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{{quote|''[[Hilarious in Hindsight|Welcome, to the]] [[world of Warcraft]]''.|'''Warcraft: Orcs and Humans''' opening.}}
'''''Warcraft''''' is [[Blizzard Entertainment]]'s famous [[Real Time Strategy]] trilogy ([[Sequel Displacement|yes, the franchise did exist before]] ''[[World of Warcraft]]'').
''Warcraft: Orcs and Humans'' tells the story of the kingdom of Azeroth, which is attacked by a Horde of [[Our Orcs Are Different|green-skinned marauders]] that are hell-bent on exterminating the human population. The player is either a valiant human lord who beats back the orcs and gets crowned the monarch of Azeroth after King Llane dies, or an orc general who crushes the noble capital of Stormwind and betrays his warchief, becoming the new leader of the orcs.
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Meanwhile, Thrall and the Horde settle down and the orcs begin work on their new capital city Orgrimmar. The traveling beast master Rexxar becomes involved in the orcs' work to forge a new homeland, but trouble rears its ugly head when Admiral Daelin Proudmoore, Jaina Proudmoore's father and an Alliance hero from ''Warcraft II: the Tides of Darkness'', shows up. Jaina has built a city for her refugees called Theramore Isle, and has been able to maintain peace with the nearby Horde. However, her father still hates the orcs for their demon-fueled war crimes, and, unwilling to see that they have changed, takes control of Theramore from his daughter and begins to attack the Horde. After helping the trolls evacuate to Orgrimmar, saving the tauren leader Cairne Bloodhoof's son, and taking over a clan of ogres, Rexxar is declared the Champion of the Horde, and the Horde attacks Theramore. In return for Jaina's aid in stopping her father, Thrall agrees to spare her soldiers, so Rexxar and his posse of Cairne, the troll scout Rokhan and the pandaren brewmaster Chen Stormstout go and kill Daelin while the forces of the Horde and the Admiral fight. Daelin is slain, Jaina is sad, and the Horde leaves the city of Theramore to rebuild.
''Warcraft''{{'}}s success eventually gave birth to the MMORPG monster ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', which retconned some of the backstory developed by the previous games. It also created the [[Warcraft Expanded Universe]].
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* [[Devour the Dragon]]: Or the Mook, anyway: Death Knights can eat minions for a health boost. Liches can do the same to get mana. Om nom nom.
** One could theoretically devour a frost wyrm in this fashion, making this more literal... and probably a massive waste of a good unit.
* [[Disposable Bandits]]: In ''Warcraft III'', bandits are a common type of unaligned creep. They can "Shadowmeld" to turn invisible at night, and the stronger ones have some tricks, but generally are no match for a hero with decent backup.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:
{{quote|Shade: "I'm invisible... gaseous... and ''deadly''."}}
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