History VideoGame / OverlordII

''Overlord II'' is a game in the ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' Franchise released in 2009 for the UsefulNotes/Playstation3 and UsefulNotes/Xbox360. Much like the first game this one has a focus on some dark humour (though not quite BlackComedy) and is also written by the daughter of Creator/TerryPratchett, Creator/RhiannaPratchett.

* CataclysmBackstory: After the events of the first game, the Great Cataclysm destroyed the areas explored in the first game, reducing them to the magic-polluted Wasteland and unleashed a plague causing horrific mutations. This led to a surge in hate of all things magical among humans, who formed the Glorious Empire to ensure such an event could never take place again. Later in the story, it's revealed the Cataclysm was the result of [[spoiler:Florian had tampered with the Tower Heart from the first game to try and gain magic, only to mess up and cause it to detonate]].

* OnlySaneMan: Queen Fay of the Elves. The Overlord is either an oppressive tyrant wielding MindControl magic or an outright OmnicidalManiac, [[TheEmpire the Glorious Empire]] is actively genocidal towards magical creatures, and her underlings are all [[StupidGood complete imbeciles]] [[spoiler:or secretly in league with the Empire.]]
%%** Kelda.
%%** [[spoiler:Rose]].

%%* PowerFloats: [[spoiler:Rose]].

* VillainProtagonist

** The Gnome Genocide sidequest, which will net you a NiceHat and an Achievement. Also the Dark Crystals, many of which are notoriously well hidden, and a few are {{permanently missable|Content}}.

* NiceHat: Your Brown Minions will wear various items on their heads, some of which are only obtainable once. Other Minions won't have it actually render, just being converted into generic equipment. Special mention must go to one end-game hat, which is the rather large top-piece of a gold banner pole, which by all rights should crush the lucky Minion wearing it.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:The Elven queen]]. Of course, that's to your benefit.
** Another is [[spoiler:Florian, but that one was very premeditated]].

* FantasticNuke: The domain of the previous Overlord has become the magical equivalent of the Chernobyl area, due to some kind of magical artifact getting overloaded and turning the landscape into a warped and mutating hellhole. It explains why the Empire has such a stanch anti-magical anything stance.

* ILoveTheDead: If you're Destruction, [[spoiler:Queen Fay dies when you continue draining her, even after she's become fully corrupted and turned into Dark Fay]], she still returns as a ghost [[spoiler:to voluntarily HeelFaceTurn and become your third consort regardless]].
* IFoundYouLikeThis: In the opening, the "Overlad" is frozen after the tutorial, then found by his father's former minions who cheerfully note he just needs the right (Evil) upbringing....
* JigglePhysics: Done so disturbingly that it might as well count as a parody. Jiggle applies to everyone and everything with fat. [[FanDisservice And there are far too many instances of this]].
* LadyMacBeth: The game lets you have [[spoiler:three]] mistresses: Kelda, the Overlord's childhood friend (equivalent to Rose), Juno, a seductress from the Empire (similar to Velvet) and [[spoiler:the corrupted or ghostly Fay.]] You later get to choose a First Mistress, though [[spoiler:you can always go back and change whenever you feel like it]].

** Completely dominating/destroying a town requires you to use Evil Presence on every civilian on the map. This quickly devolves into a lengthy hunt for the last handful, after you've enslaved/killed the bulk of them and battered down every door you can find.

* MeleeATrois: Between the Overlord, the Elves and the Glorious Empire. The Elves are taken out of the picture during their EnemyMine moment with the Overlord later on though.
* MindControl: The lead character doesn't bother with the "cultivating a good reputation through taking care of his subjects" of his 0% Corruption Father or Lord Gromgard from ''Overlord: Dark Legend'', and just dominates peoples' wills and turns them into his eager and willing slaves.
* MoneyGrinding: If you dominate them, the Nordberg and Everlight towns provide you with gold chest tributes, which are piled by the gateway you teleport in from. Pretty much required to smelt the high-cost blacksmith recipes.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Florian's act as a regular sappy Elf is merely his continuing efforts to sabotage the Sanctuaries from the inside. The reveal is made glorious by simply hearing him drop that stupid stoner accent.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Solarius flings himself into a vat of pure magic to become a giant tentacled slug "that's made of pure magic," as Gnarl said.
* OnlySaneMan: Queen Fay of the elves. The Overlord is either a tyrant or an OmnicidalManiac, [[TheEmpire the Glorious Empire]] is actively genocidal towards magical creatures, and her underlings are all [[StupidGood complete imbeciles]].

