History Literature / SolomonKane

%%* BlackBestFriend: N'Longa

%%* InnOfNoReturn: "Rattle of Bones"

%%* {{Pirate}}: "Blades of the Brotherhood"

%%* LostWorld: "The Moon of Skulls"
%%* MagicalNegro: N'Longa
** Only in the literal sense - N'longa helped Kane so ''he'' could get reclaim his recently usurped position of power in his tribe. He's not so much a saintly, benevolent figure that solely uses his (actual) magic to aid the white Kane as he is a clever man who knows how to play a situation to his advantage.
*** He does come to Kane's aid in later stories simply to provide magical aid that Kane desperately needs to survive certain encounters. Once he even possesses the body of a young warrior from miles away to help Kane fight some vampires.

!!Tropes:

* BadassLongcoat

* BlackBestFriend: N'Longa
* BloodBrothers: N'longa and Kane.

* ButNowIMustGo

* DemonSlaying

* InHarmsWay
* InnOfNoReturn: "Rattle of Bones"

* KnightErrant: Kane.

* LostWorld: "The Moon of Skulls"
* MagicalNegro: N'Longa

* {{Pirate}}: "Blades of the Brotherhood"

* IdealHero: The case ''could'' be made that he's one of these instead of a Type 2 AntiHero; the strongest supporting evidence toward this argument lies in the finale of ''The Blue Flame of Vengeance'' where he [[spoiler:tries to talk one of the villains into walking away from the fight and from the evil men he has aligned himself with. When the villain refuses and subesquently dies, Solomon is visibly grieved and exits the story in a somber mood]].

* HelpingHands: "The Right Hand of Doom"

** Ironically, in real life the people enslaving Africans were the Africans themselves who then sold their slaves to European traders. Usually prisoners of war form the constant inter-tribal warfare.

** RaceLift: [[http://marveluniversity.blogspot.ro/2016/11/weird-marvel-tales-volume-five.html The comic book adaptation of]] [[TheSeventies 1978]], otherwise faithful to original text, displays Queen Nakari with swarthy (not black) skin, but Caucasian facial features. Which makes no sense in the original story line, where she was of mostly African descent from along line of African warriors and priests. The imprisoned Atlantean priest, explicitly said in the story to be black skinned (which doesn't make sense anyway), [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fx9JPYDqtRk/WBFVT3AWRoI/AAAAAAAAtcI/OHN9q_61u3IhotQ3gVajq1XkmJTYsg1ngCLcB/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-10-26%2Bat%2B6.14.16%2BPM.png is depicted with light skin and Asian / Mongoloid facial features]].

* CollapsingLair: In "The Moon of Skulls", the lost city of Negari is destroyed by an earthquake just after Kane kills the quuen, and Kane is forced to flee through the collapsing city.

** RaceLift: [[http://marveluniversity.blogspot.ro/2016/11/weird-marvel-tales-volume-five.html The comic book adaptation of]] [[TheSeventies 1978]], otherwise faithful to original text, displays Queen Nakari with swarthy (not black) skin, but Caucasian facial features. Which makes no sense in the original story line, where she was of mostly African descent from along line of African warriors and priests. The imprisoned Atlantean priest, explicitly said in the story to be black skinned, [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fx9JPYDqtRk/WBFVT3AWRoI/AAAAAAAAtcI/OHN9q_61u3IhotQ3gVajq1XkmJTYsg1ngCLcB/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-10-26%2Bat%2B6.14.16%2BPM.png is depicted with light skin and Asian / Mongoloid facial features]].

* CelibateHero: Kane

* EvilCounterpart: Le Loup, the sadistic French mercenary from ''The Blue Flame of Vengeance'', is of a similar background to Kane himself (hardcore war veterans, expert swordsmen, now wandering the world) and both are likened to wolves.

* EvilCounterpart: Le Loup, the sadistic French mercenary, is of a similar background to Kane himself (hardcore war veterans, expert swordsmen, now wandering the world) and both are likened to wolves.

** It falls in line with Kane's strict Christian worldview. Even if he had the means to fight and destroy single-handed the murderous cult in "The Moon of Skulls" (which was blatantly impossible), this was mass murder, a great sin by itself. By shooting their skull idol, their own cruelty and madness drove them to self-destruction, while the earthquake (God's action) completed the razing of their city. Practically Kane used sword, dagger and pistol throughout only in self-defense and he ended the adventure with clean hands, which was a feat in itself.

** Subverted again in ''Hills Of The Dead'', when a girl impressed by Kane's [[CurbStompBattle one shot kill of a charging lion]] deems him a god. With humility fitting a Puritan he answers "I'm no God, just a man like you, though my skin color is different".

* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: N'longa. When he speaks to Kane through his dreams and in one of the river language Kane knows, he's impressively well-spoken to the point of delivering a fairly epic DarkIsNotEvil speech at the end of "The Hills of the Dead". However, he sticks to pidgin English when talking to Kane simply because he's proud that he's learned it.

* MightyWhitey: subverted in ''Wings in the Night'', when villagers in Africa, impressed by Solomon's guns, beg him to protect them against flying monsters. [[spoiler:Kane is helpless when an overwhelming horde of monsters slaughter the entire population]].

* {{Mundanger}} : The Fishhawk and his men from "Blades of the Brotherhood."

* FightDracula: MarvelComics had Kane fight Dracula in a pair of interconnected tales that ran in ''ComicBook/DraculaLives'' and ''[[ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian Savage Sword of Conan]]''.

* SilverBullet: Kane uses one in "The Silver Beast of Tonker Town", one of the original stories MarvelComics ran in ''[[ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian Savage Sword of Conan]]''.