History ComicBook / Violine

* OffModel: In one picture, Muller grabs Violine from behind with visible hands, even though he has lost them at this point.

''Violine'' is a French-Belgian comic book series in five volumes, created by Didier "Tronchet" Vasseur and Fabrice Tamin, with Jean-Marc Krings replacing the latter from the third album onwards. The titular Violine is also a recurring character in ''Magazine/{{Spirou}}'' magazine.

The first album introduces the main character and focuses on her discovery that her dad is not dead but missing. The second album has her travel to Zongo to search for him, in the meanwhile freeing the country from a dictator, but finding that her father has already fled. In the third book, the search continues, at the end of which she finally reunites with Francois, her father. The fourth book is dedicated to Violine's father's backstory involving Marushka and Muller, and how he discovered a fabulous diamond mine that could make Zongo rich. Others are on the hunt for the same diamonds, however. This also starts the search for Violine's disappeared mother... with a twist. In the fifth album, Violine saves President Redder from another attack, and goes in search of her mother in Europe.

* GagBoobs: The pygmie's statue on the volcano has huge, cilindrical shaped breasts.

* SuperOCD / ClockKing:
** The chauffeur who drives Violine around talks in numbers and measurements, and divides larger units into smaller ones in conversation. Violine herself also has shades of this.
** Violine's mother is obsessed with hygiene and health, even going so far as doing a stool analysis to see whether Violine eats healthy enough.

* AdultFear:
** Violine is a 10-year-old girl who spends nearly the entire story being chased, attacked or otherwise left in the company of adults who do ''not'' have her best interests in mind. Her mother is cold and abusive, the family doctor is perfectly fine with harming her if it means continuing to be paid large amounts of money, her teachers are unfeeling (and the one who actually is nice to her turns out to be heartlessly selling animals to the school for dissection and cares only about the money). Things get even more distressing when she goes to Africa to find her father. There, she's nearly eaten by crocodiles multiple times, is nearly poisoned several times by the disguised doctor, captured by a dictator, held at gunpoint, abandoned in the open ocean, attacked by a sadistic military leader ([[spoiler:multiple times, in fact, and the later attempts have him with robotic arms that could easily ''crush her throat'', something which he's very open about threatening]]), and forced to abandon a ship filled with explosives. Oh, and from the third volume onward, her father is with her for all of this. While he does his best to protect her, he often is forced to watch as both of them are shoved into deadly situations that he might not be able to save her from.
** There's also the part where her father tells his side of the story. His happy childhood fell to pieces when his parents left him in the care of a nanny who turned out to be incredibly controlling and abusive. They only found out about this when they came home earlier than she expected and found that she'd locked the poor kid up. And yet not only does she manage to convince them to keep her around, but she poisons them, leaving him in her care for the rest of his life. He has to run away from home when he realizes that she and her brother plan to turn him into an invalid so they can continue to control his money, which leaves him homeless and forced to run to a country he's never been to before. Things get a lot better as he works his way up to a good job, marries the love of his life, and has a daughter, then everything falls apart as [[spoiler:his wife is kidnapped during a revolution, he sacrifices his chance to find her to save baby Violine (who was left in her crib in a burning house), and has to abandon his wife just to make sure his child is rescued from an incredibly unstable and unsafe country. His abusive nanny is still at his old house and manages to convince him to do exactly what his own parents did - leave his child in her care while he leaves to find his wife.]] He is arrested when he returns to Africa and spends nearly a decade either in prison or on the run. And while he and his daughter are later reunited, [[spoiler:he learns that the nanny lied about being Violine's real mother and raised her as abusively as he had been.]] To cap it all off, the last issue reveals that [[spoiler:Violine's fake mother is a master hypnotist, which is undoubtedly how she'd kept her position for so long. Not only does it add a new layer of creepiness to her (she's an abusive guardian who can force anyone with the power to get rid of her to let her stay, no matter if she's caught or not), but she uses that power to hypnotize Violine's dad into trying to kill her.]]

** A lion tries to attack the BiggerBad of the third comic, but gets mauled offscreen. We get to see it afterwards covered in blood, though.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Muller and Marushka are the main villains in the plot, driving much of the backstory as well as Violine's adventures, especially Muller who actively hunts her and her father down.

* [[IAmNotYourFather I Am Not Your Mother]]: Francois reveals that [[spoiler: Marushka, who claimed to be her mother, was actually his governess, and her REAL mother is missing in Zongo]].

* ReflectiveEyes: A variation: when Violine reads someones mind, the content of their thought bubble appears reflected in her eyes. Francois' eyes work the smae way.