Starlit Heroics

In the time of the ancients, there existed two groups of gods. One ruled Heaven and the other ruled Hell. Today, they are known by the handles of the Lunardream and the Deathmoon Families, having legions of followers. One day, the Deathmoon Family turned and locked themselves as their enemies. Their eternal struggle is one that has shaped the annals of history, with long and bloody wars staining the timeline, causing mass destruction and influencing the futures of thousands. However, this long tale of timeless battles shall soon end, and begin anew as hard-earned peace. This is the time of Starlit Heroics.

—Pandora

Starlit Heroics is TVTroper Xerizero Re 9010's personal masterpiece, made with his friends Antipathic Zora, Pheonyx, Flareth etc. and it includes the adventures of Daniel and his royal family of Nintendria, who live in the planet of Xephixir, a technologically advanced planet while still boasting medival themes such as castles and magic while also sporting a modern feel such as the settings usually taking place in today's time.

Said adventures include fighting against the Deathmoon Family's forces, in one way or another, which includes fighting the United Deathmoon Circus, the Antiguardians, the Chosen Generals 6, the Einherjar, the Abyss Knights, and what have you. However, the heroes regularly prove to be as Badass as the villains, which leads into many interesting battles or scenarios, usually cut off into entire canonical short stories, which are usually told from the perspective of a protagonist-class character other than the title protagonist of the series himself, Dan iel/Ranthael

Just the creator himself has crafted all 100+ characters, their personalities, along with working them all to be identifiable from each other, the story over a two year span of cleaning up plots and scenarios, the world where they live in, every little detail, the terminologies, every single monster, and even a wiki.

There is also a buttload of references to his long list of inspirations, which can come from either good or crappy things, the bad stuff being worked into better ideas, which is overall the reason why he is able to put out so much by himself, along with his own original ideas all mixed together.

It's still in progress, and it can be found here.

Tropes used in Starlit Heroics include:

