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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: The soapland girl is admired by the size of Mayart's member, but we [[FanDisservice luckily]] don't get to see if she is right or just talking sweet to a patron.



* GagPenis: The soapland girl is admired of Mayart's member, but we [[FanDisservice luckily]] don't get to see if she is right or just talking sweet to a patron.



* MakeMeWannaShout: Jin's screams emit psychic waves able to push people away and to tear out limbs.


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* SuperScream: Jin's screams emit psychic waves able to push people away and to tear out limbs.
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-->'''Black Guard President''': Taki, I'm very, very disappointed in you. And, in spite of that, you're one of the best Black Guards I've ever seen. But you're too Goddam romantic, do you understand what I'm saying? That alone is your one fatal flaw.

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-->'''Black Guard President''': Taki, I'm very, very disappointed in you. And, in spite of that, you're one of the best Black Guards I've ever seen. But you're too Goddam romantic, do goddamn romantic! Do you understand what I'm saying? saying?! That alone is your one fatal flaw.
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Horny Devils was renamed to Succubi And Incubi, and Hot As Hell was retooled into being about attractive and seductive demons


* HornyDevils: All the dark world citizens, both male and female, heroic and villainous, use sexuality as a weapon.

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* HornyDevils: HotAsHell: All the dark world citizens, both male and female, heroic and villainous, use sexuality as a weapon.

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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler:Doubles as this, as their sex scene is very sweet and tender and Renzaburou goes out of his way to be gentle to Makie.]] Reinforcing the trope even more, theirs is the only ''pleasant and fully consensual'' sexual encounter in the whole movie.


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* SexualKarma: [[spoiler:Makie and Renzaburou's GladToBeAliveSex is very sweet and tender and he goes out of his way to be gentle to her.]] Reinforcing the trope even more, theirs is the only ''pleasant and fully consensual'' sexual encounter in the whole movie.
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* ActionGirl: Makie. Even although she is repeatedly overpowered and molested throughout the film, the female Black Guard actually owns the biggest part of the action: she makes her introduction saving Taki's life, fights back against Jin mostly by herself, destroys the blob woman and the tentacle demon on her own, and at the end, [[spoiler:finishes off the BigBad with her newfound motherly powers.]]

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* ActionGirl: Makie. Even although Although she is repeatedly overpowered and molested throughout the film, the female Black Guard actually owns the biggest part of the action: she makes her introduction saving Taki's life, fights back against Jin mostly by herself, destroys the blob woman and the tentacle demon on her own, and at the end, [[spoiler:finishes off the BigBad with her newfound motherly powers.]]
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* KnifeNut: Hodgkins's signature weapon is a chained knife which he can apparently direct at his will.

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* HalfHumanHybrids: [[spoiler: Makie and Renzaburou]] are the parents of the first one, according to Giuseppe. Said child will be known as the living proof that humans and demons can co-exist in peace.

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* HalfHumanHybrids: HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: Makie and Renzaburou]] are the parents of the first one, according to Giuseppe. Said child will be known as the living proof that humans and demons can co-exist in peace.



* HumanMomNonHumanDad: [[spoiler:Inverted with Taki and Makie's unborn child at the end, who has a human father and demon mother.]]
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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It is an anime movie adaptation of the ''Black Guard'', the first novel of Creator/HideyukiKikuchi's ''Wicked City'' horror series, directed by his long time friend Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties. It was later remade into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.

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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It is an anime movie adaptation of the ''Black Guard'', the first novel of Creator/HideyukiKikuchi's ''Wicked City'' horror series, directed by his long time friend Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties. It was later remade into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with by Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.
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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It is an anime movie adaptation of the ''Black Guard'', the first novel of Creator/HideyukiKikuchi's ''Wicked City'' horror series, directed by his long time friend Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties. Another volume was later made into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.

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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It is an anime movie adaptation of the ''Black Guard'', the first novel of Creator/HideyukiKikuchi's ''Wicked City'' horror series, directed by his long time friend Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties. Another volume It was later made remade into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.
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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It is an anime movie adaptation of the ''Black Guard'', the first novel of Creator/HideyukiKikuchi's ''Wicked City'' horror series , directed by his long time friend Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties. Another volume was later made into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.

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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It is an anime movie adaptation of the ''Black Guard'', the first novel of Creator/HideyukiKikuchi's ''Wicked City'' horror series , series, directed by his long time friend Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties. Another volume was later made into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.
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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It is an anime movie adaptation of the ''Black Guard'', first novel of Creator/HideyukiKikuchi's ''Wicked City'' horror series , directed by his long time friend Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties. Another volume was later made into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.

