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* ContestedSequel: Dual Strike completely changed the setting and tone of the previous games, as well as how the CO powers work, causing quite a division. Many people [[{{Sequelphobic}} declared that it would be garbage, despite not knowing anything else about it]].
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* ContestedSequel: Dual Strike Days of Ruin completely changed the setting and tone of the previous games, as well as how the CO powers work, causing quite a division. Many people [[{{Sequelphobic}} declared that it would be garbage, despite not knowing anything else about it]].
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* TastesLikeDiabetes: Isabella's theme in ''Days of Ruin'', [[SoundtrackDissonance despite the]] DarkerAndEdgier setting. That doesn't mean the song isn't good. As it's a song from Advance Wars, it pretty much has to be [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome really good]]. [[GushingAboutShowsYouLike I'll stop there]].
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* TastesLikeDiabetes: Isabella's theme in ''Days of Ruin'', [[SoundtrackDissonance despite the]] DarkerAndEdgier setting. That doesn't mean the song isn't good. As it's a song from Advance Wars, it pretty much has to be [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome really good]]. [[GushingAboutShowsYouLike I'll stop there]].
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* ContestedSequel: Dual Strike. Some thought it was okay, Strike completely changed the setting and others thought it was the worst tone of the entire series. For some, it affected them so bad that when Days of Ruin was announced, previous games, as well as how the CO powers work, causing quite a division. Many people [[{{Sequelphobic}} they immediately declared that it would be garbage, despite not knowing anything else about it]].
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Viruses cannot make plants grow under people's skin.
** Not viruses, but the Creeper seems to be heavily based on the real world Cordyceps fungus, which, at least in the ant version of the fungus, causes the ants to go insane and then die, the fruiting body bursting out of their corpses.
* AwesomeMusic: Has its own page [[AwesomeMusic/{{NintendoWars}} here.]]
** Not viruses, but the Creeper seems to be heavily based on the real world Cordyceps fungus, which, at least in the ant version of the fungus, causes the ants to go insane and then die, the fruiting body bursting out of their corpses.
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* YouFailBiologyForever: Viruses cannot make plants grow under people's skin.
** Not viruses, but the Creeper seems to be heavily based on the real world Cordyceps fungus, which, at least in the ant version of the fungus, causes the ants to go insane and then die, the fruiting body bursting out of their corpses.
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** Not viruses, but the Creeper seems to be heavily based on the real world Cordyceps fungus, which, at least in the ant version of the fungus, causes the ants to go insane and then die, the fruiting body bursting out of their corpses.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Has its own page [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CrowningMusic/NintendoWars here.]]
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Has its own page [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CrowningMusic/NintendoWars php/AwesomeMusic/NintendoWars here.]]
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** Sensei is called broken old man, for a good reason.
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** Kanbei and Grit are often cited as being game breakers from their [=AW2=] incarnations onwards.
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** Kanbei and Grit are often cited as being game breakers from their [=AW2=] incarnations onwards. Although, Grit has been considered lower after DS games.
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** And Greyfield. Especially when he [[spoiler: executes an opposing general, who surrenders to spare his troops' lives, in cold blood and orders his troops to continue the attack! And when Brenner releases said captured troops (which are all marked for execution), Greyfield sics his men on him, then drops a superweapon provided by the aforementioned Caulder on him, despite knowing full well that ''his own men'' would be caught in the blast!]]
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** And Greyfield. Especially when he [[spoiler: executes an opposing general, who surrenders to spare his troops' lives, in cold blood and orders his troops to continue the attack! And when Brenner releases said captured troops (which are all marked for execution), Greyfield sics his men on him, then drops a superweapon provided by the aforementioned Caulder on him, despite knowing full well that ''his own men'' would be caught in the blast!]]blast!]] You will jump for joy when [[spoiler:Lin nonchalantly [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Just Shoots Him]] after your final go-around with the deranged maniac.]]
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*** Waylon Flies Again from "Days of Ruin" has caused some players to give up the game entirely.
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* ThatOneLevel: Days of Ruin's Chapter 20 has caused some players to give up the game entirely.
