History ComicBook / LadyDeath

** The Death Queen acts extremely dismissive towards her daughter Tormina at best, and downright physically violent at worse. [[spoiler: And since she is driven towards destroying everything Lady Death holds dear, one could argue her treatment extends to her as well. ]]

* GoodSmellsGood: In ''The Rapture'', Lady Death deals with two representatives, one from Hell and the from Heaven, who seek to sway Lady Death to their respective factions in the coming Apocalypse. The representative of Heaven is Aquiessence, an Angelic Beauty whose body gives off an alluring and pacifying scent.

* AdaptationalHeroism: This version of Lady Death is far from the OmnicidalManiac the original version started out as and is easily the nicest and most heroic version of the character. Her biggest flaw is her temper which is the only thing she shares in common with her original counterpart and even then it's nowhere near as bad.

** This version of Lady Death is not an OmnicidalManiac like the original version and only seeks to save her mother to rescue her mother from Sagos.

* AnimatedAdaptation: In the form of ''Lady Death: The Motion Picture'', animated by [[Creator/SunminAnimation Koreans]] and distributed by Creator/ADVFilms.

* BatmanGambit: Deconstructed. [[TheMole 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]].

* IncompatibleOrientation: A couple of examples:

** Lady Death and Salacia express attraction towards MrFanservice Azlando, but its implied he is either [[AmbiguouslyGay gay]] or [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]].

* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: While torturing Muuaji, Lady Death describes his screams as "music to [her] ears".

* MagicalLand: The Labyrinth in the Avatar Comics is a DarkFantasy realm where Hope is sentenced to by the Specters after making a deal with them. It's populated by human residents and demons, though sometimes individuals from our world end up there as non-human or monstruous like Sagos or Stigmata.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: ''Blasphemy Anthem'' ends with Lady Death supposedly pulling a HeelFaceTurn. ''Malevolent Decimation'' seems to suggest that she has been corrupted by a mysterious woman who has plans on wiping out humanity. [[spoiler:''Treacherous Infamy'' reveals that the mysterious woman is Caprice and she has merged Lady Death with her past evil self.]]
* DeaderThanDead: Lady Death's new sword Chaos can send the dead to oblivion. This can be used to spare those who wish to escape the eternal torment of Hell.

* MistakenForProstitute: Gunnar assumes Chaotica is a prostitute when she approaches him in a night club.

* TooDumbToLive: In ''Oblivion's Kiss'', Karvaka and Demonika capture and brainwash Lady Death into being a dancer in their club. They host an auction for her attended by demons who have a grudge against her. One of them points out that they should simply kill Lady Death immediately before she regains control and kills them. This is exactly what happens courtesy of Hanax.

* SinkOrSwimMentor: Wargoth. He pledged himself to teach her how survive in the Blacklands, but he makes it clear that he decides how to do it and it often involves putting Hope against great dangers without warning that would likely kill anybody else. One particular [[JerkAss asshole]] example: in order to acquire an InfinityPlusOneSword held by a local king, he arranged to sell Hope and Satasha as concubines to him, placing them in a very degrading situation with the possibility of them getting raped. When they succeed in fighting them off, its revealed Wargoth and the king were working together the whole time and have set up the whole situation as a test for Hope. She was most definitely ''[[{{Understatement}} not amused]]'' when she found out.

* LooksLikeSheIsEnjoyingIt: More than a few parts where she was in trouble were drawn like something else entirely, such as one scene where she was very sick, lying naked on a bed with red silk sheets, sweating and groaning as her muscles apparently underwent uncontrollable "painful" spasms...

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Tiva Steelheart.

* RealityEnsues: Lady Death appoints Tormina as the new Queen of the under realm. However, Tormina's youth and lack of experience makes her an easy target of manipulation by [[spoiler: Satyricon.]]

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Death Queen is Lady Death's mother. Similar with the trope namer, Hope at one point mistakenly believes Death Queen killed her mother before the truth is discovered.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: "Blasphemy Anthem" ends with Lady Death supposedly pulling a HeelFaceTurn. "Malevolent Decimation" seems to suggest that she has been corrupted by a mysterious woman who has plans on wiping out humanity.

** In the CrossGen continuity, [[HeroicBastard Hope is the illegitimate offspring]] of the Eldritch king Tvarus and the human woman Marion. Due to both their races being at war, Marion is killed when her daughter's lineage is discovered. Tvarus is still racist towards humans despite his love for Marion and Hope and has a SiblingRivalry with his brother Thorm. His wife Obsidia frequently schemes behind his back and seeks ways to make Hope's life miserable as revenge for her husband's infidelity.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: One member of the resistance betrays them to the Death Queen revealing where is their hideout. She executes him almost immediately as one of her advisers put it "today's opportunist is tomorrow's traitor".

Relatively little had been done story-wise with the character by Avatar since 2007, though reprints of old stories and new FanService books had been published, and in late 2009, it was announced that Lady Death would be changing publishers again, this time to Boundless Comics, a publisher that in fact has been created by the founder of Avatar Press specifically to publish Lady Death (though they aren't against expanding in the future), with another reboot in 2010. In this take, a young thief in medieval Spain named Iladra is attacked by demonic warriors, and from there must find out why... only to learn that she was once the Queen of Hell, her powers, memories, and soul stripped way by a creature calling herself the Death Queen, whom Lady Death knows nothing of, but who seems to have a personal grudge against her. [[spoiler:It turns out that it is not a reboot at all, but a continuation of the Avatar story, with the same characters... and that the Death Queen is Hope's mother]]. After this terrible revelation and gathering most of her powers, Lady Death reunites a rebellion against Death Queen's tyranny. After her victory, she travels to the Void, located at the distant corners of the Underrealm and makes a discovery about her true nature that will change her forever.

