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'''''AdventureQuest Worlds''''' is an expanded universe of [[Artix Entertainment (Creator)|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 (Video Game)|Adventure Quest]]'', the game follows its own chaotic storyline, but with NPCs from all the previous AE games (AQ, ''[[Dragon Fable (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]'' [a walkaround RPG] and ''[[Mechquest (Video Game)|Mechquest]]'', a [[Humongous Mecha|Giant Robots]] RPG, or DF [[Recycled in Space|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 -- ([[Author Avatar|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.
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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 (Musicmusician)|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.
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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...
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=== '''This series provides examples of:''' ===
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: The sewer area beneath the castle town of Swordhaven.
* [[Accidental Aiming Skills]]: {{spoiler|After being defeated, Vath is about to use his Chaos Dragon Amulet to sic Stalagbite on The Hero. In retaliation, The Hero throws Vath's Sword of Dragon Control and it hits the amulet, shattering the both of them. The Hero then comments that he or she was aiming for Vath when he or she threw the thing.}}
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* [[And I Must Scream]]: This rather [[Humiliation Conga|humiliating and embarrassing]] fate happens to most of the Chaos Lords so far: [[Squishy Wizard|Escherion]] was [[Laughably Evil|turned into a frog]], [[Kitsune]] was sealed away in the rift taking him back to the [[Youkai|Yokai]] world, [[Hybrid Monster|Wolfwing]] was reduced to a pile of ashes by Shadowslayer Z until the Mystic Wolf Moon began slowly restoring his remains, and [[The Starscream|Led]][[Omnicidal Maniac|ger]][[Complete Monster|mayne]] was converted back into the raw mana from which it was made.
** And there are some [[Humiliation Conga|equally humiliating and and embarrassing]] examples with those who weren't Chaos Lords. One example is the fate of {{spoiler|the revived Noxus, whose head was taken off his undead body and used to make a weapon. Gravelyn even gives the weapon to the Hero in a Non-Canon Ending the Doomwood finale.}}
* [[Angels, Devils, and Squid]]: Good, Evil, and Chaos.
* [[An Ice Person]]: Queen Aisha, Garaja, & {{spoiler|Dead Morice}}
* [[Animal-Eared Headband]]: A couple of these are helms.
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** 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 Asas There Is Evil]]: Or rather, in this case, As Long As There Is Fear. {{spoiler|The main boss of the Fear Chaser event, a giant winged skeletal entity simply called FEAR, mentions that life is fear, fear has existed ever since the first moment the first creature appeared, and even after his defeat, he's not going anywhere despite how easy it is for a truly fearless hero to overcome fear, because most people need fear as fear is a part of life}}.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Quite common among players
* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: {{spoiler|In the most unlike events ever, Gravelyn gives Chuckles--yes THAT Chuckles--a promotion by swapping his skull with Noxus's!}}
* [[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 Fromfrom the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Noxus, now as a lich}}.
** {{spoiler|Sepulchure came back in Doomwood II, but was [[Killed Off for Real]] when he sacrificed himself to save Gravelyn from being killed by Drakath.}}
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Sek-Duat kills off Zhoom and the player by blasting them off the cliff and causes the rocks above them to cave in on them just in case they were to miraculously crawl up to stop him from claiming the Djinn's lamp... [[Subverted Trope|only to be revealed that Zhoom had slipped in the Dreamsand on Sek-Duat earlier on, causing him to think he had won.]] }}
** {{spoiler|If you betray Artix in the Doomwood finale, Vordred becomes the Champion of Darkness and unleashes a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] upon the land, just after [[Rewarded Asas a Traitor Deserves|rewarding you as a traitor deserves, you bastard]]}}.
** {{spoiler|In an [[Alternate Universe]], Sepulchure kills off King Alteon ([[Heroic Sacrifice|who lept into his way to save the hero]]) thus drawing the attention of Death (who'll personally guide King Alteon's soul into the afterlife) and promptly [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|''kills'' Death]] in order to trigger a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] all in an attempt to narrow down the identity of the Champion of Light ('''HINT:''' It wasn't Alteon)!}}
* [[Badass Boast]]: Sepulchure gets one {{spoiler|right before Drakath kills him}}.
** "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 Aa Nice Suit]]: Heroes wearing tuxedos are shown to be this.
* [[Band Land]]: Mythsong
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: The Male Heroes lack nipples.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: {{spoiler|Khasaanda}}
* [[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]] {{spoiler|Doomwood Part II revealed that an unknown villain is behind Drakath}}.
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** Nyctox when {{spoiler|Twilly voices that it's not the dark he's afraid of at all, leading to Nyctox's [[Critical Existence Failure]] courtesy of Twilly's [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]}}. 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.
