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** Zap asks Sôkar how to say "five" in Ancient, just to replicate a Spanish joke with that number. But Sôkar only knows the Ancient numbers up to four. Turns out the Ancient numbering system is in base 5, meaning there are only single-digit numbers up to four, and that's a plot point later on.
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* [[MyNameIsNotDurwood My Name Is Not Llamamoco]] and my element isn't snot. In this case it's everyone who doesn't know him calling him that (lampshaded: "How come nicknames spread so fast?").
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** In the first two volumes it's said that at least some of the books used are written by the teachers themselves. It's even pointed out that one of the books (on theory of the elements) has an appendix added illegally by another of the writers (allegedly because it's illegal to teach that at that age in public schools).
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** In the first two volumes it's said that at least some of the books used are written by the teachers themselves. It's even pointed out that one of the books (on theory of the elements) has an appendix added illegally by another of the writers (allegedly because it's illegal to teach that at that age in public schools).
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** Not to confuse its thought patterns, but to cut off the commands reaching it. Just, like any [[AIIsACrapshoot good AI]], the moment it goes rogue it's CrushKillDestroy time.
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** At least until she gets kidnapped and drugged, and might get experiments done on her if the main cast doesn't rescue her on time. In fact, chances are if she hadn't been such a bitch, Kaji might have put her above the book and she might've gotten a chance to get away. (Though since she was locked in graphene, she'd have needed her alcahest powers to get out.)
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** In the backstory you have Thomas Strom pulling a "you killed my brother".
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*** Not only that, your speech will also be unintelligible to non-lizard speakers.
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WTF? It\'s the amount of an element that is measured in moles, not life energy per se. (Though it could be argued that it can be measured in moles, but it\'s never been stated)
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* {{Mana}}: Vital Energy, wich is measured in moles.Energy.
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** The same things happen to Ember and Sebastian in the Ember´s Chronicle chapters, and as Ember narrates, he uses the same phrases that Kaji used 22 chapters before.
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** The same things happen to Ember and Sebastian in the Ember´s Chronicle chapters, and as Ember narrates, he uses the same phrases that Kaji used 22 chapters before.before (and some 30 years later).
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\"Sirona\" is the name of a Celtic goddess. Someone Did Not Do The Research here...
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* HotShounenMom: Karol, Kaji´s mother, and Rosita, Amor´s mother. Also unnamed Sokar´s mom. Kaji´s grandmother Sirone didn´t look bad either.
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* HotShounenMom: Karol, Kaji´s mother, and Rosita, Amor´s mother. Also unnamed Sokar´s mom. Kaji´s grandmother Sirone Sirona didn´t look bad either.
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** Not quite. They '''feed''' on the host's energy, and they can as long as they're joined by the shadow, which can stretch as far as a hundred meters. But if they're farther than that, or the shadow is blocked (say, by a wall with no gaps), the shadow elemental will die. [[spoiler: Or not.]]
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* Shapeshifting: Comes in two variants, {{animorphism}} to a particular animal, and turning into your element. The second variant, and maybe also the first, [[PartialTransformation can be partial]].
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* Shapeshifting: Comes in two variants, {{animorphism}} to a particular animal, and turning into your element. The second first variant, and maybe also the first, second, [[PartialTransformation can be partial]].
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** Actually she does seem to want to hit on Kaji ([[TheJailBaitWait when she's 18 and he 13]]). In fact, in an ambiguously canon side story both end up together in a hot spring (her being drunk), and all of a sudden she goes "Have you ever touched a boob?" and really goes after him until Zap sneezes, electrifying the water.
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* {{Immortality}}: Uroboros is a type IV. Sorta.
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--> '''Zap''': Matarratas is a bird! A bird! [...] He wasn't a person! He was a mouse in disguise!! He tried to kill his best friend with his eye!![[hottip:*:Reference to the author's previous manga Raruto. ItMakesSenseInContext.]] [...] My glass... is a clown! I wanna have a navel!
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--> '''Zap''': Matarratas is a bird! A bird! [...] He wasn't a person! He was a mouse in disguise!! He tried to kill his best friend with his eye!![[hottip:*:Reference to the author's previous manga Raruto. ItMakesSenseInContext.]] [...] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext My glass... is a clown! I wanna have a navel!navel!]]
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* IntoxicationEnsues (from a giant snake's fangs) [[XMeetsY meets]] the CloudCuckooLander, which according to Matarratas "could be a whole new level to discover":
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* IntoxicationEnsues (from a giant snake's fangs) [[XMeetsY meets]] the CloudCuckooLander, which according to Matarratas "could be a whole new level to discover":
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--> '''Zap''': Matarratas is a bird! A bird! [...] He wasn't a person! He was a mouse in disguise!! He tried to kill his best friend with his eye!![[hottip:*:Reference to the author's previous manga Raruto. ItMakesSenseInContext.]] [...] My glass... is a clown! I wanna have a navel!
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* AccidentalAesop: Used in-universe after Dino presses Kaji's BerserkButton and he accidentally burns the school:
--> '''Lambda''': I hope you've learned something from yesterday.
--> '''[[CloudCuckooLander Zap]]''': Fire burns.
--> '''Lambda''': I hope you've learned something from yesterday.
--> '''[[CloudCuckooLander Zap]]''': Fire burns.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Even if Kaji was never your typical morally right protagonist, it goes overboard when he chooses keeping Ken Válbrandur's book from fire over saving Lluvia when she was left unconscious and being kidnapped. After that, she forbids Zap from following the bad guys while carrying Sôkar, when it'd do him harm to be far from her, and he was quite weak already. And if that wasn't enough, he goes as far as to fight Matarratas when he tries to follow them.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Even if Kaji was never your typical morally right protagonist, it goes overboard when he chooses keeping Ken Válbrandur's book from fire over saving Lluvia when she was left unconscious and being kidnapped. After that, she he forbids Zap from following the bad guys while carrying Sôkar, when it'd do him harm to be far from her, and he was quite weak already. And if that wasn't enough, he goes as far as to fight Matarratas when he tries to follow them.
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Bah, I\'ll better take out the spoiler. Who\'s gonna care anyway.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Even if Kaji was never your typical morally right protagonist, it goes overboard when [[spoiler: he chooses keeping Ken Válbrandur's book from fire over saving Lluvia when she was left unconscious and being kidnapped.]] After that, [[spoiler: she forbids Zap from following the bad guys while carrying Sôkar, when it'd do him harm to be far from her, and he was quite weak already.]] And if that wasn't enough, he goes as far as to [[spoiler: fight Matarratas when he tries to follow them.]]
** Possibly justified in that [[spoiler: he had a big argument with Lluvia earlier, he hadn't taken the vaccine for a virus that alters his character, and he had been left without fire.]]
** Possibly justified in that [[spoiler: he had a big argument with Lluvia earlier, he hadn't taken the vaccine for a virus that alters his character, and he had been left without fire.]]
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** Possibly justified in that[[spoiler: he had a big argument with Lluvia earlier, he hadn't taken the vaccine for a virus that alters his character, and he had been left without fire.]]
** Possibly justified in that
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* WeWereRehearsingAPlay: When people hear Matarratas shouting about his experience during Kaji´s Dusk virus´s first burst, he wants to say this, but he gets nervous, and says that it´s for a ballet.
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* WeWereRehearsingAPlay: When people hear WhatTheHellHero: Even if Kaji was never your typical morally right protagonist, it goes overboard when [[spoiler: he chooses keeping Ken Válbrandur's book from fire over saving Lluvia when she was left unconscious and being kidnapped.]] After that, [[spoiler: she forbids Zap from following the bad guys while carrying Sôkar, when it'd do him harm to be far from her, and he was quite weak already.]] And if that wasn't enough, he goes as far as to [[spoiler: fight Matarratas shouting about his experience during Kaji´s Dusk virus´s first burst, when he wants tries to say this, but he gets nervous, and says follow them.]]
** Possibly justified in thatit´s [[spoiler: he had a big argument with Lluvia earlier, he hadn't taken the vaccine for a ballet. virus that alters his character, and he had been left without fire.]]
** Possibly justified in that
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** Lampshaded/justified in Kaji's mom's case: in volume 4 (not in the online version) there's a flashback with Kaji's mom looking like 10 years old saying she'd like to marry Ember (who would be 16-17 by then). That would mean that she first gave birth at about 23 y.o.
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** Lampshaded/justified in Kaji's mom's case: in volume 4 (not in the online version) there's a flashback with Kaji's mom looking like 10 10-12 years old saying she'd like to marry Ember (who would be 16-17 by then). That would mean that she first gave birth at about 23 23-25 y.o.
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** Lampshaded/justified in Kaji's mom's case: in volume 4 (not in the online version) there's a flashback with Kaji's mom looking like 10 years old saying she'd like to marry Ember (who would be 16-17 by then). That would mean that she first gave birth at about 23 y.o.
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That was a case of me doing the research wrong. An ice or rock yotum are probably close to 100% their element.
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** None of the previous examples are entirely composed by one element, actually. The creatures with a higher percentage of a single element are the "monigotes subnormales" (this troper's translation: retarded doodles; [[http://jesulink.com/cincoelementos/img/documentos/criaturas2.jpg]]), which are said to have so much energy inside that they'd be hella dangerous were they not retarded.
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** None of the previous examples There are entirely composed by one element, actually. The creatures with a higher percentage of a single element are the also "monigotes subnormales" (this troper's translation: retarded doodles; [[http://jesulink.com/cincoelementos/img/documentos/criaturas2.jpg]]), formed in 90% by their element, which are said to have so much energy inside that they'd be hella dangerous were they not retarded.
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** None of the previous examples are entirely composed by one element, actually. The creatures with a higher percentage of a single element are the "monigotes subnormales" (this troper's translation: retarded doodles; [[http://jesulink.com/cincoelementos/img/documentos/criaturas2.jpg]]), which are said to have so much energy inside that they'd be hella dangerous were they not retarded.
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* {{Asspull}}: Lluvia and Sokar by chance happen to know the Ancient Language in wich the book is written.
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* {{Asspull}}: Lluvia and Sokar by chance happen to know the Ancient Language in wich which the book is written.written.
** Might not be such an asspull, all things considered: Sôkar's grandfather might have been researching on the Ancients because he knew there was an Ancient temple in Beluga Town. A temple which energy Sebastián Rattengift took use of for his experiments, which then brought Ember (and so the book) to that town. That still leaves Ken Válbrandur out of the equation, but it's not so blatant.
** Might not be such an asspull, all things considered: Sôkar's grandfather might have been researching on the Ancients because he knew there was an Ancient temple in Beluga Town. A temple which energy Sebastián Rattengift took use of for his experiments, which then brought Ember (and so the book) to that town. That still leaves Ken Válbrandur out of the equation, but it's not so blatant.
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Wrong trope. And since when is \"zero\" an adjective?
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Diagnosis: he is bleeding a lot".
**The Ancient Language is the language of the Ancients, an ancient tribe, of ancient customs.
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* SophisticatedAsHell: "Diagnosis: he's bleeding a lot".
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--> '''Kaji:''' What about the address? Why don't we go check that out first?
