History Characters / CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries

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When the Soviet Union invaded the United States, General Carville was the senior officer in command of the military. He was ordered by President Dugan to launch a full retaliatory nuclear strike, but when the Soviets sabotaged the nuclear arsenal, he was forced to deal with the invasion conventionally. With the sole surviving field commander, he ran a campaign to drive the Russians from US soil.

* AmericansAreCowboys: His attitude

* UnexplainedRecovery: (''Yuri's Revenge'') An in-universe example. [[spoiler: After the timelines merge, he appears on a video conference to the White House. Dugan is quite shocked.]]

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Dugan was the President of the United States when the Soviets invaded. He immediately attempted to persuade Soviet Premier Alexander Romanov to call off the attack. When this failed and left with no other choice, he ordered General Carville to launch a nuclear counterstrike, but this failed to materialize due to Yuri's manipulation. He, along with Carville, directed the war and gave orders to their last commander. Naturally, he became a very high priority target, and as such began moving around the country in an effort to elude the Soviets.

* HotLine: Use to persuade Soviet Premier Alexander Romanov to call off the attack in Red Alert 2.

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Eva Lee, commonly referred to as Lt. Eva, was an American intelligence officer when the Soviet Union invaded the United States. She was assigned to the field commander that was tasked with repelling the invasion. Throughout the war she provided briefings and updated intelligence.

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After the Soviet Union was defeated in the Second World War, the victorious Allies installed Romanov as the premier. They did so based on his reputation as a man of peace who would curb any Communist aggressions. They were fooled, however; Romanov held a deep bitterness over Russia’s defeat that was matched by his hatred for the Allies that had wrought it. His deception was to enable him to gain the power he needed to exact his revenge on them. With his position secure, he was able to fake a crisis in Russian ally Mexico that would necessitate a military build-up. From there, he would begin his master plan.

* TsaristRussia: He was a distant relative of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, and—despite the purge of his extended family—he is also a Bolshevik.
* VillainousBreakdown: In Allies campaign, especially after the player destroyer the 3 nuclear silos in Cuba.

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Zofia was a Soviet intelligence officer when the war with the United States began. She supported her commander through his campaign, giving briefings and intelligence.

* HellBentForLeather: Her outfit which is rather form-hugging shiny.

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A senior Soviet officer, Vladimir was given command of forces invading the United States. He has a brash and boastful personality, and has little patience for officers under his command, particularly when they prove to be better commanders than he is.

* BadassBeard: One that gives him the appearance of a lion.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He was an important supporting character in ''Red Alert 2'', but is nowhere to be seen in ''Yuri's Revenge'', its expansion pack.
* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler: Is framed for the murder of Romanov.]]

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* HistoricalInJoke: Possible example in the briefing for one of the Soviet missions. The player is shown a [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060622235058/cnc/images/b/be/Yuri_and_Stalin.jpg picture]] of [[JosephStalin Stalin]], with Yuri edited in on his right. This picture [[http://www.harrymcfee.com/StalinGorki1922.jpg really exists]] and is famous for being doctored, the real life version showing Stalin sat next to [[VladimirLenin Lenin]], who bears a fairly strong resemblance to Yuri. This version of the picture, created at the behest of Stalin, is a forgery to try and give him more credibility as one of Lenin's closest collaborators.

* NoCampaignForTheWicked: Yuri in ''Yuri's Revenge'' does not have a campaign.

* TwinMaker: (''Yuri's Revenge'') One of his plans is to replace all the world's leaders with clones controlled by himself.

* VillainousBreakdown: (''Yuri's Revenge'') At the end of the Allied campaign as he is locked in Einstein's Psychic Isolation Chamber.

!Character

!!!Played by John Milford (''Red Alert''). Larry Gellman (''Red Alert 2''). Smokey Miles (''Red Alert 3'')

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Shortly after the close of World War II, Professor Einstein began working on a way to change history so the terrible conflict would not occur. He began researching time travel and in 1946 completed a machine that allowed him to travel back to 1924 where he found Adolf Hitler and eliminated him. Returning to his own time, he reflected that the true ramifications of his actions would only be seen with time. Those ramifications were that, rather than preventing the war, he had merely changed the sides. Soviet Russia, now without Hitler between him and Western Europe, became the belligerent. Realizing he had failed in his ultimate objective he offered his services to Allied Command to help produce new technologies for the war effort.

* TimeTravel

-->''I'll get my wrench!''

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Yuri was the leader of a very versatile and efficient army. Yuri and his mad scientists conducted secret researches which resulted in great scientific advances, which Yuri exploited to the full. Yuri's army relied on mind-control, cloning, advanced magnetic weapons, and laser technology, as well as speed, maneuverability and flexibility to bring him victory on the battlefield.

* CartoonishSupervillainy: Pretty much the entire premise of Yuri and his faction, which ups the somewhat ridiculous RA arsenal UpToEleven with the addition of genetically mutated Hulk look-a-likes, psychically powered infantry, UFOs, and so on. Then there's the expansion campaign, which features such gems as weaponized Moai statues, an Arctic/Moon base, and a gothic Transylvanian mansion headquarters. Regardless of which campaign, all of Yuri's plans end up failing spectacularly and then Yuri himself eventually being submitted to some humiliating fate.

* DirtyCoward: Yuri's gattling tanks and Magnatrons: they certainly like to dish out punishment at long range but flee at the first whiff of a counterattack.

* MoreDakka: Yuri's army comes equipped with ''Gatling turrets'' that spin faster the longer they fire. To sum up: Time + Dakka = MUCH MORE DAKKA.

* PsychicPowers: Yuri is capable of mind control. Yuri pulls a psychic possession ''over a telephone'' at the beginning of ''Red Alert 2'' With the aid of a special building, he can mind control an entire hemisphere!

* TankGoodness: Mastermind, a giant [[BrainInAJar brain in a tank]] that {{Brainwashe|d}}s ''any'' enemy organic ground units that get too close. [[ExplosiveOverclocking Which can backfire]] [[CastFromHitPoints if it controls too many.]]
* UselessUsefulSpell: The Genetic Mutator (Yuri's secondary superweapon) sounds good on paper, turning all infantry on a large area into brutes at your command, but since it's rare your enemy will ever have a large collection of infantry in one spot, the only use it can ever be is to turn your own or other players' slaves into usable soldiers, since slaves are free.
** When you figured out the secret, the Mutator was possibly the best superweapon in the game. Use it with the grinder and Yuri has potentially infinite cash, especially useful in a long game where the ore has run out.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Yuri's faction has the Grinder machine, which you can send your obedient soldiers (or hypnotized enemies/civilians) into to be [[{{Squick}} shredded into valuable scrap bits]].
** One Allied mission sees you trying to destroy a network of such devices Yuri's built in Los Angeles. There's no time limit on the mission, though, so you're free to watch brainwashed civilians walk into them for as long as you like while you build up your forces.

The Empire of the Rising Sun is the Imperial regime of Japan, led by the Emperor and the Shogunate, that seek its "divine destiny" to subjugate mankind to serve the Emperor and create a world under their rule - a world minus capitalism and communism. Influenced by nationalism, militarism and imperialism, the Empire has adopted aggressive policies, viewing the Allies and Soviets nothing more than "barbaric oppressors". The Imperial military is a unique blend of Japanese tradition and technology.The Empire maintains it's well known discipline and loyalty through the philosophy of bushido and reverence for the ancient warriors known as Samurai. The Imperial order of battle includes high tech, highly versatile transforming units, more traditional ones and a living weapon - namely a young female commando with psychic powers, Yuriko Omega.

Pretty much, the entire faction is a ShoutOut to what nerds love about Japan.

* ActionBomb: Their Yari Minisubs can kamikaze into other ships and Burst Drones that attach to enemy vehicles and explode. The Empire has the Honorable Discharge Top Secret Protocol which makes units explode when destroyed. The Empire also has the Final Squadron (X\Omega) Protocols that call in planes to kamikaze targets.

* AndIMustScream: The Steel Ronin from the expansion pack. Their details say that criminals are locked inside them as punishment, then forced to man them when necessary. No word on how they're kept alive, which is just as well.
* {{Animeland}}: Their military units included psychic {{Magical Girl}}s in SailorFuku, and HumongousMecha. Their superweapon is a [[Manga/{{Akira}} Psychic]] [[TheTokyoFireball Explosion]], and the engineer is a {{Salaryman}}. About the only thing missing are NaughtyTentacles.
** The Emperor's video briefings help tick any other boxes in the Big Book Of Japanese Clichés: his son wears a kind of samurai armour, he's seen practising sword forms, contemplating a bonsai tree, practising calligraphy, taking tea a lot, mentions a revival of Bushido, tells you to slice through the enemy "like the blade of a [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]" and finally declares you "Supreme Shogun".

