Skulduggery Pleasant/Characters

Main Characters

Stephanie Edgley/ Valkyrie Cain/ Darquesse

• Action Girl: Grows into one over the course of the books.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: She thankfully gets over it.
  • After semi-accidentally killing the bad-boy in question.
• The Antichrist: Remains to be seen but Valkyrie is hoping to be an Anti-Anti-Christ. Then there's the whole Death Bringer thing...
• Apocalypse Maiden
• Berserk Button: Harming Skulduggery or her family.
• Broken Pedestal: When she finds out that Skulduggery is Lord Vile.
• The Chosen One: The necromancers think she is their saviour, the Death Bringer. They later find a new one.
• Combat Pragmatist: Even without any combat experience, she instinctively knows to attack her opponents weak spot. She puts it to good use when stuck alone in a cell with Scapegrace.
• Cool Big Sis: To Alison
• Daddy's Girl
• Deadpan Snarker
• Determinator: Most notable in book four, when she rescues Skulduggery.
• Dissonant Serenity: She was totally fine after being tortured by Melancholia. It was implied that Darquesse was the one calming her down. Oh Crap.
• Elemental Powers
  • Picks up Necromancy. It's not clear what discipline she will choose.
• Enemy Within
• Future Me Scares Me: Oh boy...
• Giving The Necromancer Cane To An Elemental
• Good Thing You Can Heal: It's a good thing that Darquesse can heal otherwise her fight with Lord Vile would have been remarkably one sided.
• Healing Factor: As Darquesse.
• Hearing Voices: Probably not a good sign.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: In Death Bringer.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Caelan. Caelan. Caelan.
• How Much More Can She Take?: Lord Vile slits Darquesse's throat, shoves his thumb in her eye and generally delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that leaves her on the brink of death. She pretty much walks it off. On one hand... yay! Skulduggery didn't kill Valkyrie! On the other hand... Darquesse. Just. Doesn't. Die. Humanity is screwed.
• It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
• Jekyll and Hyde: Darquesse
• Just a Kid: Gets this from others a lot. Sometimes it's justified.
• Kid Detective
• Kid Sidekick
• Little Miss Badass
• Morality Chain: She and Skulduggery are mutual ones for each other. He's talked her out of becomes Darquesse three times now and it was the thought of her that stopped him from becoming Lord Vile.
• Morality Pet: For Skulduggery and... strangely... China.
• Mouthy Kid
• Name of Cain
• Omnicidal Maniac: Darquesse.
• Plucky Girl
• Person of Mass Destruction
• Rage Against the Mentor: In book six. More sulking than actual rage.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Sealing her name pretty much gave Darquesse free reign when a Remnant tried to possess Valkyrie. Thankfully, it didn't last. Whether or not this trope is completely subverted remains to be seen.
• Split Personality Takeover
• Strange Girl
• Super-Powered Evil Side: Darquesse, oh so much.
• Tagalong Kid: At first.
• Tall, Dark and Snarky: According to Fletcher, she's become this. It sort of rings true.
• Thanatos Gambit: When cornered by Lord Vile, she gets Melancholia to kill her on purpose. Darquesse comes to play instead.
• Took a Level in Badass: While she was always competent even as a normal 12 year old, once she discovers her magic and gets trained up by an Action Girl, a Guile Hero and a Necromancer she becomes quite formidable. Then she becomes Darquesse for two minutes and becomes terrifying.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: She's a bit of a self absorbed jerk in Death Bringer.
• The Watson
• What the Hell, Hero?: Fletcher giver her a pretty epic calling out. She deserved it.
• Woman in Black
• Your Cheating Heart

Skulduggery Pleasant/ Lord Vile/ Detective Inspector Me

• Atonement Detective: In Death Bringer we find out what he was atoning for.
• Audio Erotica: In-Universe.
• Awesome Ego: In-Universe. Valkyrie notes his "warm arrogance".
• Ax Crazy: While he seems perfectly normal (aside from the obvious lack of flesh and organs) a few people, including Skulduggery himself, have alluded to him becoming a bit of psycho after his family died. It started to show after Dark Days.
  • Lord Vile definitely fits this.
• Badass
  • Badass in a Nice Suit
  • Badass in Distress: Every now and then.
  • Badass Longcoat: Has a tan overcoat as part of his disguise.
• Berserk Button: Hurt Valkyrie. I dare you.
  • If you press the button, it might not turn off. The murder of his family eventually led to him becoming Lord Vile so he could kill everything.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Broken Ace
• Blood Knight: Suggested to be one. Pretty much confirmed by Death Bringer.
• Byronic Hero
• Coat Hat Scarf of Asskicking: His disguise. Until China makes him the façade.
• Combat Pragmatist

Baron Vengeous: Only a heathen brings a gun to a sword fight.
Skulduggery: Only a moron brings a sword to a gun fight.

