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''Note: This page is for the first two games. [[Diablo III]] has its own page.''
 
A [[Hack and Slash]] videogame series from [[Blizzard Entertainment]]. Notorious for having [[Play the Game, Skip the Story|an elaborate backstory and plot that nobody ever follows]] concerning a war between [[Heaven and Hell]]. As a sort of simple graphical [[Roguelike]], [[Random Drop|the pursuit of the]] [[Rare Random Drop|perfect randomly-generated equipment]] and [[Level Grinding|character build]] to satisfy one's inner [[Munchkin]] gives the game tremendous replayability.
 
The first game was essentially a huge dungeon crawl, consisting of 16 levels of increasing difficulty under Tristram, the only town in the game, where various NPCs provide you with quests, healing, and equipment. The goal was to get to the [[Big Bad]], Diablo, in [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]. The non-canonical third-party expansion pack ''Hellfire'' added eight new separate levels, four new quests (a quest to kill another Diablo-esque baddy in the crypt near the church, [[Lighter and Softer|a quest from Lester the farmer, a cow quest and a quest to retrieve a teddy bear]]) as well as three more characters (Monk, Bard and Barbarian) in addition to the original three ([[Fighter, Mage, Thief|Warrior, Rogue and Sorcerer]]), but you had to enter a special edit to a text file to get the last two of those quests and new characters.
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* [[Boss Banter]]
* [[Boss Dissonance]]: Boss fights in the series are often a lot more difficult than the areas before or after them. The Butcher in ''I'' Duriel in ''II'' are two good examples.
* [[Bow and Sword Inin Accord]]: Your warrior in the first game ought to hang on to a bow in case he gets a chance to shoot anything through a portcullis. (Most enemies can't open doors.) For the Rogue, this is much more important, as if she's caught at close range she needs a sword and shield to defend herself.
* [[Breakable Weapons]]
* [[Brutal Bonus Level]]
** Hell Tristram and the super version, Chaos Tristram. They require items you have to fight Hell difficulty act bosses to ''maybe'' see. And this isn't the only stage in the process...
* [[The Butcher]]: "Aaaah, Fresh Meat!"
* [[Cast Fromfrom Hit Points]]: A unique curse that Baal and some of his succubus minions cast causes players with more mana than health (i.e. most spellcasters) to use up health instead of mana when using their abilities, essentially forcing them to cast from their hit points.
** The Paladins "Sacrifice" skill plays it straight
* [[Catgirl]]: Jaguar Women enemies, and [[Underground Monkey|variants]].
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* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: {{spoiler|Every protagonist. No exceptions.}}
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: The narrator and Mephisto are voiced by Paul Eiding, who some may instantly recognize as the voice of the Colonel from Metal Gear Solid.
** And Aldaris from [[StarcraftStarCraft]].
** And [[Ben 10|Grandpa Max]]
** Marius and Lysander the potion merchant were voiced by Frank Gorshin, who played the Riddler in the 1960s [[Batman]] series.
** Charsi the blacksmith in Act 1 is voiced by Glynnis Talken, who also voiced Sarah Kerrigan in [[StarcraftStarCraft]].
** The voice of the Druid and Nihlathak in Lord of Destruction is [[Warcraft|The Prophet]] and [[Legacy of Kain|Raziel]].
** Natalya sounds a lot like [[Warcraft|Jaina]].
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* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: The randomly-generated items and monsters sometimes have matching affixes, leading to things such as "Flaming Longsword of Flame" and "Ghostly Ghost".
* [[Shout-Out]]: In ''Diablo II'', it's possible to hire a mercenary named "Jarulf"; being the screen name of Pedro Faria, the author of the greatest ''Diablo'' resource ''Jarulf's Guide''.
** It's also possible to hire a mercenary called "[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)||Klaatu]]"
** And a bunch of the Rogue mercenaries are named after staff on the old "official unofficial" diabloii.net site.
** Also, one of the rare 'Dirk' class weapons is called 'The Diggler,' which is almost certainly a reference to the movie ''[[Boogie Nights]]''.
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** In the first ''Diablo'', there was a Staff called the 'Rod of Onan' which could never ever be a reference to the Biblical story of the sin of Onan. It summoned golems from the earth.
** There's also the mini-boss [http://www.d2tomb.com/images/unique_monsters/summoner_ani.gif The Summoner], who bears a distinct resemblance to [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|a certain kids TV Villain...]]
* [[SchrodingerSchrödinger's Player Character]]: In-game, at least. Everyone who was present in the canonical games and expansions has a part in the canon. {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn|As a boss]].}}
* [[Skill Point Reset]]: ''Diablo II'' is infamous for its unforgiving skill tree system which forced many players to start the game all over again when it turned out their skill build wasn't any good later on. Fortunately a one-time reset was added in a patch, and a certain late game item also allows this, making it slightly less jarring.
* [[Skyward Scream]] - The first game's ending.
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