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Warcraft 3 Units

     Night Elf Sentinels Units 

Wisp

Wisps are ancient nature spirits that inhabit Kalimdor's forests, said to be disembodied spirits of Night Elves. Working together with the Night Elves, the Wisps animate various trees and expand them into structures, or strengthen sentient trees known as Ancients.

  • Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Wisps do not gather wood by cutting down trees and carrying back the wood. Instead, they gather lumber without cutting the tree down. Their gather rate is slower than other units to compensate for the Wisp giving the Night Elf player an endless supply of lumber.
  • Non-Action Guy: Unlike the Worker Units of other factions, the Wisp can't attack out of their Detonate spell, which kills them. As it has the least health of the Worker Units, it is the most vulnerable.

Archer

The rank and file of the Sentinel army are the Archers. These women are experts with their bows and firing from the concealment of the forests of Kalimdor. At night they can employ a technique called Shadowmelding where they become invisible.

  • Amazon Brigade: All Archers are women.
  • Invisibility with Drawbacks: Using Shadowmeld lets Archers become invisible, but it only works at night.
  • Ms. Fanservice: The Archers wear very revealing clothes that expose their cleavage and midriff. This is more apparent in their more detailed models in Reforged.
  • Zerg Rush: Archers are the cheapest of the basic warrior units next to the Ghoul so it's easy to amass them in large numbers.

Huntress

Huntresses are the elite of the Sentinels, riding on the backs of giant cats called Nightsabers and hurling glaives at the enemies. Their mounts give them greater speed than their companions on foot, and they can Shadowmeld at night.

  • Amazon Brigade: All Huntresses are women.
  • Horse of a Different Color: The Huntress rides a giant cat like a horse.
  • Invisibility with Drawbacks: Like the Archers, they can use Shadowmeld to become invisible at night.
  • Panthera Awesome: Huntresses ride on giant panthers called Nightsabers.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Huntresses are faster than the land units of other factions have fairly high HP and their attacks can damage multiple units. However, their attacks have a shorter range than Archers.
  • True Sight: The owl created by their Sentinel ability can see invisible units.

Ballista / Glaive Thrower

The long-range siege weapon of the Sentinels, the Ballista is constructed from sturdy ashenwood trees and flings bolts of iron with deadly precision.

Frozen Throne changed the unit to the Glaive Thrower.

  • Discard and Draw: A patch for Frozen Throne in 2019 changed the Vorpal Blade ability for the Glaive Thrower so that rather than hitting units in a line, it increases the speed of the Glaive Thrower's projectile.
  • Siege Engines: The Night Elves' long-range Anti-Structure unit. Compared with such units of other factions, its abilities help with killing units.
  • The Voiceless: Being a war machine with no visible crew, it never speaks.

Dryad

Dryads are the daughters of the Night Elf demigod, Cenarius who resemble Night Elf women from the waist up and fauns from the waist down. While normally playful and abhorrent of violence they will defend Kalimdor with their lives if the need arises.

  • Anti-Magic: The Dryad is Night Elves' Anti-Magic specialist. They are immune to spells and their Abolish Magic spell can be set to autocast to dispel buffs and debuffs, though it has to be manually targeted to be used on summoned units.
  • Fragile Speedster: Dryads are fast but fragile. Their attacks don't do high damage, though their Slow Poison means they can do heavy Damage Over Time, especially since their attacks slow their target.
  • No-Sell: Dryads are immune to harmful spells.
  • One-Gender Race: Dyrads are an all-female race.
  • Poisoned Weapons: Their Slow Poison gives their attacks a passive bonus that deals damage over time while slowing the target.
  • Our Centaurs Are Different: They are all women and are half deer as opposed to half horse.

Druid of the Claw

Druids of the Claw are druids who adopted the totem of the Bear and use its powers to defend their home. Their spells enhance the fighting prowess of their allies, but they can also assume the form of mighty bears.

  • Animal Motifs: Bears. Aside from their design, their Stop Poking Me! quotes result in bear-related pop culture references.
  • Bears Are Bad News: Druids of the Claw can turn into bears, trading in their magic for fighting prowess.
  • Dual Mode Unit: In their Night Elf form they have spells that help friendly units in combat. In their bear form, they cannot use spells note , and their mana regeneration is slower, with the Druid becoming a powerful melee unit instead.
  • The Medic: In their Night Elf form they can cast Rejuvenation which slowly restores a large amount of HP over time.
  • Support Party Member: In their Night Elf form the Druids of the Claw act as casters who support frontline units. Aside from healing, they can use Roar which gives friendly units around the druid a damage bonus.
  • Wolverine Claws: In their bear form they gain a set of large claws they use to attack enemies, being bears and all.

Hippogryph

Ancient magical beasts who resemble a cross between ravens and stags. They patrol Kalimdor's skies and attack any enemy of the world they come across. In honor of the demigod Cenarius, the Hippogryphs give their allegiance to their Night Elves.

  • Anti-Air: The Hippogryphs can only attack other air units. Thanks to their speed and great damage, it is very good at it.
  • Crippling Overspecialization: Hippogryphs excel at killing air units. Sadly that is the only thing they can attack. Fortunately, an Archer can mount them if there is nothing in the air to attack.
  • Glass Cannon: The Hippogryphs are fast and do heavy damage, and have no armor.

Hippogryph Rider

During a battle, Night Elf Archers can mount Hippogryphs and fire their bows from their backs, aided by the speed and mobility of their flying allies.

  • Discard and Draw: Having an Archer mount the Hippogryph means the Hippogryph's powerful Anti-Air attack is traded in for the Archer's bow, which can attack ground and air units. The mounted archer also has far more HP than the Hippogryph alone, though since the Hippogryph is carrying an Archer it is slower, albeit still very fast.

Druid of the Talon

Druids of the Talon are druids who adopted the Crow. Within Night Elf society they act as spies. In battle, they can transform into Storm Crows to act as flying scouts. In their Night Elf forms, they can channel the powers of the wind.

  • Anti-Air: In their Storm Crow form they can only attack air units. They aren't going to win any fights on their own, but researching Mark of the Talon means their Faerie Fire will still be used and can lower the target's armor.
  • Balance Buff: The patch reworked magic units and buffed the druid's spells, increasing the duration of Cyclone and decreasing the cost of Faerie Fire
  • Blow You Away: Their Cyclone spell, which temporarily removes a unit from combat.
  • Glass Cannon: Their Storm Crow form is faster, has more HP, and deals much greater damage than their Night Elf form. Even with the added HP, however, they still have low health.
  • Support Party Member: The Druid of the Talon is a caster whose spells are aimed at hindering the enemy. Using Cyclone removes an enemy unit from combat, and their Faerie Fire spell lowers a unit's armor.

Chimera

The Chimaera of Ashenvale Forest are territorial beasts who have nonetheless formed bonds with Night Elves. The flying two-headed creatures breathe bolts of lightning from one head and corrosive acid from the other.

