History VideoGame / TitanQuest

* AwesomeYetPractical: The Seer's Trance of Wrath: a passive, aura skill which deals a lot of damage to all enemies around you, be they mooks or bosses, ''and'' intermittently silences them. The only downside is that is a top level skill, and you'll have to get at least fifteen levels to get it and max it. Still worth it, though.

* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: Harpies in Greese and later Egypt. They're, oddly enough, classified as beasts. The former are the classic ones and sometimes cast lightning magic, while the egyptian ones are featherless with bat-like wings and vultures' beaks.
* HellInvadesHeaven: When you reach the Elysium you find out that the heroes there are fighting back the hordes of shades and demons serving Hades, which has gone mad with power. Odder than the standard example, because Elysium is still part of Hades's kingdom, yet justified because the heroes rebelled.
** The final part of ''Titan Quest'' also qualifies as a variation; you have to prevent Typhon, the most fearsome of the Titans, from invading Mt Olympus.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one in town react to your traveling companions either they be wolves, a [[OurLichesAreDifferent Liche king]], a [[MagmaMan Core Dweller]], a [[GhostLights Storm Wisp]], a Sylvan Nymph or a [[OurMonstersAreDifferent nightmarish flying, thingy]].

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one in town react to your traveling companions either they be wolves, a [[OurLichesAreDifferent Liche king]], a [[MagmaMan Core Dweller]], a [[GhostLights Storm Wisp]], a Sylvan Nymph or a nightmarish...thingy.

In 2007, the Add-on '''''Titan Quest: Immortal Throne''''' added a 4th Act to the story, as well as several new game features (such as the option of upgrading armor and weapons by combining them with relics, respec your skills or [[AntiFrustrationFeatures a caravan trader's chest accessible in most settlements that grants extra storage space and allows all characters of the same player to store and exchange collected items among each other]]). The expansion seamlessly continues the story where the original game had left off after the slaying of Typhon, sending the character first back to Greece and then onwards into the Underworld, the Elysian Fields, and across the river Styx to fight the god Hades.

Customization options: A player can choose the character's gender, but the game offers no further customization of appearance.

* {{Ninja}}: One of the special outfits from the second game, composed of body suit, hood, gloves, socks, [[AnachronismStew katana, and sai]].

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one in town react to your traveling companions either they be wolves, a [[OurLichesAreDifferent Liche king]], a [[MagmaMan CoreDweller]], a [[GhostLights Storm Wisp]], a Sylvan Nymph or a nightmarish...thingy.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one in town react to your traveling companions either they be wild animals, a [[OurLichesAreDifferent Liche king]], a [[MagmaMan CoreDweller]], a [[GhostLights Storm Wisp]], a Sylvan Nymph or a nightmarish...thingy.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs

* GradualRegeneration
* HarpingOnAboutHarpies

* PurelyAestheticGender

* {{Golem}}: The bronze and iron Automata in Crete [[spoiler: and the Olympus]], the granite, [[MightyGlacier clumsy]] living statues in Egypt's tombs, and the Terracotta Army in China.

* PunchOutAGod: [[spoiler: By the end of the expansion, you'll have sucker-punched several eldritch entities, killed a titan twice, broke into hell and killed Hades.]]

An action-RPG PC game for Windows, created by Brian Sullivan (co-designer of ''AgeOfEmpires'') and his creative team, developed by Iron Lore Entertainment and released worldwide by THQ in 2006, with a very active player community in Germany. It is a VideoGame/{{Diablo}}-style game, playable in single-player or multi-player mode (up to six players) via LAN or Internet, with the option to freely switch the same character from one mode to the other. There is no central Internet server.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The ''Immortal Throne'' expansion. It shows a female heroine using both a staff and a sword, something impossible to do in the game. Plus, she's blonde and the only female character you can play has brown hair. Also, the heroine is facing Cerberus with Hades' forest in the background, while in reality you face him in the Tower of Judgement.

* BonusBoss: Technically, most of the monsters you're asked to kill in sidequests are optionals. They are Talos in Cnossos, the Manticore (in a cavern in Fayum Desert) and a Dragon Liche in china, which can be fought only on Epic or Legendary.

