Humorous Fantasy Worlds in Videogames/Books/Comics/Movies/Etc. List: Need your Help once again!!!

[SweetShark]

I decided to create a new list like the other onces in the past [Angels,Archaeologists and Knights Lists if you remember].

Now I need to recommend me Fantasy world [with Orcs,Magic,Knights,Wizards,Dragons,etc.] which also have a big amount of humor on it [please don't suggest Dark Souls].


Any given suggestion will make it on the list.

Thank you for your help

To be include in the List:

Adventure Time
Blazing Dragons
Bored of the Rings
Eric the Unready
DeathSpank
DiscWorld
Disgaea
Dungeon Keeper
Goblins
Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru
Magicians & Looters
Magicka
Marl Kingdom
Overlord
Rat Queens
Simon the Sorcerer
SkullKickers
Slayers
Spellcasting
The Book of Unwritten Tales
The Order of the Stick
Thraxas
Xanth

 

[Queen Michael]

Discworld.

Seriously, Discworld.

Also, did I mention Discworld? 'Cause you know, Discworld.

 

[Elfgore]

The world of Overlord. I don't remember the name, but it's a pretty good satire. Evil overlord, check. Elves, dwarves, hobbits, check. An army of unending, moronic creatures at the overlord's command, check. Pretty much everything is there.

 

[SpinnokDurav]

As previously mentioned Discworld. The best example of humorous fantasy fiction there is. Also the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. Thraxas is also moderately funny, though it bores easily. Bored by the Rings is decent, but not extraordinary. Really, Discworld is your best bet. It also has a few film adaptations which are not as funny, but still very decent to watch.
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is also funny, but the only comedy is due to it being horrendously bad. It's by Uwe Boll and great to watch when you see it without having any expectations. If you see it with any expectations at all (like I did, I didn't know it was by Uwe Boll) you won't enjoy it.

Warcraft 3 has some humour to it, not to the extent Overlord has but there are a few funny things in there (like Timmy).

 

[SweetShark]

As previously mentioned Discworld. The best example of humorous fantasy fiction there is. Also the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. Thraxas is also moderately funny, though it bores easily. Bored by the Rings is decent, but not extraordinary. Really, Discworld is your best bet. It also has a few film adaptations which are not as funny, but still very decent to watch.
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is also funny, but the only comedy is due to it being horrendously bad. It's by Uwe Boll and great to watch when you see it without having any expectations. If you see it with any expectations at all (like I did, I didn't know it was by Uwe Boll) you won't enjoy it.

Warcraft 3 has some humour to it, not to the extent Overlord has but there are a few funny things in there (like Timmy).

I don't think the hardcore fans of Warcraft 3 will find this funny to call it a "Humorous Fantasy World".
Yes, I said only Warcraft 3 because after that, and specifically mean Wold of Warcraft, the series become ridiculous....

 

[SweetShark]

I just put the first titles in my first posts.
The Book of Unwritten Tales, Magicians & Looters [great game btw] and Dungeon Keeper are also in my list fro obvious reasons.

 

[SweetShark]

Btw, King's Quest and Quest for Glory series count as Comedy/Fantasy Theme?

 

[Scarim Coral]

Does Mogworld count? Sure it did had wizard and it was suppose to be an mmorpg fantasy game but it wasn't a full indept one at that.

 

[SweetShark]

Does Mogworld count? Sure it did had wizard and it was suppose to be an mmorpg fantasy game but it wasn't a full indept one at that.

Jesus Christ! I literally wanted to ask this just now!!!
Well, I also included Adventure Time which it is have a Fantasy Theme, so......I Mogworld is count.
But I would like a second opinion as well.

EDIT:

By seeing your Avatar, I am wondering........the TV Show "My Little Pony" count?
I mean, if you think about it...:
Magic? Check
Dragons? Check
Humor? Check
Unicorns? Check

It make sense to me....but I need more opinions...

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

By seeing your Avatar, I am wondering........the TV Show "My Little Pony" count?
I mean, if you think about it...:
Magic? Check
Dragons? Check
Humor? Check
Unicorns? Check

It make sense to me....but I need more opinions...

Well, it's a constructed world filled with fantastical elements, so I'd say it's a fantasy world. You could maybe debate whether it counts as fantasy from a genre point of view, but it is definitely a fantasy world.

 

[Anachronism]

Rat Queens.

A relatively new comic from Image, and I finished the first volume recently. The main characters are four women in their 20s who make a living by killing monsters, and spend most of their free time getting drunk, getting high, and starting fights. It's foul-mouthed, very violent, and absolutely hilarious. Very highly recommended, especially if you like D&D.

 

[SweetShark]

Rat Queens.

A relatively new comic from Image, and I finished the first volume recently. The main characters are four women in their 20s who make a living by killing monsters, and spend most of their free time getting drunk, getting high, and starting fights. It's foul-mouthed, very violent, and absolutely hilarious. Very highly recommended, especially if you like D&D.

