Star Wars: Republic Commando: Difference between revisions

[[File:delta_squad.jpg|link=Sibling Team|frame|Always remember, the squad's favorite command is "Search and Destroy". We love doing our job, Boss.]]

 

'''Boss:''' ''"Just get us inside without killing the squad, okay, Scorch?"''|''[[Republic Commando]]''}}

 

 

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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: According to the [[Strategy Guide]], the beam weapon used by Geonosian Elites is powered by the internal fluids of its Geonosian user. This means that you can't simply reload an old beam weapon with the ammo of the new one and have to discard the old one once it's spent.

** Used by Boss at least once aboard the ''Prosecutor'' to evade overweight Trandoshans, though the safety is short-lived, as the tunnels he escapes into contain [[Goddamned Bats|scav droids]] and [[Exploding Barrels|flammable tanks]] attached to the walls.

** Later in the game, Delta Squad escapes a hairy situation in the first level of Kashyyyk via one of these, though they have to [[Stuff Blowing Up|use explosive charges to open it]].

'''Scorch:''' Well, who cares? As long as it's not here! }}

* [[And This Is For]]: A post-mortem version.

* [[Artificial Brilliance]]: Your team is quite efficient in their own right. If you tell them to take up a defensive position, not only will they get there without fail except in very exceptional circumstances, but will hold it properly for quite a long time. If you go down, they will either rush to your aid or lock down the situation to the best of their ability depending on your orders.

* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Despite the above, however, it is usually best for you to stay out of the line of fire between your squad mates and the enemy, especially when one is stationed at a sniper position since no member of your squad is [[Friendly Fireproof]]. If you do not take this precaution, you can expect to see a blue energy trail passing through your torso on its way to intersect with the enemy and a commensurate drain on your shields and/or health bar.

** And things don't always end well when they start throwing grenades. Bouncing off the door back toward the squad during a door breech, or using them on enemies that have charged into melee with you.

* [[Ass Shove]]: Implied when Scorch is freed from his cell and revived.

'''Boss:''' Roger that. }}

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]:

** Tarfful the Wookiee chief, naturally.

** Boss is also a prime example. At one point, he will ''single-handedly''<ref>Well, there's one other commando with him at that point, but the layout of the arena makes him pretty much useless.</ref> take down a Dwarf Spider Droid. Without a scripted win scenario. You don't conveniently get to drop anything on it, or slip in behind and damage key components. You do get a [[BFG|Wookiee]] ''[[BFG|Rocket Launcher]]'' though, to even the odds.

* [[Badass Crew]]: Delta Squad. Boss stands out in particular. In a quote from their training sergeant, Walon Vau, who has a reputation as a sadistic, brutal trainer, reveals that Boss ''broke his arm'' in hand-to-hand combat exercises.

* [[BFG]]: The bizarre Wookiee Missile Launcher definitely qualifies.

* [[Big Book of War]]: Often quoted by the Deltas.

'''Scorch:''' We know, always make sure they're dead. }}

'''Sev:''' Rule 39: Never say no to bacta. }}

* [[Big No]]: Said by a clone trooper who falls through the ceiling and subsequently dies aboard the ''Prosecutor''.

* [[Black Mesa Commute]]: Your arrival on Geonosis, as well as Kashyyyk.

** Item placement is sometimes justified, such as being in friendly or once-friendly territory. In fact, in one case, during the Geonosis campaign, a Republic gunship drops some ammo and an important component for your [[Swiss Army Gun]].

** Other times, enemy installations are inexplicably stocked with decent supplies of ammo for Republic-issue weapons. The [[Heal Thyself|bacta tanks]] are justified when storming Geonisian and Trandoshan emplacements, but they're also strewn throughout a ship crewed ''entirely by droids''. It's even [[Lampshaded]] by Scorch:

* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: ''Republic Commando'' largely avoids the [[Bloodless Carnage]] that permeated prior ''Star Wars'' games.

