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FateStayWho Since: Jul, 2016
#22826: Feb 10th 2023 at 7:36:30 PM

Warcraft 3 Units

     Neutral Units 

General

  • Anti-Magic: Creeps often have spell-using variants with spells that remove buffs, debuffs, and heavily damage summoned units. The most common for them to have is a Dyrads' Abolish Magic.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: The higher the status a Creep has, the stronger it is.
  • Contractual Boss Immunity: Creeps above level 5 are immune to the Kodo Beasts' Devour and the Banshees' Possession.
  • The Goomba: Weaker Creeps can easily be killed to help a hero level up.
  • Healing Factor: Creeps regenerate health more quickly than standard units, so if they are left alone they will recover from any damage inflicted on them.
  • The Medic: Many of the Creeps that use spells have some type of healing spell, the Priests' Heal being the most common.
  • Mercenary Units:
    • Some maps have Mercenary Camps which allow the player to hire certain Creeps. While some of the available Creeps have useful abilities, the ones the Mercenary Camps provide are underpowered compared to the units the player normally has access to so they are not worth hiring.
    • Maps that can support six or more players have Dragon Roosts that allow the player to hire Dragonkin. The fully-grown Dragons are easily the strongest units outside of the campaign, and also the most expensive units in the game by a wide margin.
    • Goblin Laboratories allow the player to hire Goblin units. Frozen Throne added Goblin Shipyards on water maps, where the player can hire a Transport Ship.
  • Money Spider: Killing Creeps gives a player gold, regardless of whether or not it made any sense for the unit in question to have any money in the first place.
  • Mook Commander: High-level Creeps often have auras to buff their allies, which includes an aura the player doesn't get access to called Command Aura that boosts the damage of friendly units.
  • Palette Swap: Most Creeps of a certain type use the same model, and their appearance is set apart with different colors or greater sizes. Others use the models from units from the main factions.
  • Poisonous Person: It is common for certain Creeps to have Envenomed Weapon, which causes their attacks to have a short Damage Over Time effect.

Arachnathid


  • Beware My Stinger Tail: They are scorpions and have stingers they attack with in addition to their claws.
  • Big Creepy-Crawlies: They are giant scorpions of varying sizes depending on their level.
  • Extra Eyes: Being arachnids, they have lots of extra eyes.
  • Scary Scorpions: They are giant scorpions who will attack anything that gets too close to them.

Bandits


  • Dark Is Evil: Bandit Lords, the leaders of gangs of violent thieves, wear black armor.
  • Light Is Not Good: The Bandit Lord has the Paladin's Devotion Aura and Divine Shield spells, but having a Paladin's spells doesn't that he is a murderer and a thief.
  • Palette Swap: The Bandit Lord is a reskin of the Knight with a red and black color scheme.

Banshees

Ghosts outside the control of the Undead Scourge. While the type of Creep shares the name with the Scourge's Banshee, they are not the same unit.


  • Demonic Possession: Like the Banshee, they can take control of units through the Possession spell.
  • Palette Swap: Of the Undead's Banshee, the only thing setting them apart in appearance, aside from size, is their colors.

Bears


  • Bears Are Bad News: Being Creeps, these bears will attack any units the player sends near them.
  • Palette Swap: They use the model of the Druid of the Claws' Bear Form, only they are colored white.

Blue Dragonspawn


  • An Ice Person: Dragonspawn Sorcerers can cast Frost Nova, freezing enemies and damaging them.
  • Blade On A Stick: The main weapon of a Dragonspawn is a pole with a massive blade the length of a sword on the end.
  • Breath Weapon: Dragonspawn Overseers have an ability called Breath of Frost where they breathe ice of an area that damages and causes a short Damage Over Time effect. It is essentially the Panderan Brewmaster's Breath of Fire with ice instead of fire.
  • Our Centaurs Are Different: Dragonspawn have humanoid-shaped bodies from the waist up, and from the waist down they are four-legged creatures.

Centaurs


  • Arch-Enemy: To the Tauren, having hunted the Bloodhoof Tribe to near extinction before the arrival of the Orcs.
  • Arrows on Fire: Centaur Impalers can use the Priestess of the Moon's Searing Arrows spell to enhance the damage of their bows.
  • Fantasy Counterpart Culture: They take influences from Mongols, with many of the Centaurs using bows and their leaders being called Khans.
  • Fragile Speedster: As one may expect given they are part horse, all Centaurs are fast. Most of them aren't especially strong.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Centaur Khans are a bit slower than other Centaurs but hit harder than most late-game melee units while having a lot of HP, and the Tauren Chieftan's Reincarnation meaning they have to be killed twice.
  • Our Centaurs Are Different: They are a violent all-male race.

Corrupted Treants


  • Dark Is Evil: The corruption caused by the Burning Legion's magic turned the Treants evil, and their darker colors as Corrupted Treants reflect it.
  • Palette Swap: Of normal Treants, with their appearance altered to show their corruption by the Burning Legion.
  • Poisonous Person: Poison Treants have Envenomed Weapons, causing their attacks to do extra damage to their targets.

Demons

The Infernals, Doomguards, and Fel Hounds introduced in Reign of Chaos are considered their own category of Creep even though they are radically different units.


Tropes Applying To All Demons

  • Infinity +1 Element: Unlike other Creep types where only the high-level ones have Chaos Damage, all Demons have Chaos damage so their attacks inflict full damage to all armor types.
  • My Rules Are Not Your Rules: Outside of a Dreadlord's ultimate, these Demons can be summoned if a player finds the right item, though they are considered summoned units so they have a timed life. This doesn't apply if they are fought as Creeps are enemies in the campaign.

