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* EvilAlbino: Wolf Karsh, of the ''Dutch Connection/H'' double story. His [[RedBaron nome de plume]] even IS "The Albino", and he's a merciless killer.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The first eight issues are based on the novels albeit in a different order (for example, the second arc ''O.P.A''/''Business Blue'' adapts the sixth and last novel). Starting with ''Golden Gate''/''Shadow'', the comics feature original stories.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The first eight issues are based on the novels albeit in a different order (for example, the second arc ''O.P.A''/''Business Blue'' Blues'' adapts the sixth and last novel). Starting with ''Golden Gate''/''Shadow'', the comics feature original stories.
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* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: Largo picks up a climbing axe, just used to kill someone, and is more or less immediately caught by police who see him with it (it is, of course, a setup). While it's clearly indicated he did so for his own defense (he hears something and is meaning to chase the noise), it's made more painful by the fact that it's a wintery area, he was wearing gloves, and he only took the glove off of ''one'' of his hands so he could check the pulse of the victim...and of course, that's the same hand that picks up the climbing axe.
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* DeuxExMachina: A small example. Largo has been arrested, the police are driving him through wintery mountains...and a deer runs in front of their car as they're distracted talking to Largo, causing them to crash and go off road, allowing Largo to immediately escape.
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* ShoutOut: In disguise as a policeman with an aide, Largo gives their names as ''[[Literature/DirkPittAdventures Lieutenant Pitt]]'' and ''[[Creator/CliveCussler Sergeant Cussler.]]''
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* ShoutOut: In disguise as a policeman with an aide, Largo Simon gives their names as ''[[Literature/DirkPittAdventures Lieutenant Pitt]]'' and ''[[Creator/CliveCussler Sergeant Cussler.]]''
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* SassySecretary: Miss Pennywinkle, the CEO's secretary is a very proper older British lady and ruthlessly efficient at her job (another secretary notes that her leaving is the death of the W Group). She's also handy with a frying pan.
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* SassySecretary: Miss Pennywinkle, the CEO's secretary is a very proper older British lady and ruthlessly efficient at her job (another secretary notes that her leaving is the death of the W Group). She's also handy with pepper spray. And a frying pan.
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* ShoutOut: In disguise as a policeman with an aide, Largo gives their names as ''[[Literature/DirkPittAdventures Lieutenant Pitt]]'' and ''[[Creator/CliveCussler Sergeant Cussler.]]''
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* EvilAlbino: Wolf Karsh, of the ''Dutch Connection/H'' double story. His [[RedBaron nome de plume]] even IS "The Albino", and he's a merciless killer
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* EvilAlbino: Wolf Karsh, of the ''Dutch Connection/H'' double story. His [[RedBaron nome de plume]] even IS "The Albino", and he's a merciless killerkiller.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Cochrane is [[spoiler: arrested in a frame up]] at the very end of the ''Golden Gate'' story, and by the start of the next book, ''Shadow'', has already been convicted and imprisoned. Nothing indicates that all that long has passed, especially since if the months/years such a case would take to play out (he's arrested in the States, and it's seemingly a financial crime), actually did [[spoiler: a female hostage would likely be long dead, for one reason or another]]. Then again, it's not the only error: [[Spoiler: Largo is being kept in the same prison due to his own frame up tied to Cochrane's, but he's released on bail at the start of ''Shadow'', suggesting that this might have just taken DAYS considering how the bail process tends to work if you have access to billions of dollars. Also, people being held on bail do not go to the same facilities that convicted people do barring certain circumstances.]]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Cochrane is [[spoiler: arrested in a frame up]] at the very end of the ''Golden Gate'' story, and by the start of the next book, ''Shadow'', has already been convicted and imprisoned. Nothing indicates that all that long has passed, especially since if the months/years such a case would take to play out (he's arrested in the States, and it's seemingly a financial crime), actually did [[spoiler: a female hostage would likely be long dead, for one reason or another]]. Then again, it's not the only error: [[Spoiler: Largo is being kept in the same prison due to his own frame up tied to Cochrane's, but he's released on bail at the start of ''Shadow'', suggesting that this might have just taken DAYS considering how the bail process tends to work if you have access to billions of dollars. Also, people being held on bail do not go to the same facilities that convicted people do barring certain circumstances.]]
