Line #78 Characters/TheDreadful


1	!Penelope Kit Adams
2	* ActionGirl: A WildWest gunslinger ''par excellence,'' impressive hand-to-hand skills, and can take a punch with the best of them.
3	* BerserkButton:
4	** Don't imply anything unpleasant about Poe in Kit's presence. Whether you're threatening her or impugning her character, it ''will'' end painfully for you.
5	** She also reacts [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/06/the-dreadful-111/ poorly]] to racism.
6	* BoomerangBigot: Kit hates wizards and the things they make. Her father was a wizard.
7	* CelibateHero: Kit takes great pride in being living proof that a devikin can make something of herself without having to prostitute herself. [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/07/18/the-dreadful-134/ A flashback]] shows that she's so dead-set on Poe and herself avoiding getting stained with the HotAsHell image that she insists that neither of them have any sex at all.
8	** Though she ''does'' tease Charsi for being a virgin.
9	* CuteLittleFangs: They go with the horns.
10	* CuteMonsterGirl
11	* DevelopmentGag: Kit's [[EmbarrassingFirstName first name]] is Penelope. The intended title of the comic was Penny Dreadful, until it was discovered that another webcomic already carries the title.
12	* DisappearedDad
13	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Penelope.
14	%%* GenreBlind
15	* GunsAkimbo: Combine Kit, a pair of AK-47s, and a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/03/19/a-paid-message-from-big-eagle-beer-01/ giant, fire-breathing eagle]]. What do you get? [[RuleOfCool Awesome]].
16	* TheGunslinger: A combination of the [[ImprobableAimingSkills Trick Shot]] and QuickDraw types, with shades of [[GunFu The Woo]] in close combat.
17	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl
18	* HellishPupils: Kit's are vertical.
19	* HitmanWithAHeart: Sort of. She has few scruples about killing, but she doesn't like to shoot unarmed foes.
20	--> '''Liz''': "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot you was a killer with standards."
21	* HornedHumanoid
22	* HyperspaceArsenal: Lampshaded:
23	--> '''Liz''': "Where'd that beam go, anyway?"
24	--> '''Kit''': "[[HandWave Let's not dwell on questions about how The Dreadful works.]]"
25	* IdiotHero: To a degree.
26	* ImmuneToBullets: Like all Devikin - unless they're silver.
27	* ImprobableAimingSkills: She's able to go one better than BlastingItOutOfTheirHands by ''shooting the hammer off of a cocked and loaded rifle.''
28	** Aptly demonstrated again [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/06/the-dreadful-111/ here]], where she shoots the hammer of a revolver in midair and causes it to fire into the man's face.
29	* LovecraftianSuperpower: At first glance, The Dreadful just appears to be a spell-like giant energy beam. But [[spoiler:as Jeanne reveals, it has a side effect that produces TheVirus]].
30	* MadeOfIron: In the space of maybe a couple hours, Kit gets roughed up by zombies, takes a shotgun blast to the chest point blank, and still has enough left in the tank to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown go a couple rounds with Jeanne Noelle]], with no apparent lasting injury. After escaping from Jeanne, she falls down a steep, rocky hill into a river and is captured by the [[PinkertonDetective JDA]]. She proceeds to open up a can of whoop-ass on ''them'' after being [[PistolWhipping butt-stroked]] in the gut with a rifle. ''While her hands are tied.'' [[spoiler:Sabueso has to completely hog-tie her to subdue her - and she still doesn't stop talking trash.]]
31	* MotorMouth: As a child.
32	* MsFanservice: Not in the main comic, but she appears as one in the Eagle Beer adverts.
33	* MuggingTheMonster: Kit does this and then has it done right back to her in ''A Dreadful Halloween''.
34	* OhCrap: Kit's reaction when she finds out the hard way about Burke's [[ImmuneToBullets immunity]].
35	* PersonOfMassDestruction
36	* [[spoiler: PoweredByAForsakenChild: Use of The Dreadful is somehow linked to creating zombies.]]
37	* PowerIncontinence: [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/09/the-dreadful-112/ It]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/11/the-dreadful-113/ appears]] Kit doesn't have perfect control over The Dreadful.
38	* PungeonMaster: At least around Boozloaf.
39	* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Poe's blue.
40	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
41	* SupernaturalGoldEyes
42	* SuperSenses: Kit frequently points out that she has excellent night vision.
43	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy in contrast to Poe.
44	* TooDumbToLive: Kit and Jeanne fight, and Kit manages to get behind Jeanne with a gun to her head. She ''knows'' that Jeanne is ungodly fast and strong. Does she pull the trigger? Nope, she [[TemptingFate stops to gloat]]. To no one's surprise but Kit, NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ensues.
