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Necroscope

538 statements
105 feature instances
62 referencing feature instances

Necroscope	type	TVTItem
Necroscope	label	Necroscope
Necroscope	page	Necroscope
Necroscope	comment	Necroscope is a series of Cold War / Espionage/ESP/Vampire Fiction novels by Brian Lumley.It is the 1970s and the Cold War is at its height. Twitchy superpowers are poised to annihilate the other paranoid and twitchy superpower, and take the world with them. You can't get much more screwed than that... oh wait, there are also vampires, necromancers and werewolves waiting in the wings to enslave or annihilate humanity (and willing to manipulate those governments to do it). Welcome to the world of Necroscope. From the height of the cold war, into the future the world will be caught a long and drawn out conflict fought by government sponsored Psychics, Espers, and oddly powered individuals. The opposition, pretty much the same, but you can also throw in the aforementioned supernatural creatures, a generous selection of mobsters, corrupt politicians, and traitors.
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Necroscope	processingComment	Dropped link to DirtyCommies: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Necroscope	processingComment	Dropped link to Dracula: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Necroscope / int_115d318	type	And Then John Was a Zombie
Necroscope / int_115d318	comment	And Then John Was a Zombie: Vampirisation happens to the good guys every now and again. Eventually, Harry Keogh is subject to this as well.
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Necroscope / int_1231e49d	type	Resist the Beast
Necroscope / int_1231e49d	comment	Resist the Beast: Harry Keogh manages to do this once he gets infected so that he can get back into the vampire world without engineering the fall of the human race. Much later the entirety of E-Branch's heads and the Necroscope Jake Cutter are infected and end up holding off their vampiric urges with Heroic Willpower long enough to build a means for society to continue post vampire apocalypse.
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Necroscope / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Necroscope / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: And how. In this series named characters may die, characters may die to be brought back from the dead only to die again, and even dead characters can experience Cessation of Existence.
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Necroscope / int_133cdcaa	type	Ominous Hair Loss
Necroscope / int_133cdcaa	comment	Ominous Hair Loss: Subverted! Boris Dragonani begins exhibiting a receding hairline around the halfway point of the first book, and his boss attributes this to poor health. In the narration, however Boris reveals that his hairline isn't receding at all: his skull is changing shape. As it turns out, he's been infested with a wamphyri symbiote and he's transforming into a vampire.
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Necroscope / int_133f5d54	type	Phantom Zone
Necroscope / int_133f5d54	comment	Phantom Zone: The Wamphyri see Earth as this, humanity has the vampire world as this.
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Necroscope / int_14f69e56	type	Psychic Radar
Necroscope / int_14f69e56	comment	Psychic Radar: In the Necroscope novels people who have this "Talent" are called spotters, and are rarer even than regular Talents.
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Necroscope / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Necroscope / int_1843bf38	comment	Visionary Villain: Devetaki Skullguise counts, given her grand aims of invading Earth and co-opting our weapons technology and vast numbers to ensure eternal Wamphyri supremacy. She gets leprosy and a fatal dose of sunlight for her efforts. The trio of vampires from the E-Branch trilogy, who successfully execute a plan to infect all of Earth with a plague of vampirism, which results in centuries of horrifying bloodshed until a cure for vampirism is discovered.
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Necroscope / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Necroscope / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: Necromancers can plumb the dead's mind for their secrets, but they must be on-site to manually torture the information out of their target. Necroscopes can simply ask for the information at vast distances, and almost always successfully since they don't require torture to interact with the dead.
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Necroscope / int_1b9df446	type	Wrong Context Magic
Necroscope / int_1b9df446	comment	Wrong Context Magic: Necroscopy itself. Necroscopes can communicate with the dead via the medium of Deadspeak, which cannot be detected by espers except as a large disturbance in the psychic aether. And the dead will rise from the graves to fight for Necroscopes willingly out of sheer love, animated by the weird talent in question.
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Necroscope / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Necroscope / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: A mantra of Harry Keogh to the point of being Arc Words, and an attitude held by most in the series since only truly inhumane measures can keep Wamphryi dead.
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Necroscope / int_1d5786ff	type	Looks Like Orlok
Necroscope / int_1d5786ff	comment	Looks Like Orlok: A very common affectation among the Wamphryi, given that the infection reshapes the features to be more batlike or wolflike at baseline and some vampires lean into it for aesthetic reasons.
