History Comicbook / MonicasGang

* BadassAdorable: Monica, who is just a cute five-to-six year old yet can destroy the biggest threats possible without barely breaking a sweat.

** The main cast is always six, nevermind the fact the series has been running for over 40 years. Every year there's a special edition featuring one of the main characters' 7th birthday. However, they always return to being six years old again. This is lampshaded when someone asks Jimmy how old he's turning. "Seven," he replies, "just like ''evewy'' other year."

In 2019, the franchise got its first Live-Action installment with the theatrical film ''Turma da Mônica — Laços'' (''Monica's Gang — Bonds''), based on the official graphic novel of the same name. It got a sequel in 2021 called ''Turma da Mônica — Lições'' (''Monica's Gang — Lessons''), also based on an eponymous graphic novel, and in 2022, an original series for [[Creator/{{TVGlobo}} Globoplay]] with the same cast.

* AscendedFanboy: Subverted in a story about Smudge and Jimmy Five going to a ''Franchise/StarWars'' convention. Smudge is a dedicated fanboy to the point of being a {{Geek}}, while Jimmy is basically the definition of a casual fan and just goes with him to the convention for the ride. And yet Jimmy is the one who ends the story (after getting a picture with George Lucas, a book with cast autographs and Chewbacca’s costume) ''[[ExaggeratedTrope invited to be in the next Star Wars movie]]'', while Smudge gets... a ticket to the new motion picture. So the actual fanboy doesn't get much (in fact, saying that Smudge was the ButtMonkey in this particular story is an understatement), but the one who isn't gets everything and more.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Nutty Ned, big time, though it’s rare for him to have a moment of this. He usually just annoys people without meaning harm, most likely without even trying, and definitely regards Jimmy at least as some kind of friend. However there is a story where [[KickTheDog Jimmy manipulates him into stopping Monica from chasing him]]. Once Ned realizes this, things get ''ugly'' for Jimmy, with Ned using his RealityWarper powers to nearly drive Jimmy insane.

** In "Astral Heaven", Monica convinces Jimmy of the Astral Hell, an astrological phenomenon in which one suffers great misfortunes in the days leading up to their birthday. Immediately afterwards, Jimmy is involved in a series of accidents and decides to lock himself in his room until his birthday, despite his mom’s protests that superstitions only affect people who believe in them. It’s heavily implied she is correct, as the bad luck seemingly vanishes when Jimmy believes the Astral Hell is over, only to return with double the intensity once he realizes he had miscounted the days on the calendar.
** In "O Urubu da Confusão" ("The Vulture of Confusion"), Monica and Jimmy accidentally break a mirror and become convinced that the act has unleashed the Uruca, an evil entity from another dimension who will curse them with extreme bad luck. Throughout the comic, whenever someone says the creature’s name, Jimmy is struck by a random lightning bolt, though this stops once he stops believing in the curse.

** Some of Franklin’s inventions could literally change history. He has been able to create functioning time machines, multitask robots, size shifting potions and many, manyothers. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since StatusQuoIsGod, naturally, and also most of his creations are infamously far from flawless (though, of course, just the fact that he's able to make something close to the real thing would be world-changing).
** One story came close to [[SubvertedTrope subvert this trope]]. Franklin managed to build a machine at Maggy’s request that could multiply food, and came to realize that, since with one sandwich he could make thousands, he had ''ended world hunger''. Cue some merchants understandably pissed, since now they were probably going bankrupt. Before Franklin can figure out a solution, the rest of the gang finds out that the machine’s food copies have actually no nutritional value, not satisfying hunger whatsoever.

* ''The Tribe''/''Turma do Papa-Capim'': A group of Brazilian Indians (a word whose Portuguese counterpart is not derogatory at all).

In 2019, the franchise got its first Live-Action installment with the theatrical film ''Turma da Mônica — Laços'' (''Monica's Gang — Bonds''), based on the official graphic novel of the same name. It got a sequel in 2021 called ''Turma da Mônica — Lições'' (''Monica's Gang — Lessons''), also based on an eponymous graphic novel, and in 2022, an original series for [[Creator/{{TVGlobo}} Globoplay]] with the same cast.

