Video Game / Destroy All Humans! 2

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Destroy All Humans! 2 is a Wide-Open Sandbox Action-Adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ for Playstation 2 and Xbox.

Set 10 years after the events of the first game in The '60s, the KGB have discovered that the President of United States is the Furon invader Cryptosporidium-138. After destroying the Mothership and killing Orthopox-13, they attempt to assassinate Crypto. After Pox manages to upload his mind into a holographic projector, Crypto must fight the KGB and stop them from derailing their mission. Along the way he procures various human allies — including the beautiful KGB defector Natalya Ivanova — and stop the KGB before they Destroy. All, Humans!

The game's story would continue in Path of the Furon, with the Spin-Off Big Willy Unleashed. After the success of the 2020 remake of the first game, a remake was announced by THQ Nordic in 2021 titled Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC set for release in August 30, 2022.

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Destroy All Tropes!

• The '60s: While the first game is set in an over-the-top version of The '50s, this game takes place a decade later.
• Achilles' Heel:
  • Blisk Mutants and the Anal Probe, which return them back to the human host form.
  • Real Blisk and electricity, which weaken their shields.
  • During the Kojira Kaiju battle, the monster's bottom-half lacks shielding, which makes it a weak spot for Crypto's weapons.
  • During the final battle with Milenkov, his Blisk form's shielding, which leaves him vulnerable to damage.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: Crypto manages to recruit the Canal Side Mob in Albion to the Cult of Arkvoodle with music by a Furon blues-musician named Blind Willie Syphilis. Conveniently enough, the Mothership's file on his music had landed nearby and is blaring on a Pirate Radio station at around that time.
• Alien Animals: The Burrow Beast weapon, which summons what is effectively a graboid.
• Anachronism Stew:
  • Nikita Khrushchev is simultaneously referred to as dead or alive, when he actually died two years after the game takes place. Leonid Brezhnev isn't referenced at all, with Milenkov taking his role as the Premier of the Soviet Union.
  • Characters make the occasional pop culture reference to modern things such as computer games and reality television.
• Anal Probing: The Anal Probe makes a comeback. While it no longer needs charging, it instead requires ammo.
• And I Must Scream: If you can actually read the thoughts of a Blisk Mutant, you learn there's still a bit of human left in them. They just want to die. You can gladly grant them the mercy they desire.
• Animeland / Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo: Takoshima is inhabited by schoolgirls, salarymen, ninjas and a giant monster.
• Anti-Frustration Features: Transmogrifying objects into ammunition is now far less dependent on Random Number God, and instead cycles through different types of ammunition you get on repeated uses.
• Artistic License – Military: The military scanner in Takoshima may make reference to the Emperor of Japan declaring martial law if the alert meter hits red. In real life, the Emperor's powers are solely ceremonial and would not have control of the military.
• Artistic License – Physics: As part of his effort to lure the Black Ninja over to Arkvoodle, Crypto claims he can devour photons. The Black Ninja leader states that with their knowledge of astrophysics, that just about makes sense to them.
• Artistic License – Law Enforcement: In Albion, regular police officers on the street carry firearms. In real life, all regular British police forces are unarmed, with the special exception of Northern Ireland. Obviously this was changed for gameplay purposes since unarmed officers would provide no opposition.
• Astral Finale: The last level takes place on a Moon Base established by the KGB.
• As You Know: Played for Laughs with the White Ninja, who broadcast the details about their secret base over the radio. Their leader finishes their recap with "And if you think that's clumsy exposition, you ain't just whistling Dixie, pal."
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Takoshima, a thinly-veiled parody of Japan, gets attacked by a Godzillaesque Blisk monster called Kojira.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Ponsonby's dying speech mentions that the Blisk took out the remaining Majestic stations around the world.
• Bag of Spilling: Thanks to Crypto leaving his weapons on the mothership when it was destroyed. Apparently he thought carrying a massive arsenal would scare away the ladies.
