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** Seccotine is the classic terrible woman driver.

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** Seccotine is the classic terrible woman driver. In the second animated series she's best called "reckless", dodging through traffic and leaving cars behind her slamming the brakes.


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* SitcomArchNemesis: Seccotine to Fantasio. At least in the second animated series, he often grumbles when she gets involved in their adventures.

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''Spirou et Fantasio'' (''Spirou and Fantasio'') is one of the most successful [[FrancoBelgianComics Belgian comic book]] adventure series, spawning various spin-off series and an AnimatedAdaptation.

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''Spirou et Fantasio'' (''Spirou and Fantasio'') is one of the most successful [[FrancoBelgianComics Belgian comic book]] adventure series, spawning various spin-off series and an AnimatedAdaptation.
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* ManchurianAgent: Luna in the animated series.

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* ManchurianAgent: Luna in the second animated series.
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* {{Technopath}}: The android Cyanure can take control of machines.
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* SequelHook: Yoann and Vehlman have turned this into a habit, often presented as TheStinger.
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* BittersweetEnding: In ''Le Groom vert-de-gris'' Spirou is saved from [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi guards]] by a Jewish girl. A few short years later, {{WWII}} has ended and he decides to ask her out. However, he learns that [[FinalSolution guards had put her on a train and nobody knows where she is or why they took her.]]
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* HeroStoleMyBike: When trying to chase Zantafio's car, Spirou take a motorist's motorcycle. Later, he return it to the owner and tell him to write any complaint to ''Le Journal de Spirou''.

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** TheBusCameBack: In 2013, Dupuis purchased the company Marsu Productions, which had the rights to Franquin creations like Gaston and the Marsupilami. Since then, they have started re-appearing together with Spirou and Fantasio in promo images and suchlike. Most notably, in the 75th-anniversary issue of ''Spirou'' Marsupilami made a surprise appearance in a four-page story named ''[[http://spiroureporter.net/2014/12/02/scanlation-sunday-the-account-of-chompignac/#more-3719 La Conte de Champignap]].'' He reappears in the series proper in book #55, ''Wrath of the Marsupilami'', with an explanation to where he's been all this time, and, more importantly, why nobody commented on his absence. [[spoiler:Turns out Zantafio mind-controlled the main characters with the Zorg-Ray to forget about him.]]

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** TheBusCameBack: In 2013, Dupuis purchased the company Marsu Productions, which had the rights to Franquin creations like Gaston and the Marsupilami. Since then, they have started re-appearing together with Spirou and Fantasio in promo images and suchlike. Most notably, in the 75th-anniversary issue of ''Spirou'' Marsupilami made a surprise appearance in a four-page story named ''[[http://spiroureporter.net/2014/12/02/scanlation-sunday-the-account-of-chompignac/#more-3719 La Conte de Champignap]].'' He reappears in the series proper in book #55, ''Wrath of the Marsupilami'', with an explanation to where he's been all this time, and, more importantly, why nobody commented on his absence. [[spoiler:Turns out Zantafio mind-controlled used the Zorg-Ray to make the main characters with the Zorg-Ray to forget about him.him. The Marsupilami is rather pissed about it.]]

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** TheBusCameBack: In 2013, Dupuis purchased the company Marsu Productions, which had the rights to Franquin creations like Gaston and the Marsupilami. Since then, they have started re-appearing together with Spirou and Fantasio in promo images and suchlike. Most notably, in the 75th-anniversary issue of ''Spirou'' Marsupilami made a surprise appearance in a four-page story named ''[[http://spiroureporter.net/2014/12/02/scanlation-sunday-the-account-of-chompignac/#more-3719 La Conte de Champignap]].'' He's set to return to the album series proper in the upcoming album #55, with an explanation to where he's been all this time.