Doomgaurds


  • Big Red Devil: Taking the place of the Daemon, they act as the traditionally huge red demon with bat wings.
  • Boss in Mook's Clothing: Doomgaurds are strong enough to take on low-level heroes one on one and expect to win.
  • Doomy Dooms of Doom: They are called Doomgaurds, and they live up to the name.
  • Elite Mook: They are elite warriors of the Burning Legion.
  • Herd-Hitting Attack: Their attacks have a small AOE and they the Tauren Chieften’s War Stomp spell, which damages enemies around them.
  • Jack of All Stats: Their spell list has Anti-Magic with Abolish Magic, Area of Effect damage with Rain of Fire (which was later added to the Pit Lord), a debuff with the Necromancer's Cripple, and they hit enemies around them with the Tauren Chieftan's War Stomp. It only has the level 1 versions of Rain of Fire and War Stomp, but they are still powerful tools for a non-hero unit.
  • Magic Knight: They are strong warriors who can also use an array of spells.
  • Mighty Glacier: The Doomguards are powerful, especially after it got a buff to its HP bringing it up to the level of Mountain Giant. At a cost they are slow.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: They are called Doomgaurd. If that isn’t enough to make one run, seeing them fight will be.
  • Purposely Overpowered: Players don't get access to Doomgauards outside of a rare item called a Demonic Figure or a Pit Lord's Doom spell, as they are far too strong to allow a player to build normally.

Fel Hound


  • Anti-Magic: All Fel Stalker units can cast Mana Burn to remove some of the target's mana and damage them. Fel Ravagers instead use Devour Magic which removes buffs and debuffs in an area and converts into health and mana for the Ravager.
  • Fragile Speedster: The Fel Beast is fast, but has little health and damage.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Fel Stalker and Ravagers have the Fel Beast’s speed and non of its fragility.

Infernal

Near mindless amalgamations of fel energy created by the Burning Legion. On some maps, they appear as Creeps.

For tropes that apply to this unit, see the Undead folder.

Dragonkin


  • Breath Weapon: They are dragons. Each has a different Breath Weapon though aside from cosmetics, the only difference between them is that Blue Dragonkin’s ice breath slows a target.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Dragons have the Kodo Beast’s Devour ability letting them eat any organic unit and digest, be it living or undead. The exception is the Nether Dragon, which has the Necromancer’s Cripple instead.
  • Fragile Speedster: Dragon Whelps are fast, but have little health and damage.
  • Herd-Hitting Attack: Dragons' attacks hit a small area around the target.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Drakes are as fast as Dragon Whelps having health and damage in the range late game melee units. Dragons trade off some of that speed, though they are still faster than the average unit. In exchange they have the highest HP of any non-campaign unit, which Frozen Throne increased, giving them more HP than all but the sturdiest buildings. Dragons do considerable damage with their attacks, which inflict Chaos damage so they are not reduced by any armor type.
  • The Juggernaut: Dragon Roosts only appear on maps that can support six or more players because Dragons are very hard to stop even though they are the most expensive thing in the game by a wide margin. They have Heavy armor as opposed to Light armor like most flying units, so they do not take extra damage from Piercing damage, which is what most ranged units that make cost-effective Anti-Air responses use. Being high-level Creeps, most abilities that would otherwise hinder them wear off very quickly.
  • No-Sell: Dragons are immune to spells.
  • Scissors Cuts Rock: Most flying units have Light armor, and most ranged units do Piercing damage, which Light armor takes extra damage from. Dragonkin have Heavy armor instead, which only takes normal damage from Piercing attacks. This does leave them more vulnerable to Magic damage, but most units that inflict Magic damage have weak attacks and die too easily to be cost-effective as Anti-Air units.

Draenei


  • Anti-Magic: Draenei Harbringers cast a spell that is unique to them called Ray of Disruption, which bounces between multiple targets dispelling any magic effects.
  • Playing with Fire: Draenei Darkslayers can cast Immolation, creating flames around them that damage enemies while the spell is active.
  • Sinister Scythe: All Draenei melee units use scythes as their weapons. Draenei who use magic fight unarmed, instead relying on their magic to attack.

Eredar Warlocks


  • Badass Cape: They all sport impressive-looking capes, except the Warlocks in Reforged, who trade the cape in for a pair of wings.
  • Big Red Devil: The Eradar Warlocks are big demons, and are red. In Reforged they have the look down to a T by trading in their capes for a pair of wings.
  • Evil Sorcerer: Eradar are demons who wield Black Magic and each type of Eredar uses at least one spell taken from units associated with the Burning Legion.
  • Herd-Hitting Attack: All of their attacks damage units in a radius.
  • Infinity +1 Element: All of them inflict Chaos damage so their attacks are not reduced by armor type, as opposed to just the high-level ones like other Creeps.
  • Playing with Fire: Sorcerers can cast Firebolt, which acts like the level 1 version of the Mountain King’s Stormbolt but with a fireball instead of a hammer. It inflicts heavy damage and stuns a target.
  • Squishy Wizard: The Eredar has low HP. The Diabolist, and the Warlock, not so much, the latter having as much HP as a Frost Wyrm.
  • Palette Swap: Of the Warlock hero from the campaign.
  • Winged Humanoid: Warlocks in Reforged have a pair of wings that serve no purpose.

