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Hrm, is it really? The Lotus tells you most of everything, but I\'m probably missing flavor text - the tutorial, to me, implied the Tenno actually need to be brought up to speed, they didn\'t completely forget.


* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Implied to be done by the Corpus: one of the flavor text for a star system indicates they indoctrinate people into being ddrones.

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Implied to be done by the Corpus: one of the flavor text for a star system indicates they indoctrinate people into being ddrones.drones.



* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The Tenno are brought out of cryosleep and remember almost nothing of who they were, all they have is basic 'muscle memory' in terms of fighting skills. Which makes you wonder - who, exactly, would want them thawed out... and why?

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Tropes for the trope god!


* TheComputerShallTauntYou: The ''Jackal'' prototype at Venus taunts you as you progress across the system and come closer to facing off against it, calling you a 'minimal threat' and similar terms.



* InterfaceScrew: The Ancient Disruptor's main attack subjects you to ''severe'' interface screw (colour scrambling/inversion) and instantly drains all of your shields and energy. Somewhat reduced in the latest patch since it was a bit ''too'' disorientating/dangerous for those with epilepsy or similar conditions.

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* InterfaceScrew: The Ancient Disruptor's main attack subjects you to ''severe'' interface screw (colour scrambling/inversion) and instantly drains all of your shields and energy. Somewhat reduced in the latest patch 5.3/5.4 since it was a bit ''too'' disorientating/dangerous for those with epilepsy or similar conditions.



* MechanicalMonster: The Corpus' ''Jackal'' and ''Hyena'' warbots, quadruped beasties armed with heavy shields, dual machineguns, vertically launched missiles, grenades, and a ShockwaveStomp attack. The Hyena is a smaller, faster version of the Jackal.



* MeleeATrois: As of the latest patch, one faction can begin spawning in any other faction's missions. For instance, a mission that starts out against the Grineer may take a turn for the grim when Infested suddenly begin to spread throughout the ship, prompting the Grineer to begin fighting the Infested as well as you. Or you might mow down a ship's Grineer Marine contingent and start running into Corpus Crewmen, Moas, and Ospreys.

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* MeleeATrois: As of the latest patch, 5.3, one faction can begin spawning in any other faction's missions. For instance, a mission that starts out against the Grineer may take a turn for the grim when Infested suddenly begin to spread throughout the ship, prompting the Grineer to begin fighting the Infested as well as you. Or you might mow down a ship's Grineer Marine contingent and start running into Corpus Crewmen, Moas, and Ospreys.



* PuzzleBoss: The ''Jackal'' has a super-shield that effectively nullifies all incoming damage, and thus its health can only be depleted if you [[spoiler:reduce one of its legs to zero health; this causes it to fall over, rendering it vulnerable for a few seconds]].



* [[StunGuns Stun Prods]]: Corpus Prod Crewmen and Grineer Powerfists both use electrified clubs/shock prods to attack you. The Prod Crewmen don't do a whole lot of damage, [[{{Knockback}} but the hits have a high chance to make you stagger]]... leaving you open to other attacks. Powerfists are just {{Glass Cannon}}s with the swing speed of a MightyGlacier - huge warmup time, but they hit ''hard''.



** KnifeNut: Various flavours of dagger, forged with blueprints dropped by bosses.

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** KnifeNut: Various flavours of dagger, forged with blueprints dropped by bosses.collected from special Alert events.
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* MegaCorp: The Corpus, a corporation that controls every major trade route and flow of goods in the solar system. They won't let anything or anyone get in their way - Tenno or Grineer be damned - for the precious resource of Orokin. They're supposedly based on old merchant guilds from long ago in Earth's history.

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* MegaCorp: The Corpus, a corporation that controls every major trade route and flow of goods in the solar system. They won't let anything or anyone get in their way - Tenno or Grineer be damned - for the precious resource of Orokin. They're supposedly based They're, according to in-universe information, deliberately patterning themselves on old merchant guilds from long ago in Earth's history.history. All of their employees talk in a disturbing, inhuman choke-screech and are partially robotized, which takes 'soulless corporation' to a new extreme.



* MoreDakka: One of the primary weapons is an enormous machine gun that trades the Tenno's speed and grace for ''more bullets.'' There's also the machine pistols if you want more dakka in your sidearm slot. Or you can slot Fire Rate and Ammo Capacity mods into your guns.

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* MoreDakka: One of the primary weapons is an enormous machine gun that trades the Tenno's speed and grace for ''more bullets.'' There's also the machine pistols if you want more dakka in your sidearm slot. Or you can slot Fire Rate and Ammo Capacity mods into your guns. In an odd variant, the Hek is a multi-barreled shotgun that unleashes an ungodly amount of pellets with one hit.

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* ArmorPiercingAttack: Two flavours - Armour Piercing Damage, and Puncture. The former increases damage done to heavily armoured enemies - big surprise. The latter allows your bullets to pass through solid objects, like the shields carried by Grineer Shield Lancers.

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* ArmorPiercingAttack: Two flavours - Armour Piercing Damage, and Puncture. The former increases damage done to heavily armoured enemies - big surprise. The latter allows your bullets to pass through solid objects, like the shields carried by Grineer Shield Lancers.Lancers, or Corpus Helmets.



* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Implied to be done by the Corpus: one of the flavor text for a star system indicates they indoctrinate people into being ddrones.



* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The Bolto pistol... fires bolts... that, upon a kill, nail the victim against whatever was behind them.



* ShieldBearingMook: Grineer Shield Lancers. Whilst the shield is largely immune to small arms fire, it won't stop Puncturing bullets or melee attacks. The Shield Lancers themselves are relatively squishy, but have a nasty burst-firing pistol and can smack you with their shield to knock you down.

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* ShieldBearingMook: Grineer Shield Lancers. Whilst the shield is largely immune to small arms fire, it won't stop Puncturing bullets or melee attacks. The Shield Lancers themselves are relatively squishy, but have a nasty burst-firing pistol and can smack charge you with their shield to knock you down.

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* ArmorIsUseless: Nope. All that heavy armour the Grineer wear is ''fairly'' effective against small arms fire. Not so much against flaming swords or lightning-fists, though.

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* ArmorIsUseless: Nope. All that heavy armour the Grineer wear is ''fairly'' effective against small arms fire. Not so much against flaming swords or lightning-fists, though. Which leads us to...



* ChainsawGood: Grineer Sawmen, who pack circular discs to do real damage up close.

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* ChainsawGood: Grineer Sawmen, who pack circular discs to do real serious damage up close.



* ContinuousDecompression: What happens when you break the reinforced glass in certain rooms. Oddly, even though adjacent rooms are sealed off, the decompression can apparently last indefinitely. ExplosiveDecompression is not present, but anything in a decompressing area (even robots, and space-suited Corpus mooks) will steadily take damage - first shields, then health. If health reaches zero they just fall over. Oddly, whilst there are shutters to seal breached windows, they do not close automatically.



* DualWielding: One of the alternate melee weapons is the Dual Skana, which trade power and range for lightning-fast speed. There's also dual variants of the Lato and Furis pistols.

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* DualWielding: One of the alternate melee weapons is the Dual Skana, which Skana; these shorter blades trade power and range for lightning-fast speed. There's also dual variants of the Lato and Furis pistols.



* [[ElementalPowers Elemental Weapons]]: In the classic fire, ice, and electrical flavours. All of them inflict damage over time, and on top of that, have a special effect;

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* [[ElementalPowers Elemental Weapons]]: In the classic fire, ice, and electrical flavours.flavours - the latter two being particularly effective against shields. All of them inflict damage over time, and on top of that, have a special effect;



* EliteMooks: Grineer Heavies, which come in [[KillItWithFire Napalm]], [[StuffBlowingUp Bombard]], and [[MoreDakka Minigunner]] flavours. They look almost identical to standard Grineer Lancers and Soldiers, but are tougher, have shields, and have more powerful attacks. The Infestation also has the Ancients (Ancient Healer, Ancient Disruptor, Toxicancient) which are bigger and tougher infested foes. Finally, there are a couple of special variants of the Corpus Moas.

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* EliteMooks: Grineer Heavies, which come in [[KillItWithFire Napalm]], [[StuffBlowingUp Bombard]], and [[MoreDakka Minigunner]] flavours. They look almost identical to standard Grineer Lancers and Soldiers, but are tougher, have shields, and have more powerful attacks. The Infestation also has the Ancients (Ancient Healer, Ancient Disruptor, Toxicancient) Toxic Ancient) which are bigger and tougher infested foes. Finally, there are a couple of special variants of the Corpus Moas.Moas - the [[ShockwaveStomp Shockwave Moa]], and Railgun Moa.



* FromBadToWorse: Missions can easily wind up like this. A simple mission to destroy a ship's reactor to cripple it? Okay. But now you've done that, the Infested have come aboard - and to make matters worse, you now have to rescue someone from the ship's brig! Now [[MeleeATrois you have to battle your way through the Grineer and Infested, who are fighting each other for control of the ship]] to reach the extraction point, whilst praying things don't manage to get ''worse'' somehow.



* InterfaceScrew: The Ancient Disruptor's primary attack subjects you to ''severe'' interface screw (colour scrambling/inversion) and drains your power. Somewhat reduced in the latest patch since it was a bit ''too'' disorientating/dangerous for those with epilepsy or similar conditions.

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* InterfaceScrew: The Ancient Disruptor's primary main attack subjects you to ''severe'' interface screw (colour scrambling/inversion) and instantly drains all of your power.shields and energy. Somewhat reduced in the latest patch since it was a bit ''too'' disorientating/dangerous for those with epilepsy or similar conditions.



* LaserHallway: More like laser threshhold. Prevalent in Corpus ships. You have to either destroy a security camera, or wait for it to blink out.

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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The Tenno are brought out of cryosleep and remember almost nothing of who they were, all they have is basic 'muscle memory' in terms of fighting skills. Which makes you wonder - who, exactly, would want them thawed out... and why?
* LaserHallway: More like laser threshhold.threshhold/door. Prevalent in Corpus ships. You have to either destroy a security camera, or wait for it to blink out.



