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A webcomic written and drawn by Matt Speroni of ''[[How I Killed Your Master]]'' fame, '''''The Dreadful''''' is a fantasy story in a [[Wild West]] setting. It stars Kit, a cute demon ("Devikin") [[The Gunslinger|gunslinger]] who wields the eponymous weapon, a [[Hand Cannon|magical]] [[Wave Motion Gun|pistol]]. It also has a fairly strong supporting cast, that is becoming more developed as the comic goes on. These include Boozloaf, a [[A Load of Bull|minotaur]] preacher; Erin, a [[Winged Humanoid|winged]] [[Cold Sniper|sniper]]; and Liz, a sharpshooter who once ran with the same gang Kit did.
The story begins with our heroine shot in the back and left to bleed out in an alley. Someone called Judge Catherine finds her lying there and whisks her away. She recovers after two days in the hospital and is taken to meet with a detective agency. They task her to hunt down and kill the leader of her old gang, Jeanne Noelle. Given that Jeanne was more than likely the one who ordered her shot, Kit has no problem with this. But the job may not be as simple as it first appears...
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You can find it [http://www.nuklearpower.com/dreadful/ here].
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* [[Cool Guns]]: Erin uses a Mauser c96 as a sidearm
* [[Cool Horse]]: Jeanne appears to ride a ''draught'' horse, possibly a Clydesdale.
* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: They go with the horns.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Kit and her sister, Poe.
* [[Defiant to
* [[The Dreaded]]: Jeanne Noelle. Even Liz calls her the most dangerous person alive.
* [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue]]: Erin's English could use some work.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]: [http://exmile.deviantart.com/art/Kit-Reloaded-244129485 Kit], and presumably Poe.
* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: Erin, who says the German equivalent of "Kiss my ass." <ref>literally "Lick me"</ref>
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* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]
* [[Foreign Cuss Word]]: "Leck mich."
* [[Forgot to Feed
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** Astonishingly enough, this becomes a ''plot point'' when {{spoiler|Ith, the starved fairy, resurrects Erin by possessing her}}.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Upon seeing {{spoiler|the slug-revived ''things'', Erin and Ith}} instantly guess that they are zombies and shooting them in the head would be the best course of action.
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* [[Hellish Pupils]]: Kit's are vertical.
* [[Hime Cut]]: Poe
* [[Hitman
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* [[Horned Humanoid]]: Seems to be standard for devikin.
* [[Hotblooded Sideburns]]: [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2011/03/04/the-dreadful-004/ Muttonchops].
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Kit and Boozloaf enjoy slinging these back and forth.
** [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: What Liz thinks of them [[In
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'''Boozloaf:''' What a shock!
'''Liz:''' ''Not now.''
'''Boozloaf:''' I'm sorry, it was just set up so perfectly. }}
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Lampshaded:
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'''Kit''': "[[Hand Wave|Let's not dwell on questions about how The Dreadful works.]]" }}
* [[Imagine Spot]]: Liz imagines herself blowing Kit's brains out in response to the aforementioned [[Hurricane of Puns]].
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: Burke takes one between the eyes and it only annoys him.
** All devikin are as long as they aren't silver (though Kit is tough even by those standards). It can still knock them out for a while, particularly if you get them in the head.
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* [[Juggling Loaded Guns]]: Literally, [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/03/the-dreadful-110/ here.] What really pushes this into [[Too Dumb to Live]] territory is the fact that he's pressing Kit's [[Berserk Button]] ''while his pistol is in the air.''
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: Burke.
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* [[Large Ham]]
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* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: Trying to get drunk on magical reagents can make you ''vomit'' lightning, with unpleasant results.
* [[A Load of Bull]]: Boozloaf, a minotaur preacher with [[Pungeon Master|a penchant for bad puns]].
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* [[No Mouth]]: Liz when she's got a cigarette (at least before the [[Art Evolution]]), which is [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2011/09/10/the-dreaful-056/ nearly] all the time.
* [[Not Me This Time]]: Liz's response to Kit's line of questioning.
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* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|Erin}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: Kit's reaction when she finds out the hard way about Burke's [[Immune to Bullets|immunity]].
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* [[Our Elves Are Better]]: They have excellent hearing, but the one we've seen thus far was killed too quickly to learn anything else from.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: After {{spoiler|Ith revives Erin}} and they start [[Sharing a Body]], {{spoiler|Erin}}'s speech is in the standard font for the comic, while {{spoiler|Ith}}'s is in a more "jagged" font.
* [[
* [[Pinkerton Detective]]: The Jackson Detective Agency, aka "Jacks".
* [[Power At a Price]]: {{spoiler|Burke's ring was enchanted to make him [[Immune to Bullets]], but at the cost of his sanity.}}
* [[Power Incontinence]]: [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/09/the-dreadful-112/ It] [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/11/the-dreadful-113/ appears] Kit doesn't have perfect control over The Dreadful.
* [[Present Company Excluded]]:
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* [[Pungeon Master]]: Boozloaf and Kit, at least when they're around each other.
* [[Punny Name]]: The Moomons. [[Word of God]] is that these cow-people only superficially resemble Mormons, their religion having nearly been called Cowtholic instead.
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* [[Sadistic Choice]]: In flashback, after a job went bad, Jeanne gave Kit and Poe a choice. Either they kill the unarmed, bound and hooded bookkeeper that they took as a hostage, or Jeanne would do it. And if Jeanne did it, she would get ''creative'' about it.
* [[Sharing a Body]]: {{spoiler|Erin and Ith (the fairy Liz had bottled up) as a result of a possession-based resurrection.}}
* [[Shout
** To [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2011/06/14/the-dreadful-031/ Black Mage] of [[8-Bit Theater
** To ''[[Dead Space (
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'''Ith:''' That is what I would suggest. Though Dr. Clarke in his essay on "Necromorphosis" suggests the limbs. [[Take That|I think he's a crackpot, personally]]. }}
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Erin, the bird-lady, though maybe only apparent for [[Bilingual Bonus|those fluent in german.]]
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** Kit was shot with cheap bullets.
** Also {{spoiler|Erin, with a little help from Liz's fairy.}}
* [[Unusable Enemy Equipment]]: [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2013/09/04/the-dreadful-235/ Security measures.]]
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2011/05/21/the-dreadful-024/ The eponymous gun], clearly.
* [[X Marks the Hero]]: {{spoiler|Erin}} has one of these scars right in the center of her forehead, presumably due to the fact that {{spoiler|that's where Liz shot her}}.
* [[The Wild West]]
** [[Weird West]]
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