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* ExoticBackdropSetting: A lot of the stories are set at least in part outside of Germany, but usually the protagonists and antagonists are German. But Manfred Schmidt often knew what he was showing from first hand, as besides ''Nick Knatterton'' he also wrote and illustrated a series of humorous travel articles. These were collected in the anthologies ''Mit Frau Meier in die Wüste'' ("Into the Desert with Mrs. Meier"), ''Frau Meier reist weiter'' ("Mrs. Meier Travels On") and ''Auf Kreuzfahrt mit Frau Meier'' ("On a Chartered Cruise with Mrs. Meier").
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* BleachedUnderpants: In a different way. During the war, the author drew propaganda for [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany The Nazis]].
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* BleachedUnderpants: In a different way. During the war, the author drew propaganda for [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany The Nazis]].Nazis]], afterwards he became an avowed pacifist with somewhat leftist political leanings who was critical of rearmament and the West German government and establishment in general.
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* ShoutOut: Nick Knatterton's first name probably references Nick Carter. In the story where he ends up getting married, a female antagonist is called Rita Heuwurz, which translates into English as "Rita Haywort" (no "h").
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* ShoutOut: Nick Knatterton's first name probably references Nick Carter. In the story where he ends up getting married, a female antagonist is called Rita Heuwurz, which translates into English as "Rita Haywort" (no "h")."h"), and one has to wonder if it was just a coincidence that his wife, a photographer and heiress to a fortune made in manufacturing cameras, has the same given name as Linda Eastman [=McCartney=].
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* AFoggyDayInLondonTown: In Nick's London adventure ''Ein Kopf fällt in die Themse'' ("A head falls into the Thames") his investigations are intermittently hampered by the fog. In one scene, he visits a suspect at her home, and when the conversation is finished he leaves. Opening the front door he asks in puzzlement: "Why is there a curtain in front of the door?" — "That's not a curtain, that's the fog."
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* BodySled: Whenever he goes to the mountains in winter, it's almost a given that he will get to use captured criminals as a sled.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The brawl scene in TheMovie is accompanied by [[WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]]'s "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" after Nick sent a baddie against a jukebox. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that the brawl choreography follows the music perfectly.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The brawl scene in TheMovie is accompanied by [[WolfgangAmadeusMozart [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]]'s "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" after Nick sent a baddie against a jukebox. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that the brawl choreography follows the music perfectly.
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* SecretIdentity: Outside the stories itself, first in a promotional article in ''Quick'', it was revealed that Nick Knatterton is really Nikolaus Freiherr (baron) [[TheVonTropeFamily von der Knatter]]. His aristocratic family insisted that he used a pseudonym lest the fact that he works in such an unsavoury business like criminal investigation besmirch the family name.
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* SecretIdentity: ShedTheFamilyName: Outside the stories itself, first in a promotional article in ''Quick'', it was revealed that Nick Knatterton is really Nikolaus Freiherr (baron) [[TheVonTropeFamily von der Knatter]]. His aristocratic family insisted that he used a pseudonym lest the fact that he works in such an unsavoury business like criminal investigation besmirch the family name.
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** A self-referencing example: One of Nick's clients is businessman Egon Knicker (''Knicker'' is an old-fashioned German idiom for "miser"), who named his daughter Rabattina (from ''Rabatt'' "rebate"). She prefers to be called Tina.
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* PropheticName: Max Klaut ("Max Steals").
* PunnyName: For instance the male main villain of the first story, Nacky Nutt. In German ''Nutte'' is a slang word for "prostitute", so the name is appropriate for Nacky, who among other things is a pimp. In another story there is Otto Heitz, of the firm Sicher & Heitz, which produces the famous ''Sicher-Heitz-Schlösser'', i. e. "Secure-Itty locks".
* PunnyName: For instance the male main villain of the first story, Nacky Nutt. In German ''Nutte'' is a slang word for "prostitute", so the name is appropriate for Nacky, who among other things is a pimp. In another story there is Otto Heitz, of the firm Sicher & Heitz, which produces the famous ''Sicher-Heitz-Schlösser'', i. e. "Secure-Itty locks".
