History Fanfic / TheWarcrafter

* TokenHuman: [[spoiler: Greg]]/Vindicator counts amongst the Azerothian Actors, being the sole human in a team of worgens, pandaren, a vulperan, an elf, and an orc. Of course, being a Azerothian [[ThePaladin Paladin]] with [[LightEmUp Light magic]] and a huge hammer, he's hardly helpless.

** [[spoiler: Alec]] – Fennek, [[BeastFolk Vulperan]] [[ForestRanger Hunter]], giving him [[ArcherArchetype supernatural archery]], [[TrickArrow enchanted arrows]], and the ability to tame animals.

* NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus: Bayleaf comes from another world and gets all the skills from World Of Warcraft at the max proficiency.

* BadassNormal: [[spoiler:The Dockworkers Union, armed with ImprovisedWeapons, faces off against the Spree clones – and are more than capable of beating the crap out of them.]]
** Director Piggot. [[spoiler:When Oni Lee appears in the PRT's advanced post to free Bakuda after an explosion sends everyone ass over teakettle, she headshots him. FOUR TIMES. WHILE TRYING TO CLEAR BLOOD FROM HER EYES.]]

** Contessa's Shard shows her paths to victory. [[Spoiler: Adrian and the other Warcrafted are invisible to said shard, and thus don't show up on her radar. The one time she encountered Adrian, she was humiliated.]]
** The Number Man is able to calculate how to disable a robot about to attack him and Doctor Mother. [[Spoiler: He fails to calculate that disabling said robot will cause it to self-destruct and take him with it.]]
** Dinah's shard is left alone, as it is very clearly treated as being based in statistics rather than being able to completely predict everything.

** [[spoiler: Greg]] – Vindicator, Human [[ThePaladin Paladin]], giving him HealingHands, {{Status Buff}}s, [[TheBlacksmith blacksmithing skills]], [[LightEmUp Light magic]], and the ability to wield a big honking [[DropTheHammer warhammer]].

* TokenHuman: [[spoiler: Greg]]/Vindicator counts amongst the Azerothian Actors, being the sole human in a team of worgens, pandaren, a vulperan, an elf, and an orc. Of course, being a Azerothian [[ThePaladin Paladin]] with [[LightEmUp Light magic]] and a huge [[DropTheHammer hammer]], he's hardly helpless.

* TimeMaster: All Azerothian [[AnIcePerson ice magic]] actually involves temporal manipulation; any actual ice itself is just a side-effect of water being caught in the time-[[JustForPun freezing]] effect.

* HeroicBuild: Adrian gains this when given his new body. [[spoiler: Greg]] also receives this when he becomes an Actor.

* MostCommonSuperpower: [[spoiler: Taylor]] is a bit annoyed that her powers came complete with a two-cup size increase, though she quickly gets over it.

** Right after pushing Taylor into the locker, Sophia blacks out and flips when she wakes up because it means Taylor was finally pushed over the edge and Triggered. Then the crap factor ''doubles'' when Skinwalker – the most dangerous Rogue in the Bay – intervenes to save Taylor in such a way she immediately realizes he's actually Adrian Smith, the CoolLoser interested in Taylor. So not only does her victim now have the power to retaliate, her boyfriend would probably tag along for the ride. This doesn't last long due to some {{Gaslighting}}, but...
** A second one comes after a video is posted in-universe on the Internet, showing the conditions at Winslow High, among them her part in the bullying campaign against Taylor. This quickly turns into a MassOhCrap for the faculty at Winslow High and quite a few other parties, and results in more than a few layoffs and disciplinary actions against those responsible.

** Due to how the "Ziz-blocker" bracelet were handed to everyone fighting the Simurgh in Canberra without making sure they were returned, several villainous groups such as the Yangban have now access to them. If Tagg's claims are to be believed, they can be modified to make Master powers more efficient.