Felguards


  • Blade On A Stick: All three types of Felgaurd wield polearms with oddly shaped blades.
  • Herd-Hitting Attack: Bloodfiends and Overlords have the Pit Lord’s Cleaving Attack, causing their attacks to damage enemies in a small radius.
  • Spikes of Villainy: Felgaurds have massive spikes growing out of their backs.

Fel Hounds

In Frozen Throne, the Fel Hounds became their own Creep type for certain maps.

For tropes applying to them, see Demons.

Furbolgs


  • An Ice Person: The Polar Furbolg Shaman, which is only found on tilesets with lots of ice, can cast the Lich's Frost Armor to enhance the durability of friendly units. The Polar Elder Shamans instead use Frost Nova.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Most Furbolgs have good speed, and the higher levels are extremely durable.
  • Shock and Awe: Furbolg Elder Shamans can cast Lightning Shield, which creates a shield of electricity around a target that damages enemies who get too close to it.
  • Squishy Wizard: Furbolg Shamans are quite tanky for magic units, and Elder Shamans are as durable as a late-game unit.
  • Wolverine Claws: Being bear-like creatures, they attack with their claws.

Gnolls


  • Epic Flail: Except for the Gnoll Warden, all Gnolls wield large flails.
  • Heinous Hyena: They are hyena men and they are very violent.
  • Poisoned Weapons: Gnoll Assassins have Envemoned Weapons, causing a small Damage Over Time on their attacks.
  • Silly Reason for War: In the manual, they are described as fighting dumb reasons like who has the bigger shadow.
  • Starter Villain: Gnolls have the distinction of being the first enemies fought in Reign of Chaos by appearing as the first enemies in the tutorial. As one may expect, the Gnolls are easy opponents.

Goblins

Goblins left the Horde after the Second War and now offer their services to whoever pays. Unlike other Neutral units, Goblin units are hired at a Goblin Laboratory or a Goblin Shipyard in the case of the Transport ship.

Goblin Sappers


  • Action Bomb: They have no attacks, they blow themselves up with their Kaboom! ability instead.
  • Anti-Structure: Their Kaboom! ability inflicts heavy damage normally and gets a massive damage bonus against buildings.
  • Glass Cannon: Their Kaboom! does heavy damage, but the Sappers have less health than a Worker Unit.

Goblin Zeppelin


  • Cool Airship: While not very durable, the Zepplin is the only way to get land units over otherwise impassible terrain.
  • Non-Action Guy: Like in Warcraft II, the Zepplin cannot attack.

Goblin Shredder


  • Chainsaw Good: Or buzzsaw in the Shredders' case. They are designed to harvest wood and are equipped with saws to cut down trees. They can however do decent damage to enemies as well.
  • Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Shredders are built to harvest wood, but they are well-armored and pack a heavy punch. Their high cost however keeps them from seeing much use in combat.
  • Worker Unit: A specialist worker meant for gathering wood. They gather wood much faster than any of the normal resource gatherers, bringing back enough to cover their wood cost twice over in a single trip.

Transport Ship

On the water maps introduced in Frozen Throne, a player can hire a ship from a Goblin Shipyard.


  • Cosmetically Different Sides: Transport Ships look different depending on the side that buys them, but their stats are identical.
  • Expy: Of the Transport Ships in Warcraft II, acting as transports to move land units across water maps.
  • Non-Action Guy: The ships are designed as transports for land units and cannot attack.

jOSEFdelaville Since: Dec, 2018
#22827: Feb 11th 2023 at 1:33:33 AM

Lanfeust

  • Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: The brutish trolls prefer to fight with brutal weapons such as clubs, giant bones, or axes.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Lanfeust writes the first letter of his name on Bugrenne's clothes with his sword, like Zorro.
    • In the Darshanide god's palace, Waldo can be seen as a background cameo.
    • A member of Thanos's army is Sergeant Karsya, whose name is similar to Sergeant Garcia.
    • A group of Martians from Mars Attacks! make a cameo in Les tours d'Abraxar.
    • Captain Grundwund is a rorskal hunter. Rorskals are basically alien whales. A specific rorskal the captain is trying to hunt is a unique white one, referencing Moby-Dick.
    • Captain Grundwund's crew includes carbon copies of Captain Haddock, Redbeard and Corto Maltese.
    • Planet Abraxar has creatures called "Dark-Moules", which looks like mussels with Darth Maul's skin color. People infected by the creature's poison also get Darth Maul's skin color. The name "Dark-Moule" by itself a mix between "Dark Maul" (Darth Maul's French name) and "moule" (mussel).
    • There's a secret agent whose name is Oho Seth, which sounds like "007" in French.
    • Pathacelces sometime use their shapeshifting power to take the appearence of others fictionnal characters, including: Casimir, the Marsupilami, a Xenomorph and Darth Vader.
    • The chemical detonator as the appearence of a pokeball.
    • At one point, Oho Seth calls himself a "poor lonesome agent, a long way from home", which is inspired by Lucky Luke's song at the end of all of his stories.
    • Thanos's spaceship after the 16 years time skip is called the "Al Blattor", which sounds like Albator, the French name of Captain Harlock.
    • Cixi has a speceship called the Millenium Sparrow.
    • At one point, Glin is put inside a carbonite block, just like Han Solo.
    • Some people confuse Hébus to be a member of species called "Wookee" or "Chewbac".
    • Lanfeust avoids egg-bullets, like Neo avoids gunshots in The Matrix.

Helluva Boss (Pilot)

  • You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Moxxie's reaction after catching Blitzo recording him and Millie having a romantic moment at home is a frustrated "Are you fucking filming us right now?!".

