39,327
edits
Mogworld: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
prefix>Import Bot (Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.Mogworld 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.Mogworld, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 21:
* [[Badass Preacher]]: Thaddeus. Partially subverted {{spoiler|by his constant opportunistic betrayals.}}
* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Si-Mon}}
* [[Book Ends]]: The book starts with Jim being killed in front on his magic school. {{spoiler|It ends with the re-incarnated Jim finding himself in the same situation, only this time he decides [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]] and leaves, ready to live a peaceful life with Meryl.}}
* [[Brand X]]: the Mogworld game is basically [[World of Warcraft|World Of Warcraft]] with the name changed.
* [[Brawn Hilda]]: Cap'n Scar has shades of this.
* [[Capital City]]: Lolede City
* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: For comical effect, a lot of reviews of the book treat the book with the expectations of a game, completely misunderstanding how it isn't interactive. {{spoiler|In an [[In Universe]] example, a review of the Mogworld game closes off the book, in which the game gets 9 for innovation, 4 for gameplay and 3 for lastability, concluding with a score of [[
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Jim describes climbing the stairs as a newly-risen zombie as being akin to climbing Mount Murdercruel. Guess where Jim has to go in the final act of the story?
* [[Crapsack World]]: Already has shades of this following The Infusion, due to stagnation. {{spoiler|Simon trying to manipulate it just makes it way, way worse. Averted at the end when the programmers make the game accommodate the [[NPC|NPCs]] and not the players.}}
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Slippery John {{spoiler|just so happens to carry magical crampons for scaling Mount Murdercruel. Leads into his Crouching Moron moment (see below).}}
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: {{spoiler|Slippery John, specifically revealed at Mount Murdercruel where Jim figures out he only plays a fool to avoid getting the Syndrome.}}
** Also {{spoiler|the pompous, sermonizing, holier-than-thou and rather dim-seeming priest Thaddeus eventually reveals himself to be the legendary high priest of his religion- and an EXTREMELY powerful magic user.}}
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Odd case. Baron Civious seemed to be evil in the past and possibly still is now (I think the legion of tortured souls of the damned in his battle aura gives it away), but at the time of the story {{spoiler|is definitely working on the side of good by trying to get rid of the Adventurer's Guild and stop the Infusion.}}
Line 63:
* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: Mount Murdercruel, the Malevolands, Greydoom Valley
* [[I Love the Dead]]: Slippery John's "wife" {{spoiler|Drylda.}} Although technically she's still alive, most of the other characters view her as nothing more than a corpse.
** It straddles a thin line between [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma]] and [[I Love the Dead]], if you want to get technical. Most of the other characters don't seem to care which side {{spoiler|Drylda}} falls on - they see it as creepy and very disturbing.
** Averted with the zombies themselves. It's pointed out early in the book that they could never have sex with anyone- even prostitutes would have to be totally blind and have some degree of mental illness to try it.
* [[I'm Not a Hero Im]]: Jim would rather be a protagonist.
* [[Inept Mage]]: Jim. Granted it's because he only completed one year of magic training before he died... the first time.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: It's not a catapult, it's a trebuchet!
* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]: The programmers use this to create Mogworld.
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: "Slippery John is a fatheaded, useless berk." "Oh, come on. He's not useless."
* [[
* [[Jerkass]]: Simon.
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Lampshaded. Turns out local villagers are not very fond of adventurers, and among their long list of complaints against them is their tendency to just outright take things that don't belong to them.
{{quote| ''"Knocking on your door at all hours of the day and night, wanting to rummage through your drawers for potions and loose change."''}}
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}
* [[Kill
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Jim.
* [[La Résistance]]: The Magical Resistance.
Line 89:
* [[Overshadowed By Awesome]]: I'm sure Baron Civius would have been more useful if he wasn't fighting...well, God...
* [[Pirate]]: The crew of the Black Pudding, every one of which has an [[Eyepatch of Power|eyepatch]].
* [[Pointy
** Completely averted with Lord Dreadgrave. Despite being a necromancer with a doom fortress and an army of undead minions he is shown to be an excellent boss. He follows through on his promises, is attentive to the needs and wishes of his undead minions and most importantly, he remembers your name.
* [[Physical God]]: Barry, {{spoiler|thanks to Simon.}}
Line 97:
** [[Insistent Terminology|"Actually it's a trebuchet."]]
** "My little ducks" and variations thereupon.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: {{spoiler|The THIRD ending to the book.}}
* [[Shout Out]]: Both to [[Zero Punctuation]] and [[World of Warcraft|the obvious]].
** Some of the people who work at {{spoiler|Loincloth Entertainment}} are named [[Silent Hill 1|Mason]], [[Silent Hill 2|Sunderland]], and [[Silent Hill 4|Townshend]].
Line 117:
*** To be fair, it surely wasn't meant to be that huge a twist. Even without reading the news or the back of the book, the truth (broadly speaking) of what's going on is obvious ''long'' before any character in the story has a clue.
* [[The Undead]]: Jim, Meryl, and Thaddeus, or <Lord Dreadgrave's Undead Minions> to be more precise.
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Not Jim, as it's made pretty clear from the start he's not too pleased being wrenched back from the dead. {{spoiler|The rest of the world is like this to a greater or lesser extent, as for the past fifteen years since "The Infusion", no-one can die, or even age. They just respawn at the nearest church}}.
** {{spoiler|Taken to an extreme as Jim starts to get towards the end of his quest. They spot flyers for ways to commit suicide, and people who offer ways of mutilating yourself. After all, you'll only respawn if you die - so ''why not''? Jim considers it a little unsettling when he thinks about it.}}
* [[Wizarding School]]: Where Jim is studying at the beginning of the story.
| |||