History Characters / CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeriesUnits

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Their lines are all phrased as if their pilots are telephone operators.

* TokenMinority: They're all African-American men.

* SweetHomeAlabama: Their polites all have thick southern accents and are all [[NiceGuy Nice Guys]]

* AwesomeAussie: Its driver has an Australian accent. In fact the vehicle was designed by an unknown Australian company.
* BeamSpam: When carrying Imperial Warrior, the Multigunner IFV gains a beam gun that is reasonably powerful against not only infantry, but to light vehicles too.

* TranquilFury: All of their lines are delivered in a dead serious tone, yet it's easy to tell they're fuming with anger deep down.

* CossackDance: They'll occassionally as an Idle Animation.

* TheOnlyBeliever: Inverted. They have no loyalty towards the Soviet Union and nearly all of their lines are apathetically frustrated, and they'll even threaten you.

* DifficultButAwesome: Their ability to infiltrate buildings. It consistently gives a great advantage to the player infiltrating the buildings, whether it be temporarily disabling the power by infiltrating a power structure, giving the corresponding units a veteran bonus if they infiltrate an Infantry or Armor facility in ''Red Alert 2'', or temporarily disabling the corresponding buildings they infiltrate in ''Red Alert 3'', which the additional bonus of infiltrating Tier 3 tech structures causing any Tier 3 unit to temporarily become disabled, even instantly killing the very overpowered Tier 3 aerial units, such as the Giga Fortress or the Harbinger. The problem with this is that it is very easy to counter Spies just by using scout units, which are incredibly cheap, or walling off the tech structure, which is also inexpensive as well.

* AxCrazy: They make their already mildly unstable Red Alert 2 counterparts look completely calm and rational by comparison, as a lot of their lines related to attacking and moving to attack their opponent are about either killing their enemy or expressing their intent to make them suffer in a shaky, giddy tone of voice, with the worst offender out of all of them being them outright angrily complaining that the enemy looks too happy. This has lead to their fellow Soviet soldiers staying far away from them.

* RuleOfCool: Essentially the reason they exist, due to being terminally ill maniacs trapped in heavily armored life support units equipped with highly corrosive toxins.

* PsychopathicManchild: Gives tis impression from its quotes.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Downplayed. They aren't overly specialized, but they're a godsend when it comes to getting rid of a heavily fortified enemy base from a distance, especially when they're able to hide behind the indestructible walls of a map.

* ThreateningShark: Shark imagery painted on its nose.

* DifficultButAwesome: Like the Allied Spies, their infiltration ability is this, as while the Shinobi have the ability to defend themselves against scouts and other infantry as well as being much faster, but their stealth ability is inferior to the Spies, as instead of disguising themselves from an enemy and rendering them safe from every type of unit except for scouts, they instead throw a smoke bomb which just temporarily throws off the enemies targeting.

* DifficultButAwesome: Their ability to infiltrate buildings. It consistently gives a great advantage to the player infiltrating the buildings, whether it be temporarily disabling the power by infiltrating a power structure, giving the corresponding units a veteran bonus if they infiltrate an Infantry or Armor facility in ''Red Alert 2'', or temporarily disabling the corresponding buildings they infiltrate in ''Red Alert 3'', which the additional bonus of infiltrating Tier 3 tech structures causing any Tier 3 unit to temporarily become disabled, even instantly killing the very overpowered Tier 3 aerial units, such as the Giga Fortress or the Harbinger. The problem with this is that any competent player or AI will be sure to create scouts to protect their base from them, and that power or tech structures can be walled off to protect them from spies.

* TheAlcoholic: If you examine a conscript (shifted in defense forces) sitting behind the machine gun in a sentry gun, and the structure is not selected, conscript will snuggle down and will be drinking unknown drink, possibly Vodka, or maybe his Molotov cocktail.

