History ComicBook / Fatale2012

* AnyoneCanDie

* HumanSacrifice

* TheSeventies: The second story.
* TomeOfEldritchLore

''Fatale'' is a comic book series by Creator/EdBrubaker and Sean Phillips (of ''ComicBook/{{Criminal}}'' fame) which [[FantasticNoir merges]] the Hardboiled FilmNoir stylings of their previous work with [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] overtones. Spanning a timeframe from the 1930s to the present, it centres around a mysterious woman, Josephine, who appears eternally young throughout the story and seems to have a magnetic pull on any man who crosses her path and links to the underworld -- only not just the underworld of {{Dirty Cop}}s and hoodlums, but also one of [[ReligionOfEvil mad cults]] and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s...

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* CreepyChild: {{Invoked}}; being exposed to Josephine's effect as a child appears to have more extreme results than being exposed to it as an adult. To illustrate, a boy who happens to have a chance encounter with Josephine when she takes pity on him after a childhood fight ends up growing up to be a crazed misogynistic serial killer. [[spoiler: And her own son tries to rape her at one point. When he's eleven.]]

* DirtyCop: The first arc partially centres around a couple of corrupt cops who've gotten into something way outside of the norm. Walter Booker, at least, is a more nuanced portrayal of the trope than we usually see, and he started out with good intentions.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: Bishop and his minions are pure evil but Jospephine is incredibly reckless and manipulative about how she uses the men under her thrall to do her bidding although she is remorseful about it.

* DarkSavior: Hansel of the second arc looks like the stereotypical image of Jesus. He's anything but.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the FemmeFatale character archetype.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Booker dies ripping out Bishop's eyes, something that weakens and effects Bishop for the rest of the comic.]]

''Fatale'' is a comic book series by Creator/EdBrubaker and Sean Phillips (of ''ComicBook/{{Criminal}}'' fame) which merges the Hardboiled FilmNoir stylings of their previous work with [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] overtones. Spanning a timeframe from the 1930s to the present, it centres around a mysterious woman, Josephine, who appears eternally young throughout the story and seems to have a magnetic pull on any man who crosses her path and links to the underworld -- only not just the underworld of {{Dirty Cop}}s and hoodlums, but also one of [[ReligionOfEvil mad cults]] and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s...

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Hank Raines.

[[StockCharacters You know the character.]] She's [[FemmeFatale the beautiful lady with the mysterious past and plenty of secrets]] [[WomanInBlack dressed all in black]], who seems so ''vulnerable'' on the surface, like she just needs a strong man to protect her from all the creeps and lowlifes she's somehow gotten embroiled with. A strong man like you, maybe. And before you know it, one look into those deep eyes later and you're hers, and there's nothing you can do about it, and you'll do ''anything'' for her -- no matter how vicious or corrupt or vile, no matter how low you have to sink. And before you know it, your life's in ruins, there's corpses piling up all around you, and you're sunk into a moral quagmire from which there seems to be no escape... all because of her.

''Fatale'' is a comic book series by Creator/EdBrubaker and Sean Phillips (of ''{{Criminal}}'' fame) which merges the Hardboiled FilmNoir stylings of their previous work with [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] overtones. Spanning a timeframe from the 1930s to the present, it centres around a mysterious woman, Josephine, who appears eternally young throughout the story and seems to have a magnetic pull on any man who crosses her path and links to the underworld -- only not just the underworld of {{Dirty Cop}}s and hoodlums, but also one of [[ReligionOfEvil mad cults]] and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s...

''Fatale'' is a comic book series by EdBrubaker and Sean Phillips (of ''{{Criminal}}'' fame) which merges the Hardboiled FilmNoir stylings of their previous work with [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] overtones. Spanning a timeframe from the 1930s to the present, it centres around a mysterious woman, Josephine, who appears eternally young throughout the story and seems to have a magnetic pull on any man who crosses her path and links to the underworld -- only not just the underworld of {{Dirty Cop}}s and hoodlums, but also one of [[ReligionOfEvil mad cults]] and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s...

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Josephine is at least 80, and Bishop, by the present day, is over a century old.

''Fatale'' is a comic book series by EdBrubaker and Sean Phillips (of ''{{Criminal}}'' fame) which merges the Hardboiled FilmNoir stylings of their previous work with [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] overtones. Spanning a timeframe from the 1950 to the present, it centres around a mysterious woman, Josephine, who appears eternally young throughout the story and seems to have a magnetic pull on any man who crosses her path and links to the underworld -- only not just the underworld of {{Dirty Cop}}s and hoodlums, but also one of [[ReligionOfEvil mad cults]] and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s...

* DirtyCop: The first arc partially centres around a couple of corrupt cops who've gotten into something way outside of the norm.
* FemmeFatale: Deconstructed; Josephine's allure is decidedly supernatural in nature. She's also more sympathetic than the usual stock character in that she hates her life and the effect she has on men, but is unable to control it.

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''Fatale'' is a comic book series by EdBrubaker and Sean Phillips (of ''{{Criminal}}'' fame) which merges the Hardboiled FilmNoir stylings of their previous work with [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] CosmicHorror. Spanning a timeframe from the 1950 to the present, it centres around a mysterious woman, Josephine, who appears eternally young throughout the story and seems to have a magnetic pull on any man who crosses her path and links to the underworld -- only not just the underworld of {{Dirty Cop}}s and hoodlums, but also one of [[ReligionOfEvil mad cults]] and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s...

[[StockCharacters You know the character.]] She's [[FemmeFatale the beautiful lady with the mysterious past and plenty of secrets]] [[WomanInBlack dressed all in black]], who seems so ''vulnerable'' on the surface, like she just needs a strong man to protect her from all the creeps and lowlifes she's somehow gotten embroiled with. A strong man like you, maybe. And before you know it, one look into those deep eyes later and you're hers, and there's nothing you can do about it, and you'll do ''anything'' for her -- no matter how vicious or corrupt or vile, no matter how low you have to sink. And before you know it, your life's in ruins, there's corpses piling up all around you, and you're sunk into a moral quagmire from which there seems to be no escape... all because of her.

''Fatale'' is a comic book series by EdBrubaker and Sean Phillips (of ''{{Criminal}}'' fame) which merges the Hardboiled FilmNoir stylings of their previous work with [[HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] CosmicHorror. Spanning a timeframe from the 1950 to the present, it centres around a mysterious woman, Josephine, who appears eternally young throughout the story and seems to have a magnetic pull on any man who crosses her path and links to the underworld -- only not just the underworld of {{Dirty Cop}}s and hoodlums, but also one of [[ReligionOfEvil mad cults]] and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s...