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* GroinAttack: Is on the recieving end of one of these during his first battle with Eastwood, ironically when he has Eastwood on the ropes and makes a snide remark about how his former friend might have gotten somewhere in life if he'd thought with his brain more than his balls.

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* GroinAttack: Is on the recieving receiving end of one of these during his first battle with Eastwood, ironically when he has Eastwood on the ropes and makes a snide remark about how his former friend might have gotten somewhere in life if he'd thought with his brain more than his balls.

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[[folder:Toaster Daemon]]
!! Toaster Daemon

A Fernexite daemon who keeps possessing the team's toasters.

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[[folder:Vitani]]
!! Toaster Daemon

Mistress Vitani

A Fernexite daemon who keeps possessing the team's toasters.Patternari Daemon Princess resembling a giant black widow spider.


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* FinalBoss: She's the last villain to be fought before the comic went on indefinite hiatus[[spoiler:, although the ending shows her forming an alliance for revenge with Morth.
* GiantSpider: Something which freaks Eastwood out to no end.
* NonMammalMammaries: Despite being an arachnid, she has breasts. Virus certainly appreciates it.
** Justified, since as a Daemon Princess, she WasOnceAMan.
* OneWingedAngel: Can transform into a gargantuan monstrous form for combat.
* TheVamp: As a black widow daemon, she's very seductive and [[spoiler:has sex with Virus. And then tries to eat him]].
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[[folder:Toaster Daemon]]
!! Toaster Daemon

A Fernexite daemon who keeps possessing the team's toasters.
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* ModernizedGod: Adopts the look of an ArmchairMilitary general as his worshippers are mainly military officers and wargaming nerds, while his old look evoked less 'battle' and more 'drunken slapfights in a pub's parking lot'.

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* ModernizedGod: Adopts the look of an ArmchairMilitary general as his worshippers are mainly military officers and wargaming nerds, while his old look evoked less 'battle' and more 'drunken slapfights in a pub's parking lot'.lot', a role he pawned off to one of his archdemons.
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* MundaneUtility: Despite his annoyance about the others using his sword for random crap, he's guilty of it himself, such as using it to shave.

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* MundaneUtility: Despite his annoyance about the others using his sword for random crap, [[HypocriticalHumor he's guilty of it himself, himself]], such as using it to shave.
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* HalfDressedCartoonanimal: Downplayed. While he goes pantsless, he does regularly wear a shirt, his trench, and shoes.

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* HalfDressedCartoonanimal: HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Downplayed. While he goes pantsless, he does regularly wear a shirt, his trench, and shoes.

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* HalfDressedCartoonanimal: Downplayed. While he goes pantsless, he does regularly wear a shirt, his trench, and shoes.
* IdiotHero: He's a womanizing moron who still manages to be surprisingly effective in the field.



* PaletteSwap: When the comic first began, he originally looked like a greyscaled version of Tails, but with a single tear and wearing a trench coat. By the time the comic was put on hiatus, he was redesigned to look far more unique, most notably altering his bangs so they look more like they come from over the top of his head instead of mimicking Tails'.



* ButtMonkey: As demonstrated with the spider daemon, even when he succeeds, he fails.

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* ButtMonkey: As demonstrated with A lot of the spider daemon, even when he succeeds, he fails.comic's humor is done at his expense.



* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: The only member of the team who wears a complete outfit, while Harry goes pantsless and Lothar and Rogue are almost completely nude.



* HeterosexualLifePartners: Arguably with Eastwood.

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Arguably He has the closest bond with Eastwood.Eastwood, and while they both occasionally get on each other's nerves, they're friends to the end.



%%* AxCrazy
* BigBrotherInstinct: By the gods, do '''NOT''' mess with his family. Not even your soul will make it out in one piece.

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%%* AxCrazy
* AxCrazy: Compared to the other three, Lothar's the one who will legitimately choose violence as his first answer to a problem, and he's got major anger issues to boot.
* BerserkButton:
** Damaging his hat will make him want you dead immediately.
** His fury is amplified even further if you threaten his family. Rogue learns this the hard way, and just barely manages to avoid getting gruesomely murdered.
* BigBrotherInstinct: By the gods, do '''NOT''' mess with his family. Not even your soul will make it out in one piece. Rogue regrets it when he does.



