History YMMV / XComTheHadesContingency

* AcceptableReligiousTargets: Islam and Muslims - the story has numerous instances of Islam being treated as almost akin to a ''disease'' and the Commander made his name waging a war to effectively destroy the religion. This ended up getting Xabiar banned from ''Website/SufficientVelocity'' because the content was deemed too offensive and hateful for the site.
** Possibly averted with the upcoming Revision. One of the previews on Xabiar's Discord server features a scene from a rewritten Saudi Arabia chapter, with a more positive showing of the Saudi people compared to the original; the soldiers appearing in the scene in question are now referred to as the former Muslim resistance against the Caliphate (as opposed to the lack of ''any'' mention of Muslim resistance), and while a stand-off between them and the XCOM soldiers still happens, the context opens an opportunity for a peaceful resolution, as opposed to the original version.

* SalvagedStory: Expanding on the example under ''Advent Directive'''s [[YMMV/XCOMTheAdventDirective YMMV page]], this appears to be one of the main goals of the Hades Revision, promising to overhaul the story's handling of the War on Terror - from its treatment of Islam and Muslims, to how the characters themselves view these events - in addition to revamping other plotlines/characters, such as the Silent Sniper: [[spoiler:he is now a character of his own, as opposed to the Commander sneaking out to participate in more important missions.]]

* SalvagedStory: Expanding on the example under YMMV/XCOMTheAdventDirective, this appears to be one of the main goals of the Hades Revision, promising to overhaul the story's handling of the War on Terror - from its treatment of Islam and Muslims, to how the characters themselves view these events - in addition to revamping other plotlines/characters, such as the Silent Sniper: [[spoiler:he is now a character of his own, as opposed to the Commander sneaking out to participate in more important missions.]]

** This is followed closely behind by [=MEC=] technology, which essentially brings the weaponry of a tank to an infantry battle ([=SHIVs=] have either not been invented yet or have had the project abandoned), causing [=MECs=] to score the majority of all kills in any battle they participate in. Most prominently, [=MECs=] are almost psionically invisible even to Ethereals, and are the only non-psionic unit which poses a threat to them. Their only limiting factor is the small number of [=MECs=] available to XCOM, reserving them only for the most high-profile missions.

** Possibly averted with the upcoming revision; one of the previews on Xabiar's Discord server feature a scene from a rewritten Saudi Arabia chapter, featuring a significantly more positive showing of the Saudi people compared to the original - the soldiers that appear in the scene in question are now referred to as the former Muslim resistance movement against the Caliphate, and while there is still a stand-off between them and the XCOM soldiers, a peaceful resolution seems vastly more plausible than in the original version.

In addition, sufficiently powerful psions like the Ethereals are [[NoSell nigh-untouchable]] since their psionic barriers are powerful enough to shrug off sustained fire from an entire squad wielding gauss weaponry, in addition to multiple US Marines. Every single organization (X-Com, EXALT and the aliens) have made research and utility of psionics their topmost priority.
** This is followed closely behind by [=MEC=] technology, which essentially brings the weaponry of a tank to an infantry battle ([=SHIVs=] have either not been invented yet or have had the project abandoned), causing [=MECs=] to score the majority of all kills in any battle they participate in. Most prominently, [=MECs=] are almost psionically invisible even to Ethereals, and are the only non-psionic unit which poses a threat to them. Their only limiting factor is the small number of [=MECs=] available to X-Com, reserving them only for the most high-profile missions.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Expanding on the example on ''[[YMMV/XCOMTheAdventDirective Advent Directive]]'', the Hades Revision is set to significantly overhaul the story's handling on the War on Terror - from its treatment of Islam and Muslims, to how the characters themselves view these events - in addition to revamping other plotlines, such as [[spoiler:the Silent Sniper now becoming a character of his own instead of the Commander sneaking out during missions, [[WordOfGod as confirmed by Xabiar.]]]]

* AcceptableReligiousTargets: Islam and Muslims - the story has numerous instances of Islam being treated as almost akin to a ''disease'' and the Commander made his name waging a war to effectively destroy the religion. This ended up getting Xabiar banned from ''Website/SufficientVelocityDotCom'' because the content was deemed too offensive and hateful for the site.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Expanding on the example on ''[[YMMV/XCOMTheAdventDirective Advent Directive]]'', the Hades Revision is set to significantly overhaul the story's handling on the War on Terror - from its treatment of Islam and Muslims, to how the characters themselves view these events - in addition to revamping other plotlines, such as [[spoiler:the Silent Sniper now becoming a character of his own instead of the Commander sneaking out during missions, [[WordOfGod as confirmed on Xabiar's Discord server.]]]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Expanding on the example on [[YMMV/XCOMTheAdventDirective ''Advent Directive'']], the Hades Revision is set to significantly overhaul the story's handling on the War on Terror - from its treatment of Islam and Muslims, to how the characters themselves view these events - in addition to revamping other plotlines, such as [[spoiler:the Silent Sniper now becoming a character of his own instead of the Commander sneaking out during missions, [[WordOfGod as confirmed on Xabiar's Discord server.]]]]

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The ''Aliens and the Internet'' series, which chronicles Quisilia's internet trolling, stock purchasing, and introducing other aliens to Earth's internet. At one point he strikes a deal with ADVENT to make action figures and just gives away high-resolution scans of all Collective military units. It's surreal.
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: By the time of ''The Advent Directive'', the differences between ADVENT and the Ethereal Collective have narrowed to the point that there aren't really any heroic factions with relevance remaining, and humanity faces a grim future.

** This is followed closely behind by [=MEC=] technology, which essentially brings the weaponry of a tank to an infantry battle ([=SHIVs=] have either not been invented yet or have had the project abandoned), causing [=MECs=] to score the majority of all kills in any battle they participate in. Most prominently, [=MECs=] are almost psionically invisible even to Ethereals, and are the only non-psionic unit which poses a threat to them. Their only limiting factor is the small number of [=MECs=] available to X-Com, reserving them only for the most high-profile missions.
* WoobieSpecies: Mutons are raised from birth in industrial farms that forcefully impregnate fertile females, treated to brutal training regimens that completely retard their social development, and the ones that survive are simply sold in auctions to Ethereal masters who, at best, view them as pets, at worst as cannon fodder. And worse, they've had it beaten into them that this ''is completely natural''.

** Psionics. Unlike in-game, where psionics are support abilities with substantial cool-down and a chance of being resisted by strong-willed characters, the RealityEnsues nature of the fanfic shows ''exactly'' when LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards is in effect. Any non-psionic character is shown to have absolutely '''''zero''''' defense against mental attacks and is completely reliant on the shielding of psionic teammates... if they aren't taken out right at the start of the battle.\\

* WoobieSpecies: Mutons are raised from birth in industrial farms that forefully impregnate fertile females, treated to brutal training regiments that completely retard their social development, and the ones that survive are simply sold in auctions to Ethereal masters who, at best, view them as pets, at worst as cannon fodder. And worse, they've had it beaten into them that this ''is completely natural''.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: War is a nightmare where the most brutal and unlimited force is likely to be the most successful, and not only that but this model of horror informs the shape of societies across the ''entire universe''.