History ComicBook / TheChroniclesOfWormwood

* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Issue four of the first miniseries has Danny, Jay and Jimmy walk in on Fucknose sucking on his own nose-replacing dick.

* MistakenForTerrorist: The ''Last Enemy'' one-shot has a man mistaken for being a terrorist due to having the name [[PunnyName Al Kyda]].

* MarkOfTheBeast: Danny has three sixes on his scalp. [[spoiler: He is extremely relieved to find that his newborn son has nothing of the sort.]]

* AffablyEvil: Satan.

* PublicDomainArtifact: The Vatican has been collecting various artifacts over the centuries, though most of them are fake, the "forest’s worth of one true cross" being one example. Pope Jacko also blows his nose on the Shroud of Turin.

* UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc: Appears as a nymphomaniac who gets off on degrading sex with Englishmen. Such as Danny. Who also happens to be the Antichrist.

%%* TheBogan: Pope Jacko, the first Australian Pope.

* TheBogan: Pope Jacko, the first Australian Pope.

* CorruptChurch: In Jay’s backstory, it is elaborated that his message of peace and love has been twisted by his followers ever since his death to punctuate his suffering to control the masses [[spoiler:which Satan claims to have taken credit for, having pitched the idea to Emperor Constantine]]. In modern times, the Vatican wound up electing Jacko - who is shown to be a hedonistic asshole with no respect for anyone or anything [[spoiler:and an associate of Satan when no one else is around]] - as the new pope because “[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain it was this or the nigger]].”

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Danny is the anti-Christ and is the prophesised destroyer of the world, a title he never wanted and he isn't keen on following through with it.

* MarkOfTheBeast: Danny has three sixes on his scalp.

** Grabbing one of the daggers of Meggido causes Danny's hand to rot. Though according to him, it'd take all seven to actually kill him.

* PrisonRape: According to the comic book store owner's angel guide, the guy who takes advantage of his death to rob his store will eventually get sent to Riker's, where he'll have a 10 inch cock down his throat.

* PrisonRape: According to the angel in the comic book store, the robber will eventually have a 10 inch cock down his throat while in Riker's.

* AuthorTract: It's not the entire reason the book exists, but the first issue of the first series has some very pointed commentary about the life and works of Christ.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Interestingly, in spite of Garth Ennis being an atheist and generally disliking the religious interpretation of a divine creator, the reason behind God's madness here is implied to be caused by him realizing what he's done in giving mortals free will (human flaws, misery, and evil) and went absolutely drooling nuts. When Wormwood comments that God is insane to his father, Satan, his father remakes, "You would be too if you realized what you'd done by making humankind. Free will isn't something you hand out lightly".

** Grabbing one of the daggers of Meggido causes Danny's hand to rot. Though according to him, it'd take all seven to actualy kill him.

* IronicHell: Hell in the story is basically this. Aside from the general torments of torture and mutilation inflicted by demons, the sinners are also inflicted with punishments having to do with their sins (like a pedophile being set upon by monster children). It's also a bit of SelfInflictedHell as the sinners choose where they go but unlike the Creator/NeilGaiman version from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' in which people are condemned by their own guilt (so innocent people can damn themselves or be tricked into going to hell), people who die are shown the absolute truth of who and what they were, a truth so powerful that, in Wormwood's words,"cannot be denied. Not even by the truly insane" and afterwards know where they have to go. Later on, Pope Jacko, who had become the lord of Hell, states that for most, this realisation is the worst part of hell. Knowing, with absolute certainty, that you are a monster and deserve to be in hell.
--> '''Jacko:''' It's the truth that does for most blokes. That's how it works. Yer pop yer clogs and find out what yer really amounted to. and where yer got to go for eternity because of it. I mean, can you fuckin' imagine the shock a' that...? Yer a cunt. There's a hell. and yer going there. And that's really hell, bein' helpless forever in the face of yer own cuntishness. Drives most o' them wacko straightaway. Take ol' Saddam as a recent example: Believed to the day they stretched his neck that he was a great leader. Cruel to be kind, Allah was on his side, woulda been fine if the wogs hadn't let him down... no. No, no, an' no.
** There's also an inversion where a suicide bomber is found in Heaven, provided with 72 virgins, as he was promised... [[spoiler:that is, 72 ''babies'' which he has to care for, all alone, forever.]]

