History ComicBook / XIII

The rest of the series shows him dealing with the remnants of his past, stopping the number I of the Conspiracy once and for all, and facing more and more enemies afterwards, as a public reveal of his past would have very unpleasant consequences for some very powerful men ...

* ComicBookTime: The series started as an uchronia in the 80's with [[AlloHistoricalAllusion many nods]] to the [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Kennedy era]], UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, {{CIA}} operations in South America and [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon the Watergate scandal]]. In the ''Mayflower Day'', it's suddenly set in modern day (the characters use Facebook, president Obama is refered,...) but the characters haven't aged.

* GirlOfTheWeek: XIII meets and has fun with quite a few but Jones always comes back.

** ''The Trial'': [[spoiler: The Moongose and Number One die. But on the last page XIII is jailed by Frank Giordino.]]

* ConspiracyThriller: From ''The Day of The Black Sun'' to ''Full Red''.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Moongoose loves this trope.

** XIII is given a new identity: Jake Shelton in ''[[Recap/TheDayOfTheBlackSun The Day of The Black Sun]]'', Steve Rowland in ''[[Recap/WhereTheIndianGoes Where the Indian Goes]]'', Ross Tanner in ''[[Recap/AllTheTearsOfHell All the Tears of Hell]]'', Jason Fly in ''[[Recap/{{SPADS}} S.P.A.D.S]]'', John Fleming in ''[[Recap/TheJasonFlyFile The Jason Fly File]]'', Jason Mac Lane in ''[[Recap/TheNightOfAugustTheThird The Night of August 3rd]]''

** XIII is given a new identity.

* BookEnds: ''The Last Round'' ends with [[spoiler: the hero standing on the same beach he was found in the first album.]]

* GovernmentConspiracy: ''Recap/AllTearsFromHell'' reveals that the conspiracy who planned the assassination of William Sheridan is a group of powerful people with accomplices in the army and the government. [[spoiler:In ''Recap/FullRed'', some members of the conspiracy are exposed, like Calvin Wax, the Secretary of Defense, and high-ranking officers. In ''Recap/ThirteenToOne'', it is revealed that the present President of the United States, Wally Sheridan, was part of the conspiracy.]]

* BananaRepublic: The Costa Verde when it was ruled by [[TheGeneralissimo General Ortiz]].

* FictionalCountry: The Costa Verde.

* GovernmentConspiracy: Oh boy...

* PrisonEpisode: ''All the Tears of Hell''.

%%* {{Scandalgate}}

* SeriesFauxnale: Three times!
** ''Full Red'': [[spoiler: XIII found out his identity. The last living members of the Conspiracy of the XX are arrested ...save number One.]]

* TrainingFromHell: The S.P.A.D.S. training, very much so. The weakest soldiers have a chance to ''die''.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Moongoose loves this trope. Felicity also killed her lover and accomplice after they killed Steve Rowland's father.

* DeepSouth: The setting of ''The Jason Fly File'' and ''The Night of August 3rd''.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and many others.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: General Carrington looks like Creator/LeeMarvin.

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[[folder:''XIII'' Albums]]

Original series by Jean Van Hamme and William Vance:

* 1 - ''[[Recap/TheDayOfTheBlackSun The Day of The Black Sun]]'', 1984 (''Le jour du soleil noir'')
* 2 - ''[[Recap/WhereTheIndianGoes Where the Indian Goes]]'', 1985 (''Là où va l'Indien'')
* 3 - ''All the Tears of Hell'', 1986 (''Toutes les Larmes de l'Enfer'')
* 4 - ''S.P.A.D.S'', 1987
* 5 - ''Full Red'', 1988 (''Rouge Total'')
* 6 - ''The Jason Fly File'', 1989 (''Le Dossier Jason Fly'')
* 7 - ''The Night of August 3rd'', 1990 (''La Nuit du 3 Août'')
* 8 - ''Thirteen to One'', 1991 (''Treize Contre Un'')
* 9 - ''For Maria'', 1992 (''Pour Maria'')
* 10 - ''El Cascador'', 1994
* 11 - ''Three Silver Watches'', 1995 (''Trois Montres d'Argent'')
* 12 - ''The Trial'', 1997 (''Le Jugement'')
* 13 - ''The XIII Mystery: The Investigation'', 1999 (''XIII Mystery : L'Enquête'')[[note]]A MilestoneCelebration album of sorts (since it's the ''[[StealthPun thirteenth]]'') that does not continue the story yet but follows the investigation of the XIII case by two journalists, Warren Glass and Ron Finkelstein. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Many characters]] of the series get a ''huge'' expansion of their backstory, as the album reads like an investigation file.[[/note]]
* 14 - ''Danger to the State'', 2000 (''Secret Défense'')
* 15 - ''Unleash the Hounds!'', 2002 (''Lâchez les Chiens !'')
* 16 - ''Operation Montechristo'', 2004 (''Opération Montechristo'')
* 17 - ''Maximilian's Gold'', 2005 (''L'or de Maximilien'')
* 18 - ''The Irish Version'', 2007 (''La Version Irlandaise''), drawn by Jean Giraud, to accompany ''The Last Round''
* 19 - ''The Last Round'', 2007 (''Le Dernier Round'')

