The Grimnoir Chronicles: Difference between revisions

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* [[An Ice Person]]: Iceboxes

* [[Action Girl]]: Both Faye and Delilah.

** And in the second book, Hammer. And Whisper, who throws a gods's fire back at it.

* [[Badass]]: Just about everyone involved.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Harkeness}} is running one against the Chairman.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: {{spoiler|Toru}}

* [[Designated Girl Fight]]: Faye vs. Toshiko. Despite this, it's an ''awesome'' fight scene featuring frenetic [[Teleport Spam]] on a [[Battle Amongst the Flames|flaming]] [[Zeppelins From Another World|zeppelin]] in the middle of a [[Sky Pirates|pirate attack]] on said [[Zeppelins From Another World|zeppelin]]. Did I mention Toshiko is a [[Ninja]]?

* [[Elite Mooks]]: The Iron Guard and Shadow Guard are superpowered, ''very'' highly trained and magically enhanced to boot.

* [[The Empire]]: The Imperium, natch.

* [[Historical Villain Upgrade]]: In [[Real Life]], [[Imperial Japan]] was racist, militaristic, and expansionist, with an array of atrocities to its name. The Imperium is all of that, turned [[Up to Eleven]], and more succesful.

* [[Hope Spot]]: Just after defeating the Bull King, {{spoiler|Delilah gets run through by a ninja}}.

* [[Intangible Man]]: Heinrich, one of the Grimnoir knights, is a Fade, who can walk through walls and let weapons pass right through him.

* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: The Iron Guard and Shadow Guard (or at least Madi and Toshiko) do not have a high opinion of each other.

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Faye, who may or may not be 18 yet and is pretty small. She irritates everyone trying to fight her by not being where they think she is and, in the final battle, kills around a hundred Imperium marines and wounds the Chairman.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Madi and Rokusaburo in particular, Brutes, Massives and people with [[Power Tattoo|kanji]] of durability in general.

* [[Meta Origin]]: All magic powers (be they innate or the kanji brands) come from [[Cosmic Entity|The Power]].

* [[Mighty Whitey]]: Madi is a villainous example leavened only by the fact that there ''are'' other Caucasians in the Iron Guard, none of whom are on his level or that of the Japanese members.

* [[Un Equal Rites]]: There are two forms of magic in this world: the innate magic that people are born with, and magic that comes through drawn symbols (kanji). As it turns out, they have the [[Meta Origin|same ultimate source]].

* [[Walking the Earth]]: The Chairman's backstory includes a long period of doing this.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: The Chairman. Madi tries to emulate his mentor in this, but fails miserably.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: The Chairman views Sullivan as this. The feeling isn't entirely mutual.

* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: Faye ([[Irony|who grew up on a dairy farm]]) spends much of her fight with Toshiko tossing insults at the ninja.