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Necroscope / int_1d91d9bb	type	Deadly Gaze
Necroscope / int_1d91d9bb	comment	Deadly Gaze: A rare psychic power within the series. When wielded by a human it can incapacitate a healthy person briefly, but can kill individuals with weakened hearts. When wielded by a vampire, however, it grows more powerful with every use until it's reducing Wamphyri Lords to Ludicrous Gibs.
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Necroscope / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Necroscope / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Ben Trask and Ian Goodley.
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Necroscope / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Necroscope / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: The only reason Earth falls to vampiric corruption is because Nathan was accidentally hit by the blast of a wayward rocket during a post-war celebration. He loses his memories, preventing the most powerful Necroscope in the series from intervening and ending the final trilogy in the space of half a book.
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Necroscope / int_1f136393	type	Undying Warrior
Necroscope / int_1f136393	comment	Undying Warrior: The Wamphyri indulge heavily in violent lifestyles, having been gradually corrupted into enjoying bloodshed and rape by the eldritch parasites within them. In particular, those on Earth have exhibited a very rich military history: Thibor Ferenczy committed so many war crimes in the service of his mortal monarch that he accidentally gave Vlad the Impaler his title in the process, while his sire Faethor gleefully helped sack Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, rode with Genghis Khan in the unification of Mongolia, and even served in the Ottoman Empire's conquest of Byzantium.
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Necroscope / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Necroscope / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Harry's deal with Faethor Ferenczy in book four does not end well.
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Necroscope / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Necroscope / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Both sides of the Gate. The human world is in the grips of the Cold War and coping with psychic espionage and vampire infiltration, as well as runaway climate change later in the series. The vampire world is a post-apocalyptic ruin laden with some of the most terrifying vampires in fiction.
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Necroscope / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
Necroscope / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: Started as a trilogy, now up to 18 books and short story collections.
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Necroscope / int_246cc760	type	Magic Mushroom
Necroscope / int_246cc760	comment	Magic Mushroom: The mushrooms growing on a vampire's grave can vampirize you.
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Necroscope / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Necroscope / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Max Batu (ugly and evil), Ivan Gerenko (ugly and evil), Zek Föener (beautiful and good). Averted in the case of Boris Dragosani, who is described as a very handsome young man. Then zigzagged when he turns into a vampire. He becomes notably more ugly in his vampiric state but can change back to his human form at will.
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Necroscope / int_2bbcd1c2	type	Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest
Necroscope / int_2bbcd1c2	comment	Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Canker Canison, of all people, treats his love with the utmost respect.
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Necroscope / int_30843c04	type	Powerful, but Incompetent
Necroscope / int_30843c04	comment	Powerful, but Incompetent: The majority of the vampires in the Vampire World trilogy, as a consequence of having spent their time in a land filled with supplicant tribes and thus having no experience with open warfare or prey that can fight back.
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Necroscope / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Necroscope / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Exile to Earth is the fate for vampires that are too evil for other vampires. Yeah. And there is even a vampire ice Alcatraz for those that are worse than that. Which our heroes melt. When Harry realizes that his vampire parasite will eventually be beyond his control, he takes care to leave Earth. Before doing this, however, he takes the time to hunt down and destroy a necromancer who is also a serial murderer and rapist (in that order) of young women (while reflecting that even Dragosani never sank this low).
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Necroscope / int_32956961	type	Explosive Breeder
Necroscope / int_32956961	comment	Explosive Breeder: A rare mutation among the Wamphryi produces a vampire with a leech that's capable of producing vast amounts of eggs, which are ordinarily produced only once in a vampire's lifetime. This is not only bad for the vampire since they die after expending all their biomass in the uncontrollable production of eggs, but the sheer number of eggs produced infect everything in the area and produce an unsustainable number of new Wamphryi. Vavara from the E-Branch Trilogy is a massive threat to humanity partially because she is wholly unique in that she's a Mother of Vampires who can actually control her ability to produce eggs.
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Necroscope / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Necroscope / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The series as a whole ends with vampires managing to infect a vast proportion of the world's population, including the heroes, but an epilogue shows that after a millennium or so humanity (specifically England) worked out a genetic cure.
