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* TokenGoodTeammate: Juan, a member of the International Federation of Armed Revolutionary Groups. While his IFARG comrades hatch a plan to steal two nuclear weapons and use them on an upcoming summit in Cancun, he is outraged by the thought of all "the Indians, the poor," and the other innocents who will be murdered along with their targets. It's partly thanks to him that [[spoiler:Buck and Sonny unravel the plot]].
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* TokenGoodTeammate: a couple of times.
** Ronny, a pilot cashiered from the U.S. Navy despite Danny's support, who falls in with a group of mercenaries [[spoiler:who hijacked a gold shipment traveling over the Arctic]]. His friendship with Danny leads him to provide information that allows his teammates to be taken down.
** Juan, a member of the International Federation of Armed Revolutionary Groups. While his IFARG comrades hatch a plan to steal two nuclear weapons and use them on an upcoming summit in Cancun, he is outraged by the thought of all "the Indians, the poor," and the other innocents who will be murdered along with their targets. It's partly thanks to him that [[spoiler:Buck and Sonny unravel the plot]].
** Ronny, a pilot cashiered from the U.S. Navy despite Danny's support, who falls in with a group of mercenaries [[spoiler:who hijacked a gold shipment traveling over the Arctic]]. His friendship with Danny leads him to provide information that allows his teammates to be taken down.
** Juan, a member of the International Federation of Armed Revolutionary Groups. While his IFARG comrades hatch a plan to steal two nuclear weapons and use them on an upcoming summit in Cancun, he is outraged by the thought of all "the Indians, the poor," and the other innocents who will be murdered along with their targets. It's partly thanks to him that [[spoiler:Buck and Sonny unravel the plot]].
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* HeroesFightBarehanded: an aerial version of this in "Zone Interdite." Buck, with Tumb and Sonny onboard, is escaping an enemy airbase in a Cessna with no weapons, while pursued by a fully armed MiG-23. Buck manages to draw it in by flying close to the ground in a mountainous region, avoiding both of its missiles and then its cannon, until, while trying to line up the much slower Cessna, the MiG pilot loses the necessary airspeed and crashes into a canyon wall.
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* LivingLegend: Buck. There are many examples, but probably the best one comes towards the beginning of "Tonnerre Sur La Cordillère." Buck is fleeing for his life on a stolen F-18, with enemy fighters in hot pursuit. He has no way of positively identifying himself for his aircraft carrier, and the officers on the bridge are hesitant to intervene in a fight between foreign fighters without confirmation that one of their own is involved. This lasts until Buck is seen evading the first enemy volley, at which point the admiral comments "do you know a lot of pilots who can evade two Sidewinder missiles, one after another? ''It's Buck!''" and orders his fighters into combat.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: one of the more common types of villains. Oil barons trying to take over the postwar Arab oil market, aircraft constructors trying to cheat the government or eliminate their competition, shady business cartels propping up third world dictators, arms dealers.
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* HiredGuns: very common villains, especially mooks. Lady X is the most memorable version, a spy and pilot who will work for anybody if the price is right. Even without her, however, the villains' air forces are usually manned by mercenaries. The PrivateMilitaryContractors type is the most common, but FormerRegimePersonnel will also appear from time to time, including several Imperial Japanese veterans and two pilots from the Shah of Iran's air force.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: particularly common in the early stories (where the adventures were set during World War Two, Arab oil conflicts, the Korean War) and in later ones (the Yugoslav wars, Central American drug wars, the war in Afghanistan). In between the two, the authors took a long hiatus from real-life conflicts, including the Cold War itself, to avoid irritating French censors. On a less political note, however, the stories always followed the evolution of real life aerospace technology very closely, such as the development of jet technology, the early space program, the SR-71, stealth technology, etc.
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** Also the standard weapons of the RuthlessModernPirates from the Borneo/opium story arc. Most of their arsenal is made up of weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War Two. They remain very adequate for the pirates' needs, as proven when a submarine surfaces and hijacks a civilian cargo ship.
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* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter: offscreen for twenty years or so, at least. When we first meet Lady X, she's running a highly proficient private intelligence agency, but after seeing her defeated again and again, it's hard not to wonder why anyone still hires her and how she continues to fund herself. "Ghost Queen" finally reveals that [[spoiler:she's the right-hand person of the most powerful pirate lord in the South China Seas, who's as powerful as he is in large part thanks to Lady X's wartime connections in the Imperial Japanese Navy and all the weapons, money, and intelligence she was able to gain access to at the end of the war]].
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** Followed by "drugs are bad, mmkay?" in the next story arc.
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* BoringButPractical: after losing two F-14s and their nuclear payload to a terrorist group and determining that it's hiding out somewhere in the Caribbean, Buck and Sonny request time off to go search for them. Their method? Renting a seaplane and methodically going over ''every Caribbean island'' big enough to be hiding F-14 fighters. [[spoiler:It takes them a week to locate them on a key in the Exuma islands]].
