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{{quote|"[...] Though they sweep over our lands like the sands of winter, never again will we bow before them; never again endure their oppression; never again endure their tyranny. We will strike without warning and without mercy; fighting as one hand, one heart, one soul. We will shatter their dreams and haunt their nightmares, ''drenching'' our ancestors' graves with their blood. And as our last breath tears at their lungs, as we rise again from the ruins of our cities... they will know, Helghan belongs to the Helghast."|Scolar Visari's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}2c2tX0Tdp-Q second] [[Rousing Speech]].}}

 

 

The first game is set in an era of space colonization where the Helghast Empire has recovered from its defeat in the First Helghan War and launched a blitzkrieg against the outer Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (I.S.A.) colony planet Vekta. Vekta's orbital Strategic Defense platforms failed during the initial assault, allowing the Helghast to land swarms of soldiers onto the surface and making it all the more difficult for the outnumbered ISA forces.

* Killzone ([[PlayStation 2]], 2004)

* Killzone: Liberation (PSP, 2006)

 

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* [[Evil Brit]] - The Helghast have [[British Accents]] while the ISA have [[American Accents]].

* [[Exact Words]] - Chancellor Visari in ''Killzone: Shadow Fall'' won't hesitate to defend her people and crush the opposition if the ISA strikes first. {{spoiler|That doesn't stop her from supporting "deterrents" that would make that more likely.}}

** Plus there's the Helghast battle cries of "For the emperor!", coincidence?

*** Along with there being a very big weapon called the Boltgun, the ammunition of which explodes after embedding themselves in a target (and flinging them across the room).

** The Helghast are just humans who have adapted to Helghan's harsh environment not too long ago. While they were able to quickly adapt to be able to breathe there, increased strength as one would expect from a Heavyworlder would take some more time.

*** Which leads to a case of fridgelogic, as player character you can remove gattling guns and use them on foot. The only Helghast you will ever see doing something similar is the Heavy with his Chaingun, a man in a powered armor who is pumped full with drugs. All that despite the fact that Vekta has a lower gravitation than Helghast.

* [[Humongous Mecha|Humongous]] [[Spider Tank|Multi-legged]] [[Military Mashup Machine|Battleship]] - The MAWLR in ''Killzone 3'' is so huge, it takes several levels, and a [[More Dakka|whole lot of dakka]] [[Macross Missile Massacre|missiles]] to kill it.

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]/ [[Blown Across the Room]]/ [[Made of Explodium]] - The rounds fired from the Boltgun in ''Killzone 2'' impale your target, flinging them a huge distance away with sheer force alone or sticking them onto whatever is behind them, and then explode.

** You know it's bad when one of the ''selling points'' for the sequel is "It won't be completely brown."

** Averted by ''Killzone 3'' and ''Killzone: Shadow Fall,'' which feature a considerably more varied palette that ''isn't'' just brown.

* [[Redshirt Army]] - Oh boy, the poor ISA can never seem to catch a break.

* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]] - The ISA get highly accurate, highly damaging revolvers for the sequel. Although many players are quick to discard it in favor of the Helghast pistol, mostly due to ammo and fire rate issues. The background fluff states that the revolver was originally only for ceremonial purposes but the ISA had to switch from the semi-auto pistol back to the revolver due to the protacted Helghast blockade leading to equipment shortages.

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] - Colonel Hakha does this to General Lente with a shotgun shell.

** Also done to {{spoiler|General Adams}} who tries a [[Not So Different]] on him.

** Also Rico to Visari in Killzone 2. Sev later admits he would have done the same with his fist if Visari wouldn't have shut up.

* [[Smug Snake]] - {{spoiler|General Adams, who is also [[The Mole]].}}

** There is that female comms officer who Sev talks to {{spoiler|when he and Rico kill Argus 2 and take their place to infiltrate Stahl's facility.}}

** You can also hear a female Helghast comm officer abord the Dropship after {{spoiler|Sev got captured}}.

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]] - The Helghast tend to act like this. Their battle cries include both [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|verbose]] threats like "I'll rip the skin from your bones!" and lines like "Oh, FUCK me!"

* [[The Squad]] - The main characters in the first game and Alpha Squad from the sequel.

* [[Thanatos Gambit]] - {{spoiler|Visari}}

* [[This Is Sparta]] - You get one in ''2'' and ''3''.

** Debatable, since looking at him while he does it shows him tinkering with it rather than doing what he told Natko to do. It's probably more complex than that, but with the bleeding to death from his neck, he just gave the simplest trick and hoped the door's locks fail.

** Also, Colonel Radec.

{{quote|'''Radec:''' "Do not... toy with me." ''BANG!''}}

** ''3'' looks to [[Up to Eleven|upgrade on that]], one such gem includes [[Eye Scream|stabbing a helghast in the eye with your combat knife]].

** ''Killzone 3'' includes a new gun which fires [[Energy Ball|Energy Balls]] at its target and makes them explode gruesomely into [[Ludicrous Gibs]].

* [[Waif Fu]]: Subverted. In ''Killzone 3'' [[Action Girl]] Jammer tries to fight a Helghast soldier (and not even an Elite, just a basic Mook) in hand-to-hand with some spin-kicks, and gets pretty much owned. She's only saved by [[Mauve Shirt]] Hooper who takes out the Helghast mook with a much more direct rifle bash to the face. Jammer's much better with a gun or behind the wheel.

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Fighting Radec is incredibly difficult... unless you [[Kill It with Fire|light him on fire]] with the Flamethrower. Then it's just a matter of switching to your sidearm and popping shots at him while he flails and teleports around. Once the flames go out, repeat.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Shadow Marshal Luger and Colonel Hakha aren't anywhere to be seen in the rest of the Killzone games.

** Curiously Hahka's actor, [[Sean Pertwee]], portrays Radec in the sequel.

** Natko, one of the member of [[The Squad]] in the second game, is completely absent from ''Killzone 3'', serving only as the skin to the second player in co-op mode.

** And Radec might have seen Templar as one if this line is anything to go by.

{{quote|'''Radec:''' "I'd rather we met in combat, like soldiers."}}

 

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