Abstract Scale: Due to the nature of the series, it's been broken to hell and back.
Acid Trip Dimension: Several. The Nachzehrer Hotashems come into mind the most, however.
Adult Fear: Let's see-- danger at every turn, death is more prevalent than in Hellsing, a horde of creepy Uboa -like ghosts can invade your dreams and bum rush you all at once at any given moment, a giant, 'invisible' monster can turn the entire city and your neighbor into infected vampires, and so on.
Absolute Cleavage: Some female characters are blessed with this, specifically Hel, Sa yu ra and Queen Immortalus.
Art Shift: Again, the Nachzehrer Hotashems have this ability, as they are not only affect space and time but also the things that go inside it. One such place is the old-school Hotashem ruled over by Walter that turns everyone who goes in into wacky, black-and-white cartoons similar to the ones from the old Mickey cartoons.
Action Girl: The entire cast of female characters.
All There in the Manual: There's a wiki written by the creator that can be found here. It contains everything that is canon and even things that haven't even appeared into the series yet.
Anyone Can Die: A heavily enforced rule. However, given the number of how many come back, it's only slightly nullified.
Anthropomorphic Personification: The gods are usually the personification of a certain thing, whether it's an element or otherwise, usually having a critical impact on it. There are also several other things that can fit into this catergory.
Apocalypse How: The villains have tried several times with different plans-
- Class 0s include RANTHEDIS infections and zombie apocalypses that have spread a long way but have been eventually quelled.
- Class 1s are a side effect brought upon by Deathmoon Family harvesting for Life Cores.
- Class 2s have been caused by monsters such as Idyuun who just pass along and spread the virus onto cities or other methods.
- Class Xs have been attempted but has never been successfully pulled off.
- Class X-5 is the ultimate goal of the Deathmoon Family, all done in a group effort in their own ways.
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: People can become spiritual beings, a sub-class that describes everything transcended into the plane of either Heaven or Hell while still existing on the physical world. There's also the characters who are the reincarnations of gods, such as Daniel and Danielle, along with several others.
Arc Number / Four Is Death: 444, literally. It's scattered throughout the series.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The characters usually don't take things seriously.
Awful Truth: There's a reason why the higher-up Abyss Knights, excluding Lai tona, Eu karis and Ne muru never tell you where Nachzehrer come from: It's because they are born from Abyss Knights when their Valiant Crystals corrupt and reveal their true form as Emptiness Shards.
- In another case, the Island of Shadows and the Shadow Mansion. The former is a place where people are kidnapped, have their Life Core extracted out of their bodies while left to die in an unfamiliar place built much like a Nazi concentration camp, while the latter keeps a garden full of the severed limbs and heads that a serial murderess keeps there.
- The virus that hits the city of Vespera in the Epidemic short story is RANTHEDIS, spread around by the infamous Nachzehrer Idyuun as all part of a game, which is also the name of the disease that turns non-Abyss Knights into them.
- The Wondrous Land was once a game that Imm ort alia made up with her now-deceased twin, Immortalus. It was given shape and form by the villains, in an Evil Plan to destroy the main heroes-- but also brought back to life Immortalus except Hotter and Sexier with an Evil Makeover, making her the polar opposite of her sister.
Assimilation Plot: How Yami gets members for his Abyss Knights.
Ax Crazy: Quite a few, if not the entire cast, but specifically Rev ersa, Holli schen nacht, Lin ou ra and Ch a os.
Aerith and Bob: Given the sheer amount of characters, here's an example: Roland, Samuel, Nicky, Michael, Hector... Sarutenia?? There's also many more that can't be listed.
Awesome McCoolname: Quite arguably everyone, as the creator has a fetish for these. Here's the list: Immortalia, Eternagius, Bloodrain, Reversa, Linoura, Lirus Trescale, Laitona Hemidial, Sayura Renshault, Sarutenia Trescale, Shirumaten, and so on...
Author Appeal: It's obvious from the character designs that the creator loves putting a dress on a character, despite their gender, a scarf or something that covers their neck, long hair, capes, wings and a symbol of some sort on them. Not only that, the list grows larger the more he grows fonder to other accessories.
Attack! Attack! Attack!: A staple of the series. Usually as battles go along, they keep pounding each side with their attacks.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: There's quite a lot of big baddies. But specifically, there's Idyuun.
Badass: The list is huge.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Some of the more 'refined' folk.
- Badass Normal: Since everyone knows magic, normal counts towards the mortal people who aren't chosen for some sort of destiny like a few of the heroes.
- Badass Abnormal: Everything that is either a spiritual being, god, or a humanoid creature.
- Lightning Bruiser: Quite possibly the entire cast.
- Took a Level in Badass: It wasn't enough that the heroes and villains were as strong as they are-- they get even more so as the story passes.
- World of Badass
- Demonic Spiders: Even the monsters fit in this catergory, as a lot of them can put the heroes or even the villains on their knees.
Berserk Button: Several characters have their own personal button, but whatever you do... as a general rule, do not threaten anyone's family members or their best bros, no matter who you are. It will probably be the last thing you'll ever do.
BFG: Many, in fact, but the most notable one is the Millenium Cannon, owned by Eukaris, which has penetrating shells, can fire at 200 mph, explodes in a ridiculously wide radius, weighs roughly around 500 pounds, has Bottomless Magazines as the ammunition supply comes from Eukaris herself, all topped off with the fact that she can change the elemental affinity of each round, making for one messy afternoon.
BFS: A trademark of the series, and another of the creator's favorite things. There's probably a BFS for almost every character.
Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: Magical strength can be passed onto weapons, especially guns. One such example is Urs ula, who can shoot down a plane like Air Force One with her trademark shotgun.
Big Damn Heroes: Pulled off quite a bit.
Big Boo's Haunt: Cemeteries are always crawling with zombies or ghosts, no matter what time of day it is. For a prominent example, there's the Graveyard Palace, which is absolutely colossal in that it's a wasteland populated with nothing but gravestones, and there's also the Shadow Mansion.
Boom! Headshot!: Done in one instance by Roland after killing a RANTHEDIS-infected woman with his shotgun, and primarily the way anyone uses to dispose of any enemy.
Boobs of Steel: Most, if not all of the female characters, excluding a few.
Bottomless Magazines: Justified because many of the ammo-consuming weapons are usually substituted with solidified magic, even bows and arrows, but overall, people use actual ammunition.
Breast Expansion: Immortalus seems to have a larger bust than her sister. Word of God confirms that the villains messed around with her reincarnation so it would do this.
Blood Knight: Hollischennacht, Schwarze Halbmond, Chaos, to name a few.
Catch Phrase: Daniel spouts "What the hell?" more than any other character, and a few others.
Casual Danger Dialog: Many, but this one really stands out:

