History Funny / XCOM2

* Yes, characters can take fall damage. It's often quite funny. What's even more hilarious is if ADVENT do it to themselves, as many of the structures in terror missions are quite flimsy. Watching them set fire to those structures with their A-team firing, climb onto them, then go crashing to the ground a turn later before you've even properly detected them is rather amusing.

* In the ending, [[spoiler: resistance broadcasts are shown across the globe as giving instructions to those who want to resist and reporting the events happening around the globe... and a single ADVENT newscaster is just sitting there, looking awkward as Hell, trying to tell citizens to maintain curfew.]]

* Some of the random operation names are just funny in and of themselves, regardless of what happens. Operation Little Skies? Operation Moon Stank?

--> '''Dr. Tygan:''' Such a remarkable species, if only we had some means of containment.
--> '''Dr. Shen:''' Don't even think about it.
* Among the very firstmods released for the game? A mod that replaced the default assault rilfe with a corgi. Another day-one mod includes a construction helmet, a [[NiceHat fancy top hat]], and an [[PaperThinDisguise Ayy Facemask]].

* Sometimes the randomly generated nicknames will be so incongruous that it becomes both hysterical ''and'' {{Badass}}, like a ColdSniper getting a nickname "Dr. Feelgood".

* The description for Bluescreen rounds: "Named for a computing phenomenon common before the war. . ." Yes, you have weaponized the BlueScreenOfDeath.

* The [[CreatorCameo Creator Cameos]] of the developers in the character pool. Not only is their mere existence humorous in itself, the humorous descriptions alluding to how they quit their day jobs to work for XCOM are hilarious as well. As the cherry on top, the avatar for the director of the game? Jake "[[NintendoHard Teardrinker]]" Solomon.

* The Repeater weapon mod can lead to some truly hilarious/epic DavidVersusGoliath moments. Seeing a [[OhCrap Sectopod]] coming at you? Not fun. Seeing the Repeater activate and give you a OneHitKill on the very same turn, heavily damaging the other Advent forces in that group from the explosion? ''Very'' fun.

* The mere fact that the Informant / Council Spokesperson is voiced by [[HonestTrailers Jon Bailey, aka Epic Voice Guy.]]

* Sometimes the randomly generated nicknames will be so incongruous that it becomes both hysterical ''and'' {{Badass}}, like a ColdSniper getting a nickname "Dr. Feelgood".

* The description for Bluescreen rounds: "Named for a computing phenomenon common before the war. . ." Yes, you have weaponized the BlueScreenOfDeath.

** Some player have reported a graphical bug that causes the ADVENT officer to be mispositioned during the animation, resulting in your operative [[GroinAttack shanking them in the crotch]] instead, and still somehow accessing their brain implant via the base of their spine in the tailbone. Or something like that. Ouch.

* In Enemy Unknown, after a unit died, they would usually just fall flat on the ground or be blasted back by an explosive, with maybe a bit of jiggling. In XCOM 2, they have RagdollPhysics. There are few joys greater than watching a Viper or Sectoid walk right into your ranger's shotgun and be blown back ten feet by the blast.

* Depending on when you use it, the Skulljack can give way to a GoryDiscretionShot as the camera bugs out and looks at a wall, away from the action, only to have it pan back quickly with a dead ADVENT soldier impaled on the twin spikes.

* Among the very firstmods released for the game? A mod that replaced the default assault rilfe with a corgi. Another day-one mod includes a construction helmet, a [[NiceHat fancy top hat]], and an [[PaperThinDisguise Ayy Facemask]].

--> '''Dr. Shen:''' Don't even think about it.

* There's a hilarious ContinuityNod when the Faceless are discovered
--> '''Dr. Tygan:''' Such a remarkable species, if only we had some means of containment

--> '''Bradford:''' "[[DeadpanSnarker I had wanted that to be a little more ceremonious...]]"

* During the cutscene showing the Control Room, the Commander steps in, only to start about a bajillion alarms due to being "unauthorized personnel", and it only ends when Bradford exasperatedly gives the Commander the clearance to enter the room.

'''Bradford:''' "[[DeadpanSnarker I had wanted that to be a little more ceremonious...]]"

--> And the case appears to be: yes, those ''are'' venom glands.

* In Enemy Unknown, after a unit died, they would usually just fall flat on the ground or be blasted back by an explosive, with maybe a bit of jiggling. In XCOM 2, they have RagdollPhysics. There are few joys greater than watching a Viper or Sectoid walk right into your ranger's shotgun and be blown back ten feet by the blast.

* The ArtificialStupidity the Advent Forces sometimes display (suicidal charging by Lancers, Advent Troopers taking cover behind burning vehicles that are about to explode) become even more blackly funny when you realize that the Advent have lost their tactical skills with the loss of the tactical data they were leeching from you while you were in stasis via that brain implant Tygan extracted from you.

* The creative team (''especially'' Jake Solomon) has had a great deal of fun while releasing new gameplay footage, especially when it comes to showing off the customization features. The "ADVENT Blacksite" preview, for instance, features the heroic exploits of the [[HighlyVisibleNinja purple-and-gold-clad]] Sgt. Theodore "Sweetpea" Rumblebottom, and "PSI Operative" reveal video shows off a Magus (that is, a Colonel-tier Psi Operative) with a full arsenal of powerful abilities... named [[FailOSuckyname Gargamel Fizzlebranch]]. Solomon, of course, gleefully invokes SayMyName at every opportunity.

* Achievement Hunter takes on XCOM 2 [[https://youtu.be/GYhr7Du6z8U and fails amazingly]]. Down to only two men, Ryan gets mind-controlled and chops Gavin in half with his machete. The guys joke that Ryan joined the other team and somehow found a way to kill them all anyway.

* The creative team (''especially'' Jake Solomon) has had a great deal of fun while releasing new gameplay footage, especially when it comes to showing off the customization features. The "ADVENT Blacksite" preview, for instance, features the heroic exploits of the [[HighlyVisibleNinja purple-and-gold-clad]] Sgt. Theodore "Sweetpea" Rumblebottom, and "PSI Operative" reveal video shows off a Magus (that is, a Colonel-tier Psi Operative) with a full arsenal of powerful abilities... named [[FailOSuckyname Gargamel Fizzlebranch]]. (Solomon, of course, gleefully invokes SayMyName at every opportunity.)

* Achievement Hunter takes on XCOM 2 [[https://youtu.be/GYhr7Du6z8U and fails amazingly]]. Down to only two men, Ryan gets mind-controlled and chops Gavin in half with his machete. The guys joke that Ryan joined the other team and somehow found a way to kill them all anyway.

* The developers [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/973767-x-com acknowledge]] and lampshade the popularity of the Vipers.

-->In the heart of Cologne, our ground team finds the remains of an old convention center. It seems to have been the base of operations for another counter-alien force called GAMES-COM. Despite a surprising lack of weaponry remaining at the site, we managed to find some useful salvage.