  • Achilles' Heel: The Chimera is the only air unit incapable of attacking other air units.
  • Anti-Structure: Researching Corrosive Breath gives the Chimera a second attack that does Siege damage, making it much more effective at destroying buildings.
  • Breath Weapon: Two of them. One head breathes lightning and the other spits acid.
  • Mighty Glacier: The Chimera has slightly below-average speed, but also has the highest of all the flying units next to the Frost Wyrm and can inflict heavy damage with its two attacks.
  • Multiple Head Case: The Chimera has two heads, each with unique attacks.
  • Mix-and-Match Critters: The Chimera resembles a cross between a bird and a two-headed dragon.

Treant

Walking trees created by the Keeper of the Grove.

  • Cannon Fodder: Treants are summoned in groups of two to four depending on the level of Force of Nature. Regardless of the level, they are weak units.
  • When Trees Attack: They are living trees created by the Keeper of the Grove's Force of Nature spell.

Ancients

Ancients are demigod-like trees who ally with the Night Elves. Night Elf structures that are classified as Ancients can uproot themselves and act as units until they are rooted again.

  • Mighty Glacier: Uprooted Ancients have as much HP as they did while they were buildings, which aside from the Ancient of Wonders is a lot, and they inflict heaving damage. The downside is that they are by far the slowest units in the game, so they are mostly good for defense.
  • When Trees Attack: Ancients are all giant trees that can uproot to attack enemies. The Ancient Protector can also attack while rooted.

Mountain Giant

When the world was young, the Titans crafted giants of living stone. These Mountain Giants are docile and solitary creatures who awaken to defend their world when its tranquility is threatened. The giants' rock skin and sheer bulk make them exceptionally durable, and their sheer size gives them great strength.

  • Draw Aggro: Their Taunt ability forces enemies to attack them.
  • Improvised Weapon: Their War Club ability lets them pick a tree and use it as a weapon. The tree does more damage than its fist, but breaks after enough swings.
  • Mighty Glacier: Mountain Giants have more HP than a level 10 hero unless they have used a number of items to buff their HP. They also have the highest damage of the land units players normally have access to. On top of this Researching their passive abilities Harden Skin and Resistant Skin reduces the damage of enemy attacks and spells, respectively. As to be expected from giants made of stone, they are slow.
  • No-Sell: Resistant Skin gives the Mountain Giant the same Contractual Boss Immunity that heroes and creeps above level 5 enjoy, making them immune to Polymorph and Possession.
  • Our Giants Are Bigger: They are gentle creatures made of stone, and are the biggest land unit in the game.

Faerie Dragon

Despite their name, Faerie Dragons are not actual dragons. They are instead mystical creatures who patrol the Emerald Dream and protect it from harmful magic. To aid this effort they are immune to spells.

  • Anti-Magic: The Faerie Dragon is immune to spells and their Mana Flare spell allows them to harm enemies who use spells themselves.
  • Fairy Dragons: They are lizard-like creatures with butterfly wings, and are much larger than they would be depicted in later appearances. Despite their name, they are not actual dragons.
  • No-Sell: They are immune to spells and when using Phase Shift they are immune to damage.

Avatar of Vengeance

A unit summoned by the Warden's ultimate.

  • Anti-Magic: The Avatar is immune to spells.
  • Lightning Bruiser: While not as strong as Infernal, the Avatar of Vengeance is still powerful, durable, and fast.
  • The Necromancer: The Avatar of Vengeance uses its Spirit of Vengeance spell to create the eponymous unit corpses of other units. Unlike the Undead's Necromancer, the Avatar is limited to summoning six units.
  • Scissors Cuts Rock: Being immune to spells, the Avatar of Vengeance is not countered by Anti-Magic spells.

Spirit of Vengeance

When an Avatar of Vengeance comes across a corpse it can use its Spirit of Vengeance spell to create this unit. While their attacks aren't especially strong, the Spirits of Vengeance are immune to all attacks.

  • Invincible Minor Minion: A Spirit of Vengeance is immune to all forms of attack, they only die when their timed life expires or the Avatar that created them dies.
  • The Juggernaut: While their attacks are not especially powerful, a Spirit of Vengeance can only be stopped if its timed life runs out or when the Avatar that created it dies.
  • Scissors Cuts Rock: Like the Avatar that created them, norma counters to summon units do not work on a Spirit of Vengeance.
  • Stone Wall: Their attacks are not especially strong, only hitting slightly harder than an un-upgraded Archer. A necessary drawback since enemies cannot hurt them in return.

Edited by FateStayWho on Feb 7th 2023 at 7:38:09 AM

jahman Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#22777: Feb 7th 2023 at 11:19:38 PM

Sakuya Ookuchi

  • Chick Magnet: A huge part of his fame is that Sakuya has never had a problem with the ladies. Unforutanlety, this makes the ladies see Aine (Sakuya's One True Love) as noting but an eyesore.

Minorica Rhythm Heroine from Earth Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
Rhythm Heroine
#22778: Feb 7th 2023 at 11:48:57 PM

For Spared by the Adaptation Anime And Manga "Spared by the Anime":

  • The Kindaichi Case Files: In the original manga, Ryuta Saki (Hajime's kouhai and a useful Camera Fiend) a.k.a. Saki #1 becomes a murder victim in "Hotel Europa Murder Case" in his second appearance. His (near-)identical, keet younger brother Ryuji Saki (Saki #2) becomes his replacement because in his dream, the ghost of Ryuta asks him to do so. In both the live-action series and anime adaptations, however, Ryuta survives. It's because the directors and some fans agree that his death is just too mean-spirited and happens for the sake of emotional turmoil.

For The Kindaichi Case Files page:

    30th Anniversary Series 

For YMMV.The Kindaichi Case Files:

Edited by Minorica on Mar 26th 2023 at 3:49:06 PM

"No matter how bad the heroes can get or how bad the situation is, we're sure we can overcome it and get our happy endings..."
jOSEFdelaville Since: Dec, 2018
#22779: Feb 8th 2023 at 3:05:26 AM

Lanfeust

  • Pokémon Speak: The creature guiding the heroes to the Magohamoth always says "Gloof", so they call the creature a "Gloof".
  • Potty Failure: There's a woman whose power is to give people diarrhea. She uses it on Thanos's soldier as they invade Eckmul.
  • Proj-egg-tile: When Lanfeust and his friends learn that the hen produce eggs that can kill pathacelces, they build custom guns made to shoot said eggs.
  • Punny Name:
    • The Darshanide god of healing is called Anth-Ybio, as in "Antibiotic".
    • Two random aerial soldiers from Thanos's army are called Thangosharly and Alfazulu, as in "Tango Charlie" and "Alpha Zoulou", common code names in aviation.
    • One of the Thirteen Prince is the Prince Cenrhyr, which sounds like "pince-sans-rire", a French expression.
  • Series Continuity Error: Hébus says he remember M'otha from when Lanfeust travelled four thousands years in the past. Even though Hébus did not travel to the past, only Lanfeust and Swiip did.
  • Shapeshifting: Pathaceles have the ability to take the appearence of any creature.