* GameMod: The game comes with a level editor. The community is still active and can be found [[http://www.titanquest.net/ here]].

* HellInvadesHeaven: When you reach the Elysium you find out that the heroes there are fighting back the hordes of shades and demons serving Hades, which has gone mad with power. Odder than the standard example because Elysium is still part of Hades's kingdom.
** The final part of ''Titan Quest'' also qualifies as a variation; you have to prevent Typhon, the most fearsome of the Titans from invading Mt Olympus.

An action-RPG PC game for Windows, created by Brian Sullivan (co-designer of ''AgeOfEmpires'') and his creative team, developed by Iron Lore Entertainment and released worldwide by THQ in 2006, with a very active player community in Germany. It is a {{Diablo}}-style game, playable in single-player or multi-player mode (up to six players) via LAN or Internet, with the option to freely switch the same character from one mode to the other. There is no central Internet server.

* BonusBoss: Technically, most of the monsters you're asked to kill in sidequests are optionals. The two most noticeable examples are the Manticore (in a cavern in Fayum Desert) and a Dragon Liche in china, which can be fought only on Epic or Legendary.

* CallingYourAttacks: Charon yells "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin RIVER! RISE!]]" every time he's about smack you with [[MakingASplash columns of water]]. After he gets into his OneWingedAngel form, he stops yelling it.

* {{Catgirl}}: Maenads are depicted as cat-women with azure skin, cat ears and tails. They also meow like cats and are very fast. Later you can meet the Lamiae, which are more centaur-like and black in color. In China, you fight tigermen (with red tiger, black tiger, and white tiger variants).

* CharacterLevel
* {{Checkpoint}}

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Unlike the Telkines, who actively run around to complete their goal, Hades will be satisfied with staying inside his humongous palace waiting for you to come.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Of various degrees, including corpse eaters, life suckers, sand beings and elemental creatures. Certain weapons (and some of the Seer's skills) deal more damage to demons.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Other than the Dragon Men in China, you can also find [[{{Dracolich}} undead wyrms]] under Mount Wusao.
* OurGeniesAreDifferent: Seen in Babylon and China as grotesquely fat female spirits DualWielding swords.

* BilingualBonus / GratuitousChinese: Before entering Mongolia (where you meet the Tiger People for the first time) you can see some banners with the hanzi for "tiger" on it. Other examples include the hanzi for "Power" on the Tropical Arachnos' gauntlets, and the one for "Spell" on the Tigerman Shaman's robe banner.

* ALoadOfBull -- Minotaurs. Also, a demonic bull boss in Act 3.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil -- All the monsters and enemies in the game, only excepting a single centaur hero and a satyr merchant found in Greece, who are friendly. It's explained during the story that the creatures used to be mostly timid or neutral, although it's hard to imagine how this could work for a few (such as the crocodile men).

* ArtificialStupidity -- Justified. Most enemies are dumb and susceptible to arrow volleys while a summoned scarecrow distracts them, but some intelligent species exist (mostly humanoids) that will actually kite you, flee when attacked or summon distractions.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever -- Cyclopes and most of the larger, more powerful enemies. That include a gargantuan Yeti on your way to China.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking -- Justified
* AwesomeYetPractical -- The Seer's Trance of Wrath: a passive, aura skill which deals a lot of damage to all enemies around you, be they mooks or bosses, ''and'' intermittently silences them. The only downside is that is a top level skill, and you'll have to get at least fifteen levels to get it and max it. Still worth it, though.
* BadassNormal -- The guy in the opening movie who manages to kill a gorgon by having a statue fall on her. Later, when [[EarlyBirdCameo Megalesios himself]] appears to taunt him, he just charges at him screaming.
* BattleAura -- The player can learn to grow them and can level them up.
* BigBad -- Typhon in the original game and Hades in the expansion.
* BigBoosHaunt -- Several of them. The undead can be killed in any way, but they're extremely resistant to some forms of damage (such as pierce and poison) and completely immune to others (life leech). Since some types of characters rely on these damage types, killing undead enemies may be extremely tricky.
* BigCreepyCrawlies -- Several giant insects, usually in Egypt. Includig spiders, scarabs, antlions and mantises.

