History Videogame / Wizard101

* WouldHurtAChild: As your character is a viewed as a young child, this makes just about every enemy you fight guilty of this.

* ATasteOfPower: The tutorial has you casting Nature's Wrath, Unicorn, Meteor Strike, Fire Cat, Troll, and Balance Blade against enemies at Rank 4 that wield Weakness, Storm Shark, Skeletal Pirate, Frost Beetle, Scorpion, Minotaur, Ninja Pigs, Phoenix, and Centaur. Then you start the game proper with a starter deck, weakened versions of Rank 1 spells of all schools except your own, your school's Rank 1 spell, and a 45-Damage wand attack.

* {{Yandere}}: Shane von Shane is a Vampire Lord of Darkmoor who fell in love with a woman named Tatyana, but his love was unrequited and Shane was soon driven to desperate measures such as destroying Tatyana's family. When Tatyana was DrivenToSuicide by his actions, Shane refused to let her spirit enter the afterlife and chained her to Darkmoor using a [[SoulJar phylactery]] until he could come up with a way to resurrect her, eventually allying himself with [[spoiler:Malistaire the Undying]] to do so.

** Zafaria: AncientAfrica

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Befitting his nature as the BigGood, Bartleby has got to be the nicest, most kindest being within the game, but even he has his limits, ''especially'' when he needs to ensure the Spiral continues to exist. According to ''History of Death Magic'', Bartleby personally punished an ApocalypseCult hellbent on destroying the Spiral by [[WhoWantsToLiveForever granting them eternal life]] [[FateWorseThanDeath and sealing them away in a soundproof prison]].

* DamageOverTime: Every school has at least one attack that deals damage over three rounds, but Fire is the one that specializes in it. (Balance recently got a Steel Giant card for DOT).
* DamageSpongeBoss: Ice and Life bosses, due to their ability to cast heals and armors. [[LethalJokeCharacter This goes for PvP, too.]] Despite both schools losing out on damage, their defenses are so beefy, that they can tilt a battle wildly. While ShootTheMedicFirst is an option for dealing with Life wizards, this tactic tends to fall short for Ice, who can take so long to finally succumb that [[PyrrhicVictory you'll leave feeling like you're the one who lost.]] Life does the opposite of this, instead doing healing over time, a feat also shared by Balance.

** While not much is known yet, [[spoiler:Maulwurf von Trap refers to the being creating and controlling the aberrations and cavities throughout Karamelle as your evil twin, since it took the appearance of your [[SuperMode Divine Paradox form]]]].

* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: The initial release had the level cap at 50, averting this trope, but it was raised by 10 levels for every main story world addition. With the release of Lemuria, it now sits at a staggering 150. This is worth noting because Malistaire, Morganthe, The Coven Quartet, [[spoiler:The Sons of Ymir]], Randolf Spellshine, Zeus, Poseidon, the God Trio, and [[spoiler:Undead Malistaire]] are all bosses for their respective main/side story arcs. They're meant to be fought at levels 50, 100, 43, 27, 30, 70, 90, and 102, respectively.

** Dryads have a severe case of MasculineLinesFeminineCurves to start, but by looking at Greenbeard and his wife, the other differences become even more clear. Greenbeard is one and a half stories tall and looks like his bark is in thick stacked layers that come to jagged points. In contrast, his wife is only about eight feet tall with smooth bark that naturally indents in a way that it give her a shape that is reminiscent of BareYourMidriff.

* {{Jerkass}}: Most lines of dialogue from Librarian Fitzhume are him snarking about either the player or other [=NPCs=].

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Everything you fight uses magic spells to fight back, even the wildlife.

** The Fire school as well, although not to the same extent on either end. Their spells hit very hard, and Tammy of them deal damage over time to boost their damage output even further. However, Fire wizards have below average health.

* GlassCannon: The Storm school. Their spells have the highest damage output of all the schools (at the cost of having the lowest accuracy), but Storm wizards have the lowest health of all the classes.

