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* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]: Played with in Angels, who dye their hair and uniforms based on their element. Demons' elements, however, totally change their physical appearance, with earth demons being upwards of 12 feet tall, wind demons tending to be very tall and thin, with wings, [http://www.sdamned.com/2004/04/04142004/ fire demons] [http://www.sdamned.com/2005/03/03032005/ usually around] [http://sdamned.com/info/demon_fire.jpg human height], and water demons being fairly short (around 5 feet tall) and usually aquatic.

* [[As You Know]]: Used and lampshaded [http://www.sdamned.com/2010/12/12042010/ here]. (Be warned of major spoilers)

* [[Audio Adaptation]]: Currently, there's a fan made Radio Play project which was started back in August 2008. All of the characters are voiced by fans and forum members with the exception of Rhea who is voiced by the Author herself. Unlike the comic however, it suffers from [[Schedule Slip]] partially due to the fact that there are a lot of people who need to be coordinated in order for the project to work. The first two episodes are currently out with the third currently in production. You can listen to them [http://www.sdamned.com/extras/radio-play/ here.]

** Currently entering [[Anachronic Order]] thanks to technical difficulties and [[Author Existence Failure]] from the VA for Sakido, barring [http://www.sdamned.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2616 outside help] in the form of [[The Other Darrin]].

* [[Dream Sequence]]: In the first few arcs, dream sequences for the characters are fairly common.

* [[Ear Ache]]: {{spoiler|Buwaro}} got a very damaged ear from {{spoiler|Sakido}}.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: All characters are attuned to a classical element. Some [[Dishing Out Dirt|generic]] [[Blow You Away|elemental]] [[An Ice Person|behavior]] [[Playing With Fire|stereotypes]], and [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance|certain eye colors]], tend to be slightly more common [[Personality Powers|among users of the related element.]] Demons have additional abilities based on their element, with earth demons being huge in size, wind demons being able to fly, water demons being amphibious, and fire demons breathing fire (as well as being fire and cold resistant). (Interestingly, the comic does ''not'' use [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]].)

** [[Blow You Away]], [[Shock and Awe]]: Sakido, Denevol.

* [[Fairy Companion]]: Sammy has two, sisters named Willow and Eve, who she rescued from an unscrupulous merchant in Riverside. They're you're standard fairy companion affair: small, cute, glowing, and silent. Less conventionally, Cliff has Duster, who is fast-talking and lecherous. He also seems to amplify Cliff's magical abilities.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Demons are nearly universally reviled by Medians and Angels, and the feeling is definitely mutual; Demons generally see Medians as worthless and despise Angels with a fiery passion. It also seems to be traditional in certain Jakkai villages to [http://www.sdamned.com/2006/06/06042006/ not allow humans to visit].

* [[Five Races]]: Humans are Mundane, Fairies are Fae, Jakkai are Cute, Khamega are (probably) Stout, Angels are High Men, and demons are [[Always Chaotic Evil|Evil]].

* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: [[Word of God]] is that most Medians are "skeptical" about the existence fairies, angels, demons, and other "myths," [[All Myths Are True|nearly all of which have already been featured in the comic proper]] or confirmed by Word of God.

*** [http://www.sdamned.com/2004/04/04092004/ Those glasses] weren't suspicious at all, were they?

*** How about [http://www.sdamned.com/2009/11/11152009/ the puppet show]?

* [[For the Evulz]]: Why Toski cursed Kieri, more or less.

* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]: Jakkai and fairies.

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Demons when angry - [[Playing With a Trope|or they just want to improve their night vision]].

* {{spoiler|[[God Job]]: Darius taking the place of Death.}}

** Justified, since {{spoiler|Darius (the current Death) didn't create Cerberus}} and therefore Cerberus feels no obligation to obey him.

* [[The Gods Must Be Lazy]]: Despite being one of the divine crowd, Death gets rather lame territory compared to Gaia (heaven) and Syndel (hell), just getting himself purgatory and judgment. Not to mention that given the nastiness of divine politics, his hands are tied in regards to the other gods. There is also no information on the other gods doing anything at all recently.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: He may be gruff, cynical, and less than friendly to most, but Heathcliff Sinclair [http://www.sdamned.com/2010/02/02012010/ only does what he thinks is right.]

** For that matter, what we've seen of angel society suggests that it's hyper-conformist and at least borderline fascist, but they canonically tend toward good, and the society seems to be constructed in this manner specifically to keep the tending-toward-evil demons in check.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: Duster, but it's justified as Fairies generally speak their own language.

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: The reason for {{spoiler|Sakido and Iratu's initial reactions to Buwaro joining their 'family', especially Sakido. So much so that it led to Sakido tearing off part of Buwaro's ear, and guilt from their behavior probably drives both demons' closeness with Buwaro earlier in the strip.}}

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Heathcliff "Cliff" Sinclair really hammered Buwaro for his fighting ability, looks, and intelligence in [http://www.sdamned.com/2009/05/05312009/ this page.] It reduced Buwaro to tears.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Done in reverse, insofar as {{spoiler|we only learn why Sakido was so willing to risk her life for Buwaro years after the strip where she died trying to make his life better.}}

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Invoked; see [[Weirdness Censor]] for details.

* {{spoiler|[[Relationship Upgrade]]: [http://www.sdamned.com/2010/03/03142010/ Buwaro and Kieri.] [http://www.sdamned.com/2011/01/01292011/ Twice!]}}

* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Rhea is clearly supportive of Buwaro and Kieri's relationship. Provided they aren't keeping her awake.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Buwaro has some, mostly justified by circumstances, but from page 501 on apparently just for the heck of it.

** And one to [[Castlevania]] [http://www.sdamned.com/2007/01/01152007/ here]. And [http://www.sdamned.com/2010/05/05012010/ here] as well.

** [[Gurren Lagann|"With scissors like those, you could pierce the heavens!"]]

** [http://www.sdamned.com/2011/07/07092011/ GARY WAS HERE,] [[Pokémon|ASH IS A LOSER]]

** [http://www.sdamned.com/2010/07/07312010/ The roof, the roof], [[Bloodhound Gang|MY ROOF IS ON FIRE!]]

** {{spoiler|Considering how bad things had gotten shortly beforehand, it was also a [[Smooch of Victory]] the second time.}}

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Kieri, to the max. She eventually [[Character Development|becomes]] just a ''little'' bit more confident, at least around [[True Companions|Buwaro and Rhea]].

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: {{spoiler|Sakido's pendant. Buwaro}} even wears it the same way.

* [[The Unpronounceable]]: In mild form: nobody gets "Kieri Suizahn" right the first time. [[Justified]], since the official pronunciation is "kee-AIR-ee soo-EE-zahn".

* [[Van Helsing Hate Crimes]]: Denevol's attack on "demons and [[Category Traitor|traitors]]", aka Buwaro and Kieri.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Denovol starts [http://www.sdamned.com/2010/01/01192010/ getting antsy].

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Many male demons. Moonshade also wears a cape, but no shirt beneath.

* [[Weirdness Censor]]: The sight of a Demon and an Angel walking around together instead of fighting each other is so unthinkable, everyone assumes Kieri and Buwaro are wearing costumes.

** {{spoiler|Iratu and co ''[[Not So Harmless|butchered an entire town]]''.}}

* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]: The events of the entire comic were all started by Rhea's death, and yet we don't have even the slightest idea why is it that she even died in the first place.