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There are | <noinclude>There are {{Monster Manuel Entries Count|{{:Monster Manuel (W)}}}} creatures filed under W, and 1 unobtainable entry.</noinclude> | ||
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*The Ws that W Imps carry around are to identify them to other demons, so they don't get killed accidentally in the friendly brawls that demons often engage in. That's what the W Imps are told, anyway, usually by someone trying to keep a straight face. | *The Ws that W Imps carry around are to identify them to other demons, so they don't get killed accidentally in the friendly brawls that demons often engage in. That's what the W Imps are told, anyway, usually by someone trying to keep a straight face. | ||
*W Imps frequently drink wussiness potions to keep them in tip-top form. Er, well, what's the opposite of 'tip-top'? 'Glip-glop'?|defense=36}} | *W Imps frequently drink wussiness potions to keep them in tip-top form. Er, well, what's the opposite of 'tip-top'? 'Glip-glop'?|defense=36}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|W. Odah's Shadow|*Dog, as a devil deified, lived as a god. | |||
*Now's evil for evil? Ah, a liver of lives won. | |||
*Live not on evil, Madam, live not on evil.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Wa%playername/lowercase%|*They'll never really stop making video games. That's their art. | |||
*Everybody has a Wa out there somewhere. Just pray you never meet them. | |||
*Why won't Nintendo show us Wapeach? I bet she is so rad. Nintendo is cowards}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|wacky pirate|*Wacky pirates know sleight-of-hand and can pull a piece of eight from behind your ear. | {{ManuelEntry|wacky pirate|*Wacky pirates know sleight-of-hand and can pull a piece of eight from behind your ear. | ||
*Wacky pirates use joy buzzers made out of a stingray's tail. | *Wacky pirates use joy buzzers made out of a stingray's tail. | ||
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{{ManuelEntry|Wacky Zack Flacky|*Don't take any gum from ol' Zack! If you do,<br />It'll taste just like garlic or turn your teeth blue. | {{ManuelEntry|Wacky Zack Flacky|*Don't take any gum from ol' Zack! If you do,<br />It'll taste just like garlic or turn your teeth blue. | ||
*Wacky Zack Flacky has special fake vomit,<br />That cannot be cleaned up with Ajax or Comet. | *Wacky Zack Flacky has special fake vomit,<br />That cannot be cleaned up with Ajax or Comet. | ||
*Wacky Zack has a lampshade on his head,<br />And we won't remove it. We're happy he's dead.|attack=0|defense=0|hp=0}} | *Wacky Zack has a lampshade on his head,<br />And we won't remove it. We're happy he's dead.|attack=?|defense=?|hp=?}}{{ManuelEntry|wailing mushroom guy|*Mushrooms are allergic to most citrus fruits. | ||
*Mushrooms can be sliced and braided into excellent fishing line. | |||
*Most mushrooms cannot count higher than fourteen.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|waiter dressed as a ninja|*The waiter dressed as a ninja is lousy at ninjitsu, but can balance a tray with 15 drinks on it. | |||
*The waiter dressed as a ninja can fill a glass with one of those weird side-pour pitchers without getting any on the ground. | |||
*I guess when you really think about it, the waiter dressed as a ninja is a ninja in his own right.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|walking skeleton|*Why don't skeletons drink lemonade? Because it's too ''sour''. | |||
*Why do skeletons walk? Because they don't have ''drivers'' licenses. | |||
*What kind of hat does a skeleton wear? A ''homburg''.|attack=0|defense=0|hp=0}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|wall of bones|*When you're born, you have 270 bones, but as you mature they fuse together into just 206, unless you are this wall, in which case ''way'' more. | |||
*Bone units can be confusing. This wall consists of 400 megabones, or 666.667 bags of bones. | |||
*The mortal enemy of the wall of bones is the wall of dogs.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|wall of meat|*Walls of meat are really inefficient. It takes four hundred walls of grass to produce just one. | |||
*Cooking a wall of meat would technically be arson. | |||
*The Earl of Sandwich's house had one of these between two walls of bread.|image=noart.gif}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|wall of skin|*About 60% of the dust in the Kingdom is actually dead cells sloughed off from this specific wall. | |||
*Wall of Skin is also the name of one of Phil Spector's weirder side projects. | |||
*The cells in the wall of skin die off and are regrown very quickly. Because of this, every seven years the wall of skin is totally disgusting.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|wannabe gunslinger|*Paper caps were originally invented as a cheap alternative for bullets, and then were re-branded as childrens' toys when it turned out you couldn't actually shoot anyone with them. | |||
*Although being a professional gunslinger is a glamorous life, it's also a very short one. At the time, there was no cure for syphilis. | |||