* DeadlyDoctor: Frau Helga was a nurse who murdered ninety-eight people during World War 2. She was about to claim her ninety-ninth victim when she was caught and executed.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Tiva Steelheart

** [[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". He is revived as a skeletal horse in "Apocalyptic Abyss".]]

** [[spoiler: Brock, the blacksmith troll from the Chaos run is killed in "Scorched Earth".]]

* IntrepidReporter: Macy Mack in "Scorched Earth" and "Blasphemy Anthem". Staring down cyborg mercenaries and powerful demons that wiped a city off the face of the Earth doesn't slow her down for a minute.

[[folder: Coffin Comics]]

* 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 an expression that crept into their language according to Salacia.

* NoNameGiven: Lady Death's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Nameless Wolves]] whom she took control of when they attacked when she first came to hell.
* NippleAndDimed: Even in the few treatments where other female characters showed it, Lady Death herself has never been completely exposed.

** To {{Franchise/Hellraiser}}; in the Avatar Press continuity, the story takes place in a dark world of the afterlife called "The Labyrinth" named after the Cenobites' home dimension of the same name. Though rather than humanoid abominations in bondage gear, its governed by a sect of demonic wraiths that act the same way and can turn humans into undead beings, such as the main protagonist who could arguably qualify as an Cenobite {{expy}} herself.

* 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.

* 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 an expression that crept into their language according to Salacia.

* InLoveWithTheMark: Michael is ordered to sway Lady Death to the side of the Judgement War. He is already in love with her and is reluctant to deceive her.

* FeudalOverlord: Lady Death's father Matthias[=/=]Marius was a textbook example: a brutal nobleman that forcibly conscripted his peasants to fight in the Baltic Crusades (all while secretly dabbling in dark magic and worshiping the devil). His cruelty ended up triggering a uprising that lead to Hope being captured and executed as witch.

* IntercontinuityCrossover: With Top Cow, among others.

* TheLegionsOfHell: Since the comics are set mostly in Hell, demonic invaders play a role either as LD's servants or enemies.

%%* LonelyAtTheTop
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Death Queen is Lady Death's mother.]]

** Lady Death's many tragedies, her abusive marriage to Lucifer in particular, have made her cynical to the idea of romantic love in general and have contributed to the making her the cold, cruel woman she is known as.

* TheDragon:
** Cremator to Lady Death in her VillainProtagonist days, not only being her right-hand man, but closest follower and father figure.
** Behemoth for Death Queen as general of her armies. Interestingly, in any other situation he would have been TheBrute since Death Queen has General Belial and her daughter Tormina, but the former is in fact TheMole to the good guys and Tormina pulls a HeelFaceTurn, leaving Behemoth as the most loyal to her.
** In ''Apocalypse'', Razarac served as one [[spoiler: not to Tormina, but to her adviser Satyricos.]]

* RealityEnsues: Lady Death appoints Tormina as the new Queen of the under realm. However, Tormina's youth and lack of experience makes her an easy target of manipulation by [[spoiler: Satyricon.]]
* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: Lady Death does everything within her power to rescue her mother from Sagos. She succeeds in destroying Sagos but her mother is whisked away to another dimension by demons where she is tortured and raped repeatedly until she breaks and [[spoiler: becomes the Death Queen]]. [[spoiler: Lady Death ends up having to kill her to stop her plans for genocide across the realms and to put her out of her misery.]]

* ShoppingMontage: Used when she arrives in the modern world and has to blend in.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Wargoth, Lady Death's mentor in the Avatar Press comics. He pledged himself to teach her how survive in the Blacklands, but he makes it clear that he decides how to do it and it often involves putting Hope against great dangers without warning that would likely kill anybody else. One particular [[JerkAss asshole]] example: in order to acquire an InfinityPlusOneSword held by a local king, he arranged to sell Hope and Satasha as concubines to him, placing them in a very degrading situation with the possibility of them getting raped. When they succeed in fighting them off, its revealed Wargoth and the king were working together the whole time and have set up the whole situation as a test for Hope. She was most definitely ''[[{{Understatement}} not amused]]'' when she found out.

* GodOfChaos: The Lords of Chaos are a recurring element across continuities.

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Gunnar expresses obvious attraction to both Chaotica and Lady Death. He is naturally {{Squick}}ed out when he realizes they are his sister and mother respectively.]]

** The Trinity, a trio of powerful demons in the Coffin Comics canon, are [[Music/EarthWind&Fire Jorda of the Earth, Valla of the Wind and Elda of Fire]].

* SexForSolace: While in New New Aberffraw, Lady Death is provided a trio of male prostitutes as "distracting comforts". Unfortunately, they do nothing to improve her dark mood and she tells them to leave.

* ShoutOut:
** The Eldritch in ''Medieval Lady Death'' pays homage to [[Literature/TheElricSaga Elric of Melniboné]], being an entire race based on him down to being albinos.
** To {{Franchise/Hellraiser}}; in the Avatar Press continuity, the story takes place in a dark world of the afterlife called "The Labyrinth" named after the Cenobites' home dimension of the same name. Though rather than humanoid abominations in bondage gear, its governed by a sect of demonic wraiths that act the same way and can turn humans into undead beings, such as the main protagonist who could arguably qualify as an Cenobite {{expy}} herself.