Jinx

Creatures

  • Underground Monkey: The games have three different creature species to take care of: Norns, Grendels and Ettins. Each of these creatures have multiple breeds. There's more than Twenty Norn breeds, four Grendel breeds (five if you consider the Boney Grendel an official breed) and two Ettin breeds.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22780: Feb 8th 2023 at 8:59:46 AM

Page 911 @kawaiineko333

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Critic considers Juice to be on both ends of the movie.

^ I have no idea what this means. If it refers to Morton's Fork, you need to explain how.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22781: Feb 8th 2023 at 9:11:32 AM

Page 911 @G-Editor

Changed verbs in examples to present tense as per How to Write an Example - Write in Historical Present Tense.

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^ You're over-using the word "would".

Split up a run-on sentence connected together by a semi-colon.

Edited by Arivne on Feb 8th 2023 at 9:11:46 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22782: Feb 8th 2023 at 9:13:57 AM

Page 911 @Tylerbear 12

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Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22783: Feb 8th 2023 at 9:31:20 AM

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Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22784: Feb 8th 2023 at 9:32:58 AM

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Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22785: Feb 8th 2023 at 9:41:56 AM

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Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22786: Feb 8th 2023 at 9:48:02 AM

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Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22787: Feb 8th 2023 at 10:36:20 AM

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#22788: Feb 8th 2023 at 12:57:15 PM

  • Kujou Takayuki is a corrupt Tenryou Commissioner of the Shogunate and the head of the Kujou Clan who consistently abused his children and Sara to be loyal to the Shogun out of her usage of force. He killed Takatsukasa Isamu in order to obtain good publicity blackmailing Shioyama in the process while also ordering his men to drown the infected and sick inhabitants of Higi Village on the ship to pin the blame on the Watatsumi Army. He forced a merchant to sell Delusions which lead to the start of a civil war in Inazuma through the Vision Hunt and Sakoku Decrees murdering thousands of innocents while also giving them a fate worse than death. He manipulates the Raiden Shogun into thinking the Vizion are the real enemies before planning to slaughter everyone in Inazuma because Gongozaemon did not report to him.

Anything I should add or fix before being published to make sure?

Edited by Echidna on Feb 8th 2023 at 3:58:18 PM

FateStayWho Since: Jul, 2016
#22789: Feb 8th 2023 at 1:47:45 PM

@Arivne thanks.

     Night Elf Sentinels Units 

Wisp

Wisps are ancient nature spirits that inhabit Kalimdor's forests, said to be disembodied spirits of Night Elves. Working together with the Night Elves, the Wisps animate various trees and expand them into structures, or strengthen sentient trees known as Ancients.


  • Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Wisps do not gather wood by cutting down trees and carrying back the wood. Instead, they gather lumber without cutting the tree down. Their gather rate is slower than other units to compensate for the Wisp giving the Night Elf player an endless supply of lumber.
  • Non-Action Guy: Unlike the Worker Units of other factions, the Wisp can't attack aside from their Detonate spell, which kills them. As it has the least health of the Worker Units, it is the most vulnerable.

Archer

The rank and file of the Sentinel army are the Archers. These women are experts with their bows and firing from the concealment of the forests of Kalimdor. At night, they can employ a technique called Shadowmelding where they become invisible.


  • Amazon Brigade: All Archers are women.
  • Invisibility with Drawbacks: Using Shadowmeld lets Archers become invisible, but it only works at night.
  • Ms. Fanservice: The Archers wear very revealing clothes that expose their cleavage and midriff. This is more apparent in their more detailed models in Reforged.
  • Zerg Rush: Archers are the cheapest of the basic warrior units next to the Ghoul, so it's easy to amass them in large numbers.

Huntress

Huntresses are the elite of the Sentinels, riding on the backs of giant cats called Nightsabers and hurling glaives at their enemies. Their mounts give them greater speed than their companions on foot, and they can Shadowmeld at night.


  • Amazon Brigade: All Huntresses are women.
  • Horse of a Different Color: The Huntress rides a giant cat like a horse.
  • Invisibility with Drawbacks: Like the Archers, they can use Shadowmeld to become invisible at night.
  • Panthera Awesome: Huntresses ride on giant panthers called Nightsabers.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Huntresses are faster than the land units of other factions, have fairly high HP and their attacks can damage multiple units. However, their attacks have a shorter range than Archers.
  • True Sight: The owl created by their Sentinel ability can see invisible units.

Ballista / Glaive Thrower

The long-range siege weapon of the Sentinels, the Ballista is constructed from sturdy ashenwood trees and flings bolts of iron with deadly precision.

Frozen Throne changed the unit to the Glaive Thrower.


  • Discard and Draw: A patch for Frozen Throne in 2019 changed the Vorpal Blade ability for the Glaive Thrower so that rather than hitting units in a line, it increases the speed of the Glaive Thrower's projectile.
  • Siege Engines: The Night Elves' long-range Anti-Structure unit. Compared with such units of other factions, its abilities help with killing units.
  • The Voiceless: Being a war machine with no visible crew, it never speaks.

Dryad

Dryads are the daughters of the Night Elf demigod, Cenarius, who resemble Night Elf women from the waist up and fauns from the waist down. While normally playful and abhorrent of violence, they will defend Kalimdor with their lives if the need arises.


  • Anti-Magic: The Dryad is the Night Elves' Anti-Magic specialist. They are immune to spells and their Abolish Magic spell can be set to autocast to dispel buffs and debuffs, though it has to be manually targeted to be used on summoned units.
  • Fragile Speedster: Dryads are fast but fragile. Their attacks don't do high damage, though their Slow Poison means they can do heavy Damage Over Time, especially since their attacks slow their target.
  • No-Sell: Dryads are immune to harmful spells.
  • One-Gender Race: Dyrads are an all-female race.
  • Poisoned Weapons: Their Slow Poison gives their attacks a passive bonus that deals damage over time while slowing the target.
  • Our Centaurs Are Different: They are all women and are half deer as opposed to half horse.

Druid of the Claw

Druids of the Claw are druids who adopted the totem of the Bear and use its powers to defend their home. Their spells enhance the fighting prowess of their allies, but they can also assume the form of mighty bears.


  • Animal Motifs: Bears. Aside from their design, their Stop Poking Me! quotes result in bear-related pop culture references.
  • Bears Are Bad News: Druids of the Claw can turn into bears, trading in their magic for fighting prowess.
  • Dual Mode Unit: In their Night Elf form they have spells that help friendly units in combat. In their bear form, they cannot use spells note  and their mana regeneration is slower, with the Druid becoming a powerful melee unit instead.
  • The Medic: In their Night Elf form they can cast Rejuvenation, which slowly restores a large amount of HP over time.
  • Support Party Member: In their Night Elf form, the Druids of the Claw act as casters who support frontline units. Aside from healing, they can use Roar, which gives friendly units around the druid a damage bonus.
  • Wolverine Claws: In their bear form, they gain a set of large claws they use to attack enemies, being bears and all.