What The Cut: Trivia

  • What Could Have Been: Antoine has said that he'd do a 38th episode of What The Cut as a Series Finale and even joked by "promising" he'll keep his words if France won the Soccer World Cup in 2018 (In reality, he intended to make the episode anyway by that time). However, he couldn't find a satisfactory script that would reach his standards following the last episodes, and the pressure was too much for him and he decided to cancel the project entirely when he realised that he simply didn't want to do it anymore.

dArtagnanMusic Since: Oct, 2022
#22828: Feb 11th 2023 at 5:40:56 AM

Do Well, But Not Perfect:
* Some games may ask you to get a particular combo score as secondary objective, a task that will be extremely difficult if you've overleveled your characters/abilities to a point you kill enemies in one or two hits.

Edited by dArtagnanMusic on Feb 11th 2023 at 5:41:05 AM

EmperorGeode from A Galaxy far, far away Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: On the prowl
#22829: Feb 11th 2023 at 6:47:05 AM

For Complete Monster:

  • Western Animation/Gladiators: Canidia, High priestess of the Anubis, is scheming fanatic who dreams of reducing humanity to undead slaves of her master. Manipulating ambtius centurion Catilius, Canidia has him kill prince Prospero and traying to kill infant Ali, leading to death of his father and imprisonment of his mother. Planing to take over the Roman empire, Canidia has emperor Hadrian slowly poisoned and schemes with Catilius to have prince Marcus killed. Sending her champion Gutta to assist Catilius in tournament for the Princess Domithia’s hand. Canidia constantly tries to destroy Ali on his chalenges, at one point attempting to poison him using vision of his mother, eventually causing earthquake that destroys Rhodes. Disguising herself as Ali’s mother Niobe, Canidia tries to manipulate him into killing Hadrian, before transforming into a Jackal demon and planing to destroy Rome out of spite.

  • Plague Muffins: Doctor Malcolm Canoll is greedy, newly apointed head doctor of English Plague Doctor Society. Malcolm has all doctors who try to cure the plague or help patient in any way dissmished, replacing them with doctors who give temporaly remedies in order to maximise the profit, sending his right-hand Claudia to kill all dissmished doctors who continue trying to help people. Having young Emilie send to spy on doctor Scilis, Malcolm has her burn down Scilise’s bakery, before trying to get Emilie to kill Scilis. Torturing her after she refuses, Malcolm, on the verge of dying from the plague, spitefuly tries to kill Scilis.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22830: Feb 11th 2023 at 6:56:12 AM

Page 913 @Tylerbear 12

...introduction of the iconic LEGO mini-figures <- no comma as...sets <- no comma to...

...industry, <- comma since...

Lego versus Technic: <- colon and which one is better?

...the reason for why...father is out...muffles the sound of the trains...

Edited by Arivne on Feb 11th 2023 at 6:56:24 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22831: Feb 11th 2023 at 7:11:06 AM

Page 913 @Melinda

Jack Kelley and Maggie Daye are an abused foster child and crime show buff-turned mob boss and a burgeoning mystery author.

^ It's clear that Jack Kelley is an abused foster child and Maggie Daye is a burgeoning mystery author, but which one is the crime show buff-turned mob boss?

^ It would be better to rearrange the sentence to make it clear. E.g.:

  • Jack Kelley is an abused foster child and crime show buff-turned mob boss and Maggie Daye is a burgeoning mystery author.
  • Jack Kelley is an abused foster child and Maggie Daye is a crime show buff-turned mob boss and a burgeoning mystery author.

...his wife console Maggie...implicitly have the...powerful <missing text> from...to feed the detective the idea...arrested, then frame...plan <- no comma as...

"...to feed the detective the idea..." What detective? They haven't been mentioned before.

...the training or supplies that doctors fifteen years earlier would have had.

...survived the Big Death due to being kids and the time and are trying to use...

Edited by Arivne on Feb 11th 2023 at 7:13:53 AM

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#22832: Feb 11th 2023 at 7:23:41 AM

Thanks @ Jeremiah

  • Rickie from "City of Roses", Kurdy’s childhood neighbor and friend, only appears for a few minutes to help Kurdy put some demons from his past to rest, but she makes a powerful impact in her brief screentime.

Edited by Melinda on Feb 11th 2023 at 8:02:56 AM

kawaiineko333 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#22833: Feb 11th 2023 at 7:26:51 AM

SsethTzeentach

Adding to Crosses the Line Twice

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22834: Feb 11th 2023 at 7:31:14 AM

Page 913 @Orror SANESS

What's the work? <- no comma The Hohenzollern Empire, Part 5: <- colon Holy...has been destroyed...a Christofascist dictatorship...Jerusalem, <- comma created out of...Lithuania, <- comma takes the cake!

...more modern and more effective...most of it is a lot less effective than even that...is insanely INSANELY...He slowly wears down...eventually is defeated....he destroys the...that are still...

...aren't Complete Monsters like...done, <- comma even...makes do as with...Jerusalem <- no comma who's NOT Elias <- no comma shown...have, <- comma as...I'd say he meets the standards.

^ "I'd say he meets the standards." goes against First-Person Writing (AKA This Troper) and How to Write an Example - Don't Write in the First Person.

...strength, numb pain, and keep people...Von has enough...will and can...

^ This whole paragraph goes against How to Write an Example - (Good Examples Are Not Arguable and Don't Use Uncertain Language), Examples Are Not Arguable and Conversation in the Main Page.

