AdventureQuest Worlds

""In AQWorlds you can train up your fishing AND cooking at the same time! FIREBAAAAALLLLLLL! *BOOOOM SPLASH FISHY FISHY SIZZLE SIZZLE CHOM YUM GOODY FUN!*""

- Artix, creator of AE and AQW.

""Incredible animation by Miltonius, famous lolicon/porn animator from the internetz!""

- Encyclopedia Dramatica, they're not joking.

AdventureQuest Worlds is an expanded universe of Artix Entertainment, a company originally created for single player flash games, and it's their first step into the MMO market. Launched five years after the company's first game, Adventure Quest, the game follows its own chaotic storyline, but with NPCs from all the previous AE games (AQ, Dragon Fable [a walkaround RPG] and Mechquest, a Giant Robots RPG, or DF IN SPACE! The monsters are more recognisable.

The game follows your character on his or her path to become The Hero of a legend. After saving a dragon from a princess (Yes), he or she moves to Swordhaven, in hope of getting their reward. Instead, they found a burning city filled with undead and a giant, flying dracolich hovering just above the King's medieval castle. As he/she journeys inside it, they now start watching the overwhelming number of undead try to destroy the city, while the paladin Artix -- (yes, that one) -- tries fighting them all in vain. The Hero goes to the throne-room to 'help the King', but instead they get to watch the legendary battle of Good vs Evil unfold: King Alteon, king of Swordhaven and all of his Pactagonal Knights versus Sepulchure, lord of the legendary ShadowScythe and proclaimed Master of the Undead. The two arch-enemies fight a fierce battle, with neither gaining advantage over the other. As they proceed to unleash their most powerful techniques... Something unexpected happens.

Well, without spoiling much, a terribly unforeseen event happens to both of them. Now, Good and Evil must work together to defeat a threat greater than any other disaster... so far? The game focuses a lot on the character's decisions, even if it doesn't affect the main storyline at all. Each side has its own shop with their own outfits and weapons, and its own respective NPC in some cut-scenes. The game, so far, follows the company tradition of Lampshade Hanging, Hurricane of Puns and the direct interaction of the audience in the game's development.

One of the primary features of the game is the abundance of Classes that one can pick and choose from. Since classes are treated much like any other item in your inventory (with the only stipulation that you must have a class and a weapon equipped at all times), it is quite possible for your character to have many different classes (as opposed to just one or two for the entirety of his or her in-game career like in other MMO games), with the only major limitations being that you can only have one class equipped at any given time and you cannot change classes (or any other items in your inventory for that matter) while bonking monsters in mid-battle.

Alongside the events of the main storyline, AQWorlds also hosts weekly updates consisting of items, a player suggestion shop, random holidays (like Taco Day and Pancake Day), and their world-famous Live Events. They so far have had six Friday the 13th Events (all of which had special guests Voltaire) and the Mythsong Finale - Live Event with One Eyed Doll (they also appeared in the July 2010 Friday the 13th event), the 2nd Birthday Live Event with Paul and Storm and Jonathan Coulton, the Fear-Chaser event with Ayi Jihu and the direct crossover with web-comic Ctrl+Alt+Del, which all include voice acting and rare items to coincide with the events. George Lowe has also done advertisement and was also a special guest in the August 2010 Friday the 13th Event...

According to Cysero, Arc Attack (known for their third-place victory in 2010 America's Got Talent) became part of a musical number near the Doomwood finale. Other live events which also include rare items were held featuring the Third Birthday event with They Might Be Giants, the 2012 Heroes Heart Day event with Mia J. Park, and The Magic Thief event starring Conn, Benet, Rowan, Pettivox, and the Duchess.

As of yet, they have also released a card-game based on the MMORPG game (Otherwise known as the AdventureQuest Worlds Anything Goes Battle On Battle-Card Game) and there are also some rumors swirling about an animated series in the work...

This series provides examples of:
"Granny V: Your dreams might not be so sweet when you're living IN them, my dears! Stratos: NOOOOO! Not THIS day!"
 * Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The sewer area beneath the castle town of Swordhaven.
 * Accidental Aiming Skills:
 * Affably Evil: Drakath as well as Gravelyn
 * Also and.
 * Zorbak as well he shows signs of this
 * What about.
 * And let's not forget any players that side with Evil.
 * The Collector acts like a nice guy yet captures and collects things from different time periods - even the Hero!
 * Deady can also be viewed as this. Oh, and Sleezter Bunny as well. To be fair, Sleezter is also Stupid Evil.
 * Affectionate Parody: Of just about everything.
 * Afterlife Express: In the May 2011 Friday the 13th event, Voltaire, Deady and the hero board a Ghost Train.
 * A Homeowner Is You: You're able to buy different houses.
 * Air Jousting:.
 * All Swords Are the Same: Unless you 'enhance' your weapons.
 * All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The shadowed villain known only as Master (whose real name is actually ) plans on doing this to the Skyguard.
 * Always Night: In Shadowfall, Doomwood and Darkovia.
 * Amazing Technicolor Population
 * Ambiguously Brown: Most of the Sandsea NPCs.
 * Also, one of the skin color choices offered by the MMORPG's color system.
 * And I Must Scream: This rather humiliating and embarrassing fate happens to most of the Chaos Lords so far: Escherion was turned into a frog, Kitsune was sealed away in the rift taking him back to the Yokai world, Wolfwing was reduced to a pile of ashes by Shadowslayer Z until the Mystic Wolf Moon began slowly restoring his remains, and Ledgermayne was converted back into the raw mana from which it was made.
 * And there are some equally humiliating and and embarrassing examples with those who weren't Chaos Lords. One example is the fate of
 * Angels, Devils, and Squid: Good, Evil, and Chaos.
 * An Ice Person: Queen Aisha, Garaja, &
 * Animal-Eared Headband: A couple of these are helms.
 * Animal Motifs: David, J6's cousin, who at first did not know what motif he would be. He went from dog, vulture, alligator and then finally chose the Chicken.
 * The Lion for the Lionfang Clan
 * And dragons for Nythera and Ryuuji, given their half-dragon heritage.
 * There is also Galanoth with his dragon like armor
 * There are also Heroes with Animal Motifs
 * Apologetic Attacker: The hero apologizes to Lord Ovthedance after realizing that the Great Godfather of Soul lied to him/her and conned him/her into doing his dirty work.
 * Arranged Marriage: Nythera & Ryuuji.
 * As Long as There Is Evil: Or rather, in this case, As Long As There Is Fear..
 * Awesome McCoolname: Quite common among players
 * Awesome Moment of Crowning:
 * Ax Crazy: The second part of the Giant storyline gives your character a bout of the crazy with his or her somewhat horrific suggestions for how to handle the giant problem. See the What the Hell, Hero? entry for details.
 * Back From the Dead:.
 * The Bad Guy Wins:
 * Badass Boast: Sepulchure gets one.
 * "I AM DARKNESS! I AM DOOM! NO FORCE IN THIS WORLD CAN DESTROY WHAT I AM! LONG UNLIVE THE SHADOWSCYTHE!"
 * Also, Drakath has one in one of the ads: "End the World in 2012? Why should I wait THAT LONG?
 * Badass in a Nice Suit: Heroes wearing tuxedos are shown to be this.
 * Band Land: Mythsong
 * Barbie Doll Anatomy: The Male Heroes lack nipples.
 * Bear in mind that he is a . It's justified.
 * Bare Your Midriff: Some armors do this with female heroes.
 * Be Careful What You Wish For: Artix says this word for word in the final cutscene in the Doom War.
 * Bedsheet Ghost: One of the Halloween Armors is this.
 * Benevolent Genie:
 * The Berserker: The Berserker Class as well as Beta Berserker there are also The Berserker armors the most famous example is The Berserker Champion Armor
 * Beware the Nice Ones:
 * Beyond the Impossible: If what Artix states is true, a weekly script for AQWorlds is 1.5 pages (double spaced). The Doomwood finale has 12 pages SINGLE SPACED (which is for dialogue, quests, reward shops, bosses, etc).
 * BFS: There are some examples like The Giant Protector Blade weilded by Grizzlespit and there is also Vordred's Sword
 * Big Bad: Drakath, the Champion of Chaos.
 * Bigger Bad.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Probably the unlikeliest hero of all comes to Gravelyn's rescue at the end of the Shadowfall War:.
 * Big Red Devil:
 * Big No: Gravelyn lets out one of these when.
 * And again, this time twice when.
 * Kitsune when he's about to be sucked into the rift leading him back to the Yokai world.
 * Dr. Voltabolt after the Dental Driller's defeat.
 * The Hero when Ledgermayne interrupts him/her as soon as he/she is about to earn the Chaos Focus Gem, and.
 * Also,.
 * And again upon.
 * Once again after.
 * Nyctox when . It's quite hilarious, really, as his variation is rather high-pitched.
 * Stratos when Granny V (the Dreamweaver in disguise) makes him relive his nightmares of a certain day in his earlier years, hospitalizing him afterwards.
 * Also,.
 * And again upon.
 * Once again after.
 * Nyctox when . It's quite hilarious, really, as his variation is rather high-pitched.
 * Stratos when Granny V (the Dreamweaver in disguise) makes him relive his nightmares of a certain day in his earlier years, hospitalizing him afterwards.
 * Nyctox when . It's quite hilarious, really, as his variation is rather high-pitched.
 * Stratos when Granny V (the Dreamweaver in disguise) makes him relive his nightmares of a certain day in his earlier years, hospitalizing him afterwards.
 * Stratos when Granny V (the Dreamweaver in disguise) makes him relive his nightmares of a certain day in his earlier years, hospitalizing him afterwards.

