History VideoGame / Piratez

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: And ones with [[RuleOfCool incendiary rocket launchers]]!

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Happens regularly to various crew members, depending on the random name generator. Conversely, some names are... not very cool.

* BikerBabe: Now available in the form of a "Vessel" that represents up to 13 of your jolly band riding to battle on motorcycles. Uber Gals and Slave Soldiers can double up on the trope with theme-appropriate Ganger and Punk biker outfits, as can Lokk'naar, who make up for their small stature by augmenting their own Punk outfits with ''nasty'' chain whips.

* AbsoluteCleavage: The Witch Doctor "armor" has this.

* WalkThePlank: When your girls are underperformers, this is the final solution. It's unclear if this should be taken literally or if it's just slang for being kicked out.

* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Although the game mostly avoids the term ''goblins'', they seem to not only be called this (at least sometimes), but they seem to be pretty widespread around the planet. The most obvious goblin group is the Lokk'Naar tribe, which is the most immediate contact for the pirates. It is unclear if they are related to the Ratmen, or ''if they are mutants at all'' (as opposed to being an extraterrestrial race, for example).

* HumanAliens: The [[CatGirl Catpeople]], who appear on Smuggler missions, despite looking more human than many mutants, are actually full-fledged aliens.

* DelinquentHair: A portion of the pirates have extravagant, [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair multi-colored]] hair. Most hairstyles are tamer than this, but usually still quite punkish.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: True for many pirates. Some hairstyles are directly inspired by manga characters, most notably [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]].

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Too many examples to even list. Sometimes we get [[FashionableAsymmetry only half the skirt]]!

* ANaziByAnyOtherName:
** Taken to a comical extent with the Humanist faction, a human-supremacist group that holds mutant pogroms, dresses in what looks like Nazi uniforms, inexplicably wields World War II-era German weaponry, has leaders who all look exactly identical to Adolf Hitler, and flies ships shaped like ''giant swastikas''.
** This game also has the Spartans, modelled on the American right-wing militias, who are... not much different from the Humanists. They also practice mutant pogroms, live in an authoritarian militarist society by outdated social mores.

* DeathDealer: Magic cards are an ''incredibly'' powerful mid-range weapon for gals with high throwing skills and at least a little voodoo. They're tiny (so they easily fit in a pocket), can be thrown four at a time, and one deck has a whopping 52 shots.

* HumanSubspecies: Stable mutant strains, whose members have similar mutations and are able to reproduce to make more specimen. The most popular ones are ubers (in most regards superhumans, though less psionically gifted and a bit brutish in posture), lamias (half-humans, half-snakes), hybrids (humans with Sectoid characteristics) and ratlings (small humanoids). Other mutants are also considered their own kind by the general population, even though they are wildly different from one another.
* GenericanEmpire: Here called Stellar Empire.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Catgirls, who have randomly colored skin.
* UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy: Heavily referenced, especially in the authorities.
* HealingPotion: A whole range of them, mostly based on alcohol mixed with E-511 radioactive residue. Not usually quite as effective or portable as expensive purpose-built medical gear, but pour enough booze into or onto someone and they'll be alright. Booze also has the significant advantage of being easily chugged by oneself, while all other methods of stopping bleeding need a friend to apply them for you.

* BadFuture: Which is why it's okay to kill humans for loot; they're part of the reason why living on Earth sucks!
** Not all humans are bastards: the game penalizes you if you kill or even capture government employees, workers and most civilians. They are honest folks that have nothing to do with the VichyEarth regime. The global factions, however, have everything to do with it, and they are your main enemies.

%% VichyEarth: The entire premise of the game.

* AliensAreBastards: Of course they are, though they're not as murderous as in the vanilla game... Just slightly less so.

* {{Stripperriffic}}: Armor tends to cover some of the upper body, but as little of the lower body as possible. Some armors go even further, and you can eventually use force-circuitry technology to build ultra-skimpy armors that cover almost nothing on the body but project defensive forcefields instead.

* [[Expy}}: The farther you get into the game the more the Gals start resembling the [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Orks from Warhammer.]] Including the [[spoiler: the fact the Girls have something similar to a Waaagh field. The Brainers are almost scared when they realize this.]]

* RealityWarper: [[spoiler: The Brainers come to the conclusion that the Gals are actually warping reality with their powers as that's the only way they could have progressed so fast when literally everyone else was stuck for 500 with no progress.]]

* {{Crossover}}: While most enemies are original and can be considered a logical result of the alien occupation, you may also encounter a faction composed from creatures from VideoGame/{{Doom}}.

* WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture: Because hiring Runts is way easier than buying complex machinery.

** ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': One possible pirate name is Ayumu, a reference to Kasuga Ayumu (also known as Osaka).

** ''Anime/StrikeWitches'': The country of Japan is called Fuso.

** [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Lovecraftian themes]]: Deep Ones being the most glaring example, maintaining similar references from XComTerrorFromTheDeep.

** [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Lovecraftian themes]]: Deep Ones being the most glaring example.

** Music/ChicksOnSpeed: The Kaltes-Klares "mineral water" (of the addictive kind, presumably amphetamine or similar) is a reference to the song "Kaltes Klares Wasser".