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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: {{Inverted}}: She is an [[{{Omniglot}} an expert at nearly every language]], and one of her traits is to not just speak the language of whoever she's talking to, but give a near-perfect imitation of their accent: in [[NonEntityGeneral Alex Manning's case]], [[CanadaEh who is Canadian]], that meant she talked to Alex "exclusively in her Canadian-accented English instead of her "real" French".
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: {{Inverted}}: She is an [[{{Omniglot}} an expert at nearly every language]], and one of her traits is to not just speak the language of whoever she's talking to, but give a near-perfect imitation of their accent: in [[NonEntityGeneral Alex Manning's case]], [[CanadaEh who is Canadian]], Canadian, that meant she talked to Alex "exclusively in her Canadian-accented English instead of her "real" French".
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* EliteArmy: The Comintern Volunteers have a reputation as some of the very best soldiers in the entire world. Allied Peacekeepers admit that in terms of training, equipment and commitment, they significantly surpass them even if they are a smaller, more restrictive force.
* MultinationalTeam: The Comintern Volunteers are an international volunteer army that accepts communists of all nations, whether or not their governments are Soviet-aligned. These soldiers bear no national symbology and are beholden only to the Communist International itself.
* PoweredArmor: All Volunteer infantry wear battlesuits, which protect them from small arms fire, biological weapons and poison gas, but render them vulnerable to magnetism and EMP.
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* EliteArmy: The Comintern Volunteers have a reputation as some of the very best soldiers in the entire world. Allied Peacekeepers admit that in terms of training, equipment and commitment, they significantly surpass them even if they are a smaller, more restrictive force.
* MultinationalTeam: The Comintern Volunteers are an international volunteer army that accepts communists of all nations, whether or not their governments are Soviet-aligned. These soldiers bear no national symbology and are beholden only to the Communist International itself.
* PoweredArmor: All Volunteer infantry wear battlesuits, which protect them from small arms fire, biological weapons and poison gas, but render them vulnerable to magnetism and EMP.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: InUniverse. Their concerns over the effects of entropy on their works and society spiraled them into increasingly dark works and eventually to war.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse. Protectorate bases and high-level constructs are increasingly abstract, with loose forms symbolically representing their role rather than the more direct TinCanRobot stylings.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse. Protectorate bases and high-level constructs are increasingly abstract, with loose forms symbolically representing their role rather than the more direct TinCanRobot stylings.
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* CoolButInefficient: The Protectorate don't even need an army to win the war, as they could simply cover the world in GreyGoo and win the war in about a day. However [[DoingItForTheArt due to]] [[LargeHam their nature]] the idea of it is completely alien to them.
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* CoolButInefficient: The Protectorate don't even need an army to win the war, as they could simply cover the world in GreyGoo and win the war in about a day. However [[DoingItForTheArt due to]] [[LargeHam However, their nature]] nature makes the idea of it is completely alien to them.
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* DoingItForTheArt: In-Universe, their prior motivation. Even now, they can't help but work this in; their TinCanRobot imagery is the result of them designing what they think a robot army ought to look like given the contemporary pop culture they had absorbed.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Out of all the characters in ''Paradox'', she is the only offender of barefooting, at least judging by her concept art.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Most GLA leaders reside in palaces, drink wine, eat cavier and watch hollywood movies while sending men to their deaths against the 'decadent' west.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Most GLA leaders reside in palaces, drink wine, eat cavier caviar and watch hollywood Hollywood movies while sending men to their deaths against the 'decadent' west.
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[[folder:African League]]
An African diamond mining mega corp, the African League have a thing for ancient Egyptian imagery and utilise a variety of high-range weaponry and sturdy technology to take parts of Africa under their control, which quickly prosper. Their biggest nemisis in terms of warfare as well as economy is the Mediterranean Syndicate, who happens to be their neighbor, globally speaking.
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* BeamSpam: The basic idea behind the Emirates's pulse laser technology. Taken [[SerialEscalation to ridiculous extremes]] with the Scatterbeam Cannons, which are essentially Gattling Laser Shotguns.
* BulletproofVest: A lot of League personnel are equipped with diamond-weave combat vests.
