History Characters / CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeriesFactionsAndCharacters

* ILoveNuclearPower: The Soviets want to marry it. Of particular note are the Desolators. In ''Red Alert 2'', they come with a radiation beam that melts 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 that reduces enemy armor. Heavily so. The Soviets also use nuclear reactors and nuclear missiles.

* EgocentricTeamNaming: Unlike every other faction in the series, let alone the ''Command and Conquer'' franchise, Yuri's Army is simply referred to as such. It is mentioned, however, that it had been known as the Soviet Psi-Corps before Yuri went rogue.

* SovietSuperscience: Given [[RenegadeSplinterFaction its origins]], the faction utilizes various pieces of experimental Soviet tech that were either stolen or originally overseen by Yuri when he went rogue.

* SociopathicHero: She's one of the good guys... who happens to take pleasure at gunning down her opponents complete with an EvilLaugh. One of her lines before killing an opponent is a non-chalant "Another loser".

* SociopathicHero: She's one of the good guys... Who happens to take pleasure at gunning down her opponents complete with an EvilLaugh. One of her lines before killing an opponent is a non-chalant ''"Another loser."''

* EgocentricTeamNaming: Unlike every other faction in the series, let alone the ''Command and Conquer'' franchise, Yuri's Army is simply referred to as such.

* SovietSuperscience: Given [[RenegadeSplinterFaction its origins]], the faction utilizes various pieces of experimental Soviet tech that's either overseen or stolen by Yuri when he went rogue.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Unlike Allied and Soviet units, each of Yuri's units are good at one thing and one thing only. He can't just send an army solely composed of Battle Fortresses or Apocalypses and roll over the opposition, a combined-arms tactic is essential. Lasher Tanks are the most vanilla of his units. Gatling Tanks will shred infantries and aircrafts, but will have trouble taking down armors. Magnetrons have superior range to be a great siege unit, but it will die to the most basic of infantries. Flying Discs will shut down the enemy base, but not as good as actually demolishing it.

** The national diversity among Allied units is highlighted more in ''VideoGame/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]].

* BloodKnight: For the good guys they are rather...enthusiastic about killing the enemy, to the point where some characters would be happy to ignore peace.
* CivilWarcraft: Surprisingly (at least to the players), the Allies also got one against [[spoiler: President Ackerman]] in Red Alert 3.

* AmericaSavesTheDay: Averted.
** In the first game, European countries are the dominant players within the Allies, with America mostly working in the background (i.e. lending its industrial strength to make good of losses in materiel incurred by the European forces during the Soviet invasion), The player's superiors are in fact German and Greek; in later games, America is given mostly equal focus with the other Allied countries.

* RisingEmpire: Empire of the Rising Sun is this, in contrast to the well-established superpowers (the Allies and the Soviets) who were already at each other's throats, all of them vying for control of the world.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Like how Yuri is one to Kane, Yuri's army is one to the Brotherhood of Nod, but without any of the characteristics that serve to make it seem less evil, such as its VillainWithGoodPublicity and BreadAndCircuses tendencies. Yuri's army is also completely and utterly inhumane in a way that Nod would consider too extreme, as its arsenal consists pyrokinetics who immolate their opponents to death, snipers with bullets laced with a highly contagious, highly lethal virus that causes people to messily explode into a cloud of the stuff, and literal slave labor. Yuri's forces aren't afraid, either to have normal people irreversibly transformed into mentally retarded, child-like musclebound giants that are unquestionably loyal to Yuri to the point where they don't have any free will, in contrast to Nod's Marked of Kane being enhanced cyborgs fanatically loyal to their Messiah but still retaining their own identity.

* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Albert Einstein was a genius who came up with many a theory that rocketed technological advancement to light speeds in real life, but his portrayal in ''Red Alert'' has him practically being a comic book superhero whose responsible for the development of many of the Allies technology, which includes real, actual invisbility generators, weather manipulating machines, and even portable time travel devices that you can wear to teleport around which can also be weaponized to use to erase enemies from existence.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: By killing off Hitler (see above), he allows the Soviet Union the opportunity it needs to invade Europe.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His meddling with time was intended to spare the world of the horrors that Hitler and the Nazis unleashed. Instead, it opened up a whole other can of worms that he never anticipated.

