History ComicBook / LesLegendaires

** Gryf and Shimy start out with mere ShipTease that soon turns into full blown UST. They [[BigDamnKiss finally kiss]] in book 10, but they break up when Gryf admits he's been seeing someone else. Said someone else turns out to be Shun-Day, whom Shimy was already butting heads with back when she was introduced, but THEN Gryf turns out to have been leading Shun-Day on the whole time, [[BusCrash and then Shun-Day dies]]. Gryf and Shimy get back together but still keep butting heads and arguing, especially since Shimy hasn't completely forgiven Gryf for lying to her. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Their reality gets erased and their characters altered]], but they still manage to find each other again, so you think they'll finally get their HappilyEverAfter, right? Wrong. Years later in ''Resistance'', we meet their son Shain who as it turns out has a bone to pick with his old man. After all these years, Gryf and Shimy still haven't sorted themselves out, and have broken up again.

** Danaël and Jadina land somewhere in between. They get along a hell of a lot better than Gryf and Shimy do, but lack Razzia and Tenebris's solid foundation. Their main obstacle has always been bad timing.

** Danaël and Jadina land somewhere in between. They get along a hell of a lot better than Gryf and Shimy do, but lack Razzia and Tenebris's solid foundation.

** Razzia and Tenebris have their issues, mainly due to the fact that Tenebris is pretty much a walking reminder of Razzia's dark past, but despite all of that they have never stopped loving each other.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: both Jadina and Razzia are part of this. Despite his apparent sillyness and fat bookworm look, Razzia is actually smart and incredibly powerful, while Jadina, despite her clumsyness and sillyness, is proven to be extremely dangerous when angry (Ceyderom learnt it the hard way).

* TookALevelInJerkass: Jadina; in the first book, she was a kind and somewhat sheltered person in a mildly GoodIsDumb way, who while she had [[BewareTheNiceOnes moments of anger]] was still arguably the nicest person on the team. Post Anathos Cycle, while she sure TookALevelInBadass, her experiences seem to have jaded her as she is all of a sudden a lot more acerbic and brusque; she violently ambushes her own teammates to "test" their reflexes them before the fight with the Hellions (and verbally abuses them for failing to react), mocks Shimy for her blindness and expresses no compassion for Razzia when he announces that Tenebris has been captured (to be fair, she let herself get caught on purpose as part of ThePlan, but still). At the end of book 14, she turns out to have refused to fill her original purpose as ambassador to the centuries abused Gamera Tree because she wanted to focus on Anathos, and bitterly shrugs off her mother's offer of reconciliation (something even Shimy accepted from her own mother in Book 4).

* TookALevelInJerkass: Jadina; in the first book, she was a nice and naive person, almost in a GoodIsDumb way, and while she could have [[BewareTheNiceOnes angry moments]], remained the nicest person on the team. After the Anathos Cycle, while she sure [[TookALevelInBadass became a much more badass character]], she now tends to have overly jerkass moments, including beating up her own teammates to "test" them before the fight with the Hellions, mocking Shimy for her blindness and expressing no compassion for Razzia about Tenebris being captured (sure she let herself get caught on purpose, but still). At the end of book 14, she is revealed to have refused taking any time to take care of the Gamera Tree because she wanted to focus on Anathos, and brutally reject her mother's offer of reconciliation (something even Shimy accepted with her own mother in Book 4).
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Danael and Jadina. [[spoiler:They get together, though sadly it didn't last.]]
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: at least three of the main villains (Darkhell, Abyss and Anathos) are walking horror, and another one (Skroa) comes close of being one.

* SealedEvilInACan: Anathos when he was trapped in the Bearer. Abyss too, kinda.

* SeriesFauxnale: As the title suggests, Book 18 "La fin de l’histoire ?" (The End of The Story?) almost wraps up the series. The GreaterScopeVillain Kalandre is defeated, [[spoiler:almost all the heroes dies and it ends with a literal reboot of the universe where Danael and Shimy live happily ever after.]] It turns out it's not the end and the series will finally come to an end in Book 23.
* SpoilerOpening: If you are reading ''book 11: Versus Inferno'', you'd better skip the [[DramatisPersonae characters description]] because it spoils many plot points [[spoiler:notably the fact that Razzia made a pact with a demon]].
* StartOfDarkness: The spin off ''Les Chroniques de Darkhell'' reveals how Darkhell became the infamous villain. He was a boy named Salen and it all started when his mother and little brother were murdered by a tax collector.