The game was originally released in 2008. Updates for the game, such as new worlds, quests and items, are constantly released. The most recent story update, Lemuria, was released in November 2021 while summer and fall updates in 2019 completely revamped the beginning of the main questline to better appeal to new players.

%%* AlwaysNight: In Marleybone, as well as Darkmoor.

%%* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The Sirens spell

%%* GreenThumb:
%%** The Life school.
%%** The new gardening skill allows everyone to have one.

%%* {{Jerkass}}: Librarian Fitzhume.

%%* PlayingWithFire: Fire wizards.

%%* RobeAndWizardHat: Duh.

** Wysteria has [[Franchise/HarryPotter Pigswick Academy]]

%%* TacticalRockPaperScissors: The three elemental schools.

%%* TwentyBearAsses: Oh yeah.

%%* WizardBeard: Headmaster Ambrose.
%%* WizardingSchool

* BossInMookClothing: The optional instances are notoriously difficult because of these, ''especially'' Kensington Park. It's all too easy to go in unprepared and have your rear end handed to you within the first ten minutes. Some of the later worlds (namely, Dragonspyre and Celestia) also have them roaming about, which can make certain quests anywhere from annoying to downright painful to complete.

** A tiny Frankie Forearms (a character from another Creator/KingsIsleEntertainment game, ''Rise and Destroy'') can be seen wandering the Arcanum, as well as being available as a pet for a limited time.

''[[https://www.wizard101.com/ Wizard101]]'' is a MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame developed and published by Creator/KingsIsleEntertainment that is targeted towards children and preteens. The player is a student [[spoiler:and later graduate]] of the [[WizardingSchool Ravenwood School of Magical Arts]] in the world of Wizard City, where they enlist as a student of one of the seven PersonalityPowers-based schools of magic, then set off to complete quests and learn new spells. The combat system has very simple roots, similar to action-based RPG games, and relies on cards that correlate to spells and magic points that you collect each turn to use the cards with. The cards work in a TacticalRockPaperScissors power arrangement based on the game's primary magic schools: [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[AnIcePerson Ice]], [[ShockAndAwe Storm]], [[GreenThumb Life]], [[LifeDrain Death]], [[TheBeastmaster Myth]], and [[JackOfAllStats Balance]].

* BlackBlood: A variation occurs in the form of the Blood Bat spell, which spits ''green'' blood. [[https://www.wizard101.com/forum/the-dorms/new-humongofrog-attack-please-2436 According to]] WordOfGod, it was originally meant to red, but it was changed in order to ensure an E or E10+ rating.

* BonusBoss: They pop up occasionally; some of them are just standing around, while others require effort on the player's part to reach them before they can be engaged in battle.

* BonusDungeon: There are many that open up along the way, and are typically much harder than any other area in the world they are situated in.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Gobblers. Sure, they eat normal food (just look around inside Gobblestone Castle--crates of chickens/pies/ice cream sundaes and piles of jellybeans are everywhere), but it isn't long before one starts to notice the lampposts and ''houses'' with sizable chunks bitten out of them... not to mention King Gobblestone himself, who has apparently developed a taste for stone towers since moving in. WordOfGod [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] this. Their homeworld is a LevelAte so they're new to the idea of buildings not being food.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The game applies various rules to the text chat to filter out cursing, offensive language, and [[ValuesDissonance for some reason the word "Hell"]]. Naturally, players figured out ways around this.

* LukeNounverber: For the sake of keeping things PG-rated, the game forces names to be chosen from a list in this fashion.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Averted. Most accents are done by people that naturally have the accent. WordOfGod is that Texans imitating Eastern European accents starts to sound like "Dracula with a Southern Draw after a few sentences."

* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler:Morganthe's ultimate downfall.]]

* PuzzleBoss: Many of the rulebreaking bosses have to be fought a specific way or they can punish the player if they don't fight the boss the right way. The most infamous of these is [[spoiler: young Morganthe]], who has a tendency to throw about a powerful Ice spell (Wooly Mammoth), that inflicts a good chunk of damage and stuns the target. The reason this cheat is so infamous is that, despite the boss being around for a while, even the best players haven't figured out all the triggers. (WordOfGod is that there is a pattern.)