{{quote| '''Granny V''': Your dreams might not be so ''sweet'' when you're living '''IN''' them, my dears!<br />
'''Stratos''': '''NOOOOO! Not ''THIS'' day!''' }}
** Warlic just before Desoloth {{spoiler|bites off Galanoth's arm}}.
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** There are also players who are black knights
* [[The Blacksmith]]: Yulgar and Cysero
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: The [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Chopping Maul]] is, unsurprising, full of it including: GraveStop, [[Left 4 Dead|Left 4 Undead 2]], [[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of DoomKnights]]<ref> New expansion: Bath of the Rich King</ref>, YBox, funplatform3, Wee, Scarbucks Coffee, Bloodbath & Body Works, Mortisha's Secret, Waldencrooks, Radioactive Shack, The Body Shop<ref> In a whole other meaning...</ref>, Painless ShoeSource, GNC<ref> General Necromancy Center</ref> 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 {{spoiler|and by extension Kimberly}}, Tibicenas (he's a djinn) and Drakath.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Along with anyone who fell victim to Discordia's song<ref> Okay not him exactly, it was Kimberly</ref>, this happens to {{spoiler|the player in the beginning of the Doomwood saga by Vordred}}
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** 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!"
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* [[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 {{spoiler|J6 is revealed to have a [[Chars Counterattack|Char-Scar]]}}
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|the magic mirror from Cornelis in chapter 2, which was mentioned briefly in the end of the quests there, is later used to reflect the First Lord of Chaos' attack and finish him.}}
** Here's one: The Book of Lore that every player gets in their first quest that's used to track down their history? {{spoiler|Well let's flash forward to the Doomwood temple and it's used to translate an ancient book written in Dragon language that tells of the Elemental Champions. By EATING it.}}
* [[Christmas Episode]]: Frostval.
** And apparently, [[Ctrl +Alt +Del|Winter-een-mas.]]
* [[Climax Boss]]: The Chaos Lord battles
** Also Baron Luca, the four Prime Dragons, and {{spoiler|Desoloth}}.
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* [[Combat Medic]]: The Healer class since they heal and use weapons to fight.
* [[Comet of Doom]]: Drakath hurls {{spoiler|TWO comets}} toward Battleon to destroy it {{spoiler|after a suggestion from the chaos turned Xing and Xang.}}
* [[Composite Character]]: Ryoku is based on both Goku from [[DragonballDragon 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.
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** {{spoiler|Tibicenas, the eighth Chaos Lord, acheives this by exploding into many shards of Chaos after being defeated}}. In-game, both Discordia, the fake sixth Chaos Lord, and Ledgermayne, the seventh Chaos Lord, also explode for their death animations when defeated.
** {{spoiler|After defeat, the Void Dragon also explodes in the cutscene afterwards - this one into many Void Splinters}}.
* [[Crossover]]: with [[Ctrl +Alt +Del]], [[Romeo and Juliet]] and [[The Magic Thief]].
* [[Cross Player]]: Some players are this
* [[Cue the Sun]]: After defeating Vordred.
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* [[Damage Sponge Boss]]: The Void Dragon as well as the Chaos Sphinx. Also, {{spoiler|Miltonius/Nulgath and J6}}.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Doomwood is starting to become this. To start: {{spoiler|We have a paladin slayer that has killed all but ONE paladin--Artix. Then we have the hero becoming an undead slave to the paladin slayer--who is also immune to undead slaying magic. Oh and we have someone who wants Artix dead for her own personal reasons. And this is just the FIRST part of the arc!}}
** Can it get worse? YES. {{spoiler|When the player reaches the Tower of Necromancy, they find out that Sally from ''[[Dragon Fable (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]'' is there. She's not only revived Noxus, but also is the reason that Vordred is invulnerable to paladin magic. Oh and Artix is the only one that's blocking him from being invincible AND Artix isn't just a paladin...he could probably be something dark also.}}
** As of the latest update, it's been revealed that {{spoiler|Vordred is trying to become the Champion of Darkness, and the only thing he needs to do is kill Artix -- because Artix is the Champion of Darkness, but swore himself to the cause of Good long ago.}}
** Out of the Chaos Lord storylines, the Bloodtusk Ravine storyline is the darkest. We have Xing and {{spoiler|Mirror}} 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.
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** 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 Withwith the Devil]]: {{spoiler|Don Giovanni's deal with Faust}}.
** Also {{spoiler|Miltonius/Nulgath with his Leery Contracts that the player has to sign in order to access certain rewards}}.
