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* InconsistentSpelling: In the ''Hell's Highway'' novel, his last name is spelled as "Zanovitch".
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* InconsistentSpelling: In the ''Hell's Highway'' novel, novelization, his last name is spelled as "Zanovitch".
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the Playstation 2 Port of ''Road to Hill 30'', his hair is colored black instead of his usual red.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: With Mcconnel. [[spoiler: Doesn't last.]]
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* ThoseTwoGuys: With Mcconnel.Mcconnel, and sometimes with Dolye. [[spoiler: Doesn't last.]]
*{{BFG}}: His weapon of choice is a B.A.R.
* AgeLift: In the ''Hell's Highway'', Sink appears to be ''at least'' in his early 50s. In Real life, Sink was in his late 30s/early 40s at the time the game takes place.
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* CommunicationsOfficer: Serves as this to Colonel Sink.
* TheVoiceless: Never says a single word during any of his appearences.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As mentioned below, he never appeared again after his debut, so it is impossible to tell wether he survived Operation Market Garden or not.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: After his debut in the level ''Five-Oh-Sink'', he is never seen or mentioned again.
* YouAllLookFamiliar: A mild example. His model is mostly the same as Friar's. The only notable differences are his changed rank insignias and the radio he always carries on his back.
* TheVoiceless: Never says a single word during any of his appearences.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As mentioned below, he never appeared again after his debut, so it is impossible to tell wether he survived Operation Market Garden or not.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: After his debut in the level ''Five-Oh-Sink'', he is never seen or mentioned again.
* YouAllLookFamiliar: A mild example. His model is mostly the same as Friar's. The only notable differences are his changed rank insignias and the radio he always carries on his back.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:As mentioned below, he He never appeared again after his debut, debut level, so it is impossible to tell wether he survived Operation Market Garden or not.
*WeHardlyKnewYe: After his debut in the level ''Five-Oh-Sink'', he is never seen or mentioned again.
* YouAllLookFamiliar: A mild example.YouAllLookFamiliar: His model is mostly the same as Friar's. The only notable differences are his changed rank insignias and the radio he always carries on his back.
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* NotEnoughToBury: [[spoiler: He gets hit directly by a tank shell, which causes his body to disintegrate instantly (see ChunkySalsaRule above). The only thing left of him aside from his Thompson is his unit patch.]]
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* NotEnoughToBury: [[spoiler: He gets hit directly by a tank shell, which causes his body to disintegrate instantly (see ChunkySalsaRule above). The only thing left of him aside from his Helmet and Thompson is his unit patch.]]
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* TheGoomba: They serve as this in ''Road to Hill 30'' and ''Earned in Blood''. They are the easiest enemies to defeat, appear in only the first two to three levels of each game and are never seen again after that.
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* InconsistentSpelling: In the ''Hell's Highway'' novel, his last name is spelled as "Zanovitch".
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* CoolGuns: He keeps a captured PPSH from the Eastern Front with him.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Is around the same age as the rest of the squad (apparently in his early 20s), but looks like a 15-year old.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: OlderThanTheyLook: Is around the same age as the rest of the squad (apparently in his early 20s), but looks like a 15-year old.
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* TheHero: Of the first and third games.
** {{Hero of Another Story}}: In ''Earned in Blood''
** {{Hero of Another Story}}: In ''Earned in Blood''
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* StrawNihilist: Shows some shades of being this in the ''Hell's Highway'' novelization.
--> "His experience since D-Day in Normandy, nearly four months ago, convinced him that there was no sense to life. It was all random chance. Life and death, love and hate, past and future were all lies that we convinced ourselves to believe. Praying for the Germans, the people he was trying to kill, didn't make sense."
--> "His experience since D-Day in Normandy, nearly four months ago, convinced him that there was no sense to life. It was all random chance. Life and death, love and hate, past and future were all lies that we convinced ourselves to believe. Praying for the Germans, the people he was trying to kill, didn't make sense."
