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* AffectionateParody: ''Bad Company'' had trailers who's point were to make video game references. They were titled [[GearsOfWar Bad World]], [[RainbowSix Rainbow Sprinkles]], and [[Franchise/MetalGear Snake Eyes]].
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* AffectionateParody: ''Bad Company'' had trailers who's point were to make video game references. They were titled [[GearsOfWar Bad World]], [[RainbowSix [[VideoGame/RainbowSix Rainbow Sprinkles]], and [[Franchise/MetalGear Snake Eyes]].
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Japanese guards during the opening sequence of ''Bad Comapny 2'' are somehow entirely unable to hear two boats powered by ''outboard motors'' on a quiet night. The fact that the characters cut off the motors and request "no sound" of each other just underlines the ridiculousness.
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Japanese guards during the opening sequence of ''Bad Comapny Company 2'' are somehow entirely unable to hear two boats powered by ''outboard motors'' on a quiet night. The fact that the characters cut off the motors and request "no sound" of each other just underlines the ridiculousness.
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* YouALLLookFamiliar: The ''Bad Company'' games only have a character model for each weapon type and side they're on, causing you to see many lookalike platinum-blond Russians in red (well, sometimes green) berets attempting to kill you with light machine guns in the second game. The ones that wear balaclavas are more justifiable. [[hottip:* : [[WildMassGuessing Maybe,]] [[HandWave the uniforms are based on their main weapon!]]]] When you fight enemies that shouldn't be using uniforms, it gets strange.
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* YouALLLookFamiliar: The ''Bad Company'' games only have a character model for each weapon type and side they're on, causing you to see many lookalike platinum-blond Russians in red (well, sometimes green) berets attempting to kill you with light machine guns in the second game. The ones that wear balaclavas are more justifiable. [[hottip:* : [[WildMassGuessing ([[WildMassGuessing Maybe,]] [[HandWave the uniforms are based on their main weapon!]]]] weapon?]]) When you fight enemies that shouldn't be using uniforms, it gets strange.
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* AffectionateParody: ''Bad Company'' had trailers who's point were to make video game references. They were titled [[GearsOfWar Bad World]], [[RainbowSix Rainbow Sprinkles]], and [[MetalGearSolid Snake Eyes]].
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* AffectionateParody: ''Bad Company'' had trailers who's point were to make video game references. They were titled [[GearsOfWar Bad World]], [[RainbowSix Rainbow Sprinkles]], and [[MetalGearSolid [[Franchise/MetalGear Snake Eyes]].
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* ImprovisedWeapon: The drill and the defibrillator. The drill not only repairs tanks but when shoved against an enemy kills them. You can get an achievement in ''Bad Company 2'' for getting a headshot kill with the repair tool called [[LittleShopOfHorrors "The Dentist"]].
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* HiddenDepths: Hidden in ''Bad Company 2'' to the point it's very unlikely you'll ever hear it unless you manage to be sufficiently patient. ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Kl46CXVlU&feature=related Here.]]). It is surprising nonetheless.
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* HiddenDepths: Hidden in ''Bad Company 2'' to Haggard has read the point it's very unlikely you'll ever hear it unless you manage to be sufficiently patient. ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Kl46CXVlU&feature=related Here.]]). It is surprising nonetheless.Illiad and thinks its a good book. He can also recite TheScottishPlay, and even avoids mentioning the actual title.
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** One of the trophies/achievements is called [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Link To The Past]].
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* {{Retirony}}: Subverted. Despite always being on his last mission before retirement, constantly TemptingFate, and [[BlackDudeDiesFirst being the only non-white member of the squad]] Redford always manages to come alive through everything that thrown against him. Unfortunately; this apparently also have the inverse effect of getting his retirement constantly postponed.
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-->Honour. Faith. Land. Oil. Wars are fought for any number of reasons. But... on the battlefield, every soldier has to find his own. As things turn out, [[HiredGuns me and my buddies found a pretty interesting one. ]]
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In October 2012, {{Fox}} announced that they are planning on airing a television adaptation of Bad Company. It will be an hour long action-comedy series featuring the game's main characters.
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: During "Zero Dark Thirty" the squad will stop and have a surprisingly deep conversation about religion and morality if you don't interrupt them by starting another firefight. (You can't save games, so here's the conversation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Kl46CXVlU&feature=related )
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: During "Zero Dark Thirty" the squad will stop and have a surprisingly deep conversation about religion and morality if you don't interrupt them by starting another firefight. (You can't save games, so here's the conversation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Kl46CXVlU&feature=related )
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* ShoutOut: [[WholePlotReference Significant Plot Reference]] to ThreeKings.
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** While in Bolivia B-Company have a conversation about ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid and its sequence in said country and somehow manage to not mention the [[BolivianArmyEnding ending.]]
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* MakeTheBearAngryAgain: Though exactly what angered the bear in the first place is never explained.
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* {{Expy}}: Sarge looks and sounds alot like [[{{Halo}} Sargent Avery Junior Johnson]] while wearing his hat.
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** In ''Bad Company 2'', upon observing a South American jungle camp, your sarge will remark that they are [[{{Predator}} "dug in like an Alabama tick."]]
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Whoring i a fanspeak term, not a trope.
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*** This is especially funny if you know the history of the real-life heartbeat detector, as made famous to gamers in the original Rainbow Six. It doesn't work, because ''it's a scam.'' Dissecting one reveals that it can't possibly work the way the manufacturer claims it does, and independent testing has never borne out the claims even under ideal conditions. Someone who uses it, realistically, is at best guilty of not doing the research or is an idiot.
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* BattleTrophy: The game rewards a player successful in assassinating an enemy in online multiplayer with the knife with their dog tags. This has been included in every ''Battlefield'' game released since then.
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** the American Recon sounds almost nerdy whereas the Russian Recon sounds like he smokes a pack a day.
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* YouAndWhatArmy: Haggard says this to the American Army they just deserted from catching up to them and ordering them to surrender their arms. This appalls his fellow deserter squadmates. "I AlwaysWantedToSayThat." is his explanation.
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* YouAndWhatArmy: Haggard says this to the American Army they just deserted from catching up to them and ordering them to surrender their arms. This appalls his fellow deserter squadmates. "I AlwaysWantedToSayThat."IAlwaysWantedToSayThat." is his explanation.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: * The first ''Bad Company'' game was a fairly light romp through Central Asia with a bunch of comedic misfits fighting for gold and going through everybody - the Russians, the Serdaristanis, and the Legionaire's private army- who happened to be in the way. The second one was an outright fight for survival against a nigh-endless storm of the Russians and their allies that threatened to wipe all opposition off the face of the Earth with a group of comedic misfits whose antics helped keep the game from becoming grimdark and you from realizing just how bad the situation really is.
* DeadpanSnarker: The details for the knife weapon entry in ''Bad Company 2''...
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* DarkerAndEdgier: * The first ''Bad Company'' game was a fairly light romp through Central Asia with a bunch of comedic misfits fighting for gold and going through everybody - the Russians, the Serdaristanis, and the Legionaire's Legionnaire's private army- army - who happened to be in the way. The second one was an outright fight for survival against a nigh-endless storm of the Russians and their allies that threatened to wipe all opposition off the face of the Earth with a group of comedic misfits whose antics helped keep the game from becoming grimdark and you from realizing just how bad the situation really is.
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* DuelingGames: ''Bad Company 2'' appears to be headed down this road with ModernWarfare2.
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* GogglesDoNothing: In the cutscenes of BC:2 Marlowe has goggles around his helmet, he never puts them on. In a bit of FridgeBrilliance, though, you'll notice that during gameplay the edges of screen are significantly darker, as if Marlowe's peripheral vision was blocked. Marlowe only wears the goggles during gameplay and rightfully he should with all the debris from gratuitous explosions.
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* GogglesDoNothing: In the cutscenes of BC:2 ''Bad Company 2'' Marlowe has goggles around his helmet, he never puts them on. In a bit of FridgeBrilliance, though, you'll notice that during gameplay the edges of screen are significantly darker, as if Marlowe's peripheral vision was blocked. Marlowe only wears the goggles during gameplay - and rightfully he should should, with all the debris from gratuitous explosions.
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* [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders Haggard Wants The Dallas Cowboys' Cheerleaders]]: How Sweetwater convinces him to keep fighting [[spoiler: since the whole ultimate EMP weapon the story is based on going off over America makes it tough for commercial football to continue.]]
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** A particularly memorable comment about ice cream from [[http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/6/10/Gunship-strafing-run-310145.html this gunship recording]] can be heard while piloting UAVs in ''Bad Company 2''.
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* Whoring: ''Bad Company 2'' took steps against it by making explosives reload more slowly then other ammunition from ammo boxes and only giving one grenade unless you use a specialization to be able to hold two. You can sit in a spot and throw grenades forever, but you'll be throwing them slow enough to make it not a profitable venture. Even then, most players only use their noob tubes to knock down cover or attack vehicles.