Hippogryph

Ancient magical beasts who resemble a cross between ravens and stags. They patrol Kalimdor's skies and attack any enemy they come across. In honor of the demigod Cenarius, the Hippogryphs give their allegiance to their Night Elves.


  • Anti-Air: Hippogryphs can only attack other air units. Thanks to their speed and great damage, they are very good at it.
  • Crippling Overspecialization: Hippogryphs excel at killing air units. Sadly, that is the only thing they can attack. Fortunately, an Archer can mount them if there is nothing in the air to attack.
  • Glass Cannon: The Hippogryphs are fast, do heavy damage, and have no armor.

Hippogryph Rider

During a battle, Night Elf Archers can mount Hippogryphs and fire their bows from their backs, aided by the speed and mobility of their flying allies.


  • Discard and Draw: Having an Archer mount the Hippogryph means the Hippogryph's powerful Anti-Air attack is traded in for the Archer's bow, which can attack ground and air units. The mounted Archer also has far more HP than the Hippogryph alone, though since the Hippogryph is carrying an Archer it is slower, albeit still very fast.

Druid of the Talon

Druids of the Talon are druids who adopted the Crow totem. Within Night Elf society they act as spies. In battle, they can transform into Storm Crows to act as flying scouts. In their Night Elf forms, they can channel the powers of the wind.


  • Anti-Air: In their Storm Crow form, they can only attack air units. They aren't going to win any fights on their own, but researching Mark of the Talon means their Faerie Fire will still be used and can lower the target's armor.
  • Balance Buff: The patch reworked magic units and buffed the druid's spells, increasing the duration of Cyclone and decreasing the cost of Faerie Fire.
  • Blow You Away: Their Cyclone spell, which temporarily removes a unit from combat.
  • Glass Cannon: Their Storm Crow form is faster, has more HP, and deals much greater damage than their Night Elf form. Even with the added HP, however, they still have low health.
  • Support Party Member: The Druid of the Talon is a caster whose spells are aimed at hindering the enemy. Using Cyclone removes an enemy unit from combat, and their Faerie Fire spell lowers a unit's armor.

Chimera

The Chimaera of Ashenvale Forest are territorial beasts who have nonetheless formed bonds with Night Elves. The flying two-headed creatures breathe bolts of lightning from one head and corrosive acid from the other.


  • Achilles' Heel: The Chimera is the only air unit incapable of attacking other air units.
  • Anti-Structure: Researching Corrosive Breath gives the Chimera a second attack that does Siege damage, making it much more effective at destroying buildings.
  • Breath Weapon: Two of them. One head breathes lightning and the other spits acid.
  • Mighty Glacier: The Chimera has slightly below-average speed, but also has the highest damage of all the flying units next to the Frost Wyrm and can inflict heavy damage with its two attacks.
  • Multiple Head Case: The Chimera has two heads, each with a unique attack.
  • Mix-and-Match Critters: The Chimera resembles a cross between a bird and a two-headed dragon.

Treant

Walking trees created by the Keeper of the Grove.


  • Cannon Fodder: Treants are summoned in groups of two to four, depending on the level of Force of Nature. Regardless of the level, they are weak units.
  • When Trees Attack: They are living trees created by the Keeper of the Grove's Force of Nature spell.

Ancients

Ancients are demigod-like trees who ally with the Night Elves. Night Elf structures that are classified as Ancients can uproot themselves and act as units until they are rooted again.


  • Mighty Glacier: Uprooted Ancients have as many hit points as they did while they were buildings, which, aside from the Ancient of Wonders is a lot, and also inflict heavy damage. The downside is that they are by far the slowest units in the game, so they are mostly good for defense.
  • When Trees Attack: Ancients are all giant trees that can uproot to attack enemies. The Ancient Protector can also attack while rooted.

Mountain Giant

When the world was young, the Titans crafted giants of living stone. These Mountain Giants are docile and solitary creatures who awaken to defend their world when its tranquility is threatened. The giants' rock skin and sheer bulk make them exceptionally durable, and their sheer size gives them great strength.


  • Draw Aggro: Their Taunt ability forces enemies to attack them.
  • Improvised Weapon: Their War Club ability lets them uproot a tree and use it as a weapon. The tree does more damage than its fist, but breaks after enough swings.
  • Mighty Glacier: Mountain Giants have more HP than a level 10 hero, unless the hero used a number of items to buff their HP. They also have the highest damage of the land units players normally have access to. On top of this, researching their passive abilities Harden Skin and Resistant Skin reduces the damage of enemy attacks and spells, respectively. As to be expected from giants made of stone, they are slow.
  • No-Sell: Resistant Skin gives the Mountain Giant the same Contractual Boss Immunity that heroes and creeps above level 5 enjoy, making them immune to Polymorph and Possession.
  • Our Giants Are Bigger: They are gentle creatures made of stone, and are the biggest land unit in the game.

Faerie Dragon

Despite their name, Faerie Dragons are not actual dragons. They are instead mystical creatures who patrol the Emerald Dream and protect it from harmful magic. To aid this effort, they are immune to spells.


  • Anti-Magic: The Faerie Dragon is immune to spells, and their Mana Flare spell allows them to harm enemies who use spells themselves.
  • Fairy Dragons: They are lizard-like creatures with butterfly wings, and are much larger than they would be depicted in later appearances. Despite their name, they are not actual dragons.
  • No-Sell: They are immune to spells, and when using Phase Shift they are immune to damage.

Avatar of Vengeance

A unit summoned by the Warden's ultimate.


  • Anti-Magic: The Avatar is immune to spells.
  • Lightning Bruiser: While not as strong as Infernal, the Avatar of Vengeance is still powerful, durable, and fast.
  • The Necromancer: The Avatar of Vengeance uses its Spirit of Vengeance spell to create the eponymous unit corpses of other units. Unlike the Undead's Necromancer, the Avatar is limited to summoning six units.
  • Scissors Cuts Rock: Being immune to spells, the Avatar of Vengeance is not countered by Anti-Magic spells.

Spirit of Vengeance

When an Avatar of Vengeance comes across a corpse, it can use its Spirit of Vengeance spell to create this unit. While their attacks aren't especially strong, the Spirits of Vengeance are immune to all attacks.


  • Invincible Minor Minion: A Spirit of Vengeance is immune to all forms of attack: they only die when their timed life expires or the Avatar that created them dies.
  • The Juggernaut: While their attacks are not especially powerful, a Spirit of Vengeance can only be stopped if its timed life runs out or when the Avatar that created it dies.
  • Scissors Cuts Rock: Like the Avatar that created them, normal counters to summoned units do not work on a Spirit of Vengeance.
  • Stone Wall: Their attacks are not especially strong, only hitting slightly harder than an un-upgraded Archer. A necessary drawback, since enemies cannot hurt them in return.