45	* WaveMotionGun: The Dreadful, a magical pistol that Kit can summon, is one of these.
46	* WorfHadTheFlu: The only condition Sabueso is willing to fight her under. He takes full advantage of her exhaustion from fighting Jeanne to subdue her. During a second encounter, he again has to rely on this advantage, and he ''still'' receives a thorough beat down.
47
48	!Poe Adams
49	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Occasionally shocks Kit by letting slip exactly what's going on under that demure demeanor. Liz speculates that she might have had something to do with why Kit got shot, and Erin suspects that she might be a full fledged BitchInSheepsClothing.
50	* CuteLittleFangs: They go with the horns.
51	* CuteMonsterGirl
52	* HellishPupils: They're vertical - seems to be standard for Devikin.
53	* HimeCut
54	* HornedHumanoid
55	* ImmuneToBullets: Like all Devikin - unless they're silver.
56	* MsFanservice: Has been seen having sex on panel (much to Kit's dismay) and generally wears clothing that emphasizes her figure, unlike Kit.
57	* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Kit's red.
58	* TheReliableOne
59	* SupernaturalGoldEyes
60	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly girl in contrast to Kit.
61
62	!Elizabeth "Liz" Napier
63	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter If [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2014/06/05/the-dreadful-268/ this]] page is any indication, she feels this way about Kit.
64	* {{Bifauxnen}}
65	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
66	* ColdSniper: Apparently the case, a sharpshooter who is also kind of a taciturn bitch.
67	* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Before the ArtEvolution took hold. After that, it didn't work as well with the new style.
68	* TheDreaded: Almost as much as ''Jeanne'', given how people tend to react when she tells them her name, or they simply hear that she ''might'' be in town.
69	* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Does not have a very good grasp of basic Spanish grammar.
70	* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Liz constantly has a cigarette drooping from her mouth, highlighting her hard-boiled and cynical nature.
71	* TheGunslinger: [[ImprobableAimingSkills Trick Shot]]/QuickDraw type.
72	* LooksLikeCesare
73	* NoMouth: Pre ArtEvolution, before Erin shot out her cigarette.
74	* ParentalAbandonment: She has a son named James that she hasn't seen in fourteen years.
75	* TheStoic: As a foil for Kit's flamboyance and adrenaline-junkie tendencies.
76
77	!Jeanne Noelle
78	* AmazonianBeauty: Very muscular, and drawn with attractive features, including a CleavageWindow over her large bust.
79	* AndShowItToYou: Jeanne has reportedly been known to force-feed people pieces of themselves.
80	* AxCrazy
81	* BloodKnight: Jeanne really seems to relish the idea of fighting Kit. When Kit looks like she's ready to reveal her SuperpoweredEvilSide, Jeanne's response is, "This is turning out better than I expected."
82	* CleavageWindow: Her standard outfit
83	* CoolHorse: Jeanne rides a ''draught'' horse, a Clydesdale (or TheVerse's equivalent) by WordOfGod. [[http://www.nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?p=1209273#post1209273]] It's got MonochromaticEyes like its mistress, a [[PerpetualFrowner perma-scowl]] and a [[GoodScarsEvilScars badass scar]] across its right eye. As evil as it looks, it may border on HellishHorse.
84	* DodgeTheBullet: Jeanne can dodge bullets shot by ''[[TheGunslinger Kit]]'' at ''point blank''.
85	* TheDreaded: EVERYONE is scared shitless of Jeanne.
86	* FingerGun: Jeanne does this and [[spoiler:fires a beam not unlike what The Dreadful fires]].
87	* FlashStep: Why Jeanne can win a gunfight against [[TheGunslinger Kit]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/09/14/the-dreadful-154/ without a gun]].
88	* GlowingEyesOfDoom: More obvious in the [[http://nuklearpower.com/images/JeanneWallpaper1920by1080.jpg colored]] artwork.
89	* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Fond of cigars, as befitting a LargeAndInCharge villain.
90	* GroinAttack: One of Jeanne's more [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2011/07/01/the-dreadful-036/ brutal murders.]]
91	* HyperAwareness: Jeanne could hear the hammer click on Kit's revolver from the bushes at least 20m away. She immediately knew, apparently just from the sound, that A) it was Kit, and B) Kit was ''decocking'' rather than cocking the hammer.
92	* IAmNotLeftHanded: When Jeanne is fighting Kit, she moves fast enough to DodgeTheBullet, but slow enough that Kit can dodge her attacks. Until Kit manages to get her gun to the back of Jeanne's head. Kit didn't even have a chance to react to the following punch.
