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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book)
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In the year of the Tsar 2666 AD, Imperial Russia once again entered a time of troubles. The rule of Vladimir the conqueror, Tsar of all the Russias, had been unopposed for five decades. Now it was being challenged by the house of Romanov, the most powerful imperial dynasty beside the Tsar's own.Warfare on such a scale had not been contemplated since the last revolution, from which the Mafiya clans rose to power. On the ashes of that conflict, they founded a new empire based upon the underworld principles of the ancient Vorovskoi Mir- the Thieves world.In such a world, a single man could rise to prominence if he was a fool and an adventurer, a gambling man whose only stake was his life. Of course, this could only happen if he survived long enough and didn’t get his throat slit in the boudoir of some lady of dubious morals first…Nikolai Dante is the eponymous hero of a comics series published in the weekly British science fiction anthology 2000 AD. Created by writer Robbie Morrison and artist Simon Fraser, Dante first appeared in 1997. Fraser was the primary artist for the first three years of the series, with support from artists such as Charlie Adlard, Henry Flint, Chris Weston and Andy Clarke. From 2000 the majority of the stories were painted by John Burns, until Fraser returned to the character in October 2006, when the two artists began to alternate on different stories. The current stories as of early 2012 have been confirmed by Word of God as the last arc of the series; with Sympathy for the Devil being its last story, though a story set during the strip's early days was published in 2017 and a Spin-Off is reportedly in the works.Set in the twenty-seventh century after a resurgent Imperial Russia has seized absolute control of both the entire Earth and an interstellar domain, the series follows Dante, a swashbuckling young thief and ladies' man, as he discovers he is an illegitimate scion of the Romanov Dynasty, aristocratic rivals to the Tsar, Vladimir the Conqueror of the House of Makarov. | |
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Miles Gloriosus | |
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Miles Gloriosus: When attempting to steal the Romanov crown jewels, Dante is confronted by a man who claims to be the greatest swordsman in the empire. Dante just shoots him. The Tsar even notes that the swordsman was an arrogant braggart who had nothing to brag about, implying that he used him just to draw Dante out. | |
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Half-Identical Twins | |
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Half-Identical Twins: Alexandr and Alexandra Romanov. See Also: Twincest. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: And boy do they... Major characters include Andreas Romanov, Count Pyre, Nastasia Romanov, Arkady Romanov, Jocasta Romanov, Nikolai's crest, Dmitri Romanov, Katarina Dante, Konstantin Romanov, & Vladimir Makarov, while supporting and recurring characters include the Grozny Gang (Boris, Foma "the Coma", & Ursa), Marguerite Dumas, Akita Sagawa, The Kraken, Khara, Madame Di Giorgi, Lauren Stone, Papa Yeltsin, Galya Romanov, & Lord Peter Flintlock Only three minor characters had deaths which made a lasting impact, emotional or otherwise, on the series; Eloise de Janissaire in "The Great Game", Julianna Makarov in "The Courtship of Jena Makarov", and Major Liberty in "Amerika" | |
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The Spymaster | |
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The Spymaster: Jocasta Romanov's position within the dynasty is as head of its intelligence services. Even after the war, when she's Locked Away In A Nunnery, she maintains considerable influence. Anyone who commands the Scarlet Wraiths, the Imperial intelligence service, is generally this, knowing the secrets of the empire. Notable major characters who have held this position include Count Pyre, whose shapeshifting abilities make him a perfect spy, and Arkady /Dmitri Romanov, who uses the position as a Double Agent for Dante's revolution and then turns on him when Vlad has been deposed. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Nikolai has a major breakdown after Dmitri destroys his crest. He hides out in an abandoned tavern, drinking the remains of its cellar. He recovers after his mother tells him that she disowns him. | |
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Still Wearing the Old Colors | |
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Still Wearing the Old Colors: After the war, Nikolai still wears his Romanov uniform as an act of defiance against the Tsar. At this point, the narration states that the Romanov name is a mark of the damned. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: While "The Great Game" is where the strip starts to get serious, the "Tsar Wars" arc is notable for killing characters off and changing everything forever. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Romanovs, thanks to their history, are some of the most ruthless killers in the empire with a variety of personal issues and quirks. Dmitri and Jocasta were kidnapped by the previous Tsar at a young age and kept as hostages along with Vlad. When Ivan attempted to take Jocasta by force, the trio escaped and started a revolution when Ivan had their families slaughtered. Dmitri became cold and ruthless, craving power at any cost, while Jocasta became increasingly withdrawn, especially when Dmitri forced her to have his children through a cloning programme. Valentine, as the eldest Romanov sibling, was the first to bear the Romanov Weapons Crest. Unfortunately, his was a Flawed Prototype that gave him the abilities of a Crest user without the Healing Factor. The process drove him insane and caused him to become an Omnicidal Maniac. Konstantin has something of an Oedipus complex, since he asks that all seductresses sent to him take on the name Jocasta while he has sex with them. He also has a Cain and Abel relationship with Nikolai. Andreas is a serial gambler, adventurer, and womaniser not unlike Nikolai. His exploits have essentially brought embarrassment to the house of Romanov. As such, he's considered the black sheep of the family. He's also the only one to stand by Nikolai to defend Rudinshtein at the end of the war. Lulu is a vampish Dominatrix who takes control of the Cadre Infernale by murdering one of its members and placing the blame on Camilla Le Fanu, while also making it look like Camilla was framing Nikolai. She also possibly has incestuous feelings towards Nikolai, judging by her goodbye kiss to him. She has driven countless lovers to the verge of suicide and insanity. Aleksandr and Aleksandra are so in love with each other that their main abilities are to merge into a single being. Nastasia is a Narcissist who habitually kills anyone less admiring of her own looks than she is. She also kills an ex-boyfriend because he broke up with her before she could finish with him herself. Viktor tends to keep to himself, living in a loft at the top of the Winter Palace and doesn't speak until the final episode. He's utterly broken when Dmitri kills his peasant wife. Arkady is Dmitri's youngest and favourite son. Because Nikolai got the Weapons Crest intended for him, he and Nikolai share a mutual dislike. Dmitri transfers his own Crest and consciousness over to Arkady at the end of the war. Finally, of course, there's Nikolai Dante, the bastard of the family. Conceived when Dmitri raped Katarina Dante, Nikolai was later abandoned by her at a convent when he began to remind her too much of her rapist. Nikolai escaped, burning the convent down, and went on to become a thief and adventurer. As such, he has issues with both of his parents, but at least manages to patch things up with his mother down the line. Most of the Romanovs merely tolerate him at best and are outright hostile to him at worst. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: The war between the Romanov and Makarov dynasties can be seen as this with Nikolai and Jena as their respective Token Good Team Mates. | |
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Master Swordsman | |
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Jena Makarov is a skilled swordswoman, having trained under a Master Swordsmannote the above-mentioned Caius Zacharovich in fact in her youth. She's probably better with a sword than Nikolai, but since he's a Combat Pragmatist with a cyberoganic battle computer any time they have squared off, he's got an edge. Still, Jena gets a fearsome reputation on the battlefield both during the Tsar Wars and later during the revolution against her own father. | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: Nikolai is the only member of the Romanov dynasty to show any kind of respect to his soldiers. Even a hardened bunch of criminals like the Grozny gang come to respect him when he fights alongside them. | |
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A Lighter Shade of Black | |
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A Lighter Shade of Black: Tsar Vladimir is this vis-a-vis Dimitri Romanov. Both are horribly casual about casualties and generally regard their underlings as tools to be used and discarded, but Vladimir loves at least some people genuinely and would never even consider hurting them, and was himself considered a hero at some point; Dimitri, on the other hand, not so much. | |
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The Gulag | |
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The Gulag: Since Russia is the main setting, gulags are part and parcel of the empire. Elena Kurakin ends up in one after the war and one of Nikolai's conditions as Sword Of The Tsar is that she is released from the place and assigned as his bodyguard. | |
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Brother–Sister Team | |
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Vladimir Makarov was this alongside Dmitri & Jocasta Romanov during their fight against Vladimir's predecessor | |
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The Purge | |
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The Purge: Vladimir regularly holds purges of his court to keep potential traitors from usurping him. Notably, during Sword Of The Tsar, Khara gives him a fake list of people who were alleged to be turned by the White Army. When the Lord Protector informs him that the first batch of people being purged tested negative for cyberorganics, Vlad orders the purge to continue regardless. | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: Jena Makarov was schooled in the arts of war from a young age and is very good with a sword. Like Nikolai, she has no problem fighting on the front lines of a brutal and bloody conflict. | |
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High-Altitude Interrogation | |
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High-Altitude Interrogation: In "The Great Game," when a spy suggests to Jena Makarov the existence of a superweapon that the Makarov Dynasty does not know about as a means of raising his "bargaining power," Jena responds by hanging the spy over a high balcony by his nostrils and demanding he tell her everything he knows about the weapon or be dropped. The spy is killed by intervening assassination droids shortly after he begins spilling the beans. | |
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Gentleman Thief | |
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Gentleman Thief: While Nikolai is recovering from his wounds suffered in a duel with Lazarev in Rudenshtein, he runs up an extravagant bill in a massive hotel. When informed that he would be forced to bankrupt Rudenshtein in order to pay his bill, Nikolai resorts to robbing other hotel guests as a masked highwayman, which gives him not only the reputation, but also the moniker of The Gentleman Thief. Of course, he uses this opportunity to steal kisses from women as well as money, although this leads to a situation where he is forced to have sex with an Abhorrent Admirer. | |
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Adaptive Ability | |
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Adaptive Ability: The bioweapon that Nikolai encounters in "Agent Of Destruction" is able to take on the form of anything it assimilated. It is also able to adapt to almost any form of attack, negating the Huntsman Rifle's ability to kill it with the optimum ammo type. | |
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Church Militant | |
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Church Militant: The Church Of Skopsky are a fundamentalist sect that violently oppose anything they see as sinful. Naturally, Nikolai is a natural example of everything they oppose. Male members wear harnesses that send an electric shock to their genitals should they think impure thoughts and their own Amazon Brigade of Flagellators are essentially nuns in fetishy outfits, carrying whips, who are, ironically, responsible for more impure thoughts than they could ever hope to expunge. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: At the beginning of the series Nikolai promised that he would raise an army of thieves and whores to crush the Tsar. Something which happened in the series nearly 13 years later. | |
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Kryptonite Factor | |
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Kryptonite Factor: The Romanov Weapon Crests make them formidable forces on the battlefield. Normal human beings armed with standard weaponry will be slaughtered by them. However, they are not completely invulnerable and there are ways to deal with them. Intense artillery bombardment, overpowered superweapons, other Romanov Weapons Crests, nanoviruses that disable Crests, and, of course, Nikolai's Hunstman rifle are all good ways around the Romanovs' Healing Factor. | |
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Dragon Their Feet | |
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Dragon Their Feet: Major Elizabeth Hawksmoore and Konstantin Romanov outlive their master, Dmitri Romanov. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Nikolai's universe is apparently a combination of the far future and some part of pre-World War I. Alien shapeshifters and cyberorganic technology coexist alongside concubines and duels to the death. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz: Janus Stark, Catwoman, Crusher Creel, Luther Arkwright, Captain America, Sláine, Wonder Woman and Sinister Dexter all appear fairly thinly veiled. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Katarina leaves Nikolai at a convent as he "grows too heavy for her to carry". It's something she spent many years regretting and it takes to late into the saga for the pair to fully reconcile. | |
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Sexual Karma | |
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Sexual Karma: Akita Sagawa notes that the Tsar is "all take" in the bedroom. Konstantin is unable to orgasm and has an Oedipus complex. Heroic Nikolai, on the other hand, is a classic Sex God. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2a4e8051 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2bdae2ae | type |
Awesome, but Impractical | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2bdae2ae | comment |
Awesome, but Impractical: When Major Liberty was first created by the American government in the 21st century, he was genetically enhanced to become a Super-Soldier. However, the sheer cost of the gene therapy meant that they couldn't actually risk him getting killed in combat, so he was used for propaganda purposes instead. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2bdae2ae | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2c1f1138 | type |
