History Main / CaptureTheFlag

* ''TeamFortress2'' uses an intelligence briefcase with unknown contents. Unlike most FPS games, a team's own intel doesn't need to be in the base to capture the enemies'. It also can't be returned as fast: it needs to be guarded where it was dropped. It also provides a brief buff for the capturing team.

In "Keroro Gunsou", in the Episode "Das Snow Boot", they use people for flags.

[[TeamFortress2 http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tf2ctf.jpg]]
[[caption-width:350:Wave goodbye to your secret crap, dumbass!]]

* The TropeCodifier, for VideoGames at least, is the Threewave CTF GameMod for ''Game/{{Quake}}''.

* A minigame in underground Sinnoh in ''[=~Pokémon~=] Diamond/Pearl/Platinum''.

'''Red Grunt #2:''' ''It's even more beautiful then I imagined.''

* The ''UnrealTournament'' series has used this in every incarnation so far. Initially justified by the eponymous competition, but played differently in ''UnrealTournament3'', where a key element to the story is that the respawner technology from the tournaments has been brought to the battlefield, and resulted in battles which actually resemble tournament games - right down to capture the flag battles, where the flag is a "'''F'''ield '''La'''ttice '''G'''enerator", and capturing it three times takes the enemy unit's respawner offline.

* ''{{S4 League}}'' has Touchdown mode, which is a variant of CTF designed to look more like soccer. There's only one flag (or "ball" as the game calls it, in keeping with the ball game theme), placed initially in the center, anyone can take it, and it has to be taken to the ''enemy''[='=]s goal rather than your own. Or in other words, very much like ''Unreal Tournament 2004''[='=]s Bombing Run mode, which in that game is considered distinct from normal CTF. Yeah.

** ''Halo's'' CTF mode[hottip:*:And ''{{Marathon}}'', made by the same company, although that game did it with skulls]] is special in that smacking someone with the flag is a OneHitKill. However, you cannot use any other weapons (you hold the flag in your hands, after all), so this is your only means of attack. [[{{Understatement}} Using the flag as a serious weapon is ill-advised.]]

* ''{{RuneScape}}'''s minigame Castle Wars.

* ''{{RedFaction}} Guerrilla'' also uses the one hit kill flag.

** ''Halo's''CTF mode[[hottip:*:And ''{{Marathon}}'', made by the same company, although that game did it with skulls]] is special in that smacking someone with the flag is a OneHitKill. However, you cannot use any other weapons (you hold the flag in your hands, after all), so this is your only means of attack. [[{{Understatement}} Using the flag as a serious weapon is ill-advised.]]
* ''RedFaction''Guerilla also uses the one hit kill flag.

* ''RedFactionGuerilla" also uses the one hit kill flag.

** ''Halo's''[[hottip:*:And ''{{Marathon}}'', made by the same company, although that game did it with skulls]] CTF mode is special in that smacking someone with the flag is a OneHitKill. However, you cannot use any other weapons (you hold the flag in your hands, after all), so this is your only means of attack. [[{{Understatement}} Using the flag as a serious weapon is ill-advised.]]

** ''Halo's'' CTF mode is unique [[hottip:*:Save for ''{{Marathon}}'' made by the same company, although that game did it with skulls]] in that smacking someone with the flag is a OneHitKill. However, you cannot use any other weapons (you hold the flag in your hands, after all), so this is your only means of attack. [[{{Understatement}} Using the flag as a serious weapon is ill-advised.]]
*** Although "unique" is used in its non-accurate form here, as the exact same mechanic is used in the multiplayer component of ''RedFactionGuerrilla''

In * "Keroro Gunsou", in the Episode "Das Snow Boot", they use people for flags.

* "Keroro Gunsou", in the Episode "Das Snow Boot", they use people for flags.

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* ''Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief'' actually provides a filmic example of the protagonist warriors engaging in a practice mode of this game at their home base.

* Popular at many summer camps, colleges, and other sundry organizations with sufficiently large space and sufficiently low maturity.

* Popular at many summer camps, or in any other group or organization with a sufficiently large space and a sufficiently low level of maturity.
* Also a popular annual event on College campuses, at least in the U.S.