--> '''Matarratas:''' Oh, sure! Let's go to an address written down in a genocide's diary! Then we can drop by the jail to get tortured! Aw, come on! I'm not going there even mad!
--> ''(Cut to the poor zone of the city)''
--> '''Matarratas:''' I still don't quite get how you convinced me.
--> '''Kaji:''' What about the address? Why don't we go check that out first?
--> '''Matarratas:''' Oh, sure! Let's go to an address written down in a genocide's diary! Then we can drop by the jail to get tortured! Aw, come on! I'm not going there even mad!
--> ''(Cut to the poor zone of the city)''
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[[caption-width-right:227:[[TouchOfDeath Matarratas,]] [[ShockAndAwe Zap,]] [[PlayingWithFire Kaji,]] [[MakingASplash Lluvia]] and [[CastingAShadow Sokar]]]]
->''"The world. A finite home, quite big and composed by hundreds of elements. "''
-->-- '''Kaji'''
5 Elementos (5 Elements) is a Spanish "manga", written by Jesús García Ferrer, set in a fantastic world. This world is ruled by elementals, people with the power to control nature's elements (going from fire to viruses to shit. No, really).
After the world's most powerful warriors (called the Five Elements) betray the king of their nation and then disappear, the new king erases all of the nation's historic records, to "create a brand new nation". Many years later, Kaji Llamaviva (the protagonist, a 13 year old kid), along with his friend Zap and [[BitchInSheepsClothing some kids]] [[InsufferableGenius that hate him]] [[TrueNeutral (and Sokar)]], starts investigating the Five Elements to discover what really happened, and if the official version is actually true, or the government is keeping a masquerade.
The mood is mostly comic, but it has moments of tension, suspense and drama. It has won the award to the best manga of spanish author twice. It began in 9/24/2008 and is still ongoing.
As for now it is only in Spanish: [[http://jesulink.com/descargas.php?sub=cincoelementos]]
But it seems an italian team is translating it to Italian: [[http://5elementos.forumfree.it/?f=6292431]]
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: [[HotMom All mothers in the series]] seem to have given birth to their children while quite young...
* AcademyOfAdventure
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Sauce did this for a while, after being hit by one of Zap´s lightnings.
* ActualPacifist: Sauce.
* AgeAppropriateAngst: Poor Benjamin was 8 years old when his mom died in the Zero Day.
* AllThereInTheManual: A lot of information is found only in the book format, including backstory of the elemental world, or the element of certain characters.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Matarratas explains that an Alcahest elemental, Lluvia, for example, could manipulate all the elements.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Kaji´s mother, Karol, has shades of this.
* ApologeticAttacker: Sokar.
* ArtEvolution
* ArtificialHuman: Hiedra´s team, created by Dr. Bombastus. Special mencion to Kei, who was made with the power of controlling both fire and shadow.
* AStormIsComing: Near the end of the second arc.
* {{Asspull}}: Lluvia and Sokar by chance happen to know the Ancient Language in wich the book is written.
* AtTheCrossroads: In the Labyrinth, the paths taken by the five main characters meet near the end. Conversed by Kaji as he narrates.
** The same things happen to Ember and Sebastian in the Ember´s Chronicle chapters, and as Ember narrates, he uses the same phrases that Kaji used 22 chapters before.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Pretty much everywhere.
* BadassTeacher: All of them, of course. It´s a world where everyone has elemental powers. But [[PaperMaster Dino]] and Leo take the cake.
* BadLiar: Zap.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: [[TouchOfDeath Matarratas and Rubeola]].
* TheBait: Nizo uses Roco as bait to get Lambda out of the way, so they can go where the main cast is ([[LotusEaterMachine sleeping, their minds inside of the Labyrinth]]) and screw with their bodies.
* BattleAura: Katai is basically a fire aura. It makes the user stronger, faster, and lasts longer than common Katotsu.
* BerserkButton: Stating that Kaji and his father are similar. Beating Lluvia in a fight. Defying Matarratas´ intelligence, defending the Five Elements in front of him and saying anything remotely offensive towards his dead relatives, specially his grandfather Sebastian. Talking abour "legends" during Leo´s class.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Lluvia believes that this applies to all people.
* {{Blackmail}}: Kaji implies that he knows about Matarratas´ secret lab in order to get his cooperation.
* BlatantLies: All over the place, mostly used for comedic effect.
** Except when Karol told Kaji that maybe he was going to see Benjamin if he stayed in Leona City and tried hard to win the League.
* BlindSeer: The Was family of shadow elementals are always blindfolded. They see with their soul.
* BloodKnight: Lluvia is happy at the perspective of going through the League again because she will be able to kick asses.
** Hiedra went for blood wen she attacked Zap.
* BossFight: Finalmigo (Finalfoe) is the boss of the Labyrinth.
* BossRoom: The last room of the Labyrinth, where the main cast fights Finalmigo.
* BossSubtitles: Done three times until now.
* BossVulnerability: Matarratas thinks Finalmigo is a type two: "Surely he attacks, then gets vulnerable [[GenreSavvy and we hit him]] [[RuleOfThree three times"]].
* BottomlessPit: One of the Labyrinth´s obstacles.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Desangrador said he was going to do this to Anpepón after he attacked the main cast. It´s actually a case of [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou Can´t Kill You Still Need You]]. He also ends killing Anpepón.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: From time to time.
** Only in the first arc and maybe the start of the second. It gets slightly more serious after that.
* BreathWeapon: [[{{Jerkass}} Griposo]] breathes flu, incapacitating his opponents once he is able to grab them.
* BullfightBoss: Finalmigo has shades of this.
* TheBully: Nizo, but we only see him annoying Kaji. Lluvia is this to almost everyone who has any interaction with her.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: The Kimikoho is a special vision that allows virus elementals to see all the elements that compose nature and every being and thing, thus making them able to manipulate them with ease. Matarratas inherited it from his grandfather, Sebastián Flu Rattengift.
* CallingYourAttacks: At least the level.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Both Anpepón and the main cast have suffered this.
* TheCaptain: There are many captains in the military. However, the Four Colonels are the true military bosses.
* CaptainErsatz: Look at the long haired guy in Hiedra´s team of the League and try not to think of [[{{Naruto}} Orochimaru]].
* CerebusSyndrome: Or more like:
* CerebusRollercoaster: First chapters make you believe it is going to be just an AffectionateParody of manga. Later chapters switch from [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funny]] to [[HeartwarmingMoments se]][[TearJerker ri]][[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ous]] more often.
** Word of God says this was completely intentional: since it's a webcomic, and Raruto (the author's previous manga, a parody of Naruto) had gotten quite some audience, Jesulink didn't want to scare them away by changing the style too suddenly.
* ChekhovsGag: "When using the dreamworld technique, (Anpepón) is so vulnerable that a mischievous 13 year old kid with bad ideas could beat him".
** Also Dino´s paper castle, for comedic effect only.
** [[CloudCuckoolander Zap]] describes Desangrador (meaning "Bleeder") with: "He dissects animals, and that thing he wears at his back could be a corpse. [[InsaneTrollLogic He looks trustworthy.]]" When Desangrador later saves the heroes, he goes: [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight "I called he looked trustworthy."]] [[spoiler: When he finally is revealed as a villain, he goes: [[TooDumbToFool "I told you he looked trustworthy, not that he could be trusted."]]]]
* ChekhovsGun: Someone stole soporifics and rubidium form Mat´s bag...
* ChildProdigy: Kaji's father, Ember, is this with his elemental powers. His brother, Benjamin, is an intelectual genius.
** It's also said that all of the Five Elements dominated the five levels of combat before turning 18.
** Matarratas can create and modify very complex chemical mixes, even those made by an expert proffessional. [[InTheBlood He inheritted it from his grandfather.]]
* ChildSoldiers: If you win the League, you can be a high ranked soldier, even if you are a teenager.
* ClassTrip: Dino forced this, so all of Kaji´s class can go with him to Leona City. That way, Kaji will have to do the Super Work, and Dino, Lluvia and Nizo will be able to annoy him anytime they want.
* CloudCuckooLander: Classic of the author, Zap is the most extreme example (for now).
** Melon Pijollama is an interesting example: he insists that he and Kaji are long known rivals, he usually talks about their "old times" and how he "used to beat him daily". None of this has actually happened, and Kaji met him for the first time at the exhibitions in the Elemental League.
* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Kaji just [[PaperThinDisguise wraps a scarf around his face and says that he is a steam elemental called "Steamy"]] to enter the Labyrinth. It turns out that there is a kid called Steamy, and Kaji looks almost like him. Of course, once the real Steamy shows up, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny the examinator thinks he is an impostor.]]
* ColonelBadass: The four Colonels, presumably.
* ColonelKilgore: Not actually colonels, but many soldiers with high ranks were shown enjoying the Zero Day greatly and killing people out of fun.
* ColossusClimb: The yótum is as big as your average skyscraper. [[UnWinnable And there is no weak spot.]]
* CompleteMonster: The official version says that the Five Elements were this. Also Pierre Curry. And Desangrador.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Finalmigo is invulnerable to Matarratas´ [[TouchOfDeath virical attacks]], as well as the other Labyrinth enemies.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Kaji: "I'd rather choke on my own vomit!!" Karol: "You know i don´t like you to drink with haste".
** [[CloudCuckooLander Zap is also prone to this.]]
* ConLang: The Ancient Language. Ken Válbrandur´s book is written completely like this. [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands Lluvia and Sokar also happen to know some of it, because Sokar´s anthropologist grandfather did teach them a bit.]] So does Benjamin. And Adler.
** A closer study of the Ancient language shows that it's little more than Catalan (a language spoken in part of Spain) spelled backwards and with vowels thrown in randomly, in what appears to be a parody of "katakanization". When it's not just [[CypherLanguage Spanish spelled in the Ancient alphabet]].
** Subverted with Lizard Speech: you just have to add the word "Lizard" after each sentence, and you will be able to speak it flawlessly.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: A fire elemental ability. Lampshaded by Zap when not only Kaji is unharmed by lava, but his clothes as well.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Bombeta shows great versatility at using [[LightEmUp his powers]] and good [[AwesomeByAnalysis analytic abilities]].
** And Ember, Dino and Leo definitely count.
* CrushKillDestroy: The robot teacher Lapicero (mechanical pen) becomes this when his software fails, or when he wants to scare someone. He is normally very nice to children.
* CurbStompBattle: The Five Elements were famous for this. Also Lluvia to Bombeta and Fósforo in the Elemental League. And much later, Ember to Pierre Curry.
** The main cast did this to some monsters in the Labyrinth. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Except Matarratas]].
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Water elementals have blue, plant elementals have green, fire elementals (mostly) have red, virus elementals seem to be violet and so on...
* CustomUniform: Each rank on each of the four military divisions has a specific uniform. The author has shown the uniforms [[http://jesulink.com/cincoelementos/img/documentos/soldados.jpg for the lowest rank in each division]].
* CuteBruiser: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Or at least, as much cute you can think Lluvia is...]]
