Line #66 Webcomic/OzzieTheVampire


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3	''[[http://www.ozziethevampire.com Ozzie the Vampire]]'' is an action/comedy/slice-of-life webcomic by [[Webcomic/StationSquare Eric Lide]].
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5	The star of our story is Ozzie -- art student, metalhead, and recently-turned vampire living in the city of Gloomburg, New Jersey. Said city is a magnet for demons crossing into the human realm, so Ozzie often finds herself fighting them off, with help from her best friend Kimmy and the magical talking tome Grimsley.
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7	A character sheet can be found [[Characters/OzzieTheVampire here]].
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9	!!Tropes:
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11	* FourTwentyBlazeIt: The cast page gives Kimmy's birthday as April 20, aka 4/20, for comedic purposes.
12	* AllThereInTheManual: The site has a good deal of info on the characters.
13	* AndIMustScream: The female vampire working with Ozzie's sire in the flashback story purposefully left Kimmy only partially hypnotized when she tried to bite her, keeping her paralyzed but aware of what was about to happen, saying that the fear made the blood tastier.
14	* {{Angrish}}: Ozzie descends into this after being shot for the first time as a vampire.
15	-->'''Ozzie:''' YOU MOTHER FRACKIN' RAZZMATAZZ RFFGHHAGTJKJ
16	* AnyLastWords: Alastor asks Ozzie this as she dangles over a ledge over lava. She responds by flinging lava at him while answering, "Yeah. ''Shut up already!!''"
17	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
18	** According to Alastor, Ozzie encapsulates the three things he hates most: humans, human-sympathizers, and disproportionately-sized heads.
19	** Kimmy describes why she broke up with two of her exes: One was a weird narcissist who plastered his bedroom walls with photos of his face, and was bad at sex to boot. The other listened to Music/GreenDay.
20	* BlandNameProduct:
21	** Apparently this world's version of Target is called Bullseye.
22	** Alastor offers a [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-37 "Roose's FastBreak"]] to the demon who can find Ozzie.
23	* BlatantLies: Ozzie [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-41- denying being a vampire]] while she's floating in mid-air with her wings out. She almost gets away with it because Gogmagog has only the barest idea of what humans are supposed to look like.
24	* BodyHorror: Some demons have pretty weird anatomy; take Master Leonard's mouth, which looks like a ball gag but turns into mouthed tentacles when it's time for feeding.
25	* BondageIsBad: Master Leonard and Malphas are demons with bondage-themed designs.
26	* BossSubtitles: Demons have their names and titles appear on panel when they first show up.
27	** Monger of Manslaughter & Eternal Bloodshed: [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-01-vinyl-fight-page-17 Glasya-Labolas]]
28	** Fallen Giant: [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-17 Gogmagog]]
29	** Infernal Seducer: [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-17 Master Leonard]]
30	** Punisher of Vile Men: [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-19 Alastor]]
31	** [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-105 Ambdusias']] [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-106 Knights]]:
32	*** Captain of Ambdusias' Knights: Jeff
33	*** Shredder of Souls: Bill
34	*** Reaper Creeper: Mike
35	*** The Silent Shield: Ken
36	** Bloodsucking Wraith: [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-04-this-immortal-coil-page-35 Vampire]] (Dorrian)
37	** Also a Bloodsucking Wraith: [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-04-this-immortal-coil-page-44 Vampire]] (Catherine)
38	** Revealer of Secret Thoughts: [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-05-the-vampire-strikes-back-page-2 Malphas]]
39	** The Face of Many: [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-06-the-dark-satanic-thrills-page-28 Dantalion]]
40	* CallForward: In the flashback tale about how Ozzie became a vampire, [[StarterVillain Glasya-Labolas]] is seen in statue form in an old temple.
41	* TheCoatsAreOff: Ozzie [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-01-vinyl-fight-page-28 takes off her hoodie]] and tosses it aside when facing Glasya-Labolas.
42	* CombatPragmatist: Kimmy [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-01-vinyl-fight-page-35 tricks]] Glasya-Labolas into turning around, then kicks him in the groin from behind.
43	-->'''Glasya-Labolas:''' Dishonorable!! Uncouth!! Have you wenches no sense of a warrior's code?!?!\
44	'''Kimmy:''' ''God'', no.
45	* ComedicSociopathy: When the souls Glasya-Labolas ate flee his mouth, Ozzie shoves Steve's back in. Austin later calls her on it, but she brushes it off.
46	-->'''Ozzie:''' He's in a better place now.\
47	'''Austin:''' ''He's in a demon's stomach in Hell.''\
48	'''Ozzie:''' I stand by what I said.