Mariofan99 Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#22790: Feb 8th 2023 at 4:48:08 PM

For the Base-Breaking Character section on this page Marvel Cinematic Universe:

  • Peter Quill aka Star-Lord. While Star-Lord was well-liked in his first two films, Quill's popularity would take a sharp hit in Avengers: Infinity War for attacking Thanos at the worst possible moment allowing Thanos to recover and ultimately beat the heroes and again when What If? showed how much safer the Galaxy would've been had T'Challa been abducted instead of Quill down to Thanos pulling a Face–Heel Turn. These events caused many to see Quill's immaturity as obnoxious and detrimental to the universe instead of endearing. However, Quill does still have many fans who point to his wit and leadership skills. Fans also find it unfair to blame the heroes losing Infinity War solely on him by citing other screw-ups by the heroes,note  and find the What-If episode to be too unrealistic to hold against Quill.
  • While Spider-Man's introduction to the MCU had been something long anticipated, its portrayal of Peter Parker proved to be very controversial. Fans adore Tom Holland's portrayal for bringing in the youthful energy and High School based dilemmas that had been mostly absent from the previous iterations of the character in the film. Detractors however feel Spider-Man was turned into a supporting character for Iron Man noting how even following Tony's death much of Peter's films are dominated by Spider-Man having to live up to Iron Man with grudges against Tony Stark being the motives of both of his villains. Some detractors go as far as to call him "Iron Boy Jr." instead of Spider-Man. While Spider-Man: No Way Home made great strides to address these complaints by having Peter work alongside both of his Live-Action predecessors and ultimately sacrifice everything he had to ensure the multiverse's safety, there are some who feel that having Peter lose all his friends, family and, home is too much of an overcorrection, or felt these changes arrived too little, too late.

Edited by Mariofan99 on Feb 8th 2023 at 7:53:49 AM

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#22791: Feb 8th 2023 at 6:18:06 PM

@ Buffy Vampires

  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: The Sunnydale Yearbook memorial section claims that she saw every stranger as a friend she hadn’t made yet.
  • Walking the Earth: The Schrödinger's Canon novels The Gatekeeper Trilogy features her among the masses of people temporarily Barred from the Afterlife and forced to wander through empty voids until she is in the right state to move on. A recently re-ensouled Angel sees her there when he enters the realm on a mission and feels remorse for siring her as Angelus.

@ Sunnnydale High

    Lishanne 

Lishanne Davis

Played by: Nicole Prescott
An aspiring cheerleader and victim of the eponymous villain from "The Witch".

Lisa is also part of the Science Club.

    John Lee 

John Lee Walker

Played by: Nathan Anderson
A football player who Cordelia tries to flirt with to make Xander jealous.
  • Academic Athlete: The yearbook says that he is in the Computer Club as well as being a football player and wrestler.
  • Alternate Self: An alternate version of him from the Wishverse appears and is far nicer and more bashful than the original timeline version of him.
  • Jerk Jock: He tells Cordelia that he'd be fine being intimate with her in private but would never want to be publicly seen with anyone who'd go out with Xander.

    Roy 

Roy Dukeshire

Played by: Grant Garrison
A student gripped by anti-magic hysteria in "Gingerbread".

@ Supergirl (1984)

  • Visual Effects of Awesome: The outside shots and wider inside shots of Argo City (which is housed in an enormous crystalline structure with multiple levels and almost no walls) can feel pretty impressive and aren’t cheaply designed.

@ Hot Wheels: AcceleRacers Longer versions of all of the songs that have excerpts played in the movies can be found here.

@ The O.C.

A flashback scene shows that this goes all the way back to her elementary school days, when she instantly traded a school project she'd worked hard on in exchange for an invitation to Summer's birthday party.

Julie even says that while Marissa is more like Jimmy, Kaitlin (who has just told a story they are debating the veracity of) is her daughter.

  • Obfuscating Stupidity: When she returns in season 3, she goes on a rambling, ditzy-sounding tangent about how she didn't know Marissa moved out of their old house and embarrassed herself showing up there unannounced. However, later scenes in the episode have her tell a series of convincing lies about the money she stole to buy a ticket home, and she later admits that she knew Marisa had moved the whole time and she came back to see how her family was doing.

@ Teen Power Inc. The series has far more light-hearted moments than thrilling ones, and most of the thrilling ones are more awesome than scary, but in a series where Vile Villain, Saccharine Show is the rule rather than the exception, there are some pretty unnerving moments.

  • In the climax of ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice", the brutal mugger known as the Raven Hill Gripper is tied up but is biting at their bonds, while shooting a furious Death Glare toward the heroes that promises dangerous things if the Gripper gets loose.
  • In The Cry of the Cat, the Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds villain gets a Motive Rant that showcases his Sanity Slippage, won't answer to any name besides The King of the Cats, and locks the heroes in a basement with no intention of ever letting them out.
  • Most of Breaking Point, between the way that the chapters in a writer's book seem to be controlling what happens to the gang (it's all a publicity stunt, though), the odd sounds they hear in the basement in the second half, and the discovery of a long-dead murder victim's skeleton.
  • Nowhere to Run has a faint slasher movie vibe. The characters are on a camping trip in an isolated park and are forced to confront gradual signs that someone malignant is following them through the woods, tripping or grabbing people at odd times to cause chaos, and being prepared to do far worse, as shown in an Alone with the Psycho moment in a cave in the climax.
  • In Dead End, there's the moment when Nick realizes his friends really have been kidnapped by an old enemy who is using identical Strangers to frame them for crimes and then make it look like they ran away instead of being kidnapped. And then there's the heavy implication that the kidnapper was planning to kill them with a home made gas chamber.

@ Proposal Thread

  • The War Wagon: Taw Jackson plots to steal $500,000 in gold from the heavily guarded convoy of a man who had him wrongfully imprisoned. Taw forms a plan and recruits multiple accomplices while serving his sentence. Within days of his release, he has convinced a hated enemy to join him in his scheme and rescues an accomplice from a crowded outlaw camp through quick-thinking trickery. He shrewdly avoids raising any suspicions that he is planning a robbery or that Pierce's gunman is working with him. He is willing to use the local Kiowa Native Americans as Canon Fodder in his scheme, but pays them for their efforts, respects their noncombatants, and (unlike Pierce) never drove them off his land while he owned it. Taw's plan to separate Pierce and most of his bodyguards by destroying a bridge, ambush the wagon with a log trap and smuggle the gold away in Pierce's own flour barrels almost succeeds, until the Kiowa betray him. Despite losing most of his loot, Taw is content with the fraction of it that he does manage to save (and Pierce's death), and lets his partners know about the money rather than pretend it was lost too.