• Been There, Shaped History: The Tunguska event of 1908 was caused by a Blisk warship crashing into a Russian forest. Soon after, the Blisk disguised themselves as humans, formed the Bolshevik Party, and enacted the Russian Revolution to take control of Russia.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: During the near end of the story, it is revealed that the previous Premiers of the USSR before Milenkov (Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev, but not Trotsky), and many members of the Communist Party, were all Blisk aliens in disguise or were controlled by the Blisk. In addition, the October Revolution and the founding of the USSR were both done by the Blisk to give them control of Russia.
• Bleak Level: Tunguska. The cutscenes still have humor, but it's where the Blisk make their presence fully known, and has a very oppressively atmosphere.
• Body Snatcher: Replacing the Holobob mechanic from the first game is this, Crypto literally leaping into human bodies to blend in.
• Boldly Coming: Milenkov implies that, like the Furons, the Blisk at one point inseminated themselves into the human gene pool.
  Milenkov: It helped that Russian is so close to Bliskish. No coincidence, of course. The Furons aren't the only race who ever used Earth for "shore leave."
• Boss in Mook Clothing: The Yeti. At first they just look like normal Blisk warriors with a white paint job, but they're actually considerably tougher and hit like a truck.
• Brain in a Jar: Pox experiments with one in the intro cutscene. Later on, one can be seen behind Crypto in his saucer during the ending cutscene.
• Britain Is Only London: Albion is the level set in Great Britain (ironic, since "Albion" is just another name for Great Britain), but it's obviously supposed to be London. Three of the locations include Thames River, Soho and Hyde Park (which are Real Life locations in London), the streets are full of mods, hippies, bobbies and Tuxedo and Martini secret agents, and it's full of canals and elaborate bridges.
• British Teeth: Orthopox describes Albion as a place where "the sun never sets and the natives never floss".
• Bug War: The later half of the game involves Crypto and Pox going against the Blisk, a race of hive-minded lobster-like Martians hellbent on destroying Earth, having already formed the Soviet government after crash landing into Earth.
• The Burlesque of Venus: In the remake after Crypto rescues Natalya from being trapped in a Blisk pod in Tungusta, he lifts her up telekinetically where she briefly poses in the same pose as the painting.
• Colony Drop: The Meteor Gun is one of Crypto's weapons, unlocked pretty early on in the game. When fully upgraded, it drops a small planet on enemies.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience:
  • The radar is split into five sections — green for general alert, blue for police awareness, and yellow, orange and red for military awareness.
  • You have to shoot glowing orbs with the right weapon to proceed, with the orbs being color-coded for the right weapon.
• Commie Land: Tunguska is a town in Russia during the Cold War. Unlike the other locations, the environment is drab and barren, the citizens are depressed, sardonic or fearful, soldiers roam the street instead of cops, and the north of the region is home to Blisk refugees.
• Confidence Building Scheme: One of the missions for the cult requires Crypto to get The Freak to draw up some posters that can help attract more potential followers. Unfortunately, the Freak is feeling really down about his art and believes that nobody likes it, forcing an exasperated Crypto to convince him otherwise by taking him on a tour of the murals he's painted across Bay City. For this mission to succeed, Crypto has to use his psychic powers to make the nearby hippies dance and rave in joy whenever the Freak examines a mural until the little self-confidence meter fills out.
• Continuity Nod: When Ponsonby tries explaining Modern Art to Crypto, Crypto retorts that the player most likely lost interest in what he was saying and has since gone up to get nachos. Ponsonby points out how archaic the "Blue-Rider" joke from the previous game was as a comparison and Crypto relents.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: "Oh, God! Not Beethoven! ANYTHING BUT BEETHOVEN!"
• Dancing Mook Credits: While browsing through the soundtrack, the background is taken up by a mook or Innocent Bystander doing an appropriate dance for the region you're in.
• Deadly Gas: Radiation tends to play this part in the game.
• Death Is a Slap on the Wrist:
  • Unlike in the first game, whenever Crypto dies, his clone is placed in the exact spot where he died, and he continues his duties as if nothing happened.
  • The final mission in the Arkvoodle cult tree has Shama Llama he doesn't want to listen to you anymore and sics his ninja bodyguards at you. Arkvoodle grants him a number of "extra lives" equal to the number of times you've had to respawn so far. Even worse, if you die fighting him, you have to start the fight over AND he gets another life. Ouch.