*Gunslingers became much more dangerous once they figured out they could shoot people with their guns instead of throwing them with improvised slings.|attack=0|defense=0|hp=0}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|War Frat 110th Infantryman|*Armchair quarterbacks subsist on a diet of fat, sugar, salt, and beer. So, y'know, they're like any college freshman. | {{ManuelEntry|War Frat 110th Infantryman|*Armchair quarterbacks subsist on a diet of fat, sugar, salt, and beer. So, y'know, they're like any college freshman. | ||
*Armchair infantrymen always know exactly what each soldier should have done to win the fight he just lost. | *Armchair infantrymen always know exactly what each soldier should have done to win the fight he just lost. | ||
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*Since the advent of grid-based city planning, crossroads have become much more common than they used to be. If you let your kids go out trick-or-treating on All Hallow's Eve, make sure they're back before midnight. | *Since the advent of grid-based city planning, crossroads have become much more common than they used to be. If you let your kids go out trick-or-treating on All Hallow's Eve, make sure they're back before midnight. | ||
*The first lesson every War Frat Grill Sergeant learns in his training is: never buy hot sauce with a funny name and/or a skull on the bottle. Those are only for dares and pranks, not for eating.|defense=153}} | *The first lesson every War Frat Grill Sergeant learns in his training is: never buy hot sauce with a funny name and/or a skull on the bottle. Those are only for dares and pranks, not for eating.|defense=153}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|War Frat Streaker|*The War Frat Streaker will probably grow up to make ten times as much meat in a day as you do in a year. Depressing, eh?|defense=198}} | {{ManuelEntry|War Frat Streaker|*The War Frat Streaker will probably grow up to make ten times as much meat in a day as you do in a year. Depressing, eh? | ||
*Those who stare directly at the War Frat Streaker end up in a padded cell screaming about trauma moths. | |||
*The War Frat Streaker never gets arrested for indecent exposure, because doing so would involve touching him.|defense=198}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|War Frat Wartender|*The Wartender managed to make a kind of napalm out of a piña colada by substituting dry ice for the regular stuff. | {{ManuelEntry|War Frat Wartender|*The Wartender managed to make a kind of napalm out of a piña colada by substituting dry ice for the regular stuff. | ||
*The last Wartender to be cremated had absorbed so much booze through his skin that he burned for eight days. | *The last Wartender to be cremated had absorbed so much booze through his skin that he burned for eight days. | ||
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*Roughly twelve percent of pledges are killed, not by enemy attacks, but from alcohol poisoning at victory keggers. | *Roughly twelve percent of pledges are killed, not by enemy attacks, but from alcohol poisoning at victory keggers. | ||
*Pledges are commonly given full rank priviledges after their first real mission, such as scouting out the enemy forces with a lit candle clenched in their buttcheeks.}} | *Pledges are commonly given full rank priviledges after their first real mission, such as scouting out the enemy forces with a lit candle clenched in their buttcheeks.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|Warbear Foot Soldier|*Armored polar bears are the only natural predator of the armored penguin, and essential for keeping that population in check. | |||
*Armored polar bears can't swim--the armor's too heavy and it would short out the cybernetic enhancements. It's a bit of a design flaw. | |||
*The armored polar bear technology is far more advanced than any in the Kingdom, but somewhat more primitive than the El Vibrato Island constructs.|attack=?|defense=?|hp=?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Warbear Officer|*Mid-level warbear officers have access to the officer's mess, but not the officer's hot springs and jacuzzi tubs. | |||
*Mid-level warbear officers spend more time pushing paper than disemboweling enemies, but it's a rung on the career ladder. | |||
*Mid-level warbear officers get slightly fancier armor, but less R&R time.|attack=?|defense=?|hp=?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Wardröb nightstand|*Lady Spookyraven was never satisfied with one nightstand, unlike your mom. | |||
*Lady Spookyraven's nightstand collection was going to be sent to a museum, until they found out all the nightstands were demonically possessed. | |||
*Wardröb is part of a bedroom set that includes the Laundrihämpr bed and the Mättress wardrobe. It's like they're deliberately screwing with us.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|wardrobe robot|*In the future, fashion changes too fast for anybody to keep up with. That's why they need these things. | |||