* TheBigGuy: It helps that he's an echidna, a race known for its strength.

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* TheBigGuy: It helps that he's an echidna, a race known for its strength.He's the team's strongest member, combining his natural echidna strength with his cybernetic legs and arm to cause major damage and withstand oncoming punishment.



** The Cesspool arc provides a lot of opportunities to see Lothar's sensitive side. He returns to the Cesspool mercenary bar to defend his adopted brother Kyle, and even gives his dad a coy hug upon meeting him again. [[spoiler:And when Rogue threatens to have the lot of them arrested, Lothar goes into UnstoppableRage to protect them.]]

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** The Cesspool arc provides a lot of opportunities to see Lothar's sensitive side. He returns to the Cesspool mercenary bar to defend his adopted brother Kyle, and even gives his dad a coy hug upon meeting him again. [[spoiler:And And when Rogue threatens to have the lot of them arrested, Lothar goes into UnstoppableRage to protect them.]]



%%* ''[[OffWithHisHead decapitated them]]''.%%What?%%

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%%* ''[[OffWithHisHead decapitated them]]''.%%What?%%* PaletteSwap: In the comic's early days, he was basically Knuckles but with three cyber limbs, a cyber eye, and a cowboy hat, and the red fur exchanged for purple. His design went through multiple changes, ending with his dreads looking far more spiky, his chest insignia being removed in favor of dog tags, his fur becoming black, and his muzzle being colored darker.



* RedRightHand: His arm cannon.
* SwissArmyWeapon: Said arm cannon can have multiple different functions. He even hints that we haven't seen them all.

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* RedRightHand: His arm cannon.
* SwissArmyWeapon: Said His arm cannon can have multiple different functions. He even hints that we haven't seen them all. Most of the time, he alternates between the blaster and the chainsaw.
* UndyingLoyalty: To an extent, he's this towards the gang. He will happily manhandle them if they piss him off enough, but he won't go out of his way to betray them.
** It also counts towards the mercenaries who raised him. Best shown when he offers to help clear Kyle's name, and also when he engages in a violent brawl with Rogue when the latter threatens them.



* LawfulStupid: He sees anything mildly heretical, daemonic or law-breaking as bad, and treats it as such. [[spoiler:This is brought to a head when he threatens all of Lothar's family with arrest or death after a particularly heated argument.]]

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* LawfulStupid: He sees anything mildly heretical, daemonic or law-breaking as bad, and treats it as such. [[spoiler:This This is brought to a head when he threatens all of Lothar's family with arrest or death after a particularly heated argument.]]



* OnlySaneMan: He's had the most training hunting daemons, and he's actually fairly well-versed in the way he fights. It's his tendency to be a complete jerk whose ego gets the best of him that prevents him from being truly effective.

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* OnlySaneMan: He's had Compared to the most training hunting daemons, womanizing idiot Harry, the also idiotic ButtMonkey Virus, and he's actually fairly well-versed in the way he fights. It's AxCrazy cyborg Lothar, Rogue is the closest example of an actual decent person among the team. His only major flaw is his tendency to be a complete jerk whose ego gets the best of him that prevents him from being truly effective.alongside LawfulStupid tendencies.



* {{Foil}}: To Harry.
* TheHero: The most straight example in the comic.

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* {{Foil}}: To Harry.
Harry. Whereas Harry is a dimwit who fails miserably at bedding women and gets lucky with missions he's assigned to, Damien is genuinely successful and capable, both in achieving mission objectives and winning the hearts of women.
* TheHero: The most straight example in the comic. Even then, he's kind of an AntiHero, given his personality and tendency to "pump and dump" his admirers.



* {{Foil}}: To Syrus.

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* {{Foil}}: To Syrus.Virus. Virus is a sense-lacking rodent who regularly needs his teammates to bail him out, while Xandius is an accomplished operative who rarely ever makes mistakes.



** CulturedBadass: Carries himself very formally on the above occasion. And is definitely badass.

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** * CulturedBadass: Carries himself very formally on the above occasion. And is definitely badass.