• Death Trap: The toxic alien gas bubble Natalya is trapped in.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance:
  • Scanning the minds of male businessmen in Bay City may cause them to murmur their disgust that "negroes have all the fun", while also secretly expressing lustful thoughts about black women.
  • One "Ruin Lives" mission in Albion involves a closeted trans woman wanting to come out to her wife and go ahead with an operation, but is fearful of her reaction. When Crypto bodysnatches her and tells her wife, she is immediately shocked and revulsed, and leaves her after going through the operation.
• Denser and Wackier: While the first game was tongue-and-cheek, its plot was relatively straight-forward and its sense of humor focused on Cold War-era culture and its protagonist's lack of humanity. This game is much more self-aware with its over-the-top plot, being a much more colorful, shagadelic 60's-style Spy plot with all of the crazy situations this would imply. After all, the first game didn't have an evil James Bond-expy, Gratuitous Ninjas, Kaiju and a conspiracy plot involving radioactive Martians and Space-communists on the moon, did it?
• Dirty Communists:
  • The KGB and Premier Milenkov are the main villains of the game, being responsible for destroying the Mothership and developing technology that mutates humans into monsters. The October Revolution of 1917 was caused by disguised Blisks infiltrating the Russian government and using the Cold War to develop radioactive weaponry so they could irradiate the earth. Milenkov outright admits to not caring about communism or Russia beyond controlling its citizens.
  • Like in the first game, if Crypto goes around Bay City undisguised, many of the urban pedestrians will call him a communist when spotting him.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Agent Oranchov kick-starts the plot by destroying the Mothership and backing Coyote Bongwater, but his mutant form is the boss of Albion's first mission.
• Double Entendre: Reading the minds of the coeds in Takoshima, they'll frequently mention how much they like shopping for the Hiya Pussy products.
• Double Speak: While disguised as an NPC, Crypto has this conversation with the Yappies, but only if you don't use their leader's disguise to convert them, which fails to convert them to Arkvoodle.
  Crypto: So, are you guys like a gang or something?
  Yappies Member: Screw you man, we're not a gang! We're a group of disenfranchised youths who use violence and intimidation to get our point across.
  Crypto: In other words, you're a gang!
  Yappies Member: (as camera scrolls over to show Yappies leader) Beat it, square!
• Drugs Are Bad: Played With. If Crypto, disguised as hippie, decides to ask for a recap of the goals to the mission "They Shoot Hippies, Don't They?", he becomes exasperated with The Freak, whose drug-altered mind causes him to forget about the fact that Bongwater is about to fumigate Bay City with Revelade.
  Crypto:(Looking at the camera) You see kids, this is why you shouldn't do drugs.
• Eats Babies: The Black Ninjas claim to do this when trying to out-evil Crypto after the latter implies that Arkvoodle eats kittens.
• Eiffel Tower Effect: Surprisingly averted with Bay City (the San Francisco pastiche), where the Golden Gate Bridge is not seen at all. The cover does depict it, and it is mentioned in the game, but it never appears, and instead Coit Tower, Alcatraz, and the hippies are used as emblematic of San Francisco. Reprobed corrected this, with the new version of Bay City adding the bridge to Golden Gate Park and the Old Fort now sitting on its other end instead of just north of the park, while also heavily expanding the Wharf to include an actual wharf based on Pier 39.
• Enemy Civil War: Crypto provokes a war between the Cosmonauts and the Blisk on Solaris.
• Equippable Ally: Gastro, the ship's janitor, can be found and used as a weapon.
• Escort Mission: Several in the second game involving Natalya, but the most infamous one being "From Russia With Guns".
• Even Evil Has Standards: Played for Laughs when Crypto tries to convince the self-professed evil Black Ninjas to follow Arkvoodle. Saying that Arkvoodle is responsible for reality television or for how "inflammable" and "flammable" mean the same thing is too evil even for them.