** Also the standard weapons of the RuthlessModernPirates from the Borneo/opium story arc. Most of their arsenal is made up of weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War Two. They remain very adequate for the pirates' needs, as proven when a submarine surfaces and hijacks a civilian cargo ship.
* EverythingIsBigInTexas: [[TheNapoleon Except Sonny]]. He's always boasting about how he was the champion of such-and-such in various bizarrely-named small towns.
* FriendlyEnemy: occasionally. The most memorable one is [[spoiler:Soviet Air Force colonel and FakeDefector Colonel Ouchinsky]], as mentally acknowledged by Buck after shooting him down.
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* EverythingIsBigInTexas: [[TheNapoleon Except Sonny]]. He's always boasting about how he was GratuitousEnglish: as is common in Belgian comics. Amusingly, the champion of such-and-such in various bizarrely-named small towns.expressions used are often British rather than American (i.e. any expression including the word "bloody"), as British English is what most people on the continent have had the most exposure to.
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* EverythingIsBiggerInTexas: [[TheNapoleon Except Sonny]]. He's always boasting about how he was the champion of such-and-such in various bizarrely-named small towns.
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* EverythingIsBiggerInTexas: EverythingIsBigInTexas: [[TheNapoleon Except Sonny]]. He's always boasting about how he was the champion of such-and-such in various bizarrely-named small towns.
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* BlondesAreEvil: Lady X is a blonde. Later on, however, she dyes her hair black.
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* DoubleAgent: a spectacularly successful version with Jerry Tumbler in the World War Two stories. First he helps to identify the Japanese agent among the Flying Tigers by pretending to be a disgruntled pilot ripe for recruitment. Then, he starts [[FeedTheMole feeding him false information,]] until the mole introduces him to the entire local Japanese network. ''Then,'' he replaces the mole altogether (after his arrest), and spends the rest of the story arc misleading his Japanese spymasters while picking up as much information as he can from them for the Allies. The Japanese are duped almost to the very end.
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* TheEmpire: the Empire of Japan in the World War Two era stories is this all the way. Militant and expansionist, brutally repressive towards the occupied Chinese population, and violating every aspect of the Geneva Convention as a matter of course. They're the ObviouslyEvil variety of empire pretty much all the time, but occasionally cross over into pure KickTheDog territory with no possible justification, most notably when a Japanese commander pretends to allow an aircraft to evacuate a large number of children from the city he's besieging, but really intends to shoot it down. (Not because he believed it was a trick; because "it'll be that much fewer little Chinese to worry about!")
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* TheEmpire: the Empire of Japan in the World War Two era stories is this all the way. Militant and expansionist, brutally repressive towards the occupied Chinese population, and violating every aspect of the Geneva Convention as a matter of course. They're the ObviouslyEvil variety of empire pretty much all the time, but occasionally cross over into pure KickTheDog territory with no possible justification, most notably when a Japanese commander pretends to allow an aircraft to evacuate a large number of children from the city he's besieging, but really intends to shoot it down. (Not because he believed it was a trick; because "it'll be he's proud to say that he thinks that much fewer little Chinese to worry about!") more "little Chinese" among the dead is a good thing).
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* TheEmpire: the Empire of Japan in the World War Two era stories is this all the way. Militant and expansionist, brutally repressive towards the occupied Chinese population, and violating every aspect of the Geneva Convention as a matter of course. They're the ObviouslyEvil variety of empire pretty much all the time, but occasionally cross over into pure KickTheDog territory with no possible justification, most notably when a Japanese commander pretends to allow an aircraft to evacuate a large number of children from the city he's besieging, but really intends to shoot it down. (Not because he believed it was a trick; because "it'll be that much fewer little Chinese to worry about!")
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* FictionalCountry: one of the most common settings in the comic. After two volumes set in the Korean War, the authors were warned that their series would be banned in France (not their country, but still their biggest market) if it didn't stop referencing contemporary "political" issues. As a result, inventing entire countries to get around this restriction became commonplace. As of now, we've had three [[BananaRepublic Banana Republics]] (Mantegua, Inagua, and Managua), one {{Qurac}} (the Oulai sheikdom), and two [[{{Wutai}} Wutais]] (Vien Tan and North Sarawak). Note that many of these are based on real names - Great Inagua and Little Inagua are actual islands in the Caribbean (albeit part of the Bahamas), Sarawak is an actual region in Borneo (albeit part of Malaysia), and Managua is a real city in Central America (the capital of Nicaragua). Finally, "Vien Tan" was a blatant near-anagram for Vietnam (in a story similarly featuring an American-friendly regime undermined by a revolution).
