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*** As well as Jimmy Space, but nobody seems to know where that one came from.

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*** As well as Jimmy Space, but nobody seems to know where that one came from.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhspXkE8wVQ as he is the inventor of the Space Marines]].
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* [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]

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* [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]Battle]]''



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* TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar''

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*** The Classics: The nickname for the newly-designed [[note]]starting in 2015 and continuing to roll out (with a small delay thanks to [[HereWeGoAgain YET ANOTHER FREAKIN' HARMONY GOLD LAWSUIT...]] that mercifully was dismissed with prejudice, ending the legal trainwreck once and for all) through the early 2020s[[/note]] redesigns of the Unseen, created to finally allow use of the designs in all eras (the Reseen were, in universe, strictly a Civil-War/Jihad era phenomenon). These designs are meant to strongly evoke without outright copying the original anime designs, and also were an opportunity for Catalyst to redesign them to better fit the modern Battletech aesthetic.



*** B-Mer, B-Master: The ''Battlemaster''

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*** B-Mer, B-Master: B-Master, Beemer: The ''Battlemaster''




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** Mad Max: Maximilian Liao, Chancellor of the Capellan Confederation in the waning days of the Third Succession War and up till the end of the Fourth. He was known for having a... tenuous... grip on sanity, and was pushed off the deep end with the HumiliationCongaLine that was the Confederation's near dismemberment in the Fourth Succession War (and the absolute [[MagnificentBastard magnificent bastardry]] that Hanse Davion pulled on him in revenge for an earlier scheme by Max, including insinuating a FakeDefector mole into the highest levels of his government). All this left Max Liao nearly non-functioning and needing to be institutionalized.
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** TruckMonkey - Frontline Ape, because of the truck held overhead, and in reference to the Transformers meme.

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** TruckMonkey Truck Monkey - Frontline Ape, because of the truck held overhead, and in reference to the Transformers meme.
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Indentation failure.


* Zombiemech - A mech with most or all of its weapons in its torso, meaning that losing its arms does not reduce its effectiveness. So-named because only a head or torso shot will actually have an effect.

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* ** Zombiemech - A mech with most or all of its weapons in its torso, meaning that losing its arms does not reduce its effectiveness. So-named because only a head or torso shot will actually have an effect.
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** Failaddon / Failbaddon - Abaddon the Despoiler, thanks to losing all 13 Black Crusades and never making it past Cadia despite having an army of Space Marines, Daemons and Cults vastly outnumbering the Imperial Forces.

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** Failaddon / Failbaddon - Abaddon the Despoiler, thanks to losing all 13 Black Crusades and never making it past Cadia despite having an army of Space Marines, Daemons and Cults vastly outnumbering the Imperial Forces. Not so common after the {{Retcon}} that all of the Black Crusades ''accomplished'' their goals (the attacks on Cadia being distractions), with the following Black Crusade reducing Cadia to its component atoms and sucking half the galaxy into the Warp.
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* Zombiemech - A mech with most or all of its weapons in its torso, meaning that losing its arms does not reduce its effectiveness. So-named because only a head or torso shot will actually have an effect.
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** Diplomancy: The GameBreaker Diplomacy skill in 3.5, so named because it was often more effective than magic for taking enemy combatants out of the fight by ''befriending them in the middle of a battle''.

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** Diplomancy: The GameBreaker Diplomacy skill in 3.5, 0, so named because it was often more effective than magic for taking enemy combatants out of the fight by ''befriending them in the middle of a battle''.
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*** As well as Jimmy Space, but nobody seems to know where that one came from.
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** [[Franchise/{{Gundam}} Mobile Suit Nundam]] - The Sisters of Battle's Paragon Warsuits
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** WesternAnimation/{{Wile E Coyote|AndTheRoadrunner}} Award: Given to a player whose who creates a sequence that results in their own destruction, without any intervention from other bots.

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** WesternAnimation/{{Wile E Coyote|AndTheRoadrunner}} Award: Given to a player whose who creates a sequence that results in their own destruction, without any intervention from other bots.
bots. The original Wile E Coyote Award winner was a player who blew himself up with his own Buzz Bomb.
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** ''Crit Fishing'': In 5E, when rolling with Advantage, if a player rolls high enough to hit on the first roll, they will usually roll again anyway in hope of getting a Natural 20.
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** Catholic Space Capitalists: [=PanOceania=], a reference to "Catholic Space Nazis" for Warhammer 40K's Imperium.
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** Pile of Shame - Miniatures that one has acquired and not yet assembled/painted.
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* ''Anime/CardfightVanguard''

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* ''Anime/CardfightVanguard''''TabletopGame/CardfightVanguard''
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** 3.75, 3.PF - ''[[TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} Pathfinder]]'', the most popular and enduring of all attempts to keep the 3.5 rules set alive, currently the world's best-selling roleplaying game (although [=ICV2=] 3rd quarter numbers, which would reflect Gen Con and the release of D&D 5th Edition, aren't in yet).

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** 3.75, 3.PF - ''[[TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} Pathfinder]]'', the most popular and enduring of all attempts an attempt to keep the 3.5 5E rules set alive, currently alive that was so successful it's now on its own second edition. It was the world's best-selling roleplaying game (although [=ICV2=] 3rd quarter numbers, which would reflect Gen Con and for bit before 5th edition was released (and subsequently became extremely popular), filling the release of D&D 5th Edition, aren't in yet).gap left by the generally unpopular 4th edition.
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** The Hearteaters, Umbral Exalted and Dream-Souled are collectively known as any of the Optional/Auxiliary/Appendix Exalted, being ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, [[LooseCanon optional Exalted]] outlined in the appendix to the Exigents splatbook.

