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* DeathWorld: Parodied when ''{{Canada| Eh}}'' is described as one. 'They say [Sharp's] homeland is a frozen wasteland where the icy wind would cut you to the bone and where water only ever falls as snow, like it does here upon the mountaintops yonder... It is said the forests there are full of ferocious beasts with huge teeth and claws called bears, and that you must prove yourself worthy by defeating one with a traditional weapon of his tribe they call a hockey stick'
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* DropShip: ''Avengers''. Which can also serve as heavy fire support.
** In ''Terra From The Deep,'' it's stated that the Orbanians are working on a version that can fit through the stargate.
** In ''Terra From The Deep,'' it's stated that the Orbanians are working on a version that can fit through the stargate.
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* GrimUpNorth: Parodied when Canada is described as a frozen northern wasteland of icy winds and constant snow, with forests full of ferocious bears that must be defeated as part of tribal initation rituals.
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-->''"They say [Sharp's] homeland is a frozen wasteland where the icy wind would cut you to the bone and where water only ever falls as snow, like it does here upon the mountaintops yonder... it is said the forests there are full of ferocious beasts with huge teeth and claws called bears, and that you must prove yourself worthy by defeating one with a traditional weapon of his tribe they call a hockey stick"''
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Anubis thinks that Loki's plan to be accepted back as the savior of his race is delusional. And this from the man who wishes to eradicate all life in the galaxy.
** That being said, Loki thinks that Anubis is less of the MagnificentBastard he portrays himself as, and is more along the lines of StupidEvil.
** That being said, Loki thinks that Anubis is less of the MagnificentBastard he portrays himself as, and is more along the lines of StupidEvil.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Anubis thinks that Loki's plan to be accepted back as the savior of his race is delusional. And this This from the man who wishes to eradicate all life in the galaxy.
** That being said, Loki thinks that Anubis isless of the MagnificentBastard he portrays himself as, and is more along the lines of StupidEvil.
** That being said, Loki thinks that Anubis is
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* UncannyValley[invoked]: The Athosians have this reaction to the Terrans, specifically their "Craziness," their willingness to use violence, and their psionic powers. [[spoiler: It turns out that Terrans were genetically modified to be ''far'' more aggressive than the Alterans were, while the humans from the Pegasus Galaxy were ''not'' given the aggression upgrades- meaning they tend to be more peaceful and docile. There are exceptions- a few worlds were mentioned to be given the upgrades, including Sateda, homeworld of Ronan.]]
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* IfIWantedYouDead: An initial argument against the Asgard and Sectoids being the same was that the latter would not have to come down to Terra and use infantry if they had the former's tech- they'd just use Asgard Teleporters to take people with impunity and then leave. In a later, separate incident...
--> "Commander, according to the results of the investigation you agreed to while under the za'tarc detector you were more annoyed at the implication that if you ''had'' been responsible there would have been any live witnesses left behind than you were the accusation you were guilty of carrying out the attack."
--> "I objected to the implication I'm some kind of blundering amateur."
--> "Commander, according to the results of the investigation you agreed to while under the za'tarc detector you were more annoyed at the implication that if you ''had'' been responsible there would have been any live witnesses left behind than you were the accusation you were guilty of carrying out the attack."
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** An initial argument against the Asgard and Sectoids being the same was that the latter would not have to come down to Terra and use infantry if they had the former's tech- they'd just use Asgard Teleporters to take people with impunity and thenleave. leave.
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* IThinkYouBrokeHim
-->"It can't be true" Weir said to herself quietly, "we can't just be the [[spoiler: leftover war-toys of some precursor civilization]]" she tried to convince herself before a thought occurred and she suddenly stood up and thumped her clenched fists down on the conference table. "I refuse to accept that Russell Sharp is a first class representative of what we were intended to be!" she shouted out into the universe before collapsing back into her chair, her eyes glassing over as she considered the bleakness of creation.
