Line #48 Roleplay/LordsOfShadow


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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