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* OneHitKill: The shields of a Kilrathi destroyer do not seem to provide much protection, collapsing after a single hit during the [[spoiler:ambush of the ''Tiger Claw'' and the Confederation's ambush of the arriving Kilrathi fleet at the end]]. (This is {{justified}} in the [[AllThereInTheManual manual, or rather the games]] -- capital ships have "phase shields" that are immune to SpaceFighter weaponry, requiring torpedoes to handle, but a ship as small as a destroyer ''can'' be sunk with a single torpedo -- but that explanation doesn't make it into the movie.)
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* OneHitKill: The shields of a Kilrathi destroyer do not seem to provide much protection, collapsing after a single hit during the [[spoiler:ambush of the ''Tiger Claw'' and the Confederation's ambush of the arriving Kilrathi fleet at the end]]. hit. (This is {{justified}} in the [[AllThereInTheManual manual, or rather the games]] -- capital ships have "phase shields" that are immune to SpaceFighter weaponry, requiring excepting torpedoes to handle, but which can {{technobabble}} their way through the shields; a ship as small as a destroyer ''can'' be sunk with a single torpedo torp -- but that explanation doesn't make it into the movie.movie. It also doesn't explain why the ''Claw'' herself shrugs off four torpedoes, which is ''at least'' twice as many as she can survive in the games.)
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* OneHitKill: The shields of a Kilrathi destroyer do not seem to provide much protection, collapsing after a single hit during the [[spoiler:ambush of the ''Tiger Claw'' and the Confederation's ambush of the arriving Kilrathi fleet at the end]]
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* OneHitKill: The shields of a Kilrathi destroyer do not seem to provide much protection, collapsing after a single hit during the [[spoiler:ambush of the ''Tiger Claw'' and the Confederation's ambush of the arriving Kilrathi fleet at the end]]end]]. (This is {{justified}} in the [[AllThereInTheManual manual, or rather the games]] -- capital ships have "phase shields" that are immune to SpaceFighter weaponry, requiring torpedoes to handle, but a ship as small as a destroyer ''can'' be sunk with a single torpedo -- but that explanation doesn't make it into the movie.)
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* AdaptationDistillation: Bossman is depicted as KIA before Blair could meet him where in the first Wing Commander ([=WC1=]) video game he flew as your wingman on several missions. [[spoiler:Commodore]] Taggart is captain of a civilian trader, when in [=WC1=] he was an elderly pilot flying with you on the Tiger's Claw and wasn't portrayed as a civilian until Wing Commander 2 ([=WC2=]). [[spoiler:Though similar to the movie, Taggart was also an intelligence officer in [=WC2=] using a civilian free trader ship as cover for intelligence operations against the Kilrathi.]] The TCS Concordia is depicted as existing in the same time period as the TCS Tiger's Claw, despite [=WC2=] showing the Tiger's Claw was destroyed by stealth fighters prior to the TCS Concordia's construction years later which carried a anti-ship cannon in [=WC2=] derived from a bigger version used by destroyed Kilrathi ship called the Sivar that fought against the Tiger's Claw in [=WC1=]: The Secret Missions 1 expansion (in the video game the Sivar was a "super-dreadnought" never seen before which destroyed the Goddard Colony with the [[{{BFG}} special Gravaton weapon]] and it was the Claw's job to hunt it down before it destroyed more Confederation colonies, while in the movie the Sivar was just a large battleship escorted by two destroyers which ambushed the Claw). The Skipper Missile that cloaks to avoid detection and decloaks periodically to reposition itself towards the ship it's targeting before recloaking wasn't introduced until Wing Commander 3, and at that point in the video game series both the Tiger's Claw and Concordia were both depicted as destroyed.
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* AdaptationDistillation: Bossman is depicted as KIA before Blair could meet him where in the first Wing Commander ([=WC1=]) video game he flew as your wingman on several missions. [[spoiler:Commodore]] Taggart is captain of a civilian trader, when in [=WC1=] he was an elderly pilot flying with you on the Tiger's Claw and wasn't portrayed as a civilian until Wing Commander 2 ([=WC2=]). [[spoiler:Though similar to the movie, Taggart was also an intelligence officer in [=WC2=] using a civilian free trader ship as cover for intelligence operations against the Kilrathi.]] The TCS Concordia is depicted as existing in the same time period as the TCS Tiger's Claw, despite [=WC2=] showing the Tiger's Claw was destroyed by stealth fighters prior to the TCS Concordia's construction years later which carried a anti-ship cannon in [=WC2=] derived from a bigger version used by destroyed Kilrathi ship called the Sivar that fought against the Tiger's Claw in [=WC1=]: The Secret Missions 1 expansion (in the video game the Sivar was a "super-dreadnought" never seen before which destroyed the Goddard Colony with the [[{{BFG}} special Gravaton weapon]] and it was the Claw's job to hunt it down before it destroyed more Confederation colonies, while in the movie the Sivar was just a large battleship escorted by two destroyers which ambushed the Claw). The Skipper Missile that cloaks to avoid detection and decloaks periodically to reposition itself towards the ship it's targeting before recloaking wasn't introduced until Wing Commander 3, 3 (Cloaking technology by the Kilrathi wasn't depicted until [=WC2=], and it was initially only shown to be used on fighters and not missiles until [=WC3=]), and at that point in the video game series both the Tiger's Claw and Concordia were both depicted as destroyed.
