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NIMONA (Webcomic)

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NIMONA is a webcomic (and later a Comic Book) by ND Stevenson, about a shapeshifter girl, Nimona, who joins a supervillain knight, Lord Ballister Blackheart, as his sidekick. Cue Ballister's surprisingly orderly villainy; he seems to just have more of a rivalry with the "hero" of the series and his antagonist: Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin, who's actually much more of a jerk than Ballister.Only the first three chapters of the comic are currently available on the website due to the comic being licensed to become a graphic novel, which was published in May 2015.An animated film adaptation by Blue Sky Studios was announced for release in 2022, but production was initially shuttered after the announcement that Disney was dissolving the studio in 2021, effectively cancelling the project despite it being far into production. However, it was eventually saved the following year when it was picked up by Annapurna Pictures, who finished the film and released it on Netflix in June 2023. Former Blue Sky staff members Nick Bruno and Troy Quane (Spies in Disguise) took over the director roles and the animation was handled by DNEG (Ron's Gone Wrong). It features the voices of Chloë Grace Moretz as Nimona, Riz Ahmed as Blackheart (renamed Boldheart), and Eugene Lee Yang as Goldenloin.
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Skin Walker
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Skin Walker: Namedropped to describe Nimona's powers, she claims to be able to take any animal or plant form provided it actually exists.
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: ND is visible in the background of one page.
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Nimona herself does this in later chapters as her true motives and history come out and the Institution starts targeting her, feeling that her powers is the prime reason why Ballister is getting the best of them. The Director threatens to execute Ballister and tortures him in front of Nimona. Nimona gives her a chilling Death Glare and allows the Institute to take a sample of her blood. When that happens, her child-form dies and a monstrous clone forms, who starts laying damage.
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Morphic Resonance
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Morphic Resonance: Nimona is a redhead, and many of her alternate forms have red or pink tones. Unlike many examples of this trope, she actually plays with it once by using a rat painted pink as a diversion. Subverted when she turns into a human however, as she is perfectly able to change herself into a form with different hair colors. She even changes both the color and style of her haircut in her default form.
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Dungeon Punk
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Dungeon Punk: The setting has a lot of the aesthetics of Medieval European Fantasy, with witches and shapeshifters and magical creatures, but it also has screens, home appliances, pizza, Ray Guns and other firearms. It even establishes a distinction between magic and science, with magic having either migrated away from human civilization or is slowly dying out as an art.
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Death by Origin Story
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Death by Origin Story: Nimona's parents, again, along with her entire hometown.
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Those Two Guys
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Those Two Guys: The two women who frequently appear in crowd scenes and share a speaking role on chapter 9, page 7. Referred to by fans as the Cute Lesbians.
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In the Hood
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In the Hood: Along with a fake beard, Ballister wears a hooded cloak as a disguise at the Science Expo and during incognito meetings with Goldenloin.
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Artificial Limbs
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Artificial Limbs: Ballister's right arm, which the audio adaptation makes clear he made himself. Goldenloin shot it off after losing a joust. Though later on, it's revealed that The Institution forced Goldenloin to shoot Ballister.
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Voluntary Shapeshifting
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: Nimona's superpower. She can transform at will into any living creature, though they're often still red. Word of God says she can change her colors completely, but that takes more concentration.
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Cute and Psycho
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Cute and Psycho: Nimona is a cute, plucky, adorable young girl who is disturbingly eager to kill and maim people.
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Ironic Fear
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Ironic Fear: Nimona is quite scared of horror movies, which Ballister points out makes no sense considering her powers make her far scarier than any fictional monster. She blames the zombies.
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Anachronism Stew
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Anachronism Stew: The series' main character is a knight with a robotic arm. In several other instances, medieval and technological themes combine, so smoothly that readers have confessed to not even registering that anything was off for several chapters.
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Funny Background Event
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Funny Background Event: In the background of one page, the extras include Hawkeye and Black Widow; Gandalf and Bilbo; Obi-Wan, Luke Skywalker, and Han Solo; Katniss; Pacha; Heisenberg; ND themselves; and someone in a shock blanket.
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Shoot the Dog
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Shoot the Dog: When reasoning with Nimona and talking her down doesn't work, Ballister is resigned to defeating her the violent way. He picks up the jaderoot cannon and, while crying, shoots her dragon self while telling her child self that it's still her.
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Career-Ending Injury
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Career-Ending Injury: Blackheart's arm being blown off at the joust. Although there turns out to be a deeper layer to this, as the Institution deliberately set this up for Blackheart. They made sure he would be injured, then used his injury as an excuse to get rid of him. In some Laser-Guided Karma, Goldenloin may have lost use of his legs in the ending. Forgiving him for shooting his arm off, Ballister helps him with recovery and won't leave his bedside.
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Walking the Earth
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Walking the Earth: Nimona, was doing this in her fake backstory, exploring forests and eating whenever she got hungry. She may have returned to this afterward.
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Beard of Evil
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Beard of Evil: Ballister sports a goatee, while Goldenloin is clean-shaven. Although later in, Ballister don't trim it anymore and it gets closer and closer to a full beard.
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He Who Fights Monsters
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He Who Fights Monsters: Ballister fears crossing this line. He knows the Institute is evil and corrupt, but doesn't want to stoop to their level. Ballister suffers a Heroic BSoD on learning that his "harmless" plague actually killed innocent people, saying he's no better than the Director.
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Gender Bender
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Gender Bender: During the bank-robbing scene, Nimona shifts into a burly-looking man carrying a chest, and later takes the form of a young boy named Gregor during the Science Expo with Ballister.
