Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
117,086
edits
Orcus on His Throne: Difference between revisions
replace franchise link with link to work
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (→Fan Works: added text) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (replace franchise link with link to work) |
||
Line 76:
* In ''[[Legend]]'', one wonders why it took the Lord of Darkness so long to sit there plotting before thinking of hatching his unicorn scheme.
** The unicorn turned up on his villain radar and he wanted it dead. The absolute power was just a side benefit of not having to put up with psychic goodness pollution. Plus his mother does a lot of his thinking for him.
* In ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* Uhl Belk from ''[[The Druid of Shannara]]'' literally cannot move from where he stands, but his son slowly pushes the boundaries of the domain every day.
* Galbatorix from ''[[The Inheritance Trilogy]]''. Galbatorix spends a good forty years preoccupied with his [[Soul Jar|Eldunarya]], which he has to break and control to use the full power of. His unwillingness to fight the Varden directly is [[Lampshaded]] in the second book, when [[La Résistance]] leader Nasuada reflects that "Galbatorix's pride" is the best defense that she has against him. Also it is suggested in the third book that Galbatorix is inactive because of his obsession to find the name of the [[Language of Magic|Ancient Language]] which would grant him near omnipotence.
** But this is rendered moot when it is discovered that Galby {{spoiler|already knew the name}}, and makes his laziness a sign of bad writing.
| |||