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* HumanoidAbomination: Lessa's true form is a giant, faun-like creature with goat's legs and ears, two huge horns curving back from his forehead, long wavy RapunzelHair and glowing pale-blue eyes.
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* HumanoidAbomination: Lessa's true form is a giant, faun-like creature with goat's legs and ears, two huge horns curving back from his forehead, long wavy RapunzelHair hair and glowing pale-blue eyes.
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* RapunzelHair: Lessa had this when he was [[spoiler:transformed from a goat to a man]], then - in his true form, and after that - for a long time after he came down to earth.
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* FiveManBand: Among the Demans, with Ares as the BigBad; Bark as TheDragon; Caleb as TheBrute; Ryan as the EvilGenius; Belle as the DarkChick. As an aside, there's Lucy as the TokenGoodTeammate and White as the DragonWithAnAgenda to Caleb.
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* MysticalWhiteHair: Interestingly enough, in the beginning Lessa's hair were much more closer to white than they are now, which could be a metaphor for Lessa slowly losing his childlike innocence and purity. You can notice them slowly begin to change their color after he, full of despair, revives Ares, and finally, in the end, become ashen-grey, the way they're now, after [[spoiler:Diane betrays and kills him.]] Compare this[[http://mangafox.me/manga/lessa_the_crimson_knight/v01/c078/8.html]] and his hair color from any other chapter.
* NightmareFace: This manhwa has it's fair share of terrifying faces. For example, Ra's true form: [[http://mangafox.me/manga/lessa_the_crimson_knight/v01/c023/31.html]]
* NightmareFace: This manhwa has it's fair share of terrifying faces. For example, Ra's true form: [[http://mangafox.me/manga/lessa_the_crimson_knight/v01/c023/31.html]]
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* MysticalWhiteHair: Interestingly enough, in the beginning Lessa's hair were much more closer to white than they are now, which could be a metaphor for Lessa slowly losing his childlike innocence and purity. You can notice them slowly begin to change their color after he, full of despair, revives Ares, and finally, in the end, become ashen-grey, the way they're now, after [[spoiler:Diane betrays and kills him.]] Compare this[[http://mangafox.me/manga/lessa_the_crimson_knight/v01/c078/8.html]] this and his hair color from any other chapter.
* NightmareFace: This manhwa has it's fair share of terrifying faces. For example, Ra's true form: [[http://mangafox.me/manga/lessa_the_crimson_knight/v01/c023/31.html]]
* NightmareFace: This manhwa has it's fair share of terrifying faces.
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* PietaPlagiarism: Ares cradles Lessa's body in his hands after [[spoiler:Diane impaled Lessa's chest with a spear and Dark Lessa almost escaped his body]]: [[http://mangafox.me/manga/lessa_the_crimson_knight/v01/c070/9.html]]
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* PietaPlagiarism: Ares cradles Lessa's body in his hands after [[spoiler:Diane impaled Lessa's chest with a spear and Dark Lessa almost escaped his body]]: [[http://mangafox.me/manga/lessa_the_crimson_knight/v01/c070/9.html]]body]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Happens often.
** In Season 1, when White is about to kill Rano, who was caught off-guard while buying groceries and thus mostly unarmed, Jin shows up and shoots off his horn.
** In Season 2, Mindy-Mindy is about to kill Lucy before [[spoiler:Lessa, who'd been apart from the group since the beginning of the season, stops her]].
** In Season 2, the militia ends up in a dire situation, with the commander hoping he'll have some kind of DieOrFly moment.. [[spoiler:before Lexter's father shows up on the scene]].
** In Season 3, when White is struggling against Luciel and ends up paralyzed, [[spoiler:Lessa appears and cuts through]].
* BigDamnReunion: [[spoiler:Between Rano and Lucy, at the end of Season 1.]]
** In Season 1, when White is about to kill Rano, who was caught off-guard while buying groceries and thus mostly unarmed, Jin shows up and shoots off his horn.