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* BeleagueredAssistant: Dwight Cochrane, the group's NumberTwo (well, Three) who just wants to be a corporate executive and make money, is particularly distraught by Largo's DesignatedVictim misadventures. Especially when he gets caught up in them (including getting shot, nearly taking a fire axe to the face, and in one case, doing time for a crime he was framed for).
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* BeleagueredAssistant: Dwight Cochrane, the group's NumberTwo (well, Three) who just wants to be a corporate executive and make money, is particularly distraught by Largo's DesignatedVictim misadventures. Especially when he gets caught up in them (including getting shot, nearly taking a fire axe to the face, and in one case, doing time for a crime he was framed for). In the ''Edge Of Night/Golden Percentile double story'', he finally resigns, or rather, attempts to: Largo is ultimately able to talk him out of it.
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** Several of the villains and brief side characters, as well, who grope, sexually abuse, or worse, various women, just so you know they're morally stained at the least.
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* CrimefightingWithCash: Averted: Largo's enormous fortune is rarely of direct use to resolve the problem of the day, though it does help with the inevitable collateral damage.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: All the time. Heck, even when the series starts, one member of the W Group's board of directors murders Nerio Winch, another is revealed in a later story to be the overseer of a gigantic heroin network, a third is fired for malfeasance and turns up later as the head of CASPE, a fictional network of 'fixers'/secret police for oil cartels where he sets up an eleborate plot to kill Winch and destroy his company for the humiliation, and so on.
* CrimefightingWithCash: Averted: Largo's enormous fortune is rarely of direct use to resolve the problem of the day, though it does help with the inevitable collateral damage. (For example, the time he bought a restaurant at twice its actual value because he crashed a boat into it (via hitting another boat to serve as a makeshift launching pad) because he needed to get on land to find a phone immediately to try [[spoiler:and prevent a bomb from being detonated.]]
* CrimefightingWithCash: Averted: Largo's enormous fortune is rarely of direct use to resolve the problem of the day, though it does help with the inevitable collateral damage. (For example, the time he bought a restaurant at twice its actual value because he crashed a boat into it (via hitting another boat to serve as a makeshift launching pad) because he needed to get on land to find a phone immediately to try [[spoiler:and prevent a bomb from being detonated.]]
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''Largo Winch'' is a Belgian comic-book series by Phillipe Francq and Creator/JeanVanHamme, and published by Creator/{{Dupuis}}. The initial albums are actually adaptations of novels that Van Hamme wrote back in TheSeventies. The series deals with the misadventures of Largo Winch, the heir to a large company.
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''Largo Winch'' is a Belgian comic-book series by Phillipe Francq and Creator/JeanVanHamme, Creator/JeanVanHamme (''ComicBook/{{XIII}}''), and published by Creator/{{Dupuis}}. The initial albums are actually adaptations of novels that Van Hamme wrote back in TheSeventies. The series deals with the misadventures of Largo Winch, the heir to a large company.
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Media based on the comics include a 2001 English-language TV series, two French films (with the second released internationally as ''The Burma Conspiracy'') and two video games, ''Largo Winch .// Commando SAR'' and ''Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat''
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Media based on the comics include a 2001 English-language TV series, two three French films (with the second released internationally as ''The Burma Conspiracy'') and two video games, ''Largo Winch .// Commando SAR'' and ''Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat''
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* AdaptationExpansion: The first eight issues are based on the novels albeit in a different order (for example, the second arc ''O.P.A''/''Buisness A''/''Business Blue'' adapts the sixth and last novel). Starting with ''Golden Gate''/''Shadow'', the comics feature original stories.
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* ComicBookTime: Largo Winch remains 28 years old and yet the setting around him has evolved since the first adventures. This is notable from ''Crossing Paths'' onward where modern technologies are omnipresent.
