History Film / DungeonsAndDragons

* SomeKindOfForceField: When our heroes run into a Wall of Force spell that prevents everyone but Ridley from passing, it shimmers a bit, and they exclaim, [[CaptainObvious "It's some sort of wall of force!"]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Ridley and Marina both go through this: Ridley starts off a self-centered thief bigoted against Mages and harboring an unhealthy thirst for glory. A growing crush on Marina over the course of their adventures and learning that the Empress wants to overthrow the caste system starts to alleviate his hatred of Mages, and [[spoiler: the death of Snails as a result of one of Ridley's own ideas]] humbles him immensely and dampens his ambitions. Marina starts as a petulant, whiny aristocrat who looks down on commoners, but she too gets a lesson in humility when she learns her status and rudimentary magic powers don't mean much in the brutal world of the commoners, forcing her to rely on the unwashed plebeians she had been disparaging all this time. She starts getting a crush on Ridley in particular, especially when he sneaks into Damodar's stronghold to rescue her despite having no real need to do so.

* TheDragon: Damodar to Profion. Damodar is Chief of the [[{{Mooks}} Crimson Brigade]] and meets the heroes several times while Profion is an untouchable aristocrat giving the orders. By the time of the final battle, pretty much all the heroes have a personal beef with him, Damodar having killed Ridley's best friend and Marina's master before subjecting Marina herself to MindRape, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and having shot Elwood's helmet off]].

* TragicBigot: A deleted scene explains why Ridley has such a deep-rooted hatred of Mages even by commoner standards: Mages were jealous of his inventor father and couldn't stand that a commoner could be such a genius. Their solution to the problem was to ''[[MindRape magically lobotomize him and steal credit for all his inventions.]]''

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Profion. A powerful, respected Archmage and important member of the council who effortlessly manipulates his fellow traditionalists into turning on the empress 'for the good of Izmir' while planning to backstab them the entire time and seize total power. Even Norda, the Empress's best tracker, is stunned by the revelation that Profion is scheming against the empire.

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Snails]] when fighting Damodar.

* ObviouslyEvil: Profion, at least most of the time: he can put on a show of being a GentlemanWizard if it suits his needs, complete with fancy [[LightIsNotGood white dress robes]] when he's in front of the council. [[BaldOfEvil Damodar]] [[ScaryImpracticalArmor is even]] [[ColdHam more thuggish.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: The Rod of Savrille starts wearing away at Profion's already-fragile sanity over the course of the final battle, and once the Rod is destroyed he completely loses it. It culminates with him pinning the Empress to the ground with a familiar and screaming an incantation at the top of his lungs. He's so out of it that he doesn't notice the Empress struggling for her fallen scepter and using it to summon a dragon until the beast's shadow falls over him. At that point he can do nothing but [[DeerInTheHeadlights gawk blankly]] as the dragon lunges down and devours him.

* CanonForeigner: The setting and characters are not part of any existing game setting, though there have been some tie-in adventures for the tabletop game.

* RetCanon: Izmer was introduced as a setting in the tabletop game for adventures based on the film series, with character sheets for Elwood, Marina, Snails and Ridley.

* CanonImmigrant: There are a handful of adventure scenarios set in the game's equivalent setting of Izmer, with no further connection to the greater multiverse. Izmer was almost introduced to the Blackmoor and TabletopGame/{{Mystara}} setting in a cancelled source book.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: Izmer is the setting in the game tie-ins, based on Izmir in the films.

* CanonImmigrant: There are a handful of adventure scenarios set in the game's equivalent setting of Izmer, with no further connection to the greater multiverse. Izmer was almost introduced to the Blackmoor and TabletopGame/{{Mystara}} setting in a cancelled tie-in game module.

* AscendedFanFic: The plot of the movie is based on the director's campaign in ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}''.

* {{Expy}}: The political situation in Izmir is based on the Alphatia Empire in ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}''.

* EvilCounterpart: Profion to Ridley: they both share the FatalFlaw of {{Pride}} and both nurture a thirst for power and recognition. Before his character development, Ridley is hinted to have a habit of demanding difficult heists for the sake of his reputation, and not seeming to mind if Snails gets screwed over in the process, just as Profion doesn't care who gets hurt in his bid for rule over Izmir. Ridley is devastated, however, when one of his ideas ends up causing Snails's death, and by the time of the final battle, he seems to recognize that should he let his darker side define him, he'd end up just like Profion.

* BladeBeneathTheShoulder: Damodar's gauntlets hold spring-loaded blades: [[spoiler: he uses them to kill Snails]].

* RedRightHand: Damodar's blue lips. He could be addicted to Sannish, a drug that causes permanent staining of the lips; later on he says that he cannot control his urges, supporting this.

%%* PluckyComicRelief: Snails and Elwood.

%%* BigGood: The Empress