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As part of the agreement between Creator/ElectronicArts and Chris Roberts, in regards to the departure of the latter from the former, he was given contractual permission to make a movie based on the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' franchise. In 1998, the result was released to the public by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox.
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As part of the agreement between Creator/ElectronicArts and Chris Roberts, in regards to the departure of the latter from the former, he was given contractual permission to make a movie based on the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' franchise. In 1998, 1999, the result was released to the public by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Commander Gerald and several ''Claw'' pilots go with the Marines on a raid [[spoiler:against the Kilrathi Command And Control ship]], even though there's no logical reason (other than to keep the protagonists front and center) for them to join the mission.
** Despite being a civilian, [[spoiler:(though that's actually just a non-official cover for) Naval Intelligence Commodore]] Taggart is given a bomber and ordered by the ''Tiger Claw''[='=]s captain to accompany a strike group to take out the communications ship. [[spoiler:In the original storyline, the ''Tiger's Claw'' captain Sansky was the traitor on board, and presumably ordered Taggart off the ship so a higher ranked officer wouldn't relieve him of command, once Taggart noticed Sansky was making some bad decisions in fighting the Kilrathi.]]
** Despite being a civilian, [[spoiler:(though that's actually just a non-official cover for) Naval Intelligence Commodore]] Taggart is given a bomber and ordered by the ''Tiger Claw''[='=]s captain to accompany a strike group to take out the communications ship. [[spoiler:In the original storyline, the ''Tiger's Claw'' captain Sansky was the traitor on board, and presumably ordered Taggart off the ship so a higher ranked officer wouldn't relieve him of command, once Taggart noticed Sansky was making some bad decisions in fighting the Kilrathi.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: ArtisticLicenseMilitary:
** Commander Gerald and several ''Claw'' pilots go with the Marines on a raid [[spoiler:against the Kilrathi Command And Control ship]], even though there's no logical reason (other than to keep the protagonists front and center) for them to join the mission.
** Despite being a civilian, [[spoiler:(though that's actually just a non-official coverfor) for Naval Intelligence Commodore]] Commodore)]] Taggart is given a bomber and ordered by the ''Tiger Claw''[='=]s captain to accompany a strike group to take out the communications ship. [[spoiler:In the original storyline, the ''Tiger's Claw'' captain Sansky was the traitor on board, and presumably ordered Taggart off the ship so a higher ranked higher-ranked officer wouldn't relieve him of command, once Taggart noticed Sansky was making some bad decisions in fighting the Kilrathi.]]
** Commander Gerald and several ''Claw'' pilots go with the Marines on a raid [[spoiler:against the Kilrathi Command And Control ship]], even though there's no logical reason (other than to keep the protagonists front and center) for them to join the mission.
** Despite being a civilian, [[spoiler:(though that's actually just a non-official cover
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New pilots Christopher Blair (Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr) and his best friend/rival Todd "Maniac" Marshall (Creator/MatthewLillard) are assigned to the TCS ''Tiger'' [''sic''] ''Claw'' as the Kilrathi fleet prepares to mount a massive assault on Sol Sector, using navigational information gained in a raid on a major Terran Confederation naval base. Time is short for Admiral Tolwyn (Creator/DavidWarner) to mount a defense, and the ''Tiger Claw'' is ordered to buy them more time. Whilst integrating with the ''Claw'''s flight wing, led by Jeannette "Angel" Devereaux (Saffron Burrows), Blair finds himself fighting some of the most crucial battles of the war--and trying to keep secret the fact that he's half "Pilgrim," a sub-species of humans subject to FantasticRacism.
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New pilots Christopher Blair (Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr) and his best friend/rival Todd "Maniac" Marshall (Creator/MatthewLillard) are assigned to the TCS ''Tiger'' [''sic''] ''Claw'' as the Kilrathi fleet prepares to mount a massive assault on Sol Sector, using navigational information gained in a raid on a major Terran Confederation naval base. Time is short for Admiral Tolwyn (Creator/DavidWarner) to mount a defense, and the ''Tiger Claw'' is ordered to buy them more time. Whilst integrating with the ''Claw'''s flight wing, led by Jeannette "Angel" Devereaux (Saffron Burrows), (Creator/SaffronBurrows), Blair finds himself fighting some of the most crucial battles of the war--and trying to keep secret the fact that he's half "Pilgrim," a sub-species of humans subject to FantasticRacism.
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* InappropriatelyCloseComrades: Maniac and Rosie are squad-mates rather quick to hop into the sack together, and their rivalry/romance directly leads to Rosie's pointless and preventable death when the two of them decide to disobey a direct order to return to the ''Tiger Claw'' leads to her fighter being damaged and crashing during landing. Maniac falls apart after that. Blair and Angel have a slower-burning romance that's still highly inappropriate given that she's his squad leader and thus direct commander.
