History Literature / TheZombieKnight

* WouldHitAGirl: Generally speaking, the gender is completely irrelevant to anyone in a fight. Servants are never shown to be treated any differently based on their gender. Even protagonist and resident good guy Hector has no qualms about hitting girls as can be seen when [[http://thezombieknight.blogspot.com/2014/01/page-541.html he punched Nora Pauls]].

** Played straight with Colt. After Geoffrey kills him, he stays dead for about one chapter until the reaper conveniently nearby revives him. [[TheUntwist Not that anyone was particularly surprised by this.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Hector about Micah:
--->‘He’s way too friendly,’ Hector thought, wide-eyed. ‘This can only end in disaster...’

* BadassNormal: Lynnette again. Colt too, though he becomes a servant later on and doesn't qualify as normal anymore.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Even [[http://thezombieknight.blogspot.com/2015/03/page-997-cxiii.html the lesbian]] wants [[FourStarBadass General Jackson]].

Jackson: Star of the West\\

Xuan Sebolt: Seadevil\\
???: Salesman of Death

* SuperMode: A reaper can give their servant a temporary boost, making them stronger, faster, immune to pain, and trigger the ability to regenerate. One boost lasts for about thirty minutes until it needs to be renewed. This is the reason why a servant can only regenerate when their reaper is present (or has given them the boost beforehand). [[spoiler:The sixth Oath introduced the concept of hyper states, which are even more superpowered than normal servant fighting mode. See above under DeadlyUpgrade.]]

-->Roman's expression softened. "She wants to make the world a better place. And not just in a good-deed-for-the-day kind of way. She wants me to obtain so much strength and influence that I can at least'' try ''to fix some of the really fucked up things in the world. Like slavery and widespread famine and institutionalized poverty -- y'know, the things that no one's been able to fix in centuries."

** "Light-wielders" (alteration users with power over electromagnetic waves) capable of the ''[[ElementalEmbodiment pan-rozum]]'' SuperMode can teleport by turning into a beam of light and back, but they have to take very long distances in a series of discrete jumps, because if they go too far in a single hop they can go out of focus and die.
** The [[HumanoidAbomination aberration]] [[spoiler:Ibai Blackburn]] has the power of true pathless teleportation. However, as of his first appearance, his maximum range is only a few dozen feet, so he has to jump repeatedly to go any great distance. He seems to prefer this method anyway, as it lets him enjoy the view.

** Nora Pauls also seems sort of unstable and violent. Then again, it probably applies to most Abolish servants.

** Asad Najir: Lion of the Desert
** Dozer (?): Living Void
** Gohvis: Black Scourge, Monster of the East
** Hector Goffe: Darksteel Soldier[[note]]Name given by normal people, not the servant community[[/note]]
** Jackson: Star of the West
** Lamont: Iceheart
** Melchor Blackburn: Darktide
** Morgunov (?): Mad Demon
** Octavia Redwater: Red Lady
** Sanko: Gargoyle of Korgum
** Sermung: Crystal Titan
** Xavier Lawrence: Blue Bear
** Xuan Sebolt: Seadevil
** ???: Salesman of Death

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[TheDragon Gohvis]] is known as "the Monster of the East" or "the Black Scourge." Hector had heard that last one, but thought it was a ''plague.''
** The rest of the Abolish higher-ups have similar nicknames: the Mad Demon (probably Morgunov), the Living Void (probably Dozer) and the Salesman of Death (probably Morgunov's [[TheDragon Dragon]]).

* TakeThat: Ibai sees no reason not to play board games with people he knows are [[GiveMeAReason waiting for an excuse to kill him]], but even he knows the dangers of TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Parson and Overra.]] Their career is riddled with boneheaded mistakes and failed missions, yet if you consider the full consequences of those mistakes and failures, they almost invariably result in a net ''gain'' for [[spoiler:the Vanguard.]]

* PowerTattoo: Asad has a full-body set of black, abstract tattoos that seem to damp out any hits he takes, flashing yellow as they do.

* NeverMessWithGranny: One can safely assume that any elderly member of a servant dynasty is pretty badass, since servants grow StrongerWithAge. Special mention goes to Octavia "[[RedBaron The Red Lady]]" Redwater, who's one of the four strongest Rainlords, [[OlderThanTheyLook chose to look her real age]], and once pulled out a [[InfinityPlusOneSword terrifyingly powerful sword]] that her grandson had given her after he tried to use it and nearly vaporized himself.