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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Can happen to some since Moorcock's Tropes have been widely used by brands like ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain,'' [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] and Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, and many other fantasy franchises. Also the angsty protagonist that goes through a TraumaCongaLine has pretty much lost its novelty for quite some time.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Can happen to some since Moorcock's Tropes have been widely used by brands like ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain,'' [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] OnceOriginalNowCommon: When the saga was coming out, it was revolutionary and Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, and ground-breaking. By late 80s, it was the most overused template for "edgy" fantasy. By the mid-90s, it was a laughstock about try-hard material for teenage metalheads. To say nothing about many things that made Elric stand out not only became cliches, but were simply done better by the numerous other fantasy franchises. Also works. Also, the angsty protagonist that goes through a TraumaCongaLine has pretty much lost its novelty for quite some time.decades ago.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Certainly evoked by Moorcock, who wanted to deconstruct the popular epic fantasy stories of the time such as ''Lord of the Rings'' and ''Conan'' by dialing the brooding up to eleven and giving an air of hopelessness and nihlism in Elric's ultimately vain quest to fight his fate.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Elric is specifically warned not to leave his treacherous cousin Yyrkoon in charge of Melnibone, but he does anyway. Sure enough, Elric is exiled and Yyrkoon goes on (another) power trip. To elaborate the idiocy; this cousin has already [[spoiler:thrown him off his ship]] with his armor on, after running away, [[spoiler:creating a secret army]] and also [[spoiler:kidnapping the chick]] afterwards they fight [[spoiler:over Stormbringer and Mournblade]] which he wins pretty decisively and then he puts Yyrkoon back on the throne to travel the world for a year... graah!
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Certainly evoked by Moorcock, who wanted to deconstruct the popular epic fantasy stories of the time such as ''Lord of the Rings'' and ''Conan'' by dialing the brooding UpToEleven and giving an air of hopelessness and nihlism in Elric's ultimately vain quest to fight his fate.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Certainly evoked by Moorcock, who wanted to deconstruct the popular epic fantasy stories of the time such as ''Lord of the Rings'' and ''Conan'' by dialing the brooding UpToEleven up to eleven and giving an air of hopelessness and nihlism in Elric's ultimately vain quest to fight his fate.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Can happen to some since Moorcock's Tropes have been widely used by brands like ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain,'' [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]] and Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, and many other fantasy franchises. Also the angsty protagonist that goes through a TraumaCongaLine has pretty much lost its novelty for quite some time.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Can happen to some since Moorcock's Tropes have been widely used by brands like ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain,'' [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] and Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, and many other fantasy franchises. Also the angsty protagonist that goes through a TraumaCongaLine has pretty much lost its novelty for quite some time.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Can happen to some since Moorcock's Tropes have been widely used by brands like ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain,'' [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] Comicbook/AdamWarlock [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]] and Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, and many other fantasy franchises. Also the angsty protagonist that goes through a TraumaCongaLine has pretty much lost its novelty for quite some time.
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* WeirdAlEffect: If you heard of It, yes, this is the fantasy series that inspired the alignment system in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and the Chaos faction in ''Warhammer'' and ''Warhammer 40,000''.
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* TheWeirdAlEffect: If you heard of It, yes, this is the fantasy series that inspired the alignment system in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and the Chaos faction in ''Warhammer'' and ''Warhammer 40,000''.
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* TheWeirdAlEffect: WeirdAlEffect: If you heard of It, yes, this is the fantasy series that inspired the alignment system in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and the Chaos faction in ''Warhammer'' and ''Warhammer 40,000''.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Can happen to some since Moorcock's Tropes have been widely used by brands like ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' and many other fantasy franchises. Also the angsty protagonist that goes through a TraumaCongaLine has pretty much lost its novelty for quite some time.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Can happen to some since Moorcock's Tropes have been widely used by brands like ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain,'' [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] Comicbook/AdamWarlock and Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, and many other fantasy franchises. Also the angsty protagonist that goes through a TraumaCongaLine has pretty much lost its novelty for quite some time.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: P. Craig Russell's adaptations of ''Stormbringer'' is amazing. Michael Whelan and Creator/YoshitakaAmano have also lent there talents to the saga with several covers for various editions.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: P. Craig Russell's adaptations of ''Stormbringer'' is amazing. Michael Whelan and Creator/YoshitakaAmano have also lent there their talents to the saga with several covers for various editions.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Can happen to some since Moorcock's Tropes have been widely used by brands like TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons, TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}, Franchise/TheWitcher, Videogame/LegacyOfKain ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' and many other fantasy franchises. Also the angsty protagonist that goes through a TraumaCongaLine has pretty much lost its novelty for quite some time.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Certainly evoked by Moorcock, who wanted to deconstruct the popular epic fantasy stories of the time such as Lord of the Rings and Conan by dialing the brooding UpToEleven and giving an air of hopelessness and nihlism in Elric's ultimately vain quest to fight his fate.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Certainly evoked by Moorcock, who wanted to deconstruct the popular epic fantasy stories of the time such as Lord ''Lord of the Rings Rings'' and Conan ''Conan'' by dialing the brooding UpToEleven and giving an air of hopelessness and nihlism in Elric's ultimately vain quest to fight his fate.
