History Comicbook / Titeuf

* BleachedUnderpants: It's funny to see how wholesome and kid-pandering the series and franchise have gotten, considering the first comics were quite dark and adult, making deliberate references to ''pornography'' at times. There was debate whether the comics could be put in family-friendly shelves or not. Versions syndicated to British anthology comics, and the latter English-subbed version of the TV cartoon, completely omitted any sexually-themed material as utterly unsuitable to British broadcast sensibilities.

** When Titeuf and his friends are thinking of games to play, he proposes ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''.

* AdoptionDiss: Jean-Claude once says that Titeuf is adopted as an insult. Titeuf takes it a bit too literally.

** One gag has Titeuf having trouble to go to the toilet in the middle of the night without stepping on his sister's toys. He's glad that it also happens to his parents.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Titeuf sometime considers his father to be embarrassing, notably when he become jobless and is taking him to school by holding his hand and kissing him on the cheek in front of his friends before leaving.

** Characters were more rigidly drawn in the early albums, while they have rounder shapes in the later ones.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The teacher gets ''really'' tired of Titeuf always drawing Lucky Luke and orders him to draw his dreams which is the class' drawing theme for the day. So Titeuf decides to draw the teacher getting tortured.

* CelebrityCameo: Late French rock singer Johnny Hallyday makes an almost-surreal appearance in the movie.

* ADayInTheLimelight: One gag centers around Nadia fantasizing about her ideal lover and being disgusted by the boys in the class. Titeuf only appears in two panel and has no more importance than the other boys.

** Hervé is always called "Vomito" by other kids because of his frequent gastro intestinal issues.

* PaperThinDisguise: Titeuf and other students tries to disguise as an other student named Robert because he has a hot Au Pair girl taking care of him and they wants to replace him. Their disguise is just them wearing glasses and combing their hair to look like Robert's, meaning they barely looks like him.

* PostKissCatatonia: PlayedWith, Titeuf stop moving just like a statue because he was ''very'' close to get a kiss from Nadia but didn't get it. He stays like this until night time and Manu is considering carrying him back at his home.

** Several gags involve a girl younger than Titeuf who haz a crush on him, much to his irritation.

* PunnyName: Titeuf and Hugo watch a gore movie called "The return of the Mixer", made by John Bolognèse. Bolognèse come from "bolognaise" which is a tomato sauce, fitting for a gore movie realisator.

** When Titeuf imagines himself killing his teacher in different eras, there's one where the teacher is dressed like an ancient roman while Titeuf looks like ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''.

* SillyPrayer: Titeuf's grandma tells him that he can talk to god as he always listen to him. Titeuf then tries to talk to him like in a phone call and asks for a Playstation, but he's not sure how to end the conversation and is scared that god will think all of his thought are part of the prayer, including the part where he thinks "I want to scratch my ass".

* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Titeuf assist at a wedding then the priest says the French equivalent, "Speak now or keep quiet forever." Titeuf, who had been instructed to keep quiet during the wedding, loudly complains that he agreed to keep quiet for an hour, not forever!

* StockYuck: The kids will sometime comments on how digusting spinach is.

** One gag is about Titeuf at differents ages asking his parent how babies are made. They always give a different explanation, so Titeuf believes that they really did forgot.
** Out of universe, the series love of "kids don't understand sex" jokes eventually led to the release of ''The Sexual Peepee Guide'', a Titeuf-themed sex ed booklet.

* TookALevelInJerkass: While in first comics and first season of the TV show Nadia wasn't always good to Titeuf, she was a lot nicer too him on several occasions. In the newest season of the TV serie, she's a pure jerk who spends her time hurting Titeuf, sometimes for [[DisproportionateRetribution very minor reasons]] Maybe she was good to him at least 3 times, but that's all. Looks like an unfortunately case of DerailingLoveInterests in favor of Ramatou.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Back when they were younger, Camille pulled a kid's underwears up to the top of his head because he was bothering Titeuf.

** There are a few ironic moments where Hervé appears but is not the one who vomit.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Romuald is three years younger than the others student and is a lots smarter than them. Much to the frustration of Titeuf who's sometime corrected on his work by him.

* ArtisticLicenseEducation: Even though the books are set in an elementary school, the students are sometime learning things you're not supposed to learn much later, like square roots.

* BalloonBelly: Titeuf goes on a waterslide, head first and dive into a pool with the mouth open. His body looks like a ''huge'' water balloon in the next panel.
* BananaPeel: Titeuf uses a banana peel to break the leg of a doctor who was going to vaccinate the students. He was said to have hands that shakes alot, much to the fear of the students.

