History VideoGame / Homefront

* BulletDancing: Two {{Crazy Survivalist}}s pull this on [[KickTheSonOfABitch a captive North Korean soldier]] until one of them guns him down. This prompt the other survivalist to reprimand him for ruining their "fun."

* KickTheSonOfABitch: If you ''really'' hate the GKR, the survivalists would love to put a smile on your face. Which is probably why they wrote the survivalists also doing equally bad things to Asian-Americans and trying to do the same to your ActionGirl sidekick plus...well... ''you.''

* RunForTheBorder: Ben encounters an American family who are fleeing to Mexico. He later regrets on not accepting their offer to join them when he struggles to cross the Mojave Desert. The irony of Americans of fleeing to Mexico is not lost on everyone.

* ArchNemesis: Ben Walker is the arch-nemesis of Salmusa, although Walker does not know him.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ben Walker indirectly causes some of the deaths of people due to his broadcasts insulting the GKR.

** Near the start, the driver of the prisoner bus says that he is taking the prisoners to facility [[StarWars 1138]].

** The game also features the quote: "Hail to the king, baby." and several other {{Shout Out}}s later in the game.

* TheChick: Rianna. She may be able to kick ass like everyone else but she has her heart on her sleeve more than the others.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Although in the game it was developed and built by the KPA, the Goliath is based on an American unmanned combat ground vehicle called the [[http://www.rec.ri.cmu.edu/projects/crusher/Crusher_Brochure.pdf Crusher]]. It was built back in 2006 for DARPA, and like the Goliath, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusher_(robot) can be remote-controlled]].

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Connor after seeing the mass graves, [[MoralEventHorizon which isn't surprising]].

* UnstoppableRage; [[spoiler: After Connor catches the sight of the mass graves, he just goes insane with rage and carves a path through the camp.]]

* TheUnfought: Kim Jong-un

* ShortLivedAerialEscape: Played straight UpToEleven. '''''every last''''' helicopter you see, allied or not, '''will''' be blown out of the sky, with the sole exception of the [[spoiler: player-controlled heli in the EscortMission level]].

* AntiHero: Conner is this in spades.

** The lies of communism in general and the N. Korean claims to be "liberating" and "re-educating" the US. The commie officer who kicks down your door even has the nerve to claim they were trying to get you to "answer your nation's call", help the "American cause", and "teach you how to share your natural resources." Translation: "we're invading your homes, brain-washing everyone, recruiting collaborators to betray America, and we want to steal all your stuff for our own use."

* AnachronismStew: Some of the ProductPlacement in the game doesn't fit with the setting.
** Randy's Donuts, an iconic UsefulNotes/LosAngeles store, is placed in a level clearly not based on L.A.
** White Castle appears in the opening cutscene, when there isn't even a White Castle ''in the entire state of Colorado''. Maybe both Randy's and White Castle become franchise operations by 2025.

** Partially averted. Your fellow members of LaResistance can easily take on small to medium pockets of enemies by themselves (helps that there are at least 2 of them with you always) and are invincible (in normal gameplay).

Homefront is a 2011 game set in an occupied USA in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2027]]. The entire free-market world has more-or-less gone to hell. The USA and China have collapsed in on themselves [[Creator/EddieIzzard like disused flans in cupboards]] in the years after 2012. In the USA, the economic collapse served to promote great social unrest verging on but never quite spilling over into civil war[[note]] think the TheGreatDepression times a hundred[[/note]]. A rejuvenated Democratic People's Republic of Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong-un (son of Kim Jong-Il) quickly seized the day. Within the space of two decades of annexation and gunboat diplomacy, all of Asia except subcontinental India and China answers to the Government of the Greater Korean Republic.[[note]]Though UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion seems to be doing fine.[[/note]]

After the game came out, Kaos Studios released several DLC packs, before being shut down by THQ. Crytek, responsible for the ''Crysis'' series of games, picked the rights up. For the longest time, it seemed like the franchise was dead (Not helping was the general reception- while the game was praised for trying to do something different with the story and the multiplayer was well received, the gameplay was criticised for being similar to ''Modern Warfare'', the campaign was pitifully short, and some players criticised the execution of the plot), before Crytek announced a sequel, with a gameplay premiere set for E3 2014. In ''VideoGame/{{Homefront The Revolution}}'', you play as a counter-totalitarianist, using Guerrilla tactics to fight back the invading Korean Republic in the heart of where the USA began - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The KPA's method to raise an army and invade hints they used forced labor camps and turned the occupied countries into massive slaughtering grounds.

* BulletDancing: Two [[CrazySurvivalist CrazyS urvivalists]] pull this on [[KickTheSonOfABitch a captive North Korean soldier]] until one of them guns him down. This prompt the other survivalist to reprimand him for ruining their "fun."

* NotWhatISignedOnFor: Though she does it anyway, Rianna isn't too fond of killing fellow Americans, even the {{CrazySurvivalist}}s who earlier wanted to rape her and lynch Hopper.

* ForWantOfANail: The idea of North Korea invading the United States is considered highly unrealistic by many people, considering that the North Korean army, industry, and economy are in poverty, with Kim Jong blackmailing for food, and being nowhere near as competent as the in-game persona. However, a country or a regime thought to be harmless or pathetic in the ''present'' can become a threat in the near ''future'', if they take the right steps (and if unfortunate events weaken the major powers). This is why the game is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture--and, [[http://www.gamereactor.eu/articles/3995/Interview:+Kaos+Studios%27+Tae+Kim+on+Homefront/ as mentioned by the Korean-American former CIA field agent]]:

* BulletDancing: Two CrazySurvivalists pull this on [[KickTheSonOfABitch a captive North Korean soldier]] until one of them guns him down. This prompt the other survivalist to complain for ruining their "fun."