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** TheBusCameBack: In 2013, Dupuis purchased the company Marsu Productions, which had the rights to Franquin creations like Gaston and the Marsupilami. Since then, they have started re-appearing together with Spirou and Fantasio in promo images and suchlike. Most notably, in the 75th-anniversary issue of ''Spirou'' Marsupilami made a surprise appearance in a four-page story named ''[[http://spiroureporter.net/2014/12/02/scanlation-sunday-the-account-of-chompignac/#more-3719 La Conte de Champignap]].'' He's set to return to He reappears in the album series proper in the upcoming album book #55, ''Wrath of the Marsupilami'', with an explanation to where he's been all this time.time, and, more importantly, why nobody commented on his absence. [[spoiler:Turns out Zantafio mind-controlled the main characters with the Zorg-Ray to forget about him.]]
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* WarIsHell: Invoked by the sniper who is tasked with shooting down the Spirou-shaped balloon in Alerte aux Zorkons. He breaks down and cries because he loves the comic and cannot bring himself to shoot at the balloon.
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* DaddysLittleVillain: Luna, Vito Cortizone's daughter. [[spoiler:She disapproves of some of her father's methods but still ends up on his side in the end.]]
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** In Fantasio's defense, the Nazi negotiator was total dick and deserve to be [[MegatonPunch punched]] for hitting Spirou (who was just a young teenager during that time).

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** In Fantasio's defense, the Nazi negotiator was total dick and deserve deserved to be [[MegatonPunch punched]] for hitting Spirou (who was just a young teenager during that time).
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* FemmeFatale: Luna

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* FemmeFatale: LunaLuna, Vito Cortizone's daugther.
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* TheCameo: ''Le Groom vert-de-gris'' is full of them. From old Spirou characters to [[{{Tintin}} Tintin, Milou, Müller]], [[ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer Captain Francis Blake]] and other early 20th century Franco-Belgian characters.

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* TheCameo: ''Le Groom vert-de-gris'' is full of them. From old Spirou characters to [[{{Tintin}} Tintin, Milou, Snowie, Müller]], [[ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer Captain Francis Blake]] and [[FrancoBelgianComics other early 20th century Franco-Belgian characters.characters]].
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* NintendoHard: The SegaGenesis game.

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* NintendoHard: The SegaGenesis UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis game.

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** The Count of Champignac is one of the moustached characters in the ''ComicStrip/DeKiekeboes'' album ''De Snor van Kiekeboe'' who complains that he isn't elected as ''Moustache Of The Year''.
** Spirou et Fantasio in NewYork has what is obviously {{ComicBook/Soda}} as one of the cops.

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** The Count of Champignac is one of the moustached characters in the ''ComicStrip/DeKiekeboes'' album ''De Snor van Kiekeboe'' who complains that he isn't elected as ''Moustache Of The Year''.
** Spirou et Fantasio in NewYork UsefulNotes/NewYork has what is obviously {{ComicBook/Soda}} ComicBook/{{Soda}} as one of the cops.
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* TheNounWhoVerbed: ''L'homme qui ne voulait pas mourir''.
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* TorchesAndPitchforks: Whenever something unusual happens in Champignac, the townspeople will blame it on the count and the mayor will organize a march to the chateau, sometimes with the express purpose to smash up the count's scientific equipment. They tend to end up making fools of themselves.
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** The town's full title is Champignac-en-Cambrousse, which roughly translates as Champignac-in-the-Sticks or Champignac-in-the-Middle-of-Nowhere.
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* StealthHiBye: The Ankou does it all the time, making the heroes rather jumpy.
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* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: The Count's frock coat and cravat, over which he occasionally wears a caped greatcoat and a deerstalker.


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* CoatCape: Zorglub likes this style.
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!!''Spirou and Fantasion'' provides examples of the following tropes:

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!!''Spirou and Fantasion'' Fantasio'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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Spirou is an intrepid hotel groom/reporter working for Le Moustique/Le Journal de Spirou/freelance. With his wacky/ComicallySerious/now wacky again 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 (TakeThat, Franchise/{{Tintin}}!).

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Spirou is an intrepid hotel groom/reporter working for Le Moustique/Le Journal de Spirou/freelance. groom/reporter. With his wacky/ComicallySerious/now wacky again 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 (TakeThat, Franchise/{{Tintin}}!).
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* CoolCar: The Turbotraction (which somehow disappeared just after Franquin left). Pénélope in the AnimatedAdaptation. The first model was crashed by Ibd-Mah-Zoud in ''Vacances sans histoires'' to be replaced by the second model; in ''Panade à Champignac'', Franquin replaced it altogether with a small Honda coupé. Fournier, who took over, kept the same small car. After that, Spirou and Fantasio would always drive small, cheap cars -- Franquin said it first in ''Vacances sans histoires'' and Tome & Janry hammered in that Spirou and Fantasio are far from being rich in ''Spirou à New York''.

