History ComicBook / LesLegendaires

* ArtifactTitle: The spin off ''Les Légendaires: Les Chroniques de Darkhell''. The first part of the title is this since it takes place long before the Legendaries were born.

** 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.]]

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Shun-Day.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Gryf seems to have this kind of relationship with both Shimy and Shun-Day. [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale He is usually the one who gets beat up though]].
* BerserkButton: Whenever Darkhell gets hit in the face, he usually gets mad as hell and attempts to beat the crap out of the one responsible. Hurting Tenebris can also have the same kind of effect on him.

* AbsentAnimalCompanion: Shimy's lion Lionfeu was initially meant the be the TeamPet but the author hated drawing him so he vanished after the second book.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Danael's Golden Sword and Razzia's Leviathan Saber both displayed abilities to cut through hightly resiliant matters, such as steel and rock.
* ActionMom: [[spoiler:Shimy's mother]], Captain Shamira, is well known for being the leader of the Elven Fleet, a surpringly competent fighter and probably one of the most authoritary characters in the book. [[spoiler:She is actually much more impressive and intimidating than Shimy's father]].

** Abyss doesn't outright tell it, but he does define himself as beyond human;
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Darkhell/Elysio when he gets killed by Anathos. Despite the fact Darkhell was pretty much the most evil character of the serie before Anathos shows up, it's hard to not feel sorry for him when you hear him thinking about his [[DaddySLittleVillain beloved daughter]] Tenebris as his final thought. The fact Anathos defeated him only by cheating doesn't help either.]]
** [[spoiler:subverted with Abyss; after explaining the reason behind his actions, Tenebris seems like she's feeling sorry for him... Then he is revealed to be NotQuiteDead and rises again to fight the Legendairies.]]
* TheAlcatraz: [[PunnyName Prison Barek]] seems to have this reputation.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Adverted with the Pirahni: when first introduced, they served as villains, but it was quickly revealed their antagonism with Elves was because of a mistake and that they were being manipulated. [[spoiler:By the end of book 4, they have a HeelFaceTurn]].

* 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]]...
* OurElvesAreDifferent: Elves 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.

** [[spoiler:Ironicallly enough, Jadina later outgambits Anathos during their final battle.]]
* TheAlcatraz: Prison Barek pretty much the definition.

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: In the first book, Danael reunites the Legendaries who disbanded two years before when they caused the Jenova accident.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: played with repeatedly:
** 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.]]
** In Book 6, [[spoiler:Prince Halan, after betraying the Legendaries in order to get Jadina's love (and failing miserably), commits an HeroicSacrifice by saving her from Past-Darkhell in order to at least get her respect back. [[UnexplainedRecovery He was resurrected off-screen]] thanks to Jadina's time reset, and his appearances after this portrayed him as a good guy.]]

** Elysio and Darkhell could be considered this as well.
* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Gryf and Shimy's relationship is, to put it mildly, a mess.

* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:Gryf got a shard from Anathos' sword in his heart which leaves him only one year to live. He decides to keep that information for himself and pretends he no longer loves Shimy.]]

* RetCon: Deliberately invoked when it comes to ''Origins''; Sobral admitted on his site that he took liberty on the already established backstories of the Legendaries in the main series so he could better flesh them out, and considers it worth the continuity errors it can cause.
* TheRival: the Fabulous act like this to the Legendaries in the first issue, but eventually became friendly allies. Skroa also used to be this to Dakrhell.
* 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]]
* ScrewYourself: There is a fair amount of HoYay between Darkhell and Elysio, and they keep fighting over who Tenebris's favorite father is... But that's also because they're literally the same person split into two.
* 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.

* ShoutOut: Done several times, most notably through puns in the names of place and characters. Most notable include:

* 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.

