History VideoGame / AdventureQuestWorlds

* CharClone: J6 and Korin of MQ plus [[spoiler:J6 is revealed to have a [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char-Scar]]]].

* InactionSequence[=/=]KamehameHadoken: Parodied with Ryoku's Soul Nuke from the Kitsune saga, which he ultimately never gets to use because he's knocked out by the hero at the end of the saga just as he's finally ready to cut loose.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Or in this case, VILLAINS want redheads. So many people have joined Evil simply because they like how Gravelyn looks.
** The Evil [[PlayerCharacters [=PCs=]]] are just as much heroes as the Good [=PCs=], in fact the Evil reputation missions send you to kill strictly evil/undead enemies and absolutely no living enemies that aren't evil.

* {{Bishonen}}: [[http://i53.tinypic.com/r05lrt.png Mirror Drakath]].

** Zorbak shows signs of this [[spoiler: after completing Zomboda's Quest]].

** [[spoiler: Sek-Duat kills off Zhoom and the player by blasting them off the cliff and causes the rocks above them to cave in on them just in case they were to miraculously crawl up to stop him from claiming the Djinn's lamp... [[SubvertedTrope only to be revealed that Zhoom had slipped in the Dreamsand on Sek-Duat earlier on, causing him to think he had won.]] ]]

** Gravelyn lets out one of these when [[spoiler: Drakath kills her father]].

** [[spoiler: Kimberly, the true Chaos Lord of Mythsong, gets one while trying to rid of the chaos tune drakath put in her head.]]

** Twilly says this when [[spoiler: Ayi explains that he defeated Nyctox, the representation of the fear of the dark]].
** [[spoiler: Then there's the one that the hero and Artix scream out when Vordred tells about who Artix really is.]]

** The special versions of Artix and Sepulchure Figures have black armor [[spoiler: and they show up in Gravelyn's Dream]]. Later [[spoiler:the Doomblade takes control of Sepulchure, changing his armor from red to black]]. This makes it likely that Artix at some point will gain black armor. [[spoiler: During the 8th Birthday event, Artix is wearing that armor, along with an Obsidian Light of Destiny. Players could also get it through farming.]]

* {{Brainwashed}}: A couple of bad guys have this as an ability. Most notably are Kitsune (using it to control the Emperor), Discordia [[spoiler: and by extension Kimberly]], Tibicenas (he's a djinn) and Drakath.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Along with anyone who fell victim to Discordia's song[[note]]Okay not him exactly, it was Kimberly[[/note]], this happens to [[spoiler: the player in the beginning of the Doomwood saga by Vordred]]

** Here's one: The Book of Lore that every player gets in their first quest that's used to track down their history? [[spoiler: Well let's flash forward to the Doomwood temple and it's used to translate an ancient book written in Dragon language that tells of the Elemental Champions. By EATING it!]]
* ChekhovsGunman: In The Span, it is said that when Galanoth slew the Eternal Dragon of Time, it created the world of [=AdventureQuest=], or at least this iteration. [[spoiler: Drakath reveals that the Hero is actually ''the Eternal Dragon of Time'']]

** And of course, KIMBERLY. [[spoiler: Only she decides to carry around a toy triceratops and her Chaos Beast being named Pony Gary Yellow. Also in her story for the July 2010 Friday the 13th Event, she was freaking out cause the inn was out of Moglinberry Smoothies.]]

* CometOfDoom: Drakath hurls [[spoiler: TWO comets]] toward Battleon to destroy it [[spoiler: after a suggestion from the chaos turned Xing and Xang.]]

