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** The book has, for lack of a better term, a very early [="90s"=] view of terrorists. Terrorists mostly just take hostages and make demands, allowing for a team of heroes to come in and save the day. In a post 9/11 world, this makes the book seem rather hilariously out of date. There's no mention of Islamic Terrorism in the entire book. Terrorists who only seek to cause as much death and mayhem as possible only exist in the form of the villains. Many of the books' more evil terrorist frankly look tame compared to some of the actual terrorists the world has seen in the 2000s and 2010s.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Multiple chapters are spent building up the ecoterrorist's American headquarters, and highlighting all the things that would make it a very tough nut to crack. It's played up as the Kilimanjaro of forced entry scenarios, a hostage taker's wet dream. And then the ecoterrorists abandon the facility and flee to a smaller outpost in the jungle. Which they then leave, in order to engage in a jungle shootout with a team made up of the deadliest special forces operators in the world, which [[LampshadeHanging even the protagonists]] recognize as a painfully lopsided scenario.
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** Multiple chapters are spent building up the ecoterrorist's American headquarters, and highlighting all the things that would make it a very tough nut to crack. It's played up as the Kilimanjaro of forced entry scenarios, a hostage taker's wet dream. And then the ecoterrorists abandon the facility and flee to a smaller outpost in the jungle. Which they then leave, in order to engage in a jungle shootout with a team made up of the deadliest special forces operators in the world, which [[LampshadeHanging even the protagonists]] recognize as a painfully lopsided scenario.
** There's this entire plot about a girl kidnapped to be a test subject on Shiva. She briefly accesses a phone, and while drugged, calls her mother. The books spends pages following two cops of the NYPD who investigate her disappearance. They realize something big is happening but their investigation goes nowhere, and the entire plot thread basically ends with absolutely nothing. The only contribution to the actual plots the cops bring is that when Popov decides to spill the beans to Clark, they recognize one of the names he give as one of their suspects, and that's one more point of the pile of evidence that bolsters Clark's willingness to believe Popov.
** Multiple chapters are spent building up the ecoterrorist's American headquarters, and highlighting all the things that would make it a very tough nut to crack. It's played up as the Kilimanjaro of forced entry scenarios, a hostage taker's wet dream. And then the ecoterrorists abandon the facility and flee to a smaller outpost in the jungle. Which they then leave, in order to engage in a jungle shootout with a team made up of the deadliest special forces operators in the world, which [[LampshadeHanging even the protagonists]] recognize as a painfully lopsided scenario.
** There's this entire plot about a girl kidnapped to be a test subject on Shiva. She briefly accesses a phone, and while drugged, calls her mother. The books spends pages following two cops of the NYPD who investigate her disappearance. They realize something big is happening but their investigation goes nowhere, and the entire plot thread basically ends with absolutely nothing. The only contribution to the actual plots the cops bring is that when Popov decides to spill the beans to Clark, they recognize one of the names he give as one of their suspects, and that's one more point of the pile of evidence that bolsters Clark's willingness to believe Popov.
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** The sneering, unfriendly condescension Carol Brightling gets from her coworkers within the Ryan administration, and the rolling-eyes unwillingness to listen from literally every non-environmentalist character whenever one of the environmentalists pleads their case, unintentionally puts across the idea that they aren't ''wrong'' that the ecological situation is bad, degrading, and that if something drastic doesn't happen nothing's going to be done about it.
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** The sneering, unfriendly condescension Carol Brightling gets from her coworkers within the Ryan administration, and the rolling-eyes unwillingness to listen from literally every non-environmentalist character whenever one of the environmentalists pleads their case, unintentionally puts across the idea that they aren't ''wrong'' that the ecological situation is bad, bad and degrading, and but that if something drastic and forceful doesn't happen nothing's going to be done about it.it because most people are completely unwilling to listen.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The horrifying Worldpark attack where 10 Marxist terrorists take 35 children hostage is pretty much a counter-terrorist's worst-case nightmare scenario. In 2004, 6 years after the book was published, an even worse incident happened in real life when over 30 Islamic terrorists attacked an elementary school in Beslan, Russia, and took over '''300''' children hostage. In the novel, the terrorists murder one of the children before Rainbow is able to defeat them. In real life, over '''half''' the children held hostage at Beslan died in the shootout that ensued after a 2-day siege.
