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** Captain Adam furiously comes back with, "Okay, ''[[DisproportionateRetribution but did you seriously have to FUCKING NUKE THE PLACE!?]]'' You could've caused untold amounts of damage, took untold numbers of lives, all because you thought that using a GODDAMN NUKE was apparently the right thing! When ''we'' fought off Warlord Bob, we used {{Old School Dogfight}}s, not weapons of mass destruction! Get it through your head that you should always ''assess the goddamn situation'' and determine the amount of force needed to take care of the problem, '''''[[NukeEm NOT JUMP TO NUKING THE FUCKING PLACE TO KINGDOM COME!!!]]''''' You got me? I hope you idiots learn from this..."

* '''Exploited''': The Alpha Squadron's "correcting" of orders is tolerated due to the high profile cases where they did major good. Thus they are assigned under the assumption that they will defy orders.

* '''Played For Drama''': Their superiors catch them in the act. Alpha Squadron has to wait out the battle. Which is bad, since they were one of the best combat squadrons of the colony.

* '''Defied''': "Hey, we might be court-martialed if we go. Besides, Beta Squadron'll get them."
* '''Discussed''': ???

** It turns out that the direct orders were given for a very good reason: Although the pirate attack was successfully repelled and hundreds were spared, it allowed enemy terrorists to slip past the post Alpha Squadron had abandoned. The total fatalities they caused would later number in the millions. Alpha Squadron is court-martialed and imprisoned as a result...

** ...however, the weapon developed at the attacked station is later used to defend from an extra-planar attack, and the entire universe is saved. They are then released and hailed as heroes...

* '''Defied''': "Hey, we might be court-martialed if we go. Besides, Beta Squadron'll get them.

* '''Deconstructed''': It turns out that the direct orders were given for a very good reason: Although the pirate attack was successfully repelled and hundreds were spared, it allowed enemy terrorists to slip past the post Alpha Squadron had abandoned. The total fatalities they caused would later number in the millions. Alpha Squadron is court-martialed and imprisoned as a result...
* '''Reconstructed''': ...however, the weapon developed at the attacked station is later used to defend from an extra-planar attack, and the entire universe is saved. They are then released and hailed as heroes...

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** Alpha Squadron knows a hell of a lot better than the superiors whats going on, to the point where they can regularly ignore orders and are unable to be punished. This means they are forced to take actions that directly violate commands in order to do their duty.

* '''Inverted''': Alpha Squadron decides to obey orders to stay at the base [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules instead of taking a bribe]] to leave it from the baddies.

* '''Subverted''': Alpha Squadron ignores orders to stay at base to hunt down Warlord Bob... until they get ordered to stop right now or face pay getting docked, at which point they go back to base...

* '''Double Subverted''': ...until the slaughter starts, when they go and attack Warlord Bob.

%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Invoked''': "I won't sit here why people die! I don't care about the rules!"

* '''Inverted''': Alpha Squadron decides to obey orders to stay at the base instead of taking a bribe to leave it from the baddies.

* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Justified''': It's Alpha Squadron's job to protect colonies from pirate attacks. Their superiors are completely corrupt and have been accepting bribes from Warlord Bob to look the other way.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': It turns out that the direct orders were given for a very good reason: Although the pirate attack was successfully repelled and hundreds were spared, it allowed enemy terrorists to slip past the post Alpha Squadron had abandoned. The total fatalities they caused would later number in the millions. Alpha Squadron is court-martialed and imprisoned as a result...
* '''Reconstructed''': ...however, the weapon developed at the attacked station is later used to defend from an extra-planar attack, and the entire universe is saved. They are then released and hailed as heroes...
* '''Zig Zagged''': Until the terrorists bring him back and destroy it again, or they would except Captain Bill and Beta Squadron kills them, only to be obliterated along with an entire solar system when the dead-switch bomb owned by the terrorist leader goes off, except it turns out that the systemw as only ever inhabited by warring terrorist factions anyway, and Captain Bill had teleported out in time.

* '''Discussed''': See Lampshaded.
* '''Conversed''':