*They don't actually keep clothes inside themselves -- they teleport it in from the factory on an as-needed basis. Sometimes there's a stowaway mouse, which is driven insane by the teleportation time dilation. | |||
*There's a larger version of this thing that picks out your other automated furniture for you.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|warehouse clerk|*The clerks rotate which aisles they check every day, so none of them get too bored from seeing the same crates over and over. | |||
*This clerk's personal favorite crate is #241-992-78. | |||
*Based on a checkmark using about 1/2" of ink, a pen having about 1 km worth of ink inside, and about three seconds per checkmark written in an eight-hour shift, she has calculated that she should go through a pen approximately every 8.2 days.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|warehouse guard|*It's certainly not an exciting or creatively fulfilling job, but he does get plenty of exercise. | |||
*He's not supposed to listen to audiobooks and podcasts while he's on shift, but he totally does. | |||
*His supervisors have mollified his interest in the contents of the crates by explaining that they're all meaningless and essentially interchangeable.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|warehouse janitor|*Regular feather-dusters wear out too fast, so they use industrial-strength ones made of bat wings. | |||
*For a while, the janitors got to use rideable mopping machines instead of regular push-mops, but that experiment was cancelled when it was discovered that they were kind of fun. | |||
*One time, one of the janitors found a five-dollar bill on the floor while he was cleaning. He never shuts up about it, and it drives his coworkers nuts.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|warehouse worker|*The warehouse worker gets time-and-a-half if he beats up more than forty adventurers in a week. | {{ManuelEntry|warehouse worker|*The warehouse worker gets time-and-a-half if he beats up more than forty adventurers in a week. | ||
*The warehouse worker's steel-toed boots are far more effective than the lasagna-toed ones he used to wear. | *The warehouse worker's steel-toed boots are far more effective than the lasagna-toed ones he used to wear. | ||
*The leading cause of workman's comp for Stella's warehouse workers is getting snapped by a snapping turtle.}} | *The leading cause of workman's comp for Stella's warehouse workers is getting snapped by a snapping turtle.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|Wart Dinsey|*Wart Dinsey's first job was a paper route. He liked it, because it meant he didn't have to buy the newspapers he used for making ransom notes. | |||
*Wart Dinsey spent a few years as an ambulance driver. He didn't get paid for it, he just enjoyed stealing ambulances and driving them into canals. | |||
*As a teenager, Wart Dinsey worked at a jelly factory. This gave him a lifelong affinity for the sort of quivering, jelly-like substance he would eventually become when they removed everything except his brain.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|warty pirate|*The warty pirate's warts are actually due to a curse, brought on by stealing ancient gold from toad-worshipping cultists. As curses go, it could be worse. | {{ManuelEntry|warty pirate|*The warty pirate's warts are actually due to a curse, brought on by stealing ancient gold from toad-worshipping cultists. As curses go, it could be worse. | ||
*The best way to prevent warts is to make sure you get plenty of vitamin C. Wait, or maybe that's scurvy. Never mind. | *The best way to prevent warts is to make sure you get plenty of vitamin C. Wait, or maybe that's scurvy. Never mind. | ||
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*Unlike bees, wasps can sting as many times as they like without dying. Seriously, screw wasps, man. | *Unlike bees, wasps can sting as many times as they like without dying. Seriously, screw wasps, man. | ||
*One time, Mr. Skullhead got stung in the lip by a wasp.|attack=0|defense=0|hp=0}} | *One time, Mr. Skullhead got stung in the lip by a wasp.|attack=0|defense=0|hp=0}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|wastoid|*The wastoid's Latin name is woahus dudeus. | |||
*The wastoid's favorite hobby is watching movies while playing different albums to see if they sync up. You know, like Pulp Fiction and Phish's "Billy Breathes." | |||
*Seriously, like, when Zed is putting the ball-gag on Butch, the Phish song goes, "I can't talk my talk with you." It's creepy.|attack=?|defense=?|hp=?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|water spider|*Water spiders can't actually breathe water -- they breathe air through eight tiny nostrils on the bottoms of their feet. | {{ManuelEntry|water spider|*Water spiders can't actually breathe water -- they breathe air through eight tiny nostrils on the bottoms of their feet. | ||
*Water spiders thing that itsy bitsy spider from the nursery rhyme is a schmuck. | *Water spiders thing that itsy bitsy spider from the nursery rhyme is a schmuck. | ||
