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'''''Thessaly: Witch For Hire''''' is a four-part Creator/VertigoComics mini-series by Creator/BillWillingham and Shawn [=McManus=]. A sequel to ''ComicBook/TheThessaliad'', and a SpinOff from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', it features Thessaly, the murderous witch (and former lover of Dream) forced by the dimwitted ghost Fetch to take on a series of monster-killing contracts, including a contract on a Tharmic Null, a beast that is seemingly completely imaginary [[spoiler: but is not only real, it's impossible to kill]].
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'''''Thessaly: Witch For Hire''''' is a four-part Creator/DCVertigo Creator/VertigoComics mini-series by Creator/BillWillingham and Shawn [=McManus=]. A sequel to ''ComicBook/TheThessaliad'', and a SpinOff from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', it features Thessaly, the murderous witch (and former lover of Dream) forced by the dimwitted ghost Fetch to take on a series of monster-killing contracts, including a contract on a Tharmic Null, a beast that is seemingly completely imaginary [[spoiler: but is not only real, it's impossible to kill]].
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'''''Thessaly: Witch For Hire''''' is a four-part Creator/VertigoComics Creator/DCVertigo mini-series by Creator/BillWillingham and Shawn [=McManus=]. A sequel to ''ComicBook/TheThessaliad'', and a SpinOff from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', it features Thessaly, the murderous witch (and former lover of Dream) forced by the dimwitted ghost Fetch to take on a series of monster-killing contracts, including a contract on a Tharmic Null, a beast that is seemingly completely imaginary [[spoiler: but is not only real, it's impossible to kill]].
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'''''Thessaly: Witch For Hire''''' is a four-part Vertigo Creator/VertigoComics mini-series by Creator/BillWillingham and Shawn [=McManus=]. A sequel to ''ComicBook/TheThessaliad'', and a SpinOff from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', it features Thessaly, the murderous witch (and former lover of Dream) forced by the dimwitted ghost Fetch to take on a series of monster-killing contracts, including a contract on a Tharmic Null, a beast that is seemingly completely imaginary [[spoiler: but is not only real, it's impossible to kill]].
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* YouNeedToGetLaid: Fetch insists that Thessaly's life would have far more meaning if she got laid once in a while.
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* YouNeedToGetLaid: Fetch insists that Thessaly's life would have far more meaning if she got laid once in a while.while.
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* WorldPillars: The titular witch alludes to there being pillars that keep the various Heavens from crashing down upon Earth. She mentions this in the context of mentioning that she's learned spells to topple them.
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* CompleteMonster: Established in-universe regarding the old man who attracted the Tharmic Null in the first place. They exist to punish the most evil people responsible for the greatest crimes imaginable, and although we never actually find out ''what'' he did, the fact that Thessaly herself has never earned one’s ire suggests it has to be '''really''' awful.
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* CompleteMonster: Established in-universe regarding the old man who attracted the Tharmic Null in the first place. They exist to punish the most evil people responsible for the greatest crimes imaginable, and although we never actually find out ’’what’’ he did, the fact that Thessaly herself has never earned one’s ire suggests it has to ‘’’really’’’ awful.
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* CompleteMonster: Established in-universe regarding the old man who attracted the Tharmic Null in the first place. They exist to punish the most evil people responsible for the greatest crimes imaginable, and although we never actually find out ’’what’’ ''what'' he did, the fact that Thessaly herself has never earned one’s ire suggests it has to ‘’’really’’’ be '''really''' awful.
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* CompleteMonster: The old man who attracted the Tharmic Null in the first place. They exist to punish the most evil people responsible for the greatest crimes imaginable, and although we never actually find out ’’what’’ he did, the fact that Thessaly herself has never earned one’s ire suggests it has to ‘’’really’’’ awful.
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'''''Thessaly: Witch For Hire''''' is a four-part Vertigo mini-series by Creator/BillWillingham and Shawn [=McManus=]. A sequel to ''ComicBook/TheThessaliad'', and a SpinOff from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', it features Thessaly, the murderous witch (and former lover of Dream) forced by the dimwitted ghost Fetch to take on a series of monster-killing contracts, including a contract on a Tharmic Null, a beast that is seemingly completely imaginary [[spoiler: but is not only real, it's impossible to kill.
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* KarmicHoudini: Thessaly is a master at escaping richly-deserved deaths.
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* KarmicHoudini: ExcrementStatement: One of the ghosts who composes Fetch belonged to a drunkard who earned Thessaly's ire by pissing on the wall of her chapter house and was killed for it.
* TheFakeCutie: Thessaly is a borderline sociopath who has successfully disguised herself as a mousy co-ed for decades.
* ForgotToFeedTheMonster: Thessaly has imprisoned and enslaved a number of monsters over the centuries. As she runs out of time for dealing with the Tharmic Null, she elects to release most of her captives, because she can no longer ensure their maintenance, and believes it would be wrong for them to starve to death if she were unable to return.
* KarmaHoudini: Thessaly is a master at escaping richly-deserved deaths.
* TheFakeCutie: Thessaly is a borderline sociopath who has successfully disguised herself as a mousy co-ed for decades.
