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* BrownNote: Usually PlayedForLaughs.
** In "¡Valor y al toro!", Mortadelo knocks out the bull by showing it the hotel's price list.
** If a character is being bit by an animal, another character will pull out the former's latest medical analysis in order to shock them into stopping.
** In "El brujo", one of the murder attempts uses one of these combined with a ClingyMcGuffin. Its contents? A calculation of fuel prices by the end of the year.
** In "¡Valor y al toro!", Mortadelo knocks out the bull by showing it the hotel's price list.
** If a character is being bit by an animal, another character will pull out the former's latest medical analysis in order to shock them into stopping.
** In "El brujo", one of the murder attempts uses one of these combined with a ClingyMcGuffin. Its contents? A calculation of fuel prices by the end of the year.
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** But the prize goes to a scene where Mortadelo and Filemón were locked in a bank vault and Filemón ties to dig his way out with a Swiss-Army Knife. Mortadelo tries to tell something to Filemón but the latter dismisses him. He spends '''three days''' digging a hole and, when he comes out, he sees that Mortadelo is already out of the vault. How did he get there? The vault's door was unlocked and when Mortadelo tried to tell this to Filemón, he didn't want to hear.
*** This happens so many times that you nearly expect it to happen when Filemón starts to do something while not paying attention to Mortadelo. There is even one time when Filemón tries to open a door using a cable, and sixteen hours later, when he surrenders, Mortadelo mentions that he was "having some fun with his penknife" and ended up making a very artistic door.
** In "Las embajadas chifladas", at the final chapter Filemón got his neck elongated to a point where it was about half a meter long, and had to hide it inside his shirt. Much later, once everyone thought his neck [[AmusingInjuries had gone back to normal]], he used it to make [[ItMakesSenseInContext everyone think that Mortadelo was a snake charmer, revealing it while Mortadelo played the flute]]. And at the end of the story, he and Mortadelo got tied with a bomb near them. What did Filemón did? [[ChekhovsBoomerang He used his neck to take the bomb with his teeth]] and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome threw it to the]] BigBad.
*** This happens so many times that you nearly expect it to happen when Filemón starts to do something while not paying attention to Mortadelo. There is even one time when Filemón tries to open a door using a cable, and sixteen hours later, when he surrenders, Mortadelo mentions that he was "having some fun with his penknife" and ended up making a very artistic door.
** In "Las embajadas chifladas", at the final chapter Filemón got his neck elongated to a point where it was about half a meter long, and had to hide it inside his shirt. Much later, once everyone thought his neck [[AmusingInjuries had gone back to normal]], he used it to make [[ItMakesSenseInContext everyone think that Mortadelo was a snake charmer, revealing it while Mortadelo played the flute]]. And at the end of the story, he and Mortadelo got tied with a bomb near them. What did Filemón did? [[ChekhovsBoomerang He used his neck to take the bomb with his teeth]] and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome threw it to the]] BigBad.
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** But the prize goes to a scene where In "El caso del bacalao", Mortadelo and Filemón were are locked in a bank vault cell and Filemón ties tries to dig his way out with a Swiss-Army Knife. Swiss army pickaxe, dismissing Mortadelo when he tries to tell something to Filemón but the latter dismisses him. He spends '''three days''' digging a hole and, when he comes warn him about something. After sixteen hours of digging, his pickaxe completely worn out, he sees that finally comes out - only to see Mortadelo is was already out of the vault.out. How did he get there? The vault's door was unlocked and when Mortadelo tried to tell this to Filemón, he didn't want to hear.
*** This happens so many times that you nearly expect it to happen when Filemón starts to do something while not paying attention to Mortadelo. There is even one time when Filemón tries to open a door using a cable, and sixteen hours later, when he surrenders, Mortadelo mentions that he was "having some fun with his penknife" and ended up making a very artistic door.
** In "Las embajadas chifladas", at the final chapter Filemón got his neck elongated to a point where it was about half a meter long, and had to hide it inside his shirt. Much later, once everyone thought his neck [[AmusingInjuries had gone back to normal]], he used it to make [[ItMakesSenseInContext everyone think that Mortadelo was a snake charmer, revealing it while Mortadelo played the flute]]. And at the end of the story, he and Mortadelo got tied with a bomb near them. What did Filemón did? [[ChekhovsBoomerang He used stretched out his neck to take the bomb with his teeth]] and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome threw spat it to at the]] BigBad.