• Evil Brit: Ponsonby, leader of Majestic Command 16th Sector, who serves as a secondary antagonist.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: Despite the name of the game, Crypto doesn't actually want to exterminate humankind, because he needs the Furon DNA in their brainstems to save his species. The Blisk have no such concerns when it comes to their act of Hostile Terraforming, so Crypto reluctantly teams up with Natalya to stop them.
• Eviler than Thou: Crypto tries to recruit the Black Ninjas to his cult by claiming he and his alien god eat kittens. They are unimpressed, claiming to eat babies.
• Evil Pays Better: Crypto hears one Japanese man thinking, "Should I join White Ninja or Black Ninja? On one hand, White Ninja are in glorious harmony with universe. On other hand, Black Ninja get to live on island north of Takoshima City. White Ninja get spiritual fulfillment. Black Ninja get paid. Black Ninja."
• Face–Heel Turn: Ponsonby starts off as a potential ally for Crypto in Albion, only to reveal that he is actually a Majestic agent seeking revenge for the death of Silhouette.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: During "Russian Reversal", Crypto, while disguised as Commander Leonid, attempts to liberate the cosmonauts from the Blisk. The cosmonauts dismiss all of the arguments against the Blisk as insanity. Until Crypto pretends that they're taking away their vodka.
• Fantastic Drug: Revelade is a drink being pushed onto Bay City and Albion's hippie youth by the KGB as part of their plot to undermine the US. Crypto and Pox are tasked with trying to stop production and shipment of Revelade because it has a corrosive effect on human DNA, this later revealed to be the reason behind its creation by the Blisk.
• Final Solution: The later half of the game focuses on wiping out the entirety of the Blisk martian race. Justified as the Blisk are planning to destroy Earth to turn it into an underwater haven for themselves, having already taken control of the USSR government for years. Once they're finally taken care of, it turns out that several of them survived and are seeking help, leading to you having to wipe them out once and for all.
• A Foggy Day in London Town: Albion is the game's version of London and is perpetually covered in a dense gray fog.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Before Ponsonby dies, he laments the fall of Majestic to "aliens", only to die when chiding Crypto for assuming he's the only alien on Earth after the latter tells him he only destroyed the American branch. Pox dismisses it as a Villainous Breakdown. Later in the game, however, it turns out that the Blisk are also on earth.
  • Crypto can ask Pox how the KGB built a machine capable of mutating Kojira into a giant radioactive Kaiju. Pox can only come to one conclusion - they didn't.
• Fun with Acronyms: Pox creates an anti-Blisk retrovirus codenamed "O.M.G.W.T.F." Subverted as what it stands for is never revealed.
• Gameplay Ally Immortality: Averted. Friendly NPCs (most notably Natalya) are capable of dying and a Nonstandard Game Over will result if they do (in other words, be very careful with that Meteor Gun). Played straight with the various questgivers.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation:
  • Reading Ponsonby's mind when you get the chance can reveal he's a Majestic agent ahead of schedule.
  • Even if you take the mission to make the Black Ninja your allies, they'll still attack you for entering their territory. Justified later, as Shama Llama tells you that the Black Ninjas believe Crypto tricked them.
  • It's possible to head to the Blisk's base in Tunguska (labelled on the map as "Strange Base") and encounter the Blisk before you do so in "Deadly Reaction".
• Gargle Blaster: The KGB's initial plan for Bay City is to distribute Revelade, an addictive beverage designed to remove Furon DNA from the drinker by rotting the brainstem. Crypto manages to thwart the plan, but later has to talk the mod scene in Albion out of drinking it.
• Gas Mask, Longcoat: Some of the Red Army soldiers in Tunguska wear a green gas mask, and always wear a khaki longcoat.
• Giant Enemy Crab: The Blisk warriors resemble alien lobsters and are referred to as such.
• Gateless Ghetto: Bay City, the game's equivalent to San Francisco, is located in California, but is depicted in-game as a peninsula surrounded entirely by the ocean. The Golden Gate Bridge is missing (though the Golden Gate Park exists), and there's no roads leading out of the city. Averted in Reprobed, where Bay City is surrounded by mountains and has roads leading out of it.