* OverlordJr: The Main Character is a literal case.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: They're fat, ugly and mean, with the lower bodies of pufferfish.
* PaperThinDisguise: The Empire are pretty easily convinced by Minions dressed up in the armor of the Imperial Guard. [[LampshadeHanging They do ponder a bit]] why the new recruits are so short, deciding that they've chosen to recruit Gnomes.
* ParentalAbandonment: The Witch-Boy, seeing as the last Overlord is stuck ruling the Abyss and his mother disappeared.
* PeoplePuppets: One of the abilities allows the player character to take direct control of a Minion to access places the Overlord can't go.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: There are two Dark Crystals in the game that can be lost if you don't grab them: one can be stolen by a gnome (and you'll have no way to get it back due to plot leaving you with no Minions); the other is in an area that can only be accessed once and is destroyed after you exit, making return impossible. The Champion hats can also be lost if you don't grab them immediately since they disappear if you exit the area. Getting the Spider Champion Hat is especially bad since there's a limited window of opportunity to get it before a cutscene makes it vanish.
* {{Polyamory}}: As opposed to his father, the Overlord can keep [[spoiler:all three]] of the mistresses he meets as part of his harem at the same time. They're even seen [[SlouchOfVillainy slouching together on the throne]] in the ending. The Overlord may even successfully convince the ladies to partake in a [[spoiler:foursome]]. You still have to choose a First Mistress though.

* RandomlyDrops: Fairy crystals, required more and more for forging.
* RedemptionDemotion: Inverted with [[spoiler:Queen Fay]], who loses her magical powers following her FaceHeelTurn. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that [[spoiler:her change in allegiance is a side effect of you draining her powers to recharge the Tower Heart]]

** In order to free the boat capable of sailing to Everfree, you must set tar pools on fire. This thaws the ice trapping the ship, which then floods the land just beyond the village it's located at. And the jungle that the Everfree Gate is within after that...

* ShootTheMessenger: The Overlord executes people that petition an audience with him and alert him of incidents that he needs to take care of. To be fair, they are making some ludicrous requests on top of the reasonable call for aid, from wanting to borrow some Minions, to requesting that ''one of his Mistresses'' accompany them for, ahem... company. Gnarl was disturbed by an Empire lady wanting ''him'' as a present.
* SideQuest: The game is pretty straight-forward but there are a couple side objectives. The obvious one being the long 1000 Gnome Genocide quest which can be done throughout the game and the optional quests that revolves around Nordburgh and Everlight after taking control of these villages. Depending on what you do with these villages afterwards gives the player extra rewards; (money, minion armor, minion lifeforce).

* SlouchOfVillainy: The Overlord gets to sit in his throne, and slouches magnificently. He also gets bonus points for being able to do so in armor.

* StealthBasedMission: You have to guide a group of Green Minions though a castle filled with guards that sweep areas you need to avoid. The exterminators and wardens are strong enough instantly kill Minions if they get spotted.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: The Mermaids, Fairies, and Elven Priestesses. [[FanDisservice Unfortunately]].

* StupidGood: The Elves and fairies, who try to [[spoiler:stop you from [[HeroicSacrifice draining Queen Fay's power]], despite the fact that she's willing, and that doing so is the only way the Empire can be stopped.]] Then again, it's [[spoiler:her power that's holding the Last Sanctuary together, and quite frankly, even if she ''says'' that she's willingly letting the Sauron-lookalike zap her with Force Lightning, the elves wouldn't be inclined to believe her]].
* SuperDrowningSkills: As in the first game, The Overlord will wade through waist-high water and won't enter anything deeper and only the Blues can swim.

