History VisualNovel / Demonbane

->''I am innocent rage''\\
''I am innocent hatred''\\
''I am the innocent sword''\\
''I am DEMONBANE''

* ImmortalityTalisman: Tiberius' grimoire makes him absolutely unkillable so long as it is unharmed. As a side effect, he is a perpetually rotting corpse.

* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies: Invoked and averted should you decide that Kurou and Ruri will watch a horror movie. Winfield thinks that Ruri will get really scared and thus the standard scene will take place... but as Kurou and Ruri point out in utter boredom, they see this kind of thing every day and fight such monsters.

* OedipusComplex:
** Another Blood wants to replace her mom. To make it more complicate, she comes from an alternate future and thus is not really related to her parents in the present. And since she's a book like her mom, their genetic relationship is hard to judge; though it may just be that she takes more after her mom than her brother does or maybe only females can be grimoires.
** Ruri, to a much less direct extent, in regards to her grandfather. [[spoiler:Her grandfather is the most important person in her life and it turns out that the man she falls in love with, Kurou (or at least an alternate version of him), is actually her grandfather via adoption. Even though she's not biologically related to her grandfather, the reasons why she fell for Kurou are very much the same reasons she admired her grandfather.]]

* ElectraComplex: Another Blood wants to replace her mom. To make it more complicate, she comes from an alternate future and thus is not really related to her parents in the present. And since she's a book like her mom, their genetic relationship is hard to judge; though it may just be that she takes more after her mom than her brother does or maybe only females can be grimoires.
** Ruri, to a much less direct extent in regards to her grandfather. [[spoiler: Her grandfather is the most important person in her life and it turns out that the man she falls in love with, Kurou (or at least an alternate version of him), is actually her grandfather via adoption. Even though she's not biologically related to her grandfather, the reasons why she fell for Kurou are very much the same reasons she admired her grandfather.]]

* MoeAnthropomorphism

** [[spoiler: The US President eventually decided to [[NuclearOption nuke Cthulhu]], despite the fact that [[GodzillaThreshold it's above an American city]]. The missile ended up disintegrated before it could even detonate.]]

* TemporalParadox: Demonbane's origin was an object paradox. Supposedly, it was created by Ruri's grandfather Kouzou Hadou. However, it was revealed in Ruri's route that [[spoiler: Kouzou Hadou was actually Kurou, who crashed in the past in the heavily damaged Demonbane. Since all he did was repair the Demonbane, nobody actually created it.]]

* DarkSkinnedBlond: [[spoiler: Cthugha in human form]] is a tanned white-haired girl.

* CoolGuns: Cthugha is a [[BlingOfWar pimped-out]] Mauser C96, while Ithaqua is a pimped-out [[RareGuns Mateba revolver]].

* MagicSkirt: Compare the CG's of the PC version and the [=PS2=] adaption. Al still wears the same costume, and makes the same poses, but the [=PS2=] version no longer has the panty shots.

* MagicSkirt: Compare the CG's of the PC version and the [=PS2=] adaption. Al still wears the same costume, and makes the same poses, but the [=PS2=] version no longer has the [[PantyShot Panty shots]].

* {{Meganekko}}: Leica, Nya, Chiaki and [[spoiler:Ithaqua in human form]]

* HumanMomNonHumanDad: [[spoiler:Therion is the child of Nero and Yog Sothoth.]]

** Just to hammer home the point, this is completely subverted after [[spoiler:he defects from Black Lodge as they put the C Project into action: countless innocents were killed by their Mass Production Type Destroyer Robots. West ends up leaving Black Lodge not long after]]

** Just to hammer home the point, this is completely subverted after [[spoiler:he leaves Black Lodge: countless innocents were killed by their Mass Production Type Destroyer Robots. West ends up leaving Black Lodge not long after]]

* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: Even though Dr. West rampages through Arkham City with his giant robots and cause massive collateral damage all the time, he never seems to actually kill anybody, so he's LaughablyEvil rather than just evil. Kurou even lampshades this by pointing out it's a real mistery how no one has been killed by the destructive fights he has with West.

** Just to hammer home the point, this is completely subverted after [[spoiler:the rest of Black Lodge enters the stage: countless innocents were killed by their Mass Production Type Destroyer Robots. West ends up leaving Black Lodge not long after]]

* ''Kishin Hishou Demonbane'': "Flight of the Machine God, Demonbane", the sequel game, with a linear story and player-controllable giant mecha battles. [[TheOneWith This is the one with the Demonbane that can summon infinite copies of itself.]]