"Ayi: . Twilly: WHAT?!"
 * Warlic just before Desoloth.
 * Noxus shouts this to in Doomwood Part 2 trying to order him to stand down before  gets destroyed by.
 * The DoomBlade states this when.
 * Big "What?": Twilly says this when
 * Bishonen: Mirror Drakath
 * Black Mage: Mage class.
 * Black Knight: The Black Version's of Artix And Sepulchure Figures have black armor  later
 * There is also a boss called The Black Knight
 * There is also an army of black knights at the member expansion of the guardian tower
 * There are also players who are black knights
 * The Blacksmith: Yulgar and Cysero
 * Bland-Name Product: The Chopping Maul is, unsurprising, full of it including: GraveStop, Left 4 Undead 2, World of DoomKnights, YBox, funplatform3, Wee, Scarbucks Coffee, Bloodbath & Body Works, Mortisha's Secret, Waldencrooks, Radioactive Shack, The Body Shop , Painless ShoeSource, GNC and DEKAY Jewelers
 * Brainwashed: A couple of bad guys have this as an ability. Most notably are Kitsune (using it to control the Emperor), Discordia, Tibicenas (he's a djinn) and Drakath.
 * Brainwashed and Crazy: Along with anyone who fell victim to Discordia's song, this happens to
 * Brought Down to Normal:.
 * Build Like an Egyptian: The Pyramid hidden within the Sandsea desert.
 * But Now I Must Go: The hero saying his/her farewells to Princess Miko and Emperor Daisho before running off into the sunset after defeating Ryoku and becoming the Dragon Koi tournament champion at the end of the Yokai Island storyline.
 * The Caligula: Vath.
 * Camp Straight: Andrew
 * Cats Are Mean: Lampshaded in the fact that Maximilian Lionfang's armor is based off of a lion.
 * Also, the first boss of the Giant Tale storyline is a giant cat.
 * Not to mention the Skello Kitties in the Yokai Graveyard.
 * Catch Phrase:
 * Everyone: "Battle on!"
 * Shadowscythe: "Long un-live the Shadowscythe!"
 * Bloodtusk Horcs: "Free and strong!"
 * Can't Catch Up: New players can have a hard time getting into the storyline, especially since the game advances weekly, and there's a glorious lack of Dynamic Difficulty in the newer regions; starting at the beginning of the story is practically required, but gets harder and harder as older players move ahead without you. It can easily become a vicious cycle and many quit because of this.
 * Cap: The current cap for levels is 45, while ranks in classes and factions can go as high as 10.
 * Chainmail Bikini: Gravelyn's Slave Bikini
 * Char Clone: J6 and Korin of MQ plus
 * Chekhov's Gun:
 * Here's one: The Book of Lore that every player gets in their first quest that's used to track down their history?
 * Christmas Episode: Frostval.
 * And apparently, Winter-een-mas.
 * Climax Boss: The Chaos Lord battles
 * Also Baron Luca, the four Prime Dragons, and.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Cysero, Cysero and CYSERO. In his wedding event he disguised his portable magic forge as A POTATO. When the player asks why, he explains that if he made it a fork, it'd be indistinguishable from other forks. Nursey lampshades her husband-to-be's craziness as to why she's going to marry him.
 * And of course, KIMBERLY.
 * The Collector: The main bad guy of the 3rd Birthday Event, who collects people with a great destiny, including The Hero, John and John from They Might Be Giants, and.
 * Combat Medic: The Healer class since they heal and use weapons to fight.
 * Comet of Doom: Drakath hurls  toward Battleon to destroy it
 * Composite Character: Ryoku is based on both Goku from Dragon Ball and Ryu from Street Fighter.
 * Drakath is both AQ and DF Drakath since he has his AQ Dragon Wings and possibly his AQ Streath and he has his DF Human Half
 * Jorxlol, for those who have read the Forgotten Realms series is a complete and utter expy of Jarlaxle, the infamous rainbow-cape wearing rogue drow and leader of Breagan D'arthe. He is depicted as bald and wearing an eyepatch in-game, but sadly without his epic rainbow cape or feathered hat.
 * Confusion Fu: The new Chaos Shaper class has this.
 * Container Maze: The Warehouse in the Ctrl+Alt+Del event
 * Continuity Nod: In the May 2011 Friday the 13th event, it starts with a couple of miners finding a ship in the desert. The ship is the very similar to the one from the first Friday the 13th Event in 2009 (as Voltaire lampshades it by saying he just can't get away from Pirate ships)
 * Cool Airship: Captain Stratos' ship, the Phereless, which also once belonged to his father.
 * Cosmic Retcon: made AQW a mix of all the other AE games.
 * Critical Existence Failure: Wolfwing, the fifth Chaos Lord, gets turned to dust by an arrow fired by Shadowslayer Z, but sometime later the moon comes over him and begins slowly restoring his remains.
 * . In-game, both Discordia, the fake sixth Chaos Lord, and Ledgermayne, the seventh Chaos Lord, also explode for their death animations when defeated.
 * Crossover: with Ctrl+Alt+Del, Romeo and Juliet and The Magic Thief.
 * Cross Player: Some players are this
 * Cue the Sun: After defeating Vordred.
 * Curb Stomp Battle:.
 * Later,.
 * Daddy's Little Villain: Gravelyn is Sepulchure's kid. She even.
 * Damage Sponge Boss: The Void Dragon as well as the Chaos Sphinx. Also,.
 * Darker and Edgier: Doomwood is starting to become this. To start:
 * Can it get worse? YES.
 * As of the latest update, it's been revealed that
 * Out of the Chaos Lord storylines, the Bloodtusk Ravine storyline is the darkest. We have Xing and  Xang manipulating the Alliance leaders and the leaders of both Horc and Troll factions all so they can stall for time and prepare the 9th Chaos Lord.
 * Let's not forget the Etherstorm Storyline, where  and the ending of the saga is much more dark and mature than any of those before it.
 * And if you thought Doomwood was bad, Doomwood Part 2 is even darker!
 * Dark Is Evil: The Shadowscythe Empire under Sepulchure at the start of the game.
 * Also, the fear manifestations of Heights, Darkness, and Death,.
 * Not to mention.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: The good heroes wearing/using dark items.
 * You can also buy items from Dusk's DoomKnight shops and Dage the Evil's Undead Legion shops even if your character is aligned with Good. Then again, the only Evil shops Good characters can't access are an undead soldier's Evil shop and Gravelyn's Evil shop.
 * And let's not forget Vayle, the Necromantress, as well as Bal Gravestorm and Wez, the Necromancer that King Alteon ordered to investigate the Chaos Marsh to help Swordhaven with its research on the Chaos infection.
 * Also, anyone who is affiliated with Good can use the DoomKnight class as well as the Necromancer class.
 * If you choose to spare the Eggs after Duncan sends you to destroy them and then complete Ferzana the female Draconian's Good quests, she'll let you buy the Onyx Dragon-related items in her shop which all have to do with darkness.
 * Zorbak may have caused trouble but he is not evil just Ebil and he sometimes helped The Hero
 * Deadpan Snarker: Ayi Jihu dips into this in her Fear Chaser event.
 * Deal with the Devil:.
 * Also.
 * Deceptive Disciple: Possibly . To be fair, she is.
 * Defeat Means Friendship:
 * Zeke during the Ctrl+Alt+Del event as well.
 * Deflector Shield:
 * Dem Bones: Many, many undead.
 * Department of Redundancy Department: The AdventureQuest Worlds 'Anything Goes Battle On Battle Card Game' comes to mine. (whether it's a lampshade or parody is up to opinion.)
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: So far your player has beaten
 * During the Fear Chaser event, Twilly does the same thing.
 * Dem Bones: Many, many undead.
 * Department of Redundancy Department: The AdventureQuest Worlds 'Anything Goes Battle On Battle Card Game' comes to mine. (whether it's a lampshade or parody is up to opinion.)
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: So far your player has beaten
 * During the Fear Chaser event, Twilly does the same thing.