* AuthorFilibuster: Chapter 14 suddenly stops for a thousand-word rant about how fossil fuels are great, renewable energy is useless, environmentalism is nonsense, and how premarital sex is terrible and super risky, while abstinence is what teenage girls find really empowering.
** Also several characters go on rants about how gun control is a terrible idea, and it is specifically mentioned that gun control is even looser on Earth Bet, in direct contrast to how it was in canon.
** In one chapter, due to the author's dislike of Path To Victory in canon, he has a usually-mentally-impaired (by their powers) character talk about how it should be impossible for it to work, and everyone nods and agrees that it is clearly impossible. Therefore, instead of changing the setting to be without a functioning Path To Victory, it simply never worked and Cauldron was just too stupid to realise at any point over the decades.

** Due to how the "Ziz-blocker" bracelet were handed to everyone fighting the Simurgh in Canberra without making sure they were returned, several villainous groups such as the Yangban have now access to them - and they can be modified to make Master powers more efficient.

* IncrediblyLamePun: [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Both Crusader and Hookwolf]] make the following joke when they find out that [[spoiler: Theo has been changed into a {{Panda|ingToTheAudience}}ren]]. Kaiser is ''not'' amused.

** [[spoiler: Theo]] – Shen, [[PandaingToTheAudience Pandaren]] [[BareFistedMonk Monk]], giving him awesome [[IKnowKungFu kung fu]] skills, including KiAttacks involving ghostly animals and [[ShockAndAwe Jade Lightning]].
** [[spoiler: Rune]] – Lei Ling, [[PandaingToTheAudience Pandaren]] [[NatureHero Shaman]], giving her elemental SummonMagic and {{Status Buff}}ing scrolls.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Glory Girl gets to use her powers at full for the first time in so long to destroy the Spree clones. Unfortunately, Bonesaw has modified Spree so that any clone left relatively intact can multiply itself after dying – resulting in even more clones spreading around Brockton Bay.]]

* NonIndicativeName: The Bruisers are a quartet of villains, yet none of them are [[SuperStrength Brutes]]. (Crusher: telekinetic compressor, Smasher: fragmentation touch, Breaker: WalkingTechbane, and Flex: RubberMan)

** [[spoiler: Jack Slash's secondary powers turn out to be much the same.]]

** [[spoiler: Taylor Triggering and trying to ping off of Adrian's fake Shard causes the backlash to blow her own Shard up. Agent has to turn her into an Actor [[EmergencyTransformation in order to save her life]], although he does manage to fix the issue so it won't happen again.]]

* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: This makes Adrian very, very suspicious of the Merchants -– how can they still be a somewhat cohesive gang if the higher-ups keep abusing their own drugs? [[spoiler: It turns out they ''would'' be far less effective, but Coil is pulling Skidmark's strings via a Magic 8-Ball toy that he runs all his choices by; whenever Skidmark asks it a question, Coil feeds him a plan, with Skidmark being too stupid or too high to twig what's going on.]]

* ImplausibleDeniability: As part of the above {{Gaslighting}}, Adrian and Taylor claim that ''nothing'' happened the day of her trigger and that Taylor was even attending class until lunch. It helps that Aisha managed to whisper around their cover story widely enough that enough people "remembered" seeing her.

** Despite efforts meant to prevent it, Brian still has a second trigger and Aisha still Triggers herself. [[spoiler: The former's powers are boosted in a different way, however, and the latter gains the ability to generate swarms of birds.]]

* LetsGetDangerous: When the Teeth and the Empire begin to fight in the Boardwalk, [[NonActionGuy Parian]] [[CurbStompBattle kicks their asses in less than a minute]] –- including getting Hookwolf stuck in place with a ball of Azeroth-based thread.

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: [[spoiler: When the Siberian attacks Grue and Aisha, Grue suffers a second trigger that allows him to ''become'' the cloud of darkness that he spread before, and Aisha gains the ability to vomit ravens under her control.]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Due to the circumstances in which he acquired his Shard, Crawler has a pathological fear of crows and ravens -- which [[spoiler: Aisha]] accidentally manages to take advantage of by throwing a murder of ravens at him while he fights Bayleaf.