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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It is an anime movie adaptation of the ''Black Guard'', the first novel of Creator/HideyukiKikuchi's ''Wicked City'' horror series , directed by his long time friend Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties. Another volume was later made into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.
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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It is an anime movie adaptation of the first novel of Creator/HideyukiKikuchi's horror series ''Black Guard'', directed by his long time friend Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties. Another volume was later made into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.

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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It is an anime movie adaptation of the ''Black Guard'', first novel of Creator/HideyukiKikuchi's ''Wicked City'' horror series ''Black Guard'', , directed by his long time friend Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties. Another volume was later made into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.

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Taki is officially 25 years old, so he couldn't have been born the last time Mayart visited Japan.


* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: The original implies Taki and Makie [[spoiler:were both genetically created to be compatible, possibly around twenty years ago, the instance in which Hodgkins mentions Mayart came to Japan.]] The European Spanish dub, which contains some minor changes in the script, states they [[spoiler:were selected, not created, being simply the only compatible human and Dark World citizen duo they could find.]]

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* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: The original implies Taki and Makie [[spoiler:were both genetically created to be compatible, possibly around twenty years ago, the instance in which Hodgkins mentions Mayart came to Japan.compatible.]] The European American and Spanish dub, dubs, which contains contain some minor changes in the script, states state they [[spoiler:were selected, not created, being simply the only compatible human and Dark World citizen duo they could find.]]



* AmbiguouslyHuman: The novel series describes Mayart as a powerful Italian wizard and psychic, but never states he's anything other than a supernaturally powered human. In the Spanish dub, he even states to be human just like Taki. However, his small physique, pointy ears, horn-like head protrusions and superhuman physical skills point more towards a Dark World citizen himself or some other kind of inhuman creature. The movie never really clarifies it, as he is definitely a person with some secrets.

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* AmbiguouslyHuman: The novel series describes Mayart as a powerful Italian wizard and psychic, but never states he's anything other than a supernaturally powered human. In the American and Spanish dub, dubs, he even states himself to be human just like Taki. However, his small physique, pointy ears, horn-like head protrusions and superhuman [[spoiler:superhuman physical skills skills]] point more towards a Dark World citizen himself or some other kind of inhuman creature. The movie never really clarifies it, as he is he's definitely a person with some secrets.secrets, but it's notable that his profile picture at the beginning of the movie shows him clad in a classical vampire OminousOperaCape.



* BigGood: Giuseppe Mayart is a big name on the heroes' side and an instrumental piece of the peace accords, but he subverts it by being an annoying, useless VIP who only gets them in trouble. [[spoiler:Then subverts it again by being an impressively powerful psychic who was manipulating events right and left.]]

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* BigGood: Giuseppe Mayart is a big name on the heroes' side and an instrumental piece of the peace accords, but he subverts it by being an annoying, useless VIP who is suicidally dismissive of the terrorists' danger and only gets them the agents in trouble. [[spoiler:Then subverts it again by being an impressively powerful psychic who was manipulating events right and left.]]



* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Mayart's status as a powerful sorcerer and psychic seems to be an InformedAbility until he unveils it.

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Mayart's [[spoiler:Mayart's status as a powerful sorcerer and psychic seems to be an InformedAbility until he unveils it.]]



* FemmeFatale: Makie fits the archetype, being a sultry, morally ambiguous woman in black, though revealed to be not a villainous one despite Taki's initial distrust.
* GagPenis: The soapland girl is admired of Mayart's member, but we [[FanDisservice luckily]] don't get to see if she is right or just talking sweet.
* GladToBeAliveSex: [[spoiler: Makie and Renzaburou, after he rescues her from the other demons and they're both ambushed by the Spider Woman in her last fight.]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler: Doubles as this, as their sex scene is very sweet and tender and Renzaburou goes out of his way to be gentle to Makie.]] Reinforcing the trope even more, theirs is the only ''pleasant and fully consensual'' sexual encounter in the whole movie.

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* FemmeFatale: FemmeFatale:
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Makie fits the archetype, being a sultry, morally ambiguous woman in black, though revealed to be not a villainous one despite Taki's initial distrust.
** Mr. Shadow's moll is another example, if less developed, with psychic seductive abilities to boot.
* GagPenis: The soapland girl is admired of Mayart's member, but we [[FanDisservice luckily]] don't get to see if she is right or just talking sweet.
sweet to a patron.
* GladToBeAliveSex: [[spoiler: Makie [[spoiler:Makie and Renzaburou, after he rescues her from the other demons and they're both ambushed by the Spider Woman in her last fight.]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler: Doubles [[spoiler:Doubles as this, as their sex scene is very sweet and tender and Renzaburou goes out of his way to be gentle to Makie.]] Reinforcing the trope even more, theirs is the only ''pleasant and fully consensual'' sexual encounter in the whole movie.



