History YMMV / PrinceOfPersia

* CompleteMonster: [[YMMV/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime The Vizier]]; [[YMMV/PrinceOfPersiaTheForgottenSands Ahihud]]; [[YMMV/PrinceOfPersiaTheLostCrown Jahandar]]; [[YMMV/PrinceOfPersia2008 Ahriman]]; [[YMMV/PrinceOfPersiaTheGraphicNovel Governor of Marv]]. See those pages for details.

* CompleteMonster:
** [[EvilChancellor The Vizier]], from the ''Sands of Time'' series, is the terminally ill advisor of the Maharajah, and is [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder willing to betray everyone]] to obtain [[ImmortalitySeeker immortality and godhood]]. [[VideoGame/BattlesOfPrinceOfPersia In flashbacks]], he abducts the wife of Daeva prince Saurva to compel the latter to steal the Box of One Thousand Restraints from the Persians, knowingly causing the war between Persians and Daevas, then murders the hostage anyway and seals Saurva and his army inside the box. He subsequently curses Saurva's sister with madness upon her refusal to marry him. [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime Years later]], he betrays the Maharajah by allowing the Persian army to take the city. The Vizier later tricks the Prince into causing the Sands of Time to turn the population of Azad into sand monsters. When the Prince rewinds time to warn Farah, the Vizier plots to kill them both and [[FrameUp frame]] the Prince for the murder of Farah. [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones After his death has been undone]], the Vizier, leading an army, murders the Maharajah before he sacks Babylon and has King Sharaman killed. He then kills Kaileena, the Empress of Time, causing the Sands of Time to reappear and turn the Vizier's army into monsters. Ruling Babylon as the renamed [[AGodAmI God of Time]], Zurvan, he allows his generals to commit atrocities on the civilians such as taking them to the arena while he personally kills the resistance and finally abducts Farah to transform her into his immortal queen.
** ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheForgottenSands The Forgotten Sands]]'' ([[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP]] version): [[BigBad Ahihud]] is the mightiest of the [[EvilIsBurningHot fire spirits]], who feared death and thus relentlessly [[ImmortalitySeeker seeks true immortality]]. To become unkillable, Ahihud invaded and ancient kingdom, made from the blood of a fallen God who created the concept of time, and enslaved the daughters of a God, the Sisters of Time, while brainwashing and transforming all denizens of a kingdom into his personal demonic servants, who worship him as a God. Beginning to drain an elixir from the kingdom, which was its very essence, Ahihud ordered his assassin to start murdering all the royals of Persia, after he heard a prophecy that one of them would kill him in the future.

* FandomRivalry: With ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', as several ''[=PoP=]'' fans consider it to be Ubisoft's SpiritualSuccessor to this franchise. While ''AC'' fans are confused by this and often dismissive the accusation, citing how outside of a few gameplay and story elements the franchises have little in common, some ''[=PoP=]'' fans believe that ''Assassin's Creed'' being Ubisoft's CashCowFranchise is the reason why they haven't made new ''Prince of Persia'' games since 2010 outside of two [[EndlessRunningGame mobile games]].

* FandomRivalry: With ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', as several ''PoP'' fans consider it to be Ubisoft's SpiritualSuccessor to this franchise. While ''AC'' fans are confused by this and often dismissive the accusation, citing how outside of a few gameplay and story elements the franchises have little in common, some ''PoP'' fans believe that ''Assassin's Creed'' being Ubisoft's CashCowFranchise is the reason why they haven't made new ''Prince of Persia'' games since 2010 outside of two [[EndlessRunningGame mobile games]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: ''The Two Thrones'' makes an amusing, fairly original and largely effective attempt to turn back from the approach taken by the gratingly DarkerAndEdgier ''Warrior Within'' by having the Prince reconcile his attitude and return to his more optimistic original outlook.

** In ''The Sands of Time'', after the Prince runs away from the Vizier with the Dagger of Time in his hands, the former says of him: "The man who had tricked me now had his prize but for some unknown purpose coveted the dagger as well, would stop at nothing to possess it. Well, I would give him what he sought. I would plunge it into his foul and treacherous heart!" In ''The Two Thrones'' [[spoiler:the Vizier uses the Dagger to transform himself into Zurvan, and towards the end of the game, in fulfillment of his ExactWords, the Prince leaps off from a high place to deliver the FinishingMove to the weakened Zurvan and, after the camera's pause and OrbitalShot worthy of ''Film/TheMatrix'', plunges the dagger into his foul and treacherous heart. In an ironic nod, after he pulls the Dagger from Zurvan's body, the last words of the latter are: "This is not what the Dagger promised!"]]

