Requiem Chevalier Vampire: Difference between revisions

The comic begins in the real world. Enter Heinrich Augsburg, a young, suicidal and currently rather dying Nazi soldier on the Eastern Front facing the Soviet Army. Within about two or three pages of his introduction, he gets shot in the head. Exit Heinrich.

 

 

For some.

* [[Bizarro World]]: As stated above, almost everything in Résurrection is backwards from the real world.

* [[Blood Magic]]: Elizabeth Bathory pretty much exemplifies this {{spoiler|as she uses it to [[Curb Stomp Battle|easily overpower and slaughter Mitra]].}}

* [[Brain Food]]: zombies eat brains, as do ghouls.

* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]: Subverted with Claudia, who has no problem having sex with her religious-lunatic-turned-werewolf mount. Then again, [[Anything That Moves|it's not as if she's very choosy.]]

* [[Crapsack World]]: Man oh man, is Resurrection one of these...

* [[Cycle of Revenge]]: Of a sort. {{spoiler|See, Otto killed Rebecca, but then Rebecca's twin sister tracked him down and killed ''him'' in a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. So now Rebecca keeps inciting Requiem to kill Otto because she wants to escape Résurrection, and Otto wants to go on tormenting Rebecca in their afterlives because dying hasn't really changed his opinion of her.}}

* [[Depraved Homosexual]] / [[Sissy Villain]]: Taken to ridiculous levels with Nero, Dracula's right hand man. Looking like the bastard offspring of [[Rocky Horror Picture Show|Frank-N-Furter]] and [[Kiss|Gene Simmons]], he struts around in lingerie and high-heeled shoes, makes constant and blatant overtures to other men, is sexually aroused by torture and bloodshed, and goes to the masquerade ball in a dress.

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Claudia, not like readers are complaining...

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The evilest people become vampires, rapists become centaurs, religious lunatics become werewolves, infanticidal mothers become harpies, and the suicidal become... [[And I Must Scream|trees]]?

** Quite probably inspired by [[The Divine Comedy|Dante's Inferno]]. ''My'' question is, what the heck did the poets do?

** Most likely spread thought, poetry and imagination around, and we can't have that in a [[Crapsack World]], now can we?

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Dracula and his vampires serve/worship a group of those, who periodically war with another abomination faction using demons and dragons as shock troops.

* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: Dystopians are reptile or dragon creatures, some of them being dinosaur-like. Special mention goes to Sire Smegma, "Noble and Honorable Raptor Knight", a velociraptor-man riding a dinosaur mount.

* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Aiwass, or more exactly the "Queen of Dead Souls" who serves as his host.

** [[Our Demons Are Different]]: And more gruesome. The original thing about them is that they DO NOT inhabit Resurrection/Hell, but are creatures from a different plane.

** [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: For one thing they're called Lamias, and are the victims of the various evil-doers who mistreated, tortured, raped, killed etc. them. The only way to escape their rather crummy existence is to 'expirate' whoever is responsible for their presence on Résurrection (whether the 'expiration' is at their own hands or someone else's; in the meantime they also torment their killers in their sleep, like Furies).

** [[Our Ghouls Are Different]]: People who resurrect as ghouls are those who committed evil while pretending they were doing good; they have grey skin, often no hair or apparent noses, sharp teeth and crave brains. They live in a flying city called Aerophagia, and the higher ranking ones are captains of ''[[Zeppelins from Another World|pirate airships]]''; basically it's undead steampunk.

** [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: As per usual they're aristocratic, pale (mostly), beautiful (sometimes), proud, vulnerable to silver and just plain evil. As per unusual, they're often addicted to drugs to help them forget their past sins, and they're not immortal but are as susceptible to regression as anyone else in Résurrection; only receiving Dracula's [[Fountain of Youth|Dark Kiss]] makes you immune to rejuvenation, and that's pretty hard to come by. Rebirth as a vampire in Résurrection is reserved for [[Complete Monster|the very worst of the worst]] among humans.

** [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Résurrection's werewolves are religious fanatics who persecuted innocents of other faiths; they can transform at will or if they're being threatened, and also, oddly enough, by remote control {{spoiler|used and controlled by the rebelling Lamias}}.

* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Claudia. One of her ex-victims tries to strangle her with chains, she just gets off on it. She also isn't addicted to black opium like most vampires because she doen't need it; other vampires use it to forget their sins and to prevent their victim lemures from tormenting them, but not only does she enjoy remembering her sordid past, her lemures eventually quit tormenting her because ''she got off on that too.''

* [[Tortured Abomination]]: Anthrax is a humongous mutant who's essentially unkillable as he regenerates all wounds. However, when Requiem uses a spell on him that reveals his deepest desires, he proceeds to jump off a skyscraper.

{{quote|"Scream twice if you can still hear me."}}

* [[Unholy Holy Sword]]: {{spoiler|Thurim, though it's a hammer.}}

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