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Baltimore

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Baltimore	comment	Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, is an illustrated novel by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, who had previously collaborated on several of the Hellboy horror novels. While having a similar premise of a paranormal investigator, this story is quite different in other ways.Born Lord Henry Baltimore, the titular character was commissioned as a captain into the British Army during World War I. After a trench raid goes wrong, he is left badly wounded on the battlefield, where at dusk, enormous vampire bats feast on the dead and dying. Defending himself from the creatures, he injures one of them in the face, prompting them all to retreat, but not before his crippled leg is infected with their breath...Later on, Baltimore is retrieved and brought to a hospital, where his leg is amputated. He is soon visited by a well-dressed gentleman with a scarred eye, who vows revenge on him and all of humankind. By the time he is discharged from service, Baltimore finds that a mysterious plague has spread all throughout Europe which saps the life away from those infected until they are nothing but listless, "gray people". When even his family is killed by the vampire that he wounded, Baltimore swears an oath of vengeance that takes him all across the globe.The book mainly focuses on three companions of Baltimore, who have all convened in a tavern in an unnamed city to meet with their mutual friend. While waiting, they each recount how they came to know Lord Baltimore, and just what experiences they had in their life that made them all too willingly believe Baltimore's tale of vampires and curses.A very dark story, it deals with the atrocities of war and the effects left on those who fight in them.Mignola and Golden eventually followed it up with a comic book series, which features Baltimore's later adventures, maintaining the novel's dark tone. It is illustrated by Ben Stenbeck, who also drew Witchfinder for Mignola's Hellboy universe. Lord Baltimore's story comes to an end in the comic book series' final arc The Red Kingdom, which pits him in his final confrontation with the Red King while the rest of the world stands on the brink.Mignola and Golden would later partner up again in the Spiritual Successor Joe Golem and the Drowning City, likewise a tale of the toll of heroism.
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Baltimore / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Baltimore / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: The Inquisition in the comic, and boy are they militant. They seriously calm down after the time skip, to the point they've started started recruiting non-Christian wizards.
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Baltimore / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Baltimore / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Very much so in Europe, at least, and made especially obvious in the comic. The Red Plague has devastated the population, all manner of supernatural creatures have appeared to prey on humanity, and the church has reinstated a merciless inquisition to combat the vampires. At the end of Chapel of Bones #2, a map in Dr. Rose's study implies that the Red Plague has spread throughout Eurasia, with crosses extending from France to Japan and from Russia to India. Also, one of Rose's guests is an Indian Sikh, strongly hinting that Baltimore's quest will eventually take him there as well. In The Red Kingdom, its show how much worse the world has gotten by 1925: the Red King has conquered much of the world and he has vampires, witches and foul demons to enforce his will and sacrifice innocents daily in his name. Only a few dozens of nations are resisting against him, but they are hopeless against the Red King's unstoppable hordes.
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Baltimore / int_26648fb1	type	Perverse Puppet
Baltimore / int_26648fb1	comment	Perverse Puppet: Sea Captain Aischros encountered a whole town of these in his youth.
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Baltimore / int_26ff59b4	type	Knight Errant
Baltimore / int_26ff59b4	comment	Knight Errant - A rather grim and no-nonsense one, but Baltimore becomes this in his search for the Red King over the years hunting him.
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Baltimore / int_28b26f8	type	Allegory Adventure
Baltimore / int_28b26f8	comment	Allegory Adventure - Most of the events that happen in Baltimore's portion are based on the events of the Hans Christian Andersen story of the Steadfast Tin Soldier.
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Baltimore / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Baltimore / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters - While obviously still good, the experiences Baltimore goes through cause him to become just as otherworldy and threatening as the vampires he hunts. Played straight with Judge Duvic.
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Baltimore / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Baltimore / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Red Kingdom comic that serves as closure to the series has Baltimore finally succeeds in killing the Red King once and for all before his ascension and having finally fulfilled his revenge, he himself dies shortly afterwards due to removing his own heart previously. Several of his companions perished during the final battle and Europe is left in complete ruins by the Red King's destruction, but at least Lord Henry Baltimore has found peace and is implied to be with his loved ones in the afterlife.
