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* AuthorAvatar: O'barr confirmed that Eric is his alter-ego. It's an example of TropesAreNotBad, and it's wonderfuly done. The comparison'd be even more obvious if you dyed Eric blond and give him glasses. Which, ironically becomes HilariousInHindsight due the fact that the 2012 reboot looks even more like O'barr!.
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* {{Expy}}: Joe is basically [[Series/NYPDBlue Andy Sipowicz]] in the Crow universe.
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* AfterlifeExpress: Eric is shown in one, sadly, that's where he sees the stallion dying.
* [[spoiler: AteHisGun]]:[[spoiler: Eric finds his end this way, it's not known wether he'll go to hell or reunite with Shelly in paradise, but apparently, he redeemed himself, so it is possible.]]
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* BadAss: {{Badass}}: Eric, obviously
** BadassLongCoat: Eric dons one in the first chapters and covers.
** HeartbrokenBadass: Considering his tendency to [[ManlyTearscry cry]] about his lost love]], love, and the fact that he had a promising, [[TheEveryman albeit average]] future with the woman he loved, he has a lot of reasons to be sad.sad.
* BathtubScene
--->'''Shelly''': "Merry Christmas, Eric".
* CameBackStrong: In the [[UpdatedReRelease 2011]] edition, confirms what in the original comic was [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane ambiguous]].
** BadassLongCoat: Eric dons one in the first chapters and covers.
** HeartbrokenBadass: Considering his tendency to [[ManlyTears
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--->'''Shelly''': "Merry Christmas, Eric".
* CameBackStrong: In the [[UpdatedReRelease 2011]] edition, confirms what in the original comic was [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane ambiguous]].
* ChastityCouple: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], Eric and Shelly relationship is shown in a very adult way, albeit idealized (the author doesn't gloss in details) it's shown both of them naked after making love.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: When Eric kills Top Dollar, the last pages of the act are drawn this way.
* CoveredInScars: Eric's body.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: When Eric kills Top Dollar, the last pages of the act are drawn this way.
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* TheEveryman: Eric is a mechanic, nothing out of ordinary, Shelly was a normal girl.
* {{Fingore}}: Eric cut off Shelby The Giant's fingers while interrogating him on the whereabouts of the gang members that killed him and Shelly.
* {{Fingore}}: Eric cut off Shelby The Giant's fingers while interrogating him on the whereabouts of the gang members that killed him and Shelly.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: Oh yeah.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Shelly is blonde, sweet, innocent and angelic. Being Eric in love, and being a vehicle to O'barr grief, it's a case in which we sympathize rather tha thinking of Shelly as a MarySue
* HeroicBuild: Eric is the epitome of physical perfection.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Shelly is blonde, sweet, innocent and angelic. Being Eric in love, and being a vehicle to O'barr grief, it's a case in which we sympathize rather tha thinking of Shelly as a MarySue
* HeroicBuild: Eric is the epitome of physical perfection.
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* PeekABangs: Eric in one of the illustrations, which is pretty unique, considering his hair is [[BarbarianLongHair longer]] and it's not his usual hair.
* {{Psychopomp}}: There are two in the comic, first we have [[TheGrimReaper The Skull Cowboy]]. He's a total enigma, but for what we can guess, he tries his best, in his own twisted way to teach Eric to go on with his life. He succeeds in the end. On the other hand we have the mysterious WomanInBlack who appears in several chapters wearing a wedding [[spoiler: or funeral]] veil, watching over Eric, and in the end [[spoiler: kissing him]] when he accepts it's time to leave. [[spoiler: The last page it's her walking on the desert]].
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* YouthfulFreckles: Shelly has them.
* YouthfulFreckles: Shelly has them.
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* CreepyChild: Carrie in ''Curare'', the ghost of a raped and murdered little girl. Actually, to have suffered such a violent assault and death, she's pretty chipper for a ghost, but when Joe finds her murderer, she quite calmly requests that Joe decapitate the man. And give her the head.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Averted with Joe in ''Curare'', since his killing Carrie's murderer allows him to put the "one case that he couldn't solve" to bed.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Harold in ''Curare'', a serial rapist and murderer of little girls, takes trophies from his victims after killing them(usually their shoes or panties). When Joe kills him, Carrie's ghost demands a trophy of her own: his head.]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Carrie in ''Curare'' is pale and has very small(relative to her size) black streaks similar to Eric's on her face.
* RapeAsDrama: In ''Curare'', Carrie was viciously raped(causing such trauma that the coroner says her internal organs ruptured and he can't even be sure if she was also sodomized) before being strangled to death.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Averted with Joe in ''Curare'', since his killing Carrie's murderer allows him to put the "one case that he couldn't solve" to bed.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Harold in ''Curare'', a serial rapist and murderer of little girls, takes trophies from his victims after killing them(usually their shoes or panties). When Joe kills him, Carrie's ghost demands a trophy of her own: his head.]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Carrie in ''Curare'' is pale and has very small(relative to her size) black streaks similar to Eric's on her face.