** Razzia went from a [[{{Geek}} meek and ungainly bookworm]] to [[FromNobodyToNightmare a fearsome]] BarbarianHero who [[spoiler: ended up [[TheDragon working for Darkhell]] for a time, even attracting the attention and love of the sorcerer's DarkActionGirl [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter daughter Tenebris]]]] before he eventually joined the Legendaries and became one of the greatest heroes of Alysia. Though the Jovénia Incident turned him back into a chubby little boy, he retained his superhuman strength [[spoiler: and eventually got back together with Tenebris.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: Anathos has an especially nice one toward the end of the Anathos Cycle. So does Abyss when her realizes [[spoiler:the Legendaries has freed Tenebris from his control]], though his is more creepy than awesome.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Shimy and Jadina; they keep fighting and insulting each other, Shimy is often exasperated by Jadina's apparent shallowness and keep snarking about her. Yet, it's quite obvious they both care for each other, as both display alarm or shock whenever they believe the other dead.
** [[spoiler:Darkhell]] and [[spoiler:Elysio]] started out as ennemies, but after [[spoiler:being forced to team up under the Guardian's order]], they seem to gradually evolve into that. Of course, [[spoiler:the fact they used to be the same person and share the same memory probably helped.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: Anathos offered this to Tenebris, mentionning that unlike the Legendaries, she was most likely to accept the offer. She declined, however.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sobral initially wanted to end the serie after Book 6, then after the Anathos Cycle, but eventually changed the plot so it'd go on. He has now confirmed he would at least do 20 Books, and even annonced what Books 15, 16, 17 and 18 would be about.
* WhatTheHellHero: Jadina gives one to Danael in book 5 when he treatens Halan with a Darkhellion's stinger, blaming him for putting his jealousy before the mission and thus making things dangerous. [[spoiler:Ironically enough, it eventually turns out she was mistaken: the actual crazy jealous guy was Halan, who betrays them to Ceyderom.]]
** Gryf gets two in book 7: one from Jadina when he hinted he would have gladly slaughtered the villagers for hunting Jaguarians like beasts, and one from Danael when he almost threatened Jadina.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: inverted; when the Legendaries prepare to infiltrate the Castlewar, Anathos sees that coming, and actually plans on sending his Vultur army against them in order to end this quickly. However, a mysterious woman appears and advices him to let them come and defeat them with the Hellions instead. He chooses to follow the advice.
* 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.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: Anathos does this to Dark Jadina after Jadina defeated her. Even creepier considering he said he had forgiven her right before doing so and that she was [[DarkMistress in love with him]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Darkhell does this to his allie General Rasga in book 4. [[spoiler: Lucky for him, Rasga was saved by Shimy before Darkhell could finish the job, and ended up having an HeelFaceTurn.]]
** Ceyderom does it to [[spoiler:Prince Halan by not only leaving him to past Darkhell's hands, but also thanking the Dark Sorcerer for seizing him.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:more accurately "You Killed My Parents"; Razzia and Tenebris killed Fabulous member Toopie's parents when they were under Darkhell's orders. Ironically enough, they could have killed Toopie too, but [[EvenEvilHasStandards choosed to let her live because she was just a baby]].]]

** The [[AlternateUniverse ''World Without'']] of Gryf quite clearly believes this, since he sleazily spies on his teammate Solaris as she's having a romantic moment with her girlfriend. It's as gross as it sounds.

** Dark-Shimy and Dark-Gryf both explain their amplified powers (respectively infinite energy and permanant Chakounia state) to their respective Legendary counterparts. In both cases, they had no reason not to do so; in fact, Dark-Shimy's case was justified, as she was trying to chip at her enemy's confidence. Gryf does wind up explaining his OneWingedAngel form's weakness to Dark-Gryf, who immediatly tries to take advantage on it... only to find out the hard that he's actually too exhausted and beat up to stand a chance, since Gryf himself already figured out ''his'' weakness and defeats him in ''regular'' form.

* HumansAreBastards: Not used that much, but occasionally hinted at; 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 Jovénia Incident, [[UngratefulBastard despite all the times they saved everyone's asses by taking it upon themselves to fight back against Darkhell]]. When learning the Legendaries were holding a possible cure for the Jovénia 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...

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Abyss with Tenebris; even though he states he considers her as his sister, the way he interacts with her (seizing her with Energy Tentacles, stating his love to her...) sounds more like incest than fraternal love.
** Anathos uses it to mock Jadina when he has her captured. She answers by trying to punch him.
* JerkassGods: subverted with Dawn and Dusk; though they do act as jerkass when they show up, it eventually turns out they were doing so as a test to see if the Alysians had grown mature enough. Once satisfied, they went away, leaving the planet harmless.
** 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 Jovénia 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]]...)]]

