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* AlwaysABiggerFish: A few examples throughout the series.
**In Gears of War 2, Delta Squad hijacked a Brumak and raged hell inside the Nexus. A Corpser tried to stop the Brumak but quickly found out that it is ''way'' weaker than the giant dinosaur ape.
**In Gears of War 3, on their way to Azura, Delta Squad was being harassed and attacked by Manglers, which were dolphin-like creatures from the Hollows. The pod were relentless until they mysteriously fled. A sure sign that a Leviathan was lurking nearby.
**In the Hivebuster DLC for Gears 5, we get a ''pretty good'' showcase that the Swarm isn't at the top of the foodchain on Pahanu. We see various cases of Swarm infantry being melted alive by corrosive venom and even a Carrier being melted ''in two''. Turns out, the Swarm was being hunted down by the Wakaatu, a ridiculously dangerous and territorial bird. Just visiting the nest of the Wakaatu gives one some details on this superpredator as the nest was ''littered'' with the remains of hundreds of animals, each of them an apex predator in their own right.
*** To provide better context on how broken this bird is. On Horde 4.0, a Wakaatu is known to ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsJGQDUdw1k one shot]]'' the Matriarch. Yes, ''that'' Super-Berzerker.
**In Gears of War 2, Delta Squad hijacked a Brumak and raged hell inside the Nexus. A Corpser tried to stop the Brumak but quickly found out that it is ''way'' weaker than the giant dinosaur ape.
**In Gears of War 3, on their way to Azura, Delta Squad was being harassed and attacked by Manglers, which were dolphin-like creatures from the Hollows. The pod were relentless until they mysteriously fled. A sure sign that a Leviathan was lurking nearby.
**In the Hivebuster DLC for Gears 5, we get a ''pretty good'' showcase that the Swarm isn't at the top of the foodchain on Pahanu. We see various cases of Swarm infantry being melted alive by corrosive venom and even a Carrier being melted ''in two''. Turns out, the Swarm was being hunted down by the Wakaatu, a ridiculously dangerous and territorial bird. Just visiting the nest of the Wakaatu gives one some details on this superpredator as the nest was ''littered'' with the remains of hundreds of animals, each of them an apex predator in their own right.
*** To provide better context on how broken this bird is. On Horde 4.0, a Wakaatu is known to ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsJGQDUdw1k one shot]]'' the Matriarch. Yes, ''that'' Super-Berzerker.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Appropriate in the chronological sense of the term. The creation of the Locust Horde was hinted in Gears 2 and Gears 5 to be somewhere in the middle of the Pendulum Wars, with its most liberal estimates being 20 years after the Pendulum Wars started. The problem with this timeline? The Pendulum War lasted only ''79 years''. That means that Queen Myrrah would have created an advance civilization with modern industry, with its entire independent written system, religion ''and'' calender within a span of less than ''five decades''. Keep in mind that the Locust Horde numbered in the billions, which we should stress again, meant that Queen Myrrah would have ''somehow'' propagated the Locust Horde from a few dozen mutated human children at ''most'', to ''several billion'' within a span of five decades. As you can imagine, this is so implausible on a basic societal advancement level, let alone reproduction level, that it is one of the few major plotholes that fans often chagrin against.
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Announced at E3 2015 with a release date of October 11, 2016, it is the first original work of the new official ''Gears'' developer, The Coalition. The game is set 25 years after ''Gears 3''. The main character is James [[DeadGuyJunior Dominic]] "JD" Fenix, the son of Marcus and Anya, who first ran away from home to join the COG against his father's wishes and later went AWOL from the COG after being involved in some kind of NoodleIncident that will apparently be explained in the game. He is joined by his best friend and obvious Dom-{{Expy}} Delmont "Del" Walker, who went AWOL along with him after being involved in the same incident; and Kait Diaz, a young girl who is one of the Outsiders, essentially the new version of Stranded, though it's confirmed that the COG-Outsider relationship will be different from the COG-Stranded one. The campaign will have 2-player co-op, with the second player getting a choice between either Del or Kait. Other confirmed characters are Reyna, Kait's mother and leader of the Outsiders; and Oscar, Kait's uncle, a former Gear and an expert survivalist (level of [[CrazySurvivalist craziness]] not yet confirmed).
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Announced at E3 2015 with a release date of October 11, 2016, it is the first original work of the new official ''Gears'' developer, The Coalition. [[SoftReboot The game is set 25 years after ''Gears 3''. 3''.]] The main character is James [[DeadGuyJunior Dominic]] "JD" Fenix, the son of Marcus and Anya, who first ran away from home to join the COG against his father's wishes and later went AWOL from the COG after being involved in some kind of NoodleIncident that will apparently be explained in the game. He is joined by his best friend and obvious Dom-{{Expy}} Delmont "Del" Walker, who went AWOL along with him after being involved in the same incident; and Kait Diaz, a young girl who is one of the Outsiders, essentially the new version of Stranded, though it's confirmed that the COG-Outsider relationship will be different from the COG-Stranded one. The campaign will have 2-player co-op, with the second player getting a choice between either Del or Kait. Other confirmed characters are Reyna, Kait's mother and leader of the Outsiders; and Oscar, Kait's uncle, a former Gear and an expert survivalist (level of [[CrazySurvivalist craziness]] not yet confirmed).