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Baltimore / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Baltimore / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: The vampires were awakened by World War I's bloodshed, something which they were very keen on blaming humans for being berserkers and killers, as the page quote demonstrate. In The Red Kingdom, the Red King's armies were bolstered by humans hoping to indulge in vile and dark deeds as chaos ruled the world.
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Baltimore / int_4e3e577a	type	Psychological Horror
Baltimore / int_4e3e577a	comment	Psychological Horror - Standard for a Mike Mignola work.
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Baltimore / int_59fe174d	type	Devil, but No God
Baltimore / int_59fe174d	comment	Devil, but No God - A very strange case of this; over the course of the book it's stated that everything Baltimore goes through is God's way of forging him into a weapon that can stop the vampire plague. Yet besides one monk who tells Baltimore this, we never actually see God (or a representative of His) actually take any direct action against the monsters. This leads to the main characters doing what needs to be done, but cursing God all the while for having to do it.
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Baltimore / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Baltimore / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: Baltimore, following the death of his family by Haigus' hands, he removes his own heart and becomes supernaturally driven to destroy the vampire king. Only when he is actually killed that Baltimore finally does die, showing that he was living on borrowed time himself.
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Baltimore / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Baltimore / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination - Though not of Mignola's usual Lovecraft variety: The Red Death, the true source of the vampire plague, is a demonic skeleton with a scepter and coffin, whose red wing-like cloak brings death and gives birth to undead horrors.
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Baltimore / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Baltimore / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News - Doctor Rose meets an allied Norwegian soldier who is cursed to turn into a demonic bear that kills every living human it can find each time he goes to sleep at night, because he killed the previous demon bear beforehand.
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Baltimore / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Baltimore / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The Vampire Lord whom Baltimore calls "The Red King" is the mastermind behind the plagues.
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Baltimore / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Baltimore / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Red Death, the actual Red King and the source of the vampiric plague.
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Baltimore / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Baltimore / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Baltimore stops a Zombie Apocalypse single handily.
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Baltimore / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Baltimore / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different - For one, the plague that is killing people across Europe is actually turning them into vampires.
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Baltimore / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Baltimore / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History - Obviously with the way the Great War peters out in the face of a vampiric plague, but the novel has indications that even before the plague this is not quite our Europe with the Allies fighting in Gaul against Hessians (initially this could be explained as them facing Imperial German units from Hesse but later on it becomes clear that the term is used for Germans in general), and joined by Nordic troops. Interestingly the comic series doesn't seem to take this angle with national names etc being much more like our own world. With the Great War ending early and subsequent events, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union have been butterflied away. However, their place has been taken by the Red King and his armies, and by 1925 the world is in the throes of an alternate World War II, this time between the Alliance and the Red King's Kingdom, which has conquered most of Asia and Europe, as told in Baltimore: The Red Kingdom.
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Baltimore / int_ab7b9269	type	You All Meet in an Inn
Baltimore / int_ab7b9269	comment	You All Meet in an Inn: All three of Baltimore's friends meet in a tavern to wait for him when he summons them together; they spend almost the entire novel waiting and telling each other stories about their pasts.
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Baltimore / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Baltimore / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens - The main characters get very angry with God at times, and are very vocal about it; see Devil, but No God above.
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Baltimore / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Baltimore / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation - Doctor Rose meets an allied Norwegian soldier who is cursed to turn into a demonic bear that kills every living human it can find each time he goes to sleep at night, because he killed the previous demon bear beforehand.
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Baltimore / int_bb0b2739	type	Nested Story
Baltimore / int_bb0b2739	comment	Nested Story: see the page's literature section.
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Baltimore / int_cd87bdbe	type	Purpose-Driven Immortality
Baltimore / int_cd87bdbe	comment	Purpose-Driven Immortality: Implied in Baltimore with Baltimore himself. Right after the Red King is killed, Baltimore himself dies, having previously removed his own heart. It was implied God had kept him alive for this single goal.
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Baltimore / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Baltimore / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes - During the climactic battle, Baltimore appears and begins effortlessly killing the shadow vampire wraiths that his friends were barely even able to fight off.
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Baltimore / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
Baltimore / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification - Arguably, the Red Death, as it not only is the supernatural source of the plague, but also its embodiment in the spiritual world.
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