"One-Armed Bandit: My gang is all over this area. You'll never make it to that ship! (to Voltaire) You with the guitar... this is all your fault. I'll get you for this!"
 * Also, you get to punch out the Desterrat Moya, which is a creature very similar to Cthulhu itself.
 * Disney Death:
 * Down in the Dumps: One of the areas in Akiba have you face off against Yokai based on discarded items (like shoes and umbrellas).
 * Dream Land: Twilly's Nightmare makes the hero go into Twilly's dreams.
 * The Dragon: The Chaos Beasts to the Chaos Lords, and possibly the Queen of Monsters to Drakath or the other way around.
 * Undead Artix to Mirror Alteon.
 * Vordred to Noxus.
 * Dracolich: There's a few of them in this game:
 * Death can turn your Red Dragon pet into one.
 * Shadowfall is built upon a Dracolich which used to be an ancient great dragon's corpse that Sepulchure found which is revealed in Dragon Fable.
 * Doomwood's Temple has one as the area's main boss..
 * Dual Boss: The Bruise Brothers on the Lead Zeppelin at the Stairway to Haven area of Mythsong Canyon.
 * Duel Boss:
 * Easily Forgiven:
 * Ear Worm: In-Universe,.
 * Elemental Powers: Lots, to be precise.
 * And one of the main themes of Etherstorm Wastes.
 * Elves Versus Dwarves: More like Drow (Dark Elves) Vs. Dwarves, which happened in Dwarfhold.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Drakath helps the hero defeat Ledgermayne by focusing his Chaos powers through the Supreme Arcane Staff.
 * While Sepulchure tends to do evil things every other day and night, he does seem to have a kind, gentle side that shows up every Frostval, and shares with the rest of the Shadowscythe the joy of Frostval. Even Gravelyn gets into the spirit of Frostval as well, despite her heart now being so cold as to be as cold as her father's was back then that she may not have the experience to share the joy of Frostval any longer.
 * And in the finale of Doomwood Part 2,.
 * Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Kimberly thinks so.
 * Everythings Better With Bunnies: Grenwog, Cabdury, anyone wearing bunny armors, Sleezter Bunny and the giant undead Rabbit Beast at the end of the sixth Friday the 13th event.
 * Everything's Worse with Bears: There's plenty of different species of bears found throughout the different locations of Lore, and the Void even has these.
 * Also, Deady disguises himself as a teddy bear to mask his true form as Urkor Malravenous.
 * Evil Albino: Mirror Alteon
 * Baron Luca
 * There is also the option to be one
 * Evil Counterpart: ShadowScythe Reaver to Phoenix Plate
 * Evil Alteon to Good King Alteon Undead Artix to Artix
 * A lot of other items can have Evil Counterparts as well as Chaos Counterparts
 * Even players can become evil counterparts of each other.
 * Sleezter Bunny is Deady's eviler counterpart since he and Deady have an almost similar design
 * Evil Is Not a Toy:.
 * Evil Redhead: Gravelyn
 * Evil Versus Evil: The recently-released Shadowfall War event, where the players fight to save Gravelyn from.
 * Exact Words:
 * Expecting Someone Taller:
 * Expy: The Bone Sword and The Bone Axe are Expy's of The Necrotic Blade of Doom and The ShadowReaper of Doom from Dragon Fable. Character-wise, and.
 * Chainsaw Artix is an Expy of Ash from Evil Dead and at Friday The 13th there is a Quest called Ebil Dread.
 * Karag Battle Axe is an Expy of The Blinding Light of Destiny
 * Capt. 000000Beard looks similar to Davy Bones from Dragon Fable
 * Eyes Do Not Belong There: Drakath has an eye on his chest
 * Eye Scream: Constantine does this to the previous Werewolf King, plucking his eyes out with his claws.
 * Fan Disservice: In Chopping Maul, you really need not see two skeletons posing in lingerie displayed outside Mortisha's Secret...
 * Fan Service/Ms. Fanservice : Gravelyne's Slave Bikini which looks similar to Leia's Slave Bikini
 * Fantastic Racism: The theme for the Bloodtusk Ravine storyline, between the cultured trolls and the proud Horc warriors.
 * Fate Worse Than Death:
 * Fetch Quest: Lots. Parodied or lampshaded almost constantly
 * First Town: The town of Battleon.
 * Fluffy the Terrible:
 * Fog of Doom: Lionfang's defense against the hero in the 1st Birthday event is a fog that would kill anyone. Luckily, Gravelyn discovered that it didn't work on those who were already Undead.
 * Foreshadowing: Regarding Artix  in Doomwood saga. To list:
 * Also, at the finale of the 2nd AQworlds Birthday Event, Mirror Drakath asks if his Chaos counterpart has a specific power.
 * Four Is Death: Kitsune is the fourth Chaos Lord plus he hails from the Japanese-themed Yokai Island. Makes perfect sense as the number four is considered unlucky in both Japanese and Chinese superstitions.
 * To defeat Ledgermayne, you need to collect four items of the Arcane Staff. It's subverted because
 * In the beginning of the Doomwood Saga there are four heroes: Artix, Beleen, Cysero and the hero itself.
 * Freeing the Genie: This was doubtless what Zhoom had in mind when he . Unfortunately, . Whoops!
 * Fur Against Fang: The conflict between the vampires and werewolves of Darkovia.
 * Genki Girl: Beleen. Duh.
 * Genie in a Bottle:.
 * Genre Savvy: While in the REALLY Paper-Thin Disguise
 * Get on the Boat: To get to Akiba, the player has to take a ship in Loloisa.
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: The Description of The Blood Cloak seems to imply that The Blood Cloak is covered in Blood.
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom: Typically, anyone of substantial power when newly Chaorrupted, and sometimes after. The color of choice is purple.
 * God of Evil: The Desterrat Moya.
 * Going to Give It More Energy: The hero's plan in the Arc Attack event basically amounts to
 * Good Angel, Bad Angel: The twins Xing and Xang,.
 * Go-Go Enslavement: As mentioned on Fan Service above, Gravelyn's Slave Bikini.
 * Grandpa God: Role Playing Game, The God of Gaming from The Ctrl+Alt+Del Event
 * Green-Eyed Monster: In the final cutscene of the second birthday event,.
 * Halloween Episode: Mogloween.
 * Healing Hands: Gee, I wonder what the Healer Class does?
 * As well as Paladins. The Undead Slayer can also heal, but only himself, and only by using Spirit Orbs.
 * Hello, Insert Name Here: Just like any other Artix Entertainment game, including its newly-released sister game Hero Smash, you can choose what your character's name will be. In the game, however, the character in question is referred to simply as The Hero.
 * Hero-Killer:.
 * Heroes Want Redheads: Or in this case, VILLAINS want redheads. So many people have joined Evil simply because they like how Gravelyn looks.
 * The Evil PCs are just as much heroes as the Good PCs, in fact the Evil reputation missions send you to kill strictly evil/undead enemies and absolutely no living enemies that aren't evil.
 * Heroic Sacrifice:.
 * Hidden Agenda Villain: Invidia, the newest Skyguard private, and the Dreamweaver, Master's Dragon, look familiar... they both have the same tiara, green eyes, and ominous smile. In fact,.
 * Homage: Escherion and parts of Chiral Valley is based on M.C. Escher and his artwork.
 * Hopeless Boss Fight:.
 * Humiliation Conga: So far, only a few villains have actually died. The rest have just been defeated and left with an unpleasant fate.
 * Escherion: The hero reflected his inversion spell back at him, inverting his powers, which eventually led to him turning himself into a frog.
 * Vath: After the hero threw his Legendary Sword of Dragon Control at his Chaos Dragon Amulet, destroying them both, he was betrayed by Stalagbite, who then carried him away from the Dwarfhold mountains to an unknown fate.
 * Kitsune: Got sucked into the rift leading him back to the Yokai world, after which the hero closed up the rift with the Hanzamune Dragon Koi Blade, sealing him inside.
 * Wolfwing: Got reduced to a pile of dust by an arrow fired at him by Shadowslayer Z. However, the Mystic Wolf Moon is slowly restoring his remains.
 * Discordia: His mask fell off and he revealed that he wasn't actually a Chaos Lord, he was actually hypnotized and controlled by Kimberly. Kimberly, the true Chaos Lord, was defeated when the Chaos Ear Worm was knocked out of her head.
 * Ledgermayne: Got converted back into the raw magic floating in the Para-Elemental Plane of Magic from which it was made by the Supreme Arcane Staff after Drakath focused his energy into it, replacing the shattered Chaos Focus Gem.
 * Maximilian Lionfang:
 * Noxus: . Tough break, bonehead!
 * Vordred: After a furious battle with Artix and the Hero, in which ; Vordred gets his comeuppance in one of four major ways, depending on who you had Cysero and Beleen send for:
 * In 's ending,
 * In 's ending,
 * In 's ending,
 * And finally, in 's ending,.
 * The Collector:
 * Hornet Hole: The Beehive area in Mythsong Canyon. Home of the Stinger and Killer Queen Bee monsters.
 * I Am Legion: The Overlord Doom Blade houses several darkness elementals
 * Ice King:
 * Idiot Hero: You would be surprised with some actions your character does in cutscenes.