* ''Gunshin Kyoushuu Demonbane'': "Assault of the War God, Demonbane", the second prequel novel, continuing a few years after the first. [[TheOneWith This is the one with]] the [[SignatureScene infinitely-gigantic Demonbane.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Al Azif amd Etheldreda, who both count their ages in thousands of years.

%% * ThoseTwoBadGuys: Claudius and Caligula.

* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: Even though Dr. West rampages through Arkham City with his giant robots and cause massive collateral damage all the time, he never seems to actually kill anybody, so he's LaughablyEvil rather than just evil.
** Just to hammer home the point, this is completely subverted after [[spoiler:he left Black Lodge and the Anticross began the C Project: countless innocents were killed by their Mass Production Type Destroyer Robots.]]

Kurou Daijuuji is a poor detective living in Arkham City ([[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity no, not that one]]). A center of both industry and [[LovecraftCountry eldritch lore]], it is home to Miskatonic University, which Kurou is a former student of. The city was built up and is run by an industry group and family dynasty known as the Hadou Financial Group, led by Ruri Hadou, who works to protect the city from the forces of darkness. Her main enemy is the villainous [[TheSyndicate Black Lodge syndicate]], led by the charismatic [[BigBad Master Therion]]. The [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] Beast of the Antichrist, he is the most powerful sorcerer in the whole world, and his nihilistic outlook shapes the group's destructive goals.

* AnachronismStew: Even though the story took place in the 1930s according to the afterword of the novelization, the United States military somehow already has fighter jets, missiles, and ''ballistic missiles''. Justified, since Demonbane takes place in an AlternateTimeline where alchemy was proven to exist and became an established branch of science.

* ClingyJealousGirl:
** Al, especially in Ruri's route.
** Etheldreda is also like this, although she doesn't directly act on it.
* ClusterFBomb: Kurou and Doctor West have dialogue that could strip paint off walls.
** Claudius is even worse, [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour considering he's only about 10]].

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

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:All of the Anticross vs. Master Therion. On the other hand, [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning his death was just the beginning]].]]

* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler:Metatron, the Tyrant and Sandalphon.]]

* {{Determinator}}: Kurou, Winfield and Doctor West.
* DeusSexMachina: How Kurou manages to [[spoiler:control Cthugha and Ithaqua.]]

* [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu Did You Just Romance The Necronomicon]]: Al Azif is the spirit of the Necronomicon and is a romance option. The BigBad has a similar attachment to his own grimoire, Etheldreda (aka The Pnakotic Manuscripts).

* GenreBlind: Nero is indeed the most powerful among Anticross and has no problem fighting both Augustus and Vespasianus at same time. Too bad, she confronted them inside Cthulhu, surround by countless tentacles. Since Demonbane started as {{eroge}}, it doesn't matter how powerful she is...
** [[spoiler: Then subverted later on when she kills Vespasianus in the blink of an eye and would've done the same to Augustus if it hadn't already been done for her.]]

* BadassGrandpa: Every image we see of Ruri's grandfather points to him being this. Just look at those muscles, and that hair, and that pose! It's revealed in Ruri's route that [[spoiler:"Hadou Kouzou" is actually Kurou, having taken up his identity after getting stuck in a StableTimeLoop.]]

Kurou Daijuuji is a poor detective living in Arkham City ([[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity no, not that one]]). A center of both industry and [[LovecraftCountry eldritch lore]], it is home to Miskatonic University, which Kodou is a former student of. The city was built up and is run by an industry group and family dynasty known as the Hadou Financial Group, led by Ruri Hadou, who works to protect the city from the forces of darkness. Her main enemy is the villainous [[TheSyndicate Black Lodge syndicate]], led by the charismatic [[BigBad Master Therion]]. The [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] Beast of the Antichrist, he is the most powerful sorcerer in the whole world, and his nihilistic outlook shapes the group's destructive goals.

One day, Kodou is asked by Ruri 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 Black Lodge, Al forges a contract with Kurou, bestowing him with powerful magic. Soon afterwards, Al also activates the Demonbane, a [[HumongousMecha Deus Machina]] owned by the Hadou Financial Group, to combat the mechanical menace from the Black Lodge and Therion, who seeks the power of the grimore for himself. With this, the war between the Hadou Financial Group and the Black Lodge begins...

* BeachEpisode[=/=]BreatherEpisode: Chapter 7 (The Shadow Over Innsmouth). The plot focusses on the gang staying at a Hadou beach resort in Innsmouth to investigate a dark magical presence. The chapter is mostly focussed on comic relief and {{fanservice}}, and even when Doctor West summons his destroyer robot from the ocean, [[spoiler:it’s become too rusted to battle]]. Of course, [[spoiler:this only lasts for the first half of the chapter, with the latter half becoming much darker when the group are forced to confront Dagon and Hydra.]]