* MeatMoss: Ships infected with the Technocyte have these disgusting slug/algae-like things covering floors and walls.

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* MeatMoss: Ships infected with the Technocyte Plague have these disgusting slug/algae-like things covering floors and walls.



* RegeneratingShieldStaticHealth: Without a Rejuvenate Artifact or Regenerate Health mods for your Warframe, Health can only be recovered by picking up Health Orbs or by being healed by an ally. Shields, however, regenerate by themselves.

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* RegeneratingShieldStaticHealth: Without a Rejuvenate Artifact or Regenerate Health mods for your Warframe, Health can only be recovered by picking up red Health Orbs or by being healed by an ally. Shields, however, regenerate by themselves.
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* {{Knockback}}: Present in all its forms. Most notable causes would be the Bo, Furax Gauntlets, and Fragor Hammer however, because [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom any enemy killed by them will be sent flying]].

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* {{Knockback}}: Present in all its forms. Most notable causes would be the Bo, Furax Gauntlets, and Fragor Hammer however, because [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom any enemy killed by them will be sent flying]]. Rhino Stomp has the added effect of slowing time, so your teammates can use them as target practice, or you can leisurely smash them into pieces.
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Flamelights have a load of health, though.


* GlassCannon: Grineer melee-type units do a LOT of damage up close, but have very little in the way of protection. Sawmen in particular will often die to a single melee strike or one or two pistol rounds.

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* GlassCannon: Grineer melee-type units Warsaws do a LOT of damage up close, but have very little in the way of protection. Sawmen in particular will often die to a single melee strike or from one or two sword slash, pistol rounds.shot, or poke.
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* CrystalDragonJesus: Of a sort. Corpus manufacturing is said to be part typical factory dronemanship, and part ritual, as the Orokin is a mysterious material. They even have ''indoctrination temples''.

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* CrystalDragonJesus: Of a sort. Corpus manufacturing is said to be part typical factory dronemanship, and part ritual, as the Orokin is a mysterious mysterious, ancient, and otherworldly material. They even have ''indoctrination temples''.
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* BlackSpeech: Nearly all of the Corpus, as opposed to the Grineer's typical military commands, screech in inhuman choking noises. The exception is a Corpus captain... who screams while [[LittleNo whimpering "no" every so often.]]


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* LaserHallway: More like laser threshhold. Prevalent in Corpus ships. You have to either destroy a security camera, or wait for it to blink out.


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* MeatMoss: Ships infected with the Technocyte have these disgusting slug/algae-like things covering floors and walls.

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You wanted Black Box - also, The Tank is not a trope.


* AppliedPhlebotinum: Orokin artifacts. Even the Corpus, the corporations that manufacture technology based on them, do not know how it works.



* BlackBox: Orokin artifacts. Even the Corpus - the corporations that manufacture technology based on the artifacts - do not know how most of them work.



* CrystalDragonJesus: Of a sort. Corpus manufacturing is said to be part typical factory dronemanship, and part ritual, as the Orokin is a mysterious material.

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* CrystalDragonJesus: Of a sort. Corpus manufacturing is said to be part typical factory dronemanship, and part ritual, as the Orokin is a mysterious material. They even have ''indoctrination temples''.



* DidntNeedThoseAnyway: Infested can suffer more than just CriticalExistenceFailure; it's not uncommon to see their head and part of the upper torso blown away by a nonfatal headshot, with no ill effect (beyond taking a lot of damage) as far as the AI is concerned. Shooting them in the legs is moderately more effective, as it forces them to crawl around instead. In theory you can shoot their arms off, but it's not easy and doesn't do much to stop them from attacking you.



* ExcusePlot: You are part of a clan of space ninjas, fighting to push fascist space assholes and their army of degenerate clones out of the known galaxy, and crush some corrupt corporate goons, and deal with a 'technocyte BodyHorror plague' that's overrunning countless ships, stations, and colonies. That's about it. Go kill them.

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* ExcusePlot: You are part of a clan of space ninjas, fighting to push fascist space assholes and their army of degenerate clones out of the known galaxy, and crush some corrupt corporate goons, and deal with a 'technocyte BodyHorror plague' '[[TheVirus technocyte plague]]' that's overrunning countless ships, stations, and colonies. That's about it. Go kill them.



* ShieldBearingMook: Grineer Shield Lancers. Whilst the shield is largely immune to small arms fire, it won't stop Puncturing bullets or melee attacks. The Shield Lancers themselves are relatively squishy.

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* ShieldBearingMook: Grineer Shield Lancers. Whilst the shield is largely immune to small arms fire, it won't stop Puncturing bullets or melee attacks. The Shield Lancers themselves are relatively squishy.squishy, but have a nasty burst-firing pistol and can smack you with their shield to knock you down.



* SmokeOut: An ability of the ''Ash'' warframe (also used by one of the bosses) makes the user disappear in a puff of smoke and renders them invisible for a few seconds.



* SpeakingSimlish: Whenever the commander of the enemy forces in a solar system taunts you, it's in this, despite in-game phrases being translated to English. Grineer ship markings are also a strange language.