** In Season 2, Mindy-Mindy is about to kill Lucy before [[spoiler:Lessa, who'd been apart from the group since the beginning of the season, stops her]].
** In Season 2, the militia ends up in a dire situation, with the commander hoping he'll have some kind of DieOrFly moment.. [[spoiler:before Lexter's father shows up on the scene]].
** In Season 3, when White is struggling against Luciel and ends up paralyzed, [[spoiler:Lessa appears and cuts through]].
* BigDamnReunion: [[spoiler:Between Rano and Lucy, at the end of Season 1.]]
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* FiveManBand: Among the Demans, with Ares as the BigBad; Bark as TheDragon; Caleb as TheBrute; Ryan as the EvilGenius; Belle as the DarkChick. As an aside, there's Lucy as the TokenEvilTeammate and White as the DragonWithAnAgenda to Caleb.
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* FiveManBand: Among the Demans, with Ares as the BigBad; Bark as TheDragon; Caleb as TheBrute; Ryan as the EvilGenius; Belle as the DarkChick. As an aside, there's Lucy as the TokenEvilTeammate TokenGoodTeammate and White as the DragonWithAnAgenda to Caleb.Caleb.
* FromBadToWorse: In Season 3, [[spoiler:it turns out that sealing Dark Lessa is part of Luciel's plan, and doing so allows him to transform into a god. Things look dire... and then it turns out that the sealing failed, and Dark Lessa awakens--which is far, far ''worse'']].
* FromBadToWorse: In Season 3, [[spoiler:it turns out that sealing Dark Lessa is part of Luciel's plan, and doing so allows him to transform into a god. Things look dire... and then it turns out that the sealing failed, and Dark Lessa awakens--which is far, far ''worse'']].
* OnceMoreWithClarity: In Season 2, Gabriel guides Rano through Ra's memories of the beginning and his encounters with Dark Lessa, showing her LackOfEmpathy. We see these memories again in Season 3, as Ra thinks over them, which shows [[spoiler:a more emotional depiction of Dark Lessa, as she expresses remorse over destroying Ra's gifts and actually looked fond when they first met]].
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* SatanicArchetype: Split between Dark Lessa, Lessa, and Luciel. Dark Lessa is the GodOfEvil who is explicitly compared to the Devil at one point, possesses dark powers as her name suggests, and tends to act as TheCorrupter to others; Lessa (also crossing over with MessianicArchetype) has inherited said dark powers and whose (however accidental) creation of Demans coincided with his fall from grace; Luciel is a FallenAngel [[MeaningfulName whose name]] is believed to have possibly been the original name of Lucifer, the iconic example.
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* SatanicArchetype: Split between Dark Lessa, Lessa, and Luciel. Dark Lessa is the GodOfEvil who is explicitly compared to the Devil at one point, possesses dark powers as her name suggests, and tends to act as TheCorrupter to others; Lessa (also crossing over with MessianicArchetype) has inherited said dark powers and whose (however accidental) creation of Demans coincided with his fall from grace; Luciel is a FallenAngel [[MeaningfulName whose name]] is believed to have possibly been the original name of Lucifer, the iconic example. In the last case, Rabiel eventually states explicitly that he's become the Satan of humanity, and [[spoiler:Lessa confirms that his new name, after abandoning Ra's mantra, is Lucifer]].
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* SmokingIsCool: Averted. According to a Q&A with POGO, the only smoker is [[AxCrazy Caleb]]; White (who the fan thought seemed like the type to smoke) refuses to precisely because he associates it with Caleb, while Jin quit for unspecified reasons and Rano also quit because the reality is that smoking is detrimental to one's health and he needed to be in top form to fight Demans.
