YMMV / Red Flood

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Quite a few people who were not previously aware of some of the historical personae that Red Flood props up into power are surprised that quite a few of the paths, including the less sane ones, are accurately representing the views of these people in real life.
  • While it might seem surprising to see the famous liberal and preacher of free market Friedrich Hayek being the minister for the moderate democratic socialist Popper, Hayek in fact was a socialist in his youth, and much of his later views stemmed from the disillusionment with that ideology.
  • Despite how insane everything in his path looks, Wettenhovi-Aspa's ideology is completely unchanged from his real life counterpart's actual beliefs.
  • Despite Stalin being classified as Accelerationist and is a Vpredist, this was actually based on Stalin’s beliefs prior to his rise to power.
• Awesome Music: The former front-end theme, Gibel Steregushchego, or The Wreck of the Guardian in English, is a haunting lament about the wreck of the eponymous Russian ship in the Russo-Japanese War. Before its ultimate replacement, it perfectly captured the feeling of loss for not only the millions more killed in the First World War and the hope for a rational, sane world, but also the feeling of impending doom for the coming madness of the next war.
  Have mercy upon us, Almighty God.
• Complete Monster: The Avatar, born Maximiani Julia Portas (and better known in OTL as Savitri Devi, the name she took after converting to Hinduism), proves herself to be a psychopathic megalomaniac even without the influence of Nazism. Taking advantage of the chaos that erupts if Winston Churchill fails to maintain control of the United Provinces, the Avatar and her followers would attempt to seize control for themselves. If successful, they will place the United Provinces under the rule of a Kali-worshipping death cult legalizing Human Sacrifice and cannibalism, while conscripting anyone they could find, even children, to fight for them under the threat of the massacre of their families. Upon unifying India, the Avatar will declare war on the rest of the world, seeking to destroy the world utterly and remake it in her own twisted image.
• Good Bad Bugs: In older versions, the event where Georges Bataille defects from Avant-Garde France to form his own Accelerationist state in Mauritania can fire even before France has advanced far enough in its path and chose to not follow his Acephale faction. If this happens, you can still choose the Acephale faction, with awkward results: not only will Bataille be openly ruling two independent countries (one of them being a Renegade Splinter Faction of the other one), but he can even end up at war against himself! This event and the country itself were cut during the massive rework of France.
• Memetic Mutation: Thanks to the insanity of Red Flood's lore and premise, the mod has developed quite a few. Naturally, each has crept into separate memes involving other HoI IV mods.
  • S P E E D^Explanation The big-tent ideology of Accelerationism (taking radical actions to modern happenings in attempts to bring change as fast as possible, regardless of both the means and the ends involved) is the most well-known facet of Red Flood's premise. Many boil it down to single words like "SPEED" or "FAST" and other synonymous terms. Factions that fall under it tend to take center stage in discussion, especially anything related to Accelerationist France.
  • FASTER FASTER FASTER FASTER FASTER FASTER^Explanation  The description of one of the final focuses of the Escadron path before France's rework. It's a common quotation whenever Accelerationism in general is brought up.
    • The L'État Irréel Superevent^Explanation This superevent was known to set the penultimate stage for the game (or at least Accelerationist France) as Artaud makes the nation "declare war" on "the concept of reality". It has become one of the most infamous aspects of the mod both because of the storytelling and for the sheer auditory assault it brings to the player.
  • The Italian Shogunate.^Explanation To give others a good idea about how varied and absurd the factions and ideologies can get in the mod, many will point to how Italy can potentially become an authoritative state—Showa-style. The country was later renamed, first into the "Greater Italian State" and then again as the "Empire of the Ponente"
  • Centrist Hitler. ^Explanation While still authoritarian, Hitler's main goal was for Austria to remain independent of the Futuristic France and Communist Germany.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Say what you will about Gabriele d'Annunzio and Fiume as a whole, but the country truly mourns him when he dies, with the description of the first National Focus after his death detailing how there would be "No poem today" and a completely blank description for the next National Focus.

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