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* SpeakingSimlish: Whenever the commander of the enemy forces in a solar system taunts you, it's in this, despite in-game phrases being translated to English. Grineer ship markings are also a strange language. Grineer troopers are understandable, but Corpus Crewmen sound about as inhuman as possible... probably intentionally.



* TheTank: Grineer soldiers with shields and flaming clubs take a LOT of damage.
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* FlashStep: One of the Grineer assassination targets can teleport short distances to deliver a powerful melee strike. Their later melee-type units also get short-range teleportation.

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* FlashStep: One of the Grineer Most assassination targets can teleport short distances to deliver a powerful melee strike. Their later Grineer melee-type units also get short-range teleportation.teleportation as the game progresses.

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* DualWielding: One of the alternate melee weapons is the Dual Skana, which trade power and range for lightning-fast speed.

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* DeflectorShields: Possessed by the Tenno and several tougher enemies. The Corpus Shield Osprey projects a defensive shield around other Corpus units but is not shielded itself.
* DualWielding: One of the alternate melee weapons is the Dual Skana, which trade power and range for lightning-fast speed. There's also dual variants of the Lato and Furis pistols.



* ExcusePlot: You are part of a clan of space ninjas, fighting to push fascist space assholes and their army of degenerate clones out of the known galaxy. That's about it. Go kill them.

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* ExcusePlot: You are part of a clan of space ninjas, fighting to push fascist space assholes and their army of degenerate clones out of the known galaxy.galaxy, and crush some corrupt corporate goons, and deal with a 'technocyte BodyHorror plague' that's overrunning countless ships, stations, and colonies. That's about it. Go kill them.



* FlashStep: One of the Grineer assassination targets can teleport short distances to deliver a powerful melee strik.

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* FlashStep: One of the Grineer assassination targets can teleport short distances to deliver a powerful melee strik.strike. Their later melee-type units also get short-range teleportation.



* GlassCannon: Grineer Warsaws do a LOT of damage up close, but die from one sword slash, pistol shot, or poke.

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* GlassCannon: Grineer Warsaws melee-type units do a LOT of damage up close, but have very little in the way of protection. Sawmen in particular will often die from to a single melee strike or one sword slash, or two pistol shot, or poke.rounds.



* {{Knockback}}: Present in all its forms. Most notable is probably the Bo (staff) however, because [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom any enemy killed by it will be sent flying]].

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* {{Knockback}}: Present in all its forms. Most notable is probably causes would be the Bo (staff) Bo, Furax Gauntlets, and Fragor Hammer however, because [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom any enemy killed by it them will be sent flying]].



* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe[=/=]ShieldBash: Several grineers carry shields, which they use to charge the player to send them flying.

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* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe[=/=]ShieldBash: Several grineers Grineer Shield Lancers carry shields, a bulletproof shield (see ShieldBearingMook below) which they like to use to charge smash you in the player to send them flying.face with; a nice high-{{Knockback}} attack.



* MeleeATrois: As of the latest patch, Grineer or Corpus forces can start spawning in Infested areas (or vice-versa, with Infested spawning in Grineer/Corpus areas) - and they'll promptly start fighting should they run into each other.
* MoreDakka: One of the primary weapons is an enormous machine gun that trades the Tenno's speed and grace for ''more bullets.'' There's also the machine pistols if you want more dakka in your sidearm slot.

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* MeleeATrois: As of the latest patch, Grineer or Corpus forces one faction can start begin spawning in any other faction's missions. For instance, a mission that starts out against the Grineer may take a turn for the grim when Infested areas (or vice-versa, with suddenly begin to spread throughout the ship, prompting the Grineer to begin fighting the Infested spawning in Grineer/Corpus areas) - as well as you. Or you might mow down a ship's Grineer Marine contingent and they'll promptly start fighting should they run running into each other.
Corpus Crewmen, Moas, and Ospreys.
* MoreDakka: One of the primary weapons is an enormous machine gun that trades the Tenno's speed and grace for ''more bullets.'' There's also the machine pistols if you want more dakka in your sidearm slot. Or you can slot Fire Rate and Ammo Capacity mods into your guns.



* NorseMythology: One of the Warframes is called "Loki". Fittingly, its abilities are mostly based around stealth and trickery rather than directly harming enemies.

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* NorseMythology: One of the Warframes is called "Loki". Fittingly, its abilities are mostly based around stealth stealth, misdirection, and trickery trickery; rather than directly harming enemies.



* RegeneratingShieldStaticHealth: Without a Rejuvenate Artifact or Regenerate Health mods for your Warframe, Health can only be recovered by picking up Health Orbs or by being healed by an ally. Shields, however, regenerate by themselves.



* ShieldBearingMook: Grineer Shield Lancers. Whilst it's immune to small arms fire, it won't stop Puncturing bullets or melee attacks. The Shield Lancers themselves are relatively squishy.

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* ShieldBearingMook: Grineer Shield Lancers. Whilst it's the shield is largely immune to small arms fire, it won't stop Puncturing bullets or melee attacks. The Shield Lancers themselves are relatively squishy.

