History TabletopGame / WerewolfTheApocalypse

* DarkIsNotEvil: The Silent Striders are well known for their affinity with the spirits of the dead, and their fascination with death itself. The other tribes tend to be somewhat off-put by their dark demeanor and generally morbid attitude, which stem largely from the tribe's Batman-esque tragic past. Be this as it may, their hatred of all things of the Wyrm, proves them to be unambiguously good.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The Get of Fenris have fallen into corruption and become a rogue tribe that kills any Garou they deem insufficiently zealous.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Get of Fenris have fallen to hauglosk and are now at war with other Garou in their desire to save Gaou.

* FaceHeelTurn: The Get of Fenris have been corrupted and become radical zealots that will kill any Garou that doesn't meet their rigid standards.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The Get of Fenris despite purging their white supremacist element from 2nd Edition to 5th
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Get of Fenris have been reimagined as this despite previously been something they'd actively worked to suppress.

** The Get of Fenris have all been corrupted by hauglosk and are irredeemable.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Get of Fenris have fallen to hauglosk and are impossible to save.

* FaceHeelTurn: The Get of Fenris have been corrupted and become radical white supremacists.

A video game called ''VideoGame/WerewolfTheApocalypseEarthblood'' was announced January 2017, developed by Creator/CyanideStudio and published by Creator/{{NACON}} with a release date of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJKHn2ugRNI February 4, 2021]].

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** BlackAndGrayMorality aside, most of the more "heroic" Garou appear healthy in all their forms, since deformity is considered by some tribes to be a sign of [[EldritchAbomination Wyrm]] corruption. By contrast, the Wyrm-worshipping [[EvilCounterpartRace Black Spiral Dancers]] are frequently disfigured, either due to being metis-born or exposure to the Wyrm's corrupting radiation, and their Crinos forms reflect this: expect to see red or green GlowingEyesOfDoom, grotesque bald patches, and fur colors featuring jet-black, greenish grey, or even [[EvilAlbino stark white]] tones.

* PredatoryBigPharma: Magadon is the pharmaceutical subsidiary of the global EvilInc MegaCorp Pentex. Operations include Wyrm-tainted drugs that spread addiction and Bane possession, genetic research to weaken the werewolf population, and {{Fantastic Drug}}s to enhance other Pentex agents.

* EcocidalAntagonist: The game's primary villainous force is the Wyrm, the embodiment of decay, entropy, and destruction, and its many servants. The modern Wyrm is quite insane, and what was once a natural force of renewal now manifests as the defilement and destruction of everything good about the natural world. Areas of Wyrm influence are typically filthy, polluted hellholes, and its active servants are for the most part actively invested in steadily running everything else -- most notably the MegaCorp Pentex, which uses its appearance as a legitimate corporation as a front for its mission to pollute both nature and the bodies of humanity and hasten the final collapse of civilization.

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** The Wyrm, the spirit of destruction whose unchecked actions are destroying the world. Its peers in the Triat of the greatest spirits are just about as alien and uncaring, although much less immediately hostile. Unfortunately, all of them are absolutely integral to the very existence of the universe, and their insanity in an animistic world means that the fundamental fabric of the universe is inherently broken, self-destructive, and evil. Yes, this game is set in a WorldHalfEmpty.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Stated to be in force and {{Justified}} for the upper echelons of Pentex in the 20th Anniversary Edition.

** The Gurahl tribebook strongly implies that the ancient Bear King was Myth/KingArthur. It also states that the prophet Elisha was a [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade vampire]] who controlled an umfalla (werebear abomination) named Sarah Childslayer. This was a reference to [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+2%3A23-25&version=NIV 2 Kings 2:23-25]] in the Bible, in which bears slaughtered a group of children who were teasing the prophet Elisha.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The Silent Striders are well known for their affinity with the spirits of the dead, and their fascination with death itself. The other tribes tend to be somewhat off-put by their dark demeanor and generally morbid attitude, which stem largely from the tribe's Batman-esque tragic past. Be this as it may, their hatred of vampires, and indeed all things of the Wyrm, proves them to be unambiguously good.

