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Gears of War (Video Game)

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Gears of War (Video Game)	comment	Gears of War (also known as just Gears) is a Third-Person Shooter video game franchise previously developed by Epic Games and currently developed by The Coalition and published by Xbox Game Studios.By Word of God, gameplay emphasizes tactical maneuvers rather than More Dakka, and is the recent Trope Codifier for Take Cover!-style gameplay, forcing you to shoot carefully and outflank as much as you can (though Regenerating Health makes it a little easier). There isn't a jump button and everything is angled towards making the combat as personal and violent as possible (the main gun used has a chainsaw built into the grip, called the chainsaw bayonet). You can give your squadmates orders, but if one them goes down, you have to pick them up and get them back on their feet. Finally, there is an Active Reload system that buffs your damage output if you hit the right timing window but jams your gun if you mess up.The general story centers on the soldiers of Delta Squad as they fight to save the human inhabitants of the fictional planet Sera from a relentless subterranean enemy known as the Locust Horde. The Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) is fighting back with their own soldiers they call "Gears". The Locust are relentless, vicious, can pop out of the ground almost anywhere and seem to be numberless, but the COG have superior technology and the capital city of Jacinto is located on a plateau of solid granite, making it the one place the Locust can't tunnel up.The player assumes the role of Marcus Fenix, a battle-hardened former war hero. When in cooperative play, the second player takes control of Fenix's best friend and fellow soldier Dominic "Dom" Santiago. Alongside them are fellow soldiers from another squad who they seem to frequently join with: former pro athlete Augustus "Cole Train" Cole and smart-mouthed Damon Baird.Besides dealing with the humanoid footsoldiers there is a great deal of focus on monstrous creatures you have to face such as the dinosaur-like Brumak (with a cannon on its back and chainguns on each arm), the crab/spider-like Corpser and the "monkey-dog" Wretch. Alongside that, the games are about building atmosphere and drawing you into the moment, investigating abandoned warehouses and exploring a labyrinth of underground tunnels. These are not games to play in the dark.On the way, they do manly things like blowing stuff up, delivering one-liners and growing beards.In January 2014, Microsoft officially purchased the rights to the Gears of War franchise from Epic Games, officially becoming an internal, first-party property. They handed the reins of the franchise over to Black Tusk Studios, which would go on to rename themselves The Coalition (a reference to in-game mythology, following the trend of official Halo developer 343 Industries). Their first work on the series was a remastered version of the first game titled Gears of War: Ultimate Edition was released August 2015 for Xbox One and PC (via the Windows 10 Store) March 2016. The first original work from The Coalition was Gears of War 4 and launched worldwide on October 11, 2016.At E3 2018, The Coalition revealed three new games: Gears Pop, Gears Tactics and Gears 5. The first one is a mobile game where players battle the Locust as the series' characters in Funko Pop! form, the second is a PC release that focuses on epic cover-based battles that the series is known for and the final one is a direct sequel to Gears of War 4. It stars Kait Diaz as the Player Character rather than JD Fenix and focuses on Kait's personal quest to discover her family's connection to the Locust Horde and promised to take the series â€œback to where it all beganâ€�. Gears Pop was released on August 22nd, 2019, with Gears 5 releasing on September 10th, 2019, and Gears Tactics on April 28th, 2020.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_11cdfcf7	comment	Chunky Salsa Rule: In Execution Mode of multiplayer, if an enemy is downed, all further damage inflicted from beyond a certain distance away is negated; you have to get close to them in order to finish them off. There are some exceptions, however: aside from the typical explosives, shooting the victim's head with a pistol, shotgun, or sniping weapon will blow their head off, finishing them off from any distance.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1206dd74	comment	Victory Is Boring: In Gears 4, Cole says that "in a weird, messed up sorta way", he missed the Locust while they were gone. Marcus agrees.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: The games make an effort to introduce major characters and have them die along the way, as this is an unrelenting war. It was invoked by Cliff Bleszinski regarding Gears of War 3, as being the final game all bets were off and even the core characters were at risk.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper - Sam
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_128e4ba8	comment	Gatling Good: The hand-cranked Mulcher is man-portable and can... well, mulch soft targets at close range. The Silverback mounts what seems to be a more powerful variant, and gatling turrets appear occasionally in COG bases. There's also the Vulcan Cannon, which is more like an actual modern-day gatling gun and sounds like a cross between a chainsaw and thunder.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_12ac916e	comment	Score Multiplier: In 3, you can play an "Arcade" version of the campaign where your score is recorded in which enemies you kill. So many points reaches another multiplier level where you get more points for each kill and the multiplier goes down when a player character goes down, if a player is killed the score resets to X1.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: Nemacysts are huge, flying, squid-like creatures who constantly vent toxic sludge, and are fired as flak or hunter-killer missiles from Seeder arthropods. The Ink/Smoker grenades are actually baby Nemacysts tied to a Bolo Grenade handle. The Digger Launcher in the third game fires a small burrowing creature which digs through the ground ignoring any cover in its path, popping out from the ground if there's any enemy in its trajectory then detonating itself.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_12de0775	type	Goggles Do Nothing
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_12de0775	comment	Goggles Do Nothing: Played straight with Baird until the second game, where he wears them on two occasions, once when he repairs the tank, and once when he pilots a Reaver, as well as when he wears them for intimidation in the books. Played straight again in Gears of War 3. It is explained in the backstory that goggles are worn to prevent shards chainsawed enemy bones from flying into the wearer's eyes. Subverted with the Locust Horde, who, having eyes sensitive to light from living underground, occasionally wear tinted goggles to protect their vision.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_14184bc7	type	Fake Longevity
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_14184bc7	comment	Fake Longevity: The first game has achievements for 100 multiplayer games with a kill with each weapon and 10,000 multiplayer kills in total. Gears of War 2 takes it to ludicrous extremes with "Party Like It's 1999" for playing that many multiplayer rounds (with or without bots, and with or without even being online) and "Seriously 2.0", which requires 100,000 total kills across all game modes. For reference, playing through the campaign once gets you about 1000 kills. The third game introduces several longevity awards with absurd requirements: the "Doorman" medal requires you to grind opening doors, which would take dozens if not hundreds of campaign run-throughs to achieve; the "Allfathers" medal requires you to play 15000 matches (not rounds, matches) of multiplayer; the Founder ribbon requires you to be the one who founds the first base in Horde 2.0 hundreds of times, and so on. In addition, this article details how "Seriously 3.0" in Gears of War 3 might be the toughest achievement to ever unlock.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Friendly Sniper Padrick Salton begins suffering one after the death of his spotter. It becomes even worse after he scouted the areas hit by the Hammer of Dawn counterattack that killed most of the human population.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1467a30c	type	Unexpected Gameplay Change
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1467a30c	comment	Unexpected Gameplay Change: After spending the entire game skulking cover to cover, Gears of War 2 ends in an unstoppable juggernaut section, followed by a point-and-click Final Boss. The earlier Reaver-piloting Rail Shooter sections certainly count. Likewise, the trip to the town of Mercy in Gears of War 3 and the beautiful submarine segment to Azura, albeit somewhat boring. Gears of War: Judgement was made by People Can Fly (the makers of Painkiller), and plays like a weird hybrid of normal Gears of War gameplay and run-and-gun horde shooters like Painkiller and Serious Sam. It received mixed reception from fans of the series as a result of this.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Gears of War 2 carries a darker, more personal story than the last, with various named characters dying, though none of them came from the original game, but were advertised as being in the sequel. Gears of War 3 takes this up to eleven.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Niles of the top-secret New Hope outpost is obsessed with cleanliness, despite the place being very unclean, and seems to be practicing some rather amoral experiments for the good of our future. Sounds very much like the "scientist devoted to a certain fascist government's advancement" type; even lampshaded by Dom, saying the place looks like "...an internment camp."
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1501b4a2	type	Flamethrower Backfire
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1501b4a2	comment	Flamethrower Backfire: Flamethrower Locust mooks go up in flames after a few shots to their fuel tank. The Player Characters thankfully have no need for the thing.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_153299b4	comment	Cole has tendencies toward exhibiting a few traits, but is more in tune to the Boisterous Bruiser.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_161f1ebf	comment	Marcus and Dom. Long time friends who always stay close together. The novel Aspho Fields give a bit of backstory of Marcus and Dom growing up, as well as shedding light on quite a bit of angst between Marcus and Anya prior to their Relationship Upgrade. Their argument in Gears of War 2 comes close to a break-up. Yahzee made a joke of this part. "[Marcus] is aided by his best friend - AND NOTHING ELSE - Dominic."
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: Prescott gets furious if you lose a multiplayer round.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: Done by headshots from almost all weapons in Gears of War if they hit your head when it does enough damage to deplete your Hit Points. They even sell an action figure of a Drone with its head a-sploding. Gears of War 3 hilariously introduces a "Mutator" for Arcade Mode and Horde 2.0. What does it do? Enemies victim to would-be-fatal headshots frantically run around the map attacking anything without mercy. Makes for funny moments when all that's left of their craniums is a bloodied stump while managing to continue screaming.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_175543cd	type	Blatant Item Placement
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_175543cd	comment	Blatant Item Placement: The game is based around cover after all, but there are times when bombs specifically reducing buildings to chest-high walls becomes very obvious.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Marcus in the extended universe. Shades of this appear in the actual game when Gears of War 3 rolls around: "It was always his work my father cared about... his research." Poor Marcus.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_17ce80aa	comment	Marcus in the extended universe.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: Subverted. Marcus briefly mentions doing this to sneak into the Nexus in Gears of War 2, but he and Dom decide to go in guns blazing instead as revenge for Maria. Can be played straight in the "Deleted Scene" DLC if you can take the sneaky option.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_19787667	type	Second Hour Superpower
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_19787667	comment	Second Hour Superpower: In Gears 4, the iconic Jack of All Stats Chainsaw Lancer doesn't become available until Act 2, starting you with more niche weapons such as the Hammerburst and the Enforcer.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_19ac3a7a	comment	Mayor of a Ghost Town: Griffin, after your trip to Char.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: Rustlung, which seemed pretty pointless in Gears of War 2until it turned out to be the first step towards Lambency in humans in Gears of War 3.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Used by Marcus after he stabs Myrrah; See This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!. Clayton Carmine can also say some kills are for his brothers Anthony and Benjamin.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The "Ashes to Ashes" trailer showed Delta Squad fighting in Char completely intact. In the actual game, Dom dies before you visit Char.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1a303edf	type	Our Orcs Are Different
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1a303edf	comment	Our Orcs Are Different: Cliff Bleszinski once said in an interview that the inspiration for the Locust Horde came from the Uruk-hai. He explains this by saying that the Uruk-hai tend to be smarter and tougher than regular orcs. As such, he designed the Locust to be smarter than the usual average bunch of "horde" monsters in other settings, via taking cover, not rushing into COG fire, etc.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1a8b9a47	type	Rule of Fun
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1a8b9a47	comment	Rule of Fun: Canonically, the chainsaw bayonet was developed because the traditional blade bayonets break on Locust skin. In Gears of War 3. the Retro Lancer is integrated into the gameplay, yet the blades don't ever break. The "active reload" mechanic within the game consists of a minigame while reloading: press the reload button within a specific and small window of time and the weapon will reload faster. Press it within an even smaller, more specific window will give the weapon a temporary stat bonus (increased range, firing rate, damage...) and reloads the weapon instantly if pressed correctly. However, missing it causes the weapon to jam and ends up taking much longer to reload. This minigame is never explained, not even Hand Waved, and is quite obviously just there to make reloading more fun.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1b2b1d2c	type	Violation of Common Sense
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1b2b1d2c	comment	Violation of Common Sense: Tickers explode when shot or when they get close, so naturally you want to keep your distance. If you don't, and instead close in and hit them with a (non-chainsaw) melee attack, not only will they not explode, but they will be sent flying away too far to hurt you with their explosion, and if they don't explode when they land, they'll be disoriented and wander aimlessly instead of charging you when they get back on their feet.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic - Anya
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1c0d4155	type	Necessary Drawback
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1c0d4155	comment	Necessary Drawback: The Hammer of Dawn is easily a Game-Breaker if there wasn't a few things holding it back. The target has to be outdoors and not under cover so that "the satellites can be aligned". In multiplayer, there's a limit to how long you can use it.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: The Hammer of Dawn satellite laser, required to use with a laser marker. In Horde 2.0 the Command Center fortification allows you to upgrade to calling in a mortar or Hammer of Dawn strike. Since you have no direct control over where it drops, it can surprise both you and your teammates.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Most of the conflict between the Outsiders and COG in Gears 4 comes from neither side trusting or really trying to communicate with each other. JD and Reyna don't put any real effort into convincing Jinn they're not taking her people. While Jinn is suspicious of everyone and doesn't hesitate to send in the kill bots.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Marcus
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1c7555f1	comment	Sadly, Gears of War 3 has Dom of all people pulling one of these at the end of Act 3 to save Marcus, Anya, Sam, Dizzy and Jace from the never ending hordes of Lambent. Adam Fenix dies not long after reuniting with his son by using himself as a test subject in his quest to eliminate Imulsion, then activating a world-affecting bomb that he knows will kill him as well as all Lambent and Locust.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: In Gears of War 3, going to Mercy costs Delta Squad time and Dom in their quest to acquire fuel to reach Azura. They end up not even getting the fuel they went there for since Dom blew it all up to save them. In the cutscene, it seemed that Delta still had ammo for their weapons, so Dom could have jumped over to them and they all could have concentrated fire on the tanks to make an escape without him dying. Not to undermine Dom's Heroic Sacrifice, but it could have been avoided.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Marcus and Dom. Long time friends who always stay close together. The novel Aspho Fields give a bit of backstory of Marcus and Dom growing up, as well as shedding light on quite a bit of angst between Marcus and Anya prior to their Relationship Upgrade. Their argument in Gears of War 2 comes close to a break-up. Yahzee made a joke of this part. "[Marcus] is aided by his best friend - AND NOTHING ELSE - Dominic." There's also indications in the opposite direction; more than one scene in Gears of War 2 and production interview gave us signs that Marcus and Anya have more than a strictly professional relationship between them. Naturally, the novelizations and subsequent Gears of War 3 outright confirm this. Baird and Cole are also very close, to the extent that Cole was the only person Baird really cared about before he met Marcus and Dom.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1e14ea2a	type	Boss Battle
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1e14ea2a	comment	Berserkers just completely fell off the face of Sera after the first game, only re-appearing as a potential Boss Battle during boss waves in Horde 2.0 and as a playable unit in Beast mode.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall After losing a multiplayer match on the COG side in Gears of War 2, Chairman Prescott will deride you. He might say: "Reload, refocus, respawn!". Failing an active reload and causing the gun to jam as Griffin in multiplayer in Gears of War 3 may have him say "Fuckin' noob!", clearly at you. In Gears 3, picking up a weapon as Cole may have him spout "Oh, hell yeah! They gotta stop handin' us toys to play with!" Those weapons have to be placed by someone...
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1eed8e76	type	The Juggernaut
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1eed8e76	comment	Judgment has a new creature called the Rager, who initially looks like a skinnier drone with typical armaments but can morph into a more grotesque creature with spikes who behaves like a less durable Berserker.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat - Prescott, although in this case he was trying to undo all the government secrets he had been hiding
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: Kim's death at the hands of General RAAM in Ultimate Edition is much more brutal than it was originally, with RAAM booting Kim to the ground instead of backhanding him in the face, and stabbing him multiple times instead of just once. This is most likely because RAAM now has the events of RAAM's Shadow to be pissed about. To Kim's credit, he manages to at least try to fight back this time, instead of being sucker punched like before. The executions from Gears 4 are now somehow even more violent. Not to mention that you can also gib a downed enemy pretty messily with even the Snub and Hammerburst. In the previous games, shooting a downed enemy with a conventional weapon would leave their corpse intact.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Adam Fenix makes one with Queen Myrrah before the events of the trilogy. Myrrah promised Adam that she would not invade Sera should he find a way to destroy the Lambent. He fails to do so, thus Myrrah is forced to kick-start the Human-Locust War. Its highly, highly implied she was going to do it anyway.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_20e20e99	type	Not the Intended Use
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_20e20e99	comment	Not the Intended Use: Although envisioned as a cover-based tactical shooter, the dynamic way players can move from cover to cover created a tactic known as "wallbouncing" that has defined the multiplayer metagame since the first game. This tactic involves rapidly moving from cover to cover while hipfiring firing the Gnasher shotgun in-between, instantly closing the gap on anyone that tries to play the games as originally envisioned.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: The Palace Guards in the second game, who guard the Nexus Palace instead of regular drones, and are just as tough as Theron Guards. The third game has Chairman Prescott's Onyx Guard, elite Gears personally loyal to him, although you only fight them as the "final boss" of Beast Mode when playing as the Locust.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: If the games didn't make it clear, the horrible event in the books really will show how terrible a place Sera is, even before the Locust emerged.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Most of the main cast in all the games have shades of this, but special mention goes to Paduk from Judgment.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2207b002	type	Ambiguously Brown
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2207b002	comment	Ambiguously Brown: Samantha looks vaguely Hispanic, but her accent is Claudia Black's own British/Australian mix. Otherwise the games are pretty good with being clear about various character's ethnicity. In game, she's described as being Kashkuri, the in-universe equivalent to the Australian Aborigines.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun Imulsion irradiated wretches called "Lambent Wretches" in the first game return with a new angle in the second. Dom's combat knife in Gears of War 3.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_23168b93	type	Last Lousy Point
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_23168b93	comment	Last Lousy Point: A number of Onyx medals in Gears of War 3 take a lot of time to get, even if you boost them in private matches. To claim the "Seriously 3.0" achievement, you need to have them all. Ribbons are not exempt from this trope either. While even some of the tougher ribbons can be easily gotten in different game modes that provide better opportunities to get them, there are 4 particular ribbons that are noticeably difficult to get. The "Long Hauler" ribbon requires you to complete all 50 waves of Horde in one sitting. Getting through all the way to wave 50 can easily take you 2 and a half to 3 hours and that's not even counting if you repeatedly fail waves which will lengthen that time even more. Additionally, most people seem to drop out at around wave 20 and if you don't have at least two other players with you, completing the last waves is nearly impossible. Also, if you have to leave in the middle or your Xbox crashes and boots you off, back to Wave 1 for you! There's also the "Trick Shot" ribbon which requires you to score a headshot on an enemy with the Torque Bow and have that same arrow stick into another enemy and kill them. Good luck ever coming across two enemies that will be lined up perfectly for this shot without getting killed beforehand. Even when playing with bots, this orientation of enemies will pretty much never present itself and that's what makes this ribbon so frustrating to get. Next, there's the "Survivor" ribbon which requires you to revive yourself FIVE times in a SINGLE ROUND. Since you'll be forced into Gnasher duels for the majority of matches, the only way this could happen is if you're engaging enemies from a distance behind a piece of cover where you can't be hit from if you get downed there, leaving you to revive yourself in peace. However, since you can only go down twice before dying the next down, you HAVE to die at least twice, then hope that someone doesn't follow you to a good (or the same) spot for this ribbon so you don't get flushed out. Finally, there's the "No Smoking" ribbon which, naturally, requires you to kill someone with a smoke grenade. The only viable way to do this is in Team Deathmatch, Warzone or Execution. You basically have to pick out the last enemy remaining, down them twice, let them get revived and then run up to them (hoping that they don't kill you before you get to them, or you'll be screwed) and stick them with the grenade while you run away. Worse yet, there's an achievement requiring you to have each ribbon at least once. Going for all the achievements? You must get these ribbons one way or another. The "Foreshadowing" achievement added by "RAAM's Shadow": to get it, you must execute players playing as Lieutenant Kim while playing as General RAAM. This cannot be done privately, only in public multiplayer, where nobody ever played as Kim to begin with, even in the last two games, and certainly won't now since doing so will make them a highly sought-after target. And if they do play as him, it's because they are incredibly skilled at the game and want to be a highly sought-after target so that they just have to wait for free kills to come directly to them. "I've Got This!". You must get 10 kills in one round of Guardian while playing as your team leader. Guardian cannot be played privately. You are not guaranteed to get a turn as the leader every match. Leaders cannot respawn. If the team leader is dead, nobody else on the team can respawn either, which means if the enemy leader dies too quickly it will be impossible for you to get the required amount of kills. It also must be done on a map from the "Forces of Nature" map pack. To top it all off, it unlocks a set of weapon skins. It's the Last Two Lousy Points in One. The original "Seriously..." was this, due to the leaderboards recording all of your ranked kills, but not all of them counted towards the achievement for reasons that were never fully explained. You could potentially have enough recorded kills to get "Seriously 2.0" and still be nowhere close. All of the other kill-based achievements had the same problem, but were only for 100 kills to "Seriously..."'s 10,000. Unlocking Richard Prescott for use in multiplayer. To unlock Prescott, you must earn the silver Allfather's medal. Being a silver medal, this doesn't sound too bad; until you see the medal's requirements. The Allfather's medal requires you to have a medal in every available game mode (Team Deathmatch, King Of The Hill, etc.). The bronze medal for any game mode requires you to play 100 matches of that game type (not rounds, MATCHES). Since there are a total of 6 game types that count for the medal, you have to play a total of 600 matches just to get the bronze Allfather medal. The silver Allfather's medal requires you to play THREE HUNDRED matches of every game type, clocking in at a total of 1800 matches just to unlock a character. Even if you set the number of rounds to complete a match to 1 so you can boost them in a private match, you'll be in for a huge amount of grinding. This will be even slower if you only play matches online, as the default number of rounds for winning a match in most game modes is 2, with the exceptions of Wingman (which uses the number of total kills a team gets to decide when the match ends) and Warzone and Execution ( which requires FIVE rounds to be won to conclude a match). It also doesn't help that very few people even play Warzone, Execution and Wingman online. Some players have taken to just leaving the game running in MP while they go do something else, but even then, it will still be a painfully slow process to unlock Prescott and will most likely tank your versus k/d ratio in the process. (Fun fact, this troper still hasn't unlocked Prescott despite having the game since it came out in 2011 and Re-Uping all three times). Also, to a lesser extent, unlocking the Savage Theron Guard. To get the Savage Theron Guard, you must earn the Onyx "I'm A Beast!" medal. To do that, you must complete Beast Mode on all four difficulties. Did I mention that you won't get the medal if you fail a wave? Fail even one wave in your run and you have to start all the way from wave 1 again or the medal won't be given to you. Doesn't help that this mode has a very unforgiving timer if you don't get to killing ASAP. Also, if you're looking to do this on Hardcore and Insane, you have to host a private Beast match so that you can change the difficulty, as it is set to Normal in public matches. Even if you do get enough people to play a private match with you, you'll still be in for one hell of a fight. The humans' AI is absolutely brutal at these levels, having ridiculous accuracy with even short-ranged weapons like the Gnasher and Sawed-Off Shotgun and massive damage output, forcing you to use weak-ass tier 1 locust so you don't burn through your pile of cash (Even if you do this, 5 people getting killed constantly will still use up so much cash that you probably won't even have enough cash to use higher tier locust). Most of the locust units in this mode are either clunky to control (Savage Corpser, Berserker), incredibly slow (Boomers) or are tall easy targets (Kantus and Armored Kantus) and have a difficult-to-cover weak point (Giant Serapede). Normal humans are easy enough to kill, but Heroes and Onyx Guards must be executed or finished with an explosive to be perma-killed. Oh, and they can revive themselves nearly instantly if they aren't taken care of quickly. You'll need a lot of patience and trial-and-error before you can finish this mode without failing on the highest difficulties, insuring that the Savage Theron Guard will be the last locust unlocked for most players. Gears of War: Ultimate Edition brings a new lousy point with it in the form of the "Brothers To The End" achievement. To get this one, you must defeat General RAAM in co-op on Insane difficulty without either player going "down, but not out." Anyone who has played the original Gears 1 will remember just how brutal RAAM's battle was, even with the AI glitch that prevented him from attacking you. This glitch no longer works in Ultimate Edition, so players will need a player just as competent as them and a solid strategy to get through this. Between RAAM's Troika, the Kryll and Reavers constantly pelting you with shots from every direction, you'll be killed if you even think about sticking out from cover to target RAAM. Doesn't help that RAAM is still Made of Iron and the Tyro Pillar is a very cramped battlefield. Getting this achievement is as much of a Luck-Based Mission as it is of skill in the players and a single mistake or stroke of bad luck will certainly lead to a lot of retrys.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: Despite surviving Gears 4, Oscar is pretty swiftly killed shortly after his first appearance in Gears 5.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The first game opens with Marcus being busted out of jail. The war and some small details are sprinkled throughout the rest of the game. There is an intro movie that explains the world but it only plays if you idle on the main menu for a minute, and not when you start the game. Averted in the Ultimate Edition Updated Re Release, which starts off with the intro movie. The story of main Judgment campaign is told in this fashion.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2536f695	comment	Tactics, on the other hand, brings the Gnasher back into hugging range. Which is fine, since the only class that uses it has a Game-Breaker spec that lets them spam grenades.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_253be057	type	Body-Count Competition
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_253be057	comment	Body-Count Competition: At one point in Gears of War 2, Marcus and Dom see a long line of Locust drones walking far below them. Dom makes a comment about practicing with their sniper rifles, and for each successive kill, Marcus numbers his kills.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Clayton Carmine◊ is a big one to his decreased younger brother Anthony. In Gears of War, Anthony was killed by sniper fire after standing up to display his issue with his Lancer assault rifle jamming constantly as he reloaded it. To list how Clayton's design references it, "Practice reloading" and "Keep your head down" are written on his armor. If that wasn't enough, a mark on his helmet implies he was shot in the head but survived anyway. Clayton honors the memory of the two fallen Carmine brothers with a memorial tattoo on his arm of their helmets. Gears of War 2 has no shortage of them either, even though it only has one game to Call-Back to. "This is the part where he tells you he'll take it under advisement." and "Hey, Colonel, I guess we ARE the support, huh?!" come to mind. Also, the entire time you're with Benjamin Carmine in the Hollow, Dom doesn't stop making stealthy quips about Anthony, while Marcus tells him to knock it off. Gears of War 3 is filled with these. The tier 4 medal for interacting with objects during the campaign (i.e. hitting buttons) references Lieutenant Minh Young Kim's oft-repeated line in the first game of "I'll open the door; I've got the code." A player using Dominic Santiago will sometimes hear him repeat one of his earliest lines from Gears of War, "This is gonna be awesome!" After killing a COG character, Queen Myrrah will sometimes reference a line from the Gears of War 2 opening cinematic, "You brought this upon yourselves!" Early in the first game, after first meeting Augustus Cole, Dom and Marcus talk about when they saw him play. Marcus will quip "I remember you owe me 20 bucks" to which Dom replies "Yeah? See me after the war." One of the first collectibles in the third game is a 20-dollar bill on Marcus' desk with a note from Dom. After Delta Squad hijacks a Gas Barge, they find Dizzy hunkered down in a supply depot holding out against the Locust. Marcus asks if Dizzy is "taking on the grub army single-handedly again." Dizzy replies with "I guess I shoulda learned my lesson against Skorge." If you can manage to get through a round of Gridlock without anyone destroying one of the ash people, the next round will begin with an instrumental version of Gary Jules' cover of "Mad World", the same song used for the Gears of War commercial. It's also the music that plays during Dom's Heroic Sacrifice. "Who wants toast?!" makes a comeback in Gears of War 3 as one of Marcus' one-liners when throwing an incendiary grenade. Gears of War 4 has one gameplay trailer where Marcus and his son JD's squad take shelter in Marcus' greenhouse, which is then ambushed by DeeBees. The second the bullets start flying, Marcus angrily shouts "Shit, they're gonna mess up my fuckin' tomatoes!", calling back to the first level in Gears of War 3 in which the Lambent attack the Sovereign and Dom shouts "You fucked up my tomatoes, you assholes!"