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* PropheticName: Max Klaut ("Max Steals").
* PunnyName:For instance the male main villain of the first story, Nacky Nutt. In German ''Nutte'' is a slang word for "prostitute", so the name is appropriate for Nacky, who among other things is a pimp. In another story there is Max Klaut ("Max Steals").
* PunnyName: One story features businessman Otto Heitz, of the firm Sicher & Heitz, which produces the famous ''Sicher-Heitz-Schlösser'', i. e. "Secure-Itty locks".
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* PunnyName: One story features businessman Otto Heitz, of the firm Sicher & Heitz, which produces the famous ''Sicher-Heitz-Schlösser'', i. e. "Secure-Itty locks".
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* UnfortunateName: Actress [[PunnyName Hori Zontal]] changed her given name to Lori.
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* KidSidekick: Toni Knatter, in one story. The MeaningfulName is lampdshaded by our hero.
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* KidSidekick: 14-year-old Toni Knatter, in one story. The MeaningfulName is lampdshaded by our hero.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Sheriff Peter P. Rubens of Killville. Business tycoon Karl Murx (who changed his name from Marx) in "The Million in the Bucket".
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* PunnyNamePropheticName: Max Klaut ("Max Steals").
* PunnyName: For instance the male main villain of the first story, Nacky Nutt. In German ''Nutte'' is a slang word for "prostitute", so the name is appropriate for Nacky, who among other things is a pimp. In another story there is Otto Heitz, of the firm Sicher & Heitz, which produces the famous ''Sicher-Heitz-Schlösser'', i. e. "Secure-Itty locks".
* PunnyName: For instance the male main villain of the first story, Nacky Nutt. In German ''Nutte'' is a slang word for "prostitute", so the name is appropriate for Nacky, who among other things is a pimp. In another story there is Otto Heitz, of the firm Sicher & Heitz, which produces the famous ''Sicher-Heitz-Schlösser'', i. e. "Secure-Itty locks".
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* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: In an adventure set in Italy, Our Hero uses the alter ego Nico Knattertonio.
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** Nick's eventual bride is photographer Linda Knips; ''Knips'' is German for "click", and ''knipsen'' a slang word for "to take a photograph". Before that his secretary Trudchen Taste (''Taste'' is the German word for "key" (as in "(piano or typewriter) keyboard") was infatuated with him.
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** Nick's eventual bride is photographer Linda Knips; ''Knips'' is German for "click", and ''knipsen'' a slang word for "to take a photograph". Before that his secretary Trudchen Taste (''Taste'' is the German word for "key" (as - as in "(piano or typewriter) keyboard") was infatuated with him.
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* ThemeNaming: Occurs in a few stories. For instance in "The Secret of the Super-Bee", three characters are Waltraud Will ("Waltraud Wants"), Kasimir ("Casimir Can"), and Sieglinde Soll ("Sieglinde Shall").
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* ButNotTooForeign: Mi-Tse, recurring half-Chinese female villain.
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* ButNotTooForeign: Mi-Tse, Mi-Tse Meyer, recurring half-Chinese half-Chinese, half-German female villain.
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* GratuitousEnglish: The first story drops "Damned" into the dialogs every now and then. In a comic in otherwise German that takes place in Germany. Not to mention that almost every named character in that story has an English name.
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* MeaningfulName: For instance Professor Bartap, which is pronounced practically the same name as ''Bart ab'' "beard off". In an Italian adventure, Nick encounters gangster Macco Maffiano, movie starlet Silvana Busonia (a play on ''Busen'' "bosom") and fisher and amateur singer Camillo Tenorani.
** Nick's eventual bride is photographer Linda Knips; ''Knips'' is German for "click", and ''knipsen'' a slang word for "to take a photograph".
** Nick's eventual bride is photographer Linda Knips; ''Knips'' is German for "click", and ''knipsen'' a slang word for "to take a photograph".
