History ComicBook / CincoElementos

** Chapter 9 (released in May 2009) has a soldier barging into Colonel Cerilla's office, saying that Captain Briz ordered him to tell Cerilla that Ember's son (Kaji) is taking part in the League's exhibitions. Fast forward to chapter 51 (June 2013), where not only Briz shows up and recognizes Kaji, but it's very likely that [[spoiler: he's the colonel in charge of the SS.]]

* CaptainErsatz: Look at the long haired guy in Hiedra´s team of the League and try not to think of [[{{Naruto}} Orochimaru]].

* HotDad: Some. Special mention to Kaji's dad, who according to timelines worked out by the fans, is no less than 50 years old. His father Belenus was the same.

* AwesomeByAnalysis: Dino, Bombeta, Leo, Pi, Matarratas, Benjamín, Bombastus, Briz, all of them are good. But Angelo, a painter who has made observing the world his mission in life, he can know exactly what kind of person you are, what might you be thinking and even what your intentions might be by looking at you, looking at your eyes and reading your reactions.

** Even when Lluvia and young Benjamín are extremely strong and powerful, they pale in comparison to little Belenus. He was able to beat captains with a stick, fight giant bears for fun and run across a continent in a few days. Hell, Noto Loftur found him living with the bears since he was an infant.

* MentorArchetype: Benjamín for Kaji, Desangrador for Matarratas, Igor Adler and his SS comrades for Ember, Kru for Benjamín...

* TheNarrator: Kaji. Ember, Benjamín and [[spoiler: {{Familiar}} Alanka]] in the Chronicles.

* TheObiWan: Benjamín. [[spoiler: At least at first. Now,we can´t be sure about anything he has done.]]

* RemovedFromThePicture: [[spoiler: Belenus, aka Ken Válbrandur, is missing his head on his Heliopolis´ Portrait depiction. It has been burned off, apparently by [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Benjamín]] and the mark connects with H. Arian´s left eye]]. Angelo is not amused.

--> '''Zap''': That's why. The play's called "Bifrost and the tree". And I'm the tree.

* ColonelBadass: The four Colonels, presumably.

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).

** Colonel Tiburón, water elemental, has Magnum Aquashot, an extremely strong water cannon from his mouth.

* DeanBitterman: Dino (the school´s principal) subverts this: even if he is jerky with almost everyone, he is sadistic only to Kaji.

* DisappointedInYou: Cgapter 37. Wow.

** The uncrossable Ocean. Also the Labyrinth´s mental world, arguably.

* ElementalPowers: Fire, Water, Earth, Virus, Psyche, Paper, Egg, Shit...

* {{Familiar}}: Hugin and Munin, the Was family giant, dark, [[SesquipedalianLocuaciousness adequately verbose]], shadow elemental crows. They were not aware of Sokar´s dirty business, but they decide not to tell Sôkar´s parents.

** You know that symbol of the five elements on the spine and the clasp of the diary? As of November 2013, it turns out the old king had a belt with that symbol, and it shows up on the walls of Kilin's room. What does it mean? (Notable in that the symbol first appeared in extra materials ''before chapter 1'' of the manga, and in the manga proper in chapter 3.)

* FriendOrIdolDecision: Kei is burning the book and Bombastus kidnaps a poisoned Lluvia. Kaji must make a desicion. [[spoiler: 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.]]

* GeniusBonus: Sokar's crows, Hugin and Munin, are named after two crows from norse mythology which served Odin, and were creferred as "The thoughts and memmory of Odin". Hugin uses the word "think" a lot, and Munin is said to be the shadow elemental with the biggest memory.

* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Lluvia can control her razor-sharp umbrella with her powers (it has water inside). [[spoiler: It´s also a [[SwordCane Sword Cane.]]]]

* TheGoodKing: Leona´s former king, Gylfi Hangul the First, was at first bent on war and conquest just like most of his neighboors and his colonel´s where. But once Belenus Llamaviva showed to him the ideas of the world he craved to create, he wholehearteadly changed his old principles and gave full support to Belenus´s pacifistic and revolutionary ideas. He even defended him from the attacks of his fellow colonels and was not swayed when said colonels tempted him with the potential of a new incredible resource that could be used as a weapon. [[spoiler: This, of course, costed him his life on the Zero Day, killed by his remaininig colonels and his own son.]]

* 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 [[spoiler: Desangrador]].

