History VideoGame / JustCause4

** If Rico is in a chopper slaughtering mooks left and right, he'll hum Music/TheRideOfTheValkyries.

* ClashingCousins: Mira and Gabriella Morales are this with Mira as the leader of the Army of Chaos and Gabriella as commander of the Black Hand for this part of the world.

* TheMole: Averted. The black hand does manage to get in the way of every attack on a weather device, but everyone realizes that's because Rico has very unsubtly been going after a shopping list of things necessary to counter a given hazard and a profession outfit like the Black Hand would have just spotted the breadcrumbs.

* RealityEnsues: How does the Black Hand get most of its new recruits? Entirely voluntarily, just be 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 orisoners into joining.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mira's cousin, Cesar, honestly believes the Greys are the ones behind everything in Solis.

* SwissArmyWeapon: Rico's grpple was versatile before, but in addition to a auto-retract function it can now be used to plant booster rockets or air lifters from a distance. Any combination of those functions can be active, each of which can be tweaked with a number of modification settings.
* TheThemeParkVersion: Ruins of the old Solisians have been sanitized over the years to be this to theEspinoza family, an act Javi Huerta hates that he participated in.

* RealityEnsues: How does the Black Hand get most of its new recruits? Entirely voluntarily, just be offering a paid-for higher education and a generous, reliable wage, which are otherwise very hard to come by in Solis.

** At one point on the map, the player can find a [[VideoGame/GettingOverItWithBennettFoddy cauldron and hammer]]. Using these items, the game shifts into a side view, with the player challenged to move Rico over a set of obstacles with the hammer as their only tool. As a further part of this, Bennett Foddy himself provides snarky narration during this challenge.

* WhipItGood: Rico uses his wire as a whip in melee attacks.

* NonActionBigBad: While previous [[BigBad Big Bads]] in the series were TheGeneralissimo types who at least had the machismo to take on Rico man-to-man when he came calling, Espinosa [[poiler:is a corporate suit who quietly sneaks out the back during the final battle and taunts Rico over conference call while leaving his EliteMooks behind to die.]]

* NonActionBigBad: While previous [[BigBad Big Bads]] in the series were TheGeneralissimo types who at least had the machismo to take on Rico man-to-man when he came calling, Espinosa is a corporate suit who quietly sneaks out the back during the final battle and taunts Rico over conference call while leaving his EliteMooks behind to die.

* ShoutOut: At one point on the map, the player can find a [[VideoGame/GettingOverItWithBennettFoddy cauldron and hammer]]. Using these items, the game shifts into a side view, with the player challenged to move Rico over a set of obstacles with the hammer as their only tool. As a further part of this, Bennett Foddy himself provides snarky narration during this challenge.

* IneffectualLoner: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Rico tries to pull his usual lone loose cannon act at first, but quickly swallows his pride when he discovers he is thoroughly in over his head this time.

In this game, Rico Rodriguez is now in the 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/JustCause San Esperito]], and recently in [[VideoGame/JustCause3 Medici]].

* BagOfSpilling: Averted, Rico starts will all the relevant Gear Mods from the previous game (such as re-reeling, wingsuit airbrake, and slingshot boost) fully functional. Parodied when he seems to lose them after TheTeaser but gets them back almost immediately.

* EasilyForgiven: Averted. Rico is not happy to see [[spoiler: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 to forced to work together by a third party.

In this game, Rico Rodriguez is now in the fictional South American country of Solis taking down not just another dictator, but his main focus is against [[PrivateMilitaryContractors the Black Hand]] who've been regular enemies of his since his time in [[VideoGame/JustCause San Esperito]], and recently in [[VideoGame/JustCause3 Medici]].

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: As is tradition, military chaos objects are bright red and shiny silver, and Black Hand military hardware is, well, black. The Army of Chaos marks its holdsing with bright pink, yellow, blue and green graffiti.

* ShoutOut: One point on the map, the player can find a [[VideoGame/GettingOverItWithBennettFoddy cauldron and hammer]]. Using these items, the game shifts into a side view, with the player challenged to move Rico over a set of obstacles with the hammer as their only tool. As a further part of this, Bennett Foddy himself provides snarky narration during this challenge.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Gabriella Reyes, Espinosa's [[TheDragon dragon]] has this look going for her.

In this game, Rico Rodriguez is now in the fictional South American country of Solis taking down not just another dictator, but his main focus is against [[PrivateMilitaryContractors the Black Hand]] who've been regular enemies of his since his time in [[VideoGame/JustCause San Esperito]] and recently in [[VideoGame/JustCause3 Medici]].

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: As is tradition, military chaos objects are bright red and shiny silver, and Black Hand military hardware is, well, black. The Army of Chaos marks its holdsing with bright pink, yellow, blue and bgreen graffiti.

* IneffectualLoner: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Rico tries to pull his usual lone loose cannon act at first but quickly swallows his pride when he discovers he is thoroughly in over his head this time.

* MookHorrorShow: Despite getting [[TheWorfEffect worfed]] but Project Illapa, Rico immediately shows that nothing less will stop him but advancing on an entire unit of Black Hand mercenaries and gunning him down. The mere sight of him armed and angry is enough to make TheDragon immediately call a retreat - ''before'' he even has an Army of Chaos backing him up.

* AncientAdvancedHumans: Javi Huerta believes the ancient Solisians were much more advanced than was known.

* WeirdWeather: One of the game mechanics involves surviving, and weaponizing, this against the Black Hand.