History Fanfic / ShadowchasersDanseMacabre

* MrExposition: Voltaire acts like this towards Lestrade a lot (seeing as Lestrade has almost no experience with Shadows) but doesn't like it much. At one point, he complains that he "feels like {{Wiki/Wikipedia}}".

* DidntWeUseThisJokeAlready?: Voltaire takes this UpToEleven with in-universe examples, but not regarding jokes (at least not things that are meant to be jokes). When Palethorne insults him and Jalal by calling him "a servant of that mewling mongrel spawn of a peasant whore", Voltaire takes a journal out, and thumbs through it:

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6113133/1/Shadowchasers-Dance-Macabre Shadowchasers: Dance Macabre]]'' is a ''FanFic/ShadowchasersSeries'' story by Metal Overlord 2.0

** First of all, Palethorn belonged to a group of vampires called the Great Generals that qualify (who were all -including Palethorn - believed to be dead up to now). Voltaire claims that this group was "the [[Franchise/StarWars Sith Lords]], the [[Franchise/HarryPotter Death Eaters]], [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Organization XIII]], The [[Series/DrWho Order of the Silence]], every shadowy covenant of supremely powerful beings ever depicted in popular culture, saturated in nightmare, marinated in hate and raised to the tenth power" and claims that each of them had "powers equal to or greater then a demi god" and that "people speak these names with the same kind of fear and reverence one would any [[EldritchAbomination Elder Evil]]."

* HowIsThatEvenPossible: Lestrade is almost pushed to the limit before Voltaire's duel with Argol, questioning just how the creature is able to understand the game at all. This reaction and Voltaire's [[AWizardDidIt rather vague response]] may be meant as a TakeThat against fans who question how things in fantasy settings like this are possible. (Or why card games are SeriousBusiness.)

-->'''Voltaire:''' Let's see… "archaic narrow minded tyrant" (what politician isn't these days?), "prejudice driven borderline sociopath" (again, this is supposed to be an insult?), "sexually ambiguous closet cross dresser" (I suppose wearing the flayed skin of a member of the opposite sex does smack a touch of ''Silence of the Lambs'')…ah here we are, "mewling mongrel spawn of a peasant whore"... Congratulations you are the eight hundred and forty third person to address my employer by said insult. And wouldn't you know it I don't give anymore of a hag's left tit now then I did the previous eight hundred and forty two times.

* MrExposition: Voltaire acts like this towards Lestrade a lot (seeing as Lestrade has almost no experience with Shadows) but doesn't like it much. At one point, he complains that he "feels like [[ThatOtherWiki Wikipedia]]".

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6113133/1/Shadowchasers-Dance-Macabre Shadowchasers Dance Macabre]]'' is a ''FanFic/ShadowchasersSeries'' story by Metal Overlord 2.0

* TheDreaded: First of all, Palethorn belonged to a group of vampires called the Great Generals that qualify (who were all -including Palethorn - believed to be dead up to now). Voltaire claims that this group was "the Sith Lords, the Death Eaters, Organization Thirteen, The Order of the Silence, every shadowy covenant of supremely powerful beings ever depicted in popular culture, saturated in nightmare, marinated in hate and raised to the tenth power" and claims that each of them had "powers equal to or greater then a demi god" and that "people speak these names with the same kind of fear and reverence one would any Elder Evil."

* MrExposition: Voltaire acts like this towards Lestrade a lot (seeing as Lestrade has almost no experience with Shadows) but doesn't like it much. At one point, he complains that he "feels like Wikipedia".

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6113133/1/Shadowchasers-Dance-Macabre Shadowchasers Dance Macabre]]'' is a Franchise/{{Shadowchasers}} by Metal Overlord 2.0

** Second, Palethorn was supposedly one of the worst of them, and he is one of the few that there is any confirmed information of. One of his titles is "the Torture King", there are rumors that Overlords of Hell learned methods of torture from ''him'', and the numbers of innocents he murdered numbered in the tens - if not hundreds of thousand. Certainly, if ''any'' villain in this franchise qualifies as infamous, it's him.

* IWorkAlone: The fic is a first for the franchise in that Voltaire does not seem to work with any other Shadowchasers, at least not currently. However, he does recruit Lestrade as a reluctant partner.

* HauntedSuitOfArmor: There seem to be a ''lot'' of these in Palethorn's castle.

* ToServeMan: Zigzagged with Argol. It's willing to eat humans, but doesn't like to, for the reason explained on that Trope page.

* KnightOfCerberus: Some of Palethorn's ''minions'' may even qualify for this Trope. Argol is a member of a species that lives in the River Styx (yeah, [[{{Hell}} that one]] and claims to have preyed on minions of the Lords of Hell. As for Palethorn himself, see TheDreaded above.

* IWorkAlone: The fic is a first for the franchise in that Voltaire does not seem to work with any other Shadowchasers, at least not currently. However, he does recruit Lestrade as a reluctant partner.

* IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime: Voltaire takes this UpToEleven. When Palethorne insults him and Jalal by calling him "a servant of that mewling mongrel spawn of a peasant whore", Voltaire takes a journal out, and thumbs through it:
-->'''Voltaire:''' Let's see… "archaic narrow minded tyrant" (what politician isn't these days?), "prejudice driven borderline sociopath" (again, this is supposed to be an insult?), "sexually ambiguous closet cross dresser" (I suppose wearing the flayed skin of a member of the opposite sex does smack a touch of ''Silence of the Lambs'')…ah here we are, "mewling mongrel spawn of a peasant whore"... Congratulations you are the eight hundred and forty third person to address my employer by said insult. And wouldn't you know it I don't give anymore of a hag's left tit now then I did the previous eight hundred and forty two times.

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