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* LooksLikeCesare: Carrie in ''Curare'' is pale and has very small(relative to her size) black streaks similar to Eric's on her face.
* RapeAsDrama: In ''Curare'', Carrie was viciously raped(causing such trauma that the coroner says her internal organs ruptured and he can't even be sure if she was also sodomized) before being strangled to death.
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* CreepyChild: Carrie, the ghost of a raped and murdered little girl. Actually, to have suffered such a violent assault and death, she's pretty chipper for a ghost, but when Joe finds her murderer, she quite calmly requests that Joe decapitate the man. And give her the head.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Averted with Joe, since his killing Carrie's murderer allows him to put the "one case that he couldn't solve" to bed.
** ContinuityNod: Carrie ends up telling him that now that this is over, he should call his wife.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Joe and Carrie, respectively.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Harold, a serial rapist and murderer of little girls, takes trophies from his victims after killing them(usually their shoes or panties). When Joe kills him, Carrie's ghost demands a trophy of her own: his head.]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Carrie in ''Curare'' is pale and has very small(relative to her size) black streaks similar to Eric's on her face.
* NiceShoes: [[NightmareFuel HORRIBLY]] [[AdultFear TREATED]] WITH.
* PaedoHunt: Part of the plot of the comic.
* PeacefulInDeath: Sadly, one of Joe comrades doesn't, Curare [[WhatTheHellHero calls him]] on his jerk behavior and scolds him that he should treated him with more respect, [[HumansAreFlawed he made a mistake]] and [[MyGreatestFailure felt guilt about it]].
* PerkyGoth: Curare is adorable.
* RapeAsDrama: Carrie was viciously raped(causing such trauma that the coroner says her internal organs ruptured and he can't even be sure if she was also sodomized) before being strangled to death.
* ThatManIsDead: Literally with Curare, whose true name is Carrie.
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* CreepyChild: Carrie, the ghost of a raped and murdered little girl. Actually, to have suffered such a violent assault and death, she's pretty chipper for a ghost, but when Joe finds her murderer, she quite calmly requests that Joe decapitate the man. And give her the head.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Averted with Joe, since his killing Carrie's murderer allows him to put the "one case that he couldn't solve" to bed.
** ContinuityNod: Carrie ends up telling him that now that this is over, he should call his wife.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Joe and Carrie, respectively.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Harold, a serial rapist and murderer of little girls, takes trophies from his victims after killing them(usually their shoes or panties). When Joe kills him, Carrie's ghost demands a trophy of her own: his head.]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Carrie in ''Curare'' is pale and has very small(relative to her size) black streaks similar to Eric's on her face.
* NiceShoes: [[NightmareFuel HORRIBLY]] [[AdultFear TREATED]] WITH.
* PaedoHunt: Part of the plot of the comic.
* PeacefulInDeath: Sadly, one of Joe comrades doesn't, Curare [[WhatTheHellHero calls him]] on his jerk behavior and scolds him that he should treated him with more respect, [[HumansAreFlawed he made a mistake]] and [[MyGreatestFailure felt guilt about it]].
* PerkyGoth: Curare is adorable.
* RapeAsDrama: Carrie was viciously raped(causing such trauma that the coroner says her internal organs ruptured and he can't even be sure if she was also sodomized) before being strangled to death.
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* CreepyChild: Carrie in ''Curare'', the ghost of a raped and murdered little girl. Actually, to have suffered such a violent assault and death, she's pretty chipper for a ghost, but when Joe finds her murderer, she quite calmly requests that Joe decaptitate decapitate the man. And give her the head.
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* CreepyChild: Carrie in ''Curare'', the ghost of a raped and murdered little girl. Actually, to have suffered such a violent assault and death, she's quite pretty chipper for a ghost, but when Joe finds her murderer, she quite calmly requests that Joe decaptitate the man. And give her the head.
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* ArtShift: The art changes constantly in style, partially due to the length of time it took to make the book(eight years from concept to finish), partially due to O'Barr's emotional state.
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* WriterOnBoard: The plot of ''Curare'' was influenced by the unsolved murder of a little girl in O'Barr's hometown of Detroit.
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* CreepyChild: Carrie in ''Curare'', the ghost of a raped and murdered little girl. Actually, to have suffered such a violent assault and death, she's quite chipper for a ghost, but when Joe finds her murderer, she quite calmly requests that Joe decaptitate the man. And give her the head.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Averted with Joe in ''Curare'', since his killing Carrie's murderer allows him to put the "one case that he couldn't solve" to bed.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Harold in ''Curare'', a serial rapist and murderer of little girls, takes trophies from his victims after killing them(usually their shoes or panties). When Joe kills him, Carrie's ghost demands a trophy of her own: his head.]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Carrie in ''Curare'' is pale and has very small(relative to her size) black streaks similar to Eric's on her face.
