(Such as Osea and the United States of America, Belka and Germany, etc.)
It is common to find fanart and fan comics that give the nations of Strangereal the countryball treatment, with certain ones often (and appropiately) being depicted as expies of specific Polandball characters. Friendly Fandoms: With Polandball, due to most of the Ace Combat entries taking place in a Fictional Earth populated by various parallels to real-life countries, the latter which the webcomic portrays as anthropomorphized "countryballs".It's taken further if a player uses the cover plane (Example: Wardog Squadron and the F-14), which a one-plane run is then called a Canon Run. Beating a campaign with single plane, or in the case of Ace Combat 5, a plane family, is called One Plane Running, or in Ace Combat 5, One Family Running.
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All three games are exclusive to the PS2, and essentially set the series standard in game mechanics, worldbuilding, and story elements. The "Holy Trilogy" is often used in reference to Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, and Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War.Strangereal, the name of The 'Verse where the series takes place, was simply appropriated from the 2000 teaser trailer for Shattered Skies, where the setting was called "This strange, real world, the another future." It became official only in 2015, 20 years after the franchise's birth and 15 after the term was first used, when announcing Ace Combat 7.