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| 3 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[WhatWereYouThinking Well, what else were you expecting from]] ''[[MoralEventHorizon enforcing American apartheid]]'', Mr. President?]] |
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| 8 | Although a mod as dark as The New Order usually doesn't focus on humor, there are some choice moments of BlackComedy sprinkled throughout... |
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| 13 | [[folder:Germany and the German Sphere]] |
| 14 | [[AC:General]] |
| 15 | * There is at least one example of [[DevelopersForesight the devs anticipating the potential use of console commands]]: If the player uses focus.autocomplete to unlock The Speer Plan (which would be impossible in normal gameplay, as only the first focus on Hitler's tree can be completed), a [[https://i.redd.it/qck82daw9oc51.png special event]] has Speer try to introduce his plans to [[EnemyMine work with the USA against Japan]]... only for Hitler to storm out of his room (still [[EmbarrassingPyjamas wearing his nightgown]]) and [[BreakingTheFourthWall screaming about the player cheating]], [[WhatTheHellPlayer chewing them out for using console commands when HE conquered all of Europe without them]], before telling them to [[EasyModeMockery restart the whole game, and play FAIRLY this time]]. Speer, [[AudienceWhatAudience completely baffled as to what Hitler is screaming about]], decides to restart the heating system, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint hoping that Hitler's mental breakdown was just a lapse in the air conditioning]]. Pressing the acknowledgement button deducts 500 Political Power as punishment. |
| 16 | --> "Mein Gott! Had he [[NoMedicationForMe taken his pills yet]]?" |
| 17 | * Typing in a certain command causes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlARv3_uaJQ a short clip]] headlined by a photo of an elderly Hitler with a text-to-speech voice reading the words "change da world my final message. Goodb ye", after which Hitler's portrait fades away. It's based off of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWG4BZP4dzM this]] [[MemeticMutation infamous video]], but it still [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext makes absolutely fuck-all sense.]] |
| 18 | --> "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin I mis]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice him already.]]" |
| 19 | * Early in a Germany game, Adolf Hitler visits the Führermuseum to officially open the new art exhibit and begins lamenting the deaths of German artists, including Adolf Ziegler and Arno Breker. Cue the crowd slowly turning to Breker, ''[[ImStandingRightHere very much alive]]'' and now [[ImpliedDeathThreat fearing for his life]]. |
| 20 | * [[https://i.redd.it/d8klo062pooa1.jpg The icon for the Russian-Wolgadeutsch culture]] is a StylisticSuck [[https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/251641523/cursed-crying-emoji crying emoji.]] [[note]]Note that this icon is actually the fallback culture icon, aka the icon that appears if no other icon is made for that culture[[/note]] |
| 21 | [[AC:Speer's Germany]] |
| 22 | * Some moments in the Speer victory scenario if you have him go down the full reform path are rather humorous. Because if you stick with them Speer is steadily deprived of more and more power to the point where he can [[VillainousBreakdown shout at the Gang of 4 about ignoring him]] only for them to continue doing so. Schmidt eventually outright tells Speer to his face that he is their PuppetKing. |
| 23 | ** Schmidt's summit with Willy Brandt and the other slave rebel leaders is also humorous, largely because the rebels know Schmidt is as keen on drastic reforms as they are and is only concerned about being able to implement them. Which means all of the conversations between the Reichsbanner leadership and Schmidt in essence boil down to each of them telling him 'come on, live a little.' |
| 24 | [[AC:Bormann's Germany]] |
| 25 | * The event where Führer Bormann goes to a diplomatic visit to the US, titled "[[https://preview.redd.it/sc0dkznx8o061.jpg?width=532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4ae4b7a942e46f5030e7a5b85e436af809a0b94 A Strange Land]]" is completely hilarious, thanks to the fact that the US government decided to send Bormann to Disneyland to all places (presumably a reference to the fact that this almost happened with UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev in OTL[[note]]It was cancelled over security concerns, by all accounts to Khruschev's great disappointment[[/note]]). So seeing the leader of one of the most powerful nations on earth ordering a burger from Goofy is an amusing sight indeed. For bonus points, Bormann and his followers, rather than enjoy themselves, [[MoralGuardians are trying to make a point of rejecting America's "degeneracy"]], and [[StopHavingFunGuys actively go out of their way to reject hospitality as much as possible]], [[TheComicallySerious while trying to keep a straight face throughout the trip]]. |
| 26 | ** These events also always include a state visit to the White House. While they vary widely in tone, from cold and cordial to impromptu debates, if [=LeMay=] happens to be president and sees Bormann has brought his press team for propaganda purposes, it quickly escalates into a [[https://preview.redd.it/385ycnyhgw961.png?width=555&format=png&auto=webp&s=348690cb6e712dff2a4bbab486edfb50d44534e0 public argument as explosive and bitter as it is hilarious]], which [=LeMay=] punctuates by shouting, [[UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev "We will bury you!"]], all while the cameras and press look on and record. |
| 27 | * Bormann has [[https://i.imgur.com/IVZcoq4.png an event]] that challenges his agrarian reforms for territory in Norway. By concerning beans, of all things. It ends up being SeriousBusiness. |
| 28 | ** The event opens with the line, "Beans, my Führer." The writing then expands from this, as Norway's quality of beans is apparently so underperforming that it just may [[DisasterDominoes jeopardize the entirety of Bormann's plans]]. All the while, the analyst quivers in his [[TheNapoleon leader]]'s presence, knowing that whatever he says can make or break his career then and there. |
| 29 | ** The responses deserve to be pointed out, with a rather dramatic "Perhaps we could give [[{{Pun}} peas]] a chance" to adjust the strategy, and the alternative being no change to plans, which is represented by ''more'' placeholder text that just says "[[MoodWhiplash who cares lol]]." |
| 30 | * To further establish his CultOfPersonality, Bormann commissions for a television show to be made about him saving Germany, appealing to younger audiences. What follows is a ComingOfAgeStory surrounding audiences watching a Saturday morning cartoon of the Führer being a superhero. A young boy, in his favorite "Bormann t-shirt," watches as his hero in knightly armor defeats the other factions of the Civil War.[[note]] Said "Bormann t-shirt" might or might not be a nod to the time a user made a "[[https://reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/j2xj8e/my_speer_hoodie_arrived_today/ Speer Hoodie]]", to the bafflement of the entire TNO fandom.[[/note]] |
