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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Detective Absalom tends to drive while drunk. When his newest agent calls him out on it, he justifies it by arguing that it's mostly medicinal--the whiskey is just to take the bad flavor off.
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* TheMasquerade: ''Absalom'' makes it clear that many members of British high society are at least partially demonic after a pact between the British crown and Hell that ended with several [[AltarDiplomacy marriage alliances]].
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* ShootTheDog: In ''Absalom'', Absalom and his men sometimes kill kittens to draw out vampires.
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* TimeCrash: In ''Absalom'', an ancient stone carrying the memories of the city of London is used by a British fascist to create cracks in the time periods so that they'll overlap, like turning the wrong corner and ending up in the Great London Fire.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The entire comic is in black and white, which adds a lot to the creepy atmosphere.
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* AssholeVictim: Demon Jenny hits the bars a few times in search of fresh victims, one of whom was apparently a serial rapist and another one a child molester.
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* AssholeVictim: Demon Jenny hits the bars a few times in search of fresh victims, one of whom was apparently a serial rapist and another one a child molester. Justified because she mentions that [[AbstractEater she feeds on human sin]].
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* StakingTheLovedOne: Hannah Chapter reveals to a psychic vampire that before becaming an OccultDetective she was once involved with a woman who turned into a zombie, forcing Hannah to blow her head off. She turns off her com so that Lawrence (her closest friend) can't hear this.
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* StakingTheLovedOne: Hannah Chapter reveals to a psychic vampire that before becaming becoming an OccultDetective she was once involved with a woman who turned into a zombie, forcing Hannah to blow her head off. She turns off her com so that Lawrence (her closest friend) can't hear this.
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* RedBaron: [[TokenEvilTeammate Solomon Ravne]], an immortal former Nazi, became known as "Der Teufel" (The Devil) to his victims during the Holocaust.
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* {{Golem}}: An Israeli occult division creates a Golem to kill the [[{{Ghostapo}} immortal Nazi]] Solomon Ravne, aka "Der Teuffel", for hsi crimes in the Holocaust. However, the Golem is stopped by Demon-Jenny for her own reasons.
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* {{Golem}}: An Israeli occult division creates a Golem to kill the [[{{Ghostapo}} immortal Nazi]] Solomon Ravne, aka "Der Teuffel", for hsi his crimes in the Holocaust. However, the Golem is stopped by Demon-Jenny for her own reasons.
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* TheSoulless: [[spoiler:Solomon Ravne]] doesn't possess a soul, as he's not human but a [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homonculi]] created by [[spoiler:a FallenAngel]]. This makes it possible for him to sneak up on Michael Magister, whose psychic sensors only work on beings with souls.
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* TheSoulless: [[spoiler:Solomon Ravne]] doesn't possess a soul, as he's not human but a [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homonculi]] homunculi]] created by [[spoiler:a FallenAngel]]. This makes it possible for him to sneak up on Michael Magister, whose psychic sensors only work on beings with souls.
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* TheSoulless: [[spoiler:Solomon Ravne]] doesn't possess a soul, as he's not human but a homonculi created by [[spoiler:a FallenAngel]]. This makes it possible for him to sneak up on Michael Magister, whose psychic sensors only work on beings with souls.
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* TheSoulless: [[spoiler:Solomon Ravne]] doesn't possess a soul, as he's not human but a homonculi [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homonculi]] created by [[spoiler:a FallenAngel]]. This makes it possible for him to sneak up on Michael Magister, whose psychic sensors only work on beings with souls.
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* OurHomunculiAreDifferent: During World War II [[{{Ghostapo}} the Nazis were running a program]] to assassinate Allied political and military leaders and replace them with homonculi. They were given this knowledge by [[spoiler:Solomon Ravne]], who is revealed to be one himself.
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* DefectiveDetective: [[OccultDetective Detective Absalom]] is an alcoholic.
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** Absalom is more literal example, as he's an actual police detective attached to the department in charge of maintaining the peace deal between the British crown and the forces of hell.
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* FallenAngel: [[spoiler:Ethan Kostabi, the {{Chessmaster}} of the series,]] is in fact an angel who fell down to Earth several thousand years ago and has since been living under several human identities.
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* FallenAngel: [[spoiler:Ethan Kostabi, the {{Chessmaster}} of the series,]] is in fact an angel who fell down to Earth several thousand years ago and has since been living under several different human identities.
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* FallenAngel: [[spoiler:Ethan Kostabi, the {{Chessmaster}} of the series, is in fact an angel who fell down to Earth several thousand years ago and has since been living under several human identities.]]
