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* BigFishInABiggerOcean: Hunter Rose, the GeniusBruiser DiabolicalMastermind who is the original, 20th-century, Grendel. In his own universe, he's so powerful a BadassNormal that only a superstrong werewolf has a chance of beating him. However, in the {{crossover}} miniseries with ComicBook/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/TheShadow, he provides a decent challenge to both of them, but gets his ass kicked both times, as they're used to fighting high-grade Badass Normal costumed villains.
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* SelfRemake: In 2023 Wagner marked the fortieth anniversary of the first ''Grendel'' comic with an entirely re-written and re-drawn, and much expanded, new version of ''Devil By the Deed''.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Crystal Kennedy.
** Her grandfather's pretty close, too.
** Her grandfather's pretty close, too.
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* BladeOnAStick: Hunter Rose's 'fork', a weapon also favored by Christine Spar and Eppy Thatcher
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* EasilySwayedPopulation: The people of Revan Jhek, who accept Grendel Prime as a messiah but are instantly turned against him with a brief and ridiculous speech by Gama Gorach.
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* TrialByCombat: The basis of society on Revan Jhek, which Grendel Prime tries to overthrow.
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* ChivalrousPervert: Orion Assante is a more literal version of this than most, being the closest the series has to a genuine BigGood and also very much in requited love with [[BrotherSisterIncest his half-sisters]].
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* CaptainErsatz: The Consortium in ''Devil's Odyssey'' are blatantly inspired by Literature/TheCulture -- an AI-ruled Utopia with super-powered science and a tendency to whimsical starship names.
* ChivalrousPervert: Orion Assante is a more literal version of this than most, being the closest the series has to a genuine BigGood and also very much in requited love with [[BrotherSisterIncest hishalf-sisters]].half-sisters]].
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ending of ''Devil's Odyssey'', in which Grendel Prime returns to Earth after TimeDilation to discover that Grendels are to be killed on sight and that the world may have been taken over by vampires.
* ChivalrousPervert: Orion Assante is a more literal version of this than most, being the closest the series has to a genuine BigGood and also very much in requited love with [[BrotherSisterIncest his
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ending of ''Devil's Odyssey'', in which Grendel Prime returns to Earth after TimeDilation to discover that Grendels are to be killed on sight and that the world may have been taken over by vampires.
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* GenreShift:
** The 20th and 21st century stories are noir crime dramas with superhero elements.
** The later-set stories are post-apocalyptic SF.
** ''Devil's Odyssey'' is a WagonTrainToTheStars with overtones of ''Magazine/HeavyMetal''-style European SF comics.
** The 20th and 21st century stories are noir crime dramas with superhero elements.
** The later-set stories are post-apocalyptic SF.
** ''Devil's Odyssey'' is a WagonTrainToTheStars with overtones of ''Magazine/HeavyMetal''-style European SF comics.
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* {{Trumplica}}: In ''Devil's Odyssey'', the corrupt and stupid ruler of Revan Jhek, Gama Gorach, is blatantly a caricature of Donald Trump as an alien frog-creature, echoing Trump catch-phrases in much of his dialogue.
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** Grendel Tales back covers feature a motif of the symbols of individual Grendel clans. One of them is clearly based on [[IconicLogo Japanese mon]].
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** Grendel Tales back covers feature a motif of the symbols of individual Grendel clans. One of them is clearly based on [[IconicLogo Japanese mon]].mon.
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* {{Cyborg}}: A few characters have cybernetic implants, such as Captain Wiggins' artificial eye. CyberneticsEatYourSoul comes into play more than once. Taken UpToEleven with Grendel-Prime, who is a full-body conversion ''powered by sunlight.''
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* {{Cyborg}}: A few characters have cybernetic implants, such as Captain Wiggins' artificial eye. CyberneticsEatYourSoul comes into play more than once. Taken UpToEleven with Grendel-Prime, who Grendel-Prime is a full-body conversion ''powered by sunlight.''
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Skunk Stripe is no longer a trope. Zero Context Examples and examples that do fit existing tropes will be deleted.
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** Anyone with a SkunkStripe is probably a major Grendel figure.
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** Anyone with a SkunkStripe skunk stripe is probably a major Grendel figure.
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However, this is not the end of the story; the series proper is set in the future after the conclusion of ''Devil by the Deed'', initially featuring Stacy's daughter Christine Spar. The story then continues in the far future, where the concept of Grendel eventually becomes the basis of world civilisation.
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However, this is not the end of the story; the series proper is set in the future after the conclusion of ''Devil by the Deed'', initially featuring Stacy's daughter Christine Spar. The story then continues in the far future, where the concept of Grendel eventually becomes the basis of world civilisation.
civilisation, with its avatar Grendel Prime.
A slightly-retconned Grendel Prime stars in the more recent series ''Devil’s Odyssey'', a space opera homage to the 1980s Magazine/HeavyMetal magazine and other SF works. It is a significant tonal shift from the earlier series, closer to true parody.
A slightly-retconned Grendel Prime stars in the more recent series ''Devil’s Odyssey'', a space opera homage to the 1980s Magazine/HeavyMetal magazine and other SF works. It is a significant tonal shift from the earlier series, closer to true parody.