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* FictionalCountry: one of the most common settings in the comic. After two volumes set in the Korean War, the authors were warned that their series would be banned in France (not their country, but still their biggest market) if it didn't stop referencing contemporary "political" issues. As a result, inventing entire countries to get around this restriction became commonplace. As of now, we've had three [[BananaRepublic Banana Republics]] (Mantegua, Inagua, and Managua), one {{Qurac}} (the Oulai sheikdom), and two [[{{Wutai}} Wutais]] (Vien Tan and North Sarawak). Note that many of these are based on real names locations - Great Inagua and Little Inagua are actual islands in the Caribbean (albeit part of the Bahamas), Sarawak is an actual region in Borneo (albeit part of Malaysia), and Managua is a real city in Central America (the capital of Nicaragua). Finally, "Vien Tan" was a blatant near-anagram for Vietnam (in a story similarly featuring an American-friendly regime undermined by a revolution).
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* HonorBeforeReason: Sonny has an advanced degree in this, especially when it's a matter of backing a buddy up even if it means violating orders and even if the situation he's heading into is obviously a trap. (Danny and Tumbler can go to extraordinary lengths for a friend too, and will even disobey orders as a last resort. They just don't let the "honor" override the "reason").
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* HonorBeforeReason: Sonny has an advanced degree in this, especially when it's a matter of backing a buddy up even if it means violating orders and even if the situation he's heading into is obviously a trap. (Danny and Tumbler can go to extraordinary lengths for a friend too, and will even also disobey orders as a last resort. They just don't let the "honor" override the "reason").
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** ... ''most'' of the time. However, there were a couple of times when he was shot down, presumed dead, and instead managed to not only hold his own but obtain information about the enemy that turns out to be crucial to defeating them. In short, Sonny may be accident-prone and socially awkward in civilian life, but in a war zone, he's still someone you want at your side. (Mostly).
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** ... ''most'' of the time. However, there were a couple of times when he was shot down, presumed dead, and instead managed to not only hold his own but obtain information about the enemy that turns out to be crucial to defeating them. In short, Sonny may be accident-prone and socially awkward in civilian life, but in a war zone, he's still someone you want at your side. (Mostly).
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* ThoseWackyNazis: surprisingly, completely averted. Danny encounters a one-off villain who's a former U-boat commander trying to recover the NaziGold he was entrusted with at the end of the war: however, he displays none of the cliches associated with this trope (other than a monocle) and his ideology and past service to Hitler are never brought up. If anything, Danny is morally outraged by the fact that he's gone rogue and is trying to recover the gold for himself: "it's not your gold, it's your country's. They trusted you with it."
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* ThoseWackyNazis: surprisingly, completely averted. Danny encounters a one-off villain who's a former U-boat commander trying to recover the NaziGold he was entrusted with at the end of the war: however, he displays none of the cliches associated with this trope (other than a monocle) and his ideology and past service to Hitler are never brought up. If anything, Danny is morally outraged more offended by the fact that he's gone rogue and is trying to recover the gold for himself: "it's not your gold, it's your country's. They trusted you with it."
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* VillainDecay: well, yeah. Lady X has faced off against the protagonists eight times to date, and has yet to win a single round.
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* FireForgedFriends: Danny, Tumbler and Tuckson, in that they all met while serving together in World War Two, but especially Danny and Tumbler. Tumb, a veteran of the Flying Tigers, initially resented the fact that Danny, who'd just transferred from the Navy, was promoted to command of a squadron he wanted for himself. This fades when Danny nearly dies rescuing him from Japanese troops after a crash in the jungle.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: the three main characters. Originally, they serve together in the Pacific, then are de-mobilized at the end of the war and go their separate ways. However, faced with the same problems (lack of civilian skills and unfriendly job market) while living in the same city, they eventually move back together and never leave each other again, first accepting a job with a new airline company and eventually going back to the Air Force together.
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** ... ''most'' of the time. However, there were a couple of times when he was shot down, presumed dead, and instead managed to not only hold his own but obtain information about the enemy that turns out to be crucial to defeating them. He may not look like much, but he's (mostly) got it where it counts.
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** ... ''most'' of the time. However, there were a couple of times when he was shot down, presumed dead, and instead managed to not only hold his own but obtain information about the enemy that turns out to be crucial to defeating them. He In short, Sonny may not look like much, be accident-prone and socially awkward in civilian life, but in a war zone, he's (mostly) got it where it counts. still someone you want at your side. (Mostly).
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* FictionalCountry: one of the most common settings in the comic. After two volumes set in the Korean War, the authors were warned that their series would be banned in France (not their country, but still their biggest market) if it didn't stop referencing contemporary "political" issues. As a result, inventing entire countries to get around this restriction became commonplace. As of now, we've had three [[BananaRepublic Banana Republics]] (Mantegua, Inagua, and Managua), one {{Qurac}} (the Oulai sheikdom), and two [[{{Wutai}} Wutais]] (Vien Tan and North Sarawak). Note that many of these are based on real names - Great Inagua and Little Inagua are actual islands in the Caribbean (albeit part of the Bahamas), Sarawak is an actual region in Borneo (albeit part of Malaysia), and Managua is a real city in Central America (the capital of Nicaragua). Finally, "Vien Tan" was a blatant near-anagram for Vietnam (in a story similarly featuring an American-friendly regime undermined by a revolution).
