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This article contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and/or official bonus maps.
Undead Scourge
Acolyte
- "Fear the Reaper!" (A reference to Don't Fear the Reaper, a song by Blue Öyster Cult)
- "This is the hour of the Scourge!"
- "Death shall cleanse the world!"
- "All I see is darkness. Oh, my hood's down."
- "Let blood drown the weak!"
- "My life for Aiur... er– I– I mean Ner'Zhul." (A reference to the Protoss from Starcraft, another Blizzard game.)
- "Would you like to know the secret to eternal happiness? Page 246." ("Dianetics" by L. Ron Hubbard)
- "Once you head down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. And you get dental." (Star Wars)
- "My life for Ner'zhul."
- "Where shall my blood be spilled?"
- "The damned stand ready..."
Shade
- "I am but a shadow of my former self." (Possibly a MacBeth reference "Life's but a walking shadow...", the Babylon 5 character Morden, or the idiom about growing old.)
- "What I do in death echoes in eternity." (Reference to Maximus in Gladiator)
- "Death is its own reward." (parody of a credit company ad campaign)
- "I shall be your eyes"
- "I'm having a mid-death crisis."
- (singing) "I-I-I-I ain't got no bo-o-o-o-ody!" (A reference to the song "I Got Nobody", also sung in the same way by Igor in Young Frankenstein)
- "I'm invisible, gaseous, and deadly."
- "The damned return." (upon spawn)
Ghoul
- "Me eat dead people!" (The Sixth Sense)
- "Me scary."
- "Me eat brains!" (The Return of the Living Dead)
- "No guts, no gory." (A play on the popular phrase, "no guts, no glory".)
Abomination
- "We come in peace...es (pieces)" (A play on the phrase "Rest in Peace" or the movie Mars Attacks!)
- "Happy entrails." (A play off the Roy Rogers song "Happy Trails")
- "You got us in stitches."
- "Us dead sexy!" (Austin Powers reference)
- "Us hear and obey."
- "We done waiting!"
- "Chunk!" (Reference to The Goonies)
Crypt fiend
- "The sleeper awakes." (Possible play on the phrases "The Sleeper must awaken/The Sleeper has awaken!" from the novel Dune by Frank Herbert.)
- "You rang?" (Reflective of Lurch from The Addams Family.)
- "Proceed."
- "Make your choice."
- "By Nerub."
- "For the Spider Kingdom."
- "You may feel a sting."
- "Be drained of life."
- "What a tangled web we weave." (Walter Scott reference)
- "Spider sense... tingling." (Spiderman comics)
- "Last week my top half was on the Discovery Channel..."
- "...and my bottom half was on Animal Planet."
- "My ass always gets bloated during my spin cycle."
- "I like chicks that are into bandage..."
- "I'm stuck on bandages 'cause bandages are stuck on me." (A play off the Band-Aid commercial.)
- "Fall before the Scourge"
Banshee
- "U-N-D-E-A-D. Find out what it means to me." (The song "Respect" by Aretha Franklin)
- "There is no banshee. Only Zuul!" (The movie Ghostbusters)
- "(raving) I hate you, I hate you! (calmly) Call me."
- "Let my cries chill the living." (upon spawn)
- "If that is your wish."
- "Your soul shall burn." (when commanded to attack)
- "If it pleases you."
- "Why have I been summoned?"
- "You brought me back!?"
- "LET THIS TORMENT END!!"
- "How long must I suffer?"
Necromancer
- "Every man lives. Not every man truly dies." (A reversal of a Braveheart quote.)
- "I love the dead... Frequently."
- "I see undead people." (Yet another reference to The Sixth Sense or possibly a reference to the in-game cheat "iseedeadpeople" which is also a reference to the movie.)
- "Do you smell something? *sniff* Oh, it's just the troops."
- "Right click for hot undead action!"
- "The restless dead awaits."
- "What does the shadow will?"
- "They'll all be mine, in the end."
- "Tremble before the Scourge."
- "None, shall survive."
