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3	''Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God'' (also known as ''Dungeons & Dragons: The Elemental Might'') is a 2005 made-for-TV live-action movie set in the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' universe. Unlike the ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'' film released in 2000, ''Wrath of the Dragon God'' is clearly based upon its source material -- to the point at which it often seems as if its characters are simply explaining various aspects of the Player's Handbook to one another.
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5	3000 years ago, Faluzure, the evil dragon god of decay and undeath, attacked the kingdom of Turan. The Turanian mages were able to repel Faluzure and imprison him.
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7	100 years ago, the evil mage Damodar (Creator/BrucePayne) -- formerly TheDragon to Creator/JeremyIrons' BigBad in the previous ''Dungeons & Dragons'' movie -- fought against the people of Ishmir and was cursed with a century of suffering as one of the undead. Now he has returned, and with the Black Orb of Falazur, seeks to resurrect the dragon god to take his revenge on Ishmir.
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9	The people behind this produced a third film called ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsTheBookOfVileDarkness'', which premiered on Creator/{{Syfy}} in November 2012.
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11	!!''Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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13	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When Ormaline's dove familiar Ona gets killed by the lightning floor trap in Malek's vault, Nim can't help but laugh. Needless to say, everyone stares like he just cracked a dead baby joke, though Lux and Berek can be seen [[{{Corpsing}} stifling their own laughter]].
14	* AnArmAndALeg: Berek cuts off Damodar's arm to get the orb out of his hand, and he barely reacts. There's not even any blood, so perhaps he doesn't feel pain too. It's restored later with magic. Ormaline also gets her arm torn off when it's caught while teleporting the party to safety, and this is shown more realistically as her bleeding profusely, needing immediate aid from healers.
15	* AntiClimax: Both times they fight him, our heroes have no trouble beating Damodar in physical combat, even though his previous appearance established him to be a competent warrior and mage. He must be a century out of training.
16	* AnyoneCanDie: The party's cleric dies in an encounter unrelated to the quest.
17	* AvengersAssemble: When Berek is collecting party members, each gets a quick scene to show their stuff.
18	* BarBrawl: Lux's introduction is fitting for a barbarian.
19	* BerserkButton: Don't talk about Lux's brother. Appropriately enough, they're both actually berserkers. Her brother was killed prior to the events of the film because he couldn't keep his rage in check.
20	* TheBerserker: Lux, true to D&D rules, is a berserker who can rage for battle advantages.
21	* BigBad: Faluzure, The Dragon God of Decay and Undeath, the ultimate villain here.
22	* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Nim keeps his dagger on a wrist-mounted spring mechanism for quick drawing.
23	* BodyHorror: Melora spends most of the movie rotting from the outside in after being cursed by Damodar. Eww.
24	* BreakTheHaughty: If facial expressions are anything to go by, this happens to Lux in the Goblin town. At first, [[spoiler:she is completely annoyed and unconvinced when Nim stops her from activating what he claims is a trap. When, he reveals that it actually ''was'' a trap, she's more or less floored.]]
25	* CoversAlwaysLie: The dragon on the cover is not the titular dragon god, but an ice dragon the band meet at the halfway point. Also, the foreground shows multiple dragons attacking the city when Faluzure does this by himself in the actual movie.
26	* DarkestHour: Just before [[spoiler:Melora uses her faith to defeat the dragon. Recap: [[StoryBreakerPower Dorian's]] dead, Lux and Nim are incapacitated, Ormaline is incapacitated and has lost an arm, Melora's slowly turning into an evil undead creature from a curse, the king is dead, the captain of the guard is dead, the Head of the Council of Mages was killed and replaced long ago, and the rest of the city guard and remaining council mages are putting up a fruitless fight against the dragon god while he rains destruction upon the land.]]
27	* DontTouchItYouIdiot: Nim stops Lux from impulsively grabbing the chest in the Goblin village, knowing that it's been trapped.
28	* DragonAscendant: Damodar, Profion's right-hand man from the first movie, is the main villain of the sequel.
29	* TheDragon: Damodar is working for Faluzure and pledges himself as the dragon god's thrall. [[note]] It's ''not'' Faluzure himself, who really ''is'' a dragon. [[/note]]
30	* DragonGod: Faluzure is the dragon god of decay and undeath who was sealed away 3,000 years before the time of the film.
31	* DragonsAreDemonic: The eponymous dragon god Faluzure is a creature of decay and undeath whom the evil mage Damodar intends to awaken.
32	* DungeonBypass: The plan to defeat Damodar and retrieve the orb is by using a combination of magical scrying and teleportation to bypass his defences and surprise him. In the Dungeons and Dragons gaming community, this is known as "scry and die". Ironically enough, this is usually frowned upon.
33	* DungeonCrawling: The party does a classic style (if shortened for time) dungeon crawl to find their goal, complete with solving puzzles, narrowly avoiding death traps, secret switches, etc.
34	* EvilIsNotAToy: Averted. Damodar releases Faluzure, but he holds no illusions as to who's the superior in this new relationship, immediately pledging his loyalty and asking for him to destroy Izmir, then to rule over Izmir "As [Faluzure's] thrall." Faluzure, probably grateful at being freed from thousands of years of imprisonment, is perfectly fine with this arrangement and even pauses to set a tithe rate.
35	* FacialMarkings: Dorian has some bitchin' racing stripes on his face. Lux's facial tattoo is much more tasteful, by comparison.
36	* FireForgedFriends: [[TinyGuyHugeGirl Lux and Nim]] are much friendlier after overcoming a few dangers together.
