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* AdaptationalWimp: Hot Stuf, while he keeps the power to fly and teleports he lacks most of his super powers from the classic comics, including possession, invisibility, Speed and magic, even his signature fire powers were removed.

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* AdaptationalWimp: Hot Stuf, while he keeps the power to fly and teleports he lacks most of his super powers from the classic comics, including possession, invisibility, Speed and magic, even speed,magic, etc. Even his signature fire powers abilities were removed.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Hot Stuf, while he keeps the power to fly and teleports he lacks most of his super powers from the classic comics, including possession, invisibility, Speed and magic, even his signature fire powers were removed.
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* WitchSpecies: Witches are treated as a kind of supernatural, rather than humans with magic, and thus live in Spooky Town.
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* ForbiddenFriendship: Between Casper, Wendy and Hot Stuff due to the FantasticRacism mentioned above.
* FourFingeredHands: while Humans have five fingers, Devils, Ghosts and other supernatural beings are drawn with four fingered hands.
* HairofGoldHeartofGold: Wendy. While she understands why it's necessary to scare humans, she is against the abuse her tutors inflict on them.

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* ForbiddenFriendship: Between Casper, Wendy and Hot Stuff due to the FantasticRacism mentioned above.
between the various supernatural types.
* FourFingeredHands: while While Humans have five fingers, Devils, Ghosts and other supernatural beings are drawn with four fingered four-fingered hands.
* HairofGoldHeartofGold: HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Wendy. While she understands why it's necessary to scare humans, she is against the abuse her tutors inflict on them.



* HeroicSacrifice: In #3 [[spoiler: Hot Stuff sacrifices himself to save Wendy, however his body is healed by fire in the comic's ending.]]

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* HeroicSacrifice: In #3 [[spoiler: Hot [[spoiler:Hot Stuff sacrifices himself to save Wendy, however his body is healed by fire in the comic's ending.]]



* TeleportersAndTransporters: Devils can teleport. It's unknown how much distance they can cover this way, and they can't do it if someone is holding on to them.

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* TeleportersAndTransporters: TeleportationWithDrawbacks: Devils can teleport. It's unknown how much distance they can cover this way, only teleport themselves, and they can't do it fails to work if someone is holding on onto them. This is why Hotstuff can't teleport himself to them.safety when he gets captured by a werewolf, and instead Wendy has to use her magic to free him.
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* HotMom: Hot Stuff's mother.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Ghostly Trio and the witches who are stern but not abusive with their wards, their harsher actions being because of AngerBornOfWorry than actually being mean.

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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Ghostly Trio and the witches who raise Wendy are normally bullies who only occasionally show care towards their wards, here they are are stern but not abusive with and their wards, their harsher meaner actions being because are out of AngerBornOfWorry than actually being mean.



* DarkerAndEdgier: While still suitable for kids, it is definately darker than the Cartoons and comics the three main characters originally appeared in.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: While still suitable for kids, it is definately definitely darker than the Cartoons and comics the three main characters originally appeared in.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Ghostly Trio and The witches who are stern but not abusive with their wards.

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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Ghostly Trio and The the witches who are stern but not abusive with their wards.wards, their harsher actions being because of AngerBornOfWorry than actually being mean.



* WasOnceAMan: Volbragg was once a normal human, but got turned into a monster.

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* WasOnceAMan: Volbragg was once a normal human, but got turned into a monster. [[spoiler: A mixture of three monsters no less]].

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* ClothingDamage: Hot Stuff's brother and his friend when Hot Stuff tricks them into falling on a pit of lava, resulting in all of his clothes burned by lava leaving them totally naked. Hot Stuff then suffers these in the third issue when he has to be sumerged in lava to save his life.

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* ClothingDamage: Hot Stuff's brother and his friend when Hot Stuff tricks them into falling on a pit of lava, resulting in all of his clothes burned by lava leaving them totally naked. Hot Stuff then suffers these in the third issue when he has to be sumerged submerged in lava to save his life.



* FantasticRacism: The various supernaturals don't get along. Spooky Town is thus divided in seperate neighborhoods for the various kinds of supernaturals, and interaction between them is strictly forbidden.