* DadTheVeteran: Ember was a soldier. He currently is a SS soldier.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Both Finalmigo and the yótum, even if both of them are later [[OneHitKill destroyed in one hit]]
* DarkestHour
* DarkIsNotEvil: Matarratas may be quite jerkish, but he isn´t evil. And Sokar is probably the nicest guy around.
* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone. Specially Lluvia and Matarratas. They mostly suck at it too.
* DeanBitterman: Dino (the school´s principal) subverts this: even if he is jerky with almost everyone, he is sadistic only to Kaji.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Diagnosis: he is bleeding a lot".
** The Ancient Language is the language of the Ancients, an ancient tribe, of ancient customs.
** Kaji´s team for the League is called "Fire13". Guess wich elemental branch do all the members belong to.
* {{Determinator}}: Lluvia keeps attacking the yótum, even if it´s totally useless.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The government will kill you if you are found investigating the previous era, or looking for information about the Five Elements, it doesn´t matter if you are 13 years old.
* TheDitz: Karol, Kaji´s mother, can have shades of this sometimes.
* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: Zap.
* DoomMagnet: Lluvia accuses Kaji of being this.
* EldritchLocation: The Sheetworld, the place where your [[OurSoulsAreDifferent energy]] goes when it´s [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower imprisoned in a paper sheet]].
** The uncrossable Ocean. Also the Labirynth´s mental world, arguably.
* DraftDodging: Kaji wants to lose the League in order to do this.
* ElementalEmbodiment: The yotums are elemental giants that live far away from elementals. An ice yotum has appeared in the story, and a rock yotum has been mentioned. There are also some other elemental animals, [[http://jesulink.com/cincoelementos/img/documentos/criaturas1.jpg like these]].
** Also Adler's Level A Ornáguila. It´s a fire giant eagle wich Adler uses as transport.
* ElementalPowers: Fire, Water, Earth, Virus, Psyche, Paper, Egg, Shit...
* ElementalPunch: Katotsu is a level 1 fire technique that allows you to ignite a part of your body (mostly your fists) to make fire punches or kicks.
* [[EmergencyTransformation Emergency Body Change]]: While fighting Karbo, Zap finally revives [[LivingShadow Sokar, who binds with him so they can face Karbo]].
* EmptyPromise: Well, Karol didn´t ''promise'' Kaji that Benjamin was going to appear, but she said it to stimulate him. He found out and ran away crying.
* EnergyBall: More like Virus Ball.
* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: Fire 13 first meeting is this.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: That fat guy of Leftovers 5? His name is Fatass. And the little one? He is Dwarf.
* ExaltedTorturer: Pierre Curry.
* ExtranormalInstitute
* {{Familiar}}: Hugin and Munin, the Was family giant, dark, [[Sesquipedalian Locuaciousness adequately verbose]], shadow elemental crows. They were not aware of Sokar´s dirty business, but they decide not to tell Sokar´s parents.
* FantasticRacism: Ember is this in spades, and it causes people to think Kaji is one as well. It´s also very common between fire and water elementals. Also people in general against virus elementals.
** This led to the anihilation of air and earth elementals, all of them killed during the chaos of the Zero Day.
* {{Fartillery}}: Fart is an element too.
* FatherIDontWantToFight: Ember would love Kaji becoming a soldier, but Kaji always answers this.
* TheFerryman: Chisp Llamaviva will transport you across the Labyrinth´s lava pit for a golden coin.
* {{Fireballs}}: And Magmaballs. Virusballs as well.
* FiveManBand: The Five Elements. Also the protagonists might be this, even if two of them hate Kaji with passion, and the roles can't be clearly defined.
* {{Flanderization}}: Lluvia started as a very kind girl, and even after Kaji angered her, she looked at him with a "poor guy" expression after he ran away from the fire in the school. Now she is just a jerkass who treats everyone badly, specially Kaji.
** In recent chapters, [[spoiler:when she was kidnapped, she did seem to care a lot about Sôkar, and even if only slightly, also about Kaji,]] revealing that she might actually be a {{tsundere}}.
* FlatEarthAtheist: [[MeaningfulName Leonardo Davín]] is quite skeptical about legends in general, even considering that he lives in a world of elemental embodiments and superpowers.
* FloatingPlatform: [[DishingOutDirt Roco]] tries this to cross the lava pit in the Labyrinth. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny He falls.]]
* FollowInMyFootsteps: Ember would like Kaji to be a soldier.
* ForbiddenZone: the Ocean. Limited to population by a giant wall, it´s impossible to corss and is deemed [[EldritchLocation "the End of the World"]]. Everyone who has tried to cross it is dead, even water elementals. Except maybe one person...
* FriendOrIdolDecision: Kei is burning the book and Bombastus kidnaps a poisoned Lluvia. Kaji must make a desicion, and while the rest of the team pursues the kidnappers, he stays and tries to save thee book and convince the others to stay. This leads to a fight with Matarratas.
* GadgeteerGenius: Leo. He has invented a power analyzer, and Dino says he has more gadgets. He has a mechanical hand as well, wich he calls his "good hand".
* GenkiGirl: Flama can be a light one sometimes.
* GenreSavvy: Not so savvy actually, but it´s used for comedic effect.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Actually there´s no radar, so the author can do whatever he wants. The kids, for example, swear a lot. Also the teachers seem to organize chicken fights.
** The kids don't swear any more than a normal Spanish kid their age (it's just that the Spanish "joder" is softer than the English equivalent "fuck"). But he does seem to have a radar: for example, a couple characters are [[CurseCutShort cut midword]] when saying "coño" (like English "fuck" or maybe stronger). Also, the sentence "Let's play doctors" shows up twice with a character about to shot an injection to someone against their will (in fact, the second is replied with "Are you going to abuse me?").
* GirlNextDoor: Flama has some aspects of this towards Kaji.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Lluvia can control her razor-sharp umbrella with her powers (it has water inside). It´s also a [[SwordCane Sword Cane.]]
** That douchebag girl in the League uses her plant powers to transform her arm into a branch and pierce her enemies.
* GoddamnedBoss: [[NoSell Finalmigo is this for Matarratas.]]
* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Part of Mr. Aquarrica´s plan, he needed the teachers out of town, so his assistant told them the yotum was in the mountains.
* GoodLookingPrivates: The Adler brothers and Ember are good examples.
* [[GranolaGirl Granola Kid]]: Plant elemental Sauce, and his mother, Acacia.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The Zero Day can be considered this. We got some images on the Ember Chronicles, but not much was revealed.
* GreenEyedMonster: Desangrador is quite frustrated by the fact that the Kimikoho allows Matarratas, as it did with Sebastián to find and create the most complicated formulas with ease.
* GroinAttack: Lluvia likes doing this, when she is not trying to kill you.
** Also Sokar does this from time to time.
* GuardianEntity: Ouroboros, the giant snake that "guards the Alcahest"
* HaHaHaNo
* {{Hammerspace}}: The place where stuff goes when absorbed by shadows. It´s called "shadow memory" and it´s limit to absorb matter is proportional to the user´s own power. Munin has enough shadow memory to swallow and teleport enormous boulders.
* HandicappedBadass: Hodr Arian, the "Blue Leviathan", member of the Five Elements. Blind but deadly.
* [[HealingHands Healing Teeth]]: Ouroboros has a healing bite. It´s quite effective.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: [[PaperMaster Dino]] can imprison your soul inside [[EldritchLocation a paper sheet]]. Don´t make him mad. He also has shown a great battle prowess while fighting Desangrador.
** The much ridiculized Heart element is, according to an interview by the author with the fans, the ability to literally control hearts, even though it could have other properties as well.
** [[PunnyName Fatass]] is an egg elemental. He can totally drown you in a giant egg yolk.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Played for laughs, Ember thougt Colonel Cerilla was going to do this to him. Played completely straight against people who investigate about the past.
* {{Hellfire}}: This is what the Dusk Virus causes on fire elementals. It can burn without oxygen, and even burn fireproof materials. Crisol hypothezises that it works like a mini nuclear fusion, chewing the elemental´s energy away.
* HeroicSacrifice: When Zap is about to be killed by Finalmigo, Kaji intercepts it, and Finalmigo pierces his body.
** Adler´s brother blew himself up to save Ember from Dr, Ebola.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Kaji is a not so bad example.
* HotDad: Some.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A shadow elemental specialty is to return attacks to their owner. Karbo was literally defeated by his own hand.
* HotShounenMom: Karol, Kaji´s mother, and Rosita, Amor´s mother. Also unnamed Sokar´s mom. Kaji´s grandmother Sirone didn´t look bad either.
* HotTeacher: Lambda, [[OurGhostsAreDifferent even though she is 68.]]
* HowDoYouSay: Orubak is Ancient for Jerkass.
* IAmNotMyFather: Kaji, even if many people thinks that he is like Ember.
* {{Immortality}}: Uroboros is a type IV. Sorta.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: Alcahest is theorized to be this. It´s existance is mostly hypotetycal tough, and it´s existence has not been officially recognized. At least if you don´t count the ruins under Mount Pito. And Lluvia.
* InformedAbility: "Sokar can move in darkness just fine". [[CrowningMomentOfFunny He can´t.]]
** In chapter 39 he does lead Zap through the dark. That was probably just the labyrinth confounding his shadow powers, {{played for laughs}}.
* InsaneTrollLogic: "I'm the architect because I'm a lightning elemental".
** "It's all so ancient and it's full of texts in Ancient [language]. Coincidence? You bet."
** (Talking about a stage play:)
--> '''Zap''': I don't complain 'coz I'm the protagonist.
--> '''Matarratas''': The heck, protagonist? You're a tree!
--> '''Zap''': That's why. The play's called "Bifrost and the tree". And I'm the tree.
* InsistentTerminology: A man once says "it would be the end of humanity". He quickly corrects himself: "i mean, of elementality".
* InstantFanClub: Arturo has one. [[ExtraOreDinary Money is the reason]].
* InsufferableGenius: Matarratas can be quite annoying sometimes, but [[CharacterDevelopment he is getting better lately]].
* InverseLawOfComplexityToPower: Elementals of "pure" elements can control both its element and any element descended from it - so a copper elemental can only control copper, while a metal elemental can control every metal, including copper. An elemental that could control the theorical fundamental element Alcahest would be able to control all substances in nature.
** Though the fact that they can control more elements doesn't necessarily give them an advantage.
* JawDrop: Dino did this when Kaji beat Lluvia.
* {{Jerkass}}: All the main cast and many others have their oportunity. Special mention to the Hiedra who appears in the League and doesn´t even need provocation.
** Griposo is only in the League to screw aorund as much as he can, out of spite for being fired from the army for stealing money.
* TheJuggernaut: Karbô, graphene elemental, a nigh-invulnerable [[TheBrute gargantuan man]].
* KarmaHoudini: Lluvia is a total bastard with everyone, all the time. Nothing ever happens to her.
* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge: Chemists were treated like this in the old days. Now, the main cast qualifies, and those who share their secrets.
* KillItWithWater: Lluvia tries this against Kaji. Several times.
* KingMook: Finalmigo is a bigger, armoured version of the common Labyrinth enemies.