@ Academic Athlete

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Sunnydale High Yearbook reveals that several athletically-inclined students from the show have skills in some smarter fields, or vice versa.
    • Spear Carrier cheerleaders Amber Grove and Lishanne Davis "The Witch" are both part of the Science Club and Lishanne is on the yearbook staff, with Lishanne being voted the female student who most embodies "Looks and Books".
    • Owen Thurman, the poetry lover who goes out with Buffy in "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date", is part of the yearbook staff and is also on the tennis team. He is voted the male student who most embodies "Looks and Books".
    • Lisa Campiti, one of the talent show contestants from "The Puppet Show", is on the track team, is a Science Club member, and won a prize at a Frenchathon competition for non-native French speakers.
    • Mad Scientist Eric Gittleson from "Some Assembly Required" is also on the tennis team.
    • Ben Straley, the shy student who unsuccessfully asks Buffy out in "I Only Have Eyes for You", is on both the Math Club and the swim team.
    • Jerk Jock quarterback John Lee Walker from "The Wish" is a Computer Club member.
    • Michael Czajak, the budding warlock from "Gingerbread", is a ballet dancer and tennis team member in addition to being part of the Math and Science Clubs.
    • Bullying wrestler and soccer player Roy Dukeshire from "Gingerbread" is a Science Club member.

Edited by Melinda on Feb 10th 2023 at 9:03:07 AM

FateStayWho Since: Jul, 2016
#22792: Feb 8th 2023 at 7:59:32 PM

Warcraft 3 Units

Campaign Only Units

     Ships 

In the campaigns of Frozen Throne, in addition to the Transports that can be hired, warships will also appear.

Tropes shared by Frigates and Battleships

  • Cool Boat: They are heavily armed warships.
  • Cosmetically Different Sides: While the ships of the various factions look wildly different, their stats are identical.
  • Expy: Of the warships from Warcraft II, the Frigates are stand-ins for Destroyers, and the Battleships stand-ins for the heavier ships.
  • The Voiceless: Unlike the Warcraft II ships, they have no voice lines.

Tropes exclusive to the Frigates


  • Anti-Air: Frigates can attack air units.
  • Glass Cannon: Frigates have powerful attacks and are fast, but not especially high HP and now armor.

Tropes exclusive to the Battleships


  • Anti-Structure: Battleships inflict Siege damage, doing extra damage to structures.
  • Mighty Glacier: Battleships pack far more of a punch than Frigates, with higher HP, and heavy armor, but are slow.

     Human Units 

Swordsman

The Elven armies do not use Human Footmen, instead, they use a similar unit called the Swordsmen. Despite differences in name and appearance, it and the Footmen are otherwise the same unit.


Captain

In a few missions, a more powerful version of the Footman appears in a few missions, sometimes acting as a messenger, and other times as an obstacle to the player.


Villager

Human and High Elf villagers appear in a few missions. As they are not combatants or laborers, they must either be protected or killed, depending on whose side the player is on.


  • Non-Action Guy: They have low HP and cannot attack. Their purpose in a mission is either for the player to help them or as targets for the player to kill.

Archer

Elven armies lack the Dwarf Riflemen, so Archers take their place in missions where High Elves and Blood Elves appear.


  • Amazon Brigade: These Archers are all women.
  • Palette Swap: Of the Night Elf Archers. Compared to the Archers of the Night Elves, these have higher HP, and higher maximum damage, but also lower minimum damage so they are less reliable. They also cannot attack air units.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To the Elven Archers from Warcraft II.

Chaplain

Admiral Proudmoore's forces lack High Elf priests, so Chaplains appear in their place.


Hydromancer

Mages who specialize in water magic under the command of Admiral Proudmoore.


  • Making a Splash: They can cast Crushing Wave, which releases a wave of water that damages enemies in front of them.
  • Palette Swap: Of the Archmage.

Dragonhawk

The High Elves leaving the Alliance means when faced with the Scourge, the Gryphon Riders are not there to aid them. To fill the hole in the unit roster, the Dragonhawk takes the Gryphon Riders' place.


  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To the Gryphon Rider in "Path of the Damned" when the player is facing the High Elves, as the High Elves do not have any dwarfs coming to their defense.

Worker

Workers for the Elves who take the role of the Human Peasants.


Blood Elf Engineer

During "The Crossing", engineers are used to construct the special towers used to protect the portal allowing the Blood Elves to escape.


  • Insufferable Genius: In contrast to the dullwitted Peasants, the Engineer is a genius who thinks very highly of himself.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To the Worker during the secret mission in "Curse of the Blood Elves", "The Crossing", acting as the builders for the special towers in the mission.

Blood Elf Lieutenant

Elite Swordsmen who Kael finds imprisoned in "The Dungeons of Dalaran".


     Orc Units 

Slave Master

The leader of the Orcs of the Blackrock Clan who launched collect captives to use as a sacrifices.


  • Stone Wall: He has good HP and speed, and hits hard.
  • Starter Villain: He is the first adversary Arthas encounters in the Human campaign.
  • Unique Enemy: This type of horse-mounted orc wielding a mace appears in "The Defense of Strahnbrad" and never appears again.
  • Warm-Up Boss: While he has good stats, he has no spells or abilities so he is less of a threat than the Hero Units players will encounter after him.

Fel Orcs

Orcs who are tempted by the power of the Burning Legion drink the blood of a powerful demon. This act grants power to the Orcs, at the cost of them falling under the control of the demon.


  • Blessed with Suck: Drinking demon blood made the orcs more powerful, at the cost of the demon who provided the blood enslaving them.
  • Infinity +1 Element: All Fel Orcs use Chaos damage as opposed to whatever damage type their normal counterparts had, which deals full damage to all targets, even ones with Divine that causes all other attacks to do Scratch Damage.
  • Law of Chromatic Superiority: The Fel Orcs grew stronger by drinking the blood of a powerful demon, and turned from green to red.
  • Spikes of Villainy: In Reforged, Fel Orcs have spikes of varying sizes growing out of them.

Fel Orc Warlock

Rather than using Shamans, Fel Orcs use Warlocks.


  • Glass Cannon: Warlocks inflict much higher damage than the caster units the player normally gets access to, though their main source of damage is that they can cast Firebolt. They still die easily if they come under attack.
  • Playing with Fire: Warlocks can cast Firebolt, which is like the Mountain King’s Stormbolt, only it uses a fireball instead of a hammer. This is the only time in the campaign the player gets a unit with this spell.
  • Purposely Overpowered: The player only gets to use Fel Orc Warlocks in one level, and it is easy to see why because of their Firebolt spell. It attacks like the level 1 version of the Mountain King’s Stormbolt. The spell does heavy damage to a target and stuns it. With enough Warlock set up to hit a target with Firebolt, they can lock it into a Cycle of Hurting where it cannot attack.

     Undead Units 

Zombie

Humans exposed to the plague of the Undead Scourge are turned into Zombie slaves to the Scourge.


  • Cannon Fodder: Zombies are weak units, even more so than Ghouls, hence they only appear as enemies in the campaign.
  • Our Zombies Are Different: They are standard zombies with no notable abilities.

     Night Elf Units 

Night Elf Runner

A messenger sent by Maiev to get the mainland to send reinforcements from the mainland.


  • Ironic Name: Despite her name and purpose being to deliver a message, the Runner is very slow, especially compared to the generally speedy units of the Night Elves.

     Naga Units 

General


  • Purposely Overpowered: As Nagas do not appear as a faction outside of the campaign and map editor, they were not designed with game balance in mind. All of their units can cross water, they can build structures on the water, and their units are too powerful for their cost.

