History Fanfic / XCOMSecondContact

** Shepard [[spoiler: referring to Sovereign, damaged in the nuke on Virmire]]: [[{{Predator}} "If it bleeds, we can kill it."]]

* TheBattlestar: X-COM's supercarriers are a subversion, not being meant for direct combat despite their sheer size. They use psi-portals to deploy smaller craft in the field and their "main guns" are actually four one-kilometer long Fusion Lance/MAC hybrid mobile artillery ships.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Per WordOfGod, in this setting, neither the Catalyst nor the Leviathans exist.

** [[Franchise/Transformers Optimus the Geth Prime]]

* FanonDiscontinuity[[hottip:*:Normally, this would go on the YMMV page, but these are here specifically because WordOfGod has stated that these were bad ideas by bad writers who should feel bad that they came up with them.]]: There is no Crucible. The Leviathans never existed.

* TheBattlestar: X-COM's Supercarriers are a subversion, not being meant for direct combat despite their sheer size. They use psi-portals to deploy smaller craft in the field and their "main guns" are actually four one-kilometer long Fusion Lance/MAC hybrid mobile artillery ships.
* BadAss: Shepard, Wrex, really the whole crew. Lets just expand that to all of X-COM to be safe, since even the OC X-COM Grunts that didn't make it past Eden Prime (Not a Spoiler, this is a X-COM Story, next-to-nameless grunts dying is just as expected here as in a Song of Fire and Ice) were badass. They just ran into a Reaper.

** Councillor Valern suggesting that XCOM [[spoiler:arranged Nihlus' death on Virmire has Shepard outright threatening to hang the Salarian Councilor by his own intestines.]] This is in front of the Citadel Council.

** [[spoiler:Councilor Valern suggesting that XCOM arranged Nihlus' death has Shepard outright threatening to hang the Salarian Councilor by his own intestines.]] This is in front of the Council via video chat.

** [[spoiler:Councilor Valern suggesting that XCOM arranged Nihlus' death had Shepard outright threatening to hang the Salarian Councilor by his own intestines.]]

** The tank-bred Krogan here aren't standard issue Krogan. They've had incredibly tough (and [[OhCrap plasma-resistant]]) armor fused to their bodies, been implanted with some unknown tech that allows said armor to heal, and they're fifty percent bigger than regular Krogan. They also don't [[TheBerserker feel fear or pain]]. And Saren has an army of them.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Jack Harper, [[spoiler:after he was found and put on trial for treason and prior to his execution, gave an absolutely awesome speech about why he did what he did.]]

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** One of the specimens in the Virmire labs is [[spoiler: a human child being Huskified.]]

* BodyHorror: The tank-bred Krogan here aren't standard issue Krogan. They've had incredibly tough (and [[OhCrap plasma-resistant]]) armor fused to their bodies, been implanted with some unknown tech that allows said armor to heal, and they're fifty percent bigger than regular Krogan. They also don't [[TheBerserker feel fear or pain]]. And Saren has an army of them.