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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Webcomic/ParallelDementia''. The setting is very different, but it features some of the old characters like [[TheHero Fall]], David, [[{{Golem}} Reggie]], Alex Ivanova, a man that appears to be Midas, the organization Atlas, [[spoiler:[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Visage of Death]], and possibly [[FanNickname The Thing in Chains]]]].
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Webcomic/ParallelDementia''. The setting is very different, but it features some of the old characters like [[TheHero Fall]], David, [[{{Golem}} Reggie]], Alex Ivanova, a man that appears to be Midas, the organization Atlas, [[spoiler:[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Visage of Death]], and possibly [[FanNickname The "The Thing in Chains]]]].Chains"]].
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-->'''Reggie:''' Ah — I am a golem. [[MythologyGag Robots are a thing of fiction.]]
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* StabTheScorpion: * In [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/sword-interval/ep-95-memorial-behemoth/viewer?title_no=486&episode_no=101 #95]], Agent Porter points a gun at her while saying her surname... then shoots the plant monster sneaking up behind her.
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* StabTheScorpion: * In [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/sword-interval/ep-95-memorial-behemoth/viewer?title_no=486&episode_no=101 #95]], Agent Porter points a gun at her while saying her surname... then shoots the plant monster sneaking up behind her.
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: It's on the horizon, and [[spoiler: it has happened at least a hundred times before, in fact. The current world is only the latest incarnation of Earth, and all the previous ones ended the same way: with the Harbinger calling the Celestials to destroy everything. Some cycles at least managed to delay the inevitable for some time by killing the Harbinger's reincarnations whenever their powers begin to manifest.]]
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: It's on the horizon, and [[spoiler: it has happened at least a hundred times before, in fact. The current world is only the latest incarnation of Earth, and all the previous ones ended the same way: with the Harbinger calling the Celestials to destroy everything. Some cycles at least managed to delay the inevitable for some time by killing the Harbinger's reincarnations whenever their powers begin to manifest.]]
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: It's on TheTheTitleConfusion: The title as displayed in-comic is "The Sword Interval", but Webtoon lists the horizon, and [[spoiler: it has happened at least a hundred times before, in fact. The current world is only the latest incarnation of Earth, and all the previous ones ended the same way: with the Harbinger calling the Celestials to destroy everything. Some cycles at least managed to delay the inevitable for some time by killing the Harbinger's reincarnations whenever their powers begin to manifest.]]comic as just "Sword Interval".
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* DragonHoard: There are dragons, and they have these, although the only one seen so far has taken to investing in the stock market.
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* DragonHoard: There are dragons, and they have these, although the only one seen so far has taken to [[PostModernMagik investing in the stock market.market]].
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They're mostly based on western dragons, with the twist that they can only be killed with a 'legendary weapon' (Fall's baseball bat qualifies due to it being used by hall of famer Betty Riese to win a world series ''and'' signed by him).
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* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Fall tries to reassure a family whose child was kidnapped with, "Hey don't worry. You got two kickass monster hunters and a giant golem on the case. And also Porter." The third sentence is even in a separate word balloon with smaller text.
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** Lady Rue's son is a big fan of the in-universe ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' {{Expy}} series "Alt-Shifters".
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* StabTheScorpion: * In [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/sword-interval/ep-95-memorial-behemoth/viewer?title_no=486&episode_no=101 #95]], Agent Porter points a gun at her while saying her surname... then shoots the plant monster sneaking up behind her.
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** As shown in #83, Atlas' artifact collection includes a ''Literature/RaggedyAnn'' doll and a mask resembling Murdoc from ''WebOriginal/BurningAvalon''. The latter is an OriginalCharacterTournament the author previously participated in and won.
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** As shown in #83, Atlas' artifact collection includes a ''Literature/RaggedyAnn'' doll and a Murdoc's mask resembling Murdoc from ''WebOriginal/BurningAvalon''. The latter is an OriginalCharacterTournament the author previously participated in and won.
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** The ghost hunting team we first see investigating Broughton Hall is called "[[Anime/DragonBallZ Spirit Bomb]]''
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** The ghost hunting team we first see investigating Broughton Hall is called "[[Anime/DragonBallZ Spirit Bomb]]''
** When a member of Spirit Bomb mentions that Lady Rue's services come at a high price, Fall asks if he means cash or [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid "I want your voice, dearie"]].