He Who Fights Monsters | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2c1f1138 | comment |
He Who Fights Monsters: The Tsar reveals himself to have become this, even quoting the Trope Namer word for word. He advises Nikolai to do the same to maintain power. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2c1f1138 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2d409194 | type |
Unsettling Gender-Reveal | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2d409194 | comment |
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Ursa reveals to Nikolai that she is female. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2d409194 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2ed5e99d | type |
Depraved Bisexual | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2ed5e99d | comment |
Depraved Bisexual: Lulu. Konstantin is briefly stated to be bisexual as well. Though, we never see him with men. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2ed5e99d | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2f62653b | type |
Borrowed Catchphrase | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2f62653b | comment |
Borrowed Catchphrase: Jena starts using Nikolai's exclamations of shock like "Fuoco" and "Diavolo". Nikolai lampshades it asking her to use her own curse words. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_2f62653b | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_30d4f2a | type |
Narcissist | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_30d4f2a | comment |
Nastasia is a Narcissist who habitually kills anyone less admiring of her own looks than she is. She also kills an ex-boyfriend because he broke up with her before she could finish with him herself. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_30d4f2a | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_30de7a51 | type |
Chivalrous Pervert | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_30de7a51 | comment |
Chivalrous Pervert: In spite of being known lothario, Nikolai will not take a peasant girl simply because it's his right as a nobleman. During "The Courtship Of Jena Makarov", he refuses to sleep with Julianna Makarov because of his feelings for Jena. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_30de7a51 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3130e2c6 | type |
Uplifted Animal | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3130e2c6 | comment |
Uplifted Animal: Animal rights groups genetically modified several species of animals on the African continent, giving them human intelligence and physical characteristics. The animals rose up and took control of the continent, slaughtering their human masters. The three dominant species, gorillas, lions, and elephants were granted dynastic status by the Tsar, taking the names of Kong, Numa, and Tantor, respectively. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3130e2c6 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3133d1d7 | type |
Hollywood Acid | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3133d1d7 | comment |
Hollywood Acid: Nastasia Romanov's weapons crest allows her to produce this. She can dissolve a man in seconds with no ill effects to herself, apart from having to reapply her makeup. | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3133d1d7 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_33b4e7f | type |
Helmets Are Hardly Heroic | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_33b4e7f | comment |
Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: When Nikolai is (briefly) commissioned in the Raven Corps, he disdains wearing their signature helmet. One of the ravens sent with him and Jena to investigate a crashed ship calls him out on this. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_33b4e7f | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_33c2b1e2 | type |
Best Served Cold | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_33c2b1e2 | comment |
Best Served Cold: Dmitri waits for several years inside the body of Arkady before making his move on the Tsar and does so when Nikolai has done all the legwork. Nikolai attempts this trope when appointed as Sword Of The Tsar. While working for Vladimir, he starts building up contacts, funding, and his Army of Thieves and Whores in secret in order to undertake another revolution. Unfortunately, when the Tsar nukes New York off the map, Nikolai loses it and attempts to assassinate Vlad. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_33c2b1e2 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_34dd5f3 | type |
La Résistance | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_34dd5f3 | comment |
La Résistance: Vladimir Makarov was this alongside Dmitri & Jocasta Romanov during their fight against Vladimir's predecessor Skarnote formerly an imperial mercenary named Skarak for the Mongolian Horde The Amerikan Resistance had various front-line military commanders such as Major Liberty, alongside a network of high-ranking and strategically placed agents such as Carmen Suarez, who initially severed as the intelligence and financial leadership for the various New York branches. Neo-Communists are shown making an attempt on the Tsar's life at one point. Nikolai Dante, Jena Makarova, Lady Jocasta Romanov, Lulu Romanov, Papa Yeltsin, Katarina Dante, & Arkady Romanovnote actually the Big Bad, Dmitri Romanov, who has secretly taken over his body for the Revolutionary forces, until The Reveal. Afterwards, Katarina Dante briefly replaces her son following Dmitri's return, alongside Sergeant Elena Kurakin until the latter manages to help find him until he recovers from his Moral Event Horizon. After which, he re-joins the revolution again alongside Katarina, Sergeant Kurakin, and the remaining Romanov family membersnote Lulu & Viktor Romanov/Dante | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_34dd5f3 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_35e3383a | type |
Pirate Girl | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_35e3383a | comment |
Pirate Girl: Katarina Dante is the pirate queen of the Pacific, reaving her way through the ocean's shipping with an all female crew. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_35e3383a | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3678bb22 | type |
Russian Roulette | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3678bb22 | comment |
Russian Roulette: Nikolai and Vlad play in the finale. Vlad loses. | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3678bb22 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_36c94bed | type |
Person of Mass Destruction | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_36c94bed | comment |
Konstantin has fusion powers, making him a literal walking nuke. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_36c94bed | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | type |
Batman Gambit | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | comment |
Batman Gambit: Nikolai is fond of these when he isn't using the Indy Ploy. For example, for his duel with Konstantin, he uses the same nanovirus used to previously disable his own crest, fights dirty when Konstantin attempts to fight him with more conventional methods, then shoots him in the back. On top of this, he manages to refill the Imperial coffers by taking what was left and betting on himself to win. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3aec9e5e | type |
Properly Paranoid | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3aec9e5e | comment |
Properly Paranoid: Dmitri Romanov bred his children to be the most ruthless killers in the empire. So, naturally, his Weapons Crest has the ability to override and even destroy the Crests of the rest of the dynasty. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3aec9e5e | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3b113b7 | type |
Character Development | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3b113b7 | comment |
Character Development: The entire saga sees Nikolai go from devil may care wandering thief to jaded leader of an eventually successful revolution. Two major events shape his character during this time: The death of his wife, Eloise de Jannisaire, makes him more introspective and mourning and the war between the Romanov and Makarov dynasties turns him into a hardened killer. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3b113b7 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3b79029a | type |
Crapsaccharine World | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3b79029a | comment |
Crapsaccharine World: Sure, Tsarist Russia has a vast empire and imposes its own brand of law & order within its domain BUT in doing so the media is now under the control of a corrupt & uncaring aristocracy, Mongolia has since descended into brutal warlord-ism, America is now a third world nation, Vampires exist and serve as the Tsar's elite assassins, the Yakuza are fighting for supremacy in the Pacific against both the Kraken's forces & Katarina Dante's pirates, and the Romanovs are currently jockeying for supremacy of the empire, which by the start of the series, have been engaged in a Deal with the Devil scenario with the remnants of an inter-dimensional superpower in return for highly advanced "Weapons Crests". The Tsar reinstates the practice of serfdom and spins it as a good thing. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3b79029a | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3cb1d38d | type |
Bad Boss | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3cb1d38d | comment |
Bad Boss: Tsar Vladimir has his moments but Dmitriy Romanov takes the cake (and probably shoots the person who brought it to him for good measure). | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3cb1d38d | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3cb6468e | type |
Bad Liar | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3cb6468e | comment |
Bad Liar: As he's dying, Andreas Romanov asks Elena Kurakin if the people he's tried to save made it. She tells that they did, but Andreas knows she's lying. He tells her that she's a bad liar and that he would have loved her for that. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3cb6468e | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3d5547b0 | type |
Perfect Poison | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3d5547b0 | comment |
Nastasia can create Perfect Poisons and Hollywood Acid. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3d5547b0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3d59c9a0 | type |
Powered Armor | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3d59c9a0 | comment |
Powered Armor: The Order Of The Dragon wear massive powered suits of armour in battle. Both Richard and Elizabeth Hawksmoore, as heads of the Order, favour their signature battle armour. Elena Kurakin finds a workaround thanks to Spatch and Flint and a grenade. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3d59c9a0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3e157a10 | type |
Twincest | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3e157a10 | comment |
Aleksandr and Aleksandra can deploy nano mines and can merge into a single being. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_3e157a10 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_40cbee83 | type |
Wretched Hive | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_40cbee83 | comment |
Wretched Hive: Rudinshtein starts off as this, being the poorest city in the empire. New Moscow later becomes one with the Kremlin having being converted into a casino. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_40cbee83 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_41914bb3 | type |
Blade Below the Shoulder | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_41914bb3 | comment |
Nikolai gets bio blades from his hands and a limited Healing Factor. The Hunstman rifle is a later given to him by Kara. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_41914bb3 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_454bda24 | type |
Ancestral Weapon | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_454bda24 | comment |
Ancestral Weapon: Elena Kurakin's father gives her his swords on his deathbed. Vladimir uses an old Nagant revolver that has been in his family for generations to play Russian Roulette with Nikolai in the final episode. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_454bda24 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4604fd4d | type |
Worthy Opponent | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4604fd4d | comment |
Worthy Opponent: Vladimir keeps the weapons of enemies who have earned his respect. Elena Kurakin is one of those enemies, with Vlad even telling her so and offering her a chance to join him at the end of the war. When Nikolai releases her from a gulag, he brings her swords from Vlad's private collection to entice her to work with him again. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4604fd4d | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4655ec83 | type |
Important Haircut | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4655ec83 | comment |
Important Haircut: Once the "Tsar Wars" arc begins, Nikolai cuts his hair shorter, which in many ways contrasts the flowing carefree hair he had in the earlier stories and represents his jadedness as time goes on. In "Amerika", he is shown looking at a poster of his younger self, showing the contrast between the younger carefree man he'd been and the older, more world-weary individual he became. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4655ec83 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_474e3977 | type |
You Have Failed Me | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_474e3977 | comment |
You Have Failed Me: The Arbatovs are usually on the receiving end of this. Of particular note is the one Nikolai humiliates in the first story, as the Tsar skins him alive. Dmitri decimates one regiment (as in the Roman version of killing ten percent of the troops) when they lose a battle. Elizabeth Hawkesmoore kills a subordinate officer she had been sleeping with because he finished too early and referred to her by her name in the process. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_474e3977 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4781adbb | type |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4781adbb | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Arguably, Nikolai. He's a serial womaniser who steals, brawls and boozes his way through life, getting on the nerves of the aristocracy and (at first) looks out only for himself. However, he only steals from those who can afford it and genuinely cares about the poor and downtrodden, helping them wherever possible. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4781adbb | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_478ae179 | type |
And Now You Must Marry Me | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_478ae179 | comment |
And Now You Must Marry Me: Dmitri/Arkady and Jena. And Nikolai has to watch the ceremony. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_478ae179 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_47fea76b | comment |
There are so many Arbatovs that it's a Running Gag by the Arbatov Of The Week listing the various misfortunes brought upon his brothers by Nikolai that keeps getting longer. In addition to what must be around a dozen brothers, there are also three sisters, whom, of course, Nikolai ends up sleeping with. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_47fea76b | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_48b9731f | type |
