Like these cards, which skate so close to the thin ice covering Lake Copyright Infringement that you can hear it cracking audibly underfoot.
I mean, Adam Eternum is…OK. But Keldor is Skeletor’s real, actual name. Surely that’s a bit much. But hey, hopefully it’s not, because as far as hat-tips go, this is pretty great. They even switched up He-Man a bit, making him less grunty grunty Dolph Lundgren, more sexy swarthy Cary Elwes.
He-Man and Skeletor in Warcraft?! [FANtastic, via GameSetWatch]
Yokelbloke
Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 11:14 AMThese characters ARE in world of Warcraft already. Adam Eternum is in Dalaran, next to his Battle Tiger, and Keldor is on the opposite side of Dalaran. They are the Alliance and Horde Arathi Basin Battlemasters.
Yokelbloke
Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 11:15 AMSorry, not Dalaran, Shattrath City.
Steven Bogos
Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 1:00 PMWhen first implemented, Adam Eternum was known as Adam Heman. He also had a little dialogue before they added BG Queues:
“I’ve come to Outland hoping to discover powerful artifacts to assist the League of Arathor against the Defilers in Arathi Basin… but all I’ve found is this smashing magical loincloth, a ridiculous gnome sidekick, and an egomaniacal undead stalker who insists I’ve stolen his grey skull, or some such.”
This is nothing new, there are a whole BUNCH of characters/events in world of warcraft that are inspired by real-world or pop culture counterparts
-Harris Pilton, Blood Elf female in Shattarah
-Mimrons V0-L7R-0N (Voltron) weapons platform
-In the Dalaran Sewers, there are 4 turtles standing around a sewer rat
Just to show a few