** At the end of Overlad's childhood tutorial you're given infinitely respawning Brown minions to beat the crap out of the imperial legion blocking your escape.
** This is par for the course for most minion tutorials, your numbers are limited by your maximum horde size, but the minions will infinitely and freely respawn until you capture their hives (with the exception of the blues).
* TooDumbToLive: Not a single one of the peasants seeking an audience with the Overlord are able to deliver their message without adding a few unreasonable demands to the dark lord. Or perhaps they all fail to notice that they're kneeling on a giant trap door above a sea of lava.
** The Empire manages to capture the Overlord by sealing off all his magic. Their next move, of course, is to beat him within an inch of his life, give it all back to him, and pit him in the arena with slaves he is able to mind-control, and his minions on display in easily-escapable jars. BossArenaIdiocy taken to the (il)logical extreme...
* TrapDoor: As mentioned above, the #1 method of disposing of stupid peasants. [[PowerFloats Doesn't work on]] [[spoiler:Rose]] though.
* UnholyMatrimony: In the sequel, choosing a mistress will decide of which kind of mount your minions will get for the final battle.
* {{Unicorn}}: A couple of these in the arena.

* VillainProtagonist: Do we have to explain this one?
* WeHaveReserves: You have a lot of Minions, and they're easily replaced, although you can [[VideogameCaringPotential resurrect fallen ones that you've taken a liking to]]. Or [[BloodMagic sacrifice them to regenerate your life]].

* WhereIWasBornAndRazed: Nordberg, depending on your allegiance, either ends up completely destroyed or its citizens permanently brainwashed and enslaved. Note that they were [[BullyingADragon pretty much]] [[TooDumbToLive asking for it.]]

* BigBad: Emperor Solarius, ruler of the Glorious Empire. [[spoler:And known also as Florian the elf.]]

** The other magical creatures mocking [[spoiler:Florian]] for being unable to use magic unlike [[spoiler:every other Elf]] along with the frustration of magical ineptitude led to [[spoiler:Florian]]'s journey to darkness.
* AssholeVictim: For the Destruction and Domination paths respectively. The Nordbergians, the Governors, the Empire citizens, really the only people undeserving of the Overlord's wrath are the elves, [[ScrewYouElves and even then...]]
* BalanceOfGoodAndEvil: [[spoiler:Rose]] makes a few comments to the effect that the world needs balance, though it appears that the world swings wildly from one extreme to the other, with good periodically succeeding over evil only to be inevitably corrupted and/or destroyed by the return of a previous evil.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Florian]]'s gambit is quite impressive. [[spoiler:Basically, after failing to seize the Overlord's power, he capitalizes on the disaster he created to build a magic-hating empire so he can harvest all of the magic from captured magical beings for himself. He then passes himself off as an elfish victim to destroy the various holdouts of magic.]]
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: ''Inverted''; Beauty equals Evil [[spoiler:as Queen Fay, the only good looking person on the good guy's team, does a FaceHeelTurn]].
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Even after being raised to be evil, the Overlord continues to have a soft spot for Kelda, who was the only one to treat him well as a kid.
* BigBad: Emperor Solarius. [[spoiler:AKA, Florian]]
* BigGood: Queen Fay, who opposes the Overlord in order to defend the magical races' last refuges from the Empire. [[spoiler:Initially...]]
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: A one-eyed Yeti appears early on and makes several appearances throughout the game.
* BigNo: [[spoiler:Queen Fay]] when you kill them on the Destruction path, as opposed to letting [[spoiler:her live as the corrupted Dark Fay.]]

** The gnomes declare permanent war on the Overlord over a slight. They're smaller than the Overlord's foot, and their most damaging attack is suicide-bombing with a firecracker.
** On the first encounter with the Gargantuan, a minion steps forward with a grin and a 'come get some' gesture.

** Also, when you're gathering Tower Heart shards, and the giant slug appears, Florian shouts for you to squash it... before hastily saying that he meant to say 'ease it gently to the next world,' or something to that extent. At first, it just seems like the hypocrisy of the elves for only caring about 'fuzzy' creatures when they protect nature, but given TheReveal that comes late game...
** In the TimeSkip cutscene where Gnarl talks about the empire, you see a Blue Minion being carted off in a cage, at first all this does is drive the point home that no magical creature is safe, but later you find the Blue Minions and their hive in the [[spoiler:arena dungeons.]]

** Well unlike his dad, who was a FallenHero, he was [[StartOfDarkness born and raised into Evil]] by Gnarl and the Minions.
* MoneyGrinding: Most players teleport back and forth to their now controlled Nordburgh and Everlight towns to open up the gold chest tributes the towns accumulate for you. Pretty much required to smelt the high-cost blacksmith recipes.

