History YMMV / Diablo

* OvershadowedByAwesome: It's hard to make the ''Diablo II'' expansion climactic when the previous game ended with you effectively beating ''the Devil in Hell''.

** Maghda and Adria can be found [[YMMV/DiabloIII here]].

* TheScrappy: Wirt; he insults you all the time, forces you to pay just to look at his single item for sale, then he charges you ridiculously huge amounts of gold to buy it. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he stays far outside of town]] while you can't run in this game.

* TakeThatScrappy: Blizzard acknowledged Wirth's scrappiness. You find his dead body in the sequel and when clicked, a fountain of gold pops out.
* TheScrappy: Wirt; he insults you all the time, forces you to pay just to look at his single item, then he charges you ridiculously huge amounts of gold to buy it. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he stays far outside of town]] while you can't run in this game.

* TakeThatScrappy: Blizzard acknowledged his scrappiness. You find his dead body in the sequel and when clicked, a fountain of gold pops out.

** PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: Who was going to pay attention to it, anyways? If anything, Blizzard knew they shouldn't make anything too original.
*** Anyone who only played multi-player probably didn't even know there was a story; it skips all the cinematics and most of the background is in the manual.

* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: The ''Diablo'' franchise does in fact have a story, and there are the hardcore "lore-fans" who spend time debating of it, but most players ignore it completely. The franchise also has loads of [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]]. Of course, as a result, Blizzard became savvy enough to know they can get away with ClicheStorm plots (and trailers) and only a few Tropers on this site will actually notice.

** TakeThatScrappy: Blizzard acknowledged his scrappiness. You find his dead body in the sequel and when clicked, a fountain of gold pops out.

* EarWorm: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGTUz4OnzdM&fmt=18 Tristram town theme]] from ''Diablo'' (or ''Diablo II'', in this case, as it was exactly the same as the version from the first game but extended by about three minutes). This theme is so memorable that at the end of ''Diablo II'', after killing Diablo himself, the game plays this theme for five seconds. Every single person who has ever played the first game hears this and ''shivers'' at the very sound.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gharbad the Weak.
* EveryoneIsSatanInHell: The game fell into this for a number of uninformed parents.

* MostAnnoyingSound: 'Whoa! What can I do for ya?'. Or 'I sense a soul in search of answers'. The latter one in particular is just plain [[JustForPun hell]] for those doing a SpeedRun of the game and are saving/reloading to obtain a specific staff or tome for a teleport skill.

* AnticlimaxBoss: Diablo himself is painfully easy to defeat. His only ranged attack is a simple blockable instant hit explosion but can be prevented by going melee, he's fairly susceptible to common magic, and has pretty low armor class. Doesn't help that there is an easy way to lure him out without waking his {{mook}}s. Excusable because [[spoiler:in actuality, the body you're fighting is that of a helpless child]].

** In the novel ''Legacy of Blood'', by Richard Knaak, General Augustus [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Malevolyn]] shows what kind of man he is by handing a loyal soldier to his witch and mistress Galelona to be [[HumanSacrifice horribly sacrificed to demons]]. Hunting down the armor of his ancestor Bartuc, Warlord of Blood, Malevolyn eventually [[DealWithTheDevil makes a pact with the demon Xazax]], who shows him a ritual to bind demons to his soldiers. Sacrificing the souls of his entire army, Malevolyn has them slaughter a patrol from Lut Gholein before having the city attacked. Despite [[ILied promising them peace]] should he get what he wants, Malevolyn reveals he intends on having Lut Gholein massacred to the last human being before moving on with a demonic army to subjugate or slaughter all before him.

* ChaoticEvil: Hell is depicted this way in the mythos, whose denizens enjoy slaughtering and corrupting mortals and who hold chaos as a cosmic ideal to which all reality should bend. However, besides the Three Prime Evils who rule Hell, most of the forces of Hell seem to in fact be [[LawfulStupidChaoticStupid stupid evil,]] and are perfectly willing to simply slaughter each other for all eternity.