* [[Deceptive Disciple]]: Possibly {{spoiler|Invidia}}. To be fair, she is {{spoiler|the Dreamweaver in disguise}}.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: {{spoiler|Kimberly joined the players' side after being defeated. Getting that Chaos [[Ear Worm]] out of her head went a long way toward doing so. We also have Khassandra, the only Chaos Lord to join the players' side while still Chaorrupted.}}
** Zeke during the [[Ctrl +Alt +Del]] event as well.
* [[Deflector Shield]]: {{spoiler|The Mirror Shield is used to deflect Escherion's inversion magic and turn him into a frog.}}
* [[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 {{spoiler|1=a battlemage, a Hydra, a Chaos sorcerer, a Cyclops and Imp Warlord, a drow Chaos DragonLord and his dragon, a Roc, several powerful Yokai, a giant skeleton Yokai, a Kitsune Chaos Samurai, a chaorrupted werewolf and vampire, a [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|sparkly vampire]] champion, a Dracowerepyre, an immensely powerful Chaorrupted Werepyre, another Chaos Demon (of the [[Deal Withwith the Devil|sell your soul]] variety), a fake Chaos Lord, a Triceratops, a chaorrupted Drummer and Bassist, a mind controlled Chaos Lord rock star, a giant furry yeti-like creature known as Wendigo, a giant leech, a Lochness-like monster, a dragon even worse than the Red Dragon, a mana elemental, a chaorrupted being of mana incarnate, a powerful dragon of the Void, an immortal mummy lich god-king, a chaorrupted Sphinx, a powerful chaorrupted Djinn, the manifestations of the fears of Heights, Darkness and Death, Fear Itself, a zombified abomination created by Zorbak, a Dracolich, a lich cryptkeeper, an immortal arch-lich, the most powerful undead being in all of Lore, a chaorrupted troll, two generals of Good and Evil, a chaorrupted Medusa, a Chaos Lord troll prophetess, the prime fire dragon, an electric tornado, a sea monster, a crystallized form of the prime earth dragon, a powerful four-element dragon, an insane wizard living in the palace near Wellmet, a five-headed dracolich, and a chaorrupted version of the most powerful undead being in all of Lore.}}
** During the Fear Chaser event, Twilly does the same thing {{spoiler|through an innocent [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]] in the form of "Hey, you're right! It's not the dark that Twilly is afraid of at all!" that causes Nyctox to suffer a [[Critical Existence Failure]] while screeching a rather hilarious high-pitched [[Big No]]}}.
{{quote| Ayi: {{spoiler|Twilly defeated Nyctox}}.<br />
Twilly: WHAT?! }}
** Also, you get to punch out the Desterrat Moya, which is a creature very similar to Cthulhu itself.
** {{spoiler|In an [[Alternate Universe]], Sepulchure ''kills'' Death to trigger a [[Zombie Apocalypse]]!}}
* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Tibicenas states that djinn cannot be killed and will return in a few thousend years like Saahir and Tibicenas himself. Well, Tibicenas would have if the Hero hadn't made the wish to take away Tibicenas's djinn powers.}}
* [[Down in Thethe 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.
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* [[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 (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]''.
** Doomwood's Temple has one as the area's main boss. {{spoiler|It also has a brother which is destroyed by Artix}}.
** {{spoiler|As of the end of the Etherstorm saga, Desoloth has become Desolich a powerful chaotic Dracolich courtesy of Drakath}}.
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** 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, {{spoiler|1=Sepulchure has a difficult time deciding whether he should slay his daughter or not. Finally, he refuses to do so and lowers his DoomBlade instead. [[Villainous Breakdown|The]] [[Villainous Breakdown|DoomBlade]] [[Villainous Breakdown|does not take that well]]}}.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs]]: Kimberly thinks so. {{spoiler|Which is why her Chaos Beast is a triceratops known as Pony Gary Yellow.}}
* [[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 Withwith 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
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* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]: {{spoiler|Vordred is Expecting Artix to be taller and with a deep voice}}
** {{spoiler|In Gravelyn's Doomwood Ending Gravelyn is also expecting the same thing}}
* [[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 (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]''. Character-wise, {{spoiler|1=the Dracowerepyre is an Expy to NightBane}} and {{spoiler|Discordia, who we are led to believe is the sixth Chaos Lord, is an Expy of Eric, The [[Phantom of the Opera]]}}.
