Heroes of Might and Magic: Difference between revisions

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: In several campaigns/scenarios throughout the series the player takes the role of an ''evil'' bastard. In the 2nd game the player can take the role of [[Big Bad|Archibald Ironfist's]] [[The Dragon|Dragon]]. The third game's "Dungeons and Devils" campaign makes the player the commander of the invading forces of Nighon and the Kreegans, and its "Long Live the King" campaign gives them control of the necromancers of Deyja. In two of the ''Armageddon's Blade'' campaigns, "Dragon's Blood" and "Festival of Life", you play as an ambitious young [[Evil Overlord]] named Mutare and the vicious barbarian Kilgor {{spoiler|who as mentioned above, ends up destroying the world later}}. ''The Shadow of Death'' has an entire campaign in which you play through {{spoiler|Sandro's}} [[Start of Darkness]]. The first episode of Heroes Chronicles, ''Warlords of the Wasteland'' featured the ruthless Tarnum, but later became [[The Atoner]] in later episodes. For the most part this trope is avoided in the fourth game, though you do play as [[The Dragon|Solymyr]] for a few missions in the "Price of Peace" campaign {{spoiler|prior to his [[Heel Face Turn]]}}. And in the fifth game and its expansions there is only one campaign that fits this: "The Necromancer", in which you play Markal, who is arguably [[Complete Monster|the most evil person in the entire series]].

** An added bit of amusement is that in the main campaign in Armageddon's Blade, there are some segments where you play as the demons trying use the titular weapon.

* [[Wedding Smashers]] : In the opening of the fifth game, courtesy of the demons.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: And how! During in-game cutscenes in the fifth game, characters will conjure lightning, invoke random flashes of light and cast fireballs while discussing the weather. (Well, not literally, but you get the point.) Quite a bit of [[Narm]] there, too.