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* AlienSky: The time-warped alternate-2010 is predominantly very ''orange,'' and anything that isn't orange tends to be blue. 1955, by contrast, has a much more varied color palette.

** Perhaps scariest of all (particularly for almost anybody who experienced the old USSR and its satilites and Communism in general) is the idea of an effectively omniscient Soviet Union that has conquered the world.

*** Two can play that game. [[spoiler: Shooting yourself would mean that you would not exist to go back and shoot yourself therefore when you go back in time the first time and no one stops you from saving Demichev.]]

** They were also intentionally exposing the children to E99 by putting it in their milk just to see the results. SoYeah...

** Not really. Khruschev WAS an old-school Bolshevik who earned his chops doing nasty things under Lenin and Stalin's tenures. This IS the man who wantonly massacred Georgian Stalinists and Polish and Hungarian dissidents at the slightest whiff of opposition, who gave nuclear weapons to [[GeneralRipper Fidel Castro]] and [[AxeCrazy Che]], and by all accounts whose policies of trying to soften things up with the West had infinitely more to do with the USSR's strategic weakness than it did with his own natural goodness, and [[spoiler: it isn't unbelievable to see how he might well have pulled a NotSoHarmless if he every really got a definitive leg up over the West to a downright horrifical degree.]]

** Barisov only says "something has gone terribly wrong..." and agrees to help you when he notices you've got the TMD and an American uniform. Any self-respecting Soviet scientist from the 50's would be panicking that America managed to capture their superweapon, and try to grab your gun from you.
*** My ''God'', you people were really at it during the Cold War, weren't you!? Barisov is a ''perfect'' example of a common East-block citizen. We weren't hardcore socialist patriotic fanatics, the Party guys were. Most people ''hoped'' that the US would win the war, so there'd be food and heat and constant electricity for everyone. There were, however, things you were ''expected'' to say on camera, to keep your job, and keep yourself out of the Gulags.
** Why, in two of the endings, does [[spoiler: Renko take over the world by force? He's a US soldier with no implied thirst for power, who even risks himself to save a random Russian on a black ops mission the Russians aren't supposed to know about]].

*** [[spoiler: Not necessarily. We've only seen one game- albiet one that was heavily altered from the original vision- and the developers more or less had been planning more from the get-go as recently confirmed. We don't really know the long-term effects of the Soviet meddling in this area and for all we know it we may well see the "collapse of time" issue come into play later.]]

* {{Gamebreaker}}: Almost. Deadlock, a shootable time dilation field that hinders enemies and slows down bullets, is very powerful, but without it it's much harder to survive at ''all'' against certain enemies with powerful attacks.

* ApocalypticLog: These are practically everywhere, from the labs to the ''school''; almost ''everyone'' on the island had a reel-to-reel recorder and held an audio-log. One might wonder why is there a recording of little children talking about their belly-aches in a school, or why there is a reel-to-reel recording of a scared little girl in the washroom, but in a game about a [[SoYeah Soviet black hole]]...

* EleventhHourSuperpower: Towards the end of the game your TMD is given infinite energy, allowing you to use all your powers as much as you like without running out of juice, as well as a massively superpowered Impulse that now sends even Spetznaz Elite flying. From that point on, you can pretty much blast through anything that gets in your way using TMD powers alone.

**** [[Spoiler: Callous? He downright refuses to even consider testing the prototype TMD on living subjects, let alone humans. And did you miss the audio log where he's talking about how fast they were able to make a plant grow? He starts talking about the applications for growing crops and feeding the world.]]

*** [[spoiler: Define "Peace" and ask yourself whether that is necessarily a GOOD thing. PARTICULARLY since it has lone been realized that power corrupts even the most well-intentioned and that it leaves wide-open the possibility of an even uglier fate down the road if somebody even worse replaces Barisov.]]