History ComicBook / Chlorophylle

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Anthracite is a surprisingly vicious character for a light-hearted, colorful story involving talking animals. His crimes include [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness frequently murdering his own accomplices once they are of no more use to him]], bringing predato species into Coquefredouille, and eventually becoming a dictator.

* TheGoodKing: Mithron XIII is despicted as a benevolent ruler, a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, a very nice person and [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating is adored by his people]]. When an attempt is made on his life in ''Zizanion le Terrible'', it is a shock for both him and the population that someone would want him dead.

%%* TheBigGuy: Torpille.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: While Anthracite does have some comedic moments, he is overall a surprisingly vicious character for a seemingly innocent story. His crimes include [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness frequently murdering his own accomplices once they are of no more use to him]], introducing the local equivalent of cannibals in Coquefredouille, and eventually becoming a fascist-like dictator.

* WhamEpisode: ''les Croquillards'', which contains the shift from normal-sized environments to a MouseWorld.

* YouDirtyRat: To say Anthracite is a nasty piece of work would be putting it lightly.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The last way Escalope and Fricandeau can be useful to Anthracite is by being killed by him so he becomes the hero and savior.
** He also has the men who helped him introduce the two predators in Coquefredouille blown up with a bomb [[HeKnowsTooMuch to ensure they won't talk]].

* AnthropomorphicShift: From [[LargelyNormalAnimal Val Tranquille]] to [[CivilizedAnimal Coquefredouille]]. The animals end up all walking upright, wearing clothes, driving vehicles and living in regular human-style cities. Even their bodies seem to have adapted, with them gaining longer legs so they can wear pants, and animals like seals gaining ''hands''.

* ChummyCommies: sort of. The rat who launches the revolt against Anthracite for unjustly sentencing a rat scout to death addresses the other rats as 'comrades'. And without that revolt, it's hard to see how the black rats could have been defeated.

* EarNotch: Anthracite has one.

* FurryReminder: Predator animals are OK in nature. Their existence in a [[CivilizedAnimal Civilized Animals]] world is a [[ImAHumanitarian big hit]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Anthracite tried to get rid of Chlorophylle by tiding him up to a firecracker rocket. But he got himself caught on the rocket and couldn't [[NotQuiteDead apparently]] jump before it explodes.
* HumansAreBastards: they have this vicious tendency to create a lot of things dangerous to animals.
* InspectorLestrade: Commissaire Bouclette. In ''Zizanion le terrible'', he rejects out of hand the heroes' suspicions, and the start of the book shows he's more concern with finding "a culprit" than the truth.

* JokerImmunity: Anthracite has been apparently blown up on a firework, imprisoned several times, including in a high security jail, but he ''always'' find a way to come back.

* NiceMice: The protagonists, as well as Particule and her family.

* BecomingTheMask: In the one-shot "Embrouilles à Coquefredouille", [[spoiler:many years after Anthracite's death, a movie is being about Chlorophylle and Minimum's adventures. They meet a squirrel actor who's makeup making him look like Anthracite. By the end of the story, the squirrel actor has become attached to his character. He permanently altered his appearance to match Anthracite's and adopted his mannerism.]]

%%* CarnivoreConfusion

* MoralGuardians: Easy to meet in [[TheFifties the 50's]]. They complained that Macherot depicted, in stories for children, terrorist attacks on a King, fun presumably made of labor unions, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a woman wearing hair curlers]]. It was already controversial to depict seductive females, but strangely, because Célimène was a cat, it seemed to pass legal.

* FromZerotoHero: Chlorophylle starts as an incredibly conceited idiot who has to be rescued repeatedly and appoints himself the leader of LaResistance. But when Anthracite's army of black rats attacks with overwhelming force, he proves to be a brave and resourceful leader.

* ChummyCommies: sort of. The rat who launches the revolt against Anthracite for unjustly sentencing a rat scout to death adresses the other rats as 'comrades'. And without that revolt, it's hard to see how the black rats could have been defeated.

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''Chlorophylle'' is a [[FrancoBelgianComics Belgian comic series]] created by Creator/RaymondMacherot in 1953 and published in the [[AnthologyComic comic magazine]] ''Tintin'' until 1971.

* AmbiguousGender: It was unclear in the first issues if Torpille la Loutre (Torpedo the Otter) is male or female. As ''loutre'' is a feminine noun, Torpille is often referred as a "she" but lacks feminine characteristics such as [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics eyelashes]]. From ''la Revanche d'Anthracite'', Torpille is clearly female.
* AnthropomorphicShift: From [[LargelyNormalAnimal Val Tranquille]] to [[CivilizedAnimal Coquefredouille]].

* JokerImmunity: Anthracite has been apparently blown up on a firework, imprisonned several times, including in a high security jail, but he ''always'' find a way to come back.
* MoralGuardians: Easy to meet in [[TheFifties the 50's]]. They complained that Macherot depicted, in stories for children, terrorist attacks on a King, fun presumably made of labor unions, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a woman wearing hair curlers]].
* NiceMice: The protegonists, as well as Particule and her family.

* ReversePsychology: In one book, Anthracite starts a fight with a prisonner who is about to be freed next morning. When the Warden is about to punish him, he begs him to not see said prisonner again, and the Warden of course decides to have them share a cell. Turns out Anthracite ''wanted'' this to happen: the prisonner is his accomplice, and this allows them to plan an escape for him.

* ShesAManInJapan: Chlorophylle is male in all ex-Yugoslav translations.
* SwarmOfRats: the black rats invade Val Tranquille (the Quiet Vale) after they've been chased away from an old mill.