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** The horrifying Worldpark attack where 10 Marxist terrorists take 35 children hostage is pretty much a counter-terrorist's worst-case nightmare scenario. In 2004, 6 years after the book was published, an even worse incident happened in real life when over 30 Islamic terrorists attacked an elementary school in Beslan, Russia, and took over '''300''' children hostage. In the novel, the terrorists murder one of the children before Rainbow is able to defeat them. In real life, over '''half''' the children held hostage at Beslan died in the shootout that ensued after a 2-daysiege.siege.
** The plot to decimate the human race via Shiva relies upon two stages: first, a mass outbreak at the Olympic Games, then, insidiously, a false vaccination that actually infects huge numbers of people with the virus. This not only conjures up the kinds of anti-medical conspiracy theories that have hurt attempts at vaccination throughout the history of immunity therapy, but probably wouldn't work in TheNewTens where herd immunity is constantly threatened by juuuust enough of the population rejecting modern medicine and refusing to vaccinate.
** The horrifying Worldpark attack where 10 Marxist terrorists take 35 children hostage is pretty much a counter-terrorist's worst-case nightmare scenario. In 2004, 6 years after the book was published, an even worse incident happened in real life when over 30 Islamic terrorists attacked an elementary school in Beslan, Russia, and took over '''300''' children hostage. In the novel, the terrorists murder one of the children before Rainbow is able to defeat them. In real life, over '''half''' the children held hostage at Beslan died in the shootout that ensued after a 2-day
** The plot to decimate the human race via Shiva relies upon two stages: first, a mass outbreak at the Olympic Games, then, insidiously, a false vaccination that actually infects huge numbers of people with the virus. This not only conjures up the kinds of anti-medical conspiracy theories that have hurt attempts at vaccination throughout the history of immunity therapy, but probably wouldn't work in TheNewTens where herd immunity is constantly threatened by juuuust enough of the population rejecting modern medicine and refusing to vaccinate.
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* NightmareFuel: The woman that was picked up by the ecoterrorists for experimenting on with their human-killing virus, drugging and ultimately murdering her. The story goes to great lengths to show how isolated she was, and her gradual and painful decay into just another statistic that not a single researcher raises any moral qualms about. After she dies, that's that; only her worried family even know she was missing, and only Popov ever really finds out by accident (which helps decide his HeelFaceTurn). Not to mention she's only one of multiple test subjects that are all ultimately and callously disposed of in the search for human genocide.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: For all that he presents them as unsympathetic, monomaniacal hypocrites, Clancy's unwillingness to have even a single sympathetic character express any sympathy of all for the villain's views, even the mild maybe-we-shouldn't-turn-the-Earth-into-an-uninhabitable-wasteland-in-the-name-of-short-term-profit ones rather than their kill-humans-to-prevent-ecological-apocalypse ones, actually backs up their point that they aren't being taken seriously, and that they need to take drastic action to get something done because if they don't no one has any interest in listening to them.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: For all that he presents them as unsympathetic, monomaniacal hypocrites, Clancy's unwillingness to have even a single sympathetic character express any sympathy of all for the villain's views, even the mild maybe-we-shouldn't-turn-the-Earth-into-an-uninhabitable-wasteland-in-the-name-of-short-term-profit ones rather than their kill-humans-to-prevent-ecological-apocalypse ones, actually backs up their point that they aren't being taken seriously, and that they need to take drastic action to get something done because if they don't no one has any interest in listening to them.