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Downed characters crawl on the ground in the sequels until death. In the first game, you could leave them there, unmoving, until death via blood loss. In every game, executions are possible and encouraged, with the second game introducing weapon-exclusive executions that look excruciatingly painful. Oh, and then there's the [[KillItWithFire Scorcher flamethrower]].
** You ''could'' just drop your meatshield instantly by swapping to another weapon and get back to fighting faster... ''oooorrrr'' you could relieve more stress by playing an animation of [[NeckSnap snapping the meatshield's neck]] before dropping them.
** You ''could'' just drop your meatshield instantly by swapping to another weapon and get back to fighting faster... ''oooorrrr'' you could relieve more stress by playing an animation of [[NeckSnap snapping the meatshield's neck]] before dropping them.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: VideoGameCrueltyPotential:
** Downed characters crawl on the ground in the sequels until death. In the first game, you could leave them there, unmoving, until death via blood loss. In every game, executions are possible and encouraged, with the second game introducing weapon-exclusive executions that look excruciatingly painful. Oh, and then there's the [[KillItWithFire Scorcher flamethrower]].
** *** You ''could'' just drop your meatshield instantly by swapping to another weapon and get back to fighting faster... ''oooorrrr'' you could relieve more stress by playing an animation of [[NeckSnap snapping the meatshield's neck]] before dropping them.them.
** In Gears 5,[[spoiler: you can choose to save Del and kill JD, leaving Del broken as his (former) best friend dead and even worse, killing the last family member Marcus has left in the world, or you can kill Del and save JD, depriving JD of his best friend.]]
** Downed characters crawl on the ground in the sequels until death. In the first game, you could leave them there, unmoving, until death via blood loss. In every game, executions are possible and encouraged, with the second game introducing weapon-exclusive executions that look excruciatingly painful. Oh, and then there's the [[KillItWithFire Scorcher flamethrower]].
** In Gears 5,[[spoiler: you can choose to save Del and kill JD, leaving Del broken as his (former) best friend dead and even worse, killing the last family member Marcus has left in the world, or you can kill Del and save JD, depriving JD of his best friend.]]
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At E3 2018, The Coalition revealed three new games: ''Gears Pop'', ''VideoGame/GearsTactics'' and ''Gears 5''. The first one will be a mobile game where players will battle the Locust as the series' characters in Toys/FunkoPop form, the second is a PC release that will focus on epic cover-based battles that the series is known for and the final one is a direct sequel to ''Gears of War 4''. It will star Kait Diaz as the PlayerCharacter rather than JD Fenix and will focus on Kait's personal quest to discover her family's connection to the Locust Horde and promises to take the series “back to where it all began”. ''Gears Pop'' was released on August 22nd, 2019, with ''Gears 5'' releasing on September 10th, 2019, and ''Gears Tactics'' on April 28th, 2020.
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At E3 2018, The Coalition revealed three new games: ''Gears Pop'', ''VideoGame/GearsTactics'' and ''Gears 5''. The first one will be is a mobile game where players will battle the Locust as the series' characters in Toys/FunkoPop form, the second is a PC release that will focus focuses on epic cover-based battles that the series is known for and the final one is a direct sequel to ''Gears of War 4''. It will star stars Kait Diaz as the PlayerCharacter rather than JD Fenix and will focus focuses on Kait's personal quest to discover her family's connection to the Locust Horde and promises promised to take the series “back to where it all began”. ''Gears Pop'' was released on August 22nd, 2019, with ''Gears 5'' releasing on September 10th, 2019, and ''Gears Tactics'' on April 28th, 2020.
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* LethalJokeWeapon: From ''Gears of War'' 4, we have the Repair Tool. It's range is pathetically short, limited to half a foot in front of you, it does less damage than the Snub and requires seconds of sustained fire to kill anything. However, it has infinite "ammo" and doesn't need to be reloaded, so if you focus on enemies that are pinned on a barrier or distracted by another player, you ''can'' actually '''kill''' with the thing! Justified since it's meant to repair fortifications and not for combat, but you can get a surprising amount of points for "repairing" the [=DeeBees=] and Swarm.
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** From ''Gears of War'' 4, we have the Repair Tool. It's range is pathetically short, limited to half a foot in front of you, it does less damage than the Snub and requires seconds of sustained fire to kill anything. However, it has infinite "ammo" and doesn't need to be reloaded, so if you focus on enemies that are pinned on a barrier or distracted by another player, you ''can'' actually '''kill''' with the thing! Justified since it's meant to repair fortifications and not for combat, but you can get a surprising amount of points for "repairing" the [=DeeBees=] and Swarm.
** From ''Gears of War'' 4, we have the Repair Tool. It's range is pathetically short, limited to half a foot in front of you, it does less damage than the Snub and requires seconds of sustained fire to kill anything. However, it has infinite "ammo" and doesn't need to be reloaded, so if you focus on enemies that are pinned on a barrier or distracted by another player, you ''can'' actually '''kill''' with the thing! Justified since it's meant to repair fortifications and not for combat, but you can get a surprising amount of points for "repairing" the [=DeeBees=] and Swarm.
* LightningLash: In ''Gears 4'', Deadeye [=DeeBees=] will execute players by tying some sort of electric whip to their torsos and shocking them to death.
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* WhipItGood: In ''Gears 4'', Deadeye [=DeeBees=] will execute players by tying some sort of electric whip to their torsos and shocking them to death.