93	* LargeAndInCharge: Jeanne Noelle is probably one of the largest characters in the comic. She leads a group of bandits (and apparently has quite a bit of leverage over officials).
94	* LightningBruiser: Aptly demonstrated [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/09/14/the-dreadful-154/ here]].
95	* MonochromaticEyes: Jeanne and her horse both have these.
96	* ProphetEyes: Although we don't entirely know why yet.
97
98	!Erin
99	* AccidentalAimingSkills: [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2011/09/10/the-dreaful-056/ Erin shoots Liz's cigarette]] in half at night, and the lines around her nose indicate that her attention was drawn to it by ''smell''. However, WordOfGod is that this was just an awesome-looking accident.
100	* [[spoiler: AnIcePerson: Post resurrection.]]
101	* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead]]
102	* BilingualBonus: for speakers of German.
103	* BystanderSyndrome: She had the chance to eliminate the current zombie problem before it became an epidemic, but as far as she was concerned, it wasn't her problem.
104	%%* ColdSniper
105	* DefiantToTheEnd: See FacingTheBulletsOneLiner.
106	* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Erin's English could use some work.
107	* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Erin says the German equivalent of "Kiss my ass" [[note]]literally "Lick me"[[/note]] when Liz interrogates her at gunpoint.
108	* ForeignCussWord: "Leck mich."
109	* GenreSavvy: Upon seeing [[spoiler:the slug-revived ''things'', Erin and Ith]] instantly guess that they are zombies and shooting them in the head would be the best course of action.
110	** WrongGenreSavvy: Except that these particular zombies apparently don't work that way.
111	* GogglesDoNothing
112	* [[spoiler: GoodScarsEvilScars: Has an X-shaped scar right in the middle of her forehead from when Liz shot her.]]
113	* TheGunslinger: Type A
114	* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]]
115	* [[spoiler:PresentCompanyExcluded:]]
116	-->[[spoiler:'''Erin:''' Will nothing keep itself dead?! ''realizes'' Not that I am [[BackFromTheDead complaining]], Ith]].
117	* [[spoiler: SharingABody: With Ith.]]
118	* SophisticatedAsHell: If you properly translate her German dialogue.
119	* WingedHumanoid: WordOfGod has confirmed she is not an angel despite her appearance.
120	* [[spoiler:XMarksTheHero: Erin has one of these scars right in the center of her forehead, presumably because that's where Liz shot her]].
121
122	!Ith
123	* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Introduced as a dead fairy in a bottle that Liz forgot about. Ends up resurrecting Erin.]]
124	* FairyInABottle: The strip initially uses this as a parody of the Zelda example, where Liz remembers that she's got one when she pulls out a [[ForgotToFeedTheMonster long dead bottled fairy]] and throws it at Erin. [[spoiler: Then made more plot relevant, when it turns out the fairy, Ith, was a necromancer and proceeds to possess/resurrect (apparently something goes wrong and they end up SharingABody) Erin after Kit and Liz have left.]]
125	* ForScience: The reason she wanted to study the zombies.
126	* GenreSavvy: Upon seeing [[spoiler: the slug-revived ''things'']], Erin and Ith instantly guess that they are zombies and shooting them in the head would be the best course of action.
127	** WrongGenreSavvy: Except that these particular zombies apparently don't work that way.
128	* MadScientist: The revenge she has planned against Liz for leaving her to die in a bottle involves a lot of experimenting with BlackMagic.
129	* {{Necromancer}}: She uses it to [[spoiler:resurrect Erin's dead body and possess it after dying herself]].
130	* PaintingTheMedium: Her dialogue has a unique font, which is necessary in order to [[spoiler: differentiate her speech from Erin's.]]
131	* {{Revenge}}: Wants it against Liz for leaving her to die in a bottle.
132	* [[spoiler:SharingABody: with Erin]]
133	* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Mice?]]: Terrified of mice, due to them being known to prey on fairies. [[spoiler:Even when she's SharingABody that's much larger than the average mouse.]]
134
135	!Boozloaf
136	* BadassPreacher: By all appearances he is an ActualPacifist, but he still isn't above using a little [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/11/the-dreadful-113/ intimidation]] to help people do the right thing.
137	* GentleGiant: He towers over most other characters, but is never seen to engage in violence.
138	* GoodShepherd: A genuinely kind and moral member of the Moomon clergy.
139	* ObfuscatingStupidity: See TreacherousAdvisor, below.
140	* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: He is a minotaur.
141	* PungeonMaster: Loves to trade puns with Kit.
142	* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:He's with The Knights.]]
