History Videogame / Wizard101

* InfernalRetaliation: The fire school-only spell Backfire. It slightly damages the caster and does a large amount of damage to the target.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Spiral Doors that connect the worlds in the game function like the {{Stargate}} wormholes. As long as the player possesses the correct Spiral Key, they can access that world from any Spiral Door.

* AffectionateParody: The entire game is one of many fantasy books and games, including ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', and the worlds in themselves are parodies of both real life and mythical locations.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Although not to the same levels as most other cases of this trope, Dragonspyre has much less humorous dialogue and a much darker story than the rest of the worlds of the spiral. It didn't help that almost every NPC was already a ghost by the time you get there.

* DownerEnding: While most worlds have {{Bittersweet Ending}}s where the player saves whatever world of the spiral they're on from the powers of the BigBad but fail to stop the {{BigBad}}'s long term goal, the story for the world of [[spoiler:Azteca]] is a full downer. The player fails to stop the villain's attack which results in that world being destroyed. The villain ever gloats that before the player even got the chance step onto the villain's lair the ritual had already been completed.

* ExpansionPackWorld: [[ShatteredWorld Due to the geography of the spiral]], it is very easy to add new settings, cultures, and technologies to the spiral. Of all the worlds that have been named only a fraction have been visited in either {{Wizard101}} or {{Pirate101}}.

** Players can also have pet versions of some of the denizens of the spiral.

* ShatteredWorld: Each "world" consists of one or more island rocks floating through space with its own unique theme. The worlds are connected by a set of stargate-like doors, while access to the other worlds is granted by obtaining the correct "spiral key" for the other doors. The {{backstory}} was that fighting between the three ancient races tore the planet apart into the fragment worlds. Bartleby, the Grandfather Tree, and his sister, the Raven, weaved a spell that created the Spiral, which holds the remnants near each other and allows movement between them using the spiral doors.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: The spiral doors that connect the worlds in the game function like the {{Stargate}} wormholes. As long as the player possesses the correct spiral key, they can access that world from any spiral door.

* RealitySubtext: Azteca, an {{Mayincatec}} world, has a huge [[ColonyDrop comet]] on a collision course with it was released November 2012. This is a nod to the fears that the world would end when the Mayan Calender ends in on December 21, 2012.

* NoOntologicalInertia: When a wizard that has summoned a minion has been defeated, the minion vanishes too. Seems to occasionally be [[Averted]] with cheating bosses that summon minions, which you still have to fight after the boss dies.

* VampireVords: Although not in the writing, many of the voice actors for DragonSpyre have this due to their East European accents.

* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: In the Waterworks, there are two instances were you can solve simple puzzles that will fill the room with red health wisps if you successfully complete them. These rooms appear moments before you have to go into one of the boss battles in the dungeon.

* VampireVords: Although not in the writing, many of the voice actors for Dragon Spire have this due to their East European accents.

** Azteca: [[{{UsefulNotes/Pre-ColumbianCivilizations}} Pre-Columbian Central America]]

** In many cases it's as simple as changing a letter. This troper has come across quite a few players saying "crop".

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* One of the worst of these is Gladiator Dimachaerus. This boss lives in a dungeon designed for level 30 wizards but is designed to be a tough fight for even a team of four level 90 wizards.

** Grizzleheim: NorseMythology

* BigBad: Malistaire, then Queen Umbra, then Morganthe.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Fire elf males are about two to three feet tall and , females can be more than twice as tall and could be mistaken for humans if not for the pointed ears and gravity defying hair.

* GoneHorriblyRight: The Dragonspyre council attempted to summon and control the dragon titan, unfortunately [[UnderStatement things did not go the way they had intended]]

* SummoningRitual: Pretty much every quest to get a new spell from your school of magic involves summoning a creature to aid you in creating your spell.This is the the myth schools gimmick since most of their spells involve summoning a creature to ether aid you as a minion or as an attack spell.
* SummoningArtifact: Some spell quests involve you getting or creating an artifact in order to get the attention of a specific monster to help create your spell.The Krokonomicon was implied to be one of these that can be used to summon the dragon titan.