49	* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Ozzie and Kimmy come across this in the forest dimension.
50	* DeathGlare: As shown in flashback, Kimmy can do a mean glare.
51	* DefinitelyJustACold: According to Kimmy, Ozzie won't admit if there's anything wrong with her until she has no other choice. Ozzie's slow transformation into a vampire involved waking up with memory loss, feeling off, discovering mysterious puncture wounds in her neck, periodically blanking out and seeing visions, and discovering that she had a HealingFactor. She hid everything but the memory loss from her friends and kept insisting that she was fine.
52	* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: There are Lord class demons, all of whom can command their own minions.
53	* DemonSlaying: Ozzie, Kimmy, and Grimsley protect the human realm by slaying demons and sealing them away.
54	* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Ozzie first became a vampire, Kimmy went after her immediately, but it's later pointed out that she had no idea what to do when they caught up to Ozzie.
55	* FaintInShock: Kim faints when she first meets Grimsley, the talking book. The JumpScare from the skeleton that he's forgotten to warn her about doesn't help.
56	* FingerInABarrel: Ozzie blocks a fire blast from Alastor at point-blank range by stuffing her foot into his mouth, which makes him explode.
57	* FingerPokeOfDoom: After entering his 'Nemesis' state, Alastor [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-86 flicks Ozzie]] and sends her flying.
58	* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The PocketDimension that Alastor fights Ozzie in has this vibe, complete with sea of lava.
59	* FlashStep: Vampires and some other demons can do this.
60	* FoodAsBribe:
61	** Austin gets Kimmy to hang out with him by offering to buy her a pizza.
62	** Alastor convinces Leonard and Gogmagog to catch Ozzie and hold off eating any humans by promising them a chocolate bar.
63	* ForegoneConclusion: In the tale we hear of Ozzie becoming a vampire, we know Ozzie, Kimmy, Grimsley, and Austin make it out OK.
64	* GasLeakCoverup: The attack by Alastor and his cronies is explained off as a gas leak, the demons being hallucinations. How much of it was a cover up and how much was because demons don't show up on film is unknown.
65	* GeometricMagic: Kimmy traces a pentagram into the ground as part of a summoning ritual.
66	* GettingEatenIsHarmless: When Malphas eats a group of people, [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-07-holey-wars-page-20 Ozzie is able to force her to barf them up]], grossed out but alive.
67	* GlamourFailure: Like vampires, demons don't have reflections, though in their case it's because as long as the barrier between the realms is still up, they can't fully manifest on Earth.
68	* GroinAttack: Kimmy kicks Glasya-Labolas between the legs while his back is turned.
69	* HalloweenEpisode: Ozzie's birthday is on [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween]], and it's also when she became a vampire, which is likely not a coincidence.
70	* HypnoticEyes: One of a vampire's powers. Ozzie tries to use it to make Matt forget he saw her, but she's interrupted. Catherine, one of the vampires responsible for turning Ozzie, uses this power as well. In addition to petrifying Kimmy before attempting to feed on her, Ozzie thinks that they influenced her into coming with them to be turned, and to make sure Kimmy came along the second time as collateral so they would have a way to control her since her transformation apparently made her immune.
71	* IHaveYourWife: Ozzie suspects that the vampires working for the one that turned her brought Kimmy along as leverage, since their HypnoticEyes won't work on Ozzie anymore.
72	** Later, [[spoiler:[[HostageForMacGuffin Alastor possesses Nora (who just so happens to be Shari's wife, although she's not the target) in order to force Kimmy to return his body.]]]]
73	* IncompatibleOrientation: Austin has a crush on Nora in the first chapter. Not only is Nora gay, she's in a committed long distance relationship. Said relationship, for the curious, is ''marriage''.
74	* InelegantBlubbering:
75	** Matt dissolves into tears, snot, and repeated "OMG"s when he meets Ozzie and thinks she's going to suck his blood.
76	** Kimmy and Ozzie blubber "OMG"s and "holy shit"s after reuniting in the chapter 5 flashback, as they're both brand new to everything supernatural and overwhelmed by all the recent danger.
77	* {{Joisey}}: Demons have the easiest time crossing over into New Jersey because of all the malice and negativity floating around.
78	* KissingTheGround:
79	** Matt when he gets back from Alastor's lava dimension.
80	** Kimmy in the flashback arc when she gets back to her home dimension.
81	* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Ozzie loses one of her slip-on shoes when transported to midair in Alastor's pocket dimension. It's used to illustrate the danger of the lava as the shoe falls in and is destroyed.
