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* DevilButNoGod - A very strange case of this; over the course of the book it's stated that everything Baltimore goes through is God's way of forging him into a weapon that can stop the vampire plague. Yet besides one monk who tells Baltimore this, we never actually see God (or a representative of his) actually take any direct action against the monsters. This leads to the main characters doing what needs to be done, but cursing God all the while for having to do it.
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* DevilButNoGod - A very strange case of this; over the course of the book it's stated that everything Baltimore goes through is God's way of forging him into a weapon that can stop the vampire plague. Yet besides one monk who tells Baltimore this, we never actually see God (or a representative of his) His) actually take any direct action against the monsters. This leads to the main characters doing what needs to be done, but cursing God all the while for having to do it.
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'''''Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire''''', is an illustrated novel by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, who had previously collaborated on several of the ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' horror novels. Going down the paranormal investigator route again, Mignola and Golden succeed in making Lord Baltimore very distinct from Hellboy in many different ways.
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'''''Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire''''', is an illustrated novel by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, who had previously collaborated on several of the ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' horror novels. Going down the While having a similar premise of a paranormal investigator route again, Mignola and Golden succeed in making Lord Baltimore very distinct from Hellboy in many investigator, this story is quite different in other ways.
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A very dark book, it deals with the atrocities of war and their consequences, specifically on those who fight in them. Yet it is an excellent story, with an ending that is truly poignant.
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A very dark book, story, it deals with the atrocities of war and their consequences, specifically the effects left on those who fight in them. Yet it is an excellent story, with an ending that is truly poignant.
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* BalefulPolymorph - What Doctor Rose encounters during the war that convinces him that Baltimore is telling the truth.
* BearsAreBadNews - See BalefulPolymorph above. To elaborate: [[spoiler:Doctor Rose meets an allied Norwegian soldier who is cursed to turn into a demonic bear that kills every living human it can find each time he goes to sleep at night, because he killed the previous demon bear beforehand.]]
* BearsAreBadNews - See BalefulPolymorph above. To elaborate: [[spoiler:Doctor Rose meets an allied Norwegian soldier who is cursed to turn into a demonic bear that kills every living human it can find each time he goes to sleep at night, because he killed the previous demon bear beforehand.]]
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* ForcedTransformation - [[spoiler:Doctor Rose meets an allied Norwegian soldier who is cursed to turn into a demonic bear that kills every living human it can find each time he goes to sleep at night, because he killed the previous demon bear beforehand.]]
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* AnAesop: Though done far more subtly than usual; the whole point of the book is that [[spoiler:war is a horrible, horrible thing, regardless against whom or over what it is fought.]]
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* [[spoiler: PerversePuppet]]: The Sea Captain Aischros [[spoiler: encountered a whole town of these in his youth.]]
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* [[spoiler: PerversePuppet]]: The Sea PerversePuppet: [[spoiler:Sea Captain Aischros [[spoiler: Aischros]] encountered a whole town of these in his youth.youth.
* PurposeDrivenImmortality: Implied in ''Literature/{{Baltimore}}'' with [[spoiler: Baltimore himself. Right after [[BigBad the Red King]] is killed, Baltimore himself dies, having previously removed his own heart. It was implied God had kept him alive for this single goal.]]
* PurposeDrivenImmortality: Implied in ''Literature/{{Baltimore}}'' with [[spoiler: Baltimore himself. Right after [[BigBad the Red King]] is killed, Baltimore himself dies, having previously removed his own heart. It was implied God had kept him alive for this single goal.]]
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* ThePlague: The plague that's overwhelming Europe, which seems to be a supernatural version of the Spanish Flu.
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* ThePlague: The plague that's overwhelming Europe, which seems to be a supernatural version of the Spanish Flu.UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu.
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Mignola and Golden eventually followed it up with a comic book series, which features Baltimore's later adventures, maintaining the novel's dark tone. It is illustrated by Ben Stenbeck, who also drew ''Witchfinder'' for Mignola's ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' universe. Lord Baltimore's story comes to an end in the comic book series' final arc ''The Red Kingdom'', which pits him in his final confrontation with the Red King while the rest of the world stands on the brink.
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Mignola and Golden eventually followed it up with a comic book series, which features Baltimore's later adventures, maintaining the novel's dark tone. It is illustrated by Ben Stenbeck, who also drew ''Witchfinder'' for Mignola's ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' universe. Lord Baltimore's story comes to an end in the comic book series' final arc ''The Red Kingdom'', which pits him in his final confrontation with [[BigBad the Red King King]] while the rest of the world stands on the brink.
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* BigBad: The Vampire Lord whom Baltimore calls "The Red King".
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* BigBad: The Vampire Lord whom Baltimore calls "The Red King".King" is the mastermind behind the plagues.
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* ChurchMilitant: The Inquisition in the comic, and boy are they militant.
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* ChurchMilitant: The Inquisition in the comic, and boy are they militant. [[spoiler:They seriously calm down after the time skip, to the point they've started started recruiting non-Christian wizards.]]
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Mignola and Golden eventually followed it up with a comic book series, which features Baltimore's later adventures, maintaining the novel's dark tone. It is illustrated by Ben Stenbeck, who also drew ''Witchfinder'' for Mignola's ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' universe. Lord Baltimore's story comes to an end in the comic book series' final arc ''The Red Kingdom'', which pits him in his final confrontation with Haigus while the rest of the world stands on the brink.
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Mignola and Golden eventually followed it up with a comic book series, which features Baltimore's later adventures, maintaining the novel's dark tone. It is illustrated by Ben Stenbeck, who also drew ''Witchfinder'' for Mignola's ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' universe. Lord Baltimore's story comes to an end in the comic book series' final arc ''The Red Kingdom'', which pits him in his final confrontation with Haigus the Red King while the rest of the world stands on the brink.
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Mignola and Golden eventually followed it up with a comic book series, which features Baltimore's later adventures, maintaining the novel's dark tone. It is illustrated by Ben Stenbeck, who also drew ''Witchfinder'' for Mignola's ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' universe.
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Mignola and Golden eventually followed it up with a comic book series, which features Baltimore's later adventures, maintaining the novel's dark tone. It is illustrated by Ben Stenbeck, who also drew ''Witchfinder'' for Mignola's ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' universe.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification - Arguably,[[spoiler: the Red Death, as it not only is the supernatural source of the plague, but also its embodiment in the spiritual world.]]
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* BigBad: The Vampire Lord whom Baltimore calls "The Red King"
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The ''Red Kingdom'' comic that serves as closure to the series has Baltimore finally succeeds in killing the Red King once and for all before his ascension and having finally fulfilled his revenge, he himself dies shortly afterwards due to removing his own heart previously. Several of his companions perished during the final battle and Europe is left in complete ruins by the Red King's destruction, but at least Lord Henry Baltimore has found peace and is implied to be with his loved ones in the afterlife]].
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* ImplacableMan: Baltimore, following the death of his family by Haigus' hands, he removes his own heart and becomes supernaturally driven to destroy the vampire king. [[spoiler:Only when he is actually killed that Baltimore finally does die, showing that he was living on borrowed time himself]].