* BeehiveBarrier: Their [[DeflectorShield Nanoswarm]] superweapon, which fades away towards the top, but is still present. It functions as a sort of domed room with no exit, with stuff going in but not coming out until it dissipates. Great for waiting out a Soviet [[strike: nuke]] Vacuum Implosion device..
* BottomlessMagazines:

* CloningBlues: Yuriko is being cloned several times, powering the Empire's ultimate ultimate weapon with many of her doubles. In ''Uprising'' she heads out to destroy a facility which has the sole role of mass cloning her.
* CivilWarcraft: Red Alert 3: [[ExpansionPack Uprising]] will have former Crown Prince of Japan Tatsu, now cooperating with the victorious Allies, going against the Japanese generals. [[spoiler:And once you've got rid of the rogue Japanese generals, he then goes and betrays you and uses all the stuff stolen from those generals to attack you!]]

* CutscenePowerToTheMax: In ''3'', the [[HumongousMecha King Oni]] is shown to be {{Kaiju}}-sized in the cutscenes, although it is much smaller in game. Also, in one scene, it is shown [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome leaping up and punching a Kirov out of the sky]], but in game, King Onis have no anti-air capabilities except the [[AceCustom special ones]] piloted by [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Emperor Yoshiro and Kenji]].

* TheEmpire: To the Allies' [[TheFederation Federation]].
* EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: Their Imperial Warrior uniforms resembles Samurai outfits, which also carry [[LaserBlade Beam]] [[KatanasAreJustBetter Katanas]] as secondary weapons that can score a OneHitKill on enemy infantry but can't hurt vehicles.

** Kelly Hu is of Hawaiian descent as well as Chinese, and the Empire of the Rising Sun holds Hawaii in the modified space-time continuum of Red Alert 3.
* FrickinLaserBeams: While many people believe the Empire loves them too, this is wrong. The Empire uses Particle Accelerators and Superheated Slugs.
* KatanasOfTheRisingSun: Again, isn't it obvious?
* {{Kiai}}: Imperial Warrior when using their special ability (pulling out their [[LaserBlade beam katanas]]) they will scream UIYAAAAAAAH!
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: Their are clearly modeled after [[ImperialJapan Imperialist Japan]], which in real life was infamous for its war crimes, which include pointless mass murders by the hundreds of thousands, enslavement of tens of thousands of women as sex slaves, and performing medical experiments on prisoners from their colonies that killed thousands of people. Even the whole honor aspect that's presented as a joke in the game was a scary thing in real life; they considered surrender dishonorable and would execute or use enemies who surrendered as slave labor, and fed their civilians propaganda about the Allies that drove them to commit suicide by the tens of thousands when America invaded the Japanese home islands. All of these thing are of course never brought up in the game and the Empire is simply presented as an over-the-top comedic organization, though interestingly it is brought up in an in-progress mod called ''RedAlert3Paradox'' where in the mod's version of [=RA=] 3 events, [[MoralEventHorizon the Empire butchered a major Soviet city]].
** There are hints that they're just as bad, but it's mostly left up to FridgeHorror. Certain comments made during the invasion of Vorkuta make you wonder [[InferredHolocaust what's happening to the civilians]]. And then there's the research lab in ''Uprising'', which appears to have been inspired by ''ElfenLied'' and ''Manga/{{Akira}}'', and the [[AndIMustScream Steel Ronin]]...
** Yet another possibility is that the Empire never went downhill and thus stayed in its real-life pre-fascist state, when it was generally considered to be honourable and progressive (unless you were Chinese or Korean, of course). This is fairly likely due to the apparent lack of any fascist government or policy of genocide. They're certainly [[GreyandGrayMorality no less villainous or no more heroic than the Soviets or Allies]], who both have some nasty skeletons in their respective closets.
* HumongousMecha: Has many of these. "King Oni" mecha with the [[http://www.ea.com/redalert/factions-empire.jsp?id=King_Oni official website data]] does some LampshadeHanging on the concept, noting that it "flies in the face of decades of conventional mechanized warfare".
** [[spoiler: Shogun Executioner, which has three legs, three torsos, 6 arms, three heads, 3 lightning katanas, and heals itself when attacked with Tesla weaponry]]!
** Slightly less awesome are smaller Mecha Tengu, which are in essence [[{{Macross}} Valkyries]] designed to look as a 50s jet fighter, Striker VX, chicken walkers that transform into helicopters({{Transformers}}, anyone?), and Steel Ronin, [[{{BFS}} Wave Motion Glaive]]-armed Humongous Samurai Mecha. Which somewhat resemble those from TengenToppaGurrenLagann. What, Gundams suddenly became less awesome, judging from the complete lack of Gundam ripoffs?
** MiniMecha: The Tengus, which can [[TransformingMecha transform into a jet.]]
** TransformingMecha: A vast number of the Empire's units are this. Anti-ground helicopters become anti-air missile walkers, Mecha-Tengu become Jet Tengu, submarine Sea-Wings become flying Sky Wings, not to mention their basic tanks are amphibious; "flexibility" is the main focus of their gameplay.
*** ''Uprising'' has the Giga-Fortress, a naval base that transforms into a giant floating head that's about as big as a skyscraper. And apparently its sentient, judging by the way it was asking where its body is.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: Pretty much the major backbone of the Empire of the Rising Sun in. And it throws in...
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: The Shinobi, who can mow down infantry, swim, and shut down enemy structures.
** He is equivalent to the [[JamesBond Allied Spy]], except armed with a giant sword and throwing stars. Despite having one of the least plausibly deadly weapons in a game [[ImprobableWeaponUser full of implausible weapons]] -- ''throwing stars?'' -- they could one-hit-kill any infantry and throw [[SmokeOut smoke bombs]], although they were worthless against tanks.
* LightIsNotGood: If there is a rising sun symbol in their flags, this means they are good guys, right? '''Wrong!'''
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Rocket Angels en masse can produce this. There is even an upgrade to make missile-firing units spam even more. The Naginata cruisers fires many torpedoes at once in their special attack.
** The Giga-fortress from ''Uprising'' is a floating battleship that mounts ''four'' photon rocket launchers, each equivalent to a Rocket Angel in firepower, plus [[BeamSpam four beam-cannon batteries]].
* MesACrowd: Clones of Yuriko are used to fuel to Rising Sun's superweapon, the Psionic Decimator. Also, if you are facing multiple Rising Sun commanders in a mission, expect to see a handful of Yurikos.
* PsychicPowers: Their hero unit, [[strike:MagicalGirl]] EmotionlessGirl Yuriko Omega, who in the normal game can lift up ground objects like soldiers and tanks, destroy buildings by ripping them apart, pull aircraft out of the sky and send a shockwave to kill infantry around her. In the expansion in her own campaign, she learns psychic possession, how to throw enemies at each other and energy shielding. Did I mention the Imperial superweapon is powered by SIX clones of her?
* RammingAlwaysWorks: The [[CoolShip Shogun Battleship]] and [[HumongousMecha King Oni]] can do this, often result in an instant kill. The smaller Yari Minisubs are also capable, but they won't survive doing so. "[[TakingYouWithMe BANZAIII!]]"
* {{Roboteching}}: As seen in ''Red Alert 3'' with the Rocket Angels used by the Japanese. Who'd have guessed it?
** For added MacrossMissileMassacre, one of the Empire passive powers that can be unlocked even allows your rocket-spewing units to spew even ''more'' rockets!
* RoboSpeak: The Nanocores.
* ShoutOut: Got a popular Anime trope? Rest assured the Empire will make use of it.
** The aforementioned school girl (a disturbed psychokinetic PersonOfMassDestruction), as well as the Empire's superweapon (the Psionic Decimator), may well be a specific ShoutOut to ''Manga/{{Akira}}''.
** There's {{Wave Motion Gun}}s, {{Salaryman}} engineer units, HumongousMecha, and {{NINJA}}!
** The King Oni resembles a cross between Ironman and a Gundam. Further driving the point home, the Emperor has the original prototype, which is red with gold accents (which are normally white, but are gold colored due to the Empire's canonical faction color). You even see him in a Ironman-like interface as he [[TemptingFate declares your imminent doom]].