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-->"It can't be true" Weir said to herself quietly, "we can't just be the [[spoiler: leftover war-toys of some precursor civilization]]" she tried to convince herself before a thought occurred and she suddenly stood up and thumped her clenched fists down on the conference table. "I refuse to accept that Russell Sharp is a first class representative of what we were intended to be!" she shouted out into the universe before collapsing back into her chair, her eyes glassing over as she considered the bleakness of creation.
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** [[spoiler: Time-Clone Elizabeth Wier]] takes pleasure in pointing out how far [[spoiler: her present self]] has slid, morality-wise.
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** Kolya's report on the combat abilities of X-COM against the Aquatoids indicate that... he doesn't actually have a good grasp on their abilities. Because most of the X-COM tactics he witnessed involved "turn invisible, wait for the Aquatoids to walk past us, and then stun them in the back," he doesn't really have an idea of how strong their armor is, what their tactics in a full fight are like, or even their weapon strengths or weaknesses are. He concludes it by pointing out that the whole battle felt like an ambush against a foe that was not remotely prepared to fight them, so he hopes to get more data next time.
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* RealityEnsues:
** XCOM has a schtick of being great at reverse engineering... but the thing is, even they still have limits.
*** The most advanced technology of Loki's, not to mention extremely advanced Asgard, Ancient, and Tollan technology, remains firmly out of reach of even the vaunted reverse engineers of XCOM simply because it's so advanced.
*** While they thrive on taking stuff apart and putting it back together, there's literally so much stuff they find or capture from Pegasus, not to mention in the Milky Way, that XCOM has to start outsourcing the research to other human governments like Tollan and Optrica.
** Kolya's report on the combat abilities of X-COM against the Aquatoids indicate that... he doesn't actually have a good grasp on their abilities. Because most of the X-COM tactics he witnessed involved "turn invisible, wait for the Aquatoids to walk past us, and then stun them in the back," he doesn't really have an idea of how strong their armor is, what their tactics in a full fight are like, or even their weapon strengths or weaknesses are. He concludes it by pointing out that the whole battle felt like an ambush against a foe that was not remotely prepared to fight them, so he hopes to get more data next time.
** XCOM has a schtick of being great at reverse engineering... but the thing is, even they still have limits.
*** The most advanced technology of Loki's, not to mention extremely advanced Asgard, Ancient, and Tollan technology, remains firmly out of reach of even the vaunted reverse engineers of XCOM simply because it's so advanced.
*** While they thrive on taking stuff apart and putting it back together, there's literally so much stuff they find or capture from Pegasus, not to mention in the Milky Way, that XCOM has to start outsourcing the research to other human governments like Tollan and Optrica.
** Kolya's report on the combat abilities of X-COM against the Aquatoids indicate that... he doesn't actually have a good grasp on their abilities. Because most of the X-COM tactics he witnessed involved "turn invisible, wait for the Aquatoids to walk past us, and then stun them in the back," he doesn't really have an idea of how strong their armor is, what their tactics in a full fight are like, or even their weapon strengths or weaknesses are. He concludes it by pointing out that the whole battle felt like an ambush against a foe that was not remotely prepared to fight them, so he hopes to get more data next time.
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* NotSoDifferent: "Lacking the disposable cannon-fodder of many worlds with a large population of Jaffa upon them Anubis was always forced to seek force-multipliers, in this way he was strangely similar to the Tau’ri he now found himself in opposition to, they both constantly sought a technological means to make up for their numerical shortcomings."
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** "Lacking the disposable cannon-fodder of many worlds with a large population of Jaffa upon them Anubis was always forced to seek force-multipliers, in this way he was strangely similar to the Tau’ri he now found himself in opposition to, they both constantly sought a technological means to make up for their numerical shortcomings."
** "Lacking the disposable cannon-fodder of many worlds with a large population of Jaffa upon them Anubis was always forced to seek force-multipliers, in this way he was strangely similar to the Tau’ri he now found himself in opposition to, they both constantly sought a technological means to make up for their numerical shortcomings."