* {{Foil}}: To Rogue.

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* {{Foil}}: To Rogue. Both are Daemon Hunters, but while Rogue is an egotistical hunter who uses a Beam Sword, Tempest is a jovial, friendly fellow using a staff.



* AmazonBrigade: Barely avoid becoming this.

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* AmazonBrigade: Barely avoid becoming this.this, thanks to Sebastian joining them.



* ActionGirl: '''HELL YES!'''

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* ActionGirl: '''HELL YES!'''One of the finest examples in the comic, regularly demonstrating that she's not to be trifled with whenever she enters the scene.



* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous:

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* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous:OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: As a Slaanesh {{Expy}}, this is natural. The Soulthirster cares not for whatever gender others address them with - all they care for is carnal pleasure.



* TheGhost: He's never actually manifested in the story, though his cult really wants him to.



* RivalsTeamUp: His existance posed such a threat to the balance between the Good and Evil gods that they actually teamed up to destroy him during the First Incursion.

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* RivalsTeamUp: His existance existence posed such a threat to the balance between the Good and Evil gods that they actually teamed up to destroy him during the First Incursion.



* FailOSuckyname: His name is so embarrassing that he tries to hide it, and revealing it is actually [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2007-10-20/comic/shades-of-black-and-white/lovecraftian-let-down/ integral]] to stopping Morth's first villainous plot.


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* UnfortunateNames: His name is so embarrassing that he tries to hide it, and revealing it is actually [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2007-10-20/comic/shades-of-black-and-white/lovecraftian-let-down/ integral]] to stopping Morth's first villainous plot.


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* RunningGag: Forms a minor one in the main group's toaster regularly being possessed and trying to murder them.
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* BladeOnAStick: Her primary weapon is a vibro-glaive.

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* DemonOfHumanOrigin: The end goal of his plans in both arcs he features in. [[spoiler:In the second arc he succeeds.]]



* {{Expy}}: [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} of Tzeentch.]] And they hate each other for it.

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* {{Expy}}: [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} of Tzeentch.]] And they hate each other for Who sued him over it.

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[[folder:Father Ocean]]
!! Father Ocean
A former cultist all the way back during the First Incursion who managed to ascend to godhood, becoming the divine embodiment of the ocean abyss.

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[[folder:Blasphemy]]
!! Father Ocean
A former cultist all
Blasphemy the way back during Chao
Virus's pet Chao, who absorbed
the First Incursion who managed to ascend to godhood, becoming the divine embodiment DNA of a daemon of the ocean abyss.Hound and became an unholy abomination.




* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Was originally a mortal who rose through the ranks to high priest and eventually becoming a demon prince, but even that wasn't enough to sate his ambition, and he managed to gather enough followers and power to ascend to godhood, the only mortal ever to do so.
* SealedEvilInACan: After his defeat, his body was sealed away in one of his temples, which eventually sunk to the bottom of the ocean. His cult is trying to find a way to release him.
* RivalsTeamUp: His existance posed such a threat to the balance between the Good and Evil gods that they actually teamed up to destroy him during the First Incursion.

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\n* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Was originally a mortal who rose through BigEater: He ate the ranks to high priest roughly cow-sized daemon whose DNA he absorbed, and eventually becoming a demon prince, but even that wasn't enough to sate his ambition, and he managed to gather enough followers and power to ascend to godhood, the only mortal ever to do so.
* SealedEvilInACan: After his defeat, his body was sealed away
in one of his temples, which eventually sunk comic Lothar casually tosses him a whole ham.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Has been known
to eat daemons, textbooks, desks, and ninjas.
* {{Hellhound}}: Absorbed
the bottom DNA of the ocean. one, giving him [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]] pigmentation, giant [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily fangs]] and claws, and horns.
* PokemonSpeak:
His cult vocabulary is trying limited to find a way to release him.
* RivalsTeamUp: His existance posed such a threat to the balance between the Good
variations on "Chao" and Evil gods that they actually teamed up to destroy him during the First Incursion. threatening growls.



[[folder:Kevin]]
!! Kevin

Silas Morth's patron for the Patterner, a Greater Daemon who has a decidedly less than impressive name.