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* AntiArmor: Blunt weapons like the [[SimpleStaff Bo]], [[PowerFist Furax Gauntlets]], and [[DropTheHammer Fragor Hammer]] tend to do more damage to heavily-armoured enemies like Grineer soldiers than they do to lightly-armoured enemies like the Infested.



* ArmorPiercingAttack: Two flavours - Armour Piercing Damage, and Puncture. The former increases damage done to heavily armoured enemies - big surprise. The latter allows your bullets to pass through solid objects, like the shields carried by Grineer Shield Lancers.



* [[ElementalPowers Elemental Weapons]]: In the classic fire, ice, and electrical flavours. All of them inflict damage over time, and on top of that, have a special effect;
** Fire may cause enemies to panic.
** Ice slows enemies down.
** Electricity stuns enemies.



* ShieldBearingMook: Grineer Shield Lancers. Whilst it's immune to small arms fire, it won't stop Puncturing bullets or melee attacks. The Shield Lancers themselves are relatively squishy.



** The 2.5 closed beta update was called [[MCHammer Hammer Time]].

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** The 2.5 5.4 closed beta update was called [[MCHammer Hammer Time]].Time]]. Also, it adds a giant hammer.
* SocketedEquipment: Warframes and Weapons can have Modification Slots unlocked, which in turn can be used to socket various modification items. These are then represented on the item in question by a small blue crystal, and also make elemental effects appear on your melee weapons.


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* SticksToTheBack: Melee and primary weapons stick to the back, whilst pistols stick to your hip. Advanced technology is involved, so it's probably excusable.


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** AnAxeToGrind: Scindo, a gigantic double-bladed axe - the head is wider than the torso of most Warframes.


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** DropTheHammer: Fragor, a gigantic hammer - like Scindo, the head is almost as big as the wielder's torso!
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* ShoutOut: Of the internal sort. The game developers were behind DarkSector, and as a result, the suit designs and Technocyte plague ([[BodyHorror and its victims]]) are directly lifted from that game. The Tenno are also named for the player character. It helps that DarkSector was originally meant to be a stealth-based sci-fi shooter in space.
** SpiritualSequel

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* ShoutOut: Of the internal sort. The game developers were behind DarkSector, and as a result, the suit designs and Technocyte plague ([[BodyHorror and its victims]]) are directly lifted from that game. The Tenno are also named for the player character. It helps that DarkSector was originally meant to be a stealth-based sci-fi shooter in space.
space. Doubles as a SpiritualSequel.
** SpiritualSequelThe 2.5 closed beta update was called [[MCHammer Hammer Time]].
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* SpeakingSimlish: Whenever the commander of the enemy forces in a solar system taunts you, it's in this, despite in-game phrases being translated to English. Grineer ship markings are also a strange language.
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I cant remember their names...

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* ImprobableWeaponUser: One Grineer uses what's essentially a flaming club.


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* TheTank: Grineer soldiers with shields and flaming clubs take a LOT of damage.
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* GlassCannon: Grineer Warsaws do a LOT of damage up close, but die from one sword slash, pistol shot, or poke.


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* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe[=/=]ShieldBash: Several grineers carry shields, which they use to charge the player to send them flying.


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** SpiritualSequel
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* ShoutOut: Of the internal sort. The game developers were behind DarkSector, and as a result, the suit designs and Technocyte plague ([[BodyHorror and its victims]]) are directly lifted from that game. It helps that DarkSector was originally meant to be a sci-fi shooter in space.

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* ShoutOut: Of the internal sort. The game developers were behind DarkSector, and as a result, the suit designs and Technocyte plague ([[BodyHorror and its victims]]) are directly lifted from that game. The Tenno are also named for the player character. It helps that DarkSector was originally meant to be a stealth-based sci-fi shooter in space.
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* {{Animesque}}: Everything about the Tenno is taken from stereotypical anime depictions of ninja: the way they sit, their swords, their motions, their name, their very design...

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* {{Animesque}}: Everything about the Tenno is taken from stereotypical anime depictions of ninja: ninja and samurai: the way they sit, their swords, their motions, their name, their very design...



* SwordAndGun: The Tenno are stated to be masters of sword and gun combat.

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* SwordAndGun: The Tenno are stated to be masters of sword and gun combat.combat... which you use to great effect, as the game emphasizes ranged and melee attacks.

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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Orokin artifacts. Even the Corpus, the corporations that manufacture technology based on them, do not know how it works.



* CrystalDragonJesus: Of a sort. Corpus manufacturing is said to be part typical factory dronemanship, and part ritual, as the Orokin is a mysterious material.



* MechaMooks: The Corpus deploy Moa and Osprey robots back up their squishy crewmen, with both kinds coming in multiple flavours.

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* MechaMooks: The Corpus deploy Moa and Osprey robots back up their squishy crewmen, with both kinds coming in multiple flavours. Their foot soldiers are partially robotized, as well.
* MegaCorp: The Corpus, a corporation that controls every major trade route and flow of goods in the solar system. They won't let anything or anyone get in their way - Tenno or Grineer be damned - for the precious resource of Orokin. They're supposedly based on old merchant guilds from long ago in Earth's history.

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* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: Every level is procedurally generated.

