with PJ in the same mission also foreshadows PJ's death at Pixy's hands.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Stated as much after the destruction of Excalibur: "Head Operations has recognized you as an indispensable component in this war." To the point that for the penultimate mission at Avalon Dam, the Allies' entire plan is basically "get Cipher and PJ through, then draw the enemy away from them while they save the day". And after PJ is shot down at the end of the mission, you don't even have a wingman for the last one.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9eb71c7c	type	Super-Toughness
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_9eb71c7c	comment	Super-Toughness: Pixy's Morgan can take at least six missile hits. Almost every other enemy plane goes down after two. Somewhat Justified in-universe as it being a Super Prototype (his is marked as an ADFX-02, where the model you get is an ADFX-01). Granted, that makes it a super prototype of a super prototype, but for gameplay balance reasons, it still makes sense. Wouldn't be much of a final boss fight if he went down with two relatively easy-to-make shots.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_a21b9511	type	Route Boss
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_a21b9511	comment	Route Boss: Zero has different enemy ace squadrons show up depending on whether the player has been flying as a mercenary, a Knight or a soldier.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The triumphant victory of Cipher and Pixy ending Belka's dominance of the Round Table, resulting in Cipher being dubbed the "Demon Lord of the Round Table", is immediately followed by the horrific bombing of Hoffnung.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_a814671b	type	N.G.O. Superpower
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_a814671b	comment	N.G.O. Superpower: In the second part of Zero, they're a mishmash of disgruntled former soldiers, but all have some mix of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Airborne Aircraft Carriers/supermassive bombers and entire units of conventional forces.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Radio chatter you can listen to during the bombing of Hoffnung features Belkan pilots despairing over the destruction being wrought.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_ac81e4b0	type	Dueling Player Characters
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_ac81e4b0	comment	Dueling Player Characters: In the (non-canon) Brutal Bonus Level, you, as Cipher, can fight Mobius One, the protagonist of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, if you manage to shoot down Espada Squadron in under a minute. This has since become a staple in the Ace Combat series to include protagonists of previous games as bosses in non-canon bonus levels.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Happens in the mission briefing for the Hresvelgr mission: Occasionally, when you take down the leader of an ace squad, the rest of the squad will start to panic and be easier to shoot down as a result.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Pixy. Even though he's obviously reconciled with the player character by the time of his video interview, he still killed PJ and nearly nuked the Osean continent on a terrorist group's behalf.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Pixy's "Yo, Buddy, you still alive?"
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b179eb00	type	Tragic Bromance
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b179eb00	comment	Tragic Bromance: Played With by Cipher and Pixy's story. Two experienced pilots ordered to fly in formation during an emergency, they develop a mutual respect and admiration as they keep sortying together. Then, a world-changing event lands them on the opposite sides of another conflict and before long, they are forced to duel each other to the death. Even though Pixy (barely) survives, they ultimately never see each other again, and Pixy's life, at least, is forever changed by his brief frenemity with the Demon Lord.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b1ddb121	type	Remixed Level
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b1ddb121	comment	Remixed Level: Zero reuses a few locations from 5, seeing as they're the same locations 15 years apart.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b3fc9d55	type	An Ass-Kicking Christmas
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b3fc9d55	comment	An Asskicking Christmas: Mission 15 takes place on Christmas Day.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b5ab695c	type	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b5ab695c	comment	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart: The Belkan War is an odd blending of elements of both World Wars, as well as dashes of the Balkan Wars and a pinch of modern-day Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b5ba2c2b	type	It's Raining Men
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b5ba2c2b	comment	It's Raining Men: Mission 5 is mostly about this.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b7248073	type	My Country, Right or Wrong