* WaveMotionGun: Their artillery in ''Red Alert 3''. They're even flat-out simply [[ShoutOut called]] [[SpaceBattleshipYamato Wave Motion Guns]], and their floating fortresses use tri-barreled versions.
** Besides the usual full power blast, the former can be turned down for MoreDakka.
* WeaksauceWeakness: The Empire possess no adequate anti-air capabilities (Until the expansion). Requiring them to immediately go for Mecha-Tengus or be destroyed.
* WhipItGood: Rocket Angels use laser whips to paralyse ground troops.

** The M.A.D. Tank in Aftermath that self-destructs in a large shock waves damaging vehicles and structures in a large area.
** Red Alert 2 also sees the return of the Demolition Truck for the Soviets (for Libya at least), now driven by a human; as well as the Cuban Terrorist, who is a suicide bomber. Crazy Ivans can plant bombs on friendly units to turn them into suicide bombers. It is a popular tactic online to use these on Attack Dogs.
** Red Alert 3 has the Corrosion Protocol that sacrifices a unit to spread toxins, and the Terror Drone Surprise Upgrade Protocol that causes Terror Drones to emerge from destroyed vehicles.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Nuke trucks were introduced in ''Command and Conquer: Red Alert'' and reinstated in ''Red Alert 2''. It's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]], a truck that attacks by detonating the nuke it carries. The only problem was that it was apparently [[GlassCannon made out of wood]]; one or two bullets were enough to set it off prematurely. In [=RA2=], they're useful if you build the [[DeflectorShield Iron Curtain]] superweapon. Hit a few trucks with it and send them into the enemy base. Then wait for the invulnerability effect to wear off and watch the fireworks. Don't do it in [=RA1=], though, as the invulnerability fades very rapidly.
* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: In Red Alert 3, the Bullfrog is an otherwise-normal APC armed with an anti-air gun. Its only outstanding feature is its method of delivery: instead of unloading the troops, it fires them out of a cannon on its back. This lets you parachute [[EverythingsWorseWithBears armored war bears]] onto a group of infantry. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential And the bears have a stun ability and instant-kill attacks.]]

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* BlandNameProduct: The [=MiG=] aircraft in the third game is called "Mikevich-Guroyan", instead of the real life "Mikoyan-Gurevich".

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: The Soviets have become progressively sillier, cartoonier villains as the series ran its course, going from fear-inspiring Nazi counterparts in Red Alert 1 to near laughable villains by RedAlert3 - along with the rest of the universe, though. Uprising undoes it a bit, having a bit of seriousness (particularly the Soviet campaign). In-Game, Mammoth Tanks and their counterparts have become progressively less threatening over the series - while they were always vulnerable to good micro, by RA3 they were utterly helpless against aircraft and could be disabled with a freeze ray.

** [=MiGs=]... with Matryoshka missiles! [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll Why the name though?]]

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[[folder: The Empire of the Rising Sun]]

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-->''"No…no, no, no, no! You're are a mistake! My mistake… Arrgh!!"''

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler:Piloting the SuperPrototype of the King Oni.]] in Soviet campaign.

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* HurricaneOfPuns: Everything he says are cold-related puns of commonly used terms and {{Bond One Liner}}s such as "It's snow time!" and "Let's kick some ice!", this said imitating Schwarzenegger's voice, who acted as Mr. Freeze in the [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Worst Batman Movie Of All Time]]. The name of the unit itself is a pun of an Allied unit from ''[=RA2=]''.

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-->"FutureTank operational"

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* AcePilot: Marcos "Toreador" de la Concepcion, a Vindicator pilot who during the Battle of Hill 227, he flew continuously for over 29 hours, helping repel an attacking Soviet armored regiment, until he was finally shot down by a patrolling MiG. Armed with only a pistol, he made his way through enemy held territory to the 3rd Battalion perimeter. He refused evacuation and remained with the troops, coordinating strikes by his fellow Vindicator pilots over the next three days until a wave of Sickles finally overran his position.

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* CoolPlane: It arguably the most powerful air superiority fighter available in all since a newly trained Apollo will almost certainly destroy a Jet Tengu or MiG Fighter in a one-on-one fight. Defeating a Jet Tengu will be easy for the Apollo, a MIG, however, is slightly a closer call. When fighting each other, the Apollo tends to emerge victorious as its firing rate is constant while the MiG's weapons are more damaging, has intervals between salvos.

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This specialised infantry unit attacks with a powerful electrical charge generated from his portable Tesla coil. Tesla Troopers are valuable for a number of reasons, not the least of which is their immunity to being steam-rolled by enemy tanks. In times of emergency power shortages,
Tesla Troopers can charge up the Tesla Coils defending your base to keep them operating against enemy units. Charging up a Tesla Coil will also increase its range and power

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Boris is highly effective against infantry, thanks to his rapid rate of fire. Rather than using C4 charges to eliminate structures, Boris is able to call in an airstrike of MiG fighters to bombard any structure he targets with his laser designator.

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* SuicideAttack: Desolators can be combined with captured Allied IFV's to make "poor man's Demolition Trucks"; essentially a smaller version of the Libyan Demolition Truck's blast damage and radius, but which will result in radioactive fallout, damaging infantry that passes within (only in Yuri's Revenge - in RA2 he has an upgraded rad-cannon).

!!![=Terrorist=]

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* BadassBoast
-->"We will bury them!"

!!![=Flak track=]

!!![=V3 Rocket=]

!!![=Terror drone=]

!!![=War miner=]

!!![=Apocalypse Tank=]

!!![=Demolition truck=]

!!![=Kirov airship=]

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Cutscenes and promo pictures show them looming ominously over US Cities. This is [[HandWave explained]] as an alternative approach to aircraft due to the Allies forbidding the Soviets from building a strong conventional air force. While the Soviets do get additional aircraft in Yuri's Revenge, this takes place after the main storyline, giving the Soviets more time to build fast-strike MiGs.

!!![=Siege Chopper=]

!!![=Typhoon attack submarine=]

!!![=Dreadnought=]

!!![=Sea Scorpion=]

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!!![=War Bear=]

* SeriesMascot: of Red Alert 3. They might not be much good against armored vehicles, but they came to represent the all-out-crazy nature of RA3's unit design, and even appear on the box art. (Natasha the sniper is front and centre, though.)

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!!![=Tesla Trooper=]

!!![=Desolator=]

!!![=Ore collector=]

!!![=Sputnik=]

!!![=Terror Drone=]

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!!![=Hammer tank=]

!!![=Grinder=]

!!![=V4 Rocket Launcher=]

!!![=Apocalypse Tank=]

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-->"Mortar cycle looking good!"

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-->"MiG, ready to rule the skies!"

Synonymous with Soviet air power, the MiG is a fast-attack air-to-air fighter that can boast a remarkable survival rate, thanks to it's armament of M-type burst missiles. MiGs have earned a reputation for owning the skies. An extremely agile VTOL fighter, the MiG can swiftly dispatch any enemy air units, and is known for being stronger than the Allied Apollo Fighter.

* BlandNameProduct: The MiG aircraft in the game is called "Mikevich-Guroyan", instead of the real life "Mikoyan-Gurevich".

!!![=Kirov airship=]

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!!![=Akula Sub=]

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!!![=Tankbuster=]

Tank Busters are a highly specialized elite corps of the Imperial Army charged with destroying enemy vehicles. They are equipped with portable plasma cutters, formerly used in industrial manufacturing. While they are too heavy and short-ranged to be used against aerial targets, they are highly effective against all manner of enemy vehicles and structures, as well as being reasonably capable of dealing with enemy infantry. In addition, they have the unusual ability to burrow into the ground at a moment's notice, allowing them to avoid being crushed by enemy vehicles as well as greatly increasing their resilience against attacks. While the Tank Busters and their tactics are considered highly dishonourable within the Imperial military, they are considered necessary for dealing with equally dishonourable opponents.

* CoolMask: In the RA3 Intro Cinematics, the Tankbuster is seen wearing a face mask when it comes out of the ground. But in the game it does not wear a mask.

!!![=Archer maiden=]

!!![=Shinobi=]

!!![=Rocket Angel=]

!!![=Imperial ore collector=]

!!![=Sudden transport=]

!!![=Mecha Tengu / Jet Tengu=]]

!!![=Tsunami tank=]

!!![=Striker VX / Chopper VX=]

!!![=Steel Ronin=]

!!![=Wave-Force artillery=]

!!![=King Oni=]

!!![=Sunburst drone=]

!!![=Sea-Wing / Sky-Wing=]

!!![=Giga Fortress=]

!!![=Yari mini-sub=]

!!![=Naginata cruiser=]

!!![=Shogun battleship=]

!!![=Initiate=]

!!![=Brute=]

!!![=Virus=]

!!![=Yuri Clone=]

!!![=Yuri Prime=]

!!![=Lasher tank=]

!!![=Chaos Drone=]

!!![=Gattling Tank=]

!!![=Magnetron=]

!!![=Slave miner=]

* CoolGuns/MachineGuns

* SlaveMooks: Is a mobile ore refinery which travels to ore fields and has slaves come out and shovel ore into it. When the refinery is destroyed, the miners will defect to your side, but seeing as how they're emaciated, shirtless, and armed only with shovels, they're roughly on par with the Technician unit from the early Command & Conquer games (unless they somehow reach Elite...).

