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* HauntingTheGuilty: Subverted with Colonel Lychee, who dreams of the Chinese people he had thrown alive into locomotive furnaces during WW2... with a big happy grin on his face.
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* HauntingTheGuilty: Subverted with Colonel Lychee, who dreams of the Chinese people he had thrown alive into locomotive furnaces during WW2...[=WW2=]... with a big happy grin on his face.
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** An Air Force pilot is named Sonny, while one girl's ImagineSpot/[[ADateWithRosiePalms Date with Rosie Palms]] involves ComicBook/BuckDanny calling Sonny and Tumbler for help.
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** An Air Force pilot is named Sonny, while one girl's ImagineSpot/[[ADateWithRosiePalms Date with Rosie Palms]] erotic fantasy involves ComicBook/BuckDanny calling Sonny and Tumbler for help.
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* HauntingTheGuilty: Subverted with Colonel Lychee, who dreams of the Chinese people he had thrown alive into locomotive furnaces during WW2... with a big happy grin on his face.
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* DarkActionGirl: Alix.
* DeadpanSnarker: Tony. Snarking is pretty much all he does.
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Sybil with a FatBastard.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Tony. Snarking is pretty much all he does.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Very, very far down the cynical end.
* SmugSnake: Basil and Sybil Jardine.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Tim is constantly toting a baseball bat, which he uses to painful effect against adversaries.
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* UglySpouseSentence: Basil Jardine discovers (after having his father murdered) that in order to inherit his father's fortune, he must merge his company with its biggest rival, and the most convenient way of doing that is marrying the daughter of its CEO. Said CEO is perfectly aware of his daughter's ugliness and bad personality, but given that he also has nothing but contempt for Basil, is all too happy to make the marriage go through. The daughter has similar feelings for Basil and has every intention of making him a HenpeckedHusband.
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** Turned UpToEleven when the action shifts back to the U.S. Featuring: backstabbing carrerist generals, scientists who work on their own brainwashing techniques, totally-not L Ron Hubbard, a severely-repressed sheriff, a colonel who gouges out his eyes after shooting his gay son dead, his WhiteDwarfStarlet wife who tries to kill Mac's daughter, the CIA guy who tries to divert an unmanned moon rocket to nuke Moscow (the Russian retaliation strike won't have the range to hit the U.S.)...
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** Turned UpToEleven Exaggerated when the action shifts back to the U.S. Featuring: backstabbing carrerist generals, scientists who work on their own brainwashing techniques, totally-not L Ron Hubbard, a severely-repressed sheriff, a colonel who gouges out his eyes after shooting his gay son dead, his WhiteDwarfStarlet wife who tries to kill Mac's daughter, the CIA guy who tries to divert an unmanned moon rocket to nuke Moscow (the Russian retaliation strike won't have the range to hit the U.S.)...
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* {{Qipao}}: Alix.
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* BandOfBrothels: While in UsefulNotes/HongKong, Mac bought himself a brothel.
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* BandOfBrothels: While in UsefulNotes/HongKong, Hong Kong, Mac bought himself a brothel.
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* GuiltInducedNightmare: Subverted, where Colonel Lychee is seen dreaming of all the people he had thrown into locomotive furnaces during World War 2, their ghosts crying for vengeance... and is ''smiling happily'' about it.
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* PowerTrio
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* ShootYourMate: Subverted. An American scientist claims he has reversed Chinese brainwashing techniques and proposes to demonstrate in front of high-ranking officers. He gives one of the two Chinese prisoners a gun, and tells him to shoot the other. The man immediately perks up and empties the gun... into the generals. [[IdenticalLookingAsians Turns out the gun had been given to the wrong man.]]
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* ShootYourMate: Subverted. An American scientist claims he has reversed Chinese brainwashing techniques and proposes to demonstrate in front of high-ranking officers. He gives one of the two Chinese prisoners a gun, and tells him to shoot the other. The man immediately perks up and empties the gun... into the generals. [[IdenticalLookingAsians [[RacialFaceBlindness Turns out the gun had been given to the wrong man.]]
