History ComicBook / DemonKnights

* ContinuityNod: Horsewoman gets her powers from a force in the blood that binds all animals together. WordOfGod [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=40562 is that this is]] [[AnimalMan the Red]].

* BloodKnight: Vandal Savage ''[[BoisterousBruiser loves]]'' to fight, and assists the villagers not because he sympathizes or cares for them, but because it will be a great battle.

* {{Intersex}}: [[spoiler: Sir Ystin revealed to Exoristos that she's intersex in issue 14]]

* TimeSkip: The solicit for #16 indicates that it takes place thirty years after the events of the previous issue.

* {{Intersex}}: [[Spoiler: Sir Ystin revealed to Exoristos that she's intersex in issue 14]]

[[caption-width-right:250:The cast.[[note]]Clockwise, starting top left: The Horsewoman, Vandal Savage, Al Jabr, Exoristos, and "Sir" Ystin(a), the Shining Knight. In center: Etrigan the Demon (top) and Madame Xanadu. Not pictured: Jason o' the Blood.]][[/note]]

* KnightInShiningArmor: The Shining Knight, appropriately enough. She's also a bit of a KnightInSourArmor, though.

* ShipTease: After seeing Shining Knight slay a giant wolf monster, Exoristos exclaims that Knight's performance was arousing. Knight does not quite know how to respond. In issue #14 Exoristos asks her if she'd like to [[spoiler: ''move in together''. Y'know, once they get out of Hell and all that]].

** Turns out Ystin actually identifies as [[spoiler: [[{{Transsexual}} genderqueer/intersex]]]].

* {{Transsexual}}: [[spoiler: Morgaine, apparently]].
--> '''Vandal Savage:''' ''Unacceptable!'' I will not die so a woman with no face can gain different genitalia!

[[caption-width-right:250:The cast.[[hottip:*: Clockwise, starting top left: The Horsewoman, Vandal Savage, Al Jabr, Exoristos, and "Sir" Ystin(a), the Shining Knight. In center: Etrigan the Demon (top) and Madame Xanadu. Not pictured: Jason o' the Blood.]]]]

The series is hinted to be the origin of the AncientTradition of the rebooted ''{{Stormwatch}}'' (which Cornell began).

* CallForward (or possibly MythologyGag depending on what official policy on VertigoComics is this week): Lucifer is easily bored, and while he's certainly happy to [[spoiler: invade Avalon]] he can't help wondering what the point is. You get the feeling that in a mere thousand years, he'll decide to [[Comicbook/TheSandman quit altogether]] and [[Comicbook/{{Lucifer}} do something else]].
** At the end of #14, King Arthur calls them his "Watchers of the Storm" and describes them as "eminences of blades, modern Apollos, doctors of magic, an engineer". All codenames from the current ''{{Stormwatch}}'' apart from "doctors of magic" (which may be {{foreshadowing}} the Doctor from ''TheAuthority'' being introduced to ''Stormwatch'').

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: A young child tells Exoristos that she dresses like a tart[[hottip:*:prostitute]], which Exoristos takes as a compliment, [[IsItSomethingYouEat while wondering if it is some kind of pastry]].

* KingArthur: Arthurian mythology plays a significant role in the series. The founding and destruction of Camelot was experienced by multiple character, [[EternalRecurrence multiple times]], and the series takes place at the beginning of a new cycle, with the city of Alba Sarum hoping to be declared New Camelot. [[spoiler:KingArthur himself has joined the team briefly, having left Avalon.]]
* KnightInShiningArmor: The Shining Knight, appropriately enough. She's also a bit of a KnightInSourArmor, though.

* ARareSentence: Savage gets "Look! It's a ''pirate'' sea serpent! That is something I have ''never'' shouted before!"
** And considering he's an immortal caveman, that's ''impressive''.

* ShipTease: After seeing Shining Knight slay a giant wolf monster, Exoristos exclaims that Knight's performance was arousing. Knight does not quite know how to respond.
** In issue #14 Exoristos asks her if she'd like to [[spoiler: ''move in together''. Y'know, once they get out of Hell and all that]].

* ShoutOut: To ''{{Asterix}} and the Goths'' in #2. "Ostrogoths, Visigoths, and every other sort of Goth."

* SpiritualSuccessor: To GrantMorrison's ''SevenSoldiers''.

* CheckovsGun: [[spoiler: [[AntiMagic The Waters of Avalon]], a minor detail from the beginning of the second arc, end up being the key to defeating the armies of both Lucifer and the Questing Queen in the climax of the third arc.]]

* TheArcher: The Horsewoman.

** Turns out Ystin actually identifies as [[spoiler: a {{Hermaphrodite}}]].

** Turns out ze actually identifies as genderqueer.
-->'''Shining Knight:''' I was born this way. I've kept ''saying'', whenever anyone asks. I'm not just a man or a woman. I'm ''both''.

** In issue #14 Exoristos asks her if she'd like to [[spoiler: ''move in together''. Y'know, after they get out of Hell and all that]].