Black Company/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Nice Hat]]: Well, it sounds like a cool hat even if everybody else goes on about how old and ugly it is. Besides, it can {{spoiler|cancel out mind control}}. That's got to count for something.

 

 

 

* {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]]}}: {{spoiler|Comes back like this after his first [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. He gets better in time to finish Kina off, with a little help from One Eye's magic hat}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: Twice.

 

=== Silent ===

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}

* [[The Rival]]: {{spoiler|with Raven}} in ''Silver Spike''

 

=== Raven ===

* {{spoiler|[[Comes Great Insanity]]}}: Because he studied black magic, in ''The Silver Spike'' {{spoiler|once he touches it, he gets instantly corrupted}}

* [[Deconstruction]]: He gets introduced as your typical ultra-cool badass loner with angsty past in the first book. Starting halway through it series proceed to show him as more and more flawed. In his final apperance he comes as a bit of pathetic.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Considering his hate for Limper it's ironic how much ruthless he becomes {{spoiler|and in the end he turns as mad as Limper or Dominator when he touches Silver Spike}}.

* [[Knight Templar Parent]]: A ''major'' one of these for Darling.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: He has two children he abandoned without remose. {{spoiler|In ''The Silver Spike'' Case and Darling forces him to meet them}}

* [[Parental Substitute]]: For Darling

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Suffers it big time in ''The White Rose'' and again in ''The Silver Spike''. Second one is especially humilating, as it was delivered by man named ''Old Man Fish''.

 

* [[Badass]]

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]

* [[Enemy Civil War]]

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: {{spoiler|Especially when they started fighting each other}}

* [[Magic Knight]]: Most of them are both skilled wizard and strong warriors, due to the setting's inversion of the [[Squishy Wizard]] trope.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]

 

* [[Big Bad]]: In-universe.

* [[Evil Overlord]]: How she is seen; while she definitely has a cruel streak, it is doubtful she is as bad as her husband or even the Rebel.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|Once she starts having visions of Kina she immediately recognizes that the goddess is trying to seduce her with promises of great power, while never mentioning the price. It hast something to do with her doing the same during her time as [[Evil Overlord]].}}

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Croaker tries to argue he might have good side Lady didn not knew about, and uses this as an possible example. Lady says he probably killed her with his bare hands.

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: His whole existence is this for Lady.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Apparently has backup plans for backup plans and managed to set many of them in motion before being imprisoned.

 

 

 

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Just to drive the point home - he had assaulted resident [[Badass]] Raven and two other people at the same time, [[Curb Stomp Battle|beaten them without breaking a sweat]], murdered one of them and managed to do it too fast for them to see his face.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: {{spoiler|Manipulated everybody to save his and Smeds' skins, making all sides dance as he wanted them to.}}