* {{Conscription}}: They became incredibly jingoistic morons, eager to throw themselves at anything declared an enemy. They will eagerly attack an Apocalypse tank while yelling, "Field promotion, here I come!"
* CossackDance: Conscript does it as an Idle Animation.
* LampshadeHanging: In the mission March of the Red Army, which takes place near Lake Geneva, Conscript can be heard to comment on unrealistic aspects of the mission, namely the appearance of Dolphins and Aircraft carriers in the middle of the lake.

* OneHitKill: Can kill a shielded Peacekeeper in one shot with his Molotov Cocktail.
* ThePollyanna: They basically are the cannon fodder of the Soviet forces, and are not even good at that since is ridiculously easy to kill them, still they will always salute you with phrases as "I make Premier proud!" and "Haven't we won yet?", now that's to have spirit.

* StealthBasedMission: The first part of the seventh Soviet mission has you sneak into the Japanese Emperor's palace with a single conscript.
* ZergRush: They're much weaker than Peacekeepers or Warriors, but they're much cheaper too. Throw enough of them at an attack force and they'll eventually win. Most of 'em will be dead, but they'll win.

* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: It is implied that the reason why convicts are the ones to carry the flak cannons is that the work in the Gulag has made them strong enough to carry them.

* FragileSpeedster: While almost insanely quick, they have little in the way of armour and easily succumb to any kind of opposition that has proper anti-infantry weapon. Not as fragile as in ''Red Alert 2'' though.

* {{Sadist}}: They genuinely ENJOY killing and destroying.

* FragileSpeedster: Tengus are quite fast units, especially in Jet Mode, but their armor and damage output are not very good.

* ShoutOut: One of the lines said by the Tengu pilots is "[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Who do they think they are?]]"

* OneHitPolykill: However every target past the first unit hit will suffer less damage.

!!!Lasher tank

* {{Nerd}}: The Allied Engineers, starting from ''Red Alert 2''. They speak in a NasallyNerdVoice and even yell "Excelsior", a clear reference to the late famed comic book author Creator/StanLee, who was known for saying this word.

* ButtMonkey: Both the Imperial and Allied Engineers have very unflattering descriptions in ''Red Alert 3'', except for the Soviet Combat Engineer, whose description described them as "grizzled men of action", but they also have comedic lines like their Allied and Imperial equivalents.

* GermanicEfficiency: In ''Red Alert 3'', the Allied MCV was design by Strauss-Fuhrmann Autowerks of Germany.

!!![=Cryo Legionnaire=]

* DualModeUnit: The Multigunner IFV could carry a single infantryman, and swapped out its missiles for a different weapon depending on which trooper was in it.

* OnlySaneMan: Of the three tanks in the Tutorial, while the Hammer tank is stupid and the Tsunami tank spends most of its time abusing said Hammer tank, the Guardian mostly tries to focus on teaching the player.

%%* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: *Snort* [[AvertedTrope Averted]].

* DashingHispanic: The pilots all have thick Spanish accents and have voices that are best described as sounding sleazy, but cool at the same time.

* TankGoodness: The Apocalypse Tank is the most powerful Tank in the world. Its dual cannons already make it a force to be reckoned with, and its Magnetic Grapple can lure its targets towards its grinder, or makes the Tank approach structures and shreds them.

* AxCrazy: They make their already mildly unstable Red Alert 2 counterparts look completely calm and rational by comparison, as a lot of their lines related to attacking and moving to attack their opponent are about either killing their enemy or expressing their intent to make them suffer, with the worst offender being one that has them angrily complain that the enemy looks too happy. This has lead to their fellow soviet soldiers staying far away from them.

* JackOfAllTrades: Because it is available in relatively short supply and packs so much firepower, the Reaper is fairly expensive to produce, even more so than a Soviet main battle tank. While most Soviet forces are considered to be specialized and efficient, the Reaper can be seen as something of a jack-of-all-trades, but while being a jack-of-all-trades, it is very effective in doing its job.