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* Whoring: {{Whoring}}: ''Bad Company 2'' took steps against it by making explosives reload more slowly then other ammunition from ammo boxes and only giving one grenade unless you use a specialization to be able to hold two. You can sit in a spot and throw grenades forever, but you'll be throwing them slow enough to make it not a profitable venture. Even then, most players only use their noob tubes to knock down cover or attack vehicles.
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* ClusterFBomb: Almost the entire battle chatter of American soldiers in the multiplayer mode of ''Bad Company 1&2''. For some odd reason, in the Bad Company 2 multiplayer swearing over the in-game chat function is censored, but in the newest patch it can be disabled if the owner of the server allows it.
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* ClusterFBomb: Almost the entire battle chatter of American soldiers in the multiplayer mode of ''Bad Company 1&2''. For some odd reason, in the Bad Company 2 multiplayer swearing over the in-game chat function is censored, but in the newest after a patch it can be disabled if the owner of the server allows it.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: The drill and the defibrillator. The drill not only repairs tanks but when shoved against an enemy kills them. You can get an achievement in ''Bad Company 2'' for getting a headshot kill with the repair tool called [[LittleShopofHorrors "The Dentist"]].
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* ImprovisedWeapon: The drill and the defibrillator. The drill not only repairs tanks but when shoved against an enemy kills them. You can get an achievement in ''Bad Company 2'' for getting a headshot kill with the repair tool called [[LittleShopofHorrors [[LittleShopOfHorrors "The Dentist"]].
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*** If it's friendly fire, it makes some sense as the initial wave of shells more-or-less blankets the countryside to damage the enemy and support the main offensive except for small corridors that are left undamaged to facilitate the general Western Allied advance (and which are shelled by the enemy instead), with various artillery units recieving orders to lift fire and redirect elsewhere as either it becomes time to assault a particular strategic location from the ground (hence necessitating you stop shelling the hell out of said location so your infantry can actually assault) or as sectors are secured as the enemy is driven back and the artillery begins hitting other targets. [[FridgeLogic Don't think too hard as to why you don't see a whit of this widespread arty fireing unless you go out of bounds and why the artillery is so thick yet spread over such a wide area. Or why this occurs even in neutral levels like Serdaristan where there is no great offensive going on.]] The enemy's artillery would likewise shift fire as the Allies advance and take more ground (as shelling their rear does little to help their situation).
* MagicTool: The Drill in ''Bad Company 1 & 2'', the power tool damages enemy vehicles just as quickly as it repairs friendly ones. Can also be used to [[ImprovisedWeapon kill]] [[ThisIsADrill people]].
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** Also probably a strong reason why Haggard joined the Army. After watching an airstrike, he expresses that he should of joined the Air Force.
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** TheChick: Miss July in BC1, Flynn in BC2
** Disputable. Alternatively:
*** TheHero: Pvt. Preston Marlowe
*** DaChief: Sgt. Samuel Redford
*** TheSmartGuy: Pvt. Terrence Sweetwater
*** TheLancer: Pvt. George Haggard
*** TheChick: Miss July/Flynn
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*** TheHero: Pvt. Preston Marlowe
*** DaChief: Sgt. Samuel Redford
*** TheSmartGuy: Pvt. Terrence Sweetwater
*** TheLancer: Pvt. George Haggard
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*** DaChief: Sgt. Samuel Redford
*** TheSmartGuy: Pvt. Terrence Sweetwater
*** TheLancer: Pvt. George Haggard
*** TheChick: Miss July/FlynnJuly[=/=]Flynn
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*** TheHero: Pvt. Preston Marlowe
*** DaChief: Sgt. Samuel Redford
*** TheSmartGuy: Pvt. Terrence Sweetwater
*** TheLancer: Pvt. George Haggard
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** The expansion, Vietnam, seems to be an attempt to counter CallOfDutyBlackOps.
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The ''Battlefield: Bad Company'' {{spinoff}} [[BuffySpeak subseries... thing]] represents something of a departure from the norm for the BattlefieldSeries. Both games bring a whole new feature to improve the Battlefield experience: plot! And destruction physics, but we’ll get to that later.
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The ''Battlefield: Bad Company'' {{spinoff}} [[BuffySpeak subseries... thing]] represents something of a departure from the norm for the BattlefieldSeries.''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' series. Both games bring a whole new feature to improve the Battlefield experience: plot! And destruction physics, but we’ll get to that later.
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Of course, this still being ''{{Battlefield|Series}}'', both games feature a hefty multiplayer component. Multiplayer in both games is on a somewhat smaller (though still large) scale than the main Battlefield games, with a somewhat reduced vehicle focus (no jets being one large change). This, combined with some other changes such as RegeneratingHealth and [[CrouchAndProne no prone]] have lead to accusations by some of the series’s more hardcore fans that DICE was [[PCVsConsole pandering to console gamers]]. Still, critical response has generally been good and Bad Company 2 still has a thriving community over a year after release. Oh, and destruction physics extend to the multiplayer of both games, leading to a very dynamic battlefield.
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Of course, this still being ''{{Battlefield|Series}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'', both games feature a hefty multiplayer component. Multiplayer in both games is on a somewhat smaller (though still large) scale than the main Battlefield games, with a somewhat reduced vehicle focus (no jets being one large change). This, combined with some other changes such as RegeneratingHealth and [[CrouchAndProne no prone]] have lead to accusations by some of the series’s more hardcore fans that DICE was [[PCVsConsole pandering to console gamers]]. Still, critical response has generally been good and Bad Company 2 still has a thriving community over a year after release. Oh, and destruction physics extend to the multiplayer of both games, leading to a very dynamic battlefield.
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* ContinuityNod: For ''Bad Company 2'', see this [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-single-player-battlefield-bad/61088 video]]. At 27 seconds, the skull on the sign is from the flag of the Nationals from BattlefieldHeroes.
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-->''"I belong to [[TitleDrop Bad Company]]. I don't wanna end up in some ''good'' company!"''
The ''Battlefield: Bad Company'' {{spinoff}} [[BuffySpeak subseries... thing]] represents something of a departure from the norm for the BattlefieldSeries. Both games bring a whole new feature to improve the Battlefield experience: plot! And destruction physics, but we’ll get to that later.
Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, ''Battlefield: Bad Company'', the first game in the series, follows the exploits of [[TitleDrop B(ad) Company]], a group made up of the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits military’s rejects and trouble cases]] that are sent on {{Suicide Mission}}s [[WeHaveReserves in lieu of better trained (read: more expensive) soldiers.]] Things get a bit more interesting when B Company stumbles across a dead mercenary bearing the logo of [[BigBad The Legionnaire]], a famed commander known for paying his mercenaries in gold bars. [[BlatantLies Being upstanding soldiers, they of course report this immediately to their superiors.]] Bad Company’s campaign is a somewhat [[LighterAndSofter light hearted]] story for what has traditionally been a gritty genre. Highlights include accidentally invading a [[{{Ruritania}} neutral country]] and driving around on its golf courses while dodging tank fire.
Bad Company 1 is also notable for introducing [[EverythingBreaks destruction physics]] to the series. Its engine, Frostbite, allows for everything from fences to the outer walls of buildings to be destroyed, meaning that cover no longer means safety.
''Battlefield: Bad Company 2'' continues following B Company through a DarkerAndEdgier storyline that [[WholePlotReference might feel a bit familiar to]] [[ModernWarfare Call of Duty]] [[WholePlotReference fans.]] B Company has been promoted from glorified CannonFodder to [[SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder cannon fodder that gets things done.]] The squad is tasked with stopping a [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Russian plot]] to obtain a [[ForgottenSuperweapon secret WWII-era Japanese superweapon]]. Of course, not everything goes according to plan, and things start to get a little out of hand.
Bad Company 2 upgrades its engine to Frostbite 1.5, allowing for much more intricate destruction physics. Now, instead of just blowing out a building’s walls, it’s possible to destroy smaller buildings entirely, leaving them to collapse on anyone unlucky enough to be inside. Some bits of cover can even be shot to pieces, with chucks of concrete breaking away to reveal enemies behind.
Of course, this still being ''{{Battlefield|Series}}'', both games feature a hefty multiplayer component. Multiplayer in both games is on a somewhat smaller (though still large) scale than the main Battlefield games, with a somewhat reduced vehicle focus (no jets being one large change). This, combined with some other changes such as RegeneratingHealth and [[CrouchAndProne no prone]] have lead to accusations by some of the series’s more hardcore fans that DICE was [[PCVsConsole pandering to console gamers]]. Still, critical response has generally been good and Bad Company 2 still has a thriving community over a year after release. Oh, and destruction physics extend to the multiplayer of both games, leading to a very dynamic battlefield.
Bad Company 2 got a full-fledged multiplayer ExpansionPack, ''Battlefield Bad Company Vietnam'', which is set in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Vietnam]]. Included with the pack are five new maps and a slew of new period weapons and vehicles.
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!! ''Battlefield: Bad Company'' examples:
* AffectionateParody: ''Bad Company'' had trailers who's point were to make video game references. They were titled [[GearsOfWar Bad World]], [[RainbowSix Rainbow Sprinkles]], and [[MetalGearSolid Snake Eyes]].