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Danny is the anti-christ and is the prophesised destroyer of the world, a title he never wanted and he isn't keen on following through with it.

-->An' ''by the way'', Cardinal O'Leary, It'd be a fucksight easier for the heada the Catholic Church to tell ''anyone anything-- if cunts like you'' '''''WEREN'T FUCKIN' RAPIN' KIDS ALL THE TIME!'''''

* TakeThat: The Catholic church, self-consciously "shocking" cable television shows, the Catholic church, ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans, [[RuleOfThree the Catholic church]], right-wing talk radio hosts, pro-lifers, shock journalism, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, and, [[OverlyLongGag by the way, the Catholic church]].

* Expy: Danny himself is one for [[Film/TheOmen Damien Thorn]], except unlike his inspiration, he has no intention of "getting with the program".

* AdolfHitlarious: While it isn't shown on-panel, Adolf is condemned to lick shit off a giant, uncircumized cock, for all eternity.

** And then subverted with some of the people who are in Heaven despite their actions in life, like the [[spoiler:suicide bomber who now has to care for 72 virgins... that is, 72 infants, for all eternity]].

** There's also an inversion where a suicide bomber is found in Heaven, provided with 72 virgins, as he was promised... [[spoiler:that is, 72 ''babies'' which he has to care for, all alone.]]

* AlmightyIdiot: This universe's version of God basically behaves like a severely mentally disabled person. He appears to be totally incapable of any sort of rational thought and spends all his time [[ADateWithRosiePalms rubbing his junk]].

* BlackBestFriend: Wormwood's friend Jay is the SecondComing of Christ, although he's not often entirely lucid, because he has severe brain damage as the result of a cop caving in the side of his head with a nightstick. Lift the dreadlocks on his right temple and you can see a three-inch scar. His daddy sent him to Earth in the freaking sixties. PoliceBrutality at its finest.

* TakeThat: The Catholic church, self-consciously "shocking" cable television shows, the Catholic church, ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans, [[RuleOfThree the Catholic church]], right-wing talk radio hosts, shock journalism, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, and, [[OverlyLongGag by the way, the Catholic church]].

* CallingTheOldManOut: Wormwood is definitely not afraid to tell his father Satan how poorly he thinks of him, and where he can shove his plans for his son.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Apocalypse is averted with God and Satan stuck together on a weapon and forced to forever wander the cosmos, Danny and Maggie manage to work out their issues and get back together, Pope Jacko's soul is sealed inside the mind of an asshole catatonic man and Jay finally starts to recover from his head injury and is planning on starting a talk show produced by Danny so he can go back to helping people.

--> '''Jacko:''' It's the truth that does for most blokes. That's how it works. Yer pop yer clogs and find out what yer really amounted to. and where yer got to go for eternity because of it. I mean, can you fuckin' imagine the shock a' that...? Yer a cunt. There's a hell. and yer going there. And that's really hell, bein' helpless forever in the face of yer own cuntishness. Drives most o' them wacko straightaway. Take ol' Saddam as a recent example: Believed to the day they stretched his neck that he was a great leader. Cruel to be kind, Allah was on his side, woulda been fine if the wogs hadn't let him down..no. No, no, an' no.

* UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc: Appears as a nymphomaniac who gets off on degrading sex with Englishmen. Such as Danny.

* MisaimedFandom: In a weird sort of in-universe way. Every time a Satanist approached Danny as a kid with plans of worshipping him or helping him along his way to taking power, they turned up dead from a heart attack or brain tumor shortly thereafter, with a "traumatized" Danny unable to explain what had happened.

* PublicDomainArtifact: The Vatican has been collecting various artifacts over the centuries, though most of them are fake, the "forest’s worth of one true cross" being one example.

* CurbStompBattle: Danny vs. Judas. A particularly bad showing on Judas's part since he was armed with a magic weapon specifically designed to kill Danny, and he still got stomped.

* DrivenToSuicide: Danny's mother, right after giving birth to him. Given the circumstances it's sadly understandable.

* EvilBrit: Thoroughly subverted with Danny. He may be TheAntichrist and British-born, but has zero desire to go ahead with fulfilling his preordained role, contenting himself with the mostly mundane life of a shock TV executive.

* SecondComing: What Jay is supposed to represent.