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The Last Temptation was a limited comic series originally published in the now-defunct Marvel Music imprint and republished in a collected volume by Dark Horse. It was developed by Neil Gaiman and Alice Cooper originally as Cooper's concept album of the same name, but eventually was adapted as a comic by Gaiman and illustrated by Michael Zulli.The story focuses on a boy named Steven who, on the day before Halloween, encounters the Showman and his Theatre of the Real. Inside Steven is treated to a show of all the horrors of the future, and the loneliness and doubt that adulthood offers. While this fails to crack Steven's will, he does find himself taken with the Showman's lovely female assistant, Mercy. After leaving the theatre, the Showman proceeds to attack Steven's sense of security through various mind games and eventually offers him an escape from having to face the future, for a price of course.Not to be confused for the trope The Final Temptation, which ironically enough doesn't really appear in this story. |
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Transhuman Treachery |
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Transhuman Treachery: In a way, this is what the Showman offers to Steven and all the children he takes. "When you've become the thing that scares, there's nothing to be scared of ever again." |
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Deal with the Devil |
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Deal with the Devil: The Showman offers to save Steven from all the horrors of being an adult, in exchange for his future and all the potential he ever had. |
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Your Mind Makes It Real |
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Your Mind Makes It Real: Steven beats the ghost theatre by imagining fire to burn it down. |
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Kid Hero |
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Kid Hero: Steven. |
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We Will Meet Again |
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We Will Meet Again: The Showman appears one last time after the destruction of the theatre, giving Steven a warning to this effect; he explicitly state, "You have won the battle, but you have not won the war." |
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Broken Aesop |
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Broken Aesop: The Theatre of the Real is pretty much founded on convincing children that its broken Aesops are the real deal. |
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Body Surf |
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Body Surf: The main method of the Showman's psychological attacks is to talk to Steven through the people around him, and then switch out of them at just the right moment. |
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Becoming the Mask |
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Becoming the Mask: Mercy was created to feign interest in Steven, but appears to really love him in the end. |
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Our Angels Are Different |
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Our Angels Are Different: The look like Alice Cooper, maybe. |
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Cheshire Cat Grin |
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Cheshire Cat Grin: The Showman, and his cane, loves these. |
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Magic Mirror |
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Magic Mirror: The Showman likes to appear in mirrors to mess with Steven's mind, effectively making any mirror magic when he feels like it. |
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The Last Temptation (Comic Book) / int_5b47c8c7 |
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Our Ghosts Are Different |
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Our Ghosts Are Different: Sort of zombie-ish, but still called ghosts. |
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Talking in Your Dreams |
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Talking in Your Dreams: The other part of The Showman's attacks on Steven's mind. |
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Large Ham |
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Large Ham: The Showman knows how to play it up like it's nobody's business. |
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Glamour Failure |
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Glamour Failure: Mercy, in spite of all her allure and charm, doesn't appear to have any skin on her back. |
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Time Abyss |
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Time Abyss: The Showman, for various reasons, gives off the impression that he is as old as the human race itself. |
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Kill It with Fire |
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Kill It with Fire: The Climax. |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Mercy; defying the Showman leads to her evaporating, much to Steven's dismay, after the show burns down. |
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Scaled Up |
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Scaled Up: The Showman at the story's climax. |
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Guyliner |
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Guyliner: The Showman, in accordance with his Alice Cooper-inspired appearance. Steven also dons some as a Halloween costume near the end of the story. |
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Adults Are Useless |
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Adults Are Useless: Though they do help Steven in very minor ways. |
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Town with a Dark Secret |
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Town with a Dark Secret: The Theatre of the Real pops up in Steven's town about every five years, but no one in the town is really in on the secret. |
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Non-Human Sidekick |
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Non-Human Sidekick: The Showman's cane, and his legion of little goblin things. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: The librarian is reading a book by Richard Maddock, a minor character and novelist in The Sandman (1989). Not to mention the kid dressing up as Dream. |
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday |
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: The Theatre of the Real. |
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Our Souls Are Different |
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Our Souls Are Different: The Showman claims he doesn't traffic in souls, but he's always willing to buy your future, and all that you ever could have been. |
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Expy |
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Expy: The Showman pops up in another Gaiman/Zulli graphic novel: The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch. He's running another sort of circus show with mysterious powers, and he even sings Alice Cooper songs (badly), but because of his general lack of (obvious) malicious intent, it's a little up in the air whether or not it's really the same Showman or if they were just fond of this type of character. |
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Abominable Auditorium |
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Abominable Auditorium: The Theater Of The Real is a ghastly venue run by the sinister Showman; the shows consist of undead souls essentially telling the young audience that adult life is horror, and the Showman offers them a place in the theatre in exchange for their life and potential. At the snack counter, you can get human tears, black wine, the waters of Lethe, or Coke. |
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