History VideoGame / CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars

* BoringButPractical: The Nod Venom patrol craft. They can detect stealth and have a chaingun that's quite effective against infantry; making them effective at sniffing out GDI's Sniper Teams. Venoms can also attack other air units. And, they are arguably the best counter to the Scrin's Disintegrators, which are commonly used in [[ZergRush swarm tactics]] but are helpless against aircraft. All this, and reasonably cheap and quick to train, too.

** The Hammerhead Gunship from ''Kane's Wrath'' might as well be a [[BiggerOnTheInside TARDIS in the shape of a helicopter]]. According to the Intelligence Database, it can transport an entire '''regiment''' and still has enough storage capacity left to "operate in the field for days at a time without needing to either refuel or rearm".
** In the actual game, however, they can only carry [[GameplayAndStorySegregation a single squad of infantry]].

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: As a result of continuity error in the {{novelization}}: suddenly, Nod grunts are using laser rifles!

* HollywoodScience: In the novelization, radioactive rainwater kills plants and trees within minutes while leaving the rest of the landscape, including the people who live in the area, unaffected. ''Radiation does not work that way.''

* {{Novelization}}: There is one , but it's full of HollywoodTactics and other artistic license. Thankfully, there is one FanFic author [[FanFic/TiberiumWars trying to fix that.]]

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: GDI Harvesters, although equipped with machine guns, will abandon all offensive commands when faced with even a small deposit of shiny Tiberium crystals

* BreakTheHaughty: What happens to the sepratist leader in the first mission of ''Kane's Wrath''.

--> '''Kane:''' "How could my own brothers believe that what transpired at the Temple Prime did not unfold ''exactly'' as [[JustAsPlannedI had planned]]. Of course I could not have planned for an ambush '''BY MY OWN FORCES!!'''"

* AirstripOne: The world, since it's been divided into "Blue", "Yellow" and "Red" zones.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Hammerhead Gunship from ''Kane's Wrath'' might as well be a [[BiggerOnTheInside TARDIS in the shape of a helicopter]]. According to the Intelligence Database, it can transport an entire '''regiment''' and still has enough storage capacity left to "operate in the field for days at a time without needing to either refuel or rearm".

'''Kane:''' "How could my own brothers believe that what transpired at the Temple Prime did not unfold ''exactly'' as [[JustAsPlannedI had planned]]. Of course I could not have planned for an ambush '''BY MY OWN FORCES!!'''"

* VillainousBreakdown: Kane after Sarajevo - "How could my own brothers believe that what transpired at the Temple Prime did not [[JustAsPlanned unfold exactly as I had planned]]. Of course I could not have planned for an ambush '''BY MY OWN FORCES!'''"

* EtTuBrute: In the Nod campaign mission "The Defense of Temple Prime", the Nod Commander was betrayed by the Nod dissidents.

** ''[[http://www.moddb.com/mods/cc-3-the-forgotten The Forgotten]]'' brings back the Tiberium-mutated faction from ''Tiberian Sun'', complete with its own fleshed-out campaign and full-motion video cutscenes.

** ''[[http://www.moddb.com/mods/tiberium-essence Tiberium Essence]]'', which revamps the game to be much more like an updated ''Tiberian Sun'' while keeping the general premise intact.

* SocietyMarchesOn: InUniverse. In the novel, GDI swear by a goddess and use Queens English swearwords (most notably "arse" instead of "ass.")
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Kane's mask in the first portion of Kane's Wrath is noticeably lopsided. This is most noticable if you look at the top of the mask and the part next to his left cheek; the angle of the slant on top would have been corrected if the left side of the mask actually touched his cheek instead of just hanging there.

** In the expansion, this is extended to Traveller-59's tanks, and the baseline Scrin's Ravager.

* InformedEquipment: Averted. Guns get bulkier, reinforced barrels from weapon upgrades, Tiberium enhanced SuperSoldiers start exhaling green gas, tanks get bulldozer blades, etc.

* HollywoodScience: in the {{novelization}} of ''Tiberium Wars'', radioactive rainwater kills plants and trees within minutes while leaving the rest of the landscape, including the people who live in the area, unaffected. ''Radiation does not work that way.''
* HumansAreWarriors: Why the harvesting operation goes bad for the Scrin in ''Wars''. While it's true that the Scrin's "invasion" was actually just a ''mining operation'' that harvests Tiberium-infested planets when all the inhabitants are dead, they still view humanity as "warlike to the extreme" and a major threat to the survival of their entire race.

** ''"A TITAN?! I haven't seen one of those since Tib War 2!"'' - Kane's Wrath, Nod Militant

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The blue zones, yellow zones, and red zones more or less correlate to present-day first world, second world, and third-world regions, respectively. The colored zones are also likely a reference to the "Green Zone," the base of operations of U.S. forces in Iraq and the only safe area in the country.

* HumongousMecha: GDI's Juggernaut, Nod's Avatar and Scrin's Tripod, straight out of ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. The base game explains ''Tiberian Suns''' mechas [[DeconstructedTrope were too vulnerable to commando's sabotages]] and were discontinued (some return in the expansion). [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration These sabotages are possible in-game ]], and an engineer can recover fallen units.