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Necroscope / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
Necroscope / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: Multiple countries in this series have an E-Branch, a secret organization dedicated to locating and nurturing the talents of espers for the purposes of homeland security. Britain and Russia have the most powerful branches. In the case of Russia, had.
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Necroscope / int_3496b29a	type	Heart Is an Awesome Power
Necroscope / int_3496b29a	comment	Heart Is an Awesome Power: Intuition is an awesome power. Nestor Kiklu received an empowering shard from Harry Keogh's death that granted him superhuman intuition, and that intuition helped him survive innumerable potentially fatal accidents as a human and allowed him to slide into the life of a Wamphyri/necromancer with terrifying speed.
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Necroscope / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
Necroscope / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: Possibly the origin of the Wamphyri, as detailed in the fifth and sixth books. Shaitan, the first vampire, falls into the Vampire World after a great unspecified battle and breathes in vampire spores from a hideous corpse he finds in a swamp. As it turns out, the corpse is that of the vampirized Harry Keogh, which got blown back in time due to a nuclear explosion near a wormhole... that also killed Shaitan's future self. It Makes Sense in Context.
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Necroscope / int_38047858	type	Squishy Wizard
Necroscope / int_38047858	comment	Squishy Wizard: The few psychics in the series with direct offensive powers, i.e. Necroscopes are firmly this. Extremely potent psychic powers, still completely human in body so a bullet or physical blow can stop them. Not so much post-Wamphryi infection, with Harry Keogh and Jake Cutter becoming nightmarishly powerful as a result.
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Necroscope / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Necroscope / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Out of the three Wamphryi to come to earth, the most successful one in infecting the local population en masse is none other than Lord Szwart. His brilliant plan? Hiding his vampiric spore production gardens in London's sewers right beneath a ventilation flue. This gives the deadspawn garden enough time to mature and contaminate London.
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Necroscope / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Necroscope / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The end of Necroscope II: Wamphyri! where Harry Keogh saves the day. Pretty much any book with a Necroscope in it ends like this. Except maybe in Avengers. Still, everything will turn out for the best even in failure, as seen by the precog. More like manages to salvage some small triumph from the utter wreckage of everything rather than victory in a meaningful sense though, as every book leaves humanity or/and our protagonists in a worse position than before.
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Necroscope / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Necroscope / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Dear God, is it raining bridges. Too many incidences to count. A couple of characters have bridges dropped on them, then are resurrected only to have yet another bridge fall on them.
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Necroscope / int_46cfd12f	type	Nothing but Skulls
Necroscope / int_46cfd12f	comment	Nothing but Skulls: The cover of every book features a grotesque skull (or pile of skulls).
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Necroscope / int_481996bd	type	Gothic Punk
Necroscope / int_481996bd	comment	Gothic Punk: mixed with a bit of Steam Punk, this is the vibe of the architecture and bio-machinery of the Starside Wamphyri, with their giant organ piano's and flyers with elaborate, ornate metal saddles.
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Necroscope / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Necroscope / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Vampires = bad guys, always. Unless you have Plot Armor of course, but even then...
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Necroscope / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Necroscope / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Once per book. From a werewolf encased in amber and resin for hundreds of years, to a Vampire Ice-Alcatraz (which the heroes melt note They do this to kill off one Vampire menace, and by doing so release a whole new one of even more evil, and worse, competent ones; Nice Job Melting It).
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Necroscope / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Necroscope / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Harry Keogh, to an enormous extent. Gaining early access to Necroscopy in his youth was bad enough since it ended up with him resigned to carrying out the last wishes of the dead, but his life ended up a huge Trauma Conga Line that started with his mother dying and escalated above and beyond his own death and Harry being left a shell of a man dedicated only to wiping out vampires and necromancers.
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Necroscope / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
Necroscope / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: Even in a series where most people continue as disembodied minds after death, this is possible. The most common method is having one's remains scattered to prevent their spirit from being fully embodied in one place, but it is also possible for dead minds to cease existence by completing perceived Unfinished Business.
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Necroscope / int_4e1d9178	type	Tailor-Made Prison
Necroscope / int_4e1d9178	comment	Tailor-Made Prison: The USSR treat the vampire world of Sunside/Starside as this while Sunside/Starside reciprocates. When the two sides work out it isn't...
