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* MaleGaze: Lena is the episode's MsFanservice, thanks to the aforementioned FanserviceCostumes.

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* MaleGaze: Lena is the episode's MsFanservice, thanks to the aforementioned FanserviceCostumes.FanserviceCostumes Rhea has her in.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Rhea considers Cat a nuisance at worst, up until Cat's RousingSpeech rallies everyone in National City to fight the invaders back.

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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Rhea considers Cat a nuisance at worst, up until Cat's RousingSpeech rallies everyone in National City to fight the invaders back. Then she angrily orders her soldiers to put "that woman" out of Rhea's misery.
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* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Rhea spares Lena because the she thinks Lena is way better than most humans on Earth.

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* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Rhea spares Lena and chooses her for an ArrangedMarriage with Rhea's son Mon-El because the she thinks Lena is way better than most humans on Earth.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: To a lesser extent than the second season finale, but another [[Memes/USPolitics feminist US political reaction]] is the title of this episode. During the Women's Marches way back in January, there were two prevalent phrases taken on: Creator/MelissaBenoist's own "My pussy's made of steel," and the simple women's cry to Resist. Resist she does.

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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: To a lesser extent than the second season finale, but another [[Memes/USPolitics feminist US political reaction]] reaction is the title of this episode. During the Women's Marches way back in January, there were two prevalent phrases taken on: Creator/MelissaBenoist's own "My pussy's made of steel," and the simple women's cry to Resist. Resist she does.
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%%* AlternateHistory: Unlike in RealLife, the U.S. President by 2017 is a Democrat.
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* FiveFiveFive: When Supergirl and Cat converse outside the bar, Cat is sitting next to a trash bin that bears a sign stating PLEASE CALL IF THIS BIN IS FULL OR DAMAGED 555-0125.
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* RealityEnsues: Giving a supervillain bent on world domination a ReasonYouSuckSpeech twice can end badly, as Cat finds out. The first time results in Rhea blowing up Air Force One, and the second time leads to Rhea sending a hit squad on her.

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* RealityEnsues: ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Deconstructed. Giving a supervillain bent on world domination a ReasonYouSuckSpeech talking-to in their face twice can end badly, as Cat finds out. The first time results in Rhea blowing up Air Force One, and the second time leads to Rhea sending a hit squad on her.
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved


* NotSoDifferent: Supergirl teams up with a delusional, xenophobic, psychopathic EvilMatriarch who refuses to accept that her child doesn't share her viewpoint to fight a delusional, xenophobic, psychopathic EvilMatriarch who refuses to accept that her child doesn't share her viewpoint.

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* FanserviceCostumes: Lena wakes up wearing a [[FormFittingWardrobe form-fitting]] [[LittleBlackDress black gown]], then wears [[AbsoluteCleavage a very revealing]] [[LadyInRed red dress]] during her ArrangedMarriage with Mon-El.
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Moving to YMMV.


* UnexpectedCharacter: It was announced that Superman will only show up in the SeasonFinale. What wasn't announced is that the final minutes of the episode will show exactly why he's involved.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Lillian is genuinely surprised that Lena would take offence to her abandoning Supergirl and Mon-El to die.

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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Lillian is genuinely surprised that Lena would take offence to at her abandoning Supergirl and Mon-El to die.



* ModestRoyalty: Discussed. Cat Grant says that a real queen doesn't need tiaras to show they are.

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* ModestRoyalty: Discussed. Cat Grant says that a real queen doesn't need tiaras to show they are.they're royalty.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The President admits that she was born on another planet, thus her presidency is in violation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause the Natural-born-citizen clause]]. Of course, since nobody knows this, she may just have (very, very good) fake documents (which is still illegal).
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* SkewedPriorities: Cat doesn't mind the president being an alien, but she better still be a Democrat. Also, she's more annoyed that her old office now has a gym and sports paraphernalia than that it's been trashed by an alien kid with PsychicPowers. Also doubles as ComicallyMissingThePoint.

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* SkewedPriorities: Cat doesn't mind the president being an alien, alien or that the president endangered her life, but she better still be a Democrat. Also, she's more annoyed that her old office now has a gym and sports paraphernalia than that it's been trashed by an alien kid with PsychicPowers. Also doubles as ComicallyMissingThePoint.
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* ModestRoyalty: Discussed. Cat Grant says that a real queen doesn't need tiaras to show they are.

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!!Tropes in this episode:
* AchillesInHisTent: J'onn spends the entire episode in coma.

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!!Tropes in this episode:
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* AchillesInHisTent: J'onn spends the entire episode in a coma.