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** ... ''most'' of the time. However, there were a couple of times when he was shot down, presumed dead, and instead managed to not only hold his own but obtain information about the enemy that turns out to be crucial to defeating them. He may not look like much, but he's (mostly) got it where it counts.
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* TheSyndicate: in many, many flavors (the authors often used apolitical villains to avoid irritating French censors). Lady X is introduced running one, a private intelligence organization that will spy on anyone for anyone. A few [[NebulousEvilOrganization Nebulous Evil Organizations]] appear in the Cold War years, though usually in the background as the silent partners of the story's main villains. Later, more grounded versions would appear, including TheMafia (running a massive opium plantation in Borneo), TheCartel (supporting guerrillas, corrupting governments, and plotting takeovers in Central America), and RuthlessModernPirates in the South China Seas (with an element of TheRemnant, as these pirates have absorbed a massive arsenal of abandoned Imperial Japanese weapons as well as taking in some of their surviving war criminals).
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** And, more briefly, to Sonny in the Vien Tan story arc, and to Buck in the Mantegua story arc, and to Tumbler in the Serbia story arc... Occupational hazard with those three.
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''Buck Danny'' is a French-Belgian comic book series created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon (both also the creators of ''ComicBook/BarbeRouge'', and Charlier the creator of Comicbook/{{Blueberry}}). The title character is a pilot in the US Air Force (when he isn't assigned to the US Navy); he has two sidekicks, Jerry Tumbler and Sonny Tuckson.
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''Buck Danny'' is a French-Belgian comic book series created by [[Creator/JeanMichelCharlier Jean-Michel Charlier Charlier]] and Victor Hubinon (both also the creators of ''ComicBook/BarbeRouge'', and Charlier the creator of Comicbook/{{Blueberry}}). The title character is a pilot in the US Air Force (when he isn't assigned to the US Navy); he has two sidekicks, Jerry Tumbler and Sonny Tuckson.
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* ArmchairMilitary: In one story, one of the pilots starts thinking Danny is getting into this mindset. In response, he starts pulling the most insane, death-defying stunts he can think of before dragging the (by now grovelling) pilot into a hangar where they can continue their explanation via punching. A very short while after, no one has any problem with Danny.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Due to the series' age. The first issue showed Danny's mother and his younger brother, neither of which have been seen since.
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* EverythingIsBiggerInTexas: [[TheNapoleon Except Sonny]]. He's always boasting about how he was the champion of such-and-such in various bizarrely-named small towns.
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* RummageSaleReject: Sonny's taste in fashion produces some eye-wateringly hideous outfits.
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''Buck Danny'' is a French-Belgian comic book series created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon (both also the creators of ''ComicBook/BarbeRouge'', and Charlier the creator of Comicbook/Blueberry).Comicbook/{{Blueberry}}). The title character is a pilot in the US Air Force (when he isn't assigned to the US Navy); he has two sidekicks, Jerry Tumbler and Sonny Tuckson.
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''Buck Danny'' is a French-Belgian comic book series created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon (also (both also the creators of ''ComicBook/BarbeRouge'').''ComicBook/BarbeRouge'', and Charlier the creator of Comicbook/Blueberry). The title character is a pilot in the US Air Force (when he isn't assigned to the US Navy); he has two sidekicks, Jerry Tumbler and Sonny Tuckson.
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* BuzzJob: In one episode set during the Korean War, a South Korean pilot does this ''upside down'' in full view of senior officers before landing safely but walking drunkenly, to the concern of his friends in the American squadron. It turns out the North Koreans are holding his family hostage, and have threatened to kill them if he doesn't obey their orders. [[TakeAThirdOption He pulled the stunt so as to be barred from flying]] , but the spies figure out his plan and force him to betray the Americans. As usual for the series, it ends with RedemptionEqualsDeath.
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* BuzzJob: In one episode set during the Korean War, a South Korean pilot does this ''upside down'' in full view of senior officers before landing safely but walking drunkenly, to the concern of his friends in the American squadron. It turns out the North Koreans are holding his family hostage, and have threatened to kill them if he doesn't obey their orders. [[TakeAThirdOption He pulled the stunt so as to be barred from flying]] , flying]], but the spies figure out his plan and force him to betray the Americans. As usual for the series, it ends with RedemptionEqualsDeath.
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* ComicBookTime: The characters join the US Air Force in 1941, and as of the 1990s were still young enough to be fighter pilots. The suspension of disbelief is all the harder as the characters get to meet US presidents Kennedy and later Reagan, without having aged in the meantime. The only thing that changes is the characters' ranks (and even then, they won't go ghigher than Colonel).