82	* LousyLoversAreLosers: Kimmy [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-04-this-immortal-coil-page-17 says]] she broke up with one of her exes because he was a major {{Narcissist}} who was terrible at sex.
83	* MoreThanMindControl: Kimmy describes Catherine's use of her HypnoticEyes to "encourage" her to come with Ozzie and the pair of other vampires as rearranging the thoughts already in her head, and while Ozzie's memories of the night she was turned are still fuzzy at that point, she suspects that their claims that she came along willingly are because of the same power.
84	* MustHaveCaffeine: Kimmy is a total caffeine addict, she's sipped on a latte in the middle of a demon fight, and her character profile (which states that her favorite drink is ''anything'' with caffeine in it) implies she spends a ''lot'' of money on coffee, and will refuse to discuss the specific amount.
85	* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch:
86	** Ozzie rejects feeding on humans, preferring to eat the demons attacking her and her friends instead.
87	** Lord Amdusias's Skulldiers are sympathetic to humanity, and are polite to Kimmy, admiring her spirit.
88	* {{Narcissist}}: One of Kimmy's exes covered an entire room with photos of himself.
89	* NominalHero: Ozzie and Kimmy to varying extents. Ozzie doesn't care about humanity so much as protecting the city she lives in from demon invaders. Kimmy verges on being a HeroicComedicSociopath -- it's implied she made some kind of deal with Grimsley that obligates her to fight and seal away demons.
90	* NoSell:
91	** Glasya-Labolas' YourSoulIsMine technique fails on Ozzie and Kimmy, Ozzie because being a vampire means that the Devil already owns her soul, and Kimmy because Grimsley claims she [[TheSoulless doesn't HAVE a soul]].
92	** It's later revealed that Kimmy's bond with Grimsley comes with an immunity to demonic magic like vampire mesmerism.
93	* NothingButSkulls: [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-6 A glimpse]] of the demon realm shows mounds upon mounds of skulls, with a few femurs tossed in.
94	* NoYou: When Austin expresses concern for Ozzie and she snaps at him.
95	-->'''Austin:''' You look kind of sweaty...\
96	'''Ozzie:''' '''''You''' look kind of sweaty!''
97	* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Nora is in a band with Matt's roommate.
98	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Ozzie can fly, turn into bats, and regenerate. She's vulnerable to decapitation, stakes through the heart, garlic, sunlight, and possibly silver. She also sleeps in a coffin.
99	* PainfulTransformation: As we see in a flashback, Ozzie's transformation into a vampire took place over an entire day, and at the end she was in severe pain with blood leaking from her eyes. It is even implied to have been fatal for someone else who went through it.
100	* ParentalNeglect: Ozzie's parents apparently didn't pay her much attention when she was younger. Her dad was often away on tour, though they did watch TV together when he was home, and they rarely remembered to give her lunch money or anything to eat for lunch when she was at school.
101	* PetTheDog: In sixth grade, Kimmy gave her packed lunches (which she hated anyway) to Ozzie, whose parents always forgot to give her lunch money. Austin tears up on hearing this and claims "you ''do'' have a heart!"
102	* PocketDimension:
103	** Alastor transports the protagonists to a pocket dimension filled with lava. They are transported back to Earth upon his defeat.
104	** Dantalion has a pocket dimension, which appears to be filled with a fog or void, from which she can work her tracking abilities.
105	* {{Polyamory}}: Shari and Nora apparently have no problem extending their marriage to Ozzie and Kimmy after hearing about their bravery in the otherdimensional forest, though the former isn't interested in marriage and the latter's too shocked for a proper reply.
106	* PortalCrossroadWorld: The nexus of all realities is a space-y looking place full of [[FuturisticPyramid mysterious floating pyramids]] and portals to other worlds.
107	* PowerLevels: The power classes for demons are: Minion, Lord, Dreadnought, and God.
108	* PrisonersLastMeal: Referenced in a SeinfeldianConversation in [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-04-this-immortal-coil-page-13 "Episode 4: This Immortal Coil."]]
109	--> '''Austin:''' Yeah, imagine if your last meal was back at the Gorilla Bar Lounge.
110	--> '''Kimmy:''' Oh man that reminds me: have you guys ever looked up what dudes on death row order for their last meals?
111	--> '''Austin:''' No, because I'm not a sociopath.
112	--> '''Ozzie:''' It's nuts! They let you order anything! Pasta as far as the eye can see!!