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b7248073	comment	My Country, Right or Wrong: Despite attempting to invade half a dozen countries at once to expand its borders and avoid an economic crisis, Belka had corps of extremely loyal pilots proud of their own nation. In an interesting game concept, there are cutscenes of interviews of the Belkan pilots the player fought, depicting them as obviously likable men ten years after the war. The pilots explicitly state that they hold no animosity towards their enemies, during and after the war. It was just war, and it was just what they were trained to do. In fact, many of them revere Cipher, the player character; in a decidedly odd twist, one character fought in the Knight path even states that Cipher is comparable to the old orders of Belkan knights, an honor that he doesn't even give himself. Subverted with the Belkan remnant forces, who at first seem to be continuing to fight even after Belka has been defeated on every front. Eventually it's revealed that they're actually an N.G.O. Superpower made of defectors from both Belka and the Allied Forces, united as the radically anti-nationalist World with no Boundaries.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: In the original Japanese, the title "Demon Lord of the Round Table" is a pun on "Knights of the Round Table", since "Knight" and "Demon Lord"note (kishi and kishin, respectively) are pronounced similarly, but spelled differently.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_b7c53a22	comment	Have a save file from the previous two games and you can unlock superfighters from both as early as mission 1. Play as a mercenary, and you'll soon rake in enough cash to afford either one, and you can basically cruise through the rest of the game easily.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_bbfaa837	comment	In-universe, of the Belkan War. Those who played Ace Combat 5 first will be told that the evil Belkans invaded other countries and the heroic Allies liberated them. That happened, sure, but after Ustio was liberated, Thompson says it perfectly, "The true nature of the war begins from this point forward." Not all Belkans were evil, as evidenced by the interviews. And the Allied Forces invaded Belka in the first place to secure "resource interests." Come Mission 11, Allied bombers destroy an entire Belkan city, and the Belkans rush frantically to defend it... before deciding to burn it anyway just so the Allies can't say they did or claim any material they happen to miss. To quote Thompson again, "Everyone is a hero and a villain. And no one knows who's the victim or who's the aggressor." Pixy didn't know either, so he defected to a third party who had no interest in the war except in making sure ones like it never happen again, by any means necessary.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_bc0346e2	type	Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_bc0346e2	comment	Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight: Can be invoked by the player. After beating the game three times, once as a Mercenary Ace, once as a Soldier Ace, and once as a Knight, the ADFX-01 superplane is unlocked, and able to field either a Tactical Laser System, Multi-Purpose Burst Missile, or an Electronic Warfare Pod. Then they can take that plane into battle against the final boss, who flies an ADFX-02 that has all the aforementioned weapon systems. However, if you're fielding the laser, he goes down in three hits when it takes dozens of normal missiles to do the same. Alternatively, the player can also take the ADF-01 FALKEN, which was developed from the ADFX-02 and gets an even more powerful laser.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	As in The Unsung War, the default F-14 scheme is white with black tails and yellow ribbons. Many may think this is a Shout-Out to Super Dimension Fortress Macross, but with the exception of the skull and crossbones, it is in fact a replica of the real-life VF-84, the famous squadron Roy's Valkyrie fighter honored. And, in a shout-out to itself, the Soldier paint scheme for the F-14 in this game is the same as the Razgriz paint scheme in the previous game.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_c8c968c3	type	The Alliance
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_c8c968c3	comment	The Alliance: The Osean-led Alliance against Belka.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_c9861848	type	Video Game Caring Potential
