Ashbringer

"The Ashbringer..."

World of Warcraft: Ashbringer is a mini-series from the World of Warcraft Comic series which set in Blizzard Entertainment's War Craft universe and released monthly in a standard western comic format. It is written by Micky Neilson. Art by Ludo Lullabi along with Tony Washington. The covers are by Chris Robinson, Ludo Lullabi, and Tony Washington The series consists of four issues and chronicles the history of the fictional sword known as Ashbringer.

It is part of the Warcraft Expanded Universe.

The series contains examples of:

 * Achilles in His Tent: Tirion Fordring.
 * All There in the Manual: This is a strange reversal as much of the story loses its impact unless you know who the characters are from the video game.
 * Cain and Abel: Renault and Darion. Ironically, Darion doesn't know it.
 * Cameo: Argent Officer Pureheart is the "other" female in the Order of the Silver Hand but is never identified by name.
 * Cool Sword: The titular Ashbringer.
 * The Devil: Balnazzar's role in the comic.
 * The Faceless:
 * Fan Service: The point of the entire thing.
 * Fantastic Racism: Something that cripples the Scarlet Crusade.
 * Foregone Conclusion: This is an adaptation of the Ashbringer story to Warcraft.
 * Fate Worse Than Death: The punishment for  and
 * Dathrohan
 * Grand Theft Me:
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * Knight Templar: The fanatical Scarlet Crusade is pretty much a direct analogue to the Knights Templars, except they fight Undead.
 * Knight Templar Parent: Brigitte Abbendis' father. Unfortunately, she's not much better.
 * Last Words: Alexandros Mograine gets some.
 * Specifically, it's the A Plague On Both Your Houses with Dramatic Irony.
 * Lawful Stupid: High General Abbendis, both of them, shoot down any plan that begins with "Allying with the other races."
 * The Messiah: Tirion Fordring.
 * The Mole:, although it is pretty obvious, and at least one character suspects it.
 * Ms. Fanservice: Sally Whitemane exemplifies this trope. In a order of otherwise straight Knight Templars, she's walking sex.
 * Redshirt Army: Darion's Argent Dawn companions infiltrating Naxxramas pretty much only exist to be killed.
 * Retcon: Tons. One of the chief retcons is Sally Whitemane survives the events of WOW due to
 * Not to mention Darion takes over the role of the player character in pursuing many of these events.
 * Self Made Orphan: The young  becomes this at the urging of the hideous.
 * Of course,
 * Stripperific: Whitemane's outfit. Of course, it WORKS on her.
 * Trauma Conga Line: Poor, poor Darion...
 * The Unfavorite: Renault's motivation for turning evil.
 * The Virus: The plague of undeath sweeping the land.
 * Voice of the Legion: For a comic, they really did a good job with Kel'Thuzad's voice. Twisted Speech Bubbles with a black/red background, white borders and text, and a shadow effect really lets you know that he isn't one of the good guys.
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy: Renault Mograine wants his father's approval. In the end,  Oh, and then
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Scarlet Crusade exemplifies this trope..