* TheBully: The novelization of ''Hell's Highway'' has Baker being uncomfortable at how much Zano likes to torment recruits.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: Averted, He hates Nazi ideology. This tends to put him at odds to the more dedicated ''Schutlzstaffel'' officers and soldiers who he encounters, especially when they still believe, and never cease to talk about, how Germany still has a chance in the war. For the record--Willhelm's been to ''both'' fronts of the war (hence his captured PPSH), so he's got a pretty decent awareness of how badly things are going.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: Averted, He hates Nazi ideology. This tends to put him at odds to the more dedicated ''Schutlzstaffel'' SS officers and soldiers who he encounters, especially when they still believe, and never cease to talk about, how Germany still has a chance in the war. For the record--Willhelm's been to ''both'' fronts of the war (hence his captured PPSH), so he's got a pretty decent awareness of how badly things are going.
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* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: It's implied via a flashback by Baker that he's the one who killed George during the Events of Hill 30]].
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* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: It's implied via a flashback by Baker that he's the one who killed George during the Events of Hill 30]].30 and later confirmed.]].
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* MoreDakka: Like the Panzergrenadiers, they carry a large number of automatic weapons, in this case, the FG-42 automatic rifle.
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* MoreDakka: Like the Panzergrenadiers, they carry a large number of automatic weapons, in this case, the STG 44 in the first and third games and the FG-42 automatic rifle.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:He ends up bleeding to death in Baker's arms during "The Rabbit Hole", following an ambush by a German infantryman. Baker later names this trope word-for-word to Corrion explaining why [[YouAreNotReady the Corporal isn't ready for promotion]].]]
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* ShooOutTheClowns: Averted. Despite being arguably the biggest source of humor amongst the cast, he has quite a number of serious scenes, particularly in ''Hell's Highway'', where Paddock is witness to several deaths, including [[spoiler:Pieter's, Nicolaas', and Friar's.]]
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* ImpromptuTrachetomy: [[spoiler:Thanks to some shrapnel from a German mortar attack, he ends up getting wounded in the throat and unable to talk.]]
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* ImpromptuTrachetomy: ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:Thanks to some shrapnel from a German mortar attack, he ends up getting wounded in the throat and unable to talk.]]
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* MercyKill: PlayedForLaughs, when the MercyKill in question is him wanting to shoot 2nd Squad's jeep for being unresponsive and unreliable.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"So you're like crazy or bonkers or something?"'']]
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* WhiteShirtOfDeath: She wears a white dress in all of her appearances, [[spoiler:and is killed by the Germans while wearing it. When Baker comes across her corpse during "The Rabbit Hole", it's shown that her dress has been spilled with her blood from the gunshot wounds she sustained.]]
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* DoesNotSpeakEnglish: Given that she lives in the Netherlands, she never likely learned to speak the language. Corrion even lampshades this to Franky when the latter goes on his solo rescue mission to find her.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:She ends up indirectly causing Franky's death, which in turn causes discord between Red, Baker, and Corrion, with Red ending up with a CareerEndingInjury in Veghel and Corrion getting wounded at Hell's Highway while also [[TookALevelInJerkass becoming a jerkass towards Baker]].]]
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* DoesNotSpeakEnglish: Given that she lives in the Netherlands, she never likely learned to speak the language. Corrion even lampshades this to Franky when the latter goes on his solo rescue mission to find her.
* NoNameGiven: Franky, and by extension everyone else in the story and out, never find out her name.
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* SmarterThanTheyLook: Despite being a farm boy from Kansas, he's actually pretty savvy when it comes to tactics and combat.
** For one, he was assigned to be Red's Assault Team Leader, a position requiring knowledge of leadership and following of orders.
** In "Run of the Mill", Paddock correctly assumes that, given the hilly terrain surrounding the mill they're supposed to capture, the Germans have set up 88mm AntiVehicle guns to protect the area, something that wasn't mentioned in any of the intel Red and his squad captured prior.
** During ''Hell's Highway'', he correctly deduces that [[spoiler:Marsh and Friar were the most likely to get killed in action, something that unfortunately is proven to be on the mark.]]