Paper-Thin Disguise | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: The Lord Protector's identity as Konstantin Romanov is fairly easy to deduce, since the Lord Protector's use of fusion powers and his physical size are dead giveaways. The story doesn't keep up the pretence from the reader for all that long, as he removes his helmet to reveal himself to Jocasta in the same story in which he is introduced. Lampshaded by Dmitri/Arkady when he unmasks himself on the battlefield, who notes that it was hardly difficult to deduce. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_48b9731f | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | type |
Combat Pragmatist | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | comment |
Caius Zacharovich is widely considered to be the greatest swordsman the Empire has ever known and was Jena's tutor. When Nikolai inadvertently pisses so many people off that he is challenged to enough duels for the Tsar to turn into a tournament, Caius is ordered by the Tsar to fight Nikolai on his behalf. While Nikolai defeats all the others through sheer cunning, Caius has Nikolai completely outmatched, even giving Nikolai tips throughout the duel. However, when Caius refuses to kill Nikolai after drawing first blood, the Tsar has him shot. Nikolai does learn from the experience, improving his fencing skills after that fight alone to the point where a White Army Reiver compliments his ability. | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4d359d57 | type |
Loyal Phlebotinum | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4d359d57 | comment |
Loyal Phlebotinum: Nikolai's Hunstman 5000 rifle is encoded to his geneprint, meaning that it can only be used by him or a close relative. Anyone else who tries to use it gets a bullet to the face. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4d359d57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4d359d57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4d359d57 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4edbce3e | type |
InterClassRomance | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4edbce3e | comment |
Inter-Class Romance: Galya is a poor peasant girl, while Viktor is a member of the aristocratic Romanov family. Dmitri doesn't take it well. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4edbce3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4edbce3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4edbce3e | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4ef62a4d | type |
Full-Circle Revolution | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4ef62a4d | comment |
Full-Circle Revolution: Successful revolutions in the Russian Empire turn out to be this. Vlad reveals that he's a Fallen Hero in the final episode and tells Nikolai that the new Tsar always has to be more ruthless than his predecessors. He notes that nobody speaks of Ivan The Oppressor's cruelty anymore and that he had to purge several of his closest friends in his first year in power. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4ef62a4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4ef62a4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_4ef62a4d | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: Valentine Romanov's crest has left him physically scarred and mentally deranged. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_508d91a2 | type |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_508d91a2 | comment |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Katarina Dante, when she kills Dmitri. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_508d91a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_508d91a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_508d91a2 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_50cc01e1 | type |
Do Not Call Me "Paul" | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_50cc01e1 | comment |
Do Not Call Me Eugenia: Jena's full name in Eugenia Vladimirovna Makarova. Simon Fraser asked a Russian friend to help him come up with a suitably pompous sounding name for her for Nikolai to make fun of. It took him until "Sword Of The Tsar" to convince Robbie Morrison to use it. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_50cc01e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_50cc01e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_50cc01e1 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_50d71a78 | type |
Dual Wielding | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_50d71a78 | comment |
Dual Wielding: Nikolai's Crest allows him to create bio blades from both hands, allowing him to always have a pair of swords on demand, so long as the Crest still functions. Elena Kurakin wields her father's swords as a pair as well. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_50d71a78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_50d71a78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_50d71a78 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5111ff0 | type |
Kill the Poor | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5111ff0 | comment |
Kill the Poor: Nikolai once encountered a countess heavily based on the legends of Elizabeth Bathory who insists that the blood she bathes in is "happily donated" by young women in return for tax exemptions. After Nikolai uncovers a secret lair belonging to the countess in which dozens of young women are being held in captivity and bled for all their worth, it turns out that these particular women are all unemployed and, therefore, couldn't pay any taxes so they get drained wholesale. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5111ff0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5111ff0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5111ff0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5148024 | type |
Locked into Strangeness | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5148024 | comment |
Locked into Strangeness: Around "Sword Of The Tsar", grey hairs start appearing on Nikolai's temples. This is likely a deliberate way of showing Nikolai's Character Development, as he's matured as a result of his experiences especially during the war. His face is even contrasted with a poster of his younger self, showing how jaded he is becoming. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5148024 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5148024 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5148024 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_516ac9a8 | type |
Viking Funeral | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_516ac9a8 | comment |
Viking Funeral: Nikolai sends off his mother in such a fashion after she succumbs to her wounds. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_516ac9a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_516ac9a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_516ac9a8 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_51a3ba7 | type |
We Used to Be Friends | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_51a3ba7 | comment |
We Used to Be Friends: Vladimir says this word for word to Dmitri before Dmitri's suicide. They once stood together against the previous Tsar until they disagreed on who would rule after their own revolution. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_51a3ba7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_51a3ba7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_51a3ba7 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: Nikolai's Captain Morgan Pose from the start of the first installment is repeated at the very end, as well as the opening blurb. There are two stories titled "Love And War"; One is the epilogue to "The Courtship Of Jena Makarov" that also serves as the prologue to "Tsar Wars" and the other is Book Two of "Tsar Wars" itself. They both end similarly with Jena walking away from Nikolai and a closeup of a jaded Nikolai, though the circumstances are different. In the former, they had sex. In the latter, they duelled. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5313c266 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5313c266 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5313c266 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_533bc7ae | type |
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_533bc7ae | comment |
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: The conflict between the Red Guard and the White Army is over preserving organic existence versus abandoning humanity in favour of cybernetics. The White Army is much more powerful and has essentially wiped out the Red Guard. Even Khara, who gave Nikolai the Huntsman 5000, has been assimilated by the time she returns in Sword Of The Tsar. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_533bc7ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_533bc7ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_533bc7ae | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | type |
Empowered Badass Normal | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | comment |
Empowered Badass Normal: The Romanov weapons crests give their users a wide range of abilities beyond the level of normal humans. Nikolai's bio-blades and reduced Healing Factor compared to his siblings are on the lower end of the scale with Konstantine's fusion powers and Dmitri's crest's ability to override all the other crests being the most powerful. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_53f5119f | type |
The Dragon | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Count Pyre starts out as Lord Protector until Dante kills him during the war. Konstantin is appointed Lord Protector in his place. Elizabeth Hawksmoores becomes Arkady /Dmitri's dragon later on. Nikolai himself becomes a Dragon with an Agenda / The Starscream when the Tsar recruits him as "Sword of the Tsar." | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_53f5119f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_53f5119f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_53f5119f | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_553c27bb | type |
Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_553c27bb | comment |
Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: The strip has many lighthearted moments, owing to its inspiration from adventure serials, which are often counterbalanced by the horrors of war, megalomaniacal tyrants, and characters dropping dead left, right, and centre. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_553c27bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_553c27bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_553c27bb | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_588d6b3e | type |
Vasquez Always Dies | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_588d6b3e | comment |
Vasquez Always Dies: Averted with Elena Kurakin. She's one of the most combat capable females in the strip, which is saying something when compared with the likes of Lulu and Nastasia Romanov. She's one of the few members of the original Rudinshtein Irregulars to survive the war and she fights by Nikolai's side again once he becomes Sword Of The Tsar. She even helps Dante track the Tsar down at the finale. Inverted with Lauren Stone. She is one of the most skimpily clad females in the strip, yet she dies during the second revolution. Played straight with Katarina Dante, but not before she takes out Dmitri Romanov first. Played straight during "The Great Game" where Nikolai's estranged wife, Eloise, gets run through by Valentine, while Jena Makarov gets through it. Though Jena Makarov isn't exactly a Shrinking Violet herself... | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_588d6b3e | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_588d6b3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_588d6b3e | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_58e008c | type |
Sharing a Body | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_58e008c | comment |
Sharing a Body: Dmitri passes his weapons crest and consciousness over to Arkady. Whilst Dmitri is very much in control, Arkady is still in there and Dmitri does indulge him in some of his fantasies, such as his crush on Jena. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_58e008c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_58e008c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_58e008c | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5989e3b6 | type |
Enemy Mine | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: During "The Great Game", the houses of Romanov and Makarov join together when Valentine threatens to destroy Earth with the Dark Star. Dmitri even tells Vladimir that even though The Great Game is at an end, at least they had played with style. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5989e3b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5989e3b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5989e3b6 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_59e5940e | type |
AnimalMotif | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_59e5940e | comment |
Animal Motif: The Romanovs have the hawk/eagle and the Makarovs have the raven. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_59e5940e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_59e5940e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_59e5940e | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5b565147 | type |
Meaningful Background Event | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5b565147 | comment |
Meaningful Background Event: Dmitri Romanov's gradual posession of Arkady via his weapons crest | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5b565147 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5b565147 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5b565147 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5b7c5b2b | type |
FlayedAlive | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5b7c5b2b | comment |
Flayed Alive: The first Arbatov that Nikolai comes across is skinned by the Tsar for seeking the services of a seductress while courting Jena Makarov. The Tsar tells him that if the skin grows back, it will prove his innocence. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5b7c5b2b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5b7c5b2b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5b7c5b2b | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5c5d0032 | type |
Eyepatch of Power | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5c5d0032 | comment |
Eyepatch of Power: Katarine Dante. Although which eye depends on the artist. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5c5d0032 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5c5d0032 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5c5d0032 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5e2e55e4 | type |
The Casanova | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5e2e55e4 | comment |
The Casanova: Nikolai has women pretty much throw themselves at him. His Establishing Character Moment even depicts him having sex. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5e2e55e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5e2e55e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5e2e55e4 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5e68bb61 | type |
Gayngster | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5e68bb61 | comment |
Gayngster: Papa Yeltsin is fairly open about his sexuality. He's apparently even tried it on with Nikolai, who went along with it long enough to rob him. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5e68bb61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5e68bb61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_5e68bb61 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6073e7b7 | type |