113	* ProtagonistTitle: The comic is named after its main character, Ozzie (who is a vampire).
114	* PunnyName:
115	** The record store where Nora works is called [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Vinyl Fantasy Seven]].
116	** Grimsley is a living grimoire.
117	** A coffee shop in the background of [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-24 this page]] is called {{Grindcore}}.
118	** A place on [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-45 this page]] is called [[Film/MinorityReport Minority Repork]].
119	** A sushi place that appears in chapter 3 is called [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Goldeen]] Sushi (playing on the name of real life restaurant Golden Sushi.)
120	* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Jeff thought Grimsley was dead until Kimmy summoned them through him. Grimsley corrects him in that he was asleep, but had hoped he'd never need to wake up again.
121	* SeinfeldianConversation: On the way to the party in the chapter 4 flashback, Kimmy checking on Ozzie segues into [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-04-this-immortal-coil-page-13 a]] [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-04-this-immortal-coil-page-14 discussion]] between them and Austin about last meals, which gets heated when it comes to the logistics of ordering Shamrock Shakes.
122	* ShaggyDogStory: Throughout chapter 2, Ozzie is attempting to get to class on time, but first she must fight some demons that have shown up. [[spoiler: The end of the chapter reveals that class was canceled that day because of the destruction the fighting caused in town. And her homework was damaged by the heat, to boot.]]
123	* ShoutOut: Some of the demons that show up are based on/named after demons from the Literature/ArsGoetia. There's Glasya-Labolas, Malphas, and Dantalion.
124	* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler:Ozzie delivers a speech about Alastor's social darwinistic beliefs before draining him, pointing out that for all his bluster about humans being inferior to demons, the fact that she's a demon who feeds on other demons means that ''she's'' the real apex predator.]].
125	* SignificantBirthDate:
126	** Ozzie's birthday is on Halloween. Apparently this is key to why she was chosen to try and break the seal to the demon world.
127	** Kimmy's birthday is April 20 (aka [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture) 4/20]]).
128	** Austin's birthday is November 11 -- 11/11.
129	* SinisterScythe: Mike and Bill's weapons; Mike has a single large one, while Bill has two smaller ones.
130	* SneezeCut: On [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-06-the-dark-satanic-thrills-page-5 this]] page, Itzel declares that she will purge the world of evil, including vampires, then it cuts to Ozzie in class, sneezing.
131	* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Justified; as more demons cross over, the barrier between worlds gets weaker, allowing more powerful demons to cross over. Alastor was the strongest the group has faced yet, and he's only a Lord class demon, the second lowest type on the power chain. If a Dreadnaught-class crosses over, the world is doomed.
132	* SuckECheeses: Funland is one of these, judging from the [[http://www.ozziethevampire.com/comic/episode-02-tardy-hard-page-60 exterior]]. They have pizza, arcade games, laser tag, employees in animal costumes handing out balloons, and little kids running around. Austin and Ozzie frequent the place.
133	* TearOffYourFace: Ozzie's method of proving herself as a vampire to Shari is to ''rip off her own face.''
134	* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Part of why Ozzie doesn't exactly advertise her abilities.
135	* TomTheDarkLord: Master Leonard. Also the Knights of Amdusias, who are named Jeff, Bill, Mike, and Ken.
136	* TooMuchInformation: After seeing an ex at Ozzie's birthday party, Kimmy offhandedly mentions a detail of her sex life to Austin, who looks uncomfortable and sips his drink.
137	* TwinkleInTheEye: Kimmy before she kicks Labolas in the groin, and Alastor before he reads Nora's mind.
138	* VampireHickey: The day Ozzie became a vampire, she woke up with two puncture wounds on her neck.
139	* VitriolicBestBuds: Ozzie and Kimmy are best friends who've known each other since sixth grade. They also insult and get on each other's nerves a lot.
140	* WeCanRuleTogether: Alastor offers to let Ozzie work for him. She refuses, of course.
141	* TheWorldIsNotReady: Kimmy believes that if the truth about demons and the like got out, society would collapse. Matt's dad apparently felt the same way.
142	* YearInsideHourOutside: The fight with Alastor in the Alter of Madness takes a not insignificant amount of time, but barely any has passed when he's beaten and they leave.
143	* YourSoulIsMine: Glasya-Labolas starts sucking out the souls of the record store customers to get back to Hell. Ozzie is immune due to her vampirism, and Kimmy is apparently TheSoulless.
144	* UnlimitedWardrobe: Characters have different outfits on in different chapters, although they're usually roughly the same (in particular, Austin's durag always has something different written on it).

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