History Videogame / DefenseGridTheAwakening

** Doubles as SimpleYetAwesome. Once they're fully upgraded, Gun Towers are one of the best damage-dealing towers available. They're also the cheapest tower to buy and upgrade, and they're effective against nearly everything, working against both flying and ground enemies and rapidly destroying shields. ''[[UpToEleven Even more so]]'' in the sequel where Gun towers can have one passive upgrade that ranges from damage over time, to shield piercing rounds, or even area damage.

** Gun towers are JackOfAllStats. Cheap with good damage against every type of alien, however it has no real strong point.

** In the sequel you have Boost towers. Cheap but they don't do anything besides blocking aliens' path on their own, but a tower built on top of a Boost can have a number of other bonuses on them ranging from damage, to invisibility disruptor to score booster.

* BoringButPractical: Doubles as SimpleYetAwesome. Once they're fully upgraded, Gun Towers are one of the best damage-dealing towers available. They're also the cheapest tower to buy and upgrade, and they're effective against nearly everything, working against both flying and ground enemies and rapidly destroying shields.

* BoringButPractical: Once they're fully upgraded, Gun Towers are one of the best damage-dealing towers available. They're also the cheapest tower to buy and upgrade, and they're effective against nearly everything, working against both flying and ground enemies and rapidly destroying shields.

** Supply and Demand on ''Defense Grid 2''. A map with little room for mistakes if you want the Gold Medal and it also introduces [[LightningBruiser Rhinos]], enemies that speed up when traveling on straight lines, and forces the player to place towers creating a "maze" to mess with the aliens, if the player don't use this Rhinos will just charge forward, capture cores and flee the map in no time.

-->''[If a boss is killed by a Tesla tower]'' '''General Fletcher:''' Patience IS a virtue at times.

-->''[If a boss is killed by a Cannon tower]'' '''General Fletcher:''' Hw's way beyond shell-shocked I think.
-->''[If a boss is killed by a Meteor tower]'' '''General Fletcher:''' I believe the proper word is "toast".

-->''[If a boss is killed by a Cannon tower]'' '''General Fletcher:''' That fellow is way beyond shell-shocked I think.

-->''[If a boss is killed by a Cannon tower]'' '''General Fletcher:''' There is no "stun" setting on cannon fire!
-->''[If a boss is killed by a Cannon tower]'' '''General Fletcher:''' Amazing how a cannon shell solves any number of problems.
-->''[If a boss is killed by a Meteor tower]'' '''General Fletcher:''' Hmm. The sky IS falling.
-->''[If a boss is killed by a Meteor tower]'' '''General Fletcher:''' Death from above!

-->''[If a boss is killed by a Tesla tower]'' '''General Fletcher:''' I think the poor devil has seen the light... A bit too much of it.

-->''[If a boss is killed by a Concussion tower]'' '''General Fletcher:''' Sorry, the way is closed for road destruction!

-->''[If a boss is killed by a Cannon tower]'' '''General Fletcher:''' I think that fellow is shell-shocked.

** For Tower Defense genre in general, '''especially''' in ''Defense Grid 1''. You might want to spend your resources as soon as you can and build as many towers as you can, but if you do it there you probably '''won't''' earn a Gold medal even if you win with all cores in the base. The game encourages the player to use as less resources as possible and play conservatively using them only when really necessary; the more resources you have, the more you will earn via interest, and in the end it might be the difference between a Silver or Gold medal in the rank.

* BigDamnHeroes: General Cai saves you back with the orbital laser in the Containment DLC of the first game when you have to face Crashers and Juggernauts much earlier than expected.

* BondOneLiner: General Fletcher has a surprising amount of them reversed for specific towers when they kill a boss level alien.

-->''*If a boss is killed by a Gun tower*'' '''General Fletcher:''' Raw firepower has its uses.
-->''*If a boss is killed by a Cannon tower*'' '''General Fletcher:''' I think that fellow is shell-shocked.
-->''*If a boss is killed by a Meteor tower*'' '''General Fletcher:''' Hmm. The sky IS falling.
-->''*If a boss is killed by a Tesla tower*'' '''General Fletcher:''' I think the poor devil has seen the light... A bit too much of it.
-->''*If a boss is killed by a Concussion tower'' '''General Fletcher:''' That fellow went boom-boom.

-->''If a boss is killed by a Gun tower'' '''General Fletcher:''' Raw firepower has its uses.
-->''If a boss is killed by a Cannon tower'' '''General Fletcher:''' I think that fellow is shell-shocked.
-->''If a boss is killed by a Meteor tower'' '''General Fletcher:''' Hmm. The sky IS falling.
-->''If a boss is killed by a Tesla tower'' '''General Fletcher:''' I think the poor devil has seen the light... A bit too much of it.
-->''If a boss is killed by a Concussion tower'' '''General Fletcher:''' That fellow went boom-boom.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: If you are playing versions of ''Defense Grid 1'' and ''2'' on PC and and is used to the numerical shortcut to create the towers you might build something you didn't intend to when swapping to another game.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: General Fletcher is overall nice, optimistic and lively, can be quite threatening if angered.

* OhCrap: In the sequel Simmon has a pretty big one upon seeing a giant alien space ship stationed close to the cores.
-->'''Commander Simmon:''' Area looks clear. You know, clear except for that ''GIANT MONSTROUS ALIEN SPACESHIP OVER THERE''. You know. Clear.

** If the aliens grabs all cores from your base (but doesn't leave it) General Fletcher will comment [[OhCrap the power is low, thus indicating your towers are now less effective]].

* HarderThanHard: ''Defense Grid 2'' gives us the Elite difficulty with faster and stronger aliens.