History YMMV / TheSalvationWar

* Anvilicious: This story could be used as a recruiting ad for the United States Military.

* Anvilicious: This story could be used as a recruiting ad for the United States Military.

* CreatorsPet: This story could be used as a recruiting ad for the United States Military.

* MemeticMutation: "BALLS" Said Lt. Micheal Wong.[[note]]The second line in the story, coming after a first line which is an extended BadbassBoast from Satan, and generally considered by both fans and detractors to sum up the story.[[/note]]

* MemeticMutation: "BALLS" Said Lt. Micheal Wong.

* HarsherinHindsight: After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Putin and the Russian forces being portrayed positively in the book would sound appalling to most.

%% "Your Mileage May Vary is never to be used as a trope." -Fighteer. %%

* MagnificentBastard: Michael-lan. The plot of the second book is largely the result of a massive BatmanGambit by Micheal to depose Yahweh, take over Heaven, and save the angelic race from what he believes would be total destruction at the hands (or guns) of humans.
** And then [[spoiler:Elhmas]] completely shows him up in one shrewd scene at the end.
** The North Koreans, specifically Kim-Jong Il and Kim-Jong Un, manage to outwit Michael-Lan by proxy (through Gabriel-Lan). When Gabriel-Lan points out how South Korea is vulnerable to invasion, the North Koreans are smart enough to stonewall the angels long enough to figure out that trying to backstab the HEA was a monumentally bad idea - and while it's likely that Michael-Lan, who knows humans much better than Gabriel, would probably have figured it out, it's still pretty impressive.

** John Barry's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvpnNa1nFWI theme from ''Zulu'']] inspires Michael to make the final blow against Yahweh in a series of hard bursts in time with the music.

** The final human casualty in the War on Hell. [[spoiler: Simplicus and his crew of rebel-deceased humans are waiting to ambush a demon when living human soldiers come to the rescue. However, Simplicus barely has time to push Sgt. Voight out of the way of his own crude rock-fall trap.]] Publius mourns the death of his best friend, but [[SugarWikiHeartwarming Sgt. Voight gives an order that Simplicus be carried out in full honor guard.]]

*** The scene in which said person goes to Petraeus and sadly admits that despite their best attempts to get up to speed with modern tactics, they must withdraw their request for a combat command is strangely affecting - though [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments ameliorated by the fact that said person, well-known as]] AFatherToHisMen [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments is instead offered a command to take care of US soldiers from all periods of history traumatised by their experiences in the Hell-Pit.]]

** The billions who have languished in Hell after millenia of torture.

** The final human casualty in the War on Hell. [[spoiler: Simplicus and his crew of rebel-deceased humans are waiting to ambush a demon when living human soldiers come to the rescue. However, Simplicus barely has time to push Sgt. Voight out of the way of his own crude rock-fall trap.]] Publius mourns the death of his best friend, but [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Sgt. Voight gives an order that Simplicus be carried out in full honor guard.]]

*** The scene in which said person goes to Petraeus and sadly admits that despite their best attempts to get up to speed with modern tactics, they must withdraw their request for a combat command is strangely affecting - though [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming ameliorated by the fact that said person, well-known as]] AFatherToHisMen [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming is instead offered a command to take care of US soldiers from all periods of history traumatised by their experiences in the Hell-Pit.]]

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Uriel, the Angel of Death, tries to wipe out a human town in California. Using their love for each other to bolster their willpower, the people of the town deny him in a battle of wills until the Navy puts four anti-air missiles into his face.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Invoked and justified; music can serve to synchronize the magical power of many beings, so that an individual can draw on it and be empowered thereby. We see this in action when Michael makes his coup against Yahweh, a magical battle in which he's backed up by everyone at the Montmartre Club and the theme from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJun5ziotfw ''The Dambusters''.]]
** John Barry's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvpnNa1nFWI theme from ''Zulu'']] inspires Michael to make the final blow against Yahweh in a series of hard bursts in time with the music.
** WordOfGod [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?p=2890357#p2890357 states]] that the best music for human vs. demon scenes would be "[[https://youtu.be/O4irXQhgMqg Paint It Black]]".
** The humans in the nightclub that survived Uriel's attack [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaOlfmX8rQ begin singing Queen's "We Will Rock You."]]

** The North Koreans, specifically Kim-Jong Il and Kim-Jong Un, manage to outwit Michael-Lan. When Michael-Lan points out how South Korea is vulnerable to invasion, the North Koreans are smart enough to stonewall the angels long enough to figure out that trying to backstab the HEA was a monumentally bad idea.

* MoralEventHorizon: Michael-lan gets a young female angel hooked on heroin. Then he gets her to be an exotic dancer to feed her addiction. ''Then'' it's on to prostitution. And that's ''before'' he has her [[spoiler:become the mistress of the subverted chief investigator of Yahweh's "secret police," get kidnapped, then sent to a concentration camp and tortured]]...

* TheWoobie: Maion. Michael gets her hooked on heroin, then turns her into a prostitute, and then has her seduce Lemuel to the point that Lemuel falls in love with her. Then Michael has Maion kidnapped, accused of treason, and handed over to Belial's "detainment camp" where she's tortured and crippled - all to simultaneously turn Lemuel, the head of heaven's secret police, against Yahweh, and to give humanity convincing [[spoiler:albeit arguably false]] evidence that the Host were as much victims of Yahweh as humans themselves.

** Abigor, for some, going from sinister, powerful general and leader of Hell's greatest fighting forces to a ShellShockedVeteran near-traumatized by the carnage the humans inflict on his men. It only gets worse for him when Satan tells him to throw the lives of himself, his kin, and whatever soldiers are left away on a suicide mission for his failure.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Reading this may make you think "Barack Obama/ Bill Clinton/ George W. Bush is awesome," even if you were politically opposed to them.
** Some characters ended up either not being rescued, or actually were thrown ''into'' the Scrappy Heap in his [[TakeThat Take Thats]], albeit much of his reasoning for his depictions of particular figures were in discussion outside of the story.
** Also rescued: James Randi and [[spoiler: Iraqi insurgents, Hamas members and even ''al Qaeda'']] who forget their local grievances in the interest of the war effort as a whole.
*** They don't just forget their grievences; except for Randi it's a RoaringRampageOfRevenge after realizing they've been betrayed and their entire cause was a lie.

* TruthinTelevision: Bill Clinton kills a succubus disguised as an attractive woman which fooled his entire security detail because...he’s been married to Hilary so long he can recognize the demons of hell. In fact, Bill Clinton's constant complaints about the stress involved in being married to Hilary were notorious with his security detail and other associates.

* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic CrowningMusicOfAwesome]]: Invoked and justified; music can serve to synchronize the magical power of many beings, so that an individual can draw on it and be empowered thereby. We see this in action when Michael makes his coup against Yahweh, a magical battle in which he's backed up by everyone at the Montmartre Club and the theme from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJun5ziotfw ''The Dambusters''.]]

* [[HesJustHiding He's Just Hiding]]: Happened to one particular angel, and turned out to be correct.

* TruthinTelevision: Bill Clinton kills a succubus disguised as an attractive woman which fooled his entire security detail because...he’s been married to Hilary so long he can recognize the demons of hell. In fact, Bill Clinton's constant complaints about the stress involved in being married to Hilary were notorious with his security detail and other associates.

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* Truthintelevision: Bill Clinton kills a succubus disguised as an attractive woman which fooled his entire security detail because...he’s been married to Hilary so long he can recognize the demons of hell. In fact, Bill Clinton's constant complaints about the stress involved in being married to Hilary were notorious with his security detail and other associates.

* Injoke: Bill Clinton kills a succubus disguised as an attractive woman which fooled his entire security detail because...he’s been married to Hilary so long he can recognize the demons of hell. In fact, Bill Clinton's constant complaints about the stress involved in being married to Hilary were notorious with his security detail and other associates.

* AssPull: Bill Clinton kills a succubus disguised as an attractive woman which fooled his entire security detail because...he’s been married to Hilary so long he can recognize the demons of hell.
* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A story where God turns out to be evil and shuts humanity out of Heaven, with mankind going to war to kill him, is not something a member of the Abrahamic religons would be tempted to read, especially given that several religious people are supposed to have committed suicide when they learned the truth.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Invoked and justified; music can serve to synchronize the magical power of many beings, so that an individual can draw on it and be empowered thereby. We see this in action when Michael makes his coup against Yahweh, a magical battle in which he's backed up by everyone at the Montmartre Club and the theme from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJun5ziotfw ''The Dambusters''.]]

* AuthorTract: [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Some would say that]] the author has a very [[KnightTemplar militaristic]], my-country-right-or-wrong mindset, and anyone who doesn't share that view is portrayed very negatively.