History ComicBook / Hexed

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* AfterlifeAntechamber: The Shade is essentially this, a point where all souls go before crossing over. Some chose to stay longer due to circumstances. Crosses over with EldritchLocation.
* AGodAmI: Madam Cymbaline after [[spoiler:being resurrected as a god to kill Lucifer as punishment for her summoning a devil.]]
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Madam Cymbaline [[spoiler:makes it clear she wants Lucifer to work for her to get the Yellow Crown, allowing her to make a magical shroud to hide from the Harlot, otherwise she'd kill Val and Raina. When she refuses next issue, Val is killed off-screen.]]

* ArtifactDomination: The Yellow Crown is a [[MindControlDevice Magical Crown that allows you mind control other people]], but the user themselves are being controlled by something else in turn and [[YourHeadASplode their heads explode after a few days.]]
** The truth is a bit different. [[spoiler:It brings the world itself to the god]].
* AstralProjection: Lucifer has to do this from The Shade to communicate with Raina, although she calls it Haunting.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Madam Cymbaline wanted to become the next Keeper of Secrets. It left her crippled long enough for Fastrada to kill her.]]
* BerserkButton: The Harlot doesn't like Necromancers. At all. [[spoiler:Raina now being one by accident means she could bring the Harlot's sisters back to life]].
* BittersweetEnding: The second series ends [[spoiler:with Val and Fastrada dead, but Lucifer is freed from Divine Punishment and Madam Cymbaline is gone. Raina opens a new art gallery, and Val left a present for Lucifer in a painting, a feather from an angel who told her she could be redeemed, meaning she can atone now and find her way to heaven where Val is waiting.]]
* BoomHeadshot: How [[spoiler:Lucifer]] kills [[spoiler:Corvus]]. [[spoiler:With his own gun]].

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: She was fatally wounded in the attempt, but she managed to banish the devil that other gods have died to get rid of from the human realm on her own. [[spoiler:She's made a god for the effort.]]
* CainAndAbel: Madam Cymbaline and Yves don't like each other much [[spoiler:and she puts him down the moment she got the chance]]. Neither do the Harlot and her sisters. [[spoiler:Though, this is because she sold them out to the Abbott after they tried sacrificing her daughter.]]
* CameBackStrong: Madam Cymbaline, [[spoiler:who returned as a god.]]
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Val has a museum basement filled with magical artifacts. [[spoiler:They later get confiscated after Madam Cymbaline and Yves end up burning the museum down.]]
* CombatPragmatist: Lucifer.
* CoolOldLady: Lucifer's employer, Val.

* EldritchLocation: The Shade, where [[AfterlifeAntechamber souls cross over to the afterlife]].
* EvilVersusOblivion: Madam Cymbaline against the Demon Lucifer summoned, mostly because she saw the world as hers and doesn't like competition. [[spoiler:She won]].
* ExactWords: The Thief said that the last of the Hexerei would die in Issue 12. [[spoiler:Lucifer transfers that power to Madam Cymbaline and then Fastrada ends up killing her.]]
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Lucifer starts out as an experienced thief when the story begins.
* HarmlessFreezing: [[spoiler:Lucifer freezes Banshee with a spell, which she notes was non-lethal....]]
** LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:...which she promptly corrects by shattering her to pieces to make sure she's dead.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Bob sacrificed his mask so that Fastrada, the former Harlot, could leave the Yellow Sands with her memory intact. He's still alive, but he has no way back and no memory of anything. They manage to pull him out about two days later though.]]
** [[spoiler:Fastrada who used the Yellow Crown to get rid of her sisters and the god-empowered Madam Cymbaline so that Lucifer would be safe.]]
* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard: Madam Cymbaline is under a vow of silence not to speak personally, so she uses proxies. [[spoiler:When she does it herself, it's enough to cause agony to all those who can hear her.]]

* IKnowYourTrueName: Plot-point. Dietrich is seeking to take over the magical underworld and needs Madam Cymbaline's true name to use the Carasinth, as it will let him kill her regardless of the distance.

