World of Warcraft/Tropes I-P: Difference between revisions

** Also many/most/really any Troll tribe except the Darkspears (and Revantusk) practice cannibalism.

** One quest in Silverpine now sends you after bear meat, but due to [[Dying as Yourself]] we find out those bears were actually worgen druids.

** In Uldaman, [[Lost Vikings|three Dwarves]] are in a holdout position against the Troggs, an item that might appear at their camp is a cookbook suggesting they've been eating the Troggs they killed. Uldaman is a Titan installation, and an artifact there reveals that {{spoiler|Dwarves and Troggs are decendants of the Earthen.}}

** Jez Goodgrub in Winterspring warns you not to accidentally get too close to his cooking fire by mentioning a previous member of your race who fell in ... and was delicious.

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: One of the male!pandaren's /silly quotes is a wonderful example of this:

{{quote|''It is said, 'if you can't beat them, join them'. I say 'if you can't beat them, BEAT them'. Because they will be expecting you to join them, and you will have the element of surprise!''}}

* [[Instrument of Murder]]: The Arcanite Ripper is an axe that doubles as a guitar.

* [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys]]: Several quests have players collecting keys to unlock some number of locks and will need one key for each lock.

* [[Miles Gloriosus]]: Kingslayer Orkus. {{spoiler|At least, at first. Thanks to some [[Character Development]], he [[Becoming the Boast|becomes the boast]] and performs a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] so the player can get Alliance war plans back to Horde command, thus becoming the hero he had always dreamed of being.}}

* [[Military Moonshiner]]: One quest line you undertake in the Nesingwary Base Camp involves you and the mess sergeant "inventing" a mana restoring potion called "Kungaloosh", which consists of bananas, oranges, and papayas boiled with rum in a homemade still. (Tamara compares it to engine degreaser, but it seems okay for everyone else.) {{spoiler|This unlocks a "hidden" quest to obtain the recipe for it from a drunk in the Dalaran sewers, where you can make it with easily-obtainable fruit from a vendor.}}

* [[Mind Control]]: Tons of examples among the various NPCs and bosses, both in the lore and in the game itself. There is also a spell available to the Priest class that lets them take control of other players/monsters for a short while.

* [[Minor Injury Overreaction]]: In Nagrand, Harold Lane gets a scratch and is found dying in his tent; the other members of his hunting party generally ignore him, and after players complete a number of quests for him, he [[Unexplained Recovery|miraculously recovers]].

** And the Naga get some of their own medicine in Northrend, when they are attacked and almost wiped out by the Kvaldir; one Naga questgiver is completely unrepentant, but has no choice but to [[Enemy Mine|ask for help]] as the Kvaldir are about to awaken a [[Sealed Evil in a Can]].

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Although it's constantly possible in an open-world game like this, it's especially noticeable in the standard Forsaken zone progression. Silverpines is a dramatic and dark war story in which the tragic plight that is the heart of the Forsaken's problems are explored... and then your character enters Hillsbrad Foothills, and things suddenly become a knockabout comedic parody.

*** Silverpine itself has one. As mentioned, the overall quest chain is quite dark. Then you get the quest to kill the worgen druids sneaking around pretending to be actual bears. The questgiver lamphades the absurdity of the situation.

** In Felwood, there's a heartwarming quest where you raise an Ancient from birth to maturity. When he freezes at the top of the hill you found him at, he tells you to come back years later to find him growing big and strong. If you're a Horde player, your next quest may be a goblin quest, where the girl in charge basically says "yeah, that stuff about you protecting the forest was cute, but now you have to help us cut the trees down. Tough shit."

* [[Never Found the Body]]: {{spoiler|John J. Keeshan, who is thought to have performed a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] at the end of the Redridge Mountains storyline, but reappears in the Burning Steppes.}}

** Turalyon and Alleria, since the Second War.

* [[Never Mess with Granny]]: {{spoiler|Grandma Wahl of Gilneas seems like a typical old lady, but don't mess with her kitty! Because she will transform into a worgen and [[Rule of Funny|beat you up with her rolling pin]]}}.

* [[New Game+]]: See [[Alt-Itis]], in [[World of Warcraft/Tropes A-H|A-H]]. The heirloom items available for purchase with endgame emblems are usable at any level and grow along with the character they're on at any given moment, along with generally having Superior-quality stats when your character doesn't even see useful Uncommons on a regular basis until level 20 and beyond.

** Blackrock Spire is pretty bad in this respect too. The dungeon - supposedly a city inhabited mostly by orcs and dragons - is full of narrow bridges and easily-accessible ledges with no handrails whatsoever. While the bridges ''may'' be defensive structures a la [[The Lord of the Rings|Khazad-Dum]], where they aren't over lava they're over drops that you need a parachute to survive.

** Gilneas has several ''very high'' bridges with no railings whatsoever.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: In "Mysteries of the Unknown", your future self tells you, "Listen, I'm not supposed to tell you this, but there's going to be a party that you're invited to. Whatever you do, DON'T DRINK THE PUNCH!" (Unfortunately, for most players, this does ''very'' little to narrow it down...)

* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: [[Word of God|According to the lore]], Gnomes are a complete aversion of this. They plan meticulously, taking more time to draw schematics of things than it takes to actually build them, and will often test, redesign and upgrade their inventions until they are perfect. Those tanks that go backwards and teleporters that get you to your destination but hundreds of feet in the air, those are the unperfected prototypes.

* PortalNetwork: A fairly extensive one has slowly grown up over the years, allowing rapid travel around the game world. Typically, each expansion has a "capital city" with portals to all the main cities such as Stormwind and Orgrimmar, as well as the previous capitals (Ashran, from ''Draenor'', only had the original 3 main ones, due to being hastily pressed into this job - however, the ''Pandaria'' capitals still had all their old portals working).capitals. Stormwind and Orgrimmar also have portals to the major areas from ''Cataclysm'', and all cities have portals going to the original ''Burning Crusade'' version of Hellfire Peninsula. In ''Legion'', the updated Dalaran now has ''two'' portal areas - one with portals to all the original cities, along with the ''Pandaria'' capital, and one that has portals to plot-important areas, such as Wyrmrest Temple, Karazhan, the Caverns of time, Shattrath, and even the original Dalaran site (though for that one you materialize dozens of feet in the air, and land with about 99% of your health gone - fortunately, nothing around there can really hurt you). site. About the only place you can't get to is the original Northrend!Dalaran, which you shouldn't be able to anyway for storytelling reasons (the Wyrmrest portal is supposed to take its place, and the Pandaria capital still has the Northrend!Dalaran portal)

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Probably the main reason why the Alliance and the Horde are at war now. Of course, there are many renegade groups within both factions (but mostly within the Horde) who want just that to happen. The novels and the comics make that especially obvious.

* [[Potty Failure]]: Silverpine's orc sea dogs when intoxicated.

{{quote|'''Orc Sea Dog:''' I may or may not have pissed myself!}}

 

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