The Dreamstone: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''Far from Viltheed to the Forest of the Wuts, where Pildit, leader of the Wuts, and his companions guard the Land of Dreams. The Noops live in the Land of Dreams; these are two of them, Rufus and Amberley, assisting the Dreammaker and his watchdogfish Albert in the sending of tonight's dreams through the most precious and powerful object in the land - [[Title Drop|'''The Dreamstone!''']] ''|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwznYJBaTQo ''The Dreamstone'' intro].}}

 

 

[[Strictly Formula|Almost every episode has basically the same plot:]] Zordrak, the [[Evil Overlord]], sends three of his sympathetic [[Mooks]], the [[Our Orcs Are Different|Urpneys]], across the dangerous zone between the Land of Dreams and the Land of Nightmares with the assistance of [[Mad Scientist]] Urpgor and his inventions, [[Running Gag|which tend to be pedal-powered.]] The Urpneys' task is to steal the Dreamstone, the mystical object through which the mysterious Dreammaker sends his dreams every night to the people of the Land of Dreams, and protects them from Zordrak's nightmares. They are thwarted every week by Rufus and Amberley, the Dreammaker's [[Cartoon Creature|Noop]] assistants, occasionally with Pildit and the [[Our Elves Are Better|Wuts]].

Refer to the [[The Dreamstone/Characters|character sheet]] for more details.

 

* [[Accidental Hero]]: Rufus and Amberley fall into this a large amount of times. While they aren't completely incompetent, it's much easier to count the times they genuinely defeated the villains through skill and bravado than the many via some [[Contrived Coincidence]] or [[Spanner in the Works|the Urpneys' own bumbling]].

* [[Acrofatic]]: Both Rufus and Sgt Blob are somewhat portly individuals, but get in on the action as much as the others in their team.

** [[With All Due Respect]]: It is implied Blob's predescessor was disposed of due to contradicting Zordrak one too many times, in comparison to the former, who is usually at least smart enough to follow orders without too many questions.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Ironically used on Urpgor in "The Nightmare Stone" after the titular [[MacGuffin]] renders his machines obsolete. A rare non lethal example by Zordrak however in that he merely tells him to hit the road. He is rehired after the Nightmare Stone is stolen by the Noops (largely due to a botched revenge plan by Urpgor).

 

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