History VideoGame / HomefrontTheRevolution

* TheQuisling: Mayor Simpson, and pretty much every other American working alongside the North Koreans. They are not liked at all by the general populace

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Joe Tae-se sounds odd for a Korean name, and implied that the surname was Tae-se, when Koreans usually have single syllable names and the surname should come first.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Dana Moore suicide bomb a Goliath that is blocking her friends from shutting down the Duster drones.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Ben Walker is never heard again after the Resistance discovered that he was taken somewhere else and forced to serve as the KPA's propagandist. Later subverted in the Aftermath DLC, which focus on Brady trying to rescue Walker.]]

* EasyEvangelism: Brady arrives in a Yellow Zone where the local populace is either all cowed or collaborators. A few dramatic acts of defiance later and sudden the majority of the district are lining up to revolt.

* MegaCorp: The APEX Corporation. Initially, it was just like Apple Inc. (creating next gen smart phones, computers, and web services) in which it was mainly responsible for North Korea's technological prosperity to the point that it became culturally entwined with the nation. But under the reign of Joe Tae-se's son John, APEX established an arms industry that produces high-tech weapons that are highly demand in the world (and are secretly monitored and capable of being remotely turn off by its creators), and Tae-se became Premier of North Korea.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The Resistance, which opposes the authority represented as KPA-aligned regional leaders, while the [=KPA=] themselves serving largely as faceless masked goons.

* ShoutOut: One mission sees Brady helping three good-natured prisoners named [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Redding (who is Black), Heywood, and Floyd (who are white)]] (and the latter two a bit of a shoutout-within-a-shoutout as they intern reference one of the primary characters in the film [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey ''2001: A Space Odyssey'']]. Heywood even quips that the trio "crawled through a river of KPA shit and came out clean on the other side," a paraphrasing of a memorable line from the film.

* ShoutOut: One mission sees Brady helping three good-natured prisoners named [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Redding (who is Black), Heywood, and Floyd (who are white)]] (and the latter two a bit of a shoutout-within-a-shoutout as they intern reference one of the primary characters in the film [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey ''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].

* PretextForWar: North Korea invaded the United States was because the latter was unable to repay its trillions of dollars in foreign debt to the former. Furthermore, the North Koreans insisted that the occupation was to help the U.S. recover from its financial ruin to be able to repay its debt. ''Initially'' this was [[VillainHasAPoint true]] on North Korea's part, but over time the Koreans start to abuse their power and placing America under their control.

** The game files actually include the ''entirety'' of ''Timesplitters 2'', as the entire story campaign and arcade mode can be unlocked with cheat codes. However, the game is not stable (levels crash when Reaper Timesplitters teleport in) which is probably why only the first two levels were made normally available. A fan made patch makes all unlocks available without having to use the cheat codes and also fixes most of the crashes (except for the Neo Tokyo level), but requires some degree of computer savvy to install it.

* SociopathicHero: Dana Moore is a volatile, sadistic KnifeNut who makes Connor from the original ''Homefront'' look like Mr. Rogers.

** Sidney Cook, the lazy quartermaster, becomes Parrish's NumberTwo in the Aftermath DLC and actively help Brady in rescuing Ben Walker.

** John [=McCain=] won the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections. Under his administration, he kept the U.S. military committed in the Middle East despite the massive costs combined with the mortgage crisis, and was responsible for U.S. spending on APEX technologies. This does not go well for the country in which [=McCain=] cancelled the 2016 Presidential Elections and placing the nation in a state of emergency until he resigned in disgrace.