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* ProtectionMission: Defense missions, which see you defending a cryopod containing a Warframe against waves of enemies. Fortunately, the pod regenerates its shields and health fairly quickly if you can keep the enemies off it, making the missions fairly easy.
* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: Every level is procedurally generated.generated using 'pieces' that are put together, much like ''{{Diablo}}'', ''HellgateLondon'', or ''{{VideoGame/Torchlight}}''.



* TechnicolorNinja: The Tenno Warframes range from pure black to pure white.

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* TechnicolorNinja: The Tenno Warframes range from pure black to pure white. So you could be stealthy with muted tones and subtle colours... or you could be lime green with hot pink highlights and blue glowy bits.


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* WeaponOfChoice: On top of all the guns, we have;
** CoolSword: Skana, Cronus, etc.
** KnifeNut: Various flavours of dagger, forged with blueprints dropped by bosses.
** PowerFist: Furax.
** SimpleStaff: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bo]].

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* {{Animesque}}: Everything about the Tenno is taken from stereotypical anime depictions of ninja: the way they sit, their swords, their motions, their name...

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* {{Animesque}}: Everything about the Tenno is taken from stereotypical anime depictions of ninja: the way they sit, their swords, their motions, their name...name, their very design...



* FlashStep: One of the Grineer assassination targets can teleport short distances to deliver a powerful melee strik.



* ShoutOut: Of the internal sort. The game developers were behind DarkSector, and as a result, the suit designs and Technocyte plague ([[BodyHorror and its victims]]) are directly lifted from that game. It helps that DarkSector was originally meant to be a sci-fi shooter in space.



* WomanInWhite: The Lotus.

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* WomanInWhite: The Lotus.Lotus.
* ZombieApocalypse: The Technocyte Plague.

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* AfterTheEnd: A nebulously-defined war happened in the background, one that got all the Tenno locked away into space.

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* AfterTheEnd: A nebulously-defined war happened in the background, background a long long time ago, one that got all the Tenno locked away into space.



* ArmorIsUseless: Nope. All that heavy armour the Grineer wear is fairly effective against small arms fire. Not so much against flaming swords or lightning-fists, though.
* TheBigGuy: Each and every Grineer are hulking brutes.

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* ArmorIsUseless: Nope. All that heavy armour the Grineer wear is fairly ''fairly'' effective against small arms fire. Not so much against flaming swords or lightning-fists, though.
* ArtificialStupidity: The AI can be very stupid about spotting you, ''especially'' if you're crouching. Stealth is actually reasonably possible if you're careful and cunning.
* TheBigGuy: Each and every Grineer are hulking brutes. Also the Rhino warframe's role, being the toughest but also the slowest.



* EliteMooks: Grineer Heavies, which come in [[KillItWithFire Napalm]], [[StuffBlowingUp Bombard]], and [[MoreDakka Minigunner]] flavours. They look almost identical to standard Grineer Lancers and Soldiers, but are tougher, have shields, and have more powerful attacks. The Infestation also has the Ancients (Ancient Healer, Ancient Disruptor, Toxicancient) which are bigger and tougher infested foes.

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* EliteMooks: Grineer Heavies, which come in [[KillItWithFire Napalm]], [[StuffBlowingUp Bombard]], and [[MoreDakka Minigunner]] flavours. They look almost identical to standard Grineer Lancers and Soldiers, but are tougher, have shields, and have more powerful attacks. The Infestation also has the Ancients (Ancient Healer, Ancient Disruptor, Toxicancient) which are bigger and tougher infested foes. Finally, there are a couple of special variants of the Corpus Moas.
* EscortMission: Rescue objectives sound like they could be hellish... [[AvertedTrope fortunately, they're not]]. The Hostage you have to rescue is - despite apparently carrying a pistol - unarmed and [[ArtificialBrilliance often tries to take cover]] [[ArtificialStupidity when he isn't running between multiple players trying to figure out who to follow, or stuck on terrain]], and [[MadeOfIron has strong shields and lots of health, despite being essentially naked]].



* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Helmeted Grineer Troopers have orange-reddish eyes, whilst some of the Infested have orange-red or blue eyes.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Both smart and stupid to varying degrees. They won't leave patrol paths to check out noises, but other times they can be deaf and blind. Usually if you engage them and aren't quick about it, one of them will run to the nearest Command Console to raise the alarm -- unless you can kill them before they get there.



* MeleeATrois: As of the latest patch, Grineer or Corpus forces can start spawning in Infested areas - and they'll promptly start fighting the Infested given the opportunity.

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* MechaMooks: The Corpus deploy Moa and Osprey robots back up their squishy crewmen, with both kinds coming in multiple flavours.
* MeleeATrois: As of the latest patch, Grineer or Corpus forces can start spawning in Infested areas (or vice-versa, with Infested spawning in Grineer/Corpus areas) - and they'll promptly start fighting the Infested given the opportunity.should they run into each other.



* NorseMythology: One of the Warframes is called "Loki". Fittingly, it's mostly based around stealth and trickery.

