Black Company/Characters: Difference between revisions

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The Captain at the start of the series. We never learn his real name. Makes a deal with the devil which puts the Black Company under the employ of The Lady and sets up the first three books.

* [[Everyone Calls Him Barkeep]]

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

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One of the three company wizards. He and Goblin have an eternal feud with each other leading to magical duels cropping up whenever they have the time. Cheats horribly at Tonk leading many characters to avoid playing with him. As to his ability with sorcery he is more capable than any minor wizard outside the company, but he often points out that his magic is nothing compared with those wizards with the talent level of the Taken.

* [[Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other]]: {{spoiler|When he dies, he leaves everything to Goblin}}.

* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: {{spoiler|When he dies, he leaves everything to Goblin}}.

* [[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.

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* {{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}}.

* [[Dirty Old Man]]: One Eye accuses him of groping the [[Dude She's Like in A Coma|unconscious]] Daughter of The Night. Umm...[[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu|Did You Just Fondle Cthulhu]]?

* [[Dirty Old Man]]: One Eye accuses him of groping the [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma|unconscious]] Daughter of The Night. Umm...[[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?|Did You Just Fondle Cthulhu]]?

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

* [[With Friends Like These]]: With One Eye, as above.

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* [[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.

* [[Mary Sue]], [[~~Creators~~ Pet]]: may come of like this through the first book, but his [[Moral Event Horizon]] in second and [[The Worf Effect]] in thirth helps fixing it. At the time ''The Silver Spike'' takes place it's hard to belive it's the same guy you once acussed of being author's darling.

* [[Mary Sue]], [[Creator's Pet]]: may come of like this through the first book, but his [[Moral Event Horizon]] in second and [[The Worf Effect]] in thirth helps fixing it. At the time ''The Silver Spike'' takes place it's hard to belive it's the same guy you once acussed of being author's darling.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Crosses one big time in ''Shadows Linger''.

* [[Morality Pet]]: Inversion - taking care of Darling makes him even worse, as he focuses all his good on her,leaving the world to witness his less pleasant side.

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* [[True Name]]: The Taken are largely impervious if their true name is not known, even by wizard standards.

* [[Undead]]: Part of the ritual to convert someone to a Taken seems to involve killing and then resurrecting them again, possibly more than once. Several, if not all, of the Ten Who Were Taken clearly spent some time dead before their conversion; all of the Ten wear masks, presumably to hide this.

* [[Why Won't You Die]]: Killing any of them is really, really hard.

* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: Killing any of them is really, really hard.

== Soulcatcher ==

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* [[Complete Monster]]: Croaker notes he is considered one of the worst among the Taken.

* {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Dead]]:}} {{spoiler|twice}}

* {{spoiler|[[One Winged Angel]]:}} {{spoiler|As a result of the ''final'' attempt to kill him.}}

* {{spoiler|[[One-Winged Angel]]:}} {{spoiler|As a result of the ''final'' attempt to kill him.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Rasputinian Death]]:}} {{spoiler|In ''Black Company'' he survives being eaten by fire snakes. In ''Shadows Linger'' he ends impaled from ballista, twice, ripped by dogs, cut several times, crucified and having his chest ripped by one of Dominator's curses. He survived, only to get his head cut off by Croaker in ''The White Rose'' and having the rest of his body cut to the pieces and it's still implied he is still alive. He finally dies with rest of the Taken, when Lady looses her power. Probably.}}

** {{spoiler|He comes back ''again'' in ''The Silver Spike'', as just a head this time. He proceeds to acquire a newer, better body soon after. Even at the end of the book, he doesn't really 'die', he's 'simply' cast off into another dimension by a deity who's power rivals that of the Dominator.}}

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A wizard who dedicated most of his life to gaining access to the Great Barrow where the Dominator and his henchmen were buried. He recognized the dangers of his work, and never intended to free anyone; rather, his plan was to coerce the lady into teaching him what she knew of magic. While the Lady has since wiped most records of what happened, it is thought that his ritual was disrupted when he was caught between two parties who wished to release and contain the Dominator, respectively. Popular myth holds that he was last seen heading towards the Great Barrow in a vain attempt to keep the Dominator from escaping. While it is unclear if he succeeded in containing the Dominator, the Lady and the Taken did escape.

* [[Crouching Moron Hidden Badass]]: In-universe. Few expected grouchy excavator-antiquary Bomanz to actually be one of the great wizards of his age.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: In-universe. Few expected grouchy excavator-antiquary Bomanz to actually be one of the great wizards of his age.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Is believed to have attempted this in-universe. It is unclear whether it succeeded. {{spoiler|It appears he never got past the dragon guarding the central chamber. Later sacrifices himself to slay the dragon during the Dominator's escape attempt.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Dead]]: Frozen in time with a plume of fire from a dragon coming at him.}}