!!![=Mastermind=]

!!![=Floating Disc=]

!!![=Boomer=]

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!'''Allies'''

!!General Gunter Von Esling
!!!Played by Arthur Roberts

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'''Rank:''' General\\
'''Role:''' Supreme Commander of Allied forces ]

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A stoic, exemplary German military officer, Von Esling is the commander of the entire Allied military junta estabilished to defeat the Soviet aggression. He is a responsible, dedicated commander. His second in comand is Nikos Stavros, alongside Field Commander A9, the executor of the most important battle plans.

* AnOfficerAndAGentleman
* MissionControl
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

!!General Nikos Stavros
!!!Played by Barry Kramer

'''Role:''' Second in Command of Allied Forces ]

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Hailing from Greece, Stavros is a very patriotic soldier, caring deeply about his country. He's also very competent, giving vital advice to both his superior and subordinates. He is also a good friend of Esling. When Greece was taken by Stalin's jackboot, Stavros was deeply affected by this Allied defeat. He manages to recover but still harbors deep hatred toward the Soviets.

* BerserkButton: The invasion and destruction of his home country of Greece makes Stavros get a bit tense.
* HeroicBSOD: After Greece is invaded
* ItsPersonal
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: When Allied forces find Stalin buried in some rubble, Stavros stuffs a rag in his mouth then moves a stone over his face so no one can see him]].

!'''Soviets'''

!![[JosefStalin Joseph Stalin]]
!!!Played by Gene Dynarski

'''Affiliation''': USSR \\
'''Rank:''' Chairman of the Council of People's Kommissars of the USSR (Premier of the Soviet Union),Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union\\
'''Role:''' De facto party leader and the dictator of USSR ]

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-->''"When you kill one man, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million, it is a statistic."''

Sometime in the mid-to-late 1920s, Stalin came to power as the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In the years that followed he began putting in motion plans for the expansion of Soviet Communism across the world. After Einstein removes Hitler, meaning Nazi Germany is not in his way, Stalin finds that Europe is ripe for the picking and begins a campaign to claim the continent for the Soviet Union. He chooses a capable field commander to take the fight to the Allies all the way up to London. Ambitious in his designs, he has little use for failures and even less patience for traitors.

* SniperRifle: Their weapons when garrisoned in a multigunner turret or an IFV in Red Alert 3

!!Tanya Adams
!!!Played by Lynne Litteer (''Red Alert''), Kari Wuhrer (''Red Alert 2''), Jenny [=McCarthy=] (''Red Alert 3'')

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'''Affiliation''': Allies \\
'''Rank:''' N/A \\
'''Role:''' Commando ]

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-->''"Shake it, baby!"''

When Professor Albert Einstein was captured by Soviet forces, General Von Esling called for a specialist. Tanya Adams was flown in for the purpose of extracting Einstein, and continued to serve through the remainder of the war. She ([[LegacyCharacter or other women who shared her name and role]]) also served in the other conflicts between the Allies and the Soviets.

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* ActionGirl
* {{Badass}}: She can annihilate whole armies of infantry using nothing but a pair of handguns.
* BareYourMidriff: In the second and third games.
* BettyAndVeronica: In [=RA3=], she is the Veronica to Eva's Betty for Commander's Archie.
* BoomHeadshot: One of her unit quotes.
* BuxomIsBetter: Second and third games again.
* BadassInDistress: One of the missions in the first game is rescuing her from Soviet forces. You have to get a spy into the prison, then she destroys it and shoots her way out.
* ChainmailBikini: An armored bra.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Tanya's absolutely devastating to infantry and can instantly destroy any building she gets close to, but was utterly useless against vehicles. ''Yuri's Revenge'' averted this by giving her the ability to blow up vehicles as well, an ability she kept in ''Red Alert 3'', but she still had to get close enough to plant charges, whereas they moved faster and could usually fire while moving.
* DualWielding
* GunsAkimbo
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: One of the [=RA3=] cutscenes shows her interrogating a Soviet soldier. She herself is also on the receiving end of one in the first game.
* LegacyCharacter
* LittleBlackDress: At the end of the Allied campaigns of ''Red Alert 2'', ''Yuri's Revenge'', and ''Red Alert 3''.
* OlympicSwimmer: In [=RA2=] and [=RA3=] she can swim across any sized body of water without slowing down to sink a dreadnought with C4.
* OneManArmy: Though in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1 she can only blow up buildings and kill infantry, and only if you specifically order her to kill that infantry, in Red Alert 2, she automatically fires on advancing infantry (with pistols, but long before she's in range of their assault rifles), she can swim even in nearly frozen rivers, and use C4 on ships, buildings, and tanks (in RA2, as with many games, tanks have no machine guns, making them weak against infantry). The only thing that can stop her besides air power and overwhelming force are base defenses like sentry guns and Tesla coils. There are several missions where she takes out entire bases with little backup.

!!Tanya Adams
!!!Played by Lynne Litteer (''Red Alert''), Kari Wuhrer (''Red Alert 2''), Jenny [=McCarthy=] (''Red Alert 3'')

'''Affiliation''': Allies \\
'''Rank:''' N/A \\
'''Role:''' Commando ]

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-->''"Shake it, baby!"''

When Professor Albert Einstein was captured by Soviet forces, General Von Esling called for a specialist. Tanya Adams was flown in for the purpose of extracting Einstein, and continued to serve through the remainder of the war. She ([[LegacyCharacter or other women who shared her name and role]]) also served in the other conflicts between the Allies and the Soviets.

* ActionGirl
* Badass: She lay waist to whole armies of infantry using nothing but a pair of handguns.
* BareYourMidriff: In the second and third games.
* BettyAndVeronica: In [=RA3=], she is the Veronica to Eva's Betty for Commander's Archie.
* BoomHeadshot: One of her unit quotes.
* BuxomIsBetter: Second and third games again.
* BadassInDistress: One of the missions in the first game is rescuing her from Soviet forces. You have to get a spy into the prison, then she destroys it and shoots her way out.
* ChainmailBikini: An armored bra.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Tanya's absolutely devastating to infantry and can instantly destroy any building she gets close to, but was utterly useless against vehicles. ''Yuri's Revenge'' averted this by giving her the ability to blow up vehicles as well, an ability she kept in ''Red Alert 3'', but she still had to get close enough to plant charges, whereas they moved faster and could usually fire while moving.
* DualWielding
* GunsAkimbo
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: One of the [=RA3=] cutscenes shows her interrogating a Soviet soldier. She herself is also on the receiving end of one in the first game.
* LegacyCharacter
* LittleBlackDress: At the end of the Allied campaigns of ''Red Alert 2'', ''Yuri's Revenge'', and ''Red Alert 3''.
* OlympicSwimmer: In [=RA2=] and [=RA3=] she can swim across any sized body of water without slowing down to sink a dreadnought with C4.
* OneManArmy: Though in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1 she can only blow up buildings and kill infantry, and only if you specifically order her to kill that infantry, in Red Alert 2, she automatically fires on advancing infantry (with pistols, but long before she's in range of their assault rifles), she can swim even in nearly frozen rivers, and use C4 on ships, buildings, and tanks (in RA2, as with many games, tanks have no machine guns, making them weak against infantry). The only thing that can stop her besides air power and overwhelming force are base defenses like sentry guns and Tesla coils. There are several missions where she takes out entire bases with little backup.


!'''Soviets'''

!![[JosefStalin Joseph Stalin]]
!!!Played by Gene Dynarski

[floatboxright:
'''Affiliation''': USSR \\
'''Rank:''' Chairman of the Council of People's Kommissars of the USSR (Premier of the Soviet Union),Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union\\
'''Role:''' De facto party leader and the dictator of USSR ]

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Stalin3_683.jpg
-->''"When you kill one man, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million, it is a statistic."''

Sometime in the mid-to-late 1920s, Stalin came to power as the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In the years that followed he began putting in motion plans for the expansion of Soviet Communism across the world. After Einstein removes Hitler, meaning Nazi Germany is not in his way, Stalin finds that Europe is ripe for the picking and begins a campaign to claim the continent for the Soviet Union. He chooses a capable field commander to take the fight to the Allies all the way up to London. Ambitious in his designs, he has little use for failures and even less patience for traitors.