* LifeDrain: ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'', the Soviet is likely the only non-magical military faction to utilize this attack. Their Main Battle Tank, the Hammer, utilizes it as part of a secondary ability, and a faction-wide upgrade called "Grinder Treads" lets the Hammer, Apocalypse and other tracked vehicles recover health by running over enemy infantry (or tanks for the Apocalypse).

* SimpleYetAwesome: Their Crusher Cranes from Red Alert 3. They're relatively cheap, provide an extra construction tab, and can be used to recycle vehicles to provide extra cash, which also increases the Threat Meter whenever you recycle a unit, which can be used for things such as constantly producing Terror Drones, only to recycle them to deliberately increase the Threat Meter once that's an economically feasible option.

** The Reaper is a failed prototype of the Sickle that was hastily put into mass-production.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Like how Yuri is one to Kane, Yuri's army is one to the Brotherhood of Nod, but without any of the characteristics that serve to make it seem less evil, such as its VillainWithGoodPublicity and BreadAndCircuses tendencies. Yuri's army is also completely and utterly inhumane in a way that Nod would consider too extreme, as it's arsenal consists pyrokinetics who immolate their opponents to death, snipers with bullets laced with a highly contagious, highly lethal virus that causes people to messily explode into a cloud of the stuff, literal slave labor, and once normal people irreversibly transformed into mentally retarded, child-like musclebound giants that are unquestionably loyal to Yuri to the point where they don't have any free will.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Much as with Yuri himself. Imagine the Brotherhood of Nod, but without any of its characteristics that serve to make it seem less evil, such as its VillainWithGoodPublicity and BreadAndCircuses tendencies. Yuri's army is also completely and utterly inhumane in a way that Nod would consider too extreme, as there are pyrokinetics who immolate their opponents to death, snipers with bullets laced with a highly contagious, highly lethal virus that causes people to messily explode into a cloud of the stuff, literal slave labor, and once normal people irreversibly transformed into mentally retarded, child-like musclebound giants.

* OneNationUnderCopyright: In ''Uprising'', it's heavily implied that [[MegaCorp FutureTech]] is influential and powerful to the point of all but controlling the European Union, at minimum.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: To the Brotherhood of Nod in the first game.]]

** Premier Romanov in ''Red Alert 2'' plays it more straight, however, as upon being fully freed of Yuri's influence, is shown to genuninely believe that he's doing what is best for his people.

* RenegadeSplinterFaction: Downplayed. Yuri's Army still retains some elements of its Soviet origins, from elements of its architecture, to the use of "comrade" and Yuri himself [[StillWearingTheOldColors still using his old uniform]].

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Even after Stalin's demise, the Soviets aren't ''too'' particular about casualties. For every dead Conscript or other fallen unit, there are many more to take their place.

* OnlySaneMan: They're the only faction that doesn't find themselves doing any form of in-fighting in their campaign, thanks to their strict loyalty to their emperor. [[spoiler:Atleast until ''Uprising'', where it's revealed that Tatsu was manipulating the Allies to achieve dominance over the remains of the Empire and planning to take them out once they've gotten rid of any opposition to his rule, and even then, it's unknown which of the campaigns in ''Uprising'' is canonical.]]

* NGOSuperpower: While they seemingly became one practically overnight by the start of ''Yuri's Revenge'', it's implied that Yuri had been secretly building them right up under the Soviets' nose in the preceding years.

* DistressedDude: Is captured twice in the series.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His meddling with time was intended to spare the world of the horrors that Hitler and the Nazis unleashes. Instead, it opened up a whole other can of worms that he never anticipated.

** Red Alert 2 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 invoke this by planting bombs on friendly units. Doing this to Attack Dogs is a popular tactic online.