* LadyOfAdventure: Flama is willing to win the League and become a soldier.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Kaji never remembers anything after the Dusk Virus powerups.
* LastMinuteProject: Nizo did his Super Work about the return trip form Leona City.
* LavaPit: One of the Labyrinth´s obstacles.
* LeaveNoSurvivors: Many rebelled soldiers played this back in Zero Day.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: Lampshaded in "So you're saying the watchman has a son, that he's in your class and that he won Lluvia in a fight?!" "That's a good summary of what we just said."
* LetsGetDangerous: "Asskicking time".
* TheLibraryOfBabel: Leona City´s is actually just a big library, but due to the general lack of books in the whole country, specially about history, it´s treated like this.
* LightningBruiser: Karbô, a rock golem-like giant man who moves almost as fast as Zap.
* LightningCanDoAnything: Matarratas tells Zap to electrify Finalmigo to confuse his thought patterns. [[OmnicidalManiac It backfired]].
* LittleMissBadass: Lluvia can crush giant boulders with one punch effortlessly and drown you in seconds with a tidal wave. She was also the strongest fighter in a school for super powered kids.
* LittleMissSnarker: Lluvia again.
* LookBehindYou: Subverted, there is actually an ice giant behind Arturo and Nizo.
* LotusEaterMachine: The Labyrinth is a dreamlike mental world created by Anpepón to test the students of the Beluga School. It´s full of [[DeathTrap Death Traps]] and YourMindMakesItReal, but they rescue you if something awful ever happens (at cost of failing the test, of course).
* MadeOfPhlebotinum: Ghosts, or spectre elementals, such as Lambda, are entirely made of spectre element. [[OurGhostsAreDifferent They are not the souls of deceased people and are actually alive. They appear one day at random, never age,]] [[AndIMustScream and then one day dissapear suddenly, with no previous warning.]]
* MadScientistLaboratory: Matarratas has a secret lab, with a sign that Rubeola made to annoy Mat. Kinda subverted because Matarratas is not crazy, and he believes works there with Desangrador to make an antidote so virus elementals can touch living beings without harming them. Desangrador´s fits better, because he actually is a murderous psychopath.
* MagicAntidote: the Dawn Project, initiated by Colonel Ébola, and then continued by Desangrador and Matarratas with the goal of creating an antidote that would allow virus elementals to touch living beings without harming them. Turns out it was a ploy to re create the Dusk virus, planned by both [[CompleteMonster Ébola]] and [[ManipulativeBastard Desangrador]]
* {{Mana}}: Vital Energy, wich is measured in moles.
* {{Masquerade}}: The premise of the comic.
* MassOhCrap: The main cast when they found the yótum.
* MilitaryAcademy: Many, but you have to win the League if you want to get a higher rank some day.
* MilitaryBrat: Ember.
* MysteriousInformant: It wasn´t Benjamin... it´s Adler.
* MoodWhiplash: One of the author´s distinctive tropes.
* MookMaker: Desangrador has some capsules that can turn inanimate objects into living servants. Their overall power depends in what object you use the capsule in, and the resultant mooks can develop their own personality, but they seem to obey their master doubtless.
* MonochromaticEyes: Many characters have this, mostly for the art style.
** When they are not [[BlankWhiteEyes Blank White Eyes]] due to the Dusk Virus being activated...
* Morph Weapon: Hugin is able to merge with Sokar´s Wascythe to increase it´s power greatly and give it a self-conciousness.
* MrExposition: Matarratas and Kaji do this from time to time, but the main Mr. Exposition is Dino.
* MundaneUtility: Karol works as oven in a bakery. Lightbulbs have light because light elementals give it to them.
** [[ShockAndAwe Zap can turn his face on to illuminate dark places]].
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Rubeola says something like this to Kaji once. It doen´t seem to bother her much, actually.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: It looks like a running theme with virus elementals: Matarratas means literally Ratkiller, Desangrador means Bleeder, Varicela means Chicken Pox, and of course, Dr. Ebola.
* TheNarrator: Kaji. Ember in the Ember Chronicles.
* NeckLift: Lluvia does this to Nizo.
* NeverMyFault: Lluvia extends this to "it´s all Kaji´s fault, always". Dino is fond of blaming Kaji for everything as well.
* NiceGuy: Even if he is [[TheStoic quite serious]], Sokar fits this trope very well.
* TheNicknamer: Nizo seems to be this. [[IncrediblyLamePun He sucks at it]].
* NightmareFace: [[http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/268/d/3/5_elementos___pierre_curry_by_tobi2873-d2zgywb.jpg Corrupt Captain Pierre Curry]]. [[MoodWhiplash It´s even lampshaded when he states that he can´t drink water in a glass, because he will spill it from a side.]]
* NoExceptYes: Subverted: "You're grounding me?" "Grounding? I prefer to call it in another way. But that's how it's called, I'm not gonna change the name now."
* NoIndoorVoice: ROCO!!!!
* NoSell: The enemies in the Labyrinth are inmune to Matarratas´s virus-based attacks.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: In a flashback, Benjamin tells Kaji that when you die, the elements that compose your body return to nature to create more life, and your "soul" just stops existing.
** But as stated by Sôkar's father in the same chapter, that's no more than a guess. After all, since [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts aren't really ghosts]], there's no way to know for sure.
* ObviouslyEvil: Desangrador. Turned out he wasn´t. Turned out he is a [[CompleteMonster Complete Monster]].
* OffscreenTeleportation: How the heck did Chisp enter the Labyrinth? He doesn´t want to answer.
* OhCrap: Many times, the most famous may be one of Lluvia when she tried to drown Kaji, only for him to vaporize the water in an instant and then punch her in the face.
** Also when Zap and Sôkar thought they had defeated [[NighInvulnerability Karbô]] for good, only to have him get up and strike back at them.
* OneHitKill: Most of the common enemies in the Labyrinth suffered this from the main cast. Also, Lluvia killed Finalmigo in one hit once she stoppped laughing.
** Kaji destroys the yótum with one attack when the Dusk Virus activates for the first time.
* OneManArmy: All of the Five Elements, specially their leader, Ken Válbrandur.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Mr. Aquarrica is willing to destroy Beluga Town to get Ember fired and take mount Pito from him, so he can make a water park there.
* ParentalAbandonment: Sorta, Flama´s parents don´t really care that much about her.
* ParentalFavoritism: Chisp tries to make Ember act this way towards him, to get money.
* ParentalSubstitute: Rubeola is this to Matarratas. Also Desangrador, until recent chapters.
** Benjamin, Kaji´s uncle, used to be more parental than Ember.
* PlayingATree: Dino's play doesn't have enough characters for all of the children to play, so many of them ended up doing the filler parts of forest animals, a shepherd and even a rock and a cloud, yeah, really. In a literal example Zap got the part of the tree, he was quite happy and excited about it because he was the ''titular'' character along with Kaji's Bifrost.
* PleaseWakeUp: Zap to Sokar, after the binding shadow binding him and Lluvia is cut when she gets kidnapped by Bombastus´ henchmen. Karbo insists that Sokar is dead.
* PlotPoint: In the very first episode, Kaji told Ember he would become a soldier in order to live in Leona City with Benjamin, and thought he would soon forget it. Seven chapters later, [[TournamentArc we find out he hasn´t.]]
* PowerLevels: Attacks are classified in levels from 1 to 5. Subverted because the levels aren´t defined by the power of the attack, but for how the element is used. There´s also Level A, wich symbolizes the elemental´s "animal energy", and can consist on elemental summons, transformations, or even fusions with the particular animal.
* PowerNullifier: Desangrador can do this, nobody knows how. It´s also one of the Kimikoho´s abilities, by dissassembling matter in the elements that compose it.
** That weird technique Adler used with Kaji has this as a side-effect.
* PowerTrio: Lambda is the Superego, Dino and Leo are both Ego and Id.
* PromotionToParent: Rubeola to Matarratas.
* PsychicPowers: Psyche elementals. Up to now thay have demonstrated being capable of create illusions, mental worlds, read minds and "shutdown brains".
* PsychoSerum: The Dusk Virus is something like this. It corrupts you little by little, consumming you and making you go mad.
* PsychoticSmirk: It means Dino has a plan, and Kaji won´t like it.
* PunnyName: Often referred to the element that person controls: Kaji Llamaviva (Fire Livingflame) is a fire elemental, Zap is a lightning elemental.
* PuppyDogEyes: Lambda does this trying to convince Dino of not going to Leona City. [[TournamentArc She fails.]]
* TheQuietOne: Lolo, the guide to Leona City, seems like this, but he is actually a party beast. We don't get to see him like this until the end of the second arc, but Leo informs us about the things he does.
** Wap is a more straight example.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Kaji thinks this about his Fire 13 teammates. Magmuto and Wap may be this, but [[AwesomeByAnalysis Bombeta is actually]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass quite good.]]
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: "I have headache or stomachache".
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Matarratas gives one of the [[DisappointedInYou most spectacular speeches ever]] to Kaji as they fight in "Virus and Fire".
** A minor one given by Demencio to Lluvia about her group of "friends". The worst part is that Lluvia can´t help but believing him, even if she doesn´t want to.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Kaji is easily replaced by Fire13 in the second League.
* {{Revenge}}: Lluvia was actually scared that reborned Uroboros would attack her after what happened in the temple. Of course, being an Alcahest elemental, she has nothing to be afraid of.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: reborned Uroboros. The fact that is quite affective doesn´t help.
* RockBottom: Kaji uses to say that his current situation couldn´t be worse. God, is he wrong.
* RunningGag: Strange shaped rocks, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Matarratas and Zap´s bitter relationship]], Sokar kicking people in the nuts, Zap´s anecdotes from the orphanage, and also references to the author´s first work Raruto (a parody of Naruto).
** Also taking KV, the initials of Ken Válbrandur, to mean "kulos vuenos" ("hot butts" misspelled blatantly). And Kaji's various nicknames: his surname is Llamaviva (Livingflame), and he got as nicknames Llamamuerta (Deadflame), Llamamoco (Snotflame), and even Llamabesos (Kissflame).
* SecretPolice: The SS. Ember is one of them.
* SadistTeacher: Dino and Lambda are this, specially to Kaji. They are not actually evil, they are just jerks.
* SarcasmMode: "Kaji! Does it hurt much?" "No... I'm just bleding to death...".
* SchoolForScheming: Desangrador's job as a teacher is only a facade.
* SchoolIdol: Arturo is close to this. Again, money.
* SchoolPlay: In the third arc.
* SecretKeeper: Zap keeps silence about Kaji´s book. Eventually, Lluvia, Matarratas and Sokar become this as well. And then, Dino and Rubeola, as well as possibly Leo and Lambda, join the bunch.
** And none of them nor Adler told anyone that Kaji is the one that killed the yótum.
** The kids also keep silence about Kaji´s [[PsychoSerum Dusk Virus]], and [[ChildProdigy Matarratas]] is even helping him counter it.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Played for laughs when Lluvia and Sokar begin describing the book's symbols and its spine.