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** In a classic example of YourMileageMayVary, Sea Fortress and Sinking Feeling from ''Black Hole Rising''. Players fall neatly into two camps: those who think Sea Fortress is a ScrappyLevel and Sinking Feeling a BreatherLevel, and those who think the opposite (okay, a handful people find both easy or both hard, but they're statistical flukes). Given Sea Fortress is a highly tactical mission with limited resources and an emphasis on unit placement and management, while Sinking Feeling is a highly strategic mission with a time limit and a very freeform (thus hard to {{Walkthrough}}) general strategy, it's easy to see where this comes from.
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** In a classic example of YourMileageMayVary, Sea Fortress and Sinking Feeling from ''Black Hole Rising''. Players fall neatly into two camps: those who think Sea Fortress is a ScrappyLevel and Sinking Feeling a BreatherLevel, and those who think the opposite (okay, a handful people find both easy or both hard, but they're statistical flukes). Rising''. Given Sea Fortress is a highly tactical mission with limited resources and an emphasis on unit placement and management, while Sinking Feeling is a highly strategic mission with a time limit and a very freeform (thus hard to {{Walkthrough}}) general strategy, it's easy to see where this comes from.
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* DemonicSpiders (Anti-Tanks in ''Days of Ruin'', Pillboxes in the first ''Battalion Wars'', Fighters and Strato Destroyers in the ''Battalion Wars 2'').
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* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Eagle and Hawke.
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** Knowing the [[CompleteMonster guy]] who created it, the answer is most likely yes.
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* DesignatedVillain: not in the games, per-se, but on fansites. The user Master Knight DH is emotional to be fair, but it's clear he doesn't do things out of unwarranted malice and has even tried to help, even if he would be more negative than most people probably including himself likes. However, he is nevertheless mocked to alarming degrees. [[http://awbw.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Forbs&curid=2062&diff=4503&oldid=4498 This]] is one blatant example of how 2 wrongs somehow make a right.
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** On AWBW's Wikia, only "useful" help is allowed. God forbid there could possibly be creative ideas to explore. Oh no, they'll get deleted on sight on a thinly-veiled excuse of "not needed" to ''mock a user who tries to be genuinely helpful''.
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<— look through this. Most of the edits from yesterday are malicious abuse of a user who was genuinely trying to be helpful. Also, look at the Glossary\'s history. Said user did most of the work there. And see what\'s added right below Stop Having Fun Guys, tell me that garbage is cool.
<— look through this. Most of the edits from yesterday are malicious abuse of a user who was genuinely trying to be helpful. Also, look at the Glossary\'s history. Said user did most of the work there. And see what\'s added right below Stop Having Fun Guys, tell me that garbage is cool.Added DiffLines:
* DesignatedVillain: not in the games, per-se, but on fansites. The user Master Knight DH is emotional to be fair, but it's clear he doesn't do things out of unwarranted malice and has even tried to help, even if he would be more negative than most people probably including himself likes. However, he is nevertheless mocked to alarming degrees. [[http://awbw.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Forbs&curid=2062&diff=4503&oldid=4498 This]] is one blatant example of how 2 wrongs somehow make a right.
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** On AWBW's Wikia, only "useful" help is allowed. God forbid there could possibly be creative ideas to explore. Oh no, they'll get deleted on sight on a thinly-veiled excuse of "not needed" to ''mock a user who tries to be genuinely helpful''.
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Why do we need these? They\'re just taking potshots at people. Especially \"Moral Event Horizon?\" Seriously?
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* DesignatedVillain: not in the games, per-se, but on fansites. The user Master Knight DH is emotional to be fair, but it's clear he doesn't do things out of unwarranted malice and has even tried to help, even if he would be more negative than most people probably including himself likes. However, he is nevertheless mocked to alarming degrees. [[http://awbw.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Forbs&curid=2062&diff=4503&oldid=4498 This]] is one blatant example of how 2 wrongs somehow make a right.
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* MoralEventHorizon: a case on AWBW. Deleting the "Net Attack" page (Net Attack being a concept to help users be able to use [[DifficultButAwesome head calculations]] better by figuring viable unit KOs) on the local Wikia just to mock a non-malicious user. Why? "Not needed."
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* DesignatedVillain: not in the games, per-se, but on fansites. The user Master Knight DH is mainly emotional if anything, but it's clear he doesn't do things out of malice and has even tried to help, even if he would be more negative than most people probably including himself likes. However, he is nevertheless mocked to alarming degrees. [[http://awbw.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Forbs&curid=2062&diff=4503&oldid=4498 This]] is one blatant example of how 2 wrongs somehow make a right.
