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21st Dec '12 9:29:21 AM EarlOfSandvich

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* This troper lol'd when he found himself in direct oversight of Operation Hot Paramour.
** Someone on Spacebattles got [[http://imgur.com/y6mF2 "Operation Swift Tears"]]. That's not foreboding in the slightest!
** On that note: "Operation Dying Hero"
** "Operation Lazy God" sure is encouraging.
** "Operation Silent Night"... in the middle of the day.
** "Operation Vengeful Vengeance."
** "Operation Hot Ring." Bonus points for being the alien base.
** "Operation Black Hero" the first person who died int he mission was black. The sole survivor? Also Black. (In case your wondering everyone else in the party was white/asian)
** "Operation [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Fallen Fall]]"
** "Operation Crystal Stallion" - Apparently, Central must have liked [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Season 3]]
** "Operation Rotting Empire" - In the UK and in Australia on another play-through.
** This troper got "Broken Hymn"... on her first mission. What does this remind you of?
** "Operation Bloody Future", the first Terror Mission in my [[FourIsDeath 4th playthrough]] (in China, no less). Also, one of my Heavies on that mission is nicknamed "Collateral". Very encouraging.
** "Operation FinalJustice." Think you can take me, xeno? Go ahead on. It's yer move.
* The reactions your troopers have to getting mindcontrolled can fit in here. "He's in my head, he's in my...[[BlatantLies everything is fine. Nothing to worry about]]."
** YMMV: to some, that [[DissonantSerenity calm voice]] after the panicked one is [[CreepyMonotone creepy as hell.]]
* Having a rookie wound a muton then fail the will check against it's intimidate, causing them to panic and go berserk killing the muton. Thus finishing the mission with a perfect score.
* Killing a Floater through over-watch when they are just starting to move. For those of you that haven't seen this, floaters turn on their thrusters to max when taking off, then turn them down to land where they want, you shoot them when they are just starting to move, those guys ragdoll at the same speed till they hit the invisible barrier wall of the map.
** Extra hilarious when the Floater is launched straight up... they never come back down!
** The same thing can happen with Cyberdisks and other flying enemies in certain maps with 'bottomless pits' (such as the Alien Base or a Battleship). The corpse or wreckage will fall off the map, camera in tow... and then the camera has to hurriedly pan back to the action when the corpse/wreck is deleted.
** This troper once stunned a Muton at the Alien Base. The Muton slipped down some rails into a bottomless pit. I didnn't have a chance to stun another one, yet in the distance I saw the Muton falling and falling and falling. The second stun was of course the Sectoid Commander since he is alone and at worse causes just some damage. Still how the hell my troops got a hold of the stunned Muton was a major Headscratcher.
* Muton Berserkers sometimes wig out and run back and forth - if the squad is prepared this can lead to a hilarious HumiliationConga as the Berserker trips Overwatch after successive-Overwatch. Bonus points if some of that Overwatch is from [[MoreDakka Sentinel-classed Supports]].
** Some players have taken to just luring the Berserker from one soldier to another, going round and round, until it dies.
** Sometimes, it just takes one. With a reasonably powerful enough weapon, an Assault can Rapid Fire a Berserker and hit twice, have it charge at him or her, only to trigger the Close Combat Specialist ability from that same Assault, ending with one dead Berserker.
* During a terror mission after managing to kill a whole pack of chryssalids except for one who was standing right next to a civilian. Having it charge the squad, jumping over a counter to do so, and promptly get shot dead by the assault class Colonel who had Close Combat Specialist
* One of the successful Arc Thrower capture quotes is [[BackToTheFuture 1.21 jiggawatts, baby!]]
* Buildings can remain standing even if only a single wall tile remains. Try staying straight faced while that building in the middle of the graveyard is somehow standing with a single row of burnt bricks holding the entire building up as plasma fire is exchanged between the XCOM squad and a bunch of Thin Men.
* It's ''exceptionally'' unlikely to happen, but non-explosive friendly fire does seem to exist in the game. Imagine - an Assault in low/half cover is outflanked by a Muton two tiles to his south-east, with a Berzerker standing directly next to him, to his north-west, directly opposite the other Muton. The Berzerker has two hit points remaining from earlier attacks from the squad. The outflanking Muton raises its plasma rifle to attack - and you can't miss at that range, right? ''Wrong''. [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy It misses]]. The first shot goes wide, the second two shots smack straight into the Berzerker's face and kill it. ''Friendly Fire Isn't.''
* Thin Men are annoying, right? Especially in Council missions, in which they decide to drop out of the sky at random in a perfect spot to kill your hostage... Except they always seem to land in the same spots. If you know they're coming, you can just overwatch all your soldiers and when the [[SlenderManMythos Slender-wannabe]] drops down, acting all high and mighty [[ZergRush all your soldiers fire at him at once]]. [[NightmareRetardant So much for scary infiltrating aliens.]]
* My first psi-trooper is... my 60 year Japanese home-stay father, the team's resident BadassGrandpa. That alone makes me burst out laughing. Then it hits me: I had declared his game avatar was also a HotBlooded BoisterousBruiser, who takes the crazy risks [[PapaWolf so the rest of the team won't have to]], so he took all the offensive Assault specialties. My most valuable trooper is now also [[GlassCannon my most vulnerable one]].
* This troper's first encounter with mutons they put half my team in an infirmary. The second appearance however, a squad of three ran in a tight formation taking cover in a parking lot, it took a single rocket to kill them all. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
* The naming system can produce som funny moments: A rookie with the last name of Claus saved his team's asses thanks to his medkits. the kicker though, is that upon promotion, it turned out his nickname was 'Santa': 'Santa' Claus is now a colonel bringing 10hp restoring medkits to all the good soldiers each mission.
 **Almost as amusing is this troper getting a german squadette named "Cargo" Schwartz.
** FridgeBrilliance. [[TruthInTelevision A lot of actual military nicknames and callsigns end up working that way.]] Just ask pilots like Captain Douglas S. "Bubbles" Champagne and Captain Chip "Spider" Webb.
* Anytime an enemy appears and walks right into a overwatch crossfire is always good for a laugh. Especially when it happens to a Sectopod, Cyberdisk, or Etheral. They get a little intro then get shredded by an unholy amount of fire power. More Dakka is always the proper solution to your problems.

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