History ComicBook / LadyDeath

* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: After two decades of absence from the title, Lady Death's beloved steed Vassago returns in the Coffin continuity. Unfortunately, he is poisoned by Atrocitas in "Extinction Express" and dies in "Oblivion Kiss".]] [[spoiler: Seance, a villain from the Chaos! continuity also briefly appears before being swiftly killed by Lady Death]].

* AmnesiacDissonance: In ''Alive'', Lady Death is turned mortal and stripped of her memories. She displays a kinder and less hostile attitude than she was when she had her memories, best displayed when she saves a girl named Sarah Wilson. When she regains her memories in ''Last Rites'', [[IHatePastMe she is so horrified and disgusted by her past actions]] that she tries to trap herself along with two villains in a soul-containing orb so she can't be a danger to anyone else.

* LightIsNotGood: The angels are hardly better than the demons. And then there is the eponymous character herself...

* HoistByHisOwnPertard:

* ArchnemesisDad: Hope's father is not Dad of the Year material, being the one responsible for her current condition in the classic and Avatar continuities. Note that is only that in the original Chaos! comics, whereas in the Avatar continuity, he is shown to be a loving father and husband, and revealed to be under the possession of a demon who killed him and took control of his body to carry out his atrocities.

* BuryYourGays: Satasha's wife Fenn is killed in Behemoth's attack on New Aberffraw.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Marius is shown as a [[GoodParents loving father]] and [[HappilyMarried husband]], in contrast to Matthias. He is not even shown [[KickTheDog kicking the dog]] like his original counterpart did, and he did not practice dark magic since he is revealed to be DeadAllAlong.

* FieryHead: Averted with Satasha who is generally one of the more levelheaded characters. Played straight with the redheaded angel Dinah who, along with her companion Magdalyn, is very aggressive towards Lady Death and Wargoth when they come to the ruined city of Pallodyn.

* SmellsSexy: In ''Rapture'', Heaven tries to get her on their side, so they send Aquiessence, an angel whose scent is intoxicating. A female angel by the way.

* BatmanGambit: Deconstructed. [[DoubleAgent Belial]] tells the Death Queen that the rebels are hiding in New Aberffraw and she sends an invasion force to kill them. The ensuing battle also destroys the city's orchard where they grow a fruit the Death Queen needs to breed her army. The plan was to win New Aberffraw's allegiance by showing them just how capricious the Death Queen. Unfortunately, Satasha easily deduces what the rebels did and the destruction of her city, along with the death of her wife Fenn, leads her to [[spoiler: orchestrate Wargoth's death as revenge]].

* GoGoEnslavement: An early subplot, though she manages to escape before anything untoward happens, but included in the art:
** SlaveCollar: A big heavy metal one, so large it counts for CollaredByFashion.

* EvilAlbino: How Lady Death herself started out. The Eldritch from Medieval Lady Death also qualify.

* HeroicAlbino: She started out as an EvilAlbino but became more heroic later on.

* ZombieApocalypse: Several different variants of this trope are found in this series.
** Lady Death raises an [[ArmyOfTheAges army of dead warriors from across the ages]] to fight against both demons and angels in ''The Rapture''.
** Sagos raises an undead army out of the enemies he had killed and increases their number each of his conquests.
** ''Apocalypse'' features a more common kind with [[TheVirus the blood-fever]] zombies that spread their infection through bites. Only humans are affected by it and they turn almost instantly.

* {{Magitex}}: Hell has undergone a more modernized make over. In addition to hellish variations of human technology like trains and motorcycles, we also have machines for harvesting souls. New character Jake is also a technomancer, a sorcerer who can manipulate technology.

* KingpinInHisGym: Issue 3 of the "Boundless" run has the Death Queen ruthlessly slaughtering her minions in a training session. The only one who is spared is the one who refuses to fight. She rewards him with a promotion.

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* AdaptationDistillation: "Kill all humans" was completely removed from this version, playing her as a straight hero. Her father Matthias and Lucifer also were made [[CompositeCharacter the same person instead of two characters fighting each others]].

* DrivenToSuicide: After all the struggles to reclaim the crystals and fear of the prophecy that she will destroy the world, Illadra tries to commit suicide by drowning. Unfortunately, she does this by jumping into the ocean that the Death Queen has opened a portal into in order to claim the final crystal.

