The Byron Chronicles: Difference between revisions

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* [[Action Girl]]: Chris counts, Sam not so much.

* [[Adrenaline Makeover]]: Chris goes from a naive college student to a [[Badass]] [[~~Demi Human~~]] with superhuman strength.

* [[Adrenaline Makeover]]: Chris goes from a naive college student to a [[Badass]] [[Demihuman]] with superhuman strength.

* [[All Myths Are True]] - not only myths and legends, but ''multiple fictional stories''. See [[Shout-Out]] below for some examples.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Byron is [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV]], reluctant to get involved with other people's troubles unless [[It's Personal]], to prevent [[The End of the World as We Know It]], helping a friend or the problem is his fault.

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* [[Arc Words]]: "Leviathan dances"

* [[The Atoner]]: Byron's comments indicate that his present heroic actions and duties are an attempt to balance some rather questionable actions in his [[Mysterious Past]].

* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: Happens to Byron for a time if he pushes his power too far, {{spoiler|like in Season Two}}.

* [[Byronic Hero]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Guess]]

* [[Came Back Wrong]]: {{spoiler|Lazarus (aka that one guy whom Jesus brought back from the dead) not only didn't die naturally again, but precipitated the entire [[Zombie Apocalypse]].}}

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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Byron

** Max, the Armani-wearing, merlot-downing demon.

* [[~~Demi Human~~]]: Chris, post-monster attack.

* [[Demihuman]]: Chris, post-monster attack.

* [[Demonic Possession]]: {{spoiler|Caroline}} in "Dead Time".

* [[Damsel in Distress]]: When Chris first appears, she's attacked by a Rush user-turned-monster and must be saved by Byron.

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* [["Friend or Idol?" Decision]]: At the beginning of Season Two, Byron is trapped with Jo on a [[Alternate Universe|mirror world]] by [[Louis Cypher|Logan]] so that Logan can free [[Lilith]] from Byron's realm. {{spoiler|Later it is revealed that Byron could have returned at any time to his own realm without Jo but chose to stay to try and get Jo home, thus invoking this trope. However [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|Jo dies and Lilith is freed anyway]].}}

* [[Fur Against Fang]]: Season One two-parter "Code of Conduct" has almost-vampire Chris meet a female werewolf named Amy. They don't get along.

** {{spoiler|Subverted at the end of Season 2 when the eastern council of vampires and the werewolves join forces against Dracula and begin to broker a more permanent peace.}}

* [[Government Conspiracy]]: The organization introduced in Episode 6, "A Time Of Rising", is a branch of the U.S. Government dealing with things like angels and keeping the public in the dark.

* [[Jerkass Gods]]: God created the world and sent Jesus to die for humanity, but now he doesn't give a crap.

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* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: {{spoiler|Leviathan}}

** Byron himself may qualify, due to his unique nature and odd appearance.

** {{spoiler|Chris}} may also qualify, due to {{spoiler|her}} [[One-Winged Angel]] nature.

* [[Knight Templar]]: Agent Catherine of the Watch

* [[Louis Cypher]]: Logan

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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Voices of Flame and Leviathan from season 3

* [[Not So Different]]: Done to Byron by {{spoiler|Leviathan}}.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: A regular occurrence of the series.

** Byron has destroyed Rome, {{spoiler|created a demonic mist and refused to save its third victim before imprisoning it, created a race of super zombies [[For Science!]] and refused to give up Lilith to angels which may result in the destruction of all reality}}. Among others.

** Hurray Jo, you saved the world from the fallen Seraphim! {{spoiler|By releasing them into another world where they killed everyone.}}

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* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Chris}}

* [[Santa Claus]]: {{spoiler|Is actually a evil [[Humanoid Abomination]]!}}

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Comes in a variety of flavors. They inevitably escape.

** Fallen Seraphim {{spoiler|and Leviathan}} are imprisoned in a dimension called the Labyrinth {{spoiler|until Logan releases them}}.

** A demonic mist {{spoiler|created by Byron}} that can [[Demonic Possession|possess]] victims and turn them into serial killers is sealed in a bronze box created by Tibetan monks.

** Nicholas {{spoiler|aka [[Santa Claus]]}} is imprisoned and let out once a year {{spoiler|and forced to deliver presents to children}}.

** Byron himself from time to time, courtesy of both {{spoiler|Dracula}} and the Vatican.

** Byron keeps some himself, including {{spoiler|Lilith}} and {{spoiler|a race of super zombies he created}}.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Too many to count. Apparently, not only is ''The Byron Chronicles'' in the same universe as every other podcast from Darker Projects, but multiple fictional universes as well.

** Byron once quipped that "[[Harry Potter|Harry's]] quite a nice fellow. Pity about that Voldemort business."