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* CutsceneBoss: It seems that Avalanche didn't even consider [[spoiler:Oscar Espinosa]] worthy of a boss fight. [[spoiler:After you mow down his guards, Rico launches the Storm Core he left behind into Espinosa's jet, taking him out.]]
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*** "[[Film/TexasChainsawMassacre Solino Chainsaw Massacre]]."
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*** "[[Film/TexasChainsawMassacre "[[Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Solino Chainsaw Massacre]]."
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*ADayInTheLimelight: The Los Demonios DLC is this for Javi, who is otherwise uninvolved with the main story outside his questline.
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**[[spoiler:Trains with artillery will spawn on the tracks in the desert and near Illapa, even if the player has not started Operation Sandstinger's questline.]]
**[[spoiler: Despite the DLC's content dealing with the fallout of the main campaign, the Danger Rising DLC can be started after meeting Sheldon near the start of the game.]]
**[[spoiler:Trains with artillery will spawn on the tracks in the desert and near Illapa, even if the player has not started Operation Sandstinger's questline.]]
**[[spoiler: Despite the DLC's content dealing with the fallout of the main campaign, the Danger Rising DLC can be started after meeting Sheldon near the start of the game.]]
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*DidntThinkThisThrough: During Desierto Launch, Rico has some questions about the signal used to tell the hacker to run to the car.
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'''Hacker:'''What do you mean? \\
'''Rico:'''Well it's just somebody honking their horn, right? \\
'''Hacker:'''Si. \\
'''Rico:'''No special pattern or anything? \\
'''Hacker:'''No. \\
'''Rico:'''So if a Black Hand had just honked their horn for any reason outside that garage, you would've just come running out? \\
'''Hacker:'''Hm. Live and learn I guess.
-->'''Rico:'''By the way, you should think about a new signal. \\
'''Hacker:'''What do you mean? \\
'''Rico:'''Well it's just somebody honking their horn, right? \\
'''Hacker:'''Si. \\
'''Rico:'''No special pattern or anything? \\
'''Hacker:'''No. \\
'''Rico:'''So if a Black Hand had just honked their horn for any reason outside that garage, you would've just come running out? \\
'''Hacker:'''Hm. Live and learn I guess.
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* WhipItGood: Rico uses his wire as a whip in melee attacks.
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* BrutalBonusLevel: The so called ''Solís Pro Tour'' and ''Aerial Acrobatics'' challenges are this to regular vehicle and wingsuit stunts[[note]]Remember trying to 5-gear wingsuit courses and that speedboat puzzle in the last game? It's pretty much that[[/note]]. They are marked in purple on the map, are (fortunately) not required for HundredPercentCompletion and completing them neat's you some [[CosmeticAward unique skins]].
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* ContinueYourMissionDammit: Spend more than ~10 minutes on side stuff and your current MissionControl will call Rico and remind him what he is actually supposed to be doing.
* CuttingTheKnot: Speed stunts are always set up to be completed with a specific type of vehicle. But as the game in reality doesn't actually care what vehicle you use to complete it there is nothing stopping you from blazing through car/boat based ones with a helicopter.
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* GuideDangIt: The major shtick of Javi's sidequests is that they're completely unmarked. A couple of tombs can be found by examining the map closely, but most of them you'll just have to stumble onto blindly, and you aren't even told the lesser collectables ''exist'' until you find and solve one of them.
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** The major shtick of Javi's sidequests is that they're completely unmarked. A couple of tombs can be found by examining the map closely, but most of them you'll just have to stumble onto blindly, and you aren't even told the lesser collectables ''exist'' until you find and solve one ofthem.them.
** As a rule of thumb, vehicle specific stunt challenges will have said vehicle parked nearby but there are exceptions such as the Academia Wanay Ritmo Rickshaw stunt. Potentially making you spend hours looking for the darn thing when it isn't there in the first place.