* ArrangedMarriage: Rhea tries to legitimize her invasion by having Mon-El marry Lena and produce an heir, whether they want to or not.

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* ArrangedMarriage: Rhea tries to legitimize her invasion by having Mon-El marry Lena and produce an heir, whether they want to or not.not (using a UterineReplicator, since their answer is "not").



* BlatantLies: In her broadcast, Rhea claims that she and the Daxamites have come in peace, while her soldiers attack civilians on the ground.
** Rhea claims Supergirl attacked Lena and Rhea rescued her. Lena doesn't buy it for a second, openly stating Supergirl tried to stop Rhea after she used Lena.

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* BlatantLies: BlatantLies:
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In her broadcast, Rhea claims that she and the Daxamites have come in peace, while her soldiers attack civilians on the ground.
** Rhea claims Supergirl attacked Lena and Rhea rescued her. Lena doesn't buy it for a second, openly stating Supergirl tried to stop Rhea after she used Lena. Lena.
* {{Bookends}}: Maggie and Alex first met at the beginning of the season trying to protect the President and close out the season trying to help the President. This is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Maggie.



* CelebrityParadox: PlayedWith. Winn compares the on-going AlienInvasion to ''Film/IndependenceDay''. Joey King (Frankie Kane/Magenta) was a cast member on [[Film/IndependenceDayResurgence the sequel]], but whether or not the film also exists on Earth-1 or if she has an Earth-38 counterpart is yet to be revealed.

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* CelebrityParadox: PlayedWith. Winn compares the on-going AlienInvasion to ''Film/IndependenceDay''. Joey King (Frankie Kane/Magenta) was a cast member on in [[Film/IndependenceDayResurgence the sequel]], but whether or not the film also exists on Earth-1 or if she has an Earth-38 counterpart is has yet to be revealed.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Lillian genuinely wants to rescue Lena.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Lillian is genuinely surprised that Lena would take offence at her abandoning Supergirl and Mon-El to die.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Lillian genuinely wants to rescue Lena.
Lena (and only Lena; she abandons Supergirl and Mon-El at the first opportunity).
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Lillian is genuinely surprised that Lena would take offence at to her abandoning Supergirl and Mon-El to die.



* FanserviceCostumes: Lena wakes up wearing a {{form fitting|Wardrobe}} [[LittleBlackDress black gown]], then wears [[AbsoluteCleavage a very revealing]] [[LadyInRed red dress]] during her ArrangedMarriage with Mon-El.
* GodzillaThreshold: Eventually, Kara realizes that the ''only'' way she can get on to the ship to save Mon-El and Lena before Alex blows it up is to join forces with the genocidal terrorists she has been at war with for months now, and who have her father captive.
** Also, Cadmus believes that all aliens should be booted off Earth or killed, and that superheroes are not needed - Earth can take care of itself, thank you very much. As such, working with the alien superheroes in the employ of an organization that fights evil aliens but protects the friendly ones as well as humans is ''very'' much the same kind of last resort for them.

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* FanserviceCostumes: Lena wakes up wearing a {{form fitting|Wardrobe}} [[FormFittingWardrobe form-fitting]] [[LittleBlackDress black gown]], then wears [[AbsoluteCleavage a very revealing]] [[LadyInRed red dress]] during her ArrangedMarriage with Mon-El.
* GodzillaThreshold: GodzillaThreshold:
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Eventually, Kara realizes that the ''only'' way she can get on to the ship to save Mon-El and Lena before Alex blows it up is to join forces with the genocidal terrorists she has been at war with for months now, and who have her father captive.
** Also, Cadmus CADMUS believes that all aliens should be booted off Earth or killed, and that superheroes are not needed - Earth needed--Earth can take care of itself, thank you very much. As such, working with the alien superheroes in the employ of an organization that fights evil aliens but protects the friendly ones as well as humans is ''very'' much the same kind of last resort for them.



* HugeHolographicHead: Rhea's mothership projects her head above National City to broadcast her intent.
* IdiotBall: President Marsdin flies Air Force One right at a hostile alien ship that is far more powerful than a few jets and a passenger plane, and the only reason they seem to do this is to have an excuse to drop Cat back inside the city and reveal Marsdin is actually an alien.

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* HugeHolographicHead: Rhea's mothership projects her head above National City to broadcast her intent.
intent. Later, Cat and Winn hijack the device, displaying Cat's own head to deliver her resistance message.
* IdiotBall: President Marsdin flies Air Force One right at a hostile alien ship that is far more powerful than a few fighter jets and a passenger plane, and the only reason they seem to do this is to have an excuse to drop Cat back inside the city and reveal Marsdin is actually an alien.