The Musketeer | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6073e7b7 | comment |
The Musketeer: Nikolai, due to his preferred combination of bio blades and the Huntsman rifle. Many other characters also, as tactics have regressed to the Napoleonic era. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6073e7b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6073e7b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6073e7b7 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61375e57 | type |
BigDamnKiss | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61375e57 | comment |
Big Damn Kiss: When Nikolai proposes the Jena, she asks why. Nikolai's response is a kiss. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61375e57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61375e57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61375e57 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61c683d2 | type |
We Have Reserves | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61c683d2 | comment |
We Have Reserves: Warfare has regressed to Napoleonic tactics complete with massed charges. Aristocrats don't seem to care about the bodycounts of battles. Some of them don't even care about Unfriendly Fire. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61c683d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61c683d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61c683d2 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61f452ca | type |
Sinister Shades | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61f452ca | comment |
Sinister Shades: Dmitri Romanov's transluscent shades, which fail to hide his near permanent Death Glare. When he comes forward as having total control over Arkady, he wears them again. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61f452ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61f452ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_61f452ca | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Before he got the weapons crest, Nikolai was Badass Normal, so not as far a fall as some. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_66ea7e5c | type |
Brought Down to Normal | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_66ea7e5c | comment |
Brought Down to Normal: In "A Farewell to Arms", Nikolai's crest is destroyed, forcing him to fight as a mundane for the rest of the comic. Before he got the weapons crest, Nikolai was Badass Normal, so not as far a fall as some. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_66ea7e5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_66ea7e5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_66ea7e5c | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_670ca248 | type |
Go-to Alias | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_670ca248 | comment |
Go-to Alias: Dante tends to use the name Quentin Durward when he needs to go undercover. It never seems to hold for long. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_670ca248 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_670ca248 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_670ca248 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_67f2c837 | type |
The Pig-Pen | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_67f2c837 | comment |
The Pig-Pen: Spatchcock. To the point that when he's attacked by a vampire, his poor hygiene saves his life due to his blood "tasting like piss". and yet he gets a happy ending as he flies off in the sunset with Flintlock's Sister | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_67f2c837 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_67f2c837 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_67f2c837 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6875260 | type |
Vodka Drunkenski | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6875260 | comment |
Vodka Drunkenski: Nikolai is rather fond of the drink. Generally when he has a party, it ends up being drunken debauchery of epic proportions. On the flip side of things, he's been known to climb into the bottle when depressed as well. When Camila Le Fanu bites him, she notes that his blood tastes of alcohol. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6875260 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6875260 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6875260 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6b4b3eba | type |
Lady Land | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6b4b3eba | comment |
Lady Land: Amazonia is basically an entire nation of Straw Feminists, where men are considered second class citizens. Nikolai is sent in to convince them to hold a referendum on giving equal rights to men. The men choose to retain the status quo. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6b4b3eba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6b4b3eba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6b4b3eba | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6bf93fc7 | type |
FanService | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6bf93fc7 | comment |
Fanservice: The series is full of it, particularly in its early days. In fact, the opening scene features Nikolai having sex with a seductress. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6bf93fc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6bf93fc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6bf93fc7 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6c553873 | type |
Private Military Contractors | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6c553873 | comment |
Private Military Contractors: The Warlords are probably the most infamous mercenary outfit in the empire. Entry requires recruits to duel each other, though Eloise wonders if it would be just cheaper to actually train them rather than patch them up. Of course, her second in command has higher ambitions, though his ambitions are trumped by Valentine Romanov. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6c553873 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6c553873 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_6c553873 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7098892d | type |
Weapon-Based Characterization | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7098892d | comment |
Weapon-Based Characterization: Each of the Romanovs is given specific abilities, based on their personalities. Nikolai gets bio blades from his hands and a limited Healing Factor. The Hunstman rifle is a later given to him by Kara. Lulu gets a cyber swarm, which she can use to devour people alive or as surveillance equipment. Nastasia can create Perfect Poisons and Hollywood Acid. Konstantin has fusion powers, making him a literal walking nuke. Andreas is able to generate throwable blades. His personal best stands at 26 decapitations with a single blade. Viktor's abilities are unknown early on, but it is later revealed that he can transform into a giant eagle. Aleksandr and Aleksandra can deploy nano mines and can merge into a single being. Valentine gets the prototype crest, so only gets blades without the Healing Factor. See Body Horror. Dmitri gets the most powerful crest of all, being able to override all of the other crests. He's also able to use bio blades and fusion powers. | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7098892d | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_72cdfc33 | type |
Big Bad Ensemble | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_72cdfc33 | comment |
Big Bad Ensemble: The rivalry between Lord Dmitri Romanov and the Tsar Vladimir "the Conqueror" Makarov was the main driving force behind the series, along with other major antagonists such as Count Pyre, Konstantin Romanov, The Countessa de Wynter, Sir Richard Hawksmoore, Valentine Romanov, The Kraken and the White Army & their agents, while the Arbatov family were usually seen as a joke by Dante. | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_72cdfc33 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_740f59b4 | type |
ColorCodedForYourConvenience | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_740f59b4 | comment |
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The House of Makarov has purple as its Imperial colours, while the House of Romanov prefers red. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_740f59b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_740f59b4 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_757bbdb8 | type |
Massive Numbered Siblings | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_757bbdb8 | comment |
Massive Numbered Siblings: Nikolai has nine half brothers and sisters: Valentine, Konstantin, Andreas, Lulu, Nastasia, Aleksandr and Aleksandra, Viktor, and Arkady. There are so many Arbatovs that it's a Running Gag by the Arbatov Of The Week listing the various misfortunes brought upon his brothers by Nikolai that keeps getting longer. In addition to what must be around a dozen brothers, there are also three sisters, whom, of course, Nikolai ends up sleeping with. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_757bbdb8 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_75987da9 | type |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_75987da9 | comment |
Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: The Rudinshtein Irregulars consist of convicts taken from the gulags. Lampshaded by Nikolai's weapons crest, who notes that Dante is the first commander in history to be in more danger from his own troops than from the enemy. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_75987da9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_75987da9 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_76d233f9 | type |
Straw Feminist | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_76d233f9 | comment |
Straw Feminist: The nation of Amazonia runs on the notion that men are inferior. As such, men are second class citizens and the only reason Amazonia allies with the Tsar is so their soldiers can go out and kill men. As such, Nikolai is probably the worst choice of ambassador to the country, though this doesn't stop their leader from eventually seducing him. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_76d233f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_76d233f9 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_77b009ea | type |
Phrase Catcher | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_77b009ea | comment |
Phrase Catcher: Nikolai. Damn you, Dante! Damn you to Hell! | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_77b009ea | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_77eeb348 | type |
The Big Bad Shuffle | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_77eeb348 | comment |
The Big Bad Shuffle: The final couple of arcs rotate villains around, starting with Vladimir's capture at the end of Nikolai's revolution. At Vladimir's trial, Dmitry reveals himself as Sharing a Body with Arkady, taking control of the empire. After he is finally dispatched, Konstantin ends up being briefly the main villain as a sort of Dragon Ascendant, which doesn't last all that long. Once Nikolai deals with him, the mantle of Big Bad shifts right back to Vlad, although at this point, he's nothing more than a Post-Final Boss who kills himself in a game of Russian Roulette. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_77eeb348 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a | type |
Heroic Bastard | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a | comment |
Captain Nikolai Dante: Bastard of the Romanovs, Hero of Rudinshtein, The Gentleman Thief, Hero Of The Romanovs, The Most Wanted Man In The Empire, Sword Of The Tsar, Hero Of The Revolution, Tsar Of All The Russias. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7a9afe0a | type |
Token Evil Teammate | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7a9afe0a | comment |
Token Evil Team Mate: Lulu is this to Nikolai's revolution. As a Romanov, she's naturally ruthless and particularly cruel in her campaign of terror against the Tsar. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7a9afe0a | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7b54f561 | type |
Sensual Slavs | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7b54f561 | comment |
Sensual Slavs: Justified, as Russia is the main setting. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7b54f561 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7c862b8a | type |
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7c862b8a | comment |
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The Countessa De Wynter will get various people to help her with heists and then try and have them killed. The Romanovs are expected to be utterly ruthless. Dmitri encourages this, but has a safeguard in having the ability to override all of the Weapons Crests. The Tsar pretty much encourages the other noble houses to backstab each other. If they're too busy squabbling amongst each other, they can't put up a united front to challenge his rule | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7c862b8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7c862b8a | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7d163c9c | type |
Dating Catwoman | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7d163c9c | comment |
Dating Catwoman: Akita Sagawa is essentially the Big Bad for the Hell And High Water arc. Doesn't stop Nikolai from sleeping with her. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7d163c9c | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7d7a5f3 | type |
Carpet of Virility | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7d7a5f3 | comment |
Carpet of Virility: Nikolai is depicted as having a manly chest rug, except when drawn by John Burns or Steve Yeowell. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7d7a5f3 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7e6c0522 | type |
Off with His Head! | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7e6c0522 | comment |
Off with His Head!: Due to a resurgence of swords and axes as battlefield weapons, decapitations are quite common occurrences in the strip. Notably, this happens to Lazarev at the end of his duel with Nikolai and Papa Yeltsin by Dmitri/Arkaday. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7e6c0522 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7f080f98 | type |
Vague Age | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7f080f98 | comment |
Vague Age: Nikolai is not quite sure of his exact age, as Katarina never really celebrated any of his birthdays. A flashback in one of the later stories establishes him as having been born in 2640, making him 26 at the beginning of the saga. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7f080f98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7f080f98 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7f760614 | type |
The Silent Bob | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7f760614 | comment |
The Silent Bob: Viktor Romanov. The longest Silent Bob in history, completing the trope just 6 episodes before the end of the saga. The only other noises he makes are belches and screeches when he activates his Crest and becomes a huge Romanov Eagle. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7f760614 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7fe13577 | type |
Villainous Widow's Peak | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7fe13577 | comment |
