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'''Bio Data''': TCTF SWAT Troopers are the elite agents of the TCTF.
'''Bio Data''': TCTF SWAT Troopers are the elite agents of the TCTF.


'''Strengths''': Expert in hand-to-hand combat, skilled marksman, powerful [Special Moves.]<ref group="lower-alpha" name="special">There seems to have been some typesetting confusion in the printed manual between this line and the next one. The "Strengths" section for TCTF SWAT and all three Ninja classes ends with the word "powerful" and no period, as if the sentence was not concluded. The telling error is on p21 where Ninja Blue has the Strengths and Special Moves lines running together without a line break: "…powerful Special Moves: Volt Stomp…". This implies that the text "Special Moves." originally occurred at the end of these four "Strengths" lines, and when the Ninja Blue line which was missing a line break was noticed by someone, they saw "powerful Special Moves. Special Moves:" as duplicated text and performed a find-replace to change "Special Moves. Special Moves:" to "Special Moves:". The PDF manual from Tarantula Studios <u>does</u> have "Special Moves" at the end of these Strengths lines, either because they had an earlier version of the manual pre-"correction" or because an editor apparently came to the aforementioned conclusion about a mistake and made a speculative restoration of the deleted text.</ref>
'''Strengths''': Expert in hand-to-hand combat, skilled marksman, powerful [Special Moves.]<ref group="lower-alpha" name="special">There seems to have been some typesetting confusion in the printed manual caused by the repeated phrase "Special Moves" on this line and the next one. Someone seems to have viewed the text as a duplication and "fixed" it with a find-replace operation. They may have been misled by an error on p. 21 where a missed line break caused the two lines to run together, probably producing the result "…powerful Special Moves. Special Moves: Volt Stomp…". Due to either a find-replace operation or a single deletion followed by copy-pasting, the "Strengths" sections for TCTF SWAT and all three Ninja classes end with the word "powerful" and no period. However both the Rockstar Flash site and the PDF manual from Tarantula Studios <u>do</u> have "Special Moves" at the end of these "Strengths" lines, so it has been restored here.</ref>


'''Special Moves''': Lion Axe, Lion Fist, Flying Cross.
'''Special Moves''': Lion Axe, Lion Fist, Flying Cross.
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