** Lena finds out Mon El is Rhea's son though it's unclear if she remembers him from their brief meeting.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Lillian teams up with Supergirl to save Lena out of genuine concern, then throws her and Mon El under the bus at the last minuet and treats Lena as ungrateful for protesting.

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** Lena finds out Mon El Mon-El is Rhea's son son, though it's unclear if she remembers him from their brief meeting.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Lillian teams up with Supergirl to save Lena out of genuine concern, then throws her and Mon El Mon-El under the bus at the last minuet minute and treats Lena as ungrateful for protesting.



* NeverMyFault: At the start of the episode Rhea claims she's been taking care of Lena since Supergirl knocked her out, thankfully she remembers everything else that happened

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* NeverMyFault: At the start of the episode Rhea claims she's been taking care of Lena since Supergirl knocked her out, out; thankfully she Lena remembers everything else that happenedhappened.



* PaperThinDisguise: Cat sees right through James' Guardian disguise, since she can still see his eyes.

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* PaperThinDisguise: Cat sees right through James' James's Guardian disguise, since she can still see his eyes.



* RippedFromTheHeadlines: To a lesser extent than the second season finale, but another [[Memes/USPolitics feminist US political reaction]] is the title of this episode. During the Women's Marches way back in January, there were two prevalent phrases taken on: Creator/MelissaBenoist's own "My pussy's made of steel", and the simple women's cry to Resist. Resist she does.

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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: To a lesser extent than the second season finale, but another [[Memes/USPolitics feminist US political reaction]] is the title of this episode. During the Women's Marches way back in January, there were two prevalent phrases taken on: Creator/MelissaBenoist's own "My pussy's made of steel", steel," and the simple women's cry to Resist. Resist she does.



* SkewedPriorities: Cat doesn't mind the president being an alien, but she better still be a Democrat. Also, she's more annoyed that her old office now has a gym and sports paraphernalia instead of being trashed by an alien kid with PsychicPowers. Also doubles as ComicallyMissingThePoint.
* TakeThat: During her RousingSpeech to the people of National City, Cat mocks Rhea's promise to "make our world great again", a riff on Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan.

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* SkewedPriorities: Cat doesn't mind the president being an alien, but she better still be a Democrat. Also, she's more annoyed that her old office now has a gym and sports paraphernalia instead of being than that it's been trashed by an alien kid with PsychicPowers. Also doubles as ComicallyMissingThePoint.
* TakeThat: During her RousingSpeech to the people of National City, Cat mocks Rhea's promise to "make our world great again", again," a riff on Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan.



* UnderestimatingBadassery : Rhea considers Cat a nuisance at worst, up until Cat's RousingSpeech rallies everyone in National City to fight the invaders back.

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* UnderestimatingBadassery : UnderestimatingBadassery: Rhea considers Cat a nuisance at worst, up until Cat's RousingSpeech rallies everyone in National City to fight the invaders back.



* WaveMotionGun: The positron cannon, Earth's final defense against the AlienInvasion. It never gets a chance to fire.

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* WaveMotionGun: The positron cannon, Earth's final defense against the AlienInvasion.AlienInvasion, is housed on the DEO rooftop. It never gets a chance to fire.



* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Rhea spares Lena because the former thinks that the latter is way better than most humans on Earth.

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* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Rhea spares Lena because the former she thinks that the latter Lena is way better than most humans on Earth.
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* NotSoDifferent: Supergirl teams up with a delusional, xenophobic, psychopathic EvilMatriarch who refuses to accept her child doesn't share her view point to fight delusional, xenophobic, psychopathic EvilMatriarch who refuses to accept her child doesn't share her view point.

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* NotSoDifferent: Supergirl teams up with a delusional, xenophobic, psychopathic EvilMatriarch who refuses to accept that her child doesn't share her view point viewpoint to fight a delusional, xenophobic, psychopathic EvilMatriarch who refuses to accept that her child doesn't share her view point.viewpoint.
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** Rhea claims Supergirl attacked Lena and Rhea rescued her. Lena doesn't buy it for a second, openly stating Supergirl tried to stop Rhea after she used Lena.
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**Also, Cadmus believes that all aliens should be booted off Earth or killed, and that superheroes are not needed - Earth can take care of itself, thank you very much. As such, working with the alien superheroes in the employ of an organization that fights evil aliens but protects the friendly ones as well as humans is ''very'' much the same kind of last resort for them.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Rhea threatens to blow up the Luther Children's Hospital to force Mon-El and Lena's cooperation.