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* ComicBookTime: The characters join the US Air Force in 1941, and as of the 1990s were still young enough to be fighter pilots. The suspension of disbelief is all the harder as the characters get to meet US presidents Kennedy and later Reagan, without having aged in the meantime. The only thing that changes is the characters' ranks (and even then, they won't go ghigher higher than Colonel).
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* HollywoodAtlas: Sonny seems to have read it very thouroughly, every new country visited is an occasion for him to display GlobalIgnorance.
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* HollywoodAtlas: Sonny seems to have read it very thouroughly, thoroughly, every new country visited is an occasion for him to display GlobalIgnorance.
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* TheGeneralsDaughter: Subverted in "Mission Apocalypse", in which Sonny is asked to wine and dine the admiral's daughter, who turns out to be a pushy, overbearing and grossly overweight woman.
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* BuzzJob: In one episode set during the Korean War, a South Korean pilot does this ''upside down'' in full view of senior officers before landing safely but walking drunkenly, to the concern of his friends in the American squadron. It turns out the North Koreans are holding his family hostage, and have threatened to kill them if he doesn't obey their orders. [[TakeAThirdOption He pulled the stunt so as to be barred from flying]] , but the spies figure out his plan and force him to betray the Americans. As usual for the series, it ends with RedemptionEqualsDeath.
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Together they first get to fight the Japanese in WW2, first as regular fighter pilots, and then as part of General Chennault's Flying Tigers in China. They go their separate ways after the end of the war but quickly reunite and become civilian pilots for a shady Middle Eastern company. They decide to re-enlist in the Air Force, become test pilots for the new generations of jet aircraft, and in 1950 are sent on the Korean front.
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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: In "Patrouille à l'Aube", Buck, Tumbler and Sonny use a WW2-vintage Avenger plane found in a scrapyard in order to locate the wreck of a submarine.
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After UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, they have various adventures from Alaska to Malaysia, and earn a recurring ArchEnemy, the spy-for-hire Lady X. In the 1960s and early 1970s, rather than being deployed in TheVietnamWar, they fly on the Blue Angels acrobatic team and fight a drug cartel in South-East Asia.
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''Buck Danny'' is a French-Belgian comic book series created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon (also the creators of ''ComicBook/BarbeRouge''). The title character is a pilot in the US Air Force (when he isn't assigned to the US Navy); he has two sidekicks, Jerry Tumbler and Sonny Tuckson.
Together they first get to fight the Japanese in WW2, first as regular fighter pilots, and then as part of General Chennault's Flying Tigers in China. They go their separate ways after the end of the war but quickly reunite and become civilian pilots for a shady Middle Eastern company. They decide to re-enlist in the Air Force, become test pilots for the new generations of jet aircraft, and in 1950 are sent on the Korean front.
After TheKoreanWar, they have various adventures from Alaska to Malaysia, and earn a recurring ArchEnemy, the spy-for-hire Lady X. In the 1960s and early 1970s, rather than being deployed in TheVietnamWar, they fly on the Blue Angels acrobatic team and fight a drug cartel in South-East Asia.
The series is notable for its realistic depiction of aircraft, even as the stories themselves are pure fiction.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AcePilot: All three characters, and others beside.
** TheAce: Buck is a better pilot, soldier, leader, etc. than any other character in the series.
* AnAesop: In "Le Pilote au masque de cuir". Racism is bad, mmkay?
* AirstrikeImpossible: In "Tigres Volants contre pirates".
* AmazonBrigade: The Soviet acrobatics team is all-female. Naturally, Sonny is the first to find out and is soundly told off for expressing surprise at the idea.
* BananaRepublic: "Alerte Atomique" and "L'escadrille de la mort" take place in a fictional Latin American country where insurgents and government forces are fighting it out. And in "Alerte à Cap Kennedy", the villains are from the fictional Caribbean country of Managua.
* BedouinRescueService
* BerserkButton: Sonny is extremely sensitive to being called ginger-haired.
* BigEater: Sonny.
* BlingOfWar: Played with in "Alerte en Malaisie": Sonny is tricked into wearing a ridiculously over-the-top uniform, believing it's the official gear for air force officers in the country they're being sent to.
* BlondesAreEvil: Lady X is a blonde. Later on, however, she dyes her hair black.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: In "Patrouille à l'Aube", Buck, Tumbler and Sonny use a WW2-vintage Avenger plane found in a scrapyard in order to locate the wreck of a submarine.
* ButtMonkey: Sonny.
* CasanovaWannabe: Sonny sometimes acts like one.
* CelibateHero: Neither Buck Danny nor Tumbler has a romantic life. Sonny does, but his tastes in women are hopelessly self-defeating.
** Tumbler is shown to have a girlfriend though (he keeps a picture of her to prank Sonny).
* ChewToy: Sonny.
* ColonelBadass: Buck Danny, once he makes it as colonel.
* ComicBookTime: The characters join the US Air Force in 1941, and as of the 1990s were still young enough to be fighter pilots. The suspension of disbelief is all the harder as the characters get to meet US presidents Kennedy and later Reagan, without having aged in the meantime. The only thing that changes is the characters' ranks (and even then, they won't go ghigher than Colonel).
