History ComicBook / Habibi

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Dodola's trick to "turn water into gold" by having the Sultan give her gold in exchange for water is quickly denounced as a trick]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: As is normal for Thompson's work. After many trials and tribulations, Zam and Dodola are romantically involved, though Dodola still was raped by many people, including the Sultan of Wanatolia, the man from the caravan's and her first husband. Zam is a eunuch, but he and Dodola adopt a little girl who was being sold into slavery, hoping to save her from the same fates they went through and they have hope for the future. However, the rest of the characters fates are left ambiguous. The Hijra's, with their main money makers gone, has their fate left up in the air(though the glimpse Zam got of them shows they're on their last legs). And atop that, the Sultan of Wanatolia is a KarmaHoudini who gets away with everything.]]

* TurtlePower: In one of the first stories told by Dodola, men implore the river god to cease his inundations. Under the appearance of a turtle, he shows them how to stop them with Lo Shu Square on his shell.

* ThePollyanna: Noah, the fisherman who saves [[spoiler: Dodola and Zam after they escape the palace]] has an unfailingly cheerful disposition, though the world is practically crumbling around him. Giving all he has, including food when he's starving and letting dozens of people stay in his house to use his purified water. His hopeless optimism sometimes goes into SanitySlippage territory as his faith is tested(at one point laughing and wishing he could take off his dirty skin or doing an ablution with mud, commenting on how he now looks like Zam.) Eventually, it seems like he finally [[spoiler: loses [[BreakTheCutie his kind streak]] when a homeless man he gave charity to dies and he's forced to give him a burial at sea(really the polluted reservoir)and the numerous guests in his place destroy his water purification tank and his shack]], abandoning him, that Noah tells Zam and Dodola to clear off. His next leaving for the reservoir has him cold to every person he passes and leads to him abandoning his boat, only to return home and become invigorated, his faith renewed through Dodola's stories. The pair [[PetTheDog help him rebuild his home and Zam swims out and recovers his boat]] so he can continue fishing, telling him that the palace of Wanatolia wastes their treasures and they could wash out of the palace for him to find. He ends up discovering a gigantic fish skeleton, crowing about how he's the luckiest man in the world as the pair leave, his optimism restored.

* ThePolyanna: Noah, the fisherman who saves [[spoiler: Dodola and Zam after they escape the palace]] has an unfailingly cheerful disposition, though the world is practically crumbling around him. Giving all he has, including food when he's starving and letting dozens of people stay in his house to use his purified water. His hopeless optimism sometimes goes into SanitySlippage territory as his faith is tested(at one point laughing and wishing he could take off his dirty skin or doing an ablution with mud, commenting on how he now looks like Zam.) Eventually, it seems like he finally [[spoiler: loses [[BreakTheCutie his kind streak]] when a homeless man he gave charity to dies and he's forced to give him a burial at sea(really the polluted reservoir)and the numerous guests in his place destroy his water purification tank and his shack]], abandoning him, that Noah tells Zam and Dodola to clear off. His next leaving for the reservoir has him cold to every person he passes and leads to him abandoning his boat, only to return home and become invigorated, his faith renewed through Dodola's stories. The pair [[PetTheDog help him rebuild his home and Zam swims out and recovers his boat]] so he can continue fishing, telling him that the palace of Wanatolia wastes their treasures and they could wash out of the palace for him to find. He ends up discovering a gigantic fish skeleton, crowing about how he's the luckiest man in the world as the pair leave, his optimism restored.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:Dodola's trick to "turn water into gold" by having the Sultan give her gold in exchange for water is quickly denounced as a trick]].

''Habibi'' is a graphic novel by Craig Thompson published in 2011. The story is a drama about two children, Dodola and Zam, who struggle for their lives in a fictional Islamic country. Their narrative is shown in parallel with tales and story from the Bible and the Quran.

!! ''Habibi'' contains examples of:
* AnachronicOrder: The story often switchs between different periods of both Dodola and Zam's lifetimes.
* ArrangedMarriage : At the beginning of the story Dodola’s parents sell their 9-year-old daughter to a scribe because of a severe drought.