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_26ba32a3	comment	Ascended Glitch: A glitch in the second game allowed players to use any weapon they wanted (read: the Gnasher) while holding the Boomshield, instead of being limited to their pistol. Although it was patched quickly and wasn't present in the third game at all, it showed up as a legitimate feature in Judgment.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: A Black Comedy example. In "RAAM's Shadow", Zeta team discovers the remains of an evacuation center in a high school gym. Among the carnage is a charred body jammed in a basketball hoop.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_26f41623	comment	Kill Sat: Now in convenient tactical-usage size, the Hammer of Dawn.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2767953f	type	Blood Sport
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2767953f	comment	Blood Sport The fictional Thrashball is more tame than most examples, but it still requires players to wear some fairly heavy armor, and management discourages but does not ban acts like "accidentally" stomping on prone opponents or "accidentally" punching opponents in the face, neck, or groin when diving for a catch. It's worth noting that Cole broke nearly every record the sport offered, including the most number of injuries received in one play. Yes, play. Not match. Subverted in Gears 4 where Cole himself reinvents the game using bots rather than living players, as humans are likely not allowed to partake in something that dangerous when there are so few of them left. In Gears of War 3, there is a small Easter egg where you can peek in through a window and see a group of Savage Locust watching a cockfight between Feral Tickers.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_28104b90	type	Bag of Spilling
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_28104b90	comment	Bag of Spilling: Especially prevalent from games Judgment onwards. At several points during the campaign, the player will lose whatever weapons they were carrying on person just prior, and will either be forced to use whatever they could find or the standard loadout again. 4 and 5 are especially egregious about this, since at least there are narrative breaks in Judgment to justify the change in loadout between scenes or levels, whereas in the titles of the new trilogy, the protagonists will sometimes lose their entire loadout after a short cutscene with no explanation given as to how.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: It's not that many, but there's a few: the soldiers of humanity are called Gears, the largest government on Sera is called the Coalition of Ordered Governments, and there are COG tags instead of dog tags. The Pendulum Wars count as well. In fact, one track on the first game's soundtrack is entitled "I Will Kryll You".
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: In Gears of War 4, the name of Kait's mother is Reyna, which means "Queen" in Spanish. Guess who Reyna's mother turns out to be?
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: There are a bunch of silly gags that can be found, such as a toaster ("Who wants toast!"), a cowboy hat wearing Corpser and a giant Lambent chicken!
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	comment	Clayton is something of a mockery of the Carmine's Red Shirt reputation: the plot goes out of it's way several times to make it look like he's going to die, only for him to either narrowly avoid it or drop out of the plot only to show up alive and unconcerned a few scenes later.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: While the Boltok revolver used to have a slower firing rate and more damage compared to the standard Snub pistol, achieving its active reload allows it to fire faster. It even makes for an impromptu sniper rifle in a pinch, due to all pistols having a zoom-in function.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2a537eaf	type	Non P.O.V. Protagonist
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2a537eaf	comment	Non P.O.V. Protagonist: The novels shift P.O.V. between numerous different characters from throughout the series...except for Marcus. This likely serves to highlight his personality as The Stoic and how he constantly suppresses his true thoughts and emotions, even from the audience.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: The game series embodies this through the use of the Carmine brothers (Anthony, Ben and Clay), where the original was a faceless member of the team who got killed early on while complaining about his gun jamming. Due to his unexpected popularity they brought him back as his brother in Gears 2, still faceless but lasting longer through the campaign and a more fully developed character. Bringing in the third Carmine, still helmeted, they actually allowed the fans to choose whether he lived or died in the end through an X Box marketplace charity drive. As such most fans were wondering when/if he would die. Other characters in this mold include Kim and Tai. Tragically, Dom of all people manages to end up becoming the biggest example of this in the series. The players have gotten to know him across the entire series, playing as him in co-op and getting to see how much of a loyal, selfless and Nice Guy he is. Although the Anyone Can Die trope was invoked in Gears of War 3, absolutely no one was expecting Dom to be the only Delta Squad member to die. Even though he went out in a Dying Moment of Awesome combined with Heroic Sacrifice, it's safe to say that Dom's death brought tears to the entire fan base.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2b1c4491	type	Anti-Rage Quitting
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2b1c4491	comment	Anti-Rage Quitting: The first two games and Judgment didn't do anything to encourage players to stay in games and there was no penalty if you decided to leave in the middle of a match besides whatever your score happened to be. Gears of War 3 and 4 actively promote this, thankfully. If you leave a match early in 3, you are given a Negative Penalty, which basically substracts experience points from your level (and can actually de-level someone hilariously enough). In 4, you are given a temporary ban of 15 minutes that increases for every cumulative match you quit and prevents you from doing anything multiplayer-related. However, there are no penalties for leaving the time-consuming Horde mode, which is a real sour point for players that wish to finish it to the end.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Gears Of War 2 has a man-portable Mulcher minigun. To help realism slightly, it requires you to set it down to fire it with anything that vaguely resembles accuracy, and you are unable to sprint, roll or mount over cover with it.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The heavy weapons. Sure, it's pretty awesome to shred enemies with the Mulcher or drop mortars on the Locusts' heads, but they make you move at half your normal speed and you can't roadie run or mantle over cover while you have them. Not to mention that they have horrible accuracy when blind fired and aiming with them makes you completely immobile. In the Mortar's case, it also has severely limited ammo and its attacks are audible from even the other side of the maps. The famous chainsaw bayonet is this in spades, especially in multiplayer. If you're struck while revving the chainsaw up, you will be badly staggered and left completely vulnerable. Furthermore, the lengthy kill animation has you completely vulnerable for over seven seconds. The Buzzkill as well. You'll feel like a total badass if you can ricochet the saw blades to kill hidden enemies and it only takes about 2 shots to kill infantry, but besides the standard weaknesses of all heavy weapons, the blades can just as easily kill you instead. Just about any weapon that isn't one of the starting ones (Lancer, Hammerburst, Gnasher, etc.) count as this, if only for the fact that most enemies don't carry them, so ammo is often scarce and they all require precision in some way. The Boomshot and Hammer of Dawn play this the straightest. The Boomshot can One-Hit Kill any infantry and does great damage to big enemies as well, but you'll never have more than 3 or 4 shots and will often discard it in the same area you grab it. The Hammer of Dawn can only be used outside, can't be blind-fired from cover, and takes a few seconds before the Kill Sat even starts to drop and in multiplayer, its ammo gets chewed through very quickly. Executions, full stop. They're absolutely awesome to look at and nothing is quite as cathartic as smashing your foot into an enemy's face with a curb stomp, but you're completely helpless while you're performing them and will 9 times out of 10 be killed before they finish. The only real practical executions are the Meatshield and sometimes the Retro Charge.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2c77fae3	type	Darkness Equals Death
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2c77fae3	comment	Darkness Equals Death: The Kryll in the first game are a race of near-unstoppable flesh-eating bats who swarm anything not covered in light. It made this true for pretty much anywhere dark.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: The "Young Adam Fenix" multiplayer skin has quips like this, since he's probably the smartest individual in the Gears Of War universe. "Kiss my highly educated ass!" indeed.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Anthony's very popular character for multiplayer, likely because of his very enthusiastic quotes while fighting, practically to the point of this trope. The tendency of many players to use the chainsaw bayonet at every possible opportunity also counts.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2f5b9954	type	Alphabetical Theme Naming
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2f5b9954	comment	Alphabetical Theme Naming: Anthony Carmine, Benjamin Carmine, and Clayton Carmine. Since there are four Carmine brothers in total, the last one is most likely D. Carmine. Gears 4 features Gary Carmine, but since 25 years have passed since the last game he is most likely the son of either Clayton or the fourth Carmine brother (assuming he lived long enough).
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: Myrrah
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Twice averted with Cole. "The Cole Train" looks to be the most musclar character in a game full of bulky-armoured men, and one probably wouldn't want to fight him, but he's probably also among the nicest characters as well. Jace is black, and pretty big (although by comparison to Marcus and Cole, he's notably small) and has cornrows, yet he's written as the sweetest character in the games and Expanded Universe (notably, Michael B. Jordan portrays Wallace in The Wire, who's known for playing that type of character). Probably the straightest example of this trope is Aaron Griffin, who even seems to frighten the men under him.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: The new beard Dom's sporting in Gears of War 3 is this. In the "Ashes to Ashes" trailer, the way he just lies back and waits for the Drone to finish him off shows he doesn't give a shit about anything anymore since having to Mercy Kill his wife Maria. Overlaps with Death Seeker.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3121f1e6	type	Noob Cave
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3121f1e6	comment	Noob Cave: "Casual" multiplayer for Gears of War 3 is just straight-up Team Deathmatch. Notably, those who have earned certain achievements in the first two games or participated in the beta on their profile are locked out of "casual" and are forced into "standard" multiplayer. Somewhat justified by Epic Games, as they cite Gears of War 3 being the most accessible title, thus giving newcomers to the series a place to practice before joining the "big leagues".
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_31237f3e	type	Custom Uniform
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_31237f3e	comment	Custom Uniform: There are some slight variations in the armor designs between major characters (regular COG Gears look exactly like Carmine), but in the first two games they were all similar enough that it was likely there was some mild customizable options (Dom has a shoulder light and combat knife to distinquish him from Marcus). In Gears of War 3, everyone has made significant alterations to their armor that takes it further away from being a uniform, including color coding. Marcus has orange highlights, Cole green and Baird blue as always. Hoffman has several medal-like markings on his suit to represent his command authority.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Baird could be one of the poster boys for this trope, with Cole as his Foil.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_323f135b	type	Sorting Algorithm of Evil
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_323f135b	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Fairly blatantly used in 2. While talking about Skorge, Marcus states he "makes RAAM look like a Goddamn pushover". Somewhat justified by linking the emergence of a "GIANT WORM!!!" to the Lightmass Bomb. Played with in 3- you start off against the new and explode-y Lambent, and fight them and the Locust in varied intervals. By the end of the game, though, the Locust you fight are loads and loads of Myrrah's Guards along with the bigger Boomers, Grinders, Armoured Kantus, etc. Possibly a Justified Trope that Myrrah only managed to get her elite forces to keep up with her and the main Locust force is kept at bay on Azura by the COG reinforcements.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_33287e20	type	One Bullet Clips
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_33287e20	comment	One Bullet Clips: The entire series embraces this. Gears 5 goes a step beyond and allows you to reload full magazines, with zero loss to your total ammo count, all to make starting a fight with a Perfect Reload a bit more intuitive.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The visual design is built like this, the story is about what has to happen for something to be After the End. Before Emergence Day, human civilization endured the Pendulum wars. After about 85 years of destructive, sometimes nuclear war, Sera could be described as post-apocalyptic; the people left are just fighting for the ashes. Gears of War 3 embraces it in full, and it's likely to the point that even if the fighting stopped instantly there wouldn't be an infrastructure left to rebuild the civilization they once had.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_33b4e7f	type	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_33b4e7f	comment	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Despite helmets seemingly being standard issue among COG soliders, none of the main characters wear them. In fact, the easiest way to see if someone is going to die? He wears a helmet. Except Clayton Carmine. His helmet actually saves him from friendly fire. Lamphaded in Gears of War 2. At one point, Delta has to drill through solid rock, which naturally produces a lot of dust.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_33ca811a	type	Game-Breaking Bug
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_33ca811a	comment	Game-Breaking Bug: A bug currently making the rounds in Gears Of War 3 will accidentally dump a 5-man Horde team into Wingman mode. Since Wingman's typically played by 4 teams of 2 in a free-for-all setting, dumping an entire group of 5 onto a single team is slightly unbalancing. Another rather irritating bug from Gears 3: When starting a Horde match, if the current host of the match quits just as the match starts, the results screen will come up and say that the team has failed Wave 0. Since this game mode is supposed to start you from Wave 1, this is very problematic. When the host changes, the team will respawn on the map as usual: still from Wave 0. Even though you will hear the Locust's cries that signify the enemies spawning, no enemies will actually spawn, leaving you to wander around the map with no way to progress the mode. The only way out is to quit the match and hope you find another match with a team that won't quit at the drop of a hat. There is an incredibly nasty bug in Gears of War 3 and it is by far the worst out of any of the glitches. Without warning, when you start up the game, there is a chance that your Player Data file can become corrupted which will result in ALL OF YOUR DATA BEING WIPED FROM THE GAME! What's in the Player Data file? Just every last one of your ribbons and medals that you have pain-stakingly earned throughout your total investment in the game! Oddly enough, your Campaign collectables and achievements will still be intact, but imagine being one of the unlucky souls starting up the game to have some fun only to mysteriously see that your level has been reset back to 1 and every one of your ribbons and medals are GONE. The worst part is that this glitch has apparently been in the game since launch and nobody quite knows what causes it. It is believed that it is the result of faulty Epic or Microsoft servers glitching out at the EXACT moment you press Start, but it can apparently happen if you so much as sign in after you start the game. Also, Epic and Microsoft will do nothing to reset your stats back to what they were because the second you enter the main menu, your Player Data file gets overwrittten and basically pretends that your old data never existed. The only way to combat this is to hope that you have played Gears 3 on another console that hasn't been hit by the bug so that you have an uncorrupted Player Data file. Then, you must transfer that data into a Memory Unit or Flashdrive and beam it back into your Hard Drive to replace the corrupted data. Only have one console? Congratulations, all of your hard-earned data is lost and your only option now is to start clean again from the beginning! Bugs, huh? In Gears of War 4, if a player joins a social match at the moment when the cameras are showcasing the teams before the match starts, the bot that said player will replace will disappear, but the player will not be able to play and will be stuck in the ghost camera. This will rob a team of a player for an entire round and the only fix is for the player to quit the match or wait until the round is over.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_33f89198	type	Blade Brake
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_33f89198	comment	Blade Brake: General RAAM does one after falling from his first Reaver in RAAM's Shadow.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: The Resonator fails. Even after that, the Lightmass Bomb is insufficient to wipe the Locust out. In the sequel, sinking Jacinto isn't enough to stop the persistent creatures permanently.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_348d308c	type	Sword Drag
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_348d308c	comment	Sword Drag: Running while holding a Locust meat cleaver will result in this
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Particularly Tai and Maria in the second game. It gets worse in Gears of War 3 with Dom's death.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: The Union of Independent Republics to the COG.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_36400864	type	Catharsis Factor
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_36400864	comment	Executions, full stop. They're absolutely awesome to look at and nothing is quite as cathartic as smashing your foot into an enemy's face with a curb stomp, but you're completely helpless while you're performing them and will 9 times out of 10 be killed before they finish. The only real practical executions are the Meatshield and sometimes the Retro Charge.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Many, many (if not all) things, but most notably Chainsaw Bayonets
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme The third game actually features the characters reacting with joy to see backup and saying, "It's Carmine!" One of the Stranded in Char asks "Show me that two piece again!" Two-piecing was the Fan Nickname for the melee -> shotgun combo that dominated the original Gears of War multiplayer. Several characters throughout the franchise (Adam Fenix and the Onyx Guard in 3, Marcus and Minh in 5) will occasionally say, "Your mom's a classy lady!" after a kill in multiplayer. Lieutenant Kim's "I've got the code" shows up twice in Gears of War 3: as the Onyx medal for interacting with objects and as a Continuity Nod in "RAAM's Shadow".