** In ''The Sands of Time'', after the Prince runs away from the Vizier with the Dagger of Time in his hands, the former says of him: "The man who had tricked me now had his prize but for some unknown purpose coveted the dagger as well, would stop at nothing to possess it. Well, I would give him what he sought. I would plunge it into his foul and treacherous heart!" In ''The Two Thrones'' [[spoiler:the Vizier uses the Dagger to transform himself into Zurvan, and towards the end of the game, in fulfillment of his ExactWords, the Prince leaps off from a high place to deliver the FinishingMove to the weakened Zurvan and, after the camera's pause and OrbitalShot worthy of ''Film/TheMatrix'', plunges the dagger into his foul and treacherous heart. In an ironic nod, after he pulls the Dagger from Zurvan's body, the FamousLastWords of the latter are: "This is not what the Dagger promised!"]]

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: ''[[VideoGameRemake Prince of Persia Classic]]'' replaced the [[FatBastard fat guard]] in level 6 with an ogre-like creature. Fans of the original were NOT pleased.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda: No matter what you do, ''The Two Thrones'' only has one ending. There is no bad ending where the dark prince wins.

* SequelDisplacement: The sands of time trilogy for the younger generation.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: ''[[VideoGameRemake Prince of Persia Classic]]'' replaced the [[FatBastard fat guard]] in level 6 with an ogre-like creature. Fans were NOT pleased.

* MemeticMutation: "I smolder with generic rage", ''Webcomic/PennyArcade''[='=]s mocking of the DarkerAndEdgier changes to the Prince's character in ''Warrior Within''.
** AscendedMeme: One of the preview videos for ''The Two Thrones'' has the devs explaining that the Prince ''doesn't'' "smolder with generic rage" in the new game.
* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler:The Prince's father is a boss]] in ''Sands of Time''. Guess what happens.
* PolishedPort: The {{UsefulNotes/SNES}} version of the original game. Needless to say, this port was by a completely different developer from the one who did the port of its sequel.
* PortingDisaster: ''Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame'' on the SNES. As one comment on [=YouTube=] put it:
-->This isn't [[ObviousBeta a game with bugs, this is a giant bug with bits of game]].
** Fun fact: The game was made by Creator/TitusSoftware, who would later go on to make [[GiftedlyBad classics]] like ''VideoGame/{{Superman 64}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}} [[PortingDisaster 64]]''.
* RatedMForMoney: ''Warrior Within'' which ramped up the rating to M -- by adding gushers of blood, foul language, sadomasochistic enemies, and a Prince embittered and hardened by running for his life for seven years. One of the most blatant cases of this trope on record. Series creator Jordan Mechner, who had a hand in ''Sands of Time'', has been vocal about his disapproval of Ubisoft's sequels.

* GameBreaker: In ''Sands'', the wall-bounce can knock down - thus basically killing - just about any enemy. Any enemy it can't take care of is vulnerable to the vaulting attack. {{Nerf}}ed in the sequels.
* GeniusBonus: ''The Forgotten Sands'' contains several references to King Solomon that seem enormously out of place if you only know him from Literature/TheBible. However, in both Jewish and Islamic mythologies, Solomon was a powerful sorcerer. In ''The Sands of Time'', the Prince twice mentions [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostam Rostam]], a famous hero in Persian mythology, and Farah reads out a passage from Creator/{{Rumi}} in the library.

* ContestedSequel: ''Warrior Within''. You'll find either fans of the first game who hate it with passion or others who think this is the best in the series.
* EvilIsSexy: Shahdee in ''Warrior Within'' [[spoiler: and Kaileena (depending from the ending)]].