** Even lampshaded in book 1 when [[spoiler:Danael rescues Elysio from being eaten by a Troll. Elysio states he could have defeated the Troll by himself and has a very hammy moment, laughing maniacally as he gloats over how he would have reduced the troll to dust had his powers work (a probable foreshadowing of who he actually is). Danael mentally refers to him as a "megalomaniac".]]

* {{Chickification}}: Arguably with Shimy; in the first books, she was portrayed as having more of a SugarAndIcePersonality, a {{Tomboy}} and a DeadpanSnarker who rarely expressed any emotion other than anger and smugness. After her HeroicBSOD in the Anathos Cycle however, [[GirlinessUpgrade her enw outfit is markedly a lot more feminine]] (which tends to make her the main source of [[MsFanservice fanservice]]) and displays more emotion than before, to the point where she veers straight into {{Tsundere}} territory. This is made even more blatant when you consider that the original chick of the group, Jadina, TookALevelInBadass ''and'' [[TookALevelInJerkass Jerkass]] and succeeded Danael as the leader, making her appear a lot more stoic and uncompromising than Shimy. Granted, this is justified because of everything that Shimy went through (including a [[DemonicPossession possession attempt from]] a GodOfEvil, getting her eyes burnt and learning her boyfriend was cheating on her), but it's still pretty sad. She however completely averts BadassDecay by remaining ''very'' competent.

** ''Origins'' as well, due to it taking place back when Darkhell was still in power and the characters were still adults. The series still has some jokes, but for the most part it's a lot darker, with more tragedy and showing how messed up the protagonists' lifes are.

* EnemyMine: Darkhell and Elysio when they were working for the Guardian.

** Ceyderom is a played straight use of this trope; even though he's implied to have been evil since the beginning, his whole reason for trying to eliminate the Legendaries and serving as a villain was to bring back his beloved wife, Sisgyga, to life.
** Similarly to Ceyderom, Sheiba whole motivation to eradicate humanity is to avenge what happened to her beloved son Razorcat.
** The serie as a whole seems to actually use this a lot; so far, the only Big Bads with no loved one were Skroa and Anathos.
* EvilChancellor:Dr Vangelis/Abyss became this in book 14 during the time Tenebris was queen of Orchidia.]]
* EvilGenius: Darkhell, Skroa and Abyss all are shown to be brillant minds with advanced knowledge and skills in magic and science, as well as being really good at scheming. Anathos can arguably count as well, though he's more of [[MagnificentBastard another kind of genius]].
* EvilLaugh: Darkhell does this ''a lot''.
** Anathos has one after [[spoiler:killing the Guardian]] he has another one in Book 12, [[spoiler:only to end up with a OhCrap face when realizing Jadina owned him]].

* EvilTwin: inverted with [[spoiler:Elysio for Darkhell]];
** played straight with Anathos creating the Hellions, an evil version of the Legendaries, as his personnal elite warriors;
* EvilerThanThou: Skroa with Darkhell. Also, Darkhell vs Anathos, though at this point Darkhell couldn't really be considered as "evil".
* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: adverted; Darkhell explains how the Krea-Kaos works to General Rasga and Tenebris explains to the Legendaries how her armband can absorb and send back magic attacks, but both Rasga and the Legendaries were allies to them at this point.
** Dark-Shimy and Dark-Gryf both explained their PowerUpgrade (respectively infinite energy and permanant Chakounia state) to their respective Legendaries counterpart while fighting them. In both case, they had no reason to not do so, as both didn't know themselves weakness; in fact, Dark-Shimy's case was justified, as she was attempting to crush her enemy's confidence. After the fight, Gryf does explain his OneWingedAngel form's weakness to Dark-Gryf, who immediatly attempts to take advantage on it... only to find out it's too late for that, as Gryf himself already figured out ''his'' weakness and defeat him in ''regular'' form.