** Chainsaw Artix is an Expy of Ash from [[Evil Dead]] and at Friday The 13th there is a Quest called [[Ebil Dread]].
** {{spoiler|Twiggy Krueger is a Moglinster Expy of Freddy Krueger. The Story he is in is called "Nightmare on Twig's Street: The Dweam Swayers" which is a spoof to [[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street]]}}
** {{spoiler|Chaos Lord Ledgermayne is an Expy of Mysterio}}
** {{spoiler|Chaos Lord Vath is quite possibly an Expy of Dragon Master Frostscythe from ''[[Dragon Fable (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]'', since they're both elves (Drow and Half Ice Elf respectively), enslaves their dragons and uses a false Dragon Amulet (a genuine Dragon Amulet does not break).}}
** {{spoiler|The Winter-een-mas event has at least four Expies: the Snapper Shrubs are expies of the Piranha Plants from the [[Mario]] series, the Megadudes are expies of [[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mega Man]], the Blue Hedgehogs are expies of [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise)|Sonic the Hedgehog]], and, of course, the main boss, the Orc Plumber, is an expy of Mario himself.}}
** {{spoiler|The Sandsea saga has Expies of [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]] villains, with Zahart being one of Abis Mal and his minion Tibicenas, the eighth Lord of Chaos, being an expy of Genie Jafar}}.
** [http://i32.tinypic.com/5fkw9v.png Karag Battle Axe] is an Expy of The Blinding Light of Destiny
** Capt. 000000Beard looks similar to Davy Bones from [[Dragon Fable]]
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* [[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]] : [http://www.aqworldswiki.com/images/a/ad/Slave_Gravelyn.jpg Gravelyne's Slave Bikini]{{Dead link}} which looks similar to [[Star Wars|Leia's]] Slave Bikini
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The theme for the Bloodtusk Ravine storyline, [[Culture Clash|between]] the [[Cultural Posturing|cultured trolls]] and the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|proud Horc warriors]].
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|Noxus was replaced by Chuckles as a lich, and Gravelyn plans to give him to Cysero to become a new weapon for her.}}
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* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: {{spoiler|Kimberly's Chaos Beast is a triceratops known as 'Pony Gary Yellow'.}}
* [[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 {{spoiler|being the Champion of Darkness}} in Doomwood saga. To list: {{spoiler|In the beginning, King Alteon doesn't want Artix to go near Doomwood fearing it might awaken his dark powers somehow. When meeting Sally in the Tower of Necromancy, she hinted that Artix was more than just a paladin and the key to Vordred's ''true'' invincibility. In Necro U, the lecturers mentioned the art of necromancy involving the Darkness Realm and trapping spirit orbs to reanimate the undead, meantime revealing Artix's axe having hosted multiple spirit orbs gained from slaying the undead. And finally, in the Temple of Doomwood, the Stone Paladin recalls Lady Celestia from ''[[Dragon Fable (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]'' bringing in young Artix to the Paladin Order and his apparent inability to cast light spells as the Hero learns of elemental champions and Artix's "Paladin" abilities come from the spirit orbs from the undead he had slain.}}
** Also, at the finale of the 2nd [[Adventure Quest Worlds (Video Game)|AQworlds]] Birthday Event, Mirror Drakath asks if his Chaos counterpart has a specific power. {{spoiler|He was most likely talking about if Chaos Drakath can rip a hole into dimensions since he replaced Xang with her mirror counterpart.}}
* [[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 {{spoiler|the fourth item, the chaos gem, is shattered by Ledgermayne, and its particles are too weak to use against him. However his comeuppance is due when Drakath gives the Chaos Gem enough power to destroy him.}}
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* [[Fur Against Fang]]: The conflict between the vampires and werewolves of Darkovia.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Beleen. Duh.
* [[Genie in Aa Bottle]]: {{spoiler|Saahir}}.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: While in the REALLY [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] {{spoiler|the hero realizes that this was one of those times where completing a simple quest such as placing a special rock on the ground would result in something bad happening... so (s)he just tosses the rock. [[Wrong Genre Savvy|Unfortunately, (s)he still ends up getting caught in the wrong place at the wrong time,]] and this leads to him/her being...well...see 'Our Hero is [[Undead]] for more information.}}
* [[Get Onon 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 [[Captain Obvious|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.
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* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: The twins Xing and Xang, {{spoiler|at least before they were [[The Corruption|chaorrupted]] by [[Big Bad|Drakath]] and became the second lords of Chaos}}.
* [[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, {{spoiler|Artix becomes jealous of the hero for defeating Undead Artix and not even taking him to fight him. To be fair, Artix couldn't fight Undead Artix anyway because if he went to the Mirror Realm he'd have to switch places with him}}.
* [[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 (Video 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]]: {{spoiler|Vordred, the Paladin Slayer. He's killed every Paladin there is except one. (Well, two actually. There was one other that survived, but he was turned to stone.) See [[Last of His Kind]] for details}}.
