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Brody's Ghost (Comic Book)
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Brody is a young loser living in squalor after a bad breakup. One day, as he's out on the street playing his guitar for tips, he finds a young girl staring at him from the inside of a van. After winning a short Staring Contest with the girl, Brody watches as she passes through the roof of the van, floats over toward him, and begins talking to him.After Brody regains the power of speech, the girl, Talia, explains her situation: A ghost locked out of heaven for reasons she won’t disclose, she can’t enter until she commits a life task—a "super-good deed". Talia has decided to catch the serial killer known as the Penny Murderer, but as a ghost, she can't affect the world in anything but the most limited of ways. Thus, she has chosen to coerce Brody—who she claims is a ghostseer, a person who can see, and communicate with ghosts—to aid her, even if she finds him, as she puts it, "skuzzy". With the help of Kagemura — a centuries-old ghost with abilities of his own — the two must find a way to unlock Brody's hidden potential and solve the Penny Murders.Created, written and drawn by Eisner nominee Mark Crilley (Akiko, Miki Falls), Brody's Ghost is his darkest (if not necessarily dark) work to date. It is currently being published as a six-volume mini-series by Dark Horse Comics. Four preview mini-stories can be seen here, in issues 30, 31, 32 and 33. | |
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Jacob Marley Apparel | |
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Jacob Marley Apparel: Possibly played straight with Kagemura. Averted with Talia — what she wears as a ghost is not the outfit she was murdered in. | |
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Headphones Equal Isolation | |
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Headphones Equal Isolation: Played seriously. In her backstory, Talia was listening to music on her headphones as her killer approached, and didn't hear him in time to save herself. | |
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Fugitive Arc | |
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Fugitive Arc: In book 4, Brody's repeated efforts to protect Nicole by stalking her lead to an unfortunate turn of events. As a result, he finds himself in a precarious situation where he unwittingly crosses the path of Landon James. This sets off a chain of events that puts Brody in danger as he is relentlessly pursued by both the police and the mob. With danger lurking around every corner, Brody must find and stop the Penny Murderer to save Nicole's life before Landon and his men find Brody. | |
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Hero Antagonist | |
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Hero Antagonist: Landon is involved enough in the mob that he has access to personal firearms, can get two criminals to act as his hitmen, and can order the police to have Brody tortured, murdered, and disappeared, but from his perspective, Brody is a deeply disturbed Stalker with a Crush who's harassing his girlfriend after she's made it clear that what happened between them is over. He's basically trying to keep her safe in an extreme way. | |
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Redemption Quest | |
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Subverted; it's revealed that Talia was the first Penny Murder victim, and the whole Redemption Quest deal was a ploy used to con Brody into helping her avenge her death while keeping him from interviewing and potentially upsetting her still-living mother. She reveals to him that the only ghosts that are left behind in the living world are the ones that choose to stay because they have "unfinished business." | |
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They Look Just Like Everyone Else! | |
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They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: The Penny Murderer is a normal looking man who works as an ice cream vendor. Turns out, he selected his victims from the various customers who bought from him. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: The story takes place in a trashy urbanized environment where biker gangs run unhindered, and the mob controls the police. This is actually integral to the main plot; the world being corrupt and horrible is one of the reasons the Penny Murderer murders "pure" young women, to "save" them from being corrupted. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good is Not Nice: Brody's a hot-tempered slacker, Talia's a sardonic teen ghost, and Kagemura is the ancient Japanese equivalent to a grouchy old man, but all three are ultimately good people. | |
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Teens Are Monsters | |
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Teens Are Monsters: In Book 1, Brody encounters one of the many biker gangs troubling the city, and after antagonising them, gets brutalised, and nearly murdered by a dorky looking twelve year old before Talia steps in. | |
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The Slacker | |
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The Slacker: Brody, before he undertakes Kagemura's training to improve his powers. | |
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Always Need What You Gave Up | |
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Always Need What You Gave Up: Because of Brody's repeated efforts to safeguard Nicole, he inadvertently makes enemies with the mob and the police. He buries his kanazuchi (wood and metal club) in the corner of a vacant lot to be inconspicuous. Shortly after, he concludes that visiting Taila's mother is the best option left for finding the Penny Murderer and saving Nicole, which ends up causing him to cut ties with Talia herself. Unfortunately, while heading back to the city after getting a vital hint from the visit by train, he dozes off and gets cornered by the police. While he manages to slip away for a moment, he is soon locked into a glass corridor with a pissed Talia watching. Without his kanazuchi, he is forced to beg for Talia's help, which puts him in a prime position for her to blackmail him into killing the Penny Murderer. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Talia. She uses a cover story of Ghostly Goals, and the offer of a bounty to convince Brody to play along with her revenge scheme against the Penny Murderer. When Brody proves too uncooperative and moral for her liking, and defies her request not to see her mother for information, she lets him get caught by the police, and then extracts a promise to kill the Penny Murderer under threat of torture and death by corrupt police. And when the moment arrives, and he proves unwilling to kill him, she waits until the last second while Landon prepares to shoot, then possesses Brody to move him out of the line of fire, keeping Brody safe, and causing Landon to kill the Penny Murderer. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The Penny Murderer's dead, and Nicole survives. But Landon, who's used every cop and mob connection he has to ruin what's left of Brody's life, gets the credit, and Brody has to stay with Kagemura, as he has nowhere to go after becoming a fugitive. However, he does patch things up with both Talia and Nicole, who's learned the whole story from Gabe, and the ending implies that Nicole and Brody will get back together, with Nicole pulling some strings to get him a new identity and a steady job away from the limelight. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Both Brody and Talia are snarky, self-pitying, but ultimately well meaning. Talia's jerk side takes center stage as the climax approaches, however. On the other hand, in her last scene with Brody, she appears to be remorseful (even though she doesn't admit it) and she calls Brody a hero. | |
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Be Yourself | |
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Be Yourself: Deconstructed. Kagemura demands that Brody destroy all but his most essential belongings so he can focus on his training, to which Brody refuses, citing that Kagemura is trying to change who he is. Given that at this point, Brody has proven to be an out-of-shape slacker who let one break up ruin his life, Talia rightly points out that he needs to change who he is, because who he currently is is not good. | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: At the end of volume 3, Gabe gives Brody a folder with details of a five-year-old murder case similar to the Penny Murders. Brody opens the folder to find a picture of the murder victim - Talia. | |
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Joggers Find Death | |
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Joggers Find Death: Talia's corpse was discovered by a woman walking her dog. | |
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Narrator | |
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Narrator: Brody. | |
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Gratuitous Japanese | |
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Gratuitous Japanese: For a city that doesn't appear to be in Japan, there sure is a lot of kanji and katakana around. It's implied that there was an influx of Japanese immigration at one point, given the presence of run down Shinto temples that Kagemura has attached himself to, as well as Japanese cafes and bookstores. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: The back cover of Book 4 shows us that Talia is very good at this. It's her reaction to Brody calling her out for lying to him about how she died. | |
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I See Dead People | |
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I See Dead People: Ghostseers. | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different: The story offers three different kinds of ghosts: Regular ghosts, like Talia, are invisible and intangible, but can interact with the world in a way that's different for every ghost. Site specters, which attach themselves to specific locations. Demighosts, which can touch things and seem to be much less human in appearance. | |
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Hot-Blooded | |
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Hot-Blooded: Brody is a harsh deconstruction. While good natured, his short temper gets him into trouble as the story goes on, and he acknowledges to Talia that his temper was the reason he fell out with Nicole. | |
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Being Good Sucks | |
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Being Good Sucks: All Brody wants is to protect his ex-girlfriend from a serial killer, but because of his situation, no one other than his friend Gabe believes he has powers, and thinks he's either a crazy stalker that's obsessed with his ex, or a pathetic loser that's desperate for the reward money of capturing the Penny Murderer, often leading to him getting into fights and getting his home vandalized. Because of this, his ex-girlfriend hates him, and calls the police on him after getting back at the guy who vandalized his home (who just happens to be her new boyfriend). It doesn't help that Talia tricks him into becoming her instrument of vengeance against said serial killer, either. Poor guy can't catch a break. It's summed up by Brody himself, when all's said and done: | |
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Big Bad Ensemble | |
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Big Bad Ensemble: The Penny Murderer is the Big Bad of the story, but Landon James ends up sharing the role during the second half. | |
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Heroic Build | |
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Heroic Build: Averted. Despite the figure Brody cuts when he's fully clothed, he's got the physique of a scarecrow with a beer gut. Played straight as of Volume 2, as a result of Kagemura's intense training. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Purity". During Kagemura's training, Brody receives the ability to break the spirit of those impure of heart, and Kagemura specifically identifies Brody as someone pure of heart who stands in contrast to the corrupt city around him. The Penny Murderer kills women that he believes are pure because he wants to keep them from being corrupted. | |
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You Have to Believe Me! | |
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You Have to Believe Me!: When Nicole confronts him about his stalking, Brody attempts to explain the events of the preceding books, with predictable results. Learning from this, he gives a visual demonstration of his powers to Gabe when trying to explain what's going on, to much better effect. This is notably inverted when he meets Talia's mother, however. Attempting to use believable cover stories just makes her suspicious, and he has to admit to seeing Talia's ghost for her to be willing to talk to him. | |
