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* [[ChekovsGun Chekhov's Gun]]: [[spoiler: [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Beacon 147 ]]]] in the outer reaches of the Sol System.
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* ShoutOut: Quite a few to TheOdyssey, evidently the Pilgrims who named everything were fans of the Classics.
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** And are, in some cases, pilots.
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** Not to mention several pilots going on the raid as well, despite the fact that, well, pilots typically just don't ''do'' that sort of thing, just like how Marines don't tend to fly fighters. [[hottip:*: Unless you're watching ''SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' anyways.]]
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** Particularly the name of the carrier changing from TCS ''Tiger''''s''' Claw'' to TCS ''Tiger Claw''
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* DeflectorShields: Though they only hold up to so much punishment for the ''Tiger Claw'', given that she isn't designed to get that up close and personal with enemy ships. These sheilds appear impervious to torpedos, and the sheilds must be down for either the ship to launch torpedoes or for enemy torpedos to hit them. Much of the anti-ship tactics in the film revolve around either timing their shots just right, or goading the enemy into lowering their sheilds somehow.
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* DeflectorShields: Though they only hold up to so much punishment for the ''Tiger Claw'', given that she isn't designed to get that up close and personal with enemy ships. These sheilds shields appear impervious to torpedos, and the sheilds shields must be down for either the ship to launch torpedoes or for enemy torpedos to hit them. Much of the anti-ship tactics in the film revolve around either timing their shots just right, or goading the enemy into lowering their sheilds shields somehow.
** And are, in some cases, pilots.
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* HollywoodTactics: Most noticeable in the broadside scene. Why did the Kilrathi cruiser let an enemy ship with such a crippling broadside attack get close enough to bring it to bear. Why didn't the ''Claw'' simply bring the missiles to bear sooner instead of letting the cruiser get so close? Why drop the sheilds if you weren't going to launch the torpedoes immediately? Most importantly: [[FridgeLogic Why does a carrier have a broadside missile battery while a cruiser, dedicated to fighting other capital ships, evidently does not?]]
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* HollywoodTactics: Most noticeable in the broadside scene. Why did the Kilrathi cruiser let an enemy ship with such a crippling broadside attack get close enough to bring it to bear. Why didn't the ''Claw'' simply bring the missiles to bear sooner instead of letting the cruiser get so close? Why drop the sheilds shields if you weren't going to launch the torpedoes immediately? Most importantly: [[FridgeLogic Why does a carrier have a broadside missile battery while a cruiser, dedicated to fighting other capital ships, evidently does not?]]
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* PlanarShockwave: from destroyed Kilrathi capships, and they look pretty freaking awesome. Also from a Skipper missile near the end of the movie, but this time creating a WallBanger when Angel tries to [[OutrunTheFireball Outrun A Fireball]] which is less tall than her ship is.
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* PlanarShockwave: from destroyed Kilrathi capships, and they look pretty freaking awesome. Also from a Skipper missile near the end of the movie, but this time creating a WallBanger when Angel tries to [[OutrunTheFireball Outrun A Fireball]] which is less tall than her ship is.is, instead of, say, [[{{Two-DSpace}} pulling up a few meters]].
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* HollywoodTacticsHollywoodTactics: Most noticeable in the broadside scene. Why did the Kilrathi cruiser let an enemy ship with such a crippling broadside attack get close enough to bring it to bear. Why didn't the ''Claw'' simply bring the missiles to bear sooner instead of letting the cruiser get so close? Why drop the sheilds if you weren't going to launch the torpedoes immediately? Most importantly: [[FridgeLogic Why does a carrier have a broadside missile battery while a cruiser, dedicated to fighting other capital ships, evidently does not?]]
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* YouFailBasicTrainingForever: Commander Gerald goes with the Marines on their raid against [[spoiler: the Kilrathi [[Command And Control ship]], citing his distrust of Blair and Taggart leading the raid. Never mind that he's the commanding officer of the ''Claw'' at this point, and really should not be abandoning his post.
