History ComicStrip / Mafalda

** Manolito trying to sell stale or substandard foodstuffs and his ''hatred'' of TheBeatles

** Susanita's constant gloating of her desire of "marry a handsome rich man and have a lot of little kids".
*** To the point that RealLife women acting like this are sometimes known as "Susanitas" in Argentina.

* HeyItsThatVoice: In the original Spanish version of the animated movie, Mafalda is voiced by the same voice actress who voiced [[CandyCandy Candy White]] and [[QueenMillennia Hajime Amamori]] in the Argentinian Spanish dubs of those series.

* FascistItaly: Miguelito's grandfather is a Mussolini admirer (possibly a fascist immigrant from Italy?). Since Miguelito is too young to have heard of the outcome of WorldWarII and doesn't understand what fascism really is, he is unable to understand why Mafalda glares to him when he repeats what his granddad says.

* DirtyCommunists: Manolito hates those commie Russians (i.e. the 1960's USSR contemporary of the strip), but still fantasizes about making business with them.

** Susanita yells that Fidel is anti-democratic.

** Libertad appears as a complete parody of shallow, insufferable, over-the-top, perpetually-protesting liberals. Considering the author’s political stand, this might count as SelfDeprecatingHumor.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: The parents look a LOT like their kids. Mafalda is a short-haired PaleSkinnedBrunette like Raquel, Manolito and his older brother look like younger versions of their father, Susanita and her mom look almost exactly the same, Felipe's mother has his same buck teeth ([[RetCon though she originally didn't have them]]).

** [[BeyondTheImpossible Manolito]] tries to repeat Mafalda's hitting a cup with the tip of her finger to make a nice sound, "''¡CLINK!''". The end of the strip has Mafalda and Raquel sweeping something and Manolito thinking "''¡CLINK!''".

* Guille, Mafalda's [[CheerfulChild candid younger brother]] who born about the middle of the strip, and
* Libertad ("Freedom"), a girl who's remarkably small. Has left wing leanings.

The main characters are:

* AdaptationDecay: The animated shorts of the 70's.
** The animated shorts made in Spain during the 90's are an even worse offender.

* GoodLookingPrivates: Susanita fantasises that Manolito's brother in the army is this... until she finds out to her horror he's not an officer.

* CrapsackWorld: Mafalda constantly expresses that we live in one.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: ''Dear God,'' Miguelito. When the kids play cops and robbers, he demands to be in the cops team. Felipe agrees since he's so cute and innocent... and Miguelito shows them he brought his own '''[[ColdBloodedTorture needle.]]'''

* FascistItaly: Miguelito's grandfather is a Mussolini admirer who often wishes he had stayed alive; because the poor kid is both too young to have heard of the outcome of WorldWarII and doesn't understand what fascism really is, he is unable to understand why Mafalda glares to him when he repeats what his granddad says.

''Mafalda'', Argentinian cartoonist {{Quino}}'s masterpiece, could be sketchily described as "''{{Peanuts}}'' with politics". Unlike the timeless world Charles Schulz's creations inhabit, Mafalda and her friends are deeply concerned with world politics, war and the state of humanity. The strip ran from 1962 to 1973, with a weeklong hiatus in March 1965 and a longer interruption from December 1967 to June 1968.

* EpicFail: Susanita’s attempts at poetry and political speeches fall into this.

** Mafalda is constantly wondering about the YellowPeril (back then China was even "more" communist than the USSR and was seen as the bigger threat of the two).

** Mafalda compares soup's relationship to childhood as that of Fidel Castro with democracy.

* {{Flanderization}}: Almost every character had some of it by the time the strip ended.

** Mafalda- TheHero
** Felipe: TheLancer
** Miguelito: TheSmartGuy
** Manolito: TheBigGuy
** Susanita: TheChick
** Guille: TagalongKid

* YamatoNadeshiko: Susanita wants to be one, but her concept of what a YN is... uh, it's [[GoldDigger very special]].
** Raquel arguably plays it straighter.

* SelfInsertFic: Felipe.

* Libertad ("Freedom"), a girl who's remarkably small.

** YMMV on Felipe since he also tends to play the StraightMan.

* Flanderization: Almost every character had some of it by the time the strip ended.

** YMMV on Felipe since he also tends to play the StraightGuy.

* FascistItaly: Miguelito's grandfather is a Mussolini admirer who often wishes he had stayed alive; because the poor kid is both too young to have heard of the outcome of WorldWarII and doesn't understand what fascism really is, he is unable to understand why Mafalda glares to him when he repeats what his grandad says.

* FreeRangeChildren: Mafalda and the others are often seen wandering the streets of Buenos Aires by themselves. It's actually fiting for the time of the comics (the sixties) where children didn't have TV (only a little), videogames, and let alone Internet. So much everyone did was spend time with friends around the neighboorhood's streets.

** Also, once Guille in the midnight got in the bed of his parents next to his sleeping mom. Ángel muttered he was going to awake her and he replied "Are you jealous because you didn't know her since birth and I do?"
* ItsAllAboutMe: Susanita, absudly self-centered (and self-righteous) for a small girl.

* NationalStereotypes: Manolito has thick brows, pointed hair, has a strong disdain for education and is more than a little obtuse; all these were considered stereotypic Spaniard traits in Argentina at the time (Manolito's father is Spanish). Currently this is becoming more of a DiscreditedTrope.

* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Libertad is so used to [[TheNapoleon shorty jokes]] that the first thing she does when she meets someone new is telling them quite clearly "Go ahead and say your stupid conclusion. We both know what you are really thinking". When she said so to Mafalda, she got red from head to toe, complete with an AsideGlance.

* ShrinkingViolet: Reflected in Felipe, the author himself is described as incredibly shy. A friend of his even commented “in Quino’s presence, one always feels an intruder.”

** Lampshaded by Mafalda panicking and hugging Raquel when she sees a child photo of her, in a SoapOpera spoof: "Why didn't you tell me you were my sister?!"

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Let's put in that way: after finishing the strip, Quino went to do political and satirical caricatures.