* BlackBeadEyes: Some characters including Titeuf have these by default, they have more normal eyes when they gets emotional.

** François says that he stopped buying a brand of shoes because they use children labor, Manu says he stopped too while heavily sweating and giving a not-so-credible smile.

* BleachedUnderpants: It's funny to see how wholesome and kid-pandering the series and franchise have gotten, considering the first comics were quite dark and adult, making deliberate references to ''pornography'' at times. There was debate whether the comics could be put in family-friendly shelves or not.

* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: Worn by Jean-Claude, which he is not very happy about, causing him a speech impediment. When playing pretend games, he will sometimes play the part of a "steel-jawed tyrannosaurus".

* BucketBoobyTrap: The kids attempt to do that in real life after seeing it in a cartoon and... as said in the article page, water is heavy, and the bucket doesn't fall empty. Cue in a badly injured kid and two ashamed ones.

** Camille, an old crush of Titeuf was a bully to every kids except him.

* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Nadia has always rejected Titeuf who was attracted by her. Once Titeuf tells her he doesn't love her anymore she seems happy for a few seconds then she gets sad and become jealous of Ramatou, Titeuf's new love interest.
* CallingYourAttacks: One gag is about Titeuf and his friends having food fights and giving an attack name for every kinds of food he uses.
* CaptainObvious: Titeuf loses Nadia and Ramatou's respect due to a misunderstanding, and lament that Ramatou hates him now. Manu then casually adds that Nadia hates him too as she insult Titeuf.
* CassandraTruth: Titeuf leaves his backpack with all his homework in it in an open space. People think it's a terrorist attack and it gets destroyed by minesweepers. In the last panel, Titeuf's teacher says that it's the worst excuse for not doing homework she ever heard.

** A girl with a PrecociousCrush on Titeuf have "Ze t'aime", which means "I love you" with a lisp.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Both subverted as seen with KidsAreCruel and played straight when the kids are asking questions about sexuality, love, and other adult things and often ends up ComicallyMissingThePoint.
* {{Colorization}}: The first comic was monochrome but later got a colorized edition. It's recognizable by the cover as it have an added stamp showing Titeuf with various colors as if the character himself was painted over.
* ComicBookTime: The early albums are set during TheNineties, while the latest ones are set in TheNewTens, with Titeuf still being around the same age. There's a strip where Titeuf's dad tells that he's getting held back, but in the next book, Titeuf still has the same classmates.

** There is a time where the kids tells about gruesome deaths they heard of, one of them is about an helicopter cleaner who got sliced by the blades.

** Titeuf can be harshly punished for petty reasons. There's one moment where a woman ''slap'' him for innocently asking if she have menopause.

* TheDreaded: Titeuf says that Camille scared every boys at the creche. Even if he was the only boy she wasn't bullying, he's scarred of her when they meets again.

** The movie start with Titeuf dreaming of everyone in Prehistoric times.

* DrowningMySorrows: Discussed, during a school travel, Titeuf finds his underwear on the ground but doesn't want to admit it's his. So the teacher simply throws it away. Cut to Titeuf at home telling the viewers then when he'll grow up, he'll be able to drink to forget this, implying he had to sleep without underwears during a school trip.
* DudeNotFunny: There's a strip where Titeuf gets angry at Hugo for making fun of Pauline being bald, because the reason she's bald is that she has leukemia.

* ExerciseExcuse: There's a strip where Titeuf sees his parents lying on each other [[RightThroughHisPants in their underwear]]. When asked what they're doing, they claim to be exercising and start doing pushups. The last panel has Titeuf telling his friends that grownups don't actually have sex, it's just gymnastics.

** During a strip about food fights, Titeuf spray tangerine juice in other students' eyes.

* FaceHeelTurn: This trope is referenced in a game of Cowboys and Indians Titeuf and his friends are playing. Titeuf is on the Cowboys' side and smoke a cigarette from Hugo which makes him cough puffs of smoke, François then thinks he joined the Indians' side and is making smoke signals.

* GiftShake: One strip has Titeuf coming home and finding a gift box for him. He lifts it up, shakes it and throws it in the air to see if it is what he wanted. Then he opens the gift, only for an angry cat to jump out of it at his face with its claws out.

* HealthyInHeaven: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in a comic where Titeuf and his cousin Julie see a dead cat on the road, Julie then explain him that the cat will go to heaven and that everyone who go there will be healed and look young again. at the end of the page Titeuf tells François that it's useless to tear off mosquitoes' wings because they will gets new ones in heaven.
* HeightAngst: Titeuf thinks he has the worst height to takes the bus because he reaches exactly the height of an adult's armpit and is forced to feel them on his head. He calls his height the "critical height".
* HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: In the movie, when Titeuf is looking at a psychologist's patients, he pictures one of them must be very violent by having come out of his head a small killer wearing a hockey mask and brandishing a chainsaw.