* [[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 [[Player Characters|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.
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* [[Homage]]: Escherion and parts of Chiral Valley is based on M.C. Escher and his artwork.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: {{spoiler|The "preview" fight with Vordred early on in Doomwood, which basically cancels out anything the players do to him}}.
** {{spoiler|When the player gets to the Necro Tower they soon know why: Sally from ''[[Dragon Fable (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]'' has summoned Noxus and used her magic to bring back Vordred to be invulnerable to light-based magic. It's ultimately revealed that this invulnerability comes from the armor of skulls that he wears and the regenerative abilities of his Shadow form, and only by destroying the armor with Spirit Orbs and pinning down his Shadow is Vordred finally able to be defeated}}.
* [[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.
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** {{spoiler|Krellonos: [[Averted Trope|Was brutally slain by his sister, Khassandra, making him the second Chaos Lord to die.]] Khassandra took his place as Chaos Lord, though she is on the Hero's side now.}}
** Maximilian Lionfang: {{spoiler|After his second defeat following his [[Kick the Dog]] moment of burning the Frostval gifts and his futile attempt to kill the Spirit of Frostval by knocking the snow globe out of the hero's hands and shattering it, he was remanded to Swordhaven's dungeon after witnessing her return much to his own [[This Cannot Be!|shock and disbelief]].}}
** Noxus: {{spoiler|Vordred is called away by Sally after it is learned that Arc Attack is in town, leaving Noxus alone with Gravelyn. Then he gets knocked right off the Shadowscythe throne by Chuckles, the only undead who he didn't create for her father (he was Gravelyn's first creation), who then frees Gravelyn. Gravelyn then promptly takes back control of the undead army that Noxus was going to use to finish off the assembled heroes and allows you to pass so you can kick his ass. Then, after you defeat him, Gravelyn cracks him one in the face when he tells you he cannot be killed, and then the Hero, during his or her conversation with Gravelyn about Vordred and Arc Attack, smacks Noxus down each time he tries to rise again, and then Gravelyn gives Chuckles a promotion by swapping his skull with Noxus', proceeding to deliver a [[Shout -Out]] to Hamlet while doing so. And then she plans to have Noxus' skull used to create a weapon for her...by Cysero}}. Tough break, bonehead!
** Vordred: After a furious battle with Artix and the Hero, in which {{spoiler|Vordred is stripped of his armor of skulls by Artix's power over Spirit Orbs and the Hero's furious battle prowess, Vordred's shadow is pinned down by Artix's shadow (a gigantic black dragon), while the Hero takes him down}}; Vordred gets his comeuppance in one of four major ways, depending on who you had Cysero and Beleen send for:
*** In {{spoiler|Gravelyn}}'s ending, {{spoiler|Vordred is finished off with the weapon Gravelyn had made from the skull of Noxus, furthering Noxus' own conga and making Vordred's end suitably ironic.}}
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* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|The Hero and Drakath killed Ledgermayne in the climax of the Arcangrove saga}}.
** {{spoiler|Krellonos is killed by Khassandra and stole his power}}
** {{spoiler|Averted with Tibicenas and Saahir since Tibicenas states that djinn cannot be killed and will return in a few thousand years}}.
* [[Killer Rabbit]]: {{spoiler|Nulgath's [[Ugly Cute]] Moglin minions, the Dark Makai, as well as Sally, who brought Noxus [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] and helped create Vordred.}}
* [[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.
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** 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 (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]''.
** Xavier Lionfang Maximilian's brother also counts
** {{spoiler|Doomwood II revealed that Gravelyn is The Champion of Light}}
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** If you send for Zorbak, {{spoiler|he ends up stomping Vordred right into the dirt. He then plans on making Vordred's head into a throne for himself. Turns out he wants to add the throne to his collection, which includes Drakonnan's helmet. The hero and Zorbak then talk about the other elemental champions, in particular the question about who is the Champion of Light if Artix is the Champion of Darkness. The hero has an idea who it might be, which leads us to...}}
** If you send for {{spoiler|Daimyo}}, {{spoiler|we get the real ending, where Daimyo basically does the same thing to Vordred as Zorbak, minus the making of Vordred's head into a throne. The Hero tries to give the Shadowscythe Amulet to Artix, but Artix tells you that you can keep it, as you are the one person that he trusts the most. We then cut to Sally, who has lost all of her friends, looking pretty down about herself. Then Drakath arrives. Sally asks if he's going to make her a Chaos Lord, and Drakath says no. He then gives her Vordred's skull. Sally is overjoyed by this, and plans to bring back the original Necropolis -- as well as Vordred. We'll be hearing from them again.}}
** And finally, if you betray Artix, {{spoiler|you stab him (quite literally) in the back with your weapon and kill him as you declare that you are joining Vordred, with Artix's last words being "I'm sorry...everyone..." and Vordred saying something to the effect of "That was unexpected." This leads to the [[Bad Ending]] as Vordred becomes the Champion of Darkness and unleashes a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] upon Lore, shortly after [[Rewarded Asas a Traitor Deserves|rewarding you as you very much deserve]] by killing you and turning you into an undead. Then the game seemingly ends, telling you that the villain has won, with the adventure continuing in "Adventure Quest Worlds: Zombies." Then the credits roll before the game gives you a "Time warp...?" button to bring you back into the game}}.