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* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: [[spoiler: All of the most effective races for fighting in the setting are genetically enhanced or engineered. The Sectoids are the reason X-COM is so terrifying, the Ancients turned proto-humanity into utter nightmares on the battlefield, and the Wraith (created by the Aquatoids) were the ones who routed the Ancients in open war.]]
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Sharp's offworld propaganda campaign does have its benefits, but it eventually results in at least one of the System Lords choosing to ally with the ''[[HordeOfAlienLocusts Replicators]]'' because they are seen as easier to coexist with than [[TheDreaded Sharp, Warlord of the Tau'ri]].
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** Sharp's offworld propaganda campaign does have its benefits, but it eventually results in at least one of the System Lords choosing to ally with the ''[[HordeOfAlienLocusts Replicators]]'' because they are seen as easier to coexist with than [[TheDreaded Sharp, Warlord of theTau'ri]].Tau'ri]].
** Some of the ascended Ancients muse to themselves, after seeing how the Tau'ri emerge onto the galactic stage (and beyond) that perhaps their genetic engineering of the people of Earth was a tad too successful.
** Sharp's offworld propaganda campaign does have its benefits, but it eventually results in at least one of the System Lords choosing to ally with the ''[[HordeOfAlienLocusts Replicators]]'' because they are seen as easier to coexist with than [[TheDreaded Sharp, Warlord of the
** Some of the ascended Ancients muse to themselves, after seeing how the Tau'ri emerge onto the galactic stage (and beyond) that perhaps their genetic engineering of the people of Earth was a tad too successful.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: At least one planet in the Pegasus Galaxy displays a downplayed version of this trope- they are incredibly thankful to the Atlantis Expidition, but feel really bad about being in the position where someone else had to save them. It takes quick thinking to come up with a trade deal to avoid resentful feelings from building up.
** For a good example of this, for X-COM, a major advancement is unleashing brand new powered armor units on the galaxy. For the Goa'uld and the Free Jaffa, this means "Using horses to transport staff cannons."
* HumansAreDiplomats: While X-COM is certainly good at blowing up the galaxy, the humans from Earth also helped put together a major alliance between all the freed human nations in the galaxy, and even nonhumans like the Asgard, Tok'ra, Free Jaffa, and more. It's stated that they're trying to rebuild the old Alliance of Four Great Races (Ancients, Asgard, Nox, and Furlings).
* HumansAreDiplomats: While X-COM is certainly good at blowing up the galaxy, the humans from Earth also helped put together a major alliance between all the freed human nations in the galaxy, and even nonhumans like the Asgard, Tok'ra, Free Jaffa, and more. It's stated that they're trying to rebuild the old Alliance of Four Great Races (Ancients, Asgard, Nox, and Furlings).
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Sharp questions who Fraiser's kid is, she slaps him. It was insensitive for him to imply that she cheated on him, however, he had two good reasons to think that might be the case. The first being that, at the time, he'd ''already'' had one lover (in his backstory) cheat on him while he was overseas being a soldier, so he'd be more open to the possibility. Second, and more crucial, was that due to the aforementioned cheating girlfriend, he got a vasectomy, meaning that it shouldn't have been possible for Sharp to accidentally impregnate Dr. Fraiser. This was in fact how the people of earth learned that one of the side effects of using a sarcoughagus is that it can undo even minor surgeries, like, for example, Sharp's vasectomy. Since Sharp didn't know that was a possibility, the easiest solution was that Fraiser cheated on him.
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Sharp had to euthanize a young girl who was abducted by aliens.]]
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* MesACrowd: [[spoiler: Weir gets her past self, who dies in original timeline, brought back to her. 2nd one serve as a MoralityPet for the present battle hardened one]]. Also Carter. Right now, there are total of three different Carters running around the Milky Way[[note]]The human one, the android, and [[FanNickname Replicarter.]] [[/note]].
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* MesACrowd: [[spoiler: Weir gets her past self, who dies in original timeline, brought back to her. 2nd The second one serve serves as a MoralityPet for the present battle hardened one]]. Also Carter. Right now, there are total of three different Carters running around the Milky Way[[note]]The human one, the android, and [[FanNickname Replicarter.]] [[/note]].