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Consummate Liar | |
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Consummate Liar: Talia. She's sincere about wanting to see the Penny Murderer brought to justice, but beyond that, everything she said about herself before Brody learns that the truth either happened to someone else, were half-truths, or outright lies. | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass: Talia becomes unpleasant the moment Brody reveals that he knows how she really died in Book 4, and just gets worse from there on out, to the point that she threatens Brody and reveals that she just wants the Penny Murderer dead, whether or not Nicole dies as a consequence. It's not until the climax that she finally lets up. | |
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By-the-Book Cop: Gabriel, Brody's only friend. | |
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Wunza Plot | |
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Wunza Plot: One's a "scuzzy" slacker human who has ghostseeing powers and whose life is a wreck, the other is a proactive, snarky teenage ghost girl. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: Talia doesn't exactly scream Ms. Fanservice, but in every other respect, she is this. She cajoles Brody to go after the Serial Killer in the first place, and despite feigning the role of a Punch-Clock Hero in the first few issues, it becomes clear she knows more than she's letting on. She's one hell of an opportunist and a manipulator when push comes to shove, if that's not enough. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: During the time between dropping him off at a park, and meeting with him again at Kagemura's shrine, Talia realises that while she doesn't regret the Penny Murderer's death, Brody has plenty of reasons to drop her like a hot potato at this point, since getting involved in the case has ruined his relationship with his ex and turned him into a fugitive. Despite claiming that she's not apologising, seeing the situation Brody's in hurts, and she's grateful that he's willing to still have her as a friend in spite of everything. | |
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Odd Couple | |
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Odd Couple: Brody and Talia. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: At the end of Volume 2, Brody has a vision of Nicole's lifeless corpse with a penny on her forehead. As early as volume 1, Brody questions what Talia did that requires putting her through her life task, to which Talia responds by dodging the question and fleeing the scene. In hindsight, this is the biggest sign that Talia's cover story of Ghostly Goals is utterly bogus. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Nicole is horrified to learn that her turning to Landon to stop Brody from stalking her lead to Landon vandalizing Brody's home and trying to get him killed—as well as learning that Brody was trying to protect her from the Penny Murderer. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Landon has ties to the mob, and has attempted to kill Brody twice: not only does he not get punished, he actually gets the credit, and presumably the reward, for taking down the Penny Murderer. Likewise, despite proving herself a Manipulative Bitch and threatening/endangering Brody numerous times, all Talia gets is a What The Hell Hero Speech from Brody, who nevertheless lets her stay his friend. Justified, in that the city is corrupt, and Talia's a ghost: there's no real way Brody or anyone else could punish them even if they wanted to (that, and she's suffered plenty in advance). | |
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Cute Ghost Girl | |
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Cute Ghost Girl: Talia, of course. In looks anyway. In terms of personality, she's something else. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: By the end, Talia has finally accomplished her revenge against the Penny Murderer. Too bad it very nearly costs her relationship with Brody in the process, as she's incredibly lucky he's still willing to have her around after the utter mess she made of his life in the process. | |
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Film Noir | |
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Film Noir: A very unconventional example, but Brody's Ghost has all the hallmarks: troubled, down-on-his-luck protagonist who nevertheless proves his moral fiber, approached to solve a Murder Mystery; internal monologues and ruminations over future and past events; a setting in an advanced state of urban decay, dominated by criminals; and a Femme Fatale figure, who's involvement with the protagonist gets him into trouble, and leaves him worse off by the end. | |
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Unfinished Business | |
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Unfinished Business: Aside from some ghosts being "locked out" of heaven, some remain on earth because they have unfinished business with their mortal life. Talia states verbatim that the latter are the only types of people who don't get into heaven, her and Kagemura included. His unfinished business is cleaning up the corruption in the world. Her's is exacting vengeance on her murderer. | |
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Urban Fantasy | |
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Urban Fantasy: The setting is reminiscent of Cyberpunk works, like Blade Runner or Batman Beyond, albeit much less futuristic and more run down, but the presence of ghosts and spiritual powers counterbalance the crime elements. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Brody's a Classical Anti-Hero, with Kagemura being a Knight in Sour Armor. Talia is either a Nominal Hero or an outright Anti-Villain, given her Manipulative Bastard tendencies, her desire to go after the Penny Murderer being personal, and her lack of remorse in threatening or endangering innocents to get what she wants. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Talia near the climax of the series, when Brody refuses to carry out her revenge and strangle the Penny Murderer. | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Brody isn't exactly happy being forced to work on a Murder Mystery with Talia, and vice versa. The two do develop a rapport, but they end up back to this when Brody learns just how much Talia has hidden from him. | |