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Necroscope / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Necroscope / int_504a1991	comment	The Wamphyri tend to detest their vampire fathers, because they're sadistic and even incestuous. Not least because the turning process is essentially rape with a side-order of Body Horror, or as the luckless Dragosani finds out: "like sitting on a fountain of acid".
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Necroscope / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Necroscope / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: The vast majority of E-Branch, since most Psychic Powers in this series don't have direct combat applications.
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Necroscope / int_567825ee	type	The Pretty Guys Are Stronger
Necroscope / int_567825ee	comment	The Pretty Guys Are Stronger: It is lampshaded in Invaders that historically the more hideously deformed Wamphryi in the series are at best cannon fodder compensating for weakness with external monstrosity. Naturally, most of the vampires out of Turgosheim in the Vampire World trilogy are portrayed as both extremely distinctively deformed... and die in droves even before the climax of the final Bloodwar.
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Necroscope / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Necroscope / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: A problem possessed by many vampires in the series, but most profoundly expressed by the Francezci family and the Lord Szwart. Both of their respectively families have an inherited tendency to lose control of their metamorphic powers. Angelo Francezci is reduced to a Blob Monster in the Lost Years duology, his son Francesco isn't far behind, and Szwart is terrified of light since it reveals that he's a small Eldritch Abomination at the time of the series.
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Necroscope / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
Necroscope / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: The Wamphyri make extensive use of this, generally using human flesh as building material. They rely on it so much that they don't even really know how to work metal, instead relying on a specific village to supply them with crafted weapons.
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Necroscope / int_5e7c0ab7	type	Kleptomaniac Hero
Necroscope / int_5e7c0ab7	comment	Kleptomaniac Hero: Harry does an awful lot of stealing, mostly of weapons.
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Necroscope / int_63557923	type	Death World
Necroscope / int_63557923	comment	Death World: Sunside/Starside, the vampire homeworld, is definitely this. It's Earth, but an alternate version that has its axis of rotation tilted sideways, much like Uranus. What this means is that the southern hemisphere (Sunside) always faces the sun and is mostly scorching desert, while the northern hemisphere (Starside) is mostly frozen. Humans live on Sunside, where they would be safe from the Wamphyri...except that the only livable parts of Sunside are so close to the equatorial mountains that they experience a regular, week-long day-night cycle, allowing the Wamphyri to hunt them at regular intervals. There are swamps along the equator that are not shielded by the mountains and hence safe from Wamphyri, but these are where vampire slugs breed, so anyone living there would become a Wamphyri themselves. The Wamphyri also breed monstrous war beasts on Starside, some of which are powerful enough to take down fighter aircraft. For their part, the vampires assume Earth is this, calling it "the hell-lands" because of its planet-wide day-night cycle.
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Necroscope / int_6459cc02	type	I See Dead People
Necroscope / int_6459cc02	comment	I See Dead People: The pathway to ultimate power in the setting, since the dead hold many secrets.
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Necroscope / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
Necroscope / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: Oh yeah. Ironically, this series is closer to the trope in spirit than the majority of Lumley's Cthulhu Mythos-related work.
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Necroscope / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
Necroscope / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: Sunside/Starside is a parallel version of Earth, and a profoundly alien and hostile version at that.
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Necroscope / int_7095c87e	type	TheMasquerade
Necroscope / int_7095c87e	comment	The Masquerade: The vampires generally have a vested interest in maintaining this and even have a proverb that "Anonymity is Synonymous With Longevity" (with a couple of minor exceptions). In the final two books the Big Bads break this hard.
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Necroscope / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Necroscope / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: The future is fixed; anything a prognosticator foresees will happen. The best you can hope for is that you misinterpreted the vision, resulting in a Prophecy Twist. Not only that, if you try to peek at your own future you are guaranteed to discover that you'll be dead in less than a day. Not literally, though it happens the first time we see it done, but when Harry does it he finds out that his life-ribbon is tinged red, and everything he's done to rid himself of vampiric taint is doomed to fail.
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Necroscope / int_72e54916	type	Retired Monster
Necroscope / int_72e54916	comment	Retired Monster: Faethor Ferenczy, retired due to death. In this series that is no bar to being an active participant of course. His one attempt to come out of retirement does not go well for him.