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_c9861848	comment	Video Game Caring Potential: Among all the carnage in mission 11, you have the option of sparing an enemy C-130 carrying wounded soldiers. This and other missions also occasionally feature friendly ground forces who ask for your help in defeating a squad of enemy A-10s. The Knight Ace path in general encourages taking this approach to the game. Mission 2 has a couple AA guns hidden among a clutter of yellow targets (civilian farms and houses); Pixy will note this and, unless you're coming in from a previous playthrough on the Mercenary path, claim that he's not sure Cipher wants to go through with the mission. It takes some effort, but you can pick off those AA guns using missiles without harming the houses. One version of Mission 4 involves escorting an allied fleet, including the aircraft carrier Kestrel. The main goal is to get the Kestrel out alive, and two or three allied ships being sunk is fairly normal for a good run of the mission. But with good reaction time, memorization of where the anti-ship planes attack from, and long-range weapons, it is entirely possible to escort the entire fleet with no losses.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Zero masterfully uses a Type 2 situation in the Stage of Apocalypse mission.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: In real life, Galm Team would suffer a huge case of Crippling Overspecialization, as the F-15C was specifically made for air superiority—"not a pound for air-to-ground", as the F-15 Special Project Office put it. The fact that it carries bombs means it's a jury-rigged Japanese F-15J or Israeli F-15I. Many other planes have similar equipment oddities, such as the Su-27 and MiG-31 also being fitted for the UGBL despite neither being provisioned for dumb bombs or bombs over 500 kg (which would more likely be the UGB than UGBL), and the weapon in question not seeming to accurately correspond to the design of any common Russian bomb. And, as is common in Ace Combat games, there are armed versions of experimental planes that were never intended to be armed, such as the F-15 S/MTD and X-29, as well as the addition of guns to the F-117 and EA-18Gnote (though the presence of an internal gun on the F-35C is more a case of Technology Marches On - at the time, it was believed that the C model would have an internal gun like the A model) and the fitting of the F-117 with any air-to-air weapons whatsoever. Zero's setting of 1995 also makes some of the planes anachronistic at least as far as real history goes, such as the production version of the F-22 (finalized 1997), the aforementioned EA-18G Growler (first flight in 2006; this is interesting in contrast to the use of the regular Hornet, since the Super Hornet's own first flight wasn't until the final weeks of 1995), or the Su-47 Berkut (the first flight of the last version was in 1997, and it wasn't officially named the Su-47 until 2002).
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb	type	Escort Mission
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb	comment	The Kestrel shows up as an escort objective in the "Operation Costner" variation of Mission 4. This is in fact its trial voyage.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Missions 9 and 10 are the highest point in the game, with you feeling like the king of the world for destroying a humongous superweapon and conquering the Round Table. Mission 11 has your side fire-bombing civilian territory, to horrific effect. Mission 12 takes place on the day Belka detonates seven nukes, and you get to see it happen just after you thought you prevented it. And it goes waaaaay downhill from there.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_d15c1086	type	Boss-Only Level
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_d15c1086	comment	Boss-Only Level: The final mission is just one long fight against the final boss. Same goes for The Gauntlet.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_d35365c4	type	Bonus Stage
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_d35365c4	comment	And the game's secret boss in the Bonus Stage? Mobius 1 himself.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Both Belkan radio chatter and the interviewees' comments show disdain towards Cipher should he go the Mercenary route and destroy neutralized enemy vehicles or "innocent" buildings. Inverted however with Pixy and the ace pilots, who try to rationalize some of these. That said, he still has his limits—he's appalled by the Allies' indiscriminate bombing of Hoffnung. Unsurprisingly, especially after Belka goes even further, he defects to A World With No Boundaries in the next mission.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_d861e4f8	type	War Crime Subverts Heroism
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_d861e4f8	comment	War Crime Subverts Heroism: As you fight against Belka, your forces engage in a bombing run of the city of Hoffnung, which ends up hitting civilian areas (analogous to the bombing of Dresden, Germany in WWII). This is the turning point where Pixy realizes that the Allied Forces are really no better than Belka, and defects to A World With No Borders.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_da03a529	type	Bait-and-Switch Boss
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_da03a529	comment	Bait-and-Switch Boss: Happens in the Gauntlet on the highest difficulty if you manage to shoot down Espada Squadron in under one minute. The final squad is wiped out by the real boss... Mobius 1 in his signature Raptor. If you manage to shoot him down, that's 30,000 points for you. Yes, Mobius 1 is considered so badass that shooting him down is equivalent to shooting down six of Pixy's ADFX-02, or roughly twenty "normal" Aces!