* BatmanGambit: Deconstructed. [[DoubleAgent Belial]] tells the Death Queen that the rebels are hiding in New Aberffraw and she sends an invasion force to kill them. The ensuing battle also destroys the city's orchard where they grow a fruit the Death Queen needs to breed her army. Unfortunately, Satasha easily deduces what the rebels did and the destruction of her city, along with the death of her wife Fenn, causes her to turn on Lady Death and Wargoth.

* OhMyGods: The humans of the under realm often swear by "Great Maklu!". The demons occasionally say it as well though they don't actually hold the god Maklu is any esteem. It was just a phrase that crept into their language according to Salacia.

* EasilyForgiven: Despite Satasha [[spoiler: providing Behemoth to kill Wargoth in revenge for Fenn's death]], Hope never holds her accountable for it. [[spoiler: In fact, a evil spirit in form of Wargoth torments Hope for not doing anything about it, indicating that she holds some regret deep down over it.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: In order to save her people, Satasha forms an alliance with the Death Queen. Satasha's kingdom provides the Death Queen with pomalutine, a fruit that ensures female demons can give birth to soldiers for her army and in return, Satasha's people are given enough livestock and grain to survive. Lady Death minces no words in letting her friend know how angry she is over this.

* FantasyKitchenSink: In addition to featuring angels and demons, the Chaos comics incarnation also dealt with other pantheons like the Norse and Hindu gods. Lady Death also encountered creatures like vampires and dragons

* FallenAngel: A few of them become separated from Heaven and end up in Lady Death's service.

* NippleAndDimed: Even in the few treatments where other female characters showed it, Lady Death herself has never been completely exposed.
* OmnicidalManiac: Barring the main protagonist in her VillainProtagonist days, several villains were inclined towards this trope.
** Sagos who planned to wipe the Blacklands of all life, using it as sacrifice to gain his own domain in Hell.
** The Death Queen wanted to use an infernal device that would kill everyone in the Underrealm except for her followers, who were branded with her protection.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Behemoth is so entitled towards killing Wargoth that he strangles a monster that swallowed his rival whole and ''forces it to spit him so he can kill him himself''.

* DressedLikeADominatrix: Lady Death's outfit consists of black leather thigh-high boots, opera gloves, lingerie adorned with skull emblems, and a cape. She's pretty consistently portrayed with a domineering personality, going from a LadyMacBeth in her first appearances in ''Evil Ernie'' to a DarkActionGirl in her own series. ''The Rapture'' has the aptly named Demonatrix, the representative of Hell who wore a corset and chains on her [[MultiArmedAndDangerous four arms]] and was depicted as very aggressive.

* EmotionEater: In the ''Alive'' storyline, Lady Death encounters a demon named Anguish who feeds on the despair and hidden turmoil of the residents of the shelter she runs. Lady Death is able to defeat her by rallying the residents to confront their own pain.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The Megadeath, her plot to kill all life on Earth.

* FantasyKitchenSink: In addition to featuring angels and demons, the Chaos comics incarnation also dealt with other pantheons like the Norse and Hindu gods. Lady Death also encountered creatures like vampires and dragons

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Several villains tried to pulls this on Lady Death many, many times. But due to creator's edict, they never got away too far:
** Satan suspended Hope on chains and tried to break her will and reduce her into his bride, but she broke away free and slayed him (again).
** When she was restored to life and returned to Earth in ''Alive'', she ran into a villain that turned women into his mindless {{Sex Slave}}s with his branding iron and attempted to do the same with her. She instead [[HoistByHisOwnPetard branded him with his own weapon]].
** Hope is not the only one who is a victim of this too; her mother Marion was kidnapped by Sagos in ''Abandon All Hope'' after he became fond of her while masquerading as her husband.

* MaleGaze: ...have you been paying attention to this page at all?

* WorldOfBuxom: Its pretty hard to find a female character that isn't below D-cup in this series. Their number could be counted in one hand.

* NoNameGiven: Lady Death's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Nameless Wolves]] whom she took control of when they attacked when she first came to hell.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Behemoth so entitled towards killing Wargoth that he strangles a monster that swallowed his rival whole and ''forces it to spit him so he can kill him himself''.

* PsychoLesbian: Purgatori, one of Lady Death's many enemies during the Chaos! days, contemplates her seduction when she's not plotting her destruction.