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** Possibly happens to [[spoiler:Glen]] because he disappears when he's rescued from Hell.

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** Possibly happens Was thought to happen to [[spoiler:Glen]] because he disappears when he's rescued from Hell.Hell but he ends up going back to his body.



* TheMenInBlack: [[spoiler:The Foundation of Light is an organisation of ex-soldiers and cops who fight monsters and serial killers.]]



* OneHeroHoldTheWeaksauce: [[spoiler:Glen]] claims to have all the strengths of a vampire and none of the weaknesses, he then admits he's lying.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: One couple that Amber collects an offering from are strongly implied to have killed their baby. Their SoulJar is later shown to be a baby's skull.



* SoulJar: Serial killers that are resurrected by Demons will be invincible unless a particular object they own is destroyed.



* TheStarscream: The Gundersons were loyal to Amber's parents for years just so they could capture a demon BreedingSlave when they got the chance.

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* TheStarscream: TheStarscream:
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The Gundersons were loyal to Amber's parents for years just so they could capture a demon BreedingSlave when they got the chance.chance.
** Amber's parents want to be this to the Blood-dimmed King, sucking up to him until they can overthrow him.

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* TheFerryman: Amber has to pay one to take her from Astaroth's castle to The Blood-dimmed King's palace.



* TheStarscream: The Gundersons were loyal to Amber's parents for years just so they could capture a demon BreesingSlave when they got the chance.

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* TheStarscream: The Gundersons were loyal to Amber's parents for years just so they could capture a demon BreesingSlave BreedingSlave when they got the chance.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer;
** The hideous [[{{Treants}} Treant]] witch [[spoiler:is in love with Jacob.]]

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* AbhorrentAdmirer;
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AbhorrentAdmirer: The hideous [[{{Treants}} Treant]] witch [[spoiler:is in love with Jacob.]]



* TheVoiceless: The Hounds Of Hell never talk.



* AmbiguouslyHuman: Fool. Amber assumes he used to be alive or still is and was raised in Hell since childhood but he says he was always in Astaroth's castle and has never been a child.



* AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Aaliyah Brewer moves on when Amber persuades her to stop killing people.

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* AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: AnArmAndALeg: Fool cuts Bigmouth's arms off as punishment for attempting to escape Hell
* AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence;
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Aaliyah Brewer moves on when Amber persuades her to stop killing people.people.
** Possibly happens to [[spoiler:Glen]] because he disappears when he's rescued from Hell.



* CantLiveWithoutYou: Amber and Milo have to defend a comatose old woman from Buddy. It's implied Abigail would die if this old woman did.



* DoNotCallMePaul: Big-mouth writes Amber a note telling her not to call him Edgar anymore.

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* DoNotCallMePaul: Big-mouth Bigmouth writes Amber a note telling her not to call him Edgar anymore.


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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: A load of men cheer when Amber makes out with a girl in a club.


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* AHellOfATime: Though it's mostly torture, a priest Amber meets in Hell says some people occasionally form friendships or fall in love there.


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* InvisibleToAdults: Buddy the ghost MonsterClown can't be seen or felt by anyone over the age of 18. Interestingly, the injuries on his victim's bodies can only be seen by people under 18. To adults it seems like they died of sudden death in their sleep.


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* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: Amber goes to Hell to bring [[spoiler:Glen's]] soul back. She promises to take Bigmouth with her for helping but he gets caught by Fool.
* TheSoulless: A persons soul passes straight to Hell when they become a vampire.


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* VillainsWantMercy: Amber meets Kirsty and Grant in Hell and they beg her to help them escape.
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* AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Aaliyah Brewer moves on when Amber persuades her to stop killing people.


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* BodySurf: Aaliyah Brewer can move from person to person.


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* FanConvention: Amber tracks her oarent to a ''Dark Places'' convention.


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* GlamourFailure: People possessed by Aaliyah Brewer can be recognised because she always chews her upper lip.


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* HauntedTechnology: Aaliyah Brewer is a ghost that can travel through the internet to phones and computers.


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* {{Technopath}}: Aaliyah Brewer can travel through the internet.


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* YourCostumeNeedsWork: When Amber explores Salt Lake City while shifted, most people assume she's in costume.
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* BadassLesbian: Kelly and [[spoiler: Amber]].
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* CarvedMark: Amber threatens to carve the word "Troll" onto the forehead if a street thug who calls her that but ends up not going through with it after scratching him once.