| 31 | * In the leadup to the German Civil War, Bormann believes he has enough connections within the Reichskommissariate to give him a decisive advantage over his opponents. He doesn't. |
| 32 | -->"So to sum things up, Seyss-Inquart and Lohse are bedridden; Koch and Kasche claim they can't send any troops due to partisans, and von Krosigk and Frank have to fight bloody terrorists that aren't even supposed to exist anymore?"\ |
| 33 | "What do you mean Kaukasia and Madagaskar didn't even answer?!"\ |
| 34 | "That's treason Terboven!" |
| 35 | ** In the end, he can only get a paltry 1,000 manpower from the Danish garrison. |
| 36 | * After having his art gallery destroyed by the [=OrPo=] during the Second Dismantlement, famous sculptor Arno Breker decides he has had enough, and approaches Bormann with a proposal for a [[https://i.imgur.com/zaLiMHr.png "temporary excursion"]]: he and several other artists arrested for degeneracy will take a trip to Switzerland and create a "satirical sculpture" that they will gift to the Swiss government pretending that it's good. Bormann agrees, letting him go with 20 other "degenerate artists." Breker defects, to the surprise of no one, not even Bormann who authorized the whole thing. |
| 37 | [[AC:Heydrich's Germany]] |
| 38 | * Should he negotiate with the slaves to join his anti-Himmler coalition before taking the focus to reach out to RK Kaukasien, the [[https://preview.redd.it/k433tjzrb2561.png?width=1024&auto=webp&s=2811e7616f5c422ad7dbe85e35f34995750f6937 following phone conversation]] takes a turn for the hilarious. While Josias initially denounces Himmler as a "chinless worm" and "that fucking Mongoloid", he then takes umbrage with Heydrich reaching out to the slaves before him and refuses to support him either. His last words before he hangs up? |
| 39 | --> "You know what they used to say about you in the SS? You look like a fucking Jew." |
| 40 | * The inherent ridiculousness of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust, allying with [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits reformers, militarists, and even Poles and slaves]] against another Nazi too extreme for him. The "Avengers assemble" jokes write themselves. |
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| 43 | [[folder:Russia]] |
| 44 | [[AC:General]] |
| 45 | * While most of the text accompanying [[https://i.redd.it/ah0js42uof751.png defeats of Russian warlords]] [[TearJerker/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope are usually dour]], some are BlackComedy, especially when it comes to less savory warlords getting put down: |
| 46 | --> '''[[TotalitarianGangsterism Thief Territory of Yugra]]:''' "[[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores Thieves and bandits]] [[CurbStompBattle cannot defeat an army]]." |
| 47 | --> '''[[ArmsDealer Zlatoust Republic]]:''' "[[HoistByHisOwnPetard The merchants traded the rope on which they are now hanged]]." |
| 48 | --> '''[[ANaziByAnyOtherName All-Russian Government of Amur]]:''' "[[DownerBeginning Ignited by a tragedy]], the Fascists of Russia [[UndignifiedDeath perished in a farce]]." |
| 49 | --> '''[[FourthReich The Aryan Brotherhood]]:''' "[[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing There remains some justice in the Russian Anarchy]]." |
| 50 | * The many deaths of Oskar Dirlewanger are often hilarious, especially given that [[KarmicDeath he absolutely has all of them coming]]. Writers clearly had much fun with making the hedonistic, rapist war criminal suffer, as the events range from him swiftly and spontaneously dying to facing outright ludicrous situations in the form of {{Shout Out}}s. |
| 51 | ** A sample of all the ways he may meet his end: [[ColonyDrop Squished by the deorbited Sun Gun, meteor strike]], SpontaneousHumanCombustion, [[NukeEm nuked]], gunned down by the Literature/LittleRedRidingHood, ExitPursuedByABear, taken by the [[Website/SCPFoundation Foundation]], BoltOfDivineRetribution, [[ToiletHumor choking on]] [[UndignifiedDeath horse excrements]], [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext bitten by a]] [[VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake deadly venomous Zanzibar hamster]], [[Film/JohnWick killed by a hitman after killing said hitman's dog]], and [[BreakingTheFourthWall noticing the player]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation and promptly going insane]]. |
| 52 | * Most of the Russian warlords' tags are based on their geographic location, not their in-game name. For example, the Siberian Black Army's tag is KHA, after its original location in Khakassia. The [[TheTheocracy Order of St. George]] is based around the city of Gayny. So, naturally, its tag is [[HehHehYouSaidX GAY]]. |
| 53 | [[AC:The Komi Republic]] |
| 54 | * One event under Svetlana Bukharina sees her show up on the doorstep of an unsuspecting peasant family (consisting of a father and two children) with the StateSec and going on announce she is here to [[DeadlyEuphemism liquidate them]]. The father of the family resignedly closes his eyes expecting to be executed with his presumed last thought musing that [[MeetTheNewBoss she was supposed to be different from the old-school communists]]... only for nothing to happen, with the officer he expected to shoot him instead unveiling a set of books. It turns out that Bukharina is there to [[BaitAndSwitch get them involved in the initiative to]] [[InsistentTerminology liquidate illiteracy in Komi]]. |
| 55 | * Zhdanov's pursuit of mad science is portrayed both grimly for the catastrophic failure of most projects ''and'' humorously for how absurd said projects can get. An [[https://i.redd.it/y732n4kx40b61.png event]] highlights the day of a scientist and his assignment to either reject or approve of potential endeavors. It features ludicrous and highly impractical inventions, such as an ape-man SuperSoldier born from the hybridization of a chimp and a man. On top of that, this list contains a couple {{Shout Out}}s as shown below. And just when you think it's safe to laugh along with the scientist and his workmates about how ridiculous it all seems, the end of the event sees the poor researcher having a nightmare, in which he's ambushed by an ape-man and zombie-sharks with metallic legs--prompting him to make an escape with his [[BrickJoke laser pistol and hovercraft]]. |
| 56 | --> "If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" |
| 57 | ** The list of rejected projects includes [[Manga/{{Gyo}} robot harnesses attached to corpses propelled by miasma (which is then realized in the form of the rotting shark with metal legs)]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} a highly radioactive memory gun]]. |