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* MoralityChain: Susan Veraghan is implied to be this for Grendel Prime, while she lives. Once she passes away, the last of Grendel Prime’s heroic traits vanish as well.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Lots, including Captain Wiggins, Brian Li Sung, Laurel Kennedy and Abner Heath.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Lots, including Captain Wiggins, Brian Li Sung, Laurel Kennedy and Abner Heath. Even Grendel Prime succumbs over time.
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* FailedFutureForecast: The USSR still exists in 2120, at which point the simultaneous assassination of its Premier and the US President leads to WorldWarIII.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The USSR still exists in 2120, at which point the simultaneous assassination of its Premier and the US President leads to WorldWarIII.
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** HideYourLesbians: Crystal Kennedy essentially has Susan exiled to the Dakota compound so she can take up with a new (male) love interest.
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* HideYourLesbians: Crystal Kennedy essentially has Susan exiled to the Dakota compound so she can take up with a new (male) love interest.
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* {{Omnibus}}: The early 2010s saw the publication of the complete series (minus the ''Batman'' crossovers for legal reasons, and the Argent origin story because it was impossible to obtain high-enough-quality artwork) in four omnibus volumes, in order of internal chronology.
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* {{Omnibus}}: The early 2010s saw the publication of the complete series (minus the ''Batman'' crossovers for legal reasons, and the Argent origin story ''Silverback'' because it was impossible to obtain high-enough-quality artwork) in four omnibus volumes, in order of internal chronology.
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** Later in the series, the vampire population explosion started by Pellon Cross's indiscriminate siring habits clarifies several details about vampires in the world of Grendel: each one can assume a single animal form, called a 'totem', that reflects his or her personality; they don't bleed unless they'd previously been hemophiliacs, in which case it makes them ravenously hungry; they can subsist on blood from animals or dispensed by machines; they share Tojiro's vulnerability to water, which can kill them in sufficient amounts; and, while sunlight couldn't kill Tojiro (probably due to his age), younger vampires dislike it so much that they prefer to live far from the equator.
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** Later in the series, the vampire population explosion started by Pellon Cross's indiscriminate siring habits clarifies several details about vampires in the world of Grendel: each one can assume a single animal form, called a 'totem', that reflects his or her personality; they don't bleed unless they'd previously been hemophiliacs, in which case it makes them ravenously hungry; they can subsist on blood from animals or dispensed by machines; they share Tojiro's Tujiro's vulnerability to water, which can kill them in sufficient amounts; and, while sunlight couldn't kill Tojiro Tujiro (probably due to his age), younger vampires dislike it so much that they prefer to live far from the equator.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The "rules" of vampirism in the series are closer to those in the original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' than many later elaborations.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The "rules" OurVampiresAreDifferent:
** In the Christine Spar arc, Tujiro is an Asian vampire who has a largely different set ofvampirism rules from the traditional European type. For one thing, he seems to change only into a cat, being hit with water is highly painful and fire is a concern when he is exposed to it. However, sunlight is no impediment for him, which he uses to maximum effect to give Christine the scare of her life when she wakes up in the series are closer middle of the morning and finds the vampire waiting right at her bed just to those taunt her.
** Later in theoriginal ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' than many later elaborations.series, the vampire population explosion started by Pellon Cross's indiscriminate siring habits clarifies several details about vampires in the world of Grendel: each one can assume a single animal form, called a 'totem', that reflects his or her personality; they don't bleed unless they'd previously been hemophiliacs, in which case it makes them ravenously hungry; they can subsist on blood from animals or dispensed by machines; they share Tojiro's vulnerability to water, which can kill them in sufficient amounts; and, while sunlight couldn't kill Tojiro (probably due to his age), younger vampires dislike it so much that they prefer to live far from the equator.
** In the Christine Spar arc, Tujiro is an Asian vampire who has a largely different set of
** Later in the
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* FullConversionCyborg: Grendel Prime, at the time he's first introduced, is little more than a head and upper torso with mechanical limbs. By the time of ''Batman/Grendel II'', his only remaining human parts are his brain and eyes. The intervening events are described with gruesome BodyHorror in the prose novel ''Grendel: Past Prime''.
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* FullConversionCyborg: Grendel Prime, at the time he's first introduced, is little more than a head and upper torso with mechanical limbs. By the time of ''Batman/Grendel II'', his only remaining human parts are his brain and eyes. The intervening events are described with gruesome BodyHorror in the prose novel ''Grendel: Past Prime''.
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* HomeworldEvacuation: The setup for ''Devil's Odyssey'' is Grendel Prime being sent to space to seek out a new planet for humanity.
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* AfterTheEnd: The ''War Child'' continuity clearly takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Most of the Middle Eastern OPEC states are now an abandoned wasteland, and Europe is shown to consist largely of bombed-out ruins.
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* AfterTheEnd: The ''War Child'' continuity clearly takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Most of the Middle Eastern OPEC states are now an abandoned wasteland, and Europe is shown to consist largely of bombed-out ruins. By the time of ''Devil's Odyssey'' Earth is on the verge of dying out and Grendel Prime is sent out to space in seek of a new world for humanity.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Cross's minions Zebra and Kiersch.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: Argent tries to get a sorcerer to give him a way to trace the identity of Grendel. When it fails, Argent is not in a forgiving mood.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Hunter Rose is a boy of fifteen when the 35 year old Jocasta Rose seduces him and makes him into her lover. It's never depicted as the disturbing abuse it actually is, largely as it's shown from Hunter's perspective, and he continues idealizing her long after it warps him badly.