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Shapeshifter Mode Lock
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Shapeshifter Mode Lock: After being exposed to Dr. Meredith Blitzmeyer's Anomalous Energy Enhancer at the Science Expo, Nimona gets locked in the form of a cat. The trope is also discussed when Nimona says that if she shifted into the form of an inanimate object, she'd be stuck as that object afterward.
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Black Knight
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Black Knight: Ballister's portrayed as one. Kinda.
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Shapeshifter Baggage
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Shapeshifter Baggage: Lampshaded by Ballister, who notes that Nimona is able to create extra mass for herself seemingly out of nowhere, and how that should be impossible. It's a pretty good hint that there's more to her powers than she lets on.
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Hero with Bad Publicity
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Hero with Bad Publicity: Ballister, again. At one point we see that the Academy from which he was expelled (and consequently turned "villain" because of this) is stocking big amounts of a highly poisonous plant, making him worried about possible poisoning of the kingdom's food.
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Destination Defenestration
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Destination Defenestration: As part of the Bar Brawl above.
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Traumatic Haircut
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Traumatic Haircut: Among the many things the Institution did to Nimona, they shaved her head to do scientific experiments. She keeps a partly-shaved head in her default form, to remember her hatred of them.
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Lightning Lash
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Lightning Lash: One of Goldenloin's soldiers at the ambush uses a version of these to restrain and incapacitate Nimona it doesn't work well when she can just shapeshift a defense.
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Deceased Parents Are the Best
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Deceased Parents Are the Best: Nimona's parents. However, subverted in her true backstory, where it's implied that she might have killed them herself after they gave her to the Institute.
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You Did the Right Thing
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You Did the Right Thing: At the end of the story, Ballister's doctor tells him this. He shot a monster to save the kingdom, even if she was his best friend. Ballister responds quietly, "Don't call her a monster." He goes onto say that anyone in Nimona's shoes would have broken as badly as she did. The doctor was actually Nimona, and she's so touched that she reveals to Ballister that she's alive.
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Properly Paranoid
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Properly Paranoid: When we're first introduced to Ballister and hear his complaints about his rival Goldenloin and the Institution, it's easy to imagine that Ballister's caught in a case of your standard villain paranoia, and that he and Goldenloin having a bit of a Doctor Doom-Reed Richards situation going on, where Ballister is blowing up an incident with Goldenloin and assuming malicious intent where there was none, and blaming the Institution for things it hasn't done. He's right about both Goldenloin intentionally injuring him and about the Institution, although it turns out he's actually significantly underestimating the Institution's capacity for nastiness, and cruel or careless actions.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: Ballister once tried to clone the King's daughter. Exactly why he tried to do this is never explained.
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Blessed with Suck
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Blessed with Suck: It's revealed that Nimona actually hates her powers and what she is. While shapeshifting is cool and she can heal fast while surviving lethal attacks — such as losing her head — it comes with a lifetime of being seen as a monster and experimented on by the Institute. Even though Nimona survives when Ballister is forced to shoot her Superpowered Evil Side, she disappears after revealing to him that she's alive, showing that either she doesn't forgive herself for hurting her Only Friend or that she doesn't want him to worry about her.
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Schizo Tech
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Schizo Tech: See Anachronism Stew and Purely Aesthetic Era. There's bows and arrows and Death Rays; a knight's armor has built-in radio.
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Then Let Me Be Evil
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Then Let Me Be Evil: If the Academy wants a villain so much, Ballister is happy to give them one — on his own terms, at least. Nimona is a bit more of a mischief-maker, but when she snaps, she snaps, and cities get burnt.
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Powered Armor
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Powered Armor: Goldenloin is outfitted with an enhanced (and still golden) suit with which to subdue Ballister and Nimona, complete with built-in Static Stun Gun gauntlets.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Fiction often tends to treat weapons of the same kind (say, spears) as more or less interchangeable, and characters can use different weapons with zero change in their performance. (So in most works if someone’s weapon is a spear, then you can give them all kinds of different spears with different designs, lengths, and weights and the character in question will wield them all with equal proficiency). In Goldenloin's joust with Ballister, he found out the hard way that this wasn't true. The Institution supplied Goldenloin with what was more or less a rocket lance that could be used either as a normal lance or have the head fired at an opponent. Sounds cool, but having only been given the lance moments before the joust with no time to familiarize himself with it, and then having to face an expert knight while trying to manage the weight and position of the lance, his shield, and keep control of his horse all at once threw Goldenloin off, leaving a major hole in his defense. Ballister took advantage of this and easily defeated Goldenloin.
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Perma-Shave
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Permashave: Goldenloin, unlike Ballister, keeps himself smooth as a baby's bottom. Even when recovering from horrible injuries.
