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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: WordOfGod is that Gallows is visually based on Mitt Romney.



* LineToGod: As with ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'', Stjepan Sejic is very active on his deviantart page.
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* Really700YearsOld: Mia has apparently been around for centuries.

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Mia has apparently been around for centuries.looks roughly 17. Given her status as a primordial, that number is likely missing quite a few zeros.
** Bernie took out the Pale Court 3,000 years ago, and given that not even she can remember all of her history, she's probably [[TimeAbyss quite a bit older than that]].


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* ReliableTraitor: Maria is this to the Pale Court. She sees them entirely as a means to an end and has absolutely no personal loyalty to them beyond what's required for her to get her hands on Bernie's scythe and the veilrippers.

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Issue 4 is out. Will crosswick once I have time.


* AndIMustScream: What happens to necromancers after they're sealed.

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* AndIMustScream: What happens to necromancers after they're sealed.sealed [[spoiler: except when Clara does it]].
* AuthorAppeal: A quick look at the author's deviantart page shows that he is ''definitely'' OneOfUs, and just like in [[Webcomic/{{Sunstone}} his other series]], his appreciation for {{CollectibleCardGame}}s and {{MMORPG}}s is quite visible.



* BigDamnHeroes: Hugin and Bernie in the first issue.

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* BigDamnHeroes: Hugin and Bernie in the first issue.



* EldritchAbomination: In several flavors. In addition to the standard evil-forces-from-beyond-reality that comprise the Primordial Enemy, there are also beings ''called'' Primordials, of which Mia is one.

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* EldritchAbomination: In several flavors. In addition to the standard evil-forces-from-beyond-reality that comprise the Primordial Enemy, there are also beings ''called'' Primordials, of which Mia is one. WordOfGod states that there are four Primordials out there, and that [[BiggerBad the king of the Pale Court]] is also one of them.



* LineToGod: As with ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'', Stjepan Sejic is very active on his deviantart page.



* NebulousEvilOrganization: Judging what's been revealed so far, the villains consist of an uneasy alliance between [[EldritchAbomination The Pale Court]], who provides the muscle, and Maria, who translates the codex.



* RogueAgent: Wulf, who now works for Maria.



** This is one of Sam's powers.

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** This is one of Sam's powers.powers; see Gunnar and his band of draugr in the first issue.


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* ThinkingUpPortals: One of Clara's powers.
* TokenHeroicOrc: [[IHaveManyNames Seraphim / Heinrich / Allistor]] is a Necromancer allied with the Vigil. Note: [[TeethClenchedTeamwork "Allied", not "partnered."]]
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** After Clara makes one, Sam points out that all the Vigil members seem prone to making them.


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* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Hugin ''really'' gets annoyed at people quoting or making jokes based on Poe's "The Raven".
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* MundaneUtility: Clara discovers her Veilripper can create magical portals, useful for hurling charging monsters to their doom. Also good for reaching into one and scratching your own back.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Members of the Vigil travel through the Veil, which provides them nourishment and feels good. ''Really'' good. After going through it the first time, Clara's expression looks like she's had the best sex of her life and she wants to travel through it again immediately.
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* DontFearTheReaper: Bernardette is generally quite warm, friendly, and personable. According to her, she doesn't actually take lives - just guards them and recruits the newly dead into the Vigil. Lampshaded by having her point at a statue of the "classic" reaper and ask "Do I look anything like that?"

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* DontFearTheReaper: Bernardette is generally quite warm, friendly, and personable. According to her, she She also doesn't actually take lives - just guards them and recruits the newly dead into the Vigil. Lampshaded by having her point at a statue of the "classic" reaper and ask "Do I look anything like that?"
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* TomeOfEldritchLore: Less "tome," more "giant stone slabs," but the Dreamers' Codex fills the role.

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Death Vigil is an ongoing action-horror-comedy comic written and drawn by Stjepan Seijic, of ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' and ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' fame. It began publication in July 2014.

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Death Vigil is an ongoing action-horror-comedy [[LovecraftLite action-horror-comedy]] comic written and drawn by Stjepan Seijic, of ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' and ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' fame. It began publication in July 2014.


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* LovecraftLite: Yes, the plot is about battling eldritch horrors from beyond reality, but that doesn't mean that the characters can't have some fun while doing it.