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The original CommieLand. The Soviet Union's expansion was facilitated by Albert Einstein's mistake whilst trying to prevent the horrors of World War 2. Without Nazi Germany to keep him in check Joseph Stalin takes the Soviet Union to unprecedented heights, allowing him to launch an invasion of Western Europe. The Soviet Military Doctrine revolves around the concept of superior firepower, ground superiority and reliance on highly advanced but conventionally based technologies, based primarily on heavy armor divisions, but the Soviets are known for employing cheap infantry in the role of armor support. Generally Soviet forces are either equal in speed or slower than the Allies. The slow-moving nature of the juggernaut that is the Soviet military war machine is compensated by their raw strength and durability.

* ActionBomb:

* AwesomeButImpractical: Nuke trucks were introduced in ''Command and Conquer: Red Alert'' and reinstated in ''Red Alert 2''. It's ''ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin'', a truck with a suicide bombing capability on the in-game nuke proportions. The only problem was that it was apparently made out of wood; one or two bullets was enough to set it off prematurely. In VideoGame/[=RA2=] they're useful if you build the [[DeflectorShield Iron Curtain]] superweapon. Hit a few trucks with it and send them into the enemy base. Then wait for the invulnerability effect to wear off and watch the fireworks. Don't do it in [=RA1=], though, as the invulnerability fades very rapidly.
* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: In Red Alert 3, the Bullfrog is an otherwise-normal APC armed with an anti-air gun. Its only outstanding feature is its method of delivery: instead of unloading the troops, it fires them out of a cannon on its back. So we've got a scenario in which you can parachute [[EverythingsWorseWithBears armored war bears]] onto a group of infantry. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential And the bears have a stun ability and instant-kill attacks.]]

* BondOneLiner: The Desolator from Red Alert 2 and the Shock Trooper from Red Alert: The Aftermath are just some of the characters who love one-liners.

* CarFu:
** The Apocalypse Tank in Red Alert 3 takes this to new levels, being able to crush smaller tanks. Its secondary weapon is a Magnetic Harpoon that pulls helpless tanks towards it.

** While the Sickles mainly use their machine guns to take out infantry, they can also use their Flea Leap ability to land on and crush them.
* CastFromHitPoints: In Red Alert 3, Dreadnought's special ability allows it to fire twice as fast, but this damages it in the process. The Kirov can temporarily [[NitroBoost boost their speed significantly]], but this also burns its health up.
* CripplingOverspecialization:
** Additionally, in ''Red Alert 3'', the Apocalypse Tank (a Mammoth Tank {{Expy}}) has lost its anti-aircraft missiles in favor of a big magnet that pulls enemy vehicles towards its circular saw. Basically, the tank has been redesigned to be more effective against vehicles, something it was already good at, while leaving it vulnerable against airstrikes.
** The Hammer Tank also played with it, since its special ability is an absorption beam which, in addition to draining the HP of the enemy while repairing itself, is also able to steal the weapon of enemy vehicles destroyed while it is targeting them, effectively giving the Hammer Tank a second primary weapon, and possibly an ability to engage air targets.
* CivilWarcraft: The Soviet campaigns in Red Alert 2 and 3 necessitates the elimination of another Soviet general whom the Soviet leader has declared inconvenient to keep around. Of course it's only a matter of time before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they try to do the same to you]].
* ColonyDrop:
** In Red Alert 3, Soviets drop [[DeathFromAbove old satellites from orbit]] as a form of attack. Lowest level drops Sputniks, the highest level drops the MIR space station. It's [[SlapOnTheWristNuke surprisingly impotent for an object that size, though]].
** An ability also allows the same Soviet satellite to magnetically pick up vehicles and add them to the satellite barrage the next time one chooses to use it. Hilariously fun if you picked up aircraft carriers and battleships beforehand and chucked them at something.
** Even more hilarious once you find out the magnetic beam works on ''Tesla Troopers''. Supplementing the space station with [[CherryTapping powered armored soldiers]] is great fun.
* ColorCodedArmies: The Soviets are red
* Conscription: Red Alert gives Soviet... [[ZergRush Conscripts]]. In the two games the poor saps have appeared in, they're the cheapest basic infantry unit. Let's put it this way: The other factions have ''scouting units'' that cost more than the Conscript.
** Their respective personalities varied from the second game to the third game. In the Red Alert 2, they were mildly patriotic but mostly unwilling basic soldiers. In the Red Alert 3, they became incredibly jingoistic morons, eager to throw themselves at anything declared an enemy. They will [[TooDumbToLive eagerly attack an Apocalypse tank]] while yelling, "Field promotion, here I come!"
* CoolAirship: Kirovs.
* DayOfTheJackboot: When the Soviets invade the United States in ''Red Alert 2'' and ''3''. In [=RA2=] alone, they destroy the Pentagon, bombard the Statue of Liberty into rubble, mind-control the US president, [[RuleOfCool turn the Eiffel Tower into a giant tesla coil]], shut down Wall Street (complete with infantry march), and start expanding into space.

** To make this one worse, it's a '''Victory''' cutscene from a Soviet mission. [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption The player was the one directing the air raid]]. And since it was the first mission, it was an easy mission, with not much fighting back. Gives the player a warning though: If you wanted to play the good guys, put the Allied Disk in your CD drive ''right now''!
** Not at all helped by the fact that the Briefing, where you are given the order by none other than JosefStalin himself, there is a slideshow of the aftermath of a chemical gas (possibly ''SARIN'') attack.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears:
** The Soviets in Red Alert 3 have Attack Bears. They go down in a few hits, but can instantly kill any infantry in close combat and disable them with roars.
** One of the Allied Spy's unit responses is "I don't like bears...", which is justified by the War Bear's ability to sniff out and maul spies.
*** On the DVD extras the actors cannot believe it. Watch as George Takei tries to get his head around it ("Battle Bears? B E A R S?") or Autumn Reeser laughing as she asks for an explanation.
** In Challenge mode there's the Ursa Major. A bear the size of an Apocalypse Tank that can maul buildings to death, and is best taken out by bomber planes.

* FactionCalculus: Powerhouse, and just to drive that point home they completely lack an infiltrator unit like the spy or the Shinobi.
* FakeNationality: The Soviet Union is led by an Englishman and their top scientist is a Swede.
* FastballSpecial: The "Bullfrog" in Red Alert 3 doesn't deploy troops normally. Instead, it ''launches'' them out of a "man-cannon."
** This includes the aforementioned War Bears, as well as the creepy tank eating Terror Drones.
* FrickinLaserBeams: One Soviet mission in Yuri's Revenge puts you on the moon of all places. As the lack of a breathable atmosphere poses a problem for your infantry, you instead get jetpack-cosmonauts with laser guns.

* {{Lzherusskie}}: Most of the Soviet cast in Red Alert 3, except Oleg.