* ComingInHot: Happens about a dozen times throughout the series.
* CrossOver: In one episode, the characters meet Tanguy and Laverdure, who are themselves the leading characters of a different series, also written by J-M. Charlier (and where Buck Danny also appears in an episode - the characters reference this).
* DarkActionGirl: Lady X.
* DeadpanSnarker: Tumbler.
* DirtyCommunists: Those make repeated appearances in the adventures taking place in TheFifties, starting with "Pilotes d'essai". Later on, the series dropped overt ideological references for its villains.
* DodgeByBraking: A Soviet pilot in a Mig-29 pulls the stunt against both Buck Danny and Sonny Tuckson--twice--in "Les Agresseurs".
* DontExplainTheJoke: On seeing Sonny show up on deck with five fishing rods, two boxes full of bait and a fisherman's hat, this exchange occurs between Buck and Tumbler:
--> Is he going fishing, do you think?\\
No, he's going fishing!\\
Huh! I could've sworn he was going fishing.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Buck does it once, to escape by jet from a hostile BananaRepublic. Sonny does it on two occasions.
* EagleLand: Played completely straight.
** Though as the series progressed, some Type 2s began to show up, like a Klansman pilot from Alabama.
* EjectionSeat: [[http://adproject.free.fr/wordpress/?p=343/ This blog]] calculates that, by the 51th installment, Buck and Tumbler have ejected ten times each, and Sonny eight times. [[ComingInHot Including the times they didn't eject]], they scrapped a total of 51 planes worth about 480 million dollars.
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: While the characters are assigned to a secret base in Alaska, Sonny spots what he thinks is a group of trespassers. When soldiers are sent to arrest them, they turn out to be penguins. Out of spite for being called out on his stupid mistake, Sonny adopts the one they bring back.
* TheGeneralsDaughter: Subverted in "Mission Apocalypse", in which Sonny is asked to wine and dine the admiral's daughter, who turns out to be a pushy, overbearing and grossly overweight woman.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Lady X being a villainess, she uses a cigarette holder.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: an enemy pilot in neutral territory challenges Buck to an acrobatics duel: each must copy the preceding set of stunts and add one himself (the pilot had sabotaged Buck's jet so it would crash from the stress). Having figured out the plot, Buck accepts on one condition... that they exchange planes. The pilot, strangely enough, forfeits then and there.
* HolidayInCambodia: The Asian countries where the characters go are typically war-torn or, at best, lawless.
* HollywoodAtlas: Sonny seems to have read it very thouroughly, every new country visited is an occasion for him to display GlobalIgnorance.
* HollywoodMirage: Tumbler has one while stranded in the Arabian desert (though at that point it was bordering on hallucinations caused by thirst). Sonny has a somewhat more realistic one while in an Air Force base in the southwestern US, when he spots what he believes to be a natural lake in the distance, which turns out to be reflected sky.
* HoneyTrap: Sonny ''always'' falls for them.
* InterserviceRivalry: One story memorably has Buck (who's in the Navy) adamantly refuse to let the Air Force's acrobatics team take their place at an air show due to a pilot being unable to fly.
* IslandBase: One of Lady X's bases is inside a volcano on a remote island in the Pacific. There are even smoke generators to fool the odd observer into thinking the volcano is still active. This actually works against them: Buck sees the smoke, and is ordered to get some pictures to send to the seismologists. When he goes closer, he realizes it's a decoy.
* TheKlutz: Sonny is particularly prone to klutzy behavior when off-duty (and even on non-combat duty as well).
* TheKoreanWar: Depicted in a two-album story arc, "Ciel de Corée" and "Avions sans pilotes".
* LetXBeTheUnknown: Lady X
* TheLoad: Sonny ''would'' zigzag between this and TheMillstone if he weren't a very good fighter pilot. On the ground, however, he causes more trouble than he solves.
* TheMafia: The Mob turns out to have a massive drug-smuggling operation in South-East Asia.
* TheMole: A recurring trope. Every third adventure features an infiltrated spy whom the heroes must root out.
* MookFaceTurn: While stranded behind the DMZ in North Korea, Buck Danny talks a female soldier into helping him escape and defect to the South.
* NiceHat: the captain of the aircraft carrier has one that never leaves his head.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Lady X should have died several times over but she always manages to come back in a later adventure.
* ParachuteInATree
* PluckyComicRelief: Sonny, sometimes inappropriately so.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Several stories have one character on the squadron be blackmailed into giving up information (usually by threatening his family). The truth always comes out in the end, but the pilot never makes it back (and Buck, Tumbler and Sonny never reveal this to the pilot's family).
* LaResistance: The characters get to fight alongside Chinese partisans against the Japanese.
* RoboticReveal: a variation, when Buck discovers that the mysterious AcePilot codenamed "Ivan" are actually remote-controlled missiles (this was in the Korean war).