Continuation series by Youri Jigounov and Yves Sente:

* 20 - ''The Day of the Mayflower'', 2011 (''Le Jour du Mayflower'')
* 21 - ''The Bait'', 2012 (''L'Appât'')
* 22 - ''Return to Green Falls'', 2013 (''Retour à Greenfalls'')
* 23 - ''The Martyr's Message'', 2014 (''Le Message du Martyr'')
* 24 - ''The Legacy of Jason Mac Lane'', 2016 (''L'Héritage de Jason Mac Lane'')
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[[folder:''XIII Mystery'' Albums]]

* 1 - ''The Mongoose'', Xavier Dorison and Ralph Meyer (2008)
* 2 - ''Irina'', Éric Corbeyran and Philippe Berthet (2009)
* 3 - ''Little Jones'', Yann le Pennetier and Éric Henninot (2010)
* 4 - ''Colonel Amos'', Alcante and François Boucq (2011)
* 5 - ''Steve Rowland'', Fabien Nury and Richard Guérineau (2012)
* 6 - ''Billy Stockton'', Laurent-Frédéric Bollée and Steve Cuzor (2013)
* 7 - ''Betty Barnowsky'', Joël Callède and Sylvain Vallée (2014)
* 8 - ''Martha Shoebridge'', Frank Giroud and Colin Wilson (2015)
* 9 - ''Felicity Brown'', Matz and Rossi (2015)
* 10 - ''Calvin Wax'', Fred Duval and Corentin Rouge (2016)
* 11 - ''Jonathan Fly'', Luc Brunschwig and [=TaDuc=] (2017)
* 12 - ''Alan Smith'', Philippe Buchet and Daniel Pecqueur (2018)
* 13 - ''Judith and Jessica'', Olivier Grenson and Jean Van Hamme (2018)
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* 2 - ''Where the Indian Goes'', 1985 (''Là où va l'Indien'')

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Creator/LeeMarvin, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and many others.

* 1 - ''The Day of The Black Sun'', 1984 (''Le jour du soleil noir'')

* 4 - ''Colonel Amos'', : Alcante and François Boucq (2011)

The comic book series was [[VideoGame/{{XIII}} adapted in 2003]] as a FirstPersonShooter by Ubisoft, and in 2008 as a two-part miniseries on NBC starring Stephen Dorff and Creator/ValKilmer. More recently in 2011 a new adaptation has started in Canada.

''XIII'' (''Thirteen'' in Roman numerals) is a [[CashCowFranchise successful]] [[LongRunner long-running]] FrancoBelgianComics series written and drawn by Belgians Jean Van Hamme and William Vance. The series was initially serialised in 1984 in Spirou and became instantly a hit. It was later published by Dargaud.

* ComicBookTime: The series started as an uchronia in the 80's with [[AlloHistoricalAllusion many nods]] to the [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Kennedy era]], TheVietnamWar, {{CIA}} operations in South America and [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon the Watergate scandal]]. In the ''Mayflower Day'', it's suddenly set in modern day (the characters use Facebook, president Obama is refered,...) but the characters haven't aged.

'''''XIII''''' (''Thirteen'' in Roman numerals) is a [[CashCowFranchise successful]] [[LongRunner long-running]] FrancoBelgianComics series written and drawn by Belgians Jean Van Hamme and William Vance. The series was initially serialised in 1984 in Spirou and became instantly a hit. It was later published by Dargaud.

* FreudianExcuse[=/=]WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The ''XIII Mystery'' spinoff series gives [[TragicVillain tragic backstories]] to several villains of the main series.

* {{Scandalgate}}

* FreudianExcuse[=/=]WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The spinn-off give tragic backstories to The Mongoose, Irina and Billy Stockton.

** The Conspiracy of the XX is basically neo-fascist.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The BigBad of Betty Barnowski claims that he and his band of SociopathicSoldiers will turn the country back to what it should have been before it was given to "fags and niggers". He also sends his soldiers to rob hallucinogens from local tribes at gunpoint and executes his men for failing him.

New series by Youri Jigounov and Yves Sente:

* AllThereInTheManual: The backstories of many characters are revealed in ''The XIII Mystery: The Investigation''.

* AllThereInTheManual: The backstories of most characters are revealed in ''The XIII Mystery: The Investigation''.