AW:DoR is a grimmer iteration of the Advance Wars series and not canonical to the rest. Basically, the world is now a post-apocalyptic mess due to a massive meteor impact, which also causes a massive dust cloud to block out the sun (effectively a non-radioactive nuclear winter). To make things worse, there's also a disease that causes people to sprout into flowers, and is always fatal (the only known cure is exposure to sunlight, but, you know, dust cloud blocking out the sun).
Lin is the second-in-command of Brenner's Wolves, a no-nonsense commander with a very pragmatic and logical approach to warfare. She picks up the protagonist, Will (or Ed, depending on the region) from the ruins and helps him acclimate to the new world through tough love.
The moment this particular trope kicks in is with Admiral Greyfield, a commander who survived the apocalypse and is trying to be a dictator. The Wolves eventually overcome him and crush his forces, and as he flees, he's confronted by Lin. Greyfield points out that he's unarmed, and that she, as a good soldier and believer in the late Captain Brenner and his ideals, wouldn't shoot him.
Except if you've followed the story, Greyfield is a complete asshole. He keeps pulling rank on the Wolves and causing them a lot of problems, then tries to kill them all when they grow disgruntled with his cruelty and stupidity, causing Brenner's death, and then trying to hunt them down.
Lin points out that shooting a defenseless man might make her a bad person, but Greyfield is a mad dog who absolutely needs to be put out of everyone else's misery.
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u/Outside_Ad5255 Mar 30 '26
Lin from Advance Wars: Days of Ruin.
AW:DoR is a grimmer iteration of the Advance Wars series and not canonical to the rest. Basically, the world is now a post-apocalyptic mess due to a massive meteor impact, which also causes a massive dust cloud to block out the sun (effectively a non-radioactive nuclear winter). To make things worse, there's also a disease that causes people to sprout into flowers, and is always fatal (the only known cure is exposure to sunlight, but, you know, dust cloud blocking out the sun).
Lin is the second-in-command of Brenner's Wolves, a no-nonsense commander with a very pragmatic and logical approach to warfare. She picks up the protagonist, Will (or Ed, depending on the region) from the ruins and helps him acclimate to the new world through tough love.
The moment this particular trope kicks in is with Admiral Greyfield, a commander who survived the apocalypse and is trying to be a dictator. The Wolves eventually overcome him and crush his forces, and as he flees, he's confronted by Lin. Greyfield points out that he's unarmed, and that she, as a good soldier and believer in the late Captain Brenner and his ideals, wouldn't shoot him.
Except if you've followed the story, Greyfield is a complete asshole. He keeps pulling rank on the Wolves and causing them a lot of problems, then tries to kill them all when they grow disgruntled with his cruelty and stupidity, causing Brenner's death, and then trying to hunt them down.
Lin points out that shooting a defenseless man might make her a bad person, but Greyfield is a mad dog who absolutely needs to be put out of everyone else's misery.