Line #13 ComicBook/Casanova


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Cooler than Thou]]
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4	''Casanova'' is a comic book series that debuted in June 2006 written by Matt Fraction with art by (so far) Gabriel Ba and his brother Fabio Moon. Inspired by [[Literature/TheCorneliusChronicles Jerry Cornelius]], ''Film/DangerDiabolik'', ''[[ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD]]'' and, of course, Film/JamesBond, it tells a trippy tale of spies, flying cars, crazy gadgets, bizarre psychic powers and mind-upgrading drugs. Each story arc is named after one of the SevenDeadlySins. As of June 2021, [[{{Lust}} Luxuria]], [[VillainousGlutton Gula]] and [[{{Greed}} Avarita]] are complete with the current arc titled [[LazyBum Acedia]].
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6	The eponymous lead is a skilled yet thoroughly sybaritic cat-burglar-for-hire whose dad, Cornelius Quinn, happens to run E.M.P.I.R.E., the world's premier international security organization.
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8	Allow us to rephrase.
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10	Casanova Quinn is, among other things, Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld.
11	* He steals -- and has sex with -- at least one smoking hot robot woman.
12	* He wins a psychic duel with what appear to be three Buddhist monks fused into a single wad.
13	* He dives out of a flying heli-casino ...
14	* ... while shooting at it ...
15	* ... and into a parallel reality where he is his own EvilTwin ...
16	* ... where he does it all again, only better.
17	* He is cooler than you'd ever even ''want'' to be.
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19	And that's just the first issue!
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21	!!These tropes feature in his life:
22	* AnimalMotifs: Everyone with psychic powers has a "psychomanifest" represented by one animal or another. Casanova had spiders for a while, then upgraded to crows via some really great drugs. Zephyr has snakes.
23	* ArtificialHuman: Ruby Seychelle, Ruby Berserko. Sabine Seychelle does good work.
24	* BandageMummy: Newman Xeno
25	** Cooper Caine, Fashion Photographer to the Stars, in an in-universe homage to Newman Xeno.
26	* BigBad: Newman Xeno
27	* BrainUploading: Tragically and painfully subverted.
28	* BreakTheCutie: Kaito in ''Casanova: Gula''.
29	* BreakingTheFourthWall
30	* BrotherSisterIncest: Heavily implied in "Luxuria", between Casanova and Zephyr.
31	* TheCasanova: It's right there in the title.
32	* DarkActionGirl: Zephyr Quinn, period.
33	* DoubleAgent
34	* TheDragon: Zephyr Quinn to Newman Xeno - or is she?
35	* EasySexChange: [[spoiler: Casanova has one of these in the "Gula" arc, to pretend to be his sister to infiltrate the Xeno's latest plan and at the end get changed back.]]
36	* EscapeArtist: David X before he [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers leveled up]].
37	* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: David X meditated his way into superhumanity.
38	* EvilMinions: ''Ever meet anyone that went to those technical schools that advertise on late night TV. You know -- the "colleges" that exist in mini-malls? Of course not. Anybody who went to those gets recruited into agencies like W.A.S.T.E. and E.M.P.I.R.E. I mean -- ever wondered where those jumpsuit guys come from? The killer robot fuelers, the giant drill runners, the spooky laser operators? Colleges from the TV.''
39	* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: The reasoning for the dimension hopping missions in "Avarita" is that as long as a Newman Xeno [[spoiler: (aka Luther Desmond Diamond)]] existed in any universe he could/would damage the multiverse beyond repair.
40	* EvilTwin: Casanova ''is'' the evil twin replacing his dead good twin. Interestingly, of the alternate universes visited, there is always one good Quinn sibling and one evil one. In the original universe, Cass was the evil one whereas Zeph was the good one, while in the universe Cass currently inhabits, Zeph was the evil one, Cass was the good one before he was killed, making one universe with ''two evil twins''.
41	* {{Expy}}: Sabine Seychelle is totally a grown-up ChaoticNeutral WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest according to WordOfGod.
42	%%(backmatter of ''Casanova Luxuria #4'')
43	** Suki Boutique is transparently a Modesty Blaise expy that retired to run a casino.
44	* FirstPersonSmartass
45	* FromNobodyToNightmare: "Avarita #1" suggests this as [[spoiler:Newman Xeno]]'s origin story.
46	* FunWithAcronyms: We have E.M.P.I.R.E. (Extra-Military Police Intelligence Rescue and Espionage), and T.A.M.I. (Teen Age Music International).
47	** The bad guys have more fun with this. W.A.S.T.E. has had various meanings across the story, while X.S.M. changes the S to various other letters for the inclusiveness of their ventures.
48	* GentlemanThief: Casanova until the events of the first issue. Thereafter, he trades that in for the life of a dimension-hopping superspy.