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* FallenAngel: [[spoiler:Ethan Kostabi, the {{Chessmaster}} of the series, series,]] is in fact an angel who fell down to Earth several thousand years ago and has since been living under several human identities.]]
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* BornAgainImmortality: [[spoiler:Ravne and Jenny's baby was possibly conceived so that Ethan Kostabi could be reborn in a new host body.]]
* CreativeSterility: [[spoiler:Ethan Kostabi created Solomon Ravne and his (mentioned but unseen) "siblings" as an experiment to create new life. Because he is a FallenAngel and not {{God}} however, he couldn't give his children a soul as he doesn't have one of his own nor knows how to create one.]]
* CreativeSterility: [[spoiler:Ethan Kostabi created Solomon Ravne and his (mentioned but unseen) "siblings" as an experiment to create new life. Because he is a FallenAngel and not {{God}} however, he couldn't give his children a soul as he doesn't have one of his own nor knows how to create one.]]
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* BornAgainImmortality: [[spoiler:Ravne Ravne and Jenny's baby was possibly conceived so that Ethan Kostabi [[spoiler:Ethan Kostabi]] could be reborn in a new host body.]]
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* CreativeSterility: [[spoiler:EthanKostabi Kostabi]] created Solomon Ravne [[spoiler:Solomon Ravne]] and his (mentioned but unseen) "siblings" as an experiment to create new life. Because he is a FallenAngel and not {{God}} however, he couldn't give his children a soul as he doesn't have one of his own nor knows does he know how to create one.]]
* CreativeSterility: [[spoiler:Ethan
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* BornAgainImmortality: [[spoiler:Ravne and Jenny's baby was possibly conceived so that Ethan Kostabi could be reborn in a new host body.]]
* CreativeSterility: [[spoiler:Ethan Kostabi created Solomon Ravne and his (mentioned but unseen) "siblings" as an experiment to create new life. Because he is a FallenAngel and not {{God}} however, he couldn't give his children a soul as he doesn't have one of his own nor knows how to create one.]]
* DefectiveDetective: [[OccultDetective Detective Absalom]] is an alcoholic.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Dr. Brand]] abruptly meets his end when [[spoiler: Ness]] pushes him in front of atrain.train.
* EmotionEater: At one point Hannah Chapter and Lawrence Verse go hunting for a psychic vampire who feeds on the loneliness and despair of its victims. It was also a shapeshifter, as it assumed the form of a deceased girlfriend of Hannah.
* CreativeSterility: [[spoiler:Ethan Kostabi created Solomon Ravne and his (mentioned but unseen) "siblings" as an experiment to create new life. Because he is a FallenAngel and not {{God}} however, he couldn't give his children a soul as he doesn't have one of his own nor knows how to create one.]]
* DefectiveDetective: [[OccultDetective Detective Absalom]] is an alcoholic.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Dr. Brand]] abruptly meets his end when [[spoiler: Ness]] pushes him in front of a
* EmotionEater: At one point Hannah Chapter and Lawrence Verse go hunting for a psychic vampire who feeds on the loneliness and despair of its victims. It was also a shapeshifter, as it assumed the form of a deceased girlfriend of Hannah.
* FallenAngel: [[spoiler:Ethan Kostabi, the {{Chessmaster}} of the series, is in fact an angel who fell down to Earth several thousand years ago and has since been living under several human identities.]]
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* OccultDetective: The main characters. Cabbalistics, Inc. was formed when Department Q, a Ministry of Defense department originally created in the 1940s to combat Nazi occult warfare, is privatised by the British government.
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** The main characters. Cabbalistics, Inc. was formed when Department Q, a Ministry of Defense department originally created in the 1940s to combat Nazi occult warfare, is privatised by the Britishgovernment.government.
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** The main characters. Cabbalistics, Inc. was formed when Department Q, a Ministry of Defense department originally created in the 1940s to combat Nazi occult warfare, is privatised by the British
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* PopCulturedBadass: Hannah fights monsters and demons on a daily basis. She also happens to be a big fan of horror movies, which comes in pretty handy when the team is [[TrappedInTVLand trapped inside a horror film dimension]] by an evil director.
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* PopCulturedBadass: Hannah fights monsters and demons on a daily basis. She also happens to be a big fan of horror movies, which comes in pretty handy when the team is [[TrappedInTVLand trapped inside a horror film dimension]] by an evil director. Also the author of the unpublished book ''Mixed-Up Flicks For Mixed-Up Chicks''.
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* VirginSacrifice: Ravne attempts to use Miss Simmons as part of a demonic sacrifice after asking her if she is a virgin. She survives, but her body is also occupied by a demon because of this.