* OneWingedAngel: Solarius flung himself into a vat of pure magic and became a giant tentacled slug "that's made of pure magic," as Gnarl said.
* OnlySaneMan: Queen Fay of the elves. You're either a tyrant or an OmnicidalManiac, [[TheEmpire the Glorious Empire]] is actively genocidal towards magical creatures, and her underlings are all [[StupidGood complete imbeciles]].

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: They're fat, ugly and mean.

* RedemptionDemotion: Inverted with [[spoiler:Queen Fay]], who loses her magical powers following her FaceHeelTurn. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that [[spoiler:her change in allegiance is a side effect of you draining her powers to recharge your Tower Heart]]

* StealthBasedMission: You have to guide a group of Green Minions though a castle filled with guards and towers that sweep areas you need to avoid. The guards and towers will instantly kill Minions if they get spotted.

*** Domination: you have to be very careful not to have the citizens of the towns you take over die. If you lose even one of them you're locked out from full domination. Compounding the issue, there's a mission for each town where the elves try to start a rebellion, and the villagers will join in, meaning you have to pick out targets and make sure you don't kill the wrong ones (the one in Nordberg may be worse, as a lot of the citizens are in a wheat field... which is highly flammable and will definitely kill them, so you can't really use Reds or fire). Also, at one point in the story you find the family that got Juno hauled off under accusations of being a witch, and due to a GameBreakingBug, it won't always registered them karma for domination even if you mind controlled them.
*** For Destruction: you'd probably think that just killing everyone will work, but the part of the story where you [[spoiler:corrupt Fey]] heavily implies that brainwashing them is the only resolution, even though you can kill them after they have served her purpose. Nothing in the game tells you that you even have this option, and the time frame for doing so is about ten seconds while they walk to a new destination. Missing this window means the chance is lost forever.

* SmallAnnoyingCreature: The Gnomes. For starters, their small size makes them somewhat hard to hit, and they genuinely sound (and ''move'') more like crack-addicted squeaky toys than any sort of sapient humanoid creature. The suicide bomber Red Gnomes reach GoddamnedBats status and DemonicSpiders status in large numbers. Probably intentional since it makes killing Gnomes that much more cathartic.
** Unless you master the spin attack, that is.

* WhereIWasBornAndRazed: Nordberg, depending on your allegiance, either ends up completely destroyed or brainwashed and enslaved. Note that they were [[BullyingADragon Kind of]] [[TooDumbToLive asking for it.]]

* ATasteOfPower:
** At the end of Overlad's childhood tutorial you're given infinitely respawning Brown minions to beat the crap out of the imperial legion blocking your escape.
** This is par for the course for most minion tutorials, your numbers are limited by your maximum horde size, but the minions will infinitely and freely respawn until you capture their hives (with the exception of the blues).

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Florian, after he [[TheReveal reveals that he was]] TheEmperor]].

* BigGood: Queen Fay [[spoiler:Initially...]]

* BigNo: [[spoiler:Queen Fay]] when you kill [[spoiler:her]] on the destruction path, as opposed to letting [[spoiler:her live as the corrupted dark fay.]]

** The gnomes declare war on the Overlord over a slight. They're smaller than the Overlord's foot, and their most damaging attack is suicide-bombing with a firecracker.
** On first encounter with the Gargantuan, a minion steps forward with a grin and a 'come get some' gesture.

** Also, when you're gathering Tower Heart shards, and the [[spoiler:giant slug appears, Florian shouts for you to squash it...before hastily saying that he meant to say 'ease it gently to the next world,' or something to that extent.]] At first, it just seems like the hypocrisy of the elves for only caring about 'fuzzy' creatures when they protect nature, but given TheReveal that comes late game...
** In the TimeSkip cutscene where Gnarl talks about the empire, you see a blue minion being carted off in a cage, at first all this does is drive the point home that no magical creature is safe, but later you find the blue minions and their hive in the [[spoiler:arena dungeons.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:You kill [[AGodAmI the Emperor as he ascends to godhood]] and destroy the EldritchAbomination that is powering his ascenscion.]]