*The most famours water spider was named Spider Waters. He had an extremely creepy moustache.|defense=117|hp=150}} | *The most famours water spider was named Spider Waters. He had an extremely creepy moustache.|defense=117|hp=150}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|watertight seal|*Acquatic hellseals can stay underwater for more than an hour on a single lungful of air. Consequently, they are among the world's best apple-bobbers. | {{ManuelEntry|watertight seal|*Acquatic{{sic}} hellseals can stay underwater for more than an hour on a single lungful of air. Consequently, they are among the world's best apple-bobbers. | ||
*Acquatic hellseal skins are used by the Northlanders to make excellent waterproof raincoats. Since it's too cold to rain in the Frigid Northlands, nobody knows why they do this. | *Acquatic{{sic}} hellseal skins are used by the Northlanders to make excellent waterproof raincoats. Since it's too cold to rain in the Frigid Northlands, nobody knows why they do this. | ||
*A special gland in the acquatic hellseal's face exudes a strong sour-smelling musk, which many Northlanders use as a cologne to disguise foul body odors. (Covering them up with an even fouler odor counts as 'disguise'.)}} | *A special gland in the acquatic{{sic}} hellseal's face exudes a strong sour-smelling musk, which many Northlanders use as a cologne to disguise foul body odors. (Covering them up with an even fouler odor counts as 'disguise'.)}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|wealthy pirate|*Fighting the wealthy pirate technically counts as class warfare, unless you're wealthy yourself. Then it's just business. | {{ManuelEntry|wealthy pirate|*Fighting the wealthy pirate technically counts as class warfare, unless you're wealthy yourself. Then it's just business. | ||
*The wealthy pirate has most of his meat tied up in investments, so he's actually pretty cash-poor at any given point. | *The wealthy pirate has most of his meat tied up in investments, so he's actually pretty cash-poor at any given point. | ||
*The wealthy pirate has three homes, a yacht, and a pet boaraffe. But he doesn't have love, so he can't be truly happy. Keep telling yourself that.|defense=108}} | *The wealthy pirate has three homes, a yacht, and a pet boaraffe. But he doesn't have love, so he can't be truly happy. Keep telling yourself that.|defense=108}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|Weapons-Assembly Elfborg|*Man, what did the hivemind do before they had this guy? Just throw bullets at people? | |||
*"Oh, here's your problem," he said when they assimilated him. "Your weapons are all in bits." "Ohhh," they replied, smacking their foreheads. | |||
*Honestly, they should pay this guy a lot more. That wouldn't even be hard, since I'm pretty sure none of them get paid anything.|attack=0|defense=0|hp=80}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|weather underground dweller|*You know what they say -- If you don't like the weather, wait a minute and this guy will change it for you. | {{ManuelEntry|weather underground dweller|*You know what they say -- If you don't like the weather, wait a minute and this guy will change it for you. | ||
*If you've ever wondered who'll stop the rain, it's probably this guy, looking out his back door. | *If you've ever wondered who'll stop the rain, it's probably this guy, looking out his back door. | ||
*The weather control device these guys use has a switch on it whose only function is to shock the guy holding the device. They often lament at length that their lives are so dependent on a machine designed by a sadist.| | *The weather control device these guys use has a switch on it whose only function is to shock the guy holding the device. They often lament at length that their lives are so dependent on a machine designed by a sadist.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|Weirdly Scrawny Knob Goblin King|*The Goblin King was born with several extra neck vertebrae, and has to have a couple of retainers on standby just to keep his head from tipping over. | |||
*The Goblin King's entire rise to power was just overcompensation for the fact that his head is barely larger than his torso. | |||
*The council is nervous about the Goblin King, but they needn't be. He once cancelled a campaign to take over Degrassi Knoll because he "had a tummyache."}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Were-Dr. Awkwarder, ew|*If he'd known the Staff would do that, he'd probably have tried to take advantage of it in a more controlled way. He seems like the kind of guy who'd be into that sort of thing. | |||
*Fortunately, he has a whole rack of those coats at home. A bunch of the hats, too. He knows what he likes. | |||
*The third factoid for the original version of Dr. Awkward mentions a rapper called Flow Wolf, so I'll just go with that again.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|werecougar|*Werecougars emit pheremones to attract the opposite sex, regardless of which form they're currently in. | {{ManuelEntry|werecougar|*Werecougars emit pheremones to attract the opposite sex, regardless of which form they're currently in. | ||