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* NightmareFuel: The woman that was test subjects picked up by the ecoterrorists Horizon for experimenting on human experiments with their human-killing virus, drugging modified strain of Ebola, first homeless men, then sufficiently isolated people seduced in various ways, who are infected, drugged into compliant and, in the case of the second batch, sexually-open states of mind to test transmission methods, and ultimately murdering her. murdered in the case of those who survive until the late stages of infection. The story goes to great lengths to show how isolated she was, they were, and her their gradual and painful decay into just another statistic simple statistics that not a single researcher raises any moral qualms about. the researchers, the occasional pang of conscience that doesn't actually drive them to do anything different. After she dies, they all die, that's that; only her their worried family families, if they have them, will even know she was missing, and only Popov ever really finds out by accident (which helps decide his HeelFaceTurn). Not to mention she's only one of multiple test subjects that are all ultimately and callously disposed of in the search for human genocide.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: For all that he presents them as unsympathetic, monomaniacal hypocrites, Clancy's unwillingness to have even a single remotely sympathetic character express anysympathy of understanding or concern at all for any the villain's views, even the mild maybe-we-shouldn't-turn-the-Earth-into-an-uninhabitable-wasteland-in-the-name-of-short-term-profit maybe-we-shouldn't-turn-the-Earth-into-an-uninhabitable-wasteland-in-the-name-of-short-term-profits ones rather than their kill-humans-to-prevent-ecological-apocalypse ones, actually backs up their point that they aren't being taken seriously, and that they need to take drastic action to get something done because if they don't no one has any interest in listening to them.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: For all that he presents them as unsympathetic, monomaniacal hypocrites, Clancy's unwillingness to have even a single remotely sympathetic character express any
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* AccidentalAesop: ''Rainbow Six'' was intended as a [[AuthorTract screed]] against ecoterrorism and [[AnimalWrongsGroup animal rights extremists]]. However, Clancy had to put the ecoterrorists in charge of a huge megacorporation to make them credible villains. The novel can instead be taken as a tract against unchecked corporate power.
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** ''Rainbow Six'' was intended as a [[AuthorTract screed]] against ecoterrorism and [[AnimalWrongsGroup animal rights extremists]]. However, Clancy had to put the ecoterrorists in charge of a huge megacorporation to make them credible villains. The novel can instead be taken as a tract against unchecked corporatepower.power.
** The sneering, unfriendly condescension Carol Brightling gets from her coworkers within the Ryan administration, and the rolling-eyes unwillingness to listen from literally every non-environmentalist character whenever one of the environmentalists pleads their case, unintentionally puts across the idea that they aren't ''wrong'' that the ecological situation is bad, degrading, and that if something drastic doesn't happen nothing's going to be done about it.
** ''Rainbow Six'' was intended as a [[AuthorTract screed]] against ecoterrorism and [[AnimalWrongsGroup animal rights extremists]]. However, Clancy had to put the ecoterrorists in charge of a huge megacorporation to make them credible villains. The novel can instead be taken as a tract against unchecked corporate
** The sneering, unfriendly condescension Carol Brightling gets from her coworkers within the Ryan administration, and the rolling-eyes unwillingness to listen from literally every non-environmentalist character whenever one of the environmentalists pleads their case, unintentionally puts across the idea that they aren't ''wrong'' that the ecological situation is bad, degrading, and that if something drastic doesn't happen nothing's going to be done about it.
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** ''[[VideoGame/RainbowSix3 Raven Shield]]'' (PC version):
*** Nikola Gospić, born Dejan Blazevic, is the leader of the People's Social Nationalist Party (PSNP) who seeks to plunge the world into fascism. Previously a high-ranking member of the Nazi-sponsored [[LesCollaborateurs Ustaše Regime]] in Croatia during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Blazevic was tasked to liquidate assets from countless [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]] victims. [[ArgentinaIsNaziland Escaping to South America]] after the war, Blazevic changed his name and started a new life as a successful businessman and philanthropist. Seeking to turn the world into a fascist regime after discovering he has liver cancer, Gospić plans to create an economic downturn that will tarnish South America's oil industry and allow him to swoop in with his own oil company and rise to power. Sending out his terrorists to kill anybody who knows of his identity, while also working with politician Alvaro Gutierrez for political protection, Gospić plans to [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink use his meatpacking plants]] to send out a deadly nerve agent, preparing to kill millions of people to create terror, even attempting to deploy a nerve agent bomb in Rio de Janeiro with the goal of killing thousands.
