History ComicBook / CaballisticsInc

* FormerRegimePersonnel: [[spoiler: Solomon Ravne]] was a member of [[{{Ghostapo}} Sonderkommando]] Thule during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He still carries his old Luger as his WeaponOfChoice.

* GunsAkimbo: Hannah is fond of a pair of 9mm pistols.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Two of them. Solomon Ravne is an immortal sorcerer who is also a former Nazi, while Jenny is possessed by a demon who initially keeps herself hidden from the others.

* BigBad: [[TheChessmaster Ethan]] [[FallenAngel Kostabi]][[note]][[spoiler:heavily implied to be a HumanoidAbomination called Nyarlathotep]][[/note]] and his [[TheDragon dragon]], [[ViolentGlaswegian Micky Ness]].

* BigBad: [[TheChessmaster Ethan]] [[FallenAngel Kostabi]] ([[spoiler:heavily implied to be [[HumanoidAbomination Nyarlathotep]]]]) and his [[TheDragon dragon]], [[ViolentGlaswegian Micky Ness]].

* TheAlcoholic: Dr. Brand is rarely seen without a bottle after Jenny gets possessed by a demon.

* BigBad: [[TheChessmaster Ethan]] [[FallenAngel Kostabi]] ([[spoiler:heavily implied to be [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep]]]]) and his [[TheDragon dragon]], [[ViolentGlaswegian Micky Ness]].

* DistantFinale: Gordon Rennie eventually wrote a final one shot story detailing what had happened to the characters a full decade after the events that destroyed Ethan Kostabi. Hannah visits Lawrence in the hospital while he is still in a coma and is suffering from a bad limp herself. Meanwhile, Ravne and Jenny are still together and are raising a child. Apparently, Rennie lost interest in the story after the two tie in novels were published without his input and he concentrated on its SpinOff, ''Absalom'' instead.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Subverted. It's unclear in the ending if Hannah Chapter and Lawrence Verse survive the final battle against Ethan Kostabi, but a 2018 epilogue reveals that [[spoiler:Hannah survived and Lawrence is in a permanent coma.]]

* NoodleIncident: All that is known about the circumstances surrounding Lawrence Verse being forced to leave the Catholic priesthood is that he used a chainsaw while performing the Rite of Exorcism. The complete details are never made clear to the reader, although it's later suggested to have involved, at least in part, a zombie attack on the island of Martinique in 1995.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Subverted. It's unclear in the ending if Hannah Chapter and Lawrence Verse survive the final battle against Ethan Kostabi, but a 2018 epilogue reveals that Hannah survived and Lawrence is in a permanent coma.

* TheSoulless: [[spoiler:Solomon Ravne]] doesn't possess a soul, as he's not human but a [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homunculi]] created by [[spoiler:a FallenAngel]]. This makes it possible for him to sneak up on Michael Magister, whose psychic sensors only work on beings with souls.

* DemonicPossession: Jenny is possessed by a demon early on, who manages to keep this a secret from the rest of the team for an extended length of time. Eventually the rest of the team catches on when Jenny keeps somehow destroying equally dangerous supernatural entities all by her lonesome when they're not looking. However, the possibility of an exorcism is rendered moot by the demon threatening to kill Jenny if they so much as try it.

* OccultDetective:
** The main characters. Cabbalistics, Inc. was formed when Department Q, a Ministry of Defense department originally created in the 1940s to combat Nazi occult warfare, is privatised by the British government.

* DefectiveDetective: [[OccultDetective Detective Absalom]] (who also starred in his own spinoff) is an alcoholic.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Detective Absalom tends to drive while drunk. When his newest agent calls him out on it, he justifies it by arguing that it's mostly medicinal--the whiskey is just to take the bad flavor off.

* FantasticNoir: Whereas ''Caballistics'' is more straight UrbanFantasy horror, its spinoff ''Absalom'' tends more towards film noir.

* TheMasquerade: ''Absalom'' makes it clear that many members of British high society are at least partially demonic after a pact between the British crown and Hell that ended with several [[AltarDiplomacy marriage alliances]].

** Absalom is a more literal example, as he's an actual police detective attached to the department in charge of maintaining the peace deal between the British crown and the forces of hell.

* ShootTheDog: In ''Absalom'', Absalom and his men sometimes kill kittens to draw out vampires.

* SpinOff: ''Absalom'' focuses on the titular detective that appeared in several episodes.

* TimeCrash: In ''Absalom'', an ancient stone carrying the memories of the city of London is used by a British fascist to create cracks in the time periods so that they'll overlap, like turning the wrong corner and ending up in the Great London Fire.