History ComicBook / SpirouAndFantasio

** In ''Vito la déveine'' (Vito Misfortune) [[TheDon Vito Cortizone]] [[BornUnlucky crashes his seaplane]] along with its freight off the coast of a Polynesian atoll. [[{{Robinsonade}} After he spent weeks on a deserted island]], [[ContrivedCoincidence along come Spirou and Fantasio with their boat near this island.]] Vito forces Fantasio to bring back to the surface the crates from the freight for a few days. Once he have them all, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Vito try to get rid of the two heroes.]] He makes them go into their inflatable boat, with rope and two crates. Then he demand, under the threat of a weapon [[note]] A [[BrandishmentBluff fake]] one, but Spirou and Fantasio don't know[[/note]], that Fantasio tie up Spirou 's hands. Then Vito planned to tie Fantasio's hands as well, attch each of them to a crate, and toss them into the sea. However, Fantasio is still in the middle of the task of tying up Spirou's hands when [[JustInTime a Chinese mafia's boat arrives]], and they are after Vito. [[OhCrap The latter panics]], and finally cut Spirou's bonds, while begging the two heroes [[EnemyMine to help him against the Triad instead.]]

* CementShoes: Bad guys attempted this at least three times on heroes, but always failed for some reason.

** In ''Vito la déveine'' (Vito Misfortune) [[TheDon Vito Cortizone]] [[BornUnlucky crashes his seaplane]] along with its freight off the coast of a Polynesian atoll. [[{{Robinsonade}} After he spent weeks on a deserted island]], [[ContrivedCoincidence along come Spirou and Fantasio with their boat near this island.]] Vito forces Fantasio to bring back to the surface the crates from the freight for a few days. Once he have them all, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Vito try to get rid of the two heroes.]] He makes them go into their inflatable boat, with rope and two crates. Then he demand, under the threat of a weapon [[note]] A [[BrandishmentBluff fake]] one, but Spirou and Fantasio don't know[[/note]], that Fantasio tie up Spirou 's hands. Then Vito planned to tie Fantasio's hands as well, attch each of them to a crate, and toss them into the sea. However, Fantasio is still in the middle of the task of tying up Spirou's hands when [[JustInTime a Chinese mafia's boat arrives]], and they are after Vito. [[The latter panics]], and finally cut

* TechnoWizard: The Count of Champignac. Most of his {{Phlebotinum}} involves mushrooms in some form, including [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs in the design stage]].

* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** In ''Champignac, volume 2'', the Nazi take over the count's manor and use it as their HQ to transmit and receive all their encrypted messages. This comes to bite them in their asses later in the war when Champignac is hired by the British Intelligence to break the code of the Enigma machine. The Count is a able to locate and make photographs of the very elusive instruction manual.
** In ''Ms. Jay, volume 2'', Nazi and Soviet agents somehow decide to have their secret meeting in a restaurant. This allows Juliette to eavesdrop on their conversations and secretly take pictures of them. [[spoiler:Mr. Noirhomme also do the same with his accomplices in a pub. Léa is able to hear them talking about scams, deceits and murder.]]

** In ''The Diary of a Naive Young Man'', Spirou's suggestion settles peace between the Polish and [[ThoseWackyNazis the Nazis]], therefore [[HopeSpot averting war]]. The solution would be Poland ceding the city of Danzig to the Nazis while the UsefulNotes/LeagueOfNations wil finance the construction of a Polish port near the Vistula river). However, Fantasio was looking for a big story and angered the Nazi negotiator. This prompted him to retaliate by calling off the peace proposal. Congratulations Fantasio, you just caused UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
*** In Fantasio's defense, the Nazi negotiator was total dick and deserved to be [[MegatonPunch punched]] for hitting Spirou (who was just a young teenager during that time).
*** There's also the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact that was signed hours earlier. This probably made Spirou's proposal unlikely to pass, as Hitler and Stalin wanted to invade Poland regardless of the negotiations' outcome.

* DependingOnTheWriter: The tone, plotlines and settings have varied wildly with the rotating creative teams.
** For some reason, Fantasio's sexuality is also one of the things that gets editorialized. He's been everything from straight (Yoann & Vehlmann) to [[CampStraight effeminate but interested in women]] (Morvan & Munuera) to gay and blatantly pining for Spirou (Yann & Tarrin) to straight-leaning-on-bisexual (Tome & Janry).
*** Though, in their defense, a child won't necessarily pick up on those kind of hints... And it can be argued that some of it is played for laughs.
** Spip's intelligence, speech (see AnimalTalk) and overall helpfulness, varies a lot between creative teams. In an out-of-continuity story, he actually plots to [[spoiler:extinguish the human race by starting World War 2]].