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* {{Nerf}}: The 5.3 - "Blazing Embers" patch ''massively'' reduced the effectiveness of shield capacity warframe modifications by converting them from percentages to flat increases[[hottip:*:for instance, a mod that once increased your shields by 50% now only increases them by ''50'']], with the aim of making combat much more dangerous, and making shield regeneration and damage reduction warframe modifications more appealing. When you had 1,000+ shields, there wasn't really anything that could actually threaten you short of getting cornered and stunlocked by a mob of Infested Ancients.
* NorseMythology: One of the Warframes is called "Loki". Fittingly, it's its abilities are mostly based around stealth and trickery.trickery rather than directly harming enemies.


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* ReturnToShooter: An ability available to the Mag Warframe and a certain boss, which causes bullets from the victim's firearms to strike them instead. It doesn't interfere with melee attacks or abilities, though.


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* SwordAndGun: The Tenno are stated to be masters of sword and gun combat.

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* ActionBomb: Infested Runners. They charge at you, then explode. Or they explode if you kill them with gunfire. But not if you slice them in half with a flaming sword.



* ArmorIsUseless: Nope. All that heavy armour the Grineer wear is fairly effective against small arms fire. Not so much against flaming swords or lightning-fists, though.



* ChainsawGood: Grineer Warsaws, who pack circular discs to do real damage up close.
* ChargedAttack: Every Tenno Warframe gets access to this. The most basic - and useful - attack is a simple slash-dash, a combination of a [[MassEffect Biotic Charge]] and a, well, sword slash.

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* BoomHeadshot: Played with;
** PlayedStraight by: Most Grineer troopers, who wear heavy armour everywhere ''except'' their heads.
** Played with by: Infested. Some of them are quite bullet resistant, others are not. They ''all'' tend to take more damage from headshots.
** {{Inverted|Trope}} by: Corpus Crewmen. No body armour whatsoever, big ol' ''bulletproof'' helmets.
* ChainsawGood: Grineer Warsaws, Sawmen, who pack circular discs to do real damage up close.
* ChargedAttack: Every Tenno Warframe gets access to this. The most basic - and useful - melee weapon can use a Hold-type charged attack is to dish out a simple slash-dash, a combination lot more damage, at the cost of a [[MassEffect Biotic Charge]] and a, well, sword slash.it being interruptable.



* FacelessGoons: Many (but not all) of the Grineer troopers wear helmets. The helmets don't seem to reduce how much damage the troopers take from headshots though.



* HandCannon: Among the pistols you can get: a gun made to fire shotgun rounds, about as big as your head. There's also a slightly more conventional handcannon revolver that does very high damage, in exchange for holding only six rounds by default.
* InterfaceScrew: The Ancient Disruptor's primary attack subjects you to ''severe'' interface screw (colour scrambling/inversion) and drains your power.

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* HandCannon: Among the pistols you can get: a gun made to fire shotgun rounds, about as big as your head. There's also a slightly more conventional handcannon revolver that does very high damage, in exchange for holding only six rounds by default.
* InterfaceScrew: The Ancient Disruptor's primary attack subjects you to ''severe'' interface screw (colour scrambling/inversion) and drains your power. Somewhat reduced in the latest patch since it was a bit ''too'' disorientating/dangerous for those with epilepsy or similar conditions.
* {{Invisibility}}: One of the Loki frame's primary powers turns it invisible for several seconds. Attacking does not break this invisibility.



* MoreDakka: One of the primary weapons is an enormous machine gun that trades the Tenno's speed and grace for ''more bullets.''
* NorseMythology: One of the Warframes/Tenno is called "Loki". Fittingly, he's mostly based around magic-like attacks.

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* MeleeATrois: As of the latest patch, Grineer or Corpus forces can start spawning in Infested areas - and they'll promptly start fighting the Infested given the opportunity.
* MoreDakka: One of the primary weapons is an enormous machine gun that trades the Tenno's speed and grace for ''more bullets.''
'' There's also the machine pistols if you want more dakka in your sidearm slot.
* NorseMythology: One of the Warframes/Tenno Warframes is called "Loki". Fittingly, he's it's mostly based around magic-like attacks.stealth and trickery.


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* ShockwaveStomp: Shockwave Moa and Grineer Heavies. Certain bosses can do it too. The Shockwave Moa's is unusual in that the wave travels along the walls/floor/ceiling, and can be jumped over. Players can jump and melee for their own version, and the Rhino warframe also has one as one of its abilities.
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* CloningBlues: The Grineer rely on hordes of clones to kill: the problem is that they tend to degenerate. So they compensate by installing them with tech.

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* CloningBlues: The Grineer rely on hordes of clones to kill: the problem is that they tend to degenerate. So they compensate by installing filling them up with tech.cyberware.



* ExcusePlot: You are fighting to push fascist space assholes and their army of degenerate clones out of the known galaxy. That's about it. Go kill them.

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* ExcusePlot: You are part of a clan of space ninjas, fighting to push fascist space assholes and their army of degenerate clones out of the known galaxy. That's about it. Go kill them.

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[[https://warframe.com/ Get it here - it's free-to-play.]]

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[[https://warframe.com/ Get it here - it's free-to-play.]]
free-to-play]], and currently under closed beta.



