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Solomon Kane
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Solomon Kane is a character created by Robert E. Howard in 1928. He appears in several short stories by Howard published mostly in the pulp magazine Weird Tales. A 16th century English Puritan, Solomon Kane wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms. His adventures often take him from Europe to the jungles of Africa and back.Howard described him as a somber and gloomy man of pale face and cold eyes, all of it shadowed by a slouch hat. He is dressed entirely in black and his weaponry consists of a rapier, a dagger, and a couple of flintlock pistols. During one of his latter adventures his friend N'Longa, a black African shaman, gave him a juju staff that served as a protection against evil, but could easily be wielded as an effective weapon. It is revealed in another story, "The Footfalls Within," that this is the mythical Staff of Solomon, a talisman older than the Earth and unimaginably powerful, much more so than even N'Longa knew. In the same adventure with N'Longa, Kane is seen using a musket as well.The Solomon Kane stories (like most of Howard's writing) are a peripheral part of the Cthulhu Mythos. C.J. Henderson's continuation of one unfinished story fragment, "Death's Black Riders", directly pits Kane against Tsathoggua, a well-known Great Old One.In the 1970s Marvel Comics, who'd licenced several of Howard's creations (most notably Conan) gained the rights to publish comics based on Solomon Kane. The stories were a mix of new tales and direct adaptations, some of which linked their version of Kane into the wider Marvel Universe. Marvel eventually lost the licence to Dark Horse Comics, who started publishing their own adaptations in 2008. Marvel regained the licence in 2019, only to lose it again (this time to Titan Comics) in 2023.Some of the original stories are now free to read here. As of 2010, he's having a bit of a renaissance, with a new comic, roleplaying game, and live-action movie. | |
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Abusive Precursors | |
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Abusive Precursors: Kane believes the Atlanteans to have been these, considering it good fortune that such a civilization would fall. | |
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Man Bites Man | |
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Man Bites Man: In "The Children of Asshur." Kane is not above ripping an opponent's throat out with his teeth when necessary. | |
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Weapon of X-Slaying | |
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Weapon of X-Slaying: Kane finds the staff gifted to him by N'Longa to be this type of weapon against supernatural foes. | |
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Darkest Africa | |
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Darkest Africa: Oft does Kane venture forth into the thick dark jungles where the beasts make their lairs, the primitive tribesmen chant black magic, and naked rulers eat others. | |
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The Witch Hunter | |
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The Witch Hunter: Kane is a quite unambiguously good case, as his friendship with N'Longa (a pagan magic-user) shows. He despises actual, official witch hunters. | |
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For Great Justice | |
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For Great Justice: Kane's motivation, although more grim about it than usual for the trope. Interestingly, the live-action movie provided some background as to Kane's motivation. In Howard's original stories, however, we are never given any motivation for Kane pursuing the life he does. | |
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Church Militant | |
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Church Militant: Or a milder Knight Templar, take your pick. | |
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Missing White Woman Syndrome | |
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Missing White Woman Syndrome: Solomon is quite often ("Red Shadows", "The Moon of Skulls", "The Footfalls Within", "The Blue Flame of Vengeance") laser-focusing on a missing white girl in danger (despite the fact more often than not a lot of other people are also in danger). On his defense, he almost always ends up saving the other people in danger as well. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: For example, after the lost city of Negari collapses and crumbles, Kane recalls a prophetic passage of ruin from the book of Isaiah. | |
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Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
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Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: If you keep slaves, Kane will end you. It's the only sort of crime that almost immediately makes Solomon lose all cool and recklessly throw himself at danger. | |
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Walking the Earth | |
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Walking the Earth: Kane is stricken with an insatiable wanderlust. | |
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Speak of the Devil | |