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Justified in ''Bad Company'' - you routinely perform badass acts of heroics that would earn you a bunch of medals under normal circumstances, but the missions you're being sent out on are literally suicidal tasks your superiors are assigning you to in a deliberate attempt to get you and your squad killed, so they're understandably less than happy when you succeed. Later in the game, when [[spoiler: you and your squad mutiny]], there isn't anyone to receive respect ''from''.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: In the first ''Bad Company'', the Russians didn't seem any more "evil" than the Americans -- the real villains were the [[BigBad Legionnaire]] and his mercenaries. This got thrown out the window in the sequel, however, as the Russians seem bent on taking over the world. Most ''Battlefield'' games don't make any faction seem more evil than another anyways (except, [[GodwinsLaw of course]], ThoseWackyNazis).
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Haggard responds to a demand to drop their weapons from the American army which he and his squad just deserted from with, "Oh yeah? You and what army?!" This appalls every last one of his fellow mutineers - especially when the main American force arrives, and he adds, "[[OhCrap Oh.]] ''[[OhCrap That]]'' [[OhCrap army]]."
* {{Irony}}: Marlowe's videotaped message to his younger brother in America as a promotional means to advertise the game. Watch it.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to previous titles, ''Battlefield: Bad Company'' included gameplay which was less-realistic (notably OneBulletClips) and somewhat less team-based, as well as a storyline on a character-based level and humourous character dialogue and interactions.
* RedundantRescue: Preston Marlowe's [[spoiler:attempt to find and save his squad]] in ''Bad Company''.
* ReverseGrip: How the knife is held.
* SeinfeldianConversation: Often occurs during the single player campaigns.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Mike-One-Juliet in ''Bad Company''.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Legionnaire is alive and extremely angry when ''Bad Company'' ends. No one even mentions him (or the truckload of gold stolen from him) in ''Bad Company 2.''
** Bad Company 2 was released on PC, whereas the first one wasn't. If they had just gone and continued the story from the first one, many of the PC gamers would have felt confused and left out.
*** Also, B Company is operating on the other side of the planet in the second game.
* YouAndWhatArmy: Haggard says this to the American Army they just deserted from catching up to them and ordering them to surrender their arms. This appalls his fellow deserter squadmates. "I AlwaysWantedToSayThat." is his explanation.
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!! ''Battlefield: Bad Company 2'' and ''Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam'' provide examples of:
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: During "Zero Dark Thirty" the squad will stop and have a surprisingly deep conversation about religion and morality if you don't interrupt them by starting another firefight. (You can't save games, so here's the conversation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Kl46CXVlU&feature=related )
** There are similar conversations that the squad has in all the levels from "Upriver" to "Zero Dark Thirty".
* AttackDrone: The UAV in Bad Company 2 can count, but its Hellfire missile strike takes an extremely long time to refresh.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The UAV can be equipped with a heavy machine gun that does good damage to infantry and light vehicles and never runs out of ammo. The problem is that a low-flying UAV with a huge muzzle flash and very visible tracers quickly gets the attention of the entire enemy team and gets shot down in no time. Therefore it's [[BoringButPractical far more practical]] to stay at a high altitude, just spotting targets and calling in the occasional hellfire missile - and it's ''still'' vulnerable way up there, but hey, it'll get destroyed in less time.
*** The machine gun damage really wasn't that good. Unlike other machine guns in the game, you really had to focus on a target at full health, making it only really useful against weakened targets, and like stated above, at closer ranges.''.
* BadassBandolier: The character classes and protagonists of ''Bad Company 2'' generally wear grenades on their vests. The Assault class at least has a more realistic example of also carrying grenade launcher ammo on their chest, and the Recon wears shotgun shells, even while their class-specific weapons are '''[[{{Irony}} sniper rifles]]'''. A Recon player may easily elect to use a shotgun, to be fair.
* BaldOfEvil: Kirilenko.
* BigNo: Haggard, [[spoiler:when Flynn's 'chopper is destroyed by an RPG.]]
* BlatantLies: In the Vietnam expansion, when the US suffers a defeat at Cao Son Temple (75-200 US troops dead), the announcer will report that despite Hanoi's claims of a victory "CENTCOM remained coy, claiming no knowledge of any mission gone awry or troops killed in action." Alternatively, if the US team really gets creamed, he will announce "CENTCOM did confirm that there were minor casualties during a patrol operation in South Vietnam."
* BoringYetPractical: You can get some pretty awesome sniper rifles, including the bolt-action .50 caliber M95, but one of the most accurate and easy to use sniper rifles is the M24, the rifle you start with, and it's also the easiest to predict the bullet drop with for when you need to make the ''really'' long shots.
* ChekhovsGun: In this case, Chekhov's satellite and Chekhov's scalar weapon.
* ColdSniper: Subverted. The American Recon has a voice of a young man and his dialog is exactly NOT what you'd hear out of a cold sniper.
** The Russian Recon speaks in a more gruff-sounding voice, though whether it makes him seem cold is [[YourMilageMayVary up to debate.]]
* CoolGuns: ''Bad Company 2'' eschews a realistic armament for the American and Russian troops in favour of allowing players to shoot as many cool guns as possible, amongst others including the F2000 assault rifle, the [=MG3=] and the WWII era ''Thompson SMG''.
* ContinuityNod: For ''Bad Company 2'', see this [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-single-player-battlefield-bad/61088 video]]. At 27 seconds, the skull on the sign is from the flag of the Nationals from BattlefieldHeroes.
** ''Bad Company 2'' includes a bunch of these for ''Battlefield 1943''. For instance, you can hear the post-battle radio news from ''1943'' at the end of the first mission, all the USMC weapons minus the Springfield 1903 are available for use in multiplayer, and the whole plot from the campaign revolves around a ForgottenSuperweapon from the Pacific theater WWII.
* DarkerAndEdgier: * The first ''Bad Company'' game was a fairly light romp through Central Asia with a bunch of comedic misfits fighting for gold and going through everybody - the Russians, the Serdaristanis, and the Legionaire's private army- who happened to be in the way. The second one was an outright fight for survival against a nigh-endless storm of the Russians and their allies that threatened to wipe all opposition off the face of the Earth with a group of comedic misfits whose antics helped keep the game from becoming grimdark and you from realizing just how bad the situation really is.
* DeadpanSnarker: The details for the knife weapon entry in ''Bad Company 2''...
--> Details: ...For optimum performance, the leading edge "pointy end" should be applied to the enemy and thrust into vital areas. This should be repeated as necessary.
* DuelingGames: ''Bad Company 2'' appears to be headed down this road with ModernWarfare2.
** The expansion, Vietnam, seems to be an attempt to counter CallOfDutyBlackOps.
* EyepatchOfPower: The NVA Recon skin in Bad Company: Vietnam gets ones of these in the form of a bloodied headband over his left eye.
* GogglesDoNothing: In the cutscenes of BC:2 Marlowe has goggles around his helmet, he never puts them on. In a bit of FridgeBrilliance, though, you'll notice that during gameplay the edges of screen are significantly darker, as if Marlowe's peripheral vision was blocked. Marlowe only wears the goggles during gameplay and rightfully he should with all the debris from gratuitous explosions.
* GunshipRescue: Flynn in Bad Company 2
* GuideDangIt: ''Bad Company 2'' doesn't explain the tracers darts at all, which allows a rocket launcher to home in on the tagged target after aiming at the target's indicator for a few seconds, even if not being pointed directly at it when fired. This lead to players firing their rockets right after aiming at the planted vehicle, as they did in the first ''Bad Company'', resulting in confusion when the rocket would not home in to the vehicle.
** What the hell is that 1 next to people on my team's name in multiplayer?
*** People who own previous Battlefield games can register on the EA website to get a Veteran status, which is the only way of acquiring the M1 Garand in Multiplayer. The number refers to how many other games in the Battlefield series they own.
* [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders Haggard Wants The Dallas Cowboys' Cheerleaders]]: How Sweetwater convinces him to keep fighting [[spoiler: since the whole ultimate EMP weapon the story is based on going off over America makes it tough for commercial football to continue.]]
* HiddenDepths: Hidden in ''Bad Company 2'' to the point it's very unlikely you'll ever hear it unless you manage to be sufficiently patient. ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Kl46CXVlU&feature=related Here.]]). It is surprising nonetheless.
* InvadedStatesOfAmerica: ''Bad Company 2'' has some multiplayer maps in Alaska, [[spoiler: and the ending has the Russians proceeding on the US-Canadian Border.]]
* JustPlaneWrong: In Bad Company 2, Haggard misidentifies Kirelenko's Antonov An-124 as the larger An-225.
** Quite specifically one might add, to the point that one would have had to do quite a bit of research on the An-225 to find out the information Haggard lists off the top of his head. Which makes the whole "missing the tell-tale twin-tail" thing all the more jarring.
*** FridgeBrilliance: Haggard is normally not the brightest bulb in the squad, and it's surprising to the player and the squad when he starts spouting technical facts. The fact that he's wrong makes it even funnier.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Flynn dies quickly after he violates his TechnicalPacifism (which he says he maintains to preserve his karma), saving the protagonists from being held at gunpoint.]]
