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* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Yoko discovers that she isn't a Japanese woman put into a Belgian woman's body by the aliens, but a mental ''clone'' of a Japanese woman put into a Belgian woman's body, compounding her identity crisis. She starts going by Zero instead.]]
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* CloningBlues: CloneAngst: [[spoiler:Yoko discovers that she isn't a Japanese woman put into a Belgian woman's body by the aliens, but a mental ''clone'' of a Japanese woman put into a Belgian woman's body, compounding her identity crisis. She starts going by Zero instead.]]
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* WarriorTherapist: Dr. Gomez is a very literal incarnation of this trope, using her knowledge of psychology to counter the Thin Men's attempts at psychological warfare.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Some of the squaddies exposed to Meld end up with bright hair colors.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Some of the squaddies exposed to Meld end up with bright hair colors.
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* WarriorTherapist: Dr. Gomez is a very literal incarnation of this trope, using her knowledge of psychology to counter the Thin Men's attempts at psychological warfare.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Some of the squaddies exposed to Meld end up with bright hair colors.
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* AdultAdoption: General Van Doorn adopts Eva after she is rejected by her family.
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* AdultAdoption: AdultAdoptee: General Van Doorn adopts Eva after she is rejected by her family.
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* GenderBender: Cammy and Allen have their bodies switched while undergoing genetic enhancement. Cammy eventually decides to stick with her new appearance (and even adopts female pronouns). A lot of that has to do with her genetic enhancements, but she also suggests that she might be genderfluid.
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* GenderBender: Cammy and Allen have their bodies switched while undergoing genetic enhancement. Cammy eventually decides to stick with her new appearance (and even adopts female pronouns). A lot of that has to do with her genetic enhancements, but she also suggests that she might be genderfluid. She later refers to herself as transgender.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:While Cammy is the Volunteer, Latisha ends up being the one to sacrifice herself to save the world, her daughter included.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:While Cammy is the Volunteer, Latisha ends up being the one to sacrifice herself to save the world, her daughter included.]]
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* AdultAdoption: General Van Doorn adopts Eva after she is rejected by her family.
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* BattleCouple: Multiple. Bar-Lev and Leroy, Queen and Cammy...
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* ShotgunWedding: [[spoiler:Queen asks Cammy to marry her right before the start of a mission. Not proposes - she did that already - but to have the actual wedding right now. Cammy says yes, the Commander performs the ceremony, and they then head into battle wearing white armor.]]
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* ShotgunWedding: [[spoiler:Queen [[spoiler:Hilda asks Cammy to marry her right before the start of a mission. Not proposes - she did that already - but to have the actual wedding right now. Cammy says yes, the Commander performs the ceremony, and they then head into battle wearing white armor.]]
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* ShotgunWedding: [[spoiler:Queen asks Cammy to marry her right before the start of a mission. Not proposes - she did that already - but to have the actual wedding right now. Cammy says yes, the Commander performs the ceremony, and they then head into battle wearing white armor.]]
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* ExactWords: On one mission, Zinchenko suggests to a Thin Man that they fight "like honest men" without guns. The Thin Man agrees, not realizing that Zinchenko really loves grenades.
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** Yoko and Annette are extremely eager to get some payback for what the aliens did to them.
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* YouGottaHaveGreenHair: Some of the squaddies exposed to Meld end up with bright hair colors.
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* YouGottaHaveGreenHair: YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Some of the squaddies exposed to Meld end up with bright hair colors.
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* ShoutOut: EXALT are a pastiche of [[WesternAnimation/GIJoe Cobra]] and [[ComicBook/Hydra HYDRA]], using the creed of "Hail Exalt!" while their leader's portrait is literally Cobra Commander.
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* ShoutOut: EXALT are a pastiche of [[WesternAnimation/GIJoe Cobra]] and [[ComicBook/Hydra HYDRA]], ComicBook/Hydra, using the creed of "Hail Exalt!" while their leader's portrait is literally Cobra Commander.