** When the students come back from a school trip to the mountains, they all starts to brag to their moms on how they did dangerous stunts and almost died. Then Herv&eacute comes out of the train with a broken leg in a plaster cast because he slipped in the stairs, causing Titeuf to call him a show-off.

** In one page, he passes next to different cool looking men and he imagines himself in their place, then he comes home and cry when his father asks him to help cleaning the house.

** A man nicknamed "Ray Charles" often tries to take the money of Titeuf and his friends, but they see him more as a joke than anything else because he never realises that they just give him fake Monopoly bills or in Hervé's case: ''a piece of toilet paper''. When he gets arrested, the kids feel bad for him and offer him a Monopoly board game so he can play in prison.
** Another bully tries to pick on Titeuf and his friend, all it got him was being vomited on by Hervé, being spitted on by Jean-Claude and having a smell of Puduk's socks, the latter sent him at the hospital. Titeuf and his friends then consider giving him a visit as if he was a friend.

* KidsAreCruel: Titeuf and his friends can do really nasty things, one of their worst moments is when Their mockery on "Dumbo" make her think about suicide so they'd fells guilty.

* KissingCousins: Titeuf has shown to be once attracted to his cousin Julie, and immediately asked his dad if cousins could marry. His dad points out the genetic problems that could arise.

** When the grandfather of a student named Ludo die, everyone start to tell him about the death of the relatives of some of their minor acquaintances.
** When Titeuf have a wart on the hand and every other kids give him advices, Hugo says that he know a dude who is the neighbour of a guy who know a healer. He does it again when Titeuf ''cuts'' his wart with scissors.
** When Titeuf says that Nadia can't be married because she's too young, Hugo answers that his father knows a guy who reads an article on a girl who married at 9 in Africa.

** Titeuf thinks Nadia has a boyfriend, so he ask his cousin Julie to seduce him to separate them. [[spoiler: The "boyfriend" is actually Nadia's cousin]].

** There is a few strips where Hervé is prominent but is not the one who vomits.

** There's a strip where Titeuf's classmates makes fun of him because he always wears the same clothes, [[HypocriticalHumor even tough they barely change outfits themselves]].

** When Titeuf is about to move out, he do various things that would make him target for bullying and revenges. This includes kicking the asses of some bigger bullies because he believe it won't have consequenses as he moves out in an other country. [[OhCrap Then his mom explain him that they actually move in an other appartement in the same city they already lives in]].
** Manu accidentally spits on the apartement's janitor's head. In the last penel, Manu has his hand on his butt and tells Titeuf that if he wants to know how many time his ass was kicked, he just have to count the seconds and multiply by ten.

* NeverMyFault: Titeuf almost accidentally make a vase falls out of a table. Then he intentionnaly tries to push it to tempt fate and when it does fall, he blames god for not preventing the vase from falling.

** There are a few ironic moments where Herv&eacute appears but is not the one who vomit.

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One of the most popular FrancoBelgianComics, ''Titeuf'', created in 1992 by the Swiss cartoonist Philippe Chappuis, aka ''Zep'' (as in Music/LedZeppelin), tells the everyday life of the 8 to 10 year-old Titeuf and his buddies, specifically on their... confused views regarding the adults and the world. It frequently plays with the ChildrenAreInnocent trope: The kids are far more aware of sex, drugs and the like than the adults would believe, but almost always by ComicallyMissingThePoint, especially Titeuf himself. A translated version appeared for a short while in ComicBook/TheDandy.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness : The first few volumes (the very first one in particular) are considerably DarkerAndEdgier (maybe HotterAndSexier ?) than the later ones. In fact, their boldness can be downright disturbing. The first album is also the only one in black and white but it later got colorized.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: On the TV series, the school nurse started out with [[GagBoobs overly large breasts]], but for her season 3 redesign they were reduced to a normal size.

* {{Gasshole}}: Several times. One story was about all different types of farts the kids could do.

** Hugo accidentally does this to Ramon when trying to launch him with a plank on a barrel by jumping on the other side of the plank, Ramon hasn't placed himself yet and thus the plank hits him right between his legs.

* GrowingUpSucks: In one page, Titeuf notices his parents having many adult problems like getting a parking ticket or his father cutting himself while shaving. When asked what he want to do when he'll grow up, he asks if growing up is obligatory.