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[[folder:Father Ocean]]
!! Kevin

Silas Morth's patron for
Father Ocean
A former cultist all
the Patterner, a Greater Daemon way back during the First Incursion who has a decidedly less than impressive name.managed to ascend to godhood, becoming the divine embodiment of the ocean abyss.


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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Was originally a mortal who rose through the ranks to high priest and eventually becoming a demon prince, but even that wasn't enough to sate his ambition, and he managed to gather enough followers and power to ascend to godhood, the only mortal ever to do so.
* SealedEvilInACan: After his defeat, his body was sealed away in one of his temples, which eventually sunk to the bottom of the ocean. His cult is trying to find a way to release him.
* RivalsTeamUp: His existance posed such a threat to the balance between the Good and Evil gods that they actually teamed up to destroy him during the First Incursion.
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[[folder:Kevin]]
!! Kevin

Silas Morth's patron for the Patterner, a Greater Daemon who has a decidedly less than impressive name.
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[[folder:Toaster Daemon]]
!! Toaster Daemon

A Fernexite daemon who keeps possessing the team's toasters.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: Is way more mobile than a toaster has any right to be.
* DemonicPossession: Like other machine spirits it tends to possess machinery rather than manifest physically.
* FightingAShadow: Eastwood and Virus regularly smash its current vessel, only for it to possess the next toaster they buy, in one case it didn't even wait for them to take it out of the box. Virus suspects that the cheap toasters Eastwood keeps buying have some kind of vulnerability to possession.
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* SuicideAsComedy: He really hates spiders, and when confronted with the threat of being raped and eaten by a spider daemoness, he makes an attempt at AteHisGun. When the gun turns out to be empty (since he shot at spiders with it previously), he goes EtTuBrute at it.

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* SuicideAsComedy: He really hates spiders, and when confronted with the threat of being raped and eaten by a spider daemoness, he makes [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2015-06-08/comic/tangled-web/trigger-unhappy/ an attempt attempt]] at AteHisGun. When the gun turns out to be empty (since he shot at spiders with emptied it into a door previously), he goes EtTuBrute at it.
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** HilariousInHindsight: [[spoiler:May actually ''be'' the head, if Schaefer truly has gone rogue.]]
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* ChainsawGood: He initially has a circular saw in his cybernetic arm but when it needs to be replaced he upgrades to a chainsaw because they're more durable and look cooler.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins
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* InformedAttribute: He claims that people call him "Dirty Harry" due to his unorthodox methods, his large collection of porn, and that he smells like he hasn't washed in over a week. They're all right, of course, except that no-one has actually called him that throughout the comic except himself.

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* InformedAttribute: He claims that people call him "Dirty Harry" due to his unorthodox methods, his large collection of porn, and that he smells like he hasn't washed in over a week. They're all right, of course, except that no-one has actually called him that throughout the comic except himself.himself (which would make sense for the comic anyway).
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: If issue #380 is any indication, [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2011-09-27/comic/the-cesspool/a-would-heroically-struggle-to-the-death-with-again he's genuinely awesome when he plays to his strengths]], as demonstrated by taking down a CorruptCorporateExecutive on his own, armed with nothing but a pistol. Amusingly combines with ThePeterPrinciple, as he is now promoted to a position well outside his field of competence.

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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: If issue #380 is any indication, [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2011-09-27/comic/the-cesspool/a-would-heroically-struggle-to-the-death-with-again he's genuinely awesome when he plays to his strengths]], as demonstrated by taking down a CorruptCorporateExecutive on his own, armed with nothing but a pistol. Amusingly combines with ThePeterPrinciple, as he is now promoted to a position well outside his field of competence.



* ThePeterPrinciple: Combines this with AsskickingEqualsAuthority. He was a legitimately badass field agent as his fight with Edward Bay indicated, but he's stuck in a position that no longer uses his best skills.

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* ThePeterPrinciple: Combines this with AsskickingEqualsAuthority.AsskickingLeadsToLeadership. He was a legitimately badass field agent as his fight with Edward Bay indicated, but he's stuck in a position that no longer uses his best skills.

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