| 58 | ** Believe it or not, [[HistoricalInJoke some of these projects]] [[AluminumChristmasTrees were actually researched]] by the Soviet Union. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol laser pistol]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovercraft#Military hovercraft]] in the event are just the concepts turned up to eleven. This even applies to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee#Reports_of_attempted_hybridization ape-man hybrid]]. |
| 59 | * The Passionariyy Organization broadcasts a talk show known as [[StrawmanNewsMedia Radio Free Syktyvkar]], hosted by Igor Shafarevich and Sergey Taboritsky. The first thing they report is President Nikolai Voznesensky allegedly having a scandalous relationship with a young woman, which is then said to be one of many scandals they've tried to perpetuate regarding him. They segue onto the ongoing diplomatic discussions between Voznesensky and Chairman Zhdanov, who they then mock since they know Suslov's ''really'' in charge. It's one thing to see the likes of [[EvilReactionary Shafarevich]] and ''[[TheCaligula Taboritsky]]'' behaving like GossipyHens on the air, but it's especially funny to know that this event [[LethalJokeItem can actually weaken Komi's center faction]], even if it's a small amount. |
| 60 | -->''Quality reporting, from a quality station!'' |
| 61 | * A Steve event gives him the chance to pick one of three districts in Komi's capital city, and each one is a funny moment of its own. The first has him [[WeAreStrugglingTogether sit in on one of the explosive debates held by the government]], where he makes observations of some of the politicians there, such as [[AxCrazy Taboritsky]] reminding Steve of his Uncle Earl (due to them both [[CreepyUncle looking like creeps]]), and Komi's President and Vice-President "looking absolutely miserable" with the chaos. The second has them blunder into a "bad part of town" where [[BlackShirt far-right]] and [[BombThrowingAnarchists far-left]] militias are shooting each other in the streets, and him and Zoya getting forced to pay one of them for "[[ProtectionRacket protection]]" (who then basically force Steve to only interview pro-socialist civilians due to having him and Zoya at gunpoint). The third has Steve roped into an interview with [[VoiceOfTheResistance Radio Free Syktyvkar]], which is mostly Heartwarming, but has a snicker-worthy moment where it's revealed the radio's host in named [[RepetitiveName Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov]]. |
| 62 | [[AC:The Aryan Brotherhood]] |
| 63 | * While Vagner's mainline faction uniting Russia is still NightmareFuel, there is a bit of BlackComedy to be had over it. They're a small group of aggressive warlords running on insane definitions of Nazi Germany's teachings on Aryans (which were already bunk to begin with) and are essentially {{LARP}}ing as the Third Reich. They sport ragged uniforms from previous wars that they stumbled upon and have modified their language into "Deytsch." They ''cheer'' for the German bombers whenever they strike, and should they happen upon any actual Germans, they'll become fanboys and rush to offer hospitality, as seen in their event where they [[https://i.redd.it/qn62lj7119s51.png defeat Samara and find a soldier they've captured]]. Of course, [[BewareTheSillyOnes should they succeed...]] [[NightmareFuel/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope they stop being funny very quickly]]. |
| 64 | * When accomplishing superregional unification as a "Reykh", Nazi Germany's response to their most hated enemy adopting their ideology and believing themselves to be part of the Aryan Master Race is simply, [[StunnedSilence "No comment."]] |
| 65 | * [[https://i.redd.it/v6idgum19xs51.png A particular event]] that occurs during a playthrough of the Aryan Brotherood is Vagner being upset that he had sent a message requesting an alliance with Germany weeks ago and has only received radio silence since then. He doesn't think that Germany is purposely ignoring them, but rather, his [[YouHaveFailedMe assistant has failed him in delivering the letter]]. ''[[MoodSwinger Then]]'' he comes to the [[InsaneTrollLogic conclusion]] that Zionist spies have intercepted the letters. |
| 66 | --> "Is nothing safe from Judaean treachery?" |
| 67 | ** On the flipside of this, during a German playthrough where the Aryan Brotherhood has [[DarkHorseVictory somehow]] reunified part of Russia, the German minister foreign affairs will receive said letter, with the response being, "[[BigWHAT What the hell is this nonsense?!]]". |
| 68 | * Another BlackComedy note is the Aryan Brotherhood's interaction with Steve and his party, where they catch them crossing their territory, but Steve makes them second-guess their decision to enslave them by hastily speaking German (and, based on the event describing him as "potentially Aryan", likely having blond hair and blue eyes too). While the ensuing event (written from Steve's perspective) is absolutely mortifying in its depiction of the Brotherhood's treatment of Untermensch slaves, the fact they can potentially be duped by blond hair and a high-school command of German is somewhat chuckle worthy. |
| 69 | * One of the Loading Tips for the game is loaded with {{Irony}}. Suffice to say, this is no doubt a propaganda poster made by the [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Aryan Brotherhood]]: |
| 70 | ->''A true Aryan must be wise, like [[DidntThinkThisThrough Hitler]]; strong, like [[FatBastard Göring]]; and loyal, like [[TheStarscream Himmler]].'' |
| 71 | -->-- '''A West Russian propaganda poster, 1960''' |
| 72 | [[AC:Magadan]] |
| 73 | * If Mitchell [=WerBell=] III takes over by [[TheCoup ousting Matkovsky]], [[https://i.redd.it/yok1omjycu061.png the event]] that follows has him [[ScrewTheWarWerePartying get blind-stinking drunk]] (along with most of his soldiers). After debating with himself over whether he should drink a shot glass of whiskey, an aide walks in to ask him [[PleaseSelectNewCityName what they should call the new "Republic"]]. A completely plastered [=WerBell=] proclaims (loudly) that [[LineOfSightName since they're west of Alaska]], the government should naturally be named [[{{Descriptiveville}} West Alaska]]. [[TheComicallySerious The aide's only response is to blink once, before affirming WerBell made an excellent choice]] |
| 74 | ** And then there's [[https://i.redd.it/h6sirkyjnf161.jpg the event of WerBell's national unification]] under the "[[{{Eagleland}} United States of Russia]]", which, [[BookEnds once again]], breaks out the booze by the gallon-load. Then, as [=WerBell=] thinks about how there is still a bit of [[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry native resistance]] to his rule, [[DistractedByTheSexy it completely derails]] when a Russian prostitute shows him "Two somethings, to be exact, and some of the biggest ones he'd ever seen". |
| 75 | ** International reactions to the unification vary, but they are all equal in surprise. Germany angrily accuses America backing [=WerBell=]'s rule as an anti-Reich plot, while America themselves [[NotMeThisTime admit to being baffled by the situation]]. |