*** The aforementioned [[CorruptPolitician Alvaro Gutierrez]], also in ''[[ExpansionPack Athena Sword]]'', is a far-right politician who works with [[BigBad Gospić]] to secure funding for his presidential campaign. An accomplice in Gospić's plans to kill millions of people to create a fascist empire, Gutierrez provides Gospić with the [[DeadlyGas VX]] nerve agent for his plan, and even launches several terrorist attacks to cover his tracks. Despite being arrested by Rainbow Six, Gutierrez still tries to complete the late Gospić's operation. Gutierrez commands his soldiers from within his prison cell to launch terrorist attacks in Italy and infect Athens with a deadly nerve agent to make up for Rio de Janeiro, fully anticipating the deaths of thousands.
** ''Lockdown'' (console version): [[BigBad Bastian Vanderwaal]] is the [[AmoralAfrikaner South African leader]] of terrorist organization Global Liberation Front (GLF). Raiding BlackMarket tech company LNR Anderson to acquire the deadly virus Legion, Vanderwaal uses Legion on the building's scientists, smiling at their deaths, and blows the building up. Responsible for every act of terrorism in the game through his cell divisions, Vanderwaal at one point takes over the NATO Summit in Barcelona, taking intel director Bill Tawney hostage and threatening to infect him and every world leader there with Legion, making sure to broadcast the deaths as a way to horrify the world into submission. Foiled by Rainbow Six, Vanderwaal escapes and attempts to infect a major European city's [[WaterSourceTampering water supply]] with Legion, willing to kill millions of people just to spite Rainbow.
** ''Vegas'' duology:
*** First game: [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Irena Morales]] is a revolutionary Mexican terrorist leader already infamous for blowing up the French embassy and for smuggling in Americans to execute on camera. Working for [[spoiler:[[BigBad Gabriel "Gabe" Nowak]]]] on his plan to take down Rainbow Six, Irena kidnaps Gabe and Akahashi to hold them captive. Taking over Las Vegas on [[spoiler:Gabe's]] orders, Irena causes countless deaths through her actions, such as blowing up buildings, and threatening citizens with a micro-pulse bomb, which contains a virus that causes peoples' skin to burn off. Causing all that destruction as a distraction for Rainbow Six, Irena plans to blow up the Nevada Dam and launch a micro-pulse missile.
*** Second game: [[MadBomber Miguel and Alvarez Cabrero]] are a duo of [[HumanTraffickers human trafficking]] brothers who take part in [[spoiler:Gabe's]] plan to take down Rainbow Six [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for profit]]. Crafting chemical bombs to be deployed over various parts of Las Vegas, Miguel tortures a mole NSA Agent named Scott Neville to death and deploys a bomb on a packed sports arena, which kills hundreds, later ratting out Alvarez to save his skin. Alvarez later blows up a hotel and attempts to use the monorail to blow up a highly populated part of Vegas, later trying to blow up a Chinese theater once that fails.
** ''[[VideoGame/RainbowSix3 Raven Shield]]'' (PC version):
*** Nikola Gospić, born Dejan Blazevic, is the leader of the People's Social Nationalist Party (PSNP) who seeks to plunge the world into fascism. Previously a high-ranking member of the Nazi-sponsored [[LesCollaborateurs Ustaše Regime]] in Croatia during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Blazevic was tasked to liquidate assets from countless [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust]] victims. [[ArgentinaIsNaziland Escaping to South America]] after the war, Blazevic changed his name and started a new life as a successful businessman and philanthropist. Seeking to turn the world into a fascist regime after discovering he has liver cancer, Gospić plans to create an economic downturn that will tarnish South America's oil industry and allow him to swoop in with his own oil company and rise to power. Sending out his terrorists to kill anybody who knows of his identity, while also working with politician Alvaro Gutierrez for political protection, Gospić plans to [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink use his meatpacking plants]] to send out a deadly nerve agent, preparing to kill millions of people to create terror, even attempting to deploy a nerve agent bomb in Rio de Janeiro with the goal of killing thousands.