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_40045b2f
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_40045b2f
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_40cc0c7e
type
Bittersweet Ending
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_40cc0c7e
comment
Bittersweet Ending: Ballister and Goldenloin are reconciled and redeemed, the Institution is dismantled, and Blitzmeyer gets a fancy new lab with Ballister. However, Nimona's vengeful rampage killed many innocent people, she runs off after reassuring Ballister that she's alive, and there's only a slight possibility that she and Ballister will ever reunite.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_40cc0c7e
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_40cc0c7e
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_40cc0c7e
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_4108bb3e
type
Doomed Hometown
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_4108bb3e
comment
Doomed Hometown: Nimona's town was destroyed by raiders from the west. It's part of her backstory on how she became a shapeshifter. This is later revealed as a lie, and while her hometown was destroyed and there were raiders, the actual sequence of events is significantly darker.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_4108bb3e
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_4108bb3e
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_4108bb3e
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3
type
Blade Below the Shoulder
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3
comment
Blade Below the Shoulder: One of Goldenloin's soldiers at the ambush is Dual Wielding such blade and quite skilled with them, beheading Nimona's monster form.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_43f2f606
type
Annoying Arrows
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_43f2f606
comment
Annoying Arrows: Discussed and subverted. When an arrow hits Nimona in the leg, Ballister treats it as a serious injury. Nimona thinks he's over-reacting, and wants to get back to fighting right away.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_43f2f606
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-0.3
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_43f2f606
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_43f2f606
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_479d4e5a
type
Would Hurt a Child
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_479d4e5a
comment
Would Hurt a Child: Nimona's head gets chopped off by a guard. She gets better. Sort of. She turns into a giant fire monster and incinerates all of them.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_479d4e5a
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_479d4e5a
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_479d4e5a
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9
type
Early-Installment Weirdness
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9
comment
Early-Installment Weirdness: Ballister has a thing for genetically modified dragons but since he has Nimona with him he doesn't bring up that project again. Even when some dragons would be great at slowing down a certain Beast of the Apocalypse. The very first strip has mention of Ballister working for an Agency of supervillains. This Agency is never mentioned again.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_51a3ba7
type
We Used to Be Friends
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_51a3ba7
comment
We Used to Be Friends: Ballister and Goldenloin were the two best knights in the Institution, and longtime friends who had grown up together, with Ballister looking after the younger, more naive, and more sensitive Goldenloin. That ended when Goldenloin shot Ballister's arm off after losing a joust to him. And Ballister doesn't learn until late in the story that the Institution forced Goldenloin to shoot Ballister.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_51a3ba7
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_51a3ba7
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_51a3ba7
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5358a6f3
type
They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5358a6f3
comment
They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Nimona doesn't willingly reveal her real backstory right away.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5358a6f3
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5358a6f3
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5358a6f3
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_593d7cbe
type
Designated Villain
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_593d7cbe
comment
Designated Villain: Ballister is an In-Universe example. He's held up as a villain and the top threat to the Kingdom, but his schemes never involve killing anyone and doing the absolute least harm possible, and shows far more morals and compassion than the Institution does, especially for common citizens. The people gradually come to realize this over the course of the comic, and by the climax the people accept him and his leadership during a crisis without question, despite all the propaganda that has been defaming him over the course of the years.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_593d7cbe
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_593d7cbe
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_593d7cbe
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_595a20c9
type
Chest Blaster
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_595a20c9
comment
Chest Blaster: One of Goldenloin's soldiers at the ambush has such a weapon integrated into his Power Armor.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_595a20c9
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_595a20c9
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_595a20c9
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90
type
Puppet King
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90
comment
Puppet King: It's implied that the realm's king is one, and the Institution, (specifically, the Director) is the true power. The king being killed off-panel while the Director gets a much more significant climax with Nimona all but confirms it.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5a4aa505
type
Government Conspiracy
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5a4aa505
comment
Government Conspiracy: One of the main plot points is that the Institution is actually this. The Institution is the true power player in the Kingdom, and is willing to do whatever it takes to hold onto or grow its power, including risking the lives of citizens or arranging accidents for members and potential members who ask too many questions.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5a4aa505
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5a4aa505
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5a4aa505
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5c0902e7
type
Boyish Short Hair
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5c0902e7
comment
Boyish Short Hair: Nimona has sidetails and bangs, while the rest of her head is shaved. Takes a darker tone as it appears to be mimicking a Traumatic Haircut from her past.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5c0902e7
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5c0902e7
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5c0902e7
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f
type
Something Only They Would Say
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f
comment
Something Only They Would Say: How Nimona lets Blackheart know she's alive at the end by doodling on a doctor's chart. Sharks, indeed.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6331ba26
type
Plot Hole
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6331ba26
comment
Blackheart keeps pointing out Plot Holes while she's telling it.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6331ba26
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6331ba26
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6331ba26
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_63be4131
type
Pretty Boy
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_63be4131
comment
Pretty Boy: Goldenloin, long golden locks complimentary clothing options that accentuates his features that the comparatively minimalistic art style makes a point of showing off.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_63be4131
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_63be4131
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_63be4131
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_64d3ffd8
type
The Extremist Was Right
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_64d3ffd8
comment
The Extremist Was Right: Inverted. The true extremist of the story is The Director and the Institution, which she controls. They're the ones meddling with tools of dark sorcery which are extremely dangerous and have the potential to poison the entire country. Ballister is actually much more moderate, less callous with the lives of others, and he attempts to talk Nimona down from her rampage instead of trying to do nothing but kill her.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_64d3ffd8
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_64d3ffd8
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_64d3ffd8
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_663f35c0
type
Only One Name
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_663f35c0
comment
Only One Name: If Nimona received a last name from her parents, she certainly hasn't told anyone. This is a tad unlikely, since the entire story was a lie.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_663f35c0
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_663f35c0
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_663f35c0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_67792344
type
Grievous Bottley Harm
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_67792344
comment
Grievous Bottley Harm: Goldenloin to Ballister, as part of the Bar Brawl above.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_67792344
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_67792344
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_67792344
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59
type
The Reveal
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59
comment