| 76 | * Steve's event in Magadan has the choice between Matkovsky asking to meet with him personally (only to be dissapointed when Steve is just a tourist, as opposed to an ambassador to the United States who he can pressure for foreign aid), or to have some of his men give Steve a tour around town (which is promptly subject to mood whiplash, as Steve recounts a family enjoying a restaurant's meal on one side of the street, and a BlackShirt [[KillThePoor beating the tar out of a hobo]] on the other side of it). |
| 77 | [[AC:The Principality of Kemerovo]] |
| 78 | * It's a tiny minor province ruled by a former Major-General of the Red Army who had a severe mental breakdown after the defeat of his country at the hands of the Germans. Which then caused him to believe [[NapoleonDelusion he is the second coming of an ancient Varangian prince, Rurik]]. Kemerovo and its people [[DaysOfFuturePast fully embrace a Kievan and Muscovite aesthetic]] in a post-apocalyptic Russia in TheSixties, much like [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Caesar's Legion]]. "Rurik II" himself even wears a Muscovite crown and fur coat over his modern suit. And not only can this eccentric mini-kingdom unite all of Russia, [[SuccessThroughInsanity but it's actually one of the better unifying forces]]. That is, assuming his populist and idealistic son Yuriy[=/=]Rurik III is the heir; Lydia[=/=]Rogneda is more a morally grey character, though she's not quite ''evil'' and it makes sense for a queen to be militaristic in a world dominated by fascists. |
| 79 | * Upon defeating the Siberian Black Army, Rurik can maintain the workers' councils that governed the SBA's territories. It goes [[https://i.imgur.com/JaBuop6.png poorly]]. |
| 80 | [[AC:The Siberian Black Army/Free Territory]] |
| 81 | * An [[https://i.redd.it/8vrpg34fo2361.png event]] showing a same-sex marriage, while also [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Heartwarming]], is also hilarious. The wedding itself is highly amusing as [[WartimeWedding due to the warlord era of Russia]] and [[BombThrowingAnarchists the militant nature]] of the SBA, [[EveryoneIsArmed literally EVERY member of the wedding has guns]], from the priest with a SMG scuffed from him doing entrenchment training earlier that day to [[GayGroomInAWhiteTux the two brides in matching black dresses]] (complete with [[UnconventionalWeddingDress being specially modified to sling both of their rifles over their shoulder]] and of course having the [[SigilSpam SBA's sigil stitched on]]). But what REALLY kicks it into hysterical territory is that, as the wedding attendees celebrate with drinking, the intoxicated attendees drudge up [[SmallTownRivalry old arguments between the communes]], and [[WeddingSmashers devolve into a brawl between the guests]] (only barely refraining from shooting each other due to knowing [[EnemyMine there are other nations the SBA has to stand united against]]). Cue one of the brides [[NasalTrauma breaking the nose]] of her new cousin-in-law, before helping him back up without any hard feelings, with the event concluding that she knew they would fight against their communal enemies for many years to come. |
| 82 | * When ruled by [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis Security Council]], the Siberian Black Army decides to unveil the latest in their technological development--[[https://i.redd.it/cqmx1j5ux9t51.jpg an atomic bomb of their own!]] ...Which, as seen in the event, is just a [[PaperTiger life-sized paper mache model]]. But still, it's noteworthy enough to make some headlines overseas, even if there aren't too many people taking the news seriously. |
| 83 | ** On a similar note, when the SBA is ruled by Anarchist Soviet still adhering to anarchism, they can pursue an actual nuclear project. They have the option to make the research centralized, or ''apply anarchism to nuclear development'' and run the design and funding across their communes. And against all odds, the latter [[TemptingFate REALLY GOOD IDEA]] can actually be pulled off successfully most of the time! As for the times when it isn't? The project detonates in the middle of their territory, right in poor Rurik's place too. |
| 84 | [[AC:Buryatia]] |
| 85 | * Sablin can engage in diplomacy with America to form an alliance that will advance Buryatia's military and technology. Doing this will have the nations engage in a cultural exchange program where they establish museums on each other's territories, displaying their respective cultures. |
| 86 | ** After Sablin [[https://i.imgur.com/nKYp66A.png tours the American exhibition]], he'll be [[UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev introduced to Pepsi cola and proclaim enjoying it]]. |
| 87 | ** Meanwhile, Susanna Pechuro is assigned to [[https://i.imgur.com/gvF2oxg.png overlook their exhibit in America]] and ''goes to Disneyland''. [[StopHavingFunGuys She can't help but be miserable in the Floridian heat]] and complain about the implicit "betrayal of Lenin's ideals" that comes from parading their homeland's culture around. Then she hears a little girl with her mother [[LickedByTheDog be awestruck at her]]. Though still tired, this provides enough motivation to keep her going. |
| 88 | [[AC:The Black League of Omsk]] |
| 89 | * While the faction is rarely a source of fun, if it lets American tourist Steve go through its lands unscathed, he'll have a genuinely good time and describe Omsk as [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter the most welcoming place he'd seen in Russia]]. |
| 90 | * On a BlackComedy note, the Steve options for Omsk, unlike the other life or death decisions depending on factions judging Steve as BeneathNotice (or in the case of the [[ThoseWackyNazis Aryan Brotherhood]], [[ForeignCultureFetish assuming he is a fellow "Aryan"]]), this decision is dependent on Steve's actions - and the decision where [[ProperlyParanoid Steve takes Zoya's advice of not trusting Omsk]] [[SubvertedTrope IS what gets him killed]], [[IResembleThatRemark as the promptly offended Black League security team has Steve and his allies whisked off to be tortured and murdered]]. |
| 91 | * And on another BlackComedy note, the event where Steve [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter blows off Zoya's concerns about Omsk]] has Zoya later [[ForeignLanguageTirade cuss him out the second they're out of earshot of the guards]], and how the Black League offers to let Steve continue his journey alongside a "military caravan" (read; glorified raiding party) to the Urals while going alongside Tyumen, with Steve again dismissing Zoya's concerns by writing, quote, "I doubt the Black League would [[GotVolunteered send a traveler they have treated so warmly into live combat]]." |
| 92 | [[AC:Novosibirsk]] |
| 93 | * During a dinner party honoring the veterans of the Great Patriotic War, a bombastic man [[HeyYou loudly introduces himself]] to Pokryshkin as a fellow pilot claiming to be from the same flight school. Though the stranger sings much praise, Pokryshkin awkwardly struggles to recognize him, and he leaves just as quickly as he arrives. At least the guy didn't mind. |