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Necroscope / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Necroscope / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Although often veering into outright Black-and-Grey Morality or even Evil Versus Evil, especially when vampires are involved.
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Necroscope / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Necroscope / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Enter Freely and of Your Own Will".
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Necroscope / int_77a5657	type	Lovecraftian Superpower
Necroscope / int_77a5657	comment	Lovecraftian Superpower: True Wamphyri can reshape flesh and bones (both theirs and others') like Play-Doh. And they're both very imaginative and very sadistic.
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Necroscope / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Necroscope / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Basically the entire series can be summed up as the "Vampire version of Neon Genesis Evangelion."
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Necroscope / int_798c54a4	type	Randomly Gifted
Necroscope / int_798c54a4	comment	Randomly Gifted: How talents are handed out.
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Necroscope / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Necroscope / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Numerous examples, but the worst incites the ending of the series. The protagonists manage to save the vampire world by realigning its axis via psychic powers into an Earth-like orbit, but this melts the Icelands that were a prison for three extremely powerful Wamphyri who bring their plague to the human world successfully.
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Necroscope / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Necroscope / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The Wamphyri were human beings at some point in the (usually distant) past, but were infested with a vampire symbiote and became something much worse. The resulting thing looks almost like a human being, but has wolflike and batlike facial features, and also has gruesome powers not normally associated with vampires, most notably the power to reshape their own flesh and that of others pretty much on a whim.
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Necroscope / int_86d4f985	type	Doing In the Wizard
Necroscope / int_86d4f985	comment	Doing In the Wizard: Vampires (and werewolves) are the result of alien parasites, and thus not supernatural.
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Necroscope / int_8712e4c9	type	Story-Breaker Power
Necroscope / int_8712e4c9	comment	Almost every book with a Necroscope in it uses this trope, since the combination of deadspeak and access to the Mobius Continuum is the very definition of a Story-Breaker Power. As a consequence, most new Necroscopes are denied the full breadth of their powersets until they can manage to unlock it through either the maturation of their powers or tutelage from people actually acquainted with prior Necroscopes, and generally just prior to the climax of the work.
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Necroscope / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Necroscope / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Dragosani is this in the first book, which is at least half devoted to him.
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Necroscope / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Necroscope / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Used liberally by all sides. Virtually every main character gets the treatment at some point, and usually from their own allies.
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Necroscope / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
Necroscope / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: The final trilogy, which takes place after runaway global warming has devastated portions of the planet. And in a more supernatural sense, just before The Bad Guy Wins and turns the planet into a vampire hive for centuries.
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Necroscope / int_8c625f4c	type	Soviet Superscience
Necroscope / int_8c625f4c	comment	Soviet Superscience: The USSR tries to put a Deflector Shield over the entire country, but instead accidentally rips Space-Time a new arsehole. Oh, and turns the small hard-to-reach wormhole to the Vampire World into the equivalent of an expressway.
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Necroscope / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Necroscope / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Not Earth for once, but the Vampire World through the wormhole was hit with a white hole, causing a Class 2. The impact knocked the moon into a closer orbit and tilted the planet's axis almost completely sideways, violently and dramatically remaking its terrain into the Sunside/Starside divide of the present day. Of the planet's original 250 million inhabitants, only a few thousand survived. Afterward, the altered day-night cycle allowed the Wamphyri to emerge and become dominant, permanently squelching the return of human civilization.
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Necroscope / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Necroscope / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Triumvirate. In the E-Branch Trilogy, a trio of extremely powerful vampires sneak out through the gates and immediately begin plans to start a Broken Masquerade scenario. And succeed with flying colors despite dying in the process.
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Necroscope / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Necroscope / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: The most reliable way to dispose of vampires, although the ashes are still suspect.
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Necroscope / int_9c649587	type	Power Parasite
Necroscope / int_9c649587	comment	Power Parasite: Harry Keogh, or Deadspawn, spends the entire book taking other people's powers (to be fair most of them weren't needing them since they were dead at the time) for the final confrontation with the Big Bad in the alternate universe. It Makes Sense in Context. Boris Dragosani did the same thing in the first book, but was less successful since he had to actually be on-site to torture the secrets of psychic powers out of his victims.
