History Fridge / WarCraft

* Uther is also likely conflicted about fighting his former student, and on some level, hopes he can bring Arthas back. Unfortunately, the sword Frostmourne all but ensures that that Arthas is loyal to the Lich King, so this has little hope of success.

* The ability of Arthas to kill him former friend and mentor Uther The Lightbringer in "Digging Up The Dead" might seem implausible but it shows one of the main drawbacks of Paladins at this point: a lack of decisive offensive abilities for dealing with enemies when peaceful negotiating isn't an option, as with the Undead. All Uther can do is delay the inevitable with Divine Shield and offensive Holy Lights, as this era predates Paladins taking more offensive roles and having a specialization for delivering the righteous Retribution needed for this situation.

* Remember the corrupted blood incident and how a mere mistake with coding unleashed the MMORPG flavored black death upon unknowing players. let me just remind you this got studied by real world epidemiologists to see how real world people react to virus outbreaks.

** To make it even more pants shitingly scary is that some spread the plague on purpose, let me repeat that REAL LIFE HUMAN BEINGS were spreading it simply because, let that sit there.

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* We know that the Warcraft 3 storyine takes a lot of its structure from starcraft, but the order of the terrain takes a lot from Diablo 2. Compare:

* Archimonde was destroyed by an enormous wisp detonation, which does nothing but drains mana and harms summoned units. The reason Archimonde was defeated so, was because Archimonde still technically qualified as a summoned unit.
** I thought that at first also, however Archimonde isn't the only thing destroyed by the explosion; all nearby trees and other scenery are also set ablaze.
*** This could simply be due to Archimonde subsequently [[MadeOfExplodium Exploding when Killed]].
** Also, the Wisps are Resource Gatherers, known for Harvesting Lumber by Circling Trees. While holding off Archimonde's attack, Wisps begin to appear and circle the smaller trees nearby the World Tree. Upon Archimonde reaching the World Tree, he begins to Absorb its Energy. Just before he does so, the Wisps switch from circling the smaller trees to circling the World Tree. As Archimonde Absorbs the World Tree's energy, the Wisps begin to circle ''Him'! Thus, he must have absorbed a portion of that which allows Wisps to Harvest Trees; the Wisps linked to it are now linked to him, to his very being... Then they Detonate.
** Another explanation is that wisps cause Mana Burn when they detonate. Archimonde was using the world tree to siphon all the magcal energy in the world to himself. When that mana explodes....

** You can load corpses with explosives.
** Priming them with magic to Corpse Explosion on impact?
* A bit of FridgeHorror here: In the Reign of Chaos campaign, in the first mission (assuming you did the sidequest), you saved a little kid named Timmy from some gnolls, happily returning him to his mother and earning a benefitial ring. In mission 4, after destroying a cage, you release an undead Ghoul who is not hostile to you. [[UndeadChild His name is Timmy]]. [[spoiler: Worst thing is that killing him will ''reward'' you with a Superiority Ring, which is far better than the ring you got from saving him.]] It is still possible not to save him in the first mission... and he'll be there, anyway.
** NightmareRetardant: The human Timmy and his brothers an mother went with Jaina to Kalimdor and were alive and well in Theramore as shown in the Horde campaign in ''The Frozen Throne''. I say were because in World of Warcraft they doesn't show, but if they were in Theramore this entire time, in ''Mists of Pandaria''... [[NukeEm well]]...
** World of Warcraft shows that there's a Timmy, [[NamesTheSame "Timmy the cruel"]] who is a ghoul: a savage murderer catched by the scourge and raised. It's speculated that they're the same ghoul.

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** Diablo 2: Later parts of Act 3 are in the ruined city of Dalaran. Later parts of the Night Elf campaign, and early parts of the Blood elf campaign, take place in the ruined city of Dalaran.