** Less disputably and more conventionally, [[spoiler: Aguire gets betrayed and killed by the Russians after he defects to them when he stops being of use.]]
* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] After destroying the scalar weapon and killing the BigBad over Texas at the end of the game, Haggard assumes that Russia is no longer invading the US. General Braidwood then informs the squad that the Russians are coming in... '''through Alaska'''. ]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Rescuing Flynn is probably the only reason the protagonists survived the betrayal.]]
** [[spoiler: And for that matter, the main reason Flynn died. See KarmicDeath.]]
** More conventionally, [[spoiler: after his betrayal and defection, Aguire is immediately killed by Kirilenko because he is of no more use to the Russian war effort.]]
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Aguire wanted it to be a DefiedTrope, but TheSquad goes anyway at Haggard's example.
* OldSaveBonus: In ''Bad Company 2'', the game unlocks a Thompson SMG and a Colt 1911 for you early if you also have ''Battlefield 1943''. If you sign up through their online "Veterans" program and link a 2nd Battlefield game to your EA account, it will also unlock an M1 Garand (as well as an F2000 for the first ''Bad Company'').
* PrecisionFStrike: In BC2, your character Preston Marlowe, who barely ever swears in any of his dialogue, will scream out "FUCK!" during a particularly intense scene. Haggard responds "Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?", while Sweetwater says, "I'm proud of ya, Pres!"
** "I'll go my ''fucking'' self."
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: If anything, there's a total lack of good people getting shot, bad things happening to idealists, and a distinct lack of grayness [except for ''one'' event in ''BC2'', in which a soldier defects because he has family in America].
* ShoutOut:
** The M79 grenade launcher has the same tiger stripe pattern as Roach's one in Apocalypse Now.
** You might hear a soldier say "[[DrowningPool Let the bodies hit the floor!]]" while playing a multiplayer match as the Americans in ''Bad Company 2''.
** In ''Bad Company 2'', upon observing a South American jungle camp, your sarge will remark that they are [[{{Predator}} "dug in like an Alabama tick."]]
** Another from ''Bad Company 2'': as you and your squad trudge through the snowy wastes of the Andes in "Crack the Sky", Sweetwater remarks, "Where are we, [[TheEmpireStrikesBack Hoth]]?".
** In the same level as above, a subtle shoutout to BlackHawkDown can be heard during the jeep sequence. "We can't slow down, WE CAN'T SLOW DOWN!"
** A particularly memorable comment about ice cream from [[http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/6/10/Gunship-strafing-run-310145.html this gunship recording]] can be heard while piloting UAVs in ''Bad Company 2''.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Some the songs that play in Bad Company: Vietnam's vehicle radios seem a bit too...happy. Especially when someone is getting burned alive from a tank's flamethrower just a couple of feet away.
* TechnicalPacifist: Flynn, the helicopter pilot in ''Bad Company 2''. He has absolutely no problem with killing as long as he isn't the one who actually pulls the trigger (he says it's bad for his karma). [[spoiler:It seems he was right, as once he starts killing the enemy himself, he's quickly killed himself.)]]
* TechPoints: Classes in ''Bad Company 2'' have separate requirements to unlock vehicle specializations, as well as specializations and weapons for each class. You advance through these by gaining score using the respective tree's tools. This is in addition to general level unlocks in which score from using anything is added to it to give you weapons and specializations available to any class.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Japanese guards during the opening sequence of ''Bad Comapny 2'' are somehow entirely unable to hear two boats powered by ''outboard motors'' on a quiet night. The fact that the characters cut off the motors and request "no sound" of each other just underlines the ridiculousness.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Aguire wants Aurora to be released over the United States, he's not actually trying to stop it.]]
** [[spoiler:He actually spends most of the game as a genuine US operative. He doesn't defect until he learns that the US government covered up the fact that the mission his father died on (Operation Aurora) was a SuicideMission, only started so high command could learn about the potential of the scalar weapon)]]
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: The American team in Bad Company 2. They will curse at every chance.
** Now your ass is mine, bitch!
** Take that, mother fucker!
** Topped that mother fucker!
* TitleDrop: Haggard has one on the last mission, "Airbourne", where he says, "Yeah, you're in Bad Company now, bitches!"
* TookALevelInJerkass: Haggard makes some meaner comments than he does in the first game.
* ToThePain: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''Bad Company 2'', where Redford asks a prisoner where their target is. Preston bets he'll tell them in 10 seconds after Redford goes over to him. Haggard bets 5. Haggard wins. It's quickly revealed that Redford just told the prisoner about their mission to stop the release of Aurora over the US, and the prisoner tells him what Redford needs to know because he has family living in Houston.
* UnexpectedGenreChange: What would probably confuse many people, clearly seeing ''Bad Company 2'' is supposed to be a modern setting-type from the game's cover, is that the first mission the campaign takes place in World War 2.
* UnfriendlyFire: [[spoiler: Aguire is shot by the man who's teaming up with him to EMP the United States.]]
* WholePlotReference: Angry Russians waging war on the United States, [[spoiler:an officer in charge of covert operations turning on his operatives because they're in the way of his revenge, and EMP used as a weapon.]] You can tell ''Bad Company 2'' apart from [[ModernWarfare Modern Warfare 2]] because there's at least two {{Take That}}s at ''Modern Warfare 2''.
** Not to mention a final level consisting of close-range firefights on board a plane.
* Whoring: ''Bad Company 2'' took steps against it by making explosives reload more slowly then other ammunition from ammo boxes and only giving one grenade unless you use a specialization to be able to hold two. You can sit in a spot and throw grenades forever, but you'll be throwing them slow enough to make it not a profitable venture. Even then, most players only use their noob tubes to knock down cover or attack vehicles.
* WorldWarThree: Russia vs The Whole World. [[spoiler: Russia is winning.]]
* YouALLLookFamiliar: The ''Bad Company'' games only have a character model for each weapon type and side they're on, causing you to see many lookalike platinum-blond Russians in red (well, sometimes green) berets attempting to kill you with light machine guns in the second game. The ones that wear balaclavas are more justifiable. [[hottip:* : [[WildMassGuessing Maybe,]] [[HandWave the uniforms are based on their main weapon!]]]] When you fight enemies that shouldn't be using uniforms, it gets strange.
** Some of these are [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], for example Snipers always wear ghillie suits, Demolition soldiers from the first game and American Engineers from the second get a blast shield on their helmet, while Russian Engineers wear balaclavas, reminiscent of the first game's Special Ops class.
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!! Both games provide examples of:
* ClusterFBomb: Almost the entire battle chatter of American soldiers in the multiplayer mode of ''Bad Company 1&2''. For some odd reason, in the Bad Company 2 multiplayer swearing over the in-game chat function is censored, but in the newest patch it can be disabled if the owner of the server allows it.
* BoxedCrook: ''Bad Company'' - Actually, the game is titled over a company who's troops are supposed to be all of this. The PC took a joyride in a helicopter, wrecking it and a general's limo[[hottip:*:In both games, Preston Marlowe ''does not'' have a helicopter rating: he's a private and an infantryman. He just wanted to see if he could do it. He could not]]. One of your sqaudmates uploaded a virus into the US defense grid. The other one blew up the largest ammo dump east of Paris. The Sarge is the only one who's not a discipline problem, but he joined B Company for reasons of his own.
** B Company (the titular Bad Company) is so named because they get the shit jobs and absolutely none of the credit. It's a place for rejects and attitude problems. The catch, however, is that service in B Company counts towards your discharge much faster: if you survive, the Army gets rid of you faster (and good riddance)[[hottip:*:This is Sarge's reasoning for joining the company]]. If you die, well, the Army is still rid of you, isn't it?
* EverythingBreaks: ''Bad Company'' finally introduced destructible environment to the series. And it is glorious.
** In the sequel, buildings can break down entirely. And it is glorious. ([[OneHitKill ...unless you were in it.]])
* HitScan: Averted. ''Bad Company 2'' even gives you bonus score for killing from a far range for managing to deal with it.
* ImprovisedWeapon: The drill and the defibrillator. The drill not only repairs tanks but when shoved against an enemy kills them. You can get an achievement in ''Bad Company 2'' for getting a headshot kill with the repair tool called [[LittleShopofHorrors "The Dentist"]].
** ''Battlefield: Bad Company 2'' brings us "Destruction 2.0", which is a fancy way of saying that you can now collapse buildings by blowing up the first floor walls, even when there's still people or objectives in them. Naturally, this is just as effective as it sounds when playing Rush.
* IndyPloy: ''Bad Company''[='s=] bread and butter.
* InvisibleWall: Artillery is actually launched at you in ''Bad Company'' if you go out-of-bounds. Strangely, however, completing objectives reduces the range of the artillery-objectives such as "Storm the village" or "Get to the supply depot" or "Regroup with your squad".
** It sort of makes sense with some of the objectives, such as 'destroy the artillery emplacements'. As for the rest, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation well...]]