The Reveal: Nimona developed her powers as a child, and she changed into a dragon to save her village. Her parents became terrified of her killing the raiders and handed her over to the Institution, who saw her as a guinea pig for weapons. She was experimented on for years to see the full potential of her powers, and Nimona ran away at the first opportunity. By then she developed cynicism about people after how she was treated, and it's hard to blame her.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30
type
Meaningful Name
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: Goldenloin, along with his golden armor, wears a golden codpiece.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6ef9d3fe
type
Christmas Episode
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6ef9d3fe
comment
Christmas Episode: Nimona sets up for Christmas, and uses the "orphan" card to get Ballister to make jolly. And another one in 2013, this time featuring young Ballister and Goldenloin.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6ef9d3fe
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6ef9d3fe
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6ef9d3fe
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6f83b232
type
Wish-Fulfillment
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6f83b232
comment
Wish-Fulfillment: In-universe example, the fake backstory Nimona tells to Blackheart. While it acknowledges that her parents are dead, raiders were involved, and her first transformation was into a dragon when she was six, it removes all of the most painful elements.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6f83b232
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6f83b232
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_6f83b232
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_715c463e
type
Literal Split Personality
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_715c463e
comment
Literal Split Personality: The original Child!Nimona is left after her shapeshifting Beast!Nimona goes off to wreck revenge on the institution. The child is a scared trusting child while the beast goes on a literal rampage.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_715c463e
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_715c463e
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_715c463e
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_716d9138
type
Bar Brawl
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_716d9138
comment
Bar Brawl: A short brutal one starting page 9 of chapter 7.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_716d9138
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_716d9138
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_716d9138
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_725debad
type
New First Comics
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_725debad
comment
New First Comics: In the print edition the first few comics are redrawn to be closer to the style of the overall book. The originals can still be found online and are included on the creators' tumblr and some print editions.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_725debad
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_725debad
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_725debad
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_73309776
type
Psycho Sidekick
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_73309776
comment
Psycho Sidekick: Nimona may be this for Ballister; she's considerably more bloodthirsty and willing to kill than orderly Ballister.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_73309776
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_73309776
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_73309776
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_733e007a
type
Unwitting Pawn
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_733e007a
comment
Unwitting Pawn: Goldenloin has been one to the Institution for his entire life, as it turns out. He truly believes in the stated mission of the Institution and is clueless about their more immoral side.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_733e007a
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_733e007a
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_733e007a
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7360a6b6
type
Noble Demon
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7360a6b6
comment
Noble Demon: Ballister does what he does just to "prove a point" instead of being actually evil.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7360a6b6
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7360a6b6
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7360a6b6
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_740139a8
type
Redemption Equals Affliction
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_740139a8
comment
Redemption Equals Affliction: In a dose of Laser-Guided Karma, Goldenloin gets badly injured while fighting Nimona and turning against the Institute openly. It's implied that he'll need to use a cane to walk and that he'll no longer be able to fight. The sign that he has changed is that Ballister waits by his bedside and vows to help him recover.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_740139a8
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_740139a8
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_740139a8
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_740f59b4
type
ColorCodedForYourConvenience
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_740f59b4
comment
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Goldenloin wears majestic gold and white while Blackheart dons black and red.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_740f59b4
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_740f59b4
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_740f59b4
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_75f626a5
type
Nostalgia Filter
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_75f626a5
comment
Nostalgia Filter: Towards the end of the comic, Ballister accuses Goldenloin of having this.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_75f626a5
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_75f626a5
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_75f626a5
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7b6e47a5
type
Armor-Piercing Question
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7b6e47a5
comment
Armor-Piercing Question: When Ballister stands over a fallen Goldenloin during a fight:
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7b6e47a5
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7b6e47a5
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7b6e47a5
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7cc8d769
type
Sore Loser
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7cc8d769
comment
Sore Loser: Goldenloin. He shot off Ballister's arm after losing to him in a joust, causing Ballister to be expelled from the Institution. Cue Ballister's Face–Heel Turn. Subverted when Goldenloin reveals that he was forced by The Institution to shoot Ballister.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7cc8d769
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-0.3
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7cc8d769
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_7cc8d769
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_80491c2f
type
"Open!" Says Me
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_80491c2f
comment
"Open!" Says Me: Rather than listen to Ballister's Techno Babble, Nimona's strategy of getting through high-security doors is just to ram through them as a rhinoceros. Ballister's less than amused.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_80491c2f
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_80491c2f
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_80491c2f
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_805d3175
type
Holographic Terminal
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_805d3175
comment
Holographic Terminal: This trope is surprisingly commonplace considering the medieval motif that dominates the story. Given that they also have laser and super-science despite said medieval motif, perhaps it's not so surprising.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_805d3175
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_805d3175
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_805d3175
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_83ea0763
type
Rouge Angles of Satin
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_83ea0763
comment
Rouge Angles of Satin: In-universe; Word of God has stated that knights choose their own names, and suggests that Goldenloin intended himself to be Goldenlion.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_83ea0763
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_83ea0763
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_83ea0763
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_84194ebf
type
24-Hour Armor
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_84194ebf
comment
24-Hour Armor: Everyone really. Nimona, assuming it's really armor and she doesn't just shapeshift it into being. Goldenloin is never seen not wearing his armor, making him a likely contender as well. The Director seems to be wearing light chainmail too.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_84194ebf
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_84194ebf
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_84194ebf
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8430699a
type
Alternate Universe
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8430699a
comment
Alternate Universe: "No matter what happens, remember that there is always an alternate universe◊ out there somewhere where this is a story about some hip gay dads◊ who adopt a baby and everything turns out okay.◊"
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8430699a
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8430699a
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8430699a
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_857d1626
type
Power Glows
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_857d1626
comment
Power Glows: Any technology created by Dr. Blitzmeyer seems to have this, for example the Device that is able to interrupt Nimona's shpeshifting.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_857d1626
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_857d1626
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_857d1626
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_85debad9
type
Plucky Girl
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_85debad9
comment
Plucky Girl: Nimona. That is, if by "plucky" you mean "knife-happy punk-ass Blood Knight".
