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* AscendedFanon: "Strangereal" is a name for the main series games' universe first coined by fans, derived from the phrase "strangle, real world" in one of the trailers. Official Namco accounts eventually began using that name as well.
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** There was apparently a game pitch that even Kazutoki Kono forgot about [[https://twitter.com/kazutoki/status/575682010464681984 and discovered by accident]]. It was titled ''Ace Combat SS: The Young Yellow'', suggesting that it would be a Yellow Squadron-centered title.

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* CreatorBacklash: Downplayed by series director Kazutoni Kono, [[https://asobimotto.bandainamcoent.co.jp/7872/ who admits that the mixed reviews]] of ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'' showed him that the series' direction was starting to stray away from what the highly critical fanbase actually desired. This fueled him to make sure that the next main instalment in the series went back to how ''04'', ''5'', ''Zero'', and ''6'' were designed.



* OldShame: Downplayed by series director Kazutoni Kono, [[https://asobimotto.bandainamcoent.co.jp/7872/ who admits that the mixed reviews]] of ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'' showed him that the series' direction was starting to stray away from what the highly critical fanbase actually desired. This fueled him to make sure that the next main instalment in the series went back to how ''04'', ''5'', ''Zero'', and ''6'' were designed.
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* NoPortForYou: Of the three major console makers, Nintendo gets the short end of the stick when it comes to this series. The Game Boy Advance got the 2D spinoff ''VideoGame/AceCombatAdvance'' and the Nintendo 3DS got the ''VideoGame/AceCombat2'' remake ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizonLegacy'', but there are no ''Ace Combat'' titles for Nintendo home-console platforms. While the series has been generally [=PlayStation=]-centric, Microsoft's consoles at least got ''6'' (and in fact, ''6'' did not get released on Sony platforms), ''Assault Horizon'', and ''7''.

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* NoPortForYou: Of the three major console makers, Nintendo gets the short end of the stick when it comes to this series. The Game Boy Advance got the 2D spinoff ''VideoGame/AceCombatAdvance'' and the Nintendo 3DS got the ''VideoGame/AceCombat2'' remake ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizonLegacy'', but there are no ''Ace Combat'' titles for Nintendo home-console platforms. While the series has been generally [=PlayStation=]-centric, Microsoft's consoles at least got ''6'' (and in fact, ''6'' did not get released on Sony platforms), ''Assault Horizon'', and ''7''. [[note]]In January 2024, it was announced that ''7'' would be receiving a physical and digital release for the Nintendo Switch, making it the first numbered entry to see a release on a Nintendo home console, albeit five years after the fact.[[/note]]
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://acecombat.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Acepedia]].
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* NoPortForYou: Of the three major console makers, Nintendo gets the short end of the stick when it comes to this series. The Game Boy Advance got ''VideoGame/AceCombatAdvance'' and the Nintendo 3DS got ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizonLegacy'', but there are no ''Ace Combat'' titles for Nintendo home-console platforms.

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* NoPortForYou: Of the three major console makers, Nintendo gets the short end of the stick when it comes to this series. The Game Boy Advance got the 2D spinoff ''VideoGame/AceCombatAdvance'' and the Nintendo 3DS got the ''VideoGame/AceCombat2'' remake ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizonLegacy'', but there are no ''Ace Combat'' titles for Nintendo home-console platforms. While the series has been generally [=PlayStation=]-centric, Microsoft's consoles at least got ''6'' (and in fact, ''6'' did not get released on Sony platforms), ''Assault Horizon'', and ''7''.
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* NoPortForYou: Of the three major console makers, Nintendo gets the short end of the stick when it comes to this series. The Game Boy Advance got ''VideoGame/AceCombatAdvance'' and the Nintendo 3DS got ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizonLegacy'', but there are no ''Ace Combat'' titles for Nintendo home platforms.

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* NoPortForYou: Of the three major console makers, Nintendo gets the short end of the stick when it comes to this series. The Game Boy Advance got ''VideoGame/AceCombatAdvance'' and the Nintendo 3DS got ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizonLegacy'', but there are no ''Ace Combat'' titles for Nintendo home home-console platforms.
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* NoPortForYou: Of the three major console makers, Nintendo gets the short end of the stick when it comes to this series. The Game Boy Advance got ''VideoGame/AceCombatAdvance'' and the Nintendo 3DS got ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizonLegacy'', but there are no ''Ace Combat'' titles for Nintendo home platforms.
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* FanNickname: Strangereal, the name of TheVerse where the series takes place, was simply appropriated from the 2000 teaser trailer for ''Shattered Skies'', where the setting was called "This strange, real world, [[GratuitousEnglish the another future]]." It became official only in 2015, 20 years after the franchise's birth and 15 after the term was first used, when announcing ''VideoGame/{{Ace Combat 7|SkiesUnknown}}''.
** The ''"Holy Trilogy"'' is often used in reference to ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'', ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'', and ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar''. All three games are exclusive to the [=PS2=], and essentially set the series standard in game mechanics, worldbuilding, and story elements.
** Beating a campaign with single plane, or in the case of Ace Combat 5, a plane family, is called One Plane Running, or in Ace Combat 5, One Family Running. It's taken further if a player uses the cover plane (Example: Wardog Squadron and the F-14), which a one-plane run is then called a Canon Run.