* ForgotToFeedTheMonster: Thessaly has imprisoned and enslaved a number of monsters over the centuries. As she runs out of time for dealing with the Tharmic Null, she elects to release most of her captives, because she can no longer ensure their maintenance, and believes it would be wrong for them to starve to death if she were unable to return.
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** Thessaly looks like a cute college student with glasses, but she's really a mass-murdering witch, the last of the dread Thessalian witches.
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* VillainProtagonist: Thessaly is a witch who's murdered thousands of people (plus at least one she-lamb and a god or two) over the millennia. She's also the protagonist of this miniseries.
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* VillainProtagonist: Thessaly is a witch who's murdered thousands of people (plus at least one she-lamb and a god or two) over the millennia. She's also the protagonist of this miniseries.miniseries.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Fetch insists that Thessaly's life would have far more meaning if she got laid once in a while.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Fetch insists that Thessaly's life would have far more meaning if she got laid once in a while.
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* Meganekko: Thessaly is almost never seen without her glasses.
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** Thessaly looks like a cute college student with glasses, but she's really a mass-murdering witch, the last of the dread Thessalianwitches.witches.
** At one point, Thessaly seeks help from Fat Joe, an enormous, mangy housecat who boasts that he's killed at least one of every species that's ever existed.
** Thessaly looks like a cute college student with glasses, but she's really a mass-murdering witch, the last of the dread Thessalian
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* StalkerWithACrush: Fetch refuses to leave Thessaly alone, convinced that there's something between them.
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* RetGone: Anything the Tharmic Null touches is retroactively removed from existence.
* SealedEvilInACan: Thessaly has acquired several of these over the millennia.
* StalkerWithACrush: Fetch refuses to leave Thessaly alone, convinced that there's something betweenthem.them.
* VillainProtagonist: Thessaly is a witch who's murdered thousands of people (plus at least one she-lamb and a god or two) over the millennia. She's also the protagonist of this miniseries.
* SealedEvilInACan: Thessaly has acquired several of these over the millennia.
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* VillainProtagonist: Thessaly is a witch who's murdered thousands of people (plus at least one she-lamb and a god or two) over the millennia. She's also the protagonist of this miniseries.
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'''''Thessaly: Witch For Hire''''' is a four-part Vertigo mini-series by Creator/BillWillingham and Shawn [=McManus=]. A sequel to ''ComicBook/TheThessaliad'', and a SpinOff from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', it features Thessaly, the murderous witch (and former lover of Dream) forced by the dimwitted ghost Fetch to take on a series of monster-killing contracts, including a contract on a Tharmic Null, a beast that is seemingly impossible to kill.
!!This series contains examples of:
*BlueCollarWarlock: Thanks to Fetch's machinations, Thessaly is forced to kill various supernatural monsters for money.
*BoxedCrook: Fetch tries to turn Thessaly into one of these by forcing her to kill monsters that are preying on innocents. She's less than thrilled when she finds out.
*CryLaughing: After Thessaly finds out that Fetch has managed to get her contracted to kill a Tharmic Null - a beast that nothing and nobody can kill - she starts laughing and crying simultaneously, because he's finally given her a death sentence from which she can't escape.
*KillerRabbit: Thessaly looks like a cute college student with glasses, but she's really a mass-murdering witch, the last of the dread Thessalian witches.
*Meganekko: Thessaly is almost never seen without her glasses.
*ProphecyTwist: The Virgin of the Wall prophesies that "nothing and no-one" can kill a Tharmic Null. [[spoiler:The solution turns out to be to remove all the souls making up the composite ghost Fetch, then use magic to keep him from just dissolving. Now that he's ''literally'' "nothing and no-one", his fighting the Tharmic Null results in both ceasing to exist.]]
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Thessaly was born a very, very long time ago. At one point in this series, there's a flashback that shows her as a cavewoman.
*StalkerWithACrush: Fetch refuses to leave Thessaly alone, convinced that there's something between them.
!!This series contains examples of:
*BlueCollarWarlock: Thanks to Fetch's machinations, Thessaly is forced to kill various supernatural monsters for money.
*BoxedCrook: Fetch tries to turn Thessaly into one of these by forcing her to kill monsters that are preying on innocents. She's less than thrilled when she finds out.
*CryLaughing: After Thessaly finds out that Fetch has managed to get her contracted to kill a Tharmic Null - a beast that nothing and nobody can kill - she starts laughing and crying simultaneously, because he's finally given her a death sentence from which she can't escape.
*KillerRabbit: Thessaly looks like a cute college student with glasses, but she's really a mass-murdering witch, the last of the dread Thessalian witches.
*Meganekko: Thessaly is almost never seen without her glasses.
*ProphecyTwist: The Virgin of the Wall prophesies that "nothing and no-one" can kill a Tharmic Null. [[spoiler:The solution turns out to be to remove all the souls making up the composite ghost Fetch, then use magic to keep him from just dissolving. Now that he's ''literally'' "nothing and no-one", his fighting the Tharmic Null results in both ceasing to exist.]]
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Thessaly was born a very, very long time ago. At one point in this series, there's a flashback that shows her as a cavewoman.
*StalkerWithACrush: Fetch refuses to leave Thessaly alone, convinced that there's something between them.
