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* JokerImmunity: The Doll ''seems'' to have this [[spoiler: which becomes a plot point later]]
* KangarooCourt: Played with in "A Higher Court."
* KnightTemplar: The Temple, collectively.
* LaughablyEvil: The Painted Doll.
* KangarooCourt: Played with in "A Higher Court."
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* JokerImmunity: The Doll ''seems'' Painted Doll, being an {{Expy}} of the Joker from ''Batman'', is infamous for always coming back from certain doom. [[spoiler:This is {{Enforced}}; he is actually a robot who was built by Stan of the Five Swell Guys to have this [[spoiler: which becomes a plot point later]]
*kill Marv, the other "genius" on the team. Every time he is killed, he gets rebuilt and implanted with the memories of his predecessor.]]
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* RealPersonCameo: repeatedly, especially [[spoiler: the near-ubiquitous Creator/AleisterCrowley]]. Toward the end, [[spoiler: [[BreakingTheFourthWall Moore and series artist [=J.H.=] Williams [=III=]]]]] also have a one-panel cameo each.
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* RealPersonCameo: repeatedly, Repeatedly, especially [[spoiler: the near-ubiquitous Creator/AleisterCrowley]]. Toward the end, [[spoiler: [[BreakingTheFourthWall Moore and series artist [=J.H.=] Williams [=III=]]]]] also have a one-panel cameo each.
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* SexMagic: One issue of consisted entirely of a sex magic ritual between the hero Sophie Bangs and her TricksterMentor Jack Faust.
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* SexMagic: One issue of consisted consists entirely of a sex magic ritual between the hero Sophie Bangs and her TricksterMentor Jack Faust.
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* TransparentCloset: [[spoiler: Stacia]]
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* TransparentCloset: [[spoiler: Stacia]][[spoiler:Stacia, Sophie's best friend]] is openly homophobic, to deflect from having to accept their own sexuality.
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* VillainsNeverLie: The Goetia.
* TheWatson: Sophie fills this role very heavily at first, and then goes [[MrExposition Ms Exposition]] as she learns more [[spoiler: to Stacia and Trish, and even to Barbara, of all people]].
* TheWatson: Sophie fills this role very heavily at first, and then goes [[MrExposition Ms Exposition]] as she learns more [[spoiler: to Stacia and Trish, and even to Barbara, of all people]].
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* TheWatson: Sophie fills this role very heavily at first, and then goes [[MrExposition Ms Exposition]] as she learns more
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* YourMindMakesItReal: This seems to define how things are handled in the Immateria.
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* TheWatson: Sophie fills this role very heavily at first, and then goes [[MrExposition MsExposition]] as she learns more [[spoiler: to Stacia and Trish, and even to Barbara, of all people]].
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* TheWatson: Sophie fills this role very heavily at first, and then goes [[MrExposition MsExposition]] Ms Exposition]] as she learns more [[spoiler: to Stacia and Trish, and even to Barbara, of all people]].
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* UnusualEuphemism: Chemise-lifters.
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* UnusualEuphemism: Chemise-lifters."Chemise-lifters" as a euphemism for lesbians.
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* WiseSerpent: most notably the two on Promethea's caduceus.
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* WiseSerpent: most notably the The two snakes on Promethea's caduceus.caduceus guard plenty of knowledge about the history of the universe and the Major Arcana. They teach Sophie about to guide her in her quest of being a Promethea incarnation.
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* WiseSerpent: most notably the two on Promethea's caduceus.
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The protagonist, student Sophie Bangs, while researching a college paper, discovers several references to a character named Promethea. These references are in a variety of literary works including epic poetry and comic books. Curious Sophie investigates and eventually finds Barbara Shelley, the wife of the now-deceased author of the latest incarnation of the character. Her attempt to interview Ms. Shelley is unsuccessful.
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The protagonist, a student named Sophie Bangs, while researching a college paper, discovers several references to a character named Promethea. These references are in a variety of literary works including epic poetry and comic books. Curious Curious, Sophie investigates and eventually finds Barbara Shelley, the wife of the now-deceased author of the latest incarnation of the character. Her attempt to interview Ms. Shelley is unsuccessful.
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* PracticallyJoker: The Painted Doll inevitably reminds one of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker. He even has a resemblance to Creator/MarkHamill.
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* PracticallyJoker: The Painted Doll inevitably reminds one of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.ComicBook/TheJoker. He even has a resemblance to Creator/MarkHamill.
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* ArtShift: When "Big Bill" give Sophie a tour around Immateria and tells about his/her past, everything shifts from comic book art to photorealistic (or what Sophie calls "hyper-real").
