Line #37 ComicBook/HolyAvenger


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/holylipboard05.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Even some Gods and other cosmic powers in the mess.]]
3
4
5	A 42-issue {{animesque}} Brazilian comic written by Marcelo Cassaro with art by Erica Awano, set in a medieval fantasy world called Arton, based on the {{TabletopRPG}} ''Tormenta'' (meaning both "Storm" and "Torment" in Portuguese and named after an interdimensional storm that corrupts and destroys whatever it appears on and stays there), originally published in the RPG magazine ''Dragão Brasil''. The series also spawned various spinoffs and drama cds.
6
7	Arguably the most successful non child-oriented Brazilian comic book, the series is infamous for its [[ShoutOut outrageous anime references]] and a combination of [[RefugeInAudacity fantasy and horror elements with screwball action-comedy]].
8
9	After losing his place in the pantheon of Arton due to a conspiracy that could exterminate all gods, Sszzass the [[ManipulativeBastard God of Betrayal]] [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent and serpents]] was presumably killed and forever forgotten. In reality he was exiled and extremely weakened. To recover his divine status, he plots a very intricate plan during decades involving various heroes and events.
10
11	Taking central part in this plan there are innocent {{raised by wolves}} [[NubileSavage druid]] Lisandra, redheaded [[IdiotHero idiot hero]] Sandro Galtran, {{stripperiffic}} {{cloudcuckoolander}} elven mage Niele, [[BloodKnight insanely]] [[ClusterFBomb grumpy]] dwarf-troglodyte Tork, [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Paladin]], a legendary fallen hero and his twenty [[MineralMacGuffin Rubies of Virtue]], indestructible magical gems forged by each one of the twenty most powerful gods of Arton and currently scattered all over the world.
12
13	----
14	!!This series contains examples of:
15	%%* AbsurdlySharpBlade
16	%%* ActionGirl: Lisandra, Loriane, Lenora. Anne to some degree.
17	* ADayInTheLimelight: Every single main character (and some not so main) got an special issue with one-shot stories featuring them.
18	* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Dragon-Kings are so insanely titanic and monstrous they can kill just by [[BrownNote being seen]], yet Beluhga the Queen of White Dragons appear as an extremely beautiful woman in an elegant dress and an ice coronet, and Sckhar the King of Red Dragons as a slender, handsome hedheaded elf.
19	%%* AloofBigBrother: James K. to Anne, or at least [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold what he wants her to think]].
20	* AnIcePerson: Beluhga, the queen of the white dragons epitomizes this trope. Her mere presence was enough to turn a region the size of China into a glacial desert.
21	%%* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Anne. To her brother. And to anyone else.
22	%%* AuthorAvatar: Both Cassaro and Awano.
23	%%* AWizardDidIt
24	* BerserkButton: May the Gods have mercy of you if you DARE badmouth The Paladin in front of [[{{Yandere}} Lisandra]]...
25	%%* BloodKnight: Master Arsenal, the high priest of the God of War.
26	%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: Just as above, if you want to live a long, healthy life, just stay away of Lisandra and the Rubies of Virtue...
27	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Lisandra and Sandro get married, but Lisandra is exiled and condemned to never leave the site where was the town she viciously destroyed during her outbreak, turning the place into a forest to pray for the people she killed. Sandro retires from his days as an adventurer thief to stay with his wife. Niele, who was killed in a point and received a temporary life, enough to come back and help her friends, get back to Wynna's realm. And, except for Sckhar, [[BadGuysWins the other villains basically got everything they wanted]]]].
28	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Broke by two of Sckhar's concubines who wonder if a lot of things they already know keeps being repeated just for the reader's sake.
29	* BreathWeapon: Most dragons seem to have one.
30	* CallingYourAttacks:
31	** Niele in every spell she (tries) to cast.
32	** '''[[GratuitousJapanese MOERU MOERU]]'''!!!
33	* CantHaveSexEver: Loriane. [[spoiler:She'll lose her unicorn if she ever have sex. She becomes kinda miffed about the rule after meet Sandro, though...]]
34	* ChickMagnet:
35	** The Paladin, thanks to his feats. [[spoiler:He's too much of a KnightTemplar to even enjoy that, though]].
36	** Sandro. While his thing with Lisandra have to be built/pushed in the comic, Sandro's charisma earns him the attention of some good ladies (and others not so good). Niele, despite all her support to Sandro and Lisandra, is very clingy with the thief. Loriane, the half-elf, is supportive to Sandro as his coach and fellow gladiator and is quite smitten by his bumbling and yet earnest nature. Anne K., apparently. And then, there's [[spoiler:Sandro's gunslinger childhood friend, Savanna, in an special issue, who discovers he's married and ''tries'' to kill Lisandra]]...
37	* CityOfAdventure: Malpetrim, Valkaria, Triumphus, Vectora.
