History ComicBook / YokoTsuno

* GangOfCritters: The Exiles. Although they still look cute and appealing to children, they no longer fulfil their function as robot-toys.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Yoko and Ingrid have some of this dynamic going on, especially in the earlier albums. Yoko and Khany also show some of this.
* RoyalBrat: Sin-Yi.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Interestingly, this actually varies strongly between books. As a loose rule, Yoko Tsuno's adventures can be divided into 3 categories -- those in space (or with the Vineans on earth); those on Earth, without aliens or space-travel; and after Monya arrives in the Timespiral, adventures through time occur as well. On the hardness scale, the series generally swings between 3 and 5, with the space-setting stories being the softest, and those on Earth being the hardest.
** Eg. ''The 3 Suns of Vinea'' is a soft 3, while ''Message for Eternity'' is at the hard end of 5.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Large group of baboons showed up unexpectedly in a crater.

** After saving the future, Monya can't not return to her timeline. She's adopted by Yoko's cousin Izumi and lives in Indonesia.

* HeelFaceTurn: When a typhoon-making missile goes out of control, a gigantic hurricane was heading toward the Japanese coast. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Kazuky]] refused to intervene as the blame will rest on Yoko's father. One of Kazuky's man was outraged because millions of lives were at stake, so he switched sides to help Yoko.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Yoko dolls up in elegant dresses more than once. I.e.: in ''The Devil's Organ'', she even wears a ''kimono'', leaving everyone starstruck. And in The Prey And the Shadow, Cecilia lends her one of her mother's gowns, which has Yoko almost squealing in wonder at how pretty her wardrobe is. [[spoiler: And once it's all cleared up and the PowerTrio stays a little more in the castle, she gives Yoko some more.]]

* SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear: The Vineans space suits have very visible air tubes connected to the helmet. Khany's fails in the first story after a rough deceleration. In a later story, Poky yanks one of her own tubes to give air to Yoko.

* SpoilerCover: ''The Servant of Lucifer''. Think this adventure is another TimeTravel in the DarkAges? Nope, it's about Vineans since they're on the cover along with [[OurDragonsAreDifferent robotic dragons]].
** A lot of the covers feature a scene that happens relatively late into the story. In some cases, it does not spoil much because of lack of context, but in others, it can spoil part of the mysteries the characters face early on.
* StableTimeLoop: Invoked in ''The Astrologer of Bruges'' and ''The Morning of the World''; Yoko goes back in time ''because'' she's seen evidence she went already. In ''Angels and Hawks'', she takes care of setting up the exact events that caused Emilia to go back in time in the first place to make sure she eventually does (and [[spoiler:saves the lives of two innocent children]]).

* TookALevelInJerkass: The Vineans over the course of the series. While they were always mostly aloof toward the humans during the course of the series (except of course for Khany and a few other like Vynka), the latest books have them becoming openly distrustful of them, if not outright hostile. In ''Khany's Secret'', it is revealed that a fraction of them [[spoiler:actually want to wipe out all humans]]. In ''Temple of the Immortals'', it has become so bad that Khany decides to [[spoiler:sever all ties with Vinea by sealing the gateway connecting the solar system with the planet]].

* PowerTrio: Yoko (Superego), Vic (Ego), Pol (Id).

* ABNegative: Ingrid has rare blood type which is [[spoiler:the same as [[IllGirl Magda]]. This kick off the plot to save the little girl.]]
* TheAce: Yoko has a long and impressive list of skills she exceed in: martial arts, fluent in many languages, pilot of several aircrafts. Her profession is in electronics, but she has taken computer programming. She works for a TV studio, but also worked as a secretary and a model. And that's not even counting her masteries with Vinean vehicles and technologies, nor her experience in time traveling.

* AdultFear: For Christmas, Yoko wanted to surprise a little girl's family by offering a contract to the jobless father. Except, to get the contract, Yoko had to ride across town with the little girl in tow and didn't notified her parents. Needless to say, her parents were worried, although the story ended on a happy note.

** Inverted in ''The Three Suns of Vinea'', where the despotic AI ruling the entire planet Vinea turns out to be [[spoiler:a living brain's pattern that got stuck in a mental amplifier after its owner died and was kept running during millenia]].

* AmbiguouslyBi: Yoko has a lot of female friends, with whom she shares a very close bond (especially Khany and Ingrid). But she also is in some sort of relationship with Vic (see DryDockedShip) and has shown attraction to a male Vinean once [[spoiler:revealed to be an android]].
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Monya. She conveniently passes for a Malay, but she isn't one.

** When visiting the planet of Ixo, a team of Vineans deployed a vehicle that use an energy beam to reshape the terrain so it will facilitate the passing of other ground vehicles. It's multi-crewed and the process is slow. Khany called it a waste of time and energy. She and Yoko simply use air vehicles to fly ahead.