* [[Body Count Competition]]: Scorch and Sev indicate that they are competing to see who can get the most enemy kills. Towards the end, Sev loses track of his count. It's revealed in the books that Sev is actively trying to reach a personal kill count for Geonosians equal to the total amount of clone commandos killed on Geonosis.

'''Fixer:''' Just don't get so caught up in counting that you forget to cover me! }}

* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]:

** Delta 40's nickname, "Fixer" is a reference to a character who appeared in a deleted scene from ''[[A New Hope]]''.

** When confronted with Super Battle Droids, Wookiees have a propensity for ripping their arms out of their sockets.

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: The end of the last mission, in which {{spoiler|Sev is ambushed away from the rest of your squad. Except this time you don't get to save him}}.

* [[Camera Abuse]]: Most commonly, your helmet will jitter as you move or look around. Blood, droid fluid and water will splatter against your helmet's faceplate if you opt to get up close and personal with your enemies or stand out in the rain, but a convenient wiper system eliminates it to give you an unobstructed view after a while. Laser blasts and tiny objects traveling at high speed will warp or cause holes in your face plate, which the wiper also conveniently [[MST3K Mantra|and inexplicably]] repairs. Finally, the scav droids make a habit of [[Nightmare Fuel|trying to drill]] [[Eye Scream|through your faceplate]].

* [[Ceiling Cling]]: When Delta Squad first links up with Sev on Geonosis, he is seen clinging to the underside of that the rest of the squad is rappelling down from in order to evade detection by two Geonosian warriors who are lying in wait for Boss, Fixer and Scorch. Before the squad lands, Sev falls from his position and subsequently lays the smack down on the warriors.

* [[Clone Degeneration]]: Although there are no actual examples, Scorch occasionally alludes to this sort of thing if the [[What the Hell, Player?|player does something stupid]] to get his hit points knocked down to zero.

* [[Cold Sniper]]: Sev. ''By the Force'', Sev.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: The commandos have painted armor so you can tell them apart: red for Sev, yellow for Scorch, green for Fixer. Orange is for Boss himself, though it's only seen in various artworks and promotional material.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Republic Commando is basically a grunt's view of ''Star Wars'', where the Force is nowhere to be seen or felt and [[High-Pressure Blood|spurts of blood and droid oil]] from your enemies have to be [[Camera Abuse|cleaned off of your visor]] when fighting up-close.

* [[Deadly Gas]]: After being forced to return to the detention level and surviving a Trandoshan ambush, Delta Squad activates the detention block's security systems, resulting in it being pumped full of [[Deadly Gas]] that comes in a rather interesting shade of mauve. Delta Squad remains unaffected, as their helmets protect them from that sort of stuff. Their enemies, however...

* [[Deflector Shields]]: The members of Delta Squad are equipped with personal shields (which, curiously, never seem to be employed in the novels). Destroyer Droids/Droidekas have their signature bubble shields. Super battle droids can also occasionally be seen employing what appears to be a personal shield from their arm, usually when faced with grenades.

* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: At the end of the game, your squad has taken out a massive separatist gunship and are ready for evac. {{spoiler|Then, out of nowhere and offscreen, Sev reports he's under attack and you lose contact with him. Despite the protests of your squad, your commander refuses to let you rescue him, and you all get on your evac shuttle, leaving him to die.}} It's not a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] or any other meaningful death, just a sour note to make your victory bittersweet.

** Even better was the part on the Prosecutor where Boss was to observe a meeting between the Trandoshans and General Grievous (then unknown to the Clones), which would culminate in the General's revelation on Kashyyyk.

** Additionally on Geonosis, Fixer was to have a scene involving an anti-air turret:

'''Scorch:''' Fixer, you're sick. I respect that. }}

* [[Elite Mooks]]: Super Battle Droids, amongst others. They start out sporadic and vaguely challenging but once you get the anti-armor attachment for you DC-17, they're a cakewalk. That is, until you run out of its very limited supply of ammo, [[Demonic Spiders|then...]]