** The major shtick of Javi's sidequests is that they're completely unmarked. A couple of tombs can be found by examining the map closely, but most of them you'll just have to stumble onto blindly, and you aren't even told the lesser collectables ''exist'' until you find and solve one of
** As a rule of thumb, vehicle specific stunt challenges will have said vehicle parked nearby but there are exceptions such as the Academia Wanay Ritmo Rickshaw stunt. Potentially making you spend hours looking for the darn thing when it isn't there in the first place.
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* ThePampas: Almost the entire lower third of the map is occupied by a grassland landscape of a somewhat similar kind.
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* PrisonLevel: In order to complete the Sandstinger branch of missions, Rico must first spring Lanza Morales from La Mazmorra, an enormous prison complex beneath the desert.
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* IndyPloy: Invoked. In Rico's words:
--> A plan is just a list of things that can go wrong.
--> A plan is just a list of things that can go wrong.
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* CutLexLuthorACheck: Project Illapa may be impressive as a weapon system, but if Espinosa had simply used the tech for its intended purpose, i.e preventing natural disasters and ending droughts, he would have been hailed as a hero. If he had also managed to convince Miguel Rodriguez and Lanza Morales to charge reasonable sums of money for the service instead of just [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killing them off]], he would have made billions without all the pesky Geneva Convention violations to deal with.
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* CutLexLuthorACheck: Project Illapa may be impressive as a weapon system, but if Espinosa had simply used the tech for its intended purpose, i.e preventing natural disasters and ending droughts, he would have been hailed as a hero. If he had also managed to convince Miguel Rodriguez and Lanza Morales to charge small but reasonable sums of money for the service (their original intend was to offer it as humanitarian aid) instead of just [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killing them off]], he would have made billions without all the pesky Geneva Convention violations to deal with.
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* CutLexLuthorACheck: Project Illapa may be impressive as a weapon system, but if Espinosa had simply used the tech for its intended purpose, i.e preventing natural disasters and ending droughts, he would have been hailed as a hero. If he had also managed to convince Miguel Rodriguez and Lanza Morales to charge reasonable sums of money for the service instead of just [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killing them off]], he would have made billions without all the pesky Geneva Convention violations to deal with.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Mira's cousin, Cesar, honestly believes the Greys are the ones behind everything in Solis and that the Espinosa family are all reptilians. At the end of Operation Windwalker, he's utterly disappointed that the tornado device is man-made when he sees there's a USB slot in it. For that, he gets the honor of blowing up his section of Project Illapa on Mira's laptop.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Mira's cousin, Cesar, honestly believes the Greys are the ones behind everything in Solis and that the Espinosa family are all reptilians. At the end of Operation Windwalker, he's utterly disappointed that the tornado device is man-made when he sees there's a USB slot in it. For that, Rico does cheer him up a bit by pointing out that he might not have found proof of the conspiracy he was looking for, but he blew another one wide open, namely, that Oscar Espinosa was developing and testing weather control weapons in violation of the Geneva Convention. He also gets the honor of blowing up his section of Project Illapa on with Mira's laptop.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Rico is far more serious and jaded and the plot includes the late father of Rico into the history of the making of Espinosa's DoomsdayDevice, with the reaction everyone would expect, and almost none of the villainous Black Hand is played for laughs.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Sargento sometimes asks Rico to kill Black Hand informants without using weapons, by hijacking a car, picking them up while pretending to be a Black Hand chauffeur and crashing the car.
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* RealityEnsues: How does the Black Hand get most of its new recruits? Entirely voluntarily, just by offering a paid-for higher education and a generous, reliable wage, which are otherwise very hard to come by in Solis. Of course there are also... reeducation centers that brainwash prisoners into joining.
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** Helped by this is the fact that said dragon has at least second hand experience regarding Rico's exploits, can identify him on sight, and knows in advance that full elite squads tend to end up corpses by his hand when he's ''not'' angry or armed.
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* EasilyForgiven: Averted. Rico is [[spoiler:not happy to see Sheldon, doesn't give two hoots that he's been sidelined by the Agency, and doesn't trust him for a minute.]] The two have to be convinced/forced to work together by [[spoiler:Mira Morales.]]