* HeightAngst: Titeuf thinks he has the worst height to takes the bus because he reaches exactly the height of an adult's armpit and is forced to feel them on his head.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Titeuf seems to be fond of dinosaurs. There's a page where he imagines himself and other people as dinosaur version of themselves.

* ArtEvolution: Characters were more rigidly drawn in the early albums, while they have rounder shapes in the later ones.

** Out of universe, the series love of "kids don't understand sex" joke eventually led to the release of ''The Sexual Peepee Guide'', a Titeuf-themed sex ed booklet.

** Discussed when Titeuf and Hugo see girl with a blacked eye and Hugo believes that her father beats her, though there is no indication that it is true. The girl gets angry at Titeuf for insulting her father so it's likely false. Later Manu and François think Titeuf's father beats him because ''he'' now have a blaked eye.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Titeuf sometime considers his father to be embarassing, notably when he become jobless and is taking him to school by holding his hand and kissing him on the cheek in front of his friends before leaving.

** François says that he stopped buying a brand of shoes because they use children labor, Manu says he stopped too while heavily sweating and ginving a not-so-credible smile.

** Titeuf and his friends often come across some older bullies, the most prominant one is the great Diego.

* CassandraTruth: Titeuf leaves his backpack with all his homeworks in it in an open space. People think it's a terrorist attack and it gets destroyed by minesweepers. In the last panel, Titeuf's teacher says that it's the worst excuse for not doing homework she ever heard.

* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: When Titeuf was at the creche, he offered a ring to Camille as a marrage proposal for the future. In the present, he regrets doing this. While she kept the ring, she doesn't seem to take the proposal seriously anyway and Manu tries to take it back for Titeuf but instantanly gives it back to her from himself, technically playing this trope straight in the end.

** Grown ups tends to do this when Titeuf says something non-sensical or embarassing.

** When the kids are cleaing a park of it's empty cans, a boy can be seen showing a grenade he found to the teacher while sporting a neutral expression,. The teacher is understandably horrified.

** When the students come back from a school trip to the mountains, they all starts to brag to their moms on how they did dangerous stunts and almost died. Then Herv&eacute comes out of the train with a broken leg in a plaster cast because he slipped in the stairs, cuasing Titeuf to call him a show-off.

** A man nicknamed "Ray Charles" often tries to take the money of Titeuf and his friends, but they see him more as a joke than anything else because he never realises that they just give him fake Monopoly bills or in Hervé's case: ''a piece of toilet paper''. When he gets arrested, the kids feel bad for him and offer him a Monopoly boardgame so he can play in prison.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair:
** Therese has pink hair.
** Romuald has blue hair.
** A nameless kid from a summer camp strip has pink hair.

* IAteWhat:
** Marco once gave bunny poops to eat to some students, saying it was drug.
** There's a page where Titeuf and his friends proudly tells each others about their disgusting lunches. Titeuf has a toothpaste sandwich, Manu has a cat food burger (with snots), François has a chocolate bar filled with suppositories and Hugo has macaroons licked by a dog and filled with bunny poops. It turns out they where expecting a near-sighted bully to steal their lunches. It works.

* DraggedIntoDrag: When Titeuf thinks that Nadia has a husband, one of his plan to separate them is having Manu dress as a girl and to pretend he's married to him all along so Nadia would gets jealous and breaks up.

** Ramon is possbly one of the most naive character in the books. He's once asked to bring a Jesus for representation of Jesus's birth. He just takes a photo of his cousin named Jesus.

** In the movie, Titeuf thinks his parents are seperating because his mother found his love letter to Nadia and he think she believe it was from a secret admirer of hers.
** Titeuf tries to deliver a love letter to Ramatou via a drone, it lands near Therese and she thinks it's for her and is seduced.

** Hervé is always called "Vomito" by other kids because he often vomit.
** Valérie is cruelly nicknamed [[WesternAnimation/Dumbo Dumbo]] because of her large ears, to the point where even ''[[WithFriendsLikeThese Nadia]]'' calls her that.
** Alexandre is nicknamed "Puduk'", which is a shortening of "pue du cul" (stink from the ass), because he smells bad.

* PaperThinDisguise: Titeuf and other students tries to disguise as an other student named Robert because he has a hot AU pair girl taking care of him and they wants to replace him. Their disguises is just them wearing glasses and combing their hairs like Robert, meaning they barely looks like him.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Titeuf makes fun of a kid because Nadia is attracted by him, later the kid's older brother comes to beat up Titeuf and he looks exactly like a bigger version of his little brother.