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_db39ccfd	comment	Espada Team is a Battle Couple made up of two.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_de70f5a4	comment	Continuity Cameo: Somewhat Inverted as it is a prequel, but pilots from nearly all the other Strangereal Ace Combat games show up in one form or another (and most can be shot down). To wit: Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies: An optional ace on the Knight variation of mission 10 uses the paint scheme of Yellow 13, Mobius 1's rival. And the game's secret boss in the Bonus Stage? Mobius 1 himself. Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War: Being a set-up to this game's events, this is inevitable. The Kestrel shows up as an escort objective in the "Operation Costner" variation of Mission 4. This is in fact its trial voyage. Mission 10 is full of AC5 characters: Captain Bartlett is one of your allies in the Knight version, the future leader of Ofnir Squadron can be shot down in the Soldier route, and in the Mercenary version you can also meet Huckebein the Raven (aka Pops) and either rescue him from the future leader of Grabacr Squadron or shoot him down. Heierlark Air Force Base, where Wardog Squadron was trained, serves as a refueling point in Mission 13. The mission itself also takes place in the same area Missions 21 and 22 did in 5. Likewise, both Mission 12 and Mission 15 both take place in the same area Mission 20 did in 5. One of the multiplayer levels is an all-out furball between two groups lead by each player, each of which has three pilots with specific names. Player one's named wingmen are Edge, Chopper and Archer from Ace Combat 5, while player two's are named after the allied Omega, Viper and Halo squadrons from Ace Combat 04. All the multiplayer levels also use music from AC5's arcade mode.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_e1a919e9	comment	Protagonist Power-Up Privileges: Only Cipher can purchase better planes (including superfighters) for himself, while his wingman is stuck with their starting plane for the entire game. This is in contrast to Ace Combat 5 and the later Ace Combat 6, where you could equip wingmen with the same planes as yourself.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_e34541d	comment	One World Order: Joshua Bristow and Pixy want to see this happen.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Among the aces duking it out at the Round Table in mission 10 are Heartbreak One and Huckebein the Raven. Playing the mission on Ace difficulty likewise lets you shoot down Ashley Bernitz (Grabacr) and Michael Heimeroth (Ofnir) in, respectively, the Mercenary and Soldier paths.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_e3f34fb4	comment	The concept of the Featureless Protagonist. People know almost nothing about you except your skills, to the point that you're seen as a demon on the battlefield because that's all people really know. Years later, because you disappear after the events of the game, people don't even remember you existed until Brett Thompson finishes his report, and even he still only knows of the "legendary ace Cipher, called The Demon Lord of the Round Table". He has no idea who Cipher actually is. And the ultimate reason he ended up fighting Pixy is unknown to anyone but himself.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_eabd22f9	comment	Achievement System: One of the earliest instances: the game included a number of medals that could be earned by completing story missions and beating certain challenges across multiple playthroughs; the medals can be viewed from the main menu.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_edeb02ca	comment	Episode Zero: The Beginning: Zero sets up the events of Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War. It shows the Great Offscreen War with Belka 15 years before, the motivations behind Belka's actions in said game, and why Osea and Yuktobania were allies at the beginning of the game.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_f1577797	comment	Boss Remix: "Zero".
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Most evident during the bombing of Hoffnung; see Kick the Dog above. Both sides do their best to level the city—the Allies for revenge, and the Belkans as part of a scorched earth policy.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_f642b1f9	type	You Bastard!
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_f642b1f9	comment	If you're going for Supreme Mercenary, you would try to destroy all "yellow" targets (civilian targets, unimportant military infrastructure that isn't directly contributing to the battle at hand, or damaged enemy planes or ships that are limping home after being rendered combat ineffective). In most missions, there is no punishment for this, save for NPC pilots occasionally calling Cipher a coward for shooting unarmed targets and slightly harder boss fights at the Round Table. However, in Mission 13, there's a yellow target in the southeast area of the map with no defenses that looks like easy points, but when you get close to it, an ambush of several AA guns and SAMs appears to punish you for your greed and willingness to target non-combat assets. To drive their point home, they yell "Those damn mercenaries, haven't you earned enough?!" over the radio when they appear.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_f6e10f3e	comment	Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In-Universe, the FALKEN is just given to you when you unlock it. It really has no mention anywhere in the storyline. This is Gameplay and Story Segregation, as the Morgan is very clearly an early version of the FALKEN, with standard jet engines, a normal cockpit, and a less efficient laser weapon. The FALKEN doesn't even exist when Zero takes place (later materials mention it was built in response to the Belkan War's outcome); it's just a bonus. The X-02 Wyvern is the same. It's a bonus given to you when you unlock it. Its description still says it's the latest in Erusian technology, even though it wouldn't be developed until the Continental War a decade later. Mostly averted with the Morgan itself, which comes out of nowhere to fight you, but its defenses are addressed when you encounter it.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_f6e2558f	comment	Battle Intro: Whenever an Ace squadron is introduced, their emblem and military division is displayed on the screen, complete with Boss Subtitles. Notably, this also applies to your team, Galm, when introduced at the very start of the game.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: An amusing conversation between Pixy and PJ: Even funnier if you're playing Knight: PJ cheerfully agrees with Pixy's "order."