* Shapeshifting: Comes in two variants, {{animorphism}} to a particular animal, and turning into your element. The second variant, and maybe also the first, [[PartialTransformation can be partial]].
* SinisterScythe: Sokar´s level 3.
* SociopathicSoldier: Pierre Curry, and many more briefly shown during the Zero Day flashback.
* SpiderSense: It looks like young sahdow elementals can feel the changes in their host´s energy, even if the host is far away.
* StepfordSmiler: Anpepón Anatolia is a type 2.
* SternTeacher: Don´t talk without rising your hand first during Leo´s classes. Sit straight, don´t talk too loud, don´t be a class clown. [[BerserkButton And never begin talking about nonsensical myths and legends. Those are for Literature class.]].
* StormingTheCastle: The Five Elements did it on Zero Day. Easy for them.
* TheStrategist: SS captain Faraday seems to be this.
* StuffBlowingUp: Steelspikes is a gunpowder elemental. This is his standard power.
* SuckySchool: Beluga Town's: their teachers are lazy jerks and the education plan doesn't seem to be pretty good. Interestingly, the "out of date textbooks" quirk is inversed, due to the new kingdom´s politics about forgetting history.
* SummonMagic: Level A is capable of this, like Sokar´s shadow crows, Hugin and Munin.
* SuperMode: The Dusk Virus seems to be this. [[PsychoSerum With some drawbacks.]]
** Both Rubeola and Dino have one.
* SuperSoldier: SS soldiers are this and, of course, the [[OneManArmy Five Elements]].
* SwordCane: Lluvia´s level 3. It´s actually a [[WeaponOfChoice sword umbrella]]
* TheSymbiote: Young shadow elementals have to be near 100 meters form their host, or they will start feeling weak, or even faint.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Lampshaded.
* TacticalSuicideBoss: Finalmigo hits himself while trying to hit [[TeleportSpam Sokar]].
* TheTease: Rubeola sometimes does this to make Kaji feel awkward, like saying how she LOVES redheads, and later saying that "with this light, your hair is ''specially'' red".
* TeleportSpam: A shadow elemental ability.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The main cast in their objective. Even more now that they share so many secrets and that they will compete in the League, as a team. HilarityEnsues.
* ThirdPersonPerson: ROCO!!!! again.
* TickleTorture: Nizo and Tarantula do this to Kaji and Lluvia. While they are sleeping, inside the Labyrinth. [[BossFight Fighting Finalmigo]]. [[OhCrap Not cool]].
** As the main cast thinks this is an ability of Finalmigo, [[CloudCuckooLander Zap]] starts laughing without any provocation.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The book written by Ken Valbrandur (leader of the Five Elements) is treated like this. Maybe the fact that is written in an ancient language helps a bit.
* TookALevelInBadass: Almost everyone by the second League. Special mention goes to the snot team.
* TouchOfDeath: Virus elementals most distinctive characteristic, when not in full control of their powers.
* TournamentArc: The second arc is about the Elemental League, an anual competition wich includes fights, [[CookingDuel among other challenges]]. If you want a decent job, you have to win it.
* TrainingFromHell: Dino puts Kaji throug this to make him learn Katai. If he couldn´t burn 100 papers at the same time without expanding the fire and without wasting energy, all the remaining papers would cut him at once.
** At the end of the third arc, Matarratas asks Lluvia for training. He quickly repented.
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Beluga School has Combat class, in wich the students learn to use their powers for offense and defense. Even when Kaji points out that public school aren´t allowed to train their students in the Five Levels style of combat, Dino just doesn´t care about that (and surely many more) law(s).
* Tropperiffic
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Lluvia threatened to kill Fósforo if Kaji refused to fight her in the Elemental League.
** In a lower level, Chisp acts a lot like a mafia boss and threatens his teacher with burning his bycicle "by accident". He is 8 years old.
* TurnsRed: Finalmigo can level up when he is about to be defeated.
* TheUnFavourite: Ember: "Look Karol, my son Chisp [[FantasticRacism befriends elementals of the fire branch.]] Not like your son Kaji" Karol: "Both of them are our sons" Ember: "Yeah, whatever".
* UnusualEuphemism: [[GroinAttack "My elemental parts!!"]].
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Flama, an old friend of Kaji, from when he lived in Leona City.
* [[VeteranInstrusctor Veteran Instructors]]: Ember´s.
* VillainousBreakDown: Mr. Aquarrica brings an ice giant to crush some of the town so Ember, the town guardian, will get fired. Too bad Ember is out of town.
* TheVirus: Three of them, apparently.
* WarIsHell
* WeaponOfChoice: Level 3 consists in using a specific weapon to manipulate your element. Also, umbrellas are a popular one for water elementals.
* WhamEpisode: "In the Rain".
* WhamLine: [[OhCrap "Nice diary"]]
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Amor (a heart elemental) is getting prepared to fight some birds during a the Labyrinth, while boasting about the power of love. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The birds beat the crap out of her before she can end her speech]].
** Dino, as a paper elemental combat proffessor, is treated like this sometimes.
** The lizard-rider cork elemental states that he still has to find any utility for his powers.
* WeWereRehearsingAPlay: When people hear Matarratas shouting about his experience during Kaji´s Dusk virus´s first burst, he wants to say this, but he gets nervous, and says that it´s for a ballet.
* WhenIWasYourAge: Ember does this alot, and describes his younger days as total crap.
* TheWorfEffect: Once Ember is revealed to be a SS soldier, he beats captain Pierre Curry in one hit.
** Also Finalmigo and the yótum.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Lluvia thinks this about Kaji. [[OhCrap She was wrong]].
* WreathedInFlames: Level 1 Katai consists in this.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Grandfather And Many Scientists]]: If Matarratas could talk to the Five Elements in person, he would tell them this.
** Altough he doesn't know this, he was killed by Ébola, not the five elements.
** YOU KILLED MY FAMILY!!!
* YouDidntAsk
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: When Sokar prevents Finalmigo of finishing Kaji off
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[[caption-width-right:227:[[TouchOfDeath Matarratas,]] [[ShockAndAwe Zap,]] [[PlayingWithFire Kaji,]] [[MakingASplash Lluvia]] and [[CastingAShadow Sokar]]]]
->''"The world. A finite home, quite big and composed by hundreds of elements. "''
-->-- '''Kaji'''
5 Elementos (5 Elements) is a Spanish "manga", written by Jesús García Ferrer, set in a fantastic world. This world is ruled by elementals, people with the power to control nature's elements (going from fire to viruses to shit. No, really).
After the world's most powerful warriors (called the Five Elements) betray the king of their nation and then disappear, the new king erases all of the nation's historic records, to "create a brand new nation". Many years later, Kaji Llamaviva (the protagonist, a 13 year old kid), along with his friend Zap and [[BitchInSheepsClothing some kids]] [[InsufferableGenius that hate him]] [[TrueNeutral (and Sokar)]], starts investigating the Five Elements to discover what really happened, and if the official version is actually true, or the government is keeping a masquerade.
The mood is mostly comic, but it has moments of tension, suspense and drama. It has won the award to the best manga of spanish author twice. It began in 9/24/2008 and is still ongoing.
As for now it is only in Spanish: [[http://jesulink.com/descargas.php?sub=cincoelementos]]
But it seems an italian team is translating it to Italian: [[http://5elementos.forumfree.it/?f=6292431]]
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: [[HotMom All mothers in the series]] seem to have given birth to their children while quite young...
* AcademyOfAdventure
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Sauce did this for a while, after being hit by one of Zap´s lightnings.
* ActualPacifist: Sauce.
* AgeAppropriateAngst: Poor Benjamin was 8 years old when his mom died in the Zero Day.
* AllThereInTheManual: A lot of information is found only in the book format, including backstory of the elemental world, or the element of certain characters.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Matarratas explains that an Alcahest elemental, Lluvia, for example, could manipulate all the elements.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Kaji´s mother, Karol, has shades of this.
* ApologeticAttacker: Sokar.
* ArtEvolution
* ArtificialHuman: Hiedra´s team, created by Dr. Bombastus. Special mencion to Kei, who was made with the power of controlling both fire and shadow.
* AStormIsComing: Near the end of the second arc.
* {{Asspull}}: Lluvia and Sokar by chance happen to know the Ancient Language in wich the book is written.
* AtTheCrossroads: In the Labyrinth, the paths taken by the five main characters meet near the end. Conversed by Kaji as he narrates.
** The same things happen to Ember and Sebastian in the Ember´s Chronicle chapters, and as Ember narrates, he uses the same phrases that Kaji used 22 chapters before.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Pretty much everywhere.
* BadassTeacher: All of them, of course. It´s a world where everyone has elemental powers. But [[PaperMaster Dino]] and Leo take the cake.
* BadLiar: Zap.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: [[TouchOfDeath Matarratas and Rubeola]].
* TheBait: Nizo uses Roco as bait to get Lambda out of the way, so they can go where the main cast is ([[LotusEaterMachine sleeping, their minds inside of the Labyrinth]]) and screw with their bodies.
* BattleAura: Katai is basically a fire aura. It makes the user stronger, faster, and lasts longer than common Katotsu.
* BerserkButton: Stating that Kaji and his father are similar. Beating Lluvia in a fight. Defying Matarratas´ intelligence, defending the Five Elements in front of him and saying anything remotely offensive towards his dead relatives, specially his grandfather Sebastian. Talking abour "legends" during Leo´s class.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Lluvia believes that this applies to all people.
* {{Blackmail}}: Kaji implies that he knows about Matarratas´ secret lab in order to get his cooperation.
* BlatantLies: All over the place, mostly used for comedic effect.
** Except when Karol told Kaji that maybe he was going to see Benjamin if he stayed in Leona City and tried hard to win the League.
* BlindSeer: The Was family of shadow elementals are always blindfolded. They see with their soul.
* BloodKnight: Lluvia is happy at the perspective of going through the League again because she will be able to kick asses.
** Hiedra went for blood wen she attacked Zap.
* BossFight: Finalmigo (Finalfoe) is the boss of the Labyrinth.
* BossRoom: The last room of the Labyrinth, where the main cast fights Finalmigo.
* BossSubtitles: Done three times until now.
* BossVulnerability: Matarratas thinks Finalmigo is a type two: "Surely he attacks, then gets vulnerable [[GenreSavvy and we hit him]] [[RuleOfThree three times"]].
* BottomlessPit: One of the Labyrinth´s obstacles.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Desangrador said he was going to do this to Anpepón after he attacked the main cast. It´s actually a case of [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou Can´t Kill You Still Need You]]. He also ends killing Anpepón.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: From time to time.
** Only in the first arc and maybe the start of the second. It gets slightly more serious after that.
* BreathWeapon: [[{{Jerkass}} Griposo]] breathes flu, incapacitating his opponents once he is able to grab them.
* BullfightBoss: Finalmigo has shades of this.
* TheBully: Nizo, but we only see him annoying Kaji. Lluvia is this to almost everyone who has any interaction with her.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: The Kimikoho is a special vision that allows virus elementals to see all the elements that compose nature and every being and thing, thus making them able to manipulate them with ease. Matarratas inherited it from his grandfather, Sebastián Flu Rattengift.