143
144	! El Sabueso
145	* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Implied. When one of the ninja girls gets a look at what he's got, she [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2015/04/03/the-dreadful-300-for-realsies-this-time/ promptly suggests]] a round of IntimateHealing. However, Sabueso seemingly has performance issues [[spoiler: likely due to Catherine's interference]].
146	* CombatPragmatist: He has no problems with fighting dirty. He ambushes Kit immediately after she gets [[CurbStompBattle badly beaten up]] by Jeanne, and his horse stabs Liz InTheBack. [[spoiler:Fortunately for Liz, an illusionist warned her of the ambush beforehand and prevented it, and thus only an illusion of her gets murdered]].
147	* CoolHorse: His horse, Bludkolt, is a horse dressed like someone out of MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.
148	* DarkAgeOfSupernames: As part of his "parody of [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks 90's comics]]" shtick, El Sabueso's name translates to "The Bloodhound" and his horse is called Bludkolt.
149	* FromACertainPointOfView: Assures some members of the [=JDA=] that Kit is weak and vulnerable after her run in with Jeanne and being tied up. She promptly starts to beat them to a pulp. He continues to insist that she's weak and vulnerable. Relatively.
150	* HiddenDepths: Despite being drawn like a character from MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks, himself, he turns out to be [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2014/08/07/the-dreadful-275/ a pretty talented artist.]]
151	* LargeHam
152	* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:After Catherine's interference, he apparently splits into two people, both of them representing opposing aspects of his personality. One of them represents his impatience, the other represents his indolence. The latter is also the [[OppositeSexClone opposite of his original sex]].]]
153	* MeaningfulName: His name means The Bloodhound and he's a tracker.
154	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Introduced in [[{{Omake}} the first "Dreadful Advertising"]] as an utterly over the top goofball.
155	* ScarilyCompetentTracker: He was able to track Kit to a location she hadn't reached yet in order to lay in wait for her. [[spoiler:Although we find out that's actually due to a magical artifact in his possession, rather than skill.]]
156	* {{Seers}}: He claims he can track anything including... '''[[LargeHam the FUTURE]]'''. Though in actuality, he's seeing the future with the help of a magical artifact, and that sight can be fooled with trickery.
157	* StylisticSuck: El Sabueso is intentionally drawn like a character from a Creator/RobLiefeld comic.
158	* SummonMagic: El Sabueso sacrificed the blood of the guilty to form a pact with a [[LightIsNotGood cruel, ruthless angel]]. As a result, he can summon her with a flute, though he has to shield his eyes to avoid being TakenForGranite.
159	* TestosteronePoisoning: Start with his being drawn like a Liefield character, then add in that most of the time he has NoIndoorVoice, that he thinks briefings are for pansies and just add on from there.
160	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Used to work for the government, but "left" after botching a rescue operation. He was supposed to recover a senator's son, but when he thought he'd tracked the kidnapper down, instead of a boy, he found [[spoiler:a robot, which he assumed was a decoy of some kind. It was actually the senator's adopted son. Which El Sabueso only learned after blowing up the kidnapper's base with the robot still inside]].
161
162	!Judge Catherine
163	* StatuesqueStunner: Extremely tall, and drawn with attractive features.
164
165	!Chinami Umami
166	* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Ayane]].
167	** Her two 'friends' Shichiko and Hachiko appear to be expies of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Yuffie Kisaragi]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Selphie Tilmitt]], respectively.
168	* MasterOfIllusion: Is quite talented at using the standard ninja tricks.
169	* StealthHiBye: When she notices she and Liz are being watched, she pulls this. ''On horseback''.
170
171	![=BludKolt=]
172	* CoolHorse
173	* IntellectualAnimal
174	* LargeHam: But you'd only know it if you can speak horse.
175
176	!Charsi Parker
177	* BewareTheNiceOnes: A very nice woman who killed a ''lot'' of the cultists coming after her, including a giant ogre, before they finally captured her.
178	* ChasteHero: Which even [[CelibateHero Kit]] teases her about.
179	* HiddenBuxom: Deliberately invoked. She wears heavy clothes all the time because [[DCupDistress she was teased about them when she was younger.]]
180	* KnightTemplar: Averted. She's one of the Knights who go around violently solving problems caused by supernatural and demonic entities, but is of a generation where the order has apparently been reformed away from a murderous mentality.
181	* NiceGirl
182	* {{Revenge}}: Wants it against the Jeanne Noelle gang for killing her mother during a bank robbery.
183	* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Can summon her magic glaive at will.
184	* UnwittingPawn: She thinks her sponsor, Dewbreen, is going to work with her to take out Jeanne Noelle gang if she just convinces Kit to work with him. She probably doesn't know that he runs a cult that steals souls, particularly those of women, and makes them into "dryads".

Context Characters / TheDreadful