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* IdenticalLookingAsians: One U.S. scientist declares to a board of Army higher-ups that they've figured a way to reverse Communist brainwashing. He produces his specimen, who starts reciting "Chairman Mao does not like freedom... Chairman Mao is not God...". Then the scientist brings in a new test subject (who hadn't undergone brainwashing), and gives him a gun and tells him to shoot. The prisoner happily complies, shooting a dozen generals before he's taken down. The scientist brushes ''giving the gun to the wrong man'' off, saying "these Chinese all look alike".
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* RacialFaceBlindness: One U.S. scientist declares to a board of Army higher-ups that they've figured a way to reverse Communist brainwashing. He produces his specimen, who starts reciting "Chairman Mao does not like freedom... Chairman Mao is not God...". Then the scientist brings in a new test subject (who hadn't undergone brainwashing), and gives him a gun and tells him to shoot. The prisoner happily complies, shooting a dozen generals before he's taken down. The scientist brushes ''giving the gun to the wrong man'' off, saying "these Chinese all look alike".
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Tony was initially assumed to be heterosexual, and in fact behaved as a bit of a [[TheCasanova Casanova]]. But in the rebooted version he turned out to be gay.
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* Area51: Here, the "crash-landed spaceship" is actually [[spoiler:an experimental Russian aircraft, with a Russian woman in SuspendedAnimation onboard]].
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* FemmeFatale: Ching Soao is possibly the most insane example in a series rife with this archetype as there's almost no situation she can't fight and/or fuck her way out of. The closest she gets to comeuppance is when Lychee and the dog-man put her in a small cage and kick her into the surf, but even then Captain Mumu O' Rouke happens to be nearby and accidentally busts the cage open while having sex with her through its bars. He then lets her go after he gets weirded out by the backstory of the tattoos that suddenly appeared on her body after she achieves a number of orgasms in succession even though she had tried to castrate him not an hour earlier.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Though she's comparably prone to being overwhelmed and captured just like in the main book, Alix is notably more competent and dangerous in her own spin-off.
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* EatenAlive: Mac's interference botches [[spoiler:Colonel Lychee's]] attempt at seppuku, leaving him helpless, but alive, in close proximity to hundreds of carnivorous rats.
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* RescueRomance: How Alix falls for Mac although the second rescue that ultimately thrusts her into his arms was actually Tim's doing.
* SecondLove: Alix is this for Mac after the death of [[spoiler:Roseu Fleuri]], who he cared deeply for and whose demise haunts him for several volumes.
* SecondLove: Alix is this for Mac after the death of [[spoiler:Roseu Fleuri]], who he cared deeply for and whose demise haunts him for several volumes.
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''Les Innommables'' is a French-Belgian comic book series by Yann Le Pelletier and Didier Conrad. It tells the adventures of a trio of deserters from the US Army, [=McButtle=] a.k.a. Mac, Tony and Tim, who wander throughout post-WW2 Asia, looking for a quick buck and for Mac's one true love, a Chinese girl named Alix Yin Fu. The latter is a fanatically committed agent of the Chinese Communist Party and goes through numerous adventures in her own SpinOff series, ''Tigresse Blanche''.
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''Les Innommables'' is a French-Belgian comic book series by Yann Le Pelletier and Didier Conrad. It tells the adventures of a trio of deserters from the US Army, [=McButtle=] a.k.a. Mac, Tony and Tim, who wander throughout post-WW2 post-[=WW2=] Asia, looking for a quick buck and for Mac's one true love, a Chinese girl named Alix Yin Fu. The latter is a fanatically committed agent of the Chinese Communist Party and goes through numerous adventures in her own SpinOff series, ''Tigresse Blanche''.
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* UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar: The characters see it from up close.
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* NazisWithGnarlyWeapons: An American rocket base is manned and overseen by former Nazis, who use Mexicans as labor. The base's official purpose is to send a rocket to the moon, in fact it's to nuke Moscow.
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* Area51: Here, the "crash-landed spaceship" is actually [[spoiler:an experimental Russian aircraft, with a Russian woman in SuspendedAnimation onboard]].
* ArmoredClosetGay: Just about every American character who stands for traditional 50's values is one.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Just about every American character who stands for traditional 50's values is one.