* BilingualBonus or GratuitousChinese: -- Before entering Mongolia (where you meet the Tiger People for the first time) you can see some banners with the hanzi for "tiger" on it. Other examples include the hanzi for "Power" on the Tropical Arachnos' gauntlets, and the one for "Spell" on the Tigerman Shaman's robe banner.
* BladeOnAStick -- Spears, the favourite weapon for the Hunter Class. Despite being slow they're quite powerful and can pierce armor.

* BossBanter: -- In the last act of the Expansion, every main boss will yell constantly during their boss battle and taunt you. Contrasting the bosses of the previous acts which, except for occasional growling and roars, were silent.
* BossInMookClothing -- Dactyloi. Huge melee damage, huge attack speed, fairly high health. Their most lethal attack is a ground wave that they spam continuously that will surely stunlock you, while dealing insane amounts of damage. And in Legendary mode, they have 99% chance to avoid projectiles. Fun!

* BreathWeapon -- Some enemies have these, but the most notable case is the Hydradon. Fire breath, poison breath and ice breath. All three deal massive damage over a very short time (generally more than potions can heal) and the ice breath also slows you down.
* BrokenBridge -- In Act 1, Greece, you can hear from a nearby NPC that it was a cyclops who smashed the bridge to pieces. Soon enough, you have to kill that cyclops. Still, the bridge that would allow you to cross the river and short-cut from Greece to another area stays broken, despite the lazy workmen claiming they're hard at work repairing it. You have to go the long way around.
** A bit less noticeable than some examples because you are already on the opposite side of the bridge before you are told you have to go to the city that would have required crossing it in the first place.
* CallingYourAttacks -- Charon yells "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin RIVER! RISE!]]" every time he's about smack you with [[MakingASplash columns of water]]. After he gets into his OneWingedAngel form, he stops yelling it.

* {{Cap}} -- of the statistics kind.
* {{Catgirl}} -- Maenads are depicted as cat-women with azure skin, cat ears and tails. They also meow like cats and are very fast. Later you can meet the Lamiae, which are more centaur-like and black in color. In China, you fight tigermen (with red tiger, black tiger, and white tiger variants).
* CityGuards -- They only block your path three times in the entire game, and are generally helpful.

* CobwebJungle -- Justified, as there are abnormally large spiders found throughout the game. And [[NightmareFuel some are half human]].
* CoolDown -- Using certain skills, drinking potions, using scrolls and using some of your artifacts special abilities have cooldowns. Although with the right equipment flags, you can steadily reduce these cooldowns...all the way to ''no'' cooldown whatsoever.
* CombatTentacles -- Some of the creatures and also [[spoiler: Hades's TurnsRed phase.]]
* CopyAndPasteEnvironments -- Played straight in large parts of Egypt, where pretty much all you'll see is sand and tombs with the occasional oasis, although there is beautiful vegetation while you travel along the shores of the Nile or take a bath in the river. Averted in Act 3, where you'll run all over Asia and visit lush meadows, bamboo forests, snowy mountain peaks, icy caves, the Great Wall, and even a volcano.

* DarkIsNotEvil -- The necromancer-like Theurgist can kill monsters by sucking their souls, summon a [[OurLichesAreDifferent Liche King]] to aid him and even control the minds of weaker enemies, all while protecting himself with blood pacts and other abilities with frightening names. However, he's identical to any other hero story-wise. The Rogue class, dealing with poison and sneaky attacks, also applies.
* DemBones - The game loves this trope. Hordes of skeletons of all colors lurk in the shadows (sometimes sunlight), including the normal looking ones in Greece, the black ones in Egypt and the Golden ones in China - all with prefixes that explain their coloration.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu -- Either twice or five times per difficulty. Depends on whether Telkines would count.
* DiscOneNuke -- Certain low-level skills can become this if you decides to spend a lot of points in them.
* {{Door To Before}} -- Or at least to areas which the player could have reached easily, like the Hathor Basin.
* DualWielding -- Warrior classes can do this with [[HeroesPreferSwords swords]], [[CarryABigStick maces]] and [[AnAxeToGrind axes]]. The Warfare mastery has a skill tree that boosts your offensive power when dual-wielding.
* ElaborateEqualsEffective -- Most of the weapons and armors follow this suit, although (owing to the game's top-down perspective) "elaborate" here doesn't mean that much.
* EldritchAbomination -- [[spoiler: The Telkines. Megalesios isn't that obvious--you can only see his upper face--but Aktaios is letting his shoulder tendrils poke out, and there is ''no'' mistaking Ormenos for anything else. Also Typhon and Hades's second form.]]