* CleanCut: The result of killing an enemy with a heavy sword.

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* CleanCut: The result of killing an enemy with a heavy sword.slash.



* HandCannon: Among the pistols you can get: a gun made to fire shotgun rounds, about as big as your head. There's also a slightly more conventional handcannon that does very high damage in exchange for holding only six rounds by default.

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* MoreDakka: One of the primary weapons is an enormous machine gun that trades the Tenno's speed and grace for ''more bullets.''
* NorseMythology: One of the Warframes/Tenno is called "Loki". Fittingly, he's mostly based around magic-like attacks.

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* CleanCut: The result of killing a Grineer with a heavy sword.

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* CleanCut: The result of killing a Grineer an enemy with a heavy sword.



* DumbMuscle: Grineer clones, victims of CloneDegeneration.
* ExcusePlot: You are fighting to push out fascist space assholes out of the known galaxy. That's about it. Go kill them.

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* DualWielding: One of the alternate melee weapons is the Dual Skana, which trade power and range for lightning-fast speed.
* DumbMuscle: Grineer clones, victims of CloneDegeneration.
CloneDegeneration. How dumb? They won't run to raise the alarm even if their buddy just got bisected by an invisible ninja's sword.
* EliteMooks: Grineer Heavies, which come in [[KillItWithFire Napalm]], [[StuffBlowingUp Bombard]], and [[MoreDakka Minigunner]] flavours. They look almost identical to standard Grineer Lancers and Soldiers, but are tougher, have shields, and have more powerful attacks. The Infestation also has the Ancients (Ancient Healer, Ancient Disruptor, Toxicancient) which are bigger and tougher infested foes.
* ExcusePlot: You are fighting to push out fascist space assholes and their army of degenerate clones out of the known galaxy. That's about it. Go kill them.



* HandCannon: Among the pistols you can get: a gun made to fire shotgun rounds, about as big as your head.

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* HandCannon: Among the pistols you can get: a gun made to fire shotgun rounds, about as big as your head. There's also a slightly more conventional handcannon that does very high damage in exchange for holding only six rounds by default.
* InterfaceScrew: The Ancient Disruptor's primary attack subjects you to ''severe'' interface screw (colour scrambling/inversion) and drains your power.


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* {{Knockback}}: Present in all its forms. Most notable is probably the Bo (staff) however, because [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom any enemy killed by it will be sent flying]].


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* TheVirus: The Technocyte Plague, which seems to only infest Corpus ships so far. Cue BodyHorror.

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* ExcusePlot: You are fighting to push out fascist space assholes out of the known galaxy. That's about it. Go kill them.



* TechnicolorNinja: The Tenno Warframes range from pure black to pure white.

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* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: Every level is procedurally generated.
* TechnicolorNinja: The Tenno Warframes range from pure black to pure white.white.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: The Lotus.
* WomanInWhite: The Lotus.
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MassEffect meets {{Crysis}} meets NinjaGaiden.

In the distant future, [[AfterTheEnd after a great war,]] the Tenno - feared masters of the blade, gun, and [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman the Warframe]], a powerful combat suit - were scattered amongst the Galaxy, lost, forgotten.

The Grineer - [[ANaziByAnyOtherName fascistic, militaristic]] [[DumbMuscle brutes]] who rely on [[CloningBlues degenerating clones]] and [[ScienceIsBad perverted science]] to conquer galaxies - are on the march. Seeing this, a woman called [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection the Lotus]] finds and begins reactivating the Tenno to fight back.

Players go on four-man missions against the Grineer, sabotaging and destroying to push them back out of the galaxies. Each mission is a fast-paced shoot-and-slash romp, and you're free to mix it up between shooting and slashing.

[[https://warframe.com/ Get it here - it's free-to-play.]]

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* AfterTheEnd: A nebulously-defined war happened in the background, one that got all the Tenno locked away into space.
* {{Animesque}}: Everything about the Tenno is taken from stereotypical anime depictions of ninja: the way they sit, their swords, their motions, their name...
** {{Ninja}}: And this.
* TheBigGuy: Each and every Grineer are hulking brutes.
* ChainsawGood: Grineer Warsaws, who pack circular discs to do real damage up close.
* ChargedAttack: Every Tenno Warframe gets access to this. The most basic - and useful - attack is a simple slash-dash, a combination of a [[MassEffect Biotic Charge]] and a, well, sword slash.
* CleanCut: The result of killing a Grineer with a heavy sword.
* CloningBlues: The Grineer rely on hordes of clones to kill: the problem is that they tend to degenerate. So they compensate by installing them with tech.
* DumbMuscle: Grineer clones, victims of CloneDegeneration.
* GeneticEngineering: The Grineer's hordes, all turned into overly muscled brutes.
* GunsAkimbo: You can do this with either semi-automatics, or full-auto pistols.
* HandCannon: Among the pistols you can get: a gun made to fire shotgun rounds, about as big as your head.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: The basic sword a Tenno gets is a katana. It's rather effective.
* LightningBruiser: Each and every Warframe. Even the hulkingly-slow tank.
* TechnicolorNinja: The Tenno Warframes range from pure black to pure white.

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