* CallingYourAttacks: At least the level.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Both Anpepón and the main cast have suffered this.
* TheCaptain: There are many captains in the military. However, the Four Colonels are the true military bosses.
* CaptainErsatz: Look at the long haired guy in Hiedra´s team of the League and try not to think of [[{{Naruto}} Orochimaru]].
* CerebusSyndrome: Or more like:
* CerebusRollercoaster: First chapters make you believe it is going to be just an AffectionateParody of manga. Later chapters switch from [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funny]] to [[HeartwarmingMoments se]][[TearJerker ri]][[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ous]] more often.
** Word of God says this was completely intentional: since it's a webcomic, and Raruto (the author's previous manga, a parody of Naruto) had gotten quite some audience, Jesulink didn't want to scare them away by changing the style too suddenly.
* ChekhovsGag: "When using the dreamworld technique, (Anpepón) is so vulnerable that a mischievous 13 year old kid with bad ideas could beat him".
** Also Dino´s paper castle, for comedic effect only.
** [[CloudCuckoolander Zap]] describes Desangrador (meaning "Bleeder") with: "He dissects animals, and that thing he wears at his back could be a corpse. [[InsaneTrollLogic He looks trustworthy.]]" When Desangrador later saves the heroes, he goes: [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight "I called he looked trustworthy."]] [[spoiler: When he finally is revealed as a villain, he goes: [[TooDumbToFool "I told you he looked trustworthy, not that he could be trusted."]]]]
* ChekhovsGun: Someone stole soporifics and rubidium form Mat´s bag...
* ChildProdigy: Kaji's father, Ember, is this with his elemental powers. His brother, Benjamin, is an intelectual genius.
** It's also said that all of the Five Elements dominated the five levels of combat before turning 18.
** Matarratas can create and modify very complex chemical mixes, even those made by an expert proffessional. [[InTheBlood He inheritted it from his grandfather.]]
* ChildSoldiers: If you win the League, you can be a high ranked soldier, even if you are a teenager.
* ClassTrip: Dino forced this, so all of Kaji´s class can go with him to Leona City. That way, Kaji will have to do the Super Work, and Dino, Lluvia and Nizo will be able to annoy him anytime they want.
* CloudCuckooLander: Classic of the author, Zap is the most extreme example (for now).
** Melon Pijollama is an interesting example: he insists that he and Kaji are long known rivals, he usually talks about their "old times" and how he "used to beat him daily". None of this has actually happened, and Kaji met him for the first time at the exhibitions in the Elemental League.
* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Kaji just [[PaperThinDisguise wraps a scarf around his face and says that he is a steam elemental called "Steamy"]] to enter the Labyrinth. It turns out that there is a kid called Steamy, and Kaji looks almost like him. Of course, once the real Steamy shows up, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny the examinator thinks he is an impostor.]]
* ColonelBadass: The four Colonels, presumably.
* ColonelKilgore: Not actually colonels, but many soldiers with high ranks were shown enjoying the Zero Day greatly and killing people out of fun.
* ColossusClimb: The yótum is as big as your average skyscraper. [[UnWinnable And there is no weak spot.]]
* CompleteMonster: The official version says that the Five Elements were this. Also Pierre Curry. And Desangrador.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Finalmigo is invulnerable to Matarratas´ [[TouchOfDeath virical attacks]], as well as the other Labyrinth enemies.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Kaji: "I'd rather choke on my own vomit!!" Karol: "You know i don´t like you to drink with haste".
** [[CloudCuckooLander Zap is also prone to this.]]
* ConLang: The Ancient Language. Ken Válbrandur´s book is written completely like this. [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands Lluvia and Sokar also happen to know some of it, because Sokar´s anthropologist grandfather did teach them a bit.]] So does Benjamin. And Adler.
** A closer study of the Ancient language shows that it's little more than Catalan (a language spoken in part of Spain) spelled backwards and with vowels thrown in randomly, in what appears to be a parody of "katakanization". When it's not just [[CypherLanguage Spanish spelled in the Ancient alphabet]].
** Subverted with Lizard Speech: you just have to add the word "Lizard" after each sentence, and you will be able to speak it flawlessly.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: A fire elemental ability. Lampshaded by Zap when not only Kaji is unharmed by lava, but his clothes as well.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Bombeta shows great versatility at using [[LightEmUp his powers]] and good [[AwesomeByAnalysis analytic abilities]].
** And Ember, Dino and Leo definitely count.
* CrushKillDestroy: The robot teacher Lapicero (mechanical pen) becomes this when his software fails, or when he wants to scare someone. He is normally very nice to children.
* CurbStompBattle: The Five Elements were famous for this. Also Lluvia to Bombeta and Fósforo in the Elemental League. And much later, Ember to Pierre Curry.
** The main cast did this to some monsters in the Labyrinth. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Except Matarratas]].
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Water elementals have blue, plant elementals have green, fire elementals (mostly) have red, virus elementals seem to be violet and so on...
* CustomUniform: Each rank on each of the four military divisions has a specific uniform. The author has shown the uniforms [[http://jesulink.com/cincoelementos/img/documentos/soldados.jpg for the lowest rank in each division]].
* CuteBruiser: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Or at least, as much cute you can think Lluvia is...]]
* DadTheVeteran: Ember was a soldier. He currently is a SS soldier.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Both Finalmigo and the yótum, even if both of them are later [[OneHitKill destroyed in one hit]]
* DarkestHour
* DarkIsNotEvil: Matarratas may be quite jerkish, but he isn´t evil. And Sokar is probably the nicest guy around.
* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone. Specially Lluvia and Matarratas. They mostly suck at it too.
* DeanBitterman: Dino (the school´s principal) subverts this: even if he is jerky with almost everyone, he is sadistic only to Kaji.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Diagnosis: he is bleeding a lot".
** The Ancient Language is the language of the Ancients, an ancient tribe, of ancient customs.
** Kaji´s team for the League is called "Fire13". Guess wich elemental branch do all the members belong to.
* {{Determinator}}: Lluvia keeps attacking the yótum, even if it´s totally useless.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The government will kill you if you are found investigating the previous era, or looking for information about the Five Elements, it doesn´t matter if you are 13 years old.
* TheDitz: Karol, Kaji´s mother, can have shades of this sometimes.
* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: Zap.
* DoomMagnet: Lluvia accuses Kaji of being this.
* EldritchLocation: The Sheetworld, the place where your [[OurSoulsAreDifferent energy]] goes when it´s [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower imprisoned in a paper sheet]].
** The uncrossable Ocean. Also the Labirynth´s mental world, arguably.
* DraftDodging: Kaji wants to lose the League in order to do this.
* ElementalEmbodiment: The yotums are elemental giants that live far away from elementals. An ice yotum has appeared in the story, and a rock yotum has been mentioned. There are also some other elemental animals, [[http://jesulink.com/cincoelementos/img/documentos/criaturas1.jpg like these]].
** Also Adler's Level A Ornáguila. It´s a fire giant eagle wich Adler uses as transport.
* ElementalPowers: Fire, Water, Earth, Virus, Psyche, Paper, Egg, Shit...
* ElementalPunch: Katotsu is a level 1 fire technique that allows you to ignite a part of your body (mostly your fists) to make fire punches or kicks.
* [[EmergencyTransformation Emergency Body Change]]: While fighting Karbo, Zap finally revives [[LivingShadow Sokar, who binds with him so they can face Karbo]].
* EmptyPromise: Well, Karol didn´t ''promise'' Kaji that Benjamin was going to appear, but she said it to stimulate him. He found out and ran away crying.
* EnergyBall: More like Virus Ball.
* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: Fire 13 first meeting is this.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: That fat guy of Leftovers 5? His name is Fatass. And the little one? He is Dwarf.
* ExaltedTorturer: Pierre Curry.
* ExtranormalInstitute
* {{Familiar}}: Hugin and Munin, the Was family giant, dark, [[Sesquipedalian Locuaciousness adequately verbose]], shadow elemental crows. They were not aware of Sokar´s dirty business, but they decide not to tell Sokar´s parents.
* FantasticRacism: Ember is this in spades, and it causes people to think Kaji is one as well. It´s also very common between fire and water elementals. Also people in general against virus elementals.
** This led to the anihilation of air and earth elementals, all of them killed during the chaos of the Zero Day.
* {{Fartillery}}: Fart is an element too.
* FatherIDontWantToFight: Ember would love Kaji becoming a soldier, but Kaji always answers this.
* TheFerryman: Chisp Llamaviva will transport you across the Labyrinth´s lava pit for a golden coin.
* {{Fireballs}}: And Magmaballs. Virusballs as well.
* FiveManBand: The Five Elements. Also the protagonists might be this, even if two of them hate Kaji with passion, and the roles can't be clearly defined.
* {{Flanderization}}: Lluvia started as a very kind girl, and even after Kaji angered her, she looked at him with a "poor guy" expression after he ran away from the fire in the school. Now she is just a jerkass who treats everyone badly, specially Kaji.
** In recent chapters, [[spoiler:when she was kidnapped, she did seem to care a lot about Sôkar, and even if only slightly, also about Kaji,]] revealing that she might actually be a {{tsundere}}.
* FlatEarthAtheist: [[MeaningfulName Leonardo Davín]] is quite skeptical about legends in general, even considering that he lives in a world of elemental embodiments and superpowers.
* FloatingPlatform: [[DishingOutDirt Roco]] tries this to cross the lava pit in the Labyrinth. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny He falls.]]
* FollowInMyFootsteps: Ember would like Kaji to be a soldier.
* ForbiddenZone: the Ocean. Limited to population by a giant wall, it´s impossible to corss and is deemed [[EldritchLocation "the End of the World"]]. Everyone who has tried to cross it is dead, even water elementals. Except maybe one person...
* FriendOrIdolDecision: Kei is burning the book and Bombastus kidnaps a poisoned Lluvia. Kaji must make a desicion, and while the rest of the team pursues the kidnappers, he stays and tries to save thee book and convince the others to stay. This leads to a fight with Matarratas.
* GadgeteerGenius: Leo. He has invented a power analyzer, and Dino says he has more gadgets. He has a mechanical hand as well, wich he calls his "good hand".
* GenkiGirl: Flama can be a light one sometimes.
* GenreSavvy: Not so savvy actually, but it´s used for comedic effect.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Actually there´s no radar, so the author can do whatever he wants. The kids, for example, swear a lot. Also the teachers seem to organize chicken fights.
** The kids don't swear any more than a normal Spanish kid their age (it's just that the Spanish "joder" is softer than the English equivalent "fuck"). But he does seem to have a radar: for example, a couple characters are [[CurseCutShort cut midword]] when saying "coño" (like English "fuck" or maybe stronger). Also, the sentence "Let's play doctors" shows up twice with a character about to shot an injection to someone against their will (in fact, the second is replied with "Are you going to abuse me?").
* GirlNextDoor: Flama has some aspects of this towards Kaji.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Lluvia can control her razor-sharp umbrella with her powers (it has water inside). It´s also a [[SwordCane Sword Cane.]]