37	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The sailors sent to retrieve Ormaline whisper that she doesn't look very impressive as a wizard. She clearly overhears this, smiles to herself, and gestures subtly with her staff. In the background, her island disappears.[[note]]Probably a [[https://dungeons-and-dragons-35.fandom.com/wiki/Hallucinatory_Terrain ''Hallucintory Terrain'']] spell[[/note]]
38	* GeographicFlexibility: The capital city, merely a century after the first film, is completely different. Gone are the mile-tall towers of the mages, as if the city was razed and rebuilt using more conventional fantasy architecture.
39	* GhostTown: The goblin village at Kurtal is completely abandoned, leaving the heroes to have to search the place themselves.
40	* HeadDesk: When he finds out that they're heading for a goblin settlement, Nim does this on his horse's saddle.
41	* HighFantasy: We have heroes coming together to go on a quest to defeat an evil dragon god. It would be HeroicFantasy except that [[spoiler:the BigBad has to be defeated with the [[MacGuffin orb]] instead of through any kind of combat skills.]]
42	* {{Hobbits}}: According to WordOfGod and AllThereInTheManual, Nim is a halfling even though he is only a little shorter than everyone else.
43	* InNameOnly: Izmir bears absolutely no resemblance to the one in the first movie, and Damodar might as well be a new character played by the same actor if he hadn't offhandedly mentioned the events of the first movie once. Otherwise there is no connection whatsoever to the first movie. On the other hand, it is much more of an adaptation of the game than the first one is.
44	* JerkAss: Nim is rude, deceptive and sneaky.
45	* IOweYouMyLife: Lux and Nim's friendship picks up after Nim saves her from a spike trap she didn't notice.
46	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:The lich Klaxx, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere who flees when trouble begins brewing]].]]
47	* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler: Klaxx]] has been impersonating [[spoiler: Oberon]] ever since killing the person whose face they now wear.
48	* LargeHam: Everyone has their moments, but Damodar is king of the ham heap, with Lux coming in at a close second.
49	* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:Dorian is turned to ice and shatters, dying. Although he was supposed to have returned in the now-cancelled spinoff show.]]
50	* MrExposition: Damodar explains to his minions (for audience benefit) his EvilPlan.
51	* NeverMyFault: Once Damodar makes the conditions of his undead curse clear, he abruptly growls that he did '''not''' fail Profion; he simply died before Profion could lift the curse.
52	* OrcusOnHisThrone: Unlike in the first movie, where Damodar was a skilled warrior and TheHeavy, here he spends his time holed up in his citadel, using his magic on the Black Orb to wake Faluzure up.
53	* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Berek knows most of the party from previous adventures and requests their aid specifically.
54	* RememberTheNewGuy: Played for laughs with Ormaline's familiar, who she claims has been with her for many adventures and none of her adventuring team have ever seen before (dramatizing a common occurrence in the game where familiars are completely forgotten by their players). Poor Ona then gets immediately killed in the same scene.
55	* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Dorian dies soon after his introduction. It's required for the rest of the plot, since he had [[StoryBreakerPower healing magic and powerful anti-undead abilities.]]]]
56	* SamusIsAGirl: Lux's introductory scene fools the viewer into believing the barbarian they're talking about is another character - until she starts a BarBrawl with him.
57	* ScreamingWarrior: In keeping with the source material, Lux, being a barbarian, uses a shout during the climax that's powerful enough to scare Damodar's horse into throwing him off.
58	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere
59	** [[spoiler:Klaxx makes tracks as soon as he sees the tide turning against him.]]
60	** [[spoiler:Nim and Ormaline are forced to do this due to near fatal injuries]]
61	* SealedEvilInACan: Faluzure has been trapped for 3,000 years.
62	* ShoutOut: To more than one classic ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' module.
63	** "... stormed the Ghost Tower of Inverness." Module C2, ''The Ghost Tower of Inverness.''
64	** "What did your brother see at the Barrier Peaks that drove him crazy?" Module S3, ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks,'' contains a great deal that [[OutsideContextProblem could]] [[EldritchAbomination drive]] [[HumanoidAbomination someone]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation crazy]].
65	* TeleFrag: Due to an unfortunate flaw built into the pool of sight, Malek died by teleporting himself directly into a wall. [[spoiler: Later, Ormaline does the same thing, but only loses an arm in the process.]]
66	* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Played with when Nim and Berek try to figure out the password to Malek's vault.
67	--> '''Berek:''' Did Malek have a wife or children?\
68	'''Nim:''' ''Gives Berek a'' "really?" ''glance''
69	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Nim's does a HeadDesk after learning that Berek plans to take them to see a village of goblins.
70	* TokenEvilTeammate: Nim is officially stated to be ChaoticGood but comes across as ChaoticNeutral ''at best''. His ''introductory scene'' has him nonchalantly tricking a couple of fellow thieves into triggering a trap that roasts them alive, after which Nim steals their stuff. [[AssholeVictim Though, they did try to rip him off.]]
71	* TooDumbToLive: In Nim's introduction scene his partners announce they don't intend to pay his share while he's still clearing the traps. They inexplicably still trust him to do so. The result is him taking his pay (and then some) from their smoking corpses.
72	* TruerToTheText: This one goes out of its way to be faithful to ''D&D'' lore, unlike the first movie, which was InNameOnly.
73	* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The story is split between the heroes' quest and the events back home with Melora doing magic research and fighting a curse.
74	* UnequalRites: The ritual to bind Falazure requires a caster proficient in both Arcane and Divine magic, which at the beginning of the film effectively means nobody can cast it.
75	* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler:Lux, near the end, goes into a rage to hold off enemies. Subverted - she survives and pops up again to help Berek during the final battle.]]

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