Warcraft/Characters/The Scourge: Difference between revisions

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]

* [[Face Heel Turn]]

* [[Fallen Hero]]

* [[Final Boss]]: Of ''Wrath of The Lich King'' ; it is in the title after all.

* [[Hero Killer]]: In Warcraft III, where he killed Uther, Sylvanas, Antonidas and many other distinguished personages rather handily. {{spoiler|He regains the title in the final battle against him, where he pretty much freezes [[Big Good|Tirion]] solid and kills the entire raid in one blow, before he begins raising them as his minions. It doesn't stick though, as a Tirion frees himself, breaks Frostmourne, which frees Terenas who ressurrects the entire raid.}}

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Arthas is the textbook example of this. In his attempt to stop the Scourge, he became what he was trying to stop.

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: Upon becoming the Lich King.

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: In Halls of Reflection and possibly Icecrown. YMMV on the latter, however.

* [[Magic Knight]]: He's always been this. Turned into an evil and frankly, far more powerful one after his face heel turn.

* {{spoiler|[[Near Villain Victory]]}}: {{spoiler|Arthas really wasn't bluffing when he said he could kill the players at any given point. In the fight against him, he eventually gets tired of toying with your raid and kills everyone but Tirion who is trapped and forced to watch. Of course, Tirion has a [[Big No]] moment and manages to break free and destroy Frostmourne, which unleashes all the souls stored in it, which not only revives the raid, but holds Arthas back so the raid can kill him.}}

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: When you get down to it, Arthas is a semi-undead human fused with the ghost of a demonically-powered orc.

* [[The Necrocracy]]: He founded one, or rather expanded it.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Arthas the Lich King has now gone from Justin Gross to Patrick Seitz and [[Michael McConnohie]].

* [[Older Hero vs. Younger Villain]]: Tirion is the older hero while Arthas is the younger villain; he also had this with Uther but Tirion succeeded in taking him down whereas Uther failed.

* [[Prince Charmless]]: Prince Arthas was never the world's best boyfriend to Jaina. {{spoiler|Lich King Arthas oddly has an [[Easter Egg]] sentimental attachment to her that he more or less lacked as a Prince.}}

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: To Mal'Ganis

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: A subtle one; before Tirion breaks out and shatters his blade he's laughing maniacally; after wards he's more subdued first saying "Impossible" then calmly saying that they don't fear him despite how he threatened and to destroy them. It's subtle but there.

* [[Voice of the Legion]]: After becoming the Lich King.

** And later Muradin when he told his men that the mercenaries destroyed their ships, even though that was his orders.

* [[Warrior Prince]]: Arthas tended to fight on the front lines with his troops far more often than any Prince rationally had the right to...

* [[Warrior Monk]]: This used to be his job. Up until he became the God of his own religion.

* [[Camp Gay]]: In the ''[[Arthas]]'' novel, Kel'Thuzad is... prissy

* [[Dem Bones]]

* [[The Dragon]]: One of two, along with Anub'arak, to Arthas' [[Big Bad]]. In [[World of Warcraft]], Anub'arak is the significantly less powerful of the two, making Kel'Thuzad the clear Dragon. Like Kel'thuzad before him, Anub'arak has now been brought back from the dead again, as a harder end game boss than the second incarnation of Kel'thuzad, but easier than the first incarnation.

** He also has Sapphiron, an undead wyrm which is ''his'' dragon.

* [[Power Floats]]: The only time he touches the ground is when he's dead.

* [[Religion of Evil]]: Started the Cult of the Damned back when he was alive.

** [[Big No]]: What he does if [[Kick the Dog|players kill his cat]].

* [[Single Target Sexuality]]: Implied this is how Kel'Thuzad feels towards Arthas. After his trasformation to an undead Lich. Squick.