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* SlaveRevolt: Aquila was part of Spartacus' rebellion, and was among those crucified when they were defeated. He begged for any god to help him while one the cross... and the Devourer answered.
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* SlaveRevolt: Aquila was part of Spartacus' rebellion, and was among those crucified when they were defeated. He begged for any god to help him while one on the cross... and the Devourer answered.
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* GodIsDispleased: [[spoiler: Boudiccae achieves great successes against the Roman invaders thanks to the protection of the local gods. However, once she organizes reprisals against the Briton population she feels the gods leave her, leading to her defeat by Aquila. She asks of him that when he inevitably turns against the Roman emperor, that he should die hearing her name, a request Aquila agrees to (and does so at the end of the comic).]]
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* GodIsDispleased: [[spoiler: Boudiccae achieves great successes against the Roman invaders thanks to the protection of the local gods. However, [[spoiler:However, once she organizes reprisals against the Briton population she feels the gods leave her, leading to her defeat by Aquila. She asks of him that when he inevitably turns against the Roman emperor, that he should die hearing her name, a request Aquila agrees to (and does so at the end of the comic).]]
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* GodIsDispleased: [[spoiler: Boudiccae achieves great successes against the Roman invaders thanks to the protection of the local gods. However, once she organizes reprisals against the Briton population she feels the gods leave her, leading to her defeat by Aquila. She asks of him that when he inevitably turns against the Roman emperor, that he should die hearing her name, a request Aquila agrees to (and does so at the end of the comic).]]
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* HoldYourHippogryphs: Some extremely British expressions (Jesus wept, bollocks to that) are replaced with more period-appropriate versions (Jovus wept, Castor and Pollux to that)
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* HoldYourHippogryphs: HoldYourHippogriffs: Some extremely British expressions (Jesus wept, bollocks to that) are replaced with more period-appropriate versions (Jovus wept, Castor and Pollux to that)
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Triscus' comment on whether Rome will survive a fire: "She's survived Gaulish invasions, the reign of Sulla the dictator and the wretched poetry of that pompous old bore Virgil. She'll survive this too."
* CampGay: Downplayed by Triscus, who keeps commenting on handsome and/or muscular men but otherwise behaves normally.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Subverted with [[spoiler:Nero]], who consumes a poison[[note]]which will also save him from [[YourSoulIsMine The Devourer]][[/note]] to painlessly kill himself but Aqulia catches him before it can take effect, brutally slaying the man, leaving his corpse with a twisted expression of horror on his face.
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** Boudicca is able to make a last request of Aquila before he kills her, having accepted her fate. It helps that she had a vision showing her that the Romans will be expelled, that the Britons will have their own Empire, and that she would be remembered as a warrior queen.
** Subverted with [[spoiler:Nero]], who consumes a poison[[note]]which will also save him from [[YourSoulIsMine The Devourer]][[/note]] to painlessly kill himself but Aqulia catches him before it can take effect, brutally slaying the man, leaving his corpse with a twisted expression of horror on hisface.face.
* FacialHorror: The Spartan's head is missing most of its skin.
** Boudicca is able to make a last request of Aquila before he kills her, having accepted her fate. It helps that she had a vision showing her that the Romans will be expelled, that the Britons will have their own Empire, and that she would be remembered as a warrior queen.
** Subverted with [[spoiler:Nero]], who consumes a poison[[note]]which will also save him from [[YourSoulIsMine The Devourer]][[/note]] to painlessly kill himself but Aqulia catches him before it can take effect, brutally slaying the man, leaving his corpse with a twisted expression of horror on his
* FacialHorror: The Spartan's head is missing most of its skin.
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* FunetikAksent: Felix has a British accent to demonstrate his LowerClassLout tendencies.
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* FunetikAksent: Felix has a British Cockney accent to demonstrate his LowerClassLout tendencies.
