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* ShoutOut: Bundles greets the vortigaunt Jerry with words [[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill "Klaatu Barada Nikto"]]. Jerry's reply is [[CoughSnarkCough nowhere near as polite]].
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Dead Brandt lying on top of knocked-out Tibbles in the 2nd Ep. credits looks kind of ... suggestive.
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Combine Nation is a short VideoGame/HalfLife2 machinima series by Lit Fuse Films. It consist of two regular episodes and one bonus subtitled ''Do Your Part''.
Similarily to [[WebAnimation/CivilProtection the other machinima]] it focuses on the daily shenanigans of the Combine order enforcement personnel while occassionally making itself look as a documentary or public service announcement.
Similarily to [[WebAnimation/CivilProtection the other machinima]] it focuses on the daily shenanigans of the Combine order enforcement personnel while occassionally making itself look as a documentary or public service announcement.
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Combine Nation is a short VideoGame/HalfLife2 ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' machinima series by Lit Fuse Films. It consist of two regular episodes and one bonus subtitled ''Do Your Part''.
Similarily Similarly to [[WebAnimation/CivilProtection the other machinima]] it focuses on the daily shenanigans of the Combine order enforcement personnel while occassionally occasionally making itself look as a documentary or public service announcement.
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Similarily to [[Machinima/CivilProtection the other machinima]] it focuses on the daily shenanigans of the Combine order enforcement personnel while occassionally making itself look as a documentary or public service announcement.
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Similarily to [[Machinima/CivilProtection [[WebAnimation/CivilProtection the other machinima]] it focuses on the daily shenanigans of the Combine order enforcement personnel while occassionally making itself look as a documentary or public service announcement.
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* BucketHelmet: So literal in Tibbles' case it becomes his SignaturePoint.
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* BucketHelmet: So literal in Tibbles' case it becomes his SignaturePoint.signature point.
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Combine Nation is a short VideoGame/HalfLife2 machinima series by Lit Fuse Films. It consist of two regular episodes and one bonus subtitled ''Do Your Part''.
Similarily to [[Machinima/CivilProtection the other machinima]] it focuses on the daily shenanigans of the Combine order enforcement personnel while occassionally making itself look as a documentary or public service announcement.
The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJDr6lCf4s0 series]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wPJG9qMZl0 can be]] viewed on {{Website/Youtube}}.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Since this is the ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' universe the Vortigaunts are present too. Although only one dubbed Jerry Xwolrom actually gets some focus, he speaks quite fluently and even retain the original trademark high-pitched squeaky voice from the first game.
%%* BigBrotherIsEmployingYou: The series focuses on the workings of Combine law enforcement.
* BlatantLies: The shady guy in Ep 1 telling an AssPull story about a random perpetrator vandalizing his apartent and then disappearing in a cloud of smoke. Tibbles believes him.
* BucketHelmet: So literal in Tibbles' case it becomes his SignaturePoint.
* CoughSnarkCough: Jerry's answer to Cpt. Bundles motivational quip is a muffled insult. Bundles asks what was that to which Jerry replies: [[BlatantLies "Just a cough, sir."]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Lt. Tibbles takes this trope to its logical extreme. He thinks grabbing a barnacle by its tongue is a good idea and is so gullible that he falls for the fraud guy's made-up testation about supposed perpetrator disappearing in a cloud of smoke and even believes his shady colleague that the Combine pod is a pinata filled with candy.
* CompanionCube: The tech administrator Charles Brandt believes every machine has to be treated with compassion and love ''like a child fresh from the womb''. He goes as far as having an emotional breakdown over broken scanner (named Betty) and having to [[MercyKill "put her down"]].
* DoubleTake: Bundles exercises this when the hustler ask when he's getting his money. Bundles takes his time to chastite Tibbles for acting "smart" before turning back to the guy and asking: "Wait, what?"
* DownerEnding: The end of 2nd episode is this [[spoiler:for Tibbles. Instead of getting his candy he's implied to end up to [[BucketHelmet his bucket]] in trouble.]]
* ImagineSpot: Bundles urges Tibbles [[TemptingFate not to do anything stupid]] during his trainstation patrol. GilliganCut to grayscale scene of Tibbles cheerfully waddling straight towards an oncoming train.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Charles Brandt definitely graduated one judging by how much ammo he wastes trying to hit Tibbles and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero accidentally knocking the pod off its management rail]] in the process.
* TheIngenue: Tibbles being a CloudCuckooLander doesn't mean any harm but manages to cause pandemonium with his sheer stupidity.
* InsuranceFraud: The shady [[HollywoodPudgy overweight looking]] guy in Ep 1 broke all of his furniture and made up a story about random perpetrator who went up in a cloud of smoke. Then he demanded his insurance money despite the Combine not using money anymore. This enough even for someone like [[CloudCuckooLander Tibbles]] to see through it.