* CityOfGold: Diamonds are an extremely plentiful material for the Emirates. Their cities do have gold and platinum as well, though.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Diamonds are not only pretty to look at, this faction generates electrical power with diamonds and lasers.
* GunsAkimbo: The Emmissary wields dual ramjet pistols.
* HumongousMecha: The War Derricks are giant mechs that can simply stomp and/or punch anything that comes close.
* LegoGenetics: League Mutagens end up applying under this, even though the Emirates don't have particular control over the DNA itself.
* PsychoSerum: When League mutagens on animals fail to work properly, it acts like this. Particularly with the uberchickens for the Akachi Bomber.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The League increasingly becomes this as their hatred for the Syndicate goes out of control.
* WarriorPrince: Khalid, the Sultan for the League, prefers to command armies himself as opposed to just letting people do it for him. He isn't a slouch in combat either, and that's before the fact he gets dibs on the best stuff.
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[[folder:Technocratic Combine]]
Composed of the United Technate in Latin America and associated international groups, the Technocratic Combine was created in order to bring about Utopia and world peace as seen through the lens of 1930s Art Deco futurism. Though they greatly admire peace, they are fine with using violence, war, or questionable and dangerous means to achieve that end. Though still using outdated weapons and tactics from both World Wars 1 and 2, their capacity for scientific and technological improvement as well as their penchant for morale warfare allows them to offset their limited offensive capabilities.
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* BeastOfBattle: They use more animals in their forces than any other faction.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Gigantic tank-sized ants, bees and isopods serve in the Combine's auxiliary forces. They're cheap and ferociously loyal but don't stand up well to firepower.
* CombatPragmatist: Trench, chemical, biological, and psychological warfare are all used, both in-game and in lore.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Bat bombs, pidgeon missiles, mole mines, head-sized wasps, GIANT ANTS, enraged chimpanzees...noting a pattern?
* MadScientist: The Combine appear to be mentally sound in how they approach using and handling the efforts of their mad science and logically explain their reasons for doing so, but their logic is often severely distorted or paradoxical.
* TerrorHero: Types 3 and 4, attempting to become Type 5 with the (distorted) logic that if everyone is too scared to fight you, then no one will want to and there'll be no more war.
* TheVirus: Fungal Zombies can turn infantry they kill into more Fungal Zombies.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The goals of the Combine are the unification of humanity and the progress of technology to increase the standard of living and end war, poverty, suffering, etc. They're willing to delve into some pretty questionable or dangerous areas to achieve those goals, and anyone who voices dissent is therefore in their minds being against humanity's wellbeing.
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[[folder:Industrial Guild]]
A revolutionary group with a love for Victorian stuff, the Industrial Guild are based in Indonesia. Huge numbers of willing soldiers and tanks equipped with all sorts of classic weaponry fight for freedom. With huge factories guzzling out material and smoke alike, the Guild reuse many classic designs.
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* ArchEnemy: The Industrial Guild is a coalition of civil rebellions in southeast Asia, banded together by a single goal of freedom, rights and common cause in dethroning the Pahit Dictatorial.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Sleuths and inventors are generally seen as superior officers.
* CoolAirship: The Industrial Guild has a whole building dedicated to building airships.
* DrillTank: The Turner Drill is a mobile drilling machine with an oversized engine and an equally oversized drill which tears apart larger units, while smaller units are simply crushed under its bulk.
* ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilizedAge: They have quite a few of those.
* ParasolOfPain: Their commando, Victoria uses a shotgun disguised as a parasol.
* SapientCetaceans: Sperm whales have negotiated an alliance with the Guild with the help of a dolphin translator.
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[[folder:Southern Contingent]]
A coalition of Australia, New Zealand, and a few surrounding states, the Southern Contingent were part of the Allied Nations but refused further cooperation to ensure survival on their own. Instead, they build up their own military force, using gunslinger cowboys, aircraft, and gravitational manipulation with great efforts. Good on defense and offense alike, the Contingent can react fast on various dangers and prove that their region of the world is dangerous for quite a few reasons.
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* ArtificialGravity: Gravitic control is one of the Contingent's major technological advances.
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: The standard anti-armour weapon of the Contingent is depleted uranium, whose high density lets it punch through armour easily.
* GravityMaster: The Contingent have complete mastery over gravity.