** [[spoiler: Adler´s brother blew himself up to save Ember from Dr. Ebola.]]
* HiddenDepths: Dino and Leo. [[spoiler: It seems to involve Leo´s/Dino´s father, who apparently left everyone behind chasing "legends". That´s why Leo hates legends and myths]].

* HotDad: Some. Special mention to Kaji's dad, who according to timelines worked out by the fans, is no less than 50 years old.

** Just what is [[spoiler: Kilin´s]] element anyway? It was strong enough to easily kill the strongest character in the story!

* InstantFanClub: Arturo has one. [[ExtraOreDinary Money is the reason]].

** 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.

** [[spoiler: At least until she gets kidnapped and drugged, and might have gotten experimented on if the main cast hadn't come to her rescue on time, or she hadn't escaped.]]

* TheLancer: Alphonse, aka Aither Kilin was this to Ken Válbrandur in the Five Elements. He backed his decisions up and helped keep the peace in the team. [[spoiler: Too bad he was TheMole]]

** Alanka can´t remember anything before waking up on comic. He just remembers he was "Be"´s friend, but can´t even remember who that person is.

* 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).

* 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. [[spoiler: 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. [[spoiler: Turns out it was a ploy to re create the Dusk virus, planned by both Ébola and [[ManipulativeBastard Desangrador]]]]

*** Sota theorizes it´s due to Lluvia. It happened after Bombastus found out about her, [[spoiler: and he was killed along Hidrargirio by a mysterious person]].

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: It looks like a running theme with virus elementals: Matarratas means literally Ratkiller / Rat Poison, Desangrador means Bleeder, Varicela means Chicken Pox, and of course, Dr. Ebola.

* TheNarrator: Kaji. Ember and Benjamín in the Chronicles.

** 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. [[spoiler: Turned out he is a monster.]]
* OceanMadness: When crosiing [[EldritchLocation the Ocean]] this will happen eventually. The infinite waters, covered by a neverending mist that screws your sense and orientation is able to undermine the confidence and sanity of great warriors like the Fove Elements. Specially once all the fishes, the wind and the tide practically dissapear at once.

* PhotographicMemory: One could say Jaro Hallormour, earth elemental, has this with stone and ground. He was able to determine exactly where he was by comparing the ground he was standing on to that of other places. [[spoiler: And he was able to recreate the lost final slab from the black temple, by remembering the sigils carved on the stone in spite of not being able to know what they meant.]]

* PsychicPowers: Psyche elementals. Up to now thay have demonstrated being capable of create illusions, mental worlds, read minds and "shutdown brains".

* PunnyName: Often referred to the element that person controls: Kaji Llamaviva (Fire Livingflame) is a fire elemental, Zap is a lightning elemental.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Ken Válbrandur is Belenus Llamaviva, Kaji and Chisp´s grandfather and Alanka´s partner.]]

** [[spoiler: There are five primal elements: fire, water, earth, air and void. That´s why the alkahest symbol has five points]] "Damn, speaking of revelations!" indeed.

* SchoolForScheming: [[spoiler: Desangrador]]'s job as a teacher is only a facade.

* StormingTheCastle: The Five Elements did it on Day Zero. Easy for them.

** Dino, as a paper elemental combat proffessor, is treated like this sometimes.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: The king of Nimbo looks like one. When, after a long time they have appeared on his kingdom, he meets Belenus and his team, he shouts at them, insults them, asks if they want for war, threathens them, threathens to attack their homelands and expulses them from his kingdom.

** Colonel , water elemental, has Mega Aquashot

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Level five, implied to be rather explosive in nature. A member of the most legendary Five Elements used it once and then was comatose for weeks.

** Leo is [[spoiler: NotSoExtinct an earth elemental]].

* DoomMagnet: Lluvia accuses Kaji of being this. She could be right, but she isn´t exactly a pacific little girl...
* EldritchLocation: The Sheetworld, the place where your [[OurSoulsAreDifferent energy]] goes when it´s [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower imprisoned in a paper sheet]].
** The uncrossable Ocean. Also the Labyrinth´s mental world, arguably.
* TheEmpire: It´s now pretty obvious that the kingdom that spans the whole known world (the continental mass where the story happens) works like this. It´s obviously militaristic and totalitarian, and only the gravest punishments fall upon those who dare seek the truth of the past, regardless of who they might be (unless they are extremely lucky). It has some fans in the story, like Captain Briz, who idolizes the State and will try to push you behind the DespairEventHorizon if you challenge it.

