Line #17 ComicBook/SatansSoldier


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Super Narcissist, Super...hero?]]
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4	->I don't care about right or wrong. I don't care about ideology - your cause. That place you were going to blow up is very dear to me.
5	-->-- '''Satan's Soldier'''
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7	An aggressively strange graphic novel by Tom Scioli featuring Satan's Soldier, a vain, capricious SupermanSubstitute and the intergalactic conspiracy to murder him after his erratic and destructive misadventures go too far.
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9	It can be read for free in its entirety [[http://www.ambarb.com/?comic=satans-soldier-page-1 here]] on Scioli's official website.
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12	!!Tropes:
13	* AbortedArc: The "Cape Killer" is [[spoiler:easily killed by Justice Truth's new PoweredArmor]] with nothing explained as to why he was murdering superheroes outside of it allowing the book to briefly reference {{ComicBook/Watchmen}}.
14	* AmazonBrigade: [[spoiler:d'Ark]] has been assembling one of these by recovering, patching up, and heavily arming Soldier's various one-night stands.
15	* AtrociousAlias: The Human Target. To make it even more unfortunate, [[spoiler:he's only half-human.]]
16	* AttemptedRape: Soldier attempts to do this with [[ComicBook/WonderWoman Heroine]], who Judo Chops his penis off in response. While it causes him immense pain, he laughs this off, and later offers her a cherry blossom tree in an ambiguously peaceful gesture.
17	* BrilliantButLazy: When properly motivated, it's revealed that Satan's Soldier could create a [[spoiler:{{Panacea}} that could cure all the world's medical problems]] in the span of a few days.
18	* CaptainPatriotic: [[JackTheRipoff Union Jack...the Ripper]].
19	* DeconReconSwitch: Of the [[spoiler:BewareTheSuperman]] archetype.
20	* EnfantTerrible: After he fails to kill any of them, Soldier's superpowered progeny become a collective interstellar scourge that randomly attacks space travelers and various planets.
21	* EvilCounterpart: Satan's Soldier is not only a CorruptedCharacterCopy of {{ComicBook/Superman}}, but a singular wicked menace to his much more benevolent selves in other parts of the multiverse. On Earth, he was a rival to the more straightforwardly heroic Justice Truth before he crippled him.
22	* EvilHero: Satan's Soldier. Though he's more "Hero" than "Evil" as he exists in a very violent universe and lives on an Earth that needs his protection from it.
23	* GodzillaThreshold: The titular character is feared so much that [[ComicBook/NewGods Cosmoses and Black Sabbyth]] join forces to try and banish him through a literal Wormhole.
24	* HeroicComedicSociopath: Soldier, who loves the Earth enough to save it from nuclear armageddon and alien invaders, but will, out of boredom, use EyeBeams to commit destructive acts of violence from orbit.
25	* ItAmusedMe: How Soldier lives his life. Those strong enough to survive his mood swings may find themselves his enemies one day and his allies the next.
26	* MysticalPregnancy: Soldier's bastard offspring gestate fast before bursting out of the wombs of their mothers to wreck havoc.
27	* NotWorthKilling: Jaguar Offspring and his sidekicks are such minor inconveniences that Solider doesn't bother to kill him after their failed assassination attempt.
28	* ReallyGetsAround: Soldier through either impressing women with his power or using that power to take them by force.
29	* {{Ubermensch}}: Soldier does what he wants, unburdened by the rules and standards of others. Even after his [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn, he refuses to allow himself to be killed or incarcerated for his past actions because that would prevent him from doing as much good as possible to atone for his crimes.]]

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