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* YouFailBasicTrainingForever: Commander Gerald goes with the Marines on their raid against [[spoiler: the Kilrathi [[Command Command And Control ship]], citing his distrust of Blair and Taggart leading the raid. Never mind that he's the commanding officer of the ''Claw'' at this point, and really should not be abandoning his post.
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* TimTaylorTechnology: Played to its logical conclusion: Several of Tolywn's ships suffer catastrophic meltdowns from running their engines too hard in the push to get in position to defend Earth. Upon being informed of this, [[RaceAgainstTheClock he orders the ships to raise their engine output again.]]
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* TimTaylorTechnology: Played to its logical conclusion: Several of Tolywn's ships suffer [[ExplosiveOverclocking catastrophic meltdowns meltdowns]] from running their engines too hard in the push to get in position to defend Earth. Upon being informed of this, [[RaceAgainstTheClock he orders the ships to raise their engine output again.]]
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** They even ''refer'' to it as the "[[LampshadeHanging Planar Shockwave]]" in dialog.
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* RuleOfCool: The reason for using ArtificialGravity to make the ''Tiger Claw'' work like an [[SpaceIsAnOcean ocean-bound aircraft carrier.]] Is it the most sensible way to operate an aircraft carrier in space? Goodness know, but it's entertaining to watch.
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* RuleOfCool: The reason for using ArtificialGravity to make the ''Tiger Claw'' work like an [[SpaceIsAnOcean ocean-bound aircraft carrier.]] Is it the most sensible way to operate an aircraft carrier in space? Goodness know, no, but it's entertaining to watch.
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* NomDeGuerre: Maniac, Maverick, Angel, Iceman, Paladin, etc. Most of the characters are fighter pilots after all.
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* FinishHim: ''Give him a broadside, Mr Gerard!''
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* HighlyConspicuousUniform: The Confederation Marines wear red armored suits.
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* TheMole: Cut from the film due to poor test audience response. Instead we just have lots of FantasticRacism and unexplained system failures that lead one to believe that Confed's ships are ''definitely'' built by the lowest bidder.
** Revealed in the {{novelization}} to be [[spoiler: Captain Sansky, working for Admiral Wilson]].
** Revealed in the {{novelization}} to be [[spoiler: Captain Sansky, working for Admiral Wilson]].
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* YouFailBasicTrainingForever: Commander Gerald goes with the Marines on their raid against [[spoiler: the Kilrathi [[Command And Control ship]], citing his distrust of Blair and Taggart leading the raid. Never mind that he's the commanding officer of the ''Claw'' at this point, and really should not be abandoning his post.
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** MeaningfulName: Wait, ''Rosie'' said that?
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** They even ''refer'' to it as the "[[LampshadeHanging Planar Shockwave]]" in dialog.
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* ClassicalMythology: Quite a few references throughout the plot to ''TheOdyssey''
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* RuleOfCool: The reason for using ArtificialGravity to make the ''Tiger Claw'' work like an [[SpaceIsAnOcean ocean-bound aircraft carrier.]] Is it the most sensible way to operate an aircraft carrier in space? Goodness know, but it's entertaining to watch.
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* [[ChekovsGun Chekhov's Gun]]: [[spoiler: [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Beacon 147 ]] in the outer reaches of the Sol System.
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* AsteroidThicket: The Ulysses Corridor
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** If you look closely, you can see [[spoiler: the distinctive chain from Taggart's [[MembershipToken Pilgrim's Cross]] hanging from his neck]] through the entire movie.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Used in reference to a rather dangerous but impressive example of hotdog flying by one of the pilots.
-->'''Rosie''': ''It was better than sex.''
-->'''Angel''': ''Bullshit.''
-->'''Rosie''': ''It was better than sex with myself.''
-->'''Rosie''': ''It was better than sex.''
-->'''Angel''': ''Bullshit.''
-->'''Rosie''': ''It was better than sex with myself.''
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* PoorCommunicationKills: What turns Beacon 147 from a warning to pure High Octane SchmuckBait.
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* ArtificialGravity: Done in such a way that it affected objects even as they left the ship, as long as they were within a few meters of it. Caused [[HateDumb many a cry]] of RuinedForever when a wrecked fighter is pushed off the flight deck, causing it to "fall" off the edge into space. To be fair, the ArtificialGravity is at least consistently shown to affect objects leaving the flight deck that way.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Let me repeat part of the last entry: "Being pushed off the edge of the deck and falling into space". For many viewers, this was the Fail Event Horizon.