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* FantasticRacism: The various supernaturals don't get along. Spooky Town is thus divided in seperate separate neighborhoods for the various kinds of supernaturals, and interaction between them is strictly forbidden.



* HairDecorations: Wendy wears a star hairpin under her red hood.
* HairofGoldHeartofGold: Wendy. While she understands why it's neccessary to scare humans, she is against the abuse her tutors inflict on them.

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* HairDecorations: Wendy wears a star hairpin under her red hood.
* HairofGoldHeartofGold: Wendy. While she understands why it's neccessary necessary to scare humans, she is against the abuse her tutors inflict on them.
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* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: The trope is literally mentioned in ''Casper and the Spectrals''' ending, when Hot Stuff was naked and is handed a loincloth.

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* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: The trope is literally mentioned in ''Casper and the Spectrals''' ending, when Hot Stuff was naked and is handed a loincloth.his brother hands him his own shirt.
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* HugeGuyTinyWife: Hot Stuff's father is much bigger than his petite wife.

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* HugeGuyTinyWife: HugeGuyTinyGirl: Hot Stuff's father is much bigger than his petite wife.
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* ClothingDamage: Hot Stuff, in the third issue, had all of his clothes burned by lava leaving him totally naked.

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* ClothingDamage: Hot Stuff, Stuff's brother and his friend when Hot Stuff tricks them into falling on a pit of lava, resulting in the third issue, had all of his clothes burned by lava leaving him them totally naked.naked. Hot Stuff then suffers these in the third issue when he has to be sumerged in lava to save his life.

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* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Wendy sports these.



* SkirtOverTights: Wendy wears these.
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* MaidenMotherCrone: Wendy's aunts. One is a stereotypical elder witch, the second looks like a middle aged woman and the third looks very young.

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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Hot Stuff, unlike Casper or Wendy, has parents and an older brother.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Ghostly Trio and The witches who are stern but not abusive with their wards.
* AgeLift: The main trio all seem to be on their early teens while in most incarnations they are young kids.
* AllForNothing: Casper tried his best effort to scare a werewolf to save his friends despite his reluctance to do so but the werewolf simply laughed at him.



* HairDecorations: Wendy wears a star hairpin under her red hood.
* HairofGoldHeartofGold: Wendy. While she understands why it's neccessary to scare humans, she is against the abuse her tutors inflict on them.



* HeroicSacrifice: In #3 [[spoiler: Hot Stuff sacrifices himself to save Wendy, however his body is healed by fire in the comic's ending ]]

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* HeroicSacrifice: In #3 [[spoiler: Hot Stuff sacrifices himself to save Wendy, however his body is healed by fire in the comic's ending ending.]]


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* HotMom: Hot Stuff's mother.
* HugeGuyTinyWife: Hot Stuff's father is much bigger than his petite wife.


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* InterspeciesFriendship: Casper the ghost, Wendy the witch and Hot Stuff the devil.


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* MaidenMotherCrone: Wendy's aunts. One is a stereotypical elder witch, the second looks like a middle aged woman and the third looks very young.


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* OhCrap: [[spoiler: When Casper, Wendy and Hot Stuff arrived to Hot Stuff's treehouse to find all their guardians glaring at them since they are not supposed to hang out with creatures from different species.]]


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* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: Some ghosts and witches managed to trap Volbragg in a scare-powered prison, therefore keeping Volbragg trapped in as along as all boroughs scare enough humans to keep the prison powered up.]]


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* SkirtOverTights: Wendy wears these.


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* YouAreGrounded: [[spoiler: The guardians' reactions upon finding out their respective wards have broken the rule of not talking to creatures from other species.]]
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* FourFingeredHands: while Humans have five fingers, Devils, Ghosts and other supernatural beings have four fingered hands.

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* FourFingeredHands: while Humans have five fingers, Devils, Ghosts and other supernatural beings have are drawn with four fingered hands.
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* FourFingeredHands: while Humans are drawn with five fingers, Devils, Ghosts and other supernatural beings have four fingered hands.

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* FourFingeredHands: while Humans are drawn with have five fingers, Devils, Ghosts and other supernatural beings have four fingered hands.

