History Funny / TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope

* While most of the text accompanying [[https://i.redd.it/ah0js42uof751.png defeats of Russian warlords]] [[TearJerker/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope are usually dour]], some are BlackComedy, especially when it comes to [[KickTheSonOfABitch less savory warlords getting put down]]:

* One Free English event - "A Conversation in the Foreign Office" to be precise - sees St John-Stevas struggle tremendously to get a straight answer out of his secretary on whether the CIA has plants in the Civil Service. The ensuing conversation is more at home in ''Series/YesMinister'' than something like TNO, with the secretary giving the most convoluted, jargon-packed and non-committal answer one could possibly imagine. [[TranslationYes Stevas immediately recognises it as a no]]. It seems British politics is a farce in every timeline!

* While Chep Morrison's utter failure to pass the Urban Affairs Act and [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter overall inability to live up to Hart's legacy]] is a big tearjerker, the player will be in for a surprise should they [[DevelopersForesight use console commands]] to pass the Urban Affairs Act. [[https://imgur.com/a/RPVBQi4 First Lady Zsa Zsa Gabor]] will enter the Oval Office and [[WhatTheHellPlayer berate the player for using console commands]], before ''pulling out a gun'' [[TilMurderDoUsPart and shooting poor Chep in the head.]] She then proceeds to establish herself as a [[TheQueenpin radical liberal dictator leading America.]]

** John Glenn tries to discuss the nuclear arms race in an attempt to discuss disarmament. Bormann scoffs as he really wants to talk about the space race. [[EmperorScientist Glenn]] eagerly responds with a boast of his own. Good to see that the leaders of the two superpowers have their priorities set.
--->"A friendly competition?"

*** He makes it [[PrecisionFStrike prefectly clear]] what he thinks of Harrington's book and Vanity Fair cred, and tells the latter his turtlenecks [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero make him look gay]].

* The Passionariyy Organization broadcasts a talk show known as [[StrawmanNewsMedia Radio Free Syktyvkar]], hosted by Igor Shafarevich and Sergey Taboritsky. The first thing they report is President Nikolai Voznesensky allegedly having a scandalous relationship with a young woman, which is then said to be one of many scandals they've tried to perpetuate regarding him. They segue onto the ongoing diplomatic discussions between Voznesensky and Chairman Zhdanov, who they then mock since they know Suslov's ''really'' in charge. It's one thing to see the likes of [[EvilReactionary Shafarevich]] and ''[[TheCalligula Taboritsky]]'' behaving like GossipyHens on the air, but it's especially funny to know that this event [[LethalJokeItem can actually weaken Komi's center faction]], even if it's a small amount.

* The Passionariyy Organization broadcasts a talk show known as [[StrawmanNewsMedia Radio Free Syktyvkar]], hosted by Igor Shafarevich and Sergey Taboritsky. The first thing they report is President Nikolai Voznesensky allegedly having a scandalous relationship with a young woman, which is then said to be one of many scandals they've tried to perpetuate regarding him. They segue onto the ongoing diplomatic discussions between Voznesensky and Chairman Zhdanov, who they then mock since they know Suslov's ''really'' in charge. It's one thing to see the likes of Shafarevich and ''Taboritsky'' behaving like GossipyHens on the air, but it's especially funny to know that this event [[LethalJokeItem can actually weaken Komi's center faction]], even if it's a small amount.

* Players browsed through the game files and found [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/i621pz/all_the_memeweird_portraits/ joke portraits]], like UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush with a Japan tag, Himmler in England (with the internal name of [[{{Pun}} Heinrich_HMMLR]])[[note]]this one is [[https://reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/i9p10n/heinrich_hmmlr_ruling_england/ actually used ingame]], as the ruler of England if the player uses the console to convert the country to Esoteric Nazism[[/note]], "[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Punished Stalin]]" (a heavily scarred Stalin with an eyepatch) in Tyumen [[note]]this one is lifted from Stalin's ''VideoGame/{{Kaiserredux}} portrait''[[/note]], Alexander Kolchak ([[PosthumousCharacter a skeleton]] in a military uniform) in Chita [[note]]A reference to Kaiserreich's Transamur Republic.[[/note]], Creator/ToddHoward ([[TakeThat dressed in a SS uniform]]) in Burgundy, [[UsefulNotes/RapaNui a moai]] in Omsk...