* {{Fanservice}}: Not much of it in the original series, considering the characters are (safe for [[spoiler:the flashback, time-travel and other occasionnal exceptions]]) trapped in child form, and as such do not possess bodies built for such matter. Most of the cases, fanservice is rather parodied.

* FantasticRacism: played straight with the Jaguarians, Gryf's specie; they are considered as monsters by humans, who chase them like beast even when they don't mean any harm, and use them as slaves for bloody arene fights. The persections were actually so much that the specie went near extinction and had to hide in a [[HiddenElfVillage magically hidden city]] in order to survive.
** Partially hinted between Elves and Pirahni, though it was more portrayed as prejudicious hereditary hate (similar to the one between French and German during World War I) than actual racism: apparently, Piranhi considered Elves to be [[TheFairFolk backstabbing]] [[CanTArgueWithElves arrogant]] oppressors, while Elves seemed to see the Pirahni as something like [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute monstrous]] [[TheHorde brutish barbarians]]. [[spoiler:By the end of book 4, the two, after learning they used to be allies in the past, end this and peacefully cohabit.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: Razzia when he grow up to Korbo. Cf Took a Level In Badass above.]]

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: In book 13, Shimy drunkenly kisses Tenebris in front of several people in an attempt to show up Gryf. Two or three backgrounders are shown to be obviously delighted by the scene.

* HeroicBSOD: Danael has one in book 2 [[spoiler:after learning he never controlled anything since the beginning of their quest. He takes a whole night to recover from it.]]
** Shimy gets a pretty dark one too [[spoiler:during the Anathos cycle after finding out she was the one Anathos choosed to reincarnate, and that it was ''her'' fault (at least according to Danael) because she had let her thirst of power get the better of her.]]
** Jadina has an even more spectacular one in book 14 [[spoiler:after he original body was found, causing her to believe she might not be the true Jadina.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: The Legendaries were this until the end of the Anathos Cycle.
* 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]]
* HotterAndSexier: ''Origins'', due to having the characters being adults, involves a lot more fanservice than the mainstream series.
* 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 Jovénia Incident, [[UngratefulBastard despite all the times they saved everyone's asses by taking it upon themselves to fight back against Darkhell]]. When learning the Legendaries were holding a possible cure for the Jovénia 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...

** The people abducted by Apehros and possessed by the souls of the fallen Chiridan civilisation are not only still present, but ''conscious'' of everything the spirits see and hear without them having any control over their own bodies. This is brought up by Shimy as a way of revealing that she was there the whole time Gryf was confiding in Lheïra, but the implications are absolutely horrifying, especially when you notice a Chiridan man flirting with a woman in the background by complimenting her on her new body.
* {{Animesque}}: The artstyle resembles some manga elements, such as the hair and big eyes.
* AnimeHair: Several characters, elves most prominently, are portrayed with unusual hair colours: Shimy's hair is turquoise [[spoiler:and later turns white]], Ceyderom, Shun-Day and Halan all have hair in different shades of green, and some Jaguarians even have blue fur. Tellingly, humans tend to come with more... well, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment human]] hair colors.

* BattleCouple: Danael and Jadina. Interestingly, those two were the funding members of the Legendaries.
** [[spoiler:Razzia and Tenebris used to combine it with UnholyMatrimony.]]

* BreakTheCutie: a lot. ESPECIALLY during the Anathos Cycle with the Legendaries themselves.
* CallingYourAttacks: Anathos' "Devil Breath" and [[spoiler:Darkhell/Elysio]]'s "Bolt of Divine Execution".
* TheCavalry: Anathos really thought he had Jadina's plan all figured out... until a distant rumble informs him that all exits from the canyon have been blocked off; cue the Elven fleet flooding the canyon with Captain Shamira at their command. The Castlewar blast isn't waterproof, so Anathos sends in his armies of Vultures... which promptly get overtaken by General Rasga's Pirahni army and Sabledoran flying machines.
* CerebusSyndrome: the first book has some minor dark elements but is mostly comical and light-hearted; book 2 gives most characters DisneyDeath, but remains relatively standard otherwise; Books 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 gradually deal with darker elements, including FantasticRacism, guilt, many death and betrayal; the Anathos Cycle goes full DarkerAndEdgier and litterally shattered the Statu Quo to pieces.

