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YMMV for the Witchblade comics:

  • Cargo Ship: Sara/Witchblade? Considering the 'Blade is both sentient and male, this may be canonical.
  • Complete Monster: See here.
  • Fridge Horror: The Witchblade has been wielded by countless women thru the ages, so that means the thing has been...."covering" women in many places for ages. Especially "down there."
  • Foe Yay Shipping:
    • Sara and Kenneth Irons at first. Until he shows his true colors.
    • Sara and Ian Nottingham so much so. It's often a Fan-Preferred Couple as many fans have written fan fiction and drawn some romantic artwork between the two.
    • Although short lived, Sara and Dannette Boucher aka The Microwave Murderer. Seriously, the minute they met, Dannette can't help but comment on Sara's natural beauty.
    • Sara and Jackie Estacado, aka The Darkness wielder; they even had a child together at one point.
  • Growing the Beard: Ron Marz took over with issue #80 and immediately reinvented the wheel. Sara learned how to stop shredding her clothes, the Witchblade began to manifest more often as suits of armor rather than a steel bikini, Sara picked up a regular love interest, and her relationship with the Witchblade and its previous bearers was reexamined.
  • Ho Yay:
    • Back in the day, Top Cow published an ongoing Tomb Raider comic that was actually in continuity with Witchblade, and Lara would occasionally show up to hang out with Sara. During those appearances, they did everything short of make out with one another. When subtext is being screamed into your face at point-blank range, is it still subtext?
    • Not to mention her relationship with Danielle. Danielle is also a confirmed bisexual.
  • I Am Not Shazam: Sara Pezzini is NOT called Witchblade, she is the current user of the Witchblade which is an artifact. Yet, many people and fans all refer to Sara as the Witchblade as if it’s her title.
  • Magnificent Bastard:
    • The Curator is the Sole Survivor of the destruction of old universe. Filled with grief over losing his family, Curator started working on a plan to bring his universe back by destroying the new one. Taking the form of an elderly man, he manipulates events so that he can bring all 13 ancient artifacts to him. After doing so, he sets his plan in motion in Artifacts by gathering a team of villains who wielded half of the artifacts and kidnapping Jackie Estacado's, the wielder of The Darkness, and Sara Pezzini's, the wielder of Witchblade, daughter Hope, who was the last "component" in his plan to recreate his universe. Capturing most of the remaining wielders and getting all of the artifacts, he playfully talks with Hope about his motives and shows his belief that his actions will bring about a better world. In the end, Curator succeeds in wiping out the universe, only being stopped from killing Hope by Jackie managing to recreate the universe and kill the Curator before his plan could even begin.
    • Tales of the Witchblade, by Christina Z.:
      • Issues 3 & 4: Selena Lauren is a former police officer, who was turned into a sex-crazy outlaw. After being arrested for coercing men into illegal acts through narcotic therapy, Selena took over downtown New York, protecting its inhabitants from arrest and granting them their wildest fantasies by connecting them to her Witchblade. After agreeing to help Detective John Chimu to solve the brutal murders in exchange for full amnesty, Selena effortlessly puts all the clues together and predicts who will be the next victim. Revealing the name of the killer to Chimu, as well as her origin as one of the test subjects of Sustain drug, Selena assist him in tracking the killer down and then offers him to live by her side, before she uses his computer to assume the role of a detective.
      • Issue 6: Samantha is a former slave taken by the Romans from her family when she was a little girl. Enduring their abuse and then escaping from them, Samantha found the Witchblade and was trained by druids, before she decided to return to her hometown. Finding out that her father tried to organize the resistance, only to be captured by Romans and the townspeople cheering during his execution, Samantha created a plan and easily manipulated both the Roman army and townspeople into slaughtering each other. Forming a genuine friendship with a woman named Cecilia, Samantha tried to save her by telling her to run away, only to find her dying later, leading to Samantha revealing her motivations and crying over her death.
  • Older Than They Think: It's always believed that The Witchblade stopped shredding Sara's clothes once Ron Marz took over. The real truth is that even in the early issues by Michael Turner and Marc Silvestri, the Witchblade rarely tore Sara's clothes to shreds. As a matter of fact, it simply would just grow over whatever clothes Sara was wearing. Sara's clothes were usually already torn from the fights. The only real times the Witchblade actually tore Sara's clothes under Turner and Silvestri was if she was wearing clothes unfit for battle such as dresses. This was also a case of Depending on the Writer and Depending on the Artist which just ran with the idea of the Witchblade tearing Sara's clothes.

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