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_36f64808	type	Eager Rookie
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_36f64808	comment	Eager Rookie: The first two Carmine brothers, though their big brother Clayton is a bit more experienced and lives a lot longer.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: Every game so far has featured one "horror movie" level, with plenty of tense atmospheres, foreboding scenery, and nonstandard enemies. It was in the Lethia Imulsion Facility in the first, the New Hope Research Facility in the second, and Mercy in the third. Something bad happens to a Carmine in each game. Clayton actually walks it off, though.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_378a8006	comment	World-Healing Wave: Adam Fenix's machine neutralizes the Lambent parasite across the entire world, killing anything infected by it as well, including Adam, Fenix's father.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: General Bardry Salaman, who was unable to live with himself after having helped carry out the Hammer of Dawn counterattack. At least, that's the cover story that was given for his relocation to Azura.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_37f0b1bb	type	Absurdly Low Level Cap
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_37f0b1bb	comment	Absurdly Low Level Cap: Unlike the above example, Judgment only allows players to go up to level 50. You can still Re-Up three times, but a couple of weeks of solid multiplayer will get just about everyone to the cap.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_384986f4	type	We Will Meet Again
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_384986f4	comment	We Will Meet Again: Griffin vows revenge against Marcus towards the end of Gears of War 3 before pulling a Villain: Exit, Stage Left. Somewhat odd, given that this is the last game in the trilogy.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_384d0eaf	comment	Lightning Lash: In Gears 4, Deadeye DeeBees will execute players by tying some sort of electric whip to their torsos and shocking them to death.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_391d6577	type	Sequel Escalation
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_391d6577	comment	Sequel Escalation: Each game seems to aim to be manlier, gorier and darker than the last, with the exception of Judgment, which is just one single long mission with a lone objective (stop/kill Karn), broken up into levels of course, all taking place in the port area of a city. There is another bonus mission taking place later in the timeline that is also about accomplishing one single objective (procure a boat). Gears 4, since it's based on the trilogy, seems to be invoking this in spades, as the game will take place over a twenty-four hour period as the rebuilding human civilization has to deal with the new threat of The Swarm.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: The starting weapons, which consist of the Lancer, Hammerburst and Gnasher. Sure, they arenâ€™t nearly as cool to use (well, the Chainsaw Bayonet is pretty awesome) as the Kill Sat Hammer of Dawn, the explosive Boomshot and Torque Bow or the Awesome, but Impractical heavy weapons, but the fact of the matter is youâ€™re going to be using them 95% of the time in campaign and multiplayer since the most common enemies have them. They have good damage output and can easily have their ammo replenished and swapped out for other weapons and having them will give you a very versatile range to take on enemies from.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3ac709f6	type	Multiplayer Difficulty Spike
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3ac709f6	comment	Multiplayer Difficulty Spike: While the single-player and co-op experiences of the Gears of War franchise are standard third-person cover-based shooter fare, the competitive multiplayer modes completely invert this as extremely fast-paced fragfests where any such tactics associated with the genre are made irrelevant. Youâ€™ll quickly find out the hard way that unless you learn to love the Gnasher and "wallbouncing" you wonâ€™t have a chance in hell of taking on other players.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: While life before Emergence Day wasn't exactly much better, the COG tried aiming for this.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3b856be9	type	The Enemy Weapons Are Better
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3b856be9	comment	The Enemy Weapons Are Better: Played straight in the first game, where the COG weapons consisted of the Lancer, which took a full clip to kill a single basic Locust drone, the Longshot, which had very little practical use due to the small battlefields, and the Awesome, but Impractical Hammer of Dawn which could only be used in very specific areas while the Locust got access to the very effective Hammerburst that could kill Mooks in 4 to 6 bursts and the One-Hit Kill capabilities of the Torque Bow and Boomshot. Averted with the Gnasher, which has been as overpowered as a shotgun could possibly be across all the games, leaving you little reason to swap it out. This became more zigzagged in the sequels since the addition of both new COG and Locust weapons made it so that both sides had weapons that could compete with each other and most of them are fairly common in the campaigns and multiplayer.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3babae20	type	Degraded Boss
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3babae20	comment	Degraded Boss: Gameplay-wise, Grinders are essentially weaker versions of General RAAM with less health and no Kryll protecting it. Story-wise, they're two entirely different beasts (RAAM's an ascended Theron Guard while Grinders are Boomers with a Mulcher), yet their tactics are more or less the same.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666	comment	The Noodle Incident that caused JD and Del to defect from the COG is never elaborated on in 4. It gets a vague mention when the group first meets Marcus and once more before the group descends into the osmium mine and is promptly forgotten about. Gears 5 finally explains what happened.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3c3b5c27	type	Vehicular Assault
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3c3b5c27	comment	Vehicular Assault: Although they're technically more of a mount, all the non-Lambent Brumak fights go this way. Likewise on the various occasions that Delta has to fight Reavers on foot.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: By the time of the Gears of War 4, Sera has faced three events worthy of being dubbed an apocalypse (Emergence Day, the scorching of the surface with the Hammer of Dawn, Adam Fenix's Imulsion Countermeasure Weapon), and that's only counting the human ones (the Locust had their own, unique End of the World as We Know It with the emergence of the Lambent before Emergence Day). As a result, there's a mixture of high technology, Lost Technology, and Used Future functional tech that's much simpler. This becomes especially true when exploring ruins dating to the Pendulum Wars (before all of said apocalypses), where the tech on display is intentionally reminiscent of the 1980s, featuring beige keyboards and cathode ray tube monitors. Locust tech throws an extra layer in the works, tending to be brutally functional and rarely refined. As an example, Gears 5 has the player take an autonomous robot capable of levitation and invisibility to a space center modeled after those of the Soviet Union, reaching it via a sail-powered skiff. Many weapons in-game are intentionally anachronistic to show off nearly a century of desperate war and the industrial corner-cutting that inspires. For example, the iconic Lancer machine gun comes equipped with a 17 inch sword bayonet reminiscent of the Napoleonic Wars, a chainsaw, or a grenade launcher.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: In Gears of War 3, Aaron Griffin is the former CEO of an Imulsion energy corporation, now the leader of a Stranded group taken up residence in the high rise Griffin tower. Within the campaign he talks a lot about keeping his "employees" safe and doesn't like the COG because they tend to bring the Locust war with them. But an in-game collectible carries a note from one of his Stranded members who comments that Griffin always refers to them as Employees, which many resent because they were obviously not getting health insurance anymore. Plus he largely kept the best stuff for himself (gold plated weapons can be seen in his office) and everyone was afraid of being chosen for the next near-suicidal Imulsion run.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3d4f266f	type	Convenient Color Change
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3d4f266f	comment	Convenient Color Change: Gun color changes depending on the holder.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: Theorized to be the reason Gears can do all the acrobatics the game allows them despite wearing a bulky suit of armor that virtually resembles medieval plate armor in coverage, but it has yet to be stated.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3e2c9d95	type	Rock Bottom
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3e2c9d95	comment	Rock Bottom: The whole human race, though they get better by 4, somewhat. In 3, this is also true of the Locust, who have, far and wide, gone savage unless directed by the Queen herself.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Dom becomes this in Gears of War 2. This is the title that goes with the onyx "Spotter" medal in Gears of War 3.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	comment	Sad Clown: Dom intially, even more so in the third game. Cole gets some moments suggesting this early in the third game when he visits the ruins of his Doomed Hometown. He may be a Boisterous Bruiser Big Guy who loves the adrenaline rush of sports and combat, but he is also clearly haunted by memories of happier times which will never come again.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_406315e	type	Shield-Bearing Mook
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_406315e	comment	Shield-Bearing Mook: Maulers carry gigantic Boomshields to give them extra protection. If they take any damage, they immediately deploy it, forcing you to attack them from behind or very carefully try to shoot them in their exposed feet in the front.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_40a533db	type	Guest-Star Party Member
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_40a533db	comment	Guest-Star Party Member: Marcus fulfills this role to his son's squad in Gears 4 until he is captured by a Snatcher. He re-joins the squad after he is rescued. At the end of the campaign, Baird, Cole and Sam are called in by Marcus and provide support from a King Raven while you fight to rescue Reyna from the Swarm.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The second and third games feature victory and ultimately survival, but at a great cost. Myrrah is dead, the Lambent are destroyed for good, and the last stand of organized Locust falls, yet Marcus has lost his best friend Dom and his father Adam Fenix in the struggle. Not to mention that most of humanity is gone, what's left already has limited resources, and the vast majority of the planet's surface was destroyed and is largely unusable. Cynically lampshaded by him in the (chronologically) final game's final line of dialogue:
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4108bb3e	comment	Cole gets some moments suggesting this early in the third game when he visits the ruins of his Doomed Hometown. He may be a Boisterous Bruiser Big Guy who loves the adrenaline rush of sports and combat, but he is also clearly haunted by memories of happier times which will never come again.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4156b553	type	Copy Protection
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4156b553	comment	Copy Protection: Cliff Bleszinski has stated with no small amount of vitriol that piracy of Gears of War stopped any chance of Gears of War 2 on the PC. What Could Have Been: Players hacking into an FPS made by an Epic-affiliated Chinese company, Passion Leading Army, discovered scripts of ''GOW2'' that indicated the developement had already went into advanced stages.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_41d3778a	type	Benevolent Architecture
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_41d3778a	comment	Benevolent Architecture: As Yahtzee stated, chest-high walls are the key to victory in the war.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Niles Samson's "semi-sentient security program", which is a little bit obsessed with cleaning up "filth"., though it doesn't seem to actively attempt to kill you, and even makes an effort to protect you by advising you not to mess around with the main computers, which wakes the Sires. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. Gears of War 4 dabbles in this once again with the new DeeBees faction. The DeeBees are a race of androids that were invented and developed by Baird and weaponized by Chancellor Jinn in the aftermath of the Locust War to maintain peace and order in the COGâ€™s walled colonies. However, in the story and gameplay, they spend all of their appearances trying to fill JD and his squad full of holes and in Horde mode, they donâ€™t even bother attacking the Swarm and instead team up with them to bring you down.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_42502bbe	type	Updated Re-release
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_42502bbe	comment	The first game opens with Marcus being busted out of jail. The war and some small details are sprinkled throughout the rest of the game. There is an intro movie that explains the world but it only plays if you idle on the main menu for a minute, and not when you start the game. Averted in the Ultimate Edition Updated Re Release, which starts off with the intro movie.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_426181b8	type	Do-Anything Robot
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_426181b8	comment	Do-Anything Robot: JACK is a much more subtle version. It's equipped with various devices for communications and repairs but is primarily used to burn the locks off doors and hacking terminals. In Gears of War 3, Baird gives it an upgrade late in the game allowing it to shock and stun enemies.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_42632336	type	Mecha-Mooks
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_42632336	comment	Mecha-Mooks: Gears of War 4 introduces the Deebees; the new rank and file soldier for the COG, and common enemy for JD and friends.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_42d7e070	type	Face-Revealing Turn
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_42d7e070	comment	Face-Revealing Turn: In Gears of War 3, the group enters Mercy, which is mysteriously desolate and the sole survivor they find is quickly killed by unseen monsters. Eventually in the sewers, they find a sobbing woman, and when Marcus approaches she turns and screams, revealed to be a Lambent human, setting the level as a Zombie Apocalypse.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9	type	No Fair Cheating
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9	comment	No Fair Cheating: While the â€œEasyâ€� Mutators in Gears 3 are certainly a blast to use, every one you toggle on reduces your experience earned by 25%, meaning if you used all 3 slots for them, you gain a crippling 75% experience reduction in your game. Averted when you hit the max level; you can use them to your heartâ€™s content at that point.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_430e15e1	type	Stripperific
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_430e15e1	comment	Stripperific: Averted in the third game, where this trope was mentioned in an interview. Female Gears will be wearing the same bulky armor on their upper-bodies, although they do wear skin-tight leggings instead of wearing baggy pants like the men, and by virtue of character design, they are still physically smaller than the men. They do manage to show at least some skin as Delta Squad switches to summer, sleeveless uniforms, but the game series is certainly gender balanced in Fanservice.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_431b76b5	type	Smash Mook
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_431b76b5	comment	Smash Mook: Berserkers are huge and look pretty terrifying, but due to their blindness, their tactics only consist of running in a straight line towards you or pounding you with their fists up close.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_44058f87	type	Sssssnaketalk
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_44058f87	comment	Sssssnake Talk: Theron Guards
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4478c66d	type	Flashback Nightmare
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4478c66d	comment	The opening of Gears of War 3 is very similar to the opening scene of Gears of War, only Dom's role is filled by Anya instead and there are Lambent Polyps instead of Locust Wretches. It turns out this is simply a Flashback Nightmare.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: At one point Queen Myrrah remarks that the Locust could have cooperated with the Humans to save both species, but decided to go to total war instead because supposedly Humans Are the Real Monsters who "only understand dominance and ownership". Not to mention violent to an extreme. Then again, if you first encountered the Seran humans after 100 years of war (and untold years before hand of unrest) which included nukes and kill sats on their own species, you might be a little wary of approaching them as a completely different species altogether. What's more, the Locust would never have needed to invade the surface had Adam Fenix figured out a way to make his Lambent-killing weapon not kill the Locust as well. The fact that he couldn't figure it out is something he regards as My Greatest Failure. Turns out, the weapon in its current form ended up not killing the Locust after all, but put them in hibernation for 25 years and made them stronger.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_44bd31e2	comment	Trope Codifier: Gears of War didn't invent cover-based shooters (by Cliffy B's own admission, the game's cover system was inspired by kill.switch), but it unquestionly took the gameplay mechanic from the realm of obscure low-budget games to mainstream blockbusters.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: There are several scenes, especially in the second game, of Marcus taking the extra effort to ensure the safety and well-being of civilians even when it complicates the mission. Baird calls him out on this, but Marcus always gets the final say.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been: Players hacking into an FPS made by an Epic-affiliated Chinese company, Passion Leading Army, discovered scripts of ''GOW2'' that indicated the developement had already went into advanced stages.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_468d28be	type	Million Mook March
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_468d28be	comment	Million Mook March: The beginning of Gears of War 2 is one for the Gears.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_469e3e2f	comment	The computer's stupidity is the only possible explanation for how the Locust and Lambent, two VERY intelligent and murderous species, will completely break fire from actual gears to target the decoys you build in Horde mode. These two are genuinely fooled by cardboard celebrity cutouts and mannequins! In-Universe, the Locust and Lambent are incredibly dangerous and most certainly do not fall for such obvious-looking traps. You'd figure that after fighting an enemy for decades, you'd have a good idea of what they look like. That, or maybe they attack the decoys because they need points like you do!
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_46e1fd22	type	Walking Disaster Area
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_46e1fd22	comment	Walking Disaster Area: Every place the C.O.G. show up seems to get attacked by Locust and/or Lambent, much to the dismay of others. The Stranded, especially Griffinnote who already had an intense hatred towards them because the city of Char was devastated by Hammer Of Dawn strikes, resulting in many people being turned into ash despise them because of this, as when the Gears shows up seeking fuel, the city gets attacked by Locust and the Stranded end up suffering heavy casualties. Paduk also expresses his distaste for the COG in "Aftermath" when the group gets repeatedly attacked on their way to get a boat.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_46f1dc86	type	Ring-Out Boss
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_46f1dc86	comment	Ring-Out Boss: The Corpser in the first game has to be knocked into the Imulsion by the recoil from your attacks.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Baird. However much he may claim he doesn't care about anyone else but himself and maybe Cole, he sure takes a lot of risks he doesn't need to for others, and even attempts to comfort them in his own unique Jerkass way.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: In the expansion RAAM's Shadow for Gears of War 3, a small child gets put into an evacuation transport only to be pulled underground by a Corpser the second the transport pulls away.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_480ee6dc	type	InsurmountableWaistHighFence
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_480ee6dc	comment	Insurmountable Waist-High Fence: Generally averted, except on the multiplayer map "Jacinto," where small flowerbeds prevent you from mantling some critically-important walls.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_48cbd223	type	Machete Mayhem
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_48cbd223	comment	Machete Mayhem: The Pesanga scouts are fond of this.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: 3 really shows off just how good the Unreal engine can be with the proper amount of time and effort. From the beautifully-rendered and colourful daytime maps like Mercy and Sandbar to the gloomy and soaking wet remake of Bullet Marsh, it's clear that Epic didn't cut any corners. Gears 4 also to the point that some Coalition employees were sent to northern italy with the sole purpose to study the terrain and use the data in gear 4. Also the reason why the campaign was locked to 30 FPS on console so to maintain higher fidelity...the results were widely acclaimed.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_49f8c18f	type	Ace Custom
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_49f8c18f	comment	Ace Custom: The Custom Lancers with wooden parts found around Marcus's house in Gears 4. Most likely modified by Marcus himself in his spare time, they have wooden stocks added to them to improve recoil management and flashlights for lighting dark areas. You are automatically given one after your party's Lock-and-Load Montage in Act 2, and you get an achievement if you carry it to the end of the game without ever switching it for something else. As of 5, only Marcus ever seems to use it, any Lancer picked up by him turns into a Custom model, and his Horde kit has several skill cards revolving entirely around him using it. The Relic weapons in 5. These are unique, one-of-a-kind variants of normal weapons that have unique gimmicks attached to them.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4a7c6f60	type	Personal Space Invader
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4a7c6f60	comment	Personal Space Invader: Lots, though justified by the fact this is a cover-based game. Since you're supposed to hide from your enemies, ones that just run up and melee you will be considerable threats. The first game has Wretches, Kryll and Grenadiers. The sequel removes the Kryll, but adds Maulers, Butchers, Tickers, Sires, Beast Riders on Bloodmounts, and anything with a flamethrower. Also, low-level Locust will randomly charge and melee you. This can range from irritating (when they have a Boltok pistol) to terrifying (when they have a Lancer). The third game adds Lambent Polyps to the mix. Theron Guards in the first game sometimes do it deliberately to score a chainsaw kill.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4a932556	type	Compilation Re-release
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4a932556	comment	Compilation Re-release: The Gears of War Triple Pack, which bundles the first two games, as well as the "All Fronts" map pack.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4c08ef5	type	Gun Accessories
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4c08ef5	comment	Gun Accessories: Chainsaw bayonets!
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4d54bb2d	type	Spiteful A.I.
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4d54bb2d	comment	Spiteful A.I.: The DeeBees in Gears of War 4 are a very literal example of this. The campaign has both them and the Swarm trying to kill you rather than them, you know, actually protecting the human populace like they are supposed to. This is somewhat justified as JD and Del are defectors from the COG and Outsiders are considered criminals to the COG as well. This even extends to multiplayer, where they fight on the Swarm team rather than the COG (Their red color suggests that the Swarm hacked them on to their side). To backtrack a little, your Ai squadmates in the first game exhibited this behavior with alarming frequency. They all too often jumped over their cover and charged straight into the Locusts' waiting guns. This was almost certainly done to make players do all the work themselves and came across as frustrating Fake Difficulty in that your squad was useless in an actual firefight, making going through Insane difficulty hellishly frustrating. Thankfully, this behavior was rectified for all the future games.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Everyone is absolutely enormous, and spouts OneLiners without irony. They have chainsaw machine guns. If you hit a button at the right time, they can reload their gun hard and make the bullets come out stronger. This game will make a man out of you, even if you're a woman. Anya and Samantha are every bit as manly as their male teammates. Seeing Anya scream and cuss as she chainsaws a Locust in half will remove whatever doubt you may have that her upgrade from control operative to Action Girl may be a plot contrivance. A quick read through some of the Expanded Universe material will show that Anya's manliness is hereditary. Her mother, Helena Stroud, was potentially the manliest Gear to have ever served, and she didn't even have access to chainsaw bayonets. A cutscene in Gears of War 2 has Cole and Marcus reuniting and bumping their chainsaw-equipped machine guns together. A manlier greeting has never been seen, before or since.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: In the novelization "Jacinto's Remnant", a brief flashback reveals a battle taking place in a department store, where Tai grabs a circular saw to fight with after his old-school Lancer bayonet breaks. This inspired the creation of the chainsaw bayonet, so if you think the chainsaw is cheap, blame Tai. A lot of Locust weaponry and "vehicles" are kitbashed gear made from animals living in the Hollow, looted COG weaponry, and Locust-engineered small arms. Tickers, for example, are just normal animals with bombs strapped to their backs, Locust "Siege Beasts" are some kind of turkey-like animal converted to launch artillery, and so on. The heavier Locust weapons like Brumaks and Seeders are just massive animals bred for combat with weapons strapped on them; even Corpsers are fitted with helmets to protect their eyes. Locust in the third game make crude Troika turrets out of multiple Retro Lancers strapped together and attached to a Troika mount to make a surprisingly effective suppression weapon.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4e2c4381	type	World of Muscle Men
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4e2c4381	comment	World of Muscle Men: There are two kinds of men in Gears of War - those who are meant to fight, and those aren't as much so (though they may have to anyway). The latter look more normal, but as is natural for a Third-Person Shooter, we mostly see the former who usually look like a couple of them could work together to bench press a car. There are also the Locusts, who are not men yet definitely all look a lot like muscle men.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: At the end of Gears of War 4: Kait's heirloom, a gift from a grandmother she never knew, is a necklace bearing the Locust insignia.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Hoffman. He feels horrible about leaving Marcus to die in prison, but can't bring himself to apologize. He makes up for it by ignoring Marcus and Anya breaking regulations and having a relationship.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: While not exactly weird, per se, the first Gears of War was a bit different from future games in a few different ways. For starters, there were only 3 difficulty levels: Casual, Hardcore and Insane and even on Casual, this game was noticeably harder due to the lower health pool that you had. There was also no stopping power on weapons, meaning players that were hit by gunfire while moving wouldnâ€™t be slowed down at all; There was also a limit to how long you could roadie run. The only executions were the curb stomp and chainsaw bayonet. You were also completely stationary while DBNO and the friendly AI suffered massively from Artificial Stupidity. The Locust were also the most durable in the first game, with Drones taking almost a full clip of Lancer Fire to kill while Boomers took 3 to 4! It was also the only game to feature squad controls that could change your squadmmatesâ€™ behavior during combat. The first game's storyline is also noticeably looser than later entries. The first game is half tech demo, half action movie, while the later games made a point of including nuance and emotion in their narratives.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4ffde1e0	type	Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_4ffde1e0	comment	Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: With the previously mentioned meat shields and with the Mauler's indestructible Boomshields (that also double as roadblocks for larger enemies in Horde Mode). A Boomshield will actually protect you from a charging Berserker in the third game, although the recoil makes you drop it. The only thing the series capable of penetrating the Boomshield's defenses is the One-Shot also added in 3, but only on a perfectly reloaded shot. Even then, the Boomshield is so effective that a perfectly reloaded One-Shot just only barely has enough force to kill whoever's on the other side of the shield and otherwise mitigates its over-penetration effect.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Quite a bit in the games, and tons of it in the Expanded Universe. Not to mention the Gorn.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5076ccdb	type	You Say Tomato
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5076ccdb	comment	You Say Tomato: Bernie is questioned about her accent several times, mostly about saying "arse" instead of "ass".
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_508d91a2	comment	Used by Marcus after he stabs Myrrah; See This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_50a6f4b4	type	Celebrity Survivor
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_50a6f4b4	comment	Celebrity Survivor: Cole. In the third game, you go back to his hometown and even fight through his old stadium.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Not only is Marcus' abandoning his post to save his father considered the worst form of treason, but the manual states Dom was demoted for daring to defend him in his trial. Justified as disobeying orders and what not is generally a bad thing in the military for a variety of reasons, as well as the fact Marcus leaving his post with the Hammer of Dawn targeting laser lost a good chunk of Jacinto.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_50c7749f	type	Dead Man's Trigger Finger
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_50c7749f	comment	Dead Man's Trigger Finger: In Gears of War 4, DR-1 Protectors that are taken out with a headshot will flail about and fire off a few more rounds from their Overkills before exploding. They are the only enemies in the series to exhibit this behavior.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: "Look, ma, no face..." and many more.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Bernadette Mataki, with Angst? What Angst? in regards to it on her part. Or so she claims.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5261369c	type	Sand Worm
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5261369c	comment	In the first game, the entire story revolves around using the Resonator to map out the Hollow (the tunnels that the Locust live in) and drop a Lightmass Bomb into it. When it gets deployed, it turns out that the Hollow is so huge that, as Hoffman puts it, "we'd need a hundred damn resonators to map the whole thing!". However, humanity is able to drop the bomb into the Hollow at the end and the Locust are seemingly defeated...until the second game shows us that the Lightmass Bomb did absolutely nothing to kill the Locust. Oh, and it also woke up the Riftworm, giving humanity yet another enemy to worry about.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The opening of Gears of War 3 is very similar to the opening scene of Gears of War, only Dom's role is filled by Anya instead and there are Lambent Polyps instead of Locust Wretches. It turns out this is simply a Flashback Nightmare. In another case, spanning outside of the games, the original advertisement for Gears of War features Gary Jules' cover of "Mad World". Fast forward several years to Gears of War 3 and an instrumental version of the song plays during Dom's Heroic Sacrifice.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: At the end of Gears of War 3, the Serans seem relatively united and the threat of Imulsion is gone forever. Come 4, even one victory isn't going to erase all animosity overnight, and the loss of the Imulsion miracle fuel has led to a fuel crisis as people scramble for alternatives, and the death of a Planetary Parasite like Imulsion has caused the entire planet's ecology and environment to go haywire, resulting in the new windflares. By 25 years after the Locust War, humanity's numbers have therefore dwindled to a couple of hundred thousand. Word of God says that the Ragers encountered in Judgement died out early in the Locust war due to their insane recklessness.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_53f5119f	comment	The sequel has chainsaw duels. The Dragon can only be damaged by this because he has a double-edged chainsaw staff. Hell yeah.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Happens several times, most notably with Michael Barrick and shotguns.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_55aa6875	type	Sincerest Form of Flattery
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_55aa6875	comment	Sincerest Form of Flattery: The developers point to Resident Evil 4 as an influence, which then came full circle, as the developers of Resident Evil 5 bragged about their "Gears of War controls".
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_568b9d5	type	Orphaned Etymology
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_568b9d5	comment	Orphaned Etymology: People who aren't fans of the COG in universe describe them as "fascist", which makes one wonder because "fascism" is derived from the Roman symbol of the "fasces", and Sera presumably has no Roman empire from which the fasces comes.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_579d50de	type	Monster Threat Expiration
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_579d50de	comment	Monster Threat Expiration The Locust have become gradually weaker as the series has progressed. In the first game it took almost a full 60-round mag of Lancer assault rifle fire to kill a single basic Locust drone, making them one of the toughest basic FPS mooks ever. In the second game, it only takes about two dozen assault rifle rounds to kill a Locust drone. By the time of the 3rd game, they can be dropped with only about a dozen bullets on Normal difficulty (about 15-20 rounds on Hardcore), making them on par with "standard" FPS soldier mooks. Boomers are somewhat weaker in Gears of War 2, going down after only 1-2 clips from the Lancer (even on Hardcore) instead of 3-4 clips like in the first game. They're even weaker in Gears of War 3, going down after only a little over 2/3rds of a full mag from the Lancer. This is largely due to the fact that in the first game they were basically Boss in Mook's Clothing and always showed up in pairs. The sequels would have more "Boomer" types (including the Mauler, Grinder and Butcher) and more would appear at one time.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_57a91010	type	Green Rocks
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_57a91010	comment	Green Rocks: Imulsion. Originally not that bad, but Gears of War 2 starts to elevate it to this status pretty quickly as it's implied that not only does Imulsion turn living beings into explosive versions of themselves, they mutate them. Gears of War 3 further implies that Imulsion overexposure and mutations forced the Locust to invade the surface, starting the war. It also acts as a super-fuel and is used in the construction of death rays from space, though as it turns out it isn't a mysterious magical substance. It's a parasite and the mutations are its primary purpose. The fact that it can be used as a super fuel is just incidental.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: While the townspeople of Pelruan and the Gorasni have every reason to hate Stranded, that's no reason to be mean to and attack Dizzy and his daughters. The COG also heavily discriminated against anyone who wasn't part of the COG, to the point that even those who willingly allied with them were ineligible to earn medals for their military achievements.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The UIR, the COG's opponent during the Pendulum Wars, is finally explored during Gears 5. It has a strong Soviet flair, down to its space personnel being called "Cosmonauts."
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_58102dbd	type	Enforced Cold War
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_58102dbd	comment	Enforced Cold War: Even though both the UIR and the COG were in direct kinetic war during the Pendulum Wars, the fact that they were unable to achieve strategic victory over one another for nearly 80 years kind of put both of them in a Cold War akin to the real-world USA vs USSR.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The dynamic between what's left of the COG and the Gorasni, the latter being the last of the long-defeated UIR.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5a59b3a1	type	Hulk Speak
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5a59b3a1	comment	Hulk Speak: The Boomer family of Locust all speak in this. "Boom!" "Grind!" "Meat!" "Bash!"
