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==== Crusader ====
* [[Base Breaker]]: By virtue of being a Tome of Battle class.
==== Divine Mind ====
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* [[Complete Monster]]: Pretty much all of the [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|Demon Lords]]. Special mention goes to [[Scary Spiders|Lolth]].
** Graz'zt is the [[Faux Affably Evil]] demon lord of hedonism and other such things (and somewhat appropriately keeps a large slave harem), and runs an empire that basically revolves around torture and slavery. Demogorgon is an [[Ax Crazy]] maniac. Orcus is a god wannabe who wants to turn the afterlife into hell [[For the Evulz]]. They're all pretty much the same.
** Chaotic evil dragons come across as somewhat more evil than the lawful evil ones. Blue and green dragons, for all their faults, [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|genuinely care about their mates and offspring]] (well, usually). The same cannot be said for black, white and red dragons.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Meepo the Kobold in 3rd Edition. This little lizard-dude, originally just a kill-it-for-stuff encounter in the adventure ''The Sunless Citadel'', was so popular that he made an appearance as an NPC in at least one other adventure, featured in a web-exclusive article in which he became a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|half-dragon were-velociraptor]], and got whisked away to [[D20 Modern|another dimension]] in which he obtained a magical pump-action shotgun. Truly, Meepo is the pinnacle of koboldian awesomesauce. He even makes a cameo in d20 modern.
** As far as races go, the [[Mechanical Lifeforms|Warforged]] from ''[[Eberron]]'' were '''very''' well received. The [[Beast Man|Shifters]] were also well-liked, but not as much as the Warforged.
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* [[Spiritual Licensee]]: [[Krull]] was ''going'' to be an official D&D movie, but lost the license partway through development.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: It has happened for every edition change. Some might argue that 4E most of all, but veteran D&D players would point out that it only seems that way due to the much wider availability of the Internet. Interesting to note is that this is now happening WITHIN 4th Edition itself. Wizards has started to release errata/updates every few months, usually to stop overpowered exploits (although sometimes for other purposes too). Naturally, people have either declared it to be the best thing since sliced bread, or threatened to stop playing D&D. And with a new edition in the works, expect to see this ''yet again!''
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: You have your elves. They're Usually [[Chaotic Good]]. Then you have your Drow. They're evil and black and the women are in charge. [[
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Badass?]]: 4th edition is very much geared towards heroic fantasy with the default assumption that the character is a badass, to the extent that it is mechanically difficult to create a character who is actually ''bad'' in an ability (as against 'average'). Likewise you can't really model an entirely green character who has picked up a sword for the first time as even a level 1 character can call upon fairly formidable powers.
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=== From the film ===
* [[Dull Surprise]]: Ridley, The Empress, and Damodar seems to deliver his lines like this a lot of the time.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Damodar, who proved popular enough to appear in the sequel. Possibly because he {{spoiler|kills [[Ethnic Scrappy|Snails]]}}.
** Xilus, leader of the Thieves Guild, most likely because Richard O'Brien makes him just so damn entertaining to watch.
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* [[Ham and Cheese]]: Irons just revels in [[Chewing the Scenery]] here, and is considered the only good part of the film for some.
** So much so that [[That Guy With The Glasses]] says this very phrase when describing Irons' performance.
*** Related to TGWTG, [[Paw Dugan]] played Profion in ''[[Suburban Knights]]''... and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iTZSS2gefk was] [http://twitter.com/#!/cosmicbushell/status/85800292934885376 dead-on]!
** This film also contains Richard O'Brien. This is notable for one very significant reason: he is ''the most understated actor in the whole film''. Think about that for a minute.
*** Actually Tom Baker is. Poor [[Doctor Who|Doctor]].
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