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* CastFromCalories: Horus and Alcibiade once escaped a trap by casting an anticipative necromancy spell on themselves, starving to death, returning as zombies, and devouring an entire herd of cows to return to living state.

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* BrutalHonesty: Cormor admits that [[spoiler: he doesn't care about Elise's death]] and only want to talk to Hyacinthe so he can stop a great disaster. Naturally he is told to get bent by Hyacinthe who is still affected by the event.



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* 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]] [[AlwaysCahoticEvilBrous]] as muscles to free his friend. The books set after this one as the Night Shirt being leader of the assassin's guild.

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* 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]] [[AlwaysCahoticEvilBrous]] [[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.
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* EndOfAnEra: After [[spoiler: Hyacinthe's father dies]] a KnightErrant asks if Hyacinthe is gonna challenge the persons responsible in a duel one by one as per chivalry rule, Hyacinthe says that he will use the modern way, which the knight notes as the end of the knightly code era. [[spoiler: Last page is a bunch of panels showing the conspirators in their bed with their throat slit and the Night Shirt returning to the dungeon, bloodied dagger in hand.]]


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* 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]] [[AlwaysCahoticEvilBrous]] as muscles to free his friend. The books set after this one as the Night Shirt being leader of the assassin's guild.
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* TheDragon: Michael to florotte, he considers him like a son and is also his best killer.

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* TheDragon: Michael to florotte, he considers Florotte, most of Florotte's evil come from having him like a son to do the dirty work and is also his best killer.enjoying it.



* 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.

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* 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.

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* BattleCouple:Hyacinthe and Alexandra, his mistress/best assassin.

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* [[{{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.



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* 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.
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* 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.
* SuperSupremacist: A professor of magic started a complicated plot in which he mind-controlled important people around the city and fathered children with their bodies, granting him an army of brainwashed magic-capable servants. He seemed to be on the WellIntentionedExtremist side (as Horus put it, "if you cannot make [[TheGoodKing kings into philosophers]], then [[BenevolentMageRuler philosophers should be kings]]"). One night, he ordered the children to kill their parents, but was foiled at the last minute by a repentant Horus (who'd figured out his own son was among them).

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* SmokingIsCool:The 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.
* SuperSupremacist: A professor of magic started a complicated plot in which he mind-controlled important people around the city and fathered children with their bodies, granting him an army of brainwashed magic-capable servants. He seemed to be on the WellIntentionedExtremist side (as Horus put it, "if you cannot make [[TheGoodKing kings into philosophers]], then [[BenevolentMageRuler philosophers should be kings]]"). One night, he ordered the children to kill their parents, but was foiled at the last minute by a repentant Horus (who'd figured out his own son was among them).
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* SuperSupremacist: A professor of magic started a complicated plot in which he mind-controlled important people around the city and fathered children with their bodies, granting him an army of brainwashed magic-capable servants. He seemed to be on the WellIntentionedExtremist side (as Horus put it, "if you cannot make [[TheGoodKing kings into philosophers]], then [[BenevolentMageRuler philosophers should be kings]]"). One night, he ordered the children to kill their parents, but was foiled at the last minute by a repentant Horus (who'd figured out his own son was among them).
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Misuse. Body Horror is "any form of Horror or Squickiness involving body parts, parasitism, disfigurement, mutation, or unsettling bodily configuration, not induced by immediate violence".


* BodyHorror: Horus, a student in necromancy, accidentally pulling out one of Hyacinthe's lungs as part of a trick he wanted to show in order to impress the main character, his friends and some local girls. Needless to say, they weren't impressed.
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** It should be mentioned that Horus didn't intend to pull out Hyacinthe's lung, but his heart (and then put it back in).
*** Functions as a kind of retroactive, ''very'' long-term BrickJoke, the "brick" being [[spoiler:Horus (successfully) removing Herbert's heart at the beginning of the first volume of ''Dungeon: Zenith'']].
*** His fighting style relies on either snatching a bone out of his opponenent or just squeezing the person's heart until he does a syncope. As Parsoufflet said, stay away from the necromancers, they are specialized in BodyHorror.
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* ImprovisedCross: Two ninjas form a cross with their katanas and gloatingly ask the vampire if he can see it. He says he can't, as he lost his glasses, and quickly defeats them.
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* BattleCouple:Hyacinthe and Alexandra, his mistress.

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* 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

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* 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 on.



**** His fighting style relies on either snatching a bone out of his opponenent or just squeezing the person's heart until he does a syncope. As Parsoufflet said, stay away from the necromancers, they are specialized in BodyHorror

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

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* WhamEpisode: Book 3 "A fleeing youth". Hyacinthe kills someone for the first time and sleeps with Alexandra, and that's the beginning of the story. It's also the beginning of his transition from vigilante to gang leader

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*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.


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**** His fighting ability relies on either snatching a bone out of his opponenent or just squeezing the person's heart until he does a syncope. As Parsoufflet said, stay away from the necromancers, they are specialized in BodyHorror

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Horus, after realizing Chambon's plot (he'd been helping him up to that
point, believing that if [[{{Magocracy}} you can't make kings philosophers, the next best thing is to make the philosophers kings]].