* ConfirmedBachelor: Much to her father's chagrin, her daughter Juliette doesn't want to get married. [[spoiler:Ptirou's death greatly affected her and she couldn't see herself being with someone else. In her adulthood, she met a great man named Raymond and was going to marry him, until she finds out that he only wanted her late father's stocks. She then reaffirmed her vow to never get married.]]
* ContinuityNod: All over the place. Every other story includes a couple of references to past adventures and a note pointing out to the relevant book.
** Morvan and Munuera adore this trope. ''L'Homme qui ne voulait pas mourir'' includes references to Rob-Vel, ''Le Petit Spirou'', ''Spirou et les Héritiers'', ''La Corne de rhinocéros'', ''Le dictateur et le champignon'', ''L'ombre du Z'' and ''Spirou à Moscou'', including a redrawn panel straight from 1951.

* SexyDiscretionShot
** In ''Le Groom vert-de-gris'', which take place during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WWII]] era, Fantasio wakes up in bed with Wehrmacht officer Ursula Chickengrüber getting dressed for work.
** In ''Le Tombeau des Champignac'', Spirou and Seccotine are freezing to death in a Tibetan mountain as their anti-cold drugs are wearing off. As they hold each other to warm themselves, Seccotine notices a mushroom that Spirou is holding just changed color. She correctly guesses it's tied to emotions and teases him by asking if he has ever kissed a girl, as she always thought he and Fantasio were gay. Cut to a scene outside the mountain with Seccotine saying: "But?! Spirou, what are you doing?" Later, Fantasio comes to the rescue and has very shocked expression on his face when he enters the cave.

* MistakenForGay

-->'''Seccotine:''' Your little Fantasio is well, that's what counts right?\\

* LaResistance: During WWII stories, Spirou and Fantasio joined armed resistance groups against the Nazi.

* AsiansEatPets: Up to parody levels each time Chinese mafia is involved. A Chinese cook is seen pursuing a dog with a rolling pin near the end of ''Vito la déveine'', and Vito states you that you can't trust people who eat sliced dogs. In ''Luna fatale'', a Chinese shop owned mistake Spip for a small dog, and states that "We Chinese people love dogs".

** In ''La ceinture du grand froid'' (''The big cold ring''), Fantasio is captured by sailors who stole him his special shoes, designed to walk on water. The he's tossed to water with a stone tied to his neck.

* MistakenForServant: Throughout his story, it happened to Spirou [[RunningGag more than once]] because of his [[CostumeInertia uniform]]. A [[TheEighties 80's]] short story even [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this, as Spirou is dragged by the doorman into a luxury hotel on Christmas 's night, while he happened to go by. The doorman mistook him for a local staff member, and since then, Spirou prefer to wear either a [[CustomUniform customized version of the uniform]] or civilian clothes (albeit the most often in [[ColorCodedCharacters red]]).[[note]][https://ibb.co/hMY1GZh Franquin parodied it in a 1976 poster]], where Spirou arrives (in uniform) as a guest in a luxury hotel, and warns he'll kick the first one who'll call him a bellboy.[[/note]],

* MistakenForServant: Throughout his story, it happened to Spirou [[RunningGag more than once]] because of his [[CostumeInertia uniform]]. A [[TheEighties 80's]] short story even [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this, as Spirou is dragged by the doorman into a luxury hotel on Christmas 's night, while he happened to go by. The doorman mistook him for a local staff member, and since then, Spirou prefer to wear either a [[CustomUniform customized version of the uniform]] or civilian clothes (albeit the most often in [[ColorCodedCharacters red]]).

%%* FountainOfYouth: ''L'homme qui ne voulait pas mourir''.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Zandra wished she has a normal life like all the other teenagers. She mention that she lives on a private island with his dad, a bunch of robots and she's the only who goes to school in a UFO.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Defied. [[ModestyTowel When Seccotine comes out of the bathroom wearing just a towel]], Spirou is stunned and tries avoid staring at her.