* AscendedFanboy: Subverted in a story about Smudge and Jimmy Five going to a ''Franchise/StarWars'' convention. Smudge is a dedicated fanboy to the point of being a {{Geek}}, while Jimmy is basically the definition of a casual fan and just goes with him to the convention for the ride. And yet Jimmy is the one who ends the story (after getting a picture with George Lucas, a book with cast autographs and Chewbacca’s costume) ''[[ExaggeratedTrope invited to be in the next Star Wars movie]]'', while Smudge gets... a ticket to the new motion picture. So the actual fanboy doesn't get much (in fact, saying that Smudge was the ButtMonkey in this particular story is an understatement), but the one who isn't gets everything and more.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Nutty Ned, big time, though it’s rare for him to have a moment of this. He usually just annoys people without meaning harm, most likely without even trying, and definitely regards Jimmy at least as some kind of friend. However there is a story where [[KickTheDog Jimmy manipulates him into stopping Monica from chasing him]]. Once Ned realizes this, things get ''ugly'' for Jimmy, with Ned using his RealityWarper powers to nearly drive Jimmy insane.

** In "Astral Heaven", Monica convinces Jimmy of the Astral Hell, an astrological phenomenon in which one suffers great misfortunes in the days leading up to their birthday. Immediately afterwards, Jimmy is involved in a series of accidents and decides to lock himself in his room until his birthday, despite his mom’s protests that superstitions only affect people who believe in them. It’s heavily implied she is correct, as the bad luck seemingly vanishes when Jimmy believes the Astral Hell is over, only to return with double the intensity once he realizes he had miscounted the days on the calendar.
** In "O Urubu da Confusão" ("The Vulture of Confusion"), Monica and Jimmy accidentally break a mirror and become convinced that the act has unleashed the Uruca, an evil entity from another dimension who will curse them with extreme bad luck. Throughout the comic, whenever someone says the creature’s name, Jimmy is struck by a random lightning bolt, though this stops once he stops believing in the curse.

** Some of Franklin’s inventions could literally change history. He has been able to create functioning time machines, multitask robots, size shifting potions and many, manyothers. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since StatusQuoIsGod, naturally, and also most of his creations are infamously far from flawless (though, of course, just the fact that he's able to make something close to the real thing would be world-changing).
** One story came close to [[SubvertedTrope subvert this trope]]. Franklin managed to build a machine at Maggy’s request that could multiply food, and came to realize that, since with one sandwich he could make thousands, he had ''ended world hunger''. Cue some merchants understandably pissed, since now they were probably going bankrupt. Before Franklin can figure out a solution, the rest of the gang finds out that the machine’s food copies have actually no nutritional value, not satisfying hunger whatsoever.

* UniversalAdaptorCast: With both "characters in other settings" and "WholePlotReference stories". Thanks to this, Jimmy Five's been Franchise/{{Batman}}, Film/IronMan and [[Film/XMenFilmSeries Wolverine]], and Chuck Billy's been Film/{{Superman}} and [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Captain]] [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger America]].

* KidAnova: In ''Franklin: Contact'', Isabel's parents forbid her from dating Bucky. This leaves her devastated, but he appears to move on immediately, as he is shown flirting with other girls. [[spoiler:Subverted in that he is only doing so because his father encouraged him to forget about Isabel. He is last seen sadly gazing on a picture of her in his cellphone]].

* MrImagination: Some points in Franklin's novel depict the world from the protagonist's point of view, with him imagining mundane things as extraordinary events. His messy bedroom is represented by a tornado, while his childish science fair projects are replaced with complex robots and a live ''T. rex''.

* ShoutOut: In "Temporal", Gerson tries to get his nephew Smudge to open up by talking about comic books. He asks the boy whether he likes older comics or "[[ComicBook/New52 the New 22]]", a reference to the 2011 DC event that rebooted the company's entire continuity.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Non-gameplay example. The protagonist of "The Power of Imagination" is Mauricio himself, who teams up with a sentient magic pencil to rescue his crew from the the comics' most famous antagonists.

* ChainLetter: The main plot of "Acorrentada" ("Chained"). Monica receives a chain letter and, desperate to avoid the bad luck, mails it to all her neighbours. Unfortunately, they turn out to be as superstitious as her, kickstarting a a send and receive loop that plunges the city into chaos.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics, Mongul is depicted as a cunning tyrant whose strength rivals or outright surpasses the hero's. Here, he is reduced to a ButtMonkey: The gang refers to him as a "ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} rip-off" whose name is not worth remembering, and he goes down in a single hit when Monica bashes him with her stuffed bunny.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Applies to everyone, which is helped by a team of writers that treats the cast each in their own way. Are the characters WiseBeyondTheirYears or not much smarter than the average six-year-old? Do they behave like stereotypical children or do hilariously absurd things?

* WickedStepmother: Carmem almost becomes Sunny's stepmother and threatens to enforce strict methods to discipline him, including feeding him nothing but scarlet eggplant soup. Luckily, Sunny's father realizes how much she hates children and ends their relationship.

