- Awesome Music: The first level's theme, World Wide Connection
. The credits theme, Take Me Over, is also good. - Do Not Do This Cool Thing: The game is fast-paced and fun, and the ending tries its best to avert this trope (it simply shows an image of Jackal on a motorcycle, looking at the viewer by the sunset). Whether it succeeded or not is debatable. See the ending here.
- Nightmare Fuel: If violence options are enabled in the first game, enemy mooks can die in various agonizing ways; from limbs getting blown off to bodies being burnt to a crisp.
- Spiritual Successor: To Commando (Capcom), Ikari Warriors, and other such free-moving vertical shmups.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The main reason 2nd Squad was ill received by fans of the first game is that it was pretty different from its predecessor, both in its more cartoonesque graphic style and in the more limited choice of characters and paths.
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