| 94 | * The event Novosibirsk has with Steve is pretty funny, as a bunch of soldiers take him to the capital in order to "commandeer" a plane, with the choice being between two of them debating about whether he should take an old-fashioned Il-10 (on the grounds "Americans eat up that historical stuff"), or a fancy prototype jet (under the belief "[[PoirotSpeak Amerikanskiy]] [[FearlessFool love fast and dangerous]]!") Choosing the jet leads to yet another Steve death event, but unlike the others where he's brutally murdered by hostile soldiers, it results in the jet joyride revealing the emphasis was on "'''[[FlawedPrototype Prototype]]'''", and [[CaptainCrash promptly crashing into a farmer's field]], leaving a very puzzled village unsure of what exactly happened. |
| 95 | [[AC:WRRF]] |
| 96 | * Yet another Steve event has a decision to be made on the part of the faction's inhabitants, where some border guards can either contact Arkhangelsk (where the soldiers escort Steve and his friends to the city, and later on go out drinking with them, telling jokes that don't quite work in translation, and having Steve not sure if the room shaking was from anti-air defense fire or [[CantHoldHisLiquor simply all the alcohol]]), or to [[ThisIsGonnaSuck detain Steve and call for backup]]. The latter choice... [[SubvertedTrope does NOT kill Steve]], but simply has the WRRF [[HeroStoleMyBike confiscate the truck they rode in on— "nationalizing" it in the name of Marshal Tukachevsky to boot]]-- [[GetOut and promptly force them over the border to Onega at gunpoint]]. |
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| 98 | |
| 99 | [[folder:USA]] |
| 100 | * Playing as America will take you to UsefulNotes/RichardNixon's focus tree, which has been partially completed due to the InMediasRes nature of the playthrough. Much of it provides alternate "WhatIf" scenarios and usually gets written from his perspective. |
| 101 | ** One of the earlier branches that he can no longer take leads to America descending into chaos as it develops apartheid thanks to his disastrously bad policies down that path. It ends with a depiction of Nixon using a fire extinguisher attempting to put out the fire he caused and the title, "Calm the Hell Down!", implying that he's blaming everyone else for causing the tragic state of the nation rather than admitting that bending to the segregationists was a [[{{Understatement}} bad move]]. |
| 102 | --->Shut up! Shut up! Shut the hell up, you goddamn animals. You think it's easy to run a country? You think we enjoy having to listen to this liberal whining day in and day out? For Christ's sake, we're the most tolerant people in this shop, but keep this up and we're capable of turning right awful hard. We'll make George Wallace and Bull Connor look like goddamn hippies.\ |
| 103 | God help us, we're going to stop this noise once and for all. We're going to ignore our know-nothing advisors and air an unscripted presidential address where we tell the nation, for one last time: "CALM THE HELL DOWN!" |
| 104 | ** Another inaccessible branch concerns Nixon's corruption. You start the game having already completed the branch where he engages in [[CorruptPolitician his infamous dirty tricks]], but there's also a branch where he can run a clean campaign. There's just one catch: it has a very... ''interesting'' prerequisite. |
| 105 | --->[X] Let America know how much of a pocket liberal you are and bend over backwards for the whim of a fascist-funded mob of Jews and Communists who will spit on your grave no matter how much limp-wristed pussy shit you do to keep the fuckers pleased.\ |
| 106 | [V] All is well\ |
| 107 | [[ExpospeakGag This focus will cancel if the requirements are not met.]] |
| 108 | ** The updated description introduced in Toolbox Theory is even better, and accurate to Nixon's real-life diction per the White House tapes to boot: |
| 109 | --->[X] By going this path, we'll let some fucking Jew reporters from the New York Times write feel-good stories about us, not that they'll last. None of Sulzberger's boys are ever fucking satisfied with any of the goddamn good we do. All the press wants are sob stories or scandals or puff pieces about the Kennedys. They'll never give us the credit we deserve for saving this country. They'll always try to find some way to tear us down. |
| 110 | ** One of the later focuses is about [[GodwinsLaw painting the NPP as a bunch of fascists with election campaign rhetoric]]. What's it called? "Everyone I Don't Agree With Is HITLER!" It even uses the MemeticMutation displayed on the main page as its icon. |
| 111 | --->"Well, they are!" |
| 112 | ** The focus for stealing files from the NPP is headed with the phrase, "[[FilchingFoodForFun It's like taking candy from a baby]]! A ''fascist'' baby!" |
| 113 | ** As of Toolbox Theory, each President prior to 1968 gets a personalized event for the end of the South African War depending on the outcome. If the OFN should somehow win the war prior to Nixon's resignation, General William Westmoreland and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird will both express bafflement at the improbability of the [=RKs=] collapsing so quickly. Nixon, for his part, doesn't care. |
| 114 | --->''That was easy.'' |
| 115 | * Bormann has the option to pursue diplomatic ties to America, in favor of placing their focus on Japan and the Co-Prosperity Sphere. The long list of events that occurs from this includes a visit to the White House to meet the President, and each one has a unique event, and plenty of them double as [[Awesome/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope Awesome Moments]]. |
| 116 | ** Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands, and Bormann uses a subtle intimidation tactic in the form of squeezing tightly. LBJ responds with a crushing grip while pulling their hands to him, which cows the insecure Bormann. |
| 117 | ** [[EvilReactionary George Wallace and Strom Thurmond]] will feel awkward when the Nazi leader [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame praises their segregationist policies]]. Wallace is just grateful that this isn't being recorded live, and Thurmond just coughs before moving on. |
| 118 | ** Michael Harrington gets really nervous for the upcoming visit. He snubs Bormann by quickly welcoming him, posing for one photo, then sending him to his Secretary of State. The jackboots, confused, go along with it, and Harrington has to wait while pretending to write something down until they get out off the Oval Office. |
| 119 | --->"It's all for the greater good." |
| 120 | ** Margaret Chase Smith is looked down upon by [[HeManWomanHater Bormann and his entourage]], who ask if they can speak to her Secretary of State instead. She snaps at them, saying that they can either talk to the President of the United States directly or fly on back to Germany. They undoubtedly start their diplomatic discussion after. |
| 121 | --->"Hell hath no fury..." |