* BreakTheCutie: During their stay with the upbeat and selfless fisherman Noah, his attitude is repeatedly and heavily challenged by the reality of his home; namely, the sight of a woman fishing corpses out of the water, or [[spoiler: the death of an old homeless man he cared for. Ultimately, the destruction of his water purifier destroys all of his optimism, before the recovery of Dodola helps cheer him back up.]]
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Very much. For instance, a 9-year-old Dodola is married to a much older scribe but the latter is portrayed as a nice man.
* ExactWords: Dodola turns “a jug of water into gold“ by [[spoiler: trading the jug of water for an empty gold one with a thirsty Sultan.]]

* FantasyGunControl: Despite [[spoiler:taking place in the future, nobody is shown having guns, not even the Sultan's soldiers]]. Thompson wanted to depict a clash of the old world and the new, while avoiding depicting guns or warfare.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion : Played with. Dodola when she finds out that she’s pregnant asks her maid to have an abortion. She changes her mind later when she realizes that she won’t be reunited with her adoptive son

* LackOfEmpathy: How does the Sultan react when Dodola announces that [[spoiler: their son just died]] and thus doesn't want to have sex? [[spoiler:Gleefully declares that it's time to make another one and proceeds to rape her.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The man who raped Dodola in the desert.]]
** [[spoiler: Arguably worse is the Sultan. Imprisons Dodola, keeps her as his sex toy for several years, and the last we see of him he's ordering the execution of perhaps dozens of courtesans because he's bored. The book ends without so much as a hint of remorse or retribution on the Sultan's part.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Dodola's husband when [[spoiler: he realizes, after having sex with her, that she's still only a child and not ready for that, from there on he never does it again.]]
* NotBloodSiblings: [[spoiler: Dodola and Zam end up together despite the former having raised the latter as her son/brother. However, they don’t consummate their relationship as during his adolescence Zam became a eunuch but they have non-penetrative sex.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: Dodola for Zam. [[spoiler: Zam was originally named Ham like Noah’s son. Dodola saved him when men were about to kill him.]]
* {{Qurac}}: Here a country called Wanatolia, at first it looks like a grimdark take on ArabianNightsDays, but then [[spoiler: it is revealed to be set in the modern era. It is hinted already at the beginning when Dodola's husband is shown to have a motorcycle]].

* RashomonStyle: Dodola mentions the account by different religions about the Bible stories. For Jews and Christians, God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac but for Muslims, it was Ishmael his first son. For Jews and Christians, Noah's wife was on the ark but for the Muslims, she wasn't allowed to enter it because she was an unbeliever.

* StarCrossedLovers: King Solomon and Queen of Sheba Bilquis are portrayed as such and identified with the protagonists of the "[[Literature/SongOfSongs Song of Solomon]]". He repeatedly asked her hand but she had [[VirginPower to stay a virgin to keep her royal status]]. After she left, Solomon became a polygamist out of bitterness.

** Slave traders [[spoiler: considered killing the three year old Zam before Dodola claimed it was her brother.]]
** [[spoiler: Dodola's son Rajab is killed in his sleep.]]

''Habibi'' is a graphic novel by Craig Thompson published in 2011. The story is a drama about two children Dodola and Zam who struggle for their live in a fictional Islamic country. Their narrative is shown in parallel with tales and story from the Bible and the Quran.

* ArrangedMarriage : At the beginning of the story Dodola’s parent sell their 9 year old daughter to a scribe because of a severe drought.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Very much. For instance, Dodola at 9 year old is married to a much older scribe but the latter is portrayed as a nice man.
* ExactWords: Dodola turn “a jug of water into gold“ by [[spoiler: trading the jug of water for an empty gold one with a thirsty Sultan.]]
* {{Doorstopper}}: The book is 672-page long.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion : Played with. Dodola when she finds out that she’s pregnant asks her maid to have an abortion. She changes her mind later when she realized that she won’t be reunited with her adoptive son

* NotBloodSiblings: [[spoiler: Dodola and Zam ends up together despite the former having raised the latter as her son/brother. However they don’t consummate their relationship as during his adolescence Zam became a eunuch but they have non-penetrative sex.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: King Solomon and Queen of Sheba Bilquis are portrayed as such and identified with the protagonists of the "Song of Solomon". He repeatedly asked her hand but she had [[VirginPower to stay a virgin to keep her royal status]]. After she left, Solomon became a polygamist out of bitterness.

