Dark Legacy Comics is a World of Warcraft-based Webcomic, maintained by Arad Keydar. It follows the adventures of Keydar's guild, Dark Legacy (which the author left in-game since the webcomic's creation). The regular cast includes the creator's character, Keydar, a human rogue, Gigzara (or Gigz), an elven priest with a Hair-Trigger Temper, Mijikai and Narya, respectively a gnome warrior and mage, Nyteblade (or Nyte), Narya's human wife, Krom, a rather grumpy human paladin, and Donald, an increasingly stupid representation of the Noob player.The comic usually sticks to the gag-per-day/week format, however there have been two major arcs: The Horace Hypocrisy - which details what would happen if the NPCs started a revolution - and Bill #307a, in which Keydar helps The Society For The Betterment of NPCs pass a bill which outlaws the killing of any NPC. As a result of the guild's favourite game mechanics, Keydar quickly realizes that was a bad idea.
This show provides examples of:
Ascended Extra: Horace and Gretta started out as minor characters, appearing in gags centered around Protagonist-Centered Morality, and ended up becoming the driving force for the NPC rebellion story arc.
Appeal To Worse Problems: Miji is planning his Holloween costume to scientifically optimize candy intake, but Narya complains that he's ignoring the issue of bill 307a, which bans the killing of NPCs, thus disrupting Azeroth's economy. Miji gets so fed up that he gets King Varian to repeal the bill, so he can get back to GodzillaElmo.
Art Evolution: The first comics were generally made up of simply drawn characters on a plain white background, but since then the art has become a lot better, and nicer to look at. For an example, see one of the updated comics above the original.
Bald of Awesome: Narya tries to use the Worgen curse to permanently cure his baldness, and turns himself and Miji into Worgen-Gnomes, covered completely in fur, except for the tops of their heads. Miji says "you can't cure awesome".
Be Careful What You Wish For: 8 years ago, Keydar made a wish that he'd have all the gold he desires, today he's cursing that wish as all his loot rolls are giving him gold instead of the loot he wants.
Butt Monkey: If something comically bad is going to happen to someone, about 70% of time it'll be Keydar, the other 30% is Narya. granted most of the time they bring it on themselves.
Comically Missing the Point: Donald's attempt at healing involves bandages, lots and lots of bandages, as opposed to the healing spells that priests have. Nyte and Krom chew him out after they get killed as the bandages are too weak, so Donald promises not to use them again, and switches from linen bandages to wool bandages.
Krom: Jesus. You made him the raid leader for the rest of the night?
Nyte: Nothing in the guild charter prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
Critical Failure: In World Of Warcraft, engineer-made gadgets have a slim chance of critically malfunctioning whenever they are used. Notably, the Ultrasafe Transporter has a high probability of critical failures, including transporting you a hundred yards in the air over your expected arrival point. This is parodied here.
Narya: Nothing says 'engineering' like a 20% chance to fail.
Cruel Mercy: Gretta did not kill Horace for his trip down the slippery slope during the NPC rebellion and instead chose a more "sophisticated" solution. He was forced to work at the daycare center babysitting the young NPCs. And Donald.
Didn't Think This Through: Keydar becomes a quest giver, thinking it'll make him rich, but Miji points out the quest givers pay the PCs, so how's he supposed to get rich? Worse, the quest is an escort quest through an Orc camp, and if the PC fails, then Keydar gets stuck in the middle of hostile territory. Before Keydar can change his mind, Miji accepts the quest, forcing Keydar to blindly walk into a bunch of Orcs.
Dragon Their Feet: After Miji uses his clone army to take over, the rest of the group kills his clones and takes Miji down. Krom and Nyte wonder if they got all the clones, it turns out they missed #1 and #2, because Donald rescued them thinking they were orphans.
Eat The Dog: When killing NPCs becomes illegal, the player characters are eventually forced to come up with alternate sources of meat... such as their (or other people's) mounts, which are not classified as NPCs. Their high cost keeps them from being a reliable source of food, though.
Hair Today Gone Tomorrow: Poor Narya. On two occasions he was de-aged with water from the Fountain of Youth, the first time it showed him with more hair on his head, but still bald on the top. On the second time, he intends to drink himself to his teenage years before he lost any hair, and he still had male pattern baldness. Summarized nicely here.
Half Breed Discrimination: Flo was a goblin who taunted other NPC races because she was getting an upgrade to PC status with the Cataclysm. When she gets called out by a worgen, who bites her, she calls racism when it turns out "woblins" need not apply.
Hypocritical Humor: When Narya builds another rocket to fly to space, he intends to pay someone to test it for him. Krom says no one is going to put throw themselves into certain death for monetary gain; Nerya then calls him out because he raids.
Narya: So how many times did you wipe in last night's raid again?
If You Die I Call Your Stuff: The closest thing to true death for a PC is to quit the game, so when one of Keydar's friends is about to unsubscribe, he acts really nice to her; when she says she already gave away her gold, then he moves onto someone else who's about to quit.
I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Mijikai is annoying another player with various emoticons, so she responds with a "flash boobs" emoticon, which shuts him down real quick.