38	** It's a whole World of Adventure (10% of the population is composed of adventurers). Even then, Malpetrim is considered '''the''' city of adventure in the setting.
39	* CoolShip: A pirate ship with butterfly wings, no less.
40	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: As some characters do take notice, mainly Loriane, Sandro is a terrible thief, [[BewareTheSillyOnes but a surprisingly good warrior]], hindered only by his own stubbornness and panic. It's also part of the reason why [[TeacherStudentRomance Loriane took a shine on him]].
41	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: The fate of the villagers brutally murdered and turned into inhuman monstrosities by Lisandra.]]
42	* DarkIsNotEvil:
43	** Tarso the king of dracoliches resumes the trope, showing himself as a cute, friendly and good-natured little skeleton with a love for [[TrademarkFavoriteFood ice cream]].
44	** Tenebra, the Goddess of Darkness and patron of all undead is a genuine gentle person who cares for her loved ones.
45	*** Zigzagged in the case of Tenebra: She may be very sweet towards the cute (which goes hand in hand with having Protection as one of her domains), but she is still very much neutral. A few stories show you do NOT want to cross her.
46	%%* DeadpanSnarker: The series provides priceless examples. Anne, Tork, Loriane and the inkeeper Rudd are just a few.
47	* DealWithTheDevil: Niele does this without knowing the consequences by acquiring Sszzass' Eye.
48	* DeathIsCheap:
49	** Actually, [[SubvertedTrope resurrection is said to be very expensive]], and [[KilledOffForReal sometimes does not work.]]
50	** Vladislav trying to resurrect [[spoiler: the Paladin after their failed attempt to steal one of Sckhar's lairs]] is what caused him to become so powerful and crazy.
51	* DesignatedLoveInterest: [[invoked]] Played with. [[spoiler:Lisandra thinks all she does is because she loves The Paladin, but she doesn't grasp how wrong she is until be too late. Lisandra is that to Sandro in some extension too, because Niele basically forces the trope onto them]].
52	%%* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu
53	* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: [[spoiler:The Paladin.]]
54	* EyeObscuringHat: Lucky Luigi wears one. [[spoiler: Leon knocks it off his head after a heated argument with him in Chapter 33]].
55	* EyeScream: Upon realizing that she was forever imprisoned because of Sckhar, Beluhga becomes a little pissed and gouges one of his eyes off.
56	%%* FauxAffablyEvil: Sszzass, Sckhar, the sea elf Prince Deenar.
57	%%* FertileFeet: Lisandra displays this ability sometimes.
58	%%* FinalBattle
59	* FloatingContinent: Vectora, the "Sky City".
60	* FunPersonified:
61	** Niele lives for the sake of bringing happiness and smiles to every person she meets. Although she [[spoiler: acts like that partially [[StepfordSmiler to cover her own insecurities]] [[HiddenDepths and the guilt she feels]] for being the (not so) responsible for Lenórienn's destruction]] as later revealed, the series shows that she already was FunPersonified even after those events.
62	** Wynna the Goddess of Magic don't just share the same [[{{Stripperific}} wardrobe]] of Niele. Those two arguably are the most positive and cheerful characters of the show. Moreover, Wynna is the most open goddess to mortals.
63	* TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson: Niele is usually giving {{Shout Out}}s to pop culture (mainly to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''), or contemporary stuff (she once talked about a griffin landing as if it was an airliner). It tends to utterly confuse Lisandra.
64	* GreenThumb: Lisandra shows how this power can be devastating when given to an unstable yandere.
65	* [[GuardianAngel Guardian Undead Dragon and Guardian Goddess of the Night]]: Tarso and Tenebra, to Petra.
66	* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:Lisandra's mother was a dryad.]]
67	* HeelFaceTurn: Aspis
68	* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: The Chameleon kills Niele in Chapter 19 while disguised as Sandro.]]
69	* HighlyVisibleNinja: Practically what Sandro is while trying to be a thief.
70	* {{Hypocrite}}: Khalmyr, god of justice, saw fit to punish a Lawful Good woman for the crime of another.
71	* IceQueen: Beluhga is a more literal example of this trope. Her personality traits are more of a SugarAndIcePersonality or a {{Defrosting Ice Queen}}.
72	* InfinityPlusOneSword: Holy Avenger itself.
73	* IdiotHero: Sandro, and his father Leon Galtran to an extent.
74	* IdolSinger: Niele has an army of devoted fans in Malpetrim.
75	* ImprobableWeaponUser:
76	** Sandro. His [[SwissArmyWeapon kailash]] (actually, his dad's) works like a sling stone, but can act as a boomerang, bolas, net and mace. Much probably have other functions that Sandro doesn't know. It was revealed in a flashback that Leon also used the kailash as retractable sword. [[spoiler:Leon takes back the weapon when his son quits from the adventurer's life.]]