* ScrewDestiny: in book 10 of the Anathos Cycle, as the Legendaries are preparing themselves to fight Anathos, Danael destroys the Alystory as a sign of denial of the prophecy that foresees Anathos' return. [[spoiler:This didn't work sadly]]

* SexyDiscretionShot: played for laught in the Anathos Cycle, where, as Ikael call for King Halan's and Captain Shamira's help, [[spoiler:the two of them are shown sharing the same bed, wearing nothing but their undies, and clearly embarrassed by getting called in this situation.]]

* SheIsAllGrownUp: ironically inverted in book 6, where [[spoiler:after a time-travel, Danael meets Pre-Jovénia Jadina, who's still an adult, and, being used to the child one, realizes he forgot how beautiful she was then]]

* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: Count Kasino was attempting to become this. Sadly for him, he didn't survive long enough for that. [[spoiler:Also, Abyss was most-likely trying to make Tenebris this.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Jadina; in the first book, she was a nice and naive person, almost in a GoodIsDumb way, and while she could have [[BewareTheNiceOnes angry moments]], remained the nicest person on the team. After the Anathos Cycle, while she sure [[TookALevelInBadass became a much more badass character]], she now tends to have overly jerkass moments, including beating up her own teammates to "test" them before the fight with the Hellions, mocking Shimy for her blindness and expressing no compassion for Razzia about Tenebris being captured (sure she let herself get caught on purpose, but still). At the end of book 14, she is revealed to have refused taking any time to take care of the Gamera Tree because she wanted to focus on Anathos, and brutally reject her mother's offer of reconciliation (something even Shimy accepted with her own mother in Book 4).
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Shimy and Jadina.

* SheSAllGrownUp: ironically inverted in book 6, where [[spoiler:after a time-travel, Danael meets Pre-Jovénia Jadina, who's still an adult, and, being used to the child one, realizes he forgot how beautiful she was then]]

* BaseOnWheels: the Castlewar. More accurately a base on [[SpiderLimbs legs]].

* TheBadGuyWins: Played with at several points:
** In Book 2, [[spoiler:all Legendaries but Danael die trying to reach the Stone of Crescia, only to have Skroa taking it for himself and getting away with it ([[BackFromTheDead They got better]], of course)]].
** Similarly, in Book 6, [[spoiler: Jadina is the only Legendary to survive their time-travel, as the others all get killed by past Darkhell. The only way they survived was by having Jadina tralling back to time again in order to prevent their original time travel to begin with.]]
** The second book of the Anathos Cycle is probably the most straight exemple: [[spoiler:even though the Legendaries are able to prevent Anathos from coming back by reincarnating into Shimy, [[XanatosSpeedChess he still succeeds in coming back by possessing Danael instead]]. He then single-handed defeats the four remaining Legendaries, leaving them horribly scarred and crippled, kills his WorthyOpponent Darkhell/Elysio after a fight, and destroys the Guardians, before using the Legendaries' blood to create [[ThePsychoRangers Evil Twins of them]] as his personnal Five-Man Band. By the end of the book, he's pretty much on his way to destroy all of Alysia.]]
* TheSymbiote: Abyss is both of this and PuppeteerParasite. Amy serves as the first to Razzia.

Though the comic has yet to be published in other places (though the series is available in English through Comixology [[note]]or at least, the first six volumes[[/note]]),it has been quite successful in France (over 3 millions fans), and eventually spawned a spin-off OriginsEpisode, ''Les Légendaires: Origines'', that relates how the protagonists met before the Jovénia Incident. Another spin-off ''Les Chroniques de Darkhell'' about the origins of the villain has been announced. An [[WesternAnimation/LesLegendaires animated adaptation]] is currently airing on Tfou.