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* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Grace.]]
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->"There are 1,000 comic books on the shelves that don't contain a philosophy lecture and one that does. Isn't there room for that one?"
-->--'''Alan Moore'''
-->--'''Alan Moore'''
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-->-- '''Alan Moore'''
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* HelloNurse: Uvula Cascade, who's also the most overt FanServicePack. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that she's a porn star.
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* BadassBoast: Sophie gets in a beauty of one in the first issue, once she fully assumes the power of Promethea:
-->''"I am Promethea, art's fiercest spark,\\
I am all inspiration, all desire,\\
Imagination's blaze in mankind's dark...\\
I am Promethea. I bring you FIRE!"''
-->''"I am Promethea, art's fiercest spark,\\
I am all inspiration, all desire,\\
Imagination's blaze in mankind's dark...\\
I am Promethea. I bring you FIRE!"''
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* {{Expy}}: The Painted Doll inevitably reminds one of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
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* ApocalypseNot: [[spoiler: While the "end of the world" Promethea brought had caused a few fear-induced suicides, the destruction she causes is purely metaphorical. After she manages to merge the material and immaterial world, it brings humanity into a new enlightened age, thus civilization not only survives the "apocalypse", it ''thrives'' like it never has before.]]
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* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Sophie Bangs]]]]
* MentalWorld: Trips into the Immateria seem to qualify as this.
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: In Binah, Sophie and Barbara encounter an entity known as Babalon, a Thelemic goddess that embodies feminine sexuality, the passions they ignite in others (both positive and negative) and their destructive capabilities. After she proclaims who she is and [[spoiler:her relationship to Promethea's role as ApocalypseMaiden]], she then immediately transforms into Marie, the embodiment of all that is sacred, wholesome and compassionate in woman-kind.
* MeaningfulName:[[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext Sophie Bangs]]]]
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* MonsterClown: The Painted Doll, of course.
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* MonsterClown: The Painted Doll, of course.a celebrity serial killer dressed as a clown.
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* AllMythsAreTrueAllMythsAreTrue: All gods and mythical creatures exist in the Immateria.
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* AfterTheEndAfterTheEnd: [[spoiler:Since the "apocalypse" that Promethea was meant to bring about was a metaphorical one, the comic ends with the sparkling utopia that happens after she brings "the end".]]
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys (apes, technically): The Weeping Gorilla.
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* HollywoodPsych
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* PiecesOfGod
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* TarotMotifsTarotMotifs: Tarot cards (most notably [[Art/ThothTarotDeck the Thoth Deck]]) are brought up many times. The previous Prometheas use the minor arcana to teach Sophie how to use her abilities, the snakes on her staff use the Major Arcana to explain the history of the universe and she encounters personifications of both during her quest through the World Tree.
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* [[spoiler: TurnedAgainstTheirMasters / AIIsACrapshoot]]
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* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Sophie Bangs briefly meets [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kendrick_Bangs John Kendrick Bangs]], her ancestor, on the house-boat on the Styx which he wrote about, while searching for her dead predecessor.
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* CreatorThumbprint: InUniverse, when the character Promethea was written in pulp stories in the 1920s, the writers shared a PenName, "Marto Neptura". In order to defeat a representation of Neptura in the Immateria, Sophie lists five such writers who each had different trademarks. Two are said to have been quite good and one is only mentioned to have been prolific, but of the other two, one is said have included a lot of misogynistic bondage scenes and the other is said to have been [[AuthorAppeal obsessed with medieval weaponry]].
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* CerebusSyndrome: The comic started as, and spent roughly one third to half its run as, an adventure story with philosophical elements. After that, it quickly turned into a non-stop AuthorTract.
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* RedIsViolent: Geburah is one of the branches of the Kabbalah, representing the universal qualities of strength, judgement, the planet Mars, the element of fire and the domain of {{War God}}s and enactors of justice. The entire area is illustrated with harsh red and black illuminated with flames, and being within it for too long influences Sophie and Barbara into a more aggressive state of mind, eventually losing track of themselves and accidentally falling into the domain of Asmodeus.
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* RedIsViolent: Geburah is one of the branches of the Kabbalah, {{UsefulNotes/Kabbalah}}, representing the universal qualities of strength, judgement, the planet Mars, the element of fire and the domain of {{War God}}s and enactors of justice. The entire area is illustrated with harsh red and black illuminated with flames, and being within it for too long influences Sophie and Barbara into a more aggressive state of mind, eventually losing track of themselves and accidentally falling into the domain of Asmodeus.
