Talk:Daring Doubt/@comment-38793053-20190815202220/@comment-26423071-20190815205658

Yes, it does.

Caballeron was written as a mercenary only interested in money.

Auhizotl was depicted as an eldritch abomination.

And the genre they are both in...

"Once upon a time, there was pulp. Pulp was a style of writing that emerged onto the scene in the 1920s, featuring a variety of stories printed on cheap paper (hence "pulp"). Back in the day, pulp content ranged from the Cosmic Horror Stories of H. P. Lovecraft to the noir pieces of Raymond Chandler and from the over-the-top action of Doc Savage to the sword-and-sandals fantasy of Conan the Barbarian and even the Raygun Gothic of Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories. The pulp era died down by the late '50s, when the leading distributor of pulp, the American News Company, went bankrupt.

Then, people started looking back on the pulp era nostalgically, and when they did, they usually locked onto the over-the-top stories of Proto-Superhero characters like The Shadow, Doc Savage, and The Phantom. Many point to Raiders of the Lost Ark and the sequel Indiana Jones movies, which took 1930s pulp adventures as an inspiration, as the keystone of the pulp resurgence, but whatever kicked it off, pulp has recaptured the heart of many a geek

refers to stories told in a style that reflects fondly on the old pulps. This usually means the story will be set in the '20s or '30s, and focus on square-jawed, clever men (and women) of action. Other elements thrown in for flavor include:


 * Proto-Superhero motifs
 * Mad Science and/or Weird Science
 * Zeppelins
 * Lost civilizations (and often dinosaurs with them), usually including a Jungle Princess
 * Gangsters
 * The Yellow Peril, usually including a Dragon Lady
 * The occult
 * Plenty of Nazis to be punched out. Most of them will be the source of, exploiting, or trying to exploit either Mad / Weird Science or the Occult.
 * Ace Pilots
 * Adventurer Outfits"