* EagleLand: Just about every American character is a type 2 (who believe themselves to be a Type 1). As an example, a trio of U.S. sailors in a bar try to pick a fight with a British man "for no being American". When his Indian manservant steps in, they decide to beat him up "for not being white".
** Turned UpToEleven when the action shifts back to the U.S. Featuring: backstabbing carrerist generals, scientists who work on their own brainwashing techniques, totally-not L Ron Hubbard, a severely-repressed sheriff, a colonel who gouges out his eyes after shooting his gay son dead, his WhiteDwarfStarlet wife who tries to kill Mac's daughter, the CIA guy who tries to divert an unmanned moon rocket to nuke Moscow (the Russian retaliation strike won't have the range to hit the U.S.)...
* FacialHorror: The sorceress No-Jaw doesn't have a lower jaw. Despite this, she can still talk, just with a JapaneseRanguage problem.
* GadgeteerGenius: Inverted with one character, introduced with "Give him an aircraft carrier and a month, he'll give you a tugboat!"
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* FacialHorror: The sorceress No-Jaw doesn't have a lower jaw. Despite this, she can still talk, just with a JapaneseRanguage problem.
* GadgeteerGenius: Inverted with one character, introduced with "Give him an aircraft carrier and a month, he'll give you a tugboat!"
** The Jardines are descended from the "Iron-headed old rat" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jardine_(merchant) William Jardine]]", an opium merchant.
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* IdenticalLookingAsians: One U.S. scientist declares to a board of Army higher-ups that they've figured a way to reverse Communist brainwashing. He produces his specimen, who starts reciting "Chairman Mao does not like freedom... Chairman Mao is not God...". Then the scientist brings in a new test subject who hasn't (who hadn't undergone brainwashing, brainwashing), and gives him a gun and tells him to shoot. The prisoner happily complies, shooting a dozen generals before he's taken down. The scientist brushes ''giving the gun to the wrong man'' off, saying "these Chinese all look alike".
* NazisWithGnarlyWeapons: An American rocket base is manned and overseen by former Nazis, who use Mexicans as labor. The base's official purpose is to send a rocket to the moon, in fact it's to nuke Moscow.
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* PsychoForHire: Colonel Lychee, who really enjoys his work.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Lychee, the dog-man, and a random crewmember go dig up some buried bones. Lychee shoots the sailor, telling the pissed-off dog-man that he can't talk anymore. The dog-man points out that they could just as easily killed him on the ship, now Lychee has to row alone.
* PsychoForHire: Colonel Lychee, who really enjoys his work. In one case, he's haunted by the memdreaming of all the Chinese people he threw into locomotive furnaces... and is smiling happily.
* PsychoForHire: Colonel Lychee, who really enjoys his work. In one case, he's haunted by the memdreaming of all the Chinese people he threw into locomotive furnaces... and is smiling happily.
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** The British antagonist of the Alix spinoff looks like Blake from ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'' ([[EvilBrit in appearance only though]]), with Mortimer's expy (named Marmalade) seen getting blackout drunk on "That Awful Day", the anniversary of India's independance.
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* TooDumbToLive: A detective character is unceremoniously written off when we see his body pulled out of the water. It's classified as suicide, he was seen showing money (flipping a coin) while at the docks.
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** For all his talk of hating the other two, when separated from Mac and Tim, Tony ends up finding himself a ReplacementGoldfish with a fat prisoner and a short one (with completely different personalities).
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* HeirClubForMen: GenderInverted, Alix wants Mac's baby to be a boy so he can take revenge for her.
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* MultipleEndings: The episode "Alix-Noni-Tengu" has two different possible endings, a [[HappyEnding happy one]] and a [[DownerEnding downer one]].
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* MultipleEndings: The episode "Alix-Noni-Tengu" has two different possible endings, a [[HappyEnding happy one]] and a [[DownerEnding downer one]]. The downer is the canon one.