* EnergyBall: More like Virus Ball.

* TheWallAroundTheWorld: The Ocean, seemed as an uncrossable infinite sea, is considered this, specially because some theories say thet if you manage to venture deep enough the mist will somehoe bounce you back without you even noticing and you wll eventually be BackToSquareOne.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Ken Válbrandur is Belenus Llamaviva, Kaji and Chisp´s grandfather and Alanka´s partner]]

* ChocolateBaby: In the world of ''5 Elements'' everyone seems to be Caucasian, but the report on elemental genetics [[AllThereInTheManual in the volumes]] gives many cases where this would apply to the child's element, even if it's never brought up in the manga proper. In particular, if both parents are the same element, the child will have the same element too, which gives FridgeHorror to the flashback scene where Ember (in a casual manner) suggests that Kaji might be a water elemental because he's crying.

* OneManArmy: All of the Five Elements, specially their leader, Ken Válbrandur.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: [[HotMom All mothers in the series]] seem to have given birth to their children while quite young...

[[note]]"Let the era of the elements begin!" From left to right:[[PoisonousPerson Matarratas,]] [[ShockAndAwe Zap,]] [[PlayingWithFire Kaji,]] [[MakingASplash Lluvia]] and [[CastingAShadow Sokar]]. ]][[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:227:[[PoisonousPerson Matarratas,]] [[ShockAndAwe Zap,]] [[PlayingWithFire Kaji,]] [[MakingASplash Lluvia]] and [[CastingAShadow Sokar]]]]

* HotShounenMom: Karol, Kaji´s mother, and Rosita, Amor´s mother. Also unnamed Sokar´s mom. Kaji´s grandmother Sirona didn´t look bad either when Kaji's dad was a teenager.

** Even more, when he recognizes Kaji as his colleague´s son, he tries to wrn him to stop his "illegal activities", telling him the State has no weaknesses, that it´s inly purpose is to make life beter, and that turning against it is a useless path that will take you to darkness and shame. After fighting Kaji and Lluvia, he still makes him an offer of letting him go. But of course, you should never assume the guy is not evil.

* AffablyEvil: SS Captain [[AnIcePerson Kold Briz]] has no trouble with having a polite chat with you while his subordinates are smashing your friends in battle, [[AnIcePerson or even before freezing you where you stand by himself]]. But sure, push him long enough [[IncrediblyLamePun and he will loose his cool]].

* AllAccordingToPlan: [[spoiler: Benjamin´s]] plan seemed to be turning out pretty smoothly... Until chapter 46 that is.

* 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.]]

*** Not only that, your speech will also be unintelligible to non-lizard speakers. Jaro Hallormour was said to be "the greatest lkizard master in history", implying there is more to it than may seem now.

* FiveManBand: The Five Elements. Also the protagonists might be this, even if two Lluvia hates Kaji with passion, and the roles can't be clearly defined.

--> '''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!

* GreenEyedMonster: Desangrador is quite frustrated by the fact that the Kimikoho allows [[spoiler: Matarratas]], as it did with Sebastián to find and create the most complicated formulas with ease.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A shadow elemental specialty is to return attacks to their owner. Karbo was literally defeated by his own hand.

* TheInfiltration: the (8 person) team tried to infiltrate Coral Town so they could reach Angelo´s museum to find out more about him, [[spoiler: probably being the man who made the Five Elements portrait of Heliopolis and all that]].

* TheNarrator: Kaji. Ember in the Ember Chronicles.

* OnlySaneMan: Pi, the sanest guy known among Dino´s friend, [[spoiler: and the only serious member of his League team.]] He has become even more serious since his marriage.

** Remember that "animal" in this work refers to any elemental being different from the "human" elementals. [[spoiler: For example, Alanka, a fire demon, is Kaji´s, and maybe Benjamin´s, level A.]]

** That weird technique [[spoiler: Adler used on Kaji]] is also this.

* RemovedFromThePicture: [[spoiler: Válbrandur is missing his head on his Heliopolis´ Portrait depiction. It has been burned or teared off, and the mark connects with H. Arian´s left eye]]

* SoulPoweredEngine: Bombastus gives the main cast a lightning energy receptor connected to his vital energy, so the main cast would be able to trak him and they would come to trust him.

* TheStrategist: SS captain Faraday seems to be this.
** [[spoiler: Benjamin takes the gold in this.]]

* WhenIWasYourAge: Ember does this alot, and describes his younger days as total crap.

* [[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?").