History Film / SmokingCausesCoughing

** Didier is a HandPuppet

** Lezardin seems to be a Series/{{V|1983}} reference. His name suggests (in a not subtle manner) that he is lizard folk and his makeup also looks like what these guys looked like when they started loosing their human disguise.

** The rat is named Didier which seems to be a reference to Film/{{Didier}} which was directer by Alain Chabat, who also acted as the titular character. Chabat voices (and presumably [[HandPuppet animates]]) the rat.

** The monsters that the Tobacco Force fight are not puppets but PeopleInRubberSuits.

* FamilyMan: Mercure is apparently the only member of the Tobacco Force who has a family of his own (a wife and two young daughters). When Chief Didier sends the team on a vacation, he complains about not having seen his family in a while but [[ThatsAnOrder is quickly shut down]]. After the announcement that Lezardin is about to destroy planet Earth early, he goes straight to the team's VideoPhone and makes small talk with his wife and kids while waiting for the end (until his call gets interrupted by Chief Didier to give them a solution).

* FamilyMan: Mercure is apparently the only member of the Tobacco Force who has a family of his own (a wife and two young daughters). When Chief Didier sends the team on a vacation, he complains about not having seen his family in a while but is quickly shut down. After the announcement that Lezardin is about to destroy planet Earth early, he goes straight to the team's VideoPhone and makes small talk with his wife and kids while waiting for the end (until his call gets interrupted by Chief Didier to give them a solution).

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: The guy stuck in the woodchipper keeps insisting that he feels fine and repeatedly apologizes to his aunt (who's [[ObviouslyNotFine quite in disbelief]] about that part of the situation) for causing her so much trouble.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: The guy stuck in the woodchipper keeps insisting that he feels fine and repeatedly apologizes to his aunt (who's quite in disbelief about that part of the situation) for causing her so much trouble.

* SuperDrowningSkills: After taking the Tobacco Force to their retreat, Norbert 500 drives off to the end of a pier and into the lake, where he sinks, much to the team's confusion. Chief Didier later explains he was programmed to commit suicide at the end of the mission in order to make way for his replacement, Norbert 1200.

* ReplacementScrappy: InStory with Norbert 1200, which is sent to replace Norbert 500. The team isn't overly enthusiastic with him, as he's apparently much slower than his predecessor (Benzène tests him by asking him to calculate "one million plus one million" and it takes him almost a whole minute to give the answer).

* ReplacementScrappy: Norbert 1200 is sent to replace Norbert 500, and the team isn't overly enthusiastic with him, as he's apparently much slower than his predecessor (Benzène tests him by asking him to calculate "one million plus one million" and it takes him almost a whole minute to give the answer).

* ReplacementScrappy: Norbert 1200 is sent to replace Norbert 500, and the team isn't overly enthusiastic with him, as he's apparently much slower than his predecessor (Benzène tests him by asking him to calculate "one million plus one million" and it takes him almost a whole minute to give the answer).

* ReplacementScrappy: Norbert 1200 is sent to replace Norbert 500, and the team isn't overly enthusiastic with him, as he's apparently much slower than his predecessor (Benzène tests him by asking him to calculate "one million plus one million" and he takes almost a whole minute to give the answer).

* ReplacementScrappy: Norbert 1200 is sent to replace Norbert 500, and the team isn't overly enthusiastic with him, as he's apparently much slower than its predecessor (Benzène tests him by asking him to calculate "one million plus one million" and he takes almost a whole minute to give the answer).

* ReplacementScrappy: Norbert 1200 is sent to replace Norbert 500, and the team isn't overly enthusiastic with it, as it's apparently much slower than its predecessor (Benzène tests it by asking to calculate "one million plus one million" and it takes almost a whole minute to give the answer).

Five characters named Benzène, Methanol, Nicotine, Mercure and Ammoniaque[[note]](French words for toxic chemical compounds found in tobacco)[[/note]] are a FiveManBand named the Tobacco Force. Together they fight monsters from outer space in what is a parody of {{Sentai}}. They are lead by a rat named Didier, who appears as an ugly puppet voiced (and presumably [[HandPuppet animated]]) by Creator/AlainChabat. They never meet him, all his appearances are video conferences. They are supported by a robot.

* SuperDrowningSkills: After taking the Tobacco Force to their retreat, [[RobotBuddy Norbert 500]] drives off to the end of a pier and into the lake, where he sinks, much to the team's confusion. Chief Didier later explains he was programmed to commit suicide at the end of the mission in order to make way for his replacement, Norbert 1200.

* ShaggyDogStory: Every single short story told during the movie either has an underwhelming ending or no ending at all. The main story itself ends with the Tobacco Force [[CigaretteOfAnxiety smoking while waiting]] for Norbert 1200 to complete the change-of-era procedure which is supposed to save them (they're [[OverlyLongGag still waiting]] during TheStinger), unaware that Chief Didier has been attempting to reach them to tell them to abort it, since the threat is averted now that Lezardin got killed.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Used at the beginning, as a boy on a car trip with his parents asks them for an [[PottyEmergency emergency stop]] and goes to do his business right next to the place where his favorite heroes, the Tobacco Force, are currently battling a monster.

* LudicrousGibs: After the Tobacco Force uses their cancer attack against the turtle monster, it explodes in an over-the-top shower of gore, which copiously sprays the team and the onlookers.