History ComicBook / SpirouAndFantasio

* {{Tsundere}}: When Spirou is working as a belboy at the Pacific Palace, [[LoveAtFirstSight he's smitten by one of the guest, Elena]]. Elena notices this and tries to have Spirou act more friendly and informal toward her. Spirou maintains his professional demeanour however. Elena then makes up an excuse and angrily shout at him to leave her room and breaks down crying when she's alone.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: In ''La Vallée des Bannis'', red eyes are a sign that someone has been infected with the book's version of the HatePlague

* TripToTheMoonPlot: "The Dark Side of the Z" (2011) centers on Zorglub taking Spirou, Fantasio and Champignac to his intricate moon settlement, which includes a VIP resort.

** Happen to Spirou in WWII works-justified as he's depicted younger than usual, and thus is more impressionable. In ''Diary of a naive young man'', after Kassandra kissed him for the first time, he briefly froze before this actually gave him a rise of energy to finish his work. In ''Le groom vert de gris'', after Audrey ForcefulKiss, Spirou is still capable of walking, but while [[CrushBlush blushing]], and seeing swastikas and yellow badges under the form of CirclingBirdies.

** Happen to Spirou in WWII works-justified as he's depicted younger than usual, and thus is more impressionable. In ''Diary of a naive young man'', after Kassandra kissed him for the first time, he briefly froze before this actually gives a rise of energy to finish his work. In ''Le groom vert de gris'', after Audrey ForcefulKiss, Spirou is still capable to walk, but while [[CrushBlush blushing]], and seeing swastikas and yellow badges under the form of CirclingBirdies.

* PostKissCatatonia: When a time-traveling Spirou couldn't get rid of Seccotine, he resorts to kiss her which left her so stunted that she was cut off from reality. Spirou mention that he always wanted to do that. It's not clear if him meant kissing her, shutting her up or shutting her up by kissing her.

** Batguy is obviously modeled after Franchise/{{Batman}}.

** In ''Spirou chez les Soviets'', they mention that the last Belgian reporter to enter the USSR illegally created quite a mess, showing an issue of ''{{Franchise/Tintin}}''.

* HotterAndSexier: In works by Tome and Janry. Until them the series was quite chaste, but [[FemmeFatale femmes fatales]] such as Cyanure or Luna Cortizone started to pop up, as well as ShipTease despite the [[CelibateHero celibate heroes]] (with the aforementioned Luna, or Seccotine). In the ''Luna Fatale'' album, Fantasio stage an exhibition of his nude women pictures. This is reflected in ComicBook/LePetitSpirou, with a cast full of pretty women, and where the titular hero have a girlfriend and is a DirtyKid.

** The promotional material for ''L'homme qui ne voulait pas mourir'' (notably covers for ''Spirou magazine'' would often feature images of [[https://ibb.co/qj1zH5F Fantasio grabbing Spirou's legs]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/33/be/1d/33be1d4ddc6db47b5512c10f703ce344.jpg while the later is piloting]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/67/9b/fe/679bfe468fb5a9adcbf552f164f019fc.jpg the fantacopter]]. But such a scene do not happens in the comics. Instead, [[https://ibb.co/Npfc9R6 Tanzafio once pilot the fantacopter]] while Spirou hold on tight his legs (and Fantasio is grabbing his). It's [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in the [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio movie]] where such a scene is [[https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/350/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spiroufantasio.jpg depicted on the poster]], and actually happens in the movie.

** The promotional material for ''L'homme qui ne voulait pas mourir'' (notably covers for ''Spirou magazine'' would often feature images of [[https://ibb.co/qj1zH5F Fantasio grabbing Spirou's legs]] while the later is piloting the fantacopter. But such a scene do not happens in the comics. Instead, Tanzafio once pilot the fantacopter while Spirou hold on tight his legs (and Fantasio is grabbing his). It's [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in the [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio movie]] where such a scene is [[https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/350/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spiroufantasio.jpg depicted on the poster]], and actually happens in the movie.