* ElementalPowers -- The main elements are Fire (Pyromancer), Ice/Lightning (Stormcaller) and Poison (Rogue). Also Dark (Theurgist) and [[GreenThumb Nature]] (Wanderer).

* EscortMission -- Two of them in the expansion. Considering that the escortee will respawn if killed, they're bearable.
* EverybodyHatesHades -- Guess who's the BiggerBad in the Expansion?
* EverythingFades: -- Averted with most of the enemies, but played straight with certain corpses which will fade into nothingness when killed, (like demons, ghosts and djinn).
* EverythingIsBetterWithSpinning -- The Warfare mastery has no less than two skills with this effect.
* EvilVersusEvil: -- You meet a neutral Machae in Hades who can actually give you a quest where you end up killing a messenger and sabotaging the demon army. However, it is implied that he does it for his own gain rather than anything resembling genuine compassion.
* ExecutiveMeddling -- According to a former Iron Lore Entertainment employee, {{THQ}} wanted the game to be as family friendly as possible: no blood, no gore, no human corpses, no demons and so forth. The spirit mastery was subject to many changes because it was judged too "evil". All monsters were forbidden to speak human language and display any form of intelligence (which is FridgeLogic, since many of them are spellcasters, although there ''is'' evidence that [[spoiler: they're actually BrainwashedAndCrazy, courtesy the Telkines]]). Iron Lore Entertainment was given a bit more slack in the expansion since the game took place in Hades.
* FireIceLightning -- Done with the various magical staves, which can be fire-enchanted, frost-enchanted or thunder-enchanted. Fire, ice and lightning are also present as elements along with other lesser ones like poison and vitality.
* FrazettaMan -- Neanderthals appears as a bunch of wild, primitive men living on the mountains in the orient. They're also labelled as "Beast Men".
* FullBoarAction -- Feral boars are among the early enemies. Later you can see the Dusk Boars, some of which are the size of a bull. There are also some powerful boar men in Greece.
* GameMod -- The game comes with a level editor. The community is still active and can be found [[http://www.titanquest.net/ here]].
* GiantEnemyCrab -- Near the beginning of the fourth act.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere -- The Chimera...in Babylon. Hands up if you didn't see that coming, or thought you were looking at something like Mushussu before you highlighted her.
* GiantSpider -- Many of them are usually found underground or in forests. Unlike other examples, there are several species of them. You can also meet some spider-human hybrids called Arachnos in both Greece and China.
* GlassCannon -- Some mastery combinations make excellent glass cannons (pure mages being particularly good examples). Some enemies, mostly found in the late game, also qualify. [[GoneHorriblyRight Sometimes with devastating effects.]]
* {{Golem}} -- The bronze and iron Automata in Crete [[spoiler: and the Olympus]], the granite, [[MightyGlacier clumsy]] living statues in Egypt's tombs, and the Terracotta Army in China.
* {{Gotterdammerung}} -- [[spoiler:Avoided, strangely enough. Though a player might expect Typhon to have cleaned out Olympus by the time the PC gets there, Zeus is apparently fine. He does decide to leave humans to their own devices, though the deities will presumably keep all the magic infrastructure working.]]

* HumansAreSpecial -- Naturally only a human can save the day. However, following gameplay conventions the other humans you meet are almost as helpless as the gods are implied to be. ''One'' human is special.
* HybridMonster -- Hooo boy, where should we start? Plenty of them, including: [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs]],[[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]], [[GiantSpider spider-men]], [[FishPeople fishfolk]], [[ALoadOfBull minotaurs]], rat-men, [[PigMan boar-men]], [[GorgeousGorgon gorgons]], jackal-men, [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodile-men]], [[ScaryScorpions scorpion-men]], [[PantheraAwesome tiger-men]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon-men]], [[FrogsAndToads frog-men]], [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever elk-men]], ant-men and panther-women. The Hunter class has a bonus against this kind of monsters, which are fittingly labelled "Beastmen".