** As shown in #83, Atlas' artifact collection includes a ''Literature/RaggedyAnn'' doll and a mask resembling Murdoc from ''WebOriginal/BurningAvalon''. The latter is an OriginalCharacterTournament the author previously participated in and won.
** The ghost hunting team we first see investigating Broughton Hall is called "[[Anime/DragonBallZ Spirit Bomb]]''
** When a member of Spirit Bomb mentions that Lady Rue's services come at a high price, Fall asks if he means cash or [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid "I want your voice, dearie"]].
** As shown in #83, Atlas' artifact collection includes a ''Literature/RaggedyAnn'' doll and a mask resembling Murdoc from ''WebOriginal/BurningAvalon''. The latter is an OriginalCharacterTournament the author previously participated in and won.
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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: The Famorians did this when it became obvious that their world was beyond saving. Creating a container capable of surviving the end of the world, they filled it with magical candles containing an archive of their collected knowledge about the cycle as well as one Famorian volunteer...[[spoiler:the Hierophant.]] They initially seemed to fail, as their chosen messenger falls to despair and cynicism and abandons his mission in favor of just continuing the cycle, but in the end their archive ends up in exactly the right time and place to allow for the creation of a crazy-enough-to-work plan to end the cycle.
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* {{Golem}}: ''Sword Interval'' doesn't have high technology, unlike its predecessor ''Webcomic/ParallelDementia'', and golems are powered by spirits and magic. Reggie is a Hungering Golem, meaning he sustains himself by feeding on magic around him [[spoiler: and can do so offensively, draining the magic out of a huge area and destroying magical constructs like those created by [[PlantPerson Granny Slough]]]]. He appears to have been created by the English for World War I, and has since been claimed by Atlas [[spoiler:apparently regardless of what he desires]]. ArtificialLimbs are also made of non-sentient golems, responding to the wearer's desires, which can lead to new limbs especially picking up objects the user finds curious or walking to places the owner is thinking of... whether or not the user actually intended to do those things.
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* {{Golem}}: ''Sword Interval'' doesn't have high technology, unlike its predecessor ''Webcomic/ParallelDementia'', and golems are powered by spirits and magic.
** Reggie is a Hungering Golem, meaning he sustains himself by feeding on magic around him [[spoiler: and can do so offensively, draining the magic out of a huge area and destroying magical constructs like those created by [[PlantPerson Granny Slough]]]]. He appears to have been created by the English for World War I, and has since been claimed by Atlas [[spoiler:apparently regardless of what he desires]].
** ArtificialLimbs are also made of non-sentient golems, responding to the wearer's desires, which can lead to new limbs especially picking up objects the user finds curious or walking to places the owner is thinking of... whether or not the user actually intended to do thosethings.things.
** As the apocalypse draws nearer, Atlas begins constructing new golems using malign spirits instead of elementals to animate them. Unlike the sapient, usually quite personable golems seen before, these are silent and apparently have no function other than killing.
** Finally, the plan to save the world and end the apocalyptic cycle once and for all involves [[spoiler: turning the Earth itself into a massive golem of sorts, with Reggie as its heart and all the hostile remnants of past worlds to animate it.]]
** Reggie is a Hungering Golem, meaning he sustains himself by feeding on magic around him [[spoiler: and can do so offensively, draining the magic out of a huge area and destroying magical constructs like those created by [[PlantPerson Granny Slough]]]]. He appears to have been created by the English for World War I, and has since been claimed by Atlas [[spoiler:apparently regardless of what he desires]].
** ArtificialLimbs are also made of non-sentient golems, responding to the wearer's desires, which can lead to new limbs especially picking up objects the user finds curious or walking to places the owner is thinking of... whether or not the user actually intended to do those
** As the apocalypse draws nearer, Atlas begins constructing new golems using malign spirits instead of elementals to animate them. Unlike the sapient, usually quite personable golems seen before, these are silent and apparently have no function other than killing.
** Finally, the plan to save the world and end the apocalyptic cycle once and for all involves [[spoiler: turning the Earth itself into a massive golem of sorts, with Reggie as its heart and all the hostile remnants of past worlds to animate it.]]