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* ForbiddenFriendship: Between Casper, Wendy and Hot Stuff due to the FantasticRacism mentioned above.



* ForbiddenFriendship: Between Casper, Wendy and Hot Stuff due to the FantasticRacism mentioned above.
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* FourFingeredHands: while Humans are drawn with five fingers, Devils, Ghosts and other supernatural beings have four fingered hands.
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* ImprovisedClothes: After being naked in font of everyone, Hot Stuff uses his brother's t-shirt as a substitute for pants, which Ccasper Points out that looks like a diaper.

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* ImprovisedClothes: After being naked in font of everyone, Hot Stuff uses his brother's t-shirt as a substitute for pants, which Ccasper Casper Points out that looks like a diaper.
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* ImprovisedClothes: After being naked in font of everyone, Hot Stuff uses his brother's t-shirt as a substitute for pants, which Ccasper Points out that looks like a diaper.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: #3, just when it seems Casper might get through to Volbragg, Hot Stuff teleports, causing Volbragg to think it was all a trap.


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* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: An argument about how to approach the problem of Volbragg's escape causes a rift between Wendy and Casper, for about half of Issue #3.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Volbragg is a giant.
* BigAppleSauce: Where the story is set.


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* WasOnceAMan: Volbragg was once a normal human, but got turned into a monster.
* WitchSpecies: Witches are treated as a kind of supernatural, rather than humans with magic, and thus live in Spooky Town.

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Just in time for Casper's 60th anniversary, Ardden Entertainment proudly debuts Casper And The Spectrals, a 3 issue all-new take on the world's most famous ghost and his two friends, Wendy the Witch and Hot Stuff!

There is a city within New York City known as Spooky Town, but most humans are unable to see it. Within this city live the Supernaturals, the ghosts, goblins, demons and witches of the world. When an ancient entity known only as the Volbragg threatens both New York and Spooky Town, Casper and his friends are forced to band together and defeat an unimaginable evil!
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Just Released in 2009, just in time for Casper's the 60th anniversary, Ardden Entertainment proudly debuts Casper And The Spectrals, a 3 issue all-new take on anniversary of ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost''. ''Casper and the world's most famous Spectrals'' is a 3-issue reboot of the friendly ghost and his two friends, Wendy the Witch and Hot Stuff!

ComicBook/HotStuffTheLittleDevil, published by Ardden Entertainment.

There is a city within New York City known as Spooky Town, but most humans are unable to see it. Within this city live the Supernaturals, the ghosts, goblins, demons and witches of the world. When an ancient entity known only as the Volbragg threatens both New York and Spooky Town, Casper and his friends are forced to band together and defeat an unimaginable evil!
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* TeleportSpam: Hot Stuff uses his teleportation even for short distances instead of walking or flying.
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* ClothingDamage: Hot Stuff, in the third issue, had all of his clothes burned by lava leaving him totally naked.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While still suitable for kids, it is definately darker than the Cartoons and comics the three main characters originally appeared in.


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* HeroicSacrifice: In #3 [[spoiler: Hot Stuff sacrifices himself to save Wendy, however his body is healed by fire in the comic's ending ]]


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* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: The trope is literally mentioned in ''Casper and the Spectrals''' ending, when Hot Stuff was naked and is handed a loincloth.
* PowerTrio: Casper (ego), Wendy (superego) and Hot Stuff (id).
* ScienceIsBad: The main trouble was partly caused by a human scientist, who discovers Spooky Town and wishes to harness it's power, but ends up freeing Volbragg this way.


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* SceneryCensor: In the #3 ending, Hot Stuff is naked with his private bits covered by specifically placed objects.
* ShamelessFanserviceGuy: In the ending, Hot Stuff doesn't care about being naked in public, even with Wendy looking at him. The little rascal even was surprised everyone was looking at him.

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Just in time for Casper's 60th anniversary, Ardden Entertainment proudly debuts Casper And The Supernaturals, an all-new take on the world's most famous ghost and his two friends, Wendy the Witch and Hot Stuff! There is a city within New York City known as Spooky Town, but most humans are unable to see it. Within this city live the Supernaturals, the ghosts, goblins, demons and witches of the world. When an ancient entity known only as the Volbragg threatens both New York and Spooky Town, Casper and his friends are forced to band together and defeat an unimaginable evil!