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Necroscope / int_9df954d6	type	Enigmatic Empowering Entity
Necroscope / int_9df954d6	comment	Enigmatic Empowering Entity: The golden darts that were introduced at the end of the original series, which empower every subsequent protagonist with the Necroscope powerset. They're fragments of Harry Keogh's mind and talent which were deliberately fragmented and scattered across time and space to create Necroscopes in the time of greatest need.
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Necroscope / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Necroscope / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Vampires are symbiotic/parasitic fungi. More specifically, they're infected with a kind of symbiotic leech that gives them superpowers and a thirst for blood. It also gives them disturbingly metamorphic flesh and makes them into total sociopaths. The only way to kill them is fire, beheading, or sunlight.
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Necroscope / int_a96d230	type	Superior Successor
Necroscope / int_a96d230	comment	Superior Successor: Both of Harry's Necroscope sons are this in theory. Harry Junior has his father's Necroscopy from birth and an even greater grasp of Mobius math that allows interuniversal travel, and Nathan inherits Necroscopy along with extremely powerful telepathy and his own means of achieving interuniversal travel. As with their father, they are subject to conditions that hinder their effectiveness. Harry Junior ends up vampirized and scorched into a bestial state by the sun, and Nathan has his memories temporarily destroyed by a Tap on the Head so he can't interfere with their plan to infect Earth.
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Necroscope / int_a971e83c	type	Hidden Elf Village
Necroscope / int_a971e83c	comment	Hidden Elf Village: The cave enclaves of the Thyre, a near-human race from the vampire world with racial telepathy and a pacifistic society. They help train Nathan in his burgeoning telepathy and Necroscopy.
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Necroscope / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
Necroscope / int_ac1e30d8	comment	Red Scare: This series takes place during the Cold War, after all. Unusually for the genre, a number of sympathetic Communist characters are included that assist the protagonists with their efforts to wipe out vampirism.
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Necroscope / int_ae1723af	type	Sanity Has Advantages
Necroscope / int_ae1723af	comment	Sanity Has Advantages: The Wamphyri parasite enhances everything about a human physically and mentally to extreme levels. Unfortunately for them, that includes existing mental instability and makes emotions incredibly intense. The end result is that vampires functionally lack free will since they're by and large beholden to their whims and their parasite, and this species-wide insanity is the only reason they haven't taken over both worlds centuries ago. When some sane and effective vampires show up, it spells the end for the human world.
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Necroscope / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
Necroscope / int_b15b6a35	comment	Every other protagonist ends up a Cosmic Plaything as well since they're only empowered by shards whenever truly horrifying world-ending scenarios are about to go down. And worse still, being empowered in this way can make them a target for the next Arc Villain to come along. Just ask Nathan.
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Necroscope / int_b5185c4c	type	Extra-Dimensional Shortcut
Necroscope / int_b5185c4c	comment	Extradimensional Shortcut: Harry Keogh acquires the power to transport himself instantaneously through a subspace-esque location known as the Mobius Continuum, with the only limitations being that a truly exceptional understanding of math and appropriate coordinates are required. Since he has the former and the dead provide the latter, there are very few practical limitations on the power.
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Necroscope / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Necroscope / int_bb5126ec	comment	The future is fixed; anything a prognosticator foresees will happen. The best you can hope for is that you misinterpreted the vision, resulting in a Prophecy Twist. Not only that, if you try to peek at your own future you are guaranteed to discover that you'll be dead in less than a day.
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Necroscope / int_bf88aeec	type	Death-Activated Superpower
Necroscope / int_bf88aeec	comment	Death-Activated Superpower: More like Death-Enhanced Superpower. The Great Majority continue doing in death what they did in life, and that includes individuals with Psychic Powers. The most spectacular uses of powers in the series are carried out by corpses reanimated by Necroscopic power.
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Necroscope / int_c30dba21	type	Parasites Are Evil
Necroscope / int_c30dba21	comment	Parasites Are Evil: The Wamphyri walk a wobbly line between symbiosis and parasitism: essentially a race of alien leeches, they empower their hosts with immortality, inhuman strength, necromancy and the ability to warp flesh at a touch. Unfortunately, being bonded means being painfully and unwillingly impregnated with a fetal vampire symbiote - complete with rape imagery - and subject to its hunger. Regardless of how benevolent they were beforehand, hosts are all gradually corrupted into villainy by their new appetites, to the point that any differences between the parasite and its host vanish: the end result is a sociopathic Humanoid Abomination that will think nothing of committing murder, torture, anatomically-impossible rape, and other crimes too hideous to describe. Vampires are considered so evil in this setting that, upon dying, they're actually excluded by the other dead minds, who want nothing to do with them. Even Harry Keogh isn't immune to this sort of treatment once he gets infected by a vampire symbiote and it has ramifications for the rest of the series.