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* CarvedMark: Amber threatens to carve the word "Troll" onto the forehead if of a street thug who calls her that but ends up not going through with it after scratching him once.
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* MarsNeedsWomen: The Gundersons want to capture a demon for the purpose of breeding with.


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* TheStarscream: The Gundersons were loyal to Amber's parents for years just so they could capture a demon BreesingSlave when they got the chance.


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* WolverineClaws: James couldn't shift into a demon form but could grow claws.
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* FamilyThemeNaming: The Gundersons are all named after Greek gods.
* FlippingTheBird: Amber to her father as he's trying to make a deal to work together against Astaroth.

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* InstantArmor: Lower case demons can grow and retract black scale armour over different parts of their bodies which is controlled subconsciously.



* WolverineClaws: Lower case demons can grow and retract their claws at will.



* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Not the future but drinking Astaroth's blood gives Amber realistic interactive dreams of her dead siblings in the past.



* BloodMagic: To get back to Astaroth, Amber has to cut herself and make a circle around herself in blood in order to be teleported to Hell.

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* BloodMagic: BloodMagic;
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To get back to Astaroth, Amber has to cut herself and make a circle around herself in blood in order to be teleported to Hell.Hell.
** Amber's parents put a ''mur du sang'' on the funeral home. It's where they put demon blood along the edges of the doorframe that stops anyone other than members of the demon's family to get in. Amber lampshades the trope by hoping her parents have died from blood loss.



* TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson: Amber wonders why the bogles are immigrating human movies and Axton mentions they watch TV.



* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Paul Axton sold his soul for the ability to communicate with bogles but he's implied to be able to communicate with any creature.



* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Amber's starting to hallucinate as a side effect of her new powers and Astaroth confirms it's insanity.

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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Amber's starting to hallucinate as a side effect of her new powers drinking Astaroth's blood and Astaroth he confirms it's insanity.

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* ActuallyIAmHim: Mauk tells Amber that he's expecting Astaroth's representative.



* DoNotCallMePaul: Big-mouth writes Amber a note telling her not to call him Edgar anymore.



* EtTuBrute: Mauk criticizes his former partner, Milo for working with Amber against him.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Bogles breed quite quickly with six to nine babies in each litter.
* ForTheEvulz: Mauk's sole reason for torturing the teenagers in the cabin.
* GiveMeBackMyWallet: Amber chases Clarissa to get her bag back and the two end up becoming friends.



* ImAHumanitarian: The Gundersons

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* ImAHumanitarian: The GundersonsGundersons.
* InnOfNoReturn: The Catching Z's motel has rooms full of deadly traps and two-way mirrors where the manager watches the antics.


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* WhaleEgg: Bogles look similar to teddy bears but lay eggs.


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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Amber's starting to hallucinate as a side effect of her new powers and Astaroth confirms it's insanity.
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* DealWithTheDevil;
** Jesper had one with the two Shining Demons to prolong his life if he sacrificed souls to them. He later makes a similar one with Naberius to keep Astaroth and the Hounds out of the town.
** Amber [[spoiler:makes a deal to become Astaroth's new representative in exchange sending Milo back to Earth.]]


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* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: Near the end,[[spoiler:one of the Hounds takes Milo to Hell and Amber has to get him back.]]


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* SealedEvilInACan: Naberius [[spoiler:is trapped in a cave under Desolation and maintains the town's forcefield.]]


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* BatmanColdOpen: The book starts with Amber and Milo chasing a man who owes his soul to Astaroth.


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* BloodMagic: To get back to Astaroth, Amber has to cut herself and make a circle around herself in blood in order to be teleported to Hell.

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* ShowWithinAShow: Amber loves a ParanornalRomance show called ''The Dark Places'', based on a series of young adult novels of the same name.

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* ShowWithinAShow: Amber loves a ParanornalRomance ParanormalRomance show called ''The Dark Places'', based on a series of young adult novels of the same name.