Villainous Widow's Peak: Gender flipped with Elizabeth Hawksmoore. Her very high forehead is clearly visible and she is a very brutal Sociopathic Soldier. These are both traits she inherited from her father, though he was more Bald of Evil. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7fe13577 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_7fe13577 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_808cbaeb | comment |
In "The Memoirs Of Nikolai Dante", the Tsar is shown with a list of Nikolai's crimes, which describe him as a bandit, a brawler, a conman, a duellist, a thief and a gigolo. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_808cbaeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_808cbaeb | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_80b57bec | type |
Super-Soldier | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_80b57bec | comment |
Super-Soldier: There are various characters who have been enhanced in some way, either through chemical means (Lazarev), genetic engineering (Major Liberty, The Kraken), surgical enhancement (Skar), or cybernetics (The Romanov family). | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_80b57bec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_80b57bec | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Nikolai. Valentine Romanov becomes one when he unveils his plan. He decides that years of playing cloak and dagger have finally caught up with him and he decides to be hammy For the Lulz. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_823c6e3e | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_852b3adf | type |
PowerArmor | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_852b3adf | comment |
Elizabeth Hawksmoore gives the order to her Power Armor clad Mooks to kill Dante and Odessa, two of them turn their guns on the others. The two turn out to be Spatchcock and Flintlock in disguise. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_852b3adf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_852b3adf | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | comment |
"I'm too cool to kill" is something of a Badass Boast when someone threatens him. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_874176be | type |
Psychic Powers | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers: Psychics of various forms exist. A number of the Devil's Martyrs, a cult devoted to Grigori Rasputin, are capable of reading minds. Captain Luther Emmanuel is also capable of reading minds, in addition to being a practitioner of telekinesis. The Tsar also has a precog in his employ until she betrays him in favour of Nikolai. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_874176be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_874176be | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_87ede6fc | type |
That Man Is Dead | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_87ede6fc | comment |
That Man Is Dead: Viktor Romanov taking the name Viktor Dante, after Dmitri/Arkady kills his wife Galya. Also Nikolai, after civil war breaks out and he sides against the ruling house of Makarov, taking the name Romanov. Forced on Nikolai by his mother Katarina, when she finds him a broken man, having been de-crested by Dmitri/Arkady; powerless to stop the head of the Romanovs taking Jena Makarov as his own, Nikolai loses himself in the bottom of a bottle, losing all motivation to fight for what he believes in. She refers to him as Nikolai Romanov, disowning him as a son; this turns out to be the kick up the jacksy he needs. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_87ede6fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_87ede6fc | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_88e5fcbc | type |
One-Hit Polykill | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_88e5fcbc | comment |
Andreas is able to generate throwable blades. His personal best stands at 26 decapitations with a single blade. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_88e5fcbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_88e5fcbc | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | type |
Back from the Dead | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: Examples of this are Lulu, Konstantine, Dmitri and Viktor. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8a943fe3 | type |
Space Cold War | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8a943fe3 | comment |
Space Cold War: The entire main story arc right up until Tsar Wars involves sabre-rattling between the houses of Romanov and Makarov, as the Romanovs, as the most powerful dynasty next to Vladimir's own, attempt to undermine the Tsar's rule through diplomacy, espionage, assassination and propaganda. This all goes out the window when Konstantin Romanov burns Julianna Makarov to death on the orders of Dmitri Romanov just in case Nikolai succeeds in rescuing Jena from Sir Richard Hawksmoore. The whole thing is even referred to in universe as "The Great Game". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8a943fe3 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8cda3dc2 | type |
Flawed Prototype | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8cda3dc2 | comment |
Flawed Prototype: Valentine's crest was the first to be developed for human use. As a result, the Healing Factor is absent and he is massively scarred, both physically and mentally. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8cda3dc2 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8e20979 | type |
Wham Episode | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: The Courtship Of Jena Makarov/Love and War storyline starts off like a typical Dante storyline. Lots of humor, some violence, some serious moments such as Tsarina Jena getting kidnapped and Dante under trial. Then it starts ramping up with the Tsar and Dmitri drawing battle lines. There is a hope spot, Nikolai is able to escape and track down Jena and rescue her. However only for a mole, one Dante was forced to help blackmail, is forced to reveal the location of Jena's little sister. Kronstantin then assassinates her on Dmitri's order to ensure that there is war. Ending even more bitterly just as Nikolai and Jena starting a relationship just to put it on hold to go back to their families. "Heroes Be Damned" takes place at the very end of the revolution. We get to see the wedding between Viktor and Galya, Nikolai's proposal to Jena, Vlad and Konstantin's imprisonment, and a general feeling of hope for the future. Then Vlad's trial happens. Dmitri reveals himself to have been Sharing a Body with Arkady for many years and then goes on the rampage, declaring himself as Tsar, killing Galya, Papa Yeltsin, and Jocasta, throwing Elena from the Imperial Palace, kidnapping Jena, and stripping Nikolai of his weapons crest. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8e20979 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8f529433 | type |
Token Good Teammate | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8f529433 | comment |
Token Good Team Mate: Nikolai is this to the Romanovs. To a lesser extent, there's Viktor and Andreas pulls a Redemption Equals Death. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_8f529433 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_905438eb | type |
Recycled IN SPACE! | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_905438eb | comment |
Recycled In Space: The strip is a combination Space Cold War and the Russian Revolution using Napoleonic tactics set in the 27th century. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_905438eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_905438eb | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | type |
Hive Mind | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | comment |
The Kraken already has the ninja pirate part covered when he's introduced, but also becomes fused with a shapeshifting bioweapon and is later cloned into a Hive Mind army of enhanced clone ninja pirates. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90a79e3c | type |
Return to Shooter | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90a79e3c | comment |
Return to Shooter: Anyone who hasn't got their geneprint coded to the Huntsman 5000 that tries to fire it ends up with the bullet turning around and hitting them in the face. This includes telekinetic psychics that aren't even physically firing the weapon themselves. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90a79e3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90a79e3c | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90b66e22 | type |
Femme Fatale | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90b66e22 | comment |
Femme Fatale: Lulu Romanov seduces people and does horrible things to them either for personal gain or for her own amusement. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90b66e22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90b66e22 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90d44f44 | type |
Karmic Death | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Dmitri Romanov is finally done in by Katarina Dante by way of the Huntsman Rifle. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: Lauren Stone, the Veronica, is a more consistently Fanservicey character due to the fact that she wears hot pants and short skirts to show off her pins, while Jena as the Betty, naked appearances aside, dresses more conservatively as befitting a princess. The pair of them come to blows in "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life" over Nikolai. | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil: The aristocracy tortures, starves and kills the poor, often for their own amusement. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Nikolai Dante, Jena Makarova, Lady Jocasta Romanov, Lulu Romanov, Papa Yeltsin, Katarina Dante, & Arkady Romanovnote actually the Big Bad, Dmitri Romanov, who has secretly taken over his body for the Revolutionary forces, until The Reveal. Afterwards, Katarina Dante briefly replaces her son following Dmitri's return, alongside Sergeant Elena Kurakin until the latter manages to help find him until he recovers from his Moral Event Horizon. After which, he re-joins the revolution again alongside Katarina, Sergeant Kurakin, and the remaining Romanov family membersnote Lulu & Viktor Romanov/Dante | |
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Ladykiller in Love | |
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Ladykiller in Love: For all Nikolai's womanising ways, he is (mostly) devoted to Jena Makarov when their relationship does eventually come to fruition. He even refuses to sleep with her younger sister when Julianna pretty much throws herself at him. Julianna isn't offended, though, as she thinks it makes Nikolai a better man and makes her wonder if he's too good for her older sister. Andreas Romanov, of all people, who has a reputation of even more of a ladies' man than Nikolai, falls for Elena Kurakin late into the war. When he stays behind to defend Rudinshtein when the rest of the family have fucked off, he and Elena sleep together and, as he's dying, laments that he would have loved Elena if he were to live. | |
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Take Up My Sword | |
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Elena Kurakin's father gives her his swords on his deathbed. | |
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Cyborg | |
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Nikolai is a Cyborg Gentleman Thief who happens to be the bastard son of the patriarch of a powerful noble dynasty. He's also been a Pirate, an Imperial troubleshooter, an officer in the Raven Corps, and the leader of a successful revolution. And eventually poised to become Tsar. | |
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As Lethal as It Needs to Be | |
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As Lethal as It Needs to Be: Nikolai Dante's Huntsman 5000 rifle is like this. It fires the optimum ammunition to eliminate its target at any time, but Nikolai's used it to shoot to wound on occasion. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: In addition to the stories where Nikolai is paired off with each of his siblings, there are two storylines set from the point of view of other characters. "The Tsar's Daughter" focuses on Jena learning the truth about her mother's death and "Lulu's War" deals with Lulu facing opposition from within her own Cadre Infernale and Monique Le Fanu and her vampires. | |
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Upper-Class Twit | |
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Upper-Class Twit: Several, but Flintlock stands out. | |
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Army of Thieves and Whores | |
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Nikolai attempts this trope when appointed as Sword Of The Tsar. While working for Vladimir, he starts building up contacts, funding, and his Army of Thieves and Whores in secret in order to undertake another revolution. Unfortunately, when the Tsar nukes New York off the map, Nikolai loses it and attempts to assassinate Vlad. | |
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I Let Gwen Stacy Die | |
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I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Perhaps the most prominent turning point in Nikolai's Character Development is the death of his wife, Eloise de Janissaire. Up to that point, Nikolai had been recklessly carefree. From then on, something inside him is lost forever and he becomes more jaded as the strip goes on, which is only compounded by the later "Tsar Wars" arc. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Henry Windsor-McKray, King of Britannia. He's the only monarch in history to have retained power by pleading insanity. As Nikolai points out, while His Royal Highness is pants-on-his-head mad, he has nothing on real maniacs like the Tsar and Dmitri Romanov. | |
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Elite Mooks | |
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Elite Mooks: The Raven Corps. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: Vampires are not susceptible to garlic, crosses or any of the usual methods. The only ways to deal with vampires are sunlight, fire and steel. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Gunshot | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_a0a838fe | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: Two major examples. During "Thieves' World", Dante is standing over Papa Yeltsin after a parlay-turned-battle and fires his gun, implying that he killed him. It's revealed a few episodes later that Nikolai fired into a fairground statue and struck a deal with Papa against the Countessa DeWinter. Elizabeth Hawksmoore gives the order to her Power Armor clad Mooks to kill Dante and Odessa, two of them turn their guns on the others. The two turn out to be Spatchcock and Flintlock in disguise. | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: Count Pyre's enmity towards Nikolai is purely personal after Nikolai killed his consort. He claims that he doesn't let it interfere with dynastic business, but infects the genepool of a genetic engineer in order to attempt to assassinate Nikolai. | |
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Healing Factor | |
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Valentine gets the prototype crest, so only gets blades without the Healing Factor. See Body Horror. | |
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Hollywood Tactics | |
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Hollywood Tactics: Tactics have apparently regressed to nineteenth century levels. Dmitri lampshades this, stating that there was a time when the rules of warfare were changed to be more humane and how pointless that was. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: Poor, poor Valentine. His Flawed Prototype Weapons Crest has left him massively scarred and in constant pain, which has turned him into an Omnicidal Maniac. When he links the Dark Star to his Crest and is shot with it, he ends up fused with it, turning him into a localised singularity. Konstantin is placed in a stasis tank with Lulu's cyberdemons and his crest deactivated just to keep him in perpetual agony. | |