* MarriedToTheJob: Officer Bundles takes his duties very seriously even to the point of being downright devoted to his job. He's doing whatever in his power to preserve the order including teasing his subordinate with a torture footage when being asked if there was a punishment for sneaking a peek at classified stuff. The only exception is Tibbles who was said to look so cute when eagerly barging into the [=HQ=] in a makeshift uniform that none of the metro police had the heart to arrest him.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Bundles acts over the top seriously while Tibbles' antics serve as a foil to him.
* TemptingFate:
->'''Bundles:'''(to Tibbles) Well, whatever it is you're planning on doing, '''don't'''. You're on trainstation duty today. I don't want you getting distracted and falling onto the tracks or something stupid like that.
->GilliganCut to ImagineSpot of Tibbles happily waddling directly towards oncoming train while making silly noises. Considering [[CloudCuckooLander Tibbles']] [[PsychopathicManchild antics]] it [[TooDumbToLive may actually happen]].
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->Do your part.
Similarily to [[Machinima/CivilProtection the other machinima]] it focuses on the daily shenanigans of the Combine order enforcement personnel while occassionally making itself look as a documentary or public service announcement.
The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJDr6lCf4s0 series]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wPJG9qMZl0 can be]] viewed on {{Website/Youtube}}.
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!! These tropes do their part:
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Since this is the ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' universe the Vortigaunts are present too. Although only one dubbed Jerry Xwolrom actually gets some focus, he speaks quite fluently and even retain the original trademark high-pitched squeaky voice from the first game.
%%* BigBrotherIsEmployingYou: The series focuses on the workings of Combine law enforcement.
* BlatantLies: The shady guy in Ep 1 telling an AssPull story about a random perpetrator vandalizing his apartent and then disappearing in a cloud of smoke. Tibbles believes him.
* BucketHelmet: So literal in Tibbles' case it becomes his SignaturePoint.
* CoughSnarkCough: Jerry's answer to Cpt. Bundles motivational quip is a muffled insult. Bundles asks what was that to which Jerry replies: [[BlatantLies "Just a cough, sir."]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Lt. Tibbles takes this trope to its logical extreme. He thinks grabbing a barnacle by its tongue is a good idea and is so gullible that he falls for the fraud guy's made-up testation about supposed perpetrator disappearing in a cloud of smoke and even believes his shady colleague that the Combine pod is a pinata filled with candy.
* CompanionCube: The tech administrator Charles Brandt believes every machine has to be treated with compassion and love ''like a child fresh from the womb''. He goes as far as having an emotional breakdown over broken scanner (named Betty) and having to [[MercyKill "put her down"]].
* DoubleTake: Bundles exercises this when the hustler ask when he's getting his money. Bundles takes his time to chastite Tibbles for acting "smart" before turning back to the guy and asking: "Wait, what?"
* DownerEnding: The end of 2nd episode is this [[spoiler:for Tibbles. Instead of getting his candy he's implied to end up to [[BucketHelmet his bucket]] in trouble.]]
* ImagineSpot: Bundles urges Tibbles [[TemptingFate not to do anything stupid]] during his trainstation patrol. GilliganCut to grayscale scene of Tibbles cheerfully waddling straight towards an oncoming train.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Charles Brandt definitely graduated one judging by how much ammo he wastes trying to hit Tibbles and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero accidentally knocking the pod off its management rail]] in the process.
* TheIngenue: Tibbles being a CloudCuckooLander doesn't mean any harm but manages to cause pandemonium with his sheer stupidity.
* InsuranceFraud: The shady [[HollywoodPudgy overweight looking]] guy in Ep 1 broke all of his furniture and made up a story about random perpetrator who went up in a cloud of smoke. Then he demanded his insurance money despite the Combine not using money anymore. This enough even for someone like [[CloudCuckooLander Tibbles]] to see through it.
* MarriedToTheJob: Officer Bundles takes his duties very seriously even to the point of being downright devoted to his job. He's doing whatever in his power to preserve the order including teasing his subordinate with a torture footage when being asked if there was a punishment for sneaking a peek at classified stuff. The only exception is Tibbles who was said to look so cute when eagerly barging into the [=HQ=] in a makeshift uniform that none of the metro police had the heart to arrest him.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Bundles acts over the top seriously while Tibbles' antics serve as a foil to him.
* TemptingFate:
->'''Bundles:'''(to Tibbles) Well, whatever it is you're planning on doing, '''don't'''. You're on trainstation duty today. I don't want you getting distracted and falling onto the tracks or something stupid like that.
->GilliganCut to ImagineSpot of Tibbles happily waddling directly towards oncoming train while making silly noises. Considering [[CloudCuckooLander Tibbles']] [[PsychopathicManchild antics]] it [[TooDumbToLive may actually happen]].
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