* ShamgriLa: "Top Secret" and "Mission dans la vallée perdue" take place in a remote Tibetan valley where a rocket scientist is being held prisoner by a Buddhist sect.
* SchematizedProp: The early albums frequently featured schematics and technical data of the aircraft depicted in the stories.
* ShownTheirWork: The authors started out as pilots for the Belgian company Sabena and made sure to get the technical stuff right.
* TrappedBehindEnemyLines: Happens in "Tigres Volants".
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The plot of "Alerte Atomique" involves retrieving a nuke that has accidentally fallen into the hands of Latin American insurgents.
* WesternTerrorists: A coalition of far-left terrorists, the International Federation of Armed Revolutionary Groups, plans to drop a nuke on Cancun during a summit involving world leaders.
* WronskiFeint: In "Alerte à Cap Kennedy", Sonny evades interceptors from a hostile BananaRepublic by diving into a narrow canyon and causing the pursuers to collide with each other.
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''Buck Danny'' is a French-Belgian comic book series created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon (also the creators of ''ComicBook/BarbeRouge''). The title character is a pilot in the US Air Force (when he isn't assigned to the US Navy); he has two sidekicks, Jerry Tumbler and Sonny Tuckson.
Together they first get to fight the Japanese in WW2, first as regular fighter pilots, and then as part of General Chennault's Flying Tigers in China. They go their separate ways after the end of the war but quickly reunite and become civilian pilots for a shady Middle Eastern company. They decide to re-enlist in the Air Force, become test pilots for the new generations of jet aircraft, and in 1950 are sent on the Korean front.
After TheKoreanWar, they have various adventures from Alaska to Malaysia, and earn a recurring ArchEnemy, the spy-for-hire Lady X. In the 1960s and early 1970s, rather than being deployed in TheVietnamWar, they fly on the Blue Angels acrobatic team and fight a drug cartel in South-East Asia.
The series is notable for its realistic depiction of aircraft, even as the stories themselves are pure fiction.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AcePilot: All three characters, and others beside.
** TheAce: Buck is a better pilot, soldier, leader, etc. than any other character in the series.
* AnAesop: In "Le Pilote au masque de cuir". Racism is bad, mmkay?
* AirstrikeImpossible: In "Tigres Volants contre pirates".
* AmazonBrigade: The Soviet acrobatics team is all-female. Naturally, Sonny is the first to find out and is soundly told off for expressing surprise at the idea.
* BananaRepublic: "Alerte Atomique" and "L'escadrille de la mort" take place in a fictional Latin American country where insurgents and government forces are fighting it out. And in "Alerte à Cap Kennedy", the villains are from the fictional Caribbean country of Managua.
* BedouinRescueService
* BerserkButton: Sonny is extremely sensitive to being called ginger-haired.
* BigEater: Sonny.
* BlingOfWar: Played with in "Alerte en Malaisie": Sonny is tricked into wearing a ridiculously over-the-top uniform, believing it's the official gear for air force officers in the country they're being sent to.
* BlondesAreEvil: Lady X is a blonde. Later on, however, she dyes her hair black.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: In "Patrouille à l'Aube", Buck, Tumbler and Sonny use a WW2-vintage Avenger plane found in a scrapyard in order to locate the wreck of a submarine.
* ButtMonkey: Sonny.
* CasanovaWannabe: Sonny sometimes acts like one.
* CelibateHero: Neither Buck Danny nor Tumbler has a romantic life. Sonny does, but his tastes in women are hopelessly self-defeating.
** Tumbler is shown to have a girlfriend though (he keeps a picture of her to prank Sonny).
* ChewToy: Sonny.
* ColonelBadass: Buck Danny, once he makes it as colonel.
* ComicBookTime: The characters join the US Air Force in 1941, and as of the 1990s were still young enough to be fighter pilots. The suspension of disbelief is all the harder as the characters get to meet US presidents Kennedy and later Reagan, without having aged in the meantime. The only thing that changes is the characters' ranks (and even then, they won't go ghigher than Colonel).
* ComingInHot: Happens about a dozen times throughout the series.
* CrossOver: In one episode, the characters meet Tanguy and Laverdure, who are themselves the leading characters of a different series, also written by J-M. Charlier (and where Buck Danny also appears in an episode - the characters reference this).
* DarkActionGirl: Lady X.
* DeadpanSnarker: Tumbler.
* DirtyCommunists: Those make repeated appearances in the adventures taking place in TheFifties, starting with "Pilotes d'essai". Later on, the series dropped overt ideological references for its villains.
* DodgeByBraking: A Soviet pilot in a Mig-29 pulls the stunt against both Buck Danny and Sonny Tuckson--twice--in "Les Agresseurs".
