History YMMV / Homefront

** Which is probably why John wrote the survivalists also doing equally bad things to Asian-Americans and trying to do the same to your ActionGirl sidekick plus...well... ''you.''

** Now, Homefront has outsold Crysis 2.
*** Not anymore it hasn't.

* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/homefront/images/thumb/7/72/Kim.jpg/180px-Kim.jpg This]] is Kim Jong-Un in ''Homefront.'' [[http://pikigeek.com/files/2011/03/kju.jpg This]] is Kim Jong-Un in Real Life.

* CompleteMonster: The entire Greater Korean Republic off all spades. To elaborate, one of the first scenes in the game involves two KPA soldiers killing a woman and man ''with their child being forced to watch it''. [[WouldHurtAChild And it's heavily implied that they killed the child too]].
** Still haven't hate them yet, wait till they [[spoiler:find the resistance hideout, Oasis, and ''kill every man, woman, and child'']].
** If it's still not enough, [[spoiler: the KPA gun down everyone and burn the entire town of Montrose after your actions against them]].
** Not to mention the [[spoiler: ''landfill of corpses they had'']]
*** Arguably, the {{Crazy Survivalist}}s are ''much worse''. [[spoiler: They capture ''anyone'' [[AllAsiansAreAlike who have East Asian ancestry]], not just anyone with Korean descent. These guys ''torture and lynch them'', ''and hang the corpses of Korean soldiers as prized trophies'' [[ForTheEvulz just out of sheer racism and personal enjoyment]]. Heck, they are so monstrous that even [[SociopathicHero Connor]] is fed up with them.]] It is clear that while John Milius [[http://www.nrawinningteam.com/milius.html is a strong supporter of gun ownership and a member of the NRA]], he clearly does not want to be associated with the survivalist ideology.

On the other hand, there are mitigating factors. The United States (as well as other major world powers) had been weakened by a global economic crisis. In the case of the U.S., the situation was so bad that the states were given autonomy and were just a few steps away from civil war. The Asian Bird Flu epidemic only made things worse. One in-game newspaper article notes that when Canada closed its borders to the U.S. (thus requiring a visa to enter), there were also new laws requiring permits for food, materials, medicine, and other supplies. The implication is that a lot of people were trying to leave the country--and this is all before the GKR fried almost every non-hardened piece of electronic hardware in North America with an EMP.
** But turning a dirt poor Soviet Nation into a modern powerhouse nation in just a year is impossible. It would have been more realistic had it been decades. As it stands now North Korea is surrounded by nations that could wipe them off the Earth in a heartbeat. But, even a severely weakened US would still have enough power to atomize North Korea.
*** Even more so with the implied that most of the Korea forces are form the South, meaning he was somehow able to brainwash them the same time even though it took decades to do so in the north and that the US are one of South Korea's longest allies.
** To put this in perspective, North Korea has a population of about 25 million, that's 10 million less than CANADA! It also has a way weaker economy and tech base than Canada does. Canada is also right on the border with the United States, as opposed to North Korea, which is on the other side of a very big ocean patrolled by the very big American fleet. If you think this is a plausible scenario then I'd say it's the canucks you should be worried about not the Koreans.

** To put this in perspective, North Korea has a population of about 25 million, that's 10 million less than CANADA! It also has a way weaker economy and tech base than Canada does. If you think this is a plausible scenario then I'd say it's the canucks you should be worried about not the Koreans.

*** Even more so with the implied that most of the Korea forces are form the South, meaning he was somehow able to brainwash them the same time even though it took decades to do so in the north and that the US are one of South Korea's longest allies.

** Luckily, THQ has confirmed that Homefront 2 will be developed [[ChannelHop at a]] [[BlatantLies little-known]] [[FarCry game]] [[VideoGame/{{Crysis}} studio]] called [[http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/20/homefront-2-developed-by-crytek/ Crytek.]] One can already [[AndTheFandomRejoiced hear the fandom rejoicing from miles away...]]

** But turning a dirt poor Soviet Nation into a modern powerhouse nation in just a year is impossible. It would have been more realistic had it been decades. As it stands now North Korea is surrounded by nations that could wipe them off the Earth in a heartbeat. But, even a severely weakened US would still have enough power to atomize North Korea.

