1 | Take Superman (sans invunerability) throw him in Iron Man's armor, have them cloned after every death, and what do you get? Humanity's last hope. |
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3 | ''Lords of Shadow'' follows the Harbingers, VillainProtagonist Super Soldiers designed for the sole purpose of fighting sentient darkness called the Shadow. |
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5 | It can be found [[http://thefallen.createforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8 here.]], along with it's Sister RP, ''Roleplay/FallenAngelRP''. |
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8 | !!The ''Lords of Shadow'' series provides examples of: |
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10 | * AerithAndBob: Played backwards. Jack, Mike, Daniel and...Freya? |
11 | * AnachronismStew: Galactic colonization, Faster Than Light Travel, Cloning, Genetic Engineering, Advanced medical science, Sunlight bombs all sit side by side with an early 21st century tech level that has a UsedFuture feel, and propaganda in the style of the 1940's and 1950's |
12 | * BackFromTheDead: Just because a Harbinger dies doesn't mean they stay dead. See DeathIsCheap. |
13 | * BadassDriver: [[DrivesLikeCrazy Daniel]] likes to crash through things in his Super Jeep. |
14 | %%** Mike, when he's not dead, plays this extremely straight. |
15 | %%* BerserkButton: Jack when administering his Luggage Treatment. |
16 | %%* {{BFG}}: Mike likes to carry these around. |
17 | * BlackComedy: The Harbinger's crack morbid jokes about their many deaths. |
18 | * BigBad: The seeds of darkness that hit each planet are this in a sense, but so are the planets consumed by darkness that spread the seeds. |
19 | %%* BigBulkyBomb: Sunburst. Enough said. |
20 | %%* BigDamnHeroes: The Harbingers do this one very well. |
21 | * CloneDegeneration: While the Harbingers have an effectively infinite shelf life, Military and Peacekeeper clones require a fresh template ever few generations. |
22 | ** Degeneration is also built into their lifetime. Non-Harbinger clones simply drop dead the minute they hit 20. |
23 | * CasualDangerDialogue: 150+ years of fighting has driven the urgency out of combat and other precarious situations. |
24 | * CosmicPlaything: Poor Mike's lifespan is almost never measured in units longer than months. |
25 | ** He may also be TheChewToy. |
26 | * CrapsaccharineWorld: Underneath the cheerful propaganda, seemingly happy people, and abundance of parks and bright colors, the world is under the thumb of a Totalitarian state and always on the brink of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt |
27 | %%* CruelAndUnusualDeath: When a Harbinger kills something. |
28 | * DarknessEqualsDeath: Shadows + anything else = dead anything else |
29 | * DeaderThanDead: Harbingers die. Sometimes in gruesome and amazing ways such that NoOneCouldSurviveThat. Too bad they always come back. |
30 | * DeathIsCheap: Literally. The Harbinger's are cloned into a new body after every death. The only draw back is they remember every death and the brief void afterwards. |
31 | * EarthThatWas: Earth was a depleted, barren Memorial to the human race by the time the Shadow invaded. It's now a case of Earth That was, Was. |
32 | %%* EmpoweredBadassNormal: They're also not quite human anymore. |
33 | * EldritchAbomination: The Shadow are a minor example of these. They may not drive you insane, but they are sufficiently alien and BrownNote inducing. |
34 | * ElevatorEscape: Used by the Harbingers when the power goes out and they're trapped several dozen floors up from where they need to be. |
35 | * EmptyShell: Every member of the military (except command positions) and the Peacekeepers are all blank slate clones programmed with directives and tactics. |
36 | * EvilVersusEvil: Anywhere else, the Assembly would be considered a Totalitarian regime promoting a CrapsaccharineWorld , but when the alternative is something worse... |
37 | %%* FirstLawOfResurrection: Basically the reason it was started. |
38 | * GallowsHumor: Death is commonplace and temporary, and thus, laughable. |
39 | %%* GotVolunteered: Some of the Harbingers wound up in the Project this way. |
40 | %%* GenreSavvy: The Harbingers are this. |
41 | %%** It also helps that thread runner [[MrCombine UHC]] is a Troper. |
42 | %%* KilledOffForReal: This doesn't exist |
43 | * JustAKid: Subverted. Despite Will being 13 and ribbed on it by the other Harbingers, they accept him as one of their own.. |
44 | * LampshadeHanging: The Harbingers are media icons. SlashFic has been written about them. Cue massive Lampshade hang |
45 | * LetsSplitUpGang: It's bound to happen again sometime, even if only for a short while. |
46 | * MindRape: Mentioned directly. Apparently, looking at a Heart of Darkness and noticing that it stretches in an infinite number of impossible directions and looks impossibly small at the same time can drive people insane. |
47 | * MissionBriefing: Provided by the perpetually pissed Director. |
48 | * MoreDakka: Zach in spades. The guy loves to kill things in as many different ways as possible. |
49 | * NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Except they do. Kinda. |
50 | * NoOntologicalInertia: Once the seeds are gone, so are the shadows they bring with. |
51 | * OnlyMostlyDead: So a Harbinger loses their head, they'll just be cloned and ready to go again. |
52 | ** They're also NotQuiteDead. |
53 | * OhCrap: Think Prime would the staging point for a RoaringRampageOfRevenge? Think again. |
54 | %%* RomanceSidequest: Mike and Freya. In spades. |
55 | %%* StartOfDarkness: Everyone knows this thread is the start of it for poor Will. |
56 | * StayingAlive: When all is said and done, the Harbingers are right back in action. |
57 | %%* SuperSoldier: Check and double check! |
58 | * TheChewToy: Poor Mike. He never lives very long. |
59 | %%* TheNothingAfterDeath: Also doesn't exist thanks to cloning. |
60 | %%* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The whole reason for the Harbingers. |
61 | * ThereWasADoor: Mike goes through the door. Freya goes through the wall |
62 | * TheBigGuy: Jack and Zach. Jack because of his enhancements, Zach because of his enhancements and love of things that go boom. |
63 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: It's happened so many times over two centuries, the shock value is lost on the Harbingers. |
64 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: This will happen to Will eventually, although he will still be a kid, he'll be anything but [[NeutralEvil sweet]] |
65 | ** Starting to be played straight, as Will was forced into a Morton's fork by Jack. Namely, whether a squad of Peacekeepers were killed by a grenade or a horde of Shadows. |
66 | %%* UsedFuture: Outside the shining cities, the world and technology has this feel to it. |
67 | %%* WatchingTroyBurn: Prime is currently undergoing this. |
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