*** The game further [[You Bastard|rubs things in]] with the description for the {{spoiler|Backstab Blade}} in the Bad Ending shop: {{spoiler|"How COULD you? Artix was your friend. He TRUSTED you! I hope you're happy now. Traitor."}}
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|Nythera says this due to the fact that the Void Giant she summoned to the Void Temple for her third and final challenge for the "Test of the Suitor" is out of control and is attempting to destroy the temple.}}
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Artix, like most Paladins, are eager to jump in and just maim any Undead out there. {{spoiler|However, Artix is shown to be very caring for the spirits he 'slays' and they in return help him use Paladin Magic since he is an Undead Slayer.}}
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Drakath, Sepulchure, {{spoiler|Dage the Evil}}, {{spoiler|Miltonius/Nulgath}}, the Black Knight, Gressil, King Alteon the Imbalanced (a.k.a. Mirror Alteon), {{spoiler|Undead Artix}}, Vertigo, Nyctox, Thanatops, {{spoiler|FEAR}}, Lord Krom Wrath, {{spoiler|Vordred}}, {{spoiler|Noxus}}, and Xan.
* [[Off Withwith His Head]]: You do this to {{spoiler|Undead Artix}} in the post-battle cutscene during the 2nd Birthday Event.
* [[Offered the Crown]]: {{spoiler|After the defeat of Tibicenas, the Hero is offered rulership of the Sandsea. The Hero still has a lot of enemies to defeat, so he or she hands over the crown to Zhoom}}.
* [[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.
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** Zahart also gets one when he sees that Zhoom has destroyed his magic ring, {{spoiler|just before Tibicenas brainwashes his former master into his new slave after being free via destruction of the 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 [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|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, {{spoiler|Tibicenas, and Ultra-Tibicenas}} get quite a hilarious "[[Oh Crap]]" look on their faces once they're out of hit points.
*** To be fair, that's because Ledgermayne, {{spoiler|Tibicenas, and Ultra-Tibicenas}} 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.
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* [[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 [[Castlevania|Dracula]] proud.
* [[Orcus Onon His Throne]]: Drakath {{spoiler|Well so far he did leave his throne in The Arcangrove Saga}}
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Lots of Dragons out there. Also, another one of the main themes of Etherstorm Wastes.
* [[Our Genies Are Different]]: {{spoiler|Tibicenas, Saahir, & The Efreet}}
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* [[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.
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* [[Revenge]]: {{spoiler|Tibicenas' motivation against the Efreet for all the years he made him spend as an outcast after kicking him out of the Djinn world}}.
** Vayle is ''very'' pissed at Artix for {{spoiler|breaking the crystal that had her brother's spirit inside}}.
* [[The End - or Is It?]]: {{spoiler|Shadowslayer Z killed Wolfwing and he's now ashes, no longer able to hurt anyone....well, until the Moon shone on the ashes and a pair of eyes were seen.}}
** {{spoiler|After Vordred is defeated, Drakath gives his skull to Sally, who promises to make him more powerful than ever}}.
* [[Red and Black Andand 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]]: {{spoiler|Artix's axe is just an ordinary axe powered up with spirit orbs from the undead he's killed. His real power comes from being an Undead Slayer, whose sworn duty it is to free the spirits of the undead from their bondage by using the power of their orbs to destroy them}}.
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** In the recent Skyguard update, {{spoiler|Invidia reveals to the Hero that she's actually Exos' Dreamweaver in disguise. Turns out she was being controlled by Exos the whole time, and is actually very remorseful for it}}.
** At the end of the Doom War, it's revealed that {{spoiler|the Champion of Light is none other than Gravelyn, and that this is the reason that Sepulchure kept her a secret}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Rewarded Asas a Traitor Deserves]]: Vordred's "reward" if you betray Artix during the final battle is to be the first to be made into an undead as he unleashes a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] upon Lore.}}
* [[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?"