*Werecougars frequently have their lips smeared with red, regardless of which form they're currently in. | *Werecougars frequently have their lips smeared with red, regardless of which form they're currently in. | ||
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*Regular seals are born. Hellseals are hatched. Their eggs are a delicacy absolutely nowhere. | *Regular seals are born. Hellseals are hatched. Their eggs are a delicacy absolutely nowhere. | ||
*When applied topically, wet seal grease has slight healing powers. When applied alphabetically, it does not.}} | *When applied topically, wet seal grease has slight healing powers. When applied alphabetically, it does not.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|what you totally should have said that one time|*"Sorry, you'll have to speak English -- I don't know a single word of Jackass." | |||
*"That's tough talk coming from someone who wears their butthole on the front of their head." | |||
*"At least ''I'' know the difference between an electric shaver and a pig rectum."|attack=?|defense=?|hp=?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Whatsian Commando Ghost|*The Professor can change his appearance and regenerate when badly damaged. For some reason, he's always kind of weird-looking no matter how often he regenerates, though. | {{ManuelEntry|Whatsian Commando Ghost|*The Professor can change his appearance and regenerate when badly damaged. For some reason, he's always kind of weird-looking no matter how often he regenerates, though. | ||
*The Professor's ionic pliers can affect every substance in the known universe except for wood. We're not sure why. | *The Professor's ionic pliers can affect every substance in the known universe except for wood. We're not sure why. | ||
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{{ManuelEntry|Whimpering Willow|*The willowy bark of the Whimpering Willow<br />Can cure you of headaches, and cushion your pillow. | {{ManuelEntry|Whimpering Willow|*The willowy bark of the Whimpering Willow<br />Can cure you of headaches, and cushion your pillow. | ||
*Willows are full of a watery sap,<br />Make sure you avoid all that sticky sap crap! | *Willows are full of a watery sap,<br />Make sure you avoid all that sticky sap crap! | ||
*A Willow tree has stoloniferous roots,<br />If you know what that means, then you're pretty smart, toots!|attack= | *A Willow tree has stoloniferous roots,<br />If you know what that means, then you're pretty smart, toots!|attack=?|defense=?|hp=?}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|whiny pirate|*The whine of the whiny pirate can reach an impressive 5.3 Megadursts on the Annoyance Scale. | {{ManuelEntry|whiny pirate|*The whine of the whiny pirate can reach an impressive 5.3 Megadursts on the Annoyance Scale. | ||
*No, the whiny pirate *doesn't* want cheese to go with that whine. He doesn't! He doesn't wanna have any! | *No, the whiny pirate *doesn't* want cheese to go with that whine. He doesn't! He doesn't wanna have any! | ||
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*If you use non-stick pans, you should use a whisk where the loops are coated in silicon to avoid scratching your cookware. | *If you use non-stick pans, you should use a whisk where the loops are coated in silicon to avoid scratching your cookware. | ||
*The wire loops on a whisk are actually called "woppets." Strange but false!}} | *The wire loops on a whisk are actually called "woppets." Strange but false!}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|White Bone Demon|*According to the mythology, the White Bone Demon was not born a demon, but rather was a regular skeleton that later became a demon. Wouldn't it suck if that happened to your skeleton?}} | {{ManuelEntry|White Bone Demon|*According to the mythology, the White Bone Demon was not born a demon, but rather was a regular skeleton that later became a demon. Wouldn't it suck if that happened to your skeleton? | ||
*The White Bone Demon shares a name with a character from Marvel Comics' "Ghost Rider" series. This did not make my research any easier. | |||
*Spoiler alert: Katherine is Evelyn's sister ''and'' her daughter.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|white chocolate golem|*The white chocolate golems and dark chocolate golems actually get along quite well, which is a good example for us all. | {{ManuelEntry|white chocolate golem|*The white chocolate golems and dark chocolate golems actually get along quite well, which is a good example for us all. | ||
*White chocolate golems, when they're driving a car, they be driving like ''this''. | *White chocolate golems, when they're driving a car, they be driving like ''this''. | ||
*Although less delicious than milk chocolate golems, white chocolate golems are just as deadly.}} | *Although less delicious than milk chocolate golems, white chocolate golems are just as deadly.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|white elephant|*There's no such thing as a white elephant preserve, because nobody wants white elephants around. | |||