** [[spoiler: Abyss is shown to be quite an impressive one as well. Pretty much everything that happens from book 13 to beginning of book 14 turns out to have been part of a bigger plan of placing Tenebris on the Orchidian throne before conquering all of Alysia.]]
** [[spoiler: Kalandre is the ''true'' mastermind, since her plan to take her revenge on the Gods has been in the motions for millenia, and she has been inconspicuously flitting in and out of different eras and steering the events to her advantage.]]
* {{Chickification}}: Arguadably with Shimy; in the first books, she was portrayed as more of a SugarAndIcePersonality, a {{Tomboy}} and a DeadpanSnarker who rarely express any feelings other than anger. After her HeroicBSOD in the Anathos Cycle however, she wears more girly clothes (which tends to make her the main [[MsFanservice fanservice source in the serie]]) and display more emotion than before, evolving toward {{Tsundere}}. This even more visible by the fact the original chick of the group, Jadina, TookALevelInBadass and became the leader, making her appear now almost mentally stronger than Shimy. Granted, this is justified because of all Shimy went through (including a [[DemonicPossession possession attempt from]] a GodOfEvil, getting her eyes burnt and learning her boyfriend was cheating on her), but this is still sad. She however averts BadassDecay by remaining ''very'' competent.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In the first two books, Shimy had a pet lion named Lionfeu [[note]][[DubNameChange Fireleo]][[/note]] who was initially meant to be the TeamPet (and he appears on the back cover of each books before the Anathos Cycle). However, he inexplicably disapears by the third book and is never mentionned again. According to Sobral he got rid of him because he was hard to drawn. Lionfeu briefly returns in Book 4 of the Origins and in the animated series.
* CreateYourOwnHero: Played with, where [[BigBad Darkhell]] actually gets wise about this trope, and, after slaughtering a village, framed a local army of heroes by leaving their banner behind. As a result, the only kid who survived ends up directing his hate toward said heroes, grows into a villain and becomes Darkhell's [[TheDragon Dragon]]. However, he eventually does learn the truth, causing him to pull a HeelFaceTurn and join the protagonists.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: the Legendaries are often portrayed as clumsy and kinda goofy when doing unimportant missions, but they definitely kick ass when fighting real treath.

* DarkerAndEdgier: the serie goes that way starting with the Anathos cycle.

* DatingCatwoman: Gryf with Shun-Day. Arguadably Razzia and Tenebris, though their couple was allowed to exist only when they were on the same side.
* DeathIsCheap: and ''how''. The Legendaries got killed together twice so far, usually with only [[TheSurvivor one survivor]] left at the end, yet in both case they are brought back to life in a matter of minutes after it happened. And let's not even talk about what happened to Jadina and Danael...
* DemonicPossession: pretty much the way Anathos is able to come back to life.
** [[spoiler:Abyss also uses it as his main power.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu?: Gryf punches Dusk, the God of Destruction, in the face in book 8, much to everyone's shock. Fortunately, the God doesn't get pissed off.
** Jadina attempts this on Anathos, and [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu gets her arm broken in the process]];

** Jaguarys, the hidden city of Jaguaryans has a protective dome that makes it invisible from outside. This magical dome is powered by the Horn of Sygma.
** The City of Barabath in ''Razzia'' has another magical shield powered by the egg of a god.
* DramatisPersonae: Each books opens with a descriptions of the Legendaries. They are updated in ''Book 11: Versus Inferno''.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: despite being a cruel, homicidal, insane megalomaniac sorcerer, Darkhell is shown to deeply care about his daughter Tenebris, to the point the concept of sacrificing/loosing her was awful to him, even after she [[HeelFaceTurn turned against him]].
** Abyss also expressed admiration for his "father" (despite the fact that, unlike Tenebris, Darkhell never even bothered caring about him), and is shown to care a lot about Tenebris (even though his "love" for her is quite twisted).
** Tenebris and Razzia also developped their relationship while being under Darkhell's services.
** Averted with Skroa and Shun-Day; while Shun-Day considers Skroa as her father and loves him as such, he actually finds this annoying and only sees her as his servant.