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** And as of Bloodtusk Ravine {{spoiler|Three members of the Trolls have been corrupted by chaos (antigone, Krellenos and Khassandra, two of them killed.}}
* [[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,{{spoiler|[[Faust]] [[Meaningful Name|is based on Satan]]. He even makes Don Giovanni, the guy who gives you the quest to take him down, a [[Deal Withwith the Devil]], for crying out loud! he even looks like a chaos version of The Devil}}
** Also {{spoiler|Miltonius/Nulgath who makes similar deals to the player}}.
** Guess {{spoiler|Dage the Evil}} 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, Elves|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 {{spoiler|Wolfwing}} or not, {{spoiler|Shadowslayer Z will kill him either way.}}
* [[Sealed Evil in Aa 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 {{spoiler|the Hydra, the Rock Roc, O-Dokuro, the Dracowerepyre, Pony Gary Yellow, the Mana Golem and the Chaos Sphinx}}. And let's not forget whatever is going to be unleashed upon Lore when all thirteen of Drakath's seals are broken...
** {{spoiler|The Dracowerepyre is more of a created evil then a [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]] since Wolfwing just bites a random dragon before it transforms to The Dracowerepyre}}
* [[Sealed Evil in Aa Teddy Bear]]: [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|What Deady really is.]]
* [[Secret Keeper]]: {{spoiler|Sally is hiding the fact that Artix may not just only be a Paladin...}}
** {{spoiler|Artix is actually the Champion of Darkness.}}
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* [[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 [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Bash Ketchup with Pocky Chew]], [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals|Nurse Jenny]] (who mentions a Nurse Bliss), [[Naruto|NOTruto]], [[Inuyasha (Manga)|Neko Yasha]], [[Mortal Kombat|Spork-ion, Absolute Zero]], and [[DragonballDragon Ball|Ryoku]].
** Also, the Sleuthhound Inn and its NPCs, which is one humongous shout out to the famous classic boardgame ''[[Clue (Tabletop Gamegame)|Clue]]'', including a custodian named [[Tim Curry|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. {{spoiler|But he's not the REAL Chaos Lord of Mythsong}}.
** Vath's General of Dark Elves is called the Scorpion King. His name? Dwain Jonsen.
** {{spoiler|As of the start of the Shadowfall vs. Doomwood war, Noxus dresses up Gravelyn in a slave outfit similar to the one Leia wore in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''.}}
** 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 [[God of Evil|He Who]] [[Ultimate Evil|Walks Behind]] [[Complete Monster|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 (Video Gameseries)|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 (Video Game)|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."
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* [[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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20151102041440/http://theoriginalfive.deviantart.com/art/Las-Vegas-Lion-part-1-107435724 Las Vegas Lion].
** Although later released armours tend to cover the players neck to toes for both genders<ref>Some to the point that the player appears androgynous at first glance.</ref>, while some skin-revealing armors apply to men as well.
* [[Stupid Evil]]: Sleezter Bunny.
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* [[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]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20101126204519/http://aqworldswiki.com/images/4/44/Drakath.jpg Drakath] fits this trope well so is [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20101127080002/http://aqworldswiki.com/images/c/cb/Drakath1.png Mirror Drakath] but he is less dark but more handsome
* [[Truly Single Parent]]: {{spoiler|Drakath is said to use Chaos Magic to create Chaos Lord Ledgermayne when he states that his chaos magic unexpectedly give the Chaos Lord life}}.
* [[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)
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** 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 [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|a sparkly vampire that goes by the name of Edvard]], whose girlfriend Beulah dumped him for a werewolf. For the first day or so, [[Anticlimax Boss|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 [[Runescape (Video Game)RuneScape|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--[[Klaatu Barada Nikto|you know the words]]--any time during the film.
* [[Tears of Blood]]: {{spoiler|Actually, in this case, Tears of Lava. FEAR, the big boss of the Fear Chaser event, has these}}.
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* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: {{spoiler|The hero says this to Maximilian Lionfang after he [[Kick the Dog|burns the gifts to Blizzy's horror and laughs maniacally at the burning of the gifts]]. Naturally, just the fact that he/she says "You'll pay for that!" is enough to let Lionfang himself know that he's in BIG TROUBLE.}}
** 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:
{{quote| '''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!}}
*** 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... {{spoiler|who later turns out to be Krellenos}}.
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* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{spoiler|Artix, Champion of Darkness.}}
** {{spoiler|Gravelyn, Champion of Light.}}
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Drakath, compared to his level of power in the other games.