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Speak of the Devil: Nearly used in "The Blue Flame of Vengeance", except that Solomon shows up right as the Fishhawk is about to say his name. | |
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Magical Negro | |
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Magical Negro: N'Longa, but only in the literal sense - N'longa helped Kane so he could reclaim his recently usurped position of power in his tribe. He's not so much a saintly, benevolent figure that solely uses his (actual) magic to aid the white Kane as he is a clever man who knows how to play a situation to his advantage. He does come to Kane's aid in later stories simply to provide magical aid that Kane desperately needs to survive certain encounters. Once he even possesses the body of a young warrior from miles away to help Kane fight some vampires. | |
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work | |
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: "Rattle of Bones" has a double-dose of this. The murderous innkeeper kills treacherous French bandit Gaston, saving Kane. And then the animated skeleton of a Russian sorcerer, unchained by Gaston before his death, kills the innkeeper, who was his murderer. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Kane has an arc in that he starts off very close-minded and suspicious of pagan magic, but through his friendship with N'longa he slowly starts to realize Voodoo magic may have a righteousness of its own in the end. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Subverted again in "Hills Of The Dead", when a girl impressed by Kane's one-shot kill of a charging lion deems him a god. With humility fitting a Puritan he answers "I'm no God, just a man like you, though my skin color is different". Despite this, she keeps calling him a god. | |
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Sword and Gun | |
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Sword and Gun: Kane often fights with his rapier in one hand and his pistol in the other. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Most of Kane's duels with a Worthy Opponent are fought in this state, and his unspeaking, righteous stoicism contrasts sharply with human adversaries' snarky attitudes. Averted when his foes are supernatural enough to creep him out, although he shifts to Unstoppable Rage if such menaces are harming innocent people. | |
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Let's Fight Like Gentlemen | |
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Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Kane's human opponents often challenge him thusly (for example, Le Loup and Fishhawk). Even without using underhanded tactics, they stand a good chance. | |
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Always Chaotic Evil | |
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Always Chaotic Evil: The underground civilization in "The Moon of Skulls" and the Akaana. | |
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Ãœberwald | |
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Ãœberwald: Solomon's adventures in continental Europe usually take place there. | |
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Helping Hands | |
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Helping Hands: "The Right Hand of Doom" revolves around a sorcerer who, having been sentenced to death for practicing magic, uses his last night before the hanging to amputate his right hand and send it skittering off to assassinate the treacherous friend who sold him out to the authorities before he could flee to France. | |
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Dual Wielding | |
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Dual Wielding: Kane often uses a rapier and a dagger. | |
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Guns Akimbo | |
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Guns Akimbo: With two snaphaunce (an early form of flintlock) pistols. They're single-shot weapons, so it actually makes sense and was done in real life. | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: N'longa can be a bit creepy even to a modern reader. He's a good guy because he keeps limits on how to use his significant magical powers, mainly to help others. | |
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Devil, but No God | |
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Devil, but No God: Kane comes across various kinds of supernatural phenomena in his travels, both good and evil, but never anything that would confirm the existence of his God, and this causes him a great deal of internal turmoil. Considering his setting and stories are part of the Cthulhu Mythos, it's likely that the God he worships doesn't exist. | |
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Powder Trail | |
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Powder Trail: Kane uses one to kill the majority of Le Loup's gang in "Red Shadows". | |
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The Berserker | |
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The Berserker: He's really a kind man, and usually almost uncannily calm and controlled, but when he does snap (like in "Wings in the Night"), it's quite a sight. | |
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Kangaroo Court | |
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Kangaroo Court: The poem "The One Black Stain" deals with the aftermath of the (Real Life) trial and execution of Thomas Doughty by Sir Francis Drake: | |