** Werewolves have a wealth of derogatory terms for their enemies and even their own breeds. "Leeches" for vampires is perhaps the most famous. Other shapeshifters, due to the above genocidal wars and Fantasic Racism, tend to call Garou "dogs."

* FictionalDocument: ''Chronicles of the Black Labyrinth''. Like many other White Wolf examples, this was eventually {{defictionali|zation}}sed.

* FurAgainstFang: Werewolves and vampires hate each other. Werewolves see vampires as agents of their sworn enemy, the Wyrm, and since most of the vampires in the setting see killing as ''just another thing'' after a while they're not entirely wrong. However, their tendency to strike at vampires regardless of how corrupt they are is more than a little extreme. Vampires, for their part, don't have any special hate for werewolves. What they have is pure, unmitigated ''fear'' since your average werewolf is stronger, faster and tougher than your average vampire, deals aggravated damage (damage a vampire can't soak away with unnatural strength or outright ignore) and can seemingly appear from thin air at claw distance. A common misconception are that Gangrel have an uneasy truce with Garou; in reality, Gangrel know how Garou act and think, and use that knowledge to ''stay away''. Nosferatu and Bone Gnawers basically have an unspoken agreement to stay out of each other's way; some say the two tribes often exchange information, but if such a thing happens, it's an extremely closely guarded secret.

* MagicKnight: The Uktena Garou and some Bastet are known for practicing sorcery. Their magic isn't as strong as [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade the Tremere's]] BloodMagic or [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Mages]]' True Magick, but they still have all the physical advantages of werecreatures.

* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: In addition to the titular werewolves, there are 11 other breeds of shapeshifters, described in their own Splat books: Ajaba (werehyenas), Ananasi (werespiders), Bastet (werecats), Corax (wereravens), Gurahl (werebears), Kitsune (werefoxes), Mokole (werecrocodiles/lizards/dragons), Nagah (weresnakes), Nuwisha (werecoyotes), Ratkin (wererats), Rokea (weresharks). The Apis (wereaurochs), Camazotz (werebats), and Grondr (wereboars) used to exist to, but the Garou genocided them. There was also a group of Australian Garou called the Bunyip who bred with the thylacines, but they were also wiped out by the Garou. ''Book of the Wyrm 20'' describes four man-made, wholly Wyrm-claimed Changing Breeds -- Anurana (werefrogs, a failed experiment that escaped into the wild but still remains loyal to the Wyrm), Kerasi (wererhinos, shock troops meant to disrupt the Ahadi), Samsa (werecockroaches, meant to be the ultimate survivors but driven by madness), and Yeren (wereapes, debauched predators of the boardroom).

* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: The book ''Possessed'' features an old man who spent many years standing with Bible in hand at the college gates, berating female students for their skimpy clothing. Turns out that his true motivation was that he enjoyed staring at beautiful young women and commenting on their bodies and clothing. The whole moral superiority thing was merely an excuse that he used to trick everyone (surely including himself) that his behavior was acceptable. To make it worse, indulging his hatred of beautiful young women and his self-inflicted sexual frustration opened him up to what can be called demonic possession. Having turned into a Fomor minion of the Wyrm, he ends up attacking a young beautiful female co-ed werewolf, making himself the first kill in her new career as a slayer of wyrm-tainted monsters.

* CareerRevealingTrait: It's mentioned that Burger Fools at O'Tolley's can easily be recognized by the smell of grease and meat even if the embarrassing uniform isn't in view. Veteran "burgermen" also sport minor burns from working the fryers, and have become so inured to pain over the years that they frequently expose themselves to absolutely scalding temperatures just to experience real warmth.

** According to the stories this is how the Wyrm went insane. The Weaver grew tired of seeing her works destroied by the Wyrm when their time had come so she spun a cage and thrapped the Wyrm inside. She failed to take into account that the Wyrm would eventually get out whatever she did and that the hunger while trapped would drive him completely mad.