*There's no such thing as white elephant preserves, because nobody wants to put white elephants on toast. | |||
*There's no such thing as white elephant preservers, because nobody wants a white elephant on their boat.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|white lion|*Popular song notwithstanding, the lion prefers to sleep on the Savannah, not in the jungle. | {{ManuelEntry|white lion|*Popular song notwithstanding, the lion prefers to sleep on the Savannah, not in the jungle. | ||
*Female lions do all the hunting. Male lions hang out with each other all day while the women bring them food. So, y'know, ladies, it's just nature's way, am I right? | *Female lions do all the hunting. Male lions hang out with each other all day while the women bring them food. So, y'know, ladies, it's just nature's way, am I right? | ||
*A lion's mane and a rhinoceros' horn are made out of the same stuff. The more you know...}} | *A lion's mane and a rhinoceros' horn are made out of the same stuff. The more you know...}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|white zombie|*Would it surprise you if I said someone ate the heads off the little bride and groom on the wedding cake? No? | |||
*A 'white zombie' is also a drink made with milk, dark rum, and blowfish tetrodotoxin. Not recommended. | |||
*Yes, I ''could have'' spent some time looking up White Zombie lyrics for these factoids, but I've just had to do with with KISS and that had like seven monsters, so no.|defense=33}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|whitesnake|*Whitesnakes were nearly hunted into extinction, because their skins were a very popular material for the fashion industry. Fortunately, it was discovered that equally tacky results could be had with plastic. | {{ManuelEntry|whitesnake|*Whitesnakes were nearly hunted into extinction, because their skins were a very popular material for the fashion industry. Fortunately, it was discovered that equally tacky results could be had with plastic. | ||
*Whitesnakes are also white on the inside, except for their lungs, which are blue. | *Whitesnakes are also white on the inside, except for their lungs, which are blue. | ||
*Whitesnakes look rather different than they used to, and this has never really been explained, but at least they don't have weird forehead ridges.}} | *Whitesnakes look rather different than they used to, and this has never really been explained, but at least they don't have weird forehead ridges.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|wild beaver|*"Beave" is an old English word meaning "build a crude edifice near water." | |||
*Because of this, lake hobos are technically also beavers. | |||
*Ironically, no beavers live near Lake Hobo, because Lake County's strict permitting requirements drove them all to more permissive nearby lakes.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|wild girl|*Wild girls can't be tamed, but they can be taught to run with the wolves. | |||
*Wild girls are actually better equipped to survive in a wild world, where it's hard to get by just on a smile. | |||
*If you journey to the island where the wild girls are, if they say, "we'll eat you up, we love you so," they're not being metaphorical. Run.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|wild moose|*The plural of moose is moose. | |||
*A group of moose is called a moose of moose. | |||
*The word moose is remarkable because it can be repeated any number of times and always produce a valid sentence.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|wild reindeer|*These were called reindeer even before animals were domesticated and reins were invented. | |||
*You see, "rein" was an archaic word for "rain," and reindeer would often appear in larger numbers after a rainstorm because they'd be out looking for melons. | |||
*If a reindeer eats a melon and part of the outside of the melon gets stuck in the reindeer's ear, you'd say that the reindeer has a serious case of rind-ear.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|wild walrus|*The walrus was named when a Canadian guy asked his friend Russ what that animal over by the wall was. | |||
*Canadians are the only arctic civilization we know of that came up with a word for wall before they came up with a word for walrus. | |||
*In an unrelated coincidence, they also used the name Russ before they even moved from caves to bulidings with walls. The three most common Cavecanadian mens' names were Thag, Ugg, and Russ.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Wine-Pairing Trainbot|*A wine-pairing database has a wine-to-many relational structure. | |||
*When this robot needs to run software that wasn't built for its operating system, it does so using wine. | |||
*This kind of robot is plagued by off-by-wine errors.|attack=0|defense=0|hp=0}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|wire sculpture|*In a stick-figure world like the Kingdom, wire sculpture is actually the easiest way to do incredibly accurate portraiture. | |||
*Wire sculptures used to be made out of wire hangers until Faye Dunaway went nuts about it and they switched. | |||