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%%*** It is also related to the CanonDiscontinuity mentioned above. The introduction of Irma coincided in time with the loss of publishing rights that Ibáñez suffered. As a result, most of the comic books where Irma appears are "apocryphal" and were not written by himself. If you see a comic book where Irma appears, most likely it wasn't written by him. When he eventually regained the rights, he got rid of the character who was now strongly associated with the "apocryphal" comic books.
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** One of the many secret entrances to the TIA offices has the duo dragging through a very narrow passage. Mortadelo finds the exit blocked by some sort of fabric and rips it off with a knife. It turns out that, in the other side, there was a very expensive painting that the Súper had on his wall. "The Titian! The Titian!", the Súper screams. "No, it's me, the Mortadelo", answers Mortadelo with a cheerful smile, "Don't you know me?"
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** One of the many secret entrances to the TIA offices has the duo dragging through a very narrow passage. Mortadelo finds the exit blocked by some sort of fabric and rips it off with a knife. It turns out that, in the other side, there was a very expensive painting that the Súper had on his wall. "The Titian! [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titian Titian]]! The Titian!", the Súper screams. "No, it's me, the Mortadelo", answers Mortadelo with a cheerful smile, "Don't you know me?"
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** In ''20,000 leguas de viaje sibilino'' (in which they must go from Madrid to Lugo, going around the world), one of the stops is China. Two Chinese SecretPolice members believe M&F are two spies and attempt to make them reveal why they are there through Chinese torture methods (which are not exactly like the normal ones) until they pull out a torture system clearly based out on the Spanish Social Security system. This one works really well (though, Mortadelo just makes up a really bold lie so that they are healed).
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** In ''20,000 leguas de viaje sibilino'' (in which they must go from Madrid to Lugo, going around the world), one of the stops is China. Two Chinese SecretPolice members believe M&F are two spies and attempt to make them reveal why they are there through Chinese torture methods (which are not exactly like the normal ones) until they pull out out... poisoning them and pushing them through a torture system clearly based out on bureaucratic mess parodying the Spanish Social Security system. This one works really well (though, Mortadelo just makes ends up making up a really bold lie so that they are healed).to get out of it.
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** Sometimes, both of them are held in specially tiny spaces. This will result in either of the following: either they come out in the form of the place they have been held (and eventually threatened to be sent to another place which is even smaller) or the place where they were kept was [[HammerSpace much bigger than what it should be]] (one hilarious example has Filemón "practicing Formula 1 racing" while kept in a drawer, which results in one guy looking into that drawer and getting his big nose flattened by one Formula 1 racing car and shouted at ''from within the drawer'' to stay off the track).
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** Sometimes, both of them are held in specially tiny spaces. This will result in either of the following: either they come out in the form of the place they have been held (and eventually threatened to be sent to another place which is even smaller) or the place where they were kept was [[HammerSpace much bigger than what it should be]] (one hilarious example has Filemón "practicing Formula 1 racing" while kept in a drawer, which results in one guy looking into that drawer and getting his big nose flattened by one Formula 1 racing car and shouted at ''from within the drawer'' to stay off the track).
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* AllForNothing: Many of the missions Mortadelo and Filemón are sent to will end up being not as vital as they were told. Needless to say, when this happens, they make their anger obvious.
** One example is ''20,000 leguas de viaje sibilino'', where they have to deliver an important key to a city in Galicia (northwestern Spain), but instead of going straight ahead, they're told to go around the world to avoid potential spies. What is the key for? The bathroom of the Super's in-laws' house.
** One example is ''20,000 leguas de viaje sibilino'', where they have to deliver an important key to a city in Galicia (northwestern Spain), but instead of going straight ahead, they're told to go around the world to avoid potential spies. What is the key for? The bathroom of the Super's in-laws' house.
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* AllForNothing: AllForNothing:
** Many of the missions Mortadelo and Filemón are sent to will end up being not as vital as they were told. Needless to say, when this happens, they make their anger obvious.
** *** One example is ''20,000 leguas de viaje sibilino'', where they have to deliver an important key to a city in Galicia (northwestern Spain), but instead of going straight ahead, they're told to go around the world to avoid potential spies. What is the key for? The bathroom of the Super's in-laws' house.house.