*** Arguably, the {{Crazy Survivalist}}s are ''much worse''. [[spoiler: They capture ''anyone'' [[AllAsiansAreAlike who have East Asian ancestry]], not just anyone with Korean descent. These guys ''torture and lynch them'', ''and hang the corpses of Korean soldiers as prized trophies'' [[ForTheEvulz just out of sheer racism and personal enjoyment]]. Heck, they are so monstrous that even [[HeroicSociopath Connor]] is fed up with them.]] It is clear that while John Milius [[http://www.nrawinningteam.com/milius.html is a strong supporter of gun ownership and a member of the NRA]], he clearly does not want to be associated with the survivalist ideology.

* VillainSue: Kim Jong-Un. On one hand, he manages to take a backwater, underdeveloped pariah of a nation and uses it to gain control of South Korean (presumably in a sufficiently subversive, non-violent manner that he credibly gets the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so), takes over several major neighboring nations, and build up the Korean army to the point that it's able to successfully take over the United States. On the surface, this looks like [[TheDraka Draka]]-level hypercompetency. And he does this in one year.\\

On the other hand, there are mitigating factors. The United States (as well as other major world powers) had been weakened by a global economic crisis. In the case of the U.S., the situation was so bad that the states were given autonomy and were just a few steps away from civil war. The Asian Bird Flu epidemic only made things worse. One in-game newspaper article notes that when Canada closed its borders to the U.S. (thus requiring a visa to enter), there were also new laws requiring permits for food, materials, medicine, and other supplies. The implication is that a lot of people were trying to leave the country--and this is all before the GKR fried almost every non-hardened piece of electronic hardware in North America with an EMP.

*** Arguably, the {{Crazy Survivalist}}s are ''much worse''. [[spoiler: They capture ''anyone'' [[AllAsiansAreAlike who have East Asian ancestry]], not just anyone with Korean descent. These guys ''torture and lynch them'', ''and hang the corpses of Korean soldiers as prized trophies'' [[ForTheEvulz just out of sheer racism and personal enjoyment]]. Heck, they are so monstrous that even [[HeroicSociopath Connor]] is fed up with them.]] It is clear that while John Milius [[http://www.nrawinningteam.com/milius.html is a strong supporter of gun ownership and a member of the NRA]], he clearly does not want to be associated with the survivalist idealogy.

** Luckily, THQ has confirmed that Homefront 2 will be developed [[ChannelHop at a]] [[BlatantLies little-known]] [[FarCry game]] [[{{Crysis}} studio]] called [[http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/20/homefront-2-developed-by-crytek/ Crytek.]] One can already [[AndTheFandomRejoiced hear the fandom rejoicing from miles away...]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: What some reviews said about the game's single player, arguing that the entire occupied US thing could had been explored in greater detail, along with more character development, but was nudged aside for [[ModernWarfare C]][[CallOfDutyBlackOps O]][[CallOfDuty D]] style gameplay and game mechanics, putting the campaign into SoOkayItsAverage territory. They were much more positive about the multiplayer, though.

** In fact, Kim Jong-II died on December 18, 2011--half a year away from his death in Homefront's timeline. Just like in Homefront, Kim Jong-un succeeded him. Cue a MassOhCrap from Homefront's fans.

** Kim Jong-II just died some days ago, and his son will be replacing him. Just some days from 2012. [[MassOhCrap Just like the game]]. This troper nearly screamed when hearing the news.

** Let's just say this game treats Korea like ''Valley of the Wolves: Iraq'' treats America, and leave it at that.
*** Even that's being too generous, by virtue of the fact that pretty much everything short of the nuclear strike and EMP satellite use are things that are [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel still being done]] in the real-world DPRK. With the Valley of the Wolves, they had to at *leaaast* borrow atrocities from previous (as in at *least* more than a century past) history mixed in with complete bullshit rumor mongering. The North Korean regime is just that bad in real life.