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_85debad9
featureApplicability
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_85debad9
featureConfidence
1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
hasFeature
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_85debad9
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_87bb6874
type
Villain with Good Publicity
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_87bb6874
comment
Villain with Good Publicity: Goldenloin and the Institution. The Institution likes to bill itself as the top force for law and order in the Kingdom, a group of protectors who watch over the people and keep them safe, with Goldenloin as its foremost champion and hero. In reality it's a ruthless organization intent on amassing power and influence, perfectly willing to risk the health and safety of the common citizen, and Goldenloin is a naive and well-meaning patsy. Notably, the good publicity gradually wears off during the course of the story, as Ballister's effort make people increasingly suspicious of the Institution and its actions.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_87bb6874
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_87bb6874
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_87bb6874
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_88799cf4
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Badass Cape
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_88799cf4
comment
Badass Cape: Considering they're both knights, Goldenloin and Ballister both have one.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_88799cf4
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_88799cf4
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 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_88799cf4
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8966382e
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Bank Robbery
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8966382e
comment
Bank Robbery: Among Ballister and Nimona's schemes. It's probably one of the evilest things Ballister has really done, and even then he leaves most of the gold out for commoners to grab.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8966382e
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8966382e
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1.0
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8966382e
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_898ff050
type
Villain Protagonist
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_898ff050
comment
Villain Protagonist: Well, hello. Though it's not really played straight, as Blackheart only takes the title of "villain" because that's what he's cast as to the public and his ultimate goal is to punish the corrupt system. Kinda more straight with Nimona, as she's much more interested in being evil for the sake of evil.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_898ff050
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_898ff050
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8a8c7344
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Plasma Cannon
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8a8c7344
comment
Plasma Cannon: Ballister's weapon of choice during the bank robbery.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8a8c7344
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8a8c7344
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8a8c7344
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8ae880f7
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Deconstruction
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8ae880f7
comment
Deconstruction: Nimona takes a look at stories that set villains as the protagonists and cast traditional heroes as antagonists. While most fanfics or original stories note that the villains are right and go that route, Ballister is not actually a villain. Instead, he was painted as one and merely decides to play the part. In addition, Ballister says he would cross the line if he ever hurt innocents and gets captured by the Institution when delivering a cure for a plague he caused. Nimona shows what would happen if a superpowered fangirl of a villain would do with immense powers and no moral code, leading to more destruction than before.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8ae880f7
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8ae880f7
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8ae880f7
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8d4799d1
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Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8d4799d1
comment
Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Ballister and Nimona are a villainous version.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8d4799d1
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8d4799d1
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8d4799d1
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8e3b5b4d
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Minimalist Cast
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8e3b5b4d
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Minimalist Cast: The cast page shows all the characters with both a name and a recurring part. That list is exactly five people long.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8e3b5b4d
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_8e3b5b4d
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_90e31482
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Laser-Guided Karma
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_90e31482
comment
In some Laser-Guided Karma, Goldenloin may have lost use of his legs in the ending. Forgiving him for shooting his arm off, Ballister helps him with recovery and won't leave his bedside.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_90e31482
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_90e31482
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_91cab736
type
Major Injury Underreaction
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_91cab736
comment
Major Injury Underreaction: While in her dragon form, Nimona takes an arrow to the leg during the Bank Robbery scene, and doesn't notice (even after she shifts back to human) until Ballister points it out to her. Even then, her reaction is a simple "Oh." Played with: when the arrow is extracted, she reacts with considerably more pain — but it turns out she was faking in order to mislead Ballister as to the strength of her powers.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_91cab736
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_91cab736
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_91cab736
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_92eb3e7c
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From a Single Cell
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_92eb3e7c
comment
From a Single Cell: It's pretty heavily implied that this is the root of both Nimona's Shapeshifting powers and Healing Factor. Every time Nimona transforms, all of her cells are destroyed and reformed. It's how she can resurrect and split into two bodies.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_92eb3e7c
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_92eb3e7c
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_96a33f11
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Riddle for the Ages
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_96a33f11
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Riddle for the Ages: We never do learn how exactly Nimona's powers work, or what caused them in the first place. She herself doesn't know.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_96a33f11
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_96a33f11
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_970c790a
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Big Bad
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_970c790a
comment
Big Bad: Despite the reputation Ballister has as the kingdom's top villain, the story's true villain is The Director.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_970c790a
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_970c790a
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_970c790a
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_97980a6e
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First Law of Tragicomedies
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_97980a6e
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First Law of Tragicomedies: The series started off with a silly sense of humor paired with occasional pathos, then gradually got more serious and character-driven.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_97980a6e
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_97980a6e
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28
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Revenge Before Reason
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28
comment
Revenge Before Reason: This is apparently where Ballister draws the line. He has ample opportunity to avenge his missing arm when pinning down Goldenloin, and to cause widespread havoc or destruction. Instead, Ballister is too much of a Noble Demon. Even when he has a chance to amputate Goldenloin's hand, he refuses, and asks who the real villain is. It's revealed that Nimona doesn't care about the lives that she took and wants to destroy the Institution, no matter the cost. This includes killing guards or anyone unlucky enough to be in the way. Then again, these same people who were supposed to protect her abandoned her. When Ballister finds out why, he's sympathetic but worried that she's killing innocents while on a rampage.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_98ff7254
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Long-Haired Pretty Boy
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_98ff7254
comment
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Goldenloin is very close to golden locks which fits exquisitely, as the Christmas flashback shows he only grew them out in his adult years.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_98ff7254
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_98ff7254
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_999d9288
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Perky Female Minion
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_999d9288
comment
Perky Female Minion: This seems to be the essence of Nimona's personality. At first, anyway.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_999d9288
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_999d9288
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_999d9288
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9b73b497
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9b73b497
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Briefly mentioned as the reason Ballister won't let Nimona kill Goldenloin. Later it turns out there are other factors at play.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9b73b497
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9b73b497
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9c1f758a
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Kill It with Fire
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9c1f758a
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Kill It with Fire: The Director gets burned to death by Nimona, who is using a dragon's form.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9c1f758a
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9c1f758a
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9c1f758a
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1
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Foreshadowing
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1
comment
Foreshadowing: There are a few hints that Nimona's backstory is fake. Blackheart keeps pointing out Plot Holes while she's telling it. Nimona claims that part of her tragedy was that she couldn't control her shapeshifting when she first got it, and needed time to learn how to master it. She contradicts this after undergoing Shapeshifter Mode Lock and freaking out because she's apparently never lost control like that before.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a3c6c2b7
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"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a3c6c2b7
comment
"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: As the audio version can't use the comics evocative panels instead Child!Nimona says to Beast!Nimona as the complex explodes around them "There, there it's just us. It's always just us."