Death knight
Pissed
- "Has Hell frozen over yet?"
- "I am the one horseman of the Apocalypse!"
- "I hate people, but I love gatherings." (A subtle Clerks reference)
- "I'm a Death Knight Rider! Muh ha ha ha"
- "Blucher!" (Reference to Young Frankenstein, as well as the Terran Valkyrie from StarCraft: Brood War)
- "Don't touch me. I'm evil." (A reference to Time Bandits)
Ready
- "The pact is sealed!"
What
- "You called?"
- "My patience has ended!"
- "I am the Darkness!"
- "My vengeance is yours!"
Yes
- "Let battle be joined!"
- "As you order!"
- "Yah!"
- "At last!"
- "For the Lich King!"
War cry
- "Let terror reign!"
Attack
- "Feel my wrath!"
- "By Ner'zhul!"
- "Ride… or die!"
Lich
Pissed
- "Could you chew that up for me?"
- "I'm so poor, I don't even have calcium deposits."
- "I am the ghost of Warcraft past." (Reference to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
- "I hear that Banshee's a real screamer."
- "You should see the skeletons in my closet."
- "Imhotep…" (The Mummy)
- "All the ladies dig rigor mortis."
- "You are the weakest Lich, goodbye." (Reference to the show "The Weakest Link")
Ready
- "The ancient evil survives!"
What
- "I am sworn to Ner'zhul!"
- "Thy bidding?"
- "Direct me!"
- "Yours to command!"
Yes
- "So be it!"
- "By your words!"
- "It is destined!"
- "Chilling!"
- "Dead man walking..."
War cry
- " For the Burning Legion!"
Attack
- "Embrace the end!"
- "I will crush you!"
- "Embrace the cold!"
Dreadlord
Pissed
- (phone rings) "Yes? Argh, for the last time. I'm a DREADlord, not a DRUGlord."
- "This is not a dress. It's the standard Dreadlord uniform." (This is a reference to early models of the Dreadlord, in which the Dreadlord was seen wearing an outfit that looked very much like a dress. This was changed before the game was released)
- "Dress to kill. Blah!" (This is a reference to KISS' album Dress to Kill)
- "If I have wings, why am I always walking?"
- (phone rings) "Yes? Darkness, hey, what's up? The Demon Hunter left you a message? No I don't have his number." (refer to a phase in the game "darkness calls" and also a demon hunter quote)
- "And then, after I overthrow this fool… Oh! Hello! I– I didn't know you were there." (referring to the player)
- "Imbecile!"
Ready
- "The night beckons!"
War cry
- "Your soul is mine!" (a reference from Mortal Kombat)
What
- "Greetings!"
- "What, mortal?"
- "What is it now?"
- "I must hunt soon!"
Yes
- "That was my plan!"
- "Agreed!"
- "Very well."
- "You thought of that?"
Attack
- "I hunger!"
- "Death rages!"
- "Die!"
Anub'arak
- "The strands of destiny weave only a web of death."
- "It was good to be the king." (A reference from History of the World, Part I)
- "Humans check in. They don't check out."
- "I'm the fifth beetle." (In a British accent, referring to the band, the Beatles.)
- "And they say Blizzard games don't have bugs."
- "I serve only the Frozen Throne."
- "Oblivion Awaits!"
- "Death to the living and the death."
- "My might cannot be matched."
Kel'Thuzad
(Hero — Necromancer, Lich)
What
- "You called?"
- "Is there something amiss?"
- "My talents are yours."
- "I've been thinking."
Yes
- "Hmm, that sounds logical."
- "Yes, right away."
- "A fateful choice."
- "Indeed."
Attack
- "Burn!" (Some people think that this is a reference to Deep Purple's song "Burn" as the hero says it with the same intonation)
- "In the Lich King's name!"
- "Taste this!"
Warcry
- "For the Lich King!"
Pissed
- "The Cult of the Damned...I need to print more brochures."
- "I always wanted to start my own religion...so I did!" (L. Ron Hubbard did, too.)