** When switching Croatia to Esoteric Nazism, some players discovered that the nation will [[https://i.imgur.com/zFh48H0.png rename itself]] to "This Is My First Map [[{{Emoticon}} :)]]." It may be a TakeThat at people who show off their biased political ideas in the form of alternate history projects.
** An Esoteric Nazi England shows "Heinrich HMMLR" in power, whose profile clearly states that he is [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not at all related to]] the [[ButHeSoundsHandsome "ravishingly handsome"]] Himmler, though he insists that he has personally met Himmler several times and even have photos of the two of them together, which he, unfortunately, cannot show off because he accidentally left them in his other wallet. He forgoes his actual last name [[PaperThinDisguise and adopts the acronym in its place to hide his identity]], and the profile [[VerbalBackspace keeps stumbling over its words]] to excuse his [[SarcasmMode vague but totally convincing]] background. And his accent sounds Germanic only because he's more Anglo-Saxon than most (emphasis on Saxon). Additionally, his agenda is to send massive amounts of funding elsewhere, invest in researching atomic power, introduce foreign experts for military training, and build a ''really'' deep metro system. Don't ask him how or why he plans to do this; he'll just glare at you. This also doubles as a DevelopmentGag: in older versions of the lore and game, the HMMLR was originally supposed to be influenced by Burgundian agents.
** [[https://preview.redd.it/b3dy2jvarfd81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=48feb377e3bead61164f955f0b3fac5464124040 Should you change Uruguay's ideology to Esoteric Nazism]], its leader will be Domingo Tortorelli, whose [[https://preview.redd.it/azxc6m9brfd81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=3334bdd22ef3dff35ca4d6136a6b6e355071e451 description]] mentions him suggesting LoonyLaws such as 15 minute work day and calling him a moron, as well as you for using the console.

* One of the Loading Tips for the game is

It is loaded with {{Irony}}. Suffice to say, this is no doubt a propaganda poster made by the [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Aryan Brotherhood]].

** [[https://i.redd.it/mykh0xuxxyg91.jpg Switching Sloviakia's ideology to Ultranationalism gives you a portrait of Goebbels smoking weed.]][[note]]which is based on his (now-removed) VideoGame/Kaiserredux portrait[[/note]]

** [[https://i.redd.it/mykh0xuxxyg91.jpg Switching Sloviakia's ideology to Ultranationalism gives you a portrait of Goebbels smoking weed.]]

* Early in a Germany game, Adolf Hitler visits the Führermuseum to officially open the new art exhibit and begins lamenting the deaths of German artists, including Adolf Ziegler and Arno Breker. Cue the crowd slowly turning to Breker, ''very much alive'' and now [[ImpliedDeathThreat fearing for his life]].

** As of Toolbox Theory, each President prior to 1968 gets a personalized event for the end of the South African War depending on the outcome. If the OFN should somehow win the war prior to Nixon's resignation, General William Westmoreland and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird will both express bafflement at the improbability of the [=RKs=] collapsing so quickly, similar to the world event of Wales defeating England. Nixon, for his part, doesn't care.

* If Wales ''somehow'' manages to win a war against England, you get [[https://i.redd.it/imsv8guqh5h51.png this event.]] Even the game itself is baffled about how that's possible, with it theorizing that the victory was a penance delivered against England for its sins, or that Wales made a pact with eldritch entities.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WhatWereYouThinking Well, what else were you expecting from]] ''[[MoralEventHorizon enforcing American apartheid]]'', [[WhatAnIdiot Mr. President?]]]]

** And then there's [[https://i.redd.it/h6sirkyjnf161.jpg the event of WerBell's national unification]] under the "[[{{Eagleland}} United States of Russia]]", which, [[BookEnds once again]], breaks out the booze by the gallon-load. Then, as [=WerBell=] thinks about how there is still a bit of [[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry native resistance]] to his rule, [[DistractedByTheSexy it completely derails]] when a Russian prostitute shows him "[[GagBoobs Two somethings]], to be exact, and some of the biggest ones he'd ever seen".