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* TheKetchupTest: During the mission at the Luddgate studio, Hannah tastes some of the blood the team finds all over the floor. It's not real, being merely KensingtonGore, but the blood itself is drippling down from mid-air.
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* TheKetchupTest: During the mission at the Luddgate studio, Hannah tastes some of the blood the team finds all over the floor. It's not real, being merely KensingtonGore, but the blood substance itself is drippling dripping down from mid-air.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Solomon Ravne is suggested to be around 300 years old and must keep up his more youthful appearance through ritualistic {{Blood Bath}}s and other forms of TheDarkArts]].TheDarkArts.
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* TrappedInTVLand: When the team investigates a haunting at the Luddgate film studio, they find themselves trapped inside various horror movies produced by the studio after a failed demonic extraction of Jenny. Turns out that the studio head was an occultist who built his own dimension to both play out his own fantasies and to trap people in an illusion so he could suck out their lifeforce to sustain himself.
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* TrappedInTVLand: When the team investigates a haunting at the derelict Luddgate film studio, they find themselves trapped inside various horror movies produced by the studio after a failed demonic extraction of Jenny. Turns out that the studio head was an occultist who built his own dimension to both play out his own fantasies and to trap people in an illusion so he could suck out their lifeforce to sustain himself.
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Invoked. Lawrence Verse and Hannah Chapter answer the two questions they're asked most often, one of which is whether those are really their names.[[note]]The other is whether they're lovers. They're not, given one is a former priest who took a vow of celibacy and the other identifies as a lesbian, though there was a drunken altercation between them in the past.[[/note]] They're not, but a gimmick like that draws in more clients for their monster hunting business.
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* {{Golem}}: An Israeli occult division creates a Golem to kill the [[{{Ghostapo}} immortal Nazi]] Solomon Ravne, aka "Der Teuffel", for hsi crimes in the Holocaust. However, the Golem is stopped by Demon-Jenny for her own reasons.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Two of them. Solomon Ravne is an immortal sorcerer who is also a former Nazi, while Jenny is possessed by a demon who initially keeps herself hidden from the others.
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* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: The demon possessing Miss Simmons is visible in a reflection.
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* TaughtByTelevision: Invoked. When Miss Simmons asks if Lawrence Verse and Hannah Chapter have much experience in dealing with paranormal situations, Hannah snarks that they just play a lot of videogames.
* VirginSacrifice: Ravne attempts to use Miss Simmons as part of a demonic sacrifice after asking her if she is a virgin. She survives, but her body is also occupied by a demon because of this.
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* PlatoIsAMoron: The {{Chessmaster}} in the strip is one Ethan Kostabi, an eccentric 1970s former rock star [[FictionalCounterpart strongly resembling]] Music/DavidBowie. Whenever Kostabi's success as a musician is described, comparisons are always made to Bowie, and Bowie is always described as having been greatly inferior—having sold fewer albums and having "scavenged a career out of the discarded fads and influences that Ethan left in his wake".
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* PlatoIsAMoron: The {{Chessmaster}} in the strip is one Ethan Kostabi, an eccentric 1970s former rock star from the 1970s [[FictionalCounterpart strongly resembling]] Music/DavidBowie. Whenever Kostabi's success as a musician is described, comparisons are always made to Bowie, and Bowie is always described as having been greatly inferior—having sold fewer albums and having "scavenged a career out of the discarded fads and influences that Ethan left in his wake".
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* ViolentGlaswegian: Michael Ness is a former SAS commando who was locked up in a mental institution and is quite the TortureTechnician. Supposedly, he has an interrogation technique which involves [[NoodleImplements half a dozen shards of metal and a cigarette lighter]].
* ViolentGlaswegian: Michael Ness is a former SAS commando who was locked up in a mental institution and is quite the TortureTechnician. Supposedly, he has an interrogation technique which involves [[NoodleImplements half a dozen shards of metal and a cigarette lighter]].
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* NoodleIncident: The comic worked one into Lawrence Verse's backstory; all that is known about his past is that he had to leave the Catholic priesthood after using a chainsaw during the Rite of Exorcism, the details of which are never clearly or fully known to the reader.
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* NoodleIncident: The comic worked one into Lawrence Verse's backstory; all NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ethan Kostabi, the reclusive multi-millionaire pop star of the 1970s who brings the titular organization together, is based to several extents on Music/DavidBowie.