* DontExplainTheJoke: On seeing Sonny show up on deck with five fishing rods, two boxes full of bait and a fisherman's hat, this exchange occurs between Buck and Tumbler:
--> Is he going fishing, do you think?\\
No, he's going fishing!\\
Huh! I could've sworn he was going fishing.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Buck does it once, to escape by jet from a hostile BananaRepublic. Sonny does it on two occasions.
* EagleLand: Played completely straight.
** Though as the series progressed, some Type 2s began to show up, like a Klansman pilot from Alabama.
* EjectionSeat: [[http://adproject.free.fr/wordpress/?p=343/ This blog]] calculates that, by the 51th installment, Buck and Tumbler have ejected ten times each, and Sonny eight times. [[ComingInHot Including the times they didn't eject]], they scrapped a total of 51 planes worth about 480 million dollars.
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: While the characters are assigned to a secret base in Alaska, Sonny spots what he thinks is a group of trespassers. When soldiers are sent to arrest them, they turn out to be penguins. Out of spite for being called out on his stupid mistake, Sonny adopts the one they bring back.
* TheGeneralsDaughter: Subverted in "Mission Apocalypse", in which Sonny is asked to wine and dine the admiral's daughter, who turns out to be a pushy, overbearing and grossly overweight woman.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Lady X being a villainess, she uses a cigarette holder.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: an enemy pilot in neutral territory challenges Buck to an acrobatics duel: each must copy the preceding set of stunts and add one himself (the pilot had sabotaged Buck's jet so it would crash from the stress). Having figured out the plot, Buck accepts on one condition... that they exchange planes. The pilot, strangely enough, forfeits then and there.
* HolidayInCambodia: The Asian countries where the characters go are typically war-torn or, at best, lawless.
* HollywoodAtlas: Sonny seems to have read it very thouroughly, every new country visited is an occasion for him to display GlobalIgnorance.
* HollywoodMirage: Tumbler has one while stranded in the Arabian desert (though at that point it was bordering on hallucinations caused by thirst). Sonny has a somewhat more realistic one while in an Air Force base in the southwestern US, when he spots what he believes to be a natural lake in the distance, which turns out to be reflected sky.
* HoneyTrap: Sonny ''always'' falls for them.
* InterserviceRivalry: One story memorably has Buck (who's in the Navy) adamantly refuse to let the Air Force's acrobatics team take their place at an air show due to a pilot being unable to fly.
* IslandBase: One of Lady X's bases is inside a volcano on a remote island in the Pacific. There are even smoke generators to fool the odd observer into thinking the volcano is still active. This actually works against them: Buck sees the smoke, and is ordered to get some pictures to send to the seismologists. When he goes closer, he realizes it's a decoy.
* TheKlutz: Sonny is particularly prone to klutzy behavior when off-duty (and even on non-combat duty as well).
* TheKoreanWar: Depicted in a two-album story arc, "Ciel de Corée" and "Avions sans pilotes".
* LetXBeTheUnknown: Lady X
* TheLoad: Sonny ''would'' zigzag between this and TheMillstone if he weren't a very good fighter pilot. On the ground, however, he causes more trouble than he solves.
* TheMafia: The Mob turns out to have a massive drug-smuggling operation in South-East Asia.
* TheMole: A recurring trope. Every third adventure features an infiltrated spy whom the heroes must root out.
* MookFaceTurn: While stranded behind the DMZ in North Korea, Buck Danny talks a female soldier into helping him escape and defect to the South.
* NiceHat: the captain of the aircraft carrier has one that never leaves his head.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Lady X should have died several times over but she always manages to come back in a later adventure.
* ParachuteInATree
* PluckyComicRelief: Sonny, sometimes inappropriately so.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Several stories have one character on the squadron be blackmailed into giving up information (usually by threatening his family). The truth always comes out in the end, but the pilot never makes it back (and Buck, Tumbler and Sonny never reveal this to the pilot's family).
* LaResistance: The characters get to fight alongside Chinese partisans against the Japanese.
* RoboticReveal: a variation, when Buck discovers that the mysterious AcePilot codenamed "Ivan" are actually remote-controlled missiles (this was in the Korean war).
* ShamgriLa: "Top Secret" and "Mission dans la vallée perdue" take place in a remote Tibetan valley where a rocket scientist is being held prisoner by a Buddhist sect.
* SchematizedProp: The early albums frequently featured schematics and technical data of the aircraft depicted in the stories.
* ShownTheirWork: The authors started out as pilots for the Belgian company Sabena and made sure to get the technical stuff right.
* TrappedBehindEnemyLines: Happens in "Tigres Volants".
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The plot of "Alerte Atomique" involves retrieving a nuke that has accidentally fallen into the hands of Latin American insurgents.
* WesternTerrorists: A coalition of far-left terrorists, the International Federation of Armed Revolutionary Groups, plans to drop a nuke on Cancun during a summit involving world leaders.
* WronskiFeint: In "Alerte à Cap Kennedy", Sonny evades interceptors from a hostile BananaRepublic by diving into a narrow canyon and causing the pursuers to collide with each other.
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