** That douchebag girl in the League uses her plant powers to transform her arm into a branch and pierce her enemies.
* GoddamnedBoss: [[NoSell Finalmigo is this for Matarratas.]]
* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Part of Mr. Aquarrica´s plan, he needed the teachers out of town, so his assistant told them the yotum was in the mountains.
* GoodLookingPrivates: The Adler brothers and Ember are good examples.
* [[GranolaGirl Granola Kid]]: Plant elemental Sauce, and his mother, Acacia.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The Zero Day can be considered this. We got some images on the Ember Chronicles, but not much was revealed.
* GreenEyedMonster: Desangrador is quite frustrated by the fact that the Kimikoho allows Matarratas, as it did with Sebastián to find and create the most complicated formulas with ease.
* GroinAttack: Lluvia likes doing this, when she is not trying to kill you.
** Also Sokar does this from time to time.
* GuardianEntity: Ouroboros, the giant snake that "guards the Alcahest"
* HaHaHaNo
* {{Hammerspace}}: The place where stuff goes when absorbed by shadows. It´s called "shadow memory" and it´s limit to absorb matter is proportional to the user´s own power. Munin has enough shadow memory to swallow and teleport enormous boulders.
* HandicappedBadass: Hodr Arian, the "Blue Leviathan", member of the Five Elements. Blind but deadly.
* [[HealingHands Healing Teeth]]: Ouroboros has a healing bite. It´s quite effective.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: [[PaperMaster Dino]] can imprison your soul inside [[EldritchLocation a paper sheet]]. Don´t make him mad. He also has shown a great battle prowess while fighting Desangrador.
** The much ridiculized Heart element is, according to an interview by the author with the fans, the ability to literally control hearts, even though it could have other properties as well.
** [[PunnyName Fatass]] is an egg elemental. He can totally drown you in a giant egg yolk.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Played for laughs, Ember thougt Colonel Cerilla was going to do this to him. Played completely straight against people who investigate about the past.
* {{Hellfire}}: This is what the Dusk Virus causes on fire elementals. It can burn without oxygen, and even burn fireproof materials. Crisol hypothezises that it works like a mini nuclear fusion, chewing the elemental´s energy away.
* HeroicSacrifice: When Zap is about to be killed by Finalmigo, Kaji intercepts it, and Finalmigo pierces his body.
** Adler´s brother blew himself up to save Ember from Dr, Ebola.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Kaji is a not so bad example.
* HotDad: Some.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A shadow elemental specialty is to return attacks to their owner. Karbo was literally defeated by his own hand.
* HotShounenMom: Karol, Kaji´s mother, and Rosita, Amor´s mother. Also unnamed Sokar´s mom. Kaji´s grandmother Sirone didn´t look bad either.
* HotTeacher: Lambda, [[OurGhostsAreDifferent even though she is 68.]]
* HowDoYouSay: Orubak is Ancient for Jerkass.
* IAmNotMyFather: Kaji, even if many people thinks that he is like Ember.
* {{Immortality}}: Uroboros is a type IV. Sorta.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: Alcahest is theorized to be this. It´s existance is mostly hypotetycal tough, and it´s existence has not been officially recognized. At least if you don´t count the ruins under Mount Pito. And Lluvia.
* InformedAbility: "Sokar can move in darkness just fine". [[CrowningMomentOfFunny He can´t.]]
** In chapter 39 he does lead Zap through the dark. That was probably just the labyrinth confounding his shadow powers, {{played for laughs}}.
* InsaneTrollLogic: "I'm the architect because I'm a lightning elemental".
** "It's all so ancient and it's full of texts in Ancient [language]. Coincidence? You bet."
** (Talking about a stage play:)
--> '''Zap''': I don't complain 'coz I'm the protagonist.
--> '''Matarratas''': The heck, protagonist? You're a tree!
--> '''Zap''': That's why. The play's called "Bifrost and the tree". And I'm the tree.
* InsistentTerminology: A man once says "it would be the end of humanity". He quickly corrects himself: "i mean, of elementality".
* InstantFanClub: Arturo has one. [[ExtraOreDinary Money is the reason]].
* InsufferableGenius: Matarratas can be quite annoying sometimes, but [[CharacterDevelopment he is getting better lately]].
* InverseLawOfComplexityToPower: Elementals of "pure" elements can control both its element and any element descended from it - so a copper elemental can only control copper, while a metal elemental can control every metal, including copper. An elemental that could control the theorical fundamental element Alcahest would be able to control all substances in nature.
** Though the fact that they can control more elements doesn't necessarily give them an advantage.
* JawDrop: Dino did this when Kaji beat Lluvia.
* {{Jerkass}}: All the main cast and many others have their oportunity. Special mention to the Hiedra who appears in the League and doesn´t even need provocation.
** Griposo is only in the League to screw aorund as much as he can, out of spite for being fired from the army for stealing money.
* TheJuggernaut: Karbô, graphene elemental, a nigh-invulnerable [[TheBrute gargantuan man]].
* KarmaHoudini: Lluvia is a total bastard with everyone, all the time. Nothing ever happens to her.
* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge: Chemists were treated like this in the old days. Now, the main cast qualifies, and those who share their secrets.
* KillItWithWater: Lluvia tries this against Kaji. Several times.
* KingMook: Finalmigo is a bigger, armoured version of the common Labyrinth enemies.
* LadyOfAdventure: Flama is willing to win the League and become a soldier.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Kaji never remembers anything after the Dusk Virus powerups.
* LastMinuteProject: Nizo did his Super Work about the return trip form Leona City.
* LavaPit: One of the Labyrinth´s obstacles.
* LeaveNoSurvivors: Many rebelled soldiers played this back in Zero Day.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: Lampshaded in "So you're saying the watchman has a son, that he's in your class and that he won Lluvia in a fight?!" "That's a good summary of what we just said."
* LetsGetDangerous: "Asskicking time".
* TheLibraryOfBabel: Leona City´s is actually just a big library, but due to the general lack of books in the whole country, specially about history, it´s treated like this.
* LightningBruiser: Karbô, a rock golem-like giant man who moves almost as fast as Zap.
* LightningCanDoAnything: Matarratas tells Zap to electrify Finalmigo to confuse his thought patterns. [[OmnicidalManiac It backfired]].
* LittleMissBadass: Lluvia can crush giant boulders with one punch effortlessly and drown you in seconds with a tidal wave. She was also the strongest fighter in a school for super powered kids.
* LittleMissSnarker: Lluvia again.
* LookBehindYou: Subverted, there is actually an ice giant behind Arturo and Nizo.
* LotusEaterMachine: The Labyrinth is a dreamlike mental world created by Anpepón to test the students of the Beluga School. It´s full of [[DeathTrap Death Traps]] and YourMindMakesItReal, but they rescue you if something awful ever happens (at cost of failing the test, of course).
* MadeOfPhlebotinum: Ghosts, or spectre elementals, such as Lambda, are entirely made of spectre element. [[OurGhostsAreDifferent They are not the souls of deceased people and are actually alive. They appear one day at random, never age,]] [[AndIMustScream and then one day dissapear suddenly, with no previous warning.]]
* MadScientistLaboratory: Matarratas has a secret lab, with a sign that Rubeola made to annoy Mat. Kinda subverted because Matarratas is not crazy, and he believes works there with Desangrador to make an antidote so virus elementals can touch living beings without harming them. Desangrador´s fits better, because he actually is a murderous psychopath.
* MagicAntidote: the Dawn Project, initiated by Colonel Ébola, and then continued by Desangrador and Matarratas with the goal of creating an antidote that would allow virus elementals to touch living beings without harming them. Turns out it was a ploy to re create the Dusk virus, planned by both [[CompleteMonster Ébola]] and [[ManipulativeBastard Desangrador]]
* {{Mana}}: Vital Energy, wich is measured in moles.
* {{Masquerade}}: The premise of the comic.
* MassOhCrap: The main cast when they found the yótum.
* MilitaryAcademy: Many, but you have to win the League if you want to get a higher rank some day.
* MilitaryBrat: Ember.
* MysteriousInformant: It wasn´t Benjamin... it´s Adler.
* MoodWhiplash: One of the author´s distinctive tropes.
* MookMaker: Desangrador has some capsules that can turn inanimate objects into living servants. Their overall power depends in what object you use the capsule in, and the resultant mooks can develop their own personality, but they seem to obey their master doubtless.
* MonochromaticEyes: Many characters have this, mostly for the art style.
** When they are not [[BlankWhiteEyes Blank White Eyes]] due to the Dusk Virus being activated...
* Morph Weapon: Hugin is able to merge with Sokar´s Wascythe to increase it´s power greatly and give it a self-conciousness.
* MrExposition: Matarratas and Kaji do this from time to time, but the main Mr. Exposition is Dino.
* MundaneUtility: Karol works as oven in a bakery. Lightbulbs have light because light elementals give it to them.
** [[ShockAndAwe Zap can turn his face on to illuminate dark places]].
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Rubeola says something like this to Kaji once. It doen´t seem to bother her much, actually.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: It looks like a running theme with virus elementals: Matarratas means literally Ratkiller, Desangrador means Bleeder, Varicela means Chicken Pox, and of course, Dr. Ebola.
* TheNarrator: Kaji. Ember in the Ember Chronicles.
* NeckLift: Lluvia does this to Nizo.
* NeverMyFault: Lluvia extends this to "it´s all Kaji´s fault, always". Dino is fond of blaming Kaji for everything as well.
* NiceGuy: Even if he is [[TheStoic quite serious]], Sokar fits this trope very well.
* TheNicknamer: Nizo seems to be this. [[IncrediblyLamePun He sucks at it]].
* NightmareFace: [[http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/268/d/3/5_elementos___pierre_curry_by_tobi2873-d2zgywb.jpg Corrupt Captain Pierre Curry]]. [[MoodWhiplash It´s even lampshaded when he states that he can´t drink water in a glass, because he will spill it from a side.]]
* NoExceptYes: Subverted: "You're grounding me?" "Grounding? I prefer to call it in another way. But that's how it's called, I'm not gonna change the name now."
* NoIndoorVoice: ROCO!!!!
* NoSell: The enemies in the Labyrinth are inmune to Matarratas´s virus-based attacks.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: In a flashback, Benjamin tells Kaji that when you die, the elements that compose your body return to nature to create more life, and your "soul" just stops existing.
** But as stated by Sôkar's father in the same chapter, that's no more than a guess. After all, since [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts aren't really ghosts]], there's no way to know for sure.
* ObviouslyEvil: Desangrador. Turned out he wasn´t. Turned out he is a [[CompleteMonster Complete Monster]].
* OffscreenTeleportation: How the heck did Chisp enter the Labyrinth? He doesn´t want to answer.
* OhCrap: Many times, the most famous may be one of Lluvia when she tried to drown Kaji, only for him to vaporize the water in an instant and then punch her in the face.
** Also when Zap and Sôkar thought they had defeated [[NighInvulnerability Karbô]] for good, only to have him get up and strike back at them.
* OneHitKill: Most of the common enemies in the Labyrinth suffered this from the main cast. Also, Lluvia killed Finalmigo in one hit once she stoppped laughing.