 * Appears to be endemic to Paladins in Doomwood, judging by how many of them were defeated with the "Your shoes are untied" ploy.
 * Informed Equipment
 * High Collar of Doom: Gravelyn
 * Some Heroes can also be this
 * The Mirror Realm version of Drakath also has one
 * Inaction Sequence/Kamehame Hadoken: Parodied with Ryoku's Soul Nuke from the Kitsune saga, which he ultimately never gets to use because he's knocked out by the hero at the end of the saga just as he's finally ready to cut loose.
 * In the final battle against Vordred,.
 * Incredibly Lame Pun: This game and the hero both like using these things, ranging from "It has been a toad-ally un-frog-ettable experience!" to "Prepare to meet... YOUR LOLSUIT!!" to "It's the gift that keeps on giving."
 * Inevitable Tournament: The Hero has to fight in the Dragon Koi tournament to help Ai no Miko.
 * In Media Res: The January 2012 Friday the 13th Event takes place late in the evening and then plays through what happened to get there.
 * Invisibility: The hero ones uses an invisibility cloak . Kitsune also has this ability.
 * Irony yeah....what?
 * Jackass Genie:.
 * Jungle Japes: Bloodtusk Ravine.
 * Just Add Water: You can combine a couple of items in the merge shops to get new weapons, armor, etc.
 * Katanas Are Just Better: There are a couple of katana weapons in the game. Most notably is the Hanzamune Dragon Koi Blade, which is one of the drops upon defeating Kitsune and plays an important part in the Akiba saga.
 * Killed Off for Real:.
 * Killer Rabbit:
 * The Kingdom: The Kingdom of Swordhaven
 * Klingon Promotion: A new Werewolf King is crowned when someone challenges and kills the current Werewolf King in ritual combat.
 * This turns out to be
 * Knight of Cerebus: Xing and Xang's purpose as both the Bloodtusk Ravine and the Thanksgiving Event of 2011 got much darker when they appeared.
 * Lady of War: Gravelyn was shaping up to be one in the Doomwood/Shadowfall war.
 * And then.
 * Large Ham: Professor Iadoa, the Chronocorruptor villain of the 2012 New Year's event.
 * Laser Blade: The colored Star Swords that are released for a limited time only. Come in Blue, Red, Gold and Onyx, and Platinum.
 * Last of His Kind:
 * Laughably Evil: Zorbak, the 100% Ebil Moglin. Nuff said.
 * Also, Escherion gets a rather funny moment at the end of the Chiral Valley arc when the hero uses the mirror he/she found in the Cornelis Ruins to reflect his inversion spell right back at him and make him invert his own powers, causing him to suffer the Humiliation Conga of using his own spells on himself and eventually polymorph himself into a harmless frog.
 * Law of Chromatic Superiority: The DoomKnights and Berserkers whom are the most powerful classes plus they are Red.
 * This is no longer true after the release of a few Cash Op classes that are powerful enough to kill bosses in a single hit.
 * Well you can become powerful and dressed in Red
 * Now there is the Doom Knight Overlord Class which is a red Cash Op Class
 * Lawful Stupid/Knight Templar: Maximilian Lionfang,, and their followers of the Golden Onslaught.
 * In addition, there's the Inquisitors and Crusaders of the Citadel quests, who believe that Magic Is Evil and must be destroyed, but who are actually.
 * Leeroy Jenkins: Artix
 * Lethal Lava Land: Stalagbite Volcano
 * Light'Em Up:
 * Light Is Good: The kingdom of Swordhaven and - yep, you saw it coming - Artix.
 * Actually for Artix....
 * Light Is Not Good: The Inquisitors of the Citadel.
 * Maximilian Lionfang is also this Trope but more of a Lawful Stupid.
 * The evil heroes wearing/using light items. You can even buy and use stuff from Artix's Paladin shop even if you're evil.
 * Captain Stratos' now-rare Skyguard Outfitters shop also has items that even Evil characters can buy and wear/use.
 * There is also Sek-Duat from Dragon Fable.
 * Xavier Lionfang Maximilian's brother also counts
 * Literal Genie:
 * Let's add Xing and Xang on our list; the Hero tries to ask 5 questions and they do that, but it's not what the Hero had in mind.
 * Locomotive Level: The Ghost Train from the May 2011 Friday the 13th Event.
 * Lost Forever: Many event items and areas, including but not limited to:
 * The Lionfang War
 * The Wedding
 * Alpha tests
 * Beta tests
 * Although this is also subverted. Many of the live event areas are still there, but you have to be a Member to play through them. Plus the Book of Lore keeps the cutscenes of some of the older events.
 * Love Redeems:
 * Mage Killer: The Inquisitors of the Citadel.
 * There is also The Paladin Slayer Class which slays paladins and the class is obtained only by buying The AQW Card game: Chaos and Doomwood Expansion packs
 * Magical Girl: Alina invokes this trope.
 * Magic Knight: Any magic user class that wields swords, daggers, axes (but not staffs) are this.
 * Make My Monster Grow: Amira 2.0 gets a moment like this when she short-circuits after King kisses her after claiming her as his wife.
 * Man Behind the Man: Actually, in this case, Woman Behind the Man..
 * Mass Monster Slaughter Sidequest
 * Mineral MacGuffin: Vath forces the Dwarves to harvest Gemeralds.
 * Minigame Zone: The Shamrock Festival. You could play carnival games to gain Gold tickets and trade them for weapons, pets, armor, etc.
 * Mirror Universe: The Mirror Realm of the 2nd Birthday Event.
 * Multiple Endings: The Doomwood saga has multiple endings, depending on who you have Cysero and Beleen send for, and whether you choose to help Artix or betray him.
 * If you send for Gravelyn,
 * If you send for Vayle,
 * If you send for Zorbak,
 * If you send for ,
 * And finally, if you betray Artix,.
 * The game further rubs things in with the description for the in the Bad Ending shop:
 * My God, What Have I Done?:
 * Sokrakiis mutters this when
 * My Name Is Not Durwood: In The BattleOff Cutscene, the Hero says Paul and Storm's names wrong as Saul and Corn during and Storm tries to correct The Hero.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Vampire Lord Incubus his name sounds like the male lust demon Incubus
 * And to Paladins of all sorts:.
 * as well
 * Narrator: George Lowe's becoming a Narrator for the game.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero / Unwitting Pawn: The player tends help the various villains and Chaos Lords further their plans, either through blunder, misinformation, or by being tricked.
 * In the Sandsea arc
 * And in the Arc Attack live event.
 * The worst one yet is Nice job breaking it indeed.
 * And now.
 * Nigh Invulnerability:.
 * Ninja Maid: Female heroes in the Butler & Maid outfit.
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The developers tend to have fun chaining together adjectives and nouns. Most notably there's the Dracowerepyre -- a Dragon, werewolf, vampire hybrid. They briefly toyed with making it a cyborg as well.
 * Non-Mammal Mammaries: All female players have ample bosoms ... even those that aren't really human.
 * Nothing Can Stop Us Now: Ledgermayne says this after it breaks the Chaos Focus Gem, although it, according to the hero, didn't check to make sure there were no shards left from the gem to be accepted into the Supreme Arcane Staff..
 * As well as Noxus (or at least words to this effect) when he reveals that.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Artix, like most Paladins, are eager to jump in and just maim any Undead out there.
 * Obviously Evil: Drakath, Sepulchure,, , the Black Knight, Gressil, King Alteon the Imbalanced (a.k.a. Mirror Alteon), , Vertigo, Nyctox, Thanatops, , Lord Krom Wrath, , , and Xan.
 * Off with His Head: You do this to in the post-battle cutscene during the 2nd Birthday Event.
 * Offered the Crown:.
 * Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Spoofed in one part of the 2010 Friday the 13th Event. George Lowe mentions that there was an epic chase sequence with One-Eyed Doll.
 * Oh Crap: Vath gets this when the hero uses his/her Accidental Aiming Skills to throw his Legendary Sword of Dragon Control into his Chaos Dragon Amulet and destroy them both, and when he realizes that Stalagbite has turned against him.
 * Zahart also gets one when he sees that Zhoom has destroyed his magic ring,.
 * We also have Artix as well, who gets one when he notices the Fear Feeder, starting to quiver in fear afterwards. That's rather unusual for a paladin, even though he usually only fears the color pink.
 * Or it could be Fridge Brilliance. It's a Fear Feeder and it grows stronger by feeding on fears. It would feed on Artix's fear of pink, and grow so strong that even Artix, the Undead-slaying Paladin, wouldn't be able to stop it.
 * Discordia, Ledgermayne, get quite a hilarious "Oh Crap" look on their faces once they're out of hit points.
 * To be fair, that's because Ledgermayne, were built on Discordia. The face that is shown when they're defeated is the same face he uses when he's screaming and when he's defeated.
 * And Gravelyn has recently gotten one.
 * King gets this kind of face when Amira 2.0 short-circuits and grows to giant size after he kisses her after claiming her as his wife.
 * The hero's reaction (despite not changing expressions) to seeing that Galanoth.