• Cowboy Cop
• Dark and Troubled Past
• The Dark Side Will Make You Forget
• The Dead Can Dance: Being a suave, four hundred year old Badass and all.
• Dead Guy on Display: He got better. Then he got angry.
• Dead Wife And Child
• Deadpan Snarker
• Defective Detective
• Dem Bones: Well, yeah...
• Despair Event Horizon: Barely averted. But not before he got his Omnicidal Maniac on.
• Determinator: While Tenebrae made it possible, it was through sheer will alone that Skulduggery came back to life as a skeleton.
• Elemental Powers
• Enemy Within
• Enemy Without
• Evil Me Scares Me
• The Exotic Detective: The whole skeleton thing.
• Fallen Hero: He got better. Thank merciful heavens.
• Forced to Watch
• Good Is Not Nice: He's nice enough as long as you stay on his good side. If not...
• Guile Hero
• He Who Fights Monsters
• Heartbroken Badass
• Heroic BSOD: For most of Dark Days.
• Horrifying Hero
• I Hate Past Me
• Insufferable Genius: In an endearing way.
• Jekyll and Hyde: Lord Vile.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
• Morality Chain: Valkyrie is this for him but it turns out that he's one for her too.
  • His family was his Morality Chain before he "died". Taking them away ended... badly.
• Mysterious Past
• Occult Detective
• Papa Wolf: Don't try to manipulate Valkyrie, don't threaten Valkyrie, don't date Valkyrie and for God's sake don't harm Valkyrie in any way. Best just leave her be.
  • Tenebrae tells Valkyrie that the only reason she isn't dead by now, is that people know how Skulduggery will react if she is killed.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: or at least four hundred.
• Revolvers Are Just Better
• Rousing Speech: Used to be quite good at these apparently. Not so much anymore, though he still has his moments.
• Sharp-Dressed Man
• Split Personality Takeover
• Staying Alive
• Super-Powered Evil Side: See Lord Vile for details. No. Really.
• That Face Is Dead
• Tranquil Fury: When he's feeling homicidal.

Skulduggery: You're waiting to see if I'm angry.
Ghastly: I already know you're angry. You're sitting very still and you're talking very quietly. You're getting ready to kill someone.
Skulduggery: I just need a name.

• Unstoppable Rage: Famous for this. They weren't kidding.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Kenspeckle has given him a few verbal lashings for putting Valkyrie in danger.
  • He got this from Valkyrie in Death Bringer.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Do not. Set. Him off.

Ghastly Bespoke

• Bald Black Leader Guy
• Good Scars, Evil Scars
• Heartbroken Badass
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old
• Stylish Protection Gear: Makes these for a living.
• Taken for Granite: He has to do it to himself in order to escape death. He gets better in the third book.

China Sorrows

• Action Girl: When it suits her.
• Aloof Ally
• Ambiguously Evil: "Please don't tell me you're trusting her these days."
• Badass Bookworm
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Beauty is a fast healer at least.
• Berserk Button: She really doesn't like it when you accidentally disintegrate her books with the Sceptre of the Ancients.
• Blue Eyes
• Break the Haughty: The end of Death Bringer.
• Cain and Abel: With Mr. Bliss for some time.
• Combat Pragmatist
• Cool Big Sis: Replaces Tanith as this for Valkyrie after Tanith is possessed by a remnant. It doesn't last.
• Dark Secret: One she's willing to kill for.

Crux: China Sorrows, China Sorrows. She's the one, she's the one. Nefarian Serpine killed Skulduggery Pleasant, but China Sorrows led his family into the trap.