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* SmokingIsCool: Averted. According to a Q&A with POGO, the only smoker is [[AxCrazy Caleb]]; Caleb]] and [[BadBoss Belle]]; White (who the fan thought seemed like the type to smoke) refuses to precisely because he associates it with Caleb, while Jin quit for unspecified reasons and Rano also quit because the reality is that smoking is detrimental to one's health and he needed to be in top form to fight Demans.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Ra fell in love with Dark Lessa--though POGO notes in a Q&A that it's a type of love beyond human comprehension, rather than strictly romantic--but had to seal her away to protect his world, when he realized she couldn't understand. [[spoiler:Season 3 reveals that his feelings may have not been so unrequited, though, and that she also lamented their fundamental incompatibility.]]
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* FiveManBand
** BigBad: Ares
** TheDragon: Caleb
** TheBrute: Bach
** EvilGenius: Ryan
** DarkChick: Belle
** TokenGoodTeammate: Lucy
** DragonWithAnAgenda: White to Caleb
** BigBad: Ares
** TheDragon: Caleb
** TheBrute: Bach
** EvilGenius: Ryan
** DarkChick: Belle
** TokenGoodTeammate: Lucy
** DragonWithAnAgenda: White to Caleb
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* FiveManBand
** BigBad: Ares
** TheDragon: Caleb
** TheBrute: Bach
** EvilGenius: Ryan
** DarkChick: Belle
** TokenGoodTeammate: Lucy
** DragonWithAnAgenda:FiveManBand: Among the Demans, with Ares as the BigBad; Bark as TheDragon; Caleb as TheBrute; Ryan as the EvilGenius; Belle as the DarkChick. As an aside, there's Lucy as the TokenEvilTeammate and White as the DragonWithAnAgenda to CalebCaleb.
** BigBad: Ares
** TheDragon: Caleb
** TheBrute: Bach
** EvilGenius: Ryan
** DarkChick: Belle
** TokenGoodTeammate: Lucy
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* IndividualityIsIllegal: Individuality is discouraged among the Apostles, as it led to Luciel's defection. It's why they all wear the same clothes and the white crown. However, it's subverted at the end of Season 2, where Ra tells them that they're now free to remove their crowns to unlock their full power.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: What eternal death is: [[spoiler:those who die eternally, such as Ares and Ra, are sent to the void within Dark Lessa]].
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: There's Ra's Apostles, who are all real-life angels from Christianity such as the ArchangelRaphael, ArchangelGabriel, etc., and who take the stage in Season 3.
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--> "To encounter thing that has surpassed human imagination... The inexplicable being""The unknown being... beyond the range of a human's perception..."
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* AllThereInTheManual: Q&As with POGO reveal extra details about the characters and setting, such as confirming that Hexagon Island is in the Southern Hemisphere or the Apostles' heights.
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* ArtShift: POGO is capable of drastically different styles and it shows. A watercolour style is often used for hallucinations or when portraying Lessa and Ra's divine discussions, while another painterly style is occasionally used for dramatic flashbacks or monologues.
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* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Demans' have these when unleashing their Pentahorn (or higher) powers, although it's subverted in that this still applies to White post-HeelFaceTurn or [[spoiler:Miena who is perfectly sane and heroic by the time she achieves this]].
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* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Subverted. Rano makes an attempt to do this in order to get Ra to [[spoiler:revive him]], but Ra outright tells him not to bother with trying to outsmart him.
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* TheGodsMustBeLazy: How Ares feels, after witnessing so much misery that the gods seemingly do nothing about, and it drives his GodhoodSeeker tendencies so that he can give the world with a proactive "god". In reality, the truth is more complicated, as it's more that GodsHandsAreTied.
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* InMysteriousWays: Why Ra doesn't believe in directly interfering with human affairs. Humans, good or bad, will eventually get their karma in one lifetime or another, and so everything balances out.
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* PowerDyesYourHair: Every Deman's hair becomes a few shades lighter when using their Pentahorn powers; e.g. Lucy's hair becomes pink. Similarly, Lessa's hair returns to its original pale blue whenever he's using a significant amount of power.
