History FanFic / WorldwarWarOfEquals

* [[spoiler: TheDragonsTeeth: China becomes the first country to allow the use of nuclear weapons on the invaders.]]

* ForcesWithFirepower: So much of the world's military has been mobilized, [[ForcesWithFirepower/WorldwarWarOfEquals that an entire page was needed to document all that saw action.]]

* {{UsefulNotes/ESA}}: Works with NASA in working on a transmission of peace to the Conquest Fleet.

* UsefulNotes/{{NASA}}: Leads SETI and many American astronomical institutes in working on a transmission of peace to the Conquest Fleet and works alongside the European Space Agency.

* UsefulNotes/TheArabSpring: Failed in this timeline and was largely ignored by the media for [[FirstContact more pressing news]].

* [[spoiler: [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons The Deadliest Mushroom]]: The fallout from the Chinese nuke used in Luanping County affects the citizens that didn't evacuate from the area.]]

* [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/TheSamsonOption: With The Race starting to invade Syria and with north eastern Egypt occupied, the Israeli government fears a two front war which they would definitely not live through. One of the plans suggested for such an event involves "nuclear scorched earth".]]

* {{BFG}}: A Race Landcruiser's main gun is 5 inches (127mm). The standard for Human tanks is usually 125mm depending on the model.

* GlassCannon: Race Landcruisers are able to dominate tanks with less armor such as the Argentinian [=TAM=] tank and the Leopard 1A1, they come with 4 or 5 inch guns (101.6 and 127 mm for comparison), and composite armor. Though their armor can easily be breached by rocket launchers, [=IED=]s, or other tanks with much bigger guns.

** Infantry Commander appears to be the equivalent to a Lieutenant rank.
** Shiplord seems to come close to being a Warrant officer.
** Fleetlord (the commander of all forces of the Conquest Fleet) is equal to being a General.

** A joint Chilean-Peruvian armored battalion keeps driving towards to Brazil, completely ignoring Paraguay's pleas for help as the country is slowly being overrun and causes animosity between the three countries.

* TemptingFate: Flightleader Dreek and his wingmates talk about how primitive Human aircraft is... right before the squadron gets slaughter by Ukrainian stealth fighters.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Colombia and Venezuela agree to put their conflict on hold are prepare to fight the incoming aliens.

* ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Race's fleet is described as having 35 million males and as being able to overwhelm parts of Earth with sheer numbers even as they attack across the entire planet. 35 million is hardly enough to overwhelm a planet of 7 billion people.''[[JustifiedTrope Justified]]'', since The Race likely believed that our population hadn´t change in numbers since the Middle Age and 35 million soldiers with advanced technology would win in that kind of fight if we didn´t made any progress.

* SchizoTech: Humans are actually surprised that the alien's have tanks, aircraft, and technology that are somewhat weaker than theirs but yet they have starships and have cold sleep tech.

** Before the invasion, the only nuclear capable power that considers this an option is North Korea, pledging to destroy the first Race ship that lands on Earth. China is the only nation to take thereat seriously and Chinese anti-nuclear defenses on the Korean border are increased. [[spoiler: Ironically enough, China is the first nation to use a nuclear weapon against the invaders.]]

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: A Level 5 example. The alien's are capable of interstellar travel, cold sleep, and starships, but their war technology is comparable to what Humans had back in TheNineties.

* GunshipRescue: Race helicopters are noted of being extremely lethal in urban areas.

* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: SETI is dissolved a few months after the fleet was spotted and replace by the Research of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (RETI).

* GenreSavvy: During a UN emergency summit in Switzerland, the US reveals that the incoming fleet is way to large for their mission to be exploration or a first contact team, meaning they're coming here for one thing.

* ThePope: Pope Benedict XVI makes several minor appearances throughout the story.

** According to ''Chapter 5: Interlude to War 2'' when The Race's existence was announced in Brazil, preachers in the street became common and there were rumors of cults abducting tourist.

** The Conquest Fleet in their own right as well. They have about ''35,000,000'' infantrymales and manege to drown some countries with sheer numbers alone.

** Only one Israeli fighter was all that was needed to destroy the Race EMP meant to be used above Cairo.

* AnAssKickingChristmas: A joint American/Canadian operation appropriately nicknamed "Operation Eve'' strikes at vulnerable occupied positions between St. Louis and Jefferson City. Ground forces are inserted into key areas and destroy Race anti-armor and air emplacement. By the time kids were waking up for gifts from old St. Nick, we gave Race forces a gift by reliving them of their territory and leave the lizards on the run.

* AmericaWinsTheWar: Subverted. America's military is considered the biggest threat to Race domination of Earth and they provide assistance to Mexico, Iraq, and Australia. However, many operations in the American homeland succeed with the help of Canadian forces and they help fight The Race's advance in the north west United States.

* {{Sex}}: A portion of Ttomalss' report on Humans focuses on Human sexual practices. He doesn't go in depth about it because it's just that disgusting to them and because we ''a lot'' of variations of it.

* DuringTheWar: Most of the story is written written in a timeline format and the occasional personal story.

* ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Race's fleet is described as having 35 million males and as being able to overwhelm parts of Earth with sheer numbers even as they attack across the entire planet. 35 million is hardly enough to overwhelm a planet of 7 billion people.

** In the original novels, all of South America, Central America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe were conquered very quickly by The Race due to many nations in those areas not having a strong military back in the 40s. Here, South American nations such as Brazil and Eastern Euro nations like the Ukraine are putting up much more of a fight.

* YouALLShareMyStory: Averted. None of the main [=POV=] character have met each other yet due to fighting in different parts of the world.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: When The Race reaches Umm Qastr, Iraq, they are met by the Kuwaiti and Saudi armed forces along Highway 80. Yes ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death that Highway 80]]''. Wait... a Middle Eastern force defending an invasion attempt from a (somewhat) technologically advanced foe? [[TheGulfWar Whens the last time that happened?]]

* AliensAreBastards: Race killercraft pilots don't seem to care whether their targets are civilian or military, the {{EMP}}s they dropped is mentioned to have killed millions, and then there is [[spoiler: the nuking of several highly populated human cities, killing thousands]].

** The Italian military's ColdWar era jet fighters and anti-air defenses work just as well as their modern counterparts in keeping Race killercraft from gaining air dominance.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Some of the more... antagonistic world leaders such as Kim Jong-un, Hosni Mubarak, and Muammar Gaddafi are shown in a somewhat more positive light ([[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment let's just leave it at that.]]) Of course, anyone is better than alien conquerors.

* HolyCity: The Vatican has been bombarded by The Race constantly. Pope Francis however, refuses to leave.

* HiddenVillain: The Race Emperor, who approved the invasion of Earth in the first place, has so far been given only a few brief mentions. Justified for two reasons, the first being that he was this in the original stories (until Homeward Bound, that is), and that he's ten light years away and there's no such thing as faster-than-light in this universe, in communication or for travel. If the Race or humans want to speak to him, they have to wait about twenty years for a reply thanks to the speed-of-light barrier.

* DirtyCoward: When Lesotho states that it will seek peace with the potential invaders, they receive a lot of flak from most of Africa. They actually keep their promise and surrender, despite being kilometers away from any of the fighting. [[LaserGuidedKarma They get invaded by South Africa to deny The Race a safe landing zone into Africa and all of the country's leaders are arrested under charges of treason]].