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5ade9ace	type	Gang Up on the Human
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5ade9ace	comment	Gang Up on the Human: In the first game, all enemy A.I. units would instantly auto-target the player the moment you pop out of cover to shoot, completely ignoring your A.I. teammates even if they had been locked in combat just moments before. This was especially noticeable on Insane difficulty, and made it impossible to actually flank or ambush enemies. Thankfully, this was removed in later games, creating a more natural flow of battle.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: The perfect use of this. Your normal pace is at a quick march but the roadie run is a "keep your head down and run" maneuver. Putting the camera angle lower and with a slight shake to it turns it into a documentary-like experience.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f	type	Bribing Your Way to Victory
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f	comment	Bribing Your Way to Victory: Played with in 3. Most of the buyable content is just weapon skins for your starting weapons. However, the Horde Command Pack allows players to upgrade most of their fortifications by additional levels and also provides them with the ability to build Silverbacks and Command Centers. Since there are often players who have and donâ€™t have the pack in the same Horde match, your run will be much, much easier if someone does have it. Itâ€™s essentially bribing you and your whole team to victory. Subverted in Gears 4. Every loot pack in the game (even the static packs in the â€œPurchase Packsâ€� section of the store, which never go anywhere) can be bought with real money if you donâ€™t want to grind for in-game credits. While the Versus and Horde packs offer bounties and Horde skills (grants you extra exp in matches and grants valuable class skills to your Horde classes), the rest of the packs contain weapon skins, emblems and characters that have no bearing on gameplay. Itâ€™s also subverted with the Esports Packs, which are only purchasable with real money and are only there if you want the badass Black Steel characters and weapon skins and emblems that can only be obtained from them.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserker Naturally, Locust Berserkers. Your first time through the game, this creature is absolutely terrifying. The kicker? A Berserker's really a big, normal drone... only female. Gears of War 3 introduces the Lambent Berserker. Everything that is makes the originals tough is there, only it is capable of surviving multiple Hammer of Dawn attacks, has tentacles that gives it a longer reach, will jump and land like an Imulsion bomb and eventually start leaving Imulsion trails and toxic vapors limiting your movement. All the while still screaming and rushing at you. Cole has tendencies toward exhibiting a few traits, but is more in tune to the Boisterous Bruiser. Gears of War: Judgment introduces the Ragers, a breed of locust who is normally visibly slimmer than regular drones and usually relegated to the role of mid-long range support using breechshot rifles....that is until they take enough damage to piss them off, at which point they drop their weapon and morph into a miniature version of a Berserker (still larger than a regular drone) and charge the player shrugging off considerable amounts of damage thanks to their newly armored skin while trying to rip anything non-locust to shreds bare handed. Some might ask "if Judgment is a prequel then where were the ragers during Gears of War 1 to 3?" Well apparently their tactics were so suicidal that they went nearly completely extinct. One has to wonder if they actually were "teenage" female locusts who had yet to reach full berserk maturity. Ragers appear in Aftermath. They may have simply been retconned into the entire series. Several different types of Locust as well as a few weapons that did not show up until the second or third game have been in both Judgment and RAAM's Shadow, so we can assume this is the case for all of them.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Lt.Draper
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5c65fc1a	type	Roar Before Beating
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5c65fc1a	comment	Roar Before Beating: Wretches and Berserkers.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5c91635a	type	Bare-Handed Blade Block
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5c91635a	comment	Barehanded Blade Block: Kim's updated death cutscene in Ultimate Edition has him attack RAAM with his chainsaw bayonet. RAAM catches it. Granted, his hands are covered by his armour, but it's still a chainsaw.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca	type	Chainsaw Good
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca	comment	Chainsaw Good: Subverted. Bernie's account of actually using a chainsaw bayonet. It takes quite a bit of effort, shes covered in blood, and has a few pieces of the victim's bone stuck in her eyes.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5d4359fe	type	No Blood for Phlebotinum
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5d4359fe	comment	No Blood for Phlebotinum: All the bloody conflict has been because of the wonder-fuel Imulsion which turns out to be an living, mutating parasite! The series ends with all Imulsion being destroyed.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Subverted in Gears of War 3. Delta Squad gets a total of three female Gears. Judgment and the Coalition sequels veer right back into this, however.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot - Dizzy
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5ed1b6d3	type	Limited Loadout
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5ed1b6d3	comment	Limited Loadout: The first three games give the player access to two primary weapons, a pistol, and grenades on a cross-shaped menu. Judgment, ditches this menu and gives you two weapons that you switch between with Y, as well as a dedicated grenade button.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5f8ddb2c	type	Corpse Land
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5f8ddb2c	comment	Corpse Land: The area where the Hammer of Dawn was used on the Locust to halt their attacks. In a disturbing mirror of Pompeii, there are ashen remain of every man, woman and child who were unable to reach the safe zone.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5fc1c4b5	type	Mechanically Unusual Fighter
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5fc1c4b5	comment	Mechanically Unusual Weapon: Thereâ€™s a few weapons in the seriesâ€™ arsenal that qualify. The Hammer Of Dawn requires the user to aim a laser beam at a target for a few seconds before a giant pillar of fire engulfs the area. The Dropshot is a reverse Digger Launcher that requires the user to hold the trigger down to control how far the projectile goes. Releasing the trigger causes the drillbit to drop. The Overkill is a heavy shotgun that fires a single shot when the trigger is pressed and another when the trigger is released. You can pull the trigger normally to fire two shots in succession or keep it held down to fire a second shot later. The EMBAR is a railgun that must be â€œchargedâ€� for a second to charge up a shot. The shot can only be fired in the split second that the gun is charged. If you hold the trigger for too long, the gun overheats and the shot is canceled. The Mortar is unique among the heavy weapons in that it uses a â€œdistance meterâ€� for an aiming sight and fires a very inaccurate and bouncy projectile when blindfired. To use it normally, you hold down the trigger to increase the distance of the shot, with the carpet of bombs being launched close to the other side of maps when fully charged.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	After learning about what happened to the Locust during the Time Skip to Gears 4, Myrrah's last words to Marcus about how "your father always thought he had all the answers, but he had none!" seem a lot more ominous and foreshadow that the Anti-Imulsion weapon may not have the desired effect on the Locust that Adam planned for. Indeed, as the new cast discovers the Swarm, they also discover that the Locust never died and the Anti-Imulsion weapon actually just put them into a 25 year long state of hibernation that mutated them into the more powerful Scions, making them significantly stronger than their past selves.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: The Lambent, more so once the infection is discovered to spread to humans.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	type	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	comment	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Skorge is a fairly tough boss only because he's unaffected by any form of attack other than a chainsaw duel. It's certainly there to show off the new chainsaw duel feature but it comes across as a frustrating Gameplay and Story Segregation. It's not a terribly difficult fight otherwise, unless you're bad at dodging falling pillars, ink grenades, and Tickers. The pillars don't just fall in a straight line: you have to run to the other side of the hall, because these things will alter the direction of its fall to the point that it will somehow fall completely horizontally from a vertical position to kill you. Insane difficulty is just a license for the game to be a cheating bastard. This can actually be used to the player's advantage in campaign. AI squadmates never run out of ammo and can trade weapons with the player. This means that players can trade empty power weapons like the Torque Bow and Boomshot to an NPC, wait for the NPC to reload it, then take it back. Alternately, just give all your squadmates Boomshots and watch the carnage. In Gears Of War 4, multiplayer bots are somehow able to fire their weapons while in the middle of switching them. Itâ€™s not uncommon to approach one to gib them, but before you can get near them, they gib you with their Gnasher before they can even get it into their hands. Also present in 4â€™s Horde mode. On the higher difficulties, Swarm troops that get downed may inexplicably get back up as you approach them without any assistance from another enemy unit. This undoubtably happens just to make a high-difficulty run from being too easy, but just really comes across as blatant AI cheating.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_607a8bd2	type	Beastly Bloodsports
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_607a8bd2	comment	Beastly Bloodsports: In Gears of War 3, a small Easter Egg in one of the Savage Locust camps allows the player to peek in through a window and see a group of Locust huddled around a small ring watching two Tickers fighting each other.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Marcus Fenix, Augustus "The Cole Train" Cole, RAAM, Corpser, Berserker, Skorge, Chainsaw Bayonet.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_610d5e4e	type	Shoulders of Doom
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_610d5e4e	comment	Shoulders of Doom: Pretty much the whole Gear armor kit should prevent any kind of movement whatsoever if it were even vaguely realistic.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: The Locust Horde is described this way in supplementary material, being willing to sacrifice a hundred Drones just to kill one Gear. This is less so in Gears of War 2, where the Locust military exhibits some self-preservationist behavior, e.g. retreating and falling back, but only when on the receiving end of bad mojo, like being chased by a goddamn Brumak or the Lambent Locust, which is justified since overexposure to Imulsion would turn them into Lambent.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_62259825	type	Nintendo Hard
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_62259825	comment	Nintendo Hard: Developers have said the difficulty, particularly at the lower difficulties, turned out a lot harder than they had wanted for the first game. This is what led to Gears of War 2 being significantly easier. You don't go "down but not out" in Gears of War 3 on Insane: you just DIE. This includes co-op, meaning you have to load a checkpoint if anyone is downed. This is mitigated somewhat in Gears of War 3 with the addition of Arcade Mode, in which you respawn on a 30-second timer in co-op (even on Insane; you don't get a game over unless everyone's dead). You still earn every campaign achievement and reward while playing Arcade, too. You all thought Insane difficulty was the most rage-inducing difficulty in the series? Heh heh, that's a good one... Just wait 'til you get a load of the new Inconceivable difficulty that Gears 4 has implemented. The official description for it is "beyond insane. Make every bullet count." You have even less health than on Insane in this mode and are basically a One-Hit-Point Wonder, but the enemies have less health as well. Naturally, the enemies have deadshot accuracy and ammo drops are drastically smaller. This will test even the most elite of Gears players to their absolute limits. It is very, very unlikely that you will even be able to make it through the prologue without copious amounts of continues. Oh, and there's an achievement for beating the entire campaign on this mode, in case you thought it was simply a self-imposed challenge for those who want it.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The ending narration of the first game is a bona-fide hook. Wait until the end of the credits of the second game for another sequel hook. The data disk Adam gives to Baird is possibly another hook on the Left Hanging segments for Gears of War 3. The end of the "Aftermath" campaign from Gears of War: Judgement seems to imply that COG soldiers have been kidnapping people for unspecified reasons. The end of Gears 4 reveals that Queen Myrrah was Reyna's mother and Kait's grandmother.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6320eced	type	Gameplay and Story Segregation
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6320eced	comment	Canonically, the chainsaw bayonet was developed because the traditional blade bayonets break on Locust skin. In Gears of War 3. the Retro Lancer is integrated into the gameplay, yet the blades don't ever break.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: The Lancer Mk.II, the one with the chainsaw bayonet, was invented a year after Emergence Day, but has appeared in both RAAM's Shadow and Judgment. The time at which RAAM's Shadow takes place is somewhat vague, so it is excusable, but Judgment takes place only six weeks after Emergence Day. Somewhat rectified in Gears of War 4 in where the Aspho Fields and E-Day segments of the prologue has the protagonists using Lancer Mk Is. Averted in Judgement. Its explained that the reason the Rager appears in the prequel but not the other games, is because they'd largely died out due to their reckless tactics. Having gone extinct by the time the first game began.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_63557923	type	Death World
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_63557923	comment	Death World: Sera. The more you read about it, the less you want to be here. But even then, there are some areas of notable 'interests': The Hollows. Home of the Locust Horde and filled with giant, subterranean monsters, some harmless like the Rock Worm, but most of them being vicious. Nevermind the fact that you will most likely be entering enemy territory, the sheer darkness of the Hollow means that you will most likely fall to your death. Moreover, there is also the fact that Imulsion and all its mutated freaks roam around infecting the area. This is before most of it were flooded mind you. The Serano Ocean. Home of various giant sea monsters such as the Leviathan. The Serano Ocean is also dominated by various armoured sharks, giant eels and a host of various aquatic creatures that would not be out of place in a David Lynch film. Pahanu Island. Gears of War's very own Skull Island. First shown in Gears 5: Hivebusters DLC. Pahanu is a dense, actively volcanic rainforest filled with the remains of gargantuan dinosaurine sauropods, giant mammalian carnivores and the Wakaatu, the most vicious bird in the game that scared off even the Swarm to GTFO from the island. Mac says it best. Even the weather is trying to kill you. This is eventually given a Lampshade Hanging in 4.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6377d6e6	type	Grievous Harm with a Body
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6377d6e6	comment	Grievous Harm with a Body: in the third game, during a cutscene, a locust drone is seen ripping off a Gears' arm to beat him to death with it. This can also be done in multiplayer by any Locust player to a COG player. Hell, you can even keep tapping the Y button to extend the execution for more "juicy" points. Very satisfying to use on the last enemy while in a standoff!
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: In 3, there are unarmored skins of Marcus, Dizzy, Anya, Jace (campaign only), and one of Cole in Thrashball pads, who can take just as much damage as the armored COG characters and the rock-skinned Locust. In the same vein, the heavily armored UIR soldiers from 4 don't have any more health or protection than the other characters.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Michael Barrick stays behind in the Hollow to allow the rest of Delta Squad to escape. Matron detonates a bomb in Jilane to allow Delta to escape with the survivors of a Locust massacare.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c	type	Critical Existence Failure
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c	comment	Done by headshots from almost all weapons in Gears of War if they hit your head when it does enough damage to deplete your Hit Points. They even sell an action figure of a Drone with its head a-sploding.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6595b784	type	Animal Reaction Shot
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6595b784	comment	Animal Reaction Shot: Bernie's dog Mac gets a few of these.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: Marcus is Choleric, Dom is Melancholy, Baird is Phlegmatic, Cole is Sanguine.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6602cad	type	Permanently Missable Content
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6602cad	comment	Permanently Missable Content: In 3, the Thrashball Drone multiplayer skin was unlocked briefly to celebrate the Super Bowl. It was taken away after that, and Epic has not revealed plans to ever unlock it again. It was made available again for several events. After the game had run its course and Judgment was released, it was made available permanently. In 4, the special Gear Packs that are released only within certain time frames, like the Run the Jewels, Tenth Anniversary, Gearsmas and UIR packs. These contain special weapon skins and characters, so if you don't buy them when they are up, you won't be able to get any of those skins. The Coalition doesn't seem to have plans to release them again too, at least for the time being. This has been rectified with the new Mystery Packs, special Elite Packs that contain only special contents from the aforementioned time-sensitive packs, that were released recently and will presumably continue to pop in every now and then when other content comes and goes in the future.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_66a52e25	type	Bullfight Boss
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_66a52e25	comment	Bullfight Boss: Berserkers
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_66ff4a54	type	We Will Wear Armor in the Future
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_66ff4a54	comment	We Will Wear Armor in the Future: The standard-issue COG armor for the first two games had people wondering how they could even contemplate doing all of the somersaults that they did. The designs of the COG armor stepped away from this in 3 (with instead clearly leaving arms and legs more bare due to the game taking place in the summer), while 4 and 5 clearly made even fully-dressed fighters wearing armor pieces over top lighter clothing, much like a modern soldier's outfit.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: The first two Carmine brothers. Averted with Kim and Tai, who are now primary characters in "RAAM's Shadow" for Gears of War 3.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: A lucky shotgun blast can blow a target to Ludicrous Gibs.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a	type	And Your Reward Is Clothes
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a	comment	And Your Reward Is Clothes: Judgment offers Normal, Rare, and Epic prize boxes after a certain amount of enemy kills, ribbons attained, and levels gained respectively. Inside the prize boxes can be a little extra experience, weapon skins, or player armor skins. Gears 4 has various loot crates available. They are purchasable with in-game credits or real money. Depending on what type of crate you buy (Operations, Versus and Horde boosters) affects the crateâ€™s contents. This is played straight if you purchase the Elite and Featured packs, which can only contain weapon skins, emblems and characters.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	In the third game, after Marcus and Co. are told The Reveal from Prescott that Adam Fenix is alive rather than dead like everyone believed, the game amounts to acquiring fuel and an aquatic vehicle to get Delta to the island of Azura, where Adam has been doing extensive research on Imulsion. When they arrive there, Adam reveals that he has concocted a Final Solution in the form of the Anti-Imulsion Counterweapon. The device will kill everything infected with Lambent cells, including the Locust. After a grueling and relentless war, Delta is able to deploy the weapon and the ending cutscene shows the Lambent being obliterated and every Locust dying. The war has finally come to an end, right?. Well, humanity does finally get 25 years to rebuild their civilization (which isn't the best result considering the planet has been in war for over a century), but Gears of War 4 came around and told us...
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6b42ea7e	type	Hijacking Cthulhu
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6b42ea7e	comment	Hijacking Cthulhu: In 2, Delta rides a pair of Reavers, followed by a Brumak.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6b510ace	type	Hopeless War
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6b510ace	comment	Hopeless War: The games have a very strong feel of this trope until the end of the trilogy, which presumably ends the war once and for all.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6b782004	type	Advertising Campaigns
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6b782004	comment	Which is also a meta reference, because "woo woo" was sometimes used by Terry Tate, Office Linebacker, also played by Lester Speight.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Tai Kaliso was captured by the Locust in Gears of War 2. When he's found, we see him covered in large cuts and wounds. Marcus hands him a shotgun to arm himself so they can move on, but Tai shoots himself in the head with it. The damage is not seen.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: This happened for Marcus and Anya. A flashback features Marcus planting trees at their homestead while Anya and their son watch. In fact, their son, JD, is the main character of Gears 4.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6e0898f9	type	Silliness Switch
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6e0898f9	comment	Silliness Switch: The mutators in added in 3 are divided into 'easy' 'hard' and 'fun' categories. The latter is composed of Big Head Mode, Flower Blood (which, sadly, disables all gore as well), Laugh Track (which is INCESSANT, like a terrible sitcom), Headless Chicken (which causes decapitated enemies to run around in a berserk rampage for a short time) and Pinata (which adds a collection minigame of sorts). There are several multiplayer events that ramps up the silliness. Two prominent examples are the Halloween event that turns everyone's head into a jack-o'-lantern, and the "Thanksgibbing" playlist, where everyone starts with a Cluckshot that shoots explosive chickens!
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6ec03ba1	type	Mook Maker
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6ec03ba1	comment	Mook Maker: Emergence Holes in the first two games, Kantus priests from Gears of War 2 onwards can summon Tickers from out of nowhere, revive downed Locust from long range, and are overall just extremely annoying buggers (remember to Shoot the Medic First). Gears of War 3 feature Lambent Stalks that sprout from the ground, changing the landscape but also depositing any number and multiple types of Lambent Locust in your path while also doing away with Emergence Holes, presumably because the Locust have lost control of the underground to the Lambent. Gears of War 4 has Swarm nests, functioning much like the E-holes of yore, with the added bonus that when blown up by frags you can climb inside the hole and use it as cover. Sometimes they also have weapons and ammo inside.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_6ee10e0	comment	What's more, the Locust would never have needed to invade the surface had Adam Fenix figured out a way to make his Lambent-killing weapon not kill the Locust as well. The fact that he couldn't figure it out is something he regards as My Greatest Failure. Turns out, the weapon in its current form ended up not killing the Locust after all, but put them in hibernation for 25 years and made them stronger.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_70321789	type	Video Game Remake
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_70321789	comment	Video Game Remake: The first game was remade for the Xbox One under the title Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. While the original game was already in HD and cutting edge at the time of release, it got an overhaul for this release. Notably, it averts Real Is Brown by making the color palette more consistent with later games. It also changes the ending cutscene, replacing the nameless scarf-wearing Theron riding a Reaver (who never showed up in any of the other games) with Queen Myrrah riding the Tempest.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: While not entirely unflinching, Tai's walking out of the debris of his squad's grindlift rig when it is destroyed has him looking quite unconcerned with the fact it just happened.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_715704e5	type	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_715704e5	comment	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: Gears of War 2 has a major case of this, introducing multiple unexplained plot elements (the secret COG experiments creating the Sires, a lot of what the Locust Queen was yammering about, Adam Fenix being alive and ticked off you sunk Jacinto, etc.) that are not resolved. Most of these are covered in Gears of War 3, and the remaining questions were addressed in The Slab, where it turned out the Sires were Lambent humans from 100 years ago, and the Locust were their descendants. See here for more information.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_71bd62b9	type	Calling Your Attacks
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_71bd62b9	comment	Calling Your Attacks: Boomers and their many variants (Grinders, Maulers, Flamers and Butchers) always yell out an attack-related phrase (i.e. "Boom!" for Boomshot-wielding Boomers and "Grind!" for Mulcher-wielding Grinders) before opening fire. This is a good tell that lets you know when to Take Cover!. In Gears of War 4, the Scions take over as the Giant Mooks, and call their attacks much like Boomers used to, though they're slightly more eloquent: "Firing!" for Boomshot-wielders, "Suppressing!" for Mulcher-wielders, "Launching!" for Dropshot-wielders, and "Shredding!" for Buzzkill-wielders. Every character does this when they announce they are throwing a grenade.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: In a variation, each succeeding Carmine in each game is more badass than the previous one, or at least lives longer. Clayton Carmine goes so far as to survive the entire game!
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: COG forces have subtle blue highlights on their armor, and have blue lights on their weapons. The Locust focus more on reddish and bloody colors, and have red lights on their weapons. What makes it really funny is the colored lights on the weapons and even on vehicles immediately change color depending on whether a COG or Locust is using it. Justified in fluff as the lights are called "COG Identification Markers" and since the Locust are ripping off COG technology as much as they can, the lights on the weapons would be changed by them too.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Averted in the racial sense, as the series is very diverse, since the humans of Sera are shattered remnant of dozens of nations. The third game makes sure that there is always at least one female in your squad in the Campaign. The only time that you get a squad of 4 men is when Alicia is killed by RAAM in RAAM's Shadow and gets replaced by a young Jace. You forgot in Chapter 2 - from mid-act 1 onward, the squad is the classic Delta line-up (Marcus, Dom, Baird, and Cole)
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The phrase "Understand what a world had to do to survive" is repeated by multiple people in power throughout the series, including Hoffman, Prescott, and even Myrrah.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: In 3 Myrrah discovers Delta Squad emerging from the underground corpser nest while she is riding her flying, death-dealing beetle. This thing is so vicious that it is ultimately the big boss fight of the game. Instead of attacking them with it while they are cornered in a box canyon, she calls some piss-weak Shriekers to do it and flies away. She's even worse in the final chapter, where after having her Tempest killed and surviving Adam Fenix's weapon, she has the gall to start mouthing off to a VERY pissed off Delta Squad, deriding Adam for thinking he had all the answers and "nothing but clever ways to kill". Unsurprisingly, the second she's up in Marcus' face, he guts her with Dom's knife and kills her when she had a pretty good opportunity to escape.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_76305de0	type	Elevator Floor Announcement
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_76305de0	comment	Elevator Floor Announcement:
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_767f84ea	type	Does Not Like Men
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_767f84ea	comment	Does Not Like Men: Most members of the Grievious Bodily Love, with good reason.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Marcus. The guy never cracks a smile. He does smirk occasionally, but it certainly isn't meant to be a "nice" smirk. Word of God states Marcus pretty much never smiles. Even at his birthday party, he didn't smile when they gave him the cake.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_76cbbc0b	comment	George Lucas Altered Version: The Remaster of the first three games in "The Gears of War Collection" includes a hands on remodeling of the first game akin to "The Master Chief Collection", giving it a similar color palette to the sequels vs. the very dusty gray it originally was.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_76e59d86	comment	Boomers are somewhat weaker in Gears of War 2, going down after only 1-2 clips from the Lancer (even on Hardcore) instead of 3-4 clips like in the first game. They're even weaker in Gears of War 3, going down after only a little over 2/3rds of a full mag from the Lancer. This is largely due to the fact that in the first game they were basically Boss in Mook's Clothing and always showed up in pairs. The sequels would have more "Boomer" types (including the Mauler, Grinder and Butcher) and more would appear at one time.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: During the course of Gears 5, brand new character Faz reminisces about all the training and soldiering he did with Del and JD before they went AWOL and met Kait.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_77f6cc58	type	100% Completion
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_77f6cc58	comment	Ribbons are not exempt from this trope either. While even some of the tougher ribbons can be easily gotten in different game modes that provide better opportunities to get them, there are 4 particular ribbons that are noticeably difficult to get. The "Long Hauler" ribbon requires you to complete all 50 waves of Horde in one sitting. Getting through all the way to wave 50 can easily take you 2 and a half to 3 hours and that's not even counting if you repeatedly fail waves which will lengthen that time even more. Additionally, most people seem to drop out at around wave 20 and if you don't have at least two other players with you, completing the last waves is nearly impossible. Also, if you have to leave in the middle or your Xbox crashes and boots you off, back to Wave 1 for you! There's also the "Trick Shot" ribbon which requires you to score a headshot on an enemy with the Torque Bow and have that same arrow stick into another enemy and kill them. Good luck ever coming across two enemies that will be lined up perfectly for this shot without getting killed beforehand. Even when playing with bots, this orientation of enemies will pretty much never present itself and that's what makes this ribbon so frustrating to get. Next, there's the "Survivor" ribbon which requires you to revive yourself FIVE times in a SINGLE ROUND. Since you'll be forced into Gnasher duels for the majority of matches, the only way this could happen is if you're engaging enemies from a distance behind a piece of cover where you can't be hit from if you get downed there, leaving you to revive yourself in peace. However, since you can only go down twice before dying the next down, you HAVE to die at least twice, then hope that someone doesn't follow you to a good (or the same) spot for this ribbon so you don't get flushed out. Finally, there's the "No Smoking" ribbon which, naturally, requires you to kill someone with a smoke grenade. The only viable way to do this is in Team Deathmatch, Warzone or Execution. You basically have to pick out the last enemy remaining, down them twice, let them get revived and then run up to them (hoping that they don't kill you before you get to them, or you'll be screwed) and stick them with the grenade while you run away. Worse yet, there's an achievement requiring you to have each ribbon at least once. Going for all the achievements? You must get these ribbons one way or another.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Let's just go over life on Sera for Humans. First, Immulsion is discovered, which seems to be a solution to any possible energy crises... until nations start warring endlessly to get it, resulting in the creation of various superweapons like Kill Sats. Then, just when peace starts to happen, the Locust invade most major cities on the planet, killing millions. Then the COG deploys aforementioned Kill Sats onto most of the planet, wiping out most of everything. If you survived that, then you have the emergence of the Lambent to deal with, and the fact that Immulsion itself is sentient and trying to kill us all. Things do start looking up in the end of Gears of War 3, though. Most of the plot of the series is like this too. First game has humanity having been driven into the Jacinto Plateau with the Locust holding all the territory around them. The next game, despite causing significant damage with the Lightmass Bomb, has the COG suffering from an outbreak of rustlung due to all of the vaporized Imulsion, not to mention the Locust are starting to dig through Jacinto. That ends with the Hollow flooded, but the survivors of Jacinto homeless. Gears of War 3 had the COG dissolved between the time of 2 and 3, with humanity scattered around Sera in isolated pockets fighting the remains of the Locust and the Lambent. When you get to Mercy in 3, the whole level is nothing but this.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7886d4d0	type	Decemberâ€“December Romance
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7886d4d0	comment	Decemberâ€“December Romance: Hoffman and Bernie.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7abba202	comment	Clayton honors the memory of the two fallen Carmine brothers with a memorial tattoo on his arm of their helmets.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7b23aecb	type	Bayonet Ya
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7b23aecb	comment	Bayonet Ya: The third game features the "Retro Lancer", first-generation Lancers from the Pendulum Wars with much higher recoil and a heavy bayonet. The blade itself doesn't do much more damage in melee strikes than other weapons, but it allows for a nasty charge attack that can impale any regular infantry.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7cb1a686	type	Final Death Mode
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7cb1a686	comment	Final Death Mode: The June 2017 update to Gears of War 4 adds the new Ironman difficulty for Campaign and Horde. When toggled on, it basically means that you really want to avoid dying at any cost and makes it so that a Game Over really does mean that your game is over. If you die at any point in the Campaign, your save file gets deleted and you must restart the whole damn thing from the prologue. In Horde, COG tags are no longer dropped if players die during waves and if the team fails a wave, it's all the way back to wave 1.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: The loading screens in three show a contemplative Fenix resting his hands on the muzzle of his rifle.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: The COG is actually a subversion, despite coming across at times like both The Alliance and Multinational Team. In its aesthetics, politics and culture, it's more along the lines of The Empire, at least before Emergence Day.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In Gears of War 3, Myrrah calls out on humanity being a bunch of genocidal monsters, just like how they view the Locust. It almost sounds hypocritical, considering Emergence Day, until you realize Myrrah had no choice because of the Lambent.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7e7d59e0	type	Mooks Ate My Equipment
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7e7d59e0	comment	Mooks Ate My Equipment: Feral Tickers
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Nearly everyone of Delta Squad gets their moment, but no one beats Cole's introduction in the first two games. The first game has him challenging an entire squad of Locust by himself until he gets reinforcements. In the second game, well, he is the reinforcements. Nobody stops the Cole Train, baby!
