History ComicBook / TheWickedAndTheDivine

** [[spoiler: Laura and Urdr manage to rescue Luci, Inanna, Mimir, and Tara in Issue #41, and the former three get new bodies thanks to Nergal.]]

** Issue #33: [[spoiler:Good god. ''Woden isn't a god at all'' and he's really ''David Blake'' posing as a god. Ananke is not dead at all, as ''Minvera IS Ananke''. And biggest reveal of all...Lucifer, Inanna, and Tara are still ''alive'' as disembodied heads.]]

** Issue #41: [[spoiler:Laura and Cass rescue Luci, Inanna, Mimir, and Tara and take them to Baphomet, who gives the former three new bodies using The Morrigan's alternate ones.]]

** Several in Issue #33: [[spoiler: Woden is really David Blake and not a real god at all. Lucifer, Inanna, and Tara are still alive as disembodied heads. Minerva has been possessed by Ananke.]]

* RealityEnsues: The power and adoration one gets by becoming a god is enough to convince people to do some very horrible things in order to get the chance to ascend. It convinces two [[spoiler: fans]] to try to kill Lucifer, shooting innocents in the progress, and convinced [[spoiler: 1830's Inanna to agree to murder her sister's children in exchange for ascension.]]

** The gods have also repeated themselves: Woden, Morrigan, Lucifer and Inanna were all in both the 1830's Pantheon and the 2010's Pantheon. Lucifer and Dionysus/Bacchus also appeared in the Pantheon on 455.

** [[spoiler: Issue #33 shows that Luci, Inanna, and Tara still live on as bodyless heads in Ananke's sacrifice altar. They don't seem to be alive to move, but they can talk.]]

** Dionysus' powers seem like the coolest...until he admits he hasn't been alone in his head for over two months and can't sleep if any of his parties are going. By late in the Imperial Phase, it starts costing him to where Cass openly worries for his health.

** AGodIAmNot: [[spoiler: It is discovered this is the true way to break the cycle. After Ananke shows the remaining Pantheon the truth, they realize they had never been actual gods, only pretending to be gods, in a case of YourMindMakesItReal.]]

In addition, several one-shots done by guest artists spotlight the Pantheons from previous Recurrences. These are collected in the 8th TPB called ''Old is the New New'', released March 2019, in the middle of the final arc.

* [[StageMom Stage Parents]]: Minerva's parents have her do blessings at the Fantheon... for a price. And don't even bother counting the money as it rolls in. [[spoiler: Issue #39 reveals that they're not even her real parents, just a random couple who were greedy enough to take her in and act the part in exchange for the money. It doesn't end well for them.]]

* Hypocrite: [[spoiler: Following Ananke's revelation the Pantheon are not actual gods, the members realize how hypocritical they have been involving their goals. This leads to some of their own internal BrokenAesop regarding their motivations. For example, Cassandra specifically mentions she wanted to disprove the magic of the Pantheon but by becoming one, she could not disprove anything since she ''was'' one.

** Further evidenced with TheReveal of [[Ananke's origin and the origin of the cycle. Ananke, her sister and several others had powers already, shown at least to have power over fire. When they start to believe themselves as actual gods, the two year time frame goes into effect.]]

* Hypocrite: [[spoiler: Following Ananke's revelation the Pantheon are not actual gods, the members realize how hypocritical they have been involving their goals. his leads to some of their own internal BrokenAesop regarding their motivations. For example, Cassandra specifically mentions she wanted to disprove the magic of the Pantheon but by becoming one, she could not disprove anything since she is one.

* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Laura at the end of Issue #5. [[spoiler: Because Luci gave her her powers, and her eyes glow faintly red with her cigarette]].

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: The entire Pantheon, and premise of the book.

** Issue $42: [[spoiler:David/Woden is told the truth about Minerva and is then killed by her, and Baphomet revives Dionysus at the cost of his own life.]]

** Later disputed by [[spoiler: Laura, thought she claims you don't continue to live as a god in that case. However it's happened, she's managed to exit the cycle in some fashion and offers it to the others. Even Cass' powers no longer identify her as Persephone, adding credence to the idea.]]

* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler: After defying godhood, Laura cuts of all her hair, a major change.]]

* WhamShot: The end of Issue #28: [[spoiler:the letter Ananke wrote disappears in the same cloud of stars that ''Inanna'' used to make.]]

** [[spoiler: This only applies to such gods as are actually dead, and not the ones who were decapitated but surprise! are now living heads.]]

** Dionysus's icon appears at the end of issue #7 between The Morrigan's and Inanna's. It's shown in colour in it's initial appearance to show that it's a bundle of pills hanging from the vine rather than grapes.

* TeenPregnancy: In ''Mothering Invention'', Laura reveals that she's pregnant.

** Technically, [[spoiler: her death]] shows that each aspect has her own body with only one present at a time. [[spoiler: Until her death, when Baph[=/=]Nergal takes her body to their cathedral and places it on the altar. Then the corpse of each aspect is separately shown [[{{RuleOfCool}} floating]].]]

** The majority of the ''Commerical Suicide'' arc is done by different artists to match the style of the spotlighted characters. Amaterasu's is like expressive paintings while Sahkmet's is very basic and rough art.