 * And again when.
 * Everybody trapped at the bottom of the Necropolis cavern gets this reaction.
 * Omnicidal Maniac:.
 * as well.
 * Ominous Floating Castle: Sepulchure's famous castle was this...until Drakath crashed it down.
 * One of Us: Artix grew up watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Kitsune's armor is based off of the Shredder and there are also Ninja Kappa.
 * He was super excited as the May 2011 Friday the 13th event had Leonardo's voice actor (Michael Sinterniklaas) as Deady.
 * One Steve Limit: Some players will have similar names to the other players
 * One-Winged Angel: Deady does this in the 2011 Friday the 13th event when Lord Krom Wrath calls him pathetic for hiding in his teddy-bear disguise, insulting him for his lack of a sense of style and complying with his desire to see his true form before doing so. When the player asks why he doesn't do it all the time, Deady mentions that it's hard to get his real form back to the bear outfit.
 * Midway through the final showdown with Baron Luca in the 2011 Mogloween event, he takes on a monstrous form that would do Dracula proud.
 * Orcus on His Throne: Drakath
 * Our Dragons Are Different: Lots of Dragons out there. Also, another one of the main themes of Etherstorm Wastes.
 * Our Genies Are Different:
 * The Void Entity armor bought from the Void Larva's Void Shop looks a lot like a Genie.
 * Our Vampires Are Different: Safiria, any players wearing vampire armors, Vampire Lord Incubus, and.
 * Overly Long Gag: Zorbak going "Whoa whoa whoa" on the implication that the player has a talking Book of Lore and
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: Literally when disguising the hero to infiltrate the undead army in and finding out their leader in Doomwood, by wearing a paper bag with a skull doodled on it over his/her head..
 * Purple Is Powerful: Chaos
 * Pet the Dog: Kitsune towards his fellow Yokai.
 * Xavier Lionfang to his pet lion Silverclaw
 * Plant Person: Ledgermayne's appearance.
 * Port Town: Lolosia, where one can get the Pirate Class and catch a ferry to Akiba.
 * The Power of Rock: The Bard class and the general theme of the Mythsong saga in general.
 * The Arc Attack event also uses this...FOR SCIENCE!
 * Pre-Mortem One-Liner:.
 * Prestige Class: Once a hero gets rank 10 in either Healer, Rogue, Mage and Warrior, they can become either an Acolyte, Renegade, Sorcerer or Warlord. Also, if one has the Shaman class, they can also become Evolved Shaman.
 * Protagonist Without a Past: YMMV, since the beginning shows the character on the cliff that is struck by lightning...then spends about a minute falling down the mountainside before going to the first part of the game.
 * Puppy Dog Eyes: Nythera does these a lot in her own wedding event, and for good reasons.
 * Purple Is the New Black: Purple is the color choice for the forces of Chaos.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Vath, when he realizes his drow soldiers are losing the battle. Possibly his only break from being something of a Smug Snake, before he fights the hero.
 * Gravelyn and Safiria also get these when they're good and pissed.
 * The Beastmaker has these as the only part of him shown as the rest of his body is completely hidden and shadowed.
 * Redeeming Replacement: The Good Hero can act as one to any villain and with Doom Knight Overlord Class the hero can act as one to Sepulchure
 * Redemption Equals Death:
 * Redemption Rejection:
 * In one of the endings of the Doomwood saga,
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Cysero is Red (but wears Green), and Warlic is and wears Blue (He's also known as the Blue Mage). Ironically, in the Mirror World event, Cysero IS wearing Red (But now has a Blue Oni personality) and Warlic still wears blue (But is more of a Red)
 * Revenge:.
 * Vayle is very pissed at Artix for.
 * The End - or Is It?:
 * Red and Black and Evil All Over: Gravelyn has red hair, red armor and a black cape
 * The Hero has the option to subvert this or play it straight
 * The Reveal:.
 * And the hits just keep on coming.
 * And then it's revealed that
 * And the final reveal:
 * In the recent Skyguard update,.
 * At the end of the Doom War, it's revealed that.
 * Riddle of the Sphinx: The design notes mention this trope. Of course, they say that the only riddle the Chaos Sphinx, the seventh Chaos Beast, provides is how to survive its brutal onslaught.
 * The description for the Chaos Sphinx pet that it drops is also related to the Riddle of the Sphinx, as it says, "Riddle me this, riddle me that, isn't this the most chaotic sphinx pet you ever did pat?"
 * Robo Speak: Ledgermayne speaks in a calm and cool computerized fashion, something like a Machine Monotone, and even refers to itself as "we" or as "this form."
 * Robot Girl: The female hero when wearing the Prometheus armor.
 * Also, Amira 2.0.
 * Rock Bottom: Once the hero completes the Runix Cube and goes to Escherion
 * Ruined FOREVER: What a lot of players now consider the not-so-secret Miltonius/Nulgath area, Tercessuinotlim, to be after its recent nerf and implosion.
 * Rule of Three: This is prominently seen in the Live Events/Special Events, but it also pops up in quests every now and then.
 * Also, there are three parts to the Runix Cube
 * And Vath uses 3 Gemeralds
 * And as of Bloodtusk Ravine
 * Running Gag: Every time Friday the 13th is here, Voltaire has done a live event. Deady lampshades this by saying that the hero and Voltaire only meet up at that day.
 * Satan: Even if its a kids game,
 * Also.
 * Guess  counts as well to some extent.
 * Save the Princess: Inverted as you have to save both the dragon and the princess from the Cursed Ring of Dragon Control in the prologue. Also note that this quest is called "Save the Dragon from the Princess" for a reason.
 * The Shadowfall War counts as this, only here it's Save The Empress.
 * Screw You Drows: With the way that Vath generally treated the Dwarves during the Dwarfhold saga, this was pretty inevitable.
 * Scripted Event: Whether you choose to kill  or not,
 * Sealed Evil in a Can: Pretty much every one of the Beasts of Chaos, who mainly serve as The Dragon for the Chaos Lord who awakens them. So far, we have . And let's not forget whatever is going to be unleashed upon Lore when all thirteen of Drakath's seals are broken...
 * Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear: What Deady really is.
 * Secret Keeper:
 * Shifting Sand Land: Sandsea
 * Shoulders of Doom: Drakath as well as Thok even The Hero can choose to be this trope.
 * There is also Vordred, with his skull based armor.
 * Shout-Out: All your opponents are knockoffs of anime characters in the Dragon Koi Tournament in Akiba. There's Bash Ketchup with Pocky Chew, Nurse Jenny (who mentions a Nurse Bliss), NOTruto, Neko Yasha, Spork-ion, Absolute Zero, and Ryoku.
 * Also, the Sleuthhound Inn and its NPCs, which is one humongous shout out to the famous classic boardgame Clue, including a custodian named Curry.
 * The latest quest involves Don Giovanni, who sold his soul to a demon named Faust. This is a reference to an opera where a man named Faust sold his soul to the Devil.
 * Chaos Lord Discordia is based on The Phantom of the Opera..
 * Vath's General of Dark Elves is called the Scorpion King. His name? Dwain Jonsen.
 * Seeing as how she's referred to as She Who Walks Behind The Stalks, the Stalkwalker is a Shout-Out to Children of the Corn's He Who Walks Behind The Rows. The fact that she feeds on the psychic energy of parents and Chaorrupts the kids into serving as her army to do away with all the grown-ups makes her both based on AND as much of a monster as He Who Walks Behind The Rows himself.
 * Then again, the Children of the Candycorn part of the Mogloween events is pretty much based on Children of the Corn.
 * Baron Luca from the 2011 Mogloween Event is based on Dracula from Castlevania, as he turns into a second, demonic form at half of his health.
 * The Brutal Annihilator armor looks similar to Hades from God of War
 * The female version of the Jack Rabbit armor and helm bear quite the resemblance to Jack's look from Mass Effect 3.
 * Smug Snake: There are 3 Chaos Lords who are this Escherion, Vath and Ledgermayne
 * Ledgermayne believes that Drakath could possibly be one due to what it calls his "overconfidence". Of course, since Drakath is more of a possible Magnificent Bastard than an actual Smug Snake, he knew that, as he puts it, "Ledgermayne simply needed to learn a lesson: Nobody disobeys me."
 * Master / started out as showing signs as a Magnificent Bastard over the course of the Skyguard storyline,.
 * Solo Class: The rogue and the pirate, whose Footwork skill allows them to dodge enemy attacks (and every attack you dodge gets you a little bit of health back), and whose DPS abilities can even allow them to take out bosses solo, especially when Concealed Blade kicks in.
 * Many of the Rank 10 faction classes are quite capable of soloing most bosses, including the Necromancer, the Troll Spellsmith, the Undead Slayer and others. There's also the Paladin, which combines good offensive ability with good healing ability.