* [[spoiler:HijackedByJesus -- At first, it seems like a Greek cosmology variation. While there are items referencing the Babylonian and Chinese pantheons as well, most of the important sages are revealed to be Order of Prometheus members, even the Yellow Emperor himself is only concerned with the welfare of the Olympian gods and the world-threatening antagonist is a Titan. However, an Egyptian NPC mentions that their god Set is called Typhon by the Greek, meaning the different pantheons refer to the same deities with different names. This, in turn, makes it a version of AllMythsAreTrue.]]

* KatanasAreJustBetter -- Played straight in the first game (no expansion), where the "Sabertooth" sword, a green-level weapon carried by Tigermen, really looks like a katana and is easily the best sword in the game.
* KingMook -- Monster heroes and certain lesser bosses.
* KleptomaniacHero -- How the enemy army sees you. Considering what [[RapePillageAndBurn they're doing]] this can be HypocriticalHumor.
* LargeAndInCharge -- Usually the "champions" and commander monsters will be far bigger than their underlings.
* LethalLavaLand -- The Obsidian Chambers in Wusao Mountain [[spoiler:where the titan Typhon is locked up]].

* LightningBruiser: -- Certain enemies, especially Tiger Men, Dragonians, Machae and Melenides.
* LivingStatue -- In Egypt. Megalesios also summon some to delay you.

* MagicKnight -- Made possible by mixing melee and magic masteries. Combinations include the Thane (Warrior + Stormcaller), Juggernaut (Defender + Pyromancer), Warlock (Rogue + Theurgist), and the Avenger (Hunter + Pyromancer). On the downside, they tend to be left out of high level equipment for pure fighters or pure spellcasters, unless you pick your stat-ups to slant primarily towards ''either'' warrior stats or mage stats.
* MagicWand -- Staves. They come in three flavours: Fire type (always deals the same amount of damage), Ice type (weakest but slow down people) and Thunder (damage swinging from very high to very low). They're the most suitable ranged weapon for magic users.
* MakeMeWannaShout -- Certain monsters (most notably the Cyclopes) are capable of damaging your characters by bellowing. The Warrior can do a similar trick blowing his horn.
* ManEatingPlant -- They show up in Act 3 and 4 in a few different variations.
* MightyGlacier -- The Defense mastery and most (if not all) mastery combinations involving it, especially with Colossus Form active. Also applies for some kinds of monsters.
* {{Mooks}} -- Of several ranks and species.
** WhatMeasureIsAMook -- One useless unique drop is the [[LampshadeHanging Letter from Beastman Archer #783]], in which the hapless beastman points out that someone's been killing everyone and taking all their stuff and money, which is why they [[RandomlyDrops have so much crappy equipment.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous -- [[spoiler: Typhon.]]
* {{Mummy}} -- Found in great numbers in Egyptian tombs.
* MyBreastsAreDownHere -- Generally, armors tend to adhere to the body of the wearer. As such, most of the normal armors worn by a female character will result in suggestive patterns right on the boobies. There are also body armors worn by certain female monsters, like the lamian armor and the empusa's corset, and also the boarman armor (a male monster whose armor has round plates on the chest.
* {{Ninja}} -- One of the special outfits from the second game, composed of body suit, hood, gloves, socks, [[AnachronismStew katana, and sai]].
* NippleAndDimed -- Bronze statues of naked people are found everywhere in the game. The female statues have no nipples on their breasts. In fact, no reproductive organs are present either, women or men. While missing nipples are an explained occurence in real life, it doesn't make sense in the game's universe.
* OneGenderRace -- Actually pointed out by [[BossInMooksClothing Beastman Archer 783]], who complains about the lack of female satyrs or male maenads and fear that they'll be called "sexists". Comedy aside, the various monster races tend to be this.
* OneManArmy -- Eventually your hero: in more than one chance you'll have to make your way throught armies of monsters of all kinds in order to reach (or escape) a besieged city/village/temple. UpToEleven in Act 3 where you have to walk the ''[[{{Determinator}} whole way from Babylon to China]]''.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: -- Of various degrees, including corpse eaters, life suckers, sand beings and elemental creatures. Certain weapons (and some of the Seer's skills) deal more damage to demons.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: -- Other than the Dragon Men in China, you can also find [[{{Dracolich}} undead wyrms]] under Mount Wusao.
* OurGeniesAreDifferent: -- Seen in Babylon and China as grotesquely fat female spirits DualWielding swords.