• A Glass of Chianti: Crypto in the ending cutscene, nursing a white (possibly alien?) drink after sex with Natalya.
• Gratuitous Ninja: Ninjas appear prominently as recurring Mooks. And all lampshaded, too.
  Crypto: What are ninjas doing in 1969?!?!
  Pox: Just go with it. Besides, who doesn't love ninjas?
• Gratuitous Russian: Lots of it. Likely parody, given the nature of the game.
  • Many of the KGB members say "Lestrovya" when shooting. This is a mondegreen of the word "na zdorovie", which means "cheers" in Russian and is usually only used for a toast.
  • The word "yelda" (penis) is used often despite it being uncommon.
  • "Do svidaniya" is commonly misspelled as well.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Milenkov implies that there might be Human-Blisk hybrids out there.
  Milenkov: The Furons aren't only race who ever used Earth for "shore leave."
• Handwave: Early on, Crypto notes the logic of how he can be running around killing people while supposedly imitating the President of the US. Pox notes that since he never did much work anyway, he rigged up a replica to fill in for Crypto.
  Crypto: Guess the stupid monkeys never noticed, huh?
  Pox: Actually, your approval rating tripled since I made the switch.
• Highly-Visible Ninja / Technicolor Ninja: There's a reason why the White clan and Black clan of ninjas exist and hate each other. Originally, they were united under one clan of Gray ninjas, but the clans started to split over personal preference between black and white uniforms when they ran out of gray fabric.
  White Ninja Leader: Wrong! Supplier stop selling gray fabric. We wanted to be black ninja, but bastards put their order in first!
• Historical In-Joke:
  • One hippie says his favorite Jackson Five member is Michael Jackson because "he just seems so normal".
  • Women in Bay City think about how Ike Turner and Tina Turner are a "perfect couple".
  • Two civilians in Bay City discuss The Vietnam War, with one imaging what would happen if Vietnam unified and Ho Chi Minh (who died the year the game is set) became leader. Her friend asks her why she hates America.
  • Cortex Scan a cosmonaut scientist and he might mock America for being so foolish as to get bogged down in Vietnam, and that the Soviets would never make such a blunder, before then wondering what the weather's like in Afghanistan.
• Hivemind: The Blisk are described as creatures with this trait, and it plays a major role in defeating them.
• Insane Troll Logic: A hippie in the second mission thinks her friend is sexist just because he doesn't agree with her wanting to get arrested to cause a revolution. She eventually goes on about how bad male hippies are until her black friend stops her.
• Interface Screw: Invoked upon being hit with a drugged Revelade dart when fighting Coyote Bongwater.
• Interspecies Romance: Crypto invokes this when he gets new genitalia, as the only thing he can experiment on is human women. In the ending of the game, it is heavily implied that he made out with Natalya.
• It Will Never Catch On: A female hippie in Bay City mocks "Georgie Boy's" film idea, The Adventures Of Luke Starkiller.
• Kaiju: The final mission of Takoshima involves fighting Kojira, a giant Blisk mutant.
• Kick the Dog: The "Ruin Lives" missions have Crypto ruining people's lives for no real reason.
• Knight of Cerebus: The Blisk. Unlike the Laughably Evil human villains they are treated as legitimate threat and their plan would have wiped out humanity.
• Lampshade Hanging: Done several times, such as:
  Milenkov: Maybe you wouldn't be so arrogant if you knew of my FIENDISH MASTER PLAN!
  Crypto: Alright already! Let's hear your damn plan. Geez, you guys just gotta have your monologues.
• Latex Spacesuit: Natalya wears one on Solaris that has heels and shows off most of her figure.
• Lighter and Softer: Compared to the first game, the sequel practically turns Pox & Crypto into anti-heroes for humanity. The game itself has an overall less serious tone as well.
• The Man Behind the Man: The Blisk, for Soviet Russia, and indeed the entire Cold War. Having been stuck on Earth for centuries, they engineered a buildup of space-travel and nuclear arms so they could make the Earth suitable for themselves.