* EvilIsEasy: Averted as far as the obtuse MindControl vs. AxCrazy KarmaMeter goes, suprisingly. Choosing destruction gives you good instant payoff, but not enough to buy everything in the game, as opposed to having a fully dominated town that's always giving money. In the end, dominating pays off more than destruction.

* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Queen Fay]].

* [[FantasticNuke Fantastic Nuclear Disaster]]: The domain of the previous Overlord has become the magical equivalent of the Chernobyl area...

* FatBastard: Fat mermaids, fat elf ladies, fat Empire people, fat fairies...this game is not kind to fat people.

* {{Giant Spider}}s: Can be used as mounts by Greens, although you have to defeat their queen first.

*** Domination: you have to be very careful not to have the citizens of the towns you take over die, if you lose even one of them you're locked out from full domination. Compounding the issue, there's a mission for each town where the elves try to start a rebellion, and the villagers will join in, meaning you have to pick out targets and make sure you don't kill the wrong ones (the one in Nordberg may be worse, as a lot of the citizens are in a wheat field... which is highly flammable and will definitely kill them, so you can't really use Reds or fire). Also, at one point in the story you find the family that got Juno hauled off under accusations of being a witch, and due to a GameBreakingBug, it won't always registered them karma for domination even if you mind controlled them.
*** For Destruction: you'd probably think that just killing everyone will work, but the part of the story where you [[spoiler:corrupt Fey]] heavily implies that brainwashing her is the only resolution, even though you can kill her after she's served her purpose. Nothing in the game tells you that you even have this option, and the time frame for doing so is about ten seconds while she walks to a new destination.

* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:Rose, who initially took her son away from the tower to prevent his rise to evil]] later accepts the Overlad as perhaps someone who would bring some proper order to the world and restore the Balance between Light and Darkness.

* NightmareFetishist: Kelda, who as a child sympathized and had a crush upon the Witch-boy. She is then spared when the Overlad returns as a man to conquer Nordberg and instead happily becomes his Mistress, saying how she hated her town for tossing him out for the Empire.

* ProfessionalButtKisser: Marius, towards Solarius.

* ShootTheMessenger: The Overlord executes people that petition an audience with him and alert him of incidents that he needs to take care of. To be fair, they are making some ludicrous requests on top of it, from wanting to borrow some Minions, to requesting ''one of your Mistresses'' accompany them for, ahem... company. Gnarl was disturbed by an Empire lady wanting ''him'' as a present.
* SideQuest: The game is pretty straight-forward but there are a couple side objectives. The obvious one being the long 1000 gnome genocide quest which can be done throughout the game and the optional quests that revolves around Nordburgh and Everlight after taking control of these villages. Depending on what you do with these villages afterwards gives the player extra rewards; (money, minion armor, minion lifeforce).

* TooDumbToLive: Not a single one of the peasants seeking an audience are able to deliver their message without adding a few unreasonable demands from the dark lord. Or perhaps they all fail to notice that they're kneeling on a giant trap door above a sea of lava.

* GuideDangIt: Getting 100% in either karma path can be a bit of a trial for two separate reasons;
** Domination: you have to be very careful not to have the citizens of the towns you take over die, if you lose even one of them you're locked out from full domination. Compounding the issue, there's a mission for each town where the elves try to start a rebellion, and the villagers will join in, meaning you have to pick out targets and make sure you don't kill the wrong ones (the one in Nordberg may be worse, as a lot of the citizens are in a wheat field... which is highly flammable and will definitely kill them, so you can't really use Reds or fire). Also, at one point in the story you find the family that got Juno hauled off under accusations of being a witch, and due to a GameBreakingBug, it won't always registered them karma for domination even if you mind controlled them.
** For Destruction: you'd probably think that just killing everyone will work, but the part of the story where you [[spoiler:corrupt Fey]] heavily implies that brainwashing her is the only resolution, even though you can kill her after she's served her purpose. Nothing in the game tells you that you even have this option, and the time frame for doing so is about ten seconds while she walks to a new destination.

** The Empire manages to capture the Overlord by sealing off all his magic. Their next move, of course, is to beat him within an inch of his life, give it all back to him, and pit him in the arena with slaves he is able to mind-control, and his minions on display in easily-escapable jars. BossArenaIdiocy taken to the logical extreme...