* {{Irony}}: The Contingent missed out on discovering nuclear fission, but noticed Depleted Uranium's use as a weapon. Nowadays, they keep the ''valuable'' depleted uranium while disposing of the ''useless'' enriched stuff.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The Contingent use cannonballs with some of their units. This is aided by the fact that said cannon balls are made of depleted Uranium and gravity-guided, however.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: All Contingent weapons (bar the occasional gravity weapon or grenade) are kinetic. Not only that, they hit HARD, thus playing this trope straight.
* LandDownUnder: The Southern Contingent is comprised of Australia and New Zealand.
* LaserSight: Of a sort: instead of lasers, particle beams are used, which have the benefit of hurting the thing you are aiming at.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Since the Contingent sees enriched uranium as useless, the stuff they don't bury is sold to ''American research colleges'', who have a great interest in the stuff. Three guesses who they are.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: However, said research colleges find depleted Uranium useless, and so when they produce it they send it to Australia to get rid of it...
* RammingAlwaysWorks: The Sawfish crashes into enemy ships, where its prow bursts, destroying the enemy instantly. The pieces are then attracted back by a gravity field.
* {{Roboteching}}: The Contingent uses gravity manipulation to fire CANNONBALLS this way.
* SelectiveGravity: One of the advantages of controlling gravity. The Contingent use this to the point that their command centers, certain high-level military equipment, and even a KillSat equivalent in the upper atmosphere.
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[[folder:American Unionists]]
An American Civil Defense Force created for the sole purpose of Americanism and the stomping out of Communist influence in the USA. After being all but diminished in the early 60s, they became revitalized after Moskvin's failed invasion of New York and the Rise of the Confederate Rebellion. The CIA (American subdivision of the ACIN) has taken a great interest in this group, and has been secretly integrating it more and more into their control. Only time will tell where that will lead...
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* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld: Heavily implied in the lore, where [[LesCollaborateurs they are spreading other Union organizations in both Allied and non-Allied territory]] (Britain, France, Cuba, Vietnam, etc.), and are also [[OrwellianRetcon rewriting history in their territories to make it seem like]] America is the most important country in the planet, [[AmericaSavesTheDay and only America can save the day]] [[RedScare from the scourge of communism]].
* {{Eagleland}}: Stradles a fine line between the two flavors.
* GovernmentConspiracy: The modus operandi of American Unionists.
* ManchurianAgent: Named "Guam Candidates" for the testing done on Imperial prisoners on Guam.
* MoreThanMindControl: They use post-hypnotic suggestion to train their troopers.
* StepfordSuburbia: A faction of it.
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[[folder:Greater Indian Commonwealth]]
Focusing on a specialized branch unaffected by Allied Nation's regulations, the GIC has invaded Pakistan and other surrounding nations for the goal of supporting the massive numbers of poor that are part of the national population with their new Frontier Corps. They have also started taking evidence from their Reservist expeditions to what remains of China for technologies to scavenge to improve their war machine.
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* WeHaveReserves: The only power bloc that has more reserves ''than the Soviets''.
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[[folder:Cyberbolivaran Forum]]
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* HardLight: Luminous Ultraviolet Manmade Optical Solution (LUMOS) is a technology employed by the Federation that creates a burst of solid white and ultraviolet light in a small area.
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[[folder:Ukrazol Ecumene]]
Exploratory elements of a "Meritocratic" society that has slowly deformed into a social Darwinistic and deeply totalitarian society, the Ukrazol Ecumene both use and subvert most common alien invader tropes and have come to our world. Officially the fleet parked around Jupiter is there to engage in a rather destructive method of combating creative sterility by observing, probing, and disturbing new found societies before paving the way for an eventual conquest fleet for assimilation. But it's quite difficult for the average Ecumenical Citizen to determine what is and isn't true in an ancient government with a depth of information control that Oceania of 1984 fame could only dream of.
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* AlienInvasion: A decidedly nonstandard Alien invasion, starting at first with subversive techniques, and then escalating too much more full-scale assaults as time goes along.
