History ComicBook / RequiemVampireKnight

* CuteMonsterGirl: Mostly averted, save for a few woman vampires (who usually compensate by being quite {{Fanservice}}-y) and arguably Rebecca.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: averted. Beautiful/sexy creatures in Résurrection are just as likely to get their heads bitten in half or being brutally ripped apart as the others. Rebecca does look like a concentration camp victim at the time of her death, and has even lost her ebony curls at that point.

* EvilBrit: the Dystopians are dishonest, money-grubbing reptiles, including QueenElizabeth (snake woman) and KingArthur (dragon).

* PragmaticVillainy: the use of [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/Adolf Hitler]] as a WeaponOfMassDestruction sure is the more time and cost efficient way to blow up a whole cloud of lemures. Not to mention the trouble he could have caused as a trained vampire knight, seeing how there seems to be a clear connection to the extent of evil during life and the capacity for evil during death.

* GoodIsBadAndBadIsGood: Since being an evil asshole in life tends to get you a better and better form the worse you were, pretty much all the more powerful groups are like that.

* EvilerThanThou: Attila is at one point afraid that Requiem's 'goodness' is going to contaminate him. Nero reassures him that, as the Scourge of God, he is absolutely iredeemable.

* CycleOfRevenge: Of a sort. [[spoiler:See, Otto killed Rebecca, but then Rebecca's twin sister tracked him down and killed ''him'' in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. So now Rebecca keeps inciting Requiem to kill Otto because she wants to escape Résurrection, and Otto wants to go on tormenting Rebecca in their afterlives because dying hasn't really changed his opinion of her.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: Otto von Todt is so jovial and friendly at times (primarily around Heinrich) that you almost forget that in life he was a sadistic Nazi concentration camp guard. Notably, he gets a lost more openly nasty when Heinrich hooks up with his Jewish girlfriend Rebecca again in Résurrection.

* NaziHunter: Rebecca's sister Sarah. She kills Otto (an old Nazi hiding in [[ArgentinaIsNaziland Argentina]] at that point) in revenge for killing Sarah in a concentration camp, sending him to Resurrection.

* NaziProtagonist: Heinrich Augsberg, a.k.a. Requiem.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} briefly pops up as a castle gardener in Résurrection.

** OurCentaursAreDifferent: They're the reincarnations of rapists, used as cavalry against the vampires' werewolves.
** OurDemonsAreDifferent: And more gruesome. The original thing about them is that they DO NOT inhabit Resurrection / Hell, but are creatures from a different plane.
** OurGhostsAreDifferent: For one thing they're called Lamias, and are the victims of the various evil-doers who mistreated, tortured, raped, killed etc. them. The only way to escape their rather crummy existence is to 'expirate' whoever is responsible for their presence on Résurrection (whether the 'expiration' is at their own hands or someone else's; in the meantime they also torment their killers in their sleep, like Furies).
*** They're called Lemures in the original French, which follows the myths a lot closer.
** OurGhoulsAreDifferent: People who resurrect as ghouls are those who committed evil while pretending they were doing good; they have grey skin, often no hair or apparent noses, sharp teeth and crave brains. They live in a flying city called Aerophagia, and the higher ranking ones are captains of ''[[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld pirate airships]]''; basically it's undead steampunk.
** OurVampiresAreDifferent: As per usual they're aristocratic, pale (mostly), beautiful (sometimes), proud, vulnerable to silver and just plain evil. As per unusual, they're often addicted to drugs to help them forget their past sins, and they're not immortal but are as susceptible to regression as anyone else in Résurrection; only receiving Dracula's [[FountainofYouth Dark Kiss]] makes you immune to rejuvenation, and that's pretty hard to come by. Rebirth as a vampire in Résurrection is reserved for the very worst of the worst among humans.
** OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Résurrection's werewolves are religious fanatics who persecuted innocents of other faiths; they can transform at will or if they're being threatened, and also, oddly enough, by remote control [[spoiler:used and controlled by the rebelling Lamias]].
** OurZombiesAreDifferent: On Résurrection zombies form the lower classes. They either end up serving the vampires, being served ''to'' the vampires or scavenging the wastelands and forming deadly welcoming committees for any newly resurrected. The comic features an interesting subversion of zombies as they are capable of intelligence and even coherent speech, however they are usually simple-minded, and are hinted to be people [[KarmicDeath who committed crimes out of ignorance and mindless obedience]], which [[FridgeBrilliance explains why there are so many of them...]]

* IncrediblyLamePun: Nunshakus are nunchucks... used by nuns.

* TheTeutonicKnights: Thurim was part of their order (though already evil). His using the magic hammer caused the knights to lose the Battle of the Ice.

** Quite probably inspired by [[TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]. ''My'' question is, what the hell did the poets do?

* InfoDump: Dictionary, the handy talking shoulder pterodactyl who knows everything about everyone's sins and will tell you about them at great length! [[StopHelpingMe Especially if you don't want him to!]]