 * Spikes of Villainy: Drakath
 * As well as the DoomKnights and Berserkers
 * Sepulchure and Gravelyn also have spikes
 * Stab the Sky: One of the emotes lets you do this with any weapon.
 * Stable Time Loop/You Already Changed the Past:
 * The Starscream:.
 * Starter Villain: Escherion, the First Lord of Chaos, is the first really serious bad guy that you fight.
 * Status Buff: The Bard class is mostly for increasing/decreasing stats.
 * Stripperiffic: In AQW, gender is specific and there's only about two or three classes in the entire game that cover the entire body from neck to foot on a girl.
 * There's a fanfic for AQW making fun of this trope. It's called Las Vegas Lion.
 * Although later released armours tend to cover the players neck to toes for both genders, while some skin-revealing armors apply to men as well.
 * Stupid Evil: Sleezter Bunny.
 * Suddenly Voiced: Characters are voiced during the Live Events. However this is -- as almost everything in AQWorlds--lampshaded to the players about them having to read their own lines too.
 * In the May 2011 Friday the 13th event, Deady was voiced by Michael Sinterniklaas (who Artix states that he's gonna be voice acted by the best Turtle)
 * Sukhomlinov Effect: The werwolves victory over the vampires since the vampires are the side with the fancy uniform while the werwolves are not
 * Super Speed: Kitsune uses this.
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome: Drakath fits this trope well so is Mirror Drakath but he is less dark but more handsome
 * Truly Single Parent:.
 * Theme Naming: The Cauldron sisters are named after the famous line of the Witches in Macbeth (Double Double, toil and trouble. Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble)
 * Training Montage: The player needs to take the place of Lord Ovthe Dance for the dance competition and needs to be trained. The player is--of course--ecstatic to take part in a montage, but the Lord says it'll take too long. To compensate? The player is given a Twister mat.
 * Twenty Bear Asses: The quest engine appears to be built on the concept.
 * OK, now they're doing it for this trope. There's a quest where you have to get bear skin.
 * AND bear teeth, to make new teeth for llamas.
 * Take That: On one of AQWorlds latest banners they give a very thinly veiled pun to those obnoxious Evony ads.
 * In the recently-finished Werewolf/Vampire War in Darkovia, the main boss fight is a sparkly vampire that goes by the name of Edvard, whose girlfriend Beulah dumped him for a werewolf. For the first day or so, he was the weakest boss in the whole game, with only 900 hit points and very little in the way of damage.
 * At the introduction of the "Noob" area, the home screen stated What kind of game makes you kill Rats, anyways? You should be saving them!"
 * Don't forget the Evil Dread part of the August 2010 Friday the 13th Event. In order to stop Beleen's pink monsters, they have to say the fail-safe words from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still, the Hero and Artix make jabs on the fact that the remake didn't state the infamous words--you know the words--any time during the film.
 * Tears of Blood:.
 * The Voiceless: The Hero in all Live-Events, who seemed bugged by this fact. As George Lowe soon explains, "We're all reading our lines... You gotta read your own."
 * Throw It In: Some of the stuff that's been named has been based on crazy ideas. In the Design Notes, Beleen notes that the name of her chinchilla (Chongo) was named that when Cysero--unable to spell chinchilla on Google--decided to called it 'Chongo'.
 * The Four Gods: The Chinese New Year event features the Black Tortoise, the White Tiger, the Red Bird, and the Blue Dragon.
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You:.
 * Thirteen Is Unlucky: There are 13 Lords of Chaos, and the traditional Friday the 13th events held in AQWorlds.
 * This Cannot Be!: Quite a few AQW villains are quite fond of using this trope when defeated, like Chaos Shogun Kitsune when he gets sucked into the rift leading him back to the Yokai world and
 * This Explains So Much: You say this when Xing and Xang reveal that.
 * This Is the Part Where: See The Worf Barrage below.
 * This Is Unforgivable!:
 * The Great Godfather of Soul also says this to the hero after he/she wins the /Dance /Dance Minigame and therefore takes his title of dancing champ from him. This is where Chaos Lord Discordia is mentioned for the first time ever - the Godfather himself vows to make him/her pay for stealing his title away from him with Discordia's help.
 * Also, in the recent 2011 Friday the 13th event:
 * Starter Villain: Escherion, the First Lord of Chaos, is the first really serious bad guy that you fight.
 * Status Buff: The Bard class is mostly for increasing/decreasing stats.
 * Stripperiffic: In AQW, gender is specific and there's only about two or three classes in the entire game that cover the entire body from neck to foot on a girl.
 * There's a fanfic for AQW making fun of this trope. It's called Las Vegas Lion.
 * Although later released armours tend to cover the players neck to toes for both genders, while some skin-revealing armors apply to men as well.
 * Stupid Evil: Sleezter Bunny.
 * Suddenly Voiced: Characters are voiced during the Live Events. However this is -- as almost everything in AQWorlds--lampshaded to the players about them having to read their own lines too.
 * In the May 2011 Friday the 13th event, Deady was voiced by Michael Sinterniklaas (who Artix states that he's gonna be voice acted by the best Turtle)
 * Sukhomlinov Effect: The werwolves victory over the vampires since the vampires are the side with the fancy uniform while the werwolves are not
 * Super Speed: Kitsune uses this.
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome: Drakath fits this trope well so is Mirror Drakath but he is less dark but more handsome
 * Truly Single Parent:.
 * Theme Naming: The Cauldron sisters are named after the famous line of the Witches in Macbeth (Double Double, toil and trouble. Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble)
 * Training Montage: The player needs to take the place of Lord Ovthe Dance for the dance competition and needs to be trained. The player is--of course--ecstatic to take part in a montage, but the Lord says it'll take too long. To compensate? The player is given a Twister mat.
 * Twenty Bear Asses: The quest engine appears to be built on the concept.
 * OK, now they're doing it for this trope. There's a quest where you have to get bear skin.
 * AND bear teeth, to make new teeth for llamas.
 * Take That: On one of AQWorlds latest banners they give a very thinly veiled pun to those obnoxious Evony ads.
 * In the recently-finished Werewolf/Vampire War in Darkovia, the main boss fight is a sparkly vampire that goes by the name of Edvard, whose girlfriend Beulah dumped him for a werewolf. For the first day or so, he was the weakest boss in the whole game, with only 900 hit points and very little in the way of damage.
 * At the introduction of the "Noob" area, the home screen stated What kind of game makes you kill Rats, anyways? You should be saving them!"
 * Don't forget the Evil Dread part of the August 2010 Friday the 13th Event. In order to stop Beleen's pink monsters, they have to say the fail-safe words from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still, the Hero and Artix make jabs on the fact that the remake didn't state the infamous words--you know the words--any time during the film.
 * Tears of Blood:.
 * The Voiceless: The Hero in all Live-Events, who seemed bugged by this fact. As George Lowe soon explains, "We're all reading our lines... You gotta read your own."
 * Throw It In: Some of the stuff that's been named has been based on crazy ideas. In the Design Notes, Beleen notes that the name of her chinchilla (Chongo) was named that when Cysero--unable to spell chinchilla on Google--decided to called it 'Chongo'.
 * The Four Gods: The Chinese New Year event features the Black Tortoise, the White Tiger, the Red Bird, and the Blue Dragon.
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You:.
 * Thirteen Is Unlucky: There are 13 Lords of Chaos, and the traditional Friday the 13th events held in AQWorlds.
 * This Cannot Be!: Quite a few AQW villains are quite fond of using this trope when defeated, like Chaos Shogun Kitsune when he gets sucked into the rift leading him back to the Yokai world and
 * This Explains So Much: You say this when Xing and Xang reveal that.
 * This Is the Part Where: See The Worf Barrage below.
 * This Is Unforgivable!:
 * The Great Godfather of Soul also says this to the hero after he/she wins the /Dance /Dance Minigame and therefore takes his title of dancing champ from him. This is where Chaos Lord Discordia is mentioned for the first time ever - the Godfather himself vows to make him/her pay for stealing his title away from him with Discordia's help.
 * Also, in the recent 2011 Friday the 13th event:
 * Also, in the recent 2011 Friday the 13th event:

