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** The Empire's department of robotic drone engineering make damned sure that their drone soldiers are invulnerable to everything from the most violent info-warfare hack to mud gumming up the joints and beyond, with extensive and oftentimes ridiculous testing. The robots could still be a beaten by a rock… [[ExactWords if that rock weights 950 tons]], meaning tactics way beyond what Troperia can do.
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** [[TheEmpire The Empire's]] tech [[AwesomeButImpractical still has a lot of teething problems]], which Troperia's tech, [[BoringButPractical having already matured, doesn't suffer from]].
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* '''Enforced''': "Alright, let's get cerebral with this one. Have the good guys win with strategy instead of superior firepower."
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* '''Enforced''': "Alright, "All right, let's get cerebral with this one. Have the good guys win with strategy instead of superior firepower."
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** The people of Troperia are able to beat back the invading Evil Empire by sheer force of will - even though the Empire has the latest and greatest technology.
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** The people of Troperia are able to beat back the invading Evil Empire by sheer force of will - even will—even though the Empire has the latest and greatest technology.
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** The war [[HomeFieldAdvantage is on Troperia's terrain, which they know - and the Empire doesn't.]]
** Alternatively, the tech, for all its bells and whistles, is able to break down - but the human spirit of Troperia isn't.
** Alternatively, the tech, for all its bells and whistles, is able to break down - but the human spirit of Troperia isn't.
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** The war [[HomeFieldAdvantage is on Troperia's terrain, which they know - and know—and the Empire doesn't.]]
** Alternatively, the tech, for all its bells and whistles, is able to breakdown - but down—but the human spirit of Troperia isn't.
** Alternatively, the tech, for all its bells and whistles, is able to break
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** The Empire focused on protecting themselves from the wrong things - their flexible armor blocks lasers, bullets, shrapnel, and blades fine but offers little protection against blunt force.
** Troperians are naturally extremely strong - their spears can be thrown with enough force to penetrate tank armor.
** Troperia [[BoringButPractical cuts the Evil Empire's supply lines and uses guerrilla tactics to slowly wear their forces down]]--they win by strategy and averting EasyLogistics, not an open battle.
** The Empire is a SmugSuper faction -- has a lot of power, but give them a bit of a bloody nose and they run away crying for their mommies. Or they just stand there gloating that they have lasers and don't think of ducking for cover. With a weakness like ''that'', a well-thrown rock is all the weapon someone needs.
** Troperians are naturally extremely strong - their spears can be thrown with enough force to penetrate tank armor.
** Troperia [[BoringButPractical cuts the Evil Empire's supply lines and uses guerrilla tactics to slowly wear their forces down]]--they win by strategy and averting EasyLogistics, not an open battle.
** The Empire is a SmugSuper faction -- has a lot of power, but give them a bit of a bloody nose and they run away crying for their mommies. Or they just stand there gloating that they have lasers and don't think of ducking for cover. With a weakness like ''that'', a well-thrown rock is all the weapon someone needs.
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** The Empire focused on protecting themselves from the wrong things - their things—their flexible armor blocks lasers, bullets, shrapnel, and blades fine but offers little protection against blunt force.
** Troperians are naturally extremelystrong - their strong—their spears can be thrown with enough force to penetrate tank armor.
** Troperia [[BoringButPractical cuts the Evil Empire's supply lines and uses guerrilla tactics to slowly wear their forcesdown]]--they down]]—they win by strategy and averting EasyLogistics, not an open battle.
** The Empire is a SmugSuperfaction -- has faction—has a lot of power, but give them a bit of a bloody nose and they run away crying for their mommies. Or they just stand there gloating that they have lasers and don't think of ducking for cover. With a weakness like ''that'', a well-thrown rock is all the weapon someone needs.
** Troperians are naturally extremely
** Troperia [[BoringButPractical cuts the Evil Empire's supply lines and uses guerrilla tactics to slowly wear their forces
** The Empire is a SmugSuper
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** Troperia beats the Empire... then it turns out that ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts, deliberately underequipped and poorly-trained suicide legions meant to [[WeHaveReserves die en masse]] probing the enemy. Emperor Evulz decides it's time to [[LetsGetDangerous Get Dangerous]], sends in the elite troops with up-to-date gear, and promptly {{Curb Stomp|Battle}}s the Troperians.
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** Troperia beats the Empire... then it turns out that ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts, deliberately underequipped and poorly-trained poorly trained suicide legions meant to [[WeHaveReserves die en masse]] probing the enemy. Emperor Evulz decides it's time to [[LetsGetDangerous Get Dangerous]], sends in the elite troops with up-to-date gear, and promptly {{Curb Stomp|Battle}}s the Troperians.
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* '''Parodied''': The people of Troperia only fight with sticks and rocks - and beat the Empire in five minutes flat.
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* '''Parodied''': The people of Troperia only fight with sticks and rocks - and rocks—and beat the Empire in five minutes flat.
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** Troperia won the battle - but the numbers they lost aren't so easily replaced compared to the Empire, who can replace those soldiers at a moment's notice.