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* MeaningfulName: For instance Starting with Nick's surname Knatterton ("rattling sound"). Other examples include Professor Bartap, which is pronounced practically the same name as exactly like ''Bart ab'' "beard off". In an Italian adventure, Nick encounters gangster Macco Maffiano, movie starlet Silvana Busonia (a play on ''Busen'' "bosom") and fisher and amateur singer Camillo Tenorani.
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** Nick's eventual bride is photographer Linda Knips; ''Knips'' is German for "click", and ''knipsen'' a slang word for "to take a photograph". Before that his secretary Trudchen Taste (''Taste'' is the German word for "key" (as in "(piano or typewriter) keyboard") was infatuated with him.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: In the live action movie, Nick was played by Karl Lieffen, who played the chauffeur in ''Film/OneTwoThree''.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: In the live action movie, Nick was played by Karl Lieffen, who played the chauffeur in ''Film/OneTwoThree''.
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* MoreDakka: Killville's air is so oversaturated with lead that Virginia Peng mounted an [=MG42=] on her bed to be on the safe side (no matter how illogical having a Nazi German machine gun in a Western setting is).
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* MoreDakka: Killville's air is so oversaturated with lead that Virginia Peng mounted an [=MG42=] on her bed to be on the safe side (no matter how illogical having (since Nick Knatterton was set in the present, using a Nazi German WW2 machine gun in a Western setting is).is not as crazy as you might think).
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* WriterRevolt: Manfred Schmidt told that finally, he was so fed up with making the strip, he couldn't make his fingers draw the pictures anymore.
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* UpperClassWit: Nick Knatterton's real name is Nikolaus Kuno Freiherr von Knatter. He chose the pseudonym because private detective isn't an appropriate work for (German) noblemen, and while becoming detective was his dream, he didn't want to shame his family.
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* DatingCatwoman: With Virginia Peng (German for [[MeaningfulName bang]][[hottip:*:(In the gun shot sense.)]]). Although rather one-sided.
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* {{E Equals MC Hammer}}: Happens whenever Nick is calculating trajectories etc. in his {{Thought Bubble}}s.
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* {{E Equals MC Hammer}}: EEqualsMCHammer: Happens whenever Nick is calculating trajectories etc. in his {{Thought Bubble}}s.
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* Satire: Originally, Manfred Schmidt wanted to mock the comic genre as a whole and ridicule it in a way that the Quick readers will learn to despise it as much as he did. Didn't work.
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* Satire: {{Satire}}: Originally, Manfred Schmidt wanted to mock the comic genre as a whole and ridicule it in a way that the Quick readers will learn to despise it as much as he did. Didn't work.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: So the residents of Killville can shoot out each other's Christmas tree candles. Well, Nick can do this one-handed, over his shoulder, while aiming through a mirror.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: So the residents of Killville can shoot out each other's Christmas tree candles. Well, Nick can do this one-handed, FiringOneHanded, over his shoulder, while aiming through a mirror.
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* ArmCannon: One villain in a Western setting has a flesh-colored gun barrel for an artificial index finger. The gun is semi-automatic, and it is never explained how he can reload it.
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* ArmCannon: One villain in a Western setting Schießfinger-Joe has a flesh-colored gun barrel for an artificial index finger. The gun is semi-automatic, it is explained to always be loaded, and it is never explained how he can reload it.it or discard the spent shells.
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* ClothingDamage: Happens to Nick more often than anyone else, mostly to his pants which then need stitching or replacing.
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* HartmanHips: Well, the Quick editor wanted female characters with remarkable proportions. In fact, the Turkish Milliyet editor wanted even more extreme proportions.
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* KnockoutAmbush: At least OnceAnEpisode.
* LoveTriangle: Standard occurrence before Nick's wedding.
* LoveTriangle: Standard occurrence before Nick's wedding.
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** The town of Killville. Full stop.
* MoreDakka: Killville's air is so oversaturated with lead that Virginia Peng mounted an [=MG42=] on her bed to be on the safe side (no matter how illogical having a Nazi German machine gun in a Western setting is).