"Hero: This Is the Part Where he comes out of the smoke undamaged, huh? Artix: Yup."
 * To be fair, he said that to Voltaire because he blames him for helping the hero defeat him. He keeps true to his promise to get revenge on him in the cutscene before fighting against Yahorneth, Lord Krom Wrath's pet, by ambushing him and dragging him somewhere to beat up on him... but Voltaire survives the fight with him while the hero is defeating Yahorneth, and shows up alive revealing that he got the One-Armed Bandit's mechanical claw in place of one of his hands in the process of his fight with him.
 * In the Bloodtusk saga, after helping to defeat the Alliance Soldiers led by Cynari and Tibias, who enforced martial law on the ravine, and afterwards sending the Horcs and Trolls back home to rest up from all the fighting they did with said soldiers, the hero declares that he/she woill make the Chaos Lord running the events in the ravine pay for everything he has done to the ravine after discovering who it is and when he/she finds him....
 * Later, in the same saga,.
 * In Doomwood Part 2,.
 * Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Inverted in Vath's case. The player throws HIS sword to destroy both the Legendary Sword of Dragon Control and the Chaos Dragon Amulet, thus freeing Stalagbite.
 * Time Stands Still: The Chronomancer and Chronocorruptor classes and Professor Iadoa in general.
 * Tomato Surprise:
 * Took a Level In Badass: Drakath, compared to his level of power in the other games.
 * Well he is powerful in the original Adventure Quest as well.
 * Artix counts also.
 * Too Many Skulls: According to the Design Notes, Nulgath designed Vordred with skulls. He asked Artix if it was enough to which Artix sarcastically quotes it wasn't...and the final result is this.
 * And he gains even MORE skulls in the final battle.
 * Ultimate Evil: Master, the shadowed main villain of the Skyguard storyline. Say his real name and you'll end up reliving your nightmares every time you go to sleep, courtesy of the Dreamweaver.
 * The Beastmaker is shown to be this.
 * Unicorn: The first 2012 Friday the 13th event has unicorns, especially Voltaire's Black Unicorn.
 * Unsettling Gender Reveal: Some players become this trope by playing a character of the opposite gender.
 * Surprisingly enough, Ledgermayne, the seventh Chaos Lord, is Unsettling Gender Reveal personified. Ledgermayne is actually an It, meaning it is genderless (despite sometimes being referred to as a male), but surprisingly its armor is shaped just like any other female armor. Not to mention, both the male and female versions of the armor drop are the same thing as that which Ledgermayne is wearing.
 * Valkyries: Any female heroes wearing any items forming the complete Celestial Sandknight set.
 * Van Helsing Hate Crimes: The majority of enemies aren't hostile until you attack them, which can lead to some peculiar moral quandries if thought about too much.
 * Villain Override: Noxus does this to at the start of the Shadowfall War. The reason it's not Mass Hypnosis instead is because.
 * Villainous Breakdown: Vath gets this along with a Red Eyes, Take Warning when he realizes that his Drow Soldiers are losing the battle with the newly-freed dwarves.
 * After Ledgermayne sees that the hero accepted the shards of the Chaos Focus Gem into the Supreme Arcane Staff, it declares that the hero, whom it was unable to dissuade from the "self-destructive course" as it called it, must be dealt with as he/she challenges it to a fight.
 * Master / experienced this.
 * Villainous Crossdresser: The Evil Hero when wearing the Royal Role Reversal Garb
 * Any male evil heroes wearing the Dorian and Dorothy.
 * There's also the.
 * Villainous Rescue:
 * The Voiceless: All the speech in the game is communicated through voice bubbles, except for the Live Events . One particular live event--the 3rd Friday the 13th event--even makes the Hero question why they don't get to voice their own character. George Lowe--the Narrator for the event--answers back that they (George Lowe and Kimberly of One-Eyed Doll) are just reading their lines, and that the Hero has to read their own.
 * Weaksauce Weakness:
 * Wendigo: The first boss of the Arcangrove saga is a yeti-like monster called Wendigo.
 * Also, another, similar boss appears in the Frostval 2011 event named Windego, which has the I in place of the E and the E in place of the I.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: During the second part of the Giant storyline, your character learns about a village of Smuurvils (basically blue Smurf-like Sneevils) and promptly suggests feeding the Smuurvil village to the Giant so that he'll be too full to eat the villagers that he or she is trying to free. The village elder is horrified. Then after he makes the suggestion of using a sleeping potion on the giant, your character then has the idea of feeding one of the villagers to the Giant with the potion so that the rest can get away, to which the poor elder's only appropriate response is "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Thankfully, your character wises up soon afterward.
 * At the end of the Etherstorm saga,
 * What Happened to the Mouse?:.
 * What If: Adventure Quest Worlds Zombies is based on a question of what would happen if.
 * Wham! Episode: One word: Doomwood.
 * Three words: Doomwood Pt II
 * Wham! Line:
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: Vath and his Drow soldiers. Also, one of the color system's hair color choices for the male heroes.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: Vath's Drow assassins, as well as one of the color system's hair color choices for the female heroes.
 * White Mage: Healer Class.
 * Whole Costume Reference: Gravelyn's Slave Bikini
 * Wholesome Crossdresser: The Good Hero when wearing the Royal Role Reversal Garb.
 * Wings Do Nothing: You character's wings are just for astetics; even if you're falling off the side of a castle with great angelic wings, you're still going to cannon-ball into the moat below.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Anyone afflicted with Chaos.
 * According to the design notes, whoever merely gazes into the Realm of Chaos loses all his/her sanity with no hope of ever going back to their normal existence again.
 * This is also true of the Necromancer class, as stated by its character panel description.
 * The Worf Barrage: It's even lampshaded:
 * Wholesome Crossdresser: The Good Hero when wearing the Royal Role Reversal Garb.
 * Wings Do Nothing: You character's wings are just for astetics; even if you're falling off the side of a castle with great angelic wings, you're still going to cannon-ball into the moat below.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Anyone afflicted with Chaos.
 * According to the design notes, whoever merely gazes into the Realm of Chaos loses all his/her sanity with no hope of ever going back to their normal existence again.
 * This is also true of the Necromancer class, as stated by its character panel description.
 * The Worf Barrage: It's even lampshaded:


