History Webcomic / HoovesOfDeath

''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/hooves-of-death/list?title_no=1535&page=1 Hooves of Death]]'' is a 2019 webcomic by [[https://www.instagram.com/sambragg.art/ Sam Bragg]], hosted on Website/{{Webtoon}}. It ran from February 22, 2019 to December 23, 2022.

* PeekABangs: Blaze, a unicorn medic and Glitter’s close friend, wears his red mane long and loose, complementing his dour personality.

** [[spoiler: Blaze's long PeekABangs get burned off by the dragon during episode 86, coinciding with him taking charge of the group and becoming more assertive and less self-absorbed.]]

* BigBadTriumvirate: Pestilence, War and Death, three of the Horsemen of the apocalypse. They've decided to not let the apocalypse end and instead draw it out indefinitely through a zombie-plague, to punish humanity for their many atrocities. [[spoiler: Gets reduced to a BigBadDuumvirate in the season 1 finale, after War is slain by his former steed Silver.]][[spoiler: Death ends up defecting in season 3 due to a guilty conscience and his feelings of friendship towards Glitter and her group, making Pestilence the sole BigBad. Until the Unseelie Queen joins them.]]

* DomedHometown: Yellowstone National Park, or at least a section of it, houses the surviving humans in a sea of tents along with some basic agriculture underneath a magic barrier maintained by Commander Sprinkles.

* EldritchLocation: Underhill, a fae cave in Bryce Canyon. It's paths shift around endlessly, it houses dozens of dangerous mythological creatures and time flows significantly slower than it does in the outside world.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Just about anyone seeing Blaze interact with Glitter notices his massive crush on her, [[ObliviousToLove except for Glitter apparently]], from a fifteen-year-old girl to a literal hellbeast.

* TheFairFolk: Glitter's group comes across a court of fae living in Bryce Canyon. They're a very isolationist people, knowing for their trickery and taking advantage of ExactWords in deals and bargains to drive others to ruin. It's emphasized over and over again that you should ''never'' completely trust a fae and saying "Thank you" to one is basically signing away your life. They also have several layers of glamour over their true forms.

* {{Hellhound}}: A massive, hellish wolf shows up, having tracked the bleeding Glitter, and but the prey it seeks is actually the seemingly-normal human Kate. Its presence indicates there’s more to the setting than merely “unicorns vs. zombies.” [[spoiler: He later turns out to be ''Death himself'']].

* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: According to Silver they are the cause behind the Apocalypse (as befitting their name). Famine did his thing a while back, later War came to Silver and made him into his steed, the red horse, and caused wars around the world. Currently Pestilence is making the zombies roam the Earth. Silver says that it should have ended a while ago and Death should have started to ride. The captured hellhound says that it is because Death and Pestilence wish for humanity to suffer that the zombie plague has lasted as long as it has. They take unicorns as their steeds, and the only thing that can kill them is unicorn horn wounds.
** [[spoiler: Kate is eventually revealed to be the ''fifth'' Horseman, Providence, who is destined to defeat Pestilence and Death and allow the world to recover]].

* ImmunityAttrition: [[spoiler:Unicorn horns are filled with life, removing them kills the unicorn in question, and are apparently the key to why unicorns are TheImmune to the zombie plague. But a mysterious figure has figured out how to shave off ''just'' enough that the unicorn becomes vulnerable to zombification]].

* MoodDissonance: Humanity has been decimated by the ZombieApocalypse, and the few that remain live in near starvation in overcrowded camps. Their only hope for survival lies with...sparkly, multicolored unicorns. That bleed rainbows.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: While the zombies function like the typical hollywood shamblers, their outbreak seems to be magical in origin. One infection that Glitter witnessed firsthand involved nothing more than a child holding an innocent-looking butterfly, which corrupted the girl into UndeadChild that immediately attacked Glitter.

* {{Telekinesis}}: Similar to the unicorns of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship Is Magic]], all unicorns can manipulate objects at a distance using their magical horns, which is quite useful for pulling the pins of grenades, lowering fussy children down from trees, or toss opponents very far away from you.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Famine is this to the other Horsemen. While she did play a part in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, to her it was just part of the job and NothingPersonal, while War, Pestilence and Death let their biased hatred for humans overcome them and deserted their destined post long ago. Throughout the comic she continually appears to help the heroes on their journey and encourages Kate in her quest to [[spoiler: become the fifth Horseman Providence]]. [[spoiler: She later on admits to Death that she feels remorse for all the harm she caused humanity, as she never could have anticipated just how many of them would die because of her.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: The {{Hellhound}} stalking the group is eventually captured and pressed into service thanks to a ShockCollar, as they hope to use him to track down his master, Death. Naturally, he's not happy about it, and lets everyone know with constant insults and taunts. As the journey goes on, he starts to grow out of this more and more, even [[WhatYouAreInTheDark saving the group several times when he didn't have to]]. [[spoiler: However, he eventually double-crosses the group and tries to kill Kate when the two of them are alone in Bryce Canyon. After she manages to get her sword and fend him off, he retreats, but swears to come for her again. It's then revealed that he was actually Death himself the whole time.]] [[spoiler: In the end he subverts the trope for good, as he realizes what he and Pestilence are doing is wrong and that he can't bring himself to actually harm Glitter, Kate and the rest of the group after all they've been through together.]]