*** If it's friendly fire, it makes some sense as the initial wave of shells more-or-less blankets the countryside to damage the enemy and support the main offensive except for small corridors that are left undamaged to facilitate the general Western Allied advance (and which are shelled by the enemy instead), with various artillery units recieving orders to lift fire and redirect elsewhere as either it becomes time to assault a particular strategic location from the ground (hence necessitating you stop shelling the hell out of said location so your infantry can actually assault) or as sectors are secured as the enemy is driven back and the artillery begins hitting other targets. [[FridgeLogic Don't think too hard as to why you don't see a whit of this widespread arty fireing unless you go out of bounds and why the artillery is so thick yet spread over such a wide area. Or why this occurs even in neutral levels like Serdaristan where there is no great offensive going on.]] The enemy's artillery would likewise shift fire as the Allies advance and take more ground (as shelling their rear does little to help their situation).
* MagicTool: The Drill in ''Bad Company 1 & 2'', the power tool damages enemy vehicles just as quickly as it repairs friendly ones. Can also be used to [[ImprovisedWeapon kill]] [[ThisIsADrill people]].
* RightHandedLeftHandedGuns: Inconsistent in the ''Bad Company'' spin-offs, resulting in stuff like the [=HK416=] and [=M16A4=] with right handed controls and left-side ejection ports to properly-modeled belt-fed light machine guns.
* StuffBlowingUp: Why you should get ''Bad Company'' 1 or 2.
** Also probably a strong reason why Haggard joined the Army. After watching an airstrike, he expresses that he should of joined the Air Force.
* TakeThat: The plot of ''Bad Company 2'' is essentially ''[[ModernWarfare Modern Warfare 2]]'', and it misses no opportunity to suggest that the latter is silly. Given that gamers abandoned [=MW2=] for [=BC2=] over the server debacle above, this may also qualify as FanService.
--->'''Sweetwater''': No! No no no, he'll just send some [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous special-ops]] [[SubvertedTrope douche-bags]] with pussy-ass [[ModernWarfare heartbeat monitors]] on their guns instead of [[BadassNormal us]]!
--->'''Sweetwater''': If we were racing on snowmobiles I'd take you down!
--->'''Haggard''': Snowmobiles are for pussies!
** [=DiCE=] isn't even dancing around it any more. They released a video called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Qpui1hYBw&feature=player_embedded "Friends Really Against Grenade Spam"]] ("'''F'''riends '''R'''eally '''A'''gainst '''G'''renade '''S'''pam")which directly mocks [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnLxFkWv5SM a similar video that Infinity Ward created]] ( "'''F'''ight '''A'''gainst '''G'''renade '''S'''pam" )to promote ''{{Modern Warfare}} 2''. The original video starred Cole Hamels, a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. To double the burn, the mocking video starred C.C. Sabathia, a pitcher for the New York Yankees team that just beat the Phillies in the 2009 World Series.
*** Funny enough, it appears to be a rant against using random celebrity pitchers... until C.C. blows up Sweetwater for trash-talking him ''and'' being a noob.
** The parody ads for the first game were much less caustic, probably even affectionate, but they still mocked their inspirations.
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!! B Company provides examples of:
* ActionSurvivor: Preston Marlow; also a BadassNormal along with the rest of the squad, but he's clearly softer than they are, and his blog video for the first game had him telling his little brother back home about his intention to ''be'' this. Most evident when ''Bad Company'' starts, but still visible even as he starts growing out of it, notably in ''Bad Company 2''.
** All of Bravo-2 fits, actually. While Haggard loves to blow shit up, when things escalate wildly out of control in the second game, he declares that he's not really all that keen on pushing forward against impossible odds. Redford is ''pissed'' that his squad keeps getting the short end of the stick with missions because he doesn't want to die. Sweetwater notably points out several times that they're pretty far off-mission in their escapades, and while they're surviving, the odds are definitely against them. But when the shit hits the fan and they're the only ones that can make a difference, they all still pull out all the stops to save the day (Haggard needs to be convinced to save the cheerleaders, though).
* AFatherToHisMen: Sort of. Redford refers to Haggard, Sweetwater and Marlowe as his "bastard children".
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Early teasers for ''Bad Company'' showed Sarge as one, but he ended up wearing a cap on his head and appearing to have hair under it.
* {{Expy}}: Sarge in Bad Company looks and sounds alot like [[{{Halo}} Sargent Avery Junior Johnson]] while wearing his hat.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Sergeant Samuel Redford
** TheLancer: Private Preston Marlowe
** TheSmartGuy: Private Terrence Sweetwater
** TheBigGuy: Private George Haggard
** TheChick: Miss July in BC1, Flynn in BC2
** Disputable. Alternatively:
*** TheHero: Pvt. Preston Marlowe
*** DaChief: Sgt. Samuel Redford
*** TheSmartGuy: Pvt. Terrence Sweetwater
*** TheLancer: Pvt. George Haggard
*** TheChick: Miss July/Flynn
** Sweetwater also qualifies as a BigGuy, specifically Class 5 which doubles as SmartGuy, since being physically imposing isn't a requirement, just common. He's the squad's SAW gunner and thus carries a larger, faster-firing weapon, he's competent with it, and in one instance, smashes a Russian soldier off a rooftop with it, without breaking stride.
** He carries a M60 for Bad Company 2.
* HiddenBadass: B-Company is where all the screw-ups in the Army go to be used as cannon fodder since they're good for little else. The main characters of ''Bad Company'' are easily just as competent as a spec-ops team, but they're winging it without any advanced training.
** By the second game, Bravo-2 have earned something of a MemeticBadass reputation among the US Army, and are treated with the same respect (and sent on the same kinds of missions) as an actual special ops team even though they actually aren't. Note that this is partly because ''there are hardly any real Special Forces operators left'' - it's strongly implied that the war is going very, ''very'' badly for the United States and her allies.
*** To be fair, Russia doesn't seem to be doing too much better, if at all (U.S. forces are seen to be pushing deep into Russian-controlled Europe in a map at the beginning of the campaign).
** Also, they are very, very expendable... and somehow keep managing to escape being expended.
*** [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers They have the rare blend of expendable and invulnerable that makes them the perfect henchmen!]]
* KarmaHoudini: TheSquad in ''Bad Company 1&2''. Over the course of the game, they mutiny once, go AWOL once, and, at the end of the game, steal a truckload of gold bullion and desert from the army, driving off into the sunset. Not only are they not put on trial, by the second game they're back on duty, and being trusted with important assignments - both because they have a reputation for surviving just about anything, and because ''the war is just going that badly''.
** Alternatively: Getting sent back to B-Company ''was'' their punishment.
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Subverted in ''Bad Company''. Haggard is a pretty good guy that likes explosives and happens to have a Southern accent.
** Haggard seems to follow the stereotype a bit more in the sequel, where he's a bit meaner and calls their rather hippie-appearing helicopter pilot a "hippy", "liberal", "pinko", and some more, but he is later the one to initiate the rest of TheSquad to [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind save him later]].
* TheSquad: Your buddies in ''Bad Company''.
* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: Command keeps sending them on suicide missions that they refuse to actually die on.
* TheQuietOne: Marlowe doesn't talk as much as his squadmates. In fact, he doesn't speak at all outside of cutscenes, and even then he still doesn't talk much.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: The rest of TheSquad before the game starts in the blog posts for the original ''Bad Company'' had Sweetwater being more worried of his squadmates killing him then the enemy, but they were otherwise reasonable friends.
The ''Battlefield: Bad Company'' {{spinoff}} [[BuffySpeak subseries... thing]] represents something of a departure from the norm for the BattlefieldSeries. Both games bring a whole new feature to improve the Battlefield experience: plot! And destruction physics, but we’ll get to that later.
Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, ''Battlefield: Bad Company'', the first game in the series, follows the exploits of [[TitleDrop B(ad) Company]], a group made up of the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits military’s rejects and trouble cases]] that are sent on {{Suicide Mission}}s [[WeHaveReserves in lieu of better trained (read: more expensive) soldiers.]] Things get a bit more interesting when B Company stumbles across a dead mercenary bearing the logo of [[BigBad The Legionnaire]], a famed commander known for paying his mercenaries in gold bars. [[BlatantLies Being upstanding soldiers, they of course report this immediately to their superiors.]] Bad Company’s campaign is a somewhat [[LighterAndSofter light hearted]] story for what has traditionally been a gritty genre. Highlights include accidentally invading a [[{{Ruritania}} neutral country]] and driving around on its golf courses while dodging tank fire.
Bad Company 1 is also notable for introducing [[EverythingBreaks destruction physics]] to the series. Its engine, Frostbite, allows for everything from fences to the outer walls of buildings to be destroyed, meaning that cover no longer means safety.
''Battlefield: Bad Company 2'' continues following B Company through a DarkerAndEdgier storyline that [[WholePlotReference might feel a bit familiar to]] [[ModernWarfare Call of Duty]] [[WholePlotReference fans.]] B Company has been promoted from glorified CannonFodder to [[SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder cannon fodder that gets things done.]] The squad is tasked with stopping a [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Russian plot]] to obtain a [[ForgottenSuperweapon secret WWII-era Japanese superweapon]]. Of course, not everything goes according to plan, and things start to get a little out of hand.