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a3c6c2b7
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a3c6c2b7
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a3c6c2b7
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a5adbbe7
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Unreliable Expositor
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a5adbbe7
comment
Unreliable Expositor: Nimona. Her initial account about her backstory in entirely false, a revelation that is foreshadowed by how Ballister starts immediately finding holes in her story.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a5adbbe7
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a5adbbe7
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 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a5adbbe7
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a5fb0d24
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Healing Factor
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a5fb0d24
comment
Healing Factor: Nimona's arrow wound heals rather quickly. It's a shapeshifter thing. Turns out she could have healed much more quickly, but was misleading Ballister as to the extent of her powers.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a5fb0d24
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a5fb0d24
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a5fb0d24
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a667c3a6
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Emerald Power
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a667c3a6
comment
Emerald Power: Jaderoot is an incredibly insidious magical substance used in Dark Magic and is a deadly bubbling green. Dr. Meredith Blitzmeyer's Anomalous Energy Enhancer, which harvests the same infinite omnipotent energy source used by the sorcerers of the mountains... and does nothing at the moment except glow green.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a667c3a6
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a667c3a6
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a7defafd
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Code Name
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a7defafd
comment
Code Name: Played for Laughs, during the bank robbing scene.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a7defafd
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a7defafd
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_a7defafd
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ac9af088
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Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ac9af088
comment
Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: While it's unknown if Goldenloin and Ballister rekindle their romantic relationship, Nimona's rampage forces them to ally and they reconcile in the epilogue.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ac9af088
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ac9af088
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c
type
Oh, Crap!
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c
comment
Oh, Crap!: When Ballister informs Nimona (over radio) that Goldenloin has ambushed him. When the sample of Nimona's blood, extracted from inside the force field she's being detained in to the main lab, begins transforming into her monstrous form.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c
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 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_af6628a1
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Web First
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_af6628a1
comment
Web First: Started as a popular Webcomic that netted the author an agent who got it published, it later got an audiobook adaption.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_af6628a1
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_af6628a1
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_af6628a1
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b2407a69
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Talk to the Fist
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b2407a69
comment
Talk to the Fist: After Blackheart decides he's heard enough of Goldenloin.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b2407a69
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b2407a69
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b2407a69
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b38b6147
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Science Fantasy
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b38b6147
comment
Science Fantasy: While it at first seems like a Standard Fantasy Setting world of knights, magic, and shapeshifters there are also modern conveniences like computers and radios the comic shows exist alongside seemlessly.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b38b6147
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b38b6147
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b38b6147
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b6cdd117
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Beast of the Apocalypse
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b6cdd117
comment
Ballister has a thing for genetically modified dragons but since he has Nimona with him he doesn't bring up that project again. Even when some dragons would be great at slowing down a certain Beast of the Apocalypse.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b6cdd117
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b6cdd117
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b76fe275
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Ungrateful Townsfolk
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b76fe275
comment
Ungrateful Townsfolk: In the true and fake versions of Nimona's backstory, she talks about this bitterly with Ballister. She shapeshifted into a dragon after a witch gave her powers, but the witch didn't know how to change her back. Turns out appearing in your hometown as a dragon who can't speak means your friends and family won't recognize you, and then spending a long period of time mastering your powers on your own means you won't actually be there during the raider's next attack and kill everyone. When a six-year-old girl transforms into a dragon, it doesn't matter that she saved the village from raiders: everyone she knows and loves becomes terrified of her. Her own parents deliver her to the Institution and she begs to see them again as the scientists callously discuss that she was abandoned.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b76fe275
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b76fe275
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b7c53a22
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Blood Knight
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b7c53a22
comment
Blood Knight: Nimona loves killing. Ballister, being the Noble Demon he is, has to tone this down at times. Later deconstructed, as her violent tendencies stem from a combination of killing before she understood the consequences of her actions, being put in a situation where killing was the only way out, and then defining herself as a killer due to her past.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b7c53a22
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b7c53a22
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b7fa9b36
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Adaptational Explanation
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b7fa9b36
comment
Adaptational Explanation: The narration expands on the action a few times to link things better as well as having the dialogue rejiggered a few times for better flow.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b7fa9b36
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_b7fa9b36
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ba5bbda5
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Mirror Character
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ba5bbda5
comment
Mirror Character: In the end, Nimona and Ballister. Both were abused by organizations that study magic scientifically and emotionally manipulate others to their own ends. Both were taken in by said organizations as children and told that these organizations were the good guys for doing so. Both define themselves by how these organizations defined them. The difference is that while growing up Ballister thought he was being groomed as a hero and continued to behave heroically, while Nimona was told she was "sick" and "dangerous" and as such decided Then Let Me Be Evil.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ba5bbda5
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ba5bbda5
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bb0c0a4d
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Fiery Redhead
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bb0c0a4d
comment
Fiery Redhead: Nimona herself. Though it might be dye.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bb0c0a4d
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bb0c0a4d
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bbfaa837
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Knight Templar
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bbfaa837
comment
Knight Templar: The Director, who believes she is doing everything she does to protect the kingdom.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bbfaa837
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bbfaa837
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bbfaa837
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27
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Berserk Button
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27
comment
Berserk Button: Nimona reacts very badly to the suggestion that she could be examined to find how her power works, even For Science! She's nobody's Guinea pig.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27
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 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_be009bbc
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Alliterative Name
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_be009bbc
comment
Alliterative Name: Ballister Blackheart.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_be009bbc
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_be009bbc
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c2cedc1c
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Big "NO!"