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** The Hearteaters, Umbral Exalted and Dream-Souled are collectively known as any of the Optional/Auxiliary/Appendix Optional/Apocryphal/Auxiliary/Appendix Exalted, being ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, [[LooseCanon optional Exalted]] outlined in the appendix to the Exigents splatbook.
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** Lead Belt - The area around Nottingham where Creator/GamesWorkshop and several other miniatures manufacturers are based, despite the fact that [[ArtifactTitle miniatures (even only counting metal ones) usually haven't been made out of lead since the 90s]].
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** Very Fun Dragon: A sarcastic name for True King Of All Calamities. Its full name being cumbersome to type out, many players shorten it to “VFD”, an unexplained acronym included in the card’s Japanese name. Due to the card’s consistent presence and his powerful, easy, and oppressive floodgate effect, many players sarcastically claim the VFD stands for “Very Fun Dragon”, because it is ''so'' much fun to have to deal with his effect being employed by about half the decks in the Mets game.
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** The Yozi (Demon Prince) She Who Lives In Her Name, an utterly alien being consisting of spheres orbiting around spheres orbiting around a fire, is sometimes called "Swillin'", from the acronym "SWLIHN".

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** The Yozi (Demon Prince) She Who Lives In Her Name, an utterly alien being consisting of spheres orbiting around spheres orbiting around a fire, central sphere, is sometimes called "Swillin'", from the acronym "SWLIHN".



** In addition to game elements, the source book ''Savant and Sorceror'' garners a host of fan nicknames, mostly due to its [[http://bestgamewallpapers.com/files/exalted/savant-sorcerer.jpg gratuitously pornified cover.]]

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** In addition to game elements, the source book sourcebook ''Savant and Sorceror'' garners a host of fan nicknames, mostly due to its [[http://bestgamewallpapers.com/files/exalted/savant-sorcerer.jpg gratuitously pornified cover.]]




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** XS or [=ExEss=] for ''Exalted Essence'', a streamlined version of 3e.
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** Cheerleaders: Models that don't do anything and are only included to give an army extra orders.
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** Cap'n Gabe - Literature/BloodRavens Brother Captain (later Chapter Master) Gabriel Angelos.

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** Cap'n Gabe - Literature/BloodRavens Blood Ravens Brother Captain (later Chapter Master) Gabriel Angelos.
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*** Party Van: The Partisan anti-air tank.
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** ''Cleric Initiative'': Last in the initiative order, since clerics are the least likely to have high Dexterity or other initiative bonuses.
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** [[http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19869366/The_most_powerful_character._EVER.?pg=1 Pun-Pun]] - A character who uses the Sarrukh's Manipulate Form ability to give themselves any ability they want. ''[[AGodAmI Any]]''. From a famous message-board post with a Kobold named Pun-Pun using this ability to demonstrate exactly how silly it could get, and in Pun-Pun's case that's the single silliest GameBreaker yet known.

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** [[http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19869366/The_most_powerful_character._EVER.?pg=1 Pun-Pun]] - A character who uses the Sarrukh's Manipulate Form ability to give themselves any ability they want. ''[[AGodAmI Any]]''.''Any''. From a famous message-board post with a Kobold named Pun-Pun using this ability to demonstrate exactly how silly it could get, and in Pun-Pun's case that's the single silliest GameBreaker yet known.
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** Spell Speed 4: Any effect that cannot be responded to by cards or effects, based on the Spell Speed system used to determine which cards can be used in response to which. As Spell Speeds officially only go up to 3 and cards can only be responded to by effects with equal or higher Spell Speed, a hypothetical Spell Speed 4 would not allow anything in the game to respond to it.
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** "Floater" for any card that replaces itself in card advantage, either on summon or when it leaves the field. Examples include the Gadgets which keep your hand fueled with a stream of monsters as they search each other out, or the Hands which bring out the other when destroyed.
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** Fabulous Bill - Fabius Bile
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Mistake on my part, now corrected, sorry


** Mexican Marines - The Crimson Fists, due to many of their members having Latin-American or Spanish names (not to mention their backstory is full-on {{Mayincatec}}).

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** Mexican Marines - The Crimson Fists, due to many of their members having Latin-American or Spanish names (not to mention their backstory is full-on {{Mayincatec}}).names.
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** "Beatstick" is often use to describe monsters that have a high ATK stat, are easily summoned, but don't have any outstanding effects. (or no effect at all, in the case of normal monsters)
** "Glorified Beatstick" is also used to describe monsters that are more difficult to summon, have high attack, and do have a variety of effects... [[PowerupLetDown but nearly all of said effects they have really aren't that useful to justify the summoning cost,]] or are incredibly easy to get off the field once summoned regardless.
** "Boss Monster" is often used to refer to any particularly powerful monster that's tied to an archetype and has a powerful effect that makes dealing with it difficult, as well as being difficult to summon and often requiring cards from said archetype to even get it on the field. Naturally, true to the name, once it's ''on'' the field, it feels like a BossBattle trying to get it ''off'' the field.


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** "Cookie Cutter" was a term from the 2000's, when archetypes were largely under-developed and beatdown was the reigning strategy. The term describes how [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome every deck looked the same]], with at least half the deck consisting of [[BoringButPractical "staples"]]. It got an extended form, "CCCC", meaning "Cookie Cutter Chaos Control" after the introduction of the [[GameBreaker Envoys]] and before the banlist was implemented.


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** "Staples" are BoringButPractical cards with good effects and no activation conditions, allowing them to be used in any Deck.

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