* SmallAnnoyingCreature: The Gnomes. The suicide bomber Red Gnomes reach GoddamnedBats status and DemonicSpiders status in large numbers. Probably intentional since it makes killing Gnomes that much more cathartic.

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Florian, after he [[TheReveal reveals that he was]] TheEmperor]].

** The other magical creatures mocking [[spoiler: Florian]] for being unable to use magic unlike [[spoiler: every other Elf]] along with the frustration of magical ineptitude led to [[spoiler: Florian]]'s journey to darkness.
* AssholeVictim / KickTheSonOfABitch: For the Destruction and Domination paths respectively. The Nordbergians, the Governors, the Empire citizens, really the only people undeserving of the Overlord's wrath are the elves, [[ScrewYouElves and even then...]]
* BalanceOfGoodAndEvil: [[spoiler: Rose]] makes a few comments to the effect that the world needs balance, though it appears that the world swings wildly from one extreme to the other, with good periodically succeeding over evil only to be inevitably corrupted and/or destroyed by the return of a previous evil.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: ''Inverted''; Beauty equals Evil [[spoiler: as Queen Fay, the only good looking person on the good guy's team, does a FaceHeelTurn]].

* BigBad: Emperor Solarius. [[spoiler: AKA, Florian]]

* BigNo: [[spoiler: Queen Fay]] when you kill [[spoiler: her]] on the destruction path, as opposed to letting [[spoiler: her live as the corrupted dark fay.]]

** Also, when you're gathering Tower Heart shards, and the [[spoiler: giant slug appears, Florian shouts for you to squash it...before hastily saying that he meant to say 'ease it gently to the next world,' or something to that extent.]] At first, it just seems like the hypocrisy of the elves for only caring about 'fuzzy' creatures when they protect nature, but given TheReveal that comes late game...
** In the TimeSkip cutscene where Gnarl talks about the empire, you see a blue minion being carted off in a cage, at first all this does is drive the point home that no magical creature is safe, but later you find the blue minions and their hive in the [[spoiler: arena dungeons.]]

** Another is [[spoiler: Florian, but that one was very premeditated]].
* FallenHero: [[spoiler: Queen Fay]].

** For Destruction: you'd probably think that just killing everyone will work, but the part of the story where you [[spoiler: corrupt Fey]] heavily implies that brainwashing her is the only resolution, even though you can kill her after she's served her purpose. Nothing in the game tells you that you even have this option, and the time frame for doing so is about ten seconds while she walks to a new destination.

* ILoveTheDead: If you're Destruction, [[spoiler: Queen Fay dies when you continue draining her, even after she's become fully corrupted and turned into Dark Fay]], she still returns as a ghost [[spoiler: to voluntarily HeelFaceTurn and become your third consort regardless]].

* LadyMacBeth: The game lets you have [[spoiler: three]] mistresses: Kelda, the Overlord's childhood friend (equivalent to Rose), Juno, a seductress from the Empire (similar to Velvet) and [[spoiler:the corrupted or ghostly Fay.]] You later get to choose a First Mistress, though [[spoiler: you can always go back and change whenever you feel like it]].

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler: Florian's act as a regular sappy Elf is merely his continuing efforts to sabotage the Sanctuaries from the inside. The reveal is made glorious by simply hearing him drop that stupid stoner accent.]]

* {{Polyamory}}: As opposed to his father, the Overlord can keep [[spoiler: all three]] of the mistresses he meets as part of his harem at the same time. They're even seen [[SlouchOfVillainy slouching together on the throne]] in the ending. The Overlord may even successfully convince the ladies to partake in a [[spoiler: foursome]]. You still have to choose a First Mistress though.

* RedemptionDemotion: Inverted with [[spoiler: Queen Fay]], who loses her magical powers following her FaceHeelTurn. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that [[spoiler: her change in allegiance is a side effect of you draining her powers to recharge your Tower Heart]]

* StupidGood: The Elves and fairies, who try to [[spoiler:stop you from [[HeroicSacrifice draining Queen Fay's power]], despite the fact that she's willing, and that doing so is the only way the Empire can be stopped.]] Then again, it's [[spoiler: her power that's holding the Last Sanctuary together, and quite frankly, even if she ''says'' that she's willingly letting the Sauron-lookalike zap her with Force Lightning, the elves wouldn't be inclined to believe her]].