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c2cedc1c
comment
Big "NO!": Ballister, when Nimona's head is cut off.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c2cedc1c
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c2cedc1c
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c4b09e97
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Doppelgänger
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c4b09e97
comment
Doppelgänger: Nimona can create a pretty close approximation of a person, the audiobook confirms that she can perfectly mimic a voice too.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c4b09e97
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1.0
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c4b09e97
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c68d0a0d
type
Non-Lethal Deadly Weapon
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c68d0a0d
comment
Non-Lethal Deadly Weapon: Ballister goes to great lengths to make his poison non-lethal, but eventually two people who were sick because of it die anyway. As anyone who works in medicine could tell you, there is no illness too harmless to be entirely non-lethal. There's always someone who is immunocompromised enough, or frail enough, or ill enough from something else that some minor illness which would normally not be a big deal can wind up being the last straw that does them in. Although it's possible that this is a subversion. Between the Institution guards at the hospital who had a trap prepared for Ballister, and the second trap prepared for Nimona when she tried to free him, it's possible that the deaths were either the doing of the Institution, or even that nobody died at all and the "deaths" were just a rumor spread by the Institution as part of a Batman Gambit to trap Ballister.
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Friendship Denial
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comment
Friendship Denial: When Goldenloin talks to the Director about Blackheart, Goldenloin tries to protest that Blackheart isn't his friend and their past relationship won't prevent Goldenloin from stopping Blackheart.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c6cde986
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a
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Shout-Out
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a
comment
Shout-Out: The above Funny Background Event entry contains numerous shout outs, mostly to fantasy and science fiction franchises.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c7b6612d
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Unstable Genetic Code
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comment
Unstable Genetic Code: Averted, Nimona's abilities are entirely magical in nature in a bit of Doing in the Scientist, her blood type is even revealed to be AB Positive when tested, though the separation caused by the sampling lets her manifest a monstrous side.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c7b6612d
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c868a42a
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Freudian Excuse
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c868a42a
comment
Freudian Excuse: Nimona is willing to hurt and kill people because her parents gave her up to the Institution after she saved the village from raiders and burned the invaders to the ground. This single moment defined her life and identity. Meanwhile, at the Institution she was treated as a monster and a lab pet, perhaps a weapon to replicate. Of course, when they recapture her, the attempt to study her blood goes wrong when she lashes out completely and starts wiping everyone out. Ballister discusses this; he says that anyone who went through something like that would be broken and traumatized.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c868a42a
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c9946987
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Decoy Backstory
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_c9946987
comment
Decoy Backstory: The first time Ballister asks Nimona about the origin of her powers, she claims she was once an ordinary girl who was gifted magical transforming powers by a witch after she helped the witch. It's pretty obvious that at least some parts of it are false, as it makes no real sense that the witch would have needed her help or could have bestowed shapeshifting abilities as powerful as Nimona's. Ballister even points out some of the holes in the story. Much later it's confirmed that pretty much the entire story was a lie. Nimona's true origin is never fully revealed. What little we know was that she was captured and experimented on after killing dozens of raiders with her powers, and it's theorized she may be some sort of ancient shapeshifting parasite that either killed and replaced or merged with a young girl.
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No Name Given
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No Name Given: The Director of the Institution is only known by her title. Her name is never spoken in the comic.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ca87e3ec
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Cerebus Syndrome
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Cerebus Syndrome: The story starts out as a fairly light, humorous read, but as more is revealed about the characters, it gradually becomes more dramatic. Humor is still present, but it's heavily downplayed as the story reaches its climax.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_cfdb9e17
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Broken Bird
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Broken Bird: Noted by Ballister at the end of the story. He says that Nimona was not a monster; she was a damaged person who didn't know how to handle trauma. What she went through— being experimented on for decades, called a monster and a pet— would break anyone. Ballister can confirm that from his experiences with the Institute. A disguised Nimona is touched by this and leaves a secret message to show she's alive.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_d08595d3
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Anchovies Are Abhorrent
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comment
Anchovies Are Abhorrent: Nimona asks to order a pizza as there's nothing edible in Ballister's fridge. He says delivery is expensive and offers her anchovies. She responds with a flat 'no'.
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MacGuffin Title
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MacGuffin Title: If you subscribe to the 'Nimona is a MacGuffin' view above, like the Director does.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_d42569b
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_d498390f
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Fruit Cart
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_d498390f
comment
Fruit Cart: While locked in cat form, Nimona runs into one.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_d498390f
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_d498390f
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Dramatic Unmask
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Dramatic Unmask: The Director throwing away her hood reveals Pointy Ears and a bald head, showing she's probably not human. Nimona later guesses that she's a goblin, although The Director refuses to confirm or deny it.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_d4bf11d1
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WouldNotHurtAChild
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_d57b732d
comment
Would Not Hurt A Child: Goldenloin refuses an order from the Institution to kill Nimona, saying she's just a little girl. Then again, he could be easily replaced... Subverted when he agrees to kill Nimona in exchange for not having to kill Blackheart.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_d57b732d
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Living MacGuffin
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Living MacGuffin: The Director and Goldenloin at least in beginning, think Nimona is this.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_d64c3cd4
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Friendship Moment
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_d6b5f05f
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Friendship Moment: Every time Goldenloin drags Blackheart out of danger. Also, the last panels of the epilogue.