** [[spoiler: Tibicenas, the eighth Chaos Lord, achieves this by exploding into many shards of Chaos after being defeated]]. In-game, both Discordia, the fake sixth Chaos Lord, and Ledgermayne, the seventh Chaos Lord, also explode for their death animations when defeated.
** [[spoiler: After defeat, the Void Dragon also explodes in the cutscene afterwards - this one into many Void Splinters]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: Doomwood is starting to become this. To start: [[spoiler: We have a powerful undead badass by the name of Vordred, known as the Paladin Slayer, that has killed every High Paladin but one -- Artix. Then we have the hero becoming an undead slave to Vordred -- who is also immune to undead slaying magic. Oh and we have someone who wants Artix dead for her own personal reasons. And this is just the FIRST part of the arc!]]
** Can it get worse? YES. [[spoiler: When the player reaches the Tower of Necromancy, they find out that Sally from ''VideoGame/DragonFable'' is there. She's not only revived Noxus, but also is the reason that Vordred is invulnerable to paladin magic. Oh and Artix is the only one that's blocking him from being invincible AND Artix isn't just a paladin...he could probably be something dark also.]]

** Out of the Chaos Lord storylines, the Bloodtusk Ravine storyline is the darkest. We have Xing and [[spoiler: Mirror]] Xang manipulating the Alliance leaders and the leaders of both Horc and Troll factions all so they can stall for time and prepare the 9th Chaos Lord.
** The Etherstorm Storyline, where [[spoiler: we see a priest of the Air Realm have his entire body crushed beneath Desoloth's foot. Desoloth also bites off Galanoth's arm,]] and the ending of the saga is much more dark and mature than any of those before it.
** And if you thought Doomwood was bad, Doomwood ''Part 2'' is even darker! [[spoiler: Sally recreated Vordred and fused him Chaos Magic, then Gravelyn wished for her father to be revived, and then Selphulcure has created a ZombieApocalypse which involves killing Death and all but the main character, Twilly, Gravelyn and Artix are the only ones standing between him and the destruction of the world.]]

** [[spoiler: Artix is revealed as The Champion of Darkness. But he has not used a single Darkness spell, and as Artix tells us, he never will.]]

* {{Deal With The Devil}}: [[spoiler: Don Giovanni's deal with Faust]].
** Also [[spoiler: Miltonius/Nulgath with his Leery Contracts that the player has to sign in order to access certain rewards]].

* DeflectorShield: [[spoiler: The Mirror Shield is used to deflect Escherion's inversion magic and turn him into a frog.]]

--> Ayi: [[spoiler: Twilly defeated Nyctox]].

* ExactWords: [[spoiler: Noxus states that he controlled all of Sepulchure's forces and that not one obeyed Gravelyn...he learned the VERY hard way that Gravelyn actually created an undead minion of her own...Chuckles!]]

** [[spoiler: In Gravelyn's Doomwood Ending Gravelyn is also expecting the same thing]]

** [[spoiler: Chaos Lord Ledgermayne is an Expy of Mysterio]]
** [[spoiler: Chaos Lord Vath is quite possibly an Expy of Dragon Master Frostscythe from ''VideoGame/DragonFable'', since they're both elves (Drow and Half Ice Elf respectively), enslaves their dragons and uses a false Dragon Amulet (a genuine Dragon Amulet does not break).]]
** [[spoiler: The Winter-een-mas event has at least four Expies: the Snapper Shrubs are expies of the Piranha Plants from the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, the Megadudes are expies of VideoGame/MegaManClassic, the Blue Hedgehogs are expies of Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog, and, of course, the main boss, the Orc Plumber, is an expy of Mario himself.]]
** [[spoiler: The Sandsea saga has Expies of {{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}} villains, with Zahart being one of Abis Mal and his minion Tibicenas, the eighth Lord of Chaos, being an expy of Genie Jafar]].

