Dungeons & Dragons (animation): Difference between revisions

* [[Big Bad]]: Venger.

* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: Minions for Kelek in "Valley of Unicorns"

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Ramoud from "City On The Edge Of Midnight".

* [[Break the Haughty]]: Eric

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Venger and the kids team up against a greater threat a couple of times, most notably against Venger's master in "Dungeon at the Heart of Dawn".

** In "The Dragon's Graveyard", Tiamat is no friend to the kids (she's evil, after all), but she's willing to assist them in their plan to get rid of Venger, since she hates Venger a ''lot'' more.

** DM addresses Diana by name once, when she was heartbroken, reassuring her that giving up her soulmate saved hundreds of people.

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: In "Treasure of Tardos", Venger uses a gargantuan dragon-demon hybrid to break down the gates to a city, but the beast wrestles free from his control and threatens to completely destroy the very realm he's trying to conquer.

* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Presto

* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Finding a way to get home permanently, of course.

* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: Venger and his single head horn.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Transforming his enemies into monsters, putting them into a prison suspended over a volcano, locking them up in other dimensions, turning them into undead slaves... let's just say that Venger is ''very'' fond of this trope.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Averted. Sheila, while a redhead, is the team's [[Shrinking Violet]] and [[Team Mom]].

** [[The Hero]]: Hank

** [[The Lancer]]: Eric

* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Averted, ''none'' of the main characters uses a sword.

* [[Heroic Fantasy]]

** That's nothing: Tiamat and Uni are [[Transformers|Megatron, Soundwave...half the original Transformers]], [[Scooby Doo|Freddie Jones]], [[Aladdin (Disney)|Abu]], [[Quest for Camelot|Ayden]], [[Cats Don't Dance (Animation)|Farley Wink]]... well, you get the picture.

** Dekion has the same voice as [[Transformers Generation 1|Mirage.]] Both characters are longing for better days.

* [[Lovable Coward]]: Eric's usual response to danger is to run away and hide. The one time he declared "Everybody get behind my shield!", his compatriots afterward expressed surprise that he'd actually grown a backbone for a second or two.

** Let's not forget that time when {{spoiler|he got the Golden Grimoire book and was willing to pull an [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to send the gang back home.}}

** In the script of the unproduced final episode, {{spoiler|the kids find out as Venger is turned back into his former self and Dungeon Master acknowledges their relation.}}

* [[Lull Destruction]]: Kicks in about season 3, when the show started overextending occasionally and had to cram too much content into too small a time slot. Worst examples are in "Odyssey of the Twelfth Talisman" and "Citadel of Shadow", though "Citadel of Shadow" only really suffered from it for its first half.

* [[The Maze]]: "The Girl Who Dreamed Tomorrow"

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The gang's roles tend to match their personality. Eric is definitely ''cavalier''.

* [[The Messiah]]: Hank. To some degree, Presto and Sheila as well.

** And Kosar, one of Diana's two love interests.

{{quote| "…And she shall dream no more."}}

* [[No Swastikas]]: One episode featured Venger messing with a time portal to our world, hoping to erase the kids from history by arming a Nazi fighter pilot with a 21st-century jet. {{spoiler|Luckily for the kids, the pilot was a [[Turncoat]] who loathed Hitler's regime (and hit it off with [[Hot Amazon]] Diana, too).}} More to the point, the tell-tale armband that he tries to ditch lost the swastika it bore in the story-boards and turned into a ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenkreuz Balkankreuz]'' (in a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_flag red circle on a white background], no less! Which [[Imperial Japan|Axis power]] did he fly for, again?).

* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: Presto

* [[Ontological Mystery]]

* [[She Fu]]: Diana the Acrobat, who is a medal-winning gymnastics practitioner in the real world.

* [[Shout Out]]: To [[Star Wars]] with a few in-character jokes by the kids, presumably to show that they're from our world and our time (well, the 80s, anyway). As if having a show based on D&D wasn't nerdy enough.

** Also received a [[Shout Out]] from ''[[Nodwick]]'', in a strip in which Yeagar, having "defeated Tiamat," goes on to rescue Sheila and Diana from Venger, as Bobby, Eric, and Hank look on.

** And portraits in ''[[Baldurs Gate|Baldur's Gate]]'', where they were assumed to have been killed by Tiamat. Nice one, [[Bio Ware]].

* [[Standardized Leader]]: Hank

* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Dungeon Master, ''all the time''. Lampshaded constantly, to the point where both Uni and Eric are constantly trying to figure out how he does it.

** Diana and [[The Messiah|Kosar]] get it even worse. Not like she and Josef are much better.

* [[Swiss Army Tears]]: Sheila breaks a spell on a cursed king in "The Garden of Zinn" with the [[Single Tear]] of gratitude after he helped save her brother.

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: The kids defeat a beholder ''and'' Demodragon... with a ''flower''.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The [http://www.michaelreaves.com/requiem_preface.htm script] for the unaired final episode.

** One may find Diana's fear to be a bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]], when you stop and consider that she's a medal-winning gymnast, who tend to lose their prime before they even get a driver's license.

* [[Wise Tree]]: The Know Trees in "In Search of the Dungeon Master"

'''Bobby:''' All right, who won the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Campeonato_Brasileiro_S<!-- C3A9rie_A '84]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campeonato_Brasileiro_S%C3%A9rie_A Golden Cup?]] --><br />

'''Know Tree:''' Easy, the Grey Forest Elves. }}

* [[You Fool]]: Venger's favorite word.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Sheila uses the boots + skirts version.

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