It should not be added.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22835: Feb 11th 2023 at 7:40:25 AM

[up] @jOSEFdelaville

...take the appearance of other fictional characters...

The chemical detonator has the appearance of a Pokeball.

Cixi has a spaceship called the Millenium Sparrow.

Some people confuse Hébus with a member of a species called "Wookee" or "Chewbac".

Lanfeust avoids egg-bullets <- no comma the way Neo avoids gunshots in The Matrix.

..."promising" he'd keep his word if...2018 (in reality...However, following the last episodes, he...standards <- no comma and...him, <- comma so he...

Edited by Arivne on Feb 11th 2023 at 7:40:51 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22836: Feb 11th 2023 at 7:42:50 AM

[up] @dArtagnanMusic

...as a secondary objective...overleveled your characters/abilities to the point...

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#22837: Feb 11th 2023 at 7:46:11 AM

Whether the two scientists are truly operating on behalf of the Valhalla Sector or are only reacting to Valhalla Sector scientists bringing back the disease to other areas is never positively confirmed.

Edited by Melinda on Feb 11th 2023 at 8:04:37 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22838: Feb 11th 2023 at 7:54:01 AM

[up] @Emperor Geode

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...is the greedy, newly appointed head...of the English...help patients in any way dismissed, replacing...give temporary remedies...all dismissed doctors...Emilie sent to...bakery <- no comma before...

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22839: Feb 11th 2023 at 7:56:55 AM

[up] @Melinda

...Kurdy’s childhood neighbor and friend, only appears for a few minutes...

...bringing back the disease to other areas is never positively confirmed.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22840: Feb 11th 2023 at 7:58:39 AM

[up] @kawaiineko333

I don't see anything wrong with the English in that sentence.

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#22841: Feb 11th 2023 at 8:21:49 AM

Thank you. @ Fast Times at Ridgemont High

  • Pom-Pom Girl: The cheerleaders are excited about their job even though their team rarely wins and try to put on excited faces at pep rallies despite knowing they no one takes them seriously due to the poor performance of the team.

Edited by Melinda on Feb 11th 2023 at 8:54:02 AM

EmperorGeode from A Galaxy far, far away Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: On the prowl
Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22843: Feb 11th 2023 at 8:40:05 AM

[up] @Fate Stay Who

    Neutral Units 

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Doomguards

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Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#22844: Feb 11th 2023 at 8:41:41 AM

[up] @Melinda

The cheerleaders are excited about their job even though their team rarely wins and try to put...

FateStayWho Since: Jul, 2016
#22845: Feb 11th 2023 at 11:03:20 AM

@Arivne thanks.

Warcraft 3 Units

     Neutral Units 

General

  • Anti-Magic: Creeps often have spell-using variants with spells that remove buffs, debuffs, and heavily damage summoned units. The most common spell for them to have is the Dryads' Abolish Magic.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: The higher the status a Creep has, the stronger it is.
  • Contractual Boss Immunity: Creeps above level 5 are immune to the Kodo Beasts' Devour and the Banshees' Possession.
  • The Goomba: Weaker Creeps can easily be killed to help a hero level up.
  • Healing Factor: Creeps regenerate health more quickly than standard units, so if they are left alone, they will recover from any damage inflicted on them.
  • The Medic: Many of the Creeps that use spells have some type of healing spell, the Priests' Heal being the most common.
  • Mercenary Units:
    • Some maps have Mercenary Camps, which allow the player to hire certain Creeps. While some of the available Creeps have useful abilities, the ones the Mercenary Camps provide are underpowered compared to the units the player normally has access to, so they are not worth hiring.
    • Maps that can support six or more players have Dragon Roosts that allow the player to hire Dragonkin. The fully-grown Dragons are easily the strongest units outside of the campaign, and also the most expensive units in the game by a wide margin.
    • Goblin Laboratories allow the player to hire Goblin units. Frozen Throne added Goblin Shipyards on water maps, where the player can hire a Transport Ship.
  • Money Spider: Killing Creeps gives a player gold, regardless of whether or not it made any sense for the unit in question to have any money in the first place.
  • Mook Commander: High-level Creeps often have auras to buff their allies, which includes an aura the player doesn't get access to called Command Aura that boosts the damage of friendly units.
  • Palette Swap: Most Creeps of a certain type use the same model, and their appearance is set apart with different colors or greater sizes. Others use the models of units from the main factions.
  • Poisonous Person: It is common for certain Creeps to have Envenomed Weapon, which causes their attacks to have a short Damage Over Time effect.

Arachnathid


  • Beware My Stinger Tail: They are scorpions and have stingers they attack with in addition to their claws.
  • Big Creepy-Crawlies: They are giant scorpions of varying sizes depending on their level.
  • Extra Eyes: Being arachnids, they have lots of extra eyes.
  • Scary Scorpions: They are giant scorpions who will attack anything that gets too close to them.

Bandits


  • Dark Is Evil: Bandit Lords, the leaders of gangs of violent thieves, wear black armor.
  • Light Is Not Good: The Bandit Lord has the Paladin's Devotion Aura and Divine Shield spells, but having a Paladin's spells doesn't mean that he isn't a murderer and a thief.
  • Palette Swap: The Bandit Lord is a reskin of the Knight with a red and black color scheme.

Banshees

Ghosts outside the control of the Undead Scourge. While the type of Creep shares the name with the Scourge's Banshee, they are not the same unit.


  • Demonic Possession: Like the Banshee, they can take control of units through the Possession spell.
  • Palette Swap: Of the Undead's Banshee. The only thing setting them apart in appearance, aside from size, is their colors.