* KillTheGod: Madam Cymbaline has confessed to killing gods before, [[spoiler:and she intends to kill the Harlot, who is near omnipotent. Later on, she moves on try and do the same to the Thief.]]
* KnowledgeBroker: Harlot, the Keeper of Secrets. She knows just about everything. [[spoiler:Except the one secret she desires the most, the location of her child.]]

** [[spoiler:Madam Cymbaline, once The Thief gives up the power.]]

* LossOfIdentity: The sand of the Denazian desert makes you forget just about everything, including your sense of self. [[spoiler:Lucifer tosses the Yellow Crown in that dimension to make sure Madam Cymbaline can't get it.]]
* MagicMirror: Using a mirror Lucifer can travel to the Harlot's realm. [[spoiler:In the end of the second series, it stops because the entire realm is gone.]]
** In the second series a mirror allows the users to peer into "The Shade".

* MarkOfTheBeast: That "H" Tattoo on Lucifer's back, a hex put on her by the Harlot's "mother" after the Godwar in ''ComicBook/FallOfCthulhu'' to mark her as the Harlot's successor.
* MonochromeApparition: Lucifer is drawn in shades of grey.

* MouthOfSauron: Madam Cymbaline speaks through a nearby servant at all times, and the act alone makes said mouthpiece bleed from every orifice.
* MouthStitchedShut: Madam Cymbaline's mouth is sealed by a piece of metal screwed onto her lips.
* {{Necromancer}}: Raina, inadvertently becomes one.
* NothingPersonal: When Madam Cymbaline tries to kill Lucifer [[spoiler:so her brother can't get her soul and become more powerful]] she states that if she was in the same situation she would understand.

* PortalPicture: Lucifer can enter into a painting within a binding frame.

* PositionOfLiteralPower: The Keeper of Secrets counts, the first seen is the Harlot with the the Thief [[spoiler:Lucifer]] taking over afterward. They have access to immense depths of information but part of their position is that the secrets closet to their heart they truly need [[TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes they can never have while they hold the position]]. They have other boons with the position too, if we leave aside their ability to exact the prices they do in trade, such as immortality and durability enough to stand up to gods, still they shine as a KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Once Madam Cymbaline kills Val, Lucifer burns down her building, kills all her men, and then summons a devil that gods had fought and died to keep out of their world, before killing the Harlot and taking her place as The Thief.]]

* SiblingRivalry: Madam Cymbaline and Yves don't like one another. If the two are allowed to fight then the war between the would drag in countless people. [[spoiler:Lucifer traps Yves in a painting and lets her burn it, thus killing him.]]

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* VillainousVirtues: Courage and sacrifice, Madam Cymbaline is willing to square off against what's essentially the ''Devil'' to keep the world safe and gets suitably awarded.

* PositionOfLiteralPower: The Keeper of Secrets counts, the first seen is the Harlot with the the Thief [[spoiler:Lucifer]] taking over afterward. They have access to immense depths of information but part of their position is that the secrets closet to their heart they truly need [[TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes they can never have while they hold the position]]. They have other boons with the position too, if we leave aside their ability to exact the prices they do in trade, such as immortality and durability enough to stand up to gods, still they shine as a KnowledgeBroker.

* SummonMagic: Lucifer stores things [[SandWorm Fang Worms]] like inside of an apple.

''Hexed'' is an UrbanFantasy ComicBook series that ran from 2008 - 2009, with a second series in August of 2014 - 2015.

It's said there's no honor amongst thieves. Add to that a thief operating in the occult underground, and it's a whole different kind of nasty! After the events of ''ComicBook/FallOfCthulhu'', Luci Jennifer Inacio Das Neves, Lucifer for short, takes a new job that will expose her to the macabre underbelly of the city, and a secret that she'd rather nobody know. Hexed is an UrbanFantasy comicbook series that ran from 2008 - 2009, with a second series in August of 2014 - 2015.

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