** For one, he was assigned to be Red's Assault Team Leader, a position requiring knowledge of leadership and following of orders.
** In "Run of the Mill", Paddock correctly assumes that, given the hilly terrain surrounding the mill they're supposed to capture, the Germans have set up 88mm AntiVehicle guns to protect the area, something that wasn't mentioned in any of the intel Red and his squad captured prior.
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* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:He ends up becoming one of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Dutch civilian casualties during the bombing of Eindhoven.]]
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: DeconstructedTrope. [[spoiler:While he does successfully save the Dutch girl he met in Eindhoven, he ends up straying too far from the rest of the squad and ends up getting both her and himself killed.]]
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: DeconstructedTrope. [[spoiler:While He thinks that saving the Dutch civilians from German fire, or at least comforting them when they're wounded or dying, takes priority over completing their mission. On a more literal note, [[spoiler:while he does successfully save the Dutch girl he met in Eindhoven, he ends up straying too far from the rest of the squad and ends up getting both her and himself killed.killed when they end up at a German-occupied hospital.]]
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: DeconstructedTrope. [[spoiler:While he does successfully save the Dutch girl he met in Eindhoven, he ends up straying too far from the rest of the squad and ends up getting both her and himself killed.]]
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* SkilledButNaive: Baker notes that he's an excellent shot and rather skilled for a replacement soldier. Unfortunately, however, he's also a bit too naive with how war actually works. [[spoiler:Which is what ultimately gets him killed when he [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl tries to save a Dutch girl he met]].]]
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* AntiHero: He's an aloof jerk, but he still fights under Baker against the German war machine.
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* SourSupporter: He's not exactly Baker's biggest fan, [[spoiler:due to knowing the true circumstances of Allen's, Garnett's, and Leggett's deaths, plus Baker hiding the rest of these details from both their own and Hartsock's squads]], but still continues to serve under him due to Baker being a good squad leader and veteran soldier like Dawson himself.
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* WeaponSpecialization:
** Their snipers prefer the Gewehr 43 SniperRifle, which can fire much faster than the Kar 98 sniper variant.
** Their regular units make liberal use of the Stg 44 Assault Rifle, particularly in '' Road Hill 30'' and ''Earned in Blood''. In the latter entry, all of the Panzergrenadiers defending St. Sauveur will be armed with one.
** Their snipers prefer the Gewehr 43 SniperRifle, which can fire much faster than the Kar 98 sniper variant.
** Their regular units make liberal use of the Stg 44 Assault Rifle, particularly in '' Road Hill 30'' and ''Earned in Blood''. In the latter entry, all of the Panzergrenadiers defending St. Sauveur will be armed with one.
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* AntiInfantry: The Ausf. F variant is specialized in taking on enemy infantry and fortifications, which it does incredibly well in all of its encounters with the 101st in ''Road to Hill 30''. Unfortunately, this variant performs poorly against American tanks like the Sherman, as demonstrated in "No Better Spot To Die".
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* ArcVillain: He and the men under his command are the main German opposition in "Five Oh-Sink".
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* LackOfEmpathy: Col. Sink states that he doesn't care about hitting civilians in the area with his artillery, which is promptly proven to be true when Auckland and his men begin firing on a crowd of Dutch civilians interspersed with Baker's squad, killing an innocent Dutch priest in the process.
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* MightyGlacier: Compared to the Sherman, the Panzer IV has thicker frontal armor, allowing it to take more damage than its American counterpart. In exchange, however, its also noticeably slower.
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* GlassCannon: Capable of destroying American tanks in a few hits, but compared to its contemporaries is rather lightly armored and has rather average mobility.
* UniqueEnemy:
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The primary tank used by the German Army, the Panzer IV is utilized by elite SS Panzer and Panzergrenadier Divisions during the counterattacks at Carentan and Operation ''Market-Garden''.
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The primary tank used by the German Army, the Panzer IV is utilized by elite SS Panzer and Panzergrenadier Divisions during the counterattacks at Carentan and Operation ''Market-Garden''.
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