History ComicBook / BeautifulDarkness

* BuriedAlive: Poor [[spoiler:Timothy]] is tricked into being part of a "fake" funeral, which quickly leads to (probable) death.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Aurora [[spoiler:having Zelie and her few followers burnt alive.]] It's hard not to feel some satisfaction given their actions through the story, such as [[spoiler: burying Timothy alive and killing Jane when she tries to warn them about the human.]]

* PeekABangs: Timothy's hair always covers the left side of her face [[spoiler:to hide the fact that she only has one eye]].

* SurpriseCreepy: In the first couple pages, Aurora is enjoying a tea party in a round pink room, only to step outside through the eye socket. After that it quickly stops being a surprise.

* EvilIsPetty: Zelie, again. She has no empathy for anyone but herself, and has fairies killed both directly and indirectly for no reason other than boredom.

* SugarApocalypse: A group of brightly colored, adorable woodland fairies dying in graphic and disturbing ways. Slightly subverted in that the fairies were never nice or innocent to begin with, and they happily kill each other the whole time.

** A fairy boy sees a bird feeding its chicks, so he sneaks into its nest and opens his mouth to be fed. The bird obligingly stuffs its beak all the way down his tiny throat -- in the next panel he is choking and [[BloodFromTheMouth spitting up blood]]. And yes, this kills him.

%%* KickTheSonOfABitch: Aurora [[spoiler:having Zelie and her few followers burnt alive.]] It's hard not to feel some satisfaction. (Zero-Context: Entry covers the "kick" but not the "son of a bitch")

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The beautiful red-haired fairy, Jane, one of the few fairies who isn't stupid and/or evil, leaves the group early on when it becomes clear things are going downhill. We later find out [[spoiler: Zelie caught up with her and murdered her]].

* BatmanGambit: Aurora lures [[spoiler:Zelie and her followers to the stove, by telling Plim of a "nice secret place" and making them promise of not telling Zelie about it. Naturally, Plim betrays her and tells Zelie about it.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Zelie is horribly burnt to death, but [[spoiler:given that she knowingly buried Timothy alive and barely reacted to Hector's death, only crying at his makeshift funeral to look better in the eyes of the rest of the fairies,]] it's hard to argue she didn't deserve it.

* KillEmAll: All the fairies except Aurora die by the end.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Zelie is horribly burnt to death, but given that she [[spoiler:knowingly buried Timothy alive and barely reacted to Hector's death, only crying at his makeshift funeral to look better in the eyes of the rest of the fairies,]] it's hard to argue she didn't deserve it.]]

%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Zelie is horribly burnt to death, but it's hard to argue she didn't deserve it.]] (Zero-Context: Covers the "victim", but barely touches on the "asshole")

* BatmanGambit: Aurora lures Zelie and her followers to the stove, by telling Plim of a "nice secret place" and making them promise of not telling Zelie about it. Naturally, Plim betrays her and tells Zelie about it.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The beautiful red-haired fairy, Jane, one of the few fairies who isn't stupid and evil, leaves the group early on when it becomes clear things are going downhill. We later find out [[spoiler: Zelie caught up with her and murdered her]].

** Subverted. Zelie has one of her followers tie a string around his waist and go out to grab a ribbon she'd dropped in the water, only to be swallowed by a frog. When they tug the string to pull him back out, the frog barfs up his mostly liquefied body. We see him being buried the next page and at least his face and torso are in one piece.

A French {{Fairytale}}[=/=]{{Horror}} comic book, which contrasts beautiful, bright watercolors with horrific imagery and brutal death. A group of tiny people makes a home out of the corpse of a little girl who died in the woods, but as the girl's corpse deteriorates, so does the fairy society. They quickly descend into ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''-esque anarchy and violence.

%%* BuriedAlive: Poor [[spoiler:Timothy]]. (Zero-Context)
%%* CallousnessTowardsEmergency: How the fairies react when they see one of their own dying. (Zero-Context: Entry is just "trope is here")

%%* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The fairies die in very creative and graphic ways.]] (Zero-Context: Entry is just "trope is here")

* LineOfSightName: When the fairies are moving the dead girl's belongings, a notebook has the name "Aurora" writen on it, which Aurora takes as her own name.

* {{Tulpa}}: An alternate interpretation: The "fairies" are literally the imaginary friends of the dead girl, escaping her mind as she passes away.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Zelie is horribly burnt to death, but it's hard to argue she didn't deserve it.]]

* BuriedAlive: Poor [[spoiler:Timothy]].
* CallousnessTowardsEmergency: How the fairies react when they see one of their own dying.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The fairies die in very creative and graphic ways.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: Basically this is ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'' on crack.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Aurora [[spoiler:having Zelie and her few followers burnt alive.]] It's hard not to feel some satisfaction.

* MeaningfulName: "Plim" isn't far off from "phlegm."
* MoodWhiplash: Throughout the story. Any time a scene looks cute and cheerful, be prepared for someone's inevitable horrible death to follow.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A fairy boy sees a bird feeding its chicks, so he sneaks into its nest and opens his mouth to be fed. The bird obligingly stuffs its beak all the way down his tiny throat -- in the next panel he is choking and [[BloodFromTheMouth spitting up blood]]. And yes, this kills him.

* SwallowedWhole: Subverted. Zelie has one of her followers tie a string around his waist and go out to grab a ribbon she'd dropped in the water, only to be swallowed by a frog. When they tug the string to pull him back out, the frog barfs up his mostly liquefied body.
** We see him being buried the next page and at least his face and torso are in one piece. A more straightforward example would be the small fairy a much larger fairy swallows in one gulp. She says she now "looks pregnant" and invites a third fairy to touch her belly, who remarks that she feels the "baby" moving.

A French {{Fairytale}}[=/=]{{Horror}} comic book, which contrasts beautiful, bright watercolors with horrific imagery and brutal death. A group of tiny people makes a home out of the corpse of a little girl who died in the woods, but as the girl's corpse deteriorates, so does the fairy society. They quickly descend into ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''-esque anarchy and violence, until eventually [[KillEmAll only Aurora is left]].

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The fairies die in very creative and graphic ways.