** Kaji destroys the yótum with one attack when the Dusk Virus activates for the first time.
* OneManArmy: All of the Five Elements, specially their leader, Ken Válbrandur.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Mr. Aquarrica is willing to destroy Beluga Town to get Ember fired and take mount Pito from him, so he can make a water park there.
* ParentalAbandonment: Sorta, Flama´s parents don´t really care that much about her.
* ParentalFavoritism: Chisp tries to make Ember act this way towards him, to get money.
* ParentalSubstitute: Rubeola is this to Matarratas. Also Desangrador, until recent chapters.
** Benjamin, Kaji´s uncle, used to be more parental than Ember.
* PlayingATree: Dino's play doesn't have enough characters for all of the children to play, so many of them ended up doing the filler parts of forest animals, a shepherd and even a rock and a cloud, yeah, really. In a literal example Zap got the part of the tree, he was quite happy and excited about it because he was the ''titular'' character along with Kaji's Bifrost.
* PleaseWakeUp: Zap to Sokar, after the binding shadow binding him and Lluvia is cut when she gets kidnapped by Bombastus´ henchmen. Karbo insists that Sokar is dead.
* PlotPoint: In the very first episode, Kaji told Ember he would become a soldier in order to live in Leona City with Benjamin, and thought he would soon forget it. Seven chapters later, [[TournamentArc we find out he hasn´t.]]
* PowerLevels: Attacks are classified in levels from 1 to 5. Subverted because the levels aren´t defined by the power of the attack, but for how the element is used. There´s also Level A, wich symbolizes the elemental´s "animal energy", and can consist on elemental summons, transformations, or even fusions with the particular animal.
* PowerNullifier: Desangrador can do this, nobody knows how. It´s also one of the Kimikoho´s abilities, by dissassembling matter in the elements that compose it.
** That weird technique Adler used with Kaji has this as a side-effect.
* PowerTrio: Lambda is the Superego, Dino and Leo are both Ego and Id.
* PromotionToParent: Rubeola to Matarratas.
* PsychicPowers: Psyche elementals. Up to now thay have demonstrated being capable of create illusions, mental worlds, read minds and "shutdown brains".
* PsychoSerum: The Dusk Virus is something like this. It corrupts you little by little, consumming you and making you go mad.
* PsychoticSmirk: It means Dino has a plan, and Kaji won´t like it.
* PunnyName: Often referred to the element that person controls: Kaji Llamaviva (Fire Livingflame) is a fire elemental, Zap is a lightning elemental.
* PuppyDogEyes: Lambda does this trying to convince Dino of not going to Leona City. [[TournamentArc She fails.]]
* TheQuietOne: Lolo, the guide to Leona City, seems like this, but he is actually a party beast. We don't get to see him like this until the end of the second arc, but Leo informs us about the things he does.
** Wap is a more straight example.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Kaji thinks this about his Fire 13 teammates. Magmuto and Wap may be this, but [[AwesomeByAnalysis Bombeta is actually]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass quite good.]]
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: "I have headache or stomachache".
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Matarratas gives one of the [[DisappointedInYou most spectacular speeches ever]] to Kaji as they fight in "Virus and Fire".
** A minor one given by Demencio to Lluvia about her group of "friends". The worst part is that Lluvia can´t help but believing him, even if she doesn´t want to.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Kaji is easily replaced by Fire13 in the second League.
* {{Revenge}}: Lluvia was actually scared that reborned Uroboros would attack her after what happened in the temple. Of course, being an Alcahest elemental, she has nothing to be afraid of.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: reborned Uroboros. The fact that is quite affective doesn´t help.
* RockBottom: Kaji uses to say that his current situation couldn´t be worse. God, is he wrong.
* RunningGag: Strange shaped rocks, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Matarratas and Zap´s bitter relationship]], Sokar kicking people in the nuts, Zap´s anecdotes from the orphanage, and also references to the author´s first work Raruto (a parody of Naruto).
** Also taking KV, the initials of Ken Válbrandur, to mean "kulos vuenos" ("hot butts" misspelled blatantly). And Kaji's various nicknames: his surname is Llamaviva (Livingflame), and he got as nicknames Llamamuerta (Deadflame), Llamamoco (Snotflame), and even Llamabesos (Kissflame).
* SecretPolice: The SS. Ember is one of them.
* SadistTeacher: Dino and Lambda are this, specially to Kaji. They are not actually evil, they are just jerks.
* SarcasmMode: "Kaji! Does it hurt much?" "No... I'm just bleding to death...".
* SchoolForScheming: Desangrador's job as a teacher is only a facade.
* SchoolIdol: Arturo is close to this. Again, money.
* SchoolPlay: In the third arc.
* SecretKeeper: Zap keeps silence about Kaji´s book. Eventually, Lluvia, Matarratas and Sokar become this as well. And then, Dino and Rubeola, as well as possibly Leo and Lambda, join the bunch.
** And none of them nor Adler told anyone that Kaji is the one that killed the yótum.
** The kids also keep silence about Kaji´s [[PsychoSerum Dusk Virus]], and [[ChildProdigy Matarratas]] is even helping him counter it.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Played for laughs when Lluvia and Sokar begin describing the book's symbols and its spine.
* Shapeshifting: Comes in two variants, {{animorphism}} to a particular animal, and turning into your element. The second variant, and maybe also the first, [[PartialTransformation can be partial]].
* SinisterScythe: Sokar´s level 3.
* SociopathicSoldier: Pierre Curry, and many more briefly shown during the Zero Day flashback.
* SpiderSense: It looks like young sahdow elementals can feel the changes in their host´s energy, even if the host is far away.
* StepfordSmiler: Anpepón Anatolia is a type 2.
* SternTeacher: Don´t talk without rising your hand first during Leo´s classes. Sit straight, don´t talk too loud, don´t be a class clown. [[BerserkButton And never begin talking about nonsensical myths and legends. Those are for Literature class.]].
* StormingTheCastle: The Five Elements did it on Zero Day. Easy for them.
* TheStrategist: SS captain Faraday seems to be this.
* StuffBlowingUp: Steelspikes is a gunpowder elemental. This is his standard power.
* SuckySchool: Beluga Town's: their teachers are lazy jerks and the education plan doesn't seem to be pretty good. Interestingly, the "out of date textbooks" quirk is inversed, due to the new kingdom´s politics about forgetting history.
* SummonMagic: Level A is capable of this, like Sokar´s shadow crows, Hugin and Munin.
* SuperMode: The Dusk Virus seems to be this. [[PsychoSerum With some drawbacks.]]
** Both Rubeola and Dino have one.
* SuperSoldier: SS soldiers are this and, of course, the [[OneManArmy Five Elements]].
* SwordCane: Lluvia´s level 3. It´s actually a [[WeaponOfChoice sword umbrella]]
* TheSymbiote: Young shadow elementals have to be near 100 meters form their host, or they will start feeling weak, or even faint.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Lampshaded.
* TacticalSuicideBoss: Finalmigo hits himself while trying to hit [[TeleportSpam Sokar]].
* TheTease: Rubeola sometimes does this to make Kaji feel awkward, like saying how she LOVES redheads, and later saying that "with this light, your hair is ''specially'' red".
* TeleportSpam: A shadow elemental ability.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The main cast in their objective. Even more now that they share so many secrets and that they will compete in the League, as a team. HilarityEnsues.
* ThirdPersonPerson: ROCO!!!! again.
* TickleTorture: Nizo and Tarantula do this to Kaji and Lluvia. While they are sleeping, inside the Labyrinth. [[BossFight Fighting Finalmigo]]. [[OhCrap Not cool]].
** As the main cast thinks this is an ability of Finalmigo, [[CloudCuckooLander Zap]] starts laughing without any provocation.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The book written by Ken Valbrandur (leader of the Five Elements) is treated like this. Maybe the fact that is written in an ancient language helps a bit.
* TookALevelInBadass: Almost everyone by the second League. Special mention goes to the snot team.
* TouchOfDeath: Virus elementals most distinctive characteristic, when not in full control of their powers.
* TournamentArc: The second arc is about the Elemental League, an anual competition wich includes fights, [[CookingDuel among other challenges]]. If you want a decent job, you have to win it.
* TrainingFromHell: Dino puts Kaji throug this to make him learn Katai. If he couldn´t burn 100 papers at the same time without expanding the fire and without wasting energy, all the remaining papers would cut him at once.
** At the end of the third arc, Matarratas asks Lluvia for training. He quickly repented.
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Beluga School has Combat class, in wich the students learn to use their powers for offense and defense. Even when Kaji points out that public school aren´t allowed to train their students in the Five Levels style of combat, Dino just doesn´t care about that (and surely many more) law(s).
* Tropperiffic
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Lluvia threatened to kill Fósforo if Kaji refused to fight her in the Elemental League.
** In a lower level, Chisp acts a lot like a mafia boss and threatens his teacher with burning his bycicle "by accident". He is 8 years old.
* TurnsRed: Finalmigo can level up when he is about to be defeated.
* TheUnFavourite: Ember: "Look Karol, my son Chisp [[FantasticRacism befriends elementals of the fire branch.]] Not like your son Kaji" Karol: "Both of them are our sons" Ember: "Yeah, whatever".
* UnusualEuphemism: [[GroinAttack "My elemental parts!!"]].
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Flama, an old friend of Kaji, from when he lived in Leona City.
* [[VeteranInstrusctor Veteran Instructors]]: Ember´s.
* VillainousBreakDown: Mr. Aquarrica brings an ice giant to crush some of the town so Ember, the town guardian, will get fired. Too bad Ember is out of town.
* TheVirus: Three of them, apparently.
* WarIsHell
* WeaponOfChoice: Level 3 consists in using a specific weapon to manipulate your element. Also, umbrellas are a popular one for water elementals.
* WhamEpisode: "In the Rain".
* WhamLine: [[OhCrap "Nice diary"]]
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Amor (a heart elemental) is getting prepared to fight some birds during a the Labyrinth, while boasting about the power of love. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The birds beat the crap out of her before she can end her speech]].
** Dino, as a paper elemental combat proffessor, is treated like this sometimes.
** The lizard-rider cork elemental states that he still has to find any utility for his powers.
* WeWereRehearsingAPlay: When people hear Matarratas shouting about his experience during Kaji´s Dusk virus´s first burst, he wants to say this, but he gets nervous, and says that it´s for a ballet.
* WhenIWasYourAge: Ember does this alot, and describes his younger days as total crap.
* TheWorfEffect: Once Ember is revealed to be a SS soldier, he beats captain Pierre Curry in one hit.
** Also Finalmigo and the yótum.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Lluvia thinks this about Kaji. [[OhCrap She was wrong]].
* WreathedInFlames: Level 1 Katai consists in this.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Grandfather And Many Scientists]]: If Matarratas could talk to the Five Elements in person, he would tell them this.
** Altough he doesn't know this, he was killed by Ébola, not the five elements.
** YOU KILLED MY FAMILY!!!
* YouDidntAsk
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: When Sokar prevents Finalmigo of finishing Kaji off
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