*At least when you make a wire sculpture, you get to use that "this is my art, and it's extremely dangerous!" line.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Witchess Bishop|*Bishops move diagonally because religion is anything but straightforward. | |||
*Bishops' pointy hats are often set up with grounding wires, to act as lightning rods. | |||
*Young, pretty-boy bishops are called bishoupnen.|attack=3|defense=?|hp=?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Witchess King|*In the old days, kings fought in their own battles just because otherwise it would take them like a fortnight to find out what the hell had happened. | |||
*Kings have pointy crowns to discourage hoboes from sleeping on their heads at night. | |||
*No king without a beard has ever been worth a damn.|attack=6|defense=?|hp=2000}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Witchess Knight|*People are sometimes suprised to learn that the white knights can jump. | |||
*You'd think the knight's heavy armor would make it hard for the horse to jump like that. I mean, I certainly do. | |||
*The knight's move is less a metaphor for a horse's mobility than the fact that they're figity, flighty bastards.|attack=2|defense=?|hp=?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Witchess Ox|*Why aren't more than one fox "foxen"? | |||
*The ox was invented in the early 1400s by Sir Walter Ox, who felt that cows weren't burly enough. | |||
*Having oxen on the battlefield is handy for the celebratory barbecue afterward. Especially if your opponents also brought some.|attack=5|defense=?|hp=?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Witchess Pawn|*Most good-quality chess sets come with 9 pawns (12 in Witchess), so you have a spare if one is lost. If your set is missing this spare pawn, you should complain to the shop. | |||
*The first pawns were made of solid gold, and were handy if the owner of the set needed a small short-term loan. | |||
*In the earliest versions of chess, pawns could not move at all, which made for extremely long games.|attack=1|defense=?|hp=?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Witchess Queen|*When a queen dies, it is considered impolite to sing "Another One Bites the Dust". | |||
*Queens can communicate with each other via telepathy and pheromone signals. | |||
*In the past, if two queens met, they ware obligated to fight to the death for ownership of their countries. Nowadays they play whist.|attack=8|defense=?|hp=4000}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Witchess Rook|*Maybe they're called rooks because people drop rocks on you from the top of them, and people kept pronouncing it weird. | |||
*Or maybe they're called rooks because of all the carrion birds that show up after the battle. | |||
*Well no, actually they're actually called rooks because of the Persian word for 'chariot', or something. But it isn't a funny reason, so whatever.|attack=4|defense=?|hp=?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Witchess Witch|*It's rare to find witches on battlefields, because they're quite mercenary and always demand to be paid in first-borns. | |||
*Look, brooms are just extremely handy, okay? | |||
*What's with witches and apples, anyway? If they went around offering poison doughnuts, they'd get way more takers.|attack=7|defense=?|hp=3000}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|witty pirate|*Witty pirates are rarely allowed on a ship's crew without first signing a contract agreeing to let some of the other pirates -- especially the Captain -- have a good line once in a while. | {{ManuelEntry|witty pirate|*Witty pirates are rarely allowed on a ship's crew without first signing a contract agreeing to let some of the other pirates -- especially the Captain -- have a good line once in a while. | ||
*The most famous witty pirate was Captain Chucklebeard, whose ship (The One Mic Stand) was entirely crewed with witty pirates. They only lasted six weeks before they all killed each other. | *The most famous witty pirate was Captain Chucklebeard, whose ship (The One Mic Stand) was entirely crewed with witty pirates. They only lasted six weeks before they all killed each other. | ||
*Captain Chucklebeard managed to escape the afore-mentioned tragedy, and retired to a small island off the coast of Loathing. His last words were reportedly "Either these curtains walk the plank, or I do." Out of respect, everyone laughed heartily anyway.|defense=108}} | *Captain Chucklebeard managed to escape the afore-mentioned tragedy, and retired to a small island off the coast of Loathing. His last words were reportedly "Either these curtains walk the plank, or I do." Out of respect, everyone laughed heartily anyway.|defense=108}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|wizardly mushroom guy|*Okay, yes, he's a magic mushroom. But not ''that'' kind. | |||
*Some mushrooms evolved into wizards because they were a frequent ingredient in witches' brews, and that's how evolution works. | |||
