History ComicStrip / DeKiekeboes

** Near the end of ''"De Snor van Kiekeboe"'' in which Kiekeboe was elected to be ''"Moustache of the Year"'' by the Antwerp Moustache Club- which really had happened in 1984- several moustached characters from other comic strips gather to protest because they weren't elected at all. In the color version of the album we recognize [ComicStrip/{{Tintin}} Thompson and Thomson]], [[ComicStrip/{{Asterix}} Asterix and Obelix]], [[ComicStrip/SpirouAndFantasio the Count of Champignac]] and [[ComicStrip/LuckyLuke the Daltons]]

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[[caption-width-right:97:The family Kiekeboe.]]

* AssholeVictim: The pedophile bisshop [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Hoegeiligman]] in "Schijnheilig Bloed". He's already in hiding from the public, is dementing, gets turned into a vampire and finally [[spoiler: walks into broad daylight and bursts into flames]].

* BewareTheNiceOnes: In ''“De wraak van Dédé”'' Fanny’s boyfriend Kris Kras turns out to be a henchman for Dédé La Canaille, Kiekeboe’s sworn enemy.

* RealPersonCameo: National and international celebrities also regularly have small cameos in the stories, including Creator/LouisDeFunes, Creator/{{Fernandel}}, Creator/LaurelAndHardy, Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/JohnCleese, Creator/{{Hergé}}, Creator/ReneGoscinny, JeanGabin, Creator/{{Bourvil}}, VictorBorge, UsefulNotes/{{Khomeini}}, the cast of Series/LittleBritain, Creator/JacquesTati, Music/MichaelJackson, Music/GraceJones and many Belgian and Dutch celebrities.

** Fernand Goegebuer spits whenever he talks
** Mevrouw Stokvis is always mentioned, but never seen

** Van De Kasseien frequently cheats on his wife

* BootCampEpisode: In ''“Geeeeeef Acht”'' Kiekeboe is sent to the army due to an administrational mistake.

* OldShame: Merho doesn’t like some of his earliest albums which followed a more traditional comic book structure, including fantasy stuff, unnecessarily exposure of jokes and plot points and too bland and childish jokes.

** Dictator Bibi Pralin Gaga was inspired by UsefulNotes/IdiAmin

* RealPersonCameo: National and international celebrities also regularly have small cameos in the stories, including Creator/LouisDeFunes, Fernandel, Creator/LaurelAndHardy, Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/JohnCleese, Hergé, Creator/ReneGoscinny, JeanGabin, Bourvil, VictorBorge, Khomeini, the cast of LittleBritain, JacquesTati, MichaelJackson, GraceJones and many Belgian and Dutch celebrities.

* AdolfHitler:

* VaporWear: It has been stated in some instances, and [[ShirtlessScene implied]] [[WetSariScene in others]] that Fanny doesn't often wear a bra.

At first sight ''“De Kiekeboes”'' is your typical Flemish family strip in the tradition of ''Suske en Wiske, {{Jommeke}}'' and ''{{Nero}}''. All stories center around the family Kiekeboe: father Marcel, mother Charlotte, teenage daughter Fanny and school boy Konstantinopel. However, the series have a more realistic every day life setting avoiding many of the typical comic book strip clichés: no WorldsStrongestMan, no AbsentMindedProfessor, no TalkingAnimal and fantasy elements are kept to a minimum. We do know that ghosts exist ''(“Spoken in Huis”)'', vampires ''(“Het Witte Bloed”, “De Kus van Mona”, “De Babyvampier”,…)'', strange prehistoric monsters ''(“Met De Franse Slag”)'', aliens ''("De Trawanten Van Spih")'' and occasionally some physically impossible gags occur. But most of the time everything is set in a realistic atmosphere. Fanny and Konstantinopel are not ConvenientlyAnOrphan or adopted, but Marcel and Charlotte’s real children. The early albums are still a bit naïve and childish like a traditional comic strip, but gradually the series started GrowingTheBeard and became DarkerAndEdgier. Many of the early one-dimensional characters became more complex. Story lines touched more adult and often risqué subject matter like prostitution, drugs, transsexuality, religious cults, racism, homosexuality, … The sly erotic jokes also became more prominent and explicit in later stories. Today ''“De Kiekeboes”'' is mostly an adult strip, though it still manages to keep its stories amusing and interesting for children as well.

* '''Timotheus Triangl''': A JamesBond type villain who wants to take over the world. Originally he was a little man, but later he underwent a sex change and since then he is a woman.

* BigBad: Timotheus Triangl, who is a JamesBond type villain. Kiekeboe’s sworn enemy is however Dédé La Canaille, a French convict.

* Expy: Timotheus Triangl is basically [[JamesBond Ernst Stavro Blofeld]], but crazier.

* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Fanny in ''“Het Edelweissmotief”''.
* BreakOutCharacter: Fanny Kiekeboe.

* BreakoutCharacter: Fanny who eventually put Marcel Kiekeboe, the actual protagonist, in the shadow. In the foreign translations she is also the protagonist instead of him.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Subverted. Konstantinopel, Joeksel and Froefroe are at most early teens, but know a suspiciously lot about sexual topics.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Inevitable in the HurricaneOfPuns that this series is...

** Dictator Bibi Pralin Gaga was inspired by IdiAmin

* BadassLongHair: In ''“De Haar-Tisten”'' a religious cult whose members all have long hair try to make everybody bald so that they can sell them a hair growing serum.

* ComicBookTime: The characters don’t age, except for one short story in the album ''“Afgelast Wegens Ziekte”'', where all his characters age 20 years into the future.