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* OfficialCouple: [[UglyGuyHotWife Mac and Alix]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[-The big guy is Mac, the short one is Tim. Tony is probably sulking in a corner somewhere.-] ]]
''Les Innommables'' is a French-Belgian comic book series by Yann Le Pelletier and Didier Conrad. It tells the adventures of a trio of deserters from the US Army, [=McButtle=] a.k.a. Mac, Tony and Tim, who wander throughout post-WW2 Asia, looking for a quick buck and for Mac's one true love, a Chinese girl named Alix Yin Fu. The latter is a fanatically committed agent of the Chinese Communist Party and goes through numerous adventures in her own SpinOff series, ''Tigresse Blanche''.
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* AlternateContinuity: After the publication of the third album was cancelled, the series was suspended for a while and then started over with various [[RetCon retconned]] elements.
* AntiHero: Three of them. Mostly, they're the good guys because everyone else is worse.
* AscendedExtra: Alix
* AsianBabymama: Alix bore Mac's child while they were estranged, and he only finds out a few years later. In an interesting twist, Alix's [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwashing]] results in partial amnesia, and she herself forgets about her daughter.
* BandOfBrothels: While in UsefulNotes/HongKong, Mac bought himself a brothel.
* BigThinShortTrio: Mac, Tony and Tim.
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* BlackComedy
* BlackIsBiggerInBed: A black guy is refused entry into an Asian brothel because the girls are afraid he's far too large for them.
* BoisterousBruiser: Mac
* BrotherSisterIncest: Basil and Sybil Jardine are incestuous siblings.
* TheChewToy: Lt. Damage
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Basil Jardine, of Jardine & Matheson.
* DarkActionGirl: Alix
* DeadpanSnarker: Tony. Snarking is pretty much all he does.
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Sybil with a FatBastard.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: The first two panels of "Matricule Triple Zero", the first album, depict the character who was ostensibly going to be the real hero of the series, a USAAF pilot with rugged good looks inspired by ''ComicBook/BuckDanny''. And then he gets unceremoniously run over by a Jeep and is never seen again.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Yes, the world was racist back in the forties-fifties, but U.S. Navy personnel probably never went around publicly beating foreigners for "not being American" or "not being white".
* DisposableSexWorker: [[spoiler:Roseau Fleuri and most of the employees of the Crimson Lotus.]]
* DragonLady: Alix is a ruthless secret agent, highly trained in martial arts and assassination.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The publication by instalments of the third album was abruptly cancelled by the weekly ''Spirou'' because it was considered too mature for the young readership of the magazine.
* GovernmentConspiracy: While trying to get a private detective agency started, the Innommables get involved in a FBI conspiracy to assassinate the governor of New York State.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Lampshaded with Tim's baseball bat. The other characters wonder how it's possible for him to always have it at hand, even when he hasn't taken it with him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Marilyn Monroe and a few other figures from 1950s American history. The Song sisters also appear in the spin-off series.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Roseau Fleuri
* IdenticalLookingAsians: One U.S. scientist declares to a board of Army higher-ups that they've figured a way to reverse Communist brainwashing. He produces his specimen, who starts reciting "Chairman Mao does not like freedom... Chairman Mao is not God...". Then the scientist brings in a new test subject who hasn't undergone brainwashing, and gives him a gun and tells him to shoot. The prisoner happily complies, shooting a dozen generals before he's taken down. The scientist brushes ''giving the gun to the wrong man'' off, saying "these Chinese all look alike".
* InTheOriginalKlingon: One Chinese character says Creator/MarcoPolo stole the concept of pasta on his journey through China; in fact they were thought up separately.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mac
* KavorkaMan: Despite their ungrateful looks, Mac and Tim are both very successful with beautiful women.
* UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar: The characters see it from up close.
* MindControlEyes: Alix had BlankWhiteEyes while under the telepathic influence of a psychic.
* MultipleEndings: The episode "Alix-Noni-Tengu" has two different possible endings, a [[HappyEnding happy one]] and a [[DownerEnding downer one]].
* TheNapoleon: General [=McErnest=].
* OfficialCouple: [[UglyGuyHotWife Mac and Alix]]
* PapaWolf: Mac
* PirateGirl: The three characters are at one point abducted by {{Pirates}} led by a female captain. She gets a crush on Tim and has Mac and Tony thrown overboard.
* PowerTrio
* PsychoForHire: Colonel Lychee, who really enjoys his work.