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* CoolCar: The Turbotraction (which somehow disappeared just after Franquin left). Pénélope in the AnimatedAdaptation. The first model was crashed by Ibd-Mah-Zoud in ''Vacances sans histoires'' to be replaced by the second model; in ''Panade à Champignac'', Franquin replaced it altogether with a small Honda coupé. Fournier, who took over, kept the same small car. After that, Spirou and Fantasio would always drive small, cheap cars -- Franquin said it first in ''Vacances sans histoires'' and Tome & Janry hammered in that Spirou and Fantasio are far from being rich in ''Spirou à New York''. That makes the Turbotraction border {{Improbably Cool Car}}.

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* ChronicVillainy: A minor case, but Zantafio actually gave up on his uncle's legacy at the end of ''Spirou et les Héritier'', and left Spirou and Fantasio on good terms, having decided to make his own life in Palombia. Comes ''Le Dictateur et le Champignon'', it turns out he ended up becoming a ruthless dictator in Palombia about to cause a WarForFunAndProfit, putting him into a villainous role again.

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A minor case, but Zantafio actually gave up on his uncle's legacy at the end of ''Spirou et les Héritier'', Héritiers'', and left Spirou and Fantasio on good terms, having decided to make his own life in Palombia. Comes ''Le Dictateur et le Champignon'', it turns out he ended up becoming a ruthless dictator in Palombia about to cause a WarForFunAndProfit, putting him into a villainous role again. Since then, all his following appearances have despicted him as one of the vilest antagonists in the whole franchise.
** Notably subverted with Zorglub in the comic; he exactly turned back to evil only ''once'' after his initial appearance, but was rather quick to turn good again, and after that his HeelFaceTurn sticked.
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** In the album ''Le Groom Vert-de-Gris'', a re-imagination of ''Spirou'' set during the Nazi occupation of 1942, several references are made to other BelgianComics from this time period, including ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'', ''Blondin et Cirage'', ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'', ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', ''ComicStrip/QuickAndFlupke'' and ''ComicBook/JoZetteEtJocko''.

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** In the album ''Le Groom Vert-de-Gris'', a re-imagination of ''Spirou'' set during the Nazi occupation of 1942, several references are made to other BelgianComics from this time period, including ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'', ''Blondin et Cirage'', ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'', ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', ''ComicStrip/QuickAndFlupke'' and ''ComicBook/JoZetteEtJocko''.''ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko''.
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* KillAllHumans: Who would have believed this of [[spoiler: Spip the squirrel]]? But that's what is shown in the shocking epilogue to ''Le journal d'un ingénu''.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: The latest books and the one-shots make Zorglub this. [[Lampshade Lampshaded]] at one point by Fantasio, who comments that he can't remember if he's supposed to be with them or against them.

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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: The latest books and the one-shots make Zorglub this. [[Lampshade Lampshaded]] Lampshaded at one point by Fantasio, who comments that he can't remember if he's supposed to be with them or against them.

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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: The latest books and the one-shots make Zorglub this. [[Lampshade Lampshaded]] at one point by Fantasio, who comments that he can't remember if he's supposed to be with them or against them.



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* LatexPerfectionLatexPerfection: Used in the story [[spoiler:''La mauvaise tête'']] to frame Fantasio. While the mask is good enough to fool people watching him on TV or from afar, it always keeps the same, smiling expression, and the guy under the mask was specifically chosen to for his similar frame. He also never meets a close relative of Fantasio's while masked.
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* ThemeMobile: Whatever Zorglub invents is invariably named as Zorg-something, which gives us the zorglumobile and the zorgcopter (and the zorgwave, zorgspeak, the Zorgmen...).
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* BreakoutVillain: Cyanure is a bizarre case. In the comics, she was a one-shot villain, but in the earlier animated series, she became one of the most recurring villains, to the point of gaining JokerImmunity.

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