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* SummonBiggerFish: When cornered by Atlas forces in the Artifact Storage room, David spots and breaks the [[SealedEvilInACan jar the Visage had been sealed into]]. Presented with an opportunity to inflict some payback on the organization that murdered his childhood friend, the Visage cheerfully starts slaughtering the Atlas troops allowing David's team to make their escape.
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* UnEqualRites: There are two kinds of magic user, elemental mages and witches, who draw power from parts of their own bodies. The latter gets a bad rap.
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* TimeSkip: [[spoiler:There's a year in-between strips 230 and 231]].
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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: F.A.M.I.L.I.A.R. is a PMC owned by the witch Plutonian Flame. [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/sword-interval/ep-193-corpse-corps/viewer?title_no=486&episode_no=212 Their contracts don't expire with their signees.]]
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* WickedWitch: The Stygian Medusa Witches' Coven is one.a gathering of powerful magic-using criminals and mercenaries. Among their members Mah Yun is fairly sympathetic and the Carnelian Raven is too much of a ButtMonkey to get up to much in the way of wickedness. The ''incredibly'' creepy Ivory Stalker and literally cold-hearted Plutonian Flame definitely fit the trope, however.
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Happened It's on the horizon, and [[spoiler: it has happened at least a hundred times before, in fact. The current world is only the latest incarnation of Earth, and all the previous ones ended the same way: with the Harbinger calling the Celestials to destroy everything. Some cycles at least managed to delay the inevitable for some time by killing the Harbinger's reincarnations whenever their powers begin to manifest.]]
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: One of the magical items acquired by the cast is a small flask capable of producing a theoretically infinite amount of whatever liquid is put into it. Useful, but not particularly high on the legendary artifact scale. Until nascent blood mage Marco gets his hands on it and realizes just how much it expands his powers, that is...
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* OhCrap: The Carnelian Raven suffers a big case of this when he suddenly finds an RPG round headed his way courtesy of Fall Barros and his smug, confident attitude is immediately replaced by, well...[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/sword-interval/ep-133-rocket/viewer?title_no=486&episode_no=144 this.]]
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* GambitPileup: The Reliquary Heist is a four-way example:
** Fall and David plan to steal the Reliquary to use it against the Hierophant.
** The Witches' Coven was contracted by the Hierophant to steal the Reliquary for him.
** The Hierophant himself has his own plan to get his phylactery back.
** And finally, Atlas has set up the whole thing in part to bait out the Hierophant and/or Harbinger.
** Fall and David plan to steal the Reliquary to use it against the Hierophant.
** The Witches' Coven was contracted by the Hierophant to steal the Reliquary for him.
** The Hierophant himself has his own plan to get his phylactery back.
** And finally, Atlas has set up the whole thing in part to bait out the Hierophant and/or Harbinger.
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Celestials are winged [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] with [[AlienBlood charcoal blood]] and glowing golden eyes [[EyesDoNotBelongThere all over their bodies]] and flaming swords. Their purpose is to destroy the world once its "animating force" has decayed to the point where it becomes unsustainable so a new world can be created in its place. [[spoiler: And Fall is one of them.]]
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* TitleDrop: The Hierophant gives an epic one, explaining that it [[spoiler:means the period of strife when a world is ending and a new one is about to be born. All with the backdrop of the revived Titanfolly skeleton rampaging through a city and eventually being NUKED.]]
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An UrbanFantasy webcomic by Ben Fleuter that started in 2015. It can be read [[http://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/sword-interval/list?title_no=486 here]]. The author also wrote this comic's predecessor ''Webcomic/ParallelDementia'', and an unrelated webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Derelict}}''.
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An UrbanFantasy webcomic by Ben Fleuter that started in 2015. It can be read [[http://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/sword-interval/list?title_no=486 here]]. The author also wrote this comic's predecessor ''Webcomic/ParallelDementia'', and an unrelated webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Derelict}}''.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: There were several hints about [[spoiler:the true nature of Fall's powers and her status as the Harbinger]] long before the formal reveal.
** The whole business with what the Visage was doing, the paintings he'd made of Sarah and Arthur Broughton, and the way he treats Fall.
** It's mentioned that during the year Fall spent at Atlas headquarters before she formally entered witness protection, most Atlas personnel treated her rather coldly.