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* WouldHurtAChild: Rhea threatens to blow up the Luther Luthor Children's Hospital to force Mon-El and Lena's cooperation.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: To a lesser extent than the second season finale, but another [[Memes/USPolitics feminist US political reaction]] is the title of this episode. During the Women's Marches way back in January, there were two prevalent phrases taken on: Creator/MelissaBenoist's own "My pussy's made of steel", and the simple women's cry to Resist. Resist she does.
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** Lena finds out Mon El is Rhea's son though it's unclear if she remembers him from their brief meeting.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Lillian teams up with Supergirl to save Lena out of genuine concern, then throws her and Mon El under the bus at the last minuet and treats Lena as ungrateful for protesting.


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* NeverMyFault: At the start of the episode Rhea claims she's been taking care of Lena since Supergirl knocked her out, thankfully she remembers everything else that happened


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* NotSoDifferent: Supergirl teams up with a delusional, xenophobic, psychopathic EvilMatriarch who refuses to accept her child doesn't share her view point to fight delusional, xenophobic, psychopathic EvilMatriarch who refuses to accept her child doesn't share her view point.


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* PresidentSuperhero: The president is an alien who can shapeshift and survive an exploding plane.
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There are already aliens, and the President is also a woman and an alien; I think it's pretty clearly not this world.


* AlternateHistory: Unlike in RealLife, the U.S. President by 2017 is a Democrat.

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* %%* AlternateHistory: Unlike in RealLife, the U.S. President by 2017 is a Democrat.



* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The President admits that she was born on another planet, thus her presidency is in violation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause the Natural-born-citizen clause]].

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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The President admits that she was born on another planet, thus her presidency is in violation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause the Natural-born-citizen clause]]. Of course, since nobody knows this, she may just have (very, very good) fake documents (which is still illegal).
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The President admits that she was born on another planet, thus her presidency is in violation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause the Natural-born-citizen clause]].
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* RealityEnsues: Giving a supervillain bent on world domination a ReasonYouSuckSpeech twice can end badly, as Cat finds out. The first time results in Rhea blowing up Air Force One, and the second time leads to Rhea sending a hit squad on her.

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Artistic License Law doesn't apply; they know it's wrong/illegal and just don't care


* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The President admits to Supergirl and Alex that she was born on a planet named Doraluv; A fact she kept secret from the US Government even after signing an executive order allowing aliens to be open about their true identities. This means two things:
** 1) She '''can't''' be the President, as you have to be born in the USA to qualify
** And 2) she's committing '''''massive identity fraud''''' on (at the very least) a '''Global Scale''' for no good reason



* MilitariesAreUseless: The world (well, National City for now, but surely the rest of the world is next) is threatened by an AlienInvasion, and the only military we see are two fighters jets that are blown out of the sky in a matter of seconds. What, no BVR missile strikes, no drone attacks? It seems the entire US military is banking on a single WaveMotionGun to save the day.

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* MilitariesAreUseless: The world (well, National City for now, but surely the rest of the world is next) is threatened by an AlienInvasion, and the only military response we see are two fighters fighter jets that are blown out of the sky in a matter of seconds.seconds, and they were only there to escort Air Force One. What, no BVR missile strikes, no drone attacks? It seems the entire US military is banking on a single WaveMotionGun to save the day.



* WaveMotionGun: The positron cannon, Earth's final defense against the AlienInvasion.

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* WaveMotionGun: The positron cannon, Earth's final defense against the AlienInvasion. It never gets a chance to fire.
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* MilitariesAreUseless: The world (well, National City for now, but surely the rest of the world is next) is threatened by an AlienInvasion, and the only military we see are two fighters jets that are blown out of the sky in a matter of minutes. What, no BVR missile strikes, no drone attacks? It seems the entire US military is banking on a single WaveMotionGun to save the day.

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* MilitariesAreUseless: The world (well, National City for now, but surely the rest of the world is next) is threatened by an AlienInvasion, and the only military we see are two fighters jets that are blown out of the sky in a matter of minutes.seconds. What, no BVR missile strikes, no drone attacks? It seems the entire US military is banking on a single WaveMotionGun to save the day.
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* MilitariesAreUseless: The world (well, National City for now, but surely the rest of the world is next) is threatened by an AlianInvasion, and the only military we see are two fighters jets that are blown out of the sky in a matter of minutes. What, no BVR missile strikes, no drone attacks? It seems the entire US military is banking on a single WaveMotionGun to save the day.

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* MilitariesAreUseless: The world (well, National City for now, but surely the rest of the world is next) is threatened by an AlianInvasion, AlienInvasion, and the only military we see are two fighters jets that are blown out of the sky in a matter of minutes. What, no BVR missile strikes, no drone attacks? It seems the entire US military is banking on a single WaveMotionGun to save the day.

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