• Manchild: Both the White Ninjas and Black Ninjas have shades of this (with varying levels of "Psychopathic"), with their comedically weak motivations for their rivalry and the Black Ninja's tendency to try and one-up Crypto and Arkvoodle in terms of depravity.
• Mars Needs Women: Crypto has developed a sexual preference towards human women after he gained genitalia in-between games, Natalya being the most recurring object of his affections.
• Martians: The Blisk are a race of crustacean-like aliens that once inhabited Mars. After the Furons rendered Mars an uninhabitable wasteland in the Martian War, the Furon soldiers would "let off a little steam" and inseminate early hominids, resulting in modern humanity possessing Furon DNA. The remaining Blisk escaped on a warship that would eventually crash in Tunguska, Russia, infiltrating the Russian government in secret and eventually leading the Russian Revolution. They serve as the game's true antagonists.
• Monumental Damage: As one might expect in a game that combines fully-destructible environments with parodies of real-world major cities, you are free to blow up major landmarks as you see fit. In Bay City, you can destroy Coit Tower, Alcatraz, Fisherman's Wharf, and the Victorian "painted ladies" houses, with Reprobed adding San Francisco's most famous landmark and one of the all-time repeat victims of this trope, the Golden Gate Bridge. Albion, meanwhile, lets you destroy Westminster Palace, Big Ben, the Tower Bridge, and Nelson's Column, while in Takoshima City, you can destroy Takoshima Tower.
• Moon-Landing Hoax:
  • When you read the thoughts of a male Russian, they may comment on how they think the moon landing was filmed in Newark, New Jersey.
  • Later in the game, when you really do go to the moon, one of the missions involves receiving Pox's anti-Blisk weapon from NASA. The delivery plays out like Apollo 11, except for the fact that the two astronauts, Biff and Carl, are too busy bickering with each other to notice the Soviet cosmonauts attacking their lunar module.
  Pox: It's being delivered by a courier company called... the North American Shipping Association.
• Move Along, Nothing to See Here: Scan the mind of one of the bobbies in Albion in the second game and they may say, "Move along, nothing to read here."
• Nerf: Throwing people around with Psychokinesis does much less damage in the second game than it does in the first. Additionally, the Quantum Deconstructor received a small nerf to its splash damage.
• New-Age Retro Hippie: The most common pedestrians in Bay City and Albion fall under the hippie category, referencing the American countercultures birthplace in San Francisco and Swinging London scene respectively.
• Ninja: Show up in Takoshima as Mooks. Much lampshading is made as the protagonist wonders why ninjas are still around in the modern day.
  Several Characters: Besides, who doesn't love ninjas?
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Furon blues singer Blind Willie Syphilis is based on Real Life gospel blues singer and guitarist Blind Willie Johnson.
• Notzilla: "Kojira", and another called "Mohgra" (which is unseen, but whose eggs form the objective of a sidequest). Reprobed finally shows off Mohgra's appearance, and it's a pastiche of Gamera and Anguirus. It's even capable of flight!
• One-Hit Kill: The Burrow Beast can eat anything that's not a boss in one gulp. It can even chow down the enormous Blisk.
• One-Winged Angel: Milenkov and Oranchov when they transform into Blisk creatures for their boss fights.
• The Operators Must Be Crazy: During "I Left My Parts In San Fran... Er, Bay City", Pox's radio signal is picked up by a Space Traffic Control operator. Said operator has never heard of Pox and is unable to verify his presence on Earth, gradually becoming bitter before dismissing him as a prank caller.
• Organic Technology: The Blisk's entire aesthetic revolves around this.
• Organized Crime Sidequest: Upon arriving in Takoshima City, Crypto's alien invader antics and war against the Soviet Union can be interrupted by an optional mission in which he can serve as a hitman for one of the Yakuza clans. For added fun, another mission will allow Crypto to assassinate the heads of both Yakuza clans on behalf of the KGB.
• Permanently Missable Content: One of the Furotech Cells in Albion is stationed on top of a building inside the Soviet Embassy complex. One of the later side missions in Albion requires destroying said complex, and after completion, all of the buildings remain permanently destroyed. Even with full jetpack upgrades, Crypto is unable to reach the Furotech Cell without the building, thus rendering one of Crypto's upgrades unobtainable.