''Overlord II'' is a game in the ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' Franchise released in 2009 for the Playstation3 and Xbox360. Much like the first game this one has a focus on some dark humour (though not quite BlackComedy) and is also written by the daughter of Creator/TerryPratchett, Creator/RhiannaPratchett.

* CollectionSidequest: The Gnome Genocide sidequest, which will net you a NiceHat and an Achievement. Also the Dark Crystals, many of which are notoriously well hidden, and a few can be LostForever.
** Collecting the Tower objects for Minions, Health, Mana, Spells, and Forge recipes can also be considered this.

* LostForever: There are two Dark Crystals in the game that can be LostForever if you don't grab them, one can be stolen by a gnome (And you'll have no way to get it back due to plot leaving you with no Minions) the other is in an area that can only be accessed once and is destroyed after you exit, making return impossible. The Champion hats can also be LostForever if you don't grab them immediately since they disappear if you exit the area. Getting the Spider Champion Hat is especially bad since there's a limited window of opportunity to get it before a cutscene makes it vanish.

* [[spoiler:[[LukeIAmYourFather Overlad, I Am Your Mother]]]]

** Kelda and [[spoiler:Rose]] might count.

* PowerFloats: [[spoiler:Rose]].

Overlord II is a game in the ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' Franchise released in 2009 for the Playstation3 and Xbox360. Much like the first game this one has a focus on some dark humour (though not quite BlackComedy) and is also written by the daughter of Creator/TerryPratchett, Creator/RhiannaPratchett.

* LadyMacBeth: The game lets you have three mistresses: Kelda, the Overlord's childhood friend (equivalent to Rose), Juno, a seductress from the Empire (similar to Velvet) and [[spoiler:the corrupted or ghostly Fay.]] You later get to choose a First Mistress, though you can always go back and change whenever you feel like it.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The Glorious Empire built their sewers to be huge, which backfires on them when giant man-eating frogs made it the tunnels into lairs, and the Overlord uses it to infiltrate the Arena.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Florian]]'s gambit is quite impressive. [[spoiler:Basically, after failing to seize the Overlord's power, he capitalizes on the disaster he created to build a magic hating empire so he can harvest all of their magic for himself. He then passes himself off as an elfish victim to destroy the various holdouts of magic.]]
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: ''Inverted''; Beauty equals Evil [[spoiler: as Queen Fay, the only good looking person on the good guy's team, does a FaceHeelTurn]]

** In that same vein, when you possess your minions, they say some very... sensual sounding things such as "Be gentle, master."

* DistractedByTheSexy: Overlord sees Juno for the first time through a spyglass. He doesn't notice the giant spider since he was staring at her cleavage. [[HilarityEnsues Shipwreck ensues]].

* EldritchAbomination: The Devourer

* EnemyMine: Queen Fay offers an alliance with the Overlord against Solarius, helping him reconstruct and power up the Tower Heart. Doesn't work out [[spoiler:for the Elves.]]

* EvilFeelsGood: [[spoiler:Queen Fay, as she becomes overtaken by the Overlord's evil when she allows him to drain her energy to power the Tower Heart. As the process goes on, she begins to embrace the darkness and goes on to become his mistress.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:The elven queen]]. Of course, that's to your benefit.
* FallenHero: [[spoiler: Queen Fay.]]
* FanDisservice: There are a ''lot'' of barely covered breasts in the game, unfortunately, besides your mistresses (who, though sexy, dress modestly in comparison), they're all [[{{Gonk}} horribly, horribly overweight,]] [[{{Squick}} and some of them are male.]]
* FantasticNatureReserve: Everlight Sanctuary.

* FantasticRacism: The Empire is anti-magic due to the Magical Cataclysm that created a plague that causes horrible mutations. [[spoiler:Florian, the one who caused all this takes advantage of all of this with the help of Marius and Rose.]]