* [[https://i.redd.it/d8klo062pooa1.jpg The icon for the Russian-Wolgadeutsch culture]] is a StylisticSuck crying emoji. [[note]]Note that this icon is actually the fallback culture icon, aka the icon that appears if no other icon is made for that culture[[/note]]

* [[https://i.redd.it/d8klo062pooa1.jpg The icon for the Russian-Wolgadeutsch culture]] is a StylisticSuck crying emoji. [[Note]]Note that this icon is actually the fallback culture icon, aka the icon that appears if no other icon is made for that culture[[/Note]]

* [[https://i.redd.it/d8klo062pooa1.jpg The icon for the Russian-Wolgadeutsch culture]] is a StylisticSuck crying emoji.

* [https://i.redd.it/d8klo062pooa1.jpg The icon for the Russian-Wolgadeutsch culture] is a StylisticSuck crying emoji.

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* To further establish his CultOfPersonality, Bormann commissions for a television show to be made about him saving Germany, appealing to younger audiences. What follows is a ComingOfAgeStory surrounding audiences watching a Saturday morning cartoon of the Führer being a superhero. A young boy, in his favorite "Bormann t-shirt," watches as his hero in knightly armor defeats the other factions of the Civil War.[[note]] Said "Bormann t-shirt" might or might not be a nod to the time a user made a "[[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/j2xj8e/my_speer_hoodie_arrived_today/ Speer Hoodie]]", to the bafflement of the entire TNO fandom.[[/note]]

* [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/kzmfjc/finally_after_many_fights_and_losing_so_much/ One player]] managed to use Nowa Polska to ''annex and reunite all of Russia''. It took them two decades to do it, but still. Poland is not yet lost, indeed.

* Players browsed through the game files and found [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/i621pz/all_the_memeweird_portraits/ joke portraits]], like UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush with a Japan tag, Himmler in England (with the internal name of [[{{Pun}} Heinrich_HMMLR]])[[note]]this one is [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/i9p10n/heinrich_hmmlr_ruling_england/ actually used ingame]], as the ruler of England if the player uses the console to convert the country to Esoteric Nazism[[/note]], "[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Punished Stalin]]" (a heavily scarred Stalin with an eyepatch) in Tyumen [[note]]this one is lifted from Stalin's ''VideoGame/{{Kaiserredux}} portrait''[[/note]], Alexander Kolchak ([[PosthumousCharacter a skeleton]] in a military uniform) in Chita [[note]]A reference to Kaiserreich's Transamur Republic.[[/note]], Creator/ToddHoward ([[TakeThat dressed in a SS uniform]]) in Burgundy, [[UsefulNotes/RapaNui a moai]] in Omsk...
** One player browsing through Brazil's leader portraits found [[https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/rfggqm/why_the_hell_are_there_10_portraits_of_quadros_in/ ten different portraits]] of potential president Jânio Quadros. Only one of these portraits is actually used, and after seeing the others, it's easy to see why. Devs later admitted it's not even DummiedOut content; Quadros just made so many bizarre expressions in public appearances that the portrait artists couldn't resist. And the No Step Back compatibility update adds ''[[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/806276324297539586/983114288921210890/portraits.png even more]]''.

** An Esoteric Nazi England shows "Heinrich HMMLR" in power, whose profile clearly states that he is [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not at all related to]] the [[ButHeSoundsHandsome "ravishingly handsome"]] Himmler, though he insists that he has personally met Himmler several times and even have photos of the two of them together, which he unfortunately cannot show off because he accidentally left them in his other wallet. He forgoes his actual last name [[PaperThinDisguise and adopts the acronym in its place to hide his identity]], and the profile [[VerbalBackspace keeps stumbling over its words]] to excuse his [[SarcasmMode vague but totally convincing]] background. And his accent sounds Germanic only because he's more Anglo-Saxon than most (emphasis on Saxon). Additionally, his agenda is to send massive amounts of funding elsewhere, invest in researching atomic power, introduce foreign experts for military training, and build a ''really'' deep metro system. Don't ask him how or why he plans to do this; he'll just glare at you. This also doubles as a DevelopmentGag: in older versions of the lore and game, the HMMLR was originally supposed to be influenced by Burgundian agents.
** [[https://preview.redd.it/b3dy2jvarfd81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=48feb377e3bead61164f955f0b3fac5464124040 Should you change Uruguay's ideology to Esoteric Nazism]], it's leader will be Domingo Tortorelli, whose [[https://preview.redd.it/azxc6m9brfd81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=3334bdd22ef3dff35ca4d6136a6b6e355071e451 description]] mentions him suggesting LoonyLaws such as 15 minute work day and calling him a moron, as well as you for using the console.