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* ComicBookTime: Largo Winch remains 28 years old and yet the setting around him has evolved since the first adventures. This is notable from ''Crossing Paths'' onward where modern technologies are omnipresent. The prequel ''The Fortune of the Winczlavs'' gives 1990 as Largo's birthyear which raises issues.
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* ForcedEuthanasia: Subverted. Nerio Winch summons a man to his penthouse that he knows is plotting to kill him so Nerio won't reveal the man's crimes ([[spoiler:one of the W Group's executives]]). The murderer is surprised at first, then learns Nerio has cancer and so it would count as a MercyKill. However, he also knows Nerio had arranged a ThanatosGambit in case of murder, and instead throws Nerio off the roof.
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''Largo Winch'' is a Belgian comic-book series by Phillipe Francq and Creator/JeanVanHamme, and published by Creator/{{Dupuis}}. The initial albums are actually adaptations of novels that Van Hamme wrote back in the 1970's. The series deals with the misadventures of Largo Winch, the heir to a large company.
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''Largo Winch'' is a Belgian comic-book series by Phillipe Francq and Creator/JeanVanHamme, and published by Creator/{{Dupuis}}. The initial albums are actually adaptations of novels that Van Hamme wrote back in the 1970's.TheSeventies. The series deals with the misadventures of Largo Winch, the heir to a large company.
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* CartwrightCurse: Poor Largo just '''CANNOT''' keep a LoveInterest. Let's see... One leaves him because his fortune changed him. One died. One is a recovering addict. One is a Freedom Fighter. One is TheMole, but isn't, but is, then is killed offscreen. The most normal one is PutOnABus and is more of a FriendsWithBenefits anyway. The sod just cannot catch a break.
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* BladeEnthusiast: Largo keeps a pair of throwing knives on his heels, and has plenty of opportunity to use them. He is often shown idly fiddling with a knife during business meetings.
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* KnifeNut: Largo keeps a pair of throwing knives on his heels, and has plenty of opportunity to use them. He is often shown idly fiddling with a knife during business meetings.
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* AbsenteeActor: Simon is absent in the "See Venice..." / "...And Die" arc.
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* DecapitationPresentation: In "H", the drug villains behead the chemist Sveig Larsen and deliver his head on a silver plate to Largo.
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* {{Crossover}}: ''Crossing Paths'' features Laurent Draillac who's the protagonist from ''20 Years Later'', another comic by Jean Van Hamme.
* DecapitationPresentation: In "H", thedrug villains behead the chemist Sveig Larsen and deliver his head on a silver plate to Largo.
* DecapitationPresentation: In "H", the
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** Judith Warner becomes Melanie Wagner. This is possibly because ''ComicBook/XIII'' also has a Judith Warner. [[spoiler: Her real name "Rifka Sharim" is the same in both media though.]]
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* AdaptationNameChange: Combined with AdaptationalNationality: The Israeli Simon Ben Chaïm becomes the Swiss Simon Ovronnaz.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Combined Several characters from the novels their names changed [[AdaptationalNationality along with AdaptationalNationality: their nationality]]:
** The Israeli Simon Ben Chaïm becomes the Swiss SimonOvronnaz.Ovronnaz.
** Largo's Argentinian girlfriend Aricia Del Ferril becomes the British Charity Atkinson.
** Stephanie Killian-Vaughn becomes Solange Vandenberg.
** The Israeli Simon Ben Chaïm becomes the Swiss Simon
** Largo's Argentinian girlfriend Aricia Del Ferril becomes the British Charity Atkinson.
** Stephanie Killian-Vaughn becomes Solange Vandenberg.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The series maintains its status quo with Largo always back at the head of his company and never committing himself in a relationship with any GirlOfTheWeek. There are a few lasting changes like Freddy retiring to get married but overall nothing major happens.
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* SettingUpdate: The novels were written in the 70's while the first album came out in 1990. Many things were altered to fit the perdio such as the countries.
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* SettingUpdate: The novels were written in the 70's while the first album came out in 1990. Many things were altered to fit the perdio period such as the countries.