* [[Embarrassing Rescue]]: This appears to be how one of the standard clone troopers stationed aboard the "Prosecutor" felt about being rescued by the player.

'''Boss:''' This "deluxe model" is the only thing standing between you and a bloody death, so you'd best be showing some respect, trooper. }}

* [[Escort Mission]]: You end up escorting a fellow named Tarfful a few times. He isn't invincible, but since he is ''[[Authority Equals Asskicking|a Wookiee chieftain]]'', he has a considerable amount of hitpoints and can deal quite a bit of punishment, including one hit killing super battle droids by slamming them in the ground and ripping their arm off. The only problem may be that he only engages in melee combat, leading to him being killed by friendly fire from your squad mates, ''especially'' if you've assigned one of them to an anti-armor position. Thankfully, during big battles with Droid Dispensers he hides from enemies until it's time to advance.

'''Scorch:''' That would be easier if he'd back down a little. }}

* [[Ethereal Choir]]:

* [[Eye Scream]]: Scav droids will latch onto your helmet and attempt to drill your eye out.

* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: Provided by Scorch near the end of the ''Prosecutor'' missions:

'''Scorch:''' We'll make them regret the day they blew up Delta Squad! }}

* [[Falling Chandelier of Doom]]: After Boss uploads an "anti-protocol worm" into the systems of a droid control ship on Geonosis, certain droid dispensers that are precariously hanging from the ceiling can be shot down, bringing them crashing down onto anyone unlucky enough to be beneath them.

* [[Force Field Door]]: These are present primarily during the factory levels on Geonosis.

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: The four Clone Commandos of [[The Squad|Delta Squad]] are this. Delta-38, "Boss", is choleric, showing good leadership instincts. Delta-40, "Fixer", is phlegmatic, being, as Taun We put it, "A pure and uncomplicated soldier." Delta-62, "Scorch", is blood, showing much enjoyment in [[Stuff Blowing Up|blowing the CIS forces apart]]. Delta-07, "Sev", is melancholic, being the [[Cold Sniper]] of the group and showing great care to place each round for maximum efficiency.

* [[Ghost Ship]]: The "Prosecutor".

* [[Giant Mook]]: Super Battle Droids and Trandoshan Heavy Assault Mercenaries. Super Battle Droids are 8 feet tall, can withstand about 150 blaster bolts or 4 thermal detonators before falling, and are equipped with a combination blaster/ rocket launcher arm cannon. Heavy Trandos are ''even tougher'' than Super Battle Droids, and carry a very powerful minigun that can cut you down in less than a second. The anti-armor rifle mod kills them both very quickly, though.

* [[Go for the Eye]]: The suggested strategy in dealing with [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Advanced Dwarf Spider Droids]], as it's the droid's [[Attack Its Weak Point|only known weak point]].

'''Scorch:''' In other words -- shoot the big red spot! }}

* [[Grenade Hot Potato]]: Certain enemies and the player's squadmates will throw grenades back at their source if given the opportunity.

* [[Guns Are Useless]]: The basic assault rifle feels like this, what with its horrid accuracy, pathetic damage, and, given the previous, small ammo capacity. The sniper rifle and grenade launcher attachments rectify the damage and accuracy issues at the expense of barely having any ammo at all. Further following the trope, the melee attack - usually a gauntlet-mounted vibroblade - one- or two-hit kills most mooks. You can also attack with it in rapid succession, to the point where stabbing a super battle droid until his face plate falls off actually becomes a valid tactic.

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: In-universe example. In a tense moment aboard the ''Prosecutor'', the squad loses contact with Scorch and Boss orders Fixer to, "Keep searching for 62. I don't want to become a three man squad." {{spoiler|Delta Squad complies with an order to leave Sev behind at the end of the game}}.

* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: Sev, oh yes Sev.

* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]:

** Quite literally, and possibly lampshaded during the opening sequences with practicing clone-troopers that shoot terribly, and your allies are not spectacular either.

** Averted with your squad, who seem most efficient when placed in sniper positions.

* [[Informed Ability]]: Scorch is the explosives and demolitions expert, Fixer is the computer and hacking specialist, and Sev is the team sniper. However, all four squad members, even Boss, are equally proficient at all of these "specialized" tasks, most likely for balance. Despite this, Sev and Scorch will occasionally protest in an amusing fashion if you tell Sev to plant a charge or Scorch to snipe.

'''Sev:''' Boss, you sure you don't want someone who can shoot straight? }}

* [[Instant Win Condition]]: If you make it to the level exit while the rest of your squad is incapacitated and surrounded by enemies, the entire squad starts the next area on their feet, albeit with half of their total health left.

* [[Invisible Wall]]: One of these can be found at the beginning of the "Prosecutor" campaign and is presumably there to prevent you from exploring the darkness of space. A group of mynocks seems to have no problem passing through it, however. Perhaps the most blatant of these in this game was placed behind the start point of the level containing the wroshyr tree nursery.

* [[I Want My Mommy]]: Of all things, ''battle droids'' will occasionally exclaim "Mommy!" if a grenade is tossed into their midst.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Just prior to rescuing Sev aboard the "Prosecutor", when the player witnesses the Trandoshan slavers beating him in order to get him to divulge information, a pair of Trandoshans can be seen taking turns scaring the living bejeesus out of an R2 unit. After awhile, one of the pair decides to kill the droid for no discernible reason.

* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: Sev, Scorch and Fixer will oftentimes verify that enemies are not [[Playing Possum]] by shooting them at point blank range.

* [[Ladder Physics]]: Handily averted in that the player is not able to use any of the ladders present in the game.

* [[Land Mine Goes Click]]: In addition to emitting an audible beeping noise before exploding, a land mine is equipped with bright LEDs. If it's touched by the player's crosshairs, a red dome showing its radius appears, joined with a verbal warning by Boss or one of the other commandos concerning its presence. Furthermore, a mine only explodes if the player or his teammates are ''standing'' within its radius, allowing them to crouch-walk up to it in order to disarm it.

* [[Large Ham]]: The Trandoshan Heavy Assault Mercenaries. Oddly enough, this is telegraphed by the subtitles designating them as "Trando HAMs."

* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]:

** This is done once at the beginning and then about two-thirds of the way through the Geonosis campaign.

** Then once again when Delta Squad boards the "Prosecutor" separately, with rather adverse results, but they once again team up and complete their mission.

** On Kashyyyk, at the very end of the game, the squad gradually splits up to man individual gun turrets, in order to destroy a Separatist vessel.

* [[Logo Joke]]: The Lucasarts logo is rendered in monochrome and distorted with static, as radio transmissions can be heard in the background.

* [[Man On Fire]]: Tends to happen to anyone unfortunate enough to be near an [[Exploding Barrel]] or thermal detonator when it [[Stuff Blowing Up|explodes]].

* [[Mood Motif]]: The unnamed musical theme that first appears during the section of the [[Training Montage]] where a very young Boss is being shown how to assemble a DC-17 frequently comes back during poignant moments, such as when silence is the only response to Boss's attempts to contact the rest of the squad towards the end of one level aboard the ''Prosecutor'', when Boss and Fixer find an incapacitated Sev being beaten by Trandoshans, or when {{spoiler|Delta Squad abandons Sev on Kashyyyk}}.

* [[Mook Maker]]: Present in the form of droid dispensers - machines that are capable of deploying a seemingly infinite number of battle droids until they are destroyed with a detonation charge. Trandoshan [[Drop Ship|dropships]] serve this purpose in a couple of levels.

