History ComicBook / LesNombrils

* TheAlcoholic: Jenny's mom.

* BareYourMidriff: If the title hasn't clued you in...
* BatmanGambit: These start showing up in volume 3.

* BetweenMyLegs: The cover of volume 4.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Karine, after some serious CharacterDevelopment.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Mélanie. So very, very much.]]

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Karine, Vicky and Jenny respectively.

* {{Buttmonkey}}: Karine, Karine, Karine. Also TheChewtoy.

* TemporaryBulkChange: Happens to Jenny when Vicky takes her to an all-you-can-eat place in an effort to make Jenny fat so the guy they're fighting over will date her instead. When Jenny starts gaining mass unusually fast, Vicky can't believe it. [[RealityEnsues It turns out she was just having an allergic reaction]].

* AmbiguouslyGay: [[spoiler: Vicky, on the one hand she has never shown interest in women other than Megane, on the other her pursuit of men was always superficial even more so then Jenny. Her pursuits were either to increase her own social status or to steal men away from Jenny and/or Karine to lower theirs. She also never showed the level of attraction she shows for Megane for any guy.]]

* BittersweetEnding: After the DownerEnding of Volume 7, Volume 8 ends on a more positive note... though there's plenty of tragic or ominous elements there that keeps it from being an outright HappyEnding. [[spoiler:After an album-long TraumaCongaLine, Jenny has recovered, TookALevelInKindness and is a better and happier person than she ever was before, now openly dating Hugo and having repaired her friendship with Vicky. Albin and the Albinos, after a bit of struggling, have wone a prestigious music awards and have become a success. At the same time, Karine is plagued by guilt for what she did to Xander, and Vicki, who ''just'' seemed ready to accept her sexuality and confess to Mégane, discovers that she insulted the girl one too many times and how her chance seems to be blown as Mégane instead got with Lara. The last we see of Vicky in the album, she's depressed and has started comfort eating again.]]

** Hugo is probably the most genuinely nice people in the comic, though [[BewareTheNiceOnes there's a limit to how far you can push him]].

* PutOnABus: Rather than have his secret exposed, John John opts to leave school at the end of the third volume. After he leaves, the readers (though not the characters, apart from Karine) finally find out what he looked like underneath his helmet ans why he never took it off. [[spoiler:He is in fact two people... Conjoined twins, to be presice. His twin brother is a second head stuck to the left side of his own head.]]

** John John sometimes seems to contradict himself or have problems making up his mind... Come the end of the third album, we find out why. [[He's conjoined twins. The smaller voice that sometimes pipied up, sometimes with a different opinion, was in fact his twin brother.]]

* PutOnABus: Rather than have his secret exposed, John John opts to leave school at the end of the third volume. After he leaves, the readers (though not the characters, apart from Karine) finally find out what he looked like underneath his helmet ans why he never took it off. [[spoiler:He is in fact two people... Conjoined twins, to be presice. His twin brother is a second head stuck to the left side of his own head.]]

* BeAWhoreToGetYourMan: Vicky and Jenny's modus operandi.

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Vicky's ''vengeance'' towards Jenny for the events in Volume 7, involves sabotaging Jenny's appearance,causing her to not only lose her social status at school,but become shunned by her own image-obsessed family. This,however,ends up causing Jenny to undergo CharacterDevelopment , culminating in her public confession to Hugo, leading to her becoming a happier and better person than she ever was.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: The lead singer of the Underdogs is haughty and condescending toward Albin's band. However, after his older brother tragically dies, he composes a song about him that immediatly becomes a hit. [[spoiler:Karin then learns that he actually hated his brother and used his death for popularity.]]

** A subtle, possibly unintentional one, but Karine's DreamSequence in the first album where she's inexplicably turned into a total knockout but also to her horror finds herself developing a mean streak. It's never this exaggerated, but she ''does'' eventually get a makeover and discover that SheCleansUpNicely... as well as getting a few shocking BewareTheNiceOnes moments that borders on cruelty. Same dream also has Jenny as her normal self but Vicky has turned fat, hinting both of Vicki's FormerlyFat reveal ''and'' that Karine subconsciously thinks better of Jenny than she does of Vicki.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Most of Jenny's more mean-spirited moments are a result of this. Unlike the far smarter and more cynical Vicki, Jenny isn't actually malicious, just very stupid and narcissistic. Usually she doesn't even realize when she's being a terrible person.

* {{Jerkass}}: Vicky and Jenny, [[ComedicSociopathy to a hilarious degree]]. Murphy, too.

* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Mélanie. Albin is a less villainous version.]]

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: ExtremeDoormat Karine is Nice, AlphaBitch Vicky is Mean and InnocentlyInsensitive Jenny is In-Between. Vicky does have her nice moments and Karine (especially post-CharacterDavelopment) could be the poster child for BewareTheNiceOnes, but the dynamic is pretty prominent for most of the comic.

** Hugo

* YourCheatingHeart: Vicky's father, who has a thing for redheads. [[spoiler:It eventually leads to his separation from Vicky's mom in Volume 7, where it is revealed that he is the father of Jenny's infant brother.]]

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: For much of the first book, Vicky and Jenny are interchangeable, being equally mean an manipulative. Towards the end of the book we start seeing a difference between them, with Jenny's BrainlessBeauty traits played up a lot more and her maliciousness heavily toned down. In subsequent albums she is pretty consistently portrayed as an InnocentlyInsensitive {{Ditz}} who generally just [[ToxicFriendInfluence follows Vicky's lead]].