*** The aforementioned [[CorruptPolitician Alvaro Gutierrez]], also in ''[[ExpansionPack Athena Sword]]'', is a far-right politician who works with [[BigBad Gospić]] to secure funding for his presidential campaign. An accomplice in Gospić's plans to kill millions of people to create a fascist empire, Gutierrez provides Gospić with the [[DeadlyGas VX]] nerve agent for his plan, and even launches several terrorist attacks to cover his tracks. Despite being arrested by Rainbow Six, Gutierrez still tries to complete the late Gospić's operation. Gutierrez commands his soldiers from within his prison cell to launch terrorist attacks in Italy and infect Athens with a deadly nerve agent to make up for Rio de Janeiro, fully anticipating the deaths of thousands.
** ''Lockdown'' (console version): [[BigBad Bastian Vanderwaal]] is the [[AmoralAfrikaner South African leader]] of terrorist organization Global Liberation Front (GLF). Raiding BlackMarket tech company LNR Anderson to acquire the deadly virus Legion, Vanderwaal uses Legion on the building's scientists, smiling at their deaths, and blows the building up. Responsible for every act of terrorism in the game through his cell divisions, Vanderwaal at one point takes over the NATO Summit in Barcelona, taking intel director Bill Tawney hostage and threatening to infect him and every world leader there with Legion, making sure to broadcast the deaths as a way to horrify the world into submission. Foiled by Rainbow Six, Vanderwaal escapes and attempts to infect a major European city's [[WaterSourceTampering water supply]] with Legion, willing to kill millions of people just to spite Rainbow.
** ''Vegas'' duology:
*** First game: [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Irena Morales]] is a revolutionary Mexican terrorist leader already infamous for blowing up the French embassy and for smuggling in Americans to execute on camera. Working for [[spoiler:[[BigBad Gabriel "Gabe" Nowak]]]] on his plan to take down Rainbow Six, Irena kidnaps Gabe and Akahashi to hold them captive. Taking over Las Vegas on [[spoiler:Gabe's]] orders, Irena causes countless deaths through her actions, such as blowing up buildings, and threatening citizens with a micro-pulse bomb, which contains a virus that causes peoples' skin to burn off. Causing all that destruction as a distraction for Rainbow Six, Irena plans to blow up the Nevada Dam and launch a micro-pulse missile.
*** Second game: [[MadBomber Miguel and Alvarez Cabrero]] are a duo of [[HumanTraffickers human trafficking]] brothers who take part in [[spoiler:Gabe's]] plan to take down Rainbow Six [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for profit]]. Crafting chemical bombs to be deployed over various parts of Las Vegas, Miguel tortures a mole NSA Agent named Scott Neville to death and deploys a bomb on a packed sports arena, which kills hundreds, later ratting out Alvarez to save his skin. Alvarez later blows up a hotel and attempts to use the monorail to blow up a highly populated part of Vegas, later trying to blow up a Chinese theater once that fails.
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** The final level in the first game. It's really long, and there are a lot of blind corners with enemies hiding around them, as well as automatic doors that open into wide-open rooms.
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** The Operation Mystic Tiger, the final level in the first game.game. Remember how the novel had the ecoterrorists march into the jungle to confront Rainbow in a predictably lop-sided battle? Not the case here - you're forced to breach into their highly fortified facility to end the madness. It's really long, and there are a lot of blind corners with enemies hiding around them, as well as automatic doors that open into wide-open rooms. As there's the possibility of viral exposure within the facility, your operators will be wearing lightly armored biosuits, making them that much more vulnerable to gunfire.
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** ''Lockdown'' was panned on release for being too casual and unrealistic compared to its predecessors. However, compared to its even more casualized and unrealistic successors like ''Vegas'' and ''Siege'', it's more of a ''Rainbow Six'' game (in the vein of its predecessors) than those two are.
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** ''Lockdown'' was panned on release for being too casual and unrealistic compared to its predecessors. However, compared to its even more casualized and unrealistic successors like ''Vegas'' and ''Siege'', it's more of a truer ''Rainbow Six'' game (in the vein of its predecessors) than those two are.