| 122 | ** Finally, as mentioned in the folder for Germany, Curtis [=LeMay=] has no tolerance for the cameras starting to roll when they agreed to wait until the conference, as the Nazis will be using the footage for their propaganda. All hell breaks loose when [=LeMay=] coldly blows off Bormann's attempt at shaking his hand by calling him "Little Martin" to his face, resulting in the two begin a shouting match, capping off with [=LeMay=] declaring, "[[UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev We will bury you!]]". |
| 123 | --->"... Is the camera still rolling?" |
| 124 | * As his policies are enacted, President Harrington will receive letters from citizens, more often than not praising him for helping them succeed or stay afloat. When he passes Affirmative Action, however, he receives a [[https://i.imgur.com/Kq2BJsC.jpg rather colorful letter]] that could plausibly have been sent by a particular Illinoisan far-right thinker: |
| 125 | -->"Um... let's just toss that one." |
| 126 | * The [[https://imgur.com/a/2SbxoO6 presidential transition letters]] can be hilarious at times depending on the reactions. |
| 127 | ** [=LeMay=] comes out swinging in pretty much every single one of his letters: |
| 128 | *** His response to Gus Hall succeeding him is informing the latter on the most effective way to [[AteHisGun eat his gun]] while savaging the firearm competence of his supporters. Hall's reaction is to [[ActuallyPrettyFunny frame the letter on his desk]]. |
| 129 | *** He makes it [[PrecisionFStrike perfectly clear]] what he thinks of Harrington's book and Vanity Fair cred, and tells the latter his turtlenecks [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero make him look gay]]. |
| 130 | *** His letters to both Scoop and Kirkpatrick let out some of his GeneralRipper tendencies alongside his [[SirSwearsALot filthy mouth]] as he ''openly advocates for nuclear war with Germany and Japan'' in both of them, the latter describing it as a figurative GroinAttack. While this is more [[NightmareFuel horrifying]] than anything else, the shared reaction [[MoodWhiplash makes up for it]]: |
| 131 | --->"[[OhCrap Hastily destroyed to avoid scandal]]." |
| 132 | *** To cap it off, the below is his response to Yockey in its entirety. Doubles as CatharsisFactor, at least from outside the run: |
| 133 | --->"Fuck off and die you human cockroach." |
| 134 | ** LBJ is a lot more subtle, but he has his moments: |
| 135 | *** His letter to Harrington has to be read between the lines, [[StealthInsult but is infinitely more scathing than anything anyone else would have written.]] |
| 136 | --->"This letter is to acknowledge that you will be the next President of the United States.[[labelnote:translation]]I can't stand you and literally only write this out of obligation.[[/labelnote]] It is remarkable that a college professor has risen to such dizzying heights.[[labelnote:translation]]You have no idea what you're doing and you shouldn't be here.[[/labelnote]] I am certain you will receive much advice in the coming days[[labelnote:trans.]]I pity the rest of your staff picking up your slack and doing you damn job for you.[[/labelnote]] and that you have no need for anything that I might provide.[[labelnote:trans.]]Don't come crying to me when you screw everything up.[[/labelnote]] I wish your administration the best of luck in pursuing its ambitious goals.[[labelnote:trans.]]Your plan will snap your government in two and crash and burn under its own weight.[[/labelnote]]" |
| 137 | ** Pretty much all of the ones directed to Yockey are either this or Tearjerkers, but it is somewhat hilarious that pretty much ''every'' predecessor hates him, with even Hall receiving more respect. |
| 138 | *** LBJ doesn't even write one for Yockey, with the message being from a staff member informing him that Johnson refuses any contact with Yockey and will sue if he or any of his administration tries to contact him, and informing him that his presence is [[BannedFromArgo unwelcome in Johnson City]]. |
| 139 | *** RFK refuses to acknowledge Yockey's victory and vows to do everything he can to get him removed from office. |
| 140 | *** [[EvenEvilHasStandards Thurmond]] makes it quite clear that the only reason he's being polite in his letter is because it is traditional to do so, and that the contents would be quite different otherwise. |
| 141 | *** Margaret Chase Smith, in spite of the TearJerker in her acknowledgment of causing Yockey’s rise by appealing for his support, has her letter make up for it by [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech utterly SAVAGING him and his clique]]. First, she recalls [[EstablishingCharacterMoment the first time she saw Yockey]] - him [[LargeHam having a screaming fit]] about “[[MalignedMixedMarriage miscegenation]]”, and [[ClothingDamage ripping the back of his jacket in the process]]. She then lambasts his DelusionsOfEloquence, saying that no matter how fancy he dresses himself or his words, he’ll always be “the lowliest kind of buffoon”, and that his supporters are even dumber than he is because he feels surrounding himself with “halfwits” is the only way he can feel smart by comparison. She then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone admits she regrets giving his “circus” the time of day]], and that she can’t ever atone for it (although she’ll certainly try). However, she then finishes by saying [[PassThePopcorn she’s looking forward and sitting back and watching]] as she anticipates Yockey’s “[[Film/TheGreatDictator Chaplin-like]]” display will result in a four-year straight HumiliationConga, ending with America resoundingly booting him from office. The capper is Yockey, rather than send the letter unopened to the furnace like his other reactions, is implied to have read it, [[PaperDestructionOfAnger and shredded it by hand in outraged fury]]. At least he’s dealt one humiliation more than he otherwise would have been. |
| 142 | * While Philip Hart's efforts [[YourDaysAreNumbered to come to terms with his cancer]] [[{{Tearjerker}} is a dour affair]], [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/705847200047169557/1044100646367928410/Screenshot_2022-11-21_070254.png one of the letters he recieves]] is rather... different. It is a letter from a [[CheerfulChild 5 year-old Henry R.]] which consists of [[StylisticSuck a poorly drawn figure of Hart and the words "be ok".]] The tooltips perfectly sum up [[FlatWhat his reaction]] |
| 143 | --> He holds it for a long time. He does not know what to do with it. |
| 144 | * While Chep Morrison's utter failure to pass the Urban Affairs Act and [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter overall inability to live up to Hart's legacy]] is a big tearjerker, the player will be in for a surprise should they [[DevelopersForesight use console commands]] to pass the Urban Affairs Act. Hardly believing the news that all opposition to the URI has melted away in an instant (with even ''Goldwater'' being mentioned to have reaffirmed his "commitment to the project of liberalism"), [[https://imgur.com/a/RPVBQi4 First Lady Zsa Zsa Gabor]] proceeds to enter the Oval Office and [[WhatTheHellPlayer berate the player for using console commands]], before ''pulling out a gun'' [[TilMurderDoUsPart and shooting poor Chep in the head.]] She then proceeds to establish herself as a [[TheQueenpin radical liberal dictator leading America.]] |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Other Europe]] |