* SuddenlySexuality: [[spoiler: Vicky starts developping feelings for her neighbour Mégane, after she kisses Vicky one night at their English camp. It reaches even further heights in the next volume leading to ''Vicky'' kissing Mégane after confessing her feelngs.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Karine in a nutshell.

* EvilAlbino: [[spoiler: Possibly double-subverted with Albin. Triple-subverted: Despite some KnightTemplar tendencies, Albin isn't evil as hinted.]]

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Vicky's ''vengeance'' towards Jenny for the events in Volume 7, involves sabotaging Jenny's appearance,causing her to not only lose her social status at school,but become shunned by her own image-obsessed family. This,however,ends up causing Jenny to undergo CharacterDevelopment , culminating in [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments her public confession to Hugo]], leading to her becoming a happier and better person than she ever was. ]]

* NoExportForYou: The comic is originally in French and only the first volume received an official English release and is also out of print, but there are fan translations available if you know where to look.

* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler: How Karine gets back at Mélanie.]]

** [[spoiler:Karine herself]] pulls this in book 8 when [[spoiler she plants drugs in the car of the leader from a rival band and calls the cops on him]]. BewareTheNiceOnes indeed. Even [[ManipulativeBastard Albin]] is impressed.

!!Tropes:

* AbusiveParents: Vicky's mother and to a lesser extent her father, of the emotional and neglectful variety.

* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: Jenny, much to Vicky's frustration, always takes everything she's told completely literally.
* DownerEnding: Volume 7, dear god. [[spoiler: Jenny realizes she really is in love with Hugo and wants to be exclusive with him, to bad this is after she publically humiliated him by rejecting his "him or me" ultimatum. Vicky finally stops denying she is in love with Megane, but then can't risk throwing away everything to be with her. Karine finds out that Albin is a chronic manipulator and that she is number 12 in his list of victims. Vicky after getting drunk and rejecting Megane decides to take her frustrations out on Jenny which leads to Jenny outing her and Megane's activities which then leads to a huge fight between Vicky and Megane's bigot parents as they try to pass blame for their "deviant" daughters.]]
* DramaticIrony: No-one but the reader knows that Jenny's younger brother, Willy, is also Vicky's half-brother. [[spoiler: At least until the end of Volume 7. Which is revealed to all when Vicky and her dad come to live with Will's new/old girlfriend, Jenny's Mom.]]

* ExtremeDoormat: Karine's primary character trait. At least for a while. There are implications that Karine is still a doormat -- it's just that the only one walking over her is Albin, and he's such a master of manipulation she doesn't realise it.

* SpoiledBrat: Both Vicky and her sister count, but her sister is far worse. They're both very materialistic due to their affluent upbringing, but for many summers Vicky was dropped off at French camp while her sister got to join their parents on vacations to exotic locales. When Vicky manages to earn their favor for a change, even getting a car for her sweet sixteen, her sister actually breaks down crying simply because she was only allowed to borrow the family car a few times when she first started driving.

* SuddenlySexuality [[spoiler: Vicky starts developping feelings for her neighbour Mégane, after she kisses Vicky one night at their English camp. It reaches even further hights in the next volume leading to ''Vicky'' kissing Mégane after confessing her feelngs.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Jenny,of all people gets subjected to this in Volume 8, courtesy of Vicky. The latter sabotages her trademark appearance, making Jenny believe this will make Hugo interested in her again. Not only does Hugo gets even more upset she's missing the point of his rejection,she loses all her fanboys immediately ''and'' her family now shuns her,to the point of refusing to be seen with Jenny. Since Jenny has no friend besides [[PoisonousFriend Vicky]] and Karine,who is away with her band, she ends up incredibly isolated and miserable, so much that she is at one point,seen asking ''Murphy'' for advice on Hugo.]]

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Karine accuses Vicky of not knowing what it is like to fall in love. [[spoiler: Turns out Karine was right, [[RightForTheWrongReasons if not correct on the reason.]]]]

* YourCheatingHeart: Vicky's father, who has a thing for redheads. [[spoiler: It eventually leads to his separation from Vicky's mom in Volume 7, where it is revealed that he is the father of Jenny's infant brother.]]

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Vicky's ''vengeance'' towards Jenny for the events in Volume 7, involves sabotaging Jenny's appearance,causing her to not only lose her social status at school,but become shunned by her own image-obsessed family. This,however,ends up causing Jenny to undergo CharacterDevelopment , culminating in [[HeartwarmingMoments her public confession to Hugo]], leading to her becoming a happier and better person than she ever was. ]]

* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Mélanie. Albin is a less villainous version.]

* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Jenny,of all people gets subjected to this, courtesy of Vicky. The latter sabotages her trademark appearance, making Jenny believe this will make Hugo interested in her again. Not only does Hugo gets even more upset she's missing the point of his rejection,she loses all her fanboys immediately ''and'' her family now shuns her,to the point of refusing to be seen with Jenny. Since Jenny has no friend besides [[PoisonousFriend Vicky]] and Karine,who is away with her band, she ends up incredibly isolated and miserable, so much that she is at one point,seen asking ''Murphy'' for advice on Hugo.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Jenny,of all people gets subjected to this, courtesy of Vicky. The latter sabotages her trademark appearance, making Jenny believe this will make Hugo interested in her again. Not only does Hugo gets even more upset she's missing the point of his rejection,she loses all her fanboys immediately ''and'' her family now shuns her,to the point of refusing to be seen with Jenny. Since Jenny has no friend besides [[PoisonousFriend Vicky]]