• • As of Death Bringer, the secret is out.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Defector From Decadence
• Even the Girls Want Her
• Femme Fatale
• The Fighting Narcissist
• Foe Yay: With Eliza Scorn.
• Geometric Magic
• Good Thing You Can Heal: She gets shot in Dark Days and uses her symbols to heal herself. She spends the rest of the book recovering though.
• Hannibal Lecture: Delivers an epic one to Prave.
• The Heretic
• Hot Librarian
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: She likes her horse for this reason. It could possibly be the reason she's so fond Valkyrie and Skulduggery.
• Impractically Fancy Outfit: Falls victim to this occasionally. She briefly considers wearing leather like Tanith Low but comes to her senses. "Class is a gift that gives eternally."
• It's All About Me
• Knowledge Broker
• Lady of War
• Let's Get Dangerous: China is neutral to use her own word. But when she fights... she really fights.
• Manipulative Bitch: Isn't above using her magic to make people fall hopelessly in love with her just so she gets what she wants.
• Mysterious Past
• Neutral No Longer
• No Sympathy
• Pet the Dog: Acts this way towards Valkyrie every now and then.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: She wears it better than Skulduggery apparently.
• Ship Tease: There was loads of it between her an Skulduggery in Death Bringer. Until the end.
• Shipper on Deck: Seems to ship Skulduggery and Valkyrie.
• Shoot the Dog: Remus Crux.
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
• Tall, Dark and Snarky
• The Tease
• Token Evil Teammate
• The Vamp: Has her moments. May have been one before she turned "neutral."
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Has no issues with using lethal forced against possessed people.

Tanith Low

• Action Girl
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Frequently the victim of this because the author wasn't allowed to kill her off in the first book.
• Cool Big Sis: A surrogate sister for Valkyrie.
• Demonic Possession
• Face Monster Turn
• Hot Amazon
• Hot Chick with a Sword
• Iron Butt Monkey
• Katanas Are Just Better
• Put on a Bus: In book six.

Fletcher Renn

• Anime Hair: It defies both logic and reason.
• Break the Haughty
• Combat Pragmatist: Puts it to great use with fighting Pennant and Caelan.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Deconstructed, as he ends up not having much of a life outside of being Valkyrie's boyfriend, and it's one of the reasons why they split up.
• Dude in Distress
• It's All About Me: Especially in The Faceless Ones.
• Jerkass: Again, in The Faceless Ones. He grows out of it.
• Last of His Kind: He's the only surviving Teleporter as of The Faceless Ones.
• Non-Action Guy
• Slap Slap Kiss: With Valkyrie.
• Took a Level in Badass: At the end of Death Bringer.
• Teleport Spam
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Valkyrie briefly wonders if it's problems with his father that causes Fletcher to try and get Skulduggery's approval.

Major Villains

Nefarian Serpine

• And Your Little Dog, Too
• Arch Enemy: To Skulduggery. Then he died.
• Axe Crazy
• Badass in a Nice Suit: A Victorian suit. They don't get much nicer than that!
• The Bad Guy Wins: Initially, anyway. He not only managed to kill Skulduggery's wife and child, but Skulduggery himself. Too bad for him, Skulduggery's death had been rigged.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: See Red Right Hand below. Not even the most extreme Anti-Hero could pull that off...
• Card-Carrying Villain
• Civilian Villain
• Cold-Blooded Torture: One of his personal favorite pass-times, apparently.
• The Dragon: To Mevolent, once upon a time.
  • Dragon Ascendant
• Evil Gloating: You can totally tell that his conversations with Skulduggery are the most fun he's had in years.
• Evil Is Hammy: Lampshaded.

Nefarian: So here we are again, detective. You, at my mercy, me, merciless.
Skulduggery: You, talking. I thought you'd have grown out of the whole villainy thing by now, Nefarian.

• Evil Sorcerer
• Evilly Affable: Re-read the part where he's having his little moment with Skulduggery. If it weren't for the fact that Skulduggery was chained to a chair, it almost would seem like they really are, as Skulduggery puts it, "two guys chatting."
• The Fundamentalist
• Green Eyes
• Hoist by His Own Petard: By turning himself undead, the Sceptre of the Ancients can no longer identify him as its master, and Skulduggery is able to use it to kill him permanantly.
• Psycho Supporter: Pre- first book.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old
• Red Right Hand: Literally. Anyone he points it at suffers an agonizing death. Unless they're already dead...
• Shiny Midnight Black
• Smug Snake
• The Sociopath
• Squishy Wizard: Has some very formidable, very scary powers that he's all too happy to use on people...and then he goes and gets his ass kicked by Skulduggery whenever forced into close-combat. Repeatedly.
• Torture Technician
• The Unfettered
• Villain Ball: Surprisingly enough, Skulduggery was just going to arrest him. He just had to go and point that Red Right Hand of his at Valkyrie.
• Villainous Breakdown: After his inevitable defeat at the hands of Skulduggery...well, let's just say he freaks out a little. A good sport he is not.
• Wicked Cultured
• Would Hurt a Child

Baron Vengeous

• Axe Crazy
• Evil Sorcerer
• The Fundamentalist
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Played With. He was already dying when the Grotesquery snapped his neck.
• Honour Before Reason: The aforementioned "sword to a gun fight" conversation.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old
• Would Hurt a Child
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness

Batu/ Paddy

• Demonic Possession
• The Dog Was the Mastermind
• Hoist by His Own Petard
• Muggle Born of Mages
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: To use Valkyrie's words, he was pretty much discarded like a leaky boat after the Faceless Ones were done with him.