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Action Girl
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comment
Action Girl: Nimona, even when not in a girl's form. Also, Gloreth.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_dae5c997
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_dd48b81d
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Totalitarian Utilitarian
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_dd48b81d
comment
Totalitarian Utilitarian: The Director, of course.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_dd48b81d
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_dd48b81d
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The Face
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e39ce9
comment
The Face: Goldenloin is this for the Institution. He's the handsome Knight in Shining Armor that the everyday people can admire as a hero and make the Institution look good, all while they carry on with much darker schemes under the surface.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e39ce9
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e39ce9
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Morality Pet
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e3b0cd87
comment
Morality Pet: At first, Nimona seems to be an inversion of this for Ballister, since she's constantly nagging him about his self-imposed ethics and code of honor; as the story advances, however, it starts looking more and more like Ballister has been Nimona's Morality Pet all along.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e3b0cd87
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e3b0cd87
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd
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Art Evolution
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd
comment
Art Evolution: Easily seen from the first few pages, and well into the last few chapters. Color composition and more all blossom and refine as the story goes on, which help the characters really shine.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd
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MacGuffin Super-Person
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e75be4b3
comment
MacGuffin Super-Person: The Director considers Nimona to be this, evidence points toward the Institute having hunted Nimona for years if not decades to understand and possibly weaponize her powers.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e75be4b3
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e75be4b3
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Purely Aesthetic Era
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e8465b72
comment
Purely Aesthetic Era: The Middle Ages with computers, TV screens, pop corn, finger gloves, earpieces and ray guns.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_e8465b72
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type
Kill and Replace
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Kill and Replace: At one point, Ballister and Dr. Blitzmeyer talk about a legend of a knight who supposedly fought and killed a shapeshifter like Nimona. Blitzmeyer mentions an alternate theory, that the knight wasn't victorious at all, but that the shapeshifter killed her and then took her shape in order to throw off suspicion and prevent further attacks.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ece27800
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ece27800
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ee4286cd
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Leave Him to Me!
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ee4286cd
comment
Leave Him to Me!: Blackheart says this to Nimona, referring to Goldenloin during planning for the Bank robbery.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ee4286cd
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ee4286cd
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_eff83d77
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Mundane Utility
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_eff83d77
comment
Mundane Utility: For the first Christmas Episode, Nimona offers Ballister a red scarf. She then tells him she turned into a sheep and knitted it with her own wool. (She might be pulling his leg, though.)
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_eff83d77
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_eff83d77
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_f50b1e05
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Shoo the Dog
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_f50b1e05
comment
Shoo the Dog: While meeting under truce, Goldenloin informs Ballister that the Institute wants Nimona dead. He advises Ballister to send his "sidekick" into hiding so that Nimona may live. Ballister says nuts to that for a lot of reasons, the main being that it's low of Goldenloin to be following the Institute so blindly.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_f50b1e05
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_f50b1e05
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Running Gag
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_f9f2c33
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Running Gag: Nimona has a long-running gag of responding to something said about her with "NO, I'M A SHARK!" complete with often shapeshifting into a shark. It returns at the end of the story, when Nimona leaves behind a message about a shark to let Ballister know that she survived the climax of the story, despite Ballister's belief that she had died.
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_f9f2c33
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_fc9b6be5
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Foe Romance Subtext
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_fc9b6be5
comment
Foe Romance Subtext: Blackheart and Goldenloin, in spades. Confirmed to be canon by the author at the end of the comics and in some of his comments.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_fc9b6be5
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_fc9b6be5
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_fed93e1b
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Dark and Troubled Past
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_fed93e1b
comment
Dark and Troubled Past: Nimona's real backstory is very harsh and troubled, and leaves you perfectly understanding why she has no love for the self-appointed good guys.
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_fed93e1b
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NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_fed93e1b
 NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_ff7f34c5
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Pet the Dog
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comment
Pet the Dog: The Director has only one decent moment. In the climax, Nimona's Superpowered Evil Side is on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge and hunting down the Director in revenge for torturing Ballister and trying to study her. One of the guards helps the Director to her feet and says they need to evacuate per her orders. The Director orders him to leave her because the beast is hunting her and grabs a jaderoot cannon.
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 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Absent-Minded Professor / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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American Media / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Anchovies Are Abhorrent / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Annoying Arrows / int_9f7c1c27
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Artificial Limbs / int_9f7c1c27
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Bank Robbery / int_9f7c1c27
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Beard of Evil / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Changeling Tale / int_9f7c1c27
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Character Title / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Completed Webcomics / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Decoy Backstory / int_9f7c1c27
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Fiery Redhead / int_9f7c1c27
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From a Single Cell / int_9f7c1c27
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Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Good Scars, Evil Scars / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Hero with Bad Publicity / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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I Am Not a Gun / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Important Haircut / int_9f7c1c27
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Major Injury Underreaction / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Mirror Character / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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More Despicable Minion / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Nostalgia Filter / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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"Open!" Says Me / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Overzealous Underling / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Partial Transformation / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Perky Female Minion / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Science Fantasy / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Shapeshifter Mode Lock / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Terminal Transformation / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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We Used to Be Friends / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Web First / int_9f7c1c27
 NIMONA (Webcomic)
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Webcomics of the 2010s / int_9f7c1c27
 Nimona
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