| 148 | * [[https://reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/kzmfjc/finally_after_many_fights_and_losing_so_much/ One player]] managed to use Nowa Polska to ''annex and reunite all of Russia''. It took them two decades to do it, but still. Poland is not yet lost, indeed. |
| 149 | * Iberia is full of funny moments, most stemming from the dysfunction of the Iberian state. Highlights include: |
| 150 | ** Artists from the Madrid and Lisbon art guilds attempt to create a mural depicting Iberia's hypothetical national animal. [[https://i.imgur.com/qGDn7pm.png When it is finally unveiled]], the audience looks on with horror, and the "eldritch rooster-bull from hell" is leaked to the international community to much ridicule. |
| 151 | ** After the collapse of the Triumvirate, Franco and Salazar undertake a series of debates in order to address domestic policies in Iberia. Over the course of 15 months, the two Caudillos fail to reach an agreement in nearly ''every single debate'', including over things as small as workplace Siestas, and the gridlock would probably have continued were it not for an attempted bombing by a Galician separatist group scaring them into working together on the creation of an Iberian Council...which they had been gridlocked on just before. |
| 152 | --->"Why do we live? Just to suffer?" |
| 153 | ** During the Caudillo debates, Franco and Salazar attempt to determine representation within the Iberian council. Salazar proposes a complex pyramidal system that takes several attempts for Franco to comprehend. When Franco finally does comprehend his proposal, he vetoes it immediately and calls an end to the meeting. |
| 154 | --->"Can you explain Salazar's system again please?" |
| 155 | ** After the skirmish at Barcelona, Franco and Salazar decide to update the Constitution and provide some concessions to the Iberian Council and the population at large, based on Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs. There is fierce debate by the Council on almost every issue, requiring the intervention of the Caudillos...[[https://i.imgur.com/nsMHWqh.png save two]]. |
| 156 | * One Free English event - "A Conversation in the Foreign Office" to be precise - sees St John-Stevas struggle tremendously to get a straight answer out of his secretary on whether the CIA has plants in the Civil Service. The ensuing conversation is more at home in ''Series/YesMinister'' than something like TNO, with the secretary giving the most convoluted, jargon-packed and non-committal answer one could possibly imagine. [[TranslationYes Stevas immediately recognises it as a no]]. It seems British politics is a farce in every timeline! That is, until it was cut in The Ruin and replaced with Fallen Lion content. |
| 157 | ** For bonus points, this 'farce' [[LethalJokeItem actually weakens the Whigs' position in government]]. |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:South America]] |
| 161 | [[AC:Brazil]] |
| 162 | * One of Carlos Lacerda's plans is to drive President Lott and Quadros against each other. In the event where the two are [[FireForgedFriends more than willing to keep things stable together]], Quadros sends a letter to Lacerda demanding Lacerda give up, lest he face "a surprise meeting between your [[AssShove lower digestive tract and a broom]]". |
| 163 | [[/folder]] |
| 164 | |
| 165 | [[folder:Other/Misc]] |
| 166 | * A common bug in the early days following the launch of the mod was a scenario involving [[SillyReasonForWar a shrimping boat being seized by the US from Japan triggering a nuclear war]] due to no path towards de-escalation being present. It became a meme very quickly. |
| 167 | * Some events' dramatic gravitas is weakened by the fact the flavor text was still a placeholder in the early days. |
| 168 | ** One notable example is the "oh god oh fuck it's [[TheDreaded kishi]]" placeholder text for the Order 44 world event, which didn't help the following superevent with creepy music and terrified screams. |
| 169 | ** Another event in Japan was the arrival of the infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_million_yen_robbery 300 million yen robbery]]. While silly, the silliness works in the event's favor by echoing the odd and mysterious nature of the infamous scandal. |
| 170 | --->"Someone stole 300 million yen" |
| 171 | ----> "dang" |
| 172 | ** If you go far enough with the Great Society, you get an event that just says "moderate Republicans are mad at u" and your only reaction available is "awww." There's also the placeholder text for LBJ's event for Democrats defecting, which simply reads [[https://i.redd.it/65o2qqvu2nc51.png "Social security makes me mad"]] and the response of "damnit." |
| 173 | ** Zhdanov's [[VisionaryVillain ultravisionary]] [[SovietSuperscience superculture]] was originally likened to "Earrape soviet anthem qwith [sic] galactic sounds." The only option is to respond, "Gang shit." |
| 174 | ** It's not just limited to events either. Serov's Ordosocialist decision tab once stated, "ooga booga nazbol gang unite." |
| 175 | ** Before its content was skeletonized, the Governatorato del Levante proved full of placeholder text, especially when it comes to executing Operation Masada. One decision you can take involves you attempting to assassinate leaders of Irgun or Harakiyyin. |
| 176 | --->'''On a critical success:''' "Irgun/the Harakiyyin got fucking annihilated lol sucks to suck" |
| 177 | ---->"Begin more like end :sunglasses:"\ |
| 178 | "bash the habash :sunglasses:" |
| 179 | --->'''On a failure:''' "Shit backfired yo" |
| 180 | ---->"oh god oh fuck" |
| 181 | ** When the devs were testing bios for ministers with the new character system, they chose to give Speer [[https://preview.redd.it/csufvwo6b4d81.png?width=727&format=png&auto=webp&s=80fe66a18ee68e6dff21ad974a25df77a4d3c9ff the following text]] (and forgot to remove it from release) |
| 182 | --->''albert speer is [[VideoGame/AmongUs the sussy chungus red imposter among hitlers crewmates]]. whereas everyone else is fascist crewmates he is a liberal libtard crewmate, and when hitler dies in electrical he will say that he was just doing tasks in maintenance but he is secretly planning to kill everyone else and achieve a total sussy liberal victory'' |