** At other times, they learn at the end of the mission that it was meaningless because of circumstances - such as in "El antídoto", where their travel into the North Korea-like Bestiolandia to find the eponymous antidote is rendered useless because the Super got healed the day after they went on their mission.
** Many of the missions Mortadelo and Filemón are sent to will end up being not as vital as they were told. Needless to say, when this happens, they make their anger obvious.
** At other times, they learn at the end of the mission that it was meaningless because of circumstances - such as in "El antídoto", where their travel into the North Korea-like Bestiolandia to find the eponymous antidote is rendered useless because the Super got healed the day after they went on their mission.
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* {{Angrish}}: A very common reaction of the characters whenever something goes wrong. The Angrish line used most often is "GRFJTX!".
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* {{Angrish}}: A very common reaction of the characters whenever something goes wrong. The Angrish Spangrish line used most often is "GRFJTX!".
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: In 2000 album "Fórmula Uno", the two agents have to compete undercover in a UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Grand Prix, but the team only has one car for both of them. Sharing cars had stopped being allowed in Formula One in UsefulNotes/TheSixties, and actually having two drivers in the car at the same time as the agents do here is probably illegal, not to mention nearly impossible to pull off considering how tiny [=F1=] cockpits usually are. Also, it is very unlikely that the FIA would allow them to enter a [[TheAllegedCar '58 car rescued from the scrapyard]] after crashing their original vehicle one too many times, but here they do. We can probably chalk that up to RuleOfFunny anyway, since the starting grid for the race features several other unorthodox vehicles.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Ibáñez was a self-confessed ignoramus when it came to sports, and it shows. Always PlayedForLaughs, of course.
** Any team sports match will be filled with things that would never fly in an actual game. For example, Mortadelo wearing his costumes, players engaging in UnnecessaryRoughness without being carded, or doping being practiced in the open.
** In "Mundial 78", the referee in the final match between Spain and Germany has a ''blatant'' case of myopia that makes him miss obvious stuff like players trying to ''kill'' each other - which he doesn't realize until the linesman warns him and only believes him because he thinks the latter is a priest. Which leads to him red-carding both teams.
** In 2000 album "Fórmula Uno", the two agents have to compete undercover in a UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Grand Prix, but the team only has one car for both of them. Sharing cars had stopped being allowed in Formula One in UsefulNotes/TheSixties, and actually having two drivers in the car at the same time as the agents do here is probably illegal, not to mention nearly impossible to pull off considering how tiny [=F1=] cockpits usually are. Also, it is very unlikely that the FIA would allow them to enter a [[TheAllegedCar '58 car rescued from the scrapyard]] after crashing their original vehicle one too many times, but here they do. We can probably chalk that up to RuleOfFunny anyway, since the starting grid for the race features several other unorthodox vehicles.
** Any team sports match will be filled with things that would never fly in an actual game. For example, Mortadelo wearing his costumes, players engaging in UnnecessaryRoughness without being carded, or doping being practiced in the open.
** In "Mundial 78", the referee in the final match between Spain and Germany has a ''blatant'' case of myopia that makes him miss obvious stuff like players trying to ''kill'' each other - which he doesn't realize until the linesman warns him and only believes him because he thinks the latter is a priest. Which leads to him red-carding both teams.
** In 2000 album "Fórmula Uno", the two agents have to compete undercover in a UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Grand Prix, but the team only has one car for both of them. Sharing cars had stopped being allowed in Formula One in UsefulNotes/TheSixties, and actually having two drivers in the car at the same time as the agents do here is probably illegal, not to mention nearly impossible to pull off considering how tiny [=F1=] cockpits usually are. Also, it is very unlikely that the FIA would allow them to enter a [[TheAllegedCar '58 car rescued from the scrapyard]] after crashing their original vehicle one too many times, but here they do. We can probably chalk that up to RuleOfFunny anyway, since the starting grid for the race features several other unorthodox vehicles.
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* BlandNameProduct: Commonly for the lulz, a portmanteau of a well-name brand with some other unrelated word - "Pescadillac" combines luxury-brand Cadillac with "pescadilla", Spanish for whiting, which is not expensive. The same goes with "Alfalfa Romeo", mixing another high-end car brand, Alfa Romeo, with alfalfa, which is a plant farmers use to feed their livestock (and yes, the word for alfalfa is the same in Spanish and English). Sometimes only some letters are changed to ease a Spaniard's pronunciation.