I'm a Humanitarian: Gigz is a night elf. Most of her recipes involve cooking druids, which are usually other night elves, or feeding gnomes to Miji, who's a gnome. This started off as a joke and has slowly gotten more frightening over time.
Fridge Brilliance: Night elves evolved from trolls. Trolls are cannibals.
Loophole Abuse: Bill 307a prohibited PCs from harming NPCs, but said nothing about NPCs hurting other NPCs, so Krom pretended to be Edwin VanCleef so he could taunt Horace.
Meaningful Name: Mijikai means 'short' in Japanese (though not used in the context of size).
Meet Your Early Installment Weirdness: Miji and Narya end up in five years in the past thanks to a time machine, where they are puzzled by a featureless white space for a background as well as their own Super-Deformed selves from the comic's beginning. And because just meeting his early installment weirness apparently isn't quite Mind Srewy enough, Miji decides to Adopt His Early Installment Weirdness, taking his past-self back into the present with him, in spite of Narya's protests.
Money, Dear Boy: Arad was away from his computer and couldn't do a comic that week, so instead he posted a bunch of sketches he did, until a sketch of #2 appears and tells him his sketches are boring. He argues that he has a life outside the comic, but #2 asks if "real life" gets ad revenue.
Never Trust A Hair-Growth Gun: Miji learned this the hard way. And then the trope was subverted when Narya found out it does work, as long as it is aimed at one's scalp.
No Respect Guy: Krom gets fed up with healing as it's a thankless job, so he takes up tanking, only to find out that tanking gets even less respect. He respecs to DPS as he'd rather keep his sanity.
Not So Different: Keydar's depressing realization that the gearing cycle is just as pointless as Donald's crafting achievements, except Donald doesn't mind the pointlessness of the whole thing.
Not Worth Killing: This bandicoon is just a critter, overshadowed by battle pets, who are overshadowed by mobs, who are overshadowed by rare mobs. By the end of the comic the rare was killed since he was a rare, the mob was killed as a quest target, and the battle pet was caught (by Donald), while the bandicoon gets loved for an achievement.
Plotline Death: Discussedhere when Miji and Narya watch a cutscene of an NPC who sacrifices herself to seal an evil portal, telling Gigz that she can't be revived because it's part of the story. Gigz then tries to invoke this on Krom by pretending that his latest death was part of a cutscene.
Straight Gay: Keydar asks out men on two separate occasions. The second time, the guy calls him a fag. See the We Really Do Care entry below for how hilariously badly that ends for him.
Straw Hypocrite: Horace in The Horace Hypocrisy, he launches a crusade to have the NPCs oust the PCs, which leads to him becoming king while the rest of the NPCs suffer because of the economic colapse without the PCs. The status quo is restored when Nyte disguised as Sally Whitemane points out that the real power was with the vendors, quest givers and elite bosses, not the PCs; and he was jealous because he was a lowly quest target who kept getting killed.
Symbol Swearing: This episode has Donald stub his toe and yell "And dollars at star number!" After repeating it a few times, another character tells him he really needs to turn off his &$@*# profanity filter.
Telefrag: Miji and Narya try to hack their hearthstones to remove the cooldown timer, but they turn off the collision detection instead. At least the guy Narya fragged won't be missed.
Too Dumb to Live: Seriously Keydar, how hard is it to resist licking you fingers after coating your knives in poison?
Twenty Bear Asses: 5a. Gather 10 bear meats. "You know, if you had mentioned that you were some kind of magical meatless bear, you could have saved us both the trouble!"
We Really Do Care: A rather... unorthodox example, but when a high level warrior Keydar admired broke his heart, the rest of the group made him very sorry for it. There's something twistedly cathartic about seeing a group of Heroic Sociopaths who are normally hyper-antagonistic toward one another come together like that.
Wham Episode: A minor one but Donald is a priest, not a warrior.
Who's Laughing Now?: When the guild discovers the Fountain of Youth, they all get turned into small children, save Narya who ended up as middle-aged, and then uses decurse to restore Mijikai. When the others ask to be changed back, Narya refuses, laughing that the two gnomes are now the tallest members of the group and want revenge.
Zombie Apocalypse: The clones attack their Well Fed buff and find that Blizzard had re-purposed an old debuff to make it, the "You're a Zombie!" debuff from the Scourge invasion event.
is a World of Warcraft-based Webcomic, maintained by Arad Keydar. It follows the adventures of Keydar's guild, Dark Legacy (which the author left in-game since the webcomic's creation). The regular cast includes the creator's character, Keydar, a human rogue, Gigzara (or Gigz), an elven priest with a Hair-Trigger Temper, Mijikai and Narya, respectively a gnome warrior and mage, Nyteblade (or Nyte), Narya's human wife, Krom, a rather grumpy human paladin, and Donald, an increasingly stupid representation of the Noob player.The comic usually sticks to the gag-per-day/week format, however there have been two major arcs: The Horace Hypocrisy - which details what would happen if the NPCs started a revolution - and Bill #307a, in which Keydar helps The Society For The Betterment of NPCs pass a bill which outlaws the killing of any NPC. As a result of the guild's favourite game mechanics, Keydar quickly realizes that was a bad idea.
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