Blue Planet/YMMV

Blue Planet

• Alas, Poor Villain: You may feel this way hearing the intercepted Last Words of some enemies.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: The entirety of the mission Delenda Est and the end of Universal Truth where the Vishnans tell the Shivans to fuck off.
• Crowning Moment of Funny: "MEDITATION WIDGET! YOUR BIOMETRICS SHOW INCREASED HEARTRATE, NOEMI. WOULD YOU LIKE A KITTEN PICTURE?"
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Samuel Bei reconciling with his father.
  • Also One Perfect Moment from War in Heaven.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Everywhere.
• Ensemble Darkhorse / Draco in Leather Pants: Admiral Steele has gained a heck of a fanbase, who seem consider him the strategist version of a Memetic Badass.
• Even Better Sequel: War in Heaven.
• Idiot Plot: The plot very much seems like this until you read the supplementary material (most of which is found in the Tech Room databases, in both the Intel and Ship sections); then it becomes quite good, actually. The fact that it does things to the scale, depth, and dynamism that it does and still remains in the realm of true plausibility is a testament to how much thought went into it.
• Magnificent Bastard: Admiral Chiwetel Steele. Full. Stop.
• Most Annoying Sound: "*BEEP BEEP* Bank One/Two/Three empty", "Warning! Heavy damage!".
• Nightmare Fuel: War in Heaven does not sugarcoat war in the slightest, and some of the mid-battle dialogue can get downright horrifying, particularly when it references the fates of unlucky civilians who happened to be in the area.

"WARNING! INTERNAL TEMPERATURE AT 27,000 DEGREES! DEPLOYING DISASTER BEACON!"

—Automated transmission from a ship gutted by a GTVA beam cannon

• • Also, explore the jump flash at the end of Ken. Don't jump out right away...
• Player Punch: And how! Most notably the 14th battlegroup seeing the ruined alternate universe Earth for the first time, seeing again how Samuel Bei lost his wife and his mother, the murder of Elder Taudigani, and Admiral Steele executing his Xanatos Gambit against the player's task force and finally the last minute Heroic Sacrifice of the Yangtze.
  • Let's not forget shooting down Xinny and Zero, SOC heroes of the Second Shivan Incursion, who were only trying to rescue their commander. At least the UEF pilots have no idea what they are trying to do, given that they think that there were nothing of interest as far as they are concerned in the cruiser's cargo.
• Rooting for the Empire: The fandom has a very large contingent of GTVA supporters.
  • This was, incidentally, absolutely intended by the writers, who wanted to portray a war in which there is no obvious "good" or "bad" side.
• Tear Jerker: Xinny and Zero's radio chatter as you kill them is positively heartbreaking, more so because it's all your fault.
• That One Level: Forced Entry.
  • Subverted in that many players consider it to be one of the best missions ever made.