Best Known for the Fanservice: Lady Death is best known to casual comic book readers for being a pale lady in leather fetish gear. Of course, the comic itself uses this as a selling point.
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The 10th issue of the 2010 run has a scene where Lady Death, during a meeting with the other rebel leaders, inserts a coin into a bar maid's cleavage and kisses her on the lips. No one comments on this, it is never brought up again and Lady Death shows no attraction to women before or after this moment.
Sagos is the strongest warlock in existence, and an ambitious sadist who murdered and possessed the father of Hope, the future Lady Death, for his own nefarious purposes. Sagos uses his host to gather dozens of peasants and sacrifice their souls to the Necro-Wraiths, eventually escaping to the Blacklands while taking Hope's mother and leaving Hope herself to burn at the stake. Sagos wages cruel war on the Blacklands, slaughtering entire cities and raising millions of dead as zombie warriors, intent on exterminating all life in the Blacklands in tribute to the Necro-Wraiths for his own sub-realm to rule. Sagos massacres the city of Aberffraw and gloats to its princess Satasha that he's butchered her entire family, attempts to destroy the city of Perinthia to complete his genocide of the Blacklands, and tortures Hope's mother, gloating how he's gotten used to her body's "pleasure" through the body of her husband while smugly mocking the transformed Hope herself about what he's done.
Apocalypse: Satyricon is an all-powerful demon who serves as Queen Tormina's senior advisor. Having almost destroyed the entire Underrealm in the past, he was defeated by Wargoth and banished from the land. Seeking to rule the Underrealm, he manipulates Tormina to enact complete genocide against demon-kind so that no one can stop him, having multiple demons and babies sacrificed to grant him power. He also decides to unleash the direknights, who proceed to turn multiple humans into zombies, sending them off to kill every human within Tormina's kingdom. Arriving at Tormina’s throne room, he kills Valora in front of Tormina, and later kills Tormina while fighting Lady Death.
More Popular Spin Off: Lady Death is more well-known than Evil Ernie. To the point she became Brian Pulido's most well-known and long running creation and receiving her own animated adaptation.
Pretty much any incarnation of Lady Death counts as she is a young girl who is killed for reasons completely beyond her control and ends up a harder person for it while losing her mother. The Avatar Press and Coffin continuities put her through the ringer the most; the former sees her mother turn evil due to Hope being unable to save her and the has her lose two of her new allies and her husband which can make one feel sorry for her despite the awful things she has done and just give her a big hug because she clearly needs it after what she’s gone through.
Satasha in the Avatar Press continuity. Her family and kingdom are destroyed by Sagos. After she founds a new city, it is destroyed by the Death Queen due to gambit by Wargoth who was her ally and her wife Fenn is killed. One can't blame her for having him killed later on.
Sarah Wilson in the "Alive" story arc lost her parents at a young age and was raised by her abusive uncle. she befriends Lady Death when the latter loses her memories but once she regains them she starts acting cold towards Sarah even when the girl has lost her little brother.
Jake in the Coffin Comics continuity is sold to demons by his father to settle a bet and is experimented on by a Nazi. He later dies.
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Complete Monster: Lucifer is the Lord of Hell who comes to Earth in human form under the name of Mathias. Establishing himself as a tyrant in 15th century Sweden, Mathias forces his villagers—including a young boy—to join his army under the pretense on fighting for God. He then confines his daughter, Hope, to his castle after her lover, Niccolo, refuses to join Mathias's army. It was revealed that the innocent villagers—including Niccolo—were kidnapped and murdered by Mathias so that he could damn their souls to Hell. When an angry mob storms his castle, Mathias reveals his true form and kills most of the angry mob while leaving his daughter to be burned at the stake. After Hope's soul descends to Hell, Lucifer initially offers Hope to join his side while keeping his wife and Niccolo's tormented souls alive in containment, and after Hope refuses, he then kicks her out of the window. During the final battle, Lucifer then sends the frail and weak Niccolo to fight against his daughter.