* {{Hypocrite}}: They make claims about "the evils of capitalism" despite that they're all extremely power hungry and corrupt.
* HurricaneOfPuns:
** Tesla Troopers with electricity puns such as "Here is your electric bill", " No Resistance" , "Like a Christmas tree", "Why so negative?".
** This started with the Shock Troopers from the first game's add-on pack, ''The Aftermath''. "Extra crispy!" "Fully charged!" "''Shocking!''"
** The ''[=RA2=]'' Desolators spout nuclear and environmental puns, such as "[[Music/TheBeatles Here Comes The Sun!]]" and "It will be a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring Silent Spring]]." Given the nature of the Desolator and the timeframe of the game, this could even be a HistoricalInJoke.
* ILoveNuclearPower: The Soviets want to marry it. Of particular note are the Desolators. In ''Red Alert 2'', they come with a radiation beam that skeletonizes infantry, and have a secondary ability that can deny a sizeable tract of land to your enemies. In ''Uprising'' they have a [[DisSimile chemical sprayer]] and an acid shotgun/cannon reducing enemy amour. Heavily so.
* ItsRainingMen: One of the Soviet Special powers gained from the Airfield in ''CommandAndConquer: RedAlert'' is "Paratroopers", which drops a bunch of infantrymen at the designated spot. Not particularly useful most of the time, but it allows for some interesting possibilities in the right tactical environments, not to mention the fact that you're getting around a dozen soldiers for free every couple of minutes.
* JustAStupidAccent
* KillItWithFire: Their flame infantry and flame towers in the first game.
* LightningGun: All those Soviet ''Tesla'' weapons.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: In ''Red Alert 3'', Dreadnoughts can utterly spam targets with missiles--''really, really huge missiles'' (these are full battleships after all), but at the expense of the unit's health. Allied [=IFVs=] and missile turrets can spam nearly as bad as a Rocket Angel, however, if you put a Javelin soldier in there, and the Soviet Twinblade attacks targets simply by unloading a ton of rockets onto it.
*** Oh, not ''simply'' -- the Twinblade also uses [[MoreDakka tons of machine guns]].
*** In the final Rising Sun mission, the Soviets use increasingly improbable uses of this trope, spamming first [[DeathFromAbove their satellite-drop power]] and then [[NukeEm their superweapons]] at certain [[CutscenePowerToTheMax predefined points]]. It doesn't save them.
* MnogoNukes
* MoreDakka: An honorable mention must go to the Soviet's Sickle, which comes with three independently targeting machine guns. Granted, it can only bring two to bear on any one target, but the third will happily shoot at anything that crosses its field of fire.
* MolotovCocktail: Used/Consumed (though you may argue it is Vodka) by Conscripts and Mortar Cycles.
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: According to Natasha at least.
** If FridgeLogic comes into play, this is averted in the ''Command & Conquer Red Alert'' series, in that Soviet Conscripts are twice portrayed as inferior to Allied soldiers (GI's and Peacekeepers). The [[TankGoodness Apocalypse Tanks]], however...
*** This was only true from the second game on. In the first, the Soviet infantry was vastly superior to the Allied forces in terms of sheer strength, with only the Allies' [[WeHaveReserves ability to field more units at a cheaper rate]] allowing them to keep up. They also had much stronger tanks, could defend their bases with [[ShockAndAwe Tesla Coils]], and had a number of advantages in the air as well. Their only weak spot was in the navy, as their only ship (Submarines) is useful only against ships and sinks after only a few hits.

** Players unfamiliar with the game may get a bit of nostalgia when they first hear of the name "General Krukov", which is one letter away from the famous traitor "Kukov" from [=RA1=]. [[spoiler: Turns it out may have been intentional, as guess who betrays you about halfway through the Soviet Campaign?]]

* NukeEm: Employed by the Soviets in the Allied campaign of Red Alert. As the Allies turn the tide of the war and are steadily advancing across Europe into the Soviet Union, Stalin decides to destroy the primary capitals and cities of the European Allies with the nuclear weapons his scientists have recently developed, while using his own forces as a sacrificial lamb to draw attention away from the missile sites. The player has to capture and then infiltrate the facility to safely dismantle the weapons.

* OneManArmy: In the expansions to the first Red Alert, the Soviets prototype a cybernetic soldier called Volkov. His first mission consists of wiping out dozens of Allied troops, buildings, tanks, and a battleship, finally ramming the point home by killing Tanya. Understandably, this worries the Allies...
* PsychicPowers: In the vanilla Red Alert, the Soviet agent Yuri uses his psychic abilities, amplified with Psychic Beacons, to mind-control large parts of the USA. He performed a psychic possession via TELEPHONE. In the expansion pack ''Yuri's Revenge'', he goes rogue and uses Psychic Dominators to take over the entire world (until a bit of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong takes place) and commands pyrokinetic Initiate footsoldiers and mind-controlling clones of himself as well as giant mobile brains and towers with similar abilities.

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: The Soviets have become progressively sillier, cartoonier villains as the series ran its course, going from fear-inspiring Nazi counterparts in Red Alert 1 to near laughable villains by RedAlert3 - along with the rest of the universe, though. Uprising undoes it a bit, having a bit of seriousness (particularly the Soviet campaign). In-Game, Mammoth Tanks and their counterparts have become progressively less threatening over the series - while they were always vulnerable to good micro, by RA3 they were utterly helpless against aircraft and could be disabled by (none-too) tactful application of a freeze ray.

* SelectiveMagnetism: In Red Alert 3 they are using various magnetic weapons: from magnetic harpoons to magnetic weapons that strip armor and weapons off enemy vehicles to magnets that suck units into SPACE.

** Mind-controlled squids, cloning vats, Weaponized Tesla Coils, six-legged amphibious boats with double Tesla coils, armored [[EverythingIsWorseWithBears war bears]], huge Zeppelins with megaton bombs, nuclear [[NegativeSpaceWedgie vacuum]] [=ICBMs=], weapon-stealing tanks, magnetic satellites [[SerialEscalation AND MORE]], the Iron Curtain, and Vacuum Imploder, among others..
** Don't forget the mancannon-equipped amphibious transports, which also function as AA support. They are quite capable of shooting the aforementioned armoured war bears. Talk about abnormal ammo...

*** One could argue that the Soviets are actually ''lagging behind'' technologically - a large amount of the "super-science" is more or less a redux of the prior game's technology - compared to the Allies, who between Red Alert 1 and 2, developed lasers, cloaking devices, and weather control. Red Alert 1 might play it straight, but essentially every game from 2 onwards might just count as a subversion.
* {{Steampunk}}: The Soviets in ''Red Alert'', especially ''2'' and ''3''. More specifically, Tesla Punk, since they don't use steam power, though they certainly do use the steampunk style.
* SpiderTank:
** The "Sickle," the standard anti-infantry vehicle for the Soviets, and also the electricity-spewing amphibious Stingray. Though, weirdly enough, it must be built at naval docks. Apparently land-mode "movers" are just a bonus.

** ''[[CommandandConquer Red Alert 2]]'' has the Terror Drone, which is a small machine that kills infantry in one hit, and takes down tanks in seconds. And is very bloody fast. It returns in [=RA3=]. But now it ''swims''.

** The Desolators of ''Red Alert 2'' and ''3: Uprising'', bonus points since they are uncrushable, in ''Red Alert 2'' they are heavy armoured elite soldiers armed with radioactive cannons which meltdown infantry and light vehicles with ease, their secondary is the ability to contaminate an entire area with nuclear radiation powerful enough to keep killing units even after the desolators have moved out, in Uprising they are portrayed as [[EqualOpportunityEvil terminal ill]] [[SociopathicSoldier sadists]] in [[WetwareCPU life support armored suits]] capable to [[MadeOfIron withstand insane amounts of damage and pain]], they use as weapons sprayers [[Narm/VideoGames which look like gas dispensers]], that release vile jets of chemical waste capable to [[NightmareFuel meltdown any kind of infantry, including the female heroes]], in the most horrific way, their secondary attack launches an corrosive core which slowdown units and make vehicles and structures highly vulnerable to their primary weapons, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential sounds cool eh?]]

* TakeOverTheWorld: Their want this in all three games.
* TankGoodness: The most tank-heavy army in the series.
** Mammoth Tanks it's a Soviet tank from Great World War II (''Red Alert 1'', taking place between 1946~1953). In ''Red Alert 2'' onward, this became the Apocalypse tank, and by ''Red Alert 3'', the tank traded its Mammoth Tusk missiles for a [[YouWillNotEvadeMe magnetic harpoon and armor-eating grinder]].
** Their also have had a Tesla Tank in each of the three major wars (not necessarily in every ''game'', though). Much like their base defenses, they're all about ShockAndAwe.
* UselessUsefulSpell In ''Red Alert'', Iron Curtain is somewhat useless, as it can only make a single tank or building invincible for a short period of time. Also corrected in Red Alert 2, the Iron Curtain then has the ability to protect up to 9 tanks, flak tracks, or terror drones.
** The Iron Curtain can protect a valuable building that is in imminent danger of being destroyed, such as a Construction Yard, which can buy you time to kill off the invading force or repair it. Another (more fun) strategy is to send a M.A.D. tank towards an enemy base or attack force, and just as it reaches firing range, use the Iron Curtain to keep it from being prematurely destroyed since it's too slow to reach a target on its own armor. Place it in the prime center of devastation and deploy it - if it's still under the Curtain, it won't actually explode and damage everything until right after the effect fades, giving the enemy no chance to actually counter it.

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Their mighty Kirov, the slow-moving but devastating bomber Zeppelin of the Soviets. As those weren't scary enough, they now come with NitroBoost in Red Alert 3.
* ZergRush: In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'', their Conscripts are pretty much designed for this tactic; Very weak, very cheap, easily spammable.
** This trope is invoked by name in the first level of Red Alert 2's Soviet campaign when you build your first Conscript.
--->'''Lt. Sofiya:''' Pay no heed to casualties Comrade Commander, for every Conscript that dies in this glorious crusade, there are a thousand more eager to replace him.