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* HateDumb: Lots of people couldn't seem to get past the concept that the ArtificialGravity aboard the ''Tiger Claw'' evidently affected the volume just beyond the end of the ship's flight deck, for whatever reason. At least it was consistently shown to be that way.
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In 1998, the result was released to the public. New pilot Christopher Blair and his best friend/rival Todd "Maniac" Marshall are assigned to the TCS Tiger's Claw[[hottip:*:"Tiger Claw" in the shooting script due to editing miscommunications]], 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.
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In 1998, the result was released to the public. New pilot Christopher Blair and his best friend/rival Todd "Maniac" Marshall are assigned to the TCS Tiger's Claw[[hottip:*:"Tiger ''Tiger Claw''[[hottip:*:"Tiger Claw" in the shooting script was due to editing miscommunications]], 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.
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basic-ish description, Adaptation Decay goes on (and is already on) the YMMV page, and the name thing has nothing to do with Adaptation Dye Job
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As part of the agreement between 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 WingCommander franchise.
In 1998, the result was released to the public. New pilot Christopher Blair and his best friend/rival Todd "Maniac" Marshall are assigned to the TCS Tiger's Claw[[hottip:*:"Tiger Claw" in the shooting script due to editing miscommunications]], 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 the Confederation to mount a defense, and the ''Tiger Claw'' is ordered to buy them more time.
In 1998, the result was released to the public. New pilot Christopher Blair and his best friend/rival Todd "Maniac" Marshall are assigned to the TCS Tiger's Claw[[hottip:*:"Tiger Claw" in the shooting script due to editing miscommunications]], 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 the Confederation to mount a defense, and the ''Tiger Claw'' is ordered to buy them more time.
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* AdaptationDecay: For a variety of reasons, including the introduction of the Pilgrims and the total redesigns of all of the ships from the games.
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** The TCS ''Tiger's Claw'' from the games and books is now the TCS ''Tiger Claw''. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks And the fandom raged]].
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* FinishHim: ''Give him a broadside, Mr Gerard!''
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* LiveActionAdaptation: Based on a series of computer games.
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* TheBattleStar: TCS ''Tiger Claw'' is a carrier that is ''capable'' of fighting enemy capital ships toe to toe, but anything from a cruiser on up is considered long odds. She relies on her fighter wing to keep the fight away from her.
** Admiral Tolwyn's flagship, the TCS ''Concordia'', is indicated to be a straight example of this trope in the {{Novelization}}, described as a Supercruiser.
** Admiral Tolwyn's flagship, the TCS ''Concordia'', is indicated to be a straight example of this trope in the {{Novelization}}, described as a Supercruiser.
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* AdaptationNameChange The TCS ''Tiger's Claw'' from the games and books is now the TCS ''Tiger Claw''. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks And the fandom raged]].
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* AdaptationNameChange The TCS ''Tiger's Claw'' from the games and books is now the TCS ''Tiger Claw''. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks And the fandom raged]].
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* SilentRunningModeSilentRunningMode: Via StealthInSpace. Ships, from small fighters up to entire fleets of capital ships, try to avoid detection by shutting down all non-essential power systems and getting as close as they can to asteroids, debris, or planets (in the case of the aforementioned fleet). Works to varying degrees depending on how close the enemy gets.
** At one point the submarine metaphor is played to the hilt when the ''Tiger Claw'' is hiding in a crater on an asteroid, and the Kilrathi ships are methodically dropping warheads into every crater of the asteroid to try and smoke them out.
** At one point the submarine metaphor is played to the hilt when the ''Tiger Claw'' is hiding in a crater on an asteroid, and the Kilrathi ships are methodically dropping warheads into every crater of the asteroid to try and smoke them out.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Suggested by Rosie, after Maniac introduces himself and Blair to ''Tiger's Claw'' pilots in the rec room.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A ''very'' common complaint amongst the film's {{hatedom}}.
