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* [[Death Seeker]]: Brox. He got better, though.
* [[The Devil]]: Sargeras.
* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]: How the heroes try to stop Sargeras from coming in Azeroth. Combined with...
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: {{spoiler|Brox}} actually manages to {{spoiler|wound Sargeras by driving his ax into the Titan's foot}}. To put this in context, Sargeras is [[The Devil]] of Azeroth. Of course, even with the help of {{spoiler|a magical ax given to him by a demigod}} he only manages to give him a small scratch, but that's very impressive nonetheless.
** It's actuallyt the only thing that manages to {{spoiler|hold off Sargeras long enough for the portal to close}}. Not because it hurts him in any serious way, but because of sheer surprise that it happened.
* [[The Dragon]]: Sargeras has Archimonde, who himself has Mannoroth and Hakkar. Azshara has Xavius and Varo'then.
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* [[Love Triangle]]: Illidan wants Tyrande, who loves Malfurion instead and gets together with him.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin ronin]" were masterless samurai in feudal Japan. The mage Rhonin is a maverick, trusting his own opinion more than that of his superiors.
* [[
* [[Neck Snap]]: This is how {{spoiler|[[The Dragon|Archimonde]]}} kills {{spoiler|Malorne, the White Stag}}. Subverted in that it takes even the {{spoiler|demon}} a lot of effort to do so. Then again, killing a {{spoiler|[[Divine Parentage|demigod]]}} should not be easy.
* [[The Obi
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: The Burning Legion in a nutshell.
* [[Portal Cut]]: Sargeras is halfway through the Well of Eternity's portal when it's forcefully closed, causing him to "cease to be" (although his spirit has shown up later in ''[[The Last Guardian]]'').
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* [[The Punishment]]: {{spoiler|Done to Illidan in the end}}.
* [[Ripple Effect Proof Memory]]
* [[Shell
* [[Spanner in The Works]]: The heroes may have won the war against the Burning Legion, but what stopped the {{spoiler|Old Gods from breaking out of their prison was that they didn't expect Deathwing to be so much attached to the Dragon Soul}}.
* [[Supporting Leader]]: Jarod Shadowsong in the last battle.
* [[Temporal Paradox]]: Averted. Apparently, you can change the past. A powerful Demon Lord is killed before the Second War and the Blue Dragon Flight is saved from total annihilation. Nothing of "real" consequence actually occurs, though.
** Until World of Warcraft. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Thanks, Krasus. You owe me my repair bill from pre-nerf Oculus]].
** To expand on that, the blue dragonflight was wiped out in the original timeline, but eggs were saved in the altered one. This helps Malygos become sane again, and in his sanity, he starts doing his job again: which amounts to banning magic under penalty of death, and disposing of the magic in a way that will accidentally blow up the world. If the eggs were never saved, he would still be depressed and reclusive, as well as having no minions.
** However, this action restored his dragonflight, but his insanity is later retconned into still being fully around until Tyri brings the nether drakes to the Nexus much later.
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* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: Until the very end, the main characters are the only ones who know Azshara is not [[Save the Princess|captured by the demons]]. A few do suspect so, but decide not to bring it up because it would turn pretty much everyone else against them.
** Which makes everyone confused when an assassin kills {{spoiler|Ravencrest}} while screaming her name.
* [[Well
* [[Whip It Good]]: Hakkar. He can summon demons with it.
* [[World Tree]]: in the end, how the dragons deal with {{spoiler|the new Well}}.
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