* CloningBlues: TheReveal in ''Machine qui rêve''. [[spoiler:The Spirou we've been following is actually a clone of the original, and proceeds to angst over whether he's a real human being or not.]]

** There was an art evolution inside the Yoann and Vehlmann's run. They started with the one shot ''Les géants pétrifiés'' , and then, Yoann's style was influenced by the style that Jamie Hewlett's gave to Music/{{Gorillaz}}. Precisely, [[https://ibb.co/HGYDDgd characters had white of the eyes and large noses.]] When Yoann and Vehlmann took the main series up, Yoann 's style lined up with Franquin's, with [[https://ibb.co/r7MPNDh BlackBeadEyes and pointy noses]]. Then they went on with the spin off ''Supergroom'', and Yoann went back to a more personal style with [[https://ibb.co/gJn1LV9 white of the eyes and large noses]].

* UnexplainedRecovery: During the Yoann and Vehlmann run, there was this running gag revolving around Poppy Bronco, a [[ActionHero badass mercenary]] who tended to pop up under [[JackOfAllTrades different occupations]] (bodyguard, soldier, NonPoweredCostumedHero). He dies in a more or less gruesome manner (aspired into space or eaten by crocodiles) and [[NoOneShouldSurviveThatinexplicably show up alive]] in one of the next albums. [[spoiler: Still, in the spin off ''Supergroom'' by the same authors, Poppy, under the identity of the hero "Avalanche express", get killed by a ninja contract killer. And he does not recover from that, at least not yet. ]]

* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: Among recurring villains, Zorglub is the sympathetic one as he often express regrets and tries to repair what he did wrong. Sometimes, he does wrong things accidentally or being tricked into doing it. Killing someone never crossed his mind, and the second animated adaptation turn him into a WellIntentionedExtremist to keep him redeemable. [[spoiler: Despite since ''The dark face of the Z'', [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor he's once again on the bad side.]]]] Meanwhile, Zantafio only had second thoughts once, in the end of ''Les héritiers'', and never since. Not having, like Zorglub, the excuse of doing it ForScience, his main motivation is {{Greed}}. Along with [[AGodAmI megalomania]], pushing him into becoming a dictator (twice). He actually tried to kill members of his family (his cousin and [[spoiler: his uncle]]) quite often, and he's sometimes behind Zorglub 's bad deeds. Plus he's responsible for Marsupilami's disappearance, and is not used for comedic purposes like Zorglub.

* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: Among recurring villains, Zorglub is the sympathetic one as he often express regrets and tries to repair what he did wrong. Sometimes, he does wrong things accidentally or being tricked into doing it. Killing someone never crossed his mind, and the second animated adaptation turn him into a WellIntentionedExtremist to keep him redeemable. [[spoiler: Despite since ''The dark face of the Z'', [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor he's once again on the bad side.]]]] Meanwhile, Zantafio only had second thoughts once, in the end of ''Les héritiers'', and never since. Not having, like Zorglub, the excuse of doing it ForScience, his only motivation is {{Greed}}. He actually tried to kill members of his family (his cousin and [[spoiler: his uncle]]) quite often, and he's sometimes behind Zorglub 's bad deeds. Plus he's responsible for Marsupilami's disappearance, and is not used for comedic purposes like Zorglub.

* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: Among recurring villains, Zorglub is the sympathetic one as he often express regrets and tries to repair what he did wrong. Sometimes, he does wrong things accidentally or being tricked into doing it. Killing someone never crossed his mind, and the second animated adaptation turn him into a WellIntentionedExtremist to keep him redeemable. [[spoiler: Despite since ''The dark face of the Z'', [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor he's once again on the bad side.]]]] Meanwhile, Zantafio only had second thoughts once, in the end of ''Les héritiers'', and never since. Not having, like Zorglub, the excuse of doing it ForScience, his only motivation is {{Greed}}. He actually tried to kill members of his family (his cousin and [[spoiler: his uncle]]) quite often, and he's sometimes the one responsible for Zorglub 's bad deeds. Plus he's responsible for Marsupilami's disappearance, and is not used for comedic purposes like Zorglub.