** Subverted when Delta Squad {{spoiler|complies with the order to leave Sev behind on Kashyyyk, over Scorch's protests}}.

* [[Nonuniform Uniform]]: Each member of Delta Squad essentially wears the same type of armor but with differing accessories and paint jobs. This stemmed from a suggestion by George Lucas that the designers have some means of visually differentiating one member of Delta Squad from the other.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Most songs, especially the title track [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao1HQAPRSwo "Vode An"], contain Ominous Mandalorian Chanting.

* [[Opening Scroll]]: A notable aversion for a ''[[Star Wars]]'' game. This is jettisoned in favor of an [[Opening Monologue]] by a Kaminoan scientist, underlying a [[Training Montage]] from your character's perspective, followed by your squad's deployment from Kamino. After this, a series of expository title cards are displayed while a variation of the "Emperor's Theme" is played just before you make the drop to Geonosis.

* [[Operation Blank]]: The [[Strategy Guide]]. A few examples: "Operation Bug Hunt," "Operation Hammer Fist," "Operation [[Ghost Ship]]," and "Operation Fur Ball."

* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: The Deltas use all manner of previously-established in-universe curse words.

'''Boss:''' Eh... Just some interference on the comlink. }}

* [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]]: Your communications with [[Mission Control|01/425]] are subject to interference by jamming devices on two separate occasions, followed by your squad finding it and taking it out of commission to restore communications.

* [[Pillar of Light]]: Each time one of General Grievous's bodyguards is dispatched, the player is rewarded with seeing one of these as they explode.

* [[Psycho Party Member]]: Scorch worries that Sev may be one of these in one of the loading screens:

** Also, on Kashyyyk:

'''Scorch:''' Okay, now ''07's giving me the creeps.'' }}

* [[Put the Laughter In Slaughter]]: Both Scorch and Sev.

* [[Radio Silence]]: If there is one thing in life that Fixer desires aside from gutting enemies with his vibroblade, it might be a Delta Squad that does not clutter up comms with unnecessary chatter. Scorch and Sev, however, seem to have made it their goal in life to deny him this small comfort.

'''Fixer:''' Six-Two, could you can the chatter until you've got something useful to say? }}

* [[Radio Voice]]: Used whenever Republic personnel communicate with one another. Overly prevalent during the first Geonosis level.

* [[Read the Freaking Manual]]: In an in-universe example, upon Delta Squad's first encounter with a [[Mook Maker|droid dispenser]], [[The Watson|Sev asks what it is]]. Fixer subsequently criticizes him for not reading the mission briefing.

* [[Recurring Riff]]: The melody from the chorus of "Vode An" reappears in a number of the game's other songs.

** Or alternatively not let the turrets get hacked in the first place.

* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: The Trandoshan slavers.

* [[Running Gag]]: Scorch's penchant for being creeped out by various things.

'''Sev:''' Everything gives you the creeps. }}

* [[Scare Chord]]: This is used a couple of times when Boss is solo aboard the "Prosecutor".

* [[Shoot the Fuel Tank]]: For reasons that are left unexplained, Trandoshan mercenaries have fuel canisters strapped to their back. Hitting these canisters with any of your weapons will cause them to explode, killing the mercenary and propelling him upwards.

* [[Short-Range Shotgun]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: Scorch does this a lot. While they're mostly ''[[Star Wars]]'' related, there are a couple for things ranging from ''[[Monty Python]]'' to ''[[X-Men]]''.

** The title of the level, "Waking the Giant" refers to a famous (but apocryphal) line of dialogue from the film, ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!|Tora Tora Tora]]''.

* [[The Siege]]: The roaring final battle aboard the ''Prosecutor'' against the Separatist forces about to steal it qualifies.

* [[Smash to Black]]: Used in conjunction with the gunship door slamming shut at the end.

* [[Sorry I'm Late]]: This is the manner in which Fixer finds Boss aboard the ''Prosecutor''.