* NightmareFuel: Wonder why the Dahaka scares the Prince so much in ''Warrior Within''? Because not even in his signature ability to rewind time is he safe from it. This is because [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ3Oz5UgV8s&feature=related you can only understand what the Dahaka is saying]] ''when he rewinds time''.
** While the glowing save points in ''The Sands of Time'' give the Prince many helpful visions of the future, some of them are pretty much Nightmare Fuel. One example is [[spoiler:when Farah is about to fall off a cliff with the Dagger of Time, and the Prince tries saving her from a terrible fate]]. Another is when another vision shows the Prince trying to walk through the [[BoobyTrap booby-trapped]] corridor, only to get [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill cut by the two wall-blades and pushed onto the spikes that quickly impale him on his back before he falls onto the floor and dies, eyes closed]]. That death, however, is easily avoided, since he's [[SchmuckBait not stupid enough to fall for such traps]] thanks to his abilities.

* CompleteMonster: [[EvilChancellor The Vizier]], from the ''Sands of Time'' series, is the terminally ill advisor of the Maharajah, and is [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder willing to betray everyone]] to obtain [[ImmortalitySeeker immortality and godhood]]. [[VideoGame/BattlesOfPrinceOfPersia In flashbacks]], he abducts the wife of Daeva prince Saurva to compel the latter to steal the Box of One Thousand Restraints from the Persians, knowingly causing the war between Persians and Daevas, then murders the hostage anyway and seals Saurva and his army inside the box. He subsequently curses Saurva's sister with madness upon her refusal to marry him. [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime Years later]], he betrays the Maharajah by allowing the Persian army to take the city. The Vizier later tricks the Prince into causing the Sands of Time to turn the population of Azad into sand monsters. When the Prince rewinds time to warn Farah, the Vizier plots to kill them both and [[FrameUp frame]] the Prince for the murder of Farah. [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones After his death has been undone]], the Vizier, leading an army, murders the Maharajah before he sacks Babylon and has King Sharaman killed. He then kills Kaileena, the Empress of Time, causing the Sands of Time to reappear and turn the Vizier's army into monsters. Ruling Babylon as the renamed [[AGodAmI God of Time]], Zurvan, he allows his generals to commit atrocities on the civilians such as taking them to the arena while he personally kills the resistance and finally abducts Farah to transform her into his immortal queen.

* CompleteMonster: [[EvilChancellor The Vizier]] from the ''Sands of Time'' series is the TreacherousAdvisor of the Maharajah of India and the [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime first]] and [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones third]] games. [[VideoGame/BattlesOfPrinceOfPersia In flashbacks]], he abducts the wife of daeva prince Saurva to compel the latter to steal the Box of One Thousand Restraints from the Persians, knowingly causing the war between Persians and daevas, and [[ILied murdering the hostage even after his demands have been met]], then sealing Saurva and his entire army inside the box. He subsequently attempts to make Saurva’s sister Sindra his wife then curses her with madness upon refusal. Suffering an incurable illness, he [[ImmortalitySeeker seeks immortality and godhood]], and is [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder willing to betray everyone]] to achieve his plans. He first betrays the Maharajah by killing the gatekeeper, allowing the Persian army to take the city. The Vizier later tricks the Prince into causing the Sands of Time to spread across a Persian city and turn the population into sand monsters. When the Prince rewinds time to warn Princess Farah, the Vizier plots to kill them both and [[FrameUp frame]] the Prince for the murder of Farah. When the Prince accidentally undoes the Vizier's death, the latter, leading an army, murders the Maharajah, takes over the kingdom, and [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty captures Farah]] before he mercilessly sacks Babylon and has King Sharaman killed. He then abducts and kills Kaileena, the Empress of Time, causing the Sands of Time to reappear again and turn the Vizier's entire army into monsters. Ruling Babylon as the renamed [[AGodAmI God of Time]], [[OneWingedAngel Zurvan]], he allows his generals to commit atrocities on the civilians such as taking them to the arena or locking a bunch of people in a burning building while he personally kills the remains of the resistance. In the final act of the game, he abducts Farah in order to forcibly transform her into his immortal queen.

** Strangely, ''The Two Thrones'' was also rated M, even though it was more on the level of ''Sands of Time''. Rumor was that it was based on content that was changed by release, which seems confirmed since the Wii and PSP versions are both T. The 2010 remaster for the [=PS3=] still retains its M rating, however.

** Strangely, ''The Two Thrones'' was also rated M, even though it was more on the level of ''Sands of Time''. Rumor was that it was based on content that was changed by release, which seems confirmed since the Wii and PSP versions are both T.

* PolishedPort: The {{SNES}} version of the original game. Needless to say, this port was by a completely different developer from the one who did the port of its sequel.