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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uor4IrNN0N4 Plague Blossom]]. Despite being the default theme when going into most runs, it's still a very iconic piece of music associated with the game and most likely one of your first picks when asked to name a theme from Plague Inc. It conveys the fact that the apocalypse going on in the game always starts slow and silent, like an eerie calm before the biblical storm you're going to inevitably unleash.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel_coronavirus_(2019-nCoV) In late 2019, a new strain of coronavirus was discovered in China]] (the first suspected case was discovered the 31st December). Then, the game was put on sale a couple weeks later, while the disease was still raging. The reason the game was on sale? Lunar New Year Sale (in other words: the sale celebrating ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice the Chinese New Year]]''). Soon after, the game was [[BannedInChina pulled from the App Store in China.]] The developers later released a "Cure Mode" DLC (where you play as an organization trying to stop the plague) in response to this real-life pandemic.
* HilariousInHindsight: One of the government's statuses in [[Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes the Simian Flu mode]] lists the military falling apart into rivaling factions; this turned out to be an accurate prediction for a major plot point in ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'', the sequel to ''Dawn''.
* HilariousInHindsight: One of the government's statuses in [[Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes the Simian Flu mode]] lists the military falling apart into rivaling factions; this turned out to be an accurate prediction for a major plot point in ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'', the sequel to ''Dawn''.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel_coronavirus_(2019-nCoV) In late 2019, a new strain of coronavirus UsefulNotes/{{c|OVID 19 Pandemic}}oronavirus was discovered in China]] China (the first suspected case was discovered the 31st December). Then, the game was put on sale a couple weeks later, while the disease was still raging. The reason the game was on sale? Lunar New Year Sale (in other words: the sale celebrating ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice the Chinese New Year]]''). Soon after, the game was [[BannedInChina pulled from the App Store in China.]] The developers later released a "Cure Mode" DLC (where you play as an organization trying to stop the plague) in response to this real-life pandemic.
the pandemic when it became global.
* HilariousInHindsight: One of the government's statuses in[[Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes [[Film/PlanetOfTheApesCherninSeries the Simian Flu "Simian Flu" mode]] lists the military falling apart into rivaling factions; this turned out to be an accurate prediction for a major plot point in ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'', the sequel to ''Dawn''.''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes''.
* HilariousInHindsight: One of the government's statuses in
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** To a lesser extent, Madagascar and the Caribbean, which also only have a single, relatively rarely visited port, as well as Iceland and New Zealand, which are slightly easier to infect due to their airports, but still get relatively little traffic and are wealthy enough to afford advanced medicine that makes their populations resistant to infection.
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** To a lesser extent, Madagascar and the Caribbean, which also only have a single, relatively rarely visited port, as well as Iceland and New Zealand, which are slightly easier to infect due to their airports, but still get relatively little traffic traffic. However, Iceland is sparsely populated which makes infections happen much more slowly, and are New Zealand is wealthy enough to afford advanced medicine that makes their populations its population resistant to infection.
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** Similarly to countries, plenty of players swear by one set of genetic traits at the beginning of the game.
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** Similarly Similar to countries, plenty of players swear by one set of genetic traits at the beginning of the game.
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** Many players tend to prefer playing as the Neurax Worm or Necroa Virus in the normal game and Scenarios that allow them to pick a pathogen, as they're usually seen as the most interesting (and effective in the latter's case; see GameBreaker below). Most of the other plagues are viewed more as BoringButPractical, while not having the pronounced difficulty of the Simian Flu or Shadow Plague.
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** Many players tend to prefer playing as the Neurax Worm or Necroa Virus in the normal game and Scenarios that allow them to pick a pathogen, as they're usually seen as the most interesting (and effective in the latter's former's case; see GameBreaker below). Most of the other plagues are viewed more as BoringButPractical, while not having the pronounced difficulty of the Simian Flu or Shadow Plague.
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* NotSoCheapImitation: Of VideoGame/{{Pandemic}}, given that Plague Inc has quickly eclipsed it in popularity.