* TheMovie: ''Der Raub der Gloria Nylon''.
* MoreDakka: Killville's air is so oversaturated with lead that Virginia Peng mounted an [=MG42=] on her bed to be on the safe side (no matter how illogical having a Nazi German machine gun in a Western setting is).
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* PoliceAreUseless: Sheriff Peter P. Rubens of Killville.
--> "I'm the sheriff and keeper of order here, but those in there don't let me!"
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* TheWildWest: One story takes place there. It's TheFifties, but the West is still Wild.
** It's obvious that Manfred Schmidt despised Westerns as much as comics, not only by the way he takes this trope to the extreme, but also by Billy Rillkratz, Jr.'s bookshelf which contains 279 different Western novels of the same content.
** It's obvious that Manfred Schmidt despised Westerns as much as comics, not only by the way he takes this trope to the extreme, but also by Billy Rillkratz, Jr.'s bookshelf which contains 279 different Western novels of the same content.
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* BleachedUnderpants: In a different way. During the war, the author drew propaganda for TheNazis.
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* BleachedUnderpants: In a different way. During the war, the author drew propaganda for TheNazis.[[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany The Nazis]].
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Nick is very popular in Finland. The animated series was shown first on TV in 1989 and has been shown again three times after that. DVD came in 2008 and sold gold in couple of months.
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** Nick's eventual bride is photographer Linda Knips; ''Knips'' is German for "click", and ''knipsen'' a slang word for "to take a photograph".
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Nick Knatterton is a German NewspaperComic by a Manfred Schmidt that ran from 1950 to 1959. It was adapted as a movie in 1959 and a 15 part TV-show came out in 1977.
The comic was meant to be a parody of American comics of that era, with lots of text in screens and the main hero making nearly impossible deductions combined with wordplay. Since American comics were not easily available most people didn't know it was meant to be a parody.
The comic was meant to be a parody of American comics of that era, with lots of text in screens and the main hero making nearly impossible deductions combined with wordplay. Since American comics were not easily available most people didn't know it was meant to be a parody.
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NickKnatterton is a German NewspaperComic by a Manfred Schmidt that ran from 1950 to 1959.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AlliterativeName: Barbara Beerbottle, Felix Finster...
* ArmCannon: One villain in a Western setting has a flesh-colored gun barrel for an artificial index finger. The gun is semi-automatic, and it is never explained how he can reload it.
* BadassNormal: Nick.
* BaldOfAwesome: Nick.
* BedsheetGhost: And real ghosts who look like this exist too!
* BleachedUnderpants: In a different way. During the war, the author drew propaganda for TheNazis.
* ButNotTooForeign: Mi-Tse, recurring half-Chinese female villain.
* CatchPhrase: "Kombiniere..." ([I] conclude...)
* CelibateHero: Nick used to say: "My bride is justice." Later, he marries though.
* ChekhovsGun
* CoolGuns
* CrazyPrepared: Nick wears an artificial back-head in case someone wants to shoot him there, and has a fake beard which also contains a parachute, just in case of.
* DatingCatwoman: With Virginia Peng (German for [[MeaningfulName bang]][[hottip:*:(In the gun shot sense.)]]). Although rather one-sided.
* DisguisedInDrag: Nick did this more than once.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Nick once, by a movie poster.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: One story is about two chimps who were taught to steal. One of them ends up as Nick's housemaid, having learned to do that job.
* FanService: The comic has many buxom women. In some countries, their breasts were removed by the censors. In Turkey however, they were ''enlarged'' because they weren't fanservicey enough.
* TheFifties: Obviously.
* FilmFelons
* GentlemanDetective
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Nick smokes pipe.
* GreatDetective: Guess who.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Mi-Tse's name is not pronounced "Mieze" (typical name for cats in Germany).
* KidSidekick: Toni Knatter, in one story. The MeaningfulName is lampdshaded by our hero.
* MadScientist: Prof. Bartap invents a shaving foam which is also a very effective explosive. Unintentionally.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: "The ladies accuse each other of having un-ladylike jobs." (during a CatFight)
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Nick's skills are revealed this way.
