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My name is Kadorhal, and I can be punned into anything.
Kadorhal provides examples of:
- Ace Pilot: I'm a pretty decent pilot in video games, though I'm not really the best among my group of friends - a few I play HAWX with are at least as good as me, probably better, and T1migi is better with helicopters than me.
- The Alcoholic: Looking through old works I made, it seems every other self-insert I made was this. It seems I honestly believed I would become this - ironically enough, when I finally became old enough to legally drink and had my first actually alcoholic drink, it tasted terrible.
- Arc Number: 23, which I have personally seen affect reality. It's recently brought a pair of friends with it: 9 and 108. And occasionally 118.
- Badass Longcoat: A coat whose color I'm not entirely sure of, it seems to change every time I move from one room to another, though it seems to default to brown when I'm not wearing it. I also had a green one that fit a little better, but I let my brother have that one.
- Better than a Bare Bulb: I tend to endlessly lampshade things other people do in chats rather than actually add to the conversation in a meaningful way. This, combined with constantly telling everybody how much I suck, is probably why I never feel welcome in such chats.
- Berserk Button: Within this very wiki, people generally having no clue how to actually write and format pages (to the point that I'd probably get edit-banned again if edit reasons didn't disappear entirely if there's an F-bomb within them).
- Any mention of the alt-fire of Half-Life 2's pistol, if only because anyone who does mention it on this wiki seems to believe it was an intended feature that is still in the game, and not a glitch that was patched out seven goddamn years ago.
- Outside of this wiki: People using rocket-propelled grenades (in particular the RPG-7) to kill me in video games even if I am the only person within the blast radius and not in a vehicle. Mostly because of very bad experiences in Call of Duty 4's singleplayer campaign. For that matter, having to use the RPG-7 at all, typically because it's inaccurate as hell simply because Call of Duty 4's RPG-7 was.
- People with egos bigger than my own, though since my own ego is, despite all the Self-Deprecation, pretty damn big at times, this rarely comes up with people who I am actually able to lay the verbal smack-down on.
- Blatant cheating in multiplayer games, particularly, again, Call of Duty - it's pretty hard to enjoy class-based multiplayer and gradually unlocking new weapons when, no matter what set-up you pick, you're killed by someone that always knows where you are and kills you in a single shot to any part of the body from any range with any weapon.
- Beyond the Impossible: Inversion with extraordinary sniper/marksman shots made in video games; two are listed in order under Improbable Aiming Skills, with the first being the first I ever made and the second being about a year or two later. A third shot, just two weeks after the second, was simply two Clot headshots with a single revolver bullet, which somehow gave me an achievement for an entirely different weapon.
- Catch Phrase: Usually when I notice I've ended up with one, I end up never saying it again under any circumstances, but the current seems to be all-lowercase "yes" with no punctuation (described by a friend as "standard yes response").
- Continuity Nod: A lot of things my friends and I make refer to other things we've done before, regardless of whether the intended audience gets it or not (which is to be expected from in-jokes between a group of friends).
- Cue the Flying Pigs: As mentioned below, my Call of Duty 4 Let's Play was the first I actually finished. Postal 2, started a year before it was and then on hiatus for nearly three, has finally joined it as a thing I have finished, and now my classic Call of Duty thread also has timely updates with more than one video per update.
- Discontinuity: I'd like to pretend nothing that happened to me during 2007 (other than anything related to Return to Castle Wolfenstein) actually happened. I don't remember why that is anymore, so I guess that means it's working.
- Egopolis: Kadorholland, a fake country whose name is attached to every server I host for any game. A forum I regularly visit also has "Kadorhal Inc.", referring to how my computer(s) tend to malfunction in impossible ways in an attempt to stop me from Lets Playing anything.
- Everybody Remembers the Stripper: As you can tell from the below quote, I'm the one who added the House of the Dead: OVERKILL example on that page.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: It's probably saying something that, not only do I have more friends over the Internet than in real life, but most of them are from northern Europe (particularly the Netherlands and British Isles) and Canada.
- Gratuitous German: I tend to sprinkle German phrases into my sentences (particularly variations on "ja", "nein", or "danke"), ever since playing a ton of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory with my buddies.
- Gun Porn: I should probably be scaring myself with how much I know about firearms, particularly pistols. Granted, the facts I spout are only actually correct when someone actually asks, and since nobody actually cares, nobody ever asks.
- Hurricane of Puns: Every interaction with T1m results in this, enough that I've got a text file of multiple hilarious things we've said to each other, starting around mid-2007 or 2008.