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_80580ffe	type	Optional Stealth
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_80580ffe	comment	Optional Stealth: Gears of War 2 DLC campaign add on "Road to Ruin" gave you the choice between using stealth or going in all guns blazing. There's an achievement for successfully completing the stealth element.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_808b6d16	type	Sdrawkcab Name
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_808b6d16	comment	Sdrawkcab Name: The world of the Gears of War universe is named Sera, which is the Greek god Ares backwards. A fitting god for it, given he was a god of the untamed bloodlust and brutality of warfare.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	comment	Fire will also make short work of an Armoured Kantus, without having to wait around to Attack Its Weak Point. All that metal armour might stop bullets, but it sure conducts heat very well.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e	comment	One segment in Gears of War 2 gives you free reign to snipe Locust from a ridge. Achieving five kills in a row with the sniper rifle, and Marcus will yell: "That's one. That's two! That's THREE! THAT'S FOUR! THAT'S FIVE, MOTHERFUCKERS!"
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Virtually every gun in the game is oversized, and it wouldn't do to list every gun that isn't a sidearm here, so we'll just list the most notable: The Retro Lancer, (the one on the right) a rifle with a bayonet the size of a cutlass that looks like a hybrid of an FN-SCAR-H and an M60, which could double as a mounted machine-gun turret when a few are strapped together. It also comes equipped with More Dakka, as it has a satisfyingly high fire rate. The Boomshot, an enormous grenade launcher with a 60mm bore that shoots grenades in four-round bursts. The One-Shot, which can only be described as a sniper cannon. The Mulcher and Vulcan Cannon, which are both man-portable miniguns.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Stranded town of Fucked. "That's what this place is, so that's what we call it."
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8410bf3b	type	Quad Damage
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8410bf3b	comment	Quad Damage: The Mutators in Gears of War 3 has one called "Super Reload". If you manage a perfect active reload you get several powerful effects: the affected ammo from the reload does not drain from your primary ammo cache, once the affected ammo is depleted it still gives you a full clip of regular fire (single shot clips like the Boomshot basically gives you two shots back to back), there is no time limit on using the affected bonus and instead of a 10-20 percent damage increase it does literally about a 500 percent damage increase. It's so powerful it makes regular assault rifles (especially the Lancer due to high firing rate and clip size) more valuable than the Silverback minigun. It's pretty much your only hope of making it through all 50 waves of Horde on Insane without a skilled, well-coordinated full party of 5 players.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8430699a	comment	Alternate Universe: The games don't take place in our universe. Just for starters, Sera, not Earth, is the homeworld of humanity.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8494bcb3	type	Disposable Pilot
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8494bcb3	comment	Disposable Pilot: Delta's Raven pilot gets blown up in his cockpit, prompting Jace Stratton to take the controls and sort-of land the chopper.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Federic Rojas was a young Gear who joined Delta in Aspho Fields, and the younger brother of a Gear in Gears of War 1 who was in Alpha Squad. He is never mentioned in any of the books or comics that take place after it.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8673b3dc	type	Player-Exclusive Mechanic
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8673b3dc	comment	Player-Exclusive Mechanic: Played with in regards to the Active Reload mechanic. Players are encrouraged to and frequently will use actives to speed up reloading. Multiplayer bots can do this too, but they do it rather infrequently. However, enemies in the Campaign and Horde mode will never reload their weapons faster than the default speeds. On the higher difficulties, this is unnecessary since the AI does so much damage and has such impeccable accuracy that they donâ€™t need actives to kill you time and time again. Played straight with weapon skins. AIâ€™s are there to fill in empty spaces left by players who leave and obviously have no need for skins, so naturally players are the only ones who can customize their weapons. In fact, the easiest way to tell if youâ€™re facing a bot or player is to see if their gun has a skin on it.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The more the Expanded Universe sheds light on the COG, the less light you want shed on them. Gray-and-Gray Morality: Despite how dark the COG gets, that doesn't necessarily mean they were the bad guys of the Pendulum Wars. Bad as the COG were, other factions - the UIR, the Gorasnayans - were about equal.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Lambent, especially the Lambent Brumak and Drudges. For Druges if they take too much damage but do not die, they will either mutate into three different forms (Mutation 1 is when its head surges upwards as its neck elongates, forming a thick serpent-like appendage. The head itself mutates into a gaping triangular mouth, which could spray a stream of Imulsion at close-medium range, causing significant damage to enemies. Even when it is killed, the head would continue to function, acting like a snake-like predator on the hunt for enemies (hence the term "Headsnake").; Mutation 2 is when its arms mutate into grotesque, over-elongated limbs with giant claws.; Mutation 3 is when its legs grow in length and fused together to form a trunk, which placed the upper body on an high pedestal above the battle.).
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_87dad945	type	All Nations Are Superpowers
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_87dad945	comment	All Nations Are Superpowers: As both the UIR and the COG are a collection of nation-states (i.e. a superstate), the world of Sera during the Pendulum Wars was a bipolar world, split in two between the two rival global superpowers. Suffice to say, the war conducted by the two most powerful states, each experimenting with their own superweapons, did a number on the ecological stability of Sera even before the start of the Locust War.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_88e5fcbc	type	One-Hit Polykill
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_88e5fcbc	comment	One-Hit Polykill : Several weapons in the franchise are capable of achieving this in numerous ways. The Torque Bow's arrows will fly straight through any number of skulls on headshots until it sticks into terrain or on a bodyshot. Amusingly, the Boomshot is also capable of such a feat, though if the projectile is at the end of its arc, it's more likely to simply crush the poor sod's skull into paste before blowing up the rest of their body. The aptly named One-Shot added in 3 gains an over-penetration effect on a perfect reload, allowing you to turn as many people into red mist as can fit in it's trajectory.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: A few examples throughout the series.In Gears of War 2, Delta Squad hijacked a Brumak and raged hell inside the Nexus. A Corpser tried to stop the Brumak but quickly found out that it is way weaker than the giant dinosaur ape.In Gears of War 3, on their way to Azura, Delta Squad was being harassed and attacked by Manglers, which were dolphin-like creatures from the Hollows. The pod were relentless until they mysteriously fled. A sure sign that a Leviathan was lurking nearby.In the Hivebuster DLC for Gears 5, we get a pretty good showcase that the Swarm isn't at the top of the foodchain on Pahanu. We see various cases of Swarm infantry being melted alive by corrosive venom and even a Carrier being melted in two. Turns out, the Swarm was being hunted down by the Wakaatu, a ridiculously dangerous and territorial bird. Just visiting the nest of the Wakaatu gives one some details on this superpredator as the nest was littered with the remains of hundreds of animals, each of them an apex predator in their own right. To provide better context on how broken this bird is. On Horde 4.0, a Wakaatu is known to one shot the Matriarch. Yes, that Super-Berzerker.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_892552b	type	Kung Fu-Proof Mook
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_892552b	comment	Kung Fu-Proof Mook: Seeders and Berserkers in the first game are absolutely immune to every weapon except the Hammer of Dawn. Boomers and Armored Kanti are also downplayed examples. Boomers are immune to chainsaws and retro charges, but can be damaged with anything else. Armored Kanti are Immune to Bullets, chainsaws and retro charges and can only reliably be taken down with fire or explosives. In the Tactics spin-off, many Locust will perform an attack of opportunity when a Gear closes on them, disrupting the attack. While most enemies with this abilty can have it temporarily disabled by an interrupt, Wretches will always counterattack.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character After having been killed off in the previous game, a young Dominic Santiago appears during a playable flashback sequence in Gears of War 4, documenting his time as a private during the Pendulum Wars. Marcus' late father Adam plays a major role in his backstory and motivations. Though later it turns out he's still alive.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Gears Of War 2 allows characters to use mortars, miniguns and a multitude of over-the-top weaponry to kill mere infantry. Not to mention multiple characters can chainsaw a single enemy at the same time. That's not counting the ludicrous amount of overkill inherent to using a Brumak against hapless Locust.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: Formers, who show up in Act 3, are Lambent humans, who act similar to stereotypical zombie fashion. It doesn't help that all they seem to be focused on is attacking the living and that one guy even seems to have been eaten alive. Poor bastard.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: The "RAAM's Shadow" DLC to Gears of War 3 takes place before the first game, early in the Human-Locust War. Though it chronologically takes place after the Hammer of Dawn strikes that destroyed much of Sera (Barrick refers to his old Stranded camp in past-tense; Stranded camps didn't exist before this event), Ilima City's mostly undamaged, the government is still functional, the military well-equipped, and there are active attempts to evacuate civilians wherever possible.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8d630561	type	Simultaneous Arcs
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8d630561	comment	Simultaneous Arcs: Gears of War 3 does this in the first act, half of which you play as Cole and his squad as they attempt to aid Marcus.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8dc2b0f2	type	Hard Mode Perks
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8dc2b0f2	comment	Hard Mode Perks: Averted for the campaigns; playing on the highest difficulties simply gives you an achievement to acknowledge that you did so and allows the enemies to dish out repeated Curb Stomp Battles. Played straight with Horde mode; the higher the difficulty level, the more exp you get and for Gears 4, the higher the chance of you getting an Epic tier bonus card for a Horde skill. The â€œHardâ€� mutators from Gears 3 also count; each one you turn on will grant you an extra 10% increase in experience earned.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab	type	Non-Standard Game Over
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab	comment	Non-Standard Game Over: In Gears of War 3, take too much damage during the submarine ride to Azura and you'll get a cutscene where the gun pods detach and Delta drifts away in the current to separately suffocate from each other. Similarly, if you take too long to deal enough damage to the Tempest in the final battle while it's attacking Adam Fenix's superweapon, you'll see a scene of it busting open the weapon's casing and vaporizing Adam, dooming humanity's attempt at victory in the war. In Gears of War 4, during certain sections, you will be battling a Snatcher. If it downs you, it can pull you into its body. If your AI teammates don't free you after a few seconds, it will jump to an unreachable part of the map and escape with you inside.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8e81e57f	type	Voice with an Internet Connection
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_8e81e57f	comment	Voice with an Internet Connection: Anya
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_902d7269	type	Horrifying the Horror
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_902d7269	comment	Pahanu Island. Gears of War's very own Skull Island. First shown in Gears 5: Hivebusters DLC. Pahanu is a dense, actively volcanic rainforest filled with the remains of gargantuan dinosaurine sauropods, giant mammalian carnivores and the Wakaatu, the most vicious bird in the game that scared off even the Swarm to GTFO from the island. Mac says it best.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_90965cc7	comment	and in 4 their mutated form, the Swarm, are a literal Hive Mind
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_90c018ac	comment	Played with in 3- you start off against the new and explode-y Lambent, and fight them and the Locust in varied intervals. By the end of the game, though, the Locust you fight are loads and loads of Myrrah's Guards along with the bigger Boomers, Grinders, Armoured Kantus, etc. Possibly a Justified Trope that Myrrah only managed to get her elite forces to keep up with her and the main Locust force is kept at bay on Azura by the COG reinforcements.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_91526ff7	type	Absurdly High Level Cap
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_91526ff7	comment	Absurdly High Level Cap: Gears Of War 3 introduced the ability for players to â€œRe-Upâ€�; allow them to reset their multiplayer level back to 1 to gain more exp and get to level 100 again. 3 allowed players to do this three times, but 4 takes this up to eleven. Players can Re-up 10 times for a total of 1,000 levels, but those are just the regular Re-Ups. After those, you unlock the Wings, which allows players to go up another 1,000 levels with each single level requiring about three times as much exp as a normal level, the only difference being that youâ€™ll get a credit bonus for every level rather than every 5. The Coalition even stated that getting all of this done would require such superhuman determination and grinding that they donâ€™t expect anyone to reach Wings 10.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Class 2 in the backstory. All major civilization is knocked out besides the COG and a few pockets of stranded civilians living in the ruins of cities. Gears of War 3 indicates that things are coming dangerously close to a Class 3. Firing Adam Fenix's superweapon at the end pushes it close to a Class 4, though some humans remain.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_91f5e99c	type	Clipped-Wing Angel
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_91f5e99c	comment	Clipped-Wing Angel: The final boss of Gears of War 2 is a regular Brumak who walks into Imulsion and mutates into a massive Lovecraftian Lambent Brumak. It's basically a giant tree that stands still in one spot, and lasts all of 2 or 3 seconds as you vaporize it with the Hammer of Dawn.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: After appearing briefly in Gears of War 2 to introduce a bunch of new mysteries regarding the backstory of the Gears world that were never addressed again in the games, the Niles A.I. returns in Gears of War 5 to finally give the big reveal regarding the origins of the Locust that was All There in the Manual for some time but never directly stated in the games themselves.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: In the final act of Gears of War 4, Baird, Cole and Sam reunite with Marcus to assist Delta Squad in reaching the Swarm Hive.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_93311f8e	type	The Squadette
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_93311f8e	comment	The Squadette: Anya, Sam, and Bernie in Gears of War 3; Alicia in RAAM's Shadow.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9397414	type	Unmoving Plaid
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9397414	comment	Unmoving Plaid: Judgment has a player skin like this included with the VIP Pass.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_940a5958	comment	Artificial Stupidity In the first game, combined with Suicidal Overconfidence: your A.I. teammates will often vault over a perfectly good piece of cover to charge straight into enemy fire, resulting in them being shot full of holes. Locust Drones also do this sometimes, but they can pull it off since they're Made of Iron, whereas your teammates are not. By the second game the friendly A.I. has been vastly improved and can hold its own even without your help, and it's possible for you to sometimes play whole sections without expending a single round of ammo! In the third game, during the fight with the Lambent Beserker at the point where it starts leaking Imulsion, the first thing Marcus says is to avoid said Imulsion. Your AI teammates will ignore this piece of advice and spend the rest of the fight walking into the Imulsion and screaming for help. Especially frustrating on Insane difficulty. Multiplayer bots in Gears 3 are noticeably terrible at using explosive power weapons and Frag Grenades. Bots will usually pick up a Boomshot, Torque Bow or Digger Launcher and immediately fire it into the nearest wall or piece of cover and spectacularly blow themselves into meaty chunks. The Torque Bow is particularly hilarious, as bots tend to prime the arrow and immediately go into cover, only for the arrow to stick the cover and kill themselves. The computer's stupidity is the only possible explanation for how the Locust and Lambent, two VERY intelligent and murderous species, will completely break fire from actual gears to target the decoys you build in Horde mode. These two are genuinely fooled by cardboard celebrity cutouts and mannequins! In-Universe, the Locust and Lambent are incredibly dangerous and most certainly do not fall for such obvious-looking traps. You'd figure that after fighting an enemy for decades, you'd have a good idea of what they look like. That, or maybe they attack the decoys because they need points like you do!
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9446f847	type	Death or Glory Attack
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9446f847	comment	Death or Glory Attack: The Sawed-Off Shotgun. It has only one shot per reload and one of the longest reloads in the game, and its kill range is shorter than the Gnasher. So if you miss your shot, you are in deep, deep trouble. That said, it deals enough damage to one-shot anything up to a Reaver (on lower difficulties, whereas the Gnasher can only One-Hit KO up to a boomer). The One-Shot also counts. Itâ€™s a sniper cannon than can One-Hit Kill almost any enemy, but as itâ€™s two-handed, you have to be completely stationary to aim it. It also zooms in heavily on where youâ€™re aiming, making you blind to any enemies that come and rush you and also projects a bright laser that everyone can see, so if you miss, you just gave away your position and any other enemies you try to snipe will most likely be far too close to aim at them efficiently. In Gears 4, you can whip out a knife and One-Hit Kill any infantry with it. However, to do this, you have to successfullly vault into them over cover or try to yank them over to your side. Not only are these relatively telegraphed, but if you vault over the wrong part of the cover or miss your yank, the enemy can calmly sidestep and blast you to pieces with their Gnasher.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_94b81c55	type	Spin-Offspring
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_94b81c55	comment	Spin-Offspring: Gears 4's main character JD Fenix is the son of Marcus and Anya. His teammate and possible Love Interest Kait Diaz is the granddaughter of Queen Myrrah. Also, one can consider the DeeBees to be Baird's "children", in a manner of speaking.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_950329d8	type	Dynamic Entry
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_950329d8	comment	Dynamic Entry: In the first two games Locust can enter the game space via Emergence Holes, stable channels to their tunnel network. However in the third game, they do away with that and practically explode out of the ground. There is an award for taking out a Locust while it's airborne.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Towards the end of Gears of War 3, Queen Myrrah loses a lot of her previously cool and composed demeanor and becomes increasingly rabid and hysterical... fairly understandable, considering she's facing the complete annihilation of her species.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: It will become quickly apparent to those who play Judgment that People Can Fly thought the button scheme that worked for THREE WHOLE GAMES was not good enough anymore. Many shouts of angry frustration were yelled when trying to use TAC/COM (Left Bumper in Gears 1-3) instead threw your grenade. The D-Pad was once used for switching between weapons is now used for your TAC/COM, and the Y button now used for swapping weapons.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_967809be	type	Small Girl, Big Gun
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_967809be	comment	Small Girl, Big Gun: Anya, Samantha and Bernie in the third game. Though not petite, they are smaller than the male Gears. The hardcore players picked up on this fairly quickly.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_96ecc67e	type	Shotguns Are Just Better
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_96ecc67e	comment	Shotguns Are Just Better: You'd be hard-pressed to find somebody online in any of the 3 games who doesn't primarily use the Gnasher, and oftentimes don't take very kindly to people using anything else. Epic themselves have admitted that the Gnasher is overpowered, and that they would like to nerf it, but they won't because of the enormous backlash they would receive from the Gnasher purists who make up a large part of the community. Really, the Sawed-Off and Overkill shotguns are very effective in gameplay too, since you just have to get close to a target and blow them away in one shot rather than use a harder weapon and work for your kills.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Myrrah. Note that Epic Games use the term "Big Bad" to refer to the final bosses of each game (General RAAM in the first, and Skorge in the second), but they are more like Dragons in trope-speak.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_973291cd	type	Pardon My Klingon
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_973291cd	comment	Pardon My Klingon: "Suck my blithe!"
