The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** Mannimarco too. His mooks are slow and avoidable, he has no game in melee combat, and if you have a decent weapon, then he can be killed with a dozen or so attacks at the most.

*** He becomes even more of one for a player of Daggerfall, who likely would have expected Mannimarco, the King of Worms to look like the King of Worms (imposing, clad in a red robe covering his face in shadow, eyes glowing brightly). Oblivion's incarnation... is a fairly ordinary-looking Altmer.

** Umaril the Unfeathered, originally a brutal Ayleid tyrant, now a half Ayleid, half Daedra [[Omnicidal Maniac]].

* [[Crazy Awesome]] - Sheogorath is, almost literally, practically the ''embodiment'' of this trope. For example, if you attack him, he executes you by teleporting you hundreds of feet above the Isles, ''just to fall to your death''!

* [[Demonic Spiders]] - If you're playing vanilla Oblivion and you've leveled up too high, ''every single enemy'' becomes a demonic spider due to the game's [[Level Scaling|leveled enemies system]].

** To be more specific: Will-o-Wisps, who are, count 'em: magic resistant, fast, turn invisible, can only be hurt with silver/magic weapons, drain stats and can make your weapons/armor rot off your body. And Spider Daedra are literally giant deadly demonic spider-women. Who spawn miniature versions of themselves that paralyze you, so they fit the trope too.

* [[Draco in Leather Pants]] - Mannimarco, and by extension, his Necromancer followers.

* [[Good Bad Bugs]]: Once Mythic Dawn agents start openly attacking people, it's possible for one such agent, Cingor, to be rendered not just peaceful, but ''friendly'' with a high enough influence in the Fighter's Guild.

** One of the rather hilarious ones involves Shadowmere, the horse you can get during the Dark Brotherhood questline. Unlike all other horses she's marked as essential and cannot be killed, only briefly knocked unconscious. It is still possible to access her as if she was a corpse, though, and as with all other bodies it is possible to place items into her inventory, essentially turning her into a portable storage chest. Furthermore, placing potions into her inventory will cause her to actually drink them during battle, enhancing her already considerable combat effectiveness.

** The blacksmith in Mania will hit on the player if you're a male character. Did I mention this blacksmith is a gay Orc?

* [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: Oblivion received this reaction from the rest of ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' fanbase upon it's success.

* [[Memetic Mutation]] - The game spawned memes: Rufio from Dark Brotherhood. Throwing the Adoring Fan off of Dive Rock. "I saw a mudcrab the other day." And, of course...

** To forget the Dark Brotherhood's five tenets... is to invoke the Wrath of Sithis.

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** Farwil Indarys. His irritating [[Artificial Stupidity|gameplay-related]] "qualities" are even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the Count of Cheydinhal, Andel Indarys... ''his own father''.

* [[Uncanny Valley]] - Some of the NPCs look and act like they have Down Syndrome, staring at you bug-eyed throughout every conversation. Without mods, almost every human face looks blotchy and blurry, like they paired high-poly models with Voodoo-era textures. Zooming in for conversation with any non-Argonian (especially Redguards!) immediately reminds you that you're playing a videogame. They really should have spent a few more megabytes on face textures.

* [[Villain Decay]] - It hits Mannimarco rather hard. Throughout the Mages Guild questline, he is set up as the [[Big Bad]] of that story, having characters become unnerved or outright terrified by knowing that he has reappeared, there's a pretty good poem-style book about his history to find which sets him up as a powerful evil, at one point, he deals a scarily effective, unexpected blow to the Mages Guild and the only survivor of the attack is terrified and tells you how he, concealed by magic, watched Mannimarco rip out his friend's soul and how he believes the guy actually could see through his magical disguise and pretty much just spared him for fun. Then Mannimarco effectively manages to corrupt and disrupt the Mages Council. By the end of the questline, you seriously get the feeling that everything's going to hell for the Mages Guild if you don't stop him quickly. So, after finding his hideout and slaughtering your way through his minions, {{spoiler|he's a moderately powerful Altmer wizard whose spells might be slightly threatening at the very worst, and silencing him will reduce him to waving a dagger at you.}}{{spoiler|[[Senseless Sacrifice|Yep, this is the guy who Hannibal Traven thought was such a threat that he voluntarily soul-trapped himself to give you some sort of advantage.]]}}

** Makes for quite an [[Anticlimax Boss]].

** It also hits him, [[Your Mileage May Vary|arguably]], in relation to ''Daggerfall'', in a more visual way. Compare the King of Worms there with the Altmer of ''Oblivion'': http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:King_of_Worms.

 

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