History ComicBook / RequiemVampireKnight

* HeroesPreferSwords: Averted. Yes, Requiem wields a sword (if one can even call him a hero), but all vampire knights wield runeblades, and pretty much all of them are evil. The closest thing vampires had to a "hero" of their kind (Thurim) wielded a [[DropTheHammer warhammer]] instead.

* {{Satan}}: He hasn't shown up yet, but it's clear that Lucifer exists somewhere, since his [[DropTheHammer Dark Hammer]] is the divine weapon that Thurim was after.

* TimeyWimeyBall: How Resurrection time works. There's characters from Ancient Rome, Medieval England, WW2 soldiers and politicians, 23rd century war machines and rulers, etc. all living at the same time. Dracula, a 15th century noble, was apparently the very first vampire to arrive on Resurrection. If time was strictly reversed compared to our world, then one would think that a vampire from the far far future would be the oldest (or youngest, according to their terms) vampire on the plane, and if it ran parallel to our world then Nero, Dracula's adoptive son, would pre-date Dracula.

* AcceptableTargets: [[{{Hypocrite}} Ghouls]] are a InUniverse example. They are regarded as the most despicable creatures in the afterlife because [[AtLeastIAdmitIt they don't embrace their cruelty and depravity like vampires do]], and committed their atrocities in the name of the greater good.

* FantasyWorldMap: Volume 4 provides a map for Résurrection, which is basically our world with landmasses and seas reversed, with entire nations positioned where the Atlantic Ocean would be in our world.

** One of the ghouls' elite fighters is revealed to be... [[spoiler: Oppenheimer, Truman and the pilot who dropped the A-bomb]]. Their being transformed is explained by each [[NeverMyFault putting the blame]] for [[spoiler:dropping the atomic bomb]] on the others.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Dystopians are reptile or dragon creatures, some of them being dinosaur-like. Special mention goes to Sire Smegma, "Noble and Honorable Raptor Knight", a velociraptor-man riding a dinosaur mount.

* GratuitousRussian: Either PlayedForLaughs or a CriticalResearchFailure, because contrarily to what he says, neither Sabre nor Eretica seems to mean "vampire" in Russian. The word would be "vampir" or "vurdalak."

* BilingualBonus: Dame Holodomor. "Holodomor" means "extermination by hunger" in Russian, refer to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor this page]] of Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.

* SinkOrSwimMentor: Cryptus takes this UpToEleven as he proudly proclaims that the vast majority of vampire knights he trains don't survive the training, and by the sound of what they go through, he's probably saying the truth. It's likely that Tengu is also this, though not explicitly stated.

* GratuitousGerman: unavoidable in a story where several of the characters are ThoseWackyNazis. "Mein gott!" is particularly popular.
* GratuitousRussian: either PlayedForLaughs or a CriticalResearchFailure, because contrarily to what he says, neither Sabre nor Eretica seems to mean "vampire" in Russian. The word would be "vampir" or "vurdalak."
* GroinAttack: the Sisters of Blood merely wish to prevent Sabre's ''urges'' by removing their source.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: often overlaps with MeaningfulName. Requiem... Cryptus... Mortis...

* StrawFeminist: Mother Venus was the leader of 23rd century Venus; having succesfully found a way to reproduce without men, she then purged her planet of all males. Speaks in permanent PoliticallyCorrect: ("[[AssShove Rectify their intestinal transit!]]" and "[[MostCommonSuperpower Proteic-fluid containers]]")

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Nobody expected this to happen]] to UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition...]]

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Aiwass, or more exactly the "Queen of Dead Souls" who serves as his host. According to Black Sabbat, sex with Aiwass is better in this form as well.

** Thurim's world in Limbo is an ''obvious'' shout-out to Creator/HeironymusBosch.

** Thurim's world in Limbo is an ''obvious'' shout-out to HyeronymusBosch.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent/ReptilianConspiracy: The Dystopians, who represent evil committed in the name of dominion and empire. Also [[EvilBrit mostly British]].

*** More of a Legendary Villain Upgrade, but [[spoiler: Myth/KingArthur is the Dystopian king, and at least some of his knights]] are also Dystopians. And they all have {{Sdrawckab Name}}s for some reason.

* Timey-WimeyBall: How Resurrection time works. There's characters from Ancient Rome, Medieval England, WW2 soldiers and politicians, 23rd century war machines and rulers, etc. all living at the same time. Dracula, a 15th century noble, was apparently the very first vampire to arrive on Resurrection. If time was strictly reversed compared to our world, then one would think that a vampire from the far far future would be the oldest (or youngest, according to their terms) vampire on the plane, and if it ran parallel to our world then Nero, Dracula's adoptive son, would pre-date Dracula.

* BadassMustache: Dracula.

* EmasculatedCuckold: Claudia Demona sacrificed her male lover Sean back on Earth after revealing that she was a satanic serial killer. On Résurection, she becomes a vampire and he becomes a lamia, two factions that are at war with each other. After capturing him, she decides to get rammed through by a werewolf while forcing him to watch in an attempt to further humiliate him.

* NotSoDifferent: Requiem gets a moment with Dragon where they do the exact same thing (bottle-feeding their infantile masters and burping them).
** They are actually similar in more than one way. They were both soldiers in life who slaughtered countless people, and they both have retained a certain sense of honor even in death and vampirism.