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* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:The Agency]] evolves into one during the course of the game. As the story progresses, it turns out that [[spoiler: they decieved Rico's father to create WeatherControlMachine weapons, paid the Black Hand [[VideoGame/JustCause3 to kill Rico's parents in Medici]] when Rico's father discovered the truth and walked away from the project, and have been quietly collaborating with [[BigBad Oscar Espinosa]] to acquire those weather weapons from him, eventually showing up in force to grab what remains after Espinosa is defeated by the Army of Chaos.]]
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Subverted. [[spoiler: Even though Rico destroys the Project Illapa weather weapons during the main story, The Agency still manages to get its hands on enough data and blueprints from the Project to consider the operation a partial success - [[SequelHook setting up the possible sequel]].]]
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* ClashingCousins: Mira and Gabriella Morales are this, with Mira as the leader of the Army of Chaos and Gabriella as commander of the local Black Hand division.
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* ClashingCousins: Mira and Gabriella Gabriela Morales are this, with Mira as the leader of the Army of Chaos and Gabriella Gabriela as commander of the local Black Hand division.
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* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Gabriella Morales, Espinosa's [[TheDragon dragon]], has this look going for her.
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* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Gabriella Gabriela Morales, Espinosa's [[TheDragon dragon]], has this look going for her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Gabriela is loyal to Espinosa to the point of disappearing her own father, [[spoiler:but when he decides to use the Storm Core to kill everyone on the mountain she takes down the base's firewall and lets Mira into the security systems.]]
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Sargento's given name is Luis Ruiz. After the tutorial Rico names him 'Sargento', presumably to represent his rank in their new rebellion, and that effectively becomes his name.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Sargento's given name is Luis Ruiz. After the tutorial Rico names him 'Sargento', presumably to represent his rank in their new rebellion, and that effectively becomes his name.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Or in Gabriella's case, mother to her men. She won't sacrifice her men for Espinosa's pride.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Or in Gabriella's Gabriela's case, mother to her men. She [[spoiler:She won't sacrifice her men for Espinosa's pride.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Oscar Espinosa activates the Storm Core as he flies off to make an arms deal with the Agency. Rico surfs the Storm Core directly into his plane.]]
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* NonActionGuy: Sarjento. He initially wants to be out in the field, but Rico quickly convinces him he can do so much more by keeping the Army of Chaos organized.
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* SamusIsAGirl: The end of Javier's quest chain reveals that [[spoiler:Otoronogo was really a woman.]]
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* SamusIsAGirl: The end of Javier's quest chain reveals that [[spoiler:Otoronogo [[spoiler:Otorongo was really a woman.]]
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Even if they come off as FacelessMooks, there are female soldiers in the Black Hand ranks.
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** In the Danger Rising DLC, [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction The Agency]] turns out to be an even more straightforward example. Rico fights both male and female Agents, distinguished by names from different cultures and different skin colors, who are unified first of all by their willingness [[GovernmentConspiracy to fight for shady government causes]].
** Even if they come off as FacelessMooks, there are female soldiers in the Black Hand
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* BorderPatrol: Similarly to [[VideoGame/JustCause3 Just Cause 3]], the game stops you from venturing too far away from the game area by abruptly blowing up your vehicle and killing you. However, you don't get any warnings this time.
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In this game, Rico Rodriguez is now in the [[FictionalCountry fictional South American country]] of Solis taking down yet another dictator, but his main focus is against [[PrivateMilitaryContractors the Black Hand]], who've been regular enemies of his since his time in [[VideoGame/JustCause1 San Esperito]], and more recently in [[VideoGame/JustCause3 Medici]].
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In this game, Rico Rodriguez is now in the [[FictionalCountry fictional fictional]] [[BananaRepublic South American country]] of Solis taking down yet another dictator, but his main focus is against [[PrivateMilitaryContractors the Black Hand]], who've been regular enemies of his since his time in [[VideoGame/JustCause1 San Esperito]], and more recently in [[VideoGame/JustCause3 Medici]].
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** The achievement/trophy for recruiting every chopper pilot is [[Film/StarshipTroopers Rico's Roughnecks]].