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The Musketeer | |
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The Musketeer: Kane normally discharges both of his pistols before drawing his rapier and dagger. | |
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Old Soldier | |
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Old Soldier: Marylin Taferal, the English girl he saves from slavery in "The Moon of Skulls", remembers Kane as a Captain back in the British Isles many years before. | |
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Canon Welding | |
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Canon Welding: Solomon Kane shares a universe with the creations of H. P. Lovecraft. One of the entities Kane has encountered is the Great Old One Tsathoggua. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: A deeply religious man and determined killer who bears the names of the man most favored by God and the first murderer. | |
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Monstrous Cannibalism | |
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Monstrous Cannibalism: The flying harpy-like creatures from "Wings in the Night" are alleged to have eaten their own kind when drought depleted their usual prey. | |
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Eloquent in My Native Tongue | |
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Eloquent in My Native Tongue: N'longa. When he speaks to Kane through his dreams and in one of the river languages Kane knows, he's impressively well-spoken to the point of delivering a fairly epic Dark Is Not Evil speech at the end of "The Hills of the Dead". However, he sticks to pidgin English when talking to Kane simply because he's proud that he's learned it. He also seems to be aware that he spooks Kane out, and makes with a bit of Uncle Tomfoolery to avoid becoming too threatening with his black magic to a Puritan Christian. | |
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Bat Scare | |
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Bat Scare: Kane disturbs a swarm of bats while exploring a tunnel in "The Moon of Skulls". Normally this wouldn't have fazed him, but it happens in complete darkness, so it takes him a moment to realize they're harmless. | |
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place | |
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: In "Rattle of Bones", it should come as no surprise that the 'Cleft Skull Tavern' turns out to be an Inn of No Return. | |
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Duel to the Death | |
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Duel to the Death: Kane engages in these often with his human opponents. | |
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Hungry Jungle | |
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Hungry Jungle: African wilderness. N'longa even says as much: | |
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Logical Weakness | |
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Logical Weakness: Kane and N'longa encounter a tribe of zombies (well, they call them vampires, but are closer to the modern definition). They're defeated by N'longa summoning a gigantic wave of vultures, who know dead meat when they see it. | |
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Ideal Hero | |
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Ideal Hero: The case could be made that he's one of these instead of a Anti-Hero; the strongest supporting evidence toward this argument lies in the finale of "The Blue Flame of Vengeance" where he tries to talk one of the villains into walking away from the fight and from the evil men he has aligned himself with. When the villain refuses and subsquently dies, Solomon is visibly grieved and exits the story in a somber mood. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: A bit more somberly stated that most, but "It has fallen upon me, now and again in my sojourns through the world, to ease various evil men of their lives." Almost a Badass Creed, as he seems to like using the phrase (Once in "The Blue Flame of Vengeance", once in "The Castle of the Devil"). From "The Moon of Skulls", though it's more the opposite of a boast; it's a sign of humility; It falls in line with Kane's strict Christian worldview. Even if he had the means to fight and destroy single-handed the murderous cult in "The Moon of Skulls" (which was blatantly impossible), this was mass murder, a great sin by itself. By shooting their skull idol, their own cruelty and madness drove them to self-destruction, while the earthquake (God's action) completed the razing of their city. Practically Kane used sword, dagger and pistol throughout only in self-defense and he ended the adventure with clean hands, which was a feat in itself. The stories are peppered with them, but there's a wonderfully understated "boast" from Solomon, always a man of few words, in one of his first spoken lines in "Red Shadows": | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: Kane sometimes battles these. | |
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Precursors | |