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** ''Lockdown'' was panned on release for being too casual and unrealistic compared to its predecessors. However, compared to its even more casualized unrealistic successors like ''Vegas'' and ''Siege'', it's more of a ''Rainbow Six'' game (in the vein of its predecessors) than those two are.
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** ''Lockdown'' was panned on release for being too casual and unrealistic compared to its predecessors. However, compared to its even more casualized and unrealistic successors like ''Vegas'' and ''Siege'', it's more of a ''Rainbow Six'' game (in the vein of its predecessors) than those two are.
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** ''Lockdown'' was panned on release for being too casual and unrealistic compared to its predecessors. However, compared to its even more casualized unrealistic successors like ''Vegas'' and ''Siege'', it's more of a ''Rainbow Six'' game (in the vein of its predecessors) than those two are.
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* HilariousInHindsight: A scene is Rainbow Six Vegas 2 has you fight in an MLG exhibit. The MLG later become memetically successful instead of a mere niche at the time.
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** The story of "Patriots", especially if you live in a country where domestic terrorists have conducted successful terrorist attacks.
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** The story of "Patriots", especially if you live in a country where domestic terrorists have conducted successful terrorist attacks. Or look at modern US politics how close the country is teetering on the tip of full blown civil war.
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* CatharsisFactor: As mentioned on the main page the series had a budding mod community. Well in the wake of the September 11 attacks mods started popping up where you hunt down bin Laden, or the Taliban in general. [[http://s16.postimg.org/3l0erljzp/Room_Service.jpg As one gaming magazine hinted.]]
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* CatharsisFactor: As mentioned on the main page the series had a budding mod community. Well in the wake of the September 11 attacks mods started popping up where you hunt down bin Laden, or the Taliban in general. [[http://s16.postimg.org/3l0erljzp/Room_Service.jpg [[https://imgur.com/a/IiR8VMw As one gaming magazine hinted.]]
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Lockdown is remembered as being the nadir of the franchise. Its only redeeming quality is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaKFPS24XVc the badass rendition of the Rainbow Six theme]].
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Lockdown is remembered as being the nadir of the franchise. Its only redeeming quality is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaKFPS24XVc the badass rendition of the Rainbow Six theme]].
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* WTHCastingAgency: As of 2018, it has been announced that Creator/MichaelBJordan has been cast as John Clark in ''Rainbow Six'' film adaptation, which has caused an uproar among fans, since John Clark is established as a white man in both the book and the game while Jordan is black. Fans have pointed that this not only goes against the original source material, but doesn't make sense in the context of the other books since Clark's physical appearance played a critical role in undercover operations in sensitive countries like Russia. Another point of criticism is that Jordan is simply too young for the role, being 31 at the time of the casting announcement while Clark is well into his 50s.
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* WTHCastingAgency: As of 2018, it has been announced that Creator/MichaelBJordan has been cast as John Clark in ''Rainbow Six'' film adaptation, which has caused an uproar among fans, since John Clark is established as a white man in both the book and the game while Jordan is black. Fans have pointed that this not only goes against the original source material, but doesn't make sense in the context of the other books since Clark's physical appearance played a critical role in undercover operations in sensitive countries like Russia. Another point of criticism is that Jordan is simply too young for the role, being 31 at the time of the casting announcement while Clark is well into his 50s.50s when he forms Rainbow.
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* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler: Gabriel Nowak]], the BigBad of the ''Vegas'' series, went to extensive and excessive lengths to exact vengeance upon Rainbow and the United States by association, causing a terror attack on Las Vegas that would easily be the most devastating terrorist strike in national history if this happened in real life (though this is a [[CrapsackWorld drop in the bucket]] for the Clancyverse). Except not only does he put himself into direct danger and potential discovery multiple times just to personally screw over Bishop, but he engages in BondVillainStupidity and never bothers trying to directly kill them until the very end. Even worse, his entire motivation (enough to try to sell Rainbow team's personal info and ''national classified secrets'' to the highest bidder) all stem from [[spoiler: nearly getting kicked off of Rainbow for being a trigger-happy rookie that almost ruined an entire operation, endangered hostages, and got a negotiator killed. While [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Bishop]] could be criticized for defending him, by any realistic military standard the dumbass would've been removed from Rainbow at best, and dishonorably discharged from the military altogether at worst.]] Killing as many people as he can with a ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, gassing an entire auditorium of innocents, and trying to bomb several places in the city (and ''succeeding'' in at least one case along with destroying an oil refinery) are all apparently fair game to get petty payback for his own severe fuck-up, not to mention [[spoiler: targeting the ''only person that stood up for him out of some mad, paranoid ramblings of being manipulated'']].
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* NightmareFuel: The woman that was picked up by the ecoterrorists for experimenting on with their human-killing virus, drugging and ultimately murdering her. The story goes to great lengths to show how isolated she was, and her gradual and painful decay into just another statistic that not a single researcher raises any moral qualms about. After she dies, that's that; only her worried family even know she was missing, and only Popov ever really finds out by accident (which helps decide his HeelFaceTurn). Not to mention she's only one of multiple test subjects that are all ultimately and callously disposed of in the search for human genocide.
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** The story of ''Patriots''. Parts of the public liked the idea of questioning morality in the age of terrorism, some are convinced that it's accusing patriotic citizens of being the bad guy.
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** The story mode of ''Patriots''. Parts of the public liked the idea of questioning morality in the age of terrorism, terrorism especially since militaries have done questionable things in counter-terorrism, some are convinced that it's accusing patriotic citizens of being the bad guy.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The game series has far more public exposure than the original book. When a film adaptation of the book was announced, people had to be reminded that they weren't adapting the games' storyline.
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** The story of "Patriots", especially if you live in a country where domestic terrorists have conducted successful terrorist attacks.
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** The story of ''Patriots''. Parts of the public liked the idea of questioning morality in the age of terrorism, some are convinced that it's accusing patriotic citizens of being the bad guy.
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** Between those who like the older, more tactical games (up until ''Raven Shield'') and those who prefer to more action oriented direction that the series has taken since ''Lockdown''[[note]]or, technically, the XBox version of ''Raven Shield''[[/note]].
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** Between those who like the older, more tactical games (up until ''Raven Shield'') and those who prefer to more action oriented direction that the series has taken since ''Lockdown''[[note]]or, technically, the XBox Xbox version of ''Raven Shield''[[/note]].
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**The "Vegas" games feel especially uncomfortable following the 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting.
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** The refinery level in ''Vegas 2'', where you don't have your teammates to back you up. A control room near the end of the level is a particular spot of hell, with large windows all across every wall and five or so doorways for the enemy to flank you from, leaving you with options for cover that at best only protect from one possible ambush point, and at worst actively expose you to most of the rest.
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** The refinery level in ''Vegas 2'', where you don't have your teammates to back you up. A control room near the end of the level is a particular spot of hell, with large windows all across every wall and five or so doorways for the enemy to flank you from, leaving you with options for cover that at best only protect from one possible ambush point, and at worst actively expose you to most of the rest. And then you've got the added bonus of more groups of bad guys spawning in every time you move up five feet, with ''even worse'' cover available outside of that control room.
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* CatharsisFactor: As mentioned on the main page the series had a budding mod community. Well in the wake of the September 11 attacks mods started popping up where you hunt down Bin Laden, or the Taliban in general. [[http://s16.postimg.org/3l0erljzp/Room_Service.jpg As one gaming magazine hinted.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: The original game had one of its terrorist organizations -- a right-wing anti-immigrant group no less -- motivated by their opposition to "the integration of the United Kingdom into the European Union." Cue 2016, where the United Kingdom held a successful vote to ''leave'' the European Union.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The original game had one of its terrorist organizations -- a right-wing anti-immigrant group no less -- motivated by their opposition to "the integration of the United Kingdom into the European Union." Cue 2016, where the United Kingdom held a successful and very controversial vote to ''leave'' the European Union.
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** And, of course, the ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest: SWAT'' series, though few people realize this because the [[VideoGame/SWAT3 noticeably more popular third game]] in that series switched to ''Rainbow Six''-like first-person gameplay to FollowTheLeader.
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