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* HurricaneOfPuns: One mission takes place on a dam. The inevitable ensues.
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* ShoutOut: EXALT are a pastiche of [[WesternAnimation/GIJoe Cobra]] and [[ComicBook/Hydra HYDRA]], using the creed of "Hail Exalt!" while their leader's portrait is literally Cobra Commander.
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--> '''EXALT Operative:''' Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! What the hell are you people?
--> '''Zhang:''' As Watkins said to me, [[RagtagBandOfMisfits we are the losers who are also winners.]]
--> '''Zhang:''' As Watkins said to me, [[RagtagBandOfMisfits we are the losers who are also winners.]]
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* RagtagBandOfMisfits: The Commander deliberately invoked this trope, wanting people who would think out of the box rather than a bunch of by-the-book soldiers. The team soon take pride in this, calling themselves "The losers who are going to win".
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* RagtagBandOfMisfits: The Commander deliberately invoked this trope, wanting people who would think out of the box rather than a bunch of by-the-book soldiers. The team soon take pride in this, calling themselves "The losers who are going to win".also winners."
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* DeadlyDoctor: Dr. Gomez is the therapist version of this trope, using her knowledge of psychology to counter the Thin Men's attempts at psychological warfare.
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* ShutUpHannibal: A common reaction to the Thin Men's attempts at psychological warfare.
--> '''Thin Man:''' How much of you is really you? How much of you is other people? How much of you is ''us''?
--> '''Cammy:''' How much of you is GRENADE!?
--> '''Thin Man:''' How much of you is really you? How much of you is other people? How much of you is ''us''?
--> '''Cammy:''' How much of you is GRENADE!?
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** General Van Doort takes this to ridiculous levels.
** Latisha Watkins is a bit more subdued, but is still way more gung-ho than the rest of the team (except Van Doort).
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* FourStarBadass: General Van Doort, who fought off several aliens before XCOM rescued him, and later joins the squad.
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* FourStarBadass: General Van Doort, Doorn, who fought off several aliens before XCOM rescued him, and later joins the squad.
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* BunnyPantsLawyer: Hogan, who seems to believe that he's ProWrestling/HulkHogan. [[spoiler:It's all a cover as he's actually a spy for EXALT]].
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* BunnyPantsLawyer: BunnyEarsLawyer: Hogan, who seems to believe that he's ProWrestling/HulkHogan.Wrestling/HulkHogan. [[spoiler:It's all a cover as he's actually a spy for EXALT]].
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A LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' on the Website/SomethingAwful forums by Speedball. In addition to covering ''Enemy Unknown'' and its expansion ''Enemy Within'', it also ties in ''VideoGame/TheBureauXCOMDeclassified'' while fleshing out the squaddies into fully fleshed out characters.
Archived [[https://lparchive.org/X-Com-Enemy-Within/ here]]. Original thread [[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3660265 here]].
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!!This fic contains examples of:
* AmazonBrigade: Almost! By coincidence, the vast majority of the squaddies (especially the better ones) are women (although Cammy [[GenderBender was originally male]]).
* AdaptationalExpansion: Deepens the story by focusing on the squaddies.
* BattleCouple: Multiple. Bar-Lev and Leroy, Queen and Cammy...
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:The Sectoid Commander]] inflicts this on the team during [[spoiler:the raid on the alien base. Cammy gets the worst of it, but is aided by a mental clone of Allen.]]
* BecomingTheMask: Bar-Lev was originally sent to XCOM by Israeli intelligence. However, she eventually becomes more loyal to XCOM than her superiors and stops communicating with them.
* BloodKnight: Several.
** General Van Doort takes this to ridiculous levels.
** Latisha Watkins is a bit more subdued, but is still way more gung-ho than the rest of the team (except Van Doort).
* BunnyPantsLawyer: Hogan, who seems to believe that he's ProWrestling/HulkHogan. [[spoiler:It's all a cover as he's actually a spy for EXALT]].