Wow, this comic actually remind another great comic somehow like this one:

Skullkickers!!!

Great read if you like DnD as you said.

 

[WindKnight]

Whilst it doesn't have all the elements your asking for (no orcs, certainly), I'd certainly recommend El Hazard. Best summed up as Narnia if the kids behaved like characters in Blackadder, best represented by Fujisawa-sensei, an alcoholic, chain-smoking schoolteacher who treats everything like its a weird school-trip, and is blessed with superhuman strength... when sober.

 

[Ratty]

The Slayers


A long running series of light novels which spun off a prequel novel series, several mangas, 4 seasons of anime[footnote]Well, three 26 episode series and much later two 13 episode series.[/footnote], several different OVAs (both movies and mini-series) and 3 Japan-only video games.

Lots of D&D influenced humor, like Gourry as the embodiment of the dumb fighter trope and Amelia being lawful good to the point of being lawful stupid.

By seeing your Avatar, I am wondering........the TV Show "My Little Pony" count?
I mean, if you think about it...:
Magic? Check
Dragons? Check
Humor? Check
Unicorns? Check

It make sense to me....but I need more opinions...

Is it fantasy? Yes. Is it "standard fantasy" i.e. derivative of Tolkien and/or Robert E. Howard? No. If you want to list all "fantasy" works that this applies to you might be here a while. Most of the time when people talk about "fantasy" they mean Conan/Robert E. Howard inspired Sword & Sorcery or High Fantasy which takes its cues from Tolkien. Or some mix of the two. Though Urban Fantasy (Twilight) and Contemporary Fantasy (Harry Potter) are always increasing in popularity.

Technically a lot of the stuff we group into "science fiction" in a post-Star Wars world is actually Space Opera, a form of fantasy with even older roots than Howard/Tolkien.

 

[SweetShark]

By seeing your Avatar, I am wondering........the TV Show "My Little Pony" count?
I mean, if you think about it...:
Magic? Check
Dragons? Check
Humor? Check
Unicorns? Check

It make sense to me....but I need more opinions...

Is it fantasy? Yes. Is it "standard fantasy" i.e. derivative of Tolkien and/or Robert E. Howard? No. If you want to list all "fantasy" works that this applies to you might be here a while. Most of the time when people talk about "fantasy" they mean Conan/Robert E. Howard inspired Sword & Sorcery or High Fantasy which takes it's cues from Tolkien. Or some mix of the two. Though Urban Fantasy (Twilight) and Contemporary Fantasy (Harry Potter) are always increasing in popularity.

Technically a lot of the stuff we group into "science fiction" in a post-Star Wars world is actually Space Opera, a form of fantasy with even older roots than Howard/Tolkien.

Yes, but isn't the same exactly with with other fantasies in the list, like Adventure time or even Deathspank?
They are not standard fantasy worlds because they use a lot of rules they are apply to our modern times.

EDIT:

Oh yeah! Even the Simon the Sorcerer series! In his last game have do to with alien?!?!?

 

[SweetShark]

Another question:
Does the Game and Book "DeathTrap Dungeon" count for the list I create?

 

[CelestDaer]

You really should have Anachronox in there. It's a lovely old buggy game, but the humor is so wonderfully bizarre, especially for such a crapsack world. For instance? The dominant coin? The Canadian loonie. Your party all get skills that supplement their characterization, and the old man Grumpos' skill? Yammer. Think Grandpa Simpson, only extremely ill tempered and interested in uncovering a hidden feature of all the meteorites that keep dropping to the planet's surface... so, Abe Simpson mashed with Lara Croft? Or, I guess Indiana Jones? Or the whole sequence where you land on Democritus, the Democracy planet, and have to prove you're smart by finding out how the council will vote on the six important issues, so you can vote the same way and get access to the council chambers? That's funny just on the face of it, but one of those issues is 'how steep should all the ramps on the planet be?'

 

[Soviet Heavy]

The Belgariad series by David Eddings, as well as Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress side books. The Mallorean Series (the sequel to the Belgariad) isn't as good, since it retreads most of the original plot, but the first book in the series, Guardians of the West, is downright hilarious. It deals with how the poor heroes have to manage a kingdom in the aftermath of the epic adventure, and they don't do a very good job of it.

These books can best be described as the most generic fantasy quest imaginable, undertaken by a host of characters too self aware for their own good.

 

[TheMigrantSoldier]

If you're willing to read webcomics, try Order of the Stick and Goblins. They're both humorous, self-aware deconstructions of generic DnD-ish fantasy worlds. The latter is slightly more focused on drama nowadays, though.

 

[SweetShark]

If you're willing to read webcomics, try Order of the Stick and Goblins. They're both humorous, self-aware deconstructions of generic DnD-ish fantasy worlds. The latter is slightly more focused on drama nowadays, though.

My plan is to make a Giant List with many Humorous Fantasy Worlds.
Because I don't have a lot of time to seek them myself, I asked for help.

But yeah, I read Order of the Stick and it is awesome. Thank you for remind me