* RapeAsDrama: In ''Curare'', Carrie was viciously raped(causing such trauma that the coroner says her internal organs ruptured and he can't even be sure if she was also sodomized) before being strangled to death.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Averted with Joe in ''Curare'', since his killing Carrie's murderer allows him to put the "one case that he couldn't solve" to bed.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Harold in ''Curare'', a serial rapist and murderer of little girls, takes trophies from his victims after killing them(usually their shoes or panties). When Joe kills him, Carrie's ghost demands a trophy of her own: his head.]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Carrie in ''Curare'' is pale and has very small(relative to her size) black streaks similar to Eric's on her face.
* RapeAsDrama: In ''Curare'', Carrie was viciously raped(causing such trauma that the coroner says her internal organs ruptured and he can't even be sure if she was also sodomized) before being strangled to death.
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** HeartBrokenBadass: Considering his tendency to [[ManlyTears cry about his lost love]], he has a lot of reasons to be sad.
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* OldShame: O'Barr has said that he regrets Writing the comic now, both due to what he now feels is a glorification of revenge, as well as the death of Brandon Lee due to the movie adaption.
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* {{Fingore}}: Eric cut off Shelby The Giant's fingers while interrogating him on the whereabouts of the gang members that killed him and Shelly.
* DragonTheirFeet: Top Dollar is actually killed relatively early on, its his lieutenant T-Bird that ends up being the last gangster Eric confronts.
* DragonTheirFeet: Top Dollar is actually killed relatively early on, its his lieutenant T-Bird that ends up being the last gangster Eric confronts.
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* HumansAreBastards: One of the more unnerving aspects of the comic are the fact that the antagonists don't rape, murder and steal for some specific goal; they mostly do it because they can, or because they feel like it. Funboy even says that he doesnt know ''why'' he does these horrible things, he doesnt even particularly enjoy it, it just happens.
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* {{Right Wing Militia Fanatic}}s: A band of farmers connected to an anti-government militia feature as the bad guys of ''The Crow: Flesh and Blood''. They kill federal conservation officer Iris Shaw via a bomb in the building where she worked, a blast that also claims the unborn child she was carrying. When Iris comes back, she hunts down each of them and deals with them in true retributive fashion.
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* BadassLonghair: A mullet for God's sake!
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* CreatorBreakdown: As mentioned in the description, what started the whole thing.
** After the death of Brandon Lee in the movie, James O'Barr said in an interview that writing the comic had been a vicious, self-destructive process and not at all cathartic, and that, combined with Brandon's death during shooting the film, made him "wish I had never made the goddamned thing."
** After the death of Brandon Lee in the movie, James O'Barr said in an interview that writing the comic had been a vicious, self-destructive process and not at all cathartic, and that, combined with Brandon's death during shooting the film, made him "wish I had never made the goddamned thing."
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** In the foreword to the Special Edition O'Barr says that he named Eric after the Phantom of the Opera because the character, like himself at that point in his life, was a grief-stricken obsessive monstrosity barely functioning beneath a mask. Shelly was after Mary Shelley, the author of 'Frankenstein', a story in which a creator loses control of his monstrous creation.
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* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: A definitive "special edition" of the comic was released in 2011. It features a new foreword by O'Barr and new or previously unseen artwork that O'Barr intended to include in the original release but couldn't due to the constraints of the format, in which page numbers had to be multiples of 16. The additions include but are not limited to:
** An extra page in Gideon's pawnshop, in which Eric advises young rookie cop Albrecht to reconcile with his estranged wife
** A flashback sequence of Eric and Shelly dancing together
** A flashback sequence called 'An August Noel' which O'Barr says was so autobiographical in nature that it was simply too painful to include it the first time around
** A penultimate sequence called 'Sparklehorse', in which Eric [[spoiler:mercy-kills the horse in the barbed wire from the earlier 'Shattered in the Head' sequence, symbolising his final acceptance of the fact he wasn't able to help Shelly]] and has a discussion with the crow that very explicitly lays out that he's been trapped by his anger at himself as at the gang who attacked him and Shelly that night. The sequence takes place between Eric killing T-Bird and the final sequence of Eric at Shelly's grave.