- I Have Many Names: WolfZword, Kadorhal, Caleb Wolfwood, Gordon Threemen, plus different ways to shorten "Kadorhal"... At one point it got so ridiculous I managed to confuse myself:
Random TF2 player: your annoying agent Me: oh for a second I forgot my name's not Agent G anymore. :V Friend: ...I did too, actually.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: In ARMA 2, I once shot down a Hind with a single bullet to the engine with a Barrett M107. This has been referenced at least once as the single most awesome thing I have ever done.
- There was also a much more recent shot with an M21 in Call of Duty 4, where I nailed two headshots with a single bullet.
- I was on the receiving end of such a shot a month or so after the above: on the very same map I made my M21 shot in, while trying to crawl across a bridge to avoid snipers, I decided to just get up and dash across at the halfway point, only to immediately stand up right between an enemy sniper and an ally he was aiming for.
- ARMA II again: I recently managed to shoot down and destroy a Hip with a single bullet to the rear rotor.
- Let's Play: I do these on occasion. Games I've done include Blood 2, Postal 2, Call of Duty 4, Blood, and Call of Duty 1 and 2. I've been progressively finishing more of each one; Blood II I only finished one chapter of four, Postal 2 I initially finished three of five game-days, Blood I finished 3 of 4 episodes, and finally, Call of Duty 4 was finished entirely.
- Loser Guy: If I am in a group that includes any number of women, and any or all of those women are romantically involved with any people at all, those people will invariably not be me.
- Hell, there was one point where there were six or seven different girls at one of my old schools constantly fighting over one guy. Two of whom taunted one another by claiming they could drop out and have me instead. Naturally, nobody did that, and then I ended up moving out of the state entirely.
- Love Will Lead You Back: An old friend of mine was in a situation like this - she had a boyfriend over the Internet who disappeared shortly before I met her, and refused to go out with anyone else in case he returned. Looking back on it, I think she only even tolerated me because of how similar I apparently was to her old boyfriend.
- Mind Screw: Another thing I apparently really like, considering of all the LP's I made Postal 2 was the only one where it was 100% guaranteed that what the viewer saw and what I reacted to were one and the same.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: My old character WolfZword was a half-human half-wolf with dual Desert Eagles and a five-ton sword, created by science, who somehow became a kitsune, had a kid who became 20 in about three weeks and tried to kill him, lost his left arm in a fight and got a magic automail replacement, used a lot of dark magic in a fight against Giygas and gained a Superpowered Evil Side who could appear anywhere he wanted, got hired by the UAC and started killing zombies and demons as a job, learned how to control and then gave up the Force, twice, died in a weird internet accident, came back a week later with his natural left arm back, learned how to control the Force yet again, built a pair of Enforcer pistols with techno-magic ammo replenishers built in, attempted a brief anti-keyblade user campaign, turned into a Zoanthrope with the help of his Mad Scientist friend, built an HEV suit with stealth-oriented modifications, and then fused with his dark half after it basically blew itself up trying to control a magic crystal that had been in the above-mentioned sword, resulting in an automatic ammo-regeneration power, Nigh Invulnerability, and actual magic at the cost of his Force-sensitivity, again. And now you know why the very name WolfZword is an Old Shame I never use anywhere except for my Youtube account. I was going to reset the character and try to be a little less ridiculous, but I stopped roleplaying entirely before I got around to it.
- If there's any consolation, said character had a giant blue afro between having a kid and the zoanthrope thing. Also, for some reason now that I typed all that I'm suddenly interested in the character again, if only because he fits perfectly into Saints Row 2.
- One of Us: Well, obviously, but making references to this site was literally a necessity at the time I joined the Let's Play Forum, hence all of my LP's make reference to tropes as applicable. Hell, the Cool Guns pages are even one of my two primary information sources for my infodump-heavy Call of Duty threads.
- Power Trio: The superego to friend T1migi (id) and brother Mabley (ego). Named as the "Threemen Brothers" as part of an in-joke in Synergy. *
The NPCs were being schizophrenic about which of us they thought was Gordon Freeman. I became Gordon, while T1m and Mabley became John and Henry - Pungeon Master: If a pun comes to mind, I will make it, and at least one person will think it's funny. Though I'm not nearly as worthy of the title as, say, a certain nun I used to play Killing Floor with.
- Running Gag: An infrequent one wherein T1m will suddenly stop the conversation and burst out "holy shit your HAIR! It's BLUE!" We've also exaggerated just how big the above-mentioned Funny Afro was on multiple occasions.