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Death Vigil is an ongoing comic written and drawn by Stjepan Seijic, of ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' and ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' fame. It began publication in July 2014.

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Death Vigil is an ongoing action-horror-comedy comic written and drawn by Stjepan Seijic, of ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' and ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' fame. It began publication in July 2014.



* BadassAdorable: Mia, the centuries-old Primordial who takes the form of a teenage girl when not fighting.



* EldritchAbomination: In several flavors. In addition to the standard evil-forces-from-beyond-reality that comprise the Primordial Enemy, there are also beings ''called'' Primordials, of which Mia is one.



* MysticalWhiteHair: Everyone in the Vigil, as a result of being resurrected. Sam even calls this part of the package the "Dye After You Die Club". Hugin is covered head-to-claw in white feathers.

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* MysticalWhiteHair: Everyone in the Vigil, as a result of being resurrected. Sam even calls this part of the package the "Dye After You Die Club". Hugin is covered head-to-claw in white feathers. And according to Clara, the carpet does, in fact, match the drapes.



* NightmareFetishist: Mia, an EldritchAbomination in the form of an adorable girl who EATS other abominations.

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* NightmareFetishist: Mia, an EldritchAbomination in the form of an adorable girl who EATS eats other abominations.


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* Really700YearsOld: Mia has apparently been around for centuries.
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* DeadToBeginWith: But of course. This actually happens ''twice'' in the span of the first issue - first Sam, then Clara.

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* DeadToBeginWith: But Every member of course.the Vigil. This actually happens ''twice'' in the span of the first issue - first Sam, then Clara.
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* MysticalWhiteHair: Everyone in the Vigil. Hugin is covered head-to-claw in white feathers.

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* MysticalWhiteHair: Everyone in the Vigil.Vigil, as a result of being resurrected. Sam even calls this part of the package the "Dye After You Die Club". Hugin is covered head-to-claw in white feathers.
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* NightmareFetishist: Mia.

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* NightmareFetishist: Mia.Mia, an EldritchAbomination in the form of an adorable girl who EATS other abominations.
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* Badass: All of the Vigil members.

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* Badass: {{Badass}}: All of the Vigil members.death knights.

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* AmnesiacHero: Not even Bernie knows what her history is.



* BigDamnHeroes: Hugin and Bernie in the first issue.



* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the Vigil.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the Vigil.Vigil, but especially Marlene.
--> '''Marlene''': Blink once for yes, twice for no. ''[=*Gets a blank stare in response*=]'' No, really, [[EyesDoNotBelongThere any eye will do.]]



* EyesDoNotBelongThere: When a necromancer activates their powers, glowing eyes appear inside the sigils on their bodies.



* PowerTattoo: Necromancers gain their power from sigils tattooed on their bodies. [[spoiler: Clara
* RedBaron: Everyone in the Vigil has one, apparently. Sam is known and feared as "The Digger," Hugin is "The Raven," James is "The Cardmaster"

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* PowerTattoo: Necromancers gain their power from sigils tattooed on their bodies. [[spoiler: Clara
Clara also has one that she doesn't seem to know about.]]
* RedBaron: Everyone in the Vigil has one, apparently. Sam is known and feared as "The Digger," Hugin is "The Raven," James is "The Cardmaster" Cardmaster," etc.



* TooMuchInformation: Apparently Gunnar the Undead Viking washes his armpits with blood.

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* SummonBiggerFish:
** Bernie makes sure she's available for this, for good reason. At the start of the series, the Vigil has just lost two members who didn't summon her for help.
** This is one of Sam's powers.
* SuperSpeed: Marlene either has this or a FlashStep as an effect of her veilripper.
* TooMuchInformation: Apparently Gunnar the Undead Viking undead viking washes his armpits with blood.

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* AndIMustScream: What happens to necromancers after they're sealed.
* Badass: All of the Vigil members.



* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the Vigil.



* DeathDealer: James, aka "The Cardmaster." One of the few examples to ''not'' also be TheGambler.



* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Clara's veilripper is a pen that allows her to draw things into existence.
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: The Vigil are locked at the age they died; hence James being called "kid" despite having been in the vigil longer than Sam.
* IncrediblyLamePun: [[invoked]] What Sam thinks of Bernie's jokes.



* NightmareFetishist: Mia.