** When the complete story of the Hierophant's attack on the California Institute of Paranatural Studies is shown, when he sees Fall's parents, he takes a good look at them and makes a cryptic remark about "the artifact" working ''perfectly'', and then tells the Barroses that he'll be back for their blood before his body is destroyed.
** The whole business with what the Visage was doing, the paintings he'd made of Sarah and Arthur Broughton, and the way he treats Fall.
** It's mentioned that during the year Fall spent at Atlas headquarters before she formally entered witness protection, most Atlas personnel treated her rather coldly.
** When the complete story of the Hierophant's attack on the California Institute of Paranatural Studies is shown, when he sees Fall's parents, he takes a good look at them and makes a cryptic remark about "the artifact" working ''perfectly'', and then tells the Barroses that he'll be back for their blood before his body is destroyed.
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* MagicCompass: Fall owns a dead man's compass, given to her by Alex Ivanova. It can track down anyone if given part of them, like a hair or blood sample.
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* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:It's revealed that Atlas altered Fall's memories so she would forget that her eyes were always orange and that her mother owned the necklace she kept as a last token of her parents. The necklace was a surveillance device.]]
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* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:It's revealed that Atlas altered Fall's memories so she would forget that her eyes were always orange and believe that her mother owned the necklace she kept as a last token of her parents. The necklace was a surveillance device.]]
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* INeedYouStronger: The Hierophant spared Fall and marked with "gifts" (and was delighted she became a hunter specifically to kill him) for some as yet unknown purpose.
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* INeedYouStronger: The Hierophant spared Fall and marked her with "gifts" (and was delighted she became a hunter specifically to kill him) for some as yet unknown purpose.purpose. [[spoiler:The fact that she's the current [[ApocalypseMaiden Harbinger]] likely has something to do with it.]]
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* FailOSuckyname: [[spoiler:The Carnelian Raven suggests that Marco, if he's learning blood magic, should have a witch name, and suggests the Crimson Jackal. Marco responds that he prefers "Red Rover".]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname:
** All of the witches introduced at the witchmoot are currently known only by their witch titles: the Carnelian Raven, the Plutonian Flame and the Ivory Stalker.
** Also from the Operation Marathon arc, David and Fall's ally in the convoy is known simply as the Zero Hunter.
** All of the witches introduced at the witchmoot are currently known only by their witch titles: the Carnelian Raven, the Plutonian Flame and the Ivory Stalker.
** Also from the Operation Marathon arc, David and Fall's ally in the convoy is known simply as the Zero Hunter.
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** Experienced hunters tend to get nicknames like this. David is the Verdant Hunter, because he likes to use plants. Another hunter is known as the Zero Hunter.
** All witches get a title like this, some more impressive than others. Mah Yun is the Stygian Medusa. Lady Rue is the Blind Seer. Other witches include the Plutonian Flame, the Carnelian Raven and the Ivory Stalker.
** Experienced hunters tend to get nicknames like this. David is the Verdant Hunter, because he likes to use plants. Another hunter is known as the Zero Hunter.
** All witches get a title like this, some more impressive than others. Mah Yun is the Stygian Medusa. Lady Rue is the Blind Seer. Other witches include the Plutonian Flame, the Carnelian Raven and the Ivory Stalker.
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Visage of Death and Alexis are those characters' PD names, but they have never been used in this comic.
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** Mah Yun, the Stygian Medusa, falls in the "Ancient Dead Languages" and "Religious Names" categories. A witch powerful and skilled enough to [[BodyguardingABadass bodyguard a dragon]] and go toe to toe (well, hair to knife) with Alexis Ivanova.
** The Visage of Death. 'Nuff said. The most powerful ghost seen or mentioned in setting, arguably the most threatening antagonist yet seen.
** The Visage of Death. 'Nuff said. The most powerful ghost seen or mentioned in setting, arguably the most threatening antagonist yet seen.
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** Mah Yun, the Stygian Medusa, falls in the "Ancient Dead Languages" and "Religious Names" categories. A witch powerful and skilled enough to [[BodyguardingABadass bodyguard a dragon]] and go toe to toe (well, hair to knife) with Alexis Alex Ivanova.
** TheVisage of Death.Visage. 'Nuff said. The most powerful ghost seen or mentioned in the setting, arguably the most threatening antagonist yet seen.
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