* NoodleIncident: All that is known abouthis past is that he had the circumstances surrounding Lawrence Verse being forced to leave the Catholic priesthood after using is that he used a chainsaw during while performing the Rite of Exorcism, the Exorcism. The complete details of which are never clearly or fully known made clear to the reader.reader, although it's later suggested to have involved, at least in part, a zombie attack on the island of Martinique in 1995.
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''Caballistics, Inc.'' is a comic featured in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD''.
The British government sells off a nearly defunct department originally tasked to fight off Nazi occultism during World War II to a mysterious entrepeneur. He reforms the organization into Caballistics, Inc., a private agency to fight off supernatural threats.
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!!This comic provides examples of:
* BadassPreacher: Lawrence Verse is an ex-Catholic priest who was forced to give up his vocation after an incident involving, as another character put it, "the novel use of a chainsaw during the Rite of Exorcism."
* BloodBath: Readers first meet Solomon Ravne in the middle of one such bath, surrounded by the naked, bleeding corpses the blood had to have come from. [[spoiler: Because Ravne is suggested to be Really700YearsOld]], it may be that such a bath is needed to maintain his age and appearance or prolong his life.
* {{Ghostapo}}: The strip makes mention of Nazi Germany's occult warfare division, Sonderkommando Thule, very frequently. When the titular Caballistics, Inc. was still functioning as a secret department in the British Government at its peak during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, as Q Department, Sonderkommando Thule was their biggest enemy. [[spoiler: [[TokenEvilTeammate Solomon Ravne]]]] is revealed to have been a former member.
* NoodleIncident: The comic worked one into Lawrence Verse's backstory; all that is known about his past is that he had to leave the Catholic priesthood after using a chainsaw during the Rite of Exorcism, the details of which are never clearly or fully known to the reader.
* OccultDetective: The main characters. Cabbalistics, Inc. was formed when Department Q, a Ministry of Defense department originally created in the 1940s to combat Nazi occult warfare, is privatised by the British government.
* PlatoIsAMoron: The {{Chessmaster}} in the strip is one Ethan Kostabi, an eccentric 1970s former rock star [[FictionalCounterpart strongly resembling]] Music/DavidBowie. Whenever Kostabi's success as a musician is described, comparisons are always made to Bowie, and Bowie is always described as having been greatly inferior—having sold fewer albums and having "scavenged a career out of the discarded fads and influences that Ethan left in his wake".
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Solomon Ravne is suggested to be around 300 years old and must keep up his more youthful appearance through ritualistic {{Blood Bath}}s and other forms of TheDarkArts.
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''Caballistics, Inc.'' is a comic featured in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD''.
The British government sells off a nearly defunct department originally tasked to fight off Nazi occultism during World War II to a mysterious entrepeneur. He reforms the organization into Caballistics, Inc., a private agency to fight off supernatural threats.
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!!This comic provides examples of:
* BadassPreacher: Lawrence Verse is an ex-Catholic priest who was forced to give up his vocation after an incident involving, as another character put it, "the novel use of a chainsaw during the Rite of Exorcism."
* BloodBath: Readers first meet Solomon Ravne in the middle of one such bath, surrounded by the naked, bleeding corpses the blood had to have come from. [[spoiler: Because Ravne is suggested to be Really700YearsOld]], it may be that such a bath is needed to maintain his age and appearance or prolong his life.
* {{Ghostapo}}: The strip makes mention of Nazi Germany's occult warfare division, Sonderkommando Thule, very frequently. When the titular Caballistics, Inc. was still functioning as a secret department in the British Government at its peak during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, as Q Department, Sonderkommando Thule was their biggest enemy. [[spoiler: [[TokenEvilTeammate Solomon Ravne]]]] is revealed to have been a former member.
* NoodleIncident: The comic worked one into Lawrence Verse's backstory; all that is known about his past is that he had to leave the Catholic priesthood after using a chainsaw during the Rite of Exorcism, the details of which are never clearly or fully known to the reader.
* OccultDetective: The main characters. Cabbalistics, Inc. was formed when Department Q, a Ministry of Defense department originally created in the 1940s to combat Nazi occult warfare, is privatised by the British government.
* PlatoIsAMoron: The {{Chessmaster}} in the strip is one Ethan Kostabi, an eccentric 1970s former rock star [[FictionalCounterpart strongly resembling]] Music/DavidBowie. Whenever Kostabi's success as a musician is described, comparisons are always made to Bowie, and Bowie is always described as having been greatly inferior—having sold fewer albums and having "scavenged a career out of the discarded fads and influences that Ethan left in his wake".
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Solomon Ravne is suggested to be around 300 years old and must keep up his more youthful appearance through ritualistic {{Blood Bath}}s and other forms of TheDarkArts.
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