* AnarchoTyranny: The Ecumene is an individualistic totalitarian society, one where there is freedom for the strong to crush the weak and to jealously amass and guard their own power in collusion with others who have clawed their way upwards lest anyone else threaten it.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Ukrazol Ecumene is a despotic meritocratic parafascist intergalactic state, heavily based in revanchism, the concept of a national destiny, militarism, expansionism and hate, that ultimately craves constant growth, trying to outrace the weight of its own contradictions by shoving more fuel into its eternal fire. Left-wing ideologies are deemed moral threats and demonised at best or have their existences kept entirely hidden at worst.
* TheSocialDarwinist: When you peer past the claims of equality and egalitarianism, the Ecumene's political philosophy is that the strong will do as they please, the weak will suffer what they must. Certain figures such as Orlukk exemplify this much more strongly than others.
* StateSec: The Enforcers are a shining example of this trope, possessing a completely separate chain of command from the observational and military forces, being given broad and sweeping powers in both military and civilian fields, functioning as one of several kinds of secret police in the Ecumene, and being comprised out of those who value loyalty over morality. Though lacking in-game units, the Enforcers are noted to have distinctive black and green uniforms.
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[[folder:Pahit Dictatoriat]]
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* FriendlyFireproof: Pahit filters are the only known counter against Pahit gas by reacting with it to form breathable air. Equipping this makes all Pahit units immune to the effects of Pahit gas.
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[[folder:Mongolian Migration]]
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* BaseOnWheels: Everything the Mongolians have is mobile, including their buildings.
* MultipleLifeBars: When any Mongolian unit dies, it stays on the battlefield, unable to participate. If not killed a second time, aenough time has passed, the unit will be restored to combat functionality.
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[[folder:Inkarri Theocracy]]
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* EarthquakeMachine: The Pachamama and Titicaca pack a volcanic generator, which can create hotspots, magma wells and volcanoes in a huge radius around these units.
* KingInTheMountain: One of the Cult of the Inkarri's main principles is that their leaders, after being executed and dismembered by the Spanish colonists, were returned to the land, hidden and separated, for their power was too big for the Spanish to contest them. It was a matter of waiting, hoping and having faith that, some day, all of the messiah's missing parts would be finally gathered, put together and restored, so he may restore the Inca to their position as the prime power of the world.
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[[folder:Movement for International Revolution]]
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* LaResistance: The MIR is a coalition of Latin American guerrilla warriors brought together by the ideals of Marxist revolution and the hopes of dethroning Allied puppet governments.
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[[folder:The Network]]
The eventual result of Paradox's many, ''many'' conspiracies, the Network are essentially your local conspiracy theorist packed up for war. Everyone from survivalists to storm chasers are part of the Network, centered around the mysterious "Third Eye".
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* ConspiracyTheorist: While they are right about quite a few things, like the existence of the Electrical Protectorate, the war between the Order and the Cult, and the fact that the Ukrazol Ecumene is secretly observing them. They also believe that World War II was staged, [[EntertaininglyWrong Cherdenko is a super-psychic]], the Shogun Executioner's destruction of Odessa was filmed on set, the African League made a pact with aliens made of crystal...
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Art Bell acts as one of the Network's leading voices.
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[[folder:Phoenix Front]]
The result of the Syndicate seizing power in Belfast, the Phoenix Front is the result of Irish Republicans and British Unionists focusing their collective anger on the Syndicate and Allied Nations that allowed the takeover of Belfast to occur, though no one has quite factored in how long it will take to achieve victory.
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* ArmsDealer: Of the gangland gunrunner variety.
* CombatPragmatist: Like all the rebel groups in Paradox, the Front isn't averse to fighting dirty. They are, however, fighting dirtier than most.
* EnemyMine: Only in Paradox would Irish unionists and republicans even consider coming together.
* FightingIrish: The Phoenix Front is an Irish nationalist group spanning every belief, political and religious, uniting under a comon cause of Irish unification.
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[[folder:Arabian Coalition]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: The Arabian Coalition, an alliance of absolute monarchies, consider themselves the last remaining bastion of freedom in the Middle East.
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[[folder:Crescent Pact]]
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* ChummyCommies: The Middle Eastern communists have turned their homeland from a ruin devastated by colonialism into a modern nation matching European standards of living, demonstrating that the colonised peoples are no longer slaves but now equals to the imperial core.
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