** As Domination, you have to be very careful not to have the citizens of the towns you take over die, if you lose even one of them you're locked out from full domination. Compounding the issue, there's a mission for each town where the elves try to start a rebellion, and the villagers will join in, meaning you have to pick out targets and make sure you don't kill the wrong one (the one in Nordberg may be worse, as a lot of the citizens are in a wheat field... which is highly flammable and will definitely kill them). Also, at one point in the story you find the family that got Juno hauled off under accusations of being a witch, and due to a GameBreakingBug, it won't always registered them karma for domination even if you mind controlled them.
** For Destruction, sure you'd probably think that just killing everyone will work, but the part of the story where you [[spoiler: corrupt Fey]] heavily implies that brainwashing her is the only resolution, even though you can kill her after she's served her purpose. Nothing in the game tells you that you even have this option, and the time frame for doing so is about ten seconds while she walks to a new destination.

* ILoveTheDead: If you're destruction, [[spoiler: Queen fay dies when you continue draining her, even after she's become fully corrupted and turned into dark fay]], she still returns as a ghost [[spoiler: to voluntarily HeelFaceTurn and become your third consort regardless]].
* IFoundYouLikeThis: In the opening, the "Overlad" is frozen after the tutorial, then found by his father's former minions who cheerfully note he just needs the right (evil) upbringing....

* LostForever: There are two Dark Crystals in the game that can be LostForever if you don't grab them, one can be stolen by a gnome (And you'll have no way to get it back due to plot leaving you with no minions) the other is in an area that can only be accessed once, and is destroyed after you exit, making return impossible. The Champion hats can also be LostForever if you don't grab them immediately since they disappear if you exit the area. Getting the Spider Champion Hat is especially bad since there's a limited window of opportunity to get it.
* LightIsNotGood: Emperor Solarius

** Well unlike his dad, who was a FallenHero, he was [[StartOfDarkness born and raised into evil]].

* NiceHat: Your brown minions will wear various items on their heads some of which are only obtainable once. Special mention must go to one hat which is the rather large top of a banner pole.

* ParentalAbandonment: The Witch-Boy.
* PeoplePuppets: One of the abilities allows the player character to take direct control of a minon to access places the Overlord can't go.

** In order to free the boat capable of sailing to Everfree, you must set tar pools on fire. This thaws the ice trapping the ship, which then floods the land just beyond the village it's located at. And the Everfree Gate after that...

* StealthBasedMission: You have to guide a group of green minions though a castle filled with guards and towers that sweep areas you need to avoid.
** And later, you have to do a much shorter stealth mission involving the blue minions who, thankfully, can turn invisible while being swept.
* StraightForTheCommander: The Empire phalanxes (phalanges?) are typically accompanied by a Centurion. Killing the centurion makes it '''''much''''' easier to defeat them; without killing him a group of fifty fully armed browns will lose nearly thirty of its members before breaking the phalanx and causing the soldiers to scatter.

** But, hey, the minions love the fairies, so it's still FanService for them.
* StupidGood: The Elves and fairies, who try to [[spoiler:stop you from [[HeroicSacrifice draining Queen Fay's power]], despite the fact that she's willing, and that doing so is the only way the Empire can be stopped.]] Then again, it's [[spoiler: her power that's holding the Last Sanctuary together, and, quite frankly, even if she ''says'' that she's willingly letting the Sauron-lookalike zap her with Force Lightning, the elves wouldn't be inclined to believe her.]]

** The Empire manages to capture the Overlord by sealing off all his magic. Their next move, of course, is to give it back to him, and pit him in the arena with slaves he is able to mind-control, and his minions on display in easily-escapable jars. BossArenaIdiocy taken to the logical extreme...

* WeHaveReserves: You have a lot of minions, and they're easily replaced, although you can [[VideogameCaringPotential resurrect fallen ones that you've taken a liking to]]. Or [[BloodMagic sacrifice them to regenerate your life]].

** Played with early on when the Minions decide to club adorable baby seals to death to avenge the fish getting eaten by the seals.

Overlord II is a game in the ''{{Overlord}}'' Franchise released in 2009 for the Playstation3 and Xbox360. Much like the first game this one has a focus on some dark humour (though not quite BlackComedy) and is also written by the daughter of Creator/TerryPratchett, Creator/RhiannaPratchett.

* [[BalanceOfGoodAndEvil Seesaw Of Good And Evil]]: [[spoiler: Rose]] makes a few comments to the effect that the world needs balance, though it appears that the world swings wildly from one extreme to the other, with good periodically succeeding over evil only to be inevitably corrupted and/or destroyed by the return of a previous evil.