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** No, technically he's still a [[Black Knight]] with slightly smaller [[Spikes of Villainy]] in TOB.
* [[BFS]]
* [[Brother
* [[Cain and Abel]] - Sarevok and you.
* [[Chaotic Evil]]-[[Invoked]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Hero With an F In Good]] - If you have been evil all your life, being a hero is going to take some getting used to. Not to mention that bad reputation you built up...}}
* [[Hey
* [[Jossed]] - At one point, several fans claimed that {{spoiler|it is impossible to redeem him if he swears the Oath of Fealty when he joins}}. These rumors have since been proven false.
* [[Jumped At the Call]]
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* [[Tin Tyrant]]
* [[Villain With Good Publicity]] - In BG1. In ToB, if he makes is [[Heel Face Turn]], he becomes a Hero With ''Bad'' (and admittedly well-earned) Publicity.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]] - In BG1, he's immune to all types of energy, effectively making him immune to all direct damage and area-of-effect spells... except for the [[Non
* [[You Remind Me of X]]
{{quote| '''Sarevok:''' You remind me of myself... before I was slaughtered and cast into the Abyss.}}
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* [[The Cameo]] - She shows up in ToB alongside a theoretical version of yourself, gone done Sarevok's path.
* [[Dark Chick]] - She's the only antagonist who isn't actually evil (well, sort of, see below); she doesn't share the others' goals, and isn't even antagonistic much of the time.
* [[Infinity
* [[In the Blood]] - She thinks Sarevok is naturally a good man, corrupted by his heritage. If you prove to her that you're a good person, she'll realize she was wrong, and that whatever evil Sarevok is guilty of is his own doing.
* [[Love Martyr]] - Though she can be talked out of it.
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Irenicus constantly [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|cheats any attempt to learn his motivations]]: only his diaries let you know what he's thinking. His end goal is to become a god and gain ultimate magical power; in the short term he just wants to overcome his now-human lifespan.
Irenicus was voiced by veteran actor David Warner, who is well-known for his ability to handle 'dramatic villain' roles, such as the former Magus of Castle Wyvern in ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'', Ra's al Ghul on ''[[Batman:
Associated tropes:
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* [[Neutral Evil]] - ''Pure, distilled'' Neutral Evil. [[Invoked]]
* {{spoiler|[[Oh Crap]] - The look on his face in the final cinematic, right when he realizes his magic no longer works, fits this trope to a T.}}
* [[One
* [[Our Elves Are Better]] - Or, rather, our former elves are worse, and know it.
* [[Our Souls Are Different]] - Your divine soul and Irenicus' mundane soul are literally different, so a key part of his plan is to steal yours.
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* [[Revenge]] - Irenicus' ''other'' goal. He was lucky that becoming a god and killing a ton of elves were not only not mutually exclusive, but achieving the former was most easily accomplished by doing the latter.
{{quote| Once my lust for power was everything. And now I hunger only for revenge. AND [[Punctuated for Emphasis|I! WILL! HAVE IT!]]}}
* [[Silence, You Fool]] - "Silence, dog! You have no purpose but to die by my hand."
* [[That Man Is Dead]] - What Irenicus says about Joneleth when Ellesime confronts him at the end.
* [[Unknown Rival]] - Not really an example, but Irenicus stops caring about you after he steals your soul, to a point where he's absolutely surprised you'd come after him to get it back (he was hoping you'd have just crawled off and died without your soul).
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Associated Tropes:
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]] - Her desire to "hunt" the Bhaalspawn results in your [[Super
* [[Chaotic Evil]] - When you not only prey on people - literally - but also like to play with your food... [[Invoked]]
* [[Complete Monster]] - Jon Irenicus gets some love from the fandom, but Bodhi doesn't.
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* [[Spam Attack]] - As a lich, Kangaxx has all of the standard lich abilities: powerful spells, the ability to cast them immediately after one another (which normally requires an additional, special spell). As a demi-lich, Kangaxx has literally only two attacks, which he will spam like nothing else: Imprisonment, which instantly removes a party member and sends him or her to the center of the earth to be put into eternal stasis (effectively a death that requires a more exotic raise dead spell), and Wail of the Banshee, which is a simple area of effect save or die spell. He will use both constantly.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]] - The demi-lich is the most powerful undead enemy in the game... but it's still undead, so using a cheap, available everywhere Protection from Undead scroll will make the battle easy.
** The [[Super
:: '''Lord Jierdan Firkragg'''
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* [[Breath Weapon]]: Dragon, duh. Hope you packed enough fire resistance.