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* SmokingIsCool: Averted. According to a Q&A with POGO, the only smoker is [[AxCrazy Caleb]]; White (who the fan thought seemed like the type to smoke) refuses to precisely because he associates it with Caleb, while Jin quit for unspecified reasons and Rano also quit because the reality is that smoking is detrimental to one's health and he needed to be in top form to fight Demans.
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* StartsWithASuicide: Season [[spoiler:2]] begins with [[spoiler:Rano killing himself]].
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Occasionally done, usually to exposition on Lessa and Ares's long history together, or to explain Lessa's origins.
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Original webcomic from Naver, written and illustrated by POGO. Season 1 of the original series can be read [[https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=478262 here]]; Season 2 & 3 [[https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=603159 here]]. Season 1 & 2 can be read in English in full [[http://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/lessa/list?title_no=89 here]] and [[http://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/lessa-2/list?title_no=507 here]], respectively.
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* BadBoss: Invoked by Ares, who only allowed the more AxCrazy of the Second Generation to create followers. In doing so, he hoped the Third Generation would hate their superiors enough to try and kill them, as an experiment to see whether or not the student could surpass the teacher.
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* FantasticScience: Jin and Miena are delighted to have Lessa around, as it means they can scientifically research the nature of a ''god''.
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* HumbleGoal:
** Lexter admits that, as silly as it might sound, all he wants is to go home and eat a meal with his family again, to which Rano replies that his own dream is pretty much the same.
** Subverted in the bonus Christmas episode, though PlayedForLaughs. Lucy goes around playing Santa, with the intention of giving her loved ones nice items for gifts... except Rano (in his sleep) asks for a girlfriend and Jin (also in his sleep) asks for someone to marry, much to her dismay.[[labelnote:Her solution?]]She puts them in a bed together.[[/labelnote]] Lessa, meanwhile, asks for ''world peace'', at which point she gives up.
** Lexter admits that, as silly as it might sound, all he wants is to go home and eat a meal with his family again, to which Rano replies that his own dream is pretty much the same.
** Subverted in the bonus Christmas episode, though PlayedForLaughs. Lucy goes around playing Santa, with the intention of giving her loved ones nice items for gifts... except Rano (in his sleep) asks for a girlfriend and Jin (also in his sleep) asks for someone to marry, much to her dismay.[[labelnote:Her solution?]]She puts them in a bed together.[[/labelnote]] Lessa, meanwhile, asks for ''world peace'', at which point she gives up.
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* ArtShift: POGO is capable of drastically different styles and it shows. A watercolour style is often used for hallucinations or when portraying Lessa and Ra's divine discussions, while another painterly style is occasionally used for dramatic flashbacks or monologues.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: White is still holding a grudge against Rano and Jin for shooting off his horn. They barely remember who he is.
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* ExtremeOmnigoat: As a goat, [[spoiler:Lessa chewed through just about everything. It's PlayedForLaughs when he eats Raviel's papyrus, though also PlayedForDrama as him eating Luciel's flowers is one of the reason why Luciel hates him]].
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* ExtremeOmnigoat: As a goat, [[spoiler:Lessa chewed through just about everything. It's PlayedForLaughs when he eats Raviel's Rabiel's papyrus, though also PlayedForDrama as him eating Luciel's flowers is one of the reason why Luciel hates him]].
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* GodsHandsAreTied: A recurring theme throughout the series. On one hand, the gods' lack of interference in the mortal world is why Ares resents them--and why he wants to do better--but on the other hand, it's shown that the gods' intervention can cause a ''lot'' of problems, and there's a price to pay for it.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Ra and his Apostles have shades of this, as they're well-intentioned but don't necessarily act according to a human morality.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Ra and his Apostles have shades of this, as they're well-intentioned but don't necessarily act according to a human morality. Lessa is closer to humanity, but only after spending thousands of years among them.
* CardCarryingVillain: Played with. Many people see the Demans as this, and certainly, some people who certainly ''are'' this want to join them for that reason. (And a few, like Caleb, toe the line.) However, it's worth noting that in the application round we see, Mindy-Mindy--the sole subversion--is the only one White accepts, with him stating that Ares would despise the others given that Ares himself is more of a WellIntentionedExtremist who believes UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Lessa.