Bad Company 2 upgrades its engine to Frostbite 1.5, allowing for much more intricate destruction physics. Now, instead of just blowing out a building’s walls, it’s possible to destroy smaller buildings entirely, leaving them to collapse on anyone unlucky enough to be inside. Some bits of cover can even be shot to pieces, with chucks of concrete breaking away to reveal enemies behind.
Of course, this still being ''{{Battlefield|Series}}'', both games feature a hefty multiplayer component. Multiplayer in both games is on a somewhat smaller (though still large) scale than the main Battlefield games, with a somewhat reduced vehicle focus (no jets being one large change). This, combined with some other changes such as RegeneratingHealth and [[CrouchAndProne no prone]] have lead to accusations by some of the series’s more hardcore fans that DICE was [[PCVsConsole pandering to console gamers]]. Still, critical response has generally been good and Bad Company 2 still has a thriving community over a year after release. Oh, and destruction physics extend to the multiplayer of both games, leading to a very dynamic battlefield.
Bad Company 2 got a full-fledged multiplayer ExpansionPack, ''Battlefield Bad Company Vietnam'', which is set in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Vietnam]]. Included with the pack are five new maps and a slew of new period weapons and vehicles.
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!! ''Battlefield: Bad Company'' examples:
* AffectionateParody: ''Bad Company'' had trailers who's point were to make video game references. They were titled [[GearsOfWar Bad World]], [[RainbowSix Rainbow Sprinkles]], and [[MetalGearSolid Snake Eyes]].
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Justified in ''Bad Company'' - you routinely perform badass acts of heroics that would earn you a bunch of medals under normal circumstances, but the missions you're being sent out on are literally suicidal tasks your superiors are assigning you to in a deliberate attempt to get you and your squad killed, so they're understandably less than happy when you succeed. Later in the game, when [[spoiler: you and your squad mutiny]], there isn't anyone to receive respect ''from''.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: In the first ''Bad Company'', the Russians didn't seem any more "evil" than the Americans -- the real villains were the [[BigBad Legionnaire]] and his mercenaries. This got thrown out the window in the sequel, however, as the Russians seem bent on taking over the world. Most ''Battlefield'' games don't make any faction seem more evil than another anyways (except, [[GodwinsLaw of course]], ThoseWackyNazis).
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Haggard responds to a demand to drop their weapons from the American army which he and his squad just deserted from with, "Oh yeah? You and what army?!" This appalls every last one of his fellow mutineers - especially when the main American force arrives, and he adds, "[[OhCrap Oh.]] ''[[OhCrap That]]'' [[OhCrap army]]."
* {{Irony}}: Marlowe's videotaped message to his younger brother in America as a promotional means to advertise the game. Watch it.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to previous titles, ''Battlefield: Bad Company'' included gameplay which was less-realistic (notably OneBulletClips) and somewhat less team-based, as well as a storyline on a character-based level and humourous character dialogue and interactions.
* RedundantRescue: Preston Marlowe's [[spoiler:attempt to find and save his squad]] in ''Bad Company''.
* ReverseGrip: How the knife is held.
* SeinfeldianConversation: Often occurs during the single player campaigns.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Mike-One-Juliet in ''Bad Company''.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Legionnaire is alive and extremely angry when ''Bad Company'' ends. No one even mentions him (or the truckload of gold stolen from him) in ''Bad Company 2.''
** Bad Company 2 was released on PC, whereas the first one wasn't. If they had just gone and continued the story from the first one, many of the PC gamers would have felt confused and left out.
*** Also, B Company is operating on the other side of the planet in the second game.
* YouAndWhatArmy: Haggard says this to the American Army they just deserted from catching up to them and ordering them to surrender their arms. This appalls his fellow deserter squadmates. "I AlwaysWantedToSayThat." is his explanation.
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!! ''Battlefield: Bad Company 2'' and ''Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam'' provide examples of:
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: During "Zero Dark Thirty" the squad will stop and have a surprisingly deep conversation about religion and morality if you don't interrupt them by starting another firefight. (You can't save games, so here's the conversation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Kl46CXVlU&feature=related )
** There are similar conversations that the squad has in all the levels from "Upriver" to "Zero Dark Thirty".
* AttackDrone: The UAV in Bad Company 2 can count, but its Hellfire missile strike takes an extremely long time to refresh.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The UAV can be equipped with a heavy machine gun that does good damage to infantry and light vehicles and never runs out of ammo. The problem is that a low-flying UAV with a huge muzzle flash and very visible tracers quickly gets the attention of the entire enemy team and gets shot down in no time. Therefore it's [[BoringButPractical far more practical]] to stay at a high altitude, just spotting targets and calling in the occasional hellfire missile - and it's ''still'' vulnerable way up there, but hey, it'll get destroyed in less time.
*** The machine gun damage really wasn't that good. Unlike other machine guns in the game, you really had to focus on a target at full health, making it only really useful against weakened targets, and like stated above, at closer ranges.''.
* BadassBandolier: The character classes and protagonists of ''Bad Company 2'' generally wear grenades on their vests. The Assault class at least has a more realistic example of also carrying grenade launcher ammo on their chest, and the Recon wears shotgun shells, even while their class-specific weapons are '''[[{{Irony}} sniper rifles]]'''. A Recon player may easily elect to use a shotgun, to be fair.
* BaldOfEvil: Kirilenko.
* BigNo: Haggard, [[spoiler:when Flynn's 'chopper is destroyed by an RPG.]]
* BlatantLies: In the Vietnam expansion, when the US suffers a defeat at Cao Son Temple (75-200 US troops dead), the announcer will report that despite Hanoi's claims of a victory "CENTCOM remained coy, claiming no knowledge of any mission gone awry or troops killed in action." Alternatively, if the US team really gets creamed, he will announce "CENTCOM did confirm that there were minor casualties during a patrol operation in South Vietnam."
* BoringYetPractical: You can get some pretty awesome sniper rifles, including the bolt-action .50 caliber M95, but one of the most accurate and easy to use sniper rifles is the M24, the rifle you start with, and it's also the easiest to predict the bullet drop with for when you need to make the ''really'' long shots.
* ChekhovsGun: In this case, Chekhov's satellite and Chekhov's scalar weapon.
* ColdSniper: Subverted. The American Recon has a voice of a young man and his dialog is exactly NOT what you'd hear out of a cold sniper.
** The Russian Recon speaks in a more gruff-sounding voice, though whether it makes him seem cold is [[YourMilageMayVary up to debate.]]
* CoolGuns: ''Bad Company 2'' eschews a realistic armament for the American and Russian troops in favour of allowing players to shoot as many cool guns as possible, amongst others including the F2000 assault rifle, the [=MG3=] and the WWII era ''Thompson SMG''.
* ContinuityNod: For ''Bad Company 2'', see this [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-single-player-battlefield-bad/61088 video]]. At 27 seconds, the skull on the sign is from the flag of the Nationals from BattlefieldHeroes.
** ''Bad Company 2'' includes a bunch of these for ''Battlefield 1943''. For instance, you can hear the post-battle radio news from ''1943'' at the end of the first mission, all the USMC weapons minus the Springfield 1903 are available for use in multiplayer, and the whole plot from the campaign revolves around a ForgottenSuperweapon from the Pacific theater WWII.
* DarkerAndEdgier: * The first ''Bad Company'' game was a fairly light romp through Central Asia with a bunch of comedic misfits fighting for gold and going through everybody - the Russians, the Serdaristanis, and the Legionaire's private army- who happened to be in the way. The second one was an outright fight for survival against a nigh-endless storm of the Russians and their allies that threatened to wipe all opposition off the face of the Earth with a group of comedic misfits whose antics helped keep the game from becoming grimdark and you from realizing just how bad the situation really is.
* DeadpanSnarker: The details for the knife weapon entry in ''Bad Company 2''...
--> Details: ...For optimum performance, the leading edge "pointy end" should be applied to the enemy and thrust into vital areas. This should be repeated as necessary.
* DuelingGames: ''Bad Company 2'' appears to be headed down this road with ModernWarfare2.
** The expansion, Vietnam, seems to be an attempt to counter CallOfDutyBlackOps.
* EyepatchOfPower: The NVA Recon skin in Bad Company: Vietnam gets ones of these in the form of a bloodied headband over his left eye.
* GogglesDoNothing: In the cutscenes of BC:2 Marlowe has goggles around his helmet, he never puts them on. In a bit of FridgeBrilliance, though, you'll notice that during gameplay the edges of screen are significantly darker, as if Marlowe's peripheral vision was blocked. Marlowe only wears the goggles during gameplay and rightfully he should with all the debris from gratuitous explosions.
* GunshipRescue: Flynn in Bad Company 2
* GuideDangIt: ''Bad Company 2'' doesn't explain the tracers darts at all, which allows a rocket launcher to home in on the tagged target after aiming at the target's indicator for a few seconds, even if not being pointed directly at it when fired. This lead to players firing their rockets right after aiming at the planted vehicle, as they did in the first ''Bad Company'', resulting in confusion when the rocket would not home in to the vehicle.
