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* [[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. [[Exclusively Evil]] races in general fall straight into this, so let's just say that's just the start.
* [[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.
=== From the T.V series ===
* [[Angst? What Angst?]]
** Averted in most of the Michael Reaves-written episodes, most notably ''The Dragon's Graveyard''.
* [[Animation Age Ghetto]]: The writers were obviously pushing the envelope as far as they could, but [[Executive Meddling]] still shows.
* [[Epileptic Trees]]: So many theories behind the reason why the series was canceled...possibly because the actual reason (ratings were dropping and the show was quite expensive) is disappointingly ordinary.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: That you should give into peer pressure because the group knows best.
* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: A [[Wild Mass Guessing|surprising]] number of fans have a rather [[Die for Our Ship|drastic view]] of Kosar for standing between Diana and her "[[Slap Slap Kiss|true love]]," Eric. That almost no evidence exists to support this ship does not deter them.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: This series is ''obscenely'' popular in Brazil. TV Globo airs reruns on their Monday-to-Friday morning block even in 2011.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: The impressions some fundamentalist Christians tend to have of ''D&D'' and [[Bibleman|what Hank's voice actor went on to do]] a few years down the road.
* [[Too Good to Last]]: Looking back on this show as an adult, it was surprisingly mature for its time, and some episodes are genuinely powerful. Just ask any fan about "The Dragon's Graveyard".
** [[Fair for Its Day|Good For Its Day]]: Unlike most other [[Merchandise-Driven]] [[The Eighties|80's cartoons]] such as ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'', ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' and ''[[Thundercats]]'', this show actually had [[Character Development]] and strong writing behind it, much like ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]''. A decade or so later, ''Transformers'' would receive a well-made [[Beast Wars|sequel series]] featuring many of ''Dungeons & Dragons''' strengths. Another decade later, and [[Transformers Animated|well]]-[[Transformers Prime|written]] [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|80's]] [[G.I. Joe: Renegades|cartoon]] [[Thundercats 2011|reboots]] would become commonplace.
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