• The Precious, Precious Car: A "Ruin Lives" mission in Takoshima has a salaryman very paranoid about his new car, a status symbol of his promotion. Naturally, Crypto decides to destroy it. Twice.
• Properly Paranoid: Terry Squire during his assassination mission. Even though it's justified in a sense that he's being targeted by the KGB for destroying the Revelade supply in Bay City, he's being defended by EMP mines and secret agents. After killing him, your alert level goes all the way to the highest.
• Real Event, Fictional Cause: The Tunguska event was caused by a Blisk warship crashing on Earth; additionally, the Blisk went on to form the Bolshevik party, instigating such events as the Russian Revolution and the Cold War.
• The Reveal: The Blisk being behind the Russian Revolution.
• Rule of Three: The conversation with Milenkov has three options, all ending with him mentioning his FIENDISH MASTER PLAN, but its only on the third that an exasperated Crypto will finally cave and ask what the damn plan is.
• Scary Dogmatic Aliens: With the reveal that most key figures in the Communist Revolution and formation of the USSR were Blisk in disguise, this files the Blisk into the "Aliens are Communist" category. Pox even states that they operate on a Hive Mind and one of their M.O.s is using spores turn unwilling humans into monstrous slaves similar to them, both recurring tropes applied to sci-fi allegories of the Red Scare.
• True Art Is Incomprehensible: Crypto can discuss this with Ponsonby when he asks him to investigate a Soviet art exhibit (which turns out to be the KGB's plan to distribute spores around Albion) that the Queen was planning to attend.
  Crypto: So, modern art, huh? Jackson Pollock pees on a canvas and sells it for fifty grand? I don't get it.
  Ponsonby: Ha. Oh, you're serious? Well, I suppose it takes something of an educated eye to make sense of it.
  Crypto: Educated eye? What a crock! I don't need a master's in art history to know what I like!
  Ponsonby: No, of course not - but as modern art has become more abstracted, it helps to understand the conceptual framework the artist had in mind.
  Crypto: You realize the player's in the kitchen makin' nachos at this point, right?
• Sand Worm: The Burrow Beast weapon summons one to eat people.
• Sequel Goes Foreign: The first game took place in various locales around the United States. The second game expands the scope with Crypto wreaking havoc also in England, Russia and Japan. And the Moon.
• Scooter-Riding Mod: The hippies in Albion act like stereotypical mods, being fans of fashion and music alongside dressing in beatnik attire, tailored Beatle suits, and patterned sleeveless dresses. Scooters don't actually appear, but are referenced in dialogue.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: Crypto and Natalya start out this way.
• Soviet Superscience: Thanks to the Blisk, not only have the Soviets beaten America to the moon but they have established a fully manned Moon Base, named Solaris.
• The Stoner: Exaggerated with the aptly-named The Freak, who claims he can pick radio signals with his teeth and read minds, and knows pretty much everything going on in Bay City. His thoughts even reveal that other hippies avoid him, and when they do need to talk to him, it's solely to buy drugs.

  (lamenting) The chicks come for the stash, but they never stay for The Freak...

• Storming the Castle: The attack on the Blisk base in the climactic mission.
• Take That!:
  • A very subtle one, but the Cult of Arkvoodle appears to be a jab towards Christianity (with some elements mocking the Manson Family). This becomes more apparent if you scan Shama Llama's mind, which includes mockeries of the War on Christmas and intelligent design.
  • A Cortex Scan of a co-ed in Takoshima reveals that she aspires to be a mindless socialite heiress who is famous for a sex tape video, parties all the time, is drunk and half-naked on camera, and inherited a hotel business off her father.
  • Milenkov reveals that the Blisk have been encouraging the Cold War's Nuclear Arms Race with the intention of setting them all off at once and rendering the planet an "irradiated ocean paradise". He then goes onto say that no knowing human would would be so Lethally Stupid as to escalate the number of nuclear weapons on Earth for any other reason.
• Tell Me Again: All conversations end with the option of Crypto asking for a condensed version of the conversation.