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* IKnowMortalKombat: Invoked when Novak wonders whether he or Milo would be quicker on the draw. Amber said Milo because he reads cowboy novels.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Fairly standard. They drink blood, are allergic to sunlight and fear crosses. Their leader Varga at least and can turn into smoke and a giant wolf.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Fairly standard. They drink blood, are allergic to sunlight sunlight, can fly and fear crosses. Their leader Varga at least and can turn into smoke and a giant wolf.



* ShowWithinAShow: Amber loves a ParanornalRomance show called ''The Dark Places'', based on a series of young adult novels of the same name.



* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Warrick says that red demons are pretty rare with them usually being various shades of grey. The demons in Desolation are various colours.



* BigRedDevil: Warrick says that red demons are pretty rare with them usually being various shades of grey.



* BlackComedyRape: Warrick gets the information he wants out of Ricky by threatening to let Two hump his face.
* CannibalismSuperpower: [[spoiler: The Desolation Hill police became demons after summoning and eating The Smiling Demon.]]

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* BlackComedyRape: BlackComedyRape;
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Warrick gets the information he wants out of Ricky by threatening to let Two hump his face.
* CannibalismSuperpower: [[spoiler: CannibalismSuperpower;
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The Desolation Hill police became demons after summoning and eating The Smiling Demon.]]]]
** Benjamin tries to eat Amber in hopes of getting stronger and the ability to be a demon all year round. Ironically, [[spoiler:she eats him and uses up the extra energy to regenerate from her gunshot wounds.



* DeusExMachina: When Kirsty is about to kill Amber, [[spoiler:Glen flies in, bites Kirsty and fies off with her.]]



* FlippingTheBird: Amber attempts it to The Hounds of Hell through the town barrier but ends up waving her bandaged hand at them instead. Though she succeeds later on when they chase her back into the town.

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* FlippingTheBird: FlippingTheBird;
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Amber attempts it to The Hounds of Hell through the town barrier but ends up waving her bandaged hand at them instead. Though she succeeds later on when they chase her back into the town.town.
** Amber does it when Kristy's trying to kill her, emulating a famous death scene in ''The Dark Places'' show.


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* ILoveTheDead: Two ends up jumping the decapitated head of one of the serial killers who storms the town.


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* YouKilledMyFather: Kirsty vows revenge for Amber for killing her husband.
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* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: It turns out beheading is the only way to kill [[spoiler:The Hounds of Hell]].

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* BadassBiker: The Hounds of Hell

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* BadassBiker: The Hounds of HellHell.


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* BarbaricBully: Cole Blanchard. He steals a gun at one point and threatens to kill his stepfather and Austin with it.


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* BondageIsBad: BarbaricBully, Cole Blanchard has a poster of a naked woman in chains in his bedroom.
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* MasterOfUnlocking: Javier is able to pick the locks of he and Virgil's shackles which he learned when he played an escapologist on TV.

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* DevilButNoGod: Some characters have faith in God but we see no evidence that he exists. Amber briefly wonders if praying to God or confessing to a priest will solve her problems but dismisses the idea.




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* YourCheatingHeart: Virgil's daughter won't talk to him because he cheated on her mother twice.
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** [[Officer Lucy Thornton's]] demon form is tall, broad and angular with the lines of her bones visible through her skin. She has talons for hands, no horns and green, sandpaper-like skin.

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** [[Officer [[spoiler:Officer Lucy Thornton's]] demon form is tall, broad and angular with the lines of her bones visible through her skin. She has talons for hands, no horns and green, sandpaper-like skin.

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* BasementDweller: The Party Monster lives with his parents, seemingly lying in bed playing video games most of the day.



* CriminalDoppelganger: The man who killed Virgil's neighbour, Snyder looks like a young version of his old colleague, Javier.

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* CriminalDoppelganger: The man Oscar Moreno who killed Virgil's neighbour, Snyder looks like a young version of his old colleague, Javier.Javier. Later revealed [[spoiler:to be The Narrow Man who used Javier's face because he was a fan of his TV shows.]]



* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The Party Monster lives the idea of Kelly being a lesbian and is disappointed that Linda isn't.



* Monster loan: Kelly has a tattoo of one she fought on her first job with her gang.

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* Monster loan: MistakenForGay: Amber thinks Virgil and Javier are a couple.
* MonsterClown:
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* TakeMeInstead: Virgil and Javier ask the Narrow Man to sacrifice them instead of a child. He agrees [[spoiler:but says he'll sacrifice a child anyway because he doesn't want the town's votes to be for nothing and he'll take Virgil and Javier to be killed by Naberius anyway.]]
* TaughtByTelevision: The Narrow Man learned to interact with people by watching Javier on TV.