* PracticalTaunt: Ice wizards can get Taunt cards that make enemies target ''them,'' instead of their teammates.

* SummoningRitual: Pretty much every quest to get a new spell from your school of magic involves summoning a creature to aid you in creating your spell.This is pretty much the gimmick of the myth school since most of their spells involve summoning a creature to ether aid you as a minion or as an attack spell.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Both inverted and played straight: while the majority of Grizzleheim's bear population is friendly towards you--albeit wary, you being an outsider and all--sooner or later you run into the Red Claw, a faction of rogue bears hell-bent on waging war against you and anyone else who gets in their way.

* DownerEnding: While most worlds have BittersweetEndings where the player saves whatever world of the spiral they're on from the powers of the BigBad but fail to stop the {{BigBad}}'s long term goal, the story for the world of [[Spoiler: Azteca]] is a full downer. The player fails to stop the villain's attack which results in that world being destroyed. The villain ever gloats that before the player even got the chance step onto the villain's lair the ritual had already been completed.

** In worlds and areas released since Celestia each enemy affinity developed a weakness to an additional two schools of magic.

** Now that the Malistaire Arc is over Morganthe is expected to eventually take this position.

* FurryConfusion: One of the dog like Marleybonians has a pet dog. [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen We don't get to see it however.]]

** Players are not allowed to say "I hate you," yet "I hate ''ya''" get's passed the censor just fine.

* GullibleLemmings: While this game probably has a few, an honorable mention has to go to Crab Alley which not only is populated by complete morons who can not figure out their current king is an imposter due to his lack of resembling them, but also are being controlled because of this and they to top it off they ask you, a stranger, to check in on the king because he is acting strange and you can spot how he isn't their king immediately and yet when you talk to the idiots that helped you to get into the castle they assume you are as dumb as them for despite you noticing the imposter doesn't have the same overall body structure as them within two seconds of your arrival. They go above and beyond with this trope when it comes to being gullible.

* HiddenPurposeTest: Cyrus Drake's first couple of test are literally impossible to perform. The reason he is so harsh to new students is so he can weed out those that do not have the will to become true Conjurers.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Malistare Drake's (the first BigBad) purpose in turning evil is to get enough power to bring back his dead wife Sylvia

* PettingZooPeople: Almost all NPC's and enemies that aren't from Wizard City or Dragonspyre (and in the latter's case it's still a 50/50 chance).

** The most infamous of these is [[spoiler: young Morgath]], this boss has a tendency to throw about a powerful ice spell that inflicts a good chunk of damage and stuns the target. The reason this cheat is so infamous is despite the boss being around for a while, even the best spaders haven't figured out all the triggers. (WordOfGod is that there is a pattern)

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: There is the primary story with the Malistire and Morganthe arcs and the Grizzleheim arc. Thus far, there has been no interaction between the two of them. The has also been Wysteria serving as a BreatherEpisode (Although it was far from a BreatherLevel).
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Averted by other player during summoning a minion for a spell quest, anytime someone does this the game automatically turns all players not in battle toward the summoning.

Despite moderate graphics and some rather tedious quests, the game is mostly easy and fun to play. The main alignment of your character's magic does affect the plot and the spells to which you have access, though you are able to learn spells from other schools as well (though most likely there will only be one other school that does it with you because of the skill-building effect).

* DownerEnding: While most worlds have BittersweetEndings where the player saves whatever world of the spiral they're on from the powers of the BigBad but fail to stop the {{BigBad}}'s long term goal, the story for the world of Azteca is a full downer. The player fails to stop the villain's attack which results in that world being destroyed. The villain ever gloats that before the player even got the chance step onto the villain's lair the ritual had already been completed.