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* [[Blizzard Entertainment]], after [[Trope Maker|inventing this]], raised it to an art form. ''[[~~Starcraft~~]]'' and all ''[[Warcraft]]'' games (including ''[[World of Warcraft]]'') have characters getting angry, doing comedy routines, or just providing additional insight into their characters. The [[Trope Namer]] is the original ''Warcraft'' orc's "Stop poking me!"

* [[Blizzard Entertainment]], after [[Trope Maker|inventing this]], raised it to an art form. ''[[StarCraft]]'' and all ''[[Warcraft]]'' games (including ''[[World of Warcraft]]'') have characters getting angry, doing comedy routines, or just providing additional insight into their characters. The [[Trope Namer]] is the original ''Warcraft'' orc's "Stop poking me!"

** Referenced in ''[[~~Starcraft~~]] Brood War'', with Artanis's "Stop poking me! What do I look like, an orc?", and with the Protoss Observer transmitting "Stop poking me!" over the radio.

** Referenced in ''[[StarCraft]] Brood War'', with Artanis's "Stop poking me! What do I look like, an orc?", and with the Protoss Observer transmitting "Stop poking me!" over the radio.

** In the first ''[[Diablo]]'', clicking the town's cow would cause it to moo. Clicking it repeatedly would make your character start commenting on it. "Yup, that's a cow all right..."

** The Valkyries in ''[[~~Starcraft~~]]'' provided a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Young Frankenstein]].

** The Valkyries in ''[[StarCraft]]'' provided a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Young Frankenstein]].

** ''Warcraft II'''s Human Footman class would quip "Why do you keep touching me?" and "Are you still touching me?" The former of which was used in the [[Buffy-Speak|disco-y]] hidden music track on the expansion CD, and in fact came from the ''original'' game.

** In ''Warcraft II'''s case, even the setup program got annoyed if you kept clicking the sound test button.

{{quote|"[[Most Wonderful Sound|Your sound card works perfectly!]] Your sound card works perfectly! [[Rule of Three|Your sound card works perfectly!]] Enjoying yourself? Your sound card works perfectly! [[Running Gag|Your sound card works perfectly!]] [[Most Annoying Sound|Your sound card works perfectly!]] ''It doesn't get any better than this.''"}}

:* In ''Warcraft II'', poking a critter often enough and fast enough will result in lots of little animal sounds and finally the critter will just... well... BOOM! and a small bloody mess is all that's left. The explosion actually does damage to its surroundings.

:* The ''[[~~Starcraft~~]]'' critters do it better: Click them enough and they explode in a ''nuclear explosion''. That one doesn't do any damage to other units, but can potentially scare the heck out of another person in casual multiplayer.

:* The ''[[StarCraft]]'' critters do it better: Click them enough and they explode in a ''nuclear explosion''. That one doesn't do any damage to other units, but can potentially scare the heck out of another person in casual multiplayer.

:** ''Warcraft III'' takes the poking further by having various [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]] jokes being said among the human units, and veiled pokes at the [[Church of Happyology]] among the Scourge's more intelligible units. Also, several rare/unique units have some ''massively long'' "annoyed" quotes.

* The Flash game [http://www.agame.com/game/Poke-the-Penguin.html Poke the Penguin] may be a reference to the exploding critters in Blizzard's games.

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* In the new ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]'' games, you can poke Omega-Xis with your stylus, resulting in him getting annoyed, and closing the menu. In ''MMSF3'', however, if you poke him enough, he vanishes, and {{spoiler|the game appears to have frozen. Waiting a couple of seconds will have him come back, mocking you}}.

* ''[[Sacrifice]]'': As with Blizzard, the Stop Poking Me quotes are rife with puns and [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to other media.

{{quote|'''Pyromaniac:''' Gah! [[Spaceballs|Can't... Breathe in this thing!]]

'''Druid:''' [[EverQuest|Level 4 druid seeks party for monster hunting! Will SoW for clarity!]]

'''Earthfling:''' [[Queen|You've got mud on your face... You big disgrace. I. Will. ROCK YOU.]] }}

* Knock on the door of the crazy hermit in ''The Omega Stone'' enough times, and he'll slip out of character to chew you out.

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