** Because the humans of the Milky Way are so good at killing the Wraith, they accidentally wake up their old masters- the Aquatoids, who used to fight against the Ancients.
*** A Wraith Queen surprises a human scientist. In canon, when the primary human weapon was the P-90 and bullets, single Wraith were terrifying opponents who could take full clips of ammunition before falling down, are faster and stronger than humans, and more. A Wraith Queen against a lone human means that that scientist is probably not getting seen again. In this story, though, the scientist is just annoyed, blows the Wraith's leg off with a plasma pistol, and gets back to work.
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* WeakButSkilled: Deconstructed when [[spoiler: the weapons on Thor's Beliskner turn out to not have enough power to overcome Anubis's new shields that are also immune to the shield-piercing effect.]] Played straight with the Seritans, who have no major capital ships, but rely on small, fast, powerful fighters. Loki's forces are viewed this way by the rest of the Goa'uld, in a manner similar to the Seritans.
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* WeakButSkilled: Deconstructed when [[spoiler: the weapons on Thor's Beliskner turn out to not have enough power to overcome Anubis's new shields that are also immune to the shield-piercing effect.]] ]]
** Played straight with the Seritans, who have no major capital ships, but rely on small, fast, powerful fighters. Loki's forces are viewed this way by the rest of the Goa'uld, in a manner similar to the Seritans.
** Played straight with the Seritans, who have no major capital ships, but rely on small, fast, powerful fighters. Loki's forces are viewed this way by the rest of the Goa'uld, in a manner similar to the Seritans.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Loki believes himself this even more than in canon. Even Anubis, who's hardly a paragon of competence and sanity, thinks that's ridiculous.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Loki believes himself this even more than in canon. Even Anubis, who's hardly a paragon of competence morality and sanity, thinks that's ridiculous.
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* FlatEarthAthiest: The Tollan don't believe that psychics exist, despite that it's a matter of historical fact that the Ancients (not to mention other people) have turned into beings of pure energy and ascended to a higher plane of existence. This includes Daniel Jackson and several others. It takes Cassie showing off her powers for them to start double-checking their calculations.
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* FlatEarthAthiest: FlatEarthAtheist: The Tollan don't believe that psychics exist, despite that it's a matter of historical fact that the Ancients (not to mention other people) have turned into beings of pure energy and ascended to a higher plane of existence. This includes Daniel Jackson and several others. It takes Cassie showing off her powers for them to start double-checking their calculations.
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* EnergyWeaponEnergyWeapon: X-COM already has laser weapons by the start. While they get even more powerful plasma after some time, lasers are kept around for softer targets and [[BottomlessMagazines being able to freely draw from Powered Armour reactors.]]
** In addition, Lasers do not require Naquadah or Elerium, which mean that they can be constructed and armed without using up valuable exotic resources (as Nukes or Plasma weapons do). For most of the war against the numerically superior Goa'uld forces, the primary weapons of the Tau'ri are lasers for this reason. And even once they ''do'' get access to Plasma weapons, the sheer utility of lasers keeps them on the field.
** Later, X-COM makes money by selling their earlier, less advanced laser weapons to their allies.
** In addition, Lasers do not require Naquadah or Elerium, which mean that they can be constructed and armed without using up valuable exotic resources (as Nukes or Plasma weapons do). For most of the war against the numerically superior Goa'uld forces, the primary weapons of the Tau'ri are lasers for this reason. And even once they ''do'' get access to Plasma weapons, the sheer utility of lasers keeps them on the field.
** Later, X-COM makes money by selling their earlier, less advanced laser weapons to their allies.
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* FrickinLaserBeams: X-COM already has laser weapons by the start. While they get even more powerful plasma after some time, lasers are kept around for softer targets and [[BottomlessMagazines being able to freely draw from Powered Armour reactors.]]