The Faceless Ones

• Body Horror
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Inflicted on Skulduggery.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
• Eldritch Abomination
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: They're the Faceless Ones. So, naturally, the faces of the people they are possessing melt off.
  • Also, the Grotesquery.
• For the Evulz
• Go Mad from the Revelation
• God Is Evil: Sweet Jesus.
• The Grotesque: The aptly named Grotesquery.
• Kill the God
• Mind Rape
• Omnicidal Maniac
• Ultimate Evil
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form

Tesserect

• Badass
• Buried Alive
• Bunny Ears Lawyer
• Career Killer
• Contract on the Hitman
• Cool Mask
• Hitman with a Heart
• Killed Off for Real: By Lord Vile.
• Malevolent Masked Men
• Pet the Dog: Or in this case, cat.
• Pragmatic Villainy

Lord Vile

• Adaptive Armor
• Animated Armor: Unless Skulduggery is wearing it.
• Axe Crazy
• Back from the Dead: Well, technically.
• Badass
• Beware the Quiet Ones
• Black Knight
• Deceptive Disciple: Towards the Necromancers.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Mevolent wants to bring back the Faceless Ones. Lord Vile really doesn't care.
• The Dreaded
• Evil Sorcerer
• Face Heel Turn
• Fallen Hero: Skulduggery!?!
• Implacable Man
• Memetic Badass: In-Universe example.
• Mysterious Past: A little less mysterious as of Death Bringer.
• Necromancer
• Not in This For Your Revolution: Villainous example. He just wants to kill things.
• Omnicidal Maniac: On par with Darquesse. He would have been all good with Mevolent bringing back the Faceless Ones because it meant that he had something else to kill.
• Person of Mass Destruction
• Spikes of Villainy
• Split Personality Takeover
• Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: He wants to kill everything. Including the bloody Faceless Ones.
• Tin Tyrant
• Tragic Villain
• Tranquil Fury
• Ultimate Evil
• Unstoppable Rage
• The Voiceless: He doesn't say much. The only thing that Lord Vile said in Death Bringer was "Valkyrie". Which was... strangely heart warming.
• Would Hit a Girl: Has no qualms whatsoever about beating Darquesse or Melancholia into a bloody pulp. Thankfully, Skulduggery feels differently. At least about Valkyrie. Then there's Ghastly's mother...

Melancholia St Clair /The Death Bringer

• And I Must Scream: Eventually placed in an induced coma by Doctor Nye.
• Blessed with Suck
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Inflicts this on Valkyrie.
• Dark Action Girl
• Deadly Upgrade: Almost kills her.
• Death of a Thousand Cuts: Almost does this to Valkyrie. Lord Vile (AKA. Skulduggery on a really bad day) gives her a dose of her own medicine. Valkyrie saves her.
• Evil Is Not a Toy
• Jerkass
• Laser-Guided Karma: See above.
• Necromancy
• Not So Different: With Valkyrie. Not that either of them will admit it.
• Person of Mass Destruction
• Pet the Dog: Shows something vaguely resembling sympathy towards Valkyrie after she bites the...thing ... that was trying to kill her.
• Power Incontinence
• Oh Crap: When she fights Lord Vile.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Save the Villain
• Smug Snake
• Squishy Wizard
• Strapped to An Operating Table: When Crave carves the symbols into her skin and her fate at the end of book 6.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity

Recurring/Minor Villains

Vaurien Scapegrace

• Butt Monkey
• Card-Carrying Villain
• Determinator: Much good it does him.
• Ho Yay: With Thrasher.
• I Can Still Fight: With his head chopped off.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
• Losing Your Head
• Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: Turns out... chopping off his head won't kill him.
• Sissy Villain

The Torment

• Bad Powers, Bad People
• Big Damn Villains
• Enemy Mine: Helps Valkyrie fight the Grotesquery.
• Giant Spider
• Killed Off for Real
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast
• Obviously Evil: Well, with a name like that...
• Spell My Name with a "The"
• Would Hurt a Child