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Horus, after realizing Chambon's plot (he'd been helping him up to that
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* MurderTheHypothenuse:[[spoiler: Alexandra kills Elise]]

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* AmoralAttorney: Eustache Ravin, while on the protagonist's side, his first to ciminals 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

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* AmoralAttorney: Eustache Ravin, while on the protagonist's side, his first advice to ciminals 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

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*TheDreaded: The Brous (demonic looking goats), when Hyacinthe hires them as muscles and sneak them into the city, everyone who meets them try to run for it.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Horus, after realizing Chambon's plot (he'd been helping him up to that point, believing that if [[{{Magocracy}} you can't make kings philosophers, the next best thing is to make the philosophers kings]].

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*MurderTheHypothenuse:[[spoiler: Alexandra kills Elise]]
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* AmoralAttorney: Eustache Ravin, while on the protagonist's side, his first advice when someone commit a crime 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

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* AmoralAttorney: Eustache Ravin, while on the protagonist's side, his first advice when someone commit a crime to ciminals 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
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* JerkAss: Michael, and how.

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* 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 does get better though]].

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* 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 does get better though]].gets better]].



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* ThighHighBoots: Alexandra wears them. During Hyacinthe's HeroicBSOD following Alexandra (his mistress) killing his wife, he's shown to be paying prostitutes to put on the same kinds of boots she wears, and yells her name when orgasming.
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* AmoralAttorney: Eustache Ravin, while on the protagonist's side, his first advice when someone commit a crime 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 druggng 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

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* AmoralAttorney: Eustache Ravin, while on the protagonist's side, his first advice when someone commit a crime 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 druggng 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
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**** His way of fighting people relies on either snatching a bone out of the his opponenent or just squeezing the persons heart until he does a syncope. As Parsoufflet said, stay away from the necromancers

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* {{Badass adorable}}: Marvin was a badass even back when he was a young child
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* ZombifyTheLiving: The wizards Horus and Alcibiade are trapped in a prison. Horus' plan is to cast a Necromancy by Anticipation spell, starve to death, be buried outside the prison, and then rise from the grave (and devouring an entire herd of cows to get back to true life). It works.
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->''"The people of this modern world looks on their fellows as tools. To such people, men are nothing but a means, not an end in and of themselves. That leaves precious little room for honor, elegance and panache."''
--> --'''Hyacinthe Cavallere''' a.k.a '''The Night Shirt'''

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).
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!!This comic contains examples of the following tropes:

* AffablyEvil: Florotte, with emphasis on ''affably''.
* AffectionateParody: Of the {{Fantasy}} genre in general, and, in ''The Early Years'', of swashbuckling fiction in particular.
* AllSpeciesAreSexuallyCompatible
* AnachronicOrder: The episodes aren't published in the chronological order.
* BettyAndVeronica: Hyacinthe is torn between the gentle Elise and the immoral Alexandra.
* BodyHorror: Horus, a student in necromancy, accidentally pulling out one of Hyacinthe's lungs as part of a trick he wanted to show in order to impress the main character, his friends and some local girls. Needless to say, they weren't impressed.
** It should be mentioned that Horus didn't intend to pull out Hyacinthe's lung, but his heart (and then put it back in).
*** Functions as a kind of retroactive, ''very'' long-term BrickJoke, the "brick" being [[spoiler:Horus (successfully) removing Herbert's heart at the beginning of the first volume of ''Dungeon: Zenith'']].
* CatsAreMean: Michael, who is one of the worst examples of this trope.
* CatSuit: Alexandra wears one in the second volume (second half of the first volume in English)
* ChekhovsGun: The various artefacts of Destiny which Hyacinthe comes across. The reader is aware that they will have a major importance further down the storyline.
* ClearMyName: The Night Shirt is accused of murdering one of the professors at the university. Naturally, it's Michael who is the real culprit.
* TheDragon: Michael
* EvilUncle: Florotte, although he treats his nephew pretty well (when not forcing him to participate in criminal schemes and such)
* FemmeFatale: Alexandra, the snake/lizard assassin whom Hyacinthe becomes hopelessly smitten with.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Dr Hippolyte, although his idealism doesn't prevent him from seeing the greed and stupidity in other people.
* JerkAss: Michael, and how.
* KickTheDog: Michael alters between this and genuine evil from the moment he's introduced.
* LevelUp: Referenced in the numbering of the stories, which are classified by level. The higher the level, the later the story.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Some of whom have their own SpinOff stories.
* 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 does get better though]].
* MoralityChip: Carmor is limitated by one.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Horus, after realizing Chambon's plot (he'd been helping him up to that point, believing that if [[{{Magocracy}} you can't make kings philosophers, the next best thing is to make the philosophers kings]].
* NonMammalMammaries
* OurMonstersAreDifferent: And how.
* SarcasticConfession: [[spoiler: Cormor's only way to lie.]]
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Not surprising, since the Hyacinthe in the original ''Dungeon'' comic is a bitter, cynical and somewhat greedy character as opposed to the idealistic and romantic youth he is when ''The Early Years'' begins. Generally speaking, the series is intended to depict a slow and gradual slide from naive idealism to bitter cynicism, with a tone growing DarkerAndEdgier as the storyline progresses.
* ThighHighBoots: Alexandra wears them. During Hyacinthe's HeroicBSOD following Alexandra (his mistress) killing his wife, he's shown to be paying prostitutes to put on the same kinds of boots she wears, and yells her name when orgasming.
* TookALevelInBadass: Hyacinthe starts out as a bumbling vigilante wannabe, and becomes a ruthless gang leader.
* TheUnFavorite: Florotte clearly belonged to this trope when he was younger.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Florotte and Chambon both qualify, being well-respected members of the community and all.
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