- "I will await my eternal reward."
- (Grunts) "This horned thing on my head is killing me!"
- "Fifty-thousand gold a year in childcare and they call it a cult?!" (referencing Heaven's Gate([1])
Arthas
(Hero — Death Knight)
What
- "Speak, fool!"
- "No one orders me around!"
- "Tread lightly."
- "What is it now?"
Yes
- "Finally"
- "Frostmourne hungers."
- "This is more like it."
- "Ah! At last."
Attack
- "For the Lich King!"
- "Faithless Coward!"
- "You will know endless torment!"
- "Your pain shall be legendary!"
- "I'll make sure you suffer."
- "Now Frostmourne!"
War cry
- "Glory to the Scourge!"
Pissed
- "I was a fool to trust in the light." (of his former life and role)
- "The Lich King has given me true power!"
- "I will be twice the king my father was."
- "Lordaeron shall be reborn."
- "Who is this 'darkness' anyway?" (Referring to the 'darkness' quotes of the Demon Hunter and Dreadlord)
Tichondrius
(Hero — Dread Lord)
Pissed
- "Dreadlords… do it in the dark."
- "I get cranky when I haven't been fed."
- "I must feast upon souls!"
- "The Legion needs… a better dental plan. These fangs are killing me!"
- "Darkness… needs to get DSL. His line is always busy." (another in the 'darkness' series.)
What
- "What is it now?"
- "I grow tired of waiting."
- "Insufferable lout."
- "I have better things to do."
Yes
- "For now."
- "I'll play along."
Attack
- "Die Fool."
- "I must feed."
- "Your life will sustain me."
Sylvanas Windrunner (evil)
(Hero - Dark Ranger)
Pissed
- "My will is my own."
- "I have my own reasons for seeking vengeance." (From a conversation with Balnazzar in the game)
- "Arthas murdered my people and turned me into this...monstrosity." (From the same conversation)
- "What are we if not slaves to this torment?" (Returns in WoW)
Ready
- "What joy is there in this curse?" (Returns in WoW)
What
- "I'm here."
- "Show me a target."
- "Give the order."
- "I'm listening."
Yes
- "It's time to even the scales." (Based on a line she says to Arthas in the same game)
- "Done!"
- "I have no time for games." (Returns in WoW)
- "The moment is upon us!"
- "Of course!"
War cry
- "Victory draws near!"
Attack
- "Show them no mercy!"
- "Push the attack!"
- "Let none survive!" (Returns in WoW)
- "May my aim be true." (Also Returns in WowW)
Varimathras
(Hero - Dread Lord)
Pissed
- "I love it when a plan comes together." (A-team Hannibal)
- "Sorry, I don't do interviews." (Reference to Interview With a Vampire, relating to Dreadlord's vampiric nature)
- "We're not a cult so much as a maniacal group of fanatical, blade-wielding zealots. "
- "I'll take a huge, juicy, bloody bite out of-- What were we talking about?"
- "I'm always on the winning side."
- "Join me, or die."
- "Don't worry about the fine print, the soul consumption clause is never exercised."
- (Screams of a human)"And that concludes our demonstration, any questions?"
Ready
- "I have returned." (Possible reference from StarCraft II's Dragoons)
What
- "How will this benefit to me?"
- "Don't waste my time."
- "You have an idea?"
- "You call on me?"
- "I await your counsel."
Yes
- "I'll do what I must."
- "Stay out of my way."
- "By any means necessary."
- "Right."
- "Of course."
Attack
- "Wake up, time to die." (Bladerunner)
- "None can oppose me."
- "This one is mine."
- "Vanquish the weak!"
War cry
- "For the Nathrezim!"
Dialogue
During Frozen Throne Undead Campaign
- Nerubians: "The traitor king!"
Arthas: "Who, me?"
Anub'Arak: "They are referring to me, Death Knight." - Baelgun: "You! You're the one who killed poor Muradin!"
Arthas: "Get over it already!"