* TaintedByThePreview: ''Diablo: Immortal'' was hit hard with this when it was revealed to be a mobile spinoff, a concept that has become highly controversial among gamers for [[AllegedlyFreeGame various]] [[BribingYourWayToVictory reasons]]. It also didn't help that they announced it at Blizzcon 2019 to an audience made up almost entirely of [=PC=] and/or console gamers.

* MST3kMantra: This is a requirement. FridgeLogic avoided.

** "Do you guys not have phones?!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]This was the response of Wyatt Cheng when a well-known Diablo player asked whether ''Diablo: Immortal'' would be released for PC, to which Cheng replied that it would be mobile-only, which was met with a ''very'' negative reaction. Cheng's response (despite being considered a panic reaction) was regarded as one of the ''dumbest'' PR missteps of the last few years, particularly because he [[CompletelyMissingThePoint missed the point]].[[/labelnote]]

** If those weren't bad enough, they'd often be accompanied by Soul Burners. These winged demonic harlots would NEVER be encountered on their own, and while they weren't able to teleport around like the mages, approaching even an average-sized cluster of them with melee in mind still bordered on suicide for anyone not tooled-up to the eyeballs with special items and healing consumables. Succubi are a close second to the mages, particularly for warriors, as they also tend to come in packs and [[BulletHell flood the screen with blood stars]]. They move at the exact same speed the player does, which makes catching up to them with melee in mind nearly suicidal.

* MagnificentBastard: The Prime Evils. They deliberately lost a war with their underlings so that they could be exiled to the human world. They planned everything that happens from the backstory to the second game and possibly even farther. Not to mention [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins they get away with what they wanted in each single game, even when they are supposed to have been defeated.]]]]

* InternetBackdraft: The entire announcement at 2018 Blizzcon and concept of ''Diablo: Immortal'' was eviscerated by fans of the franchise due to being mobile-only.

** [[SinisterMinister Archbishop Lazarus]] (also mentioned in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'') played an integral role in King Leoric's descent into madness and eventual transformation into the Skeleton King, as well as manipulating him into torturing and executing many innocents in the guise of "protecting his kingdom"--up to and including his own queen; feeding Tristram's villagers and the odd adventurer to the demonic Butcher in the first game, and having Albrecht, one of Leoric's two sons, made a vessel for Diablo himself. That said, it bears mentioning that this characterization is a {{Retcon}} from Diablo 3; in the first game Lazarus was just as much a victim of Diablo as Leoric, and [[AllThereInTheManual the backstory]] had a fittingly [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]] sequence where Diablo’s mere presence causes Lazarus to [[AndIMustScream unwillingly]] aid the demon.

** The Spitting Terrors. Their acid spits have a long range, high-fire rating and they leave a puddle of acid when they die. Warriors are guarantee to be injured because they have to get close in melee range. Players also have a very high chance of meeting them: they can spawn in the catacombs, the caves and in Hell.
* EarWorm: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGTUz4OnzdM&fmt=18 Tristram town theme]] from ''Diablo'' (or ''Diablo II'', in this case, as it was exactly the same as the version from the first game but with an extra 3 minutes or so of new music added to the end). This theme is so memorable that at the end of ''Diablo II'', after killing Diablo himself, the game plays this theme for five seconds. Every single person who has ever played the first game hears this and ''shivers'' at the very sound.

** "Do you guys not have phones?!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]This was the response of Wyatt Cheng when a well-known Diablo player asked whether ''Diablo: Immortal'' would be released for PC, to which Cheng replied that it would be mobile-only, which was met with a ''very'' negative reaction. Cheng's response (despite being considered a panic reaction) was regarded as one of the ''dumbest'' PR missteps of the last few years.[[/labelnote]]

* OvershadowedByControversy: Blizzcon 2018 was overshadowed by the announcement of ''Immortal'', and the now-infamous reply by Wyatt Cheng.

** "Do you guys not have phones?!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]This was the response of Wyatt Cheng when a well-known Diablo player asked whether ''Diablo: Immortal'' would be released for PC, to which Cheng replied that it would be mobile-only, which was met with a ''very'' negative reaction.[[/labelnote]]