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** Troperia won the battle - but battle—but the numbers they lost aren't so easily replaced compared to the Empire, who can replace those soldiers at a moment's notice.
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** The evil empire discovers too late that Troperians happen to be immune to their weaponry, either through some freak mutation or [[AWizardDidIt magic]] makes their weaponry not work.
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** The evil empire discovers too late that Troperians happen to be immune to their weaponry, either through some freak mutation or [[AWizardDidIt magic]] that makes their weaponry not work.
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** The town drunk beats back an entire alien army [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons with a lasso and a wooden board with a nail sticking out of it]]. For further comedy points, the aliens (who have tech that makes Literature/TheCulture look like the hippies they are often compared to) revere the drunk's items as "the ultimate weapons".
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** Even if they are made of {{Unobtanium}}, those are still spears being used as the primary weapon of Troperia's armies. You would think that they would have upgraded to something more practical for modern warfare (like crossbows) by now.
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** The environment of Troperia creates a natural jamming field that disables advanced technology, but obviously has no effect on flying rocks.
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* '''Straight''': '''Straight''':
** The people of Troperia are able to beat back the invading Evil Empire by sheer force of will - even though the Empire has the latest and greatesttechnology.technology.
** Steve is the ultimate hacker, capable of entering any database that is online (and EverythingIsOnline), but he can't do anything to Bob's files from his computer because Bob files everything on [[GoodIsOldFashioned old-fashioned]] paperback journals.
** The people of Troperia are able to beat back the invading Evil Empire by sheer force of will - even though the Empire has the latest and greatest
** Steve is the ultimate hacker, capable of entering any database that is online (and EverythingIsOnline), but he can't do anything to Bob's files from his computer because Bob files everything on [[GoodIsOldFashioned old-fashioned]] paperback journals.
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** The evil empire invades with humungous mecha that fall to pieces when kids throw stones at them.
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** The evil empire invades with humungous humongous mecha that fall to pieces when kids throw stones at them.them.
** Steve is the ultimate hacker, capable of overriding machines that are not even supposed to be able to do what he commands them to [[HollywoodHacking as long as he can handwave some technical terminology and the machine has something even vaguely resembling a computer on board]]. But he can't do anything to Bob's files because Bob lives in a cave and his files were written in stone and papyrus.
** Steve is the ultimate hacker, capable of overriding machines that are not even supposed to be able to do what he commands them to [[HollywoodHacking as long as he can handwave some technical terminology and the machine has something even vaguely resembling a computer on board]]. But he can't do anything to Bob's files because Bob lives in a cave and his files were written in stone and papyrus.
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** You just can't [[HollywoodHacking hack]] something written with pen on paper.
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** It turns out that Troperia had some great technology of their own.
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** It turns out that Seemingly primitive Troperia had some great technology wins against the Empire... because they have a lot of their own.SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology that ''eclipses'' the Empire's own tech.
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** Troperia captures the Empire's tech and uses it against them.
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** But there's only so much recoverable Empire tech to go around, and the majority of Troperian forces still rely on their native outdated tech.
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* '''Downplayed''': Troperia has 19th century or World War I tech and beats the Empire's 21st century tech.
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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
** Troperia has 19th century or World War I tech and beats the Empire's 21st centurytech.tech.
** Troperia wins its battles, but all are bloody and hard-fought if not outright Pyrrhic, and it's not clear how long it can keep this up.
** Troperia has 19th century or World War I tech and beats the Empire's 21st century
** Troperia wins its battles, but all are bloody and hard-fought if not outright Pyrrhic, and it's not clear how long it can keep this up.
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** Troperia [[BoringButPractical cuts the Evil Empire's supply lines and uses guerrilla tactics to slowly wear their forces down]]--they win by strategy and logistics, not an open battle.
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** Troperia [[BoringButPractical cuts the Evil Empire's supply lines and uses guerrilla tactics to slowly wear their forces down]]--they win by strategy and logistics, averting EasyLogistics, not an open battle.
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* '''Implied''': It's mentioned that Troperia succeeded in beating the Empire in the past. Neither's tech level is clear, but Troperia appears rural, and the Empire industrial.
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* '''Played For Horror''': Even in a show with both sides packing lasers, there is still some primal horror in the implication of someone falling into a punji stick trap and getting impaled (even if that part isn't shown on screen) that allows a quick labeling that one side is ''definitely'' playing for keeps.
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** The Empire is a SmugSuper faction -- has a lot of power, but give them a bit of a bloody nose and they run away crying for their mommies. With a weakness like ''that'', a well-thrown rock is all the weapon someone needs.
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** The Empire is a SmugSuper faction -- has a lot of power, but give them a bit of a bloody nose and they run away crying for their mommies. Or they just stand there gloating that they have lasers and don't think of ducking for cover. With a weakness like ''that'', a well-thrown rock is all the weapon someone needs.
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** The Empire is a SmugSuper faction -- has a lot of power, but give them a bit of a bloody nose and they run away crying for their mommies. With a weakness like ''that'', a well-thrown rock is all the weapon someone needs.