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Noxus was replaced by Chuckles as a lich, and Gravelyn plans to give him to Cysero to become a new weapon for her.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Regarding Artix [[spoiler: being the Champion of Darkness]] in Doomwood saga. To list: [[spoiler: In the beginning, King Alteon doesn't want Artix to go near Doomwood fearing it might awaken his dark powers somehow. When meeting Sally in the Tower of Necromancy, she hinted that Artix was more than just a paladin and the key to Vordred's ''true'' invincibility. In Necro U, the lecturers mentioned the art of necromancy involving the Darkness Realm and trapping spirit orbs to reanimate the undead, meantime revealing Artix's axe having hosted multiple spirit orbs gained from slaying the undead. And finally, in the Temple of Doomwood, the Stone Paladin recalls Lady Celestia from ''VideoGame/DragonFable'' bringing in young Artix to the Paladin Order and his apparent inability to cast light spells as the Hero learns of elemental champions and Artix's "Paladin" abilities come from the spirit orbs from the undead he had slain.]]
** Also, at the finale of the 2nd [=AQworlds=] Birthday Event, Mirror Drakath asks if his Chaos counterpart has a specific power. [[spoiler: He was most likely talking about if Chaos Drakath can rip a hole into dimensions since he replaced Xang with her mirror counterpart.]]

** To defeat Ledgermayne, you need to collect four items of the Arcane Staff. It's subverted because [[spoiler: the fourth item, the chaos gem, is shattered by Ledgermayne, and its particles are too weak to use against him. However his comeuppance is due when Drakath gives the Chaos Gem enough power to destroy him.]]
** In the beginning of the Doomwood Saga there are four heroes: Artix, Beleen, Cysero and the hero itself. [[spoiler: There's lots of drama and darkness as we find out about Artix's past.]]

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*** [[spoiler: When the player gets to the Necro Tower they soon know why: Sally from ''VideoGame/DragonFable'' has summoned Noxus and used her magic to bring back Vordred to be invulnerable to light-based magic. It's ultimately revealed that this invulnerability comes from the armor of skulls that he wears and the regenerative abilities of his Shadow form, and only by destroying the armor with Spirit Orbs and pinning down his Shadow is Vordred finally able to be defeated]].

*** [[spoiler: Of course, this was lampshaded by Lady Vayle once Artix was put into jail.]]

* {{Invisibility}}: The hero ones uses an invisibility cloak [[spoiler: to eavesdrop on Vath]]. Kitsune also has this ability.

* KaizoTrap: [[spoiler: Grimskull's dungeon has a death pit hidden in front of the shopkeeper of the gift shop at the end.]] Thankfully, you respawn at the start of the room without losing any progress. [[spoiler: And then subverted in that, technically speaking, it's not the end of the dungeon; there's an entire second half if you know where to look.]]

* LadyOfWar: Gravelyn was shaping up to be one in the Doomwood/Shadowfall war. [[spoiler: Until she learned the hard way that Noxus created her father's undead army.]]

* LightEmUp: [[spoiler: Artix has the power to use Paladin magic since he's an Undead Slayer, manifesting as spirit orbs.]]

** Let's add Xing and Xang on our list; the Hero tries to ask 5 questions and they do that, but it's not what the Hero had in mind. [[spoiler: Specifically, the last question they took was the Hero's shocked 'What?' even though it really didn't count as a question.]]

* MineralMacGuffin: Vath forces the Dwarves to harvest Gemeralds [[spoiler: So he can use them to unleash the Chaos Beast Rock Roc]].

** Sokrakiis mutters this when [[spoiler: he finds out that Khassandra turn dark because of them, and that because of their feud they are going to lose ''three'' members of their own tribe to chaos.]]

** And to Paladins of all sorts: [[spoiler: Vordred, the Paladin Slayer]].

** In the Sandsea arc [[spoiler: Zhoom is the one who causes this. By shooting an arrow through Zahart's ring, the gem controlling Tibicenas is destroyed and the djinn is free...Free to take over Sandsea and has brainwashed Zahart to be his slave. Even the player [[LampshadeHanging notes]] that what Zhoom did didn't help.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Artix, like most Paladins, are eager to jump in and just maim any Undead out there. [[spoiler: However, Artix is shown to be very caring for the spirits he 'slays' and they in return help him use Paladin Magic since he is an Undead Slayer.]]