Though the comic has yet to be published in other places (though the series is available in English through Comixology), it has been quite successful in France (over 3 millions fans), and eventually spawned a spin-off OriginsEpisode, ''Les Légendaires: Origines'', that relates how the protagonists met before the Jovénia Incident. Another spin-off ''Les Chroniques de Darkhell'' about the origins of the villain has been announced. An [[WesternAnimation/LesLegendaires animated adaptation]] is currently airing on Tfou.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Danael and Jadina. [[spoiler:TheyDo, though sadly it didn't last.]]

* PantyShot: Shimy often gets some of these after the Anathos Cycle, since her originally more tomboyish clothes have been replaced with a robe that occasionnally let her undies visible. Toopie too gets a couple of it in the first book of the Anathos Cycle.

A reboot in black-and-white manga format (right-to-left reading and all) was announced for 2020 and will be drawn by Guillaume Lapeyre, previously known as the artist of the French manga ''City Hall''. A sequel series, with the subtitle of "Résistance", has started in 2021.

The comic uses a very {{animesque}} style, and often plays with [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness a weird equilibrium between serious and silly]], [[MoodWhiplash alternating between silly humor and a]] [[DarkerAndEdgier darker, more violent storyline]], especially in latter issues. Characters die, get tortured (physically and [[MindRape psychologically]] alike), and, while initially comical, get a large CharacterDevelopment.

A reboot in black-and-white manga format (right-to-left reading and all) was announced for 2020 and will be drawn by Guillaume Lapeyre, previously known as the artist of the French manga ''City Hall''.

** The Guardian, though it's hard to say due to his LawfulNeutral alignment and [[JerkassGod how much of a jerk he is]].

* BewareTheSillyOnes: both Jadina and Razzia are part of this. Despite his apparent sillyness and fat bookworm look, Razzia is actually smart and incredibly powerful, while Jadina, despite her clumsyness and sillyness, is proven to be extremely dangerous when angy (Ceyderom learnt it the hard way).

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* ReadyForLovemaking: In a big [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar off radar moment]] in ''Razzia'', Tenebris offers Razzia to reconciliate in bed after an argument. Unfortunately for her, he isn't in the mood because someone [[GroinAttack kicked him in the groin]] earlier.

Set in a [[TheVerse universe]] named Alysia, the comic focuses on the eponymous characters, [[FiveManBand a group of five heroes]] who were once famous and praised by people for protecting them from the EvilSorcerer [[BigBad Darkhell]]. However, during their FinalBattle with him, they accidentally break the Stone of Jovénia, a [[MacGuffin powerful artifact]] once used by the Gods to create Alysia that [[ImmortalitySeeker Darkhell was intending to use to get his youth back]]. As a result, the stone's energy seemingly kills Darkhell, but also irradiates Alysia and its neighborhood planet, [[OurElvesAreBetter the Elven World]], turning every inhabitant into children with no way to grow up. [[BrokenPedestal Blaming and despising them for the incident, the people of Alysia banish the Legendaries]], causing their group to disband.

* OurElvesAreBetter: They are technically aliens to the inhabitants of Alysia, having a whole planet of their own which can be reached by using portail-summoning magic keys. Aside from the obligatory PointyEars, they seem to frequently have [[AnimeHair anime hairs]] and share the planet with fishmen-like beings called the Pirahni. They don't seem particular better-looking than humans (we see plenty of fat or bulky elves), and did age before the Jovénia effect stuck them in child form, (Shyska, the Arbores headmaster, clearly is an old lady), though how long-lived they are is unclear. Dark Elves exist, and have the traditional dark skin and white hair, but aren't particularly eviler than regular elves, though they do suffer prejudices from them, and many of them tend to be criminal. Both regular and Dark Elves can on rare occasions develop innate ElementalPowers, in which case they are taken to the Arbores Elementa, a school where they are taught how to use their abilities, though only one of them is allowed to use it outside the Arbores.

Set in a [[TheVerse universe]] named Alysia, the comic focuses on the eponymous characters, [[FiveManBand a group of five heroes]] who were once famous and praised by people for protecting them from the EvilSorcerer [[BigBad Darkhell]]. However, during their FinalBattle with him, they accidentally break the Stone of Jovenia, a [[MacGuffin powerful artifact]] once used by the Gods to create Alysia that [[ImmortalitySeeker Darkhell was intending to use to get his youth back]]. As a result, the stone's energy seemingly kills Darkhell, but also irradiates Alysia and its neighborhood planet, [[OurElvesAreBetter the Elven World]], turning every inhabitant into children with no way to grow up. [[BrokenPedestal Blaming and despising them for the incident, the people of Alysia banish the Legendaries]], causing their group to disband.

