Too Cool to Kill (Nikolai Dante (2000 AD))

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A Father to His Men: Nikolai is the only member of the Romanov dynasty to show any kind of respect to his soldiers. Even a hardened bunch of criminals like the Grozny gang come to respect him when he fights alongside them. Bounty Hunter: Since Nikolai ends up as the most wanted man in the empire on several occasions, there's always someone looking to claim the ridiculous bounty on his head. Most notable of these is Drago "The Decapitator" Krasny, who not only always decapitates his bounties, but is also not above killing other bounty hunters just to claim the bounties they are escorting as well.

The "bio-weapon" creature who appears in "Agent of Destruction" is a version of the monster from the Phantoms film and novel. There are two stories titled "Love And War"; One is the epilogue to "The Courtship Of Jena Makarov" that also serves as the prologue to "Tsar Wars" and the other is Book Two of "Tsar Wars" itself. They both end similarly with Jena walking away from Nikolai and a closeup of a jaded Nikolai, though the circumstances are different. In the former, they had sex. In the latter, they duelled. The cold war between the Tsar and the Romanovs seems destined to escalate into bloody conflict. As tensions rise across the Empire, Dante finds himself acting as a field agent along with his lethal Romanov half-siblings... His work at DC Thomson included lush full-colour adaptations of novels such as Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights in the girls’ weekly Diana where Burns made exceptional use of the higher quality production processes that allowed full-colour painted art to be reproduced. And the techniques and styles he developed here that best utilised that production process continued into the 1970s and 1980s as his art moved into comics and magazines such as TV Action, Countdown and, perhaps most fondly remembered, Look-In.Vladimir Makarov may have overthrown Ivan the Oppressor and killed him with his bare hands, but Dmitri Romanov challenges him to a duel for the title of Tsar. This duel also ends up following this trope, as Jocasta leaves Vlad over it. Bearded Lady: All members of the Devil's Martyrs, a cult devoted to Rasputin, must all sport beards, women included. In Russia's Greatest Love Machine, Nikolai is shown to be reluctant to sleep with Lady Eudoxia Looshin because of this until his Weapons Crest taunts him for being insecure about his sexuality at which point he goes straight to the deed after inadvertently snogging her butler.

Nikolai Dante is the eponymous hero of a comics series published in the weekly British science fiction anthology 2000 AD. Created by writer Robbie Morrison and artist Simon Fraser, Dante first appeared in 1997. Fraser was the primary artist for the first three years of the series, with support from artists such as Charlie Adlard, Henry Flint, Chris Weston and Andy Clarke. From 2000 the majority of the stories were painted by John Burns, until Fraser returned to the character in October 2006, when the two artists began to alternate on different stories. The current stories as of early 2012 have been confirmed by Word of God as the last arc of the series; with Sympathy for the Devil being its last story, though a story set during the strip's early days was published in 2017 and a Spin-Off is reportedly in the works.Incest Subtext: Konstantin Romanov is heavily implied to be in love with his own mother. He makes every seductress sent to him take the name Jocasta before he sleeps with them.