* BreakOutCharacter: Yoko was originally envisioned as the #3 characters of the trio, behind Vic and Pol, and the first thirteen pages of the first book were drawn that way. Then the publisher suggested Leloup try his hand at small character stories to begin with, and he started with the least important of the three... who promptly made #5 in overall character polls that year. Vic and Pol were demoted to sidekicks, Yoko promoted to star of the series, and the rest is history.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Ito Kazuky, a wealthy Japanese arms dealers. He's very powerful and has a hand in many financial ventures. Kazuky doesn't hesitate to resort to dirty tactics and cheating to get what he wants.

** When Vic held Kazuky at gunpoint, the latter defiantly replied that Japaneses would rather die than submit themselves to Vic's race.

* {{Omniglot}}: Yoko speaks Japanese, English, Cantonese, French, German, Javanese. With Monya's memory-induced machine, she learned Old French and ancient Balinese.

* RetCon: Yoko's father was named "Susuki Tsuno" in ''Electronic Adventures''. Leloup changed it to "Seiki Tsuno" in ''The Daughter of the Wind'' when he recognized that "Susuki" isn't a proper first name for a Japanese. He forgot to correct one speech bubble on latter prints.

* ScarsAreForever: Yoko has a scar on her right shoulder caused by a shard of glass windows. She healed the wound with futuristic cell regeneration technology, but it left a scar.

** Thao, a rebel from Kampong, has a dim view of Yoko because of her gender. In the end, he conceded that Yoko was better rebel than him, the only woman he had ever bowed to according to him.
** Lord Zhou-Chong, the imperial herbalist, see women as nothing but lowly servants. When Yoko dare to speak to him, he punish her [[KneelBeforezod into submission]]. And rather than doing the dirty deed himself, he had one of his henchman [[WhipItGood do the whipping]].

* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Myna shields Yoko from a erasing beam. She got better, since being a robot, her memories were copied back into her circuits.]]

* TranslationConvention: Apart from a few words in German, characters are always interacting in French[[note]]English in the translations[[/note]], no matter if they are actually talking in English, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese... There is a also little to no indication of the language being spoken, apart from an occasional comment, such as a Japanese offering to speak English for the benefit of Yoko's friends, Yoko explaining to a befuddled Pol that Morning Dew only speaks Chinese, or Yoko asking Emilia to stop snarking in Russian.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/21_Yoko_Tsuno2-61735.jpg]] ''Yoko Tsuno'' (1970-) is a [[FrancoBelgianComics French-Belgian]] comic book series by Roger Leloup. The title character is a young Japanese woman of multiple talents, initially trained as an electrician but also skilled in airplane piloting, martial arts (karate, aikido, kyudo), computer programming, etc. She's fluent in many foreign languages: English (required learning in technology fields), French (she's living there...), German (...or close by), Cantonese (her grandmother was from there) and more (most, through sleep learning improved by future technologies). Her adventures usually involve scientific or technological elements, and regularly go into outright ScienceFiction, with the recurring presence of a [[HumanoidAliens humanoid]] alien race, the Vineans.

* GiantFlyer: The [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology oversize pteranodons]] in ''The Morning of the World''.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Gobol stays on top of a sinister tower and give orders to [[MechaMook his robots]] to do his bidding. Justified, since his immortality is tied to a gigantic unmovable machine.

** [[spoiler:Leyton discovered that an [[StarfishAlien alien creature]] was responsible for the discovery of antimatter and it controlled the base with its tentacles (which actually were ''its nerves)''. [[KilledOffScreen It killed him by crushing him to death]].]]

** [[spoiler:Webbs feed the [[StarfishAlien alien creature]] with loads of antimatter. It grows enormously in size and gain multiple tentacles (which are actually its nerves) to control the facility. When Webbs finally decide to cut off the antimatter, the creature kill Webbs with its tentacles.]]

** [[spoiler:[[StarfishAlien A mysterious creature]] has transfered knowledge of antimatter to professor Webbs' mind. Webbs in turn use his newfound knowledge to build a particle accelerator and feed the creature with antimatter it needs it to grow. The creature then gain substantial size and began controlling the facility. Webbs finally shut off the particle accelerator and decide to destroy it. He will then use the knowledge of the antimatter to make himself rich and famous. However, the trope work both ways. Before the creature can be destroyed, it reactivate the particle accelerator and kills Webbs, as it no longer need him to feed itself.]]

* FlowerInHerHair: She has flowers and butterfly-shaped hair bow on her hair when she was little.

