Line #30 Manga/WarcraftLegends


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2	''Legends'' is the name of a Warcraft manga anthology containing five volumes. It features short stories that are written by Richard A. Knaak, Mike Wellman, Dan Jolley, Troy Lewter, and Brian Yang and illustrated by Kim Jae-Hwan, Carlos Olivares, and Nam Kim. The first volume was released on August 12, 2008 and the second volume on November 11 of the same year. Volume 3 was released on March 17, 2009 and the fourth on June 16 of the same year. The 5th volume was released at September 2009.
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5	!! This series contains examples of:
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7	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Nuri's final sword slices through the anvil that forged it.
8	* ADayInTheLimelight: Minor characters, such as questgivers or vendors, often receive central roles in comics.
9	* AffablyEvil: Magatha Grimtotem is nice to Kova Broadhorn, even asking her to call her by her first name, but the errand she sends her on involves retrieving one of her accomplices in her plan to depose Cairne.
10	* AnthologyComic: Sort of the point.
11	* ArmsDealer: Nuri, who makes many of the associated rationalizations about his work.
12	%%* AssholeVictim: Cedric Falbrooke's brother
13	%%* TheAtoner: Trag Highmountain and Nuri.
14	* BeingGoodSucks: The point of the story Thomas tells his children is that the most morally sound decisions are seldom the easiest ones.
15	%%* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:Cedric Falbrooke]]
16	* CherryTapping: [[spoiler:Nuri kills Havoc with the same practically worthless sword he gave his son, and who used it to try to fight Havoc]].
17	* ClearMyName: The Darkmoon Faire works to find out who killed Cedric Falbrooke's brother when Kerri is accused of doing it.
18	%%* DownerEnding: "The Journey"
19	%%* FateWorseThanDeath: Undeath in general.
20	* ForWantOfANail: Jaina, in a nightmare, wonders if, by accompanying Arthas, she could have saved him from becoming the Lich King. In the end, she's forced to participate in the culling of Stratholme, abandon Muradin to save Arthas, and ultimately [[spoiler:becomes the Lich Queen]].
21	* FreakOut: Thomas after [[spoiler:killing his family]].
22	* GottaCatchEmAll: Nuri's quest is to track down and repossess every sword that he has made, whether by refunding the buyer, or by killing them.
23	* HeelRealization: Renee Lauer. Given that she becomes one of the Forsaken, however, it's hard to call a HeelFaceTurn. Nuri gets a straight example, when he realizes that his actions alienated his son, and his confiscating the sword he made for his son leads to his death at he hands of one of his former clients.
24	* HeroicSacrifice: When all else fails in his quest to retrieve the sword from the lake full of man-eating fish, the prince in Thomas' story dives in to retrieve it himself and succeeds in bringing it to the surface, but is bitten to death in the process.
25	* HowWeGotHere: Nuri tells Havoc his story after capturing him.
26	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Reversed with Kova (a female tauren) and Miles (a male gnome)
27	* ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: Draka kills several of Nagrand's most dangerous animals for reagents to use in a potion that will make her stronger, but learns that it was more about helping her to realize her true potential.
28	* LeeroyJenkins: In Jaina's nightmare, Arthas charges the undead, forcing Jaina to make a SadisticChoice between him and Muradin.
29	* NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler:Renee Lauer]], complete with the storyteller referring to [[spoiler:herself]] in the third person.
30	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Congratulations, Kova, you're part of the reason why [[spoiler:your High Chieftain's dead in ''Cataclysm''.]]
31	* OddFriendship: Kova and Miles. Despite being Horde and Alliance, and reliant on shamanism and technology, respectively, they become friends over the course of the story.
32	* OffWithHisHead: How the future Headless Horseman dies.
33	* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Cedric Falbrooke is buried alive for trying to frame Kerri for killing his brother, when he had done it himself]].
34	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Displeased with his son's decision to set out on his own, Nuri tells him that the measure of a man lies in his weapon. He concludes that his son is no longer fit to wield the sword he was given, instead giving him a sword that is almost worthless, which he says is exactly the one he deserves.
35	* RhymesOnADime: Thomas, once insane, and also the HeadlessHorseman. Foreshadowed somewhat in the rhyming story he tells his children.
36	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The goal of the siblings of a blood elf and a Forsaken who were killed by the Scarlet Crusde.
37	* SadisticChoice: Jaina, in a nightmare, is forced to choose between saving Arthas and Muradin. She chooses Arthas.
38	* SanitySlippage: Sir Thomas Thomson, the paladin who eventually became the Headless Horseman.
39	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Thrall dreams about having a chance to save Taretha, but every time, he fails.
40	* StartOfDarkness: The Headless Horseman's story.
41	* TitleDrop: Durotan saying that Draka is "a warrior made".
42	* TookALevelInBadass: Draka, in the appropriately titled "A Warrior Made". Lampshaded by her future husband Durotan at the end.
43	%%* TragicHero: Thomas Thomson again.
44	* TrueCompanions: The Darkmoon Faire, as seen when they band together to save Kerri from imprisonment and clear her name.

Context Manga / WarcraftLegends