** What the hell is that 1 next to people on my team's name in multiplayer?
*** People who own previous Battlefield games can register on the EA website to get a Veteran status, which is the only way of acquiring the M1 Garand in Multiplayer. The number refers to how many other games in the Battlefield series they own.
* [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders Haggard Wants The Dallas Cowboys' Cheerleaders]]: How Sweetwater convinces him to keep fighting [[spoiler: since the whole ultimate EMP weapon the story is based on going off over America makes it tough for commercial football to continue.]]
* HiddenDepths: Hidden in ''Bad Company 2'' to the point it's very unlikely you'll ever hear it unless you manage to be sufficiently patient. ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Kl46CXVlU&feature=related Here.]]). It is surprising nonetheless.
* InvadedStatesOfAmerica: ''Bad Company 2'' has some multiplayer maps in Alaska, [[spoiler: and the ending has the Russians proceeding on the US-Canadian Border.]]
* JustPlaneWrong: In Bad Company 2, Haggard misidentifies Kirelenko's Antonov An-124 as the larger An-225.
** Quite specifically one might add, to the point that one would have had to do quite a bit of research on the An-225 to find out the information Haggard lists off the top of his head. Which makes the whole "missing the tell-tale twin-tail" thing all the more jarring.
*** FridgeBrilliance: Haggard is normally not the brightest bulb in the squad, and it's surprising to the player and the squad when he starts spouting technical facts. The fact that he's wrong makes it even funnier.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Flynn dies quickly after he violates his TechnicalPacifism (which he says he maintains to preserve his karma), saving the protagonists from being held at gunpoint.]]
** Less disputably and more conventionally, [[spoiler: Aguire gets betrayed and killed by the Russians after he defects to them when he stops being of use.]]
* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] After destroying the scalar weapon and killing the BigBad over Texas at the end of the game, Haggard assumes that Russia is no longer invading the US. General Braidwood then informs the squad that the Russians are coming in... '''through Alaska'''. ]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Rescuing Flynn is probably the only reason the protagonists survived the betrayal.]]
** [[spoiler: And for that matter, the main reason Flynn died. See KarmicDeath.]]
** More conventionally, [[spoiler: after his betrayal and defection, Aguire is immediately killed by Kirilenko because he is of no more use to the Russian war effort.]]
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Aguire wanted it to be a DefiedTrope, but TheSquad goes anyway at Haggard's example.
* OldSaveBonus: In ''Bad Company 2'', the game unlocks a Thompson SMG and a Colt 1911 for you early if you also have ''Battlefield 1943''. If you sign up through their online "Veterans" program and link a 2nd Battlefield game to your EA account, it will also unlock an M1 Garand (as well as an F2000 for the first ''Bad Company'').
* PrecisionFStrike: In BC2, your character Preston Marlowe, who barely ever swears in any of his dialogue, will scream out "FUCK!" during a particularly intense scene. Haggard responds "Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?", while Sweetwater says, "I'm proud of ya, Pres!"
** "I'll go my ''fucking'' self."
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: If anything, there's a total lack of good people getting shot, bad things happening to idealists, and a distinct lack of grayness [except for ''one'' event in ''BC2'', in which a soldier defects because he has family in America].
* ShoutOut:
** The M79 grenade launcher has the same tiger stripe pattern as Roach's one in Apocalypse Now.
** You might hear a soldier say "[[DrowningPool Let the bodies hit the floor!]]" while playing a multiplayer match as the Americans in ''Bad Company 2''.
** In ''Bad Company 2'', upon observing a South American jungle camp, your sarge will remark that they are [[{{Predator}} "dug in like an Alabama tick."]]
** Another from ''Bad Company 2'': as you and your squad trudge through the snowy wastes of the Andes in "Crack the Sky", Sweetwater remarks, "Where are we, [[TheEmpireStrikesBack Hoth]]?".
** In the same level as above, a subtle shoutout to BlackHawkDown can be heard during the jeep sequence. "We can't slow down, WE CAN'T SLOW DOWN!"
** A particularly memorable comment about ice cream from [[http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/6/10/Gunship-strafing-run-310145.html this gunship recording]] can be heard while piloting UAVs in ''Bad Company 2''.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Some the songs that play in Bad Company: Vietnam's vehicle radios seem a bit too...happy. Especially when someone is getting burned alive from a tank's flamethrower just a couple of feet away.
* TechnicalPacifist: Flynn, the helicopter pilot in ''Bad Company 2''. He has absolutely no problem with killing as long as he isn't the one who actually pulls the trigger (he says it's bad for his karma). [[spoiler:It seems he was right, as once he starts killing the enemy himself, he's quickly killed himself.)]]
* TechPoints: Classes in ''Bad Company 2'' have separate requirements to unlock vehicle specializations, as well as specializations and weapons for each class. You advance through these by gaining score using the respective tree's tools. This is in addition to general level unlocks in which score from using anything is added to it to give you weapons and specializations available to any class.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Japanese guards during the opening sequence of ''Bad Comapny 2'' are somehow entirely unable to hear two boats powered by ''outboard motors'' on a quiet night. The fact that the characters cut off the motors and request "no sound" of each other just underlines the ridiculousness.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Aguire wants Aurora to be released over the United States, he's not actually trying to stop it.]]
** [[spoiler:He actually spends most of the game as a genuine US operative. He doesn't defect until he learns that the US government covered up the fact that the mission his father died on (Operation Aurora) was a SuicideMission, only started so high command could learn about the potential of the scalar weapon)]]
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: The American team in Bad Company 2. They will curse at every chance.
** Now your ass is mine, bitch!
** Take that, mother fucker!
** Topped that mother fucker!
* TitleDrop: Haggard has one on the last mission, "Airbourne", where he says, "Yeah, you're in Bad Company now, bitches!"
* TookALevelInJerkass: Haggard makes some meaner comments than he does in the first game.
* ToThePain: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''Bad Company 2'', where Redford asks a prisoner where their target is. Preston bets he'll tell them in 10 seconds after Redford goes over to him. Haggard bets 5. Haggard wins. It's quickly revealed that Redford just told the prisoner about their mission to stop the release of Aurora over the US, and the prisoner tells him what Redford needs to know because he has family living in Houston.
* UnexpectedGenreChange: What would probably confuse many people, clearly seeing ''Bad Company 2'' is supposed to be a modern setting-type from the game's cover, is that the first mission the campaign takes place in World War 2.
* UnfriendlyFire: [[spoiler: Aguire is shot by the man who's teaming up with him to EMP the United States.]]
* WholePlotReference: Angry Russians waging war on the United States, [[spoiler:an officer in charge of covert operations turning on his operatives because they're in the way of his revenge, and EMP used as a weapon.]] You can tell ''Bad Company 2'' apart from [[ModernWarfare Modern Warfare 2]] because there's at least two {{Take That}}s at ''Modern Warfare 2''.
** Not to mention a final level consisting of close-range firefights on board a plane.
* Whoring: ''Bad Company 2'' took steps against it by making explosives reload more slowly then other ammunition from ammo boxes and only giving one grenade unless you use a specialization to be able to hold two. You can sit in a spot and throw grenades forever, but you'll be throwing them slow enough to make it not a profitable venture. Even then, most players only use their noob tubes to knock down cover or attack vehicles.
* WorldWarThree: Russia vs The Whole World. [[spoiler: Russia is winning.]]
* YouALLLookFamiliar: The ''Bad Company'' games only have a character model for each weapon type and side they're on, causing you to see many lookalike platinum-blond Russians in red (well, sometimes green) berets attempting to kill you with light machine guns in the second game. The ones that wear balaclavas are more justifiable. [[hottip:* : [[WildMassGuessing Maybe,]] [[HandWave the uniforms are based on their main weapon!]]]] When you fight enemies that shouldn't be using uniforms, it gets strange.
** Some of these are [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], for example Snipers always wear ghillie suits, Demolition soldiers from the first game and American Engineers from the second get a blast shield on their helmet, while Russian Engineers wear balaclavas, reminiscent of the first game's Special Ops class.
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!! Both games provide examples of:
* ClusterFBomb: Almost the entire battle chatter of American soldiers in the multiplayer mode of ''Bad Company 1&2''. For some odd reason, in the Bad Company 2 multiplayer swearing over the in-game chat function is censored, but in the newest patch it can be disabled if the owner of the server allows it.
* BoxedCrook: ''Bad Company'' - Actually, the game is titled over a company who's troops are supposed to be all of this. The PC took a joyride in a helicopter, wrecking it and a general's limo[[hottip:*:In both games, Preston Marlowe ''does not'' have a helicopter rating: he's a private and an infantryman. He just wanted to see if he could do it. He could not]]. One of your sqaudmates uploaded a virus into the US defense grid. The other one blew up the largest ammo dump east of Paris. The Sarge is the only one who's not a discipline problem, but he joined B Company for reasons of his own.