Mur'gul Slave

The Nagas' Worker Unit. Unlike the other Naga units as no notable stats or abilities.


  • Worker Unit: They are the Nagas' builders and resource gatherers.

Mur'gul Reaver

A warrior the Reavers produce from their starting structure.


  • Cannon Fodder: Compared with the other Naga units, the Reaver is unimpressive.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: Reavers are a warrior who can be built out of the gate, and are tied with Ghouls as the cheapest warrior unit in the game while having better stats than the Ghouls. But Nagas warriors produced from their other structures are so much better that Reavers aren't worth using.
  • Zerg Rush: Reavers are as cheap as Ghouls, and are produced from the Nagas' starting building.

Naga Myrmidon

Hulking snake men who wield giant spears. They are the rank and file of the Naga armies. They cost more than the basic warriors of other factions but have stats comparable to late-game units while being cheaper than the units in question.


  • Anti-Air: Myrmidons cannot target air units, but they can force them to the ground using Ensnare.
  • Blade On A Stick: Myrmidons wield massive spears.
  • Disc-One Nuke: Nagas' have a very simple tech with the ability to construct the building that produces Myrmidons out of the gate. Despite costing less than Knight or Druid of the Claw, the Myrmidon has higher HP, damagenote , and HP regeneration.

Snap Dragon

Four-legged lizard creatures who act as the Nagas' ranged troops.


  • Anti-Air: Snap Dragons can attack ground and air targets.
  • Poisonous Person: Snap Dragons have the Dryads' Slow Poison, which causes their attacks to slow their targets' movement and attack speed while dealing a slow Damage Over Time effect.

Dragon Turtle

Giant turtles the Naga use as their siege units. They are much weaker than the Dragon Turtle Creeps, but are still resilient and powerful units.


  • Anti-Structure: Dragon Turtles do insane damage against buildings, more than any other unit.
  • Attack Reflector: Their Spiked Shell passive reflects some of the damage they take back at the attacker.
  • Damage Reduction: Their Hardened Skin ability reduces the damage of all attacks against them.
  • Disc-One Nuke: Nagas do not need to tech up like other factions to get access to new units, so they can produce their powerful building destroyers well before other factions get their siege units.
  • Extreme Omnivore: They can use Devour, letting them consume any unit, removing them from combat until Devour's Damage Over Time kills them or the Dragon Turtle is killed.
  • Siege Engines: They are the Nagas' siege units. While they lack the absurd HP of their creep variant and the range of other factions' siege units, they have the highest damage against buildings of any unit while still being decent fighters if they come under attack.

Naga Siren

Female Nagas who wield magic.


  • An Ice Person: Sirens can cast Frost Armor to enhance the durability of allies.
  • Support Party Member: Naga Sirens lack the raw damage of the Myrmidons, but they have a spell called Parasite. This can be set to autocast and causes a Damage Over Time effect that lasts a very long time. If it kills any enemy unit, it creates a free unit called a Watery Minion. They can also temporarily remove enemy units from combat with Cyclone and buff the armor of friendly units with Frost Armor.

Coualt

Winged snake creatures who act as the Nagas' flying units.


  • Anti-Magic: Coualts can cast Abolish Magic, causing their attacks to remove buffs and debuffs, and deal extra damage to summoned units.
  • Glass Cannon: Coualts have fairly HP, slightly lower than a Wind Raider (though the Nagas' fast HP regeneration gives it greater survivability), but very high damage, in-between that of a Wind Raider and a Gryphon Rider. All while being as fast as a Hippogryph Rider.
  • Zerg Rush: The biggest advantage the Coualt has over the flying units of other factions is that it is cheap and only takes up two food the four taken up by Wind Raider and Gryphon Rider. Only the Hippogryph and Gargoyle cost less and also take up two food, both of which are dedicated Anti-Air units so they lack the Coualt's flexibility.

Naga Royal Guard

Elite Naga warriors who are so powerful the player never gets to build even in the missions where they control Naga units. They have comparable stats to a Doomgaurd, have versions of spells typically only found on heroes, and are fast and benefit from faction upgrades.


  • An Ice Person: They can cast Frostbolt, which like the Firebolt used by the Warlocks only it uses ice.
  • Blade On A Stick: Like Myrmidons, they wield huge spears.
  • Boss in Mook's Clothing: Naga Royal Guards take everything dangerous about Doomgaurds, and put it into a package that is faster, has better armor, and benefits from armor and damage upgrades, on top of arguably having a better selection of spells since the Royal Guards have more straightforward damage spells, which include the ability to stun targets.
  • Elite Mook: These are the elite of the Naga armies and their strongest land units.
  • Infinity +1 Element: Royal Guards inflict Chaos damage.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Royal Guards have as much HP as a Frost Wyrm, hit harder than the elite land units of other factions, and unlike such units, aside from the Knight, they are fast.
  • Magic Knight: On top of their high stats, Royal Guards have an array of spells.
  • Making a Splash: They can cast Crushing Wave, which sends out a wave of water that several units in front of them.
  • Master of All: Royal Guards have more HP than a Tauren, higher damage than a Mountain Giant, the armor of a Knight, and are fast.
  • My Rules Are Not Your Rules: Players do not get to build Naga Royal Guards in the missions where they control Naga units. The AI in the final Undead mission has no such restrictions.
  • Purposely Overpowered: Even compared to the Nagas’ other units the Royal Guard is massively overpowered as it has everything one would want in a land unit, and can cast spells that help it in combat. It is like the Doomgaurd, only worse since it benefits from the Nagas’ armor and damage upgrades. Quite tellingly when the player does control Nagas as a faction, they still cannot build Royal Guards.
  • Summon Magic: Royal Guards can cast Summon Sea Elemental, creating a unit that is slightly more powerful than a basic Water Elemental.

    Draenei Units 

Draenei Laborer

The Draeneis' Worker Unit.


  • Worker Unit: They act as resource gatherers and builders for the Draenei.

Draenei Stalker

An invisible Draenei warrior who relies on stealth to get in position to land his powerful attacks.


  • Glass Cannon: Stalkers are not especially durable, but they hit hard and are invisible when not attacking.
  • Invisibility: Stalkers are invisible until they attack an enemy.
  • Force and Finesse: The Finesse to the Vindicator’s Force. The Stalker

Draenei Vindicator

The hardier Draenei warrior who is armed for a frontal assault.


  • Force and Finesse: They are the Force to the Stalker’s Finesse. The Stalker is a stealth unit that inflicts greater damage, while the Vindicator has a weaker attack but higher armor and HP.

jahman Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#22793: Feb 8th 2023 at 10:13:01 PM

Aine Yukimura

  • Love at First Sight: Aine admits to Sakuya that she has been in love with him since the very moment she first laid eyes on him.

NURJIN915 Since: Sep, 2020
#22794: Feb 9th 2023 at 12:49:25 AM

Babe

Fly

  • Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: At the beginning of the story, she outrightly declares that "The bosses only eat stupid animals", yet more than one animal she calls stupid turns out to be quite intelligent. She did not know this only because she never bothered to verify her beliefs.

