History YMMV / AceCombat

* CreatorsPet: Not a character, but a plane. The F-22 Raptor is the most common "canon plane" in the Ace Combat series, being associated with [[VideoGame/AirCombat Phoenix]], [[VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizonLegacy Phoenix again (but only in the remake)]], [[VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies Mobius 1]], [[VideoGame/AceCombatXSkiesOfDeception Gryphus One]], [[VideoGame/AceCombatJointAssault Antares One]], [[VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon William Bishop]], and [[VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown Trigger]].

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While the franchise is fairly popular in Japan, most of the Ace Combat fandom is predominantly Western, especially in the United States, where a lot of Americans that are into flight games love the series. It helps that the series is considered by many fans as a case of SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing, having a lot of great English dubs to the point where even the Japanese like to listen to the English voices. It also helps that almost every Ace Combat protagonist flies American planes like the F-22 or the F-15, ''the'' American [[MemeticBadass Memetic Badasses]] of the plane world, and even the protagonists like Scarface One, who originally canonically flew a Su-35 got retconned to flying an F-22, and the one other [[VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar Ace Combat protagonist that swears by a different plane flies the F-14, which adds even more awesome points for Americans due to it being ''the'' Naval ''Film/TopGun'' plane.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While the franchise is fairly popular in Japan, most of the Ace Combat fandom is predominantly Western, especially in the United States, where a lot of Americans that are into flight games love the series. It helps that the series is considered by many fans as a case of SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing, having a lot of great English dubs to the point where even the Japanese like to listen to the English voices. It also helps that almost every Ace Combat protagonist flies American planes like the F-22 or the F-15, ''the'' American MemeticBadass of the plane world, and even the protagonists like Scarface One, who originally canonically flew a Su-35 got retconned to flying an F-22, and the one other Ace Combat protagonist that swears by a different plane flies the F-14, which adds even more awesome points for Americans due to it being ''the'' Naval ''Film/TopGun'' plane.

* FanonDiscontinuity: While it does has its share of fanbases within the ''AC'' community, not to mention how it came to innovate future titles, any title that's not set in Strangereal were, to put it ''very'' bluntly, regarded as either a "bad game" '''at best''' or "that game that nearly killed Ace Combat" '''at worst''', and that's without acknowledging the good stuff each of these games has to offer. Nowadays, ''Joint Assault'' and ''Infinity'' were fondly remembered by those who took the time to play them, being solid ''Ace Combat'' games in their own right in spite of the divisive reception from the vocal part of the fanbase, unlike ''Assault Horizon'' which is already hated for pandering too much into the Western audience by leaning into the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' route, color palette, narrative tone and all.

* FanonDiscontinuity: While it does has its share of fanbases within the ''AC'' community, not to mention how it came to innovate future titles, any title that's not set in Strangereal were, to put it ''very'' bluntly, regarded as either a "bad game" '''at best''' or "that game that nearly killed Ace Combat" '''at worst''', and that's without acknowledging the good stuff each of these games has to offer. Nowadays, ''Joint Assault'' and ''Infinity'' were fondly remembered by those who took the time to play them, being solid ''Ace Combat'' games in their own in spite of the reception, unlike ''Assault Horizon'' which is already hated for pandering too much into the Western audience by leaning into the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' route, color palette, narrative tone and all.

* FanonDiscontinuity: While it does has its share of fanbases within the ''AC'' community, not to mention how it came to innovate future titles, any title that's not set in Strangereal were, to put it ''very'' bluntly, regarded as either a "bad game" '''at best''' or "that game that nearly Ace Combat" '''at worst''', and that's without acknowledging the good stuff each of these games has to offer. Nowadays, ''Joint Assault'' and ''Infinity'' were fondly remembered by those who took the time to play them, being solid ''Ace Combat'' games in their own in spite of the reception, unlike ''Assault Horizon'' which is already hated for pandering too much into the Western audience by leaning into the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' route, color palette, narrative tone and all.

