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The story is told in twenty-four chapters, many chapters frequently sub-divided into multiple acts. The total running time for the series is ten and a half hours. The series was released on DVD with added voiceovers, plus bonus features and commentaries, by 20th Century Fox in 2006. Among the voice cast are [[Janyse Jaud]], [[Kirby Morrow]], [[Michael Dobson]], [[David Kaye]], and [[Scott McNeil]].

 

 

 

The series in its entirety can be viewed [http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/brokensaints.html here].

Best not to look at the spoilers here. Most of them relate to the last few chapters.

 

 

* [[Arc Words]]:

*** Similarly, "Know the Signs", "Weep and Bear Witness", and just about ''anything'' that appears on the Vagrant's board.

* [[Animation Bump]]: The first half, in the DVD.

* [[Art Evolution]]: A very drastic one. In the DVD release, the first twelve episodes were completely redone to match the quality of the second half.

* [[Author Tract]]: Brooke Burgess makes no effort to hide the fact that the series' inspiration was his changing worldview around the turn of the millennium.

* [[Bad Dreams]]: All over the place.

* [[Driving Question]]: What's with the dreams? What is the truth this [[Tagline]] keeps talking about?

* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: And ''hoo boy'', do they!}}

* [[The Empath]]: Shandala.

* [[Empathy Pet]]: Shandala's kitty, Bula.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Shandala and Kamimura.}}

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Raimi and Oran.

* [[Hidden Villain]]

* [[Homage]]:

** Lt. Charles and Lt. Bravado are creator-acknowledged homages to Guile and Charlie from ''[[Street Fighter]]''.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Raimi and Oran, as lampshaded in commentary tracks by Brooke Burgess himself.

* [[It Got Worse]]: The four main characters' lives seem to only get worse and worse as the story goes on.

* [[Just Between You and Me]]: Justified. {{spoiler|Lear tells the heroes his plan because he wants them to know the truth and be his first apostles.}}

* [[Knight Templar]]: {{spoiler|Lear and Gabriel.}}

* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: When Shandala wakes from her vision-induced coma, she undoes her hairwrap revealing that her hair has gone from light brown to pure white.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]:

** "''I believe.''"

* [[Nice Guy]]: Gabriel {{spoiler|except not. So, ''so'' not.}}

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: All courtesy of classical pieces from Chapter 24.

* [[The Power of Love]]: What the whole series is about--and best of all, it doesn't come off as cheesy.

* [[The Reveal]]: Many, usually at the end of a chapter.

* [[The Quiet One]]: Kami.

** Oran through a good portion of the series.

** Gabriel practically [[Not What It Sounds Like|introduces himself by getting naked]]. {{spoiler|He also goes shirtless for the final battle.}})

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending|It's quite a rough road getting there]], but in the end... firmly on the idealistic side.}}

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Raimi--see also 'Mr. Exposition' above.

* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Lt. Charles and Lt. Bravado, while obviously not actual grunts, fit this description all too well.

* [[Tagline]]: "What would you give to know the truth?"

* [[Tarot Motifs]]: There's half a chapter dedicated just to laying out the spiritual arc the rest of the series would follow using tarot cards.

* [[Urban Fantasy]]: While the series stays mostly in the realm of science-fiction, there are mystical elements as well.

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: {{spoiler|Lear's entire reason for explaining his plan to the heroes is so that they may see the genius of it and be his first apostles.}}

* [[Women in Refrigerators]]: Narrowly averted: {{spoiler|Sandra's death is necessary as a way of [[Kick the Dog|fully establishing the Shadow Men's villainy]] and instead of motivating Raimi, it nearly gives him a [[Heroic BSOD]]. And given the kind of shit she was digging up for Raimi, it's a logical outcome, not out of nowhere}}.

* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: Raimi to Shandala.

 

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