77	** Tork. His scythe [[spoiler: is actually made from the arm of Deenar, the evil [[OurElvesAreDifferent Sea Elf]] who seeks vengeance for that.]]
78	* LittleMissBadass: Anne K.
79	* LethalChef: Petra is the UrExample.
80	* LoveRedeems
81	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: And how!
82	* MusicalAssassin: Lucky Luigi.
83	* NoSocialSkills: Lisandra. Being RaisedByWolves and by a mercenary without contact to civilization does this to one person.
84	* OlderThanTheyLook: It's a given for elves, half-elves and other magic folks. For example, Lorianne is a 55 years old half-elf, but she looks in her late teens. Sandro saw her by the first time at the Coliseum when he was six and, 10 years after, he does meet her in person and she looks exactly the same.
85	* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: Lisandra]]
86	* PlayingWithFire: Sckhar, The Moóck, and, sometimes, Niele.
87	* ReferenceOverdosed: ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' and many, many others. Along with ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'', this comic became notorious for being very excessive and on-the-nose with its references to pop culture. [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Freaking Koto]] appears as the tournament's host and interacts with the characters!
88	* RefugeInAudacity
89	* RaisedByWolves: Lisandra. Literally, for at last 10 years until Tork come along, anyway.
90	* RoyalBastard: Prince Mitkov Yudennach III of Yuden.
91	* ScrewYouElves: And how. The setting BEGINS with their city destroyed and taken over by goblins and bugbears due to their arrogance. Pride cometh before a fall.
92	* ShipTease:
93	** Niele takes the "situation" between Sandro and Lisandra as they are meant to be and uses every trick she knows to make them fall for each other, [[spoiler:even if they literally do find each other only ''four times in the story'']]. This doesn't stop Niele to [[FriendsWithBenefits flirt, glomp and kiss Sandro every single time she can]], because she knows that, [[MatchmakerCrush after all her work]], [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Sandro won't have eyes to anyone except Lisandra]].
94	** Niele have her moments with James K., her previous partner.
95	** Sandro and Loriane.
96	** Tork and Petra.
97	* ShrinkingViolet: Poor Petra had a lot of bad stuff happening to her life that practically destroyed her self-confidence. She gets better towards the end of the series.
98	* SinisterScythe: A troglodyte character wields one.
99	* {{Stripperiffic}}:
100	** Niele and Wynna.
101	** {{Lampshaded}} by Sandro when he meets Niele:
102	--> '''Sandro''': We're not in such a hurry, you can finish getting dressed. What, you're already dressed?!
103	* StuffBlowingUp: Niele loves this trope.
104	* TheDreaded: Master Arsenal is a frequent source of nightmares for the majority of people in Arton, and he is just one of many. Thwor Ironfist, Vectorius, Schkar, The Paladin, Nekapeth, Gwen Haggenfar, Black Skull and Niele herself enlarges the list.
105	* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: James K. Incompetent crew. Then again, he was looking for a place to bury a loot in the beginning of the series...
106	* TheFairFolk: Pondsmânia is an entire country occupied by all kinds of fae creatures, from [[FairyCompanion butterfly-winged sprites]] to [[EldritchAbomination powerful otherworldly beings]].
107	* TooDumbToLive: Oh, boy, Sandro. It's hard even start to describe. [[spoiler:He in fact ''dies and is revived'' at least three times, but for reasons not related to his dumbness, though.]]
108	* {{Tsundere}}: Hilariously enough, Captain James K. is a huge tsundere for Niele. He is a type A (being very tsun tsun towards her most of the time).
109	* WhamEpisode: Chapter 19, where [[spoiler: The Chameleon murders Niele while disguised as Sandro, kicking off a ClearMyName subplot for the thief.]]
110	* WhatTheHellHero: The Paladin's selfish, arrogant and ambitious behavior was a hint that something wasn't right with him.
111	* WinterRoyalLady: Queen Beluhga, to the core.
112	* WizardingSchool: The Arcane Academy.
113	* {{Yandere}}: ''Lisandra does not welcome slanderous filth about The Paladin''. Because he is important! He is her hero! And she loves him! She will do ''everything'' to recover his precious rubies, and Heaven helps those who cross her path while she gets more and more powerful and emotionally unstable...
114	** [[spoiler:Toned down, but the yandere side is still there after she and Sandro are [[HappillyMarried happilly married]]. She doesn't take well how close friends her husband and Savanna are...]]
115	** [[spoiler:Savanna herself is that to Sandro, to the point of try to blame Lisandra for a forged crime, only to end her marriage with Sandro. It doesn't work.]]
116	* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm:
117	** Beluhga, Tarso, Sckhar, and the other Dragon Kings.
118	** The [[EldritchAbomination Lefeu race]] [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow are a particularly]] nasty example, too.

Context ComicBook / HolyAvenger