The Allies, otherwise known as the Allied Forces, are a military alliance between the nations of Europe (mainly England, Germany, United States, France, Greece, Spain, Korea and Turkey). The Allied Military Doctrine is centered on decisive action, mobility, subterfuge, aerial dominance and technological superiority. The Allied forces are exceptionally well-trained, guided by superior intelligence and has at their disposal some of the world's most advanced weaponry.

* AmericaSavesTheDay: Averted. All Allied nations receive fair representation, with a disproportionately large number of units and characters actually being British. America isn't even in the first game.
** Also averted in ''RedAlert 2''; the Soviet Union, bearing a grudge against the United States (why they do is anyone's guess since America wasn't in the original Red Alert), unleashes a full-out assault on the country. The President is quick to seek the help of America's allies in fighting off the Soviets (to which General Carville does ''not'' take kindly: "It just ain't right! We shouldn't have to beg for help from anyone!").
*** The ExpansionPack, ''Yuri's Revenge,'' also has campaign missions that showcase each of the special units given to each country in multplayer mode.
*** WordOfGod for ''RA1'' was that the US officially joined in after the war turned against the Soviets. Presumably [[FridgeBrilliance the US, unexhausted from years of warfare across Central Europe, provided a significant portion of the Allied occupation forces in Russia]].
** Averted in ''RedAlert'' 3; the American president is an incompetent Bush parody [[spoiler:who you later have to kill to prevent a world war. Or is a robot spy for the Rising Sun.]].
*** The national diversity among Allied units is highlighted more in ''RedAlert 3'' than it was in the previous two games; ''each'' of your units come from around the world (including Hydrofoils coming from the Dominican Republic), your orders usually come from a British field marshal and a British intelligence officer and occasionally The Allied co-commanders are also from around the world. Giles is British, Lisette is French (despite lacking any accent), Warren is American (and played by Randy Couture). And the American Vice President is [[spoiler: David Hasselhoff]]. Granted, RA 1 had most of your briefings be a joint affair between a German and a Greek, which is a ''tad'' bit more diversity than a Brit and another Brit.
* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: The Battle Fortress and IFV are awesome in their own way. The IFV can change armaments depending on the troop type it is carrying; the Battle Fortress can crush other vehicles!
** Honourable mention to Red Alert 1's Phase Transport. It shows up in a single mission in the ''Aftermath'' expansion, and it can only carry one infantry unit... but on the other hand, the machine gun is replaced with high-powered ''missile launchers'', and it cloaks.

* {{Badass}}: The Hollywood actors that help the Allied commander during the Hollywood mission in ''Yuri's Revenge'' are fairly badass in their own right.
* BadAssBystander: Generic civilians in other [=RA2=] missions will sometimes open fire on enemy troops (yours or the opposition, depending). They don't do very much damage. This is slightly more prevalent in Yuri's Revenge, if any mind-controlled civilians happen to be standing around Yuri's structures when the player disables the psychic dominators on the map.

* BondOneLiner: Ironically, the Spy, who is a ShoutOut to JamesBond ''himself'', doesn't use them except in ''Red Alert 3'' when bribing enemy units

* ColorCodedArmies: The Allies are blue
* CoolBoat: The Allied [[{{BFG}} Cruiser]] deserves special mention. And the boats get progressively more CrazyAwesome as time goes on. The Helicarrier of Red Alert 1 ''would'' be here, but for some reason it's just set to [[DummiedOut be available at tech level -1, thus preventing its construction,]] though the player is only [[GameMod one variable]] away from being able to use them.
* CoolPlane: RedAlert3 gives Allied the Vindicator. It's stubby, not terribly fast, carries just two little bombs, and can't even kill other aircraft. What it can and will do is consistently and ''constantly'' knock out enemy resource collectors, vehicles, buildings and just about anything else. It's like a little sniper rifle you point at whatever you want dead and let fly. ''Entire strategies'' were built around the reliable little guy, and it pretty much entirely defined Allied strategy throughout the patch cycle.
** And for something even bigger, get a load of the Allied [[MightyGlacier Harbringer gunship]]. It's more or less the RealLife [[RealLife/CoolPlane American AC-130H Spectre]] on steroids... and the Harbringer's very much based on it.
* CreatorProvincialism: Strongly averted in the first game, where nearly all the Allied cast are Europeans--it's not clear whether the USA is even in the war, as opposed to sending volunteers--and the three Allied sub-factions for skirmish missions are Britain, France and Germany. In later games, the Allies are still a broad mix of volunteers from various nations; their units have a wide variety of accents.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Several country-unique units in ''Red Alert 2'', such as the Sniper and Tank Destroyer, the latter being most infamous in that it literally ''is only good against tanks''. Even against buildings, which you'd expect them to be competent against (given that all other units effective against tanks usually do well against buildings too), they will only do chicken scratches to.
** Lampshaded as of ''Red Alert 3'' with the background information on the Allied Hydrofoil unit, which has a weapon jammer device. The background states that Allied tank crewmen and fighter pilots asked why their units could not also be equipped with jammers, but engineers the world over have encountered unspecified technical difficulties designing vehicles with multiple weapons. ''Red Alert 3'' actually changed the whole model on this one, given that all units in that game have a special ability of some type, and for about half those units that ability is a [[DualModeUnit second weapon]]. The hydrofoil's primary is an anti-aircraft gun.
** Boris from the expansion pack of Red Alert 2 was allowed to call in an airstrike to whatever targets his AK-47 couldn't kill (namely, buildings and tanks) which made him alot more effective than Tanya, as he did not need to close the distance. Yuri Prime, however, averts this trope to hell as his psychic power was able to affect anything other than airborne targets (and only while they stay airborne).
* DeathFromAbove: One of the main strengths of the Allies is they have a large powerful air force (except for Red Alert 1).
** And then there's the Harrier from ''[[CommandAndConquer Red Alert 2]]'' who sometimes says "death from above" when ordering it to attack something.
* DeployableCover: Allied GI units in ''CommandAndConquer Red Alert 2'' can deploy sandbags which gives them increased resistance and also allows them to use their machine guns, but makes them immobile. The Guardian GI in the expansion can do the same, but using metal plates instead which makes them impervious from getting roadkilled by vehicles. How they get sandbags and metal plates is [[HyperspaceArsenal anybody's guess]], and worse, how they set them up in less than a second.
* EnemyMine: One example is to be found in ''Red Alert 3'' during the Allied campaign when the Empire of the Rising Sun attacks-the Allies and Soviets call a ceasefire to destroy the Empire, and proceed to betray each other at about the same time.
** Happens in the ''Yuri's Revenge'' expansion to ''RedAlert 2'' as well, when the Soviets and Allies team up to fight Yuri.
* FactionCalculus: Subversive originally, but changed to Balanced with the introduction of the Empire.

* FreezeRay: The appropriately named Cryocopters and later Cryo Legionnaires in ''CommandAndConquer: {{Red Alert 3}}''. There is also superweapon version Cryoshot/Cryoblast/Cryogeddon. These are [[HarmlessFreezing mostly harmless]], but frozen objects will [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter]] if hit with the slightest damage, and for air units (done by cryo legionnaires garrisoned in a multigunner turret/IFV) the result is not something to laugh at since they will immediately come crashing down when frozen.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Their Peacekeepers (basic soldiers) form Red Alert 2 look more like riot police then front-line soldiers. Their primary weapon is a ShortRangeShotgun, but they also have a metal shield that they can deploy to protect against bullets, while they slowly walk towards the target in order to unleash their weapon. It evene prevent them from getting 1-hit killed by ninjas and Tesla troopers.
* HarmlessFreezing: What Cryocopters, the Cryoshot superweapons, and Cryo Legionnaires can do.
** The Cryocopters profile in the official website lampshades this:

** LiterallyShatteredLives: Frozen units will shatter when hit with the slightest damage, making freezing lethal. Frozen air units (as from Cryo Legionnaires loaded into Multigunner IFV or turrets) will immediately come crashing down.

* HurricaneOfPuns: In ''[=RA3=] Uprising'', everything their Cryo Legionnaire says are cold-related puns of commonly used terms and {{Bond One Liner}}s such as "It's snow time!" and "Let's kick some ice!", this said imitating Schwarzenegger's voice, who acted as Mr. Freeze in the [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Worst Batman Movie Of All Time]]. The name of the unit itself is a pun of an Allied unit from ''[=RA2=]''.
* ItsRainingMen: Their USA subfaction in Red Alert 2 also had a paratrooper ability, which meant that they could conceivably drop fourteen [=GI=]s (pretty formidable), anywhere on the map, for free, every few minutes.
** ''Red Alert 3'' gives the Allies the Century Bomber, which can load a group of infantry and then drop them at a selected location.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Their Aegis Missile Cruiser starts off as a powerful anti-air unit that fires damaging missiles at targets. However, as it begins to rack up kills and gain promotions (which isn't too hard as it's pretty good at its job) it gets becomes even ''more'' powerful and fires missiles nonstop.
** To elaborate: An elite (fully promoted) Aegis Cruiser can destroy a [[MightyGlacier Kirov Airship]] in ''three seconds'', and that thing is the most durable unit in the game.
** ''Red Alert 2'''s Rocket IFV is quite capable of triple-M'ing when it's fully promoted. Rack up as many elite Rocket IFVs and you can guarantee that you'll have a ''real'' triple-M show.