* FanonDiscontinuity: While it does has its share of fanbases within the ''AC'' community, not to mention how it came to innovate future titles, any title that's not set in Strangereal were, to put it ''very'' bluntly, regarded as either a "bad game" at best or "that game that nearly Ace Combat" at worst, and that's without acknowledging the good stuff each of these games has to offer. Nowadays, ''Joint Assault'' and ''Infinity'' were fondly remembered by those who took the time to play them, being solid ''Ace Combat'' games in their own in spite of the reception, unlike ''Assault Horizon'' which is already hated for pandering too much into the Western audience by leaning into the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' route, color palette, narrative tone and all.

* FanonDiscontinuity: While it does has its share of fanbases within the ''AC'' community, not to mention how it came to innovate future titles, any title that's not set in Strangereal were, to put it ''very'' bluntly, regarded as either a "bad game" at best or "that game that nearly Ace Combat" at worst, and that's without acknowledging the good stuff each of these games has to offer. Nowadays, ''Joint Assault'' and ''Infinity'' were fondly remembered by those who took the time to play them, being a solid ''Ace Combat'' in their own in spite of the reception, unlike ''Assault Horizon'' which is already hated for pandering too much into the Western audience by leaning into the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' route, color palette and all.

* FanonDiscontinuity: While it does has its share of fanbases within the ''AC'' community, not to mention how it came to innovate future titles, any title that's not set in Strangereal were, to put it ''very'' bluntly, regarded as either a "bad game" at best or "that game that nearly Ace Combat" at worst, and that's without acknowledging the good stuff each of these games has to offer. Nowadays, ''Joint Assault'' and ''Infinity'' were fondly remembered by those who took the time to play them, being a solid ''Ace Combat'' in their own in spite of the reception, unlike ''Assault Horizon'' which is already hated for pandering too much into the Western audience by leaning into the ''Franchise/CallOfDuty'' route, color palette and all.

* FanonDiscontinuity: While it does has its share of fanbases within the ''AC'' community, not to how it came to innovate future titles, any title that's not set in Strangereal were, to put it ''very'' bluntly, regarded as either a "bad game" at best or "that game that nearly Ace Combat" at worst, and that's without acknowledging the good stuff each of these games has to offer.

* CommonKnowledge: Everyone knows that Belka keeps starting wars to avenge its defeat in [[VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar that one in 1995]]. The truth, as always, is more complicated: [[spoiler: while it's true that the Grey Men, who started the [[VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar Circum-Pacific War]], were hardline Belkan nationalists, and Grunder Industries, which poured oil into the fire of both Circum-Pacific and [[VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown Lighthouse]] ([[AmbiguousSituation and presumably]] [[VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation Emmerian-Estovakian]]) wars, has Belkan roots, neither is confirmed to be part of or controlled by the current Belkan government (at least fully, some Belkan politicians could be part of Grey Men). In fact, Schroeder's comment in the seventh game about Belka being "dead" hints at its current government being highly uninfluential, meaning it's the job of vengeful expatriates of Belka across the world to start wars, not theirs. The confusion probably stems from Albert Genette's comment in the fifth game about how [[LetsYouAndHimFight pitting Osea and Yuktobania]] was the best way for ''Belka'', not Grey Men, to get revenge.]]

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown:'' [[ArcVillain Matias Torres]] is the [[InsaneAdmiral Captain]] of the super-submarine ''Alicorn'', a veteran of the Continental War and a survivor battleship Tanager's sinking at the hands of Mobius 1, going rogue along with his crew during the events of the three {{DLC}} missions in order to seemingly put an end to the Lighthouse War with the nuclear massacre of a million lives, thus terrifying the world into putting down their weapons. That seemingly extreme-but-noble motive is [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist eventually proven false]] when Torres, at the command of an absurdly powerful boat and a fanatically loyal crew, reveals that for all of his posturing, he actually revels in the "elegance" of hitting a difficult target--in this case, the million lives he's about to butcher from 5,000 kilometers--over 3,100 miles--away--and has an almost fetishistic obsession with death. In fact, he'll even violate wartime conventions by [[ISurrenderSuckers feigning surrender]] just to gain time to fire his nukes, and if he's successful, he'll keep laughing maniacally and describe the act as "beautiful". On all accounts, Torres is a narcissistic madman who strives to inflate his ego through mass murder, and won't hesitate to sacrifice his crew for it; the devil incarnate, as one character would put it.