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[[File:Night_Angel_2662.jpg|frame|Pretty cover art to the original trilogy. No relation to that [[Assassin's Creed|one video game]]. These guys don't have beards.]]
{{quote|''Assassins have targets. Wetboys have deaders.[...]Once you've accepted the contract, whatever's left of the target's life is just a formality.''|'''Durzo Blint'''}}
''[[The Night Angel Trilogy]]'' is a series of fantasy books by Brent Weeks; who is currently writing [[The Lightbringer Trilogy|the Light Bringer Series]]. It's about a boy (who ends up with the name Kylar, although that's not his only one) from the slums who becomes apprentice to a famed wetboy, and who inherits a magical artifact which gives him all manner of supernatural powers (and makes him effectively immortal). Lots of politics, war, and evil megalomaniacs. Major subjects include Kylar's feelings about his job (is it something that's necessary, or is it an evil that he should walk away from?), his love triangle, and the fact that bad things happen to good people (in these books, quite frequently.)
In many ways the first book reads like "Batman: with fewer scruples and some magic", from there things build to a study of faith, love, the cost of doing the right (and wrong) thing, what to do in an [[Crapsack World|unfair universe]], and a look at what immortality can do to a person. Add in a high amount of action, politics, schemes upon schemes upon schemes upon [[Xanatos Roulette|Xanatos Roulettes]] and [[Gambit Pileup|Pileups]] and you have an idea of what the series is like. And add gore. Gore and rape and prostitution and torture and more gore and rape.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Technically, Hu Gibbet is Vi's master, not her father, but it has the same effect. She was also {{spoiler|raped by at least one of her mother's lovers, and her mother didn't give a shit. Her test to become Hu's apprentice was to kill them.}}
** Also, Godking Garoth sure counts.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: At times, Vi can get extremely sensitive about people touching her hair. At one point she {{spoiler|turned two thugs into barely recognizable piles of meaty pulp with her ''hands'', in a blind rage, just because they threatened her hair. She was suitably horrified that she was able to do such a thing afterward.}} This is in stark contrast to her numbness and apathy to much more intimate forms of contact.
** Hu Gibbet, at times, when people say that Durzo Blint is the better wetboy.
* [[Better
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Kylar's love triangle with Elene and Vi has elements of this - Elene is good and pure, but doesn't accept Kylar's rather violent world, while Vi is hostile, troubled, and initially an antagonist, but comes from the same world as Kylar and therefore understands him. Kylar loves Elene, but finds himself thinking about Vi as well. The situation is resolved at the end of the third book, when Elene {{spoiler|has a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] after saying that she [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|Wants Her Beloved To Be Happy]] with [[Death of the Hypotenuse|Vi after she's gone]].}} It's implied that this is how things do indeed end up.
* [[Big Bad]]: Godking Garoth Ursuul in the first two books; Khali (previously the [[Bigger Bad]]) in the third.
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* [[Can't Have Sex Ever]]: {{spoiler|Kylar and Elene}} have this problem after {{spoiler|Vi ring rapes Kylar to eliminate Godking Ursuul}}. At least {{spoiler|until Sister Ariel figures out a method.}}
* [[Career Killers]]: Taken to a new level: Wetboys, as Blint illustrates in the page quote, are contemptuous of mere 'assassins'.
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: One of the first things Logan says as Kylar's friend is about how a story about Ka'Karis interested him. Guess what one of the main plot devices is?
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Aleine Gunder IX. Played for laughs. Poor Aleine or Niner as he is not so lovingly called by just about everyone, swears all the time. He can actually be quite creative there's only one problem, the only swear he knows is the word shit. Due to this fact, and his childish nature he is prone to rant for several minutes. This is so much the case that when he starts cursing everyone in earshot just tunes him out. It doesn't help much that he's the king and therefore no one will swear in front of him. Then along comes resident badass Durzo. It wasn't until after Niner saw the looks on his guards faces that he realized he'd been insulted.
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Durzo, "Your Majesty, a man of your stature's cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious repetition of the excreta that fills the void between his ears." }}
* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: The One God. The way Elene and Count Drake act suggest that he preaches ideas very, very similar to what we would consider good Christian virtues.
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* [[Good Shepherd]]: Count Drake, in spite of {{spoiler|his dark past}}. This is later brought up when Kylar informs him that while he can {{spoiler|see guilt and sin in people, Count Drake is empty of it, and is told that he is "clean."}} This makes him quite happy.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: [[The Strategist|Brant]] [[Retired Badass|Agon]] has to walk with two canes by the end of the series, which leads well to his [[Badass Boast]]
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[[Samurai|Inspector]]: "But you're an old cripple!"
Agon: "Which will make it all the more embarrassing when I do" }}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Vi is initially the apprentice of Hu Gibbet, a villain, and does a number of bad things in the first and second books. By the third book, though, she's turned good, although there's still tension for various reasons.
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* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Beyond the Shadows has Kylar very focused on {{spoiler|Vi's}} fiery hair on several occasions.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Done by {{spoiler|Elene}} at the end.
* [[Hooker
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Logan does this twice. First by {{spoiler|swearing fealty to Terah Graesin}}. Later by {{spoiler|[[Mercy Kill|killing]] Kylar}}
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Durzo Blint's got a lot of them. {{spoiler|because he happens to be ''almost every'' hero from the past 700 years}}
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* [[Invisibility Flicker]]: A voluntary example; this is Kylar's modus operandi for scaring people as Judgment.
* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Logan's Dictionary.
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* [[Julius Beethoven Da Vinci]]: {{spoiler|Durzo}}. It helps that he's [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]].
* [[Karmic Death]]: You'll be satisfied to know that {{spoiler|Terah and Hu Gibbet}} get whats coming to them.
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* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: One of the first tasks that the Godking gives to his sons is to murder their mother.
* [[Sequel Escalation]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Durzo.
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* [[Show Some Leg]]: One of Vi's methods.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Terah Graesin. Speaker Istariel has some of this too.
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