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Necroscope / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
Necroscope / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: Possibly appearing under the name Shaitan. Who happens to be the first vampire rather than a devil/fallen angel.
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Necroscope / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Necroscope / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The last book of the Vampire World trilogy lets the characters and readers believe the vampire threat has been destroyed for good. The fact that it's not the last chronological installment should clue you in on how well that went.
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Necroscope / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Necroscope / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Things that would be Anatomically Impossible Sex in most series are just part of the Body Horror in this one, thanks to vampires' shapeshifting abilities. Things usually turn out badly. Johnny Found and his hollow-bladed murder weapon. "Johnny doesn't want your dirty little fucky hole. JOHNNY MAKES HIS OWN HOLES!" A character so vile that even a Wamphyri will go out of their way to dispose of him.
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Necroscope / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Necroscope / int_c75df49a	comment	The method of raising the dead by first reducing their bodies to dust before doing the magic seems to be a Shout-Out to H. P. Lovecraft, who had a similar plot device in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
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Necroscope / int_c81e2bba	type	Necromancer
Necroscope / int_c81e2bba	comment	Necromancer: A type of psychic who can commune with the dead... by horribly defiling their corpses and souls. Necroscopes don't need to be horrible to communicate with the dead, and are correspondingly better appreciated by them.
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Necroscope / int_ca7f68c4	type	Power Fist
Necroscope / int_ca7f68c4	comment	Power Fist: The preferred weapon of Wamphryi on their homeworld is the battle gauntlet, a gigantic armored fist loaded with nasty extendable blades and other instruments of rending flesh. The Wamphryi have no skill in metalworking, so these gauntlets are made for them by supplicant tribes of Szgany.
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Necroscope / int_cb71c461	type	Deus Exit Machina
Necroscope / int_cb71c461	comment	Deus Exit Machina: For most of Necroscope II: Wamphyri!, Harry Keogh (otherwise a God-Mode Sue) is unable to bring his full powers to bear because his spirit is bound to the body of his infant son, Harry Junior. Almost every book with a Necroscope in it uses this trope, since the combination of deadspeak and access to the Mobius Continuum is the very definition of a Story-Breaker Power. As a consequence, most new Necroscopes are denied the full breadth of their powersets until they can manage to unlock it through either the maturation of their powers or tutelage from people actually acquainted with prior Necroscopes, and generally just prior to the climax of the work.
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Necroscope / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
Necroscope / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Book 4, Deadspeak, features Janosz Ferenczy. Janosz is distinguished not simply by the fact that he is functionally a Half-Human Hybrid ascended to full vampirism, but he actually possesses necromantic magic rather than the usual psychic necromancy possessed by every other necromantic character in the series. And that magic is derived from Yog-Sothoth, which places the Necroscope universe in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Necroscope / int_d51553de	type	Our Wormholes Are Different
Necroscope / int_d51553de	comment	Our Wormholes Are Different: Type 3, though referred to as "grey holes."
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Necroscope / int_d51ea3ad	type	Instant People: Just Add Water!
Necroscope / int_d51ea3ad	comment	Instant People: Just Add Water!: It's possible to raise the dead by first reducing their bodies to dust before doing the magic. Albeit a special mix of chemicals is used, not actual water.
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Necroscope / int_d8fea106	type	Naked Nutter
Necroscope / int_d8fea106	comment	Naked Nutter: Subverted; in his introduction, Boris Dragonsani ritualistically prepares for necromantic study by stripping naked and using the corpse as a cushion, then butchering the body while still nude. Though the observers assume that Boris is some kind of lunatic, Gregor Borowitz makes it abundantly clear that the necromancer is perfectly sane, a point he proves when Boris manages to uncover the truth and save Borowitz from a traitor while still without a stich of clothing on him. More to the point, when Boris actually does begin to slip into psychopathy as a result of being impregnated with a vampire symbiote, he remains fully clothed.