* OverlyLongGag: Zorbak going "Whoa whoa whoa" on the implication that the player has a talking Book of Lore and [[spoiler: using said book to DEVOUR a book that hold secrets man should not know about.]]

** [[spoiler: Shadowslayer Z killed Wolfwing and he's now ashes, no longer able to hurt anyone....well, until the Moon shone on the ashes and a pair of eyes were seen.]]

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler: Vordred's "reward" if you betray Artix during the final battle is to be the first to be made into an undead as he unleashes a ZombieApocalypse upon Lore.]]

* RockBottom: Once the hero completes the Runix Cube and goes to Escherion [[spoiler: the hero stupidly tosses the cube at Escherion, believing it will somehow defeat him. Unfortunately, they just gave Escherion the key item to summon the Hydra and are soon kicked out of the inversion tower. They then ask what else could go wrong...cue the shadow of the Hydra is over them.]]

** There are three parts to the Runix Cube [[spoiler: which used to unlock the Hydra.]]
** Vath uses 3 Gemeralds [[spoiler: To summon the Rock Roc.]]
** As of Bloodtusk Ravine [[spoiler: Three members of the Trolls have been corrupted by chaos (antigone, Krellenos and Khassandra, two of them killed.]]

** [[spoiler: Nulgath, who makes similar deals to the player. However, he serves a Master that may fit the trope]].
** Guess [[spoiler: Dage the Evil]] counts as well to some extent.

* ScriptedEvent: Whether you choose to kill [[spoiler: Wolfwing]] or not, [[spoiler: Shadowslayer Z will kill him either way.]]

** [[spoiler: The Dracowerepyre is more of a created evil then a SealedEvilInACan since Wolfwing just bites a random dragon before it transforms to the Dracowerepyre]].
** [[spoiler: Kezeroth the World Ender was sealed by a Chronocorruptor with the express purpose of releasing him 20,000 years after his last failure to end Lore so that he can try again]].

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Sally is hiding the fact that Artix may not just only be a Paladin... He is actually the Champion of Darkness.]]

* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: Artix, Champion of Darkness.]]
** [[spoiler: Gravelyn, Champion of Light.]]
** [[spoiler: YOU, the 13th Lord of Chaos AND the Eternal Dragon of Time reborn.]]

** Artix counts also. [[spoiler: Known to be a paladin in many a game, in this one he's the Champion of Darkness who cannot use light-based magic, but the spirit-orb based power of an Undead Slayer.]]

** There's also the [[spoiler: the crossdresser armors obtainable from the twins in tercessuinotlim]].
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: Drakath when saving The Hero from Nessie unnoticed.]]
** [[spoiler: He also provides the hero with the Chaos power needed to use the Supreme Arcane Staff to kill Ledgermayne in the climax of the Arcangrove saga.]]

** [[spoiler: Stalagbite got killed off by some of the Chaos Drow, but Vath's fate is still unclear.]]

** The end of Chaos Lord Lionfang's storyline has Lionfang use the Tears of the Mother to defeat Drakath. [[spoiler: It doesn't work because his powers come from the Mother of Monsters ''herself'' and the Chaos Beasts that are summon are needed to let her loose.]]

** The hero fights Drakath at Mount Doomskull to learn the identity of the 13th Chaos Lord. [[spoiler: Drakath's choice? '''THE HERO'''.]]
*** Sometime later, at the Attack on Battleon event. Drakath provides the reason for his choosing of the 13th lord. [[spoiler: The Hero is actually the Eternal Dragon of Time, who is essentially the ''God'' of the world.]]

** [[spoiler: '''Hero:''' ''(to Kimberly)'' Wait, YOU'RE THE REAL CHAOS LORD?!]]
** [[spoiler: '''Vordred:''' Artix is the CHAMPION OF DARKNESS!!]]
** [[spoiler: King Alteon, the 12th Chaos Lord, has awakened...]]
** [[spoiler: '''Drakath:''' ''(to the hero)'' For the 13th Lord of Chaos...'''I CHOOSE YOU!!!!!''']]
*** [[spoiler: '''Drakath:''' ''(to the hero, sometime later)'' YOU ARE THE ETERNAL DRAGON OF TIME!]]

