History Manga / Superior

* BullyingADragon: Anyone that tries to attack [[MonsterLord Shiela]] is in for a ''bad'' time.
** Very early on in the story, there's a literal (and heartbreaking) example: a dragon Sheila used to be close to is blocking a road, waiting for her eggs to hatch. A group of soliders arrive, intending to kill her. They don't get to... but what they did was much crueller; [[spoiler: knowing that she wouldn't move until her eggs hatched, [[KickTheDog they smashed the eggs.]]]] Unlike most examples of this trope, it doesn't backfire on them beyond Shiela and Lakshri beating them up to stop them killing her, because [[spoiler: the dragon was so heartbroken by her eggs being broken that [[SuicideByCop she wanted to die with them]] rather than retaliating against the humans.]]

* FishOutOfWater: Shiela early on, since being the Demon Queen means knowledge of human customs is largely superfluous. For example, the only thing she cares to learn about wallets is that you can’t eat them.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Shiela pretends to be a weak monster in order to stay close to Exa, and often plays up simply being a bubbly, infatuated CuteMonsterGirl, but she's one of the most dangerous beings in the entire series.

* TookALevelInKindness: Basically Shiela's character development in a nutshell, as spending more time around Exa and having actual TrueCompanions turns her from an AxCrazy Demon Queen to a NobleDemon that truly values lives for their own sake, rather than simply not killing because Exa won't allow her.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Valentin killing Herman and a random citizen of Water Town seems to be a thorough KickTheDog moment, even though Herman had been shown to do some very horrible things in the past.]] But when it's revealed what both his victims did in the past, it wouldn't be surprising to think Valentin was ''too lenient'' on them.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: While acting as the Demon Queen, Sheila is shown through flashbacks to usually be barefoot. It changes once she starts travelling with Exa.

* MsFanservice: ''All'' of Sheila's outfits show a lot of skin, usually her [[BareYourMidriff belly]] and [[LegFocus legs.]]

* MsFanservice: ''All'' of Sheila's outfits show a lot of skin, usually her [[BareYourMidriff belly]] and [[ShesGotLegs legs.]]

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Copy has the looks down, but not her personality.

* BalefulPolymorph: While being taught healing magic, Sheila ends up turning herself into a dog, [[HilarityEnsues which can only say meow]].

* SurrogateSoliloquy: Exa talks about his feelings for Sheila with a dog he found, [[BalefulPolymorph who is actually Sheila after a failed attempt at healing magic]].

* SanitySlippage: Copy was never exactly [[AxeCrazy stable]], but as of Superior Cross volume 3 she got even worse.

** [[spoiler: The original Demon Lord]], on the other hand, seems to believe that beauty is in fact related to purity... though [[spoiler: his]] idea of 'pure' is [[PureIsNotGood far, far removed]] from [[KillEmAll valuing life.]]

* DishingOutDirt: Sheila seems to have an affinity with earth magic. [[DressedInElement Even her clothing is made out of enchanted dirt]]. (Lakshri is disappointed to be told that this does ''not'' mean that, should she lose her powers, her clothing would disappear.)

* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter: Angelica and Lakshri.]]

* [[spoiler: FirstGirlWins: A particularly twisted example of this this trope. Exa and Sheila met back when they were both relatively young. Unfortunately, this was right after Sheila got done slaughtering everyone in Exa's home town. Neither saw the other clearly enough to recognize them when they meet again years later.]]

* [[GiveHimANormalLife Give Her A Normal Life]]: [[spoiler: Sheila [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erased Shadow's memories]] and left her with Shion. During the final battle, her memories return.]]

* IdentityAmnesia: [[spoiler: Sheila, briefly.]]

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Sheila falls in love with Exa because of his kindness, she even lements that her life might have been different if she had met him sooner.

* DishingOutDirt: Sheila seems to have an affinity with earth magic. Even her clothing is made out of enchanted dirt. (Lakshri is disappointed to be told that this does ''not'' mean that, should she lose her powers, her clothing would disappear.)

* EvilKnockoff: Zigzagged. Early on in the story, Sheila creates a clone named Copy to cover for her while she travels with Exa. Sheila ends up undergoing a gradual HeelFaceTurn and Copy turns out to be even more evil Sheila used to be. Then Copy makes their own clone named Shadow, who also undergoes a HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler: Then it turns out that Sheila herself was a clone of the original Demon Lord, who is more AxCrazy than the other three put together, making the full pattern evil -> good -> evil -> good.]]

* MonsterLord: Sheila. Borders on a Deconstruction. [[spoiler: She eventually realizes none of her people really respected her and merely listened because she was the most powerful.]]