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*For a long time, people in the realistic flight business sneered at \\\"arcadey\\\" flight-action titles like \\\'\\\'AceCombat\\\'\\\', \\\'\\\'Afterburner\\\'\\\' etc. for having multi-role missiles that could be used for both air-to-air and air-to-ground. [[HilariousInHindsight Cue the recent (as of this writing in January 2010) announcement by the USAF through Jane\\\'s that they\\\'re modding Sidewinders for air-to-ground ability...]]
** And how does that fit this trope?

Deleted. Comment is right - It doesn\\\'t fit the trope. Trope requires something that\\\'s present at the time the work was written, only to become obscure later on, not something that was absent when the work appeared, only appear later.

[quote]*For a long time, people in the realistic flight business sneered at \\\"arcadey\\\" flight-action titles like \\\'\\\'AceCombat\\\'\\\', \\\'\\\'Afterburner\\\'\\\' etc. for having multi-role missiles that could be used for both air-to-air and air-to-ground. [[HilariousInHindsight Cue the recent (as of this writing in January 2010) announcement by the USAF through Jane\\\'s that they\\\'re modding Sidewinders for air-to-ground ability...]]
** And how does that fit this trope?
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Deleted. Comment is right - It doesn\\\'t fit the trope. Trope requires something that\\\'s present at the time the work was written, only to become obscure later on, not something that was absent when the work appeared, only appear later.

I like the fact that, a few days about the edit war, something really big DOES happen to the shipping fandom of Bleach.