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* DesignatedVillain: not in the games, per-se, but on fansites. The user Master Knight DH is mainly emotional if anything, to be fair, but it's clear he doesn't do things out of unwarranted malice and has even tried to help, even if he would be more negative than most people probably including himself likes. However, he is nevertheless mocked to alarming degrees. [[http://awbw.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Forbs&curid=2062&diff=4503&oldid=4498 This]] is one blatant example of how 2 wrongs somehow make a right.
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** And Greyfield. Especially when he [[spoiler: executes an opposing general, who surrenders to spare his troops lives, in cold blood and orders his troops to continue the attack! And when Brenner releases said captured troops (which are all marked for execution), Greyfield sicks his men on him then drops a superweapon provided by the aforementioned Caulder on him despite knowing full well that ''his own men'' would be caught in the blast!]]
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** And Greyfield. Especially when he [[spoiler: executes an opposing general, who surrenders to spare his troops troops' lives, in cold blood and orders his troops to continue the attack! And when Brenner releases said captured troops (which are all marked for execution), Greyfield sicks sics his men on him him, then drops a superweapon provided by the aforementioned Caulder on him him, despite knowing full well that ''his own men'' would be caught in the blast!]]
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** PurposefullyOverpowered: The two boss [=COs=] Sturm and Caluder. Nell and Hachi probably count, too.
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** PurposefullyOverpowered: The two boss [=COs=] Sturm and Caluder.Caluder (Von Bolt tries to be this, but isn't quite strong enough). Nell and Hachi probably count, too.
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* GoddamnedBats (The 'Mech Rush' tactic from ''Advance Wars'' is based on this trope. In particular, Sensei's CO Powers - spawning Infantry or Mechs on every city he owns - can quickly drive opponents insane)
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* GoddamnedBats (The 'Mech Rush' tactic from ''Advance Wars'' is based on this trope. In particular, Sensei's CO Powers - spawning Infantry or Mechs on every city he owns - can quickly drive opponents insane)insane.)
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel [[spoiler:The Creeper]] in Days of Ruin. Lin, being how she is, makes it worse by theorizing whether [[spoiler: the infected feel the roots moving just beneath their skin.]]
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel [[spoiler:The Creeper]] in Days of Ruin. Lin, being how she is, makes it worse by theorizing whether [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the infected feel the roots moving just beneath their skin.]]
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-->'''Javier:''' "Charge into the toothy maw. For now it is time for a glorious hindspanking".hindspanking!".
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*** Greyfield Strikes from "Days of Ruin" can be very frustrating, depending on which units get sabotaged. Having landers and gunboats unusable in the first few turns will make the mission much harder and longer than it actually is.
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* ThatOneLevel: Days of Ruin's Chapter 20 has caused some players to give up the game entirely.
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** A Hero's Farewell in ''Days of Ruin''. Forsythe starts with a strong army and navy as well as a financial edge, and your [=HQs=] are at opposite ends of the map. Also, whatever extra bases you can get are in very hard-to-use positions, especially the airport, which is very far removed from Forsythe's forces. It is a ''nightmare'' to try and rout him, let alone capture his HQ.
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** A Hero's Farewell in ''Days of Ruin''. Forsythe starts with a strong army and navy as well as a financial edge, and your [=HQs=] are at opposite ends of the map. Also, whatever extra bases you can get are in very hard-to-use positions, especially the airport, which is very far removed from Forsythe's forces. It is a ''nightmare'' to try and rout him, let alone capture his HQ.
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Where\'s the relationship?
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* ToyShip: Colin/Lash.
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* ScrappyMechanic: "Auto CO" in Dual Strike.
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* ScrappyMechanic: "Auto CO" in Dual Strike.
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* AntiClimaxBoss (Borderline -- whereas his predecessor Sturm was horribly overpowered, Von Bolt from ''Advance Wars: Dual Strike'' is ''barely'' above average at best and up against a roster full of new overpowered [=COs=]. Not to mention that the maps you battle him on are rather... pathetic, to the point where the last mission should have been called ''Mean To The End'' instead. Intelligent Systems learned from this and made doubly sure Caulder/Stolos from ''Days of Ruin'' didn't fall into the same pit trap.)
