History VisualNovel / Demonbane

* DyingAsYourself - [[spoiler:Subverted. Ryuuga dies insane and hating Leica.]]

* VerbalTic - Elsa's "-robo".

* {{Lolicon}} - [[TheyFightCrime He's a broke and unemployed man, down on his luck. She's a millennia-old grimoire with the body of a young girl/a Mysterious Waif with catlike mannerisms.]]
** Also Makoto, one of the BridgeBunnies, who has an unhealthy degree of lust for Al.

* YouDontLookLikeYou - The artist took very deliberate interpretion on Great Old Ones appearance. Atlach-Nacha is GiantSpider with human torso in place of its head. Cthugha has beast-like body in the middle of massive fireball. Ithaqua first seen as glowing red eyes in the mid of violent storm (''Death Walker'' as called in TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu) but is really a massive dragon.

* BabiesEverAfter - The sequel play with this, [[spoiler: Kuzaku and Another Blood are Kuro and Al's children.]] However, both of them come from alternate future.

** Tiberius' double as the NaughtyTentacles version.

* {{Expy}}: Metatron and Sandalphon have a variant of the [[TekkamanBlade Blade and Evil]] dynamic.

** BadassLabcoat - Doctor West.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood - In [[spoiler: Elder Gods ending, Nyarlathotep express its confusion at Kuro and Al as they continue to fight for humanity after ascend into Elder Gods]]. The narration make it clear that, to the Ancient Ones, there shouldn't be any good gods.

* BeyondTheImpossible: All magic in the Demonbane universe functions according to this principle.

** In the prequel novel, Demonbane appears as ''Gunshin Kyoshuu Demonbane'' ([[http://omniversal.wikispaces.com/Character+Profile+-+War+God+Demonbane War God Demonbane]]), particularly notable for being '''''the''' largest mecha in fiction'', even dwarfing ''Super TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. It grows so large that it pops the universe it's in, and accidentally destroys other universes by ''brushing against them''. Well, you wouldn't expect any less from a mech that sealed away [[KingOfAllCosmos Azathoth]], would you?

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Doctor West and Elsa.]]

* ElectraComplex - Another Blood wants to replace her mom. Subverted in that she comes from an alternate future and thus is not really related to her parents in the present.
** Not really subverted, considering that genetically they are still related.

* GenreSavvy - The entire civilian population of Arkham City seem to be transplanted from TheBigO and BubblegumCrisis, especially given their in universe reactions to all the crazy shit that happens every other day.

Kurou Daijuuji is a poor detective living in Arkham City. One day, he's asked by Ruri Hadou of the Hadou Financial Group to search for a magical grimoire. As Kurou searches for the book, he unexpectedly runs into Al-Azif, a pretty girl who turns out to be the grimoire Kurou is searching for. While being chased by the villainous Black Lodge, Al forges a contract with Kurou, bestowing him with powerful magic. Soon afterwards, Al also activates the Demonbane, a Deus Machina owned by the Hadou Financial Group, to combat the mechanical menace from the Black Lodge. With this, the war between the Hadou Financial Group and the Black Lodge begins....

* TheAntiChrist: Master Therion, according to one of the trivia pages, translates to [[TheNumberoftheBeast 666]] in a magic system that assigns numerical values to letters, and he has a personality cult and vast magical ability..

* EvilCounterpart - Liber Legis is the ultimate evil to Demonbane's ultimate good and they have similar but opposite attacks. Metatron and Sandalphon also have this dynamic going on.

* VitrolicBestBuds - Caligula and Claudius act like they want to kill each other. [[spoiler: After Caligula dies, all Claudius gives a damn about is avenging his death.]]

* SpiritBomb: It's [[YourSoulIsMine vengeful]].