History ComicBook / DungeonTheEarlyYears

* LevelUp: Referenced in the numbering of the stories, which are classified by level. The higher the level, the later the story.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Hyacinthe has unprotected sex with Alexandra in the third book. Turns out the assassin who charms her target and ReallyGetsAround has crabs. Hyacinthe Lampshades the difference between his expectations of romance and reality.

Originally titled ''Donjon Potron-Minet'', ''The Early Years'' is a french FunnyAnimal/Fantasy comic written by Creator/JoannSfar and Creator/LewisTrondheim and designed (in the beginning) by Creator/ChristopheBlain. The comic is part of the greater ComicBook/{{Dungeon}} franchise created by Trondheim and Sfar and is chronologically the first in the series, chronicling the dungeon's eventual rise as well as the youth of its keeper Hyacinthe Cavallere.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Some of whom have their own SpinOff stories.

* CatSuit: Alexandra wears one in the second volume (second half of the first volume in English)

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Chambon, according to Horus his magocracy will be better than the current government but in truth he is just a power hungry asshole who manipulate Horus and his followers to seize power through a bloodbath. Cochonville, the city of magicians, is shown in later books that magic doesn't make people wiser.

* RealityEnsues: Hyacinthe has unprotected sex with Alexandra in the third book. Turns out the assassin who charms her target and ReallyGetsAround has crabs. Hyacinthe Lampshades the difference between his expectations of romance and reality.

* MaskPower: Subverted (at least in the beginning), since Hyacinthe, while an enthusiastic upholder of justice is quite clumsy, even with his mask on. [[TookALevelInBadass he gets better]].

* TookALevelInCynic: In "une jeunesse qui s'enfuit", (a fleeing youth) has Hyacinthe killing someone for the first time, sleeps with Alexandra, involuntarily gives crabs to a woman and after one KickTheDog too many from his antagonists he decides to hire [[TheDreaded the]] [[AlwaysCahoticEvil Brous]] as muscles to free his friend. The books set after this one as the Night Shirt being leader of the assassin's guild.

* UnwittingInvestigatorOfDoom: Florotte's metro scam leads to the destruction of the city years after his death.

* {{Badass adorable}}: Marvin was a badass even back when he was a young child

* {{Intangibility}}: Smoking stapanelle's herb make the smoker intangible.

* [[{{Magocracy}}:]] Cochonville is one, it was made after the wizards went in exile after most of them tried making a coup d'état in Antipolis.

* AffablyEvil: Florotte, with emphasis on ''affably''.

* AllSpeciesAreSexuallyCompatible

* CatsAreMean: Michael, who is one of the worst examples of this trope.

* MoralityChip: Carmor is limitated by one.
* MurderTheHypotenuse:[[spoiler: Alexandra kills Elise]].

* SmokingIsCool: The good God pipe who is actually a destiny item, with the specific herbs it has magic property and with regular ones is what allows the guardian to make his ghost shape's smoke.

* TheUnFavorite: Florotte clearly belonged to this trope when he was younger.

Originally titled ''Donjon Potron-Minet'', ''The Early Years'' is a french FunnyAnimal/Fantasy comic written by Creator/JoannSfar and Creator/LewisTrondheim and designed (in the beginning) by Creator/ChristopheBlain. The comic is part of the ComicBook/DungeonVerse created by Trondheim and Sfar and is chronologically the first in the series, chronicling the dungeon's eventual rise as well as the youth of its keeper Hyacinthe Cavallere.

As the comic starts, Hyacinthe has left his father's kingdom in order to go to the city to visit his uncle, the Count of Florotte, who was banished from the kingdom by Hyacinthe's grand-father, because a crippled prince would have brought shame on the family. Upon arriving in the city, Hyacinthe is taken in by his uncle, who in exchange for the room and board wants his nephew to become the assistant of Florotte's assistant, Michael. As luck would have it, Hyacinthe finds out that his uncle is more or less the local Mafia don and that Michael is his [[TheDragon top henchman]]. Determined to combat the crime and corruption of the city, without his uncle's knowledge, Hyacinthe becomes the masked avenger known as: '''The Night Shirt''' (no, the silliness is not a translation mistake, the name was voluntary silly in French).

* AmoralAttorney: Eustache Ravin, while on the protagonist's side, his first advice to criminals is to avoid falling in the hands of the law. Then when he realized his law practice does not work on xenophobic rabbits and saw them drugging his fiancé, he explains to Hyacinthe that those who lives without real laws must face the consequences before cuttings the throat of all the rabbits he gets his hands on.

* AmoralAttorney: Eustache Ravin, while on the protagonist's side, his first advice to criminals is to avoid falling in the hands of the law. And when he realized his law practice does not work on xenophobic rabbits and saw them drugging his fiancé, he explains to Hyacinthe that those who lives without real laws must face the consequences before cuttings the throat of all the rabbits he gets his hands on.