* PowerNullifier: Their Hydrofoil's weapon jammer prevents enemies from attacking as long as it keeps targeting them.
* RetGone: Their Chrono Legionnaire from Red Alert 2 had a gun that would ''erase people from the space-time continuum''. Weaponized Retgone anyone?
** And, oddly enough, it has absolutely no noticeable side effects on the rest of the world.
** During the time-erasing process, the target can't take damage from anything else; removing your own buildings from spacetime temporarily allows them to easily survive direct hits from ''nukes'', though your poor Legionnaires still get melted.
* RoboSpeak: Future Tank X-1
* ShapedLikeItself
--> '''Peacekeeper''': "Peacekeeper, keeping the peace."

** The Cryo Legionnaire in ''Uprising'' is a reference to [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Mr]] [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Freeze]] ''and'' the Chrono Legionnaire unit from ''Red Alert 2''.

* StrangeBedfellows: The Allies and the Soviets join forces in Yuri's Revenge to take down Yuri, and again in Red Alert 3 to deal with the Empire.

** Which makes a great deal of sense considering the core plot of the second is America being invaded by the Soviets.

* UselessUsefulSpell: In ''CommandAndConquer: Red Alert'', a few missions from the end the allies acquire the ability to use the Chronosphere, a teleportation device. However, in game (more powerful in CutscenePowerToTheMax), you can only teleport a single tank at once, and cannot teleport air units or [=APCs=] with people, with the given reason that the people in the [=APCs=] will die, which really doesn't make sense because the tanks have to have people in them (and a known cheat can disable it). This is largely corrected in Red Alert 2, where the Chronosphere has the power to teleport up to 9 small tanks, including vehicles with people in them, as well as some air units. In fact, you're able to teleport land units into the sea and sea units onto the land, making it somewhat of an offensive weapon too. Unshielded infantry still die in Chronoshifting.
* WaveMotionGun:
** Red Alert 2, for the Prism Tower and Prism Tank. The former can be charged up by other Prism Towers in range with tangible effect (get through of them together at they'll destroy an [[MightGlacier Apocalypse Tank]] in a single shot), while the latter's Prism Cannon has a flap on the rear which animates when the Cannon is shooting.
** Red Alert 3, for the Spectrum cannons used by spectrum towers and mirage tanks. The former are identical to the prism towers.

* [[spoiler:CainAndAbel: With her sister, Izumi, at the end of the mission, "Ruin and Reunion".]]

* [[spoiler:CainAndAbel: With Yuriko, eventually.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: Nuke trucks were introduced in ''Command and Conquer: Red Alert'' and reinstated in ''Red Alert 2''. It's ''ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin'', a truck with a suicide bombing capability on the in-game nuke proportions. The only problem was that it was apparently made out of wood; one or two bullets was enough to set it off prematurely. In VigeoGame/[=RA2=] they're useful if you build the [[DeflectorShield Iron Curtain]] superweapon. Hit a few trucks with it and send them into the enemy base. Then wait for the invulnerability effect to wear off and watch the fireworks. Don't do it in [=RA1=], though, as the invulnerability fades very rapidly.

Shortly after the close of World War II, Professor Einstein began working on a way to change history so the terrible conflict would not occur. He began researching time travel and in 1946 completed a machine that allowed him to travel back to 1924 where he found Adolf Hitler and eliminated him. Returning to his own time, he reflected that the true ramifications of his actions would only be seen with time. T Hose ramifications were that, rather than preventing the war, he had merely changed the sides. Soviet Russia, now without Hitler to ally with the West against, became the belligerent. Realizing he had failed in his ultimate objective he offered his services to Allied Command to help produce new technologies for the war effort.

* {{Hypocrite}}: They make claims about "the evils of capitalism" despite that they're all extremely power hungry and most of them seem actually like killing.

* EvilIsHammy

** Their M.A.D. Tanks in Aftermath that self-destructs in a large shock waves damaging vehicles and structures in a large area.
** Red Alert 2 also sees the return of the Demolition Truck for the Soviets (for Libya at least), now driven by a human and the Terrorist for Cuba who is a suicide bomber. Crazy Ivans can plant bombs on friendly units to make the suicide bombers. It is a popular tactic online to use these on Attack Dogs.
** Red Alert 3 have the Corrosion Protocol that sacrifices a unit to spread toxins and the Terror Drone Surprise Upgrade Protocol that causes Terror Drones to emerge from destroyed vehicles.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Nuke trucks were introduced in ''Command and Conquer: Red Alert'' and reinstated in ''Red Alert 2''. It's ''ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin'', a truck with a suicide bombing capability on the in-game nuke proportions. Only problem was it was made out of dry wood; one or two bullets was enough to set it off prematurely.
** They're useful in [=RA2=] if you build the [[DeflectorShield Iron Curtain]] superweapon. Hit a few trucks with it and send them into the enemy base. Then wait for the invulnerability effect to wear off and watch the fireworks. Don't do it in [=RA1=], though, as the invulnerability fades after only a second.
* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: Red Alert 3 Bullfrog is an otherwise-normal APC armed with an anti-air gun. Its only outstanding feature is its method of delivery: instead of unloading the troops, it fires them out of a cannon on its back. So we've got a scenario in which you can parachute [[EverythingsWorseWithBears armored war bears]] onto a group of infantry. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential And the bears have a stun ability and instant-kill attacks.]]
* BlandNameProduct: Their MiG aircraft in the third game is called "Mikevich-Guroyan", instead of the real life "Mikoyan-Gurevich".
* BondOneLiner: The Desolator from Red Alert 2 and the Shock Trooper from Red Alert: The Aftermath.
* ButtMonkey: The Soviet Hammer Tank instructor in ''Red Alert 3'', during the tutorial. He is the one who is shot at the most by the other instructors (Allied Guardian Tank and Rising Sun Tsunami Tank) in annoyance for dumb questions, getting on their nerves, etc. Also, it's usually the Soviet army that the Tsunami Tank's "training robots" are modeled after. In the last tutorial mission, however, [[spoiler: he causes a FunnyBackgroundEvent where he slinks away and comes back as an ''Apocalypse Tank'', causing the Tsunami Tank, his main bully, to do a DoubleTake.]]
* CarFu: The Apocalypse Tank in Red Alert 3 takes this to new levels, being able to crush smaller tanks. Its secondary weapon is a Magnetic Harpoon that pulls helpless tanks towards it.
** If you didn't think that was enough, the Soviet [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Grinder]] that was introduced in the expansion takes this UpToEleven being able to crush any surface units and is even amphibious.

** Hammer Tank also played with it, since its special ability is an absorption beam which in addition of draining the HP of the enemy while repairing itself, but is also able to steal the weapon of enemy vehicles destroyed while it is targeting them, effectively giving the Hammer Tank a second primary weapon, and possibly an ability to engage air targets.

* ColonyDrop: In Red Alert 3, Soviets drop [[DeathFromAbove old satellites from orbit]] as a form of attack. Lowest level drops Sputniks, the highest level drops the MIR space station. It's [[SlapOnTheWristNuke surprisingly impotent for an object that size, though]].

** Even more hilarious once you find out the magnetic beam works on ''Tesla Troopers''. Supplementing the space station with [[CherryTapping powered armored soldiers]] is CrowningMomentOfFunny.

The original CommieLand. The Soviet Union's expansion was facilitated by Albert Einstein's mistake whilst trying to prevent the horrors of World War 2. Without Nazi Germany to keep him in check Joseph Stalin takes the Soviet Union to unprecedented heights, allowing him to launch an invasion of Western Europe. The Soviet Military Doctrine revolves around the concept of superior firepower, ground superiority and reliance on highly advanced but conventionally based technologies, relying primarily on heavy armor divisions, but the Soviets are known for employing cheap infantry in the role of armor support. Generally Soviet forces are either equal in speed or slower compared to the Allies. The slow-moving nature of the juggernaut that is the Soviet military war machine is compensated by their raw strength and durability.