* In "The Reversed Tower", Stavros forbids Penha from leaving the hospital without going through some exams first. She responds by throwing a temper tantrum, saying he can't keep her there and yelling "Wanna know why? Because I'm rich! I'm rich!" This is a famous quote from the 2008 Brazilian telenovela ''Beleza Pura'', which became a meme in the country due to actress Carolina Ferraz's dramatic delivery.

** Bucky was flanderized into a sexist, controlling, bitter ex to make Isabel's empowering CharacterDevelopment more positive ([[CharacterizationMarchesOn Compare to his manga debut where they broke up because she wanted to do nothing but party but Bucky wanted to dedicate himself to his baseball career]]), the following chapters after "Shadows of the Past" treat Jimmy's TheBeard with Penha as intentional two-timing when he was actually being blackmailed into going out with her and even Monica seemed to regard that as such at the end of the arc, Maggy thinks it's totally fine to droll over the HotTeacher in front of her boyfriend but she won't accept people calling her out on it or Todd glancing at another girl with the faintest hint of interest, although Todd at least calls her out on it herself and she's upset... Because he found out and didn't think he had noticed.

** None of the characters who walk around barefoot have toes (e.g. Monica, Smudge, Maggy, Sunny), except for those in Chuck Billy's stories. The ones who wear shoes (e.g. Jimmy Five and Franklin), however, do. Lampshaded in an 80s story where Monica finds out she has no toes and, along with Smudge, decides to complain to Mauricio about it. He manages to convince them by telling them that [[AnAesop this is one of the traits that make them unique characters]], and then goes back to his sketching board - and gets ''horrified'' upon trying to draw Monica with toes.

* MultipleDemographicAppeal: It's supposedly made for children, but the occasional moments of BlackComedy and ParentalBonus also earned the franchise many grown-up fans. It helps that the comic often does send-offs to popular media aimed at older audiences, such as a special retelling of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and the "Cinema Classics" parodies of ''Film/RoboCop, Film/TheRing'' and ''Film/It2017''. Downplayed since the New '10s, since most of the stories that are not advertised on the comic books' covers are didactic in nature and directed exclusively towards very young kids.

* OffModel: Downplayed. In 1998, Emerson Abreu wrote a story in which Jimmy and Smudge enter the world of ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}''. Jimmy warns Smudge about an enemy called Shambler, which he specifically describes as a white monster, though when they eventually find the creature, it's instead depicted as orange with red spots on its arms. Emerson would later poke fun at this coloring oversight in his [[http://emersonabreu.blogspot.com/2009/05/cebolinha-e-cascao-no-mundo-de-quake.html blog]].

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Monica and most of her friends (Jimmy Five being a notable exception) normally walk barefoot, though they do wear shoes every now and then.

A general rundown on the franchise for English speakers can be found [[http://www.monicaandfriends.com/ here]]. The English dub of the series on the Monica Plus Website/{{YouTube}} channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzzNocnagTE&list=PLBUqbL0gszR6HijGRt0rJ0_PS-T0byEvC here]]. The playlist of the Japanese dub of the show can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSftJhxVwTx4T4hgtLySgPMPU2Kvg4IW here]].

%%* LongTitle: In "Too Complicated", Monica decides to write a book titled "Beyond the Howling Obviousness that Pullulates in Human Minds". The other children are obviously confused by the bizarre name, except Nick Nope, who correctly deduces it's meant to reference Monica's ability to subvert the readers' expectations.

* LongTitle: In "Too Complicated", Monica decides to write a book titled "Beyond the Howling Obviousness that Pullulates in Human Minds". The other children are obviously confused by the bizarre name, except Nick Nope, who correctly deduces it's meant to reference Monica's ability to subvert the readers' expectations.

** Each of the Cinema Classics specials feature at least one large panel in which characters from various media make cameo appearances. Said cameos often tie in to the general theme of the current setting, such as [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Link]], [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Finn]] and ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} showing up in the parody of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' because they all hail from old-fashioned worlds that resemble the Middle Ages.

** Luca is occasionally called "Paralaminha" ("Little Paralama"), which is a reference to how the frontman of band Paralamas do Sucesso, Herbert Vianna, became wheelchair-bound after an airplane accident in 2001.

In 2019, the franchise got its first Live-Action installment with the theatrical film ''Turma da Mônica — Laços'' (''Monica's Gang — Bonds''), based on the official graphic novel of the same name. It got a sequel in 2021 called ''Turma da Mônica — Lições'' (''Monica's Gang — Lessons''), also based on an eponymous graphic novel, and in 2022, an original series for [[Creator/{{Globo}} Globoplay]] with the same cast.

* BigBadEnsemble: In "An Adventure in Time", the gang travels to different time periods to retrieve canisters containing essences of the four ElementsOfNature, though they soon face opposition in the form of four different villains: