History YMMV / WingCommander

* FanDumb

* HateDumb: Lots of people couldn't seem to get past the concept that the ArtificialGravity aboard the ''Tiger Claw'' evidently affected the volume just beyond the end of the ship's flight deck, for whatever reason. At least it was consistently shown to be that way.

--> '''Reinhart''': ''People don't change that much. Some are born wolf. Some are sheep. You might be wearing sheep's clothing, but Your fangs are shoing through.''

* OneSceneWonder: Reinhart (Creator/DavidWarner) in ''Privateer 2''. A captured FauxAffablyEvil Kindred leader who give a spectacular ExpoSpeak concerning the game's amnesiac protgonist's identity. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET6UEXAmc68&list=HL1379098180 Behold one of the best performances in video game acting]].

* GrowingTheBeard: While the main campaign of WingCommander 1 and the first SecretMissions expansion pack were miles ahead of anything else available in the early 90s in terms of graphics and game play, the storyline is little more than an ExcusePlot. In the SecretMissions2 the characterization and plot both become much more engrossing. We first meet several recurring characters in SM2, both heroes and villains.

** Anything dealing with flying through a mine cluster in a ''Wing Commander'' game. You have to maneuver ''painfully slowly'' through these if you want to make it through. At least you can shoot [[TheAsteroidThicket asteroids]] out of your way. [[DontTryThisAtHome Try the same with a space mine]] and...''BOOM!'' [[FinalDeath Twenty-one gun salute city for you]].

* OneSceneWonder: Reinhart (DavidWarner) in ''Privateer 2''. A captured FauxAffablyEvil Kindred leader who give a spectacular ExpoSpeak concerning the game's amnesiac protgonist's identity. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET6UEXAmc68&list=HL1379098180 Behold one of the best performances in video game acting]].

** Josh Lucas and [[{{Lost}} Francois Chau]] in ''Wing Commander III'' (and ''IV'' in Chau's case)

* StoicWoobie: Mariko "Spirit" Tanaka

* UnwinnableByInsanity: In ''Privateer'', if you manage to run out of jump drive fuel, you'd better hope you're in a system where there are stations and/or planets to land on. If that's not the case? You'll be forced to quit and restart the game from a previous save that you hopefully not have erased yet, especially if it's for an important mission.

* TitleConfusion: ''Prophecy'' is sometimes referred to by fans as "Wing Commander 5", as the fifth "main line" Wing Commander game, even though it's never been used outside the fandom using it as a working title, when almost nothing of the game was yet known to anyone not involved with production of the game.

* CompleteMonster: Even if Seether is just following orders, he clearly enjoy slaughtering thousands of innocent civilians [[SlasherSmile way]] [[EvilLaugh too]] [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming much]], and has no problem violating UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar in outright executing a prisoner of war, in the ''Wing Commander IV'' {{novelization}}.

* WTHCastingAgency: With an all star cast that made up the games, you replace them ALL for the movie including ''MarkHamill'' with the main cast of She'sAllThat/ScoobyDoo?!

*** Probably because it is either so distantly related to not have any impact on canon at all, or because attempts to put it into the canon were so [[DolledUpInstallment transparent]] that nobody bothers to address it.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Josh Lucas and [[{{Lost}} Francois Chau]] in ''Wing Commander III'' (and ''IV'' in Chau's case); [[IronChefAmerica Mark Dacascos]] in ''Wing Commander IV''.

* [[ThatOneLevel/SpaceSimulator That One Level]]: Anything dealing with flying through a mine cluster in a ''Wing Commander'' game. You have to maneuver ''painfully slowly'' through these if you want to make it through. At least you can shoot [[TheAsteroidThicket asteroids]] out of your way. [[DontTryThisAtHome Try the same with a space mine]] and...''BOOM!'' [[FinalDeath Twenty-one gun salute city for you]].

** The mine clusters? Sheesh! They are NOTHING compared to infamous Kurasawa-2 mission in ''Wing Commander''. Yes, the one with Ralari defense (you have about ten seconds to destroy 4 heavy cat fighters, or else the craft you're supposed to be protecting goes boom).
*** Interestingly enough, the level was designed to discourage players from only going on the winning path.
*** If you do manage to protect the captured enemy cruiser, you are sent straight to the victorious ending mission sequence. [[RammingAlwaysWorks Ramming the enemy fighters works wonders, it turns out.]]

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A ''very'' common complaint.
** Particularly the name of the carrier changing from TCS ''Tiger''''s''' Claw'' to TCS ''Tiger Claw'', although the change was an accidental one due to script editing confusion between editors for the film.

** There is a very noticeable change in the music when his name appears in the intro credits, just as the squadron of Dragons turns up.

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* TooGoodToLast: Plans for a second season were ruined by USA Network terminating their entire Saturday morning cartoon lineup thanks to a horrendously bad mass-show-crossover.

* TooGoodToLast: Plans for a second season were ruined by USA Network terminating their entire Saturday morning cartoon lineup.

** A lot of people like to pretend the FaceHeelTurn by [[spoiler:"Hobbes"]] never happened.

* DemonicSpiders: The Jalthis in ''Wing Commander'' may be slow, but their six-gun attacks are deadly, making escort missions very difficult (especially [[ScrappyLevel Kurasawa 2]], which was designed to be [[NintendoHard quite difficult]]).

* CompleteMonster: Even if Seether is just following orders, he clearly enjoy slaughtering thousands of innocent civilians [[SlasherSmile way]] [[EvilLaugh too]] [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming much]], and has no problem violating the LawsAndCustomsOfWarfare in outright executing a prisoner of war, in the ''Wing Commander IV'' {{novelization}}.

* FanDumb: Due to the LoveItOrHateIt extremes.

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