* OutOfFocus: As the series move over time, Vic and Pol receive less and less focus. The stories are always centered around Yoko and the guest star of the day, usually a new female character. Things got worse for them now that Emilia has become the new regular co-star alongside with Yoko.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/21_Yoko_Tsuno2-61735.jpg]] ''Yoko Tsuno'' (1970-) is a French-Belgian comic book series by Roger Leloup. The title character is a young Japanese woman of multiple talents, initially trained as an electrician but also skilled in airplane piloting, martial arts (karate, aikido, kyudo), computer programming, etc. She's fluent in many foreign languages: English (required learning in technology fields), French (she's living there...), German (...or close by), Cantonese (her grandmother was from there) and more (most, through sleep learning improved by future technologies). Her adventures usually involve scientific or technological elements, and regularly go into outright ScienceFiction, with the recurring presence of a [[HumanoidAliens humanoid]] alien race, the Vineans.

* TheXOfY: Almost all of the original books titles follow this pattern.

* TookALevelInJerkass: The Vineans over the course of the series. While they always always were mostly aloof toward the humans during the course of the series (except of course for Khany), the latest books have them becoming openly distrustful of them, if not outright hostile. In ''Khany's Secret'', it is revealed that a fraction of them [[spoiler:actually want to wipe out all humans]]. In ''Temple of the Immortals'', it has become so bad that Khany decides to [[spoiler:sever all ties with Vinea by sealing the gateway connecting the solar system with the planet]].

* SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear: The Vineans space suits have very visible air tubes connected to the helmet. Khany's fails in the first story after a rough deceleration. In a later story, Poly yanks one of her own tubes to give air to Yoko.

* IWasQuiteALooker: Yoko's mother, [[http://yoko.tsuno.free.fr/index.php?mod=personnages&id=76&cat=1&numalbum=0 Masako]], was very beautiful in her youth.

** When Vic held Kazuky at gunpoint, the latter defiantly replied that Japaneses would rather die than submit themselves to their race.

* HonorBeforeReason: Yoko's FatalFlaw.

* ABoyAndHisX: A girl (Morning Dew) and her Dragon (technically a genetically engineered giant lizard). Despite his gigantic size, Morning Dew isn't afraid of him. She feeds him and plays with him without any harm coming to her. This cause her to become the target of an unscrupulous businessman who wants to use her as bait to capture the Dragon.

** ActionMom: After adopting Morning Dew.

* BreakOutCharacter : Yoko was originally envisioned as the #3 characters of the trio, behind Vic and Pol, and the first thirteen pages of the first book were drawn that way. Then the publisher suggested Leloup try his hand at small character stories to begin with, and he started with the least important of the three... who promptly made #5 in overall character polls that year. Vic and Pol were demoted to sidekicks, Yoko promoted to star of the series, and the rest is history.

* CharacterDevelopment: Yoko started out as fairly high-strung and willing to engage in violence when not absolutely necessary. She mellowed out in later years.

* HappilyAdopted: Morning Dew has quickly grown attached to Yoko, even before she was adopted by her.

* ComicBookTime: Yoko and her friends haven't aged since the 70's, aside from an occasional ArtEvolution, despite the fact that the world around them constantly change and evolve. In his eyes, [[WordOfGod Leloup]] says that Yoko will always be 20 years old.

** Vic Video and Pol Pitron are renamed as Vic Van Steen and Pol Paris in the English translation. This is apparently with [[WordOfGod Leloup]]'s accord, as he regretted having given them PunnyNames in the first place (not that this mattered much, as their family names were only used a handful of times in the whole series).

** According to [[WordOfGod Roger Leloup]], Yoko is an expy of Japanese actress Yoko Tani.

* HasTwoMommies: In ''Khany's secret'', Khany [[spoiler:kept an artificially-created vinean-human hybrid, Tevy, alive by transferring some of her own cloned organs to her, while using some of Yoko's brainwaves to stabilise her mind, thus making Tevy somewhat of an offspring to Khany and Yoko]]. According to WordOfGod, this was intentional.

** Later reinforced. WordOfGod is that he doesn't want to develop the relationship with Vic... readers who are in love with Yoko would be jealous!

* OurSoulsAreDifferent: In ''The Gate of Souls'', there is some Phlebotinium allowing to remove souls from people and transfer them into other people or store them in robots. It is not very clear what the soul actually is (and [[WordOfGod Leloup]] confirms he intended it that way, to avoid theological debates), as the soulless people seem to be functioning normally, but are eager to recover their souls, while people implanted with the souls of others seem to gain their knowledge and skills. Yoko reacts violently when a device attempts to probe her soul.

* SignificantAnagram: [[WordOfGod Leloup]] says Vinea is an anagram of the moisture cream "Nivea". The Vineans have blue skin because Nivea's containers were blue at the time.

** Justified because of WordOfGod is more interested in developing relations between Yoko and her friends than the villains.