* {{Plaguemaster}} -- Unlike the usual conceits, it's not the necromantic Theurgist who does this, but the Wanderer--the user of the ''Nature'' Mastery. The plague in question quickly conducts between enemies close to each other. In its base form, it just depletes a percentage range of health, but upgrades let it cut enemy movement, attack speed, and defenses.
* PlayingWithFire -- The Pyromancer combines this with DishingOutDirt, making it a MagmaMan.
* PoisonedWeapons -- The Rogue mastery can do this at will, and it's really useful if paired with the Throwing Knives skill, or a bow, which just happens to work nicely with this mastery in general.

* PunchOutAGod -- [[spoiler: By the end of the expansion, you'll have sucker-punched several eldritch entities, killed a titan twice, broke into hell and killed Hades.]]

* PuzzleBoss: -- [[spoiler: Typhon, as you have to destroy the statues surrounding him (or at least keep him away from them) in order to keep him from gaining new abilities.]]

* RealIsBrown -- Averted. You're going to travel through vivid green jungles, shiny ice caverns, vibrant surreal landscapes in the Underworld and other exotic locales. Even in the second Act, which is set in Egypt and its sand deserts, you'll find plenty of colorful areas, mostly around the shores of the Nile.
* RedshirtArmy -- Just to show off how powerful the enemies are, the RedshirtArmy consists of Spartans.
* RegeneratingHealth -- At the start of the game, you regenerate 1 health point every second. Various skills and gear can affect your rate by lowering or increasing it.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent -- Crocodile men in Egypt.
* SceneryPorn -- The graphics are astounding for their time (2006), especially for a game that is best played with the camera as far overhead a possible. The lighting and texture work, coupled with some impressive views scattered around the game, create some extremely nice pictures that are very rare in the genre.

* ShockAndAwe -- The bulk of the Stormcaller's powers, mixed with KillItWithIce.
* ShoutOut -- Nikias, Betrayer of Sparta (a spectre boss from the expansion) may be a nod to ''[[ThreeHundred 300]]''.
* ShownTheirWork -- Most of the time, concerning locations and weapons, with some exceptions. (i.e. the Shamshir being a cleaver-like falchion, while the RealLife one is a long, curved scimitar). Some artistic liberties were also taken, especially regarding monsters.
* SinisterScimitar: -- Most of the swords ingame are curved, so it's both played straight (by the countless monsters) and averted (if you equip your hero with a curved blade).
* SmashMook -- Cyclopes essentially fill this role.

* SummonMagic -- Almost all the magic-related class can summon creatures to help them, ranging from melee creatures (Wolves and Depth Dwellers) to range creatures with magical skills (Nymphs and Liche Kings). Some enemies will summon other creatures to help them out. Last but not least, scrolls in the Expansion will allow you to summon useful (and temporary) escorts.
* SwampsAreEvil -- Usually infested by Ichtians and other unpleasant monsters. This is taken UpToEleven in the Stygian Marshes in Hell.
* TakeThatUs -- The various monsters you meet in the Secret Passage are all named after the creators and developers of the game.
* TakeYourTime -- There're no timed missions of any kind in the game. Even the sidequests that revolve around saving a NPC in danger aren't timed. At only one point in the game you're required to do something quickly, but if you fail to do so, you simply have to deal with a few additional enemies during a boss fight.