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: The first two games and the novelizations play this straight. Only men do the fighting, while fertile women are used for reproductive purposes and non-fertile women serve in support roles. The third game, however, subverts this. The women fight alongside the men due to humanity being down to its last throes and needing every available body to fight.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Although subverted and never stated outright, Marcus is seemingly paranoid of this in the first game. Every time he orders Delta Squad to split up, he never tells Cole to come with him. By the second game he appears to be over this and does have Cole come with him. In fact, Cole, Jace Stratton and Samantha, all dark-skinned people, make it out of the trilogy alive. Dom doesn't.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Many of the collectibles in the games are these, if they're not already Brown Note. The player could find the battered helmets of Anthony and Benjamin Carmine in 5.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_988dc0fd	type	Living Gasbag
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_988dc0fd	comment	Living Gasbag: Gears Of War 3 introduces the Locust Gas Barge as a means of transportation after the flooding of the Hollow.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f	type	Luck-Based Mission
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f	comment	Luck-Based Mission: The final battle against General RAAM in the first game. There are so many random factors in this fight (Reavers shooting at you, randomly appearing Kryll, plus RAAM himself and his own pet Kryll) that winning is as much luck as skill, unless you abuse the AI-block glitch. Multiplayer in general can be this. Sometimes, you may get paired up with incredibly skilled and intelligent teammates and effortlessly steamroll the other team, or you get stuck with a bunch of inexperienced greenhorns and get butchered by the other team before you can get a decent score. Certain ribbons can only be achieved through this trope, the most frustrating ones being Trick Shot, Smorgasbord and Ole. In order: you have to hope that two players are right near each other so that you can score a Torque Bow headshot on one player while the still-traveling bolt sticks the other one; stay alive throughout an entire Arms Race match so that you can kill a player with every weapon, and hope that someone picks up a Retro Lancer, decides to use the One-Hit Kill charge attack, hope that you have Frag Grenades on hand, successfully sidestep the charge and grenade tag them as they run past you. The latter two are so difficult to get that The Coalition flat out removed them from the ribbon requirement for the â€œSeriously 4.0â€� achievement.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: A collectible in Gears 4 is a suicide note left next to a skeletal gear and a Snub Pistol, in a small, out-of-the-way room in facility that was the site of a large battle between COG and Locust forces. The note makes it very clear that he shot himself not out of despair, but purely to deny any Locust the satisfaction of finishing him off.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: Berserkers require a satellite laser cannon to kill, although when its skin is hot and toasty it's just as squishy as the rest of them. The Seeder is this fully; it can't be killed at all except via Hammer of Dawn.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In Gears 5, Myrrah's husband decided to spare his daughter the horrific fate that her mother went through. Unfortunately for him, Myrrah reacted in the exact opposite way. Enraged at the loss of her one family member, she led the Locust in an uprising before taking them underground. Myyrah then proceeded to launch a genocidal war against humanity several decades later before the Locust evolved into the Swarm and finish what they started. Myrrah's husband's good act of trying to save his daughter nearly got all of humanity wiped out.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Imulsion itself, which is really a single, planet-wide parasitic organism, and has, aside from causing the wars on the surface due to being a "miracle fuel" that every Seran wants, also forced the Locust to expand to the surface and ignited the Locust War with lambency.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb	type	Difficult, but Awesome
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb	comment	Difficult, but Awesome: Wall bouncing (using the speed boost from â€œslidingâ€� into cover to move around much more quickly than running and to dodge bullets) along with the hideously overpowered Gnasher is the epitome of Gameplay Derailment, but itâ€™s hard to argue with its effectiveness. It takes a lot of practice and the right controller settings, as a single mistimed press will launch you into a dive and leave you wide open, but if you master it, you will be nigh untouchable as your ridiculous movement speed makes it borderline impossible for other players to keep weapons trained on you and by the time they figure out what to do, you can close the gap between them and deliver a One Hit Kill time and time again. Seriously, just look at the crazy shit you can do when you master the mechanic.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: The Carmine family name, via the introduction of Clayton in Gears of War 3. JACK gets upgraded to be helpful in combat late in the third game.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9c1f758a	comment	Downed characters crawl on the ground in the sequels until death. In the first game, you could leave them there, unmoving, until death via blood loss. In every game, executions are possible and encouraged, with the second game introducing weapon-exclusive executions that look excruciatingly painful. Oh, and then there's the Scorcher flamethrower. You could just drop your meatshield instantly by swapping to another weapon and get back to fighting faster... oooorrrr you could relieve more stress by playing an animation of snapping the meatshield's neck before dropping them.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9c495599	type	Hide Your Children
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9c495599	comment	Hide Your Children: Lampshaded by Baird, who remarks in one of the collectible intel items that it's strange despite fighting straight into the heart of the Locust civilization, there are no Locust children running around to shoot. Presumably a case of assumed Human Aliens - if they're Bee People, they wouldn't have children, just hatch fully-formed from eggs. Averted in Gears of War 3 while visiting Char. Many of the ash-corpses are too small to be adults. Averted again in the "RAAM's Shadow" DLC. A fair chunk of the campaign takes place in a high school which has been attacked by the Locust. Many corpses of civilians who are at the very least teenagers are shown in several rooms. Averted again in Gears of War 4, at least one of the outsiders captured by the swarm is shown to be a child.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: The Boltok revolver is obviously high-caliber (it can blow off limbs, and headshots cause the head to simply vanish in a geyser of gore and the top of someone's skull!). Of note is that attempts to make a prop version have resulted in a .50 caliber revolver. The Gorgon SMG is basically a fun-size one-handed automatic rifle, but surprisingly the champion of this trope in this series is the humble Snub pistol, sadly discarded or ignored by many players, which is chambered for .50cal and possesses both a high rate of fire and a 12-round magazine. No wonder it can decapitate armoured Boomers and Therons.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Gears of War 3, a shot of Adam from behind in his lab zooms out and lingers on a vial of Imulsion and a syringe behind him before the game returns to Delta Squad. Adam states later he had to inject himself with Imulsion in the creation of his superweapon, and knows fully well that activating it will kill him. In Gears of War 3, an early level features Marcus in a dream defending his father. Take a look at everyone in that dream. Two are already dead, two will die, and two will survive. Have fun guessing. Kait's opening scene explaining the nature of cocoons to JD plays into what the Swarm and their relationship with the pods. Specifically, an organism trying to survive that ends up growing claws to slash their way out hedges into humans being mutated into Swarm. It also foreshadows the rebirth of the Locust as Scions, now stronger than ever. After learning about what happened to the Locust during the Time Skip to Gears 4, Myrrah's last words to Marcus about how "your father always thought he had all the answers, but he had none!" seem a lot more ominous and foreshadow that the Anti-Imulsion weapon may not have the desired effect on the Locust that Adam planned for. Indeed, as the new cast discovers the Swarm, they also discover that the Locust never died and the Anti-Imulsion weapon actually just put them into a 25 year long state of hibernation that mutated them into the more powerful Scions, making them significantly stronger than their past selves.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: In the first game it takes close to a full magazine of Lancer fire just to kill a single Locust Drone on every difficulty setting except the very easiest. Bear in mind that Lancer assault rifles had 60 rounds per magazine!note at the time:it was switched to 50 in 2, and reverted in 3. No wonder they had to invent chainsaw bayonets before anyone could hurt them. A bit less so in the second game, which has a) a Normal difficulty that falls between Casual and Hardcore, with appropriate enemy strength and b) an improved Hammerburst assault rifle that's actually stable and accurate enough to score headshots at mid-range. Played straight in Gears Of War 2, as everyone seems to lose pints of blood from being hit by bullets alone, but it takes time for it to affect them by having them go into a "down but not out" state. Played straight to this trope's extreme with the Meatflag in Gears of War 2, an unarmored civilian who cannot die whatsoever. You could drop a mortar on his head, blowing everyone around him into meaty chunks, and he'll just be crawling around and complaining afterwards. Makes sense, considering he's the objective for that particular game mode "Submission". Likewise, Prescott and Myrrah are this for the game mode "Capture The Leader" in Gears of War 3. In the cutscene leading up to the final boss fight of the "RAAM's Shadow" campaign, RAAM casually brushes off a chainsaw attack and several dozen assault rifle rounds at point blank range even before he puts up his Kryll shield. Exaggerated in the third game. Lambent foes are Made of Explodium, but human soldiers can melee them to death with chainsaw bayonets and shrug off the point-blank KABOOM like it ain't no thang.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Many between all the books. Considering that each is written by the same author and each has a flashback storyline and one set in the present that relate to each other, it really isn't any surpise.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9e03dbd6	type	Mr. Fixit
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9e03dbd6	comment	Mr. Fixit - Baird and Dizzy
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Technically a squad of four, but just two of the squad still ended up practically single-handedly deploying the destruction of the enemy, twice, barring the occasional need for transportation (although they end up transporting themselves more often then not). The consistency of the trope towards the final missions in the third installment is somewhat averted with it being clear that supportive elements are on the island - though not right with you - probably stopping the entire rest of the Horde from getting to you, which you'd assume Myrrah would probably be trying to do in such a desperate situation.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9edbda07	comment	Elite Mooks: Theron Guards; smarter, faster, tougher and armed with one-hit-kill Torque Bows. From Gears 4, Swarm Hunters fit the bill as they are basically analogous to the Therons. Same goes for Elite Drones, since they come equipped with a Lancer, Gnasher and Frag Grenades in addition to advancing on you more quickly.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9f4a47f2	type	Competitive Balance
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9f4a47f2	comment	In Judgment, the Locust's modifications to the Markza sniper rifle to create the Breechshot included removing it's scope. Cole mocks the decision with "A sniper rifle with no scope? Ha! Those grubs are real geniuses!" (the real reason for this is, of course, Competitive Balance as the Breechshot does more damage than the Markza and can Boom, Headshot! faster much like the Longshot, while also having a larger magazine than the Longshot that doesn't need to be reloaded with every shot.)
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9f80e1da	comment	There is an incredibly nasty bug in Gears of War 3 and it is by far the worst out of any of the glitches. Without warning, when you start up the game, there is a chance that your Player Data file can become corrupted which will result in ALL OF YOUR DATA BEING WIPED FROM THE GAME! What's in the Player Data file? Just every last one of your ribbons and medals that you have pain-stakingly earned throughout your total investment in the game! Oddly enough, your Campaign collectables and achievements will still be intact, but imagine being one of the unlucky souls starting up the game to have some fun only to mysteriously see that your level has been reset back to 1 and every one of your ribbons and medals are GONE. The worst part is that this glitch has apparently been in the game since launch and nobody quite knows what causes it. It is believed that it is the result of faulty Epic or Microsoft servers glitching out at the EXACT moment you press Start, but it can apparently happen if you so much as sign in after you start the game. Also, Epic and Microsoft will do nothing to reset your stats back to what they were because the second you enter the main menu, your Player Data file gets overwrittten and basically pretends that your old data never existed. The only way to combat this is to hope that you have played Gears 3 on another console that hasn't been hit by the bug so that you have an uncorrupted Player Data file. Then, you must transfer that data into a Memory Unit or Flashdrive and beam it back into your Hard Drive to replace the corrupted data. Only have one console? Congratulations, all of your hard-earned data is lost and your only option now is to start clean again from the beginning! Bugs, huh?
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9fc04a54	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9fc04a54	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Have we mentioned Dom's married today? To a woman? With breasts? And other lady parts? Who's not a guy? Making Dom not gay? Meaning he and Marcus aren't like that? Because Dom's married to a woman? Oh, Marcus looks at Anya longingly, too.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_9fde2eb1	comment	Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "Let's turn up the heat!"
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a0c7f4e9	type	Abandoned Hospital
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a0c7f4e9	comment	Abandoned Hospital: The New Hope facility and the multiplayer level "Blood Drive".
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a183f4c3	type	Skeleton Government
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a183f4c3	comment	Skeleton Government: Basically all that is left of the government 15 years after E-Day is Prescott.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: Alex Brand, which surprises Delta after she saves them from a sniper nest.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a1a1491e	comment	The nature of the Kryll turns the game into a Homage of Pitch Black for part of the Act 2 of the first game.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a1d4e0a8	type	Genocide Backfire
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a1d4e0a8	comment	Genocide Backfire: It's been revealed by Word of God (namely David Nash and Karen Traviss, viewable here) that Myrrah was a descendant of the scientists who were running New Hope, and the Locust were created in an attempt to find a cure for Lambency.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a1e4de7	type	Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a1e4de7	comment	Never Bring A Knife To A Gunfight : Subverted, Cleavers are very useful and often kill mooks (even more than one) in one swing.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0	comment	In multiplayer, Boomshots, One Shots, Torque Bows, Mortars and Frag and Incendiary Grenades will One-Hit Kill if impacting close enough to a player. Boom, Headshot! is a guaranteed kill with the Longshot sniper rifle.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a43a691b	type	Finishing Move
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a43a691b	comment	Finishing Move: Characters who've lost their Hit Points will often be incapacitated instead of killed, allowing for a stress relieving curb stomp. The second game introduced unique finishers with individual weapons. The third takes it up to eleven where you can continue them to gain more experience as well as giving each weapon an unlockable special execution.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a5a6d7b3	type	Mutants
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a5a6d7b3	comment	Mutants: The Slab reveals that the Locust are really human mutants who were exposed to imulsion in the hopes of finding a way to achieve immunity to lambency, and that Queen Myrrah is the descendant of one of the scientists at the New Hope facility where they did said research, which also resulted in the Sires, essentially proto-Locust. Therefore, Sera is no more or less the territory of the Locust than it is that of the surface Seran humans.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a627a930	type	Gender Is No Object
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a627a930	comment	Gender Is No Object: The first two games and the novelizations subvert this. Only men do the fighting; all fertile women are used for reproductive purposes, while non-fertile women serve in support roles. The third game, however, plays this straight. Almost all women fight alongside the men. Totally justified because humanity is down to its last throes and needs every available body to fight.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Of a sort, while not technically the same character the Carmine brothers through the three games have identical personalities and much more screentime in each installment.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a6848924	type	Emergent Gameplay
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a6848924	comment	Emergent Gameplay: This is exactly what "wallbouncing" is. Basically, players took notice than when they entered cover, they would "slide" into it at a high speed that was faster than even Roadie Running. Players soon started cancelling out of the "slide into cover" animation and instead used it to throw off opponents and dodge their shots, since a normal player would aim at the piece of cover they thought their opponent would move into, therefore missing their shot. Since then, this has become a staple mechanic of the series that is vital for Tournament Play and is almost entirely responsible for the Gameplay Derailment the series has become infamous for.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Resonator in Gears of War.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Three named characters that are seen in combatnote to count out Maria, Prescott, and Adam Fenix die in each installment except 3; two allies, one enemy. 1: Anthony Carmine, Lieutenant Kim, RAAM. 2: Tai Kaliso, Ben Carmine, Skorge. 3: Dom, Queen Myrrah. 4: Gary Carmine, The Speaker, Reyna.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a7325f9e	type	The Many Deaths of You
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a7325f9e	comment	The Many Deaths of You: And your enemies. There are a wide variety of ways to die in the game, either through straight-up damage or from being executed when in bleedout. Some execution moves can be rather creative and hilarious, if quite brutal and visceral, and certain big monsters have their own finisher animations for when they catch you with your pants down.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a73c2eaf	type	Expository Gameplay Limitation
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a73c2eaf	comment	Expository Gameplay Limitation: The game limits the player's movement to a slow walk in places to allow dialogue to play out.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: Invoked with the weapon in Gears of War 3 called the "One Shot". It will shred any enemy in one shot and bypasses some forms of cover, including a Boomshield. In addition, it has a sniper zoom, but only has one round per clip, long reload time and is a heavy weapon, meaning it will slow you down like a Mulcher or mortar.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: In several cutscenes you can see Gears and Locust standing completely out in the open with no cover, exchanging full-auto fire at distances of less than 50 feet, and completely failing to hit each other with even a single bullet. Kim's last stand and the helicopter evac from Ilima City are both particularly egregious. Also applies in game as, by design, the typical combat ranges and effectiveness of weapons in Gears is very, very short. It improves slightly in Gears of War Ultimate Edition, as everyone places more accurate fire on their targets. Kim in particular is shown taking down several Locust with well placed shots, one by one in a matter of seconds. Not that it saves him.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: Boomers and their variants; Grinders, Maulers, Butchers, Flamers, etc. Scions from Gears 4 fit this role, having the same patterns, strengths and weaknesses as the Boomer varieties.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c	type	Unusable Enemy Equipment
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c	comment	Unusable Enemy Equipment: In Gears of War 4, Scion Buzzkills have Boomshields strapped to their backs, which they never use. Even when you kill them, you're unable to pick them up, as the Boomshield was removed from this installment.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a90eaeaa	type	Shell-Shock Silence
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a90eaeaa	comment	Shell-Shock Silence: Several times in every game.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a96b8b63	type	Space Marine
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_a96b8b63	comment	Marcus, too, is meant to be an "intelligent badass" by the design team, though it only really comes across in Karen Traviss's novels. Baird is more of a techie, but Marcus is very well-read and smart, though in his case its more that he can come up with complicated military tactics on the fly in stressful situations, and he definitely has motivations beyond those of the average Space Marine action hero.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Word of God states the reason women typically weren't COG infantry is because fertile women were needed for a more important duty vital to the survival of the human species. Infertile women, on the other hand, were sent straight to combat duty; if Alex Brand is any example, they make sure they really are infertile first. The dissonance also applies in-universe as Marcus clearly states to Alex that some of the practices implied by this trope are not one he agrees with by any means. Brand, for her part, decides while she should and is justified in being judgmental and pissed, when the fate of what remains of humanity is on the line, holding a grudge is probably not the best thing for everyone; she'll wait until after. It's implied (but never outright stated) in the novels that Anya can't have children, but never mentioned one way or the other for Sam, with both women being in their early-to-mid 30's (Sam 32, Anya 35 or 36) during Gears 3.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: A staple of the trailers and TV commercials for the series. Joseph Kosinski's famous commercial for the original game where scenes of carnage are set to Gary Jules's cover of "Mad World". The commercial for Gears of War 2 has Delta Squad drilling into Locust territory as Devotchka's "How It Ends" plays in the background. The first announcement trailer for Gears of War 3 had "Heron Blue" by Sun Kil Moon (which does however contain some suspiciously appropriate lyrics about a city being drowned in God's tears, considering the ending of the second game). A later trailer for Gears of War 3 had "Into Dust" by Mazzy Star. For an in-game example, in Gears of War 3 Dom's Heroic Sacrifice, where he drives a truck into a fuel tank and sets off a massive explosion, is set to an instrumental version of Jules's "Mad World". The same instrumental will also play in multiplayer if a round of Versus is completed on Gridlock without any of the ash bodies being disturbed. The "Tomorrow" trailer for Gears of War 4 had Disturbed's cover of "The Sound of Silence".
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Aside from the two Carmine brothers already mentioned, the "We're fucked! We're fucked!" Gear who is mauled by the first Berserker in the first game is listed in the credits as "Redshirt Gyules". The Carmines lampshade their Red Shirt-edness in the multiplayer. Clayton is something of a mockery of the Carmine's Red Shirt reputation: the plot goes out of it's way several times to make it look like he's going to die, only for him to either narrowly avoid it or drop out of the plot only to show up alive and unconcerned a few scenes later.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_acf4e51b	type	Cheat Code
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_acf4e51b	comment	Cheat Code: This is basically what the â€œMutatorsâ€� in Gears 3 are, although it is somewhat subverted. The mutators are divided into 3 categories: Easy, Hard and Fun. Easy mutators (Infinite Ammo, Instagib Melee) play this straight by making the game much easier, although each one that is active reduces your experience earned by 25%. Hard mutators (Vampirism, Friendly Fire) and fun mutators (Pinata, Flower Blood) are the subversions. Hard mutators make the game much more difficult, but each one active will grant you a 10% increase in experience while fun mutators donâ€™t affect the difficulty and just make the game more amusing.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Pretty much every character has lines which will be stated to note how certainly dead they are in response to being struck by a Torque Bow shot. Sofia has a particularly unique one where she will quickly and fearfully say "I'll miss you guys.".
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ad3962c1	type	Biological Weapons Solve Everything
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ad3962c1	comment	Biological Weapons Solve Everything: An eleventh-hour cure is also used to destroy both the Locust and the Lambent. In 4, it turns out it didn't kill all of the Locust, it mutated them into Scions over the course of 25 years.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be	type	Final Boss
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be	comment	After spending the entire game skulking cover to cover, Gears of War 2 ends in an unstoppable juggernaut section, followed by a point-and-click Final Boss. The earlier Reaver-piloting Rail Shooter sections certainly count. Likewise, the trip to the town of Mercy in Gears of War 3 and the beautiful submarine segment to Azura, albeit somewhat boring.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: In spades with Gears of War 3; sure, the Locust and Lambent are finally gone, but the vast majority of humanity is dead, their cities destroyed and ruined and their primary source of energy used to build them up in the first place no longer exists because it was mutating beyond its control. The future is going to be very, very hard, but at least there IS a future for humanity. Surprisingly, the events of "RAAM's Shadow" turn out as one for the Locust. Yes, the COG has lost hundreds of Gears and civilians, but the evacuation of Ilima City was largely successful and RAAM was nearly killed by Zeta Squad.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: A lot of the characters, but Baird does it the most.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_aea164f3	type	Playing with Syringes
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_aea164f3	comment	Playing with Syringes: Niles Samson and New Hope. The notes and recordings in the research facility during Gears of War 2 and The Slab show that the COG accidentally created the Locust while trying to find a cure for Lambency 100 years ago.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b05028e9	type	Always Over the Shoulder
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b05028e9	comment	Always Over the Shoulder
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b0cd3349	comment	Gears of War 4 basically has the Outsiders vs. the DeeBees vs. the Swarm. However, there is only one area in the campaign where DeeBees and Swarm are encountered together and they will shoot each other just as much as they will shoot you. Strangely enough, these two will not attack each other at all in Horde; possibly due to a programming oversight or maybe some clever Fridge Brilliance. The Swarm only attack humans because they can't exactly reproduce by sticking robots in their pods and the DeeBees only attack humans because they are specifically programmed to pacify Outsiders since they, for most of the campaign, are unaware of the Swarm's existence and actions.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b18aeb20	type	Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b18aeb20	comment	Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: The fifth mainline title eschews the "of War" part and is simply named "Gears 5", chiefly due to Pop Culture Osmosis — the games were seldom called by their full title in conversation.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b1bf431c	type	Go for the Eye
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b1bf431c	comment	The expediency of a helmetless Corpser takes a sudden drop when they can't see.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b2279346	comment	Ragers appear in Aftermath. They may have simply been retconned into the entire series. Several different types of Locust as well as a few weapons that did not show up until the second or third game have been in both Judgment and RAAM's Shadow, so we can assume this is the case for all of them.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: The second game switched the names of the Grenadier and Grenadier Elite. The third game gave the Beast Rider a Drone body type instead of a Grenadier body type (although the Grenadier variants still show up in Horde). Myrrah also now has a Caucasian skin tone instead of being grey like she was in the second game. Gears of War 4 changed up the weapon selection by re-adding the Markza from Judgment and removing quite a few from the previous games like the Gorgon SMG, Sawed-Off Shotgun, Mortar, One-Shot, Ink Grenades, Scorcher, Digger Launcher and even the iconic Hammer of Dawn. In the case of the Hammer and Mortar, they were Demoted to Extra in that they can only be used as horde-exclusive abilities. The Enforcer, Shock Grenades, Overkill and Dropshot replaced the Gorgon, Ink Grenades, Sawed-Off Shotgun and Digger Launcher respectively, so it makes sense in those cases, but it remains unknown of why the other weapons were retconned. Gears 4 also returned the Hammerburst to its original burst-fire roots from the first game rather than the single-shot rifle it was in the second and third games.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b23e7ba9	type	Real Is Brown
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b23e7ba9	comment	An Updated Rerelease for the first game was put out 10 years after the original for the Xbox One and Windows 10. Called Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. it has the same base gameplay (as well as the extra levels from the PC version) but features updated modern graphics (including optional 4k textures and a more colorful color palette that averts the original's Real Is Brown look), high-budget completely redone pre-rendered cutscenes, and an uncapped framerate on the PC version (the original PC version was locked to 62 fps without modding). It also adds a "Normal" difficulty to address the fact the original game didn't really have a difficulty setting between "Easy" and "Hard".
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: The Wakaatu is this in spades. A giant carnivorous parrot-like phoenix that can shoot out a poison acid and is at the top of the food chain in Pahanu. This bird is so vicious and territorial that even the Swarm would like to stay far away from it.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b52d28a6	type	Gorgeous Gorgon
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b52d28a6	comment	Gorgeous Gorgon: Myrrah
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live After having her entire army wiped from the face of the planet and finding herself in the company of the bereaved Delta Squad, Myrrah takes the opportunity to gloat about their losses. It doesn't go so well.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b6e75430	type	Bald of Authority
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b6e75430	comment	Bald of Authority: Griffin in the third game. Former energy magnate, current ruler of a post-apocalyptic city, always ruthless.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b72ae7	comment	Then there's Adam Fenix, the man himself. Back-story shows he's both a super-genius Omnidisciplinary Scientist (generally considered "The Smartest Man On The Planet"), as well as a former military officer and war hero. Granted, he's aged quite a bit and by the time he's mentioned in the games, he's more of a Badass Bookworm.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b7e74b77	type	Five-Token Band
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b7e74b77	comment	Five-Token Band: It's actually pretty well done to where it doesn't seem like marking off a checklist. Cole, Franklin, Jace and Griffin are all black, Dom and Maria are Hispanic, Tai is Samoan, Kim is Asian, and Sam is Ambiguously Brown. The majority of other characters wear helmets.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: Each voice actor for the four core members of Delta Squad and Anya could very easily be mistaken for the character in Real Life. Especially Lester "The Mighty Rasta" Speight as Cole.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Gears of War 4 changed up the weapon selection by re-adding the Markza from Judgment and removing quite a few from the previous games like the Gorgon SMG, Sawed-Off Shotgun, Mortar, One-Shot, Ink Grenades, Scorcher, Digger Launcher and even the iconic Hammer of Dawn. In the case of the Hammer and Mortar, they were Demoted to Extra in that they can only be used as horde-exclusive abilities. The Enforcer, Shock Grenades, Overkill and Dropshot replaced the Gorgon, Ink Grenades, Sawed-Off Shotgun and Digger Launcher respectively, so it makes sense in those cases, but it remains unknown of why the other weapons were retconned. Gears 4 also returned the Hammerburst to its original burst-fire roots from the first game rather than the single-shot rifle it was in the second and third games.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b905e88c	type	People Jars
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_b905e88c	comment	People Jars: The ones that contain the Sires in the New Hope research facility. (Hey, they technically count as human, don't they?)
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Marcus' reaction to having to fight a Berserker onboard a train.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Del or JD near the end of 5. Whomever you didn't save gets his neck broken by the reanimated Reyna. And no, you can't Take a Third Option and go for the head, either.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bbb6c059	type	I Shall Taunt You
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bbb6c059	comment	I Shall Taunt You: Oh, boy, expect for this to happen to you a lot in multiplayer. Just to list the most popular ways that players taunt you: crouching repeatedly over your downed body, using an extended execution on your body, beating you down while their teammates kick you repeatedly, beating you down while their teammates empty every bullet ever produced on Sera into your body, moving their camera back and forth after winning a Gnasher duel, having their entire team crouch repeatedly over your body at once; the list of Unsportsmanlike Gloating goes on and on...