Though the comic has yet to be published in other places (However the series is available in english through Comixology), it has been quite successful in France (over 3 millions fans), and eventually spawned a spin-off OriginsEpisode, ''Les Légendaires: Origines'', that relates how the protagonists met before the Jovenia Incident. Another spin-off ''Les Chroniques de Darkhell'' about the origins of the villain has been announced. An [[WesternAnimation/LesLegendaires animated adaptation]] is currently airing on Tfou.

* '''[[TheLeader Danael]]''', a [[ThePaladin knight]] from the Kingdom of Larbos and TheLeader of the group. He is the one reassembling the Legendaries in order to find a cure to Jovenia Incident. Good-hearted and willing to do the right thing, but can sometimes be willing to do dirty actions for the sake of Alysia. Fight with a [[HeroesPreferSwords Golden Sword forged by the Elves from his blood]], [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks which he can summon no matter where it is]].

* '''[[BarbarianHero Razzia]]''', a former [[BarbarianHero Barbarian]] from the country of Rymar who the Jovenia Incident turned back into a fat little boy while leaving him with his humongous strength. Seems to be dumb at the first look, but actually possesses advanced knowledge about monsters and archeology. Is also a BigEater. Fight with a [[{{BFS}} large saber named the Leviathan]].

* HumansAreBastards: Not used that much, but occasionally hinted; the people of Alysia are most often shown to be quite ungrateful to the Legendaries, being quick to [[DisproportionateRetribution not only blame]], but ''despise'' them because of the Jovenia Incident, [[UngratefulBastard despite all the time they saved the ass of everyone fighting Darkhell]]. When learning the Legendaries were holding a possible cure for the Jovenia Incident in book 7, they [[TooDumbToLive immediatly assume the Legendaries were trying to keep it for themselves]] (they actually were trying to bring it to the King for massive production) and attempt to ''lynch'' them, only being prevented from this by the Gods Dawn and Dusk scaring them away. Not to mention their FantasticRacism toward Jaguarians...

** Played straight with the Guardian; though attempted to be a neutral being that must only serve as a guardian to the Gods' magic stone, he wasn't above freely giving the Stone of Jovenia to Darkhell as part of a deal. He also gave mortals fake maps leading to his castle so they would die trying to go through deadly traps in order to get the stone from him, all of this [[ItAmusedMe just for his amusement]]. When he attempted to prevent Anathos' return, [[spoiler:his methods was to recruit and upgrade Darkhell and Elysio in order to kill ALL the Legendaries because he didn't know which one of them was gonna serve as Anathos' host for his reincarnation ([[SarcasmMode guess explaining them what happened first would have been too complicated]]...)]]

* MacGuffin: The comic makes a heavy use of them, but the author usually makes sure they disappear once they have served the plot by having them either destroyed (the Stone of Jovenia, the Krea-Kaos, the Temporhell and the Alystory) or taken away (the Stone of Crescia).

* NotQuiteDead:[[spoiler: as you guess, Darkhell isn't really dead.]]
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: pretty much the result of the Anathos Cycle.
* OlderThanTheyLook: {{Justified|Trope}}; because of the Jovenia Incident, virtually everyone on Alysia and the Elven World looks like a 12-year-old kid, not matter what their actual ages might be.

* OurElvesAreBetter: They are technically aliens to the inhabitants of Alysia, having a whole planet of their own which can be reached by using portail-summoning magic keys. Aside from the obligatory PointyEars, they seem to frequently have [[AnimeHair anime hairs]] and share the planet with fishmen-like beings called the Pirahni. They don't seem particular better-looking than humans (we see plenty of fat or bulky elves), and did age before the Jovenia effect stuck them in child form, (Shyska, the Arbores headmaster, clearly is an old lady), though how long-lived they are is unclear. Dark Elves exist, and have the traditional dark skin and white hair, but aren't particularly eviler than regular elves, though they do suffer prejudices from them, and many of them tend to be criminal. Both regular and Dark Elves can on rare occasions develop innate ElementalPowers, in which case they are taken to the Arbores Elementa, a school where they are taught how to use their abilities, though only one of them is allowed to use it outside the Arbores.