** [[spoiler:The cover of ''Fantasio se marie'' shows Fantasio fawning over a beautiful model, making readers think he's going to marry her. The model does appear in the story and Fantasio does finds her attractive, but she is not Fantasio' bride.]]

** [[spoiler:The cover of ''Fantasio is getting married'' shows Fantasio fawning over a beautiful model, making readers think he's going to marry her. The model does appear in the story and Fantasio does finds her attractive, but she is not Fantasio' bride.]]

* ModestyTowel: In the One-Shot, ''[[ExactlywhatItSaysOnTheTin Fantasio is getting Married]]'', Seccotine becomes Spirou's new roommate, much to the latter's annoyance. At some point, she comes out of the bathroom wearing nothing but a towel and left quite an impression on Spirou.

There have been two {{Animated Adaptation}}s -- ''Spirou'' (1992–1995) and ''Spirou & Fantasio''[[note]]Also known as ''Les nouvelles aventures de Spirou et Fantasio'' ("The new adventures of Spirou and Fantasio") and ''Two of a Kind: Spirou & Fantasio''[[/note]] (2006–2009). The French versions of both animated series are available on an official Website/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKEx0H5l-r0ZGANC-PBX5Wg here]].

* AnimatedAdaptation: Two of them (one in 1992-1995 based off the Tome & Janry era, the other in 2006-2009).

* RoguesGallery: Not so much the comic -- which had a greater variety of plots and more one-off villains -- but the 1992 animated series was fond of recurring antagonists, particularly Vito Cortizone and Cyanure.

''Spirou et Fantasio'' (''Spirou and Fantasio'') is one of the most successful [[FrancoBelgianComics Belgian comic book]] adventure series, spawning various spin-off series and two {{Animated Adaptation}}s (one in 1992-1995, the other in 2006-2009).

The French versions of both animated series are available on an official Website/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKEx0H5l-r0ZGANC-PBX5Wg here]].

Spirou is an intrepid hotel groom/reporter. With his sidekick Fantasio and his pet squirrel Spip, he has many adventures over the globe, fighting {{Mad Scientist}}s and evil dictators, but also doing a fair bit of actual reporting on the side.

* A series of out of continuity one-shots written and drawn by different artists (''Le Spirou de...'') started in 2006. Five have been published as of 2009, the more notable being ''The Diary of a Naive Young Man'', an alternative origin story by Émile Bravo in which Spirou is a young hotel groom in 1939.

* Juliette De Sainteloi, the ill girl from the one-shot ''His name was Ptirou'' is getting her own spin-off: ''Mademoiselle J'' (Ms. J). This mark the first time a character outside of those created by Franquin is having their own series. ''His name was Ptirou'' has been re-edited as a prequel and is followed by ''I'm never going to get married'' and ''Till the end of the world'', all with a TimeSkip in between.
* With Yoann and Vehlmann busy with ''Supergroom'', the main series had yet another change in 2022. A new team, formed by Olivier Schwartz (art), Sophie Guerrive and Benjamin Abitan (writing) took over with the 56th album, ''La Mort de Spirou''. Guerrive is the first woman to join the official Spirou author list to date.

** ''Le Groom vert-de-gris'' begins in the middle of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII with Belgium being occupied by [[ThoseWackyNazis the Nazi]]. Spirou works as a groom in a hotel used by the Gestapo as their HQ. Because of this, Fantasio has disowned his friend, not knowing he is secretly a member of [[LaResistance the Belgium Resistance]].

** In a one-shot, ''The Diary of a Naive Young Man'', Kassandra Stahl says that Spirou looks great in his red groom costume. After [[ThePurge her]] [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin tragic death]], Spirou decides to keep wearing his costume as a reminder of her.

* FictionalCountry: Quite a few over the years, due to Spirou and Fantasio tendency to visit these rather than real places. It includes [[BananaRepublic Palombie and Guaracha]], [[{{Ruritania}} Bretzelburg]] and [[MicroMonarchy Maquebasta]], [[TropicalIslandAdventure Tora Torapa]], [[{{Wutai}} Çatung]], [[{{Countrystan}} Touboutt-Chan]], [[PunnyName Marmelade islands]],[[{{Bulungi}} Urugondolo]] and [[{{Qurac}} Aswana]]. [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio The movie]] has added Gantagwa to the list (an obvious stand-in for Morocco).