 * It does, however,.
 * The Worf Effect:.
 * Worthy Opponent: In some scenes, Drakath thinks the Hero is a Worthy Foe.
 * Wutai: Akiba and the Yokai Isle in general are the primary "Asian" area of Lore, leaning primarily toward the Japanese end of the spectrum. They're also where you will find Kitsune, the fourth major Chaos Lord.
 * You and What Army?: Escherion says this verbatim to the hero. The hero has an army of the citizens of Mobius
 * You All Look Familiar: Everyone including the players have the same face while Drakath's Human Face is one of a kind while His Chaos Face not so much since other players will have it
 * We even have Vath and his Drow (Dark Elves) they all have the same face and some have the same haircut as Vath
 * Some of the staff even fall victim to this trope like Artix, Cysero, Miltonius/Nulgath, Reens, and Safiria.
 * Yes, even the Lords of Chaos aren't immune to this, as the players can look just like them when wearing their armor sets. After all, they each have a chance that they may drop their armors as well as different items whenever they're defeated.
 * You Can't Thwart Stage One: The hero has never succeeded in preventing a Chaos Lord from summoning a Chaos Beast and breaking one of Drakath's thirteen seals. The one time the hero actually does prevent a Chaos Lord from summoning a Chaos Beast during the Mythsong saga,.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Players are capable of changing their hair color, and they can even change it to green, blue, purple, or even white.
 * Captain Stratos of the Skyguards has Blue Hair.
 * You Have Failed Me: After the hero destroys the rabbit beast at the end of the sixth Friday the 13th event, the Beastmaker says this to Sleezter Bunny but surprisingly enough doesn't kill him as Sleezter's too dumb to accept death as punishment anyway. While Sleezter says he's sorry he failed, the Beastmaker receives word that the hero helped Deady and he decides to keep a close eye on him/her. Cue Red Eyes, Take Warning as well as Evil Laugh.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:.
 * Drakath would often choose the next Chaos Lord to replace the current one after the current one has served his purpose well in summoning his/her/its Chaos Beast.
 * And Ledgermayne becomes The Starscream to him because it feels that it no longer has any need for him after finding out his supposed overconfidence.
 * You Killed My Father: Gravelyn would like nothing more than to make Drakath pay for killing her father, Sepulchure, and bringing the ShadowScythe Empire further into ruin.
 * In the Mirror Realm storyline, we learn that this is also true of Mirror Drakath, hearkening back to his story in Dragon Fable in which he was the son of the Evil King that the present King Alteon overthrew.
 * You Mean "Xmas": Just like AQ, DF, and MQ, Mogloween (Halloween), the Harvest Festival (Thanksgiving), Frostval (Christmas), Heroes Heart Day (Valentine's Day), Good Luck Day (St. Patrick's Day), Grenwog (Easter), Planet Day (Earth Day), and Freedom Day (Independence Day).
 * You're Insane!: In the cutscene played after defeating Andre's Giant Necklace, Andre thinks that what the hero did is insane when he/she tells him to pick on somebody his own size next time he captures the villagers. He thinks that the hero poisoned his son, but the hero tells him that he's perfectly fine and that he's just taking a nap, which Crychek finishes with "...in yer soup."
 * In Nythera's wedding event,.
 * Youkai: The Yokai monsters living in Yokai Island.
 * Zombie Apocalypse:.
 * In the Adventure Quest Worlds Zombies Alternate Universe created by Drakath,.
 * In the Adventure Quest Worlds Zombies Alternate Universe created by Drakath,.