* DarkMessiah: [[spoiler: Ares makes himself out to be this. Ryan even calls him a savior to his people the Deman.]]
* DarkMessiah: [[spoiler: Ares makes himself out to be this. Ryan even calls him a savior to his people the Deman.]]
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Lessa.Lessa and Lucy, as two Demans/Deman-adjacent beings but completely heroic.
*DarkMessiah: [[spoiler: Ares makes himself DeathByOriginStory: Rano and Lucy both on the same night, but in different ways. Rano watched his mother (and dog) be killed by a Deman, blacked out to be this. Ryan even calls him a savior to [[spoiler:because his people powers awakened]], and woke up the Deman.]]next morning to find Lucy missing. Meanwhile, Lucy's friends were slaughtered by Belle and she herself was made into a Deman and essentially abducted.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: How most of the higher Demans came to be. They generally started as slaves, child workers, or victims of persecution--which then drove them to obtain power at any cost and lash out at the rest of the world.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: In Season 1, humans create an artificial sun, with the idea that it'll protect them against Demans even at night. [[spoiler: Only for Demans to take over and repurpose the sun for their own uses so that it creates fake sunlight.]] However, at the end of Season 2, [[spoiler:Lexter and Blake hijack the sun so that it produces real sunlight once more--therefore wiping out most of the Demans in Hexagon Field.]]
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* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Lessa in the past.
* MauveShirt: The militia--the commander especially--who are given enough screentime to be BackForTheFinale. [[spoiler:And who are subsequently wiped out at the start of Season 3 to up the stakes.]]
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* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Young Ares' reaction upon his first meeting with Lessa. Lessa, not having any idea what modesty and nudity is, politely refuses, saying that Ares can [[HilarityEnsues keep it to himself]]
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* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Young Ares' reaction upon his first meeting with Lessa. Lessa, not having any idea what modesty and nudity is, politely refuses, saying that Ares can [[HilarityEnsues keep it to himself]]himself]].
* PokeThePoodle: How Lessa declares that he's become corrupted: he's so evil now that he can even ''steal bread''.
* PokeThePoodle: How Lessa declares that he's become corrupted: he's so evil now that he can even ''steal bread''.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Ares was born in Ancient Egypt.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Ares was born in Ancient Egypt. Many of the other Demans from third generation and up, while younger than him, are also fairly old; White is one of the youngest at about a hundred years. Ryan is the only ones who averts this and it's part of why Ares recruited him, as he wanted someone with modern knowledge (i.e. how to use the internet).
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* SacrificialLamb: "This goat [[spoiler:actually, Lessa]] has the only threat to this world sealed inside. It's a sacrificial lamb to save everything"
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* SacrificialLamb: "This goat [[spoiler:actually, Lessa]] has the only threat to this world sealed inside. It's a sacrificial lamb to save everything" everything".
* SatanicArchetype: Split between Dark Lessa, Lessa, and Luciel. Dark Lessa is the GodOfEvil who is explicitly compared to the Devil at one point, possesses dark powers as her name suggests, and tends to act as TheCorrupter to others; Lessa (also crossing over with MessianicArchetype) has inherited said dark powers and whose (however accidental) creation of Demans coincided with his fall from grace; Luciel is a FallenAngel [[MeaningfulName whose name]] is believed to have possibly been the original name of Lucifer, the iconic example.
* SatanicArchetype: Split between Dark Lessa, Lessa, and Luciel. Dark Lessa is the GodOfEvil who is explicitly compared to the Devil at one point, possesses dark powers as her name suggests, and tends to act as TheCorrupter to others; Lessa (also crossing over with MessianicArchetype) has inherited said dark powers and whose (however accidental) creation of Demans coincided with his fall from grace; Luciel is a FallenAngel [[MeaningfulName whose name]] is believed to have possibly been the original name of Lucifer, the iconic example.