Dusk

• Bishonen
• Cruel Mercy: The reason he lets Valkyrie live after tasting her blood.
• Determinator: He's been described to chase after people he's got vendetta's against for years...and it's been hinted he always finds them, too.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• Enigmatic Minion
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Valkyrie gives him a permanent one. He's not happy.
• Our Vampires Are Different
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Being a vampire and all.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Is prone to fits of this.
• The Stoic: Until you piss him off. Then he's...well, obviously, Not So Stoic.
• Would Hurt a Child

Billy-Ray Sanguine

• Berserk Button: Taking his razor.
• It's Personal: With Valkyrie after she permanently wounds him.
• Knife Nut: His knife (or razor) is unique in that the cuts caused by it will leave nasty, disfiguring scars no amount of magic can heal - a form of magic in its own.
• Ladykiller in Love: His crush on Tanith was pretty hilarious. Until Mortal Coil.
• Psycho for Hire
• Tunnel King: His main power ^[1] is being able to tunnel through walls and the ground
• Would Hurt a Child

Davina Marr

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
• Dark Action Girl
• Detective Mole
• Jerkass
• Jerkass Has a Point: Valkyrie did take an enormous risk bringing Skulduggery home.
• Killed Off for Real: You almost feel sorry for her.
  • Almost.
• Mismatched Eyes
• Police Brutality
• Smug Snake: So very much.
• Stepford Smiler: Just like Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter.
• Would Hurt a Child

Eliza Scorn

• All Women Love Shoes: Even the scary fundamentalist ones.
• Badass
  • Badass in a Nice Suit
• Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word
• The Chessmaster: She easily outplays the resident Magnificent Bitch, China Sorrows.
• Dark Action Girl
• Evilly Affable
• Evil Is Petty: Kills a woman for her shoes
• Evil Redhead
• Foe Yay: China and Eliza spend a lot of time either checking each other out or threatening to kill each other. Pet names are involved.
• Foil: To China.
• The Fundamentalist
• Kick Them While They Are Down

The Necromancers

Solomon Wreath

• Cane Fu
• Evil Mentor
• Necromancy
• Treacherous Advisor
• Well-Intentioned Extremist

Auron Tenebrae

• High Priest
• Jerkass
• Killed Off for Real
• Necromancy
• Smug Snake

Vandameer Craven

• Disappeared Dad: Mentioned to be one in passing.
• Jerkass
• Killed Off for Real: Got a bullet in the head from Skulduggery.
• Necromancy
• Sissy Villain
• Who's Laughing Now?

The White Cleaver

• Empty Shell
• Heel Face Revolving Door: Justified, as he becomes the servant of whichever Necromancer is the strongest.
• Implacable Man: At least until Death Bringer.
• The Undead
• The Worf Effect: He's a completely unstoppable badass, who lasts all of five seconds against Lord Vile before he's ripped apart.

The Edgley Family

Desmond Edgley

• Beware the Nice Ones: A thief hits Melissa. He throws him into a pharmacy window.
• Bumbling Dad: He's very nice and means well, but he did drop Valkyrie into a penguin enclosure as a child.
• Cloudcuckoolander: So much.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
• Destination Defenestration: Throws Moore into a window.
• Genius Ditz: Melissa points out that he is still a talented engineer, despite his cluelessness.
• Love At First Sight: With Melissa. Much to Gordon's disappointment.
• Overprotective Dad: "They'll be plenty of time for boys when you've finished college and become a nun."
• Parental Obliviousness
• Papa Wolf: See Beware the Nice Ones.

Melissa Edgley

• Love At First Sight
• Only Sane Man
• Parental Obliviousness
• Stepford Smiler: Only at the Edgley family reunion.

Gordon Edgley

• All Love Is Unrequited: It is heavily implied that he is still in love with Melissa.
• Author Avatar: Landy managed to pull this trope off with a character who died in the first chapter.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Living Memory
• Posthumous Character: His death sets the plot of the first book into motion.
• Romantic Runner-Up: Dated Melissa.
• Spirit Advisor

Beryl Edgley

• Jerkass

Fergus Edgley

• Elemental Powers
• Jerkass
• Hidden Depths: Seriously.
• Papa Wolf

Crystal and Carol Edgley

• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Both of them.
• Dumb Blonde
• Hidden Depths
• Jerkass: Both of them initially.
• Spoiled Brat
• Took a Level in Badass: Not so much a level, more of a small step, but hey... they saved Valkyrie from a Remnant.