Naruto - Madara Uchiha

  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: He reads on a tablet that the world is a nightmare, life is pain, and the only way to end it all is put everyone in an eternal dream. He decides to believe it and carry it out, since it is something allegedly written by the Sage of the Six Paths. It doesn't occur to him that only a fool, or someone with a shadier purpose, could believe that as long as everyone is happy, trapping all of humanity in an eternal illusion is a good thing. At the end, no one among the main characters has to prove to him why it is wrong, as it turns out that it was all a huge lie.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22795: Feb 9th 2023 at 9:09:02 AM

[up] @Echidna

Changed verbs to present tense as per How to Write an Example - Write in Historical Present Tense.

Kujou Takayuki is a corrupt Tenryou Commissioner of the Shogunate and the head of the Kujou Clan who consistently abuses his children and Sara to make them loyal to the Shogun through force. He kills Takatsukasa Isamu in order to obtain good publicity, <- comma blackmailing Shioyama in the process, <- comma while also ordering his men to drown the infected and sick inhabitants of Higi Village on the ship to pin the blame on the Watatsumi Army. He forces a merchant to sell Delusions, <- comma which leads to the start of a civil war in Inazuma through the Vision Hunt, <- comma and Sakoku decrees murdering thousands of innocents while also giving them a fate worse than death. Kujou manipulates the Raiden Shogun into thinking the Vizion are the real enemies before planning to slaughter everyone in Inazuma because Gongozaemon did not report to him.

Some questions:

  • How does killing Takatsukasa Isamu give him good publicity?
  • Drown the infected and sick inhabitants of Higi Village on what ship?
  • How does selling Delusions cause a civil war?
  • Why would Kujou plan to slaughter people just because Gongozaemon didn't report to him?

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22796: Feb 9th 2023 at 9:17:58 AM

[up] @Mariofan 99

...moment, <- comma allowing...heroes, <- comma and...Quill, <- comma down...

Fans adore Tom Holland's portrayal for bringing into the film the youthful energy and High School based dilemmas that had been mostly absent from the previous iterations of the character. Detractors, <- comma however, <- comma feel...Man, <- comma noting...Man, <- comma with...family and <- no comma home...

^ I had to move "into the film" earlier in the sentence because where it was, you were saying that the previous iterations of the character occurred in that film, instead of earlier films.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22797: Feb 9th 2023 at 9:52:33 AM

[up] @Melinda

     Assorted corrections 

...and forced to wander through empty voids...

...and victim of the eponymous villain from "The Witch".

The apostrophe -> Sunnydale High Yearbook says... x2

Her mouth is removed by magical means...

...the Sunnydale High Yearbook, he...well-received story...

Folder: :John Lee <- remove extra colon

...than the original timeline version of him. <- period

^ You're only talking about one person of the same gender, so you can use pronouns freely.

[[folder:Roy]]: Add a [[/folder]] at the end of the previous folder.

Michael, but according to The apostrophe -> Sunnydale High Yearbook, they...

"Dukes", according to the yearbook.

He is fine with threatening Amy and Michael, <- comma but...

...all of the songs that have excerpts played in the movies can be found here.

Marissa even says that while she herself is more like Jimmy, Kaitlin...

...and embarrassed herself showing up there unannounced...scenes in the ...a series of convincing lies...

...tied up <- no comma but...their bonds, while...toward the heroes...

...won't answer to any name besides The King of the Cats, and...

...someone malignant is following them through the woods...

...was planning to kill them with a home made gas chamber.

Taw formulates a plan and recruits multiple...while still serving...and rescues an...Kiowa Native Americans as...it. Taw's plan to separate Pierce...almost succeeds, until...betray him. Despite...lost too.

Lisa Campiti...Show", <- comma is on the track team, is a...

...from no space -> "[[ Buffy...Required]]" is...

...in "I Only Have Eyes for You", is...

Edited by Arivne on Feb 9th 2023 at 9:54:01 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22798: Feb 9th 2023 at 9:55:35 AM

[up] @jahman

I can't find any English errors in that sentence.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22799: Feb 9th 2023 at 9:57:10 AM

[up] @NURJIN 915

At the beginning of the story, she outright declares...She does not know this...

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22800: Feb 9th 2023 at 10:44:00 AM

[up] @Fate Stay Who

     Campaign Only Units 

Changed verbs to present tense as per How to Write an Example - Write in Historical Present Tense.

...and the Battleships are stand-ins for the heavier ships.

Frigates have powerful attacks and are fast, but not especially high HP and no armor.

...with higher HP <- no comma and heavy armor, but are slow.

The Elven armies do not use Human Footmen. <- period Instead, they...

In a few missions, a...appears in a few missions, sometimes...

Their purpose in a mission is either for the player to help them or to act as targets...

...higher HP <- no comma and...damage, <- comma so...

^ These are all Partial Context Examples. Please read that page to learn how to correct them. As with plagiarism, the moderators consider doing this to be a suspension-worthy offense.

They are Admiral Proudmoore's equivalent of Priests, since he has few...

...Elves", <- comma where High Elves and Blood Elves are factions modeled...

...who launched collected captives to use as sacrifices.

^ How would launching captives use them as sacrifices?

While he has good stats, he has no spells or abilities, <- comma so...

Drinking demon blood makes the orcs more powerful, at the cost...

...of a powerful demon <- no comma and turning from green to red.

...use Fel Orc Warlocks in one level, and it is easy to see why: <- colon because...

...to get the mainland to send reinforcements from the mainland.

...as a faction outside of the campaign and map editor, they are not...

Unlike the other Naga units, <- comma as they have no notable stats or abilities.

Reavers are warriors which can...gate <- no comma and...game, <- comma while...Ghouls. However, Naga warriors...

They cost more than the basic warriors of other factions, <- comma but...

Nagas have very simple tech, <- comma with...than Knights or Druids of...

...causing their attacks to remove buffs and debuffs and...

Couatl

Couatl can...debuffs <- no comma and...

Couatl have...Rider, <- comma all while...

The biggest advantage the Couatl has...food, <- comma compared to the...by the Wind Raider...units, <- comma so they lack the Couatl's flexibility.

Elite Naga warriors who are so powerful the player never gets to build them, even...

...which are like...Warlocks, <- comma only they use ice.

Naga Royal Guards take everything dangerous about Doomguards <- no comma and...spells, <- comma since...spells <- no comma which...

These are the elite of the Naga armies and are their strongest land units.

Royal Guards have as many HP...and, <- comma unlike such units <- no comma (aside from the Knight) <- no comma they are fast.

They can cast Crushing Wave, which sends out a wave of water over several units...

...units, <- comma the...overpowered, <- comma as...unit <- no comma and ...the Doomguard, only worse, <- comma since...tellingly, <- comma when...

The Stalker <missing text>

The hardier Draenei warrior, <- comma who is armed for a frontal assault.

Edited by Arivne on Feb 9th 2023 at 10:45:23 AM


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