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Precursors: Kane meets the last Atlantian man in Negari's dungeon. He tells Kane of the vast, terrible ocean empire of his people that ruled great swathes of the world in times past and then dies. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Nakari, although we don't really learn about it until after the fact. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_9b54d536 | type |
Evil Counterpart | |
| Solomon Kane / int_9b54d536 | comment |
Evil Counterpart: Le Loup, the sadistic French mercenary from "Red Shadows", is of a similar background to Kane himself (hardcore war veterans, expert swordsmen, now wandering the world) and both are likened to wolves. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_9e4ed124 | type |
Mundanger | |
| Solomon Kane / int_9e4ed124 | comment |
Mundanger: The Fishhawk and his men from "Blades of the Brotherhood". | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_a0efb4e7 | type |
It's Probably Nothing | |
| Solomon Kane / int_a0efb4e7 | comment |
It's Probably Nothing: In "Footfalls Within", the titular footfalls are blithely dismissed as "nothing" by a bunch of slavers, with foreseeable consequences. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_a5d92fce | type |
Celibate Hero | |
| Solomon Kane / int_a5d92fce | comment |
Celibate Hero: Kane, though the poem "Solomon Kane's Homecoming" does hint he did have a lover in his youth. | |
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Rage Against the Heavens | |
| Solomon Kane / int_b82ca416 | comment |
Rage Against the Heavens: and Hell, and past, and future, and the entire universe, after the village population he was trying to protect in "Wings in the Night" was brutally slaughtered and eaten by the harpies, it's the only time where something manages to truly break poor Kane. He makes amends, managing to come up with a plan to kill all the harpies during his moment of madness. | |
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Genius Bruiser | |
| Solomon Kane / int_bbf11c0 | comment |
Genius Bruiser: Kane, for he is not only a skilled swordfighter but also crafts cunning plans within his imaginative mind. | |
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Knight Templar | |
| Solomon Kane / int_bbfaa837 | comment |
Knight Templar: Kane, though much more heroic than most. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Solomon Kane / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Slavery. Kane, who keeps a remarkably cool head in front of the fiercest bandits and most horrifying Eldritch Abominations, becomes near hysterical with rage in "The Footfalls Within" when he sees a band of slavers torturing captured Africans. At least one story mentions that Kane spent some time as a Turkish galley slave. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_bdb5c651 | type |
Real Men Love Jesus | |
| Solomon Kane / int_bdb5c651 | comment |
Real Men Love Jesus: Solomon is a man of deep faith, and possibly the biggest badass on the planet. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_be03ba89 | type |
Lost World | |
| Solomon Kane / int_be03ba89 | comment |
Lost World: "The Moon of Skulls" is set in the hidden city of Negari, located within a mountain valley in Darkest Africa. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
| Solomon Kane / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Of the Knight in Sour Armor variety. | |
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Diamonds in the Buff | |
| Solomon Kane / int_bf64595b | comment |
Diamonds in the Buff: The evil Queen Nakari in "The Moon Of Skulls" is naked save for a skirt of ostrich feathers, rich golden bracelets and anklets and a plumed helmet. Which for a modern reader would simply convey a barbarian Queen of the Darkest Africa, but which was also typical for the attire of cabaret dancers and strippers of the 1930s◊, when the story was published. A period reader would understand the titillating allusion much better. | |
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Inn of No Return | |
| Solomon Kane / int_c0015c4c | comment |
Inn of No Return: In "Rattle of Bones", the 'Cleft Skull Tavern' is run by a man who claims he was falsely imprisoned in the Karlsruhe dungeons. He now murders all travellers who stop at his inn as revenge on all men for his false imprisonment. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_c3f6e68 | type |
Dem Bones | |
| Solomon Kane / int_c3f6e68 | comment |
Dem Bones: In "Rattle of Bones", before his death, a sorcerer pledges vengeance on his murderer. His skeletal corpse is animated with that intent, but the murderer leaves it chained to a wall so it can't reach him. Until Kane's companion breaks the chain... | |
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We Can Rule Together | |
| Solomon Kane / int_c420a553 | comment |
We Can Rule Together: Nakari makes this sort of offer to Kane, and he actually thinks about it, but then ultimately refuses. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_c6c86cd | type |
Collapsing Lair | |
| Solomon Kane / int_c6c86cd | comment |
Collapsing Lair: In "The Moon of Skulls", the lost city of Negari is destroyed by an earthquake just after Kane kills the queen, and Kane is forced to flee through the collapsing city. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_cbaa9102 | type |
Signature Headgear | |
| Solomon Kane / int_cbaa9102 | comment |
Signature Headgear: Possibly the Trope Codifier for the (now standard) hat worn by Witch Hunters. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
| Solomon Kane / int_d397657d | comment |