* SheSAllGrownUp: ironically inverted in book 6, where [[spoiler:after a time-travel, Danael meets Pre-Jovenia Jadina, who's still an adult, and, being used to the child one, realizes he forgot how beautiful she was then]]

** Razzia went from a [[{{geek}}weak fat bookworm only interested with adventures novels]] as a kid to [[FromNobodyToNightmare a fearsome]] BarbarianHero who [[spoiler:ended up [[TheDragon working for Darkhell]] for a short amont of time, had a relationship with his hot DarkActionGirl [[MadScientistSBeautifulDaughter daughter Tenebris]]]] and eventually joined the Legendaries, becoming one of the greatest heroes of Alysia. Though the Jovenia Incident turned him back to his child form, he retained his humongous strenght [[spoiler:and eventually restarted his relationship with Tenebris.]]

* TakeThat: an animal bearing similarities with [[StarWars Jar-Jar Bink]] is brutally killed off in Book 15.
* TheBadGuyWins: played with at several points :

* DaddysLittleVillain : Tenebris to Darkhell.

* LoveRedeems: the very reason Tenebris eventually switched sides.
* LoveMakesYouEvil : [[spoiler:the very reason Prince Halan became a villain in book 5 was because of his feelings for Jadina.]]
* MacGuffin: the comic makes a heavy use of them, but the author usually makes sure they disappear once they have served the plot by having them either destroyed (the Stone of Jovenia, the Krea-Kaos, the Temporhell and the Alystory) or taken away (the Stone of Crescia).

* OmnicidalManiac: Anathos is basically a king of that : he ''successfully destroyed the original Alysia'', and attempted to destroy the second one as an act of revenge for what the Gods did to him. Not to mention he [[PlagueMaster created a magic plague to kill humans]]...

** In Book 4, [[spoiler:Elysio lampshades it by saying his crimes as Darkhell can only be redeemed that way, just before blowing up himself with Darkhell. This is double-subverted when both of them are revealed to have survived in Book 9... only to actually die in Book : 10 when they save the Legendaries from Anathos.]]

** When turning into his [[OneWingedAngel DeathGryf]] form rescue Jadina from [[spoiler:execution]] in book 14, Gryf states : "If you wanna get the Beauty, you'll need to fight the Beast first". Even funnier considering the author ''did'' write a comic adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast".

* HiddenElfVillage: [[spoiler:the Jaguarians' city, Jaguarys, is secluded from the rest of the world and hidden by a magic shield that prevent anyone who haven't been invited to ever find it. Justified in that Jaguarians ''had'' to isolate themselves in order to escape from the humans' FantasticRacism]]

* HumansAreBastards: not used that much, but occasionnally hinted; the people of Alysia are for most shown to be quite ungrateful to the Legendaries, being quick to [[DisproportionateRetribution not only blame, but ''despise'' them because of the Jovenia Incident]], [[UngratefulBastard despite all the time they saved the ass of everyone fighting Darkhell]]. When learning the Legendaries were holding a possible cure for the Jovenia Incident in book 7, they [[TooDumbToLive immediatly assume the Legendaries were trying to keep it for themselves]] (they actually were trying to bring it to the King for massive production) and attempt to ''lynch'' them, only being prevented from this by the Gods Dawn and Dusk scaring them away. Not to mention their FantasticRacism toward Jaguarians...
* IdentityAmnesia: Elysio. [[spoiler:He's eventually revealed to be have been Darkhell.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: justified; because of the Jovenia incident, virtually everyone on Alysia and the Elven World look like a 12 years old kid, not matter what their actual ages might be.

* '''[[FallenPrincess Jadina]]''', a Magician {{Princess}} from the Kingdom of Orchidia. She is the owner of the Eagle Staff, a powerful MagicStaff who has the abilitie to turn into an giant emerald eagle for transport purpose. Jadina tends to act shallow and silly occasionnally, but she is probably one of the nicest person in the team. Has feelings for Danael.