Others

Mr. Bliss

• Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: China and Mr. Bliss (the embodiment of Tranquil Fury) were "wary around each other" and she had tried to kill him a couple times, but when Krav tries to kill her he loses it.
• Badass: Yes. Yes he is.
• Berserk Button: Harming China.
• Blue Eyes
• Cain and Abel: Previously with China.
• Defector From Decadence
• The Heretic
• Killed Off for Real
• The Quiet One
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old
• Reverse Mole: In the first book.
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic: In the third book, when China is threatened. Then there's his Oh Crap moment right before he gets pulverised by a Faceless One.
• Super Strength: His strength is beyond legendary.
• Tranquil Fury
• World's Strongest Man: Skulduggery describes Bliss as physically the most powerful individual on the face of the planet.

The Reflection

• Beware the Quiet Ones
• Combat Pragmatist
• Emotionless Girl
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Bad Reflection! Stop being creepy!
• Stepford Smiler
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Skulduggery and Valkyrie kind of treat it like crap. This may prove unwise.

Finbar Wrong

• Cloudcuckoolander
• Demonic Possession: Happens to him a lot, apparently.
• Seer
• Surfer Dude: Minus the surfboard.
• Voice of the Legion: When he's temporarily possessed by the Faceless Ones.

Professor Kenspeckle Grouse

• The Atoner: He's the man who built the Desolation Engine.
  • Subverted, sort of. He says he's not this trope, but has still changed his behaviour and feels sorry about what he's done.
• Badass Pacifist: He hates fighting... but he will if he has to.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: The pink hospital gown he makes Skulduggery wear.
• Demonic Possession: He gets better... but not before nailing Tanith to a chair.
• For Science!: Used to have this mindset. Grew out of it.
• Grumpy Old Man
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Spends most of his time berating Skulduggery. Adores Valkyrie.
• Killed Off for Real: In the most disturbing, violent way possible.
• The Medic
• Papa Wolf: For Valkyrie.
• Why Did It Have To Be Vampires?

Clarabelle

• Axe Crazy: Unlike all the other remnants who seem lucid and have a clear cut goal, Remnant!Clarabelle is bat shit insane.
• Cloudcuckoolander
• The Ditz
• Innocently Insensitive
• Stepford Smiler: Came across as this a little in Death Bringer.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Remus Crux

• Clueless Detective
• Go Mad from the Revelation: Catches a glimpse of a Faceless One.
• Have You Told Anyone Else?
• He Knows Too Much
• Jerkass
• Killed Off for Real
• Mind Rape
• Talkative Loon
• Too Dumb to Live: Blackmailing China Sorrows sure was a great idea...
• Wham! Line: Delivers the second most shocking line in Dark Days.
  • Which doesn't sound like much, until you hear the most shocking line.

Anton Shudder

• Enemy Within/Super-Powered Evil Side: Anton's gist.
• Man Hug: Violently and hilariously averted.
• Sacred Hospitality
• The Stoic

Caelan

• Crazy Jealous Guy
• Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire: Ultimately subverted.
• Hemo-Erotic: It certainly seems like this was the case.
• Kill It with Water
• Licking the Blade: It didn't end well.
• Love Makes You Crazy
• Our Vampires Are Different: Except in terms of brooding and stalking.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: 100 years, but anyway.
• Shallow Love Interest: Don't tell him that though.
• Stalking Is Love
• Take That: A somewhat less than subtle jab at our mate Eddie.
• Vampires Are Sex Gods:
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
• Yandere: Dear Lord...

Doctor Nye

• Ambiguous Gender: Nobody is sure whether it's a he/she/whatever.
• And I Must Scream: Perpetrator and victim. Its eyes and mouth have been sewn shut at one point and someone cut off its nose.
• Deadpan Snarker: It has its moments.
• Mad Doctor
• The Medic: Replaces grandfatherly and grumpy Kenspeckle in Death Bringer.
• Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
• Nothing Is Scarier: Barely described. Whatever is described seems... inhuman.
• Shout-Out: When it dissects the conscious Valkyrie on the operating table, it's very reminiscent of Claire Bennet's trials and tribulations in Heroes.
• Strapped to An Operating Table

Madame Mist

• Bad Powers, Bad People
• Devil in Plain Sight
• The Faceless
• Nothing Is Scarier: Does anyone particularly want to know what is under that veil?
• Obviously Evil

1. ↑ Well, his only power, unless you include cutting people with a razor