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* TheWeirdAlEffect: If you heard of It, yes, this is the fantasy series that inspired the alignment system in Dungeons & Dragons and the Chaos faction in Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000.
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* TheWeirdAlEffect: If you heard of It, yes, this is the fantasy series that inspired the alignment system in Dungeons ''Dungeons & Dragons Dragons'' and the Chaos faction in Warhammer ''Warhammer'' and Warhammer 40,000.''Warhammer 40,000''.
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* CompleteMonster: [[EvilSorcerer Jagreen Lern]] is the ruthless Theocrat of Pan Tang. Becoming the champion of the forces of Chaos, [[EvilOverlord Jagreen Lern]] takes to murdering the friends of [[AntiHero Elric]] while also running his domains with brutality, HumanSacrifice and turning countless people into [[AndIMustScream living, tormented statues]]. Jagreen Lern proceeds to lead an army across the lands, massacring those he comes across and conducting human sacrifice and torture. Torturing Elric when he is captured, Jagreen Lern later mutates Elric's wife into a twisted abomination Elric is forced to euthanize. Jagreen Lern later leads the forces of Chaos to dominate the world, stopping at nothing to harm Elric himself.
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* CompleteMonster: [[EvilSorcerer [[SorcerousOverlord Jagreen Lern]] is the ruthless Theocrat of Pan Tang. Becoming the champion of the forces of Chaos, [[EvilOverlord Jagreen Lern]] Lern takes to murdering the friends of [[AntiHero Elric]] while also running his domains with brutality, HumanSacrifice and turning countless people into [[AndIMustScream living, tormented statues]]. Jagreen Lern proceeds to lead an army across the lands, massacring those he comes across and conducting human sacrifice and torture. Torturing Elric when he is captured, Jagreen Lern later mutates Elric's wife into a twisted abomination Elric is forced to euthanize. Jagreen Lern later leads the forces of Chaos to dominate the world, stopping at nothing to harm Elric himself.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: It's maybe hard to go through all the books with Elric's angst and misery. Not to mention that [[spoiler:pretty much every sympathetic character dies horribly towards the end, including Elric. Although he gets a better ending in the Multiverse comic book]].
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* HoYay: Dyvim Tvar is said to love only two things in life: dragons and Elric.
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** Dyvim Tvar is said to love only two things in life: dragons and Elric.
** Dyvim Tvar is said to love only two things in life: dragons and Elric.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Elric is specifically warned not to leave his treacherous cousin Yyrkoon in charge of Melnibone, but he does anyway. Sure enough, Elric is exiled and Yyrkoon goes on (another) power trip.
** To elaborate the idiocy; this cousin has already [[spoiler:thrown him off his ship]] with his armor on, after running away, [[spoiler:creating a secret army]] and also [[spoiler:kidnapping the chick]] afterwards they fight [[spoiler:over Stormbringer and Mournblade]] which he wins pretty decisively and then he puts Yyrkoon back on the throne to travel the world for a year... graah!
** To elaborate the idiocy; this cousin has already [[spoiler:thrown him off his ship]] with his armor on, after running away, [[spoiler:creating a secret army]] and also [[spoiler:kidnapping the chick]] afterwards they fight [[spoiler:over Stormbringer and Mournblade]] which he wins pretty decisively and then he puts Yyrkoon back on the throne to travel the world for a year... graah!
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* WhatAnIdiot: Elric is specifically warned not to leave his treacherous cousin Yyrkoon in charge of Melnibone, but he does anyway. Sure enough, Elric is exiled and Yyrkoon goes on (another) power trip.
**trip. To elaborate the idiocy; this cousin has already [[spoiler:thrown him off his ship]] with his armor on, after running away, [[spoiler:creating a secret army]] and also [[spoiler:kidnapping the chick]] afterwards they fight [[spoiler:over Stormbringer and Mournblade]] which he wins pretty decisively and then he puts Yyrkoon back on the throne to travel the world for a year... graah!
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Elric himself. The audience sees him either as a refreshing departure from the standard fantasy hero or as a whiny moron who gets hit by the IdiotBall a bit too much.
** Lampshaded in some stories, where Elric tries to argue that he doesn't want to be pitied, but others say he wants nothing more.
** Lampshaded in some stories, where Elric tries to argue that he doesn't want to be pitied, but others say he wants nothing more.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Elric himself. The audience sees him either as a refreshing departure from the standard fantasy hero or as a whiny moron who gets hit by the IdiotBall a bit too much.
**much. Lampshaded in some stories, where Elric tries to argue that he doesn't want to be pitied, but others say he wants nothing more.
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* NightmareFuel: Plenty to go around, especially the appearance of [[TortureTechnician Doctor]] [[LeanAndMean Jest]].
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* NightmareFuel: Plenty to go around, especially the appearance of [[TortureTechnician Doctor]] [[LeanAndMean Jest]]. In the Titan Comics graphic novel he even [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/dr-jest/4005-108124/images/ looks like]] a cenobite from Hellraiser.
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%%* {{Squick}}: What Jagreen Lern does to [[spoiler:Zarozinia]] in ''Stormbringer.''
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