''Habibi'' is a graphic novel by Craig Thompson published in 2011. The story is a drama about two children Dodola and Zam who struggle for their live in a fictional islamic country. Their errrance is put in parralels with tales and story from the Bible and the Quran.

** Slave tradders [[spoiler: considered killing the three year old Zam before Dodola claimed it was her brother.]]

* FantasyGunControl: Despite [[spoiler:taking place in the modern day, nobody is shown having guns, not even the Sultan's soldiers]]. Thompson wanted to depict a clash of the old world and the new, while avoiding depicting guns or warfare.

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* ExactWords: Dodola turn “a jug of water into gold“ by [[spoiler: switching the jug of water with a gold one with a thirsty Sultan.]]

* AnachronicOrder: The story often switch the period of the lifetime of both Dodola and Zam.
* ArrangedMarriage : At the beginning of the story, Dodola’s parent sell their 9 year old daughter to a scribe because of a severe drought.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Very much. For instance, Dodola at 9 year old is married to a much older scrib but the latter is portrayed as a nice man.
* ExactWords: Dodola turn “a jag of water into gold“ by [[spoiler: switching the jag of water with a gold one with a thirsty Sultan.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: How does the Sultan react when Dodola announced that [[spoiler: their son just died]] and thus doesn't want to have sex? [[spoiler:Gleefully responds that it's time to make another one and proceeds to rape her.]]

** [[spoiler: Arguably worse is the Sultan. Imprisons Dodola, keeps her as his sex toy for several years, and the last we see of him he's ordering the execution of perhaps dozens of courtesans because he's bored. No comeuppance whatsoever, though.]]

* NotBloodSiblings: [[spoiler: Dodola and Zam ends up together despite the former having raised the latter as her son/brother. However they don’t consummate their relationship because Zam became in between an eunuch but they have non-penetrative sex.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: Dodola for Zam. [[spoiler: Zam was originally named Ham like Noah’s son. Dodola saved him while men were about to kill him.]]

* RapeAsDrama: One day, Dodola refused to sleep with a men who then raped her as Zam watched the whole scene. The Sultan also rapes her a few times.

* TurtlePower: In one of the first stories told by Dodola, men implore the rive god to cease his inundations. Under the appearance of a turtle, he shows them how to stop them with Lo Shu Square on his shell.

** Slave tradders [[spoiler: consider to kill three year old Zam before Dodola claimed it was her brother.]]

* {{Qurac}}: Here a country called Wanatolia, at first it looks like a grimdark take on ArabianNightsDays, but then [[spoiler: it is revealed to be set in the modern era]].

* {{Qurac}}: Here a country called Wanatolia, at first it looks like a grimdark take on ArabianNightsSDays, but then [[spoiler: it is revealed to be set in the modern era]].

* {{Qurac}}: Here a country called Wannatolia.

** [[spoiler: Dodola's son Rajab is kill in his sleep.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The man who raped Dodola in the desert and worse the Sultan.]]

* RashomonStyle: Dodola mentions the account by different religions about the bible stories. For Jews and Christians, God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac but for Muslims, it was Ishmael his first son. For Jews and Christians, Noah's wife was on the ark but for the Muslims, she wasn't allowed to enter it because she was an unbeliever.

* ArrangedMarriage : At the beginning of the sotry, Dodola’s parent sell their 9 year old daughter to a scrib because of a severe drought.

* RashomonStyle: Dodola mentions the account by different religions about the bible stories. For jews and christians, God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac but for muslims, it was Ishmael his first son. For jews and christians, Noah's wife was on the ark but for the muslims, she wasn't allowed to enter it because she was an unbeliever.
* StarCrossedLovers: King Solomon and Queen of Sheba Bilquis are portrayed as such and indentified with the protagonists of the "Song of Solomon". He repeatedly asked her hand but she had [[VirginPower to stay a virgin to keep her royal status]]. After she left, Solomon became a polygamist out of bitterness.
* TurtlePower: In one of the first stories told by Dodola, men implore the rive god to cease his innondations. Under the appearance of a turtle, he shows them how to stop them with Lo Shu Square on his shell.

* {{Qurac}}