Hollischennacht: "Well, well, well. Any last words?"
Phil: "... Fuck you, that's what."

Cast of Snowflakes: Arguably every character can be differentiated from each other, due to their different inspiration, personality, appearance, weapon of choice, and even their names, as similar sounding as they get.
Church Militant: Lai tona and Raleous. Other than that, we don't really see any other ones, even though the entire Lunardream Orthodoxy Church is supposed to be this.
Cool vs. Awesome: Let's see, a royal family that lives on a supernatural, hyper-advanced planet aided by throes of spiritual beings, the guardians of the planet itself, a good family of gods and all their monsters versus a tyrannical-yet-teamwork-heavy, segmented, pseudo-Nazi empire, all of their badass monsters versus a third group of superpowerful monsters against everything who have the capability of spreading The Virus and The Corruption.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: Mostly due to the fault of the creator's associates.
Casting a Shadow: Dark-elemental users. There's also the Seuropos bat people race, who can do this naturally.
Complete Monster: The villains go a bit overboard a lot of the time.
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Many conventions are color coded, even if it is just because the creator likes doing so.
Death Is a Slap on The Wrist: Reviver Stones, anyone? However, they're not always present, which leads to permenant deaths.
Crystal Dragon Jesus: The Lunardream Family worship a giant / incomprehensibly strong beast older than time itself, which is also what created the universe with its evil half, who serves as the Deathmoon Family's thingy.
Curb Stomp Battle: Happens quite a lot. The good guys, the villains and even the neutral guys usually have their time to shine.
Dark Is Not Evil: A prominent theme, although the majority of the Deathmoon Family is the opposite. The kingdom of Shadowrian (and its guardian) are played straight, however.
Dark Is Evil: Just like the above, there are also things that not only look evil but are evil, just to throw the readers off.
The Dark Side: The Deathmoon Family fits this to a tee.
Downer Ending: Normally averted. However, the Epidemic series of short stories ends off with most of the survivors either dying or turning into Nachzehrer, what remaining few flees the scene, the city of Vespera left in ruins, thousands dead, and the Abyss Knights cover up the whole thing and make it seem like nothing happened at all. But if there's at least one good thing that came out of it, it's that Idyuun got sealed away... with the city.
Evil Counterpart: The legend of the Lunardream/Deathmoon families is pretty much all about this. There's also a bunch of other examples, such as Immortalia and Immortalus, etc.
Evil Feels Good: A lot of the villains enjoy being as they are, and pretty much get kicks out of pissing off the heroes.
Evil Is Cool: You have to admit, when you get past the whole part of Failure Is Death and the other parts, the villains kick ass.
Face Heel Turn: Usually done once per story, on either side.
Moe Anthropormorphism: There's quite a bit of these.
Melee à Trois: The Nintendrian Royal Family vs the Deathmoon Family vs the Nachzehrer.
Serial Escalation: The reality in this series? There is barely, if none at all. That means anything can happen at any time. Justified in that it doesn't take place on Earth and involves magic, gods, what have you, but still.