* {{Qipao}}: Alix
* RedChina: The Chinese Communists are depicted as utterly merciless and depraved, but the main character's love interest is a fanatically loyal Communist agent. And the other sides aren't depicted in a much more favorable light either.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Happens with regularity.
* ShootYourMate: Subverted. An American scientist claims he has reversed Chinese brainwashing techniques and proposes to demonstrate in front of high-ranking officers. He gives one of the two Chinese prisoners a gun, and tells him to shoot the other. The man immediately perks up and empties the gun... into the generals. [[IdenticalLookingAsians Turns out the gun had been given to the wrong man.]]
* {{Shorttank}}: Claire, a former street urchin that the Innommables have taken in.
* ShoutOut:
** In Alix's spin-off series, she's partnered with a Chinese guy named [[ComicBook/{{Alix}} Eh-Nak]].
** An Air Force pilot is named Sonny, while one girl's ImagineSpot / DateWithRosiePalms involves ComicBook/BuckDanny calling Sonny and Tumbler for help.
* TheSlacker: All three started out as complete slackers, but while Mac and Tim shaped up to some extent, Tony has remained one.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Very, very far down the cynical end.
* SmugSnake: Basil and Sybil Jardine.
* StoutStrength: Mac
* StraightGay: Tony, in the rebooted version.
* SuddenlySexuality: Tony was initially assumed to be heterosexual, and in fact behaved as a bit of a [[TheCasanova Casanova]]. But in the rebooted version he turned out to be gay.
* {{Tsundere}}: Alix
* UglyGuyHotWife: Mac and Alix, though they aren't technically married.
* WeaponOfChoice: Tim is constantly toting a baseball bat, which he uses to painful effect against adversaries.
* YourTomcatIsPregnant: Happened with Raoul, the trio's pet pot-bellied pig, who turned out to be female.
* ValuesDissonance: In-universe, one of the Englishmen in Hong Kong takes offense at Sir Jardine's secretary wearing white at his funeral. His employer reminds him that in China, white is associated with death.
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''Les Innommables'' is a French-Belgian comic book series by Yann Le Pelletier and Didier Conrad. It tells the adventures of a trio of deserters from the US Army, [=McButtle=] a.k.a. Mac, Tony and Tim, who wander throughout post-WW2 Asia, looking for a quick buck and for Mac's one true love, a Chinese girl named Alix Yin Fu. The latter is a fanatically committed agent of the Chinese Communist Party and goes through numerous adventures in her own SpinOff series, ''Tigresse Blanche''.
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* AlternateContinuity: After the publication of the third album was cancelled, the series was suspended for a while and then started over with various [[RetCon retconned]] elements.
* AntiHero: Three of them. Mostly, they're the good guys because everyone else is worse.
* AscendedExtra: Alix
* AsianBabymama: Alix bore Mac's child while they were estranged, and he only finds out a few years later. In an interesting twist, Alix's [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwashing]] results in partial amnesia, and she herself forgets about her daughter.
* BandOfBrothels: While in UsefulNotes/HongKong, Mac bought himself a brothel.
* BigThinShortTrio: Mac, Tony and Tim.
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* BlackComedy
* BlackIsBiggerInBed: A black guy is refused entry into an Asian brothel because the girls are afraid he's far too large for them.
* BoisterousBruiser: Mac
* BrotherSisterIncest: Basil and Sybil Jardine are incestuous siblings.
* TheChewToy: Lt. Damage
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Basil Jardine, of Jardine & Matheson.
* DarkActionGirl: Alix
* DeadpanSnarker: Tony. Snarking is pretty much all he does.
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Sybil with a FatBastard.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: The first two panels of "Matricule Triple Zero", the first album, depict the character who was ostensibly going to be the real hero of the series, a USAAF pilot with rugged good looks inspired by ''ComicBook/BuckDanny''. And then he gets unceremoniously run over by a Jeep and is never seen again.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Yes, the world was racist back in the forties-fifties, but U.S. Navy personnel probably never went around publicly beating foreigners for "not being American" or "not being white".
* DisposableSexWorker: [[spoiler:Roseau Fleuri and most of the employees of the Crimson Lotus.]]