* TookALevelInBadass -- Look at your hero at the beginning of act I, then look again at him at the end of said act. The same goes with certain types of mooks. For examples you first meet ratmen as a race of pathetically weak scumbags in Greece, but later you'll fight with their stronger cousins in Babylon.
* TopHeavyGuy: -- Troglodytes, who also have an oversized arm and a smaller one. Male characters sport this as well, but it's not as obvious.
* TheUnchosenOne -- The player character is a random fellow (not even a Helot as he shows up in Helos apparently looking for something that is never mentioned again) who just happens to become amazingly skilled in combat and capable of casting powerful magic during his journeys. You start the game clad in a tunic and armed with a club or rusty knife that you take from some satyr bandits.
* UndergroundMonkey -- Happens with certain types of mooks. You start with Satyrs, the Dark Satyrs, then Mountain Satyrs. And so on.
* UnnecessarilyLargeInterior -- Justified by the setting.

* ZergRush -- The main strategy of large enemy groups. And they can be deadly later on, especially when there's an artillerist behind them.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil -- All the monsters and enemies in the game, with the only exception of a single centaur hero and a satyr merchant found in Greece, who are friendly. It's explained during the story that the creatures used to be mostly timid or neutral, although it's hard to imagine how this could work for a few (such as the crocodile men).

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever -- Cyclops and most of the larger, more powerful enemies. That include a gargantuan Yeti on your way to China.

* AwesomeYetPractical -- The Seer's Trance of Wrath: a passive, aura skill which deals a lot of damage to all enemies around you, be them mooks or bosses. The only downside is that is a top level skill, and you'll have to get at least fifteen levels to get it and max it, but is still worth it.

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Yetis and Yerens.

* BilingualBonus or GratuitousChinese: -- Before entering Mongolia (where you meet the Tiger People for the first time) you can see some banners with the ideogram for "tiger" on it. Other examples include the ideogram for "Power" on the Tropical Arachnos' gauntlets and the one for "Spell" on the Tigerman Shaman's robe banner.

* BossBanter: -- In the last act of the Expansion, every main boss will yell costantly non-stop during their boss battle and taunt you. Contrasting the bosses of the previous acts which, except for occasional growling and roars, were silent.
* BossInMookClothing -- Dactyls. Huge melee damage, huge attack speed, fairly high health. Their most lethal attack is a ground wave that they spam continuously that will surely stunlock you, while dealing insane amounts of damage. And in Legendary mode, they have 99% chance to avoid projectiles. Fun!
** Cyclops near the end of the game.

* CobwebJungle -- Justified, as there are abnormally oversized spiders found throughout the game. And [[NightmareFuel some are half human]].
* CoolDown -- Using certain skills, drinking potions, using scrolls and using some of your artifacts special abilities have cooldowns.

* DarkIsNotEvil -- The necromancer-like Theurgist can kill monsters by sucking their souls, summon a [[OurLichesAreDifferent Lich King]] to aid him and even control the minds of weaker enemies, all while protecting himself with blood pacts and other abilities with frightening names. However, he's identical to any other hero story-wise. The Rogue class, dealing with poison and sneaky attacks, also applies.

** The Theurgist can summon one to help him in battle.

* EverythingFades: -- Averted with most of the enemies, but played straight with certain corpses which will fade into nothingness when killed, (like demons, ghosts and djinns).

* EvilVersusEvil: -- You meet a neutral Machae in Hades who can actually give you a quest where you end up killing a messager and sabotaging the demon army. However, is implied that he does it for his own bargaign rather than true goodness.

* GameMod -- The game comes with a level editor. the community is still active and can be found [[http://www.titanquest.net/ here]].

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere -- The Chimera.... in Babylon. Hands up if you didn't saw that coming.

* {{Golem}} -- The bronze and iron Automata in Crete [[spoiler: and the Olympus]], the granite, [[MightyGlacier clumsy]] living statues in Egyptian's tombs and the Terracotta Army in China.

* KatanasAreJustBetter -- Played straight in the first game (no expansion), where the "Sabertooth" sword really looks like a katana and is easly the best sword in the game.

