History VideoGame / HeroU

* NiceGuy: Joel is a very polite person, standing out as the only rogue who will play any parlor game with Shawn and always end with a compliment. The only occasions where he gets angry with Shawn are if [[YourCheatingHeart Shawn betrays him with the One and Only Ring]], or Shawn [[spoiler:fails to rescue him from the wraith]].

* YourCheatingHeart: Shawn can be played as a complete Casanova and nobody really cares, but the One and Only Ring is SeriousBusiness to the max. There are four such rings in the game (Two in the Zombie Pirate area, one by the Paladin Memorial, one in a Sea Caves chest in the upstairs section that leads to the Catacombs), and the only purpose of duplication seems to be making your classmates royally steamed when you two-time them. Also, if you give someone the One and Only Ring and then profess love for another at the last moment, none of his fellow students are amused.

** Herbcraft. Moira Glenshannon teaches you to identify restorative mushrooms (healing and buffs) and how to make bandages. Her Advanced Class teaches how to make them into more potent medicine.

* [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch My Profession Doth Protest Too Much]]: Professor von Braun scorns the magicphobic {{Mad Scientist}}s from previous QFG games like [[VideoGame/QuestForGloryV Dr. Pretorius and Dr. Mobius]] or even [[VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV Dr. Cranium.]]

* SweetPollyOliver: Someone at the school isn't completely candid about their gender. There's some foreshadowing about it if you read the files in Terk's office, but it isn't until you accompany [[spoiler:Thomas to visit his father's tomb that it's revealed "Thomas" is actually a young woman named Janet.]] Shawn is [[BiTheWay not necessarily bothered by this]].

* NoNameGiven: Technically subverted if you look into things deeper. The hero from ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' has a prominent statue in the main hall, across from Erana's. Instead of having a name, the "Statue" is dedicated to the "Hero in All of Us" (and right clicking calls it the "The Unknown Hero"), referencing that hero's status as AnAdventurerIsYou. Actually you can find a picture of him in the Foyer, and Moira will comment when discussing it, that his name is Falcon, and he was Moira's mentor. In fact there are four heroes, each of a different class, and each named after a bird. Hawk the Warrior, Falcon the Paladin, Owl the Wizard, and Wren the Rogue. Certain backstory details of at least two of these characters appear in the game. The characters originate from an unpublished novel series called School For Heroes: By the Book, which has them as four siblings (two older twins, a middle brother, and a younger sister) who all end up going on Hero's journey from the QFG games, and saving the world. The Coles have stated that they wanted to leave certain things vague enough however that all players could believe that their individual Heros were part of the world as well, yes including Devon Aidendale. A character in Hero-U 2 is said to have a second name, named after one of the Heros, which can be anything even Mwamba Devon. A book in the library makes reference to "Fox" which was Wren's alias as a thief (and the game also discusses some of her history with Urwald, and Silmaria Thieves' Guild). The book was written under her pseudonym "I.M. Fulin".

* AntiHero: Shawn, who starts as a thief.

* BindleStick: Shawn is shown carrying one if he's expelled from the school for any reason, such as after accumulating 100 demerits, failing to get Rogue Of The Year, or outright asking Urwald for permission to leave.

* FictionalCurrency: Lyra is the currency of Sardonia.

* ScientificallyUnderstandableSorcery : Unlike previous Scientists in ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'', Dr. von Braun the Science Teacher doesn't deny that magic exists nor is he resentful. He is working on a theory that can explain both.

* MoralEventHorizon: Sosi is a jerk from day one and never lets up, but [[spoiler:leaving Joel for dead in the catacombs and then lying about it]] puts him beyond redemption. His motives for the act are never stated outright, but a major part of Sosi's character is that he never admits any weakness or fault. It wasn't ''wrong'' to [[spoiler:run from the wraith,]] but [[spoiler:his pride couldn't tolerate admitting he ran from ''anything'']]. After this point, he stops showing up in the Rec Room (except for Poobah games), and Shawn cannot even pretend to be nice to him anymore.

** Dr. von Braun of the Science Department looks a lot like [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Dr. Emmett Brown.]] According to the movies, the Brown family was originally called were the von Brauns, who emigrated from Germany in 1908 and anglicized their surname to Brown.

** Dr. von Braun of the Science Department looks a lot like [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Dr. Emmett Brown.]] His name is even a variation.

** Joel Kyro is a reference to ''Literature/TheMalteseFalcon''.

* AllThereInTheManual: Many details in the Cole's AlternateUniverse. Like [[spoiler: Master Urwald being the Chief Thief from the first game, and the hero rescued was his son who was transformed by Baba Yaga]] are only partially referred to.

* ScientificallyUnderstandableSorcery : Unlike previous Scientists in ''Franchise/QuestForGlory'', Dr. von Braun the Science Teacher doesn't deny that magic exists nor is he resentful. He is working on a theory that can explain both.