** An extra page in Gideon's pawnshop, in which Eric advises young rookie cop Albrecht to reconcile with his estranged wife
** A flashback sequence of Eric and Shelly dancing together
** A flashback sequence called 'An August Noel' which O'Barr says was so autobiographical in nature that it was simply too painful to include it the first time around
** A penultimate sequence called 'Sparklehorse', in which Eric [[spoiler:mercy-kills the horse in the barbed wire from the earlier 'Shattered in the Head' sequence, symbolising his final acceptance of the fact he wasn't able to help Shelly]] and has a discussion with the crow that very explicitly lays out that he's been trapped by his anger at himself as at the gang who attacked him and Shelly that night. The sequence takes place between Eric killing T-Bird and the final sequence of Eric at Shelly's grave.
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* ''The Crow: Dead Time'' (1996), Kitchen Sink Press
* ''The Crow: Flesh and Blood'' (1996), Kitchen Sink Press
* ''The Crow: Wild Justice'' (1996), Kitchen Sink Press
* ''The Crow: Waking Nightmares'' (1997)
* ''The Crow: A Cycle of Shattered Lives'' (1998) (an anthology including shorts based on the previous KSP comics)
* ''The Crow'' (1999), Todd McFarlane (a 10-part "reboot" featuring the original character)
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* ArcWords: "Don't look!"
* ArtShift: The art changes constantly in style, partially due to the length of time it took to make the book, partially due to J O'Barr's emotional state.
* AxCrazy: For justified reasons, Eric is barely in touch with this reality and often pauses to recount some memory that suddenly resurfaces or to quote lyrics or verse at his victims before brutalizing them. "What the hell you talkin' 'bout, man!" is a frequent reaction.
* BadassAngster: Eric, obviously
* BadassLonghair: A mullet for God's sake!
** EightiesHair
* CatsAreMean: Sort of. After returning from the dead, Eric finds that he has a magical power over stray cats, who eerily follow him everywhere. (The cats don't actually do anything bloody or cruel, however, as Eric does.) Subverted with Gabriel in both the comic and the movie, who has [[LightIsGood white fur and is named after a Biblical angel]]. In the comic, Gabriel was the pet of an old woman who was murdered by Tin Tin purely ForTheEvulz; in the movie, he belongs to Eric and Shelly and stays in their (condemned) apartment after they're murdered. (In the movie, Gabriel ''does'' become angry and bites Skank, but that was only because the thug grabbed him.)
* CreatorBreakdown: As mentioned in the description, what started the whole thing.
** After the death of Brandon Lee in the movie, James O'Barr said in an interview that writing the comic had been a vicious, self-destructive process and not at all cathartic, and that, combined with Brandon's death during shooting the film, made him "wish I had never made the goddamned thing."
* DarkerAndEdgier: In-story example. Eric, in life, was a cheerful and happy-go-lucky mechanic. Now? Not so much.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: The crow hits Eric with this repeatedly when he's lost in his grief, seeing it as useless self-pity.
* HumansAreBastards: One of the more unnerving aspects of the comic are the fact that the antagonists don't rape, murder and steal for some specific goal; they mostly do it because they can, or because they feel like it.
* TheLostLenore: Shelly just may be the most iconic example of this trope in comic book history.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The "crow bringing a soul back from the land of the dead to put the wrong things right" mythology was created for the film franchise. It is never explicitly stated in the comic book what is going on. A possible interpretation of events is that Eric was actually revived on the operating table and has been subsisting for a year, and is now insane and maybe insensitive to physical pain, as a result of his brain injuries, grief and anger.
* MeaningfulName: Officer Albrecht and Captain Hook, both named after members of Joy Division/New Order. Eric's last name (gleaned from a file folder with Hook's thumb obscuring the middle) begins with "c" and ends with "s"; it very well may be "Curtis".
** Meaningful Chapter Name: Chapters of the comic are song titles or verses from iconic bands such as Music/JoyDivision and Music/TheCure, among others.
*** And Music/NineInchNails covered Music/JoyDivision's "Dead Souls" for the film version.
* MrFanservice: Like you would not believe. He spends half his time shirtless and the other half in skin-tight clothes, he's got scars and troubled pasts galore, and there's even a twenty-page pin-up section.
** He's [[{{Bishonen}} androgynously sexy]] enough in more than a few drawings that EvenTheGuysWantHim.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: The police captain has the last name "Hook" - which, yes, makes his name [[PeterPan "Captain Hook"]]. It's implied that Hook found this funny earlier in his career, but over time became absolutely disgusted with people constantly bringing it up.
* NoShirtLongJacket: Eric, constantly.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Averted ... poor Eric. [[spoiler:It takes two to actually kill him.]]
* SuicideIsPainless: Funboy accepts his unavoidable death, agrees to act as Eric's messenger boy to the rest of the thugs and talks things over fairly civilly with Eric rather than futilely trying to resist. Eric rewards him by allowing Funboy to kill himself by a massive drug overdose, sparing him the savage vengeance he inflicts on the other gang members.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Yeah!
* UnflinchingWalk: Eric, from his old house as it burns to the ground. [[CrazyAwesome With a cat on his shoulder.]]
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