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Just in time for Casper's 60th anniversary, Ardden Entertainment proudly debuts Casper And The Supernaturals, an Spectrals, a 3 issue all-new take on the world's most famous ghost and his two friends, Wendy the Witch and Hot Stuff! Stuff!

There is a city within New York City known as Spooky Town, but most humans are unable to see it. Within this city live the Supernaturals, the ghosts, goblins, demons and witches of the world. When an ancient entity known only as the Volbragg threatens both New York and Spooky Town, Casper and his friends are forced to band together and defeat an unimaginable evil!



* DisneyDeath: Hot Stuff is mortally wounded in the final battle with Volbragg, but revived with lava.



* ForbiddenFriendship: Between Casper, Wendy and Hot Stuff, since Spooky Town is divided in seperate neighborhoods for the various kinds of supernaturals, and interaction between them is strictly forbidden.

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* ForbiddenFriendship: Between Casper, Wendy and Hot Stuff, since FantasticRacism: The various supernaturals don't get along. Spooky Town is thus divided in seperate neighborhoods for the various kinds of supernaturals, and interaction between them is strictly forbidden.forbidden.
* ForbiddenFriendship: Between Casper, Wendy and Hot Stuff due to the FantasticRacism mentioned above.



* MythologyGag: Near the end of the story, when Hotstuff is revived with help of a lava pit, his clothes burn off and he is given a loincloth as a replacement, which looks just like the loincloth he used to wear in the original cartoons and comics.

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* MythologyGag: Near the end of the story, when Hotstuff Hot Stuff is revived with help of a lava pit, his clothes burn off and he is given a loincloth as a replacement, which looks just like the loincloth he used to wear in the original cartoons and comics.


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* ShoutOut: The cover of Issue #3 is one to the first issue of ''Comicbook/FantasticFour''
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Devils can teleport. It's unknown how much distance they can cover this way, and they can't do it if someone is holding on to them.
* ThreeAmigos: Casper, Wendy and Hot Stuff.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While Casper and Wendy don't like having to scare people, Hot Stuff has less trouble with this, and is also not above playing pranks.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Again the main trio.
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* ForbiddenFriendship: Between Casper, Wendy and Hot Stuff, since Spooky Town is divided in seperate neighborhoods for the various kinds of supernaturals, and interaction between them is strictly forbidden.
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* TheHecateSisters: Wendy's aunts are reimagined to look like this.


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* MythologyGag: Near the end of the story, when Hotstuff is revived with help of a lava pit, his clothes burn off and he is given a loincloth as a replacement, which looks just like the loincloth he used to wear in the original cartoons and comics.
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Typo. Happy Halloween!


LegendFadesToMyth: Volbragg was sealed so long ago Casper didn't even think he really existed.

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* LegendFadesToMyth: Volbragg was sealed so long ago Casper didn't even think he really existed.
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Just in time for Casper's 60th anniversary, Ardden Entertainment proudly debuts Casper And The Supernaturals, an all-new take on the world's most famous ghost and his two friends, Wendy the Witch and Hot Stuff! There is a city within New York City known as Spooky Town, but most humans are unable to see it. Within this city live the Supernaturals, the ghosts, goblins, demons and witches of the world. When an ancient entity known only as the Volbragg threatens both New York and Spooky Town, Casper and his friends are forced to band together and defeat an unimaginable evil!
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* DirtyBusiness: How Wendy sees gathering scares, wishing that her aunts didn't enjoy it so much.
* EmotionEater: Volbragg created a sphere that could harness the energy generated by scaring humans in order to grow more powerful.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Volbragg was sealed away inside his own Scare Sphere.
* HybridMonster: [[spoiler: Volbragg was so powerful because he was part Devil, part Ghost, and part Warlock]].
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Volbragg sought power so badly because he wanted people to like him.
LegendFadesToMyth: Volbragg was sealed so long ago Casper didn't even think he really existed.
* SealedEvilInACan: Volbragg was tricked and sealed away into his own Sphere, the inhabitants of Spooky Town gathering scares to power the seal keeping him in suspension.
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