- Schedule Slip: I am incredibly lazy. There was a period in 2008 where I was making Grand Theft Auto City 17 and I managed to upload one comic every Friday for seven months, and then I managed to keep that up for my Postal 2 LP for a couple months a year later, but beyond that I upload things made with other people's intellectual property pretty much whenever I feel like it, which is not as often as I would like.
- Finally being averted again, when I dropped the Blood LP to focus on finishing Call of Duty 4, I proceeded to record and edit the entirety of the final act within about a week. Then a few months of nothing, again, but then once I finally re-started my Postal 2 LP, I managed to record and edit everything I needed to finish the LP within a week and a half. And now I'm playing the first two Call of Duty games, managing both weekly updates and multiple videos per update.
- Self-Deprecation: I have an incredibly low opinion of myself, which both was caused by and exacerbates other people's already-low opinions of me. Though, I'm finally meeting a lot of people in succession who end up liking me, so this might eventually just become a joke (an actually funny one at that, if I end up not feeling the need to make it every five seconds).
- And then nope. Pretty much everybody just ignores me unless I talk to them first (and even with that some of them continue ignoring me).
- Single Issue Wonk: It's pretty easy to tell what I've recently got into simply by what I start adding examples about on this wiki.
- Sleeps with Everyone but You: It's like I'm in some form of Hell where the concept of love and friendship exists solely to make me feel alone and left out.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Despite (or perhaps because of) hating myself more than anything (other than the RPG-7), I have a massive ego and assume everything everyone does has something to do with me. Also, I edit this page way too often even though nobody ever reads it.
- Stylistic Suck: I occasionally save .png files at the lowest quality Paint.NET will allow me to, for the sole fact that the result usually looks like a low-quality animated .gif, which I am apparently nostalgic for. Also the filesize is like 80% lower than the other quality presets.
- The End of the World as We Know It: A regular occurrence after I met T1m, thanks to the power of imagination.
- The Unpronounceable: There doesn't seem to be a set way to pronounce "Kadorhal", leading to all sorts of different ways to shorten it into a nickname (Kad, Kado, Kade, Kador, etc.).
- The Quiet One: I don't talk very much, almost to the point of being The Voiceless, mostly because I'm rarely engaged in vocal conversation with people who care what I have to say.
- Trope Maker: I have no actual proof, but I think I started
 the "<video game character> plays <unrelated video game>" fad on Youtube.
- Unsound Effect: I am very fond of doing these.
- Unusual Euphemism: "Contract" is now a substitute for "lewd acts". ◕ ‿‿ ◕
- There used to be "poking" as well, normally to refer to healing teammates in Killing Floor, which eventually mutated into a sexual thing (mostly of the gay variety in my case because only one person in the usual group was female and nobody else would heal anyone other than her; at the very least, it helped me level the Medic perk pretty quickly).
- And now there's "rubbing", because two friends decided their standard response to it is "ahn".
- Textual Tic: "yes" and ":V" are the most common. Animal sounds are pretty common too.
- Walking Techbane: 95% of technology seems intent on doing the exact opposite of what it's supposed to do just to piss me off.
- Weapon of Choice: Any of the three major post-WW2 battle rifles, particularly the M14. Not that I'm at all good with them when a game gives me the chance to use them. Shotguns, particularly double-barreled ones, were this for a long while thanks to Doom, and are now making a resurgence alongside .45 ACP pistols. Once again, in the case of said pistols I'm rarely any good with them, though this time it's usually not my fault.
- Flight sims have more leeway - the F-15 is my all-time favorite, but I'll also commonly fly variants of the F-14 or Su-27.
- What an Idiot: Despite the name "WolfZword" being an Old Shame, it is still my username pretty much everywhere I go that's not here or the Let's Play Forum. Even places that I know I signed up for after T1m suggested the new name.
- What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: It took all of the first chapter of my Blood II Let's Play before I started throwing as much random shit as I could into the videos, the sole explanation for why being that there were poisonous spiders in the second chapter. Granted, I had a reasonable excuse the first time (the biggest bit of drug-trip was a replacement for footage in which I somehow managed to not record any audio, for instance), but after that I've been looking for any excuse I can to show everything except the game I'm trying to play.*
It's a good thing most of the games I've LP'd since then feature poisons of some variety, otherwise there'd be nothing interesting outside of Postal 2. - You Gotta Have Blue Hair: I will give my character in a video game blue hair if I have the option. No exceptions, unless if I've already beaten it once or twice.
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