** Episode 6, the fall of the Yellowstone camp

* ZergRush: Unsurprisingly used by the zombies, which is their only hope against the plague-immune unicorns, even though it typically results in a single grenade to annihilate the entire clustered group. [[spoiler: It’s far more effectively used by the Zombie Gnomes, tunneling right under the unprepared survivor camp with at least a dozen gnomes swarming over every victim. Unfortunately, Commander Sprinkles is one such casualty]].
* ZombieApocalypse: Zombies? Check. Human civilization nearly brought to collapse? Check. Survivors growing increasingly desperate for supplies? Check. An army of [[{{Unicorn}} Unicorns]] arrive to save the last of mankind? Double check!

* ZombieInfectee: Glitter gets bit by a zombie during her rescue of Kate, and the human is understandably paranoid that the unicorn will turn. It’s {{subverted}} though, as Glitter lets her know that unicorns are immune to infection, merely gaining a temporary fever. However, the blood loss, coupled with the burning fever and continuous exertion, is an entirely different problem.

Humanity, [[ZombieApocalypse wobbling on its last legs following a zombie plague of unknown origin]], finds itself reduced to a single refugee camp in Yellowstone National Park. Lacking in food, water, and manpower, the hopeless situation turned not-so-hopeless as unlikely salvation rode in on a pale horse. Or rather, it ''is'' the horses. [[{{Unicorn}} Unicorns]], in fact.

'''Hooves of Death''' is a 2019 webcomic by [[https://www.instagram.com/sambragg.art/ Sam Bragg]], hosted on [[Website/{{Webtoons}} Webtoons]]. It ran from February 22, 2019 to December 23, 2022.

'''Hooves of Death''' is a 2019 webcomic by [[https://www.instagram.com/sambragg.art/ Sam Bragg]], hosted on [[Website/{{Webtoons}} Webtoons]]. It ran from Feb 22, 2019 to Dec 23, 2022.

'''Hooves of Death''' is a 2019 webcomic by [[https://www.instagram.com/sambragg.art/ Sam Bragg]], hosted on [[Website/{{Webtoons}} Webtoons]]. Updates every Friday. [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/hooves-of-death/list?title_no=1535 Read it here]].

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: While the zombies function like the typical hollywood shamblers, their outbreak seems to be magical in origin. One infection that Glitter witnessed firsthand involved nothing more than a child holding an innocent-looking butterfly, which corrupted the girl into UndeadChild [[AdultFear that immediately attacked Glitter]].

* EnthrallingSiren: Glitter and co. stumble upon a whole island of them after a zombie horde chases them onto an unguided raft. They can shift freely between mermaid and bipedal forms, but can't stay out of the water for more than a few hours. While they don't seem to have any hypnotic magic, they keep [[FemaleGaze exclusively hunky dudes]] captive on their island because everywhere else is filled with hordes of the undead.

* BloodFromTheMouth: Rainbow-flavored, combined with a [[{{subverted}} not-so-]]IncurableCoughOfDeath after Glitter gets bit by a zombie, along with a woozy smile as she tells Kate not to worry about it. She actually ''is’’ immune to the plague, and the continued dripping is instead a symptom of [[RealityEnsues blood loss from the untreated injury and continuous overexertion]].

* TheFairFolk: Glitter's group comes across a court of fae living in Bryce Canyon. They're a very isolationist people, knowing for their trickery and taking advantage of ExactWords in deals and bargains to drive others to ruin. It's emphasized over and over again that you should ''never'' completely trust a fae and saying "Thank you" to one is basically signing away your life.

* TheFairFolk: Glitter's group comes across a court of fae living in Bryce Canyon. They're a very isolasionist people, knowing for their trickery and taking advantage of ExactWords in deals and bargains to drive others to ruin. It's emphasized over and over again that you should ''never'' completely trust a fae and saying "Thank you" to one is basically signing away your life.

** [[spoiler: Commander Sprinkles returns as a zombie-unicorn who retained his self-awareness, thanks to the sorceress' expreiments. He still struggles with HorrorHunger and is very self-conscious about his undead state.]]