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: There is the primary story with the Malistaire and Morganthe arcs and the Grizzleheim arc. Thus far, there has been no interaction between the two of them. There has also been Wysteria serving as a BreatherEpisode (although it was far from a BreatherLevel).

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: This game has quite a few, depending on who you ask. These were especially spread around those who didn't have a membership.
** Some people said that if you spoke the name of a world in game while in your dorms and then left through the door (like saying "Krokotopia"), it would supposedly bypass the membership requirement and allow you to explore the world.
** Early in the game, you can find a waterfall that hides the death school. However, you can't actually go there unless you get a key later on in the story. To do that, you need a membership (or buy Firecat Alley and Cyclops Lane with crowns). For the nonmember players who didn't do so, this door has been a subject of rumors. Some people suggested there could be a hidden boss, or it's where you fight Malistaire for the final time. Of course, if you have a friend that has the death school unlocked, you can literally just teleport there even without a membership.
** Some guides online suggested standing to the left or right of Dalia Falmea (the fire school teacher) and spinning exactly 3 times would give you 10 times your gold amount.
** Lots of buildings in the game have doors that you aren't able to enter, leading to even more speculation from players.
*** For example, some have said that the house near the Bazaar sells forbidden items like a ring that gives 100 damage or exchanges gold for crowns.
*** Another theory is that hidden in Grizzleheim is a place where you can buy levels.
*** Or you could dance on a grave at a very specific time and you'd get lots of crowns and special clothing that you couldn't get anywhere else after entering a house that normally cannot be entered.
** Near the end of Azteca (as well as the PvP arena that is designed based on that world) has falling meteors that fall everywhere around the main area. People have suggested that if you get hit by them, your wizard gets killed for real (similar to Pokégods) or reset to level one.
** On the thought of Pokémon, some people have noticed that you can say the Pokémon Abra, Kadabra and Alakazam in text chat, leading them to believe that somewhere in the game, it's possible to fight them, or there would be some kind of Pokémon themed side quest.
** Some people believe that there are lots of things you can do with specific inputs in order to cause certain things to happen.
*** For example, if you were to click a very specific area while selecting to cast a spell on an enemy, it would never fizzle.
*** Or if you hold certain arrow keys, you'd increase the damage that you dealt while decreasing the damage that an enemy does to you.
*** An old rumor (especially around PvP circles) suggested that if you clicked the dance emote while the match countdown was taking place, you'd always get the first turn in a battle.
** Sometimes while test realm (an alternate server by the developers allowing players to test new features in development) is online, bugs are found which can crash the game, like a previous update crashed the game upon opening the crafting menu. Naturally, this got trolls to tell people to press the 'J' key (shortcut to opening the crafting menu) to make something awesome happen, except it would only cause the game to crash.
** A popular rumor suggests never picking up reagents on the ground while in a dungeon because it would lower the chance of drop rates once you got to the final boss.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Oodles of them. Quite a few Wizard name preset combinations count, too.

** Avalon: [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian Legend]]

** The game has since been updated to allow free players to earn Crowns. The game can now be played entirely free, albeit ''very'' slowly.

** Cranked UpToEleven with Insane Bolt, use to do 1125 damage to the target... or it has a 20% chance of 10000 damage to the caster. Only Neutral/Moon Boost/Resist affects the damage, and thus the spell usually kills the caster if it backfires. Subverted in the Spring 2021 update when Insane Bolt got changed to 145 damage three times with a 20% chance to hit the caster.

* EasyModeMockery: In the summer update of 2022, new bosses have been added that scale to the level of the lowest level player present. Should a higher level join, they can still go through the fight, but the only drop will be a participation trophy reagent with the description ["You tried"](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wizard101/comments/x23qrk/this_is_too_funny_lol/).