* DragonLady: Alix is a ruthless secret agent, highly trained in martial arts and assassination.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The publication by instalments of the third album was abruptly cancelled by the weekly ''Spirou'' because it was considered too mature for the young readership of the magazine.
* GovernmentConspiracy: While trying to get a private detective agency started, the Innommables get involved in a FBI conspiracy to assassinate the governor of New York State.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Lampshaded with Tim's baseball bat. The other characters wonder how it's possible for him to always have it at hand, even when he hasn't taken it with him.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Marilyn Monroe and a few other figures from 1950s American history. The Song sisters also appear in the spin-off series.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Roseau Fleuri
* IdenticalLookingAsians: One U.S. scientist declares to a board of Army higher-ups that they've figured a way to reverse Communist brainwashing. He produces his specimen, who starts reciting "Chairman Mao does not like freedom... Chairman Mao is not God...". Then the scientist brings in a new test subject who hasn't undergone brainwashing, and gives him a gun and tells him to shoot. The prisoner happily complies, shooting a dozen generals before he's taken down. The scientist brushes ''giving the gun to the wrong man'' off, saying "these Chinese all look alike".
* InTheOriginalKlingon: One Chinese character says Creator/MarcoPolo stole the concept of pasta on his journey through China; in fact they were thought up separately.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mac
* KavorkaMan: Despite their ungrateful looks, Mac and Tim are both very successful with beautiful women.
* UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar: The characters see it from up close.
* MindControlEyes: Alix had BlankWhiteEyes while under the telepathic influence of a psychic.
* MultipleEndings: The episode "Alix-Noni-Tengu" has two different possible endings, a [[HappyEnding happy one]] and a [[DownerEnding downer one]].
* TheNapoleon: General [=McErnest=].
* OfficialCouple: [[UglyGuyHotWife Mac and Alix]]
* PapaWolf: Mac
* PirateGirl: The three characters are at one point abducted by {{Pirates}} led by a female captain. She gets a crush on Tim and has Mac and Tony thrown overboard.
* PowerTrio
* PsychoForHire: Colonel Lychee, who really enjoys his work.
* {{Qipao}}: Alix
* RedChina: The Chinese Communists are depicted as utterly merciless and depraved, but the main character's love interest is a fanatically loyal Communist agent. And the other sides aren't depicted in a much more favorable light either.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Happens with regularity.
* ShootYourMate: Subverted. An American scientist claims he has reversed Chinese brainwashing techniques and proposes to demonstrate in front of high-ranking officers. He gives one of the two Chinese prisoners a gun, and tells him to shoot the other. The man immediately perks up and empties the gun... into the generals. [[IdenticalLookingAsians Turns out the gun had been given to the wrong man.]]
* {{Shorttank}}: Claire, a former street urchin that the Innommables have taken in.
* ShoutOut:
** In Alix's spin-off series, she's partnered with a Chinese guy named [[ComicBook/{{Alix}} Eh-Nak]].
** An Air Force pilot is named Sonny, while one girl's ImagineSpot / DateWithRosiePalms involves ComicBook/BuckDanny calling Sonny and Tumbler for help.
* TheSlacker: All three started out as complete slackers, but while Mac and Tim shaped up to some extent, Tony has remained one.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Very, very far down the cynical end.
* SmugSnake: Basil and Sybil Jardine.
* StoutStrength: Mac
* StraightGay: Tony, in the rebooted version.
* SuddenlySexuality: Tony was initially assumed to be heterosexual, and in fact behaved as a bit of a [[TheCasanova Casanova]]. But in the rebooted version he turned out to be gay.
* {{Tsundere}}: Alix
* UglyGuyHotWife: Mac and Alix, though they aren't technically married.
* WeaponOfChoice: Tim is constantly toting a baseball bat, which he uses to painful effect against adversaries.
* YourTomcatIsPregnant: Happened with Raoul, the trio's pet pot-bellied pig, who turned out to be female.
* ValuesDissonance: In-universe, one of the Englishmen in Hong Kong takes offense at Sir Jardine's secretary wearing white at his funeral. His employer reminds him that in China, white is associated with death.
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