** B Company (the titular Bad Company) is so named because they get the shit jobs and absolutely none of the credit. It's a place for rejects and attitude problems. The catch, however, is that service in B Company counts towards your discharge much faster: if you survive, the Army gets rid of you faster (and good riddance)[[hottip:*:This is Sarge's reasoning for joining the company]]. If you die, well, the Army is still rid of you, isn't it?
* EverythingBreaks: ''Bad Company'' finally introduced destructible environment to the series. And it is glorious.
** In the sequel, buildings can break down entirely. And it is glorious. ([[OneHitKill ...unless you were in it.]])
* HitScan: Averted. ''Bad Company 2'' even gives you bonus score for killing from a far range for managing to deal with it.
* ImprovisedWeapon: The drill and the defibrillator. The drill not only repairs tanks but when shoved against an enemy kills them. You can get an achievement in ''Bad Company 2'' for getting a headshot kill with the repair tool called [[LittleShopofHorrors "The Dentist"]].
** ''Battlefield: Bad Company 2'' brings us "Destruction 2.0", which is a fancy way of saying that you can now collapse buildings by blowing up the first floor walls, even when there's still people or objectives in them. Naturally, this is just as effective as it sounds when playing Rush.
* IndyPloy: ''Bad Company''[='s=] bread and butter.
* InvisibleWall: Artillery is actually launched at you in ''Bad Company'' if you go out-of-bounds. Strangely, however, completing objectives reduces the range of the artillery-objectives such as "Storm the village" or "Get to the supply depot" or "Regroup with your squad".
** It sort of makes sense with some of the objectives, such as 'destroy the artillery emplacements'. As for the rest, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation well...]]
*** If it's friendly fire, it makes some sense as the initial wave of shells more-or-less blankets the countryside to damage the enemy and support the main offensive except for small corridors that are left undamaged to facilitate the general Western Allied advance (and which are shelled by the enemy instead), with various artillery units recieving orders to lift fire and redirect elsewhere as either it becomes time to assault a particular strategic location from the ground (hence necessitating you stop shelling the hell out of said location so your infantry can actually assault) or as sectors are secured as the enemy is driven back and the artillery begins hitting other targets. [[FridgeLogic Don't think too hard as to why you don't see a whit of this widespread arty fireing unless you go out of bounds and why the artillery is so thick yet spread over such a wide area. Or why this occurs even in neutral levels like Serdaristan where there is no great offensive going on.]] The enemy's artillery would likewise shift fire as the Allies advance and take more ground (as shelling their rear does little to help their situation).
* MagicTool: The Drill in ''Bad Company 1 & 2'', the power tool damages enemy vehicles just as quickly as it repairs friendly ones. Can also be used to [[ImprovisedWeapon kill]] [[ThisIsADrill people]].
* RightHandedLeftHandedGuns: Inconsistent in the ''Bad Company'' spin-offs, resulting in stuff like the [=HK416=] and [=M16A4=] with right handed controls and left-side ejection ports to properly-modeled belt-fed light machine guns.
* StuffBlowingUp: Why you should get ''Bad Company'' 1 or 2.
** Also probably a strong reason why Haggard joined the Army. After watching an airstrike, he expresses that he should of joined the Air Force.
* TakeThat: The plot of ''Bad Company 2'' is essentially ''[[ModernWarfare Modern Warfare 2]]'', and it misses no opportunity to suggest that the latter is silly. Given that gamers abandoned [=MW2=] for [=BC2=] over the server debacle above, this may also qualify as FanService.
--->'''Sweetwater''': No! No no no, he'll just send some [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous special-ops]] [[SubvertedTrope douche-bags]] with pussy-ass [[ModernWarfare heartbeat monitors]] on their guns instead of [[BadassNormal us]]!
--->'''Sweetwater''': If we were racing on snowmobiles I'd take you down!
--->'''Haggard''': Snowmobiles are for pussies!
** [=DiCE=] isn't even dancing around it any more. They released a video called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Qpui1hYBw&feature=player_embedded "Friends Really Against Grenade Spam"]] ("'''F'''riends '''R'''eally '''A'''gainst '''G'''renade '''S'''pam")which directly mocks [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnLxFkWv5SM a similar video that Infinity Ward created]] ( "'''F'''ight '''A'''gainst '''G'''renade '''S'''pam" )to promote ''{{Modern Warfare}} 2''. The original video starred Cole Hamels, a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. To double the burn, the mocking video starred C.C. Sabathia, a pitcher for the New York Yankees team that just beat the Phillies in the 2009 World Series.
*** Funny enough, it appears to be a rant against using random celebrity pitchers... until C.C. blows up Sweetwater for trash-talking him ''and'' being a noob.
** The parody ads for the first game were much less caustic, probably even affectionate, but they still mocked their inspirations.
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!! B Company provides examples of:
* ActionSurvivor: Preston Marlow; also a BadassNormal along with the rest of the squad, but he's clearly softer than they are, and his blog video for the first game had him telling his little brother back home about his intention to ''be'' this. Most evident when ''Bad Company'' starts, but still visible even as he starts growing out of it, notably in ''Bad Company 2''.
** All of Bravo-2 fits, actually. While Haggard loves to blow shit up, when things escalate wildly out of control in the second game, he declares that he's not really all that keen on pushing forward against impossible odds. Redford is ''pissed'' that his squad keeps getting the short end of the stick with missions because he doesn't want to die. Sweetwater notably points out several times that they're pretty far off-mission in their escapades, and while they're surviving, the odds are definitely against them. But when the shit hits the fan and they're the only ones that can make a difference, they all still pull out all the stops to save the day (Haggard needs to be convinced to save the cheerleaders, though).
* AFatherToHisMen: Sort of. Redford refers to Haggard, Sweetwater and Marlowe as his "bastard children".
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Early teasers for ''Bad Company'' showed Sarge as one, but he ended up wearing a cap on his head and appearing to have hair under it.
* {{Expy}}: Sarge in Bad Company looks and sounds alot like [[{{Halo}} Sargent Avery Junior Johnson]] while wearing his hat.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Sergeant Samuel Redford
** TheLancer: Private Preston Marlowe
** TheSmartGuy: Private Terrence Sweetwater
** TheBigGuy: Private George Haggard
** TheChick: Miss July in BC1, Flynn in BC2
** Disputable. Alternatively:
*** TheHero: Pvt. Preston Marlowe
*** DaChief: Sgt. Samuel Redford
*** TheSmartGuy: Pvt. Terrence Sweetwater
*** TheLancer: Pvt. George Haggard
*** TheChick: Miss July/Flynn
** Sweetwater also qualifies as a BigGuy, specifically Class 5 which doubles as SmartGuy, since being physically imposing isn't a requirement, just common. He's the squad's SAW gunner and thus carries a larger, faster-firing weapon, he's competent with it, and in one instance, smashes a Russian soldier off a rooftop with it, without breaking stride.
** He carries a M60 for Bad Company 2.
* HiddenBadass: B-Company is where all the screw-ups in the Army go to be used as cannon fodder since they're good for little else. The main characters of ''Bad Company'' are easily just as competent as a spec-ops team, but they're winging it without any advanced training.
** By the second game, Bravo-2 have earned something of a MemeticBadass reputation among the US Army, and are treated with the same respect (and sent on the same kinds of missions) as an actual special ops team even though they actually aren't. Note that this is partly because ''there are hardly any real Special Forces operators left'' - it's strongly implied that the war is going very, ''very'' badly for the United States and her allies.
*** To be fair, Russia doesn't seem to be doing too much better, if at all (U.S. forces are seen to be pushing deep into Russian-controlled Europe in a map at the beginning of the campaign).
** Also, they are very, very expendable... and somehow keep managing to escape being expended.
*** [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers They have the rare blend of expendable and invulnerable that makes them the perfect henchmen!]]
* KarmaHoudini: TheSquad in ''Bad Company 1&2''. Over the course of the game, they mutiny once, go AWOL once, and, at the end of the game, steal a truckload of gold bullion and desert from the army, driving off into the sunset. Not only are they not put on trial, by the second game they're back on duty, and being trusted with important assignments - both because they have a reputation for surviving just about anything, and because ''the war is just going that badly''.
** Alternatively: Getting sent back to B-Company ''was'' their punishment.
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Subverted in ''Bad Company''. Haggard is a pretty good guy that likes explosives and happens to have a Southern accent.
** Haggard seems to follow the stereotype a bit more in the sequel, where he's a bit meaner and calls their rather hippie-appearing helicopter pilot a "hippy", "liberal", "pinko", and some more, but he is later the one to initiate the rest of TheSquad to [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind save him later]].
* TheSquad: Your buddies in ''Bad Company''.
* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: Command keeps sending them on suicide missions that they refuse to actually die on.
* TheQuietOne: Marlowe doesn't talk as much as his squadmates. In fact, he doesn't speak at all outside of cutscenes, and even then he still doesn't talk much.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: The rest of TheSquad before the game starts in the blog posts for the original ''Bad Company'' had Sweetwater being more worried of his squadmates killing him then the enemy, but they were otherwise reasonable friends.