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* GannonBanned: Here's a tip for being taken seriously in the Advance Wars communities: ''never'', '''''ever''''' suggest a sniper unit. Something about such a thing being impossible to balance right or something.
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* {{Woolseyism}} (Most of the [=CO=] names in the English localizations.)
** Particularly ''Days of Ruin/Dark Conflict'': Nearly every name (and themes), many missions, several units (sometimes contradicting the same unit name in earlier games) and the entirety of the script differ due to an independent European localization. The European version is closer to the original Japanese, for the better or worse.
** Particularly ''Days of Ruin/Dark Conflict'': Nearly every name (and themes), many missions, several units (sometimes contradicting the same unit name in earlier games) and the entirety of the script differ due to an independent European localization. The European version is closer to the original Japanese, for the better or worse.
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* ScrappyMechanic: "Auto CO" in Dual Strike.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome (The "Super CO Power" music from ''Black Hole Rising,'' and the Tag Power music from ''Dual Strike'' rocked even ''harder.'')
** ''Days of Ruin'' also bring us awesome songs, to name a few of the most awesome of the bunch: "Flight of the Coward", Waylon's theme; "Mr. Bear", Penny's theme, and the absolute kickass CO power themes, "Power Up" and "Stormy Times". Funny how the CO power got degraded, but the song got upgraded, huh?
*** Don't forget "Proud Soldier" for Gage, which has killer bagpipes.
** Sensei's theme in Advance Wars 2 - a hilarious trumpet/harpsicord ensemble.
*** CrowningMusicOfFunny?
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrEjcM3nluE Grimm's theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjaBVnuRi3U Koal's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7saB4fW5Pc Andy's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPyFspBIFKg Jake's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHkWH3rScPI Hachi's Theme]]
** ''Days of Ruin'' also bring us awesome songs, to name a few of the most awesome of the bunch: "Flight of the Coward", Waylon's theme; "Mr. Bear", Penny's theme, and the absolute kickass CO power themes, "Power Up" and "Stormy Times". Funny how the CO power got degraded, but the song got upgraded, huh?
*** Don't forget "Proud Soldier" for Gage, which has killer bagpipes.
** Sensei's theme in Advance Wars 2 - a hilarious trumpet/harpsicord ensemble.
*** CrowningMusicOfFunny?
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrEjcM3nluE Grimm's theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjaBVnuRi3U Koal's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7saB4fW5Pc Andy's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPyFspBIFKg Jake's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHkWH3rScPI Hachi's Theme]]
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome (The "Super CO Power" music from ''Black Hole Rising,'' and the Tag Power music from ''Dual Strike'' rocked even ''harder.'')
** ''Days of Ruin'' also bring us awesome songs, to name a few of the most awesome of the bunch: "Flight of the Coward", Waylon's theme; "Mr. Bear", Penny's theme, and the absolute kickass CO power themes, "Power Up" and "Stormy Times". Funny how the CO power got degraded, but the song got upgraded, huh?
*** Don't forget "Proud Soldier" for Gage, which has killer bagpipes.
** Sensei's theme in Advance Wars 2 - a hilarious trumpet/harpsicord ensemble.
*** CrowningMusicOfFunny?
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrEjcM3nluE Grimm's theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjaBVnuRi3U Koal's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7saB4fW5Pc Andy's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPyFspBIFKg Jake's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHkWH3rScPI Hachi's Theme]]CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Has its own page [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CrowningMusic/NintendoWars here.]]
** ''Days of Ruin'' also bring us awesome songs, to name a few of the most awesome of the bunch: "Flight of the Coward", Waylon's theme; "Mr. Bear", Penny's theme, and the absolute kickass CO power themes, "Power Up" and "Stormy Times". Funny how the CO power got degraded, but the song got upgraded, huh?
*** Don't forget "Proud Soldier" for Gage, which has killer bagpipes.
** Sensei's theme in Advance Wars 2 - a hilarious trumpet/harpsicord ensemble.
*** CrowningMusicOfFunny?
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrEjcM3nluE Grimm's theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjaBVnuRi3U Koal's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7saB4fW5Pc Andy's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPyFspBIFKg Jake's Theme]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHkWH3rScPI Hachi's Theme]]
