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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: Following the less than stellar reception of the [[Tabletop RPG]], many fans were ready to write off Mongoose Publishing as a bad rights-holder. Then it was announced that they were to reissue the series, complete with the final four volumes as Joe Dever had originally intended.

* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: The part in ''Fire on the Water'' with the Noodnics, a [[Funetik Aksent|Funetik Aksented]] race of [[Talking Animal|talking rodents]] who appear briefly to help you out and steal your gold, never to be referenced again.

** [[Bilingual Bonus]]: "Noodnic" is Hebrew for "Bothersome Person". Many words in the various dark tongues in the books are also Hebrew words, although they're usually rather random ("Naar" is "Young Man"). And the "-im" suffix being used to describe a plurality of entities is also from Hebrew. [[Unfortunate Implications]]?

** The [[Evil Empire|Shadakine]] from the ''World of Lone Wolf'' series, from the rank and file to Wytch-King Shasarak himself, are all pretty big bastards too. You know it is bad when one of the most sympathetic enemies you meet turns out to be {{spoiler|the soul-eating [[Eldritch Abomination]] that was enslaved by Shasarak.}}

* [[Evil Is Cool]]: Most of the good guy nations are your standard high fantasy kingdoms, while a lot more imagination was put into the evil hordes and nasty places.

** In Book 18, Lone Wolf notices a crowd gathered around a faith healer. The angry mob is ready to attack him for having no progress in fixing a woman's headache. When Lone Wolf realizes that the man has no powers, but genuinely wants to help people, he discretely uses his own powers to cure the woman, turning the old man into a hero for his village.

*** [[Funny Moment]]: As part of the act, Lone Wolf ''[[Thanks for the Mammary|plants the old man's hands on the woman's chest]]''.

* [[Villain Decay]]: Book 15's [[Big Bad]], Drakkar Warlord Magnaarn, almost ''literally'' goes through [[Villain Decay]]. From a cunning [[Badass]] warrior general who {{spoiler|buries Lone Wolf alive in a trap}} to {{spoiler|a shriveled and mummy-like puppet of his own [[Artifact of Doom]] on the brink of undeath.}}

* [[The Woobie]]: Tavig, a character Lone Wolf may encounter in Book 7. He's just some poor guy who took on the mission of invading Castle Death to pay for his sister's ransom. After being thrown into [[The Maze]] twice, all he wants is to escape. Why is he a woobie? Let's just say that if the hero meets him, he'll only get a quick death if {{spoiler|''Lone Wolf kills him''. Otherwise he'll either be torn apart by dog men or slowly crushed to death by a giant fist}}. Yeah, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|Castle Death's a fun place]].

** It gets worse. The [[Updated Rerelease]] has a [[A Day in the Limelight|bonus adventure]] where you take control of Tavig early in his jaunt into Kazan-Oud. He kills some nasty bad guys, thwarts a plot by Zahda to escape the island, and saves a damsel in distress, and as they reach their escape, he sets her loose and ''goes back into the castle'' to his inevitable fate. Poor guy.

 

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