* BeneathNotice: Apparently, the Empire's rise to prominence was ignored by the other world powers prior to the campaigns, as neither the Allies nor Soviets expected an island nation to have the tenacity to challenge all of them at once.

* SympatheticPOV: Downplayed with the Empire campaign in ''Uprising''. While it doesn't really hide [[spoiler:Prince Tatsu's true plans and hopes to reassert the Empire's rightful place]], the Japanese are nonetheless shown to be genuine in wanting to be free of Allied occupation and generally left alone.

* {{Flanderization}}: He's portrayed as a fairly normal person outside of his genius in the first game, even poking fun at his own reputation when he's introduced to the Allied commander. By the sequel, however, he's become a full-blown AbsentMindedProfessor.

* TheDogBitesBack: Einstein, quite possibly ''the'' most famous and well-known Jewish person in the world kills Adolf Hitler by eradicating him from time itself, thereby avenging every last Jew who died in the Holocaust by proxy. While in ''Yuri's Revenge'', despite being kidnapped by Yuri to work on the Psychic Dominator project, Einstein also manages to sabotage those plans before being rescued by the Allies.

* GodzillaThreshold: Despite Einstein viewing war as [[TechnicalPacifist not his profession]], he nonetheless considers the threat posed by the Soviets, whether it's Stalin in ''Red Alert 1'' or Romanov and Yuri in ''Red Alert 2'', to be enough for him to give the Allies a technological edge.

* WeatherControlMachine: One of the Allied superweapons that he invented.
-->'''Einstein''': "These are God's toys, commander... use them wisely, ja?"

* CastFromHitPoints: In Red Alert 3, the 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.
* 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 [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder matter of time]] before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they try to do the same to you]].
** The Soviet campaign in Red Alert 1 does not feature it, and neither does the Counterstrike expansion's Soviet missions... but the ''Aftermath'' expansion has two missions where some form of it will happen (going up against a rogue radical faction, going up against traitorous weapon dealers supported by the Allies but still with large parts of the Soviet arsenal at their disposal) and one mission where it ''can'' happen (if you disobey orders and do ''not'' commit war crimes while putting down a rebellion, Stalin's elite guard arrive to "finish the job" and are hostile to your forces).

** In Red Alert 3, the Soviets can 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]].

* {{Conscription}}: Red Alert 2 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.

* SympatheticPOV: Their campaign in ''3: Uprising'' is notable for them being genuinely heroic and sympathetic, as their first mission has them preform a rescue mission on a facility to rescue some of their chief scientists, and the second has them attack a [=FutureTech=] base, who quickly prove themselves to be as evil as the Soviets were portrayed as in the first game, as they're shown testing out their Cryo Legionnaires by having them freeze innocent civillians solid and then shattering them with their Boost Kick ability. Their final mission also has them preventing Rupert Thornley from trying to take over the world using the Sigma Harmonizer, an even more powerful version of the Chronosphere capable of stopping time.

** Stalin in ''Red Alert'' and his cronies try to pass themselves off as well-intentioned, particularly in his cronies' [[TheStarscream Starscream-esque]] moments. Likewise to Premier Cherdenko in ''Red Alert 3''. They fail utterly since Cherdenko clearly only cares about himself.

* MoreDakka: Yuri's army comes equipped with Gatling turrets and tank that spin faster the longer they fire.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: His role in the game seems rather similar to Ignatio Mobius in Tiberian Dawn.

* TheDogBitesBack: Einstein, quite possibly ''the'' most famous and well-known Jewish person in the world kills Adolf Hitler by eradicating him from time itself, thereby avenging every last Jew who died in the Holocaust by proxy. While in ''Yuri's Revenge'', despite being kidnapped by Yuri, Einstein also manages to sabotage his Psychic Dominator plans before being rescued by the Allies.

* LegacyCharacter: The original Tanya was an American mercenary employed by the Allies during the second Great War. The Red Alert 2 version just seems to be coincidentally named Tanya. By the third game, it's clear that the name "Tanya" is now a codename for all of the badass female commandos under the employ of the Allies.