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* ''TabletopGame/{{Stormbringer}}'' (fourth edition was called ''Elric'') (1981) - TabletopRoleplayingGame published by Creator/{{Chaosium}} based on using their ''Basic Role-Playing'' system. Chaosium also published a version of the RPG using the ''UsefulNotes/D20System'' called ''Dragon Lords of Melniboné''.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Stormbringer}}'' (fourth edition was called ''Elric'') (1981) - TabletopRoleplayingGame published by Creator/{{Chaosium}} based on using their ''Basic Role-Playing'' system. Chaosium also published a version of the RPG using the ''UsefulNotes/D20System'' MediaNotes/D20System called ''Dragon Lords of Melniboné''.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Whenever the Eternal Champions convene, Elric is invariably the least pleasant and heroic of the bunch, if still noble.
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* FusionDance: ''The Quest for Tanelorn'' has Elric fuse with ''Literature/{{Corum}}'', [[Literature/TheHistoryOfTheRunestaff Hawkmoon]] and Erekosë into a giant eight-armed eight-legged monstrosity to beat Agak and Gagak. In "Go Ask Elric" by Tad Williams, in "Tales of the White Wolf", Elric and Uendrijj fuse into Harmony (who also does a FullFrontalAssult) to fight the Chronophage.

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* FusionDance: ''The Quest for Tanelorn'' has Elric fuse with ''Literature/{{Corum}}'', [[Literature/TheHistoryOfTheRunestaff Hawkmoon]] and Erekosë into a giant eight-armed eight-legged monstrosity to beat Agak and Gagak. In "Go Ask Elric" by Tad Williams, in "Tales of the White Wolf", Elric and Uendrijj fuse into Harmony (who also does a FullFrontalAssult) FullFrontalAssault) to fight the Chronophage.
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* FullFrontalAssault: The Elenoin, a race of extradimensional women warriors, fight naked.
* FusionDance: ''The Quest for Tanelorn'' has Elric fuse with ''Literature/{{Corum}}'', [[Literature/TheHistoryOfTheRunestaff Hawkmoon]] and Erekosë into a giant eight-armed eight-legged monstrosity to beat Agak and Gagak.

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* FullFrontalAssault: The Elenoin, a race of extradimensional women warriors, fight naked.
naked. This appears to be an AlwaysFemale trope in Elric stories, for some reason.
* FusionDance: ''The Quest for Tanelorn'' has Elric fuse with ''Literature/{{Corum}}'', [[Literature/TheHistoryOfTheRunestaff Hawkmoon]] and Erekosë into a giant eight-armed eight-legged monstrosity to beat Agak and Gagak. In "Go Ask Elric" by Tad Williams, in "Tales of the White Wolf", Elric and Uendrijj fuse into Harmony (who also does a FullFrontalAssult) to fight the Chronophage.

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* CosmicPlaything: Anyone who deals with the Gods ends up as one.

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* CosmicPlaything: Anyone who deals with the Gods ends up as one. Elric is beloved by Chaos not for traditionally embodying or supporting its values, but for how much fun his struggles and sorrows are in its eyes.



* DistantFinale: In the Eternal Champion canon, Elric's future incarnations will have much more laudable, if still fraught, lives. With even his most villainous one, Monsieur Zenith, as a largely relaxed figure who enjoys an entertaining rivalry with heroic detective Sexton Blake at his leisure.



* {{Jerkass}}: Elric often acts like one. That's not saying much, of course, but his cousins hated him and plotted against him for being too philosophical and soft-hearted and insufficiently sadistic and maniacal to be worthy of the throne.

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Elric often acts like one. That's not saying much, of course, but his cousins hated him and plotted against him for being too philosophical and soft-hearted and insufficiently sadistic and maniacal to be worthy of the throne.throne.
** Stormbringer wants to steal souls. It doesn't need to. It barely needs Elric save for how his adventures enable it more exotic opportunities to slaughter and triumph. At the end of the series, it's not even all that bothered that the cosmic scales have tipped in favor of Law, that just makes it a more unique being on the earthly plane as the sole major representative of Chaos [[spoiler:after it kills Elric]].
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* EvilBrit: As explicated in the foreword for the first Titan Comics graphic novel, Moorcock took great inspiration from post-World War II Britain's repressive turmoil as it transitioned away from centuries of being a globe-spanning empire for Melniboné.