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: When Baird is asked to improvise a bomb with few parts available, he replies, "Regular or extra strength?" Marcus, too, is meant to be an "intelligent badass" by the design team, though it only really comes across in Karen Traviss's novels. Baird is more of a techie, but Marcus is very well-read and smart, though in his case its more that he can come up with complicated military tactics on the fly in stressful situations, and he definitely has motivations beyond those of the average Space Marine action hero. In fact, most of Delta Squad applies according to Baird himself, as he states the reason he sticks with them is because they're the only people he knows who have above a single-digit IQ. Then there's Adam Fenix, the man himself. Back-story shows he's both a super-genius Omnidisciplinary Scientist (generally considered "The Smartest Man On The Planet"), as well as a former military officer and war hero. Granted, he's aged quite a bit and by the time he's mentioned in the games, he's more of a Badass Bookworm.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: Gears of War 3. Ominously, the "Brothers To The End" tagline fades to just "The End" in trailers and commercials.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bcae7b8c	type	Combat Resuscitation
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bcae7b8c	comment	Combat Resuscitation: Characters who run out of health from non-lethal injury are Down But Not Out: they are completely helpless and will die from almost any attack (except in Execution game modes, where downed characters are immune to long-range attacks and must be finished off up close and personal). Finishing Moves can be performed on downed characters. Additionally, downed players can use a frag grenade to perform a suicide attack on nearby enemies.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bcb2cfe1	type	Beam Me Up, Scotty!
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bcb2cfe1	comment	Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Invoked when Cole revisits his hometown. "The Cole Train don't go woo woo. It's WHOOOO~!" Which is also a meta reference, because "woo woo" was sometimes used by Terry Tate, Office Linebacker, also played by Lester Speight.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: The COG appear to be based (though not exclusively) on Nazi Germany, judging from its aesthetics and predominant policies.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bcf69f60	type	Short-Range Shotgun
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bcf69f60	comment	Short-Range Shotgun: Averted in Gears of War 2, as the raw damage the Gnasher can inflict in close range was toned down from the first game but was balanced out by actually being an average weapon for medium range. Gears of War 3 introduces a double-barrled Sawed-Off Shotgun to give you a choice between the balanced Gnasher and this overspecialized shotgun. In fact, the Sawed Off's range is so short, the developers nicknamed it the "Bad Touch" gun since you'll need to be in that range to use it right. Also completely averted with the new Overkill shotgun from Gears of War 4. This beast fires one round when the player presses the trigger and another when the trigger is released. You can potentially launch 8 successive shots within a few seconds at your unlucky targets and score headshots on them from 30 feet away. It has about the same range as a Lancer. Its sheer range and power makes it the easiest weapon in the franchise to score headshots with. Tactics, on the other hand, brings the Gnasher back into hugging range. Which is fine, since the only class that uses it has a Game-Breaker spec that lets them spam grenades.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer —> Colonel Badass - Colonel Hoffman, who doesn't get along well with Marcus but they come to respect each other by the end.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: Features prominently in both games. Normally, Anya's the one providing intel, advice, orders and even comfort; there are times where other characters take on the role, though they are distinctly lacking the comfort aspect. Delta Squad loses contact with Mission Control a depressing number of times throughout both games, though. In Gears of War 3, a variety of characters take on the role, from Anya to Dizzy to Adam Fenix.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bf4ee9be	type	Big Head Mode
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bf4ee9be	comment	The mutators in added in 3 are divided into 'easy' 'hard' and 'fun' categories. The latter is composed of Big Head Mode, Flower Blood (which, sadly, disables all gore as well), Laugh Track (which is INCESSANT, like a terrible sitcom), Headless Chicken (which causes decapitated enemies to run around in a berserk rampage for a short time) and Pinata (which adds a collection minigame of sorts).
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Benjamin in the second game, who also stands out as a Red Shirt by being the only main character who wears the face concealing helmet. The tutorial has the Player Characters training him.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bfc2ec8a	type	That Makes Me Feel Angry
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_bfc2ec8a	comment	That Makes Me Feel Angry: Marcus sometimes shouts "Now I'm pissed!" upon being revived, and some Locust in Campaign may shout "RRRRRAAAAAGE!" while attacking you. If you attempt to yank an opponent over cover in 4 while playing as Marcus and fail, he may mutter "That pisses me off!"
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c026716	type	Holiday Mode
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c026716	comment	Holiday Mode: Several of the multiplayer events in 3. Halloween saw the players with Pumpkin heads, Thanksgiving unlocked an exploding turkey / chicken launcher, Christmas gave everyone snowmen heads, and Super Bowl week unlocks a Locust Drone in football pads.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c03860d2	type	Womb Level
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c03860d2	comment	Womb Level: The Rift Worm in the second game.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c0f6b6c4	type	Adrenaline Makeover
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c0f6b6c4	comment	Adrenaline Makeover: Anya
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c2c80ef	comment	Neck Lift: In Gears 4, Scions will execute players by lifting them off of the ground by their necks and popping their heads from the pressure of their grip.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c2cedbfc	type	Big "NO!"
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c2cedbfc	comment	Big "NO!": The major one in the entire series is the one Marcus gives when he realizes that Dom's rescue of Delta Squad from the Lambent horde will end in Dom's death.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c2f149ae	type	Bonus Feature Failure
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c2f149ae	comment	Bonus Feature Failure: In Gears of War 4, if you prove yourself as a die-hard fan and complete all ten Re-ups, you'll be rewarded with...the ability to go up another 100 levels! (Plus the standard reward of 3 Elite Packs). Only this time, every level you go up gives you a credit bonus compared to 1 bonus for every 5 levels normally. This starts off with a 300 credit bonus and increases to 500 at level 10 and beyond. Sounds incredible, right? Well, the problem is this: you need a lot more xp to go up levels now. By the time you get to around level 40, you'll need roughly 100,000 xp to go up a single level! This feature fails because with the amount of time you spent going up that one level, you could've gotten the same credit bonus 2 to 3 times over if you hadn't completed all your Re-ups. It ultimately does the opposite and actually makes it a lot harder to save up for packs now.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c2fc1ae	comment	You could just drop your meatshield instantly by swapping to another weapon and get back to fighting faster... oooorrrr you could relieve more stress by playing an animation of snapping the meatshield's neck before dropping them.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: This is Band of Brothers: The Game. In fact, the tagline for Gears of War 3 is "Brothers to The End". In the Expanded Universe, the enitre COG army is pretty much this both before and after Emergence Day. If you are a Gear, you know you can always count on every single other Gear to have your back, no matter what, even if they don't like you. Since the army is so small after Emergence Day, a large majority of Gears know every other Gear still alive.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c34b316c	type	Bee People
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c34b316c	comment	Bee People: The Locust Horde society is structured with a Queen at the top, and lots and lots of disposable drones. and in 4 their mutated form, the Swarm, are a literal Hive Mind
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Marcus and Baird do not get along very well, though they do gradually get on friendlier terms. By the second game, they mostly throw friendly insults at each other. Explained in-universe that Baird was initially resentful of Marcus given command over him or Cole, considering at the start of the games, he and Cole outranked him or Dom and, despite Marcus being a decorated Gear and war hero, Marcus was also discharged and imprisoned who is only active again because the military doesn't have a choice. In the novels, they finally do end up more or less getting along. Of note is that Baird is specifically mentioned to not be afraid of Marcus at all, just a little uneasy because he can't figure out what motivates him (which is how Baird classifies people). Brought back in 3. While Marcus and Baird are now getting along, there is considerable friction between Baird and Sam in the first Acts, with them throwing all sorts of sarcastic quips at each other. The nature of their rivalry is implied to stem from Sam trying to be Dom's new Love Interest. They ease up considerably after Dom's Heroic Sacrifice. By 4, Sam and Baird are an actual couple
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: It's raining Locust! Giant Mook: Boomers and their variants; Grinders, Maulers, Butchers, Flamers, etc. Scions from Gears 4 fit this role, having the same patterns, strengths and weaknesses as the Boomer varieties. Elite Mooks: Theron Guards; smarter, faster, tougher and armed with one-hit-kill Torque Bows. From Gears 4, Swarm Hunters fit the bill as they are basically analogous to the Therons. Same goes for Elite Drones, since they come equipped with a Lancer, Gnasher and Frag Grenades in addition to advancing on you more quickly. Kung Fu-Proof Mook: Seeders and Berserkers in the first game are absolutely immune to every weapon except the Hammer of Dawn. Boomers and Armored Kanti are also downplayed examples. Boomers are immune to chainsaws and retro charges, but can be damaged with anything else. Armored Kanti are Immune to Bullets, chainsaws and retro charges and can only reliably be taken down with fire or explosives. In the Tactics spin-off, many Locust will perform an attack of opportunity when a Gear closes on them, disrupting the attack. While most enemies with this abilty can have it temporarily disabled by an interrupt, Wretches will always counterattack. Praetorian Guard: The Palace Guards in the second game, who guard the Nexus Palace instead of regular drones, and are just as tough as Theron Guards. The third game has Chairman Prescott's Onyx Guard, elite Gears personally loyal to him, although you only fight them as the "final boss" of Beast Mode when playing as the Locust. Mook Maker: Emergence Holes in the first two games, Kantus priests from Gears of War 2 onwards can summon Tickers from out of nowhere, revive downed Locust from long range, and are overall just extremely annoying buggers (remember to Shoot the Medic First). Gears of War 3 feature Lambent Stalks that sprout from the ground, changing the landscape but also depositing any number and multiple types of Lambent Locust in your path while also doing away with Emergence Holes, presumably because the Locust have lost control of the underground to the Lambent. Gears of War 4 has Swarm nests, functioning much like the E-holes of yore, with the added bonus that when blown up by frags you can climb inside the hole and use it as cover. Sometimes they also have weapons and ammo inside. Mooks Ate My Equipment: Feral Tickers Shield-Bearing Mook: Maulers carry gigantic Boomshields to give them extra protection. If they take any damage, they immediately deploy it, forcing you to attack them from behind or very carefully try to shoot them in their exposed feet in the front. Smash Mook: Berserkers are huge and look pretty terrifying, but due to their blindness, their tactics only consist of running in a straight line towards you or pounding you with their fists up close.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: After the decades-long Pendulum Wars in the backstory, it was believed that peace had finally come to Sera. Then Emergence Day happenred.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Dom's life, especially, is practically made of this trope - after losing his brother and kids, the only thing that kept him going was the possibility of finding his missing wife, Maria. In 2, he does find her - after she had suffered years of torture, malnutrition, and lobotomization that turned her into a catatonic Empty Shell who does not respond to Dom at all. The only way to save her is via Mercy Kill, which Dom has to personally deliver.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c513249	type	Harder Than Hard
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c513249	comment	You all thought Insane difficulty was the most rage-inducing difficulty in the series? Heh heh, that's a good one... Just wait 'til you get a load of the new Inconceivable difficulty that Gears 4 has implemented. The official description for it is "beyond insane. Make every bullet count." You have even less health than on Insane in this mode and are basically a One-Hit-Point Wonder, but the enemies have less health as well. Naturally, the enemies have deadshot accuracy and ammo drops are drastically smaller. This will test even the most elite of Gears players to their absolute limits. It is very, very unlikely that you will even be able to make it through the prologue without copious amounts of continues. Oh, and there's an achievement for beating the entire campaign on this mode, in case you thought it was simply a self-imposed challenge for those who want it.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c5249b29	comment	Tragically, Dom of all people manages to end up becoming the biggest example of this in the series. The players have gotten to know him across the entire series, playing as him in co-op and getting to see how much of a loyal, selfless and Nice Guy he is. Although the Anyone Can Die trope was invoked in Gears of War 3, absolutely no one was expecting Dom to be the only Delta Squad member to die. Even though he went out in a Dying Moment of Awesome combined with Heroic Sacrifice, it's safe to say that Dom's death brought tears to the entire fan base.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c530519c	type	Fan Nickname
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c530519c	comment	An overlooked aspect is how the melee attack was weakened across the games, although in terms of stunning power rather than damage. In the first game and Ultimate Edition, melee attacks stunned players for 2 whole seconds, which pretty much left you defenseless to a follow-up Gnasher shot which the community used relentlessly. By Gears 2 onwards, the melee attack makes players flinch for about half a second, which allows everyone to escape from being gibbed and made two-piecing a lot harder and less effective overall. However, you can still down an opponent from 2 melee strikes, so the attack itself is still useful in damage output, but the lack of stunning power is predominately why almost nobody melees online anymore.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c558da6a	type	Gunship Rescue
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c558da6a	comment	Gunship Rescue: Many times, just like in the games. Subverted once as well: during a Lambent assault on Pelruan, KR-33 attempts to take out a mutated Leviathan. It's quickly destroyed by the Leviathan shooting explosive polyps at it.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c6695a49	type	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c6695a49	comment	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois: The second game introduces the Lambent, mutant Locust who are fighting against the original Locust. By the third game, humans, Locust and Lambent are all duking it out with each other on the planet's surface. However, in the actual game, Locust and Lambent are only encountered in the same area a couple of times, most prominently in the final battle. Gears of War 4 basically has the Outsiders vs. the DeeBees vs. the Swarm. However, there is only one area in the campaign where DeeBees and Swarm are encountered together and they will shoot each other just as much as they will shoot you. Strangely enough, these two will not attack each other at all in Horde; possibly due to a programming oversight or maybe some clever Fridge Brilliance. The Swarm only attack humans because they can't exactly reproduce by sticking robots in their pods and the DeeBees only attack humans because they are specifically programmed to pacify Outsiders since they, for most of the campaign, are unaware of the Swarm's existence and actions.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c72af5a8	type	Mini-Mecha
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c72af5a8	comment	Mini-Mecha: The Silverback, which doesn't actually have a back so that Gears can climb in and out easily. Size-wise, it's very close to being a Powered Armor.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Gears of War 2 contains another Shout-Out to the same movie; one of the chapters late in the game is called "Have Fun Storming the Castle", a line from The Princess Bride.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: The Locust leaders are much taller than their counterparts. RAAM, a Theron, is even bigger than a Boomer. Even Myrrah is fairly tall for a (apparently) human woman.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c8ba7f98	type	Camp Unsafe Isn't Safe Anymore
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c8ba7f98	comment	Camp Unsafe Isn't Safe Anymore: In Gears of War 2, a Stranded says the surface isn't safe anymore. The Locust, Kryll-infested, razor hail suffering surface.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: Delta captures a fifteen-year old Stranded insurgent on Vectes, though Baird insists that his age makes him an adult.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: The Onyx Guard are supposed to be the most absolutely elite of the COG forces, yet they get slaughtered every single time they're deployed in the games and novels.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ca52cc92	type	Canned Orders over Loudspeaker
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ca52cc92	comment	Canned Orders over Loudspeaker: In Gears of War 2 you can hear Myrrah spouting Locust propaganda in the later Nexus levels. Once Delta Squad finds a microphone, they offer a rebuttal.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a	type	Death of a Thousand Cuts
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a	comment	Death of a Thousand Cuts: One strategy for defeating the Swarmak on Gears 4's Insane difficulty is to not follow the on-screen objectives and expose its weak points, as this causes other enemies to spawn, and instead stay close to the bottomless ammo refill and whittle it down with Lancer fire at an agonizingly slow pace.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cb0dc964	type	Vortex Barrier
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cb0dc964	comment	Vortex Barrier: The third game reveals that the island of Azura is protected by an artificially created storm as a defense against the Locust, who eventually find a way to bypass it.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God says that the Ragers encountered in Judgement died out early in the Locust war due to their insane recklessness.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ccab244d	type	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ccab244d	comment	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: At a time when other FPS games had shotgun/assault rifles mainstays but with common energy weapons for heavy hitting, the makers of Gears took a different route by making energy weapons nonexistent to both sides except for the Hammer of Dawn satellite. The reasoning according to the PC version instruction manual, is that our contemporary gun technology is already very effective and it seemed likely that even centuries from now, there'd be little need for anything else except to augment the standard gun with future technology. Averted in Gears 4 where the Deebees use both shock weapons and electro magnetic rail guns.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ccf46587	comment	Red Shirt Army: Counter-intuitively, Gears with helmets tend to die as quickly as they're introduced, often by being shot in the head. Gears of War 4 starts with the players themselves at the receiving end of this trope, and it is certainly NOT played for laughs.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Helena Stroud, Rory Andresen, Bai Tak, Carlos Santiago
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cec8b87a	type	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cec8b87a	comment	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: One segment in Gears of War 2 gives you free reign to snipe Locust from a ridge. Achieving five kills in a row with the sniper rifle, and Marcus will yell: "That's one. That's two! That's THREE! THAT'S FOUR! THAT'S FIVE, MOTHERFUCKERS!" Delivered straight by Marcus when he guts Myrrah in Gears of War 3:
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Bernie went on one against her rapists. She got real good with using her knife during it.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cf9b131f	type	Muscles Are Meaningless
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_cf9b131f	comment	Muscles Are Meaningless: The average male COG and Locust Drone has chest and arm girth that would put most Olympian power lifters to shame. This, of course, offers them no advantage over the normally proportioned (ie. literally half their size) female gears in terms of hand-to-hand combat or in carrying heavy weaponry from the hip (or their armor, for the matter). Emphasized at the end of Gears of War 3 when Anya and Marcus sit next to each other and hold hands, and you see how much bigger Marcus is compared to her.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d026cad8	type	Sigil Spam
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d026cad8	comment	Sigil Spam: The Crimson Omen. Gears of War 1 and 3 both use it as a marker inexplicitly to let you know a COG Tag is nearby. The other collectibles in 3 don't get them, unfortunately, and in 2 the COG Tags don't even get them.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: Gears of War 3 features the city of Char filled with crowds of people who have been flash-fried into statues of ash, the first real depiction in the games of the absolute hell the Hammer of Dawn counterattacks have caused.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Played for Laughs in Gears 5.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d291ea97	type	No Campaign for the Wicked
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d291ea97	comment	No Campaign for the Wicked: Averted in "RAAM's Shadow", which has several segments where you play on the side of the Locust horde.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: it is entirely possible to hit a locust/swarm drone as they are about to throw a grenade and cause then to lose the grip on it thus having it fall by them blowing them up.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Chainsaw bayonets?! Are you serious?! They actually make sense given how much armor almost everyone wears. A normal bayonet is only useful against unarmored targets (until they put in a normal bayonet anyway, though they require the user build a bit of momentum to strike a certain killing stab). The sequel has chainsaw duels. The Dragon can only be damaged by this because he has a double-edged chainsaw staff. Hell yeah. Numerous points in the second game have Delta Squad being forced into using this trope.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Appropriate in the chronological sense of the term. The creation of the Locust Horde was hinted in Gears 2 and Gears 5 to be somewhere in the middle of the Pendulum Wars, with its most liberal estimates being 20 years after the Pendulum Wars started. The problem with this timeline? The Pendulum War lasted only 79 years. That means that Queen Myrrah would have created an advance civilization with modern industry, with its entire independent written system, religion and calender within a span of less than five decades. Keep in mind that the Locust Horde numbered in the billions, which we should stress again, meant that Queen Myrrah would have somehow propagated the Locust Horde from a few dozen mutated human children at most, to several billion within a span of five decades. As you can imagine, this is so implausible on a basic societal advancement level, let alone reproduction level, that it is one of the few major plotholes that fans often chagrin against.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Dark Action Girl: Myrrah, the Locust Queen, takes to frontlines in Gears Of War 3, heaving stripped herself of her squid-dress from the second game. In fact, her combat outfit looks very nice, too. She acts as the Locust leader in multiplayer.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d5dfb30a	type	Professional Butt-Kisser
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d5dfb30a	comment	Professional Butt-Kisser: Major Aleksander Reid will do anything to get in Chairman Richard Prescotts good graces.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d687ba2a	type	Guest Fighter
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d687ba2a	comment	Guest Fighter: Gears 5 has a few of them. As part of a cross-promotion with the Master Chief Collection release of Halo: Reach, Emile and Kat were added as COG skins. For Terminator: Dark Fate, Sarah Connor and the T-800 were available as COG and Swarm skins respectively, with Grace and Rev-9 becoming available alongside them in later DLC. Batista is also playable as a COG soldier. Continuing the wrestling theme, The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) were added as COG soldiers in a late 2020 update, tying in to their appearance at Survivor Series 2020 where they came out to the ring in replicas of their outfits. Killer Mike and El-P are playable in Gears of War 4 with the Run The Jewels Airdrop Pack.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d7e68c39	type	Bulletproof Human Shield
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d7e68c39	comment	Bulletproof Human Shield: Anyone can take an enemy as one if they have been downed (see Critical Existence Failure). The game considers an enemy dead by all means, meaning there's no way to help them while they are being held (in multiplayer, their respawn timer starts), and when they are no longer held, they're practically a corpse. Maybe justified due to the armor all Gears wear, as well as the Locust being naturally tough.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Baird and Cole. Baird and Marcus too, prevalent throughout the first game, and while toned down in the second and third it's still there.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain - Marcus
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d9e946ae	type	Cute Monster Girl
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_d9e946ae	comment	Cute Monster Girl: Subverted with the female Locust Berserkers, vicious and fugly 10-foot tall stone-skinned monsters. Played straight in Gears of War 2 with the Locust Queen Myrrah, who strangely looks like a human woman wearing a squid on her back. Although this appears to be a plot point, this is never explained in game. On the forums, it was revealed that Myrrah was a child of one of the scientists of the New Hope facility. The facility she was in got destroyed, with her being the only survivor. She ended up leading the children of the Sires, which were the first Locust.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dae3999d	type	Action Bomb
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dae3999d	comment	In the second game, humanity eventually comes to the decision that the only way to stop the Locust for good is to breach the grounds of Jacinto, humanity's last bastion of safety, and flood the Hollow with seawater to kill everything underground. After defeating a Lambent Brumak to be used as an improvised Action Bomb, the humans are able to flood the Hollow and victory seems to have finally been achieved. But, yet again, the third game reveals that the Locust STILL aren't down for good and even worse, The Lambent have broken through to the surface with the intent of turning every living thing to their ranks, accelerating Sera's destruction even more.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl Locust Berserkers are really female Drones. They're far more dangerous and deadlier than the males and more feared by the Gears. They're also invulnerable until you hit them with an orbital bombardment or set them on fire. In the third game, Anya has ditched her Mission Control role in order to fight on the battlefield with the male Gears, alongside another female gear, Samantha Bryne, as well as a veteran of the Pendulum Wars who fought with Colonel Victor Hoffman, Bernadette "Bernie" Mataki. Alicia Valera in "RAAM's Shadow" rounds out the gender ratio in Zeta Squad. Lampshaded by Hoffman in the Anvil Gate novel when talking about Anya, Sam and Bernie; he says that he pities any Stranded "that run into that gang of harpies". Judgement includes a new female Onyx Guard character model in addition to the Kilo Team member Sophia. By this time the Gears Of War series outnumbers almost any other shooter game franchise when it comes to named, story relevant female soldiers.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: The Hollow and Nexus
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: Whats happens to Helena Stroud and Carlos Santiago.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dba5a4f8	type	LethalJokeWeapon
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dba5a4f8	comment	Lethal Joke Weapon: From Gears of War 4, we have the Repair Tool. It's range is pathetically short, limited to half a foot in front of you, it does less damage than the Snub and requires seconds of sustained fire to kill anything. However, it has infinite "ammo" and doesn't need to be reloaded, so if you focus on enemies that are pinned on a barrier or distracted by another player, you can actually kill with the thing! Justified since it's meant to repair fortifications and not for combat, but you can get a surprising amount of points for "repairing" the DeeBees and Swarm. The Smoke Grenade also counts. It's primarily used to stun players and temporarily obscure their sight and deals no damage with its explosion. However, starting from Gears 3 onwards, if you melee tag someone with it, it will instantly down them after it explodes, allowing you to quickly execute them.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dbb414ed	comment	The "active reload" mechanic within the game consists of a minigame while reloading: press the reload button within a specific and small window of time and the weapon will reload faster. Press it within an even smaller, more specific window will give the weapon a temporary stat bonus (increased range, firing rate, damage...) and reloads the weapon instantly if pressed correctly. However, missing it causes the weapon to jam and ends up taking much longer to reload. This minigame is never explained, not even Hand Waved, and is quite obviously just there to make reloading more fun.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dc0d80ee	type	High-Pressure Blood
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dc0d80ee	comment	High-Pressure Blood: In Gears Of War 2, it seems as if the characters lose blood that would be enough to kill someone when they go into a downed state alone from the impact of bullets against them. Not to mention the extra pints they lose from crawling around.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure - Hoffman, Marcus also seemed to have a lot of respect for Captain Michaelson.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dcb9c541	comment	There's also indications in the opposite direction; more than one scene in Gears of War 2 and production interview gave us signs that Marcus and Anya have more than a strictly professional relationship between them. Naturally, the novelizations and subsequent Gears of War 3 outright confirm this.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Adam Fenix
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dcebff1	type	Command Roster
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dcebff1	comment	Command Roster: Technically, until the third game most of the group consists of multiple squads, largely Alpha and Delta. But they still come together sometime into the story and stay together as though they were one group. The First Game The Captain - Marcus, after Lieutenant Kim is killed. Number Two - Dom Mr. Fixit - Baird The Marine - Cole Mission Control - Anya The Neidermeyer —> Colonel Badass - Colonel Hoffman, who doesn't get along well with Marcus but they come to respect each other by the end. Red Shirt - Carmine (Anthony) The Second Game The Captain - Marcus Number Two - Dom New Meat - Carmine (Benjamin) The Scientist - Baird (In-game collectibles of various kinds are provided with some text commentary by Baird) Mr. Fixit - Baird and Dizzy The Marine - Cole The Security Officer - Tai Ace Pilot - Dizzy Mission Control - Anya, Hoffman when they get into really top secret areas Reasonable Authority Figure - Hoffman Obstructive Bureaucrat - Chairman Prescott The Third Game The Captain - Marcus Number Two - Dom, Cole also takes on a leadership role when out looking for supplies The Scientist - Baird again Mr. Fixit - Baird and Dizzy The Marine - Cole, Jace and Carmine (Clay) Friendly Sniper - Sam The Medic - Anya Communications Officer - Anya Mission Control - Switches up depending on who is out in the action. Anya, Bernie, Baird, Dizzy and Adam Fenix all take on this role. Reasonable Authority Figure - Hoffman, Marcus also seemed to have a lot of respect for Captain Michaelson. Obstructive Bureaucrat - Prescott, although in this case he was trying to undo all the government secrets he had been hiding
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_de70f5a4	type	Continuity Cameo
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_de70f5a4	comment	Continuity Cameo: Marcus makes an audio cameo in Judgement when it's revealed he is part of the battle of Halvo Bay, although not mentioned by name it is quite clear who he is supposed to be. Interestingly, his voice is noticeably less scratchy than the later games and is a little more in line with his voice from the first Gears game.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	type	Artificial Brilliance
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	comment	Artificial Brilliance: Gears of War 4 has achieved this in spades. Bots are much smarter than in the previous games, with them intelligently taking cover and firing around and over it to kill you and enemies instead of charging out in the open and actually attempt to get away from you if you rush them from the side of their cover; in direct contrast with Gears 3 bots that would stupidly stare at you from cover even on Insane if you walked up to them. However, the improved A.I. is the most noticeable in the Co-op Team Deathmatch mode, which pits a team of players against a team of Hardcore-level bots. The bots play very disturbingly like real players! They will employ nearly identical tactics that players do, firing at you with rifles from a distance as you rush to the power weapons and have shotgun battles with you when you close in on them. They even know when to quickly finish players rather than stupidly doing extended executions in the middle of a firefight. They are also incredibly good at flanking players and very accurate with power weapons unlike the Artificial Stupidity tendencies of bots mentioned below. If you're not careful, a team of bots can sweep the match out from under you. A marvelous A.I. improvement over the previous Gears titles. This is also very noticeable in the campaign and Horde as well. While in the previous games Locust would employ pretty good tactics, a lot of them would eventually just vault over their cover and walk through an unprotected battlefield in a futile attempt to hit you. This also carried over into Gears 3 Horde, where the last Locust left would just charge at your team's ready weapons. This is not the case in 4 at all. The Swarm will almost always hang back in their cover and wait for the player to approach them. While they are hanging back, their snipers will keep you pinned under their fire while a pack of Grenadiers or Scions will approach from the side. If that doesn't work, Juvies or Pouncers will jump nearby to draw your fire while the drones will rush you while you are distracted. Even in Horde, drones will generally move in groups of 2 to 3 and when down to the last 5 enemies, they WILL all crowd around you to take you out quickly. On Hardcore and Insane, it's not uncommon for them to charge from their cover and around yours for a One-Hit Kill melee strike. On these difficulties in Horde, you have between 3 to 4 seconds to revive a downed teammate before they are executed compared to the roughly 10 second window on Normal.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_df1793de	type	Updated Re-release
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_df1793de	comment	Updated Re-release: The PC version of Gears of War features several new levels in the last act that make the overall plot flow more coherently, as well as a new boss battle against a Brumak. If it's any consolation to console gamers, these levels are unoptimized and tend to lag even on bleeding edge hardware. An Updated Rerelease for the first game was put out 10 years after the original for the Xbox One and Windows 10. Called Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. it has the same base gameplay (as well as the extra levels from the PC version) but features updated modern graphics (including optional 4k textures and a more colorful color palette that averts the original's Real Is Brown look), high-budget completely redone pre-rendered cutscenes, and an uncapped framerate on the PC version (the original PC version was locked to 62 fps without modding). It also adds a "Normal" difficulty to address the fact the original game didn't really have a difficulty setting between "Easy" and "Hard".