* HeadlockOfDominance: In his comeback against Shadow, Mayart puts him in a rear naked choke and summons all his lightning on him. The baddie tries to counter it by stabbing Mayart with back spikes, but it fails and only gets him obliterated... temporally.

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* HeadlockOfDominance: In his comeback against Shadow, Mayart [[spoiler:Mayart]] puts him in a rear naked choke and summons all his lightning on him. The baddie tries to counter it by stabbing Mayart with back spikes, but it fails and only gets him obliterated... temporally.



* HoneyTrap: Two of the male heroes have a high libido. There's no way this could possibly pose a problem. Cue [[spoiler: Spider Woman and the HighClassCallGirl.]]

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* HoneyTrap: Two of the male heroes have a high libido. There's no way this could possibly pose a problem. Cue [[spoiler: Spider [[spoiler:Spider Woman and the HighClassCallGirl.]]



* KungFuWizard: Downplayed, though technically true. Although initially looking like a SquishyWizard, Mayart is superhumanly athletic and once puts an enemy in a very professional looking rear naked choke.

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* KungFuWizard: Downplayed, though technically true. Although initially looking like a SquishyWizard, Mayart [[spoiler:Mayart]] is superhumanly athletic and once puts an enemy in a very professional looking professional-looking rear naked choke.choke, implying some hand-to-hand knowledge.



* MadeOfIron: Mayart is apparently human, yet he has a HealingFactor that probably surpasses those of Makie and the Dark World citizens. He is stabbed with countless tentacles and bone spikes by Shadow and appears just fine right after. This is never explained, although it is probably due to being an impressive wizard and psychic.

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* MadeOfIron: Mayart [[spoiler:Mayart]] is apparently human, yet he has a HealingFactor that probably surpasses those of Makie and the Dark World citizens. He is stabbed with countless tentacles and bone spikes by Shadow and appears just fine right after. This is never explained, although it is probably due to being an impressive wizard and psychic.



* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When [[spoiler:Makie]] is held down by a Radical, he starts forcefully kissing her. While doing so, he unbuttons and slips off her clothes one by one, and then gropes his hand down her panties and around her vagina.

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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil:
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When [[spoiler:Makie]] is held down by a Radical, he starts forcefully kissing her. While doing so, he unbuttons and slips off her clothes one by one, and then gropes his hand down her panties and around her vagina.



* ShockAndAwe: Mayart's specialty aside from telekinesis.

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* ShockAndAwe: Mayart's [[spoiler:Mayart]]'s specialty aside from telekinesis.



* UnsafeHaven: The hotel/safe house where Taki Renzaburou takes Giuseppe has triple strength psychic resistance walls to keep out Black World assassins. Naturally one such assassin breaks in without any particular trouble.

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* UnsafeHaven: The hotel/safe house where Taki Renzaburou takes Giuseppe has triple strength psychic resistance walls to keep out Black World assassins. Naturally Naturally, one such assassin breaks in without any particular trouble.



* YoungerThanTheyLook: Taki is stated to be 25-year old, but his rugged character design makes him look in his forties.

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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Taki is stated to be 25-year old, but his rugged character design makes him look in his early forties.
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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It started as a series of horror novels written by Creator/HideyukiKikuchi and named ''Black Guard''. The first of said novels was adapted into an anime movie by Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties, and another volume was later made into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.

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''Wicked City'' (妖獣都市 Yōjū Toshi) is an attack on the senses. It started as a is an anime movie adaptation of the first novel of Creator/HideyukiKikuchi's horror series of horror novels written by Creator/HideyukiKikuchi and named ''Black Guard''. The first of said novels was adapted into an anime movie Guard'', directed by his long time friend Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri (''Anime/NinjaScroll'', ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'') in TheEighties, and another TheEighties. Another volume was later made into a Hong-Kong live-action movie with Creator/YuenWooPing in TheNineties.



* AmbiguouslyHuman: The novel series describes Mayart as a powerful Italian wizard and psychic, but never states he's anything other than a supernaturally powered human. In the Spanish dub, he even states to be human just like Taki. However, his small physique, pointy ears, horn-like head protrusions and superhuman physical skills point more towards a Dark World citizen. The movie never really clarifies it, as he is definitely a person with some secrets.

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* AmbiguouslyHuman: The novel series describes Mayart as a powerful Italian wizard and psychic, but never states he's anything other than a supernaturally powered human. In the Spanish dub, he even states to be human just like Taki. However, his small physique, pointy ears, horn-like head protrusions and superhuman physical skills point more towards a Dark World citizen.citizen himself or some other kind of inhuman creature. The movie never really clarifies it, as he is definitely a person with some secrets.
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* SeductiveSpider: Taki has spent three months trying to seduce a woman he met at a bar. One night she finally goes home with him and they have sex. However, she turns into a spider demon and tries to eat him with her VaginaDentata.

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