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* HeelRealization: Elric starts off the series as a passable, bordering on worryingly benign, pillar of [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Melnibonén]] authority and character. The kidnapping of Cymoril causes him to grapple with selfish impulses for the first time in his life, and venturing outside of Imrryr exposes him to alternative, and often kinder, codes of ethics. This causes him to be more considerate of other viewpoints, but also allows him to recognize that some wickedness is objectively unacceptable and that due to his own actions, desires, and attitudes, he can never consider himself a truly good person.
-->''"I have brought evil to many places, but usually there has already been evil to match mine. I seek no excuses, for I know what I am and I know what I have done. I have slain malignant sorcerers and destroyed oppressors, but I have also been responsible for slaying fine men, and a woman, my cousin, whom I loved, I killed — or my sword did."''
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* AliensOfLondon: In the ''Elric at the End of Time'' crossover, Una Persson notes that Elric has a vaguely Scottish accent.

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* AliensOfLondon: In the ''Elric "Elric at the End of Time'' Time" crossover, Una Persson notes that Elric has a vaguely Scottish accent.



* AmbiguouslyHuman: ''Elric at the End of Time'' implies that Arioch and Lord Jagged from ''The Dancers at the End of Time'' are the same person, meaning that he's likely either a future human using advanced technology to pose as a god or a god posing as a human.

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* AmbiguouslyHuman: ''Elric "Elric at the End of Time'' Time" implies that Arioch and Lord Jagged from ''The Dancers at the End of Time'' are the same person, meaning that he's likely either a future human using advanced technology to pose as a god or a god posing as a human.



** The inhabitants of the end of time in ''Elric at the End of Time'' try to make Elric eat a translation pill so he'll speak their language, they give up and take the pills themselves so they speak his instead.

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** The inhabitants of the end of time in ''Elric "Elric at the End of Time'' Time" try to make Elric eat a translation pill so he'll speak their language, they give up and take the pills themselves so they speak his instead.
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* AlienSea: The Heavy Sea that allows travel between worlds is thick like Mercury. It's just barely drinkable but has to be chewed.

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* AlienSea: The Heavy Sea that allows travel between worlds is thick like Mercury.mercury. It's just barely drinkable but has to be chewed.
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* LongTitle: InUniverse, Rackhir whistles a tune called "Song of the Son of the Hero of the High Hell who is about to Sacrifice his Life."
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** ''Music/BlueOysterCult'' got Creator/MichaelMoorcock to write a number of songs for them, including ''[[Music/CultösaurusErectus Black Blade]]'' based on Elric.

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** ''Music/BlueOysterCult'' got Creator/MichaelMoorcock to write a number of songs for them, including ''[[Music/CultösaurusErectus ''[[Music/CultosaurusErectus Black Blade]]'' based on Elric.
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** ''Music/BlueOysterCult'' got Creator/MichaelMoorcock to write a number of songs for them, including ''[[Music/FireOfUnknownOrigin Black Blade]]'' based on Elric.

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** ''Music/BlueOysterCult'' got Creator/MichaelMoorcock to write a number of songs for them, including ''[[Music/FireOfUnknownOrigin ''[[Music/CultösaurusErectus Black Blade]]'' based on Elric.
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* PestController: In ''The Sailor on the Seas of Fate'', Elric petitions the insect god Nnuuurrr'c'c for aid against a tribe of hostile LizardFolk. In response, Nnuuurrr'c'c sends a swarm of oversized dragonflies to kill the lizards.
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* ''The Citadel Of Forgotten Myths'' (novel, 2022)
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Pan Tang's war machine is fueled by conscripting the adult men of their tribute states, then ''sacrificing their wives and children'', on arcane altars which are in operation 24 hours a day, ''depopulating an entire continent in the process'', to summon the Lords of Chaos

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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Pan Tang's war machine is fueled by conscripting the adult men of their tribute states, then ''sacrificing their wives and children'', on arcane altars which are in operation 24 hours a day, ''depopulating an entire continent in the process'', to summon the Lords of ChaosChaos.



* SettingUpdate: A crossover comic with ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'' has elric as an inhabitant of the Hyborean Age like Conan which is thousands of years in the past as opposed to millions like in the Elric books.

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* SettingUpdate: A crossover comic with ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'' has elric Elric as an inhabitant of the Hyborean Age like Conan which is thousands of years in the past as opposed to millions like in the Elric books.
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** Made even more explicit in the Titan comic adaptations, where Stormbringer talks to Elric and essentially keeps trying to seduce him.
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* TheRedBaron: Elric's friend Rackhir the Red Archer.

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* TheRedBaron: RedBaron: Elric's friend Rackhir the Red Archer.
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* TooDumbToLive: Elric gives the throne to the guy who earlier usurped him. Even the guy's sister (who's Elric's fiancee) says that Elric's actions are criminal in their foolishness.



* TooDumbToLive: Elric gives the throne to the guy who earlier usurped him. Even the guy's sister (who's Elric's fiancee) says that Elric's actions are criminal in their foolishness.
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* ''Elric: Rise of the Young Kingdoms'' (2023) - A board game which players control the leaders of nations within the Young Kingdoms that are supporting Elric in his wars.

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