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Yoko discovers that she isn't a Japanese woman put into a Belgian woman's body by the aliens, but a mental ''clone'' of a Japanese woman put into a Belgian woman's body, compounding her identity crisis. She starts going by Zero instead.]]
* DeadlyDoctor: Dr. Gomez is the therapist version of this trope, using her knowledge of psychology to counter the Thin Men's attempts at psychological warfare.
* FourStarBadass: General Van Doort, who fought off several aliens before XCOM rescued him, and later joins the squad.
* GenderBender: Cammy and Allen have their bodies switched while undergoing genetic enhancement. Cammy eventually decides to stick with her new appearance (and even adopts female pronouns). A lot of that has to do with her genetic enhancements, but she also suggests that she might be genderfluid.
* MamaBear: Latisha Watkins, Cammmy's mother and a veteran soldier.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Hogan turns out to be an agent for EXALT]].
* RaceLift: Happens ''in-universe'' as accidental exposure to Meld causes several characters to have radical changes in hair and skin color, such as the Israeli Bar-Lev looking like a black woman with bright red hair.
* RagtagBandOfMisfits: The Commander deliberately invoked this trope, wanting people who would think out of the box rather than a bunch of by-the-book soldiers. The team soon take pride in this, calling themselves "The losers who are going to win".
* YouGottaHaveGreenHair: Some of the squaddies exposed to Meld end up with bright hair colors.
Archived [[https://lparchive.org/X-Com-Enemy-Within/ here]]. Original thread [[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3660265 here]].
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!!This fic contains examples of:
* AmazonBrigade: Almost! By coincidence, the vast majority of the squaddies (especially the better ones) are women (although Cammy [[GenderBender was originally male]]).
* AdaptationalExpansion: Deepens the story by focusing on the squaddies.
* BattleCouple: Multiple. Bar-Lev and Leroy, Queen and Cammy...
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:The Sectoid Commander]] inflicts this on the team during [[spoiler:the raid on the alien base. Cammy gets the worst of it, but is aided by a mental clone of Allen.]]
* BecomingTheMask: Bar-Lev was originally sent to XCOM by Israeli intelligence. However, she eventually becomes more loyal to XCOM than her superiors and stops communicating with them.
* BloodKnight: Several.
** General Van Doort takes this to ridiculous levels.
** Latisha Watkins is a bit more subdued, but is still way more gung-ho than the rest of the team (except Van Doort).
* BunnyPantsLawyer: Hogan, who seems to believe that he's ProWrestling/HulkHogan. [[spoiler:It's all a cover as he's actually a spy for EXALT]].
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Yoko discovers that she isn't a Japanese woman put into a Belgian woman's body by the aliens, but a mental ''clone'' of a Japanese woman put into a Belgian woman's body, compounding her identity crisis. She starts going by Zero instead.]]
* DeadlyDoctor: Dr. Gomez is the therapist version of this trope, using her knowledge of psychology to counter the Thin Men's attempts at psychological warfare.
* FourStarBadass: General Van Doort, who fought off several aliens before XCOM rescued him, and later joins the squad.
* GenderBender: Cammy and Allen have their bodies switched while undergoing genetic enhancement. Cammy eventually decides to stick with her new appearance (and even adopts female pronouns). A lot of that has to do with her genetic enhancements, but she also suggests that she might be genderfluid.
* MamaBear: Latisha Watkins, Cammmy's mother and a veteran soldier.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Hogan turns out to be an agent for EXALT]].
* RaceLift: Happens ''in-universe'' as accidental exposure to Meld causes several characters to have radical changes in hair and skin color, such as the Israeli Bar-Lev looking like a black woman with bright red hair.
* RagtagBandOfMisfits: The Commander deliberately invoked this trope, wanting people who would think out of the box rather than a bunch of by-the-book soldiers. The team soon take pride in this, calling themselves "The losers who are going to win".
* YouGottaHaveGreenHair: Some of the squaddies exposed to Meld end up with bright hair colors.