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* OldShame: Downplayed by series director Kazutoni Kono, [[https://asobimotto.bandainamcoent.co.jp/7872/ who admits that the mixed reviews]] of ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'' showed him that the series' direction was starting to stray away from what the highly critical fanbase actually desired. This fueled him to make sure that the next main instalment in the series went back to how AC4, 5, Zero, and 6 were designed.

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* OldShame: Downplayed by series director Kazutoni Kono, [[https://asobimotto.bandainamcoent.co.jp/7872/ who admits that the mixed reviews]] of ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'' showed him that the series' direction was starting to stray away from what the highly critical fanbase actually desired. This fueled him to make sure that the next main instalment in the series went back to how AC4, 5, Zero, ''04'', ''5'', ''Zero'', and 6 ''6'' were designed.


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* ScheduleSlip: The UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic prevented Project Aces from properly celebrating ''Ace Combat''[='=]s [[MileStoneCelebration 25th anniversary]] in 2020, also delaying the rollout of ''7''[='=]s DLC in the process. Things only picked up again in 2021 as the "Anniversary Extension Operation", with an in-person concert in Tokyo planned for August 7.
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** Franchise/LyricalNanoha, of all things, references [[VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar the Belkan War]]. Bonus points for Belka being a proud kingdom of the past, its only representatives being honorable knights, and the heavy amounts of AirJousting. Add to that [[spoiler: the great disaster falling upon the kingdom]].

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** Franchise/LyricalNanoha, of all things, references features an ancient, fallen civilization named after [[VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar the Belkan War]].Principality of Belka]]. Bonus points for Belka being a proud kingdom of the past, its only representatives being honorable knights, and the heavy amounts of AirJousting. Add to that [[spoiler: the great disaster falling upon the kingdom]].

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* [[BackedByThePentagon Backed By the JASDF]]: The games are made with the backing, or at least the blessing, of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force, and as such, Japanese jets, such as the Mitsubishi F-1, F-2 Viper Zero, and F-15J, and JASDF paintjobs for the F-4E and F-35C (standing in for the F-35A that Japan is acquiring) make frequent appearances as playable aircraft, and the E-767, used only by the JASDF, is ubiquitous as an AWACS aircraft.

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* [[BackedByThePentagon Backed By the JASDF]]: BackedByThePentagon: The games are made with the backing, or at least the blessing, of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force, and as such, Japanese jets, such as the Mitsubishi F-1, F-2 Viper Zero, and F-15J, and JASDF paintjobs for the F-4E and F-35C (standing in for the F-35A that Japan is acquiring) make frequent appearances as playable aircraft, and the E-767, used only by the JASDF, is ubiquitous as an AWACS aircraft.


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* OldShame: Downplayed by series director Kazutoni Kono, [[https://asobimotto.bandainamcoent.co.jp/7872/ who admits that the mixed reviews]] of ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'' showed him that the series' direction was starting to stray away from what the highly critical fanbase actually desired. This fueled him to make sure that the next main instalment in the series went back to how AC4, 5, Zero, and 6 were designed.
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** Beating a campaign with single plane, or in the case of Ace Combat 5, a plane family) on is called ''"One-plane running"''. It's taken further if a player uses the cover plane (Example: Wardog Squadron and the F-14), which a one-plane run is then called a ''"Canon Run"''.

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** Beating a campaign with single plane, or in the case of Ace Combat 5, a plane family) on family, is called ''"One-plane running"''. One Plane Running, or in Ace Combat 5, One Family Running. It's taken further if a player uses the cover plane (Example: Wardog Squadron and the F-14), which a one-plane run is then called a ''"Canon Run"''.Canon Run.
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** Beating a campaign with single plane, or in the case of Ace Combat 5, a plane family) on is called ''"One-plane running"''. It's taken further if a player uses the cover plane (Example: Wardog Squadron and the F-14), which a one-plane run is then called a ''"Canon Run"''.
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* [[BackedByThePentagon Backed By the JASDF]]: The games are made with the backing, or at least the blessing, of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force, and as such, Japanese jets, such as the Mitsubishi F-1, F-2 Viper Zero, and F-15J, and JASDF paintjobs for the F-4E and F-35C (standing in for the F-35A that Japan is acquiring) make frequent appearances as playable aircraft, and the E-767, used only by the JASDF, is ubiquitous as an AWACS aircraft.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://acecombat.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Ayup.]]
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://acecombat.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Acepedia]].
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** The ''"Holy Trilogy"'' is often used in reference to ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'', ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'', and ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar''. All three games are exclusive to the PS2, and essentially set the series standard in game mechanics, worldbuilding, and story elements.

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** The ''"Holy Trilogy"'' is often used in reference to ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'', ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'', and ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar''. All three games are exclusive to the PS2, [=PS2=], and essentially set the series standard in game mechanics, worldbuilding, and story elements.

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