Bears


  • Bears Are Bad News: Being Creeps, these bears will attack any units the player sends near them.
  • Palette Swap: They use the model of the Druid of the Claws' Bear Form, only they are colored white.

Blue Dragonspawn


  • An Ice Person: Dragonspawn Sorcerers can cast Frost Nova, freezing and damaging enemies.
  • Blade On A Stick: The main weapon of a Dragonspawn is a pole with a massive blade the length of a sword on the end.
  • Breath Weapon: Dragonspawn Overseers have an ability called Breath of Frost where they breathe ice of an area that damages and causes a short Damage Over Time effect. It is essentially the Panderan Brewmaster's Breath of Fire, with ice instead of fire.
  • Our Centaurs Are Different: Dragonspawn have humanoid-shaped bodies from the waist up and are four-legged creatures from the waist down.

Centaurs


  • Arch-Enemy: To the Taurens, having hunted the Bloodhoof Tribe to near extinction before the arrival of the Orcs.
  • Arrows on Fire: Centaur Impalers can use the Priestess of the Moon's Searing Arrows spell to enhance the damage of their bows.
  • Fantasy Counterpart Culture: They take influences from Mongols, with many of the Centaurs using bows and their leaders being called Khans.
  • Fragile Speedster: As one might expect, given they are part horse, all Centaurs are fast. Most of them aren't especially strong.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Centaur Khans are a bit slower than other Centaurs, but hit harder than most late-game melee units while having a lot of HP, and the Tauren Chieftan's Reincarnation means they have to be killed twice.
  • Our Centaurs Are Different: They are a violent all-male race.

Corrupted Treants


  • Dark Is Evil: The corruption caused by the Burning Legion's magic turned the Treants evil, and their darker colors as Corrupted Treants reflect it.
  • Palette Swap: Of normal Treants, with their appearance altered to show their corruption by the Burning Legion.
  • Poisonous Person: Poison Treants have Envenomed Weapons, causing their attacks to do extra damage to their targets.

Demons

The Infernals, Doomguards, and Fel Hounds introduced in Reign of Chaos are considered their own category of Creep even though they are radically different units.


Tropes Applying To All Demons

  • Infinity +1 Element: Unlike other Creep types where only the high-level ones have Chaos Damage, all Demons have Chaos damage so their attacks inflict full damage to all armor types.
  • My Rules Are Not Your Rules: Outside of a Dreadlord's ultimate, these Demons can be summoned if a player finds the right item, though they are considered summoned units so they have a timed life. This doesn't apply if they are fought as Creeps or as enemies in the campaign.

Doomguards


  • Big Red Devil: Taking the place of the Daemon, they act as the traditionally huge red demon with bat wings.
  • Boss in Mook's Clothing: Doomguards are strong enough to take on low-level heroes one on one and expect to win.
  • Doomy Dooms of Doom: They are called Doomguards, and they live up to the name.
  • Elite Mook: They are elite warriors of the Burning Legion.
  • Herd-Hitting Attack: Their attacks have a small AOE and they have the Tauren Chieftain's War Stomp spell, which damages enemies around them.
  • Jack of All Stats: Their spell list has Anti-Magic with Abolish Magic, Area of Effect damage with Rain of Fire (which was later added to the Pit Lord), a debuff with the Necromancer's Cripple, and they hit enemies around them with the Tauren Chieftain's War Stomp. It only has the level 1 versions of Rain of Fire and War Stomp, but they are still powerful tools for a non-hero unit.
  • Magic Knight: They are strong warriors who can also use an array of spells.
  • Mighty Glacier: The Doomguards are powerful, especially after they got a buff to their HP, bringing them up to the level of Mountain Giant. Their only weakness is that they are slow.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: They are called Doomguards. If that isn’t enough to make one run, seeing them fight will be.
  • Purposely Overpowered: Players don't get access to Doomguards outside of a rare item called a Demonic Figure or a Pit Lord's Doom spell, as they are far too strong to allow a player to build normally.

Fel Hound


  • Anti-Magic: All Fel Stalker units can cast Mana Burn to remove some of the target's mana and damage them. Fel Ravagers instead use Devour Magic, which removes buffs and debuffs in an area and converts them into health and mana for the Ravager.
  • Fragile Speedster: The Fel Beasts are fast, but have little health and damage.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Fel Stalkers and Ravagers have the Fel Beasts' speed and none of their fragility.

Infernal

Near mindless amalgamations of fel energy created by the Burning Legion. On some maps, they appear as Creeps.

For tropes that apply to this unit, see the Undead folder.

Dragonkin


  • Breath Weapon: They are dragons. Each has a different Breath Weapon, though aside from cosmetics, the only difference between them is that the Blue Dragonkin’s ice breath slows a target.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Dragons have the Kodo Beast’s Devour ability, letting them eat and digest any organic unit, be it living or undead. The exception is the Nether Dragon, which has the Necromancer’s Cripple instead.
  • Fragile Speedster: Dragon Whelps are fast, but have little health and damage.
  • Herd-Hitting Attack: Dragons' attacks hit a small area around the target.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Drakes are as fast as Dragon Whelps, having health and damage in the range of late game melee units. Dragons trade off some of that speed, though they are still faster than the average unit. In exchange, they have the highest HP of any non-campaign unit, which Frozen Throne increased, giving them more HP than all but the sturdiest buildings. Dragons do considerable damage with their attacks, which inflict Chaos damage, so they are not reduced by any armor type.
  • The Juggernaut: Dragon Roosts only appear on maps that can support six or more players, because Dragons are very hard to stop even though they are the most expensive unit in the game by a wide margin. They have Heavy armor as opposed to Light armor like most flying units, so they do not take extra damage from Piercing damage, which is what most ranged units that make cost-effective Anti-Air responses use. Being high-level Creeps, most abilities that would otherwise hinder them wear off very quickly.
  • No-Sell: Dragons are immune to spells.
  • Scissors Cuts Rock: Most flying units have Light armor and most ranged units do Piercing damage, which Light armor takes extra damage from. Dragonkin have Heavy armor instead, which only takes normal damage from Piercing attacks. This does leave them more vulnerable to Magic damage, but most units that inflict Magic damage have weak attacks and die too easily to be cost-effective as Anti-Air units.