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* HealingFactor: Milo says Amber's fingers should heal in a couple days if she stays in her demon form.

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* HealingFactor: HealingFactor;
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Milo says Amber's fingers should heal in a couple days if she stays in her demon form.form.
** The Narrow Man can regenerate in his true form including reattaching a foot.


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* Monster loan: Kelly has a tattoo of one she fought on her first job with her gang.


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* StoryboardBody: Kelly has tattoos all over her body of all the monsters and villains she's fought.

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* AnArmAndALeg: Ardat-Ko happily feeds her limbs to [[spoiler:the police]] in exchange for her freedom and it's implied she can regrow them when she gets free. [[spoiler:They end up eating all of her.]]



** Ardat-Ko started the lroces of [[spoiler:turning the police officers into demons]] by cutting off the fingers on her left hand and feeding them to them.



* TheNeedless: Ardat-Ko was able to spend over a year trapped in a cellar without getting hungry.



* PerpetualSmiler: [[spoiler:Lucy's]] demon form has a some twisted into a permanent grin.

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* PerpetualSmiler: PerpetualSmiler;
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[[spoiler:Lucy's]] demon form has a some twisted into a permanent grin.grin.
** Ardat-Ko who gave her her powers is aptly named the Smiling Demon due to her constant smiling, [[spoiler:even while being eaten alive.]]


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* TheSleepless: Ardat-Ko was said to never get tired.


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* SuperCop: [[spoiler:Desolation's police force are all demons]].

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* PerpetualSmiler: [[spoiler:Lucy's]] demon form has a some twisted into a permanent grin

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* PerpetualSmiler: [[spoiler:Lucy's]] demon form has a some twisted into a permanent grin
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Lucy Thornton is the only woman ever to serve on Desolation's police force.

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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Jesper mentions a Demon called Demoriel who makes deals with people who have steeds or vehicles that end up linked to the demons. He's implied to be the source of Milo's power.

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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: OurDemonsAreDifferent;
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Jesper mentions a Demon called Demoriel who makes deals with people who have steeds or vehicles that end up linked to the demons. He's implied to be the source of Milo's power.power.
** [[Officer Lucy Thornton's]] demon form is tall, broad and angular with the lines of her bones visible through her skin. She has talons for hands, no horns and green, sandpaper-like skin.


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* PerpetualSmiler: [[spoiler:Lucy's]] demon form has a some twisted into a permanent grin

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* FlippingTheBird: Amber attempts it to The Hounds of Hell through the town barrier but ends up waving her bandaged hand at them instead.



* BadassLesbian: Kelly and [[spoiler: Amber]]

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* BadassLesbian: Kelly and [[spoiler: Amber]]Amber]].
* BigRedDevil: Warrick says that red demons are pretty rare with them usually being various shades of grey.


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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Warrick is writing a comic strip based on the gang's adventures with himself portrayed in a more heroic light.
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* EvilDetectingDog: Two can detect demons in human form.

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* SummoningRitual: Played straight when Amber's parents would summon the Shining Demon but he later changed thing so that the summoner gets teleported to his castle.



* SummoningRitual: Played straight when Amber's parents would summon the Shining Demon but he later changed thing so that the summoner gets teleported to his castle.


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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Jesper mentions a Demon called Demoriel who makes deals with people who have steeds or vehicles that end up linked to the demons. He's implied to be the source of Milo's power.


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* PortalDoor: Mayor Jesper has a key similar to the in Dacre Shanks had that links any door to the cavern where [[spoiler:Naberius is trapped]].
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:The Mayor Jesper has to sacrifice a soul (he finds children easier to kill) each year to maintain his longevity. He later feeds an annual soul to the trapped demon Naberius to maintain the forcefield that keeps Astaroth out of the town.]]


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* ThereIsAnother: Astaroth isn't the only Shining Demon. He has a brother called Naberius who also uses the title.
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* AlliterativeName: Warrick's last name is Wyman.
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* {{Autocannibalism}}: Amber has a nightmare where she's at a diner in demon form with her parents, eating her human head.
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