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_f722f635	comment	The game also shows exactly what happened during the Great Offscreen War that was the Belkan War, as well as why the Gray Men from the last game were so angry about all of it. You thought Belka was just being petty? You have no idea.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: As always for Ace Combat, beautifully averted. Cipher is the king of all AC heroes in the respect department: some of the cutscenes between missions are full-motion video interviews with ace pilots about you, the Demon Lord of the Round Table, ten years later.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	comment	Video Game Cruelty Potential: Taking the Mercenary Ace path revolves around intentionally gunning down retreating planes, destroying civilian/unarmed ground targets, and refusing to spare enemy pilots whose weapons have been taken out of commission. On the plus side, you get more money; on the downside, you face harder enemy ace squadrons.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_fcd993bd	comment	Video Game Cruelty Punishment: As a general rule, Soldier aces face tougher enemy ace squads in the Round Table than Knight aces, and Mercenary aces face even harder enemies than Soldier aces. If you're going for Supreme Mercenary, you would try to destroy all "yellow" targets (civilian targets, unimportant military infrastructure that isn't directly contributing to the battle at hand, or damaged enemy planes or ships that are limping home after being rendered combat ineffective). In most missions, there is no punishment for this, save for NPC pilots occasionally calling Cipher a coward for shooting unarmed targets and slightly harder boss fights at the Round Table. However, in Mission 13, there's a yellow target in the southeast area of the map with no defenses that looks like easy points, but when you get close to it, an ambush of several AA guns and SAMs appears to punish you for your greed and willingness to target non-combat assets. To drive their point home, they yell "Those damn mercenaries, haven't you earned enough?!" over the radio when they appear.
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Orchestral Bombing / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pendulum War / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Player Character Calculus / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Predecessor Villain / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Previous Player-Character Cameo / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pride / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Protagonist Power-Up Privileges / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Redemption Demotion / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Retirony / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rogue Protagonist / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Route Boss / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Saved by the Church Bell / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sequential Boss / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sink the Lifeboats / int_bdd3f7b4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sky-Consuming Dogfight / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Slow-Motion Pass-By / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sniping the Cockpit / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Snow Means Death / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Solo Sequence / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sphere of Destruction / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Squad Nickname / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Starting a New Life / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stealthy Colossus / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Story Branching / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Superweapon / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Superweapon Surprise / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Surprisingly Sudden Death / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Team Mom / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Terms of Endangerment / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The '90s / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Cavalry / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Great Fire / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Last DJ / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Republic / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Timed Mission / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	True Final Boss / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Try Not to Die / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	20 Minutes into the Past / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Underused Game Mechanic / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Vehicle-Based Characterization / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Veteran Instructor / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Victor Gains Loser's Powers / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Game Cruelty Punishment / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Games of 2005â€“2009 / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wake-Up Call Boss / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	War Crime Subverts Heroism / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Warfare Regression / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wave-Motion Gun / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Weapon of Mass Destruction / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	What Is This Feeling? / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wide-Eyed Idealist / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingman / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Won the War, Lost the Peace / int_a83e83d4
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	You Can't Thwart Stage One / int_a83e83d4
AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar	sameAs	Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Law of Chromatic Superiority / int_a83e83d4

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