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: He's the one who engineered the bridge drop on Ajantis, the NPC paladin from the first game.
* [[Infinity
* [[It Amused Me]]: One of the reasons why he decides to meddle with you.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Red dragon, and probably the closest to classic western dragons in both appearance and behavior.
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'''Melissan:''' I offered you information in return for Yaga-Shura's death. It may be too late to save Saradush, but that information could still help you, if you will listen.<br />
'''CHARNAME:''' [one of the dialogue options] This had better not be lies, Melissan. I'm in no mood. }}
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]] - Sarevok was just a man, and Irenicus merely had his own power and a divine tree's power he stole. Melissan, however, had nearly all the strength of the god of murder but still goes down if you stab her a lot.
** To be fair, punching out Cthulhu is fairly common in the setting - Forgotten Realms deities are not immortal and indeed have a fairly high mortality rate.
* [[Dragon With an Agenda]] - To Bhaal.
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Associated Tropes for all of them:
* [[Five
** The [[Big Bad]]: Balthazhar. Fought last, most powerful, only revealed after other four are dead.
** [[The Dragon]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Abazigal]].
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'''Voiced by:''' Jeff Osterhage }}
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]] - Averted: he's really just a giant jerk despite his noble intentions.
* [[Bare
* [[Bald of Evil]]
** He's not actually evil - more of a [[Knight Templar]] / [[Well
* [[Calling Your Attacks]] Lunar Stance! Shadowless Kick!
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]] - He gets a huge amount of non-standard abilities, including Invisibility, Magic Missile (?!), Sunfire, and a teleport ability.
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* [[Token Good Teammate]] - Of the Five. Not that the others realize it, though.
* [[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life]]
* [[Well
'''Abazigal:'''
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* [[Giant Flyer]]
* [[Large Ham]] - He's even voiced by Minsc's voice actor.
* [[One
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]] - Blue dragon
* [[Shock and Awe]]
* [[That One Boss]] - His 'doorguard' and son Draconis is an epic-level mage and can turn himself invisible at will while in dragon form, and tends to move around the stage and use hit-and-run attacks. He is consequently one of the most annoying bosses in the game. Abazigal himself, by comparison, [[Breather Boss|stands still and lets you wail on him, and just has a lot of HP]].
* [[This Cannot Be!]] - Word for word.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]] - The only Bhaalspawn boss that can potentially be instantly killed by Vorpal weapons, dragon-form only.
* [[Worthy Opponent]] - He plays this up, but despises you for not being a dragon (despite his ironically half-dragon status, since his father was a god).
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* [[Our Giants Are Bigger]] - Fire Giant.
* [[Soul Jar]] - A variation of this is the explanation for his [[Nigh Invulnerable|Nigh Invulnerability]].
* [[This Cannot Be!]] - Word for word, when you defeat him. If he weren't so [[Genre Blind]], he'd realize that rendering himself invulnerable by [[Soul Jar|putting his essence into his heart]] and keeping it in a secret location hardly makes him invincible.
* [[You Are Too Late]] - The whole portion of ToB that deals with him is a bit of a [[Shaggy Dog Story]]. The heroes go to great lengths to help people in the besieged city of Saradush, then to even greater lengths to defeat Yaga-Shura and lift the siege, and succeed in doing both, only for {{spoiler|his army to succeed in razing the city and killing everyone inside anyway}}. But then again, the heroes were playing into Amelissan's scheme to kill all Bhaalspawns in the city and Yaga-Shura himself.
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** Sort of, anyways. There's at least one female drow character in the Realms (Liriel Baenre) who is a mage. It's not without precedent.
** Sendai is never stated to be a follower of Lolth (so the mage prohibition wouldn't matter), and given she's above ground and the child of a follower of Bhaal, is probably a Vaeruinian priestess at most or possibly even no god at all (gaining her spells from the Bhaal essence she has).
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]] - Averted. Once she realises who exactly it is that's trashing her base, she ''flips out'' and starts reaching deep into her bag of tricks to try to come up with some way to stop you.
* [[Epic Flail]]
* [[Fridge Logic]] - As with Abazigal, she's too young for someone of her species to be as powerful as she is.
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* [[Chaotic Evil]]
* [[Epic Flail]]
* [[Half
* [[Our Orcs Are Different]]
* [[Properly Paranoid]]
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* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]
* [[Chaotic Evil]]
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]] - You can fight and defeat him, but the Watcher makes clear it will just make him reform in the Abyss. Better hope your character's going to the Upper Planes when he/she dies...
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]
* [[Evil Is Hammy]] - The quote above gives you a pretty good idea of what his idea of being a demon lord entails.
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