History MadnessCombat / TropesLToZ

*** In the same episode, Deimos carries a silenced Mark 23 SOCOM, otherwise known as [[Franchise/MetalGear Solid Snake's]] favourite weapon.

* StylizedForTheViewer: Every character appears to have the same size to the viewers, but [[WordOfGod Krinkels]] said that they actually have differents heights InUniverse. The only current height confirmations are that Hank is taller than Sanford and Deimos and that Deimos is the shortest.

* RockPaperScissors: In ''Abrogation'', Hank and Sanford wonder who goes first into the entrance made for the newly created tower made by the Auditor and decide to settle the issue this way. Hank loses.

** In one of the few cases of anyone demonstrating any kind of survival instinct, a mook in ''Consternation'' has this reaction to Hank dismembering his colleagues with a chainsaw, frantically trying to climb up a nearby latter to escape. He doesn't get far.

* OneBulletClips: ''Madness: Project Nexus'' [[AvertedTrope averts this]] by making ''magazines'' a collected resource. The only exceptions to this are weapons were the ammo is loaded individually, such as the [=SPAS-12=].

** [[spoiler:After Hank gains a new metal arm, he body-slams Tricky on a platform, throws him against a wall, crushes him with an other spiky platform, beats him up and shoot him with Tricky's own gun. All what's left of Tricky after that beatdown (prior to Tricky respawning) is an upper body full of holes.]]

** The Auditor's enhancing power he used on two engineers works on corpse too by bringing them back to life.

* ParryingBullets: This is done several times with varying degrees of success, including Hank's attempt to block a full-auto spray from a Zombie Agent's G36 using the [[KatanasAreJustBetter dragon sword]] in ''Apotheosis'', which allows one bullet to strike him regardless. Both versions of Hank in 9.5 can use a sword to swat pistol rounds away with apparent ease, one variant also using a ''baseball bat'' to guard against MAC-11 spray (causing the bat to become a deadly shiv).

** The Auditor and Tricky also seem to develop this dynamic, representing LawfulEvil and ChaoticEvil respectively.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: In ''Madness: Project Nexus'', shotguns are among the best weapons in the game: decent range, a reasonable reload time, as good as the many assault rifles, plentiful and can defeat any enemy, from regular Mooks to Sleepwalkers, and even the final bosses.

*** One of the weapons you can use is called the "[[Film/CitizenKane Citizen Cane]]".

** In ''7.5'', when Sanford and Deimos get into melee combat with the newly activated Soldats, Sanford engages one of them with a [[BringIt beckoning gesture]] straight out of Franchise/TheMatrix.

* PowerUpLetdown: When the Agents get upgraded in the course of 6.5, their strength goes from 10 to 12 and their agility goes from 9 to 11, but their intelligence stays at 9. While that's a 14.3% increase, the agents aren't smart enough to use their new skills. Immediately after the upgrade, one Agent knocks over a table to use as cover just to have it shot through like it was cardboard. Their agility allows them to rush into rooms faster, but they aren't fast enough to dodge someone's aim and their strength lets them engage in hand-to-hand better and to use and control weapons easier, but that doesn't matter much when you can be put down in a few shots/stabs or when you aren't using good tactics.

* PunchAWall: In ''Anamnesis.fla'', some kind of hallucination of Sanford start to punch a wall after having his face obscured and before getting half-teleported into the floor. It seems to be more out of despair than anger as if he was trying to escape.

* ParryingBullets: Present in several episodes; examples include Hank's attempt to block a full-auto spray from a Zombie Agent's G36 using the [[KatanasAreJustBetter dragon sword]] in ''Apotheosis'', which allows one bullet to strike him regardless, while both versions of him in 9.5 can use a blade to swat pistol rounds directly back at the shooter with apparent ease.

** ''Incident:111A'' features "Smile.jpg" as featured in the game ''[[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-087-B]]'', with sound effects from ''VideoGame/SCPContainmentBreach''.

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