* BoringButPractical: Only relative to the (still useful) Allied Athena Cannon & Imperial Waveforce Artillery. It doesn't shoot energy like the Waveforce, a Satelite LASER like the Athenas, or have a DeflectorShield like the Athena, but it's less expensive than both at $1200 (vs $1400 & $1800 respectively), has cluster rockets that have much better splash damage than both rival artillery pieces, and their cruise missiles are not vulnerable to anti-air like the V3 was. Their main drawback is the travel time of the missiles, making them vulnerable to more mobile vehicles and even infantry.

!!!Kirov airship

* ShoutOut: Of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk (in early appearances, the Hulk even had a gray skin personality named "Joe Fix It", like the Brutes). Additionally, their line "It is clobbering time, no?" is a reference to the "Joe Fix It," and The Thing, another comic book character of Marvel.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Barring the Shogun Executioner, the Giga-Fortress is considered as one of the most powerful units in the entire game. In their sea form, wields an array of multiple cannons and rocket launchers that can overpower most naval and air units. What's even more intimidating is their aerial form that comes with [[BreathWeapon giant lasers in their mouths]] that can annihilate anything in a ridiculously long range. However to be able to build these transforming behemoths, you have to reach the highest tech level in your Imperial Docks and a whopping '''6300''' credits to spare (the most expensive unit in the game more so than the MCVs and superweapons of the three factions). And not only that, you have to secure their deployment as they are built through Nanocores (and they are so fragile that even losing one is already an economic disaster). In combat it is far from being invincible as there are a myriad of hard counters to, if not completely destroy, render them useless due to their super slow speed and the [[CripplingOverspecialization side-effects of their transforming abilities]].

* {{Foil}}: To the Apocalypse Tank. They're both some of the largest armored vehicles in their respective factions which both have alternate modes, and they also both are distinctive for their twin weapons, with the main differences being that the Pacifier FAV wields anti-infantry miniguns, immobilizes itself to attack from a distance in it's weapons platform form, while the Apocalypse Tank has two anti-armor cannons, and drags other units near it to attack up-close with it's grinders with it's Magnetic Harpoon while retaining it's mobility. The personalities of their pilots are also opposites, as the Pacifier pilots are dead serious and exist in a constant state of TranquilFury, while the Apocalypse Tank pilots are sadistically cruel and often laugh and mock their enemies. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking they also quote two well known political figures, in the form of]] UsefulNotes/RichardNixon and UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev.

* MightyGlacier: Subverted from its {{Lightning Bruiser}} status as it is the slowest aircraft in the Allied arsenal but it's ungodly tough (Only augmented by its self-repair feature and the Allies being able to enhance it with Advanced aeronautics), and capable of leveling entire bases on it's own.

** Like all infantry units, Engineers can capture depiloted vehicles in ''Red Alert 3''. Being the only human, non-Commando infantry unit that can swim in that game, they are the only infantry that can capture depiloted ships.

Being an offshoot of Tesla suit technology, the Desolator is armed with sprayed concoction that kills infantry directly, which can also clear garrisons

* AxCrazy: They practically ''snarl'' all their lines, and one of them even has them complaining that the enemy looks too happy. It's even noted that their fellow Soviet troopers stay FAR away from them.

* PoisonedWeapons: The Desolator is a deadly unit against infantry, splashing his victims with toxins. If the enemy sends in vehicles in response, the Desolator can use his Splattershot Gun to make its armour more vulnerable to Toxins.

* RuleOfCool: The residue from which is used in their Desolator weaponry.

* PsychopathicManchild

* BoringYetPractical: Not as flashy as other ground attack aircraft but arguably the most useful. Its ability to attack while moving also makes them less vulnerable to opposing anti-air fire. There's also the strategy of simply creating many airbases all at once to create an entire horde of them, which is nothing too flashy but is capable of destroying multiple structures in one go depending on how many they are.