History VideoGame / AdventureQuest

* IncrediblyLamePun: part of the 'hurricane'.

** Deliberately played with when fighting the "Iron Golem" monster: the battle starts with the old version getting CRUSHED underfoot the updated version, possibly overlapping with AlwaysABiggerFish .

* LeeroyJenkins: An entire quest about him, in fact. Using the [[MemeticMutation ACTUAL SCRIPT.]]

** The only moglin who is ''not'' ridiculously cute in some way is Zorbak, an [[strike:evil]] [[MemeticMutation ebil]] blue moglin [[strike:mage]] necromancer, and his evil brother Kabroz.

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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: It's very possible to be a [[BeyondTheImpossible ninja-pirate-dragonslayer-vampireslayer-dracomancer-paladin-necromancer-knight-beastmaster-shapeshifter-assassin with a black belt.]]

** Reaching level 10 in the necromancer class lets you optionally become a lich. Since you can choose to be any one of four possible subraces, this means you can double the undead fun and become a vampire lich.

** When having Radagast as a guest, if you run out of SP to keep him, he'll suddenly disappear while commenting about [[{{Freakazoid}} Jack]] [[CandleJack Candle.]]

** [[ThisIsSparta HOLIDAY. COLLOSUS.]] It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. It's huge sword that covers most of the player. On the character page, it covers up some information.

The online Flash game ''[[http://www.battleon.com/ AdventureQuest]]'' by ArtixEntertainment is a lunch break sized RPG that takes place in the land of Lore. The game, though online, is single player, and uses online functions for updating the game easily and for wars. For a one time fee, you can unlock all the features in the game.

* CamelCase: Like pretty much all ArtixEntertainment games.

It is joined with the following series afterward: ''VideoGame/{{DragonFable}}'' (set 5 years prior to AQ in a parallel timeline), ''VideoGame/{{MechQuest}}'' (5000 years prior to ''AQ'') and ''VideoGame/{{AdventureQuest Worlds}}'' (which is a multiplayer version set ten years after ''AQ'' and in a parallel universe), and ''VideoGame/{{WarpForce}}'' (set at the same time as ''[=AdventureQuest=]'' but [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE]], just expanding on the SpaceOpera that was going on in the background).

* AlwaysABiggerFish: During the "Big Trouble in Little Granemor" quest you're attacked by a Giant Hungry Zombie after fighting off some vampires with Vampire Slayer E. The zombie makes about one attack before a Ribber randomly comes up and drags it away (with its mouth).

** No longer a problem servers have been opened to everyone.

** No longer a problem

* FighterMageThief + {{Beastmaster}}

* ArtEvolution: Since the game has expanded so much in the time it's existed, there's been an enormous change in the art. The forum-based "encyclopedia" even has a catalogue of old monster pictures.

It is joined with the following series afterward: ''VideoGame/{{DragonFable}}'' (set 5 years prior to AQ in a parallel timeline), ''VideoGame/{{MechQuest}}'' (5000 years prior to ''AQ'') and ''VideoGame/{{AdventureQuest Worlds}}'' (which is a multiplayer version set ten years after ''AQ'' and in a parallel universe), and ''VideoGame/{{WarpForce}}'' (set at the same time as ''[=AdventureQuest=]'' but [[RecycledINSPACE in space]], just expanding on the SpaceOpera that was going on in the background).

** [[ThisIsSparta HOLIDAY. COLLOSOUS.]] It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. It's huge sword that covers most of the player. On the character page, it covers up some information.

* {{Dude Looks Like A Lady}}: Donovan

* FissionMailed: In one quest that you have to do as the form of a cat, Death sends you back to the quest when you die because you are too cute to be taken. This is also used a few times in the main storyline.

* LeeroyJenkins: An entire quest about him, in fact.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: It's very possible to be a ninja-pirate-dragonslayer-vampireslayer-dracomancer-paladin-necromancer-knight-beastmaster-shapeshifter-assassin with a black belt.

* OurMonstersAreWeird: Boy, howdy. You can fight everything to worms to the stat roller to ice cream to giant ticks to tomatoes to [[KillerRabbit Sarah the Nerfkitten]] to leprechauns to were-seals... the list goes on and on.

* PhysicalGod: Lorthia was once said to have been a physical god at one point, which led to The'Galin's ascension to godhood. This was only told through forum backstory information. Falerin and Eldron are the gods of Evil and Good for the world of Caelestia.

** The only moglin who is ''not'' ridiculously cute in some way is Zorbak, an [[strike:evil]] ebil blue moglin [[strike:mage]] necromancer, and his evil brother Kabroz.

** When having Radagast as a guest, if you run out of SP to keep him, he'll suddenly disappear while commenting about [[{{Freakazoid}} Jack Candle]].
* SignificantAnagram: Seth Cay Drows/[[spoiler:Shadowscythe]]

* WeirdMoon: In Darkovia, it's always night and there is always a full moon. And when the Devourer's attack was imminent, the moon changed into a weird red thing. And before the Devourer attack, Dewlok's home had a Zelda-ish moon complete with creepy face.

* AWizardDidIt: Used to explain away many plot inconsistencies. "It's MAGIC."

* YouMeanXmas: Quite a few real-world holidays have AQ equivalents, such as Frostvale (Christmas), Hero's Heart Day, (Valentine's Day), the Grenwog Festival (Easter), and Mogloween (Halloween).

* DarkerAndEdgier: For the most part, AdventureQuest is a light-hearted game-- family friendly at worst. And then you try the Assassin Class quest chain...

** Or a [[BeyondTheImpossible piece of fruit]].

* ManaDrain

* YouMeanXmas: Quite a few real-world holidays have AQ equivalents, such as Frostvale (Christmas), Hero's Heart Day (Valentine's Day), the Grenwog Festival (Easter), and Mogloween (Halloween).

* KnightTemplar: Galanoth does not like dragons. While this is not usually a problem, they're not AlwaysChaoticEvil, and he occasionally gets rather... overboard. Artix is just as bad or worse for undead.

* TheChessmaster: The titular antagonist of The Chessmaster Saga, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously.]]