* OneStatToRuleThemAll: As is traditional for pre-nWoD White Wolf games, Dexterity is better than any two other Attributes combined.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: One of the other groups of shapeshifters are Mokole werecrocodiles, whose warforms combine traits of [[DinosaursAreDragons dragons and dinosaurs]], with Asian Mokole being more draconic while the Western and Australian varieties are more saurian. Pound for pound, they are more powerful than the Garou but always lacked the pack mentality, hence their downfall.

* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: In addition to the titular werewolves, there are 11 other breeds of shapeshifters, described in their own Splat books: Ajaba (werehyenas), Ananasi (werespiders), Bastet (werecats), Corax (wereravens), Gurahl (werebears), Kitsune (werefoxes), Mokole (werecrocodiles/lizards/dragons), Nagah (weresnakes), Nuwisha (werecoyotes), Ratkin (wererats), Rokea (weresharks). The Apis (wereaurochs), Camazotz (werebats), and Grondr (wereboars) used to exist to, but the Garou genocided them. There was also a group of Australian Garou called the Bunyip who bred with the thylacines, but they were also wiped out by the Garou.
** ''Book of the Wyrm 20'' has now thrown in four man-made, wholly Wyrm-claimed Changing Breeds -- Anurana (werefrogs, a failed experiment that escaped into the wild but still remains loyal to the Wyrm), Kerasi (wererhinos, shock troops meant to disrupt the Ahadi), Samsa (werecockroaches, meant to be the ultimate survivors but driven by madness), and Yeren (wereapes, debauched predators of the boardroom).

* RatedMForManly: The Get of Fenris. It's hard to create female characters from this tribe without wondering if they'd fit better with the Black Furies. The Get of Fenris do have their own all-female camp, the Valkyria of Freya though. And the tribe book does say that this is a result of the human norms affecting the tribe members, not the other way around.

* VampiricWerewolf: The ''World of Darkness'' forbids template stacking by default, and indeed, werewolves who are Embraced by vampires usually just die. The unluckiest ones become Abominations, {{Tortured Monster}}s who have most of the powers of both creatures but are at constant risk of [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie falling to the Wyrm]].

** And finally, werewolves are not averse to finding out the Kryptonite of other supernaturals and using it against them, leading to for example a [[WhipItGood whip]] with a spirit of Helios bound into it that burns vampires like actual sunlight.

Publication of ''Werewolf: The Apocalypse'' ended in 2004 with the cancellation of the entire TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness, and it was followed up with a new game with a new setting and completely different cosmology: ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken''. An updated, revised edition of ''Werewolf: The Apocalypse'' came out in 2013 to celebrate the game's 20th anniversary. A fifth edition of the RPG, to go along with ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition'', [[https://www.huntersentertainment.com/single-post/werewolf-the-apocalypse was announced in December 2019]] by Hunters Entertainment, in partnership with Creator/ParadoxInteractive, the current owners of the World of Darkness, though this edition was seemingly cancelled following a consolidation of the brand in late 2020, with a new version of the book in the works at Paradox itself.

%%* ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire: The Weaver.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Authority in Garou's society is either almost entirely based on personal prowess, or just ''mostly'' based on it. Being born into an influential tribe has its perks, but you still need to rise in rank by yourself, if you want any real power. There is a complicated system of formal challenges in place, to minimize casualties of constant struggle for dominance. This, of course, also means that AsskickingEqualsAuthority.
** Also stated to be in force and {{Justified}} for the upper echelons of Pentex in the 20th Anniversary Edition.

* TheSocialDarwinist: Shadow Lords and Get of Fenris sometimes fall into this philosophy, due to liking their AsskickingEqualsAuthority ways a bit too much. The Silver Fangs don't allow anyone with "low breeding" into their tribe. Black Spiral Dancers and other Wyrm-servants don't particularly bother with justifications like this.

* FiveManBand: The ideal pack (one of each auspice), which tends to break down thusly:
** TheHero -- Philodox
** TheLancer -- Ragabash
** TheBigGuy -- Ahroun
** TheSmartGuy -- Theurge
** TheChick -- Galliard