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Super-Senses | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_a8c462db | comment |
Super-Senses: The Romanov Weapons Crests bestow heightened senses to any individual to which it is bonded. In addition to natural senses being enhanced, the Crests can also perform electronic scans of the vicinity. For example, Nikolai's Crest diagnoses Jena's mentor, who was speaking out against her father, with terminal cancer while Jena is talking to him. | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning: Generally, if a member of the Romanov family's face starts showing their cybernetics, run away. Dmitri does this constantly and Nikolai does it just before he stabs Konstantin in the back. | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_a9de87d2 | comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite their extreme cowardice and their reputation as the worst soldiers in the empire, Spatchcock and Flintlock manage to survive two revolutions and even save both Dante and Elena on different occasions. Even during the final battle against the Imperial army, they charge into the battle and distract Elizabeth Hawksmoore long enough for Elena to stick a grenade onto her. | |
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Red Baron | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ab2df806 | comment |
Red Baron: Captain Nikolai Dante: Bastard of the Romanovs, Hero of Rudinshtein, The Gentleman Thief, Hero Of The Romanovs, The Most Wanted Man In The Empire, Sword Of The Tsar, Hero Of The Revolution, Tsar Of All The Russias. Tsar Vladimir the Conqueror, which he later reveals was also his grandfather's nickname as well. His predecessor was Ivan the Oppressor and Dmitri attempts to decide one for himself during his brief reign, though Nikolai reckons after his death that Dmitri the Demented would be most apt. Konstantine is known as the Paladin of the Romanovs. Richard Hawksmoore is known as The Beast Of Tunguska thanks to a massacre his men performed there under the orders of the Tsar. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ad9fbc1e | comment |
Pyrrhic Victory: Revolutions tend to end this way. Vladimir Makarov may have overthrown Ivan the Oppressor and killed him with his bare hands, but Dmitri Romanov challenges him to a duel for the title of Tsar. This duel also ends up following this trope, as Jocasta leaves Vlad over it. The civil war between House Makarov and House Romanov ends in victory for the Tsar, but the consequences of the war are felt for years afterwards with many regions of the empire falling into chaos and lawlessness, with many areas like Rudinshtein being declared as "Alienation Zones" that are effectively cut off from the outside world. Dante's own revolution ends this way. While the empire finally achieves peace and stability with Dante poised to become Tsar, he loses many friends and loved ones along the way, including his mother. Vlad, for his part, leaves one final parting gift for Nikolai by planting the seed of doubt by telling Nikolai that he has to be worse than he ever was. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Nikolai's Weapons Crest never wastes an opportunity to insult Dante for his impetuous actions, often quipping about the situation he's stumbled into. | |
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All for Nothing | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_aed65980 | comment |
All for Nothing: Nikolai's rescue of Jena from Sir Richard Hawksmoore is an attempt for him to prove both himself and the House Of Romanov innocent of her capture and prevent a civil war. While he succeeds in rescuing Jena, Konstantin Romanov murders Julianna Makarov on orders from Dmitri, triggering a war anyway. | |
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Avenging the Villain | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_af5f2180 | comment |
Avenging the Villain | |
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Catchphrase | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: Nikolai has several: "Heroes/Honour be damned" tends be used when someone calls him a hero or tells him to act with honour. "I'm too cool to kill" is something of a Badass Boast when someone threatens him. He tends to introduce himself either as "The name's Dante. Nikolai Dante" or "Dante's the name, X is the game." "Fuoco", "Diavolo" and "Bojemoi" are generally exclamations of surprise, though "Bojemoi" gets phased out after "The Courtship of Jena Makarov". | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Inverted with Lauren Stone. She is one of the most skimpily clad females in the strip, yet she dies during the second revolution. | |
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Omnicidal Maniac | |
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Nikolai has nine half brothers and sisters: Valentine, Konstantin, Andreas, Lulu, Nastasia, Aleksandr and Aleksandra, Viktor, and Arkady. | |
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Rank Up | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b1ed0e0c | comment |
Rank Up: A couple of characters see promotion over the course of the saga: Dante gives Elena Kurakin a Field Promotion to Sergeant when she helps him subdue the Grozny gang, a rank she maintains even in Imperial and later revolutionary service. Elizabeth Hawksmoore is given promotions as time goes on, first going from Lieutenant to Captain when Arkady /Dmitri recruits her and then to Major once he has control of the empire. | |
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Duels Decide Everything | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b2919411 | comment |
Duels Decide Everything: As part of the strip's Anachronism Stew, duelling is a major part of Russian society. Notably, at the conclusion of the revolution against Ivan the Oppressor, Vladimir Makarov and Dmitri Romanov duelled for the right to become Tsar. | |
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Destructo-Nookie | |
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Destructo-Nookie: Nikolai and Jena destroy the supports of a shack when they start slapping each other around before they have sex. | |
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Klingon Promotion | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b2c737e8 | comment |
Klingon Promotion: The title of Tsar Of All The Russias seems to be passed over through revolutions and rebellions many, many times. Nikolai invokes this trope in Rudinshtein in order to save its people. Command of the pirate fleet of Escondida is decided this way at Nikolai's suggestion. The fleet's captains face each other in a battle royale scenario, although Nikolai talks his mother into backing down when they are the last two standing. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b2c737e8 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b2d3a774 | type |
Captain Morgan Pose | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b2d3a774 | comment |
Nikolai's Captain Morgan Pose from the start of the first installment is repeated at the very end, as well as the opening blurb. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b2d3a774 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b2d3a774 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b2d3a774 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b35e77ee | type |
Fake Defector | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b35e77ee | comment |
Fake Defector: Lulu delivers Nikolai as a Trojan Prisoner in order to get him into the Imperial Palace to stop the wedding between Jena and Dmitri. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b35e77ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b35e77ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b35e77ee | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b3e3a659 | type |
Trading Bars for Stripes | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b3e3a659 | comment |
Trading Bars for Stripes: The original Rudinshtein Irregulars were a penal battalion commanded by Nikolai during the "Tsar Wars" arc. Nikolai notes that they haven't even been given a stay of execution, as Dmitri treats them like Cannon Fodder, almost hoping that they'll be wiped out. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b3e3a659 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b3e3a659 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b3e3a659 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b7c53a22 | type |
Blood Knight | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b7c53a22 | comment |
Blood Knight: Many, but Elena Kurakin stands out. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b7c53a22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b7c53a22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_b7c53a22 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ba0e3912 | type |
Power Nullifier | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ba0e3912 | comment |
Power Nullifier: Dmitri's Crest has the ability to disable the other Romanov Crests, making it impossible for any of his children to kill him with their own powers. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ba0e3912 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ba0e3912 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ba0e3912 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ba5bbda5 | type |
Mirror Character | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ba5bbda5 | comment |
Mirror Character: The son of a notorious criminal rebels against a despotic, tyrannical tsar and leads a revolution eventually overthrowing said tsar and taking the position for himself. Now are we talking about Nikolai Dante or Vladimir Makarov? | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ba5bbda5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ba5bbda5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ba5bbda5 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bb7ae292 | type |
Child by Rape | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bb7ae292 | comment |
Child by Rape: After Katarina tries to steal some treasure from Dmitri that she had already stolen for him, he feels that he "has to break her." Nikolai is the result of this. When told that he wasn't conceived out of love, he tries to cut Dmitri's head off. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bb7ae292 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bb7ae292 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bb7ae292 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: For Nikolai, when Konstantine mentions that he started the war. Plus when the Tsar nukes Amerika off the map after Nikolai promised to save the city Generally, slaughtering of innocents and abuse of those outside the aristocracy is a good way to piss Nikolai off. When the Imperial Palace is attacked and Jena is injured and almost kidnapped, Nikolai slaughters the perpetrators. You don't hurt someone Nikolai cares about. Slavery is this for Katerina Dante. Mostly because she was born on a slave ship and her own mother died in childbirth while standing up. Early on, when Dmitri tells Nikolai the circumstances behind his birth, Nikolai's response is to attempt to kill him. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bcbf7aef | type |
Plucky Comic Relief | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bcbf7aef | comment |
Plucky Comic Relief: Spatchcock and Flintlock | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bcbf7aef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bcbf7aef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bcbf7aef | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bcd27e37 | type |
Improbable Aiming Skills | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bcd27e37 | comment |
Improbable Aiming Skills: After shooting Katarina, Vlad explains to her that he'd been a sniper in his youth and has just deliberately shot her in a way that would ensure a slow and painful death. She has just enough left in her to kill Dmitri before she succumbs to her wounds. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bcd27e37 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bcd27e37 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bcd27e37 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bdc453a0 | type |
Incest Subtext | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bdc453a0 | comment |
Incest Subtext: Konstantin Romanov is heavily implied to be in love with his own mother. He makes every seductress sent to him take the name Jocasta before he sleeps with them. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bdc453a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bdc453a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bdc453a0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_be0ad6b7 | type |
Used to Be a Sweet Kid | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_be0ad6b7 | comment |
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Dmitri, Jocasta, and Vladimir were quite different when they were kept as hostages for the previous Tsar as children. They were idealistic persons until Start of Darkness hits after rest of the Romanov and Makarov families were executed and revolt started as a result. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_be0ad6b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_be0ad6b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_be0ad6b7 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bf1255fa | type |
Really Gets Around | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bf1255fa | comment |
Really Gets Around: Nikolai. Deconstructed in one of the final stories where it turns out there are dozens of paternity cases against him. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bf1255fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bf1255fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_bf1255fa | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c007c53 | type |
Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c007c53 | comment |
Cool and Unusual Punishment: Papa Yeltsin frequently drowns people in vodka. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c007c53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c007c53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c007c53 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c2ab0eaf | type |
Double Agent | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c2ab0eaf | comment |
Anyone who commands the Scarlet Wraiths, the Imperial intelligence service, is generally this, knowing the secrets of the empire. Notable major characters who have held this position include Count Pyre, whose shapeshifting abilities make him a perfect spy, and Arkady /Dmitri Romanov, who uses the position as a Double Agent for Dante's revolution and then turns on him when Vlad has been deposed. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c2ab0eaf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c2ab0eaf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c2ab0eaf | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c3448a6f | type |
Informed Attribute | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c3448a6f | comment |
Konstantin is briefly stated to be bisexual as well. Though, we never see him with men. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c3448a6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c3448a6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c3448a6f | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c3c18143 | type |