** In addition, Lasers do not require Naquadah or Elerium, which mean that they can be constructed and armed without using up valuable exotic resources (as Nukes or Plasma weapons do). For most of the war against the numerically superior Goa'uld forces, the primary weapons of the Tau'ri are lasers for this reason. And even once they ''do'' get access to Plasma weapons, the sheer utility of lasers keeps them on the field.
** Later, X-COM makes money by selling their earlier, less advanced laser weapons to their allies.
** In addition, Lasers do not require Naquadah or Elerium, which mean that they can be constructed and armed without using up valuable exotic resources (as Nukes or Plasma weapons do). For most of the war against the numerically superior Goa'uld forces, the primary weapons of the Tau'ri are lasers for this reason. And even once they ''do'' get access to Plasma weapons, the sheer utility of lasers keeps them on the field.
** Later, X-COM makes money by selling their earlier, less advanced laser weapons to their allies.
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* FlatEarthAethiest: The Tollan don't believe that psychics exist, despite that it's a matter of historical fact that the Ancients (not to mention other people) have turned into beings of pure energy and ascended to a higher plane of existence. This includes Daniel Jackson and several others. It takes Cassie showing off her powers for them to start double-checking their calculations.
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* FlatEarthAethiest: FlatEarthAthiest: The Tollan don't believe that psychics exist, despite that it's a matter of historical fact that the Ancients (not to mention other people) have turned into beings of pure energy and ascended to a higher plane of existence. This includes Daniel Jackson and several others. It takes Cassie showing off her powers for them to start double-checking their calculations.
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* FlatEarthAethiest: The Tollan don't believe that psychics exist, despite that it's a matter of historical fact that the Ancients (not to mention other people) have turned into beings of pure energy and ascended to a higher plane of existence. This includes Daniel Jackson and several others. It takes Cassie showing off her powers for them to start double-checking their calculations.
* HumansAdvanceSwiftly: Played with. This trait is what drew Loki's attention to the people of Earth in the first place, seeing how quickly they advanced from their first attempts at powered flight to fission bombs. However, a great deal of the progress made in XCOM is based on taking apart ''other'' people's work and taking that info for themselves. It's later revealed that [[spoiler: this trope was an intentional detail; the Ancients modified humanity so that they would be more innovative and aggressive than the Ancients themselves.]]
* RealityEnsues:
** XCOM has a schtick of being great at reverse engineering... but the thing is, even they still have limits.
*** The most advanced technology of Loki's, not to mention extremely advanced Asgard, Ancient, and Tollan technology, remains firmly out of reach of even the vaunted reverse engineers of XCOM simply because it's so advanced.
*** While they thrive on taking stuff apart and putting it back together, there's literally so much stuff they find or capture from Pegasus, not to mention in the Milky Way, that XCOM has to start outsourcing the research to other human governments like Tollan and Optrica.
** XCOM has a schtick of being great at reverse engineering... but the thing is, even they still have limits.
*** The most advanced technology of Loki's, not to mention extremely advanced Asgard, Ancient, and Tollan technology, remains firmly out of reach of even the vaunted reverse engineers of XCOM simply because it's so advanced.
*** While they thrive on taking stuff apart and putting it back together, there's literally so much stuff they find or capture from Pegasus, not to mention in the Milky Way, that XCOM has to start outsourcing the research to other human governments like Tollan and Optrica.
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** His tech also operates off of the hard-to-make element of Elerium, rather than use Neutrino-Ion generators or regular Naquadah. This may create bottlenecks in production, but it means that if the Replicators capture and try to reverse-engineer the tech, they won't be able to use it for long before they run out of the stuff that powers it.
* WordOfGod: The author has stated that he's trying to make a galaxy that is able to fight off the Ori on their own, without relying on Dei Ex Machina from ascended beings as they did in canon. Example: he's gone on record as stating that instead of relying on ancient space magic to cure the Prior Plagues that the Ori used to destabilize the galaxy, the Aschen, masters of biological warfare, will be able to help counteract this severely.
