History Characters / Helldivers

* ZergRush: While not as overtly pronounced as their adversaries, High Command does not seem to employ any significant amount of strategy in their campaigns beyond deploying loads and loads of Helldivers and heavy ordinance behind enemy lines to take out key objectives while the SEAF hold down the front lines. In the sequel, one can observe what could be dozens to hundreds of Super Destroyers simply idling above planets currently under liberation, content to drop a constant stream of hellpods and explosives while maintaining no actual battle formation.

* ThemeNaming: Some Helldiver equipment are named after fittingly democratic and nationalistic concepts, such as the Liberator assault rifle, the Patriot mech suit, the Senator revolver, etc. Other weapons take after themes of justice, retribution and martial might such as the Adjudicator, the Dominator and Punisher shotguns. Their energy weapons are primarily themed after blades, particularly farming equipment such as the Scythe and Sickle rifles and the Dagger pistol.

* FascistButInefficient: Parodied. Quite a lot of attention is put on how Super Earth runs the Galactic War with the basic overall stategy of "throw barely-trained CannonFodder [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill overequipped with planet-decimating weaponry]] into zones swarming with hostiles until whatever current objective is achieved", and how there don't appear to be ''any'' kind of coordinated planetary offensives beyond broad Major Orders, which don't even force Super Destroyers to deploy at certain locations, as was famously seen in ''II'' during the Malevelon Creek fiasco. A variety of ship upgrades in ''II'' are [[YouHaveResearchedBreathing shockingly simplistic]] or even available late in the list (such as equipping logistics personnel with...''hand carts'') to make it obvious Super Earth's decision-making process isn't the most practical.

* SuperPersistentPredator: Once a gunship has Helldiver in its sights, it becomes very hard to shake it off, short of shooting the thing down. This is further complicated by their aerial positioning making it difficult to keep it cover against them.

* {{Expy}}:
** If Super Earth is an expy of ''Film/StarshipTroopers''' Terran Federation, then the Helldivers are expies of the Terran Mobile Infantry, being highly-trained SpaceMarines who fight with [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill excessive amounts of force]] but are also on-the-nose parodies of EliteMooks who [[CannonFodder get wiped out in droves]]. However, they do also share some similarities with how the Mobile Infantry is depicted in [[Literature/StarshipTroopers the book]], such as how [[OneManArmy a squad of four of them are able to enact and lock down large-scale combat operations and slaughter hundreds of enemies without breaking a sweat]].
** Helldivers also resemble the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers ([=ODSTs=]) from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. Not only does the default Helldiver helmet and body armor resemble those of [=ODSTs=], but they also deploy via {{Drop Pod}}s.

* {{Expy}}: If Super Earth is an expy of ''Film/StarshipTroopers''' Terran Federation, then the Helldivers are expies of the Terran Mobile Infantry, being highly-trained SpaceMarines who fight with [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill excessive amounts of force]] but are also on-the-nose parodies of EliteMooks who [[CannonFodder get wiped out in droves]]. However, they do also share some similarities with how the Mobile Infantry is depicted in [[Literature/StarshipTroopers the book]], such as how [[OneManArmy a squad of four of them are able to enact and lock down large-scale combat operations and slaughter hundreds of enemies without breaking a sweat]].

* LogicalWeakness: Like the Terminids' Chargers, it requires all four legs to support its extremely heavy weight. If even one of its legs is taken out (such as [[KneeCapping via the knee joint]]), the Factory Strider [[SquareCubeLaw cannot hope to support its own weight]] and it falls over before self-destructing. Like regular stationary Fabricators, it's also momentarily vulnerable to explosive attacks when its deployment bay opens to drop its Devastators onto the field, and its more lightweight design means that the hatch itself is an exploitable medium-armoured weak point even when closed. Finally, its immense size and weight makes it a huge, glacially slow target for Eagle and Super Destroyer bombardment stratagems, making it much easier for Helldivers to apply the massive damage necessary to down one of these things.

* LogicalWeakness: Like the Terminids' Chargers, it requires all four legs to support its extremely heavy weight. If even one of its legs is taken out (such as [[KneeCapping via the knee joint]]), the Factory Strider [[SquareCubeLaw cannot hope to support its own weight]] and it falls over before self-destructing. Like regular stationary Fabricators, it's also momentarily vulnerable to explosive attacks when its deployment bay opens to drop its Devastators onto the field, and its more lightweight design means that the hatch itself is an exploitable medium-armoured weak point even when closed.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Given how completely contrary the government of Super Earth is to the concepts of "Democracy", "Liberty" and even "Freedom" that its citizens fling around so often, it's entirely possible that the average citizen of Super Earth has ''no idea what any of those concepts actually mean'' and are just parroting them as buzzwords designed to instill PatrioticFervor. Supported by the many ways the words are used that have no bearing on any existing definition of them.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Given how completely contrary the government of Super Earth is to the concepts of "Democracy", "Liberty" and even "Freedom" that its citizens fling around so often, it's entirely possible that the average citizen of Super Earth has ''no idea what any of those concepts actually mean'' and are just parroting them as buzzwords designed to instill PatrioticFervor.

* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Let's be honest here: leaving aside the lack of a [[ CultOfPersonality clearly visible cult of the individual ]] , the Super Earth's regime has all the characteristics of a totalitarian state controlling every element of citizens' lives and demanding from them total sacrifices for the good of the state as a whole. Much of their propaganda taps into the idea of servicing the greater good, and the Helldiver recruitment ads especially draw on the concept that "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_isn%27t_free freedom doesn't come free]]" and that citizens can repay their "debt" to the greater populace by enlisting in the military and "helping to keep them safe".

* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Let's be honest here: leaving aside the lack of a clearly visible cult of the individual, the Super Earth's regime has all the characteristics of a totalitarian state controlling every element of citizens' lives and demanding from them total sacrifices for the good of the state as a whole. Much of their propaganda taps into the idea of servicing the greater good, and the Helldiver recruitment ads especially draw on the concept that "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_isn%27t_free freedom doesn't come free]]" and that citizens can repay their "debt" to the greater populace by enlisting in the military and "helping to keep them safe".

* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Let's be honest here: Leaving aside the lack of a clearly visible cult of the individual, the Super Earth's regime has all the characteristics of a totalitarian state controlling every element of citizens' lives and demanding from them total sacrifices for the good of the state as a whole.

* TheMagnificent: In contrast to [[RedBaron the fearsome epithets given to the Hive Lords and Siege Mechs]], Great Eyes have a selection of suffixes that emphasize their immense wisdom and omnipresent oversight of the Illuminates like, "The All Seeing" and "The Insightful".

* TheMagnificent: In contrast to [[RedBaron the fearsome epithets given to the Hive Lords and Siege Mechs]], Great Eyes have a selection of suffixes that empasize their immense wisdom and omnipresent oversight of the Illuminates like, "The All Seeing" and "The Insightful"