* PowerTattoo: Necromancers gain their power from sigils tattooed on their bodies. [[spoiler: Clara



* RedEyesTakeWarning: Clara's eyes occasionally glow red when she's really angry.

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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Clara's eyes occasionally glow red when she's really angry. This is the first indicator of Very Bad Things.
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* InvisibleToNormals: Bernie.
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* DeadToBeginWith: But of course. This actually happens ''twice'' in the span of the first issue - first Sam, then Clara.

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Fixed. Also, \"Mothereffing?\" Really?


** Hugin [[spoiler: turns into a T-Rex and eats a Banshee]]



* oneWingedAngel: Hugin [[spoiler: turns into a mothereffing T-Rex and eats a Banshee]]
* ourBansheesAreLouder: They appear as one type of Unliving. Their screams can knock someone back a few feet and completely paralyze them.

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* oneWingedAngel: Hugin [[spoiler: turns into a mothereffing T-Rex and eats a Banshee]]
* ourBansheesAreLouder:
OurBansheesAreLouder: They appear as one type of Unliving. Their screams can knock someone back a few feet and completely paralyze them.
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* one-WingedAngel: Hugin [[spoiler: turns into a mothereffing T-Rex and eats a Banshee]]

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* one-WingedAngel: oneWingedAngel: Hugin [[spoiler: turns into a mothereffing T-Rex and eats a Banshee]]
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* one-WingedAngel: Hugin [[spoiler: turns into a mothereffing T-Rex and eats a Banshee]]
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* RedBaron: Sam is known and feared as "The Digger."

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* RedBaron: Everyone in the Vigil has one, apparently. Sam is known and feared as "The Digger."Digger," Hugin is "The Raven," James is "The Cardmaster"

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* CreepyCrows: Hugin, "The Raven," the most powerful member of the Vigil.

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* CreepyCrows: Hugin, Hugin "The Raven," the most powerful member of the Vigil.


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* MysticalWhiteHair: Everyone in the Vigil. Hugin is covered head-to-claw in white feathers.
* NakedOnRevival: Subverted, much to Bernie's amusement:
--> Samuel, this scythe can remake a body. Did you really think clothes would be a problem?
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* DontFearTheReaper: Bernardette is generally quite warm, friendly, and personable. According to her, she doesn't actually take lives - just guards them and recruits the newly dead into the Vigil.

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* DontFearTheReaper: Bernardette is generally quite warm, friendly, and personable. According to her, she doesn't actually take lives - just guards them and recruits the newly dead into the Vigil. Lampshaded by having her point at a statue of the "classic" reaper and ask "Do I look anything like that?"
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* TooMuchInformation: Apparently Gunnar the Undead Viking washes his armpits with blood.

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* TooMuchInformation: Apparently Gunnar the Undead Viking washes his armpits with blood.blood.
* UrbanFantasy
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Clara's eyes occasionally glow red when she's really angry.
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* GameFace: Bernie apparently has one, but we don't get to see it just yet.

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* DontFearTheReaper: Bernardette is generally quite warm, friendly, and personable. According to her, she doesn't actually take lives at all.
* RedBaron: Sam is known and feared as "The Digger."

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* CreepyCrows: Hugin, "The Raven," the most powerful member of the Vigil.
* TheDreaded: The mere mention of "The Raven" is enough to make most necromancers crap their pants.
* DontFearTheReaper: Bernardette is generally quite warm, friendly, and personable. According to her, she doesn't actually take lives - just guards them and recruits the newly dead into the Vigil.
* InLoveWithTheMark: The necromancer in the first issue genuinely fell in love with Clara
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some point during his manipulation of her.
* RedBaron: Sam is known and feared as "The Digger.""
* TooMuchInformation: Apparently Gunnar the Undead Viking washes his armpits with blood.
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Death Vigil is an ongoing comic written and drawn by Stjepan Seijic, of ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' and ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' fame. It began publication in July 2014.

Our story begins with a man named Sam Lewis, who died trying to rescue two women from a mugger. But when the grim reaper showed up, instead of passing on, he was recruited into the Death Vigil - a group of fighters under the Reaper's command who protect the world from the forces of evil.

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!This series contains examples of:
* BadassBeard: Sam has one.
* DontFearTheReaper: Bernardette is generally quite warm, friendly, and personable. According to her, she doesn't actually take lives at all.
* RedBaron: Sam is known and feared as "The Digger."

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