* DepravedHomosexual / SissyVillain: Taken to ridiculous levels with Nero, Dracula's right hand man. Looking like the bastard offspring of [[RockyHorrorPictureShow Frank-N-Furter]] and [[{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]], he struts around in lingerie and high-heeled shoes, makes constant and blatant overtures to other men, is sexually aroused by torture and bloodshed, and goes to the masquerade ball in a PimpedOutDress.

* FamousFamousFictional: Dracula keeps the heads-in-a-jar of Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, Saladin, AlexanderTheGreat and a Martian conqueror as tactical advisors.

*** Mother Terror, one of the leaders of the ghouls' pirate fleet, is strongly hinted to have been Mother Teresa, reflecting various real-life controversies surrounding her, such as the poor care given in her hospitals and misappropriation of the donations she received.

** One of the ghoul's 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.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Ghouls, in life, did as much harm as vampires but believed they were doing good.

** The Nuns of Blood are particularly fond of ludicrously overcomplicated weapons/instruments of torture, up to and including nunshakus (an already extremely impractical weapon) adorned with spikes and spiky chains.

** Averted with, of all people, [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler]]. He gets a grand total of four panels, one of which consists of getting his neck snapped and the remaining two of showing us who he was.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Everything, including the scenery

* ReviveKillsZombie: Needless to say, the most feared weapons on Ressurrection are holy relics, starting from holy water weapons, to angel tears weapons, to priest's head and saint's head ammunition, to a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent gigantic missile with a ''seraph'' inside]] which Mitra calls the equivalent of an anti-matter bomb.

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

* SmokingIsCool: Requiem and Tengu light up while their respective masters are dueling, for absolutely no reason than to look badass.
* SoBadItsGood: Invoked: Various metal fans in Ressurection learn of the "Relics of Rock" including the one that gave rise to nu-metal (good and bad are reversed on Ressurection)...

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Averted. Hitler appears and is killed off in three panels early in the series, while the likes of Nero, Robespierre and Alister Crowley are still running around.
* StatusQuoIsGod: the Archeologists exist to prevent adavanced technology from falling into the hands of the lower classes, upsetting the vampire's dominion.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: remember that [[MerlinSickness extreme youth on Resurrection equivalates to extremely old age and therefore experience.]] Tengu can perfectly wield a pair of razor-clawed gauntlets of which every blade is attached onto a [[WhipSword whip chain]]. Only slightly less awesome is Cryptus, whose little infantile hands apparently pack an impressive punch and who wields a pair of short swords with enough skill to be an even match to the aforementioned Tengu.

* ShoutOut: One of the Archaeologists is very enthusiastic about using [[Franchise/StarTrek photon torpedos]].

* HolyBurnsEvil: Which is why holy water imported straight from the Vatican is such a lucrative commodity. Unfortunately, see CorruptChurch above.
** The Dystopians have made a specialty of selling holy relics to various factions. But most of them are fake, though it remains to be seen if the canister containing a seraphim is indeed the equivalent of an antimatter nuke.

* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: shows up occasionally. The Nuns of Blood are particularly fond of ludicrously overcomplicated weapons/instruments of torture, up to and including nunshakus (an already extremely impractical weapon) adorned with spikes and spiky chains.

* LoveRedeems: Presumably, it's the vestiges of Heinrich's love for Rebecca that let him keep his conscience. Now he clings desperately to them.

* MerlinSickness: The people of Resurrection age in reverse. Instead of growing older, they grow younger, and if they aren't killed on the battlefield or some other way, they eventually turn into infants and disappear. Then everyone forgets they existed at all. (Maybe the ultimate reward for evil isn't quite so good after all...) Dracula's DarkKiss can prevent it from happening, but he doesn't do that often.

* MiniMecha: Mother Superior of the Sisters of Blood is [[spoiler: a foetus (meaning she is extremely old by vampire standards)]] who rides in a [[SpikesOfVillainy spiked]] mecha with [[GrapplingHookPistol grappling claws in its breasts]]. It's not a HumongousMecha though, it's barely taller than a human being.

** OurZombiesAreDifferent: On Résurrection zombies form the lower classes. They either end up serving the vampires, being served ''to'' the vampires or scavenging the wastelands and forming deadly welcoming committees for any newly resurrected. The comic features an interesting subversion of zombies as they are capable of intelligence and even coherent speech, however they are usually simple-minded, and are hinted to be people [[KarmicPunishment who committed crimes out of ignorance and mindless obedience]], which [[FridgeBrilliance explains why there are so many of them...]]

** Surprisingly averted with the vampires. While they are the ruling caste of Ressurrection, a lot of them, if not the majority, are butt-ugly. Those who are not have tatoos carved into their face to make them uglier. [[FridgeBrilliance Of course, since everything is inverted on Ressurrection, including the system of values...]]