** The people possessed by the souls of the fallen Chiridan civilisation are not only still present, but ''conscious'' of everything the spirits see and hear without them having any control over their own bodies. This is brought up by Shimy as a way of revealing that she was there the whole time Gryf was confiding in Lheïra, but the implications are absolutely horrifying.

* BeachEpisode: Subverted/downplayed at the beginning of the Anathos Cycle, where the Legendaries seem to be in the middle of a summer swim break at the beginning. It doesn't last more than two pages however, [[spoiler: as they are attacked by Darkhell and Elysio, throwing them is the darkest adventure they have even been through.]] We still get to see Jadina steal Shimy's bikini top...

** The people possessed by the souls of the fallen Chiridan civilisation are not only still present, but ''conscious'' of everything the spirits see and hear without them having any control over their own bodies. This is brought up by Shimy as a way of revealing that she was there the whole time Gryf was confiding in Lheïra, but the implication is chilling.

* AnimeHair: several characters, especially amongst the elves, are portrayed with unusual hair colours: Shimy's is blue [[spoiler:later white]], Ceyderom's, Shun-Day's and Halan's are green, and even some Jaguarians have blue fur.
* AntiVillain: General Rasga; his only reason for [[spoiler:teaming up with Darkhell]] was to help his people finding a safe place to live, and he displays absolutely no villainous trait, even refusing to achieve his defeated ennemies. [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, he ends up having a HeelFaceTurn]].

** [[spoiler:Elysio]] becomes this during the Anathos Cycle after [[spoiler:the Guardian choosed him and Darkhell as his champions.]]

* BadassAdorable: a lot of characters. Well considering this takes place in a world where almost everyone is a child, that shouldn't be surprising, right ?

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

* BeachEpisode: subverted/downplayed as the beginning of the Anathos Cycle, where the Legendaries take a break to swim at the beginning. It doesn't last more than two pages however, [[spoiler:as they are attacked by Darkhell and Elysio, throwing them is the darkest adventure they have even been through.]] We still get to see Jadina stealing Shimy's top swimsuit...
** Parodied in the front page of Book 11, which portrays the Hellions posing in swimsuits on the beach for a postal card, joined with the mention "Kiss from Hell".
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Shun-Day.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Gryf seems to have this kind of relationship with both Shimy and Shun-Day. [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale He is usually the one who gets beat up though]]
* BerserkButton: whenever Darkhell gets hit in the face, he usually gets mad as hell and attempts to beat the crap out of the responsible. Hurting Tenebris can also have the same kind of effect on him.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:after defeating Skroa, Darkhell choosed to keep him as a lab rat rather than kill him. Which he did by trapping him in a magical prison and testing insane experiments on him. Skroa describes it to Danael as "tortures beyond your imagination."]]
** [[spoiler:Ironically enough, Book 15 reveals Skroa did the same thing to Amy before it happened to him.]]

** In the first book of the Anathos Cycle, the high security prison where Tenebris is kept is named [[PrisonBreak Prison Barek]].

* TakeThat: An animal bearing similarities with [[Franchise/StarWars Jar-Jar Bink]] is brutally killed off in Book 15.

** 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 Jovénia Incident turned him back to his child form, he retained his humongous strenght [[spoiler:and eventually restarted his relationship with Tenebris.]]
** All Legendaries are subjects to this trope after the Anathos cycle: Jadina, who used to be a slightly shallow princess with clumsy tendencies, TookALevelInBadass with new power beyond human level who was actually able to OutGambit Anathos; Razzia gained a demonical [[ArtificialLimbs prothestic]] [[TheSymbiote symbiote]] named Amy who can [[ShapeShifterWeapon shapeshift into various weapons]]; Gryf gains the abilitie to [[HulkingOut transform into a giant lion-like creature with ten times his original strenght for a limited amont of time]]; Shimy, finally, becomes a HandicappedBadass who can use AuraVision to see things others can't and can now manipulate two additionnal elements.