* HoldYourHippogryphs: Some extremely British expressions (Jesus wept, bollocks to that) are replaced with more period-appropriate versions (Jovus wept, Castor and Pollux to that)
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Aquila, the main character's gladiator name, is just Latin for "eagle". His 'brother', another warrior who serves the same hungry goddess, is known simply as The Spartan from his area of origin.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Aquila, the main character's gladiator name, is just Latin for "eagle". His 'brother', another warrior who serves the same hungry goddess, is known simply as The Spartan from his area of origin.origin, and says most of their kind have little use for fixed names.
* PremortemOneLiner: Just as Aquila stabs Nero through the throat, he fulfills his earlier promise:
--> Queen Boudicca of the Icini wishes you to know her name at this moment, sire.
* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: Boudicca is given a vision that the Britons will one day free themselves and rule an Empire greater even than the Roman one, while Locusta foresees that there will be [[{{UsefulNotes/Christianity}} a new god taking power in Rome]], although she thinks it will be Nero. Triscus also foresees that Pompeii won't be a good place to be in a while.
* TheQueensLatin: Every Roman character speaks with some kind of British accent.
--> Queen Boudicca of the Icini wishes you to know her name at this moment, sire.
* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: Boudicca is given a vision that the Britons will one day free themselves and rule an Empire greater even than the Roman one, while Locusta foresees that there will be [[{{UsefulNotes/Christianity}} a new god taking power in Rome]], although she thinks it will be Nero. Triscus also foresees that Pompeii won't be a good place to be in a while.
* TheQueensLatin: Every Roman character speaks with some kind of British accent.
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* {{Revenge}}: Queen Boudicca's motive for her war against the Romans is to avenge her daughters being raped by Roman soldiers and her own person flogged in the square on the orders of Britain's governor.
* ScaryBlackMan: Aquila is a giant from Nubia who is so frightening that even his fellow servants of the Devourer fear him.
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* RestrainingBolt: Felix gets a snake tattoo put on his neck by Boudicca that chokes him whenever he runs away or disobeys Aquila. The curse was so strong the tattoo lasted after her death, and Felix believes it brought him bad luck ever since.
* {{Revenge}}: Queen Boudicca's motive for her war against the Romans is to avenge her daughters being raped by Roman soldiers and her own person flogged in the square on the orders of Britain'sgovernor.
governor. However, she takes her vengeance on the people of Londinium so far that she becomes one of Aquila's targets.
* ScaryBlackMan: Aquila is a giant from Nubia who is so frightening that even his fellow servants of the Devourer fearhim.him (according to the Spartan, this is why he's never met another up until now).
* {{Revenge}}: Queen Boudicca's motive for her war against the Romans is to avenge her daughters being raped by Roman soldiers and her own person flogged in the square on the orders of Britain's
* ScaryBlackMan: Aquila is a giant from Nubia who is so frightening that even his fellow servants of the Devourer fear
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* SlaveRevolt: Aquila was part of Spartacus' rebellion, and was among those crucified when they were defeated. He begged for any god to help him while one the cross... and the Devourer answered.
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* BritishAccents: Felix has one to demonstrate his LowerClassLout tendencies.
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* FunetikAksent: Felix has a British accent to demonstrate his LowerClassLout tendencies.
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* UndeadChild: Locusta resurrects a swarm of zombie babies to serve as her demonic assassins.
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* UndeadChild: Locusta resurrects a swarm of zombie babies to serve as her demonic assassins. [[spoiler:She's later BuriedAlive in a sewer full of them.]]
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Nero and Locusta, joint rules of Rome, are the ones responsible for the country's chaotic state.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: One of Nero's pets is a giant obese gladiator who keeps the Nubian warrior Aquila busy for a while. He mentions that it was previously one of his uncle Caligula's playthings.
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* RainOfBlood: During the revolt in Rome against Nero's misrule, Aquila and Felix try to find their ways through the sewers as the blood spilled from fights between the citizens and Nero's praetorians rains down on them.
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* UndeadChild: Locusta resurrects a swarm of zombie babies to serve as her demonic assassins.
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* GodEmperor: Nero's goal is to become the immortal god-emperor of Rome and "carve my name across the bones of this Earth".