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Necroscope / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Necroscope / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: The math problems used to establish that young Harry is a genius are accurate enough, they're just not really impressive to actual mathematicians.
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Necroscope / int_daba19f1	comment	Portal Cut: An application of Mobius Continuum doors that only starts receiving use later in the series when the users start getting more creative with their power than simply teleporting a bomb into an enemy stronghold.
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Necroscope / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: This is the protagonist's specific talent - not only to talk to the dead, but to get the dead talking to EACH OTHER, breaking what in some cases is a millennia-long isolation. This puts them heavily in his debt, to the point where they will voluntarily drag themselves out of the grave to fight for him and his cause.
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Necroscope / int_e294a0be	type	Our Souls Are Different
Necroscope / int_e294a0be	comment	Our Souls Are Different: Harry spends book 2 as a disembodied soul but for some reason is not considered dead.
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Necroscope / int_e3fcfa4a	comment	I Hate You, Vampire Dad: The Wamphyri tend to detest their vampire fathers, because they're sadistic and even incestuous. Not least because the turning process is essentially rape with a side-order of Body Horror, or as the luckless Dragosani finds out: "like sitting on a fountain of acid". Vampires also love eating each other, even more than eating humans, so they tend to keep their progeny around just to feed off them, (and the progeny would feed off their creator if they could, so there's no love lost there).
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Necroscope / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Inverted; anyone familiar with Vampire: The Masquerade will easily guess that the Wamphyri were the inspiration for the game's Tzimisce Clan.
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Necroscope / int_edae412c	type	Fighter, Mage, Thief
Necroscope / int_edae412c	comment	Fighter, Mage, Thief: Played interestingly in the Vampire World trilogy on the surface. Vormulac Unsleep is the Frontline General who keeps his troops in line with sheer intimidation, and thus is the Fighter. Maglore the Mage is obviously the Mage, as he is a proud mentalist of formidable telepathic power. And Devetaki Skullguise is the Thief, being a cunning schemer with designs on acquiring powerful weaponry to compensate for a lack of direct force. However, Devetaki is actually a far more powerful telepath than Maglore, Maglore is just as prone to backstabbing as Devetaki, and Vormulac is thus the only one who plays it straight by virtue of being straightforward and untalented at ESP.
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Necroscope / int_f52ae5d8	type	Enemy Civil War
Necroscope / int_f52ae5d8	comment	Enemy Civil War: Constantly, and on all antagonistic sides. The Russians are dealing with typical Cold War infighting; the Wamphyri are dealing with constant internal strife brought on by their inborn Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. The book Bloodwar almost entirely deals with one of these on a grand scale, which ends with the death of the old Wamphyri way of life as a whole.
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Necroscope / int_f829585a	type	Beauty Is Bad
Necroscope / int_f829585a	comment	Averted in the case of Boris Dragosani, who is described as a very handsome young man. Then zigzagged when he turns into a vampire. He becomes notably more ugly in his vampiric state but can change back to his human form at will.
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Necroscope / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Necroscope / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: The villain in the first book is almost raped by his female cousins at their aunt's bidding. It kind of messes him up, and the trauma of the experience leads directly to his Start of Darkness. They might have thought they were doing him a favour ("We told you we had a surprise for you!"), but it's very quickly obvious that he doesn't share their enthusiasm for this plan.
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Necroscope / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Necroscope / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: The Werewolves are vampires, or at least vampires whose leeches are descended from infected wolves. Aside from the usual powersets, they also gain the capacity to assume full lupine forms and increased power during the full moon.
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Necroscope / int_f9a5eaa5	type	Inhuman Eye Concealers
Necroscope / int_f9a5eaa5	comment	Inhuman Eye Concealers: The Wamphyri often sport vivid scarlet eyes, though most are able to conceal them while dealing with mortals. In the first book, Boris Dragosani doesn't learn how, and thus spends several of the later chapters concealing his increasingly inhuman eyes behind sunglasses.
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Necroscope / int_ff20bc04	type	Sucksessor
Necroscope / int_ff20bc04	comment	Sucksessor: Harry's son Nestor proved in short order to be far less morally pure than his father or brothers even before suffering a bout of amnesia and winding up a necromantic Lord of the Wamphryi.
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