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1!!General trivia:
2* DescendedCreator: Creator/JosephDKucan, who played Kane in the ''Tiberian'' franchise, is also the director of the live-action cutscenes in the games including ''VideoGame/Dune2000'' and ''VideoGame/EmperorBattleForDune''. After Creator/WestwoodStudios dissolved, Kucan still plays Kane in ''Tiberian'' sequels but he's no longer the director of the cutscenes.
3* FranchiseOwnershipAcquisition: The Command and Conquer franchise of Westwood Studios fame was originally owned by Virgin Games, who purchased Westwood in 1992, three years before [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn the first entry of the franchise]]. The studio, along with the franchise, changed hands in 1998 to Creator/ElectronicArts. After Westwood dissolved in 2003, EA continued to own the franchise and make additional entries via various in-house development studios all the way until 2012. In 2020, EA licensed out the first two games to Petroglyph Games, founded by former Westwood staff, for remastering.
4* PromotedFanboy: [[https://wagnerma.de/ Matthias "Matze" Wagner]], a German computer programmer behind the map modding tools for ''Command and Conquer'' games based on the ''Tiberian Sun'' engine (''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun'' and ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2''), was [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110711072028/http://planetcnc.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=25925 commissioned]] by Westwood themselves to develop updated versions of [=FinalAlert=] which would be released as an official tool (albeit unsupported by EA).
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6** ''VideoGame/SimCity 4'' allows certain branded companies based off the city's Ethics. Dystopian chemical plants are called "Kane Tiberium."
7** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' and ''VideoGame/Rage2011'' have {{Captain Ersatz}}'s of Tiberium, in the form of Phazon and Feltrite, respectively (although feltrite is largely ForgottenPhlebotinum used solely to beef up Authority assault rifles and upgrade the pc's MagicalDefibrillator).
8*** Phazon is radioactive, semisentient, and mutagenic. It causes mutation by directly inserting its atoms into native DNA rather than corrupting their data, the same way Tiberium does.
9** While the "Color of Madness" DLC from ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' is based on ''The Color out of Space,'' it also has mutants with greenish crystals growing on them, and the surrounding area.
10** The music video for Music/{{Telephone}} by Music/LadyGaga has Tiberium as part of a recipe for poison.
11* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
12** The whole modern military theme wasn't in the original plans for the [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn first game]]. It actually started out as a fantasy RTS, until they believed that fantasy was niche and modern military was more relatable with the then-recent [[UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar Gulf War]]. The direction of what would become an entire series basically hinged on this change in direction.
13** ''Command & Conquer: Continuum'' was going to be a ''Command & Conquer'' MMORPG.
14** There were several non-starter games with the "3" in the title. While we would ultimately get versions of both, between Generals and Tiberium Wars there was a developed version of Red Alert 3 that was ultimately cancelled, and Westwood's C&C3 (and its would-be first 3D RTS produced in house) went down with Westwood and much of its development assets would lay the foundation for what became Generals.

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