* MagicKnight -- Made possible by mixing melee and magic masteries. Combinations include the Thane (Warrior + Stormcaller), Juggernaut (Defender + Pyromancer), Warlock (Rogue + Theurgist), and the Avenger (Hunter + Pyromancer). On the downside, they tend to be left out of high level equipment for pure fighters or pure spellcasters.

* MakeMeWannaShout -- Certain monsters (most notably the Cyclopses) are capable of damaging your characters by bellowing. The Warrior can do a similar trick blowing his horn.

* MightyGlacier -- The Defense mastery and most (if not all) mastery combinations involving it. Also applies for some kinds of monsters.

* {{Ninja}} -- One of the special outfits from the second game, composed of body suit, hood, gloves, socks, katana and sai.

* OneGenderRace -- Actually pointed out by the [[BossInMooksClothing Beastman Archer 783]], who complains about the lack of female satyrs or male maenads and fear that they'll may be called "sexists". Comedy aside, the various monster race tend to be this.
* OneManArmy -- Eventually your hero: in more than one chance you'll have to make your way throught armies of monsters of all kinds in order to reach (or escape) a besieged city/village/temple. UpToEleven in Act 3 where you have to walk the [[{{Determinator}} ''whole way from Babilon to China'']].

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: -- Of varios degrees, including corpse eaters, life suckers, sand beings and elemental creatures. Certain weapons (and some of the Seer's skills) deals more damage to demons.

* OurGeniesAreDifferent: -- Seen in Orient as grotesquely fat female spirits DualWielding swords.

* PuzzleBoss: -- [[spoiler: Typhon, as you have to destroy the statues surrounding him (or at least keep him away from them) in order to avoid to power him up.]]
* {{Mooks}} -- Of several ranks and species.
** WhatMeasureIsAMook -- One useless unique drop is the [[LampshadeHanging Letter from Beastman Archer #783]], in which the hapless beastman points out that someone's been killing everyone and taking all their stuff and money, which is why they [[RandomlyDrops have so much crappy equipment.]]
* {{Plaguemaster}} -- Unlike the usual conceits, it's not the necromantic Theurgist who does this, but the Wanderer--the user of the ''Nature'' Mastery. The plague in question quickly conducts between enemies close to each other. In its base form, it just depletes a percentage range of health, but upgrades let it cut enemy movement, attack speed, and defenses.
* PlayingWithFire -- the Pyromancer combines this with DishingOutDirt, making it a MagmaMan.
* PoisonedWeapons -- The Rogue mastery can do this at will, and it's really useful if paired with a bow weapon or throwing knives... both of which go nicely with this mastery.

* PuzzleBoss: -- The Grays sisters: during the fight, they pass their magical eye like to each other. However, killing the sister with the eye results in the istantaneous death of the other two.

* ShoutOut -- Nikias, Betrayer of Sparta (a spectre boss from the expansion) may be a nod to ''{{300}}''.
* ShownTheirWork -- Most of the time, concerning locations and weapons, with some exceptions. (i.e. the Shamshir being a cleaver-like falchion while in RealLife is a long, curved scimitar). Some artistic liberties were also taken, especially regarding monsters.

* SmashMook -- Cyclops essentially fill this role.

* SummonMagic -- Almost all the magic-related class can summon creatures to help them, ranging from melee creatures (Wolves and Depth Dwellers) to range creatures with magical skills (Nymphs and Liche Kings). Some enemies will summon other creatures to help them out. Last but least scrolls in the Expansion will allow you to summon uselful aids.

* TheUnchosenOne -- The player character is a random fellow (not even a Helot as he shows up in Helos apparently looking for something that is never mentioned again) who just happens to become amazingly skilled in combat and capable of casting powerful magic during his journeys. You start the game clad in a tunic and armed with a club or rusty knife that you take from some satyr bandits.

* TopHeavyGuy: -- Troglodytes, who also have an oversized arm and a smaller one. Male characters sport this as well, but is less noticeable.

* UndergroundMonkey -- Happens with certain types of mooks. You start with Satyrs, the Dark Satyrs, then Mountain Satyrs. And so on.

* WolfpackBoss: The gorgon queens in mid-late Act I. Also the Grays during act IV.

* ZergRush -- The main strategy of large enemy groups. And they can be deadly later on.