Draenei


  • Anti-Magic: Draenei Harbringers cast a spell that is unique to them called Ray of Disruption, which bounces between multiple targets dispelling any magic effects.
  • Playing with Fire: Draenei Darkslayers can cast Immolation, creating flames around them that damage enemies while the spell is active.
  • Sinister Scythe: All Draenei melee units use scythes as their weapons. Draenei who use magic fight unarmed, instead relying on their magic to attack.

Eredar Warlocks


  • Badass Cape: They all sport impressive-looking capes, except the Warlocks in Reforged, who trade the cape in for a pair of wings.
  • Big Red Devil: The Eradar Warlocks are big red demons. In Reforged they have the look down to a T by trading in their capes for a pair of wings.
  • Evil Sorcerer: Eradar are demons who wield Black Magic, and each type of Eredar uses at least one spell taken from units associated with the Burning Legion.
  • Herd-Hitting Attack: All of their attacks damage units in a radius.
  • Infinity +1 Element: All of them inflict Chaos damage so their attacks are not reduced by armor type, as opposed to just the high-level ones like other Creeps.
  • Playing with Fire: Sorcerers can cast Firebolt, which acts like the level 1 version of the Mountain King’s Stormbolt but with a fireball instead of a hammer. It inflicts heavy damage and stuns a target.
  • Squishy Wizard: The Eredar Sorcerors have low HP. The Diabolists and the Warlocks, not so much, the latter having as much HP as a Frost Wyrm.
  • Palette Swap: Of the Warlock hero from the campaign.
  • Winged Humanoid: Warlocks in Reforged have a pair of wings that serve no purpose.

Felguards


  • Blade On A Stick: All three types of Felgaurd wield polearms with oddly shaped blades.
  • Herd-Hitting Attack: Bloodfiends and Overlords have the Pit Lord’s Cleaving Attack, causing their attacks to damage enemies in a small radius.
  • Spikes of Villainy: Felgaurds have massive spikes growing out of their backs.

Fel Hounds

In Frozen Throne, the Fel Hounds became their own Creep type for certain maps.

For tropes applying to them, see Demons.

Furbolgs


  • An Ice Person: The Polar Furbolg Shaman, which is only found on tilesets with lots of ice, can cast the Lich's Frost Armor to enhance the durability of friendly units. The Polar Elder Shamans instead use Frost Nova.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Most Furbolgs have good speed, and the higher levels are extremely durable.
  • Shock and Awe: Furbolg Elder Shamans can cast Lightning Shield, which creates a shield of electricity around a target that damages enemies who get too close to it.
  • Squishy Wizard: Furbolg Shamans are quite tanky for magic units, and Elder Shamans are as durable as a late-game unit.
  • Wolverine Claws: Being bear-like creatures, they attack with their claws.

Gnolls


  • Epic Flail: Except for the Gnoll Warden, all Gnolls wield large flails.
  • Heinous Hyena: They are hyena men who they are very violent.
  • Poisoned Weapons: Gnoll Assassins have Envemoned Weapons, causing a small Damage Over Time on their attacks.
  • Silly Reason for War: In the manual, they are described as fighting dumb for reasons like who has the bigger shadow.
  • Starter Villain: Gnolls have the distinction of being the first enemies fought in Reign of Chaos by appearing as the first enemies in the tutorial. As one might expect, the Gnolls are easy opponents.

Goblins

Goblins left the Horde after the Second War and now offer their services to whoever pays. Unlike other Neutral units, Goblin units are hired at a Goblin Laboratory or a Goblin Shipyard in the case of the Transport ship.

Goblin Sappers


  • Action Bomb: They have no attacks, they blow themselves up with their Kaboom! ability instead.
  • Anti-Structure: Their Kaboom! ability inflicts heavy damage normally and gets a massive damage bonus against buildings.
  • Glass Cannon: Their Kaboom! does heavy damage, but the Sappers have less health than a Worker Unit.

Goblin Zeppelin


  • Cool Airship: While not very durable, the Zepplin is the only way to get land units over otherwise impassible terrain.
  • Non-Action Guy: Like in Warcraft II, the Zepplin cannot attack.

Goblin Shredder


  • Chainsaw Good: Or buzzsaw in the Shredders' case. They are designed to harvest wood and are equipped with saws to cut down trees. They can do decent damage to enemies as well.
  • Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Shredders are built to harvest wood, but they are well-armored and pack a heavy punch. Their high cost, however, keeps them from seeing much use in combat.
  • Worker Unit: A specialist worker meant for gathering wood. They gather wood much faster than any of the normal resource gatherers, bringing back enough to cover their wood cost twice over in a single trip.

Transport Ship

On the water maps introduced in Frozen Throne, a player can hire a ship from a Goblin Shipyard.