** [[spoiler: Rachel]] – Lok'Tara, [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orc]] [[TheBeastmaster Beastmaster]], giving her enhanced strength, [[BladeOnAStick spear-skills]], and allowing her to tame any animal.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Due to the circumstances in which he acquired his Shard, Crawler has a pathological fear of crows and ravens – which [[spoiler: Aisha]] accidentally manages to take advantage of by throwing a murder of ravens at him while he fights Bayleaf.

* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler: Adrian feels sympathy for Riley[=/=]Bonesaw as she dies, full of shame and pain for everything she did as part of the Slaughterhouse Nine.]]

* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Adrian compares the way the Warcrafted use magic vs. how most of Azeroth uses magic to the difference between chefs and cooks, the former using techniques while the latter works from a cookbook. The Agents get knowledge of not just Azerothian magic, but also the underlying principles and mechanics, in contrast to the residents of Azeroth who have experienced so many wars, demonic invasions, etc. that most magic users (save for some intellectual types) treat spells almost like apps (a bit like how they're depicted in the game).

''(The orca pauses for a moment, then begins winding up for a throw; Skidmark is sent flying toward the shore on a high arc.)''
'''Skidmark:'' ''(as he goes flying and plows into the shore)'' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments OPTIMUS PRIME SAVE OUR SOOOUUUUULS!]] [[invoked]]

* OhMyGods: Skidmark, of all people, is reduced to desperately screaming for help as [[spoiler: Adrian's killer whale form drags him around the bay before sending him flying back onto the shore]], starting out with more conventional gods and then devolving in short order.
--> [[spoiler: Skidmark]]: ''(Being dragged around in the water)'' OH MISTER ROGERS! OH KENNY ROGERS! OH BOB ROSS! HAVE MERCY ON ME!
--> ''(The orca pauses for a moment, then begins winding up for a throw; [[spoiler: Skidmark]] is sent flying toward the shore on a high arc, screaming as they go.)''
--> [[spoiler: Skidmark]]: ''(As he goes flying and ploughs into the shore)'' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments OPTIMUS PRIME SAVE OUR SOOOUUUUULS!]]

** [[spoiler:During the assault on the TV station, Taylor is forced to jump blindly in order to save the hostages, using only her cartography skill to determine where to jump. Twice. And then again to attempt to kill Jack Slash before it is too late.]]

* GoodIsNotNice: Carol is a Cape and loves Vicky very much. She also convinced Amy that she deserves to be a slave to society because she's utterly convinced that villainy is [[VillainousLineage familial]]. And when Vicky finds out the truth and calls her out, Carol [[NeverMyFault blames Amy]] and wants her daughter taken away from the supposed "bad influence".

* DisguisedHostageGambit: [[spoiler: Jack Slash does this with the hostages at the TV station, with the twist being that the "guards" ''and'' the hostages are civilians with bombs in their heads, set to go off if they get too far away from the brain spiders that Bonesaw made from the Teeth, or if anything happens to the spiders, the idea being to force a no-win situation.]]

* FoeTossingCharge: Troped by name when the Pandaren Lei Ling breaks out of ABB captivity while [[StatusBuff enhanced with a Strength scroll]].

* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: This makes Adrian very, very suspicious of the Merchants -– how can they still be a somewhat cohesive gang if the higher-ups keep abusing their own drugs? [[spoiler: It turns out they ''would'' be far less effective, but Coil controls Skidmark via a Magic 8-Ball toy that he runs all his choices by.]]

** The Alliance all have this when [[spoiler: not only do the Teeth return to Brockton Bay, but Burnscar of the Slaughterhouse Nine is now the [[LegacyCharacter fifteenth iteration]] of [[GrandTheftMe the Butcher]]; the two groups of psychotic murderers are working together]].