** Apparently, there will be a third story in the XSGCOM series, but the title is unknown. It will apparently deal with the Ori invasion of the galaxy. The primary evidence for this is in the chapter notes of "Terra From the Deep" chapter 19.
* WordOfGod: The author has stated that he's trying to make a galaxy that is able to fight off the Ori on their own, without relying on Dei Ex Machina from ascended beings as they did in canon. Example: he's gone on record as stating that instead of relying on ancient space magic to cure the Prior Plagues that the Ori used to destabilize the galaxy, the Aschen, masters of biological warfare, will be able to help counteract this severely.
** Apparently, there will be a third story in the XSGCOM series, but the title is unknown. It will apparently deal with the Ori invasion of the galaxy. The primary evidence for this is in the chapter notes of "Terra From the Deep" chapter 19.
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** His tech also operates off of the hard-to-make element of Elerium, rather than use Neutrino-Ion generators or regular Naquadah. This may create bottlenecks in production, but it means that if the Replicators capture and try to reverse-engineer the tech, they won't be able to use it for long before they run out of the stuff that powers it.
* WordOfGod: The author has stated that he's trying to make a galaxy that is able to fight off the Ori on their own, without relying on Dei Ex Machina from ascended beings as they did in canon. Example: he's gone on record as stating that instead of relying on ancient space magic to cure the Prior Plagues that the Ori used to destabilize the galaxy, the Aschen, masters of biological warfare, will be able to help counteract this severely.
** Apparently, there will be a third story in the XSGCOM series, but the title is unknown. It will apparently deal with the Ori invasion of the galaxy. The primary evidence for this is in the chapter notes of "Terra From the Deep" chapter 19.it.
* WordOfGod: The author has stated that he's trying to make a galaxy that is able to fight off the Ori on their own, without relying on Dei Ex Machina from ascended beings as they did in canon. Example: he's gone on record as stating that instead of relying on ancient space magic to cure the Prior Plagues that the Ori used to destabilize the galaxy, the Aschen, masters of biological warfare, will be able to help counteract this severely.
** Apparently, there will be a third story in the XSGCOM series, but the title is unknown. It will apparently deal with the Ori invasion of the galaxy. The primary evidence for this is in the chapter notes of "Terra From the Deep" chapter 19.
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** X-COM's typical [[NukeEm non-nuclear]] response to problems that their ''small'' guns can't take care of is either to work their way around the problem, or fire bigger guns at it. They manage to take out Anubis' "Stargate Destroyer" by firing a building-sized maser[[note]]That's not a typo. The 'm' stands for 'microwave' because that's what the cannon is emitting. If it had been gamma rays, it would've been a Graser.[[/note]] beam at it through the Stargate. The ''wrong way'' through the Stargate.
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** X-COM's typical [[NukeEm non-nuclear]] response to problems that their ''small'' guns can't take care of is either to work their way around the problem, or fire bigger guns at it. They manage to take out Anubis' "Stargate Destroyer" by firing a building-sized maser[[note]]That's maser[[note]]That is not a typo. The 'm' stands for 'microwave' because that's what the cannon is emitting. If it had been gamma rays, it would've been a Graser.[[/note]] beam at it through the Stargate. The ''wrong way'' through the Stargate.
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* AxCrazy: Parodied. "When the guys in charge of X-COM think you are too nuts to be on a UFO Retrieval Team, then you’ve got some ''serious'' issues."
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* AxCrazy: Parodied. "When the guys in charge of X-COM think you are too nuts to be on a UFO Retrieval Team, then you’ve you have got some ''serious'' issues."
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* AxCrazy: Parodied. "When the guys in charge of X-COM think you’re too nuts to be on a UFO Retrieval Team, then you’ve got some ''serious'' issues."
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* AxCrazy: Parodied. "When the guys in charge of X-COM think you’re you are too nuts to be on a UFO Retrieval Team, then you’ve got some ''serious'' issues."