  • Cosmetically Different Sides: Transport Ships look different depending on the side that buys them, but their stats are identical.
  • Expy: Of the Transport Ships in Warcraft II, acting as transports to move land units across water maps.
  • Non-Action Guy: The ships are designed as transports for land units and cannot attack.

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#22846: Feb 11th 2023 at 11:33:47 AM

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  • My Real Daddy: While Fusajiro Yamauchi was the founder of Nintendo back in 1889, it is universally agreed by the fandom that it was his great grandson and Nintendo's third CEO — Hiroshi Yamauchi — who truly made Nintendo what it is now, as he transformed the company from a humble Japanese playing-card company to the widely beloved and globally popular video game developer and manufacturer they are today.

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Magnificent Bastard

  • Class of the Titans: Peirithous is the charming, cunning Evil Former Friend of Hercules planning to exact revenge on him for leaving him in the underworld's chair of forgetfulness, leading to the end of Peirithous' life. Over millennia, Peirithous gains the knowledge of various skilled sorcerers and botanists to create a plant whose nectar will induce dementia in the gods when they consume ambrosia created from said honey. Setting his plan in motion, he drugs Cerebus with a sleeping drug to escape the underworld and later takes control of a now forgetful Hercules, planning to have him trapped like this forever as payback. Peirithous later tricks Hercules into taking on and nearly defeating the heroes in order to save himself. Ultimately Hercules revealing his guilt at what occurred causes Peirithous to turn a new leaf out of guilt and help aid the heroes.

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
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Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#22849: Feb 11th 2023 at 12:57:06 PM

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@ Remington Steele

  • Love Triangle: In the first season, Steele and Laura's Belligerent Sexual Tension is accompaned by the agency's junior detective Murphy flirting with Laura and being happy whenever Steele looks bad.
  • Prelude to Suicide: One of the biggest clues that the case in "In the Steele of the Night" is Suicide, Not Murder is that the victim has lots of dog food but no dog. Laura realizes he must have recently given away the dog he would no longer be able to care for.
  • Pursued Protagonist:
    • "Altared Steele" begins with an amnesiac man with a head wound trying to calm down a woman who finds him in her house, then running outside, driving off, and being followed first on foot, and then in a car, by a woman who tries to shoot him.
    • In "Elementary Steele", two costumed men break into a woman's apartment, causing her to flee into the street wearing a Modesty Towel and ride off on a motorcycle as they follow. However, it turns out that her pursuers were being manipulated into thinking it was part of a novelty company's mystery scenario and aren't malicious.

@ Characters Sunnydale High

    Ben 

Benjamin "Ben" Straley

Portrayed by: Ryan Taszreak
A boy who asks Buffy out in "I Only Have Eyes For You".
  • Informed Ability: The Sunnydale Yearbook says he is part of the swim team, but he isn't seen on the team in "Go Fish" even though that takes place just one episode after his sole appearance. However, he may not have joined the team until after that episode.
  • Hopeless Suitor: He is a handsome and popular boy who asks Buffy out, but has the misfortune to do so in the aftermath of Angel becoming Angelus, when she is sour on romance and turns him down flat.
  • One-Steve Limit: He has the same first and last names as a member of the demon family from "Bachelor Party".

    Guy 

Guy Matthews

Portrayed by: Nick Cornish
A jock who acts as Cordelia's rebound guy after her breakup with Xander.
  • Not Good with Rejection: He spends his one scene furious about how Cordelia stood him up for a date that he made in front of his friends and isn't interested in a long-term relationship, shoving her against a tree and pushing Buffy down when she intervenes.
  • Repeated for Emphasis: In Sunnydale Yearbook, he says wrestling three times when listing the sports and clubs he's involved with.

    Jack 

John "Jack" Mayhew

Portrayed by: Damien Eckhardt
The student who is voted Class Clown over Xander in "The Prom".

Edited by Melinda on Feb 12th 2023 at 12:02:36 PM

Clare Since: Aug, 2009
#22850: Feb 11th 2023 at 1:23:00 PM

@ Melinda

Remington Steele

  • Love Triangle: In the first season, Steele and Laura's Belligerent Sexual Tension is accompaned by the agency's junior detective Murphy flirting with Laura and being happy whenever Steele looks bad.

  • Pursued Protagonist:

    • "Altared Steele" begins with an amnesiac man with a head wound trying to calm down a woman who finds him in her house, then running outside, driving off, and being followed first on foot and then in a car by a woman who tries to shoot him.

    • In "Elementary Steele", two costumed men break into a woman's apartment, causing her to flee into the street wearing a Modesty Towel and ride off on a motorcycle as they follow. However, it turns out that her pursuers were being manipulated into thinking it was part of a novelty company's mystery scenario and aren't malicious.

Characters Sunnydale High

Benjamin "Ben" Straley

A boy who (superfluous word - cut) asks Buffy out.

  • Informed Ability: The Sunnydale Yearbook says he is part of the swim team, (comma) but he isn't seen on the team in "Go Fish" even though that takes place just one episode after his sole appearance. However, he may not have (superfluous word - cut) joined the team until after that episode.

  • Hopeless Suitor: He is a handsome and popular boy who asks Buffy out, (comma) but has the misfortune to do so in the aftermath of Angel becoming Angelus, when she is sour on romance and turns him down flat.

Guy Matthews .

  • Repeated for Emphasis: In the Sunnydale Yearbook, he says wrestling three times when listing the sports and clubs he's involved with.


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