*"How does a mushroom grow a beard?" you ask.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Woeful Magnolia|*The Foonbit's an office without many powers<br />They chiefly greet tourists and hand out small flowers. | {{ManuelEntry|Woeful Magnolia|*The Foonbit's an office without many powers<br />They chiefly greet tourists and hand out small flowers. | ||
*Diggeriboo is a small island nation,<br />With lovely white beaches for your recreation. | *Diggeriboo is a small island nation,<br />With lovely white beaches for your recreation. | ||
*The fruit of the Frindlebom's poison, it's true<br />So make sure that you only use leaves in the stew.|attack= | *The fruit of the Frindlebom's poison, it's true<br />So make sure that you only use leaves in the stew.|attack=?|defense=?|hp=?}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|wolfman|*You probably already knew that wolfmen have nards. What you may not know is, they also have bachelor's degrees in philosophy. | {{ManuelEntry|wolfman|*You probably already knew that wolfmen have nards. What you may not know is, they also have bachelor's degrees in philosophy. | ||
*A wolfman can smell what you ate for breakfast from more than a mile away! Even further, if it was raw onions. | *A wolfman can smell what you ate for breakfast from more than a mile away! Even further, if it was raw onions. | ||
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{{ManuelEntry|Wonderful Winifred Wongle|*Winifred had a pet cat when alive,<br />Once she was gone, the poor thing ceased to thrive. | {{ManuelEntry|Wonderful Winifred Wongle|*Winifred had a pet cat when alive,<br />Once she was gone, the poor thing ceased to thrive. | ||
*Winnie dressed up in costumes and went to conventions,<br />She showed lots of skin and she loved the attention. | *Winnie dressed up in costumes and went to conventions,<br />She showed lots of skin and she loved the attention. | ||
*Don't ever call women like Winifred sluts!<br />If you do, they're liable to punch in your guts!|attack= | *Don't ever call women like Winifred sluts!<br />If you do, they're liable to punch in your guts!|attack=?|defense=?|hp=?}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|Wooly Duck|*It is a known fact that ducks are bullies. So now you know what that song is about. | |||
*In the summer months, wooly ducks shed their winter coats -- hence the phrase "like hair off a duck's back". | |||
*Wooly ducks, which existed back in a time when there wasn't much to do except drink all day, are also the origin of the phrase "the hair of the duck that bit you."|attack=?|defense=?|hp=?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|work hat|*Most work hats work as nurses at construction sites. | {{ManuelEntry|work hat|*Most work hats work as nurses at construction sites. | ||
*The most common injury they deal with is "nail through skull." | *The most common injury they deal with is "nail through skull." | ||
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*Wumpii have been extinct for many years, partly because of adventurers, but mainly because they kept making their lairs in caverns full of bottomless pits. | *Wumpii have been extinct for many years, partly because of adventurers, but mainly because they kept making their lairs in caverns full of bottomless pits. | ||
*The wumpus killed by Krakrox was probably the last one alive, so it's a good thing that he was somehow able to kill it hundreds and hundreds of times.|attack=66|defense=59|hp=66}} | *The wumpus killed by Krakrox was probably the last one alive, so it's a good thing that he was somehow able to kill it hundreds and hundreds of times.|attack=66|defense=59|hp=66}} | ||
==Unobtainable== | |||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
*The first War Frat Elite 500th Captain factoid is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:We are the 99%|We are the 99%]] political movement. | |||
*The wardrobe robot's mention of teleported mice going insane is a reference to the very creepy Stephen King story, [[Wikipedia:The Jaunt|"The Jaunt"]]. | |||
*The creepy mustache of Spider Waters is a reference to the filmmaker [[Wikipedia:John Waters (filmmaker)|John Waters]]. | *The creepy mustache of Spider Waters is a reference to the filmmaker [[Wikipedia:John Waters (filmmaker)|John Waters]]. | ||
*A [[Wikipedia:Fred Durst|Megadurst]] would be really quite annoying. | *A [[Wikipedia:Fred Durst|Megadurst]] would be really quite annoying. | ||
*The third fact about the [[White Bone Demon]] is a spoiler for the 1974 noir film ''[[wikipedia:Chinatown (1974 film)|Chinatown]]''. | |||
*Wu Tang is an idiot, since cheese contains no lactose. | |||
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References
- The first War Frat Elite 500th Captain factoid is a reference to the We are the 99% political movement.
- The wardrobe robot's mention of teleported mice going insane is a reference to the very creepy Stephen King story, "The Jaunt".
- The creepy mustache of Spider Waters is a reference to the filmmaker John Waters.
- A Megadurst would be really quite annoying.
- The third fact about the White Bone Demon is a spoiler for the 1974 noir film Chinatown.
- Wu Tang is an idiot, since cheese contains no lactose.