History ComicBook / KidPaddle

It also got a Belgian-French-Canadian animated series produced by now-defunct Quebec animation studio Spectra Animation (''WesternAnimation/FredsHead'', ''WesternAnimation/ToopyAndBinoo''), which aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} for 2 seasons and 52 episodes from 2003 to 2006.

* GamerGirl: Max, since she is the arcade's owner's niece she can play for free which makes her better than Kid.

* MutualKill: The Little Barbarian shoots dead a samurai opponent in a duel, only to succumb to his injury moments later.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Kid view his dad like this mostly because he is lamer than his over expectation of him. There is however one gag where his dad will be caught in a really awkward situation when Carol's friend moves in which actually make Kid appreciate his dad more.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: While Kid and Big Bang are playing a special TableteopGame/{{Chess}} game where the pieces are made of chocolate, Big Bang somehow takes both of Kid's rooks in one move. Taking multiple opponent pieces in a single move is normally impossible due to how chess works. And it's never indicated that their chocolate chess game is played differently, aside from the fact that you must eat the opponent's piece when you take them.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In early albums, Kid was often seen with an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] blond-haired boy. He probably disappears because unlike Horace and Big, he had [[FlatCharacter no particular personality]].

* ArtisticLicenseSports: While Kid and Big Bang are playing a special TableteopGame/{{chess}} game where the pieces are made of chocolate, Big Bang somehow takes both of Kid's rooks in one move. Taking multiple opponent pieces in a single move is normally impossible due to how chess works. And it's never indicated that their chocolate chess game is played differently, aside from the fact that you must eat the opponent's piece when you take them.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: While Kid and Big Bang are playing a special chess game where the pieces are made of chocolate, Big Bang somehow takes both of Kid's rooks in one move. Taking multiple opponent pieces in a single move is normally impossible due to how chess works. And it's never indicated that their chocolate chess game is played differently, aside from the fact that you must eat the opponent's piece when you take them.

* PerfectlyCromulentWord: When Kid and Carole are playing Scrabble.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first album features Kid playing real '90s video games like VideoGame/{{Aladdin}} or VideoGame/{{Tetris}}, because those were taken from the time Kid Paddle was a a comic meant to accompany Magazine/{{Spirou}}'s video game review column. Later comics feature fictional games.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Kid and the other children despite the series went through several generations of consoles. Early strips had Kid play on cartridge-fed consoles, and one strip shows a blocky early 3D prototype game as something revolutionary. Doubles as an example of UnintentionalPeriodPiece, with the earlier strips clearly grounding the comic in the first half of the 90's.

* RageQuit: A few strips have the TV with a chair or hatchet embedded in it after one too many losses at ''The Little Barbarian.''
* SadistTeacher: Kid's main teacher. Then again, he is ''Kid'''s teacher. His usual way to deal with the boys was to suspend them on hooks for coat outside the class by their t-shirt, now he simply yells at them.

* SiblingYinYang: Kid is a boy who likes gore and violent videogames while his sister Carole enjoys stereotypical things for little girls.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Kid and the other children despite the series went through several generations of consoles. Early strips had Kid play on cartridge-fed consoles, and one strip shows a blocky early 3D prototype game as something revolutionary.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In early albums, Kid was often seen with an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] blond haired boy. He probably disappears because unlike Horace and Big, he had [[FlatCharacter no particular personality]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first album features Kid playing real 90s video games like VideoGame/{{Aladdin}} or VideoGame/{{Tetris}}, because those were taken from the time Kid Paddle was a a comic meant to accompany Magazine/{{Spirou}}'s video game review column. Later comics feature fictional games.

* HopeSpot: On occasion the barbarian makes it through the deathtrap in one piece, only to fall apart in the next panel or find out that the princess wasn't fast enough.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Every time we see Kid playing a game, we can expect him to fail or get in a situation where FailureIsTheOnlyOption. It carried over to the SpinOff series, ''Game Over'', which (as the name implies) is entirely focused on the many, ''[[TheManyDeathsOfYou MANY]]'' ways in which the Little Barbarian and/or the Princess get mangled in horrible ways.
** A common gag is that after saving the princess the barbarian will either do something gross or look perverted which ends with the princess killing him.

* NintendoHard: The ''Little Barbarian'' game series, which has its own spin-off comic called ''Game Over''. The game is vicious, full of KaizoTrap, sometimes plain unwinnable (as in it constantly loops back), and one of the final boss has a two-minute timer on the pause button, which is the time it takes to pause the game and look out the long-winded explanation in the booklet on how to beat him.
* NonStandardGameOver: One ending has the barbarian disguise himself as a monster, only for one of them to fall in love, get married, and go off on honeymoon with him.

* SpinOff: ''Game Over'', centered about the barbarian games and the many failures.

It got a spinoff named ''ComicBook/GameOver'' focusing on TheManyDeathsOfYou starring the Little Barbarian, the much-abused protagonist of Kid's games.

* LimitedWardrobe: Not only Kid, who is always seen wearing the same shoes, green cap and shorts with an orange tank top, but ''[[UpToEleven every single other character]]''.
* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Every time we see Kid playing a game, we can expect him to fail or get in a situation where FailureIsTheOnlyOption. It carried over to the SpinOff series, ''Game Over'', which (as the name implies) is [[UpToEleven entirely focused]] on the many, ''[[TheManyDeathsOfYou MANY]]'' ways in which the Little Barbarian and/or the Princess get mangled in horrible ways.

** When Kid, Max and Carole imagine their possible medical careers: Max tells the patient what's going to happen, Kid shows up as a hideous mutant KnifeNut surgeon, and Carole is the hospital administrator.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Kid and the other children despite the series went through several generations of consoles.

It also got a Belgian-French-Canadian animated series produced by now-defunct Quebec animation Spectra Animation (''WesternAnimation/FredsHead'', ''WesternAnimation/ToopyAndBinoo''), which aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} for 2 seasons and 52 episodes from 2003 to 2006.

It also got a Belgian-French-Canadian animated series produced by now-defunct Quebec animation Spectra Animation (''WesternAnimation/FredsHeads'', ''WesternAnimation/ToopyAndBinoo''), which aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} for 2 seasons and 52 episodes from 2003 to 2006.

It also got a Belgian-French-Canadian animated series, which aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}}.