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* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Most of the Goblin starting experience, to wit: One of the focuses right at the beginning is to set everything up for a party, naturally, you succeed and start to have a pretty rad (by Goblin standards) party... only to have it be crashed by ''Party Crasher Pirates''. After the Volcano starts to blow, you're trying to get enough money to get off the Island. So you break into the bank, steal your life savings back, but it's still not enough. So what do you do? Why, burn down your corporate headquarters to get the insurance money, of course! You do this by Overloading your Generator, [[Rule of Funny|turn on your "Leaky Stove"]] And then drop a cigar on your flammable bed. It only goes upwards from there, there are many examples later, but one truly stands out. Once you're on the Lost Isles, a Goblin asks you to take care of a Giant Shark. How do you do this? Well, after getting a bunch of shark bits, he makes a Shark Submarine With [[Austin Powers|Freakin' Laser Beams]], then you fight the Shark in it.

** After his bout with debilitating insanity in ''Wrath of the Lich King,'' Budd Nedreck has stabilized into this.

** Blizzard itself is kind getting in on it too! A forum post complained how the Maelstrom wasn't "epic" enough, a representative ensured that in the next patch the "epicness" would increase tenfold. The next patch came and we got...[http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8841/258235ffd616edb8cf692d9.jpg this.]

** The whole defending the shard thing became really annoying after awhile, so Azuregos entrusted it to a construct of his called Maws, which is a very special minnow. The player has the option of calling him insane for this, while a pleased Azuregos claims to be a genius instead.

** Sylvanas is quite sympathetic, but she also holds the living in contempt and can often be fairly icy and brusque to those with whom she deals.

** Fandral Staghelm. Sure, he's arrogant bastard, but seeing what he's been through, it's really hard to blame him. Seeing how patriotic he is when it comes to night elves, it probably pained him a lot to see what happened to his race, and not to mention how the silithid butchered his beloved son just as a way to [[Revenge by Proxy|break him]]. His coin in the Dalaran fountain just adds the woobiedom:

** Genn Greymane, due to the events unfolding in Gilneas, including the Worgen curse and the Forsaken invasion which cost him his kingdom and the life of his son Liam.

** Oh, sure, Illidan's not exactly a nice guy, but the poor bastard's been suffering for ''over ten thousand years''. His entire life is a litany of failed attempts at heroism and greatness.

* [[Memetic Badass]]:

** Saurfang is practically the Warcraft universe's [[Chuck Norris]], having several [http://www.wowpedia.org/Saurfang_facts Saurfang Facts] to his name.

** Hogger, the boss capable of being [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|brought down by level one gnomes]], also applies. This eventually escalated to where the best guild was pitted against an elite, ''level cap'', '''''nigh unkillable''''' version of Hogger. The Armory website also tracks each character's stats for [[Ascended Meme|"deaths by Hogger."]]

** Darius Crowley, an NPC from the Worgen starting zone, is also shaping up to be this. He, too, [http://www.wowpedia.org/Crowley_facts has his own page of Crowley Facts].

* [[The Woobie]]: All races have their moments be it in-game or in the lore, but Forsaken possibly take the cake. They were killed by either Kel'Thuzad's Plague of Undeath, the Scourge, or Arthas himself after he became a Death Knight, and then reanimated as mindless slaves to the Lich King. After they regained their consciousness and free will, they were driven away from their old homes, lost everything they knew and loved, and left with no place to call home until Sylvanas claimed the Undercity as their home.

** A quote from Forsaken writings sums this up.

** The draenei have been running for their lives for 25,000 years, have seen the destruction of countless planets, were almost killed off entirely, and when it seems they finally catch a break in retaking the Exodar, the blood elves crash it. And most of them were alive for all of it.

** Also, voidwalkers, if you listen to their quotes. For instance, upon being summoned: "I don't like this place...", or being dismissed: "Release... at last..."