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Caligula (Comic Book)

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Caligula is a 2011 comic limited series written by David Lapham and published by Avatar Press.In 37 AD, the ruler of Rome, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, falls ill. Junius and his family, like the rest of Rome, pray for his recovery. He does......but Gaius himself becomes a depraved monster who, renaming himself "Caligula", slaughters Junius's family in a drunken revelry before going on to plunge Rome into mass violence and anarchy. Junius goes to Rome to seek revenge, but gets dragged into Caligula's inner circle, and as time passes, he becomes at risk of losing his soul.Aside from the shared title character and historical context, this has no relation to the film of the same name.
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Card-Carrying Villain
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Card-Carrying Villain: Caligula is perfectly aware of how evil and vile he is, and cheerfully embraces it.
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Pay Evil unto Evil
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Pay Evil unto Evil: Caligula setting Nera up to die would be awful... except Nera herself is a monster who gleefully partook in atrocities with Caligula (including the massacre of Junius's family) and unlike Caligula she didn't have the "excuse" of being possessed.
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Depraved Bisexual
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Depraved Bisexual: Caligula, or rather the demon possessing him, has sex with both men and women and does not spare them from his depravity.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Caligula does this a LOT.
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Bad Boss
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Bad Boss: Caligula barely treats his soldiers better than his victims.
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Historical Hero Upgrade
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Historical Hero Upgrade: Agrippina the Younger; while in many ways a conniving bitch she does love Rome and is implied to genuinely care for her uncle (and husband) Claudius.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: On one hand, Caligula is still out there, now possessing Junius, and Laurentius is badly wounded; on the other hand Junius was still able to redeem himself and Caligula's plans were massively set back with the destruction of the heart. His plan to corrupt Laurentius also fails thanks to Junius's intervention, and Laurentius ultimately survives.
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The Caligula
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The Caligula: The original article, no less. Living up to his namesake, the demon Caligula is a murderously psychopathic dictator who runs Rome into the ground for kicks.
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Serial Killer
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Serial Killer: Caligula is a variation of this. While publicly he orders horrific atrocities, in private, he brutally and personally murders and maims innocents before ripping out their souls to "feed" himself, then displays their bodies as "art".
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Brother–Sister Incest
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Brother–Sister Incest: Caligula regularly rapes his own "sisters".
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Demonic Possession
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Demonic Possession: What happened to Caligula. As he lay dying a demon offered him life; Caligula accepted... and the demon promptly took over.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: The demon Caligula manages to escape both times (though in the second volume his plans suffer a massive setback)
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And I Must Scream
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And I Must Scream: What happens to the people whose souls the demon steals. The real Caligula also appears to have been subjected to this; at one point he breaks free of the demon's influence and begs Junius to kill him.
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For the Evulz
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For the Evulz: Caligula happily commits horrific torture, rape, crucifixions, and just general mass murder, all just because he enjoys being a wicked bastard.
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Face–Heel Turn
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Face–Heel Turn: Felix at the end of the first volume. He ultimately does redeem himself in the second volume.
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Sadist
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Sadist: Getting sexual thrills from violence is as easy as breathing to Caligula, and he is happy to flaunt it.
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The Ace
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The Ace: Laurentius; he's a talented soldier, an honorable man and relatively accepting of outsiders (his wife is half Jewish).
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Corrupt the Cutie
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Corrupt the Cutie: Junius undergoes this, specifically at Caligula's hands.
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Historical Relationship Overhaul
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Historical Relationship Overhaul: Nero is depicted as the incestuous Child by Rape of Caligula who the latter tries to corrupt. While there were accusations of Caligula committing incest with Nero's mother Agrippina, no-one has ever argued Nero's father wasn't his official father.
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Historical In-Joke
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Historical In-Joke: If the records are to be believed, Caligula was actually a decent ruler until he fell ill, to which he recovered with every screw in his head loose. This comic explains it as a literal demon possessing the man's body in a deal to "save" Caligula's life.
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Historical Villain Upgrade
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Historical Villain Upgrade: Incitatus was probably NOT a demonic talking horse. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus AKA Caligula was probably not possessed by a demon.
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Gorn
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Gorn: The book does NOT shy away from the sheer viciousness of Caligula's reign. Cruel And Unusual Deaths are a common sight.
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The Corrupter
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The Corrupter: Caligula enjoys corrupting innocents into committing atrocities for him, with Junius being his personal pet project, seeking to see how far he can corrupt him before Junius' tries to claim his revenge.
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