** When Gryf transforms into [[OneWingedAngel DeathGryf]] to rescue Jadina from [[spoiler: her execution]] in book 14, he states: "You wanna get to the Beauty, you'll have to go through the Beast". Even funnier considering the author once put his own spin on the fairy tale in comic form.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Skroa seems to use this as his trademark. He manipulated the Legendaries twice so they'd lead him to what he wanted.]]
** [[spoiler:Abyss was shown to be quite an impressive one as well. Pretty much everything that happens from book 13 to beginning of book 14 turned out to be part of his large plan to put Tenebris on the throne.]]

** When Gryf transforms into [[OneWingedAngel DeathGryf]] to rescue Jadina from [[spoiler: her execution]] in book 14, he states: "You wanna get to the Beauty, you'll have to go trough the Beast". Even funnier considering the author once put his own spin on the fairy tale in comic form.

** Played straight with Toopie toward Razzia, to the point where Tenebris became j.

** In the first book of the Anathos Cycle, the high security prison where Tenebris is kept is named [[PrisonBreak Prison Barek]];

* 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.* 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.]]

** Played straight with Toopie toward Razzia, to the point Tenebris became jealous.

** A creature looking like [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] is shown twice;
** In the first book of the Anathos Cycle, the hight security prison where Tenebris is kept is named [[PrisonBreak Prison Barek]];
** Jadina's plan to take down Anathos' Castlewar takes place in the Canyon of [[Anime/UFORoboGrendizer Gold-Orack]]. The plan himself was named [[BattleCry Operation Gold-Orac Go]] (Michi-Gan then [[NoFourthWall apologizes to the readers for the lame pun]]).
** Toopie was seen using inventions such as a gorilla mecha named [[Film/KingKong Ding-Dong]] and pumkin-like bomb very much like the ones used by the ComicBook/GreenGoblin
** 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".

* GenericCuteness: Save for a handful of characters, such as [[LanternJawOfJustice king Larbosa]], [[NonStandardCharacterDesign Artemus]] or even [[{{Gonk}} Razzia]], every de-aged adult is pretty much drawn the same way, so you can only take the characters' word on who is more attractive. Case in point, Jadina is frequently singled out as ''the pretty one'' when she looks no different from Shimy, especially in later books.

** This one's more sutble, but the word "razzia'' refers to a surprise attack after which looting ensues. This sounds like an oddly negative name to give to one of the good guys, [[TheDragon until you find out just what he used to be]].

* MeaningfulName: Darkhell; Do we really need to precise why ?
** "Shimy" is a pun on the french word "Chimie", which mean "Chemistry" (for a character with the abilitie to [[ElementalPowers merge with the Four Elements]]);
** "Skroa" sounds like a crow scream. For a bird-like demon...

* {{Fanservice}}: not much of it in the original series, considering the characters are (safe for [[spoiler:the flashback, time-travel and other occasionnal exceptions]]) trapped in children form, and as such do not possess bodies built for such matter. Most of the cases, fanservice is reather parodied.

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: in book 13, a drunken Shimy kisses Tenebris in front of several people in an attempt to impress Gryf. Some civilians are shown to be obviously delighted by the scene.

* HandicappedBadass: Shimy after she became blind.

* 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 Jovénia 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 Jovénia 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...

* CallingYourAttacks: Anathos' "Devil Breath" and [[spoiler:Darkhell/Elysio]]'s "Divine Exectutionner Lightning".

* CoolBigSis: Sheyla to Razzia when he was a kid.

** Gryf and Shimy start out with mere ShipTease that soon turns into full blown {{BST}}. 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 for [[MommasBoy abandoning his mother]].

** 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 because 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 have a rather classic knight/princess setup and get along a hell of a lot better than Gryf and Shimy do, but they lack Razzia and Tenebris's solid foundation. Their main obstacle has always been bad timing; you'd think death would be more inconvenient, [[BackFromTheDead but even that's just temporary]].

** Razzia and Tenebris initially have their issues, mainly due to the fact that Tenebris is pretty much a walking reminder of Razzia's dark past (not to mention the fact that her father's forces murdered his parents and laid waste to his hometown). Despite their complicated history they have never stopped loving each other, and if anything this complicated history means that they are long past the more tedious relationship issues and misunderstandings. They tend to act more often than not like a happily married couple.
** 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; You'd think death would be more inconvenient, but even that's just temporary.