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3* YMMV/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries
4* YMMV/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries
5* YMMV/CommandAndConquerGenerals
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8'''Please only put examples here that cover multiple series, or ''C&C'' in general. Those pertaining to the individual series go on their respective pages.'''
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11* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Has [[AwesomeMusic/CommandAndConquer its own page]].
12* BrokenBase: There is a small but very dedicated and fanatical group of the Command & Conquer fandom who insist that the only real games were made before Westwood was bought out by EA Games. You are '''not''' allowed to like any game released after Red Alert 2 and are expected to declare war on EA.
13* FanonDisContinuity: Fans still debate on a number of issues, notably which ending of the first ''Red Alert'' leads to ''Tiberian Dawn''. WordOfGod is the Allied ending.
14* GameBreaker: [[GameBreaker/CommandAndConquer Has its own page now.]]
15* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The ''Tiberium'' and ''Red Alert'' games are very popular in Europe (''Generals'', not so much). One reason why is probably because Europe and European armies feature very heavily in the campaigns. The GDI campaign in [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn the first game]] takes place in Europe and even features battles in many countries that don't get much media attention, like [[UsefulNotes/{{Estonia}} the]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Lithuania}} Baltic]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Latvia}} republics.]] Meanwhile, the first ''Red Alert'' game took place entirely in Europe and the Allied commanding officers were a German and a Greek. Later games began to have more of an emphasis on {{America|SavesTheDay}}, but still had strong European involvement; the ''Tiberium'' series in particular continued to visit countries in Europe such as Norway and Switzerland, and Nod's main Temple is always found in the former Yugoslavia.
16** The TropeNamer himself even makes a cameo at the end of Allied campaign in ''Red Alert 3.''
17* MagnificentBastard: Kane, the unshakable, powerful and charismatic master of the Brotherhood of Nod. Kane's manipulations go back all the way to ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert Red Alert]]'' when he plays the Soviets perfectly toward his end goals. In the present, Kane betrays his second in command and manipulates the entire GDI to play to his own ends. Kane later even starts the Third Tiberium War just to trick the GDI into launching an Ion Cannon strike on Temple Prime and detonating a liquid Tiberium bomb so he can call the Scrin to earth and hijack one of their gates to leave the earth and ascend. In Kane's Wrath. Not only does Kane manipulate the fractured Brotherhood into reunifying in the wake of Firestorm, he also engineers the rise of Redmond Boyle, who he wants to be in charge of GDI so he can manipulate him into using the Ion Cannon on Temple Prime. And he does all this while constructing LEGION, the ultimate strategic AI to interface with the Tacitus and bring him and Nod one step closer to ascension, ending by achieving every goal he sets out for.
18* MemeticMutation: The ''Red Alert'' series' signature theme, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3YzmjmAGoI Hell March]] ([[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally intended as a Nod theme for the main series until Brett Sperry pinched it]]), has been placed over footage of any number of other real life groups marching, from the armies of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jePn_Th4d0Q China]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=096hnKDw5tc North Korea]] to a parade of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0WnZyxp_Wo Pikachu]].
19** Many lines from all units and announcers are often quoted in any situations such as "Cannot deploy here" when the entire building in real life emits bright red.
20* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound:
21** "Unit promoted."
22** "Reinforcements have arrived."
23** "Upgrade complete."
24** ''[maniacal laughter]''
25** "Time to rock n roll!"
26** "Ion Cannon ready."
27** "You are Victorious!"
28* NightmareFuel: Has [[NightmareFuel/CommandAndConquer its own page]].
29* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: Many fans of the older games do not think highly of [=EA=]'s installments, save for ''Tiberium Wars'' and ''Red Alert 3'', which were received somewhat better or just as well than the rest. It was to the joy of fans that when EA decided to remaster ''Tiberian Dawn'' and the first ''Red Alert'', they made sure to contact the original creators and have the product be as faithful to the originals as possible (and adding even more content), [[WinBackTheCrowd garnering a genuine rejoicing from the fans]], even from the ones that disliked EA.
30* PortingDisaster: ''The First Decade'' is a lot of nasty. ''Tiberian Sun'' often fails to install outright, and ''Red Alert 2[=/=]Yuri's Revenge'' only launch one time. The loading screens and menus for ''Generals'' are static images instead of the in-engine cutscenes. The whole disc often fails to install more than once, and no, this isn't because of DRM (as evidenced by the subsequent "little trick" working at all). The only way around these issues? Copy-pasting the disc onto an alternate file layout. After this little bit of Tech-Heresy, all the games are Version 1.0, meaning all of them chug like steam engines on a bar crawl.
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