It falls in line with Kane's strict Christian worldview. Even if he had the means to fight and destroy single-handed the murderous cult in "The Moon of Skulls" (which was blatantly impossible), this was mass murder, a great sin by itself. By shooting their skull idol, their own cruelty and madness drove them to self-destruction, while the earthquake (God's action) completed the razing of their city. Practically Kane used sword, dagger and pistol throughout only in self-defense and he ended the adventure with clean hands, which was a feat in itself. | |
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Sympathy for the Devil | |
| Solomon Kane / int_d3a4af1e | comment |
Sympathy for the Devil: Downplayed in "The Right Hand of Doom", but the story opens with Solomon condemning John Redly for betraying the wizard Roger Simeon, as even if he does think Roger deserves to die for his practicing of magic, he finds John Redly contemptible for betraying a man who trusted him and called him friend simply for money, not out of any sense of real justice. Perhaps this is why he is relatively passive when Roger Simeon's hand comes creeping in through the window to murder the traitor, doing little more than shout a brief, too-late warning. | |
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Harping on About Harpies | |
| Solomon Kane / int_d5ac9158 | comment |
Harping on About Harpies: The akaanas from "Wings in the Night". | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_e07d3d72 | type |
Uncle Tomfoolery | |
| Solomon Kane / int_e07d3d72 | comment |
He also seems to be aware that he spooks Kane out, and makes with a bit of Uncle Tomfoolery to avoid becoming too threatening with his black magic to a Puritan Christian. | |
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Translation Convention | |
| Solomon Kane / int_e11b003d | comment |
Translation Convention: The stories will occasionally make note of the fact that while we're reading conversations in English, for ease of reading, Solomon is actually speaking to people in their native tongues (this is particularly evident when dealing with the Arab slavers in The Footfalls Within). | |
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But Not Too Black | |
| Solomon Kane / int_e251fae2 | comment |
But Not Too Black: Zunna is referred to as a "higher type of Negro" due to her more traditionally Caucasian features, attributed to a Berber strain. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_e26f04b4 | type |
Last of His Kind | |
| Solomon Kane / int_e26f04b4 | comment |
Last of His Kind: Kane meets the last Atlantian in the Lost city of Negari during "The Moon of Skulls", who gives a long account of the rise and fall of his people before dying out for good. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_e2ccee25 | type |
Animal Motifs | |
| Solomon Kane / int_e2ccee25 | comment |
Animal Motifs: Solomon Kane is often likened to a wolf for his speed and fierce nature. His first foe in his first story ("Red Shadows") was a sadistic French mercenary called Le Loup (i.e the Wolf). | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_e47d1ecc | type |
Doomed Fellow Prisoner | |
| Solomon Kane / int_e47d1ecc | comment |
Doomed Fellow Prisoner: In "The Moon of Skulls", Kane is imprisoned alongside the last surviving pureblood Atlantean. The Atlantean relates to him the history of the city of Negari before expiring, seemingly of old age. | |
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Load-Bearing Boss | |
| Solomon Kane / int_e4cf1ef0 | comment |
Load-Bearing Boss: Seemingly Nakari in "The Moon of Skulls", or possibly the holy skull Nakura itself. An earthquake destroys the hidden city mere minutes after the skull is shattered and Nakari is killed. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_ecc96193 | type |
Backup from Otherworld | |
| Solomon Kane / int_ecc96193 | comment |
Backup from Otherworld: In the poem "The Return of Sir Richard Grenville", the ghost of the eponymous worthy (who was a real life historical figure) appears to fight side-by-side with his comrade-in-life Solomon Kane. | |
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| Solomon Kane / int_eeb2d092 | type |
Killer Gorilla | |
| Solomon Kane / int_eeb2d092 | comment |
Killer Gorilla: One features in the climax of "Red Shadows". | |
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Right Makes Might | |
| Solomon Kane / int_f4cc3a09 | comment |
Right Makes Might: Or so Solomon believes. | |
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Mighty Whitey | |
| Solomon Kane / int_fed07537 | comment |
Mighty Whitey: Subverted in "Wings in the Night", when villagers in Africa, impressed by Solomon's guns, beg him to protect them against flying monsters. Kane is helpless when an overwhelming horde of monsters slaughter the entire population. Subverted again in "Hills Of The Dead", when a girl impressed by Kane's one-shot kill of a charging lion deems him a god. With humility fitting a Puritan he answers "I'm no God, just a man like you, though my skin color is different". Despite this, she keeps calling him a god. The series as a whole seems to love subverting this trope; Kane's very first adventure sees him coming to an African village and being asked for help by a local wizard - and then the wizard himself ends up resolving the situation without Kane's help. | |
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