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_df3b0af7	comment	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon: The Longshot sniper rifle fits this trope well, except for one particular sequence in Gears of War 2 (see This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! below). In Judgment, the Locust's modifications to the Markza sniper rifle to create the Breechshot included removing it's scope. Cole mocks the decision with "A sniper rifle with no scope? Ha! Those grubs are real geniuses!" (the real reason for this is, of course, Competitive Balance as the Breechshot does more damage than the Markza and can Boom, Headshot! faster much like the Longshot, while also having a larger magazine than the Longshot that doesn't need to be reloaded with every shot.) In Gears 4 the DeeBee sniper rifle (the EMBAR) is a magnetic railgun without a scope, because robots don't need a scope to drill someone between the eyes at 100 yards. Humans picking it up, on the other hand, will not be as lucky. Again a point of balance as the EMBAR packs a lot of punch and has three rounds per mag.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_df858e81	type	Shoot the Medic First
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_df858e81	comment	Shoot the Medic First: Those damn Kantus Priests! In Gears 4, Scions revive fallen Swarm far less frequently (as their ability to do this is of a much shorter range than Kantus Priests), but they can also simultaneously buff the living ones, so which is a scenario where this applies as killing the Scion will undo the buff.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Kilo Squad was this to General Karn (a brilliant strategist), with a little bit of Spanner in the Works thrown in as well. Everything would have been almost perfect for Karn if only Kilo had followed orders.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Sam gets the sexy pan-up shot while a Stranded ogles her.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: Marcus, when Benjamin's part of Delta Squad. Hoffman counts, as well.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e07d3d72	type	Uncle Tomfoolery
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e07d3d72	comment	Uncle Tomfoolery: ALL ABOARD THE COLE TRAIN, BABY!. Cole is the Expy of Terry Tate, Office Linebacker, except with a very big gun. Aside from the flamboyant, boisterous actions of Cole (the "Cole Train" multiplayer skin in Gears of War 3 being the prime example), all other blacks, such as Jace, are written very 21st century.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e0e3579a	type	Fungus Humongous
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e0e3579a	comment	Fungus Humongous: The Inner Hollow in Gears Of War 2 has mushrooms that are slightly shorter than Delta Squad, and some slimy stuff on the walls that might be fungi.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Exaggerated in the third game. Lambent foes are Made of Explodium, but human soldiers can melee them to death with chainsaw bayonets and shrug off the point-blank KABOOM like it ain't no thang.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e34ada78	type	Authority Equals Asskicking
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e34ada78	comment	Authority Equals Asskicking General RAAM personifies this trope. Skorge, a bit less so, but cutting a tank in half is still pretty badass. Colonel Hoffman, to a lesser extent, as he's on the same level as the rest of Delta Squad, but when you consider how much of an achievement it is in this universe to even make it to your mid-thirties (Word of God has him at age 60 in Gears of War 3) and he's no coward or stranger to frontline fighting makes him pretty hardcore. Marcus plays with this: prior to the games, he was a decorated soldier and war hero, but after abandoning his post to try and rescue his father, he gets sent to prison. At the start of the trilogy, he's technically only a private, though within an hour, he gets back up to sergeant.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e3c97e7a	type	Story to Gameplay Ratio
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e3c97e7a	comment	Story to Gameplay Ratio: The first game was fairly low, it had a solid story with a beginning, middle and end but the gameplay didn't have much bearing on the story (Once Marcus and Dom do a game-enforced split-up to "cover more ground" but all it does is force you to play alone for a minute before coming back together on the same path). Gears 2 had a lot stronger storyline but carried a few similar "irrelevant to the story but cool anyway" set-ups (the deployable cover you find in the Nexus doesn't really do much). By Gears of War 3 almost all scenarios and gameplay shifts were designed to facilitate the story.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: All of Delta Squad, but especially since cooperative play allows you to be Marcus and your friend be Dom. In-universe, Baird and Cole were really tight before they ever met Marcus or Dom, and still are as far as can be seen. Gears of War 3 takes this to the logical extreme, where there's four player co-op for the entire campaign.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: A natural effect of the Unreal Engine 3 being upgraded with each subsequent game in the original trilogy, followed by the move to later versions in later games. Compare and contrast the rough 2006 release of the first game, revolutionary for its time but clearly lacking good motion capture and suffering not only from 720p but blurry assets everywhere, to even the Animation Bump in the second game or the sheer leap of quality in the third. The series stands at the forefront of Unreal's evolutions in technology as a result.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e4e86215	type	Fake Difficulty
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e4e86215	comment	In the first game, your teammates' propensity for vaulting over a perfectly good piece of cover in order to charge straight into enemy fire and get shot full of holes is absolutely ridiculous. Almost certainly a form of Fake Difficulty designed to make the player do all the work instead of letting the A.I. do most of the fighting. Rectified in the sequel with smarter squadmates less likely to break cover and do this (and who also can soak much more damage).
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Cole is the soldier version of Terry Tate, Office Linebacker, a joke character from a series of Reebok commercials. Of course, they're played by the same person. The Kryll bear more than a little resemblance to the nocturnal creatures in Pitch Black.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: It certainly goes into this trope at times... and then there's chainsawing your enemies... and then there's chainsawing your enemy simultaneously with your allies. The games THRIVE on its extreme violent content. There's hardly a death in this game that doesn't end in copious amounts of blood, meaty chunks or bones cracking, not to mention the way blood splatters on the camera. Special note of a certain line from the second game:
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e545e190	comment	In the first game, the Torque Bow kills anything any all difficulties that isn't a boss in one hit, including you. It even works on Boomers, who can take multiple rounds from the Boomshot or 3 full magazines of assault rifle fire. Nerfed in the sequels, where it's no longer this trope. The third game does still allow single kills with it on Boomer-class Locust, but only with headshots.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e57bd3dd	type	Wolfpack Boss
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e57bd3dd	comment	Wolfpack Boss: The Armoured Kanti in Gears of War 3.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e6630c8b	type	GameplayAndStoryIntegration
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e6630c8b	comment	Gameplay and Story Integration: An interesting example of this can be found in the first Gears of War and also doubles as Fridge Brilliance. Normally, Marcus (technically, the player) is able to give orders to the rest of Delta Squad and change their behavior by making them more aggressive or having them battle more conservatively by hanging back. However, you cannot give orders for the entire first act because Marcus is only a part of Delta Squad as a Private while Liutenant Minh Young Kim is the current leader. It's only until Minh is killed by General RAAM towards the end of the act that Marcus gets promoted to Sergeant and becomes the leader of Delta Squad, allowing you to give orders for the rest of the game.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e6df8814	type	Screaming Warrior
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e6df8814	comment	Screaming Warrior: Pretty much everyone, especially when chainsawing, executing, or retro charging an opponent. Special mention goes to Tai, the Carmine brothers and Savage Drones.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e6f18344	comment	Humongous Mecha: Baird kindly drops 2 of them armed with giant buzz saw launchers for JD and Kait in Gears 4, and these things are as big as Brumaks...
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e913fe74	type	Epic Flail
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_e913fe74	comment	Bolo Grenades are really explosive maces. Epic Flail indeed, though they can only be used to blow things up, and the melee animation to stick grenades onto enemies looks like a swing, but it doesn't do any damage aside from sticking the grenade and watching them explode spectacularly.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_eb81c601	comment	Cole has a one man Big Damn Heroes moment in Gears of War 2. Dom has one in Gears of War 3, albeit one that doubles as a Heroic Sacrifice.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Baird. He gets better in the sequels, becoming more of a Deadpan Snarker. It's explained that he was initially resentful that Marcus was given command over him or Cole who, at least at the beginning, ranked higher than either Dom or Marcus. Ezra Loomis in Judgment, on the other hand, is just a complete bastard and makes no apologies for it.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: If you "down but not out" a Locust Drone, you can wait for his buddies to run out of cover to rescue him and shoot THEM as they rush in.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ebb8b676	type	Not His Blood
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ebb8b676	comment	Not His Blood: A variation happens when the team cuts their way out of the riftworm one of them says "This is wrong, I'm coughing up blood that isn't mine."
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ec1a1233	type	Running Gagged
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ec1a1233	comment	Running Gagged: The series-long tendency of the Carmines constantly dying becomes a lot less funny in 5 with with the absolutely horrific death of Lizzie Carmine, which not only signals the story taking a very dark turn, but also becomes the catalyst for JD's downward spiral that lasts most of the game.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ec3947b6	type	WalkItOff
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ec3947b6	comment	Walk It Off: Several characters, most notably Marcus and Griffin, will occasionally quote this trope word for word when reviving teammates.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Marcus
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ef0f881b	type	Trick Arrow
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_ef0f881b	comment	Trick Arrow: the tripwire crossbow in Judgment sports arrows that will stick to walls and turn into tripwire-beam explosive traps (arguably the torque-bow's arrows qualify too)
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_eff26b2b	type	Take Cover!
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_eff26b2b	comment	Take Cover!: THE Trope Codifier for the genre. The way Epic Games made it work compared to similar shooters was by shortening the distances you'd engage enemies (making the fighting generally more frantic) and evening out the durability of both sides (Locust are just as durable as you are). They also pointed towards playing paintball as an inspiration, as much of the game is trying to replicate the adrenaline rush you'd get in a Real Life combat situation and patiently waiting for an enemy to expose themselves. Lampshaded perfectly in the second game by Marcus:
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Some of the Locust were seen in promotional renders of the Unreal Engine 3 before the game was announced. Likewise, some of the character designs in Unreal Tournament III are close enough to be predecessors of the various Gears.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The hell that is Sera is made even worse by the constant fighting, first between the COG and the UIR, then between humanity and the Locust Horde and the Lambent. This is especially prominent in 3, when supplies are scarce, meaning an entire act is played where people are out on an ammunition run and note how long it has been since they got decent food to eat. The Locust don't have it much better by that point, being forced to degenerate completely to savagery rather than their flooded underground base of operations. The theme is actually shown again in Judgment, however.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f2303cad	type	Hero Shooter
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f2303cad	comment	Hero Shooter: Gears 5 incorporates elements of this into its PvE modes (Horde and Escape). Each character now has a predetermined loadout which they spawn with, in addition to both an ultimate and passive ability that is unique to themselves.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Dom to Maria in 2. When you fight the Lambent humans in Mercy, some can be clearly heard screaming "Kill me!" when they attack you. Kait to her mother in Gears 4
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Berserkers; you'd better hit them HARD or else they'll rip you to shreds. In the third game, the Locust and Lambent have no qualms about shooting, downing and executing female Gears.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f4aeb714	type	Human Aliens
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f4aeb714	comment	Lampshaded by Baird, who remarks in one of the collectible intel items that it's strange despite fighting straight into the heart of the Locust civilization, there are no Locust children running around to shoot. Presumably a case of assumed Human Aliens - if they're Bee People, they wouldn't have children, just hatch fully-formed from eggs.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f52ae5d8	type	Enemy Civil War
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f52ae5d8	comment	Enemy Civil War: Gears of War 2 reveal the struggle of the Locust Horde against the insane Lambent Locust mutants. Not much use to the player, as the game mostly has them both trying to kill you instead of fighting each other. This is made MUCH more prevalent in the third game.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: In Gears of War 3, despite Marcus' cynicism at the end of the game, Anya heartwarmingly tells him mankind has earned its tomorrow.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f6722211	type	Hit Points
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f6722211	comment	Played straight to an extent, as explosives will blow apart someone when it kills them, but not if the damage isn't enough. The games use invisible Hit Points, and when characters lose them, they become "down, but not out" in multiplayer, meaning they can only lay on the ground to bleed to death unless someone revives them, or they are finished off. Enemies can be downed in the campaign (though not always); likewise, so can characters. In Gears of War 2, downed players can crawl away instead of being totally immobile. Curiously, bots that manage to get chainsawed in the campaign will generally be downed. The same is not true of players who are chainsawed. This is likely to compensate for Artificial Stupidity.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	type	Video Game Cruelty Potential
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	comment	Video Game Cruelty Potential: Downed characters crawl on the ground in the sequels until death. In the first game, you could leave them there, unmoving, until death via blood loss. In every game, executions are possible and encouraged, with the second game introducing weapon-exclusive executions that look excruciatingly painful. Oh, and then there's the Scorcher flamethrower. You could just drop your meatshield instantly by swapping to another weapon and get back to fighting faster... oooorrrr you could relieve more stress by playing an animation of snapping the meatshield's neck before dropping them. In Gears 5, you can choose to save Del and kill JD, leaving Del broken as his (former) best friend dead and even worse, killing the last family member Marcus has left in the world, or you can kill Del and save JD, depriving JD of his best friend.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f903ab4b	type	Squad Controls
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f903ab4b	comment	Squad Controls: You can order your team to either hold back or advance. These controls were dropped for the sequels.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f97ab6a5	type	Suicidal Overconfidence
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f97ab6a5	comment	Suicidal Overconfidence: In the first game, your teammates' propensity for vaulting over a perfectly good piece of cover in order to charge straight into enemy fire and get shot full of holes is absolutely ridiculous. Almost certainly a form of Fake Difficulty designed to make the player do all the work instead of letting the A.I. do most of the fighting. Rectified in the sequel with smarter squadmates less likely to break cover and do this (and who also can soak much more damage). Locust in Gears 3's Horde mode are prone to doing this. It's rather interesting to watch a sniper of all things trying to rush at a primed and ready Mulcher.
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Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: The first game has the COG reduced more or less to Jacinto Plateau and scattered bits of land across Sera. By the third entry in the series, the COG has dissolved into scattered human settlements. What's left of the COG's military, the Gears however continue to fight both the Lambent and Locust. The Gorasni also count, given how they're the last of the UIR, refusing to surrender even after Emergence Day. They wind up throwing all they've got alongside the COG remnants for the final battle.
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Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kill All Humans / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kill It Through Its Stomach / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kill Sat / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kill Steal / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ladder Physics / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Large and in Charge / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Last Bastion / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Let's Split Up, Gang! / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lightning Lash / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Limited Loadout / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Literally Shattered Lives / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Living Gasbag / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Living Motion Detector / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Locomotive Level / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Luck-Based Mission / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Magazine Decay / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mangst / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Master of Unlocking / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Matchlight Danger Revelation / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mauve Shirt / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Military and Warfare Video Games / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Million Mook March / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Minecart Madness / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mini-Mecha / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mission Control / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Moody Trailer Cover Song / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mook Chivalry / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mook Maker / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	More Deadly Than the Male / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	More Despicable Minion / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mr. Fixit / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Multi-Mook Melee / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Muscles Are Meaningless / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mutants / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	National Weapon / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nested Mouths / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	New Meat / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Campaign for the Wicked / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Cure for Evil / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Cutscene Inventory Inertia / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Port For You / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Scope / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Non-Dubbed Grunts / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Non P.O.V. Protagonist / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Non-Uniform Uniform / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nostalgia Level / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nuclear Option / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Old Save Bonus / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	One Bullet Clips / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	One Bullet Left / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Optional Stealth / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Organic Technology / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Original Flavour / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ornamental Weapon / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Overheating / int_e9cb2780
PCVsConsole	seeAlso	Gears of War (Video Game)
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pac-Man Fever / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pardon My Klingon / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	People Jars / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Perfect Reload Command / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Perpetual Storm / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pistol-Whipping / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Plot-Driven Breakdown / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Polished Port / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Post-Processing Video Effects / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Post-Script Season / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Present-Day Past / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Press X to Not Die / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pretty Little Headshots / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Priceless Paperweight / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Product Placement / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Professor Guinea Pig / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet Gun / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Quick Melee / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Quieter Than Silence / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Racing the Train / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ragdoll Physics / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Railroad Tracks of Doom / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rain, Rain, Go Away / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rape as Backstory / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rated M for Manly / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Real Is Brown / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Red Filter of Doom / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Redshirt Army / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Regenerating Health / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Revival by Commercialization / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Revolvers Are Just Better / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ring-Out Boss / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rocket-Tag Gameplay / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rule #1 / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Running Gagged / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sawed-Off Shotgun / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scare Chord / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scope Perspective / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Score Multiplier / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scrappy Mechanic / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scrappy Weapon / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Secondary Fire / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Secret Weapon / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sense-Impaired Monster / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sentient Phlebotinum / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sequel Difficulty Drop / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sequence Breaking / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Serrated Blade of Pain / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shoot the Fuel Tank / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Short-Range Shotgun / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shotguns Are Just Better / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shoulders of Doom / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sincerest Form of Flattery / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Skeleton Government / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Skill Gate Characters / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Smash Mook / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Smashing Hallway Traps of Doom / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Smashing Survival / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sniper Pistol / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sniping Mission / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sole Surviving Scientist / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sound-Coded for Your Convenience / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Space Marine / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Spin-Offspring / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Squad Controls / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sssssnaketalk / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Standard FPS Enemies / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Standard FPS Guns / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Start X to Stop X / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sticks to the Back / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sticky Bomb / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stock Quotes / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Story Breadcrumbs / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Story to Gameplay Ratio / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Straw Civilian / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Supernatural Gold Eyes / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Superpowered Mooks / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Synchronous Episodes / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Take Cover! / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tattoo as Character Type / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Taunt Button / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tech-Demo Game / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Technologically Advanced Foe / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	That One Achievement / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Board Game / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The End of the Beginning / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Enemy Weapons Are Better / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Joy of X / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Joys of Torturing Mooks / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Man Behind the Monsters / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Many Deaths of You / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Other Marty / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Pretty Guys Are Stronger / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Squadette / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Swarm / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Teaser / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	The X of Y / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Theme Twin Naming / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Time for Plan B / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Toxic Phlebotinum / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Traintop Battle / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Trope Codifier / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Two-Keyed Lock / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Two-Part Trilogy / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000 / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unbreakable Weapons / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Uncle Tomfoolery / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Undignified Death / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unequal Pairing / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unexpected Shmup Level / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unique Enemy / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unnecessary Combat Roll / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Used Future / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Vague Hit Points / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Vehicular Assault / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Verber Creature / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Game Long-Runners / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Game Remake / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video-Game Flamethrowers Suck / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Vortex Barrier / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Walking Disaster Area / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	We Will Wear Armor in the Future / int_25386fa0
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	We Win, Because You Didn't / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Weak to Fire / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Weaponized Animal / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	What the Hell, Player? / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	White Male Lead / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Womb Level / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Working Title / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	World-Healing Wave / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	World of Badass / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	World of Muscle Men / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	World of Weirdness / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Writer on Board / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	X on a Stick / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Xtreme Kool Letterz / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	You All Meet in a Cell / int_25386fa0
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	You Are in Command Now / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! / int_e9cb2780
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Problem with Licensed Games / Sugar Wiki / int_e9cb2780
GearsOfWarJudgement	seeAlso	Gears of War (Video Game)
GearsofWar	sameAs	Gears of War (Video Game)
GearsOfWar	sameAs	Gears of War (Video Game)
Gears of War (Video Game)	hasFeature	Convenient Color Change / int_e9cb2780

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