* YouAndWhatArmy: Escherion says this verbatim to the hero. The hero has an army of the citizens of Mobius [[spoiler: who get hit by an inversion spell and go against the player.]]

** In the final battle against Vordred, [[spoiler:Artix uses a Dragon Lance made up of every spirit orb he's collected from every undead he's killed, and the Hero has to hold Vordred off long enough to finish powering up. [[TheWorfBarrage It doesn't work]]]].

** [[spoiler:Laken's saga: The good news? The World Soul is saved, therefore enabling Lore to be saved as well, and Dage, who had decided to help preserve the balance between the living and the dead and sever his contract with Nulgath instead of destroying him and conquering Lore like he originally intended, has reclaimed the Dark Shard, the last thing he needs in order to be free of him for good. The bad news? The Seraphic Paladins have lost their leader Laken, who had lost his sanity due to discovering his master's change of plans and was corrupted by said insanity beyond saving. Ada therefore has to put down Laken in the end, but is both heartbroken over his death and enraged at the Undead Legion for what had to be done at the same time, and, unable to get over the death of the very man who took such good care of her, [[ThisIsUnforgivable refuses to forgive them, vowing to come for them to make them and those who sided with them pay someday]], thus providing us with a possible SequelHook.]]

** [[spoiler:13 Lords of Chaos Saga: The Chaos finale ends with the hero finally getting revenge on Drakath for the tragic events in Swordhaven by defeating him in the Chaos Realm, only to find out that the Queen of Monsters has already been set free into Lore once more, and that the Ancient Elemental Titans will soon run rampant on Lore with the Queen herself in command, so now the hero must face the Titans and defeat the Queen in order to save Lore and restore his/her powers as the Eternal Dragon of Time.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: So far your player has beaten [[spoiler:a battlemage, a Hydra, a Chaos sorcerer, a Cyclops and Imp Warlord, a drow Chaos [=DragonLord=] and his dragon, a Roc, several powerful Yokai, a giant skeleton Yokai, a Kitsune Chaos Samurai, a chaorrupted werewolf and vampire, a [[Literature/{{Twilight}} sparkly vampire]] champion, a Dracowerepyre, an immensely powerful Chaorrupted Werepyre, another Chaos Demon (of the [[DealWithTheDevil sell your soul]] variety), a fake Chaos Lord, a Triceratops, a chaorrupted Drummer and Bassist, a mind controlled Chaos Lord rock star, a giant furry yeti-like creature known as Wendigo, a giant leech, a Lochness-like monster, a dragon even worse than the Red Dragon, a mana elemental, a chaorrupted being of mana incarnate, a powerful dragon of the Void, an immortal mummy lich god-king, a chaorrupted Sphinx, a powerful chaorrupted Djinn, the manifestations of the fears of Heights, Darkness and Death, Fear Itself, a zombified abomination created by Zorbak, a Dracolich, a lich cryptkeeper, an immortal arch-lich, a Paladin Slayer who is the most powerful undead being in all of Lore, a chaorrupted troll, two generals of Good and Evil, a chaorrupted Medusa, a Chaos Lord troll prophetess, the prime fire dragon, an electric tornado, a sea monster, a crystallized form of the prime earth dragon, a powerful four-element dragon, an insane wizard living in the palace near Wellmet, a five-headed dracolich, and a chaorrupted version of the most powerful undead being in all of Lore.]]

** In Werewolf/Vampire War in Darkovia, the main boss fight is [[Literature/{{Twilight}} a sparkly vampire that goes by the name of Edvard]], whose girlfriend Beulah dumped him for a werewolf. For the first day or so, [[AnticlimaxBoss he was the weakest boss in the whole game, with only 900 hit points and very little in the way of damage]].

* BareYourMidriff: Some armors do this with female heroes.