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Ghostly Goals | |
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As early as volume 1, Brody questions what Talia did that requires putting her through her life task, to which Talia responds by dodging the question and fleeing the scene. In hindsight, this is the biggest sign that Talia's cover story of Ghostly Goals is utterly bogus. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Cerebus Syndrome: While the story is a crime thriller with supernatural elements, there's some humor in the first few issues, as it mostly focuses on Brody's crap life, and getting him out of it. Then Brody finds out Nicole is a target for the Penny Murderer, he encounters several families affected by the Penny Murders, and Talia's backstory comes to light, and things get dark real fast. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Talia claims that she's searching for the Penny Murderer to fulfill her life task, and despite thinking he's a monster, refuses to treat the hunt as a form of revenge, as she doesn't like where that path would take her. Turns out, not only is there no life task for ghosts, her actual goal is all about revenge, and she doesn't attempt to deny it when exposed. | |
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Training from Hell | |
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Training from Hell: Kagemura puts Brody through this in Volume 2, which included making him climb up one hundred telephone poles in one day. | |
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The Unfettered | |
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The Unfettered: Talia. She'll do anything to see the Penny Murderer dead. She sure isn't going to let being a ghost stop her, not when she can threaten and manipulate Brody into strangling him for her. | |
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Fake Ultimate Hero | |
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Fake Ultimate Hero: Landon gets all the credit for bringing the Penny Murderer to justice. Not only was he never involved in the investigation, he was using his connections to the mob and the police to get Brody killed, and was in the process of trying to shoot Brody from behind before Talia performed a last minute possession of Brody. Thankfully, Gabe and Nicole know better. | |
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Animesque | |
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Animesque: While Crilley's style has always had manga influences, he specifically mentions that Brody's and Talia’s designs are inspired by Takeshi Obata's depictions of Light Yagami and Misa Amane. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Talia is similar to another Cute Ghost Girl from a graphic novel whose name is someone´s ghost. Like Emily, Talia is the ghost of a teenage girl with a connection to a mysterious murderer who befriends the protagonist. Also, both of them are manipulative, have an unpleasant personality behind their cute facade (albeit Talia is somewhat snarky from the beginning), lie about their deaths, and use the protagonist to achieve their goals. Also, both Talia and Emily can be considered Jerks with Hearts of Gold due to their backstories. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: In Book 1, Talia explains that she suffered from leukemia and died five years ago, with Book 2 having her discuss her time at a hospital. She did die five years ago - at the hands of the Penny Murderer instead of leukemia. Whether she ever suffered from leukemia is also up for debate, as it turns out it was her father who had been hospitalised, not her. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: While his involvement with Talia forces Brody to get his life together, he ends up in dangerous scenarios he wouldn't have experienced before he met her. By the end, all the effort he put into bringing the Penny Murderer to justice is credited to the man who sicced the mob and police on him, and he's forced to hole up at Kagemura's temple as a fugitive. Thankfully, Gabe and Nicole manage to make his situation manageable in the aftermath. Horrifically enough, this is the Penny Murderer's Modus Operandi. If any of the women who buy ice cream from him return extra pennies, he chooses them as a target for being "pure" enough to show such kindness. Several women died, including Talia, because they were perceptive enough to realise when they'd been given excess change, and honest enough to correct the vendor's "error". Talia is shaken by the realisation that she died over something so petty. | |
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth | |
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Deconstructed: The Penny Murderer believed his victims to be this, and killed them to prevent them from being "corrupted" by the Crapsack World they lived in. Many of the families the victims belonged to were traumatised as a result, and while the other victims presumably passed on, Talia was pissed at being robbed of her life at such a young age, and came back as decidedly less good as she had been in life. | |
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Mind over Matter | |
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Mind over Matter: Part of the standard ghost seer power. | |
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Stepford Snarker | |
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Stepford Snarker: Talia. Let her snark and casual attitude fool you, and you'll be surprised by that huge vindictive streak she has on the Penny Murderer. | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
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With Friends Like These...: After everything she's done (including, but not limited to, attempting to use Brody's ex as bait for a Serial Killer, and threatening to leave Brody in the hands of mobsters to be tortured to death unless he agreed to kill the Penny Murderer) Brody calls Talia out as one of the most manipulative and immoral people he's ever met. But he still lets her stick around as a friend, because as a fugitive in hiding, he needs all the friends he can get at this point. | |
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