* NoKnees: In an interesting [[{{Subverted}} subversion]], not only do the characters have knees, but their knees are always bent, no matter whether they're standing, lying, sitting, walking or whatever.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Prof. Bartap, to fool the gangsters.
* PrivateDetective
* PunnyName
* SpeechBubbles: Schmidt commented that they were a primitive tool in his POV - "bubbles coming from the heads, eyes, ears, noses or mouths of characters to indicate what they think, see, hear, smell or say".
* TakeThat: Several to German politics.
* UnmovingPlaid: Nick Knatterton's suit and hat.
* UpperClassWit: Nick Knatterton's real name is Nikolaus Kuno Freiherr von Knatter. He chose the pseudonym because private detective isn't an appropriate work for (German) noblemen, and while becoming detective was his dream, he didn't want to shame his family.
* WriterRevolt: Manfred Schmidt told that finally, he was so fed up with making the strip, he couldn't make his fingers draw the pictures anymore.
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NickKnatterton is a German NewspaperComic by a Manfred Schmidt that ran from 1950 to 1959.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AlliterativeName: Barbara Beerbottle, Felix Finster...
* ArmCannon: One villain in a Western setting has a flesh-colored gun barrel for an artificial index finger. The gun is semi-automatic, and it is never explained how he can reload it.
* BadassNormal: Nick.
* BaldOfAwesome: Nick.
* BedsheetGhost: And real ghosts who look like this exist too!
* BleachedUnderpants: In a different way. During the war, the author drew propaganda for TheNazis.
* ButNotTooForeign: Mi-Tse, recurring half-Chinese female villain.
* CatchPhrase: "Kombiniere..." ([I] conclude...)
* CelibateHero: Nick used to say: "My bride is justice." Later, he marries though.
* ChekhovsGun
* CoolGuns
* CrazyPrepared: Nick wears an artificial back-head in case someone wants to shoot him there, and has a fake beard which also contains a parachute, just in case of.
* DatingCatwoman: With Virginia Peng (German for [[MeaningfulName bang]][[hottip:*:(In the gun shot sense.)]]). Although rather one-sided.
* DisguisedInDrag: Nick did this more than once.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Nick once, by a movie poster.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: One story is about two chimps who were taught to steal. One of them ends up as Nick's housemaid, having learned to do that job.
* FanService: The comic has many buxom women. In some countries, their breasts were removed by the censors. In Turkey however, they were ''enlarged'' because they weren't fanservicey enough.
* TheFifties: Obviously.
* FilmFelons
* GentlemanDetective
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Nick smokes pipe.
* GreatDetective: Guess who.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Mi-Tse's name is not pronounced "Mieze" (typical name for cats in Germany).
* KidSidekick: Toni Knatter, in one story. The MeaningfulName is lampdshaded by our hero.
* MadScientist: Prof. Bartap invents a shaving foam which is also a very effective explosive. Unintentionally.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: "The ladies accuse each other of having un-ladylike jobs." (during a CatFight)
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Nick's skills are revealed this way.
* NoKnees: In an interesting [[{{Subverted}} subversion]], not only do the characters have knees, but their knees are always bent, no matter whether they're standing, lying, sitting, walking or whatever.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Prof. Bartap, to fool the gangsters.
* PrivateDetective
* PunnyName
* SpeechBubbles: Schmidt commented that they were a primitive tool in his POV - "bubbles coming from the heads, eyes, ears, noses or mouths of characters to indicate what they think, see, hear, smell or say".
* TakeThat: Several to German politics.
* UnmovingPlaid: Nick Knatterton's suit and hat.
* UpperClassWit: Nick Knatterton's real name is Nikolaus Kuno Freiherr von Knatter. He chose the pseudonym because private detective isn't an appropriate work for (German) noblemen, and while becoming detective was his dream, he didn't want to shame his family.
* WriterRevolt: Manfred Schmidt told that finally, he was so fed up with making the strip, he couldn't make his fingers draw the pictures anymore.
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