49	* GenreThrowback: To SpyFiction of TheSixties and NewWaveScienceFiction in general.
50	* AGodAmI: David X, right until he got tased in the brains by Casanova.
51	* GunsAkimbo: All the time! Even Newman Xeno does it.
52	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Pretty much the whole cast at one point switches sides except for Cornelius Quinn.
53	* HiddenElfVillage: Modified with shades of AdvancedAncientAcropolis. The people of Coldheart Island present themselves to the world as an exaggerated stereotype of spear-chucking bone-through-the-nose savages. In reality, they are an ultra-advanced tribe of [[EvolutionaryLevels psychic superbeings]] who can read [=DVDs=] with the naked eye, see through cloaking devices like they aren't even there and [[SpaceMaster trap our protagonist]] [[{{Metafiction}} between comicbook panels]].
54	* HumanNotepad: Teen Age Music International, a girl band of pop star assassins, are invisibly tattooed with [[spoiler:the map to Sabine Seychelle's money]].
55	* HumongousMecha: Kaito Best's MadScientist parents left him one. After "Luxuria", he, Casanova and their whole crew live inside its head.
56	* IHaveNoSon: Cornelius Quinn disowns Casanova and treats him as an E.M.P.I.R.E. agent at the finale of "Gula", since that Casanova is not his own version of his birthson.
57	* InvisibilityCloak: "Lightbender" suits are used a few times in the series.
58	* JumpedAtTheCall: Kaito's, like, just so ''happy'' to be there, man.
59	* KiManipulation: Kaito Best is an insanely skilled martial artist.
60	* LovableRogue: Casanova, of course.
61	* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Xeno is a rare combination of this trope and SophisticatedAsHell.
62	* MessiahCreep: Cass's major CharacterDevelopment.
63	* {{Metafiction}}: ''Because the Genre Demands It!''
64	* TheMole: [[spoiler:[=McShane=]]], in a shocking twist!
65	* MoneyFetish: Xeno apparently likes to have sex on bloodstained piles of money.
66	* {{Mooks}}
67	* TheMultiverse: The Multi-Quintessence in this case. Same thing.
68	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot
69	* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: David X and his Empire of Zen Crime in ''Gula'' are described thusly: ''It’s like crime, only there’re no victims, and really, no crimes. It really just spreads a general sense of unrest''.
70	* PsychicPowers:
71	** Casanova dismantles a foe's gun with his spiders and shreds a couple of Xeno's {{Mooks}} with his crow upgrade.
72	** Zephyr is able to recon an entire building with her psycho-manifested snakes -- without leaving her chair.
73	* ThePurge: E.M.P.I.R.E. decides to kill of all versions of Newman Xeno throughout the multiverse.
74	* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Sabine Seychelle's specialty. Ruby Seychelle herself.
75	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Kaito teams up with Xeno to get his revenge for Ruby on the Quinns.]]
76	* {{Robosexual}}: [=McShane=] and Ruby Berserko, Kaito and Ruby Seychelle.
77	* RuleOfCool: Every page, every issue, every story arc, all of it.
78	* {{Sexbot}}: Sabine Seychelle's ''other'' specialty.
79	* SevenDeadlySins: WordofGod plans for seven storylines in the comic named after one of the Seven Sins. To date there has been "Luxuria"(Lust), "Gula" (Gluttony), "Avaritia" (Greed) and "Acedia" (Sloth).
80	* SharpDressedMan
81	* ShoutOut: Ice-T, Music/TheNewPornographers, Creator/ThomasPynchon, FilmsOfThe1960s and much much more.
82	* SkilledButNaive: Kaito in his first appearance. By the Gula story arc, he had gained a lot more experience.
83	* SophisticatedAsHell
84	* SpyFiction: Martini-and-Absinthe-flavoured
85	* SpyVersusSpy: All over the place.
86	* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: Even though Casanova is ordered to assassinate Xeno/Dodgson across the multiverse in "Avaritia", since Xeno was the one who brought him to that universe he'd be undoing his own history too. He eventually decides to spare one version of Dodgson... who becomes his archnemesis Xeno. Similarly, Xeno has to wait until Casanova has spared his life to kill him.]]
87	* TimeTravel: Sasa Lisi and that leads to...
88	* TimeTravelRomance: Between Casanova and Sasa Lisi.
89	* TrippyFinaleSyndrome: "Avarita"'s ending.
90	* UnwittingPawn: Casanova uses a young secretary in the first issue.
91	* YouCantFightFate: Everything falls into place across the story, despite Casanova and Xeno's attempts to change time and space.
92	* YourUniverseOrMine
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94	''Psychic combat at dawn ... because The Genre Demands It!''

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