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In an odd way, [[spoiler: ex-Colonel Maybourne getting married and starting a family. For such a perfect SmugSnake ManipulativeBastard in the series to get a karmic happy ending]] is likely to warm any heart.
** This is close to his fate in the canon, where he [[spoiler:ends up as the king of a primitive planet with multiple wives. By all indications, he's a good king to the point, when he confesses to not being a prophet, they decide to keep him anyway]].
** This is close to his fate in the canon, where he [[spoiler:ends up as the king of a primitive planet with multiple wives. By all indications, he's a good king to the point, when he confesses to not being a prophet, they decide to keep him anyway]].
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* GondorCallsForAid: In Chapter 48 Langaran goverments request help from Earth to fight against Loki's invasion. Earth forwards message to Optricans, Pangar, Tagrea, Orban, Tollan... pretty much every human world that can help as well as Asgard. It sets up major MomentOfAwesome when they all appear to help.
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* GondorCallsForAid: In Chapter 48 Langaran goverments request help from Earth to fight against Loki's invasion. Earth forwards message to Optricans, Pangar, Tagrea, Orban, Tollan... pretty much every human world that can help as well as Asgard. It sets up major MomentOfAwesome SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when they all appear to help.
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* LampshadeHanging: In chapter 22 of ''Goa'uld Defense/Mirror Image'', Sharpe notes that a lot of the worlds in the galaxy look like his home country of Canada. The show is produced in British Colombia and Vancouver, which leads to the city's nickname as StargateCity.
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* LampshadeHanging: In chapter 22 of ''Goa'uld Defense/Mirror Image'', Sharpe notes that a lot of the worlds in the galaxy look like his home country of Canada. The show is produced in British Colombia and Vancouver, which leads to the city's nickname as StargateCity.UsefulNotes/StargateCity.
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* ActorAllusion: One chapter has Heimdall taking the place of Janet Frasier, both of whom have the same (voice) actress.
** Elizibeth Weir is startled to find that Narim (a Tollan) and her fiance look nearly identical (again, same actor).
** Cameron Mitchell makes several comments involving surfing in his first "on-screen" dogfight with an alien craft. Ben Browder, who played Cameron Mitchell, is an avid surfer.
** Elizibeth Weir is startled to find that Narim (a Tollan) and her fiance look nearly identical (again, same actor).
** Cameron Mitchell makes several comments involving surfing in his first "on-screen" dogfight with an alien craft. Ben Browder, who played Cameron Mitchell, is an avid surfer.
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** Elizibeth Weir is startled to find that Narim (a Tollan) and her fiance look nearly identical (again, same actor).
** Cameron Mitchell makes several comments involving surfing in his first "on-screen" dogfight with an alien craft. Ben Browder, who played Cameron Mitchell, is an avid surfer.
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** Played straight with the "Tok'ra emulating ChowYunFat" example below. "It was hard to tell who was more surprised, the Tok'ra or the Jaffa."
* HumanityIsInfectious: Parodied when a Tok'ra agent infamously does a ChowYunFat impression on a squadful of Jaffa. 'Tau’ri culture was insidious like that, it rubbed off on you, totally shifted the way you looked at the universe and made you try things you wouldn't have dreamt of before.'
* HumanityIsInfectious: Parodied when a Tok'ra agent infamously does a ChowYunFat impression on a squadful of Jaffa. 'Tau’ri culture was insidious like that, it rubbed off on you, totally shifted the way you looked at the universe and made you try things you wouldn't have dreamt of before.'
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** Played straight with the "Tok'ra emulating ChowYunFat" Creator/ChowYunFat" example below. "It was hard to tell who was more surprised, the Tok'ra or the Jaffa."
* HumanityIsInfectious: Parodied when a Tok'ra agent infamously does aChowYunFat Creator/ChowYunFat impression on a squadful of Jaffa. 'Tau’ri culture was insidious like that, it rubbed off on you, totally shifted the way you looked at the universe and made you try things you wouldn't have dreamt of before.'
* HumanityIsInfectious: Parodied when a Tok'ra agent infamously does a