Hope Spot | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c3c18143 | comment |
"Heroes Be Damned" takes place at the very end of the revolution. We get to see the wedding between Viktor and Galya, Nikolai's proposal to Jena, Vlad and Konstantin's imprisonment, and a general feeling of hope for the future. Then Vlad's trial happens. Dmitri reveals himself to have been Sharing a Body with Arkady for many years and then goes on the rampage, declaring himself as Tsar, killing Galya, Papa Yeltsin, and Jocasta, throwing Elena from the Imperial Palace, kidnapping Jena, and stripping Nikolai of his weapons crest. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c3c18143 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c3c18143 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c3c18143 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c59d9a4b | type |
Half-Breed Discrimination | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c59d9a4b | comment |
Half-Breed Discrimination: Elena Kurakin is the daughter of a Mongolian warrior and a Russian aid worker. As a result, she's subject to racism from both Russians and Mongolians and finds it difficult to integrate into society as a whole. It's probably the main reason she's a Blood Knight. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c59d9a4b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c59d9a4b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c59d9a4b | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c6655b23 | type |
Fallen Hero | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c6655b23 | comment |
Fallen Hero: The Tsar tells Nikolai that he used to be called a hero when he deposed his predecessor. Unfortunately, Power Corrupts and he became more ruthless than the man he deposed. Sir Richard Hawksmoore was once a respected knight but the Tsar betrayed him and he became nothing more than a mercenary with an obsession with Jena. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c6655b23 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c6655b23 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c6655b23 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Several. Notably, narrators have included names like Georgi Lucasovich and Edward Krilly. Nikolai is at one point attacked by genetically engineered creatures called Kreelers. There's a news reporter named Kurt Brockman. The Romanov flagship is the Battleship Potemkin. One of the Countessa DeWynter's aliases is Lady Bovary. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c7b5445c | type |
Cool Starship | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c7b5445c | comment |
The Romanov flagship is the Battleship Potemkin. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c7b5445c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c7b5445c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c7b5445c | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c7f294da | type |
Large and in Charge | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c7f294da | comment |
Large and in Charge: Konstantin is physically larger than the rest of his siblings. In any other work, he would actually count as a Heroic Build and he actually resembles Superman. This especially counts in his Lord Protector armour. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c7f294da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c7f294da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c7f294da | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c83a589c | type |
Luke, I Am Your Father | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c83a589c | comment |
Early on, when Dmitri tells Nikolai the circumstances behind his birth, Nikolai's response is to attempt to kill him. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c83a589c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c83a589c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c83a589c | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | type |
Legacy Character | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | comment |
Legacy Character: Before the revolution Major Liberty was a role taken by various genetically engineered Super Soldiers who were only used for propaganda due to the sheer cost of genetic engineering. After the Tsar takes over Amerika, he kills the last official Major and the role is taken on by various Rebel Leaders instead. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ceabe589 | type |
Incoming Ham | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ceabe589 | comment |
Incoming Ham: Nikolai is very fond of making grandiose entrances if not outright Dynamic Entries. Usually while spouting one of his catchprases. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ceabe589 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ceabe589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ceabe589 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | type |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | comment |
When the Imperial Palace is attacked and Jena is injured and almost kidnapped, Nikolai slaughters the perpetrators. You don't hurt someone Nikolai cares about. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_cfa546f4 | type |
Mother Russia Makes You Strong | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_cfa546f4 | comment |
Mother Russia Makes You Strong | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_cfa546f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_cfa546f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_cfa546f4 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d001c42c | type |
Anti-Villain | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: The Tsar of all people qualifies. He was once the hero of his own revolution but became worse than his predecessor. However, he never truly ever stopped loving Jocasta Romanov and constantly asks her to be together again. After he falls from power, he becomes an almost pitiable individual, especially after the death of Jocasta, which he weeps at. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d001c42c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d001c42c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d001c42c | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d0c5fb3 | type |
Impossibly Cool Weapon | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d0c5fb3 | comment |
Impossibly Cool Weapon: Dante's Huntsman 5000 rifle. Coded to his gene print, has internally created ammo and adapts to fire the optimum ammunition to eliminate its target. Naturally, it's one of the few weapons capable of killing a member of the Romanov dynasty. Should anybody else attempt to fire it, the round will seek out and kill them. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d0c5fb3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d0c5fb3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d0c5fb3 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d0f63e83 | type |
Magnetic Hero | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d0f63e83 | comment |
Magnetic Hero: Nikolai is incredibly charismatic, especially with women. In spite of several smear campaigns by the Tsar, he becomes a hero to the people. Probably because he fights for the common folk, as opposed to oppressing them like the aristocracy. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d0f63e83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d0f63e83 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d0f63e83 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d177a22c | type |
Dominatrix | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d177a22c | comment |
Dominatrix: Lulu has a domineering personality and both the men and women of the Cadre Infernale line up to be humiliated by her. One guy is shown being picked at by her cyberswarm and is ordered to clean the toilets with his tongue. Spatchcock tells Elena Kurakin that she'd be good at this. She's not amused. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d177a22c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d177a22c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d177a22c | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d19343fc | type |
Glove Slap | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d19343fc | comment |
Glove Slap: Subverted in an early story. Captain Arbatov does this to Nikolai to challenge him to a duel. Nikolai simply responds by kicking him in the balls. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d19343fc | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d19343fc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d19343fc | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d1cedb73 | type |
Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d1cedb73 | comment |
Slap-Slap-Kiss: The essence of Nikolai and Jena's relationship. It's taken literally in "Love And War", which serves as both the epilogue to "The Courtship of Jena Makarov" and the prologue to "Tsar Wars". Nikolai storms into Jena's shack, complaining that Jena didn't wait long enough for him to surface from the wreck of Deriabin's airship. They start slapping and punching each other until they just end up having sex. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d1cedb73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d1cedb73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d1cedb73 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d4d8d831 | type |
Feuding Families | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d4d8d831 | comment |
Feuding Families: The Romanovs and Makarovs have been this way since the last revolution. Dmitri believed that, as a Romanov, being Tsar was his birthright and challenged Vladimir's claim to the throne. After their duel, Vlad let Dmitri live just to humiliate him and they spent the next half a century in a Space Cold War. Jocasta chose family over her romance with Vlad. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d4d8d831 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d4d8d831 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d4d8d831 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d62dd556 | type |
The Chessmaster | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d62dd556 | comment |
The Chessmaster: The Countessa de Wynter manages to manipulate everybody in order to further her schemes. Dmitri Romanov, upon losing the war, manages to hide within Arkady so he can worm his way into command of the Scarlet Wraiths and take control of the empire from Nikolai and Jena after they've done all the legwork against Vlad. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d62dd556 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d62dd556 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d62dd556 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d7ee7a25 | type |
Painted-On Pants | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d7ee7a25 | comment |
Painted-On Pants: Lulu tends to wear liquid latex, making this trope almost literal. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d7ee7a25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d7ee7a25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d7ee7a25 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d7fc9fd0 | type |
Vitriolic Best Buds | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: Nikolai and his Weapons Crest. The Crest denounces him at every opportunity, but later begins to warm to him, even coming up with ideas that are very much along Dante's own line of thinking. When the Crest is destroyed, he has a major Heroic BSoD. | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d7fc9fd0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d7fc9fd0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d7fc9fd0 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d99d9918 | type |
The Captain | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d99d9918 | comment |
The Captain: Nikolai is commissioned as a captain in the Imperial Raven Corps at the beginning of the story. He maintains the rank throughout the strip after he joins the Romanovs. | |
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Amazon Brigade | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_d9d2c40b | comment |
Amazon Brigade: Katarina Dante's pirate crew and Monique le Fanu's Vampires And the army of the nation of Amazonia. | |
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Action Girl | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Averted with Elena Kurakin. She's one of the most combat capable females in the strip, which is saying something when compared with the likes of Lulu and Nastasia Romanov. She's one of the few members of the original Rudinshtein Irregulars to survive the war and she fights by Nikolai's side again once he becomes Sword Of The Tsar. She even helps Dante track the Tsar down at the finale. | |
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Field Promotion | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_db911ee | comment |
Dante gives Elena Kurakin a Field Promotion to Sergeant when she helps him subdue the Grozny gang, a rank she maintains even in Imperial and later revolutionary service. | |
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They Would Cut You Up | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_dcd29760 | comment |
They Would Cut You Up: Upon receiving his powers from the Romanov Crest, Nikolai is reluctant to return to the Tsar Makarov for fear that the Tsar's scientists and researchers would do exactly this in order to develop a similar crest of their own. | |
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Start of Darkness | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e0040f41 | comment |
Start of Darkness: Vladimir Makarov and Dmitri Romanov started out as somewhat decent people until their families were targeted in The Purge. As a result, the revolt they changed both of them into taking scrupulous methods that latter caused rifts as Vladimir proclaimed and kept the Tsar title. | |
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Blood Bath | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e03533c8 | comment |
Blood Bath: The High Priestess of the Cadre Infernale, Camilla Le Fanu, took these to rejuvenate her youth and beauty. See Also: Kill the Poor. | |
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Changed My Mind, Kid | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e0ecc959 | comment |
Changed My Mind, Kid: Spatchcock and Flintlock finally manage to get a way out of trouble that Elena Kurakin sets up for them before the final battle. When they get to the edge of the battlefield, they actually feel remorse for running out and actually go back to help Elena against Elizabeth Hawksmoore. This uncharacteristic act of bravery costs Flintlock his life. | |
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Cruel Mercy | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e19e68 | comment |
Cruel Mercy: Vladimir Makarov and Dmitri Romanov duelled for the title of Tsar at the end of their revolution. When Vlad won, he spared Dmitri's life so he would have to live with the shame of defeat. | |
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Voice Changeling | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e1ba59f3 | comment |
Voice Changeling: Nikolai's Weapons Crest gives him a strong Scottish accent when he assumes the identity of a Scottish lord when trying to rob a casino. It almost works too, until Lauren's jealousy blows his cover when another woman tries to determine if he's Going Commando underneath his kilt. When under attack, Nikolai tells his Crest to drop the accent, which it gladly does, noting that "Nikolai Dante: Man Of A Thousand Voices" is not his best career move. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e28f88b8 | type |