* [[Space X]]: Said by Scorch while slicing a terminal.

* [[Stanley Steamer Spaceship]]: The "Prosecutor".

* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Lots and lots.

'''Sev:''' Yes you are. }}

* [[Swiss Army Gun]]: Your DC-17m is designed to function as a "normal" blaster rifle, a [[Sniper Rifle]] and a grenade launcher -- provided that you've collected the proper attachments for the latter pair of functions.

* [[Taking You with Me]]: Scav droids at low health will attempt to kill you with a spinning kamikaze attack.

* [[Tempting Fate]]:

'''Sev:''' [[This Is Gonna Suck|Guess what? It's a spider droid.]] }}

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Scorch seems to live by this trope, often wondering if he used enough explosives right after flattening something with a demolitions charge or quipping "Ahh, so that's how it opens" after blowing a door open and deeming the DC-17's anti-armor attachment "a real weapon".

'''Scorch:''' Yes! More explosives! You just made my day, Advisor. }}

* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: When encountering a hallway full of hostile gun turrets aboard the "Prosecutor", Boss's reaction is "Oh, hell" (curiously, the subtitle for this expression is "Not good".

* [[Timed Mission]]: The final Geonosis segment sees Delta Squad running and gunning through the corridors of a Trade Federation core ship with 5 minutes to make it to its bridge in order to access a computer and [[Outrun the Fireball|get out alive before it explodes]].

** In addition, the ending of the second section of the game requires your team to slice automated defenses in order to hold off a Separatist frigate. Constant attacks from battle droids make this difficult, and if you don't slice all four consoles in time the ship is destroyed--a fact that the ship's computer reminds you of by constantly chiming in with how much shield and hull strength remains (although the last 25% of the countdown takes much longer than the rest).

* [[24-Hour Armor]]: Played straight, though justified since Delta Squad is only seen while they are en route to, or executing their mission. Also poked fun of by Scorch in one of the level loading screens:

* [[The Unintelligible]]: Any Wookiee. Fortunately, however, [[Intelligible Unintelligible|01/425]] is around to make sure that the player does not miss any essential information they may be giving him.

* [[Unusable Enemy Equipment]]: As well as unusable ''friendly'' equipment. For the former, there's the sidearms used by battle droids and the staves used by Geonosians and Magna-guards. For the latter, there's the blasters carried by the [[Red Shirt|regular clones]] and (to the aggravation of many) [[Easter Egg|an abandoned lightsaber]] found on the ''Prosecutor''.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: When Boss tells his squad to [[Stuff Blowing Up|blow stuff up]], he says things like "Let's re-arrange some architecture, Deltas!" and "Initiate radical restructuring, commando."

'''Sev:''' Oh, I knew that. }}

* [[Van Helsing Hate Crime]]: Members of Delta Squad really have it in for Trandoshans. Most notably, Sev and Scorch make declarations that "the only good lizard is a dead lizard" and threaten to [[Human Resources|make boots out of them]].

* [[What the Hell, Player?]]: A player ordering a squadmate to do something and then ordering them to do something else or rescinding the order shortly thereafter, blocking a commando's line of fire, getting in his way or simply managing to blow himself up will typically earn him mildly disparaging comments from his squadmates. Canceling an order to have Scorch heal at a bacta tank can cause him to call Boss a sadist.

* [[Where's the Kaboom?]]: Happens during a mission to destroy a bridge on Kashyyyk. Bad enough to get Boss riled up. Apparently he forgot [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|they have a limitless supply of explosives]].

* [[Wire Dilemma]]: Played for laughs occasionally when Scorch is arming a charge.

'''Sev:''' And ''he's'' supposed to be the demolitions expert? }}

* [[You Are Number Six]]: As with all clones in the Grand Army of the Republic, the actual name of each commando in Delta Squad is a number. Though they have nicknames for one another, they still exhibit a tendency to use numbers when addressing one another.

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