• Terraform: The Blisk's big plan is using nuclear power to infest the world with Blisk spores and turn it into a water-submerged haven. By the time the storyline reveals their plans, they've already set up a nuclear-harvesting plant in Russia and enslaved cosmonauts to help built a giant hive on the moon, and that's where Crypto comes in.
• That Russian Squat Dance: While in Tunguska, Russians tend to do this dance when Crypto uses Free Love on them.
• Think Unsexy Thoughts: Crypto in the second game upon seeing Natalya meet Sergei. It doesn't work, however.
• Token Minority: One of the male hippies in Bay City is black, while a female model with an afro and dark skin (used for Rainbow Honeysuckle) appears. Reprobed makes the latter a lot less ambiguous.
• Two Words: Added Emphasis: Crypto tries to convince British hippies that Arkvoodle has the best collection of music in the galaxy. When they ask what Arkvoodle listens to, Crypto says "Three words. And one of them's a disease. Blind Willie Syphilis."
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: You can approach The Freak without disguising Crypto as a human, and he will show no reaction to the alien, with the game simply noting "The Freak doesn't like talking to squares."
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: The "Ruin Lives" optional side-missions are just Crypto ruining someone's life for the Hell of it; brainwashing a regular secretary into going to a hippie party and ruining her reputation, turning in a draft-dodger to the US military, forcing a closeted trans-woman into a sex-change operation after making her tell her wife about it (keep in mind that this is The 60's), destroying a man's brand-new car after he gets a promotion multiple times, killing subversives hidden in the KGB, and so on.
• Violation of Common Sense: During the fight with Kojira, Pox eventually notices that the beast's underside is considerably less armored than its back. As a result, it takes more damage from Crypto's personal weapons than the ones mounted on the saucer. That's right: you're supposed to get out of the high-tech flying saucer and fight the Kaiju on foot. This actually does make the fight easier, since Kojira will focus its attacks more on the humans (given that they're bringing in tanks and all) than on Crypto.
• Vodka Drunkenski: There are a lot of jokes about Russians and drinking. Most notably, Crypto finally makes the cosmonauts at the moon base turn against the Blisk by claiming that the Blisk are taking away their vodka.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: When the Blisk hold Natalya hostage, she tells Crypto that Sergei has been infected with spores, and that's the last we hear of him.
• Wham Episode: Once you finally clear out the poison fog in Tunguska you learn that the Sovient Union isn't the main threat. Meet the Blisk, the aliens the Furons defeated in the Martian War.
• While You Were in Diapers: A frustrated Pox unleashes one of these on a Furon who doesn't recognize him.
  Pox: I'm Orthopox-13, man! The Orthopox-13! The Conqueror of Zargon Five! Winner of the Battle of Tharsis Mons! Winner of the Xanthrax Five Mental Cruelty Award six years running! I'm the second most senior fleet commander in the entire Furon navy! I was enslaving hyper-dimensional insectoids on the dunghills of Beedleblat while you were still in short pants! And you've never heard of me?
• Who's on First?: Crypto runs into this kind of confusion when he delivers the access code to Natalya ("Eye Love You"), before adding "Also, Who's on first, what's on second and I don't know's on third."
• Wormsign: The Burrow Beast weapon is preceded by an ominous rumbling noise.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Crypto's reaction when both Pox (sarcastically) and Natalya propose they should get therapy and counseling for Kojira.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
  • Agent Oranchov gives a downplayed version of this when his mook, Coyote Bongwater, is defeated and is moments away from being killed by Crypto.
  • Crypto does this to Shama Llama after the latter goes against him.
• You No Take Candle: KGB Agents, as well as the citizens of Takoshima and Tunguska, all talk in this manner. Averted with some of the more prominent characters in the KGB (Natalya, Oranchov, Sergei, and Milenkov).
• Your Mom: After poisoning Crypto, making him delusional, this exchange is likely to happen:
  Ponsonby: Now, tell me all the good things you remember about your mother.
  Crypto: Mommy? No, not the hot iron treatment again! I'll be good, I promise!

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