Basic Trope: Characters in a conflict can't tell who's on their side.
* Straight: Characters shoot at, or avoid, their own friends.
* Exaggerated: Characters shoot everything that moves even though they know they have friends about.
* Justified: As in Real Life, the Fog of War can make it very hard to tell.
* Inverted: The Medic with the Healing Shiv wants to shoot only his friends, but finds it hard to tell which ones.
* Subverted: Uniforms make it clear.
* Double Subverted: Until Dressing as the Enemy occurs.
* Parodied: Characters are baffled in a paintball fight -- where the balls shoot Instant Allegiance Artifact.
* Deconstructed: The characters have been rendered so paranoid by war that they can't tell who is who anymore.
* Reconstructed: That's beca
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| - Basic Trope: Characters in a conflict can't tell who's on their side.
* Straight: Characters shoot at, or avoid, their own friends.
* Exaggerated: Characters shoot everything that moves even though they know they have friends about.
* Justified: As in Real Life, the Fog of War can make it very hard to tell.
* Inverted: The Medic with the Healing Shiv wants to shoot only his friends, but finds it hard to tell which ones.
* Subverted: Uniforms make it clear.
* Double Subverted: Until Dressing as the Enemy occurs.
* Parodied: Characters are baffled in a paintball fight -- where the balls shoot Instant Allegiance Artifact.
* Deconstructed: The characters have been rendered so paranoid by war that they can't tell who is who anymore.
* Reconstructed: That's beca
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| - Basic Trope: Characters in a conflict can't tell who's on their side.
* Straight: Characters shoot at, or avoid, their own friends.
* Exaggerated: Characters shoot everything that moves even though they know they have friends about.
* Justified: As in Real Life, the Fog of War can make it very hard to tell.
* Inverted: The Medic with the Healing Shiv wants to shoot only his friends, but finds it hard to tell which ones.
* Subverted: Uniforms make it clear.
* Double Subverted: Until Dressing as the Enemy occurs.
* Parodied: Characters are baffled in a paintball fight -- where the balls shoot Instant Allegiance Artifact.
* Deconstructed: The characters have been rendered so paranoid by war that they can't tell who is who anymore.
* Reconstructed: That's because of how hard it is to detect.
* Zig Zagged: ???
* Averted: Friendly Fireproof
* Enforced: "We don't want to glamorize war, so let's depict battles as gritty, confusing scenes where the hero can't even recognize his best friends."
* Lampshaded: A character asks "Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him"
* Invoked: One character is The Mole, who takes advantage of the confusion of battle to murder a target.
* Defied: ???
* Discussed: ???
* Conversed: ??? Back to Friend or Foe, scumbag! Or I'll-oh! Sorry, sir! Thought you were one of them, y'see..
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