* VillainSue: Kim Jong-Un. On one hand, he manages to take a backwater, underdeveloped pariah of a nation and uses it to gain control of South Korean (presumably in a sufficiently subversive, non-violent manner that he credibly gets the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so), takes over several major neighboring nations, and build up the Korean army to the point that it's able to successfully take over the United States. On the surface, this looks like [[TheDraka Draka]]-level hypercompetency. And he does this in one year.
** On the other hand, there are mitigating factors. The United States (as well as other major world powers) had been weakened by a global economic crisis. In the case of the U.S., the situation was so bad that the states were given autonomy and were just a few steps away from civil war. The Asian Bird Flu epidemic only made things worse. One in-game newspaper article notes that when Canada closed its borders to the U.S. (thus requiring a visa to enter), there were also new laws requiring permits for food, materials, medicine, and other supplies. The implication is that a lot of people were trying to leave the country--and this is all before the GKR fried almost every non-hardened piece of electronic hardware in North America with an EMP.
*** Still doesn't take into account the fact that a)the whole world '''except''' North is going to hell despite the fact that logically they should be struggling just as much as everyone else b) South Korea just rolls over and "peacefully" merges with a nation that in real life they are constantly taking a harder line with and are super paranoid about c) Kim Jong-Un is impossibly skilled at wresting control over his own government away from his generals who will all most certainly try to maintain the status quo and would never concede to the types of changes he brings about d) Japan is pushed aside despite the fact that a more powerful (and possibly belligerent) North Korea is something out of their worst nightmares and if the U.S. pulls out of the East Asia region, Japan and other surrounding countries will almost certainly resort to militarism to protect themselves. e) the other major powers in East Asia, Russia and China, which quite frankly make more logical targets for Korean aggression than the the far away United States, are rarely if ever mentioned, and also seem to role over as North Korea seems to conquer East Asia despite that being their neighborhood and primary sphere of influence. f) THERE IS NO LOGICAL REASON FOR NORTH KOREA TO INVADE THE U.S., something that would be a strategic disaster for such a small nation, along with being improbable, unfeasible, and just down right unbelievable. They would gain nothing against a powerful and determined American defense, which they would undoubtedly meet.

** The Arab Spring, picking up when the game was released, has resulted with Iranians and Saudis trying to exert influence on key countries (Bahrain being one). Wikileaks reveals of Saudis pushing for a war with Iran, and the worsening relations between Iran and the West also took place around the same period.

*** Even that's being too generous, by virtue of the fact that pretty much everything short of the nuclear strike and EMP satellite use are things that are [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel still being done]] in the real-world DPRK. With the Valley of the Wolves, they had to at *leaaast* borrow atrocities from previous (as in at *least* more than a century past) history mixed in with complete bullshit rumor mongering. The North Korean regime [[BeyondTheImpossible is just that bad in real life.]]

*** Still doesn't take into account the fact that a)the whole world '''except''' North is going to hell despite the fact that logically they should be struggling just as much as everyone else b) South Korea just rolls over and "peacefully" merges with a nation that in real life they are constantly taking a harder line with and are super paranoid about c) Kim Jong-Un is impossibly skilled at wresting control over his own government away from his generals who will all most certainly try to maintain the status quo and would never concede to the types of changes he brings about d) Japan is pushed aside despite the fact that a more powerful (and possibly belligerent) North Korea is something out of their worst nightmares and if the U.S. pulls out of the East Asia region, Japan and other surrounding countries will almost certainly resort to militarism to protect themselves. e) the other major powers in East Asia, Russia and China, which quite frankly make more logical targets for Korean aggression than the the far away United States, are rarely if ever mentioned, and also seem to role over as North Korea seems to conquer East Asia despite that being their neighborhood and primary sphere of influence. f) THERE IS NO LOGICAL REGION FOR NORTH KOREA TO INVADE THE U.S., something that would be a strategic disaster for such a small nation, along with being improbable, unfeasible, and just down right unbelievable. They would gain nothing against a powerful and determined American defense, which they would undoubtedly meet.

** On the other hand, there are mitigating factors. The United States (as well as other major world powers) had been weakened by a global economic crisis. In the case of the U.S., the situation was so bad that the states were given autonomy and were just a few steps away from civil war. The Asian Bird Flu epidemic only made things worse. One in-game newspaper article notes that when Canada closed its borders to the U.S. (thus requiring a visa to enter), there were also new laws requiring permits for food, materials, medicine, and other supplies. The implication is that a lot of people were trying to leave the country--and this is all before the GKR fried almost every non-hardened piece of electronic hardware in North America with an EMP.

Koreans have invaded the USA. Ironically, a fifth of the game is devoted to killing racists against Asians.%% NOTE TO EDITORS: Please stop trying to slap "Idiot Plot" in here. See the discussion page for reasons why.

* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: A substantial portion of articles have been written about the game being racist against Asians because the North

*** Kim Jong-II just died some days ago, and his son will be replacing him. Just some days from 2012. [[MassOhCrap Just like the game]]. This troper nearly screamed when hearing the news.