Last-Name Basis | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e28f88b8 | comment |
Last-Name Basis: Nikolai's Weapons Crest always refers to him by last name. When the Crest decides to switch to First-Name Basis, it's not long before Dmitri Romanov destroys it. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e2a6ebc1 | type |
Closed Circle | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e2a6ebc1 | comment |
Closed Circle: Due to the Feudal Future nature of the empire, lawlessness has been known to take over in a number of regions. When an area becomes too bad, the empire just gives up and cuts it off from the rest of the world, setting up a perimeter so no one gets in or out. These Alienation Zones are sometimes also set up as punishment. For example, Rudinshtein has this happen due to it being the scene of the Last Stand for the Romanov army at the end of the Tsar Wars arc, though Nikolai having been governor may also have been a factor. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e34541d | type |
One World Order | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e34541d | comment |
One World Order: By the 27th Century, just about the entire planet is under direct or indirect Russian rule. Although rebel groups still persist in what was once America. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e34541d | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e35ab565 | type |
Indy Ploy | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e35ab565 | comment |
Indy Ploy: Nikolai tends to make up plans on the fly, especially in battle. Flintlock lampshades it in a debriefing noting that Nikolai's strategy seems to involve hurling himself at increasingly large numbers of enemy guns. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e44a1a70 | type |
Bounty Hunter | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e44a1a70 | comment |
Bounty Hunter: Since Nikolai ends up as the most wanted man in the empire on several occasions, there's always someone looking to claim the ridiculous bounty on his head. Most notable of these is Drago "The Decapitator" Krasny, who not only always decapitates his bounties, but is also not above killing other bounty hunters just to claim the bounties they are escorting as well. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e49686 | type |
The Hero | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e49686 | comment |
The Hero: Nikolai has no less than three nicknames that have "Hero" in the title. He becomes known as the Hero of Rudinshtein when he kills the previous governor who was torturing and generally slaughtering the populace. The Hero of the Romanovs is a name given to him during the civil war because he's the Token Good Team Mate of the Romanov army. Finally, he becomes the Hero of the Revolution when he leads a revolution of his own against the Tsar. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Dante is essentially a combination of Errol Flynn's portrayal of Robin Hood and Flynn himself. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e596f27b | type |
Star-Crossed Lovers | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e596f27b | comment |
Star-Crossed Lovers: Vladimir and Jocasta grew up together and fell for each other. However, after their revolution, Dmitri and Vlad duelled for the throne and Jocasta was forced to side with her brother. Over the years, Vlad asks her to join him again, something she always refuses. Vlad is forced to watch when Dmitri burns her to death. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e851b5 | type |
The Plan | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e851b5 | comment |
The Plan: Lulu's manipulation of the Cadre Infernale involves framing Camilla by framing Nikolai for the murder of another member of the Cadre. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e9d6eff8 | type |
Cool Airship | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_e9d6eff8 | comment |
Cool Airship: The Imperial Palace is a literal flying fortress, bristling with BFGs, Strikehawk squadrons, and missile batteries, including nukes, but also including living quarters, the Tsar's court and dungeons, and plenty of troops. It also makes assassination attempts against the Tsar extremely difficult because any would-be assassin would need an aircraft, or at least a jetpack to both get on board and escape. Escaping from the damn thing is extremely difficult, with only two people ever being successful, one of whom was rendered comatose for twenty five years as a result and the other being Nikolai Dante. It's not known if it's spaceworthy, because the sheer size of the thing would probably be impossible to accelerate to the velocity required to escape the Earth's atmosphere. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_eae41a | type |
The Vamp | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_eae41a | comment |
Lulu is a vampish Dominatrix who takes control of the Cadre Infernale by murdering one of its members and placing the blame on Camilla Le Fanu, while also making it look like Camilla was framing Nikolai. She also possibly has incestuous feelings towards Nikolai, judging by her goodbye kiss to him. She has driven countless lovers to the verge of suicide and insanity. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_eae41a | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_eb002293 | type |
Shrinking Violet | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_eb002293 | comment |
Though Jena Makarov isn't exactly a Shrinking Violet herself... | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_eba6a077 | type |
Cain and Abel | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_eba6a077 | comment |
Cain and Abel: Nikolai has always had friction with most of his Romanov siblings due to his ancestry. Most of them do come to accept him apart from Konstantin. Over the years they come to blows and it begins to come to a head during the war when Nikolai literally stabs Konstantin In the Back. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ebd01bc5 | type |
Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ebd01bc5 | comment |
Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: Gender flipped. Akita Sagawa orders for Nikolai to be washed and shaved before being brought before her so she can have sex with him. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ecbf37ff | type |
Disposable Sex Worker | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ecbf37ff | comment |
Disposable Sex Worker: Konstantin is periodically sent seductresses (and whatever their Spear Counterpart is called) to his fortress of Castle Kronstadt as "a passing amusement". He always incinerates them after doing the deed to preserve his secret identity as the Lord Protector. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ecf76ce6 | type |
Decapitated Army | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ecf76ce6 | comment |
Decapitated Army: Discussed. During the meeting between Jocasta and Vladimir at Archangel, Nikolai corrects Jocasta when she states that the war will not end that day. Nikolai puts a blade to Vlad's throat, only for Vlad to point out that killing him would only drive Jena to continue the war and have another reason to hate Nikolai. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ecf76ce6 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_edbb1357 | type |
List of Transgressions | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_edbb1357 | comment |
List of Transgressions: In "The Memoirs Of Nikolai Dante", the Tsar is shown with a list of Nikolai's crimes, which describe him as a bandit, a brawler, a conman, a duellist, a thief and a gigolo. Every time Nikolai meets a new Arbatov, the Arbatov will list the fates of all his previous brothers that Nikolai was responsible for, either directly or indirectly. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ee7a60e9 | type |
One-Steve Limit | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ee7a60e9 | comment |
One-Steve Limit: Averted. There are two female characters named Elena; Elena de Janissaire, Eloise's mother, and Elena Kurakin, Nikolai's lancer. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_eedee4d | type |
The Starscream | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_eedee4d | comment |
The Amerikan Resistance had various front-line military commanders such as Major Liberty, alongside a network of high-ranking and strategically placed agents such as Carmen Suarez, who initially severed as the intelligence and financial leadership for the various New York branches. | |
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Glorious Mother Russia | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ef3b4c2f | comment |
Glorious Mother Russia: A somewhat twisted take on this trope, but the resurgent Russian Empire is not only a land of adventure. But also encompasses the entire planet by the time the series takes place. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f0c4ce7d | type |
The Lost Lenore | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f0c4ce7d | comment |
The Lost Lenore: Nikolai was never the same after the death of his wife, Eloise. Every year, he disappears on the anniversary of her death to mourn her in private. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f3626b09 | type |
Mercy Kill | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f3626b09 | comment |
Jena had several tutors growing up, but only two of them she considered to be relevant to her: Her fencing tutor, Caius Zacharovich and her arts tutor, Leonid Tarasov. Nikolai notes that if Caius had been Tsar instead of Vladimir, the empire would be a better place and he gives Tarasov a Mercy Kill when he learns that he's dying instead of allowing the Tsar's torturers to break him first. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f38dccf5 | type |
Strolling Through the Chaos | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f38dccf5 | comment |
Strolling Through the Chaos: Viktor often does this in the middle of a battle and won't fight unless he's really pissed off and certainly won't use his powers unless absolutely necessary. | |
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| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f4d8ac92 | type |
The Assimilator | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f4d8ac92 | comment |
The Assimilator: The White Army's goal is to have humanity embrace cyberorganic technology and give up their humanity. Not only have they succeeded in their own reality, having vanquished the Red Guard, their goal shifts to taking over Nikolai's. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f4d8ac92 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f52ae5d8 | type |
Enemy Civil War | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f52ae5d8 | comment |
Enemy Civil War: One breaks out around halfway through the series, between House Romanovnote led by Dmitri Romanov, Lady Jocasta Romanov, and most of their offspring and House Makarovnote led by the Tsar, Princess Jena, Count Prye, the War Council (early war, until their coup attempt), and the mysterious "Lord Protector". It ends badly for House Romanov. | |
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Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f52ae5d8 | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f627b434 | type |
Platonic Life-Partners | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f627b434 | comment |
Platonic Life-Partners: Nikolai Dante and Elena Kurakin. Dante promotes Elena to Sergeant after she helps him subdue the Grozny gang (and gets them to fight for him). She's his Lancer throughout the war and he later frees her from a gulag and appoints her as his bodyguard when he is appointed Sword Of The Tsar. They continue to fight together right up until the strip's finale where she even accompanies him to his final showdown with the Tsar. | |
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Shapeshifting | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_f8f3711c | comment |
Shapeshifting: Count Pyre and his consort, Marialis, belong to a species of humanoid shapeshifters. Their abilities make them ideal as both spies and assassins, as not only can they infiltrate any locale with ease, but they can also take the form of a variety of predators of any size and can even No-Sell attacks like sword thrusts by changing their body shape around the weapon in question. Pyre is the commander of the Scarlet Wraiths, the Tsar's intelligence service, for a good reason. | |
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Locked Away in a Monastery | |
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Jocasta Romanov's position within the dynasty is as head of its intelligence services. Even after the war, when she's Locked Away In A Nunnery, she maintains considerable influence. | |
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You Killed My Father | |
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You Killed My Father: Elizabeth Hawksmoore confesses to Elena Kurakin that she killed her father. Elena severs her spine not too long after. During the final battle, Elena destroys Hawksmoore's Powered Armor with a grenade and finishes the job with her father's sword. | |
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Riches to Rags | |
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Riches to Rags: Flintlock's backstory has him disowned by his family. He was also previously a captain in the Britannian army until he was imprisoned for reneging on a drunken wager with Andreas Romanov and drafted into the Romanov army as a convict soldier. Somewhere between the civil war and Nikolai's appointment as Sword Of The Tsar, the Devil's Martyrs lost their dynastic status and have been reduced to banditry and kidnapping. | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They?: Nikolai and Jena's Belligerent Sexual Tension is a major plot point throughout the strip. Neither can remember if they did have sex after the destruction of the Dark Star because they both consumed a lot of alcohol but they finally do after Nikolai rescues Jena from Sir Richard Hawksmoore. Sadly, their relationship is short lived, as their families go to war immediately afterwards and it's years before they get back together again. | |
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Evil Is Hammy | |
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Valentine Romanov becomes one when he unveils his plan. He decides that years of playing cloak and dagger have finally caught up with him and he decides to be hammy For the Lulz. | |
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Feudal Future | |
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Feudal Future: By the time of the 27th century, society is run as it was in Tsarist Russia. Supreme power rests with the Tsar with noble houses governing territories. The aristocracy lives in luxury with high technology, while the commoners live no better than they did a thousand years earlier, with the poorest living in actual medieval conditions. Duels, serfdom, and pre-20th century tactics coexist alongside aliens, cybernetics, and genetic engineering. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
| Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_ff7f34c5 | comment |
Pet the Dog: Unlike Dmitri Romanov, Tsar Vladimir the Conqueror actually has people that he cares about. The great love of his life was always Jocasta Romanov and he does genuinely love his daughters. It's Julianna's death that drives him to war with the Romanov Dynasty. | |
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