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* LovePotion: Locusta the witch controls her lover Emperor Nero through a love potion that she's convinced him will boost his powers.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Subverted with [[spoiler:Nero]], who consumes a poison[[note]]which will also save him from [[YourSoulIsMine The Devourer]][[/note]] to painlessly kill himself but Aqulia catches him before it can take effect, brutally slaying the man, leaving his corpse with a twisted expression of horror on his face.
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* DirtyCoward: Locusta is very quick to pin the blame for all the shit she and Nero did on her cohort, even [[spoiler:begging for a quick death as the oppressed citizens seal her to be devoured by the demons she summoned]].
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Nero and Locusta, joint rules of Rome, are the ones responsible for the country's chaotic state.
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* SoulEating: Aquila serves Ammit The Devourer, an EldritchAbomination which feeds on human souls tainted by wickedness.
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* AllMythsAreTrue: Roman, Egyptian and Celtic gods (and Jehovah) all coexist (far from peacefully) and give power to their followers.
* CatGirl: The priestess of Isis has a cat's head.
* ShockAndAwe: The guardian of Jupiter's temple is a lightning-spawning gladiator.
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* YourSoulIsMine: Aquila serves The Devourer, an EldritchAbomination who feeds on human souls tainted by wickedness.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Peter the Apostle, servant of the 'carpenter God', requests Aquila crucify him upside down to make him a martyr to the fledgling Christian movement, even after Aquila means to free him from Nero's prison
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Queen UsefulNotes/{{Boudica}} and Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} appear as major characters.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Queen UsefulNotes/{{Boudica}} and Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} appear as major characters.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Nero takes advantage of Aquila fighting a guard [[spoiler: to give himself a painless poison that will also salvage his soul from Ammit's clutches. Aquila, however, gets to him before the poison finishes its work and kills him quite painfully.]]
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Nero UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} takes advantage of Aquila fighting a guard [[spoiler: to give himself a painless poison that will also salvage his soul from Ammit's clutches. Aquila, however, gets to him before the poison finishes its work and kills him quite painfully.]]
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* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Aquila, the main character's gladiator name, is just Latin for "eagle". His 'brother', another warrior who serves the same hungry goddess, is known simply as The Spartan from his area of origin.
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* EldritchAbomination: Ammit the Devourer. From what little we've seen of her, she's a bloated monstrosity that's all tentacles and mouths and feasts on the souls of the damned.
* ForTheEvulz: Most of what Nero does is strictly for his own amusement. He even refers to torturing Christians with knives as 'playing' to Locusta.
* ForTheEvulz: Most of what Nero does is strictly for his own amusement. He even refers to torturing Christians with knives as 'playing' to Locusta.
* HeroicSacrifice: Peter the Apostle, servant of the 'carpenter God', requests Aquila crucify him upside down to make him a martyr to the fledgling Christian movement, even after Aquila means to free him from Nero's prison
* KarmicDeath: Locusta violates the sanctity of Vesta's temple to revive the dead as unholy abominations. [[spoiler: She ends up entombed alive, with the demonic babies she'd revived closing in on her.]]
* KarmicDeath: Locusta violates the sanctity of Vesta's temple to revive the dead as unholy abominations. [[spoiler: She ends up entombed alive, with the demonic babies she'd revived closing in on her.]]
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* WalkingTheEarth: Aquila and his "brothers" are cursed to walk the earth, hunting down the wicked to send their souls to their godly mistress The Devourer.
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* WalkingTheEarth: Aquila and his"brothers" "brothers and sisters" are cursed to walk the earth, hunting down the wicked to send their souls to their godly mistress The Devourer.
* WalkingTheEarth: Aquila and his
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Loosely based on an earlier 2000AD comic that also featured a Roman gladiator named Black Hawk, which was more sci-fi oriented.
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* YourSoulIsMine: Aquila serves The Devourer, an EldritchAbomination who feeds on human souls tainted by wickedness.
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* NobleWolf: The guardian spirit of Rome is, of course, a wolf. She's actually a goddess who once took the form of a wolf bitch the size of Fenrir to watch over Romulus and Remus before the former of the two brothers slayed the other and begain the city's martial era. She resides in the sewers of the city BeneathTheEarth with her followers.