| 183 | * If you wait around long enough in the AfterTheEnd screen following the Thermonuclear War Superevent, you'll discover that Himmler's plan to purify the Earth in the long term ''[[MeaninglessVillainVictory completely failed]].'' Not only did many, many other countries prepare well enough for nuclear war that non-white ethnicities largely survived, but enough bombs failed so that even the above-grounders largely survived, and to add further injury, by the time the descendants of the people he regarded as Aryan enough to live come down from the Alps, the PropagandaMachine has so convinced them that all of the non-Aryans died that [[GoneHorriblyRight they view the civilization they find as fellow surviving Aryans, no matter their appearance]], completely and peacefully assimilating into the rebuilt world. We'd probably be hearing a strange whizzing noise if there was enough of Himmler's body left over to spin in his grave at Mach 5. Crosses over with Heartwarming as well. |
| 184 | * [[https://imgur.com/a/jzqzoE8 At the end of the last post-apocalyptic event]], the developers thank you for playing the game. They then make a recommendation for your next playthrough: |
| 185 | --> Next time, though, try not to end the world. |
| 186 | * Players browsed through the game files and found [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/i621pz/all_the_memeweird_portraits/ joke portraits]], like UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush with a Japan tag, Himmler in a British military uniform (with the internal name of [[{{Pun}} Heinrich_HMMLR]]), "[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Punished Stalin]]" (a heavily scarred Stalin with an eyepatch) in Tyumen [[note]]this one is lifted from Stalin's ''VideoGame/{{Kaiserredux}} portrait''[[/note]], Alexander Kolchak ([[PosthumousCharacter a skeleton]] in a military uniform) in Chita [[note]]A reference to Kaiserreich's Transamur Republic.[[/note]], Creator/ToddHoward ([[TakeThat dressed in a SS uniform]]) in Burgundy, [[UsefulNotes/RapaNui a moai]] in Omsk... |
| 187 | ** One player browsing through Brazil's leader portraits found [[https://reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/rfggqm/why_the_hell_are_there_10_portraits_of_quadros_in/ ten different portraits]] of potential president Jânio Quadros. Only one of these portraits is actually used, and after seeing the others, it's easy to see why. Devs later admitted it's not even DummiedOut content; Quadros just made so many bizarre expressions in public appearances that the portrait artists couldn't resist. And the No Step Back compatibility update adds ''[[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/806276324297539586/983114288921210890/portraits.png even more]]''. |
| 188 | * Activating the debug mode through the console commands opens up an option to "[[https://imgur.com/gallery/7YH3ikg Open the Rift]]." Doing so reveals that [[LostRomanLegion the lost Ninth Legion "Hispania"]] has not only reemerged in Turkey, but is armed to the brim with modern ordinance and hardware to rebuild the Roman Empire. |
| 189 | * There are events that bring up various [[DoubleBlindWhatIf in-universe Alternate History novels]] detailing a world in which World War II went differently, and some of them fall into this. |
| 190 | ** One, titled ''The Greatest Story Never Told'', is the ramblings of a pseudonymous American neo-Confederate imagining a world in which George Lincoln Rockwell was never killed. The event notes that BileFascination has made it a bestseller in the US on account of how ridiculous it is, with the author claiming that ''the Nazis'' are actually controlled by the Jews and stopped following the "National" part of National Socialism a long time ago. Out-of-universe, it also doubles as a TakeThat to an infamous real-life neo-Nazi propaganda film. |
| 191 | ** Another one, titled ''Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles'', is Creator/HunterSThompson's crack at the genre, stated in the description to be a satire of all the self-serious alternate history novels that have been written in this universe. As befitting Thompson, the novel is surreal, with events that include a [[MadScientist Unit 731 doctor]] accidentally drugging himself with a hallucinogen, setting off a chain of events that leads to him causing a ZombieApocalypse in downtown Tokyo, and a street fight between Yockeyites and Nixon supporters in which "an inebriated Thompson watches with juvenile glee." |
| 192 | * Using console commands to switch random nations' ideologies to something else may yield amusing results. |
| 193 | ** [[https://preview.redd.it/b3dy2jvarfd81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=48feb377e3bead61164f955f0b3fac5464124040 Should you change Uruguay's ideology to Nazism]], its leader will be Domingo Tortorelli, whose [[https://preview.redd.it/azxc6m9brfd81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=3334bdd22ef3dff35ca4d6136a6b6e355071e451 description]] mentions him suggesting LoonyLaws such as 15 minute work day and calling him a moron, as well as you for using the console. |
| 194 | ** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/r2rhjm/there_is_a_dengism_ideology_icon_in_the_files/ There is an in-game icon for the much-memed Dengism]] among the mod files, which has [[UsefulNotes/DengXiaoping the man himself]] shooting EyeBeams. |
| 195 | ** [[https://i.redd.it/mykh0xuxxyg91.jpg Switching Sloviakia's ideology to Ultranationalism gives you a portrait of Goebbels smoking weed.]][[note]]which is based on his (now-removed) VideoGame/{{Kaiserredux}} portrait[[/note]] |
| 196 | ** The Siberian Black Army [[https://i.redd.it/tbctmbwpd17a1.png will change its name]] [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience according to the colors]] its new ideology is often associated with. "Brown Army" for fascism, "Gold Army" for liberalism, different shades of "Blue Army" for conservatism, and so on. |
| 197 | * For the 2020 Halloween Event, the ZombieApocalypse horde is led by ''The Rotting Corpse of Joseph Goebbels''! It is darkly humorous considering that Goebbels has often been compared to a skeleton due to his LeanAndMean appearance and his VillainousCheekbones, and is now fittingly leading an army of skeletons. Looks like all those "[[WebVideo/HitlerRants Herr Skeletor]]" jokes have finally come true! |
| 198 | * The most Heartwarming Russian reunification path is usually a choice between either path for Sverdlovsk, liberal Vyatka's, a genuinely anarchist Siberian Black Army, Kemerevo's under Yuriy, any non-Bastillard Tomsk's, a constitutional Chita's, a libertarian Buryatia's, or Omolon's--unless you enable Project Ferus, in which case the most outlandish path possible indisputably takes the cake. That path is one where Nikolai Bukharin reappears to reunify Russia... having been ''turned into a pony''. Yes, a [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]-type pony. He will, if all goes well, then proceed to bring Russia back together through "Harmonic Communism", wielding the Magic of Friendship to do so. It's all very ridiculous, absolutely absurd, and disturbingly in-depth for an April Fools' joke. |
| 199 | ** If only [[VideoGame/EquestriaAtWar Equestria at War]]'s [[Characters/EquestriaAtWarMisc 2022 April Fools' feature]] was as pleasant... though granted, it's pretty funny too. |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
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