** Well he is powerful in the original ''[[Adventure Quest (Video Game)|Adventure Quest]]'' as well.
** Artix counts also. {{spoiler|Known to be a paladin in many a game, in this one he's the Champion of Darkness who cannot use light-based magic, but the spirit-orb based power of an Undead Slayer.}}
* [[Too Many Belts|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.
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* [[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 {{spoiler|Gravelyn's entire undead army}} at the start of the Shadowfall War. The reason it's not [[Mass Hypnosis]] instead is because {{spoiler|Noxus first created the army in question for her father, Sepulchure, who was also partially his creation}}.
* [[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 / {{spoiler|Exos}} experienced this {{spoiler|when his plan was accidentally given away by one of the Chaorrupted Sky Pirates, and especially when Invidia (the Dreamweaver in disguise) betrayed him}}.
** {{spoiler|Vordred gets even worse in Doomwood Part 2 than in Part 1 as Sally is rebuilding him with Chaos magic provided to her by Drakath, and becomes only capable of saying two words: "MORE SKULLS!" And things get even crazier when the fully-completed Chaos Vordred is introduced}}.
** {{spoiler|1=The DoomBlade gets this when Sepulchure finally refuses to kill his own daughter after pummeling her so much, and again when Gravelyn purifies it into the Blade of Destiny}}.
* [[Villainous Crossdresser]]: The Evil Hero when wearing the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111117103102/http://aqwwiki.wikidot.com/royal-role-reversal-garb-10 Royal Role Reversal Garb]
** Any male evil heroes wearing the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120126102441/http://aqwwiki.wikidot.com/dorian-and-dorothy-10 Dorian and Dorothy].
** There's also the {{spoiler|the crossdresser armors obtainable from the twins in tercessuinotlim}}.
* [[Villainous Rescue]]: {{spoiler|Drakath when saving The Hero from Nessie unnoticed.}}
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* [[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, {{spoiler|you get one of these from Hs'Sakar after you slay Desoloth (the result of Evil winning the Etherstorm War) instead of sealing him like he and the other Dravix wanted, accusing you of taking away their ability to choose what happens to him out of sheer rash arrogance. Depending on how you answer Hs'Sakar's final question, he either sends you on your way after some restitution for all the death that resulted when Desoloth was freed, or he declares you [[Persona Non Grata]] before kicking you out of Etherstorm. Either way, you're also stripped of your Air power on the request of Ang'st, as "you do not deserve its blessing."}}
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: {{spoiler|So far it's unknown what happened to Vath after Stalagbite took him away}}.
** {{spoiler|Stalagbite is a dragon. A very angry dragon. Chances are, we don't want to know what happened to Vath after Stalagbite has his way with him...}}
* [[What If]]: ''Adventure Quest Worlds Zombies'' is based on a question of what would happen if {{spoiler|Drakath never intervened in the showdown between King Alteon and Sepulchure}}.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: One word: Doomwood.
** Three words: [[Holy Shit Quotient|Doomwood]] [[Serial Escalation|Pt]] [[Beyond the Impossible|II]]
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|Hero: (to Kimberly) Wait, YOU'RE THE REAL CHAOS LORD?!}}
** {{spoiler|Vordred: Artix is the CHAMPION OF DARKNESS!!}}
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Vath and his Drow soldiers. Also, one of the color system's hair color choices for the male heroes.
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* [[White Mage]]: Healer Class.
* [[Whole Costume Reference]]: Gravelyn's Slave Bikini
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: The Good Hero when wearing the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111117103102/http://aqwwiki.wikidot.com/royal-role-reversal-garb-10 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 [[Soft Water|moat]] below.
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Anyone afflicted with Chaos.
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** This is also true of the Necromancer class, as stated by its character panel description.
* [[The Worf Barrage]]: {{spoiler|Artix and the Hero's ''Ultimate Dragon Soul Spear of Ten Million Spirit Orbs'' attack fails to have an effect on Vordred.}} It's even lampshaded:
{{quote| '''Hero:''' [[This Is the Part Where]] he comes out of the smoke undamaged, huh?<br />
'''Artix:''' Yup. }}
** It does, however, {{spoiler|give Artix the opening he needs to use the Spirit Orbs to blow apart Vordred's skull armor so that he can be defeated for good}}.
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* [[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 {{spoiler|who get hit by an inversion spell and go against the player.}}
* [[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
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* [[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]]: {{spoiler|Zahart has Tibicenas do this with one of his servants after they have uncovered the red diamond used to awaken the Chaos Sphinx}}.
** 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 (Video Game)|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, {{spoiler|Ryuuji says this to Nythera when she says she magically awakened and summoned a Void Giant to the Void Temple because he realizes that the Void Giant is out of control and is going to destroy the temple}}.
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