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* NobleWolf: The guardian spirit of Rome is, of course, a wolf. She's actually a goddess who once took the form of a wolf bitch the size of Fenrir to watch over Romulus and Remus before the former of the two brothers slayed the other and begain began the city's martial era. She resides in the sewers of the city BeneathTheEarth with her followers.
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* LastRequest: Before Aquila kills Queen Boudicca because of her having put entire Roman towns in Britain to the sword to have her own revenge, she asks him to send her regards if he ever kills a Roman emperor. He ends up honoring her wish.
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* {{Golem}}: A golem in the form of a RockMonster shows up when Nero sends Aquila to kill Peter, priest of the carpenter god Jesus Christ. We know it's a golem because it was sent by Eleazar, priest of the desert god Jehovah.
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''Aquila'' is a HistoricalFantasy comicbook published in British anthology magazine ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD''.
The man who became known as "Aquila" was a Roman gladiator from Nubia who joined the slave uprising of Spartacus before being crucified in 71 BC when the rebellion failed. After praying to the gods, his call is first answered by The Devourer, an EldritchAbomination which feeds on the souls of the wicked. Aquila is resurrected by the Devourer and given superpowers so that he can walk the earth and bring more souls for her.
Loosely based on an earlier 2000AD comic that also featured a Roman gladiator named Black Hawk, which was more sci-fi oriented.
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!!This comic provides examples of:
* BloodKnight: Aquila himself is an unstoppable war machine, but his "brother" The Spartan is an even better example. He was resurrected by the gods not because he prayed to them for mercy, but his sheer hatred from being denied the chance to kill again upon his own death impressed them so much that they turned him into an immortal warrior.
* TheCaligula: Emperor Nero (who is incidentally the TropeNamer's nephew) is a total lunatic who spends most of his time having people tortured and crucified by the thousands to end his boredom.
* HealingFactor: Aquila and the rest of his "brothers" who serve The Devourer can recover from wounds that would kill any normal man, but it does take some time for them to heal (varying from anything to a few hours to several days depending on the severity).
* KillTheGod: Several gods are killed throughout the comic, including the guardian deity of Rome, who happens to be a giant wolf bitch living in the sewers beneath the capital of the world.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: One of the gifts bestowed on Aquila by the evil goddess that resurrected him is that no lock or chain can hold or bind him for longer than he wishes. When he's first introduced having been chained up by an old man, he calmly listens to the man explaining his reasons for wanting revenge before casting off his chains and killing him.
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The man who became known as "Aquila" was a Roman gladiator from Nubia who joined the slave uprising of Spartacus before being crucified in 71 BC when the rebellion failed. After praying to the gods, his call is first answered by The Devourer, an EldritchAbomination which feeds on the souls of the wicked. Aquila is resurrected by the Devourer and given superpowers so that he can walk the earth and bring more souls for her.
Loosely based on an earlier 2000AD comic that also featured a Roman gladiator named Black Hawk, which was more sci-fi oriented.
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!!This comic provides examples of:
* BloodKnight: Aquila himself is an unstoppable war machine, but his "brother" The Spartan is an even better example. He was resurrected by the gods not because he prayed to them for mercy, but his sheer hatred from being denied the chance to kill again upon his own death impressed them so much that they turned him into an immortal warrior.
* TheCaligula: Emperor Nero (who is incidentally the TropeNamer's nephew) is a total lunatic who spends most of his time having people tortured and crucified by the thousands to end his boredom.
* HealingFactor: Aquila and the rest of his "brothers" who serve The Devourer can recover from wounds that would kill any normal man, but it does take some time for them to heal (varying from anything to a few hours to several days depending on the severity).
* KillTheGod: Several gods are killed throughout the comic, including the guardian deity of Rome, who happens to be a giant wolf bitch living in the sewers beneath the capital of the world.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: One of the gifts bestowed on Aquila by the evil goddess that resurrected him is that no lock or chain can hold or bind him for longer than he wishes. When he's first introduced having been chained up by an old man, he calmly listens to the man explaining his reasons for wanting revenge before casting off his chains and killing him.
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