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* BlandNameProduct: Commonly for the lulz, a portmanteau of a well-name brand with some other unrelated word - "Pescadillac" combines luxury-brand Cadillac with "pescadilla", Spanish for whiting, which is not expensive. The same goes with "Alfalfa Romeo", mixing another high-end car brand, Alfa Romeo, with alfalfa, which is a plant farmers use to feed their livestock (and yes, the word for alfalfa is the same in Spanish and English).English), and "Boing" (the representation of the sound of something bouncing, as in English too) that refers to the plane maker Boeing. Sometimes only some letters are changed to ease a Spaniard's pronunciation.
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Correcting error on why Irma was retired.
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*** It is also related to the CanonDiscontinuity mentioned above. The introduction of Irma coincided in time with the loss of publishing rights that Ibáñez suffered. As a result, most of the comic books where Irma appears are "apocryphal" and were not written by himself. If you see a comic book where Irma appears, most likely it wasn't written by him. When he eventually regained the rights, he got rid of the character who was now strongly associated with the "apocryphal" comic books.
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*** Irma was actually introduced in "¡Terroristas!", which was made by Ibáñez, based on the secretary of the German editor of the series, and retired after said secretary died in 1990.
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* BlackComedy: While less common than other forms, this will still show up from time to time.
** In "¡Misión Triunfo!", the Súper calls out the others for being [[DreadfulMusician horrible singers]], and declares he will sing a happy tango that incites to enjoy life. One song about war later...
--->'''Radio:''' Suicides shoot up in the city! Overtime work in graveyards! Funeral parlour company stocks go up seven thousand points!
** In "¡Misión Triunfo!", the Súper calls out the others for being [[DreadfulMusician horrible singers]], and declares he will sing a happy tango that incites to enjoy life. One song about war later...
--->'''Radio:''' Suicides shoot up in the city! Overtime work in graveyards! Funeral parlour company stocks go up seven thousand points!
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It’s not really a “nod” if the book is filled with comebacks, it’s really only an example of Continuity Porn.
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* ContinuityNod: Any appearances by returning villains are punctuated by a side note pointing to the last story in which they starred. And then there is the book "Venganza Cincuentona" where a dozen of the most iconic MonstersOfTheWeek return to fight the heroes together.
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* ContinuityNod: Any references to previous comics or appearances by returning villains are punctuated by a side note pointing to the last story in which they starred. And then there is the book "Venganza Cincuentona" where a dozen of the most iconic MonstersOfTheWeek return to fight the heroes together. comic being referenced.
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** See SuckinessIsPainful for a few more examples.
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* CreatorProvincialism: Played straight and averted: There are plenty of stories set in other countries or as world trips ([[HollywoodGeography Not that they are accurate or anything]]), but quite a few have evil criminals, aliens or whatever that just happen to hide/go to Spain for no real reason. Best example? ''Expediente J''. The evil aliens send a few havoc-causing {{phlebotinum}} rocks to Spain (And accurately, around the area the main characters live at that) and when their leader appears at the end, he assumes that has caused ALL of humanity to be a mess. What?
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* CreatorProvincialism: Played straight and averted: There are plenty of stories set in other countries or as world trips ([[HollywoodGeography Not that they are accurate or anything]]), but quite a few have evil criminals, aliens or whatever that just happen to hide/go to Spain for no real reason. Best example? ''Expediente J''. The evil aliens send a few havoc-causing {{phlebotinum}} rocks to Spain (And accurately, around the area the main characters live at that) and when their leader appears at the end, he assumes that has caused ALL of humanity to be a mess. What?
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** They also had an earlier, better one with ''ComicBook/ZipiYZape''.
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** They also had an earlier, better earlier one with ''ComicBook/ZipiYZape''.
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* AuthorAvatar: Ibáñez sometimes plays a minor role in the plot, or is name-dropped, usually making Mortadelo wonder "Where did I heard that name before?".
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* AuthorAvatar: Ibáñez sometimes plays a minor role in the plot, or is name-dropped, usually making Mortadelo wonder "Where did have I heard that name before?".
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Complaining and stuff irrelevant to the trope.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the 50th anniversary special "Venganza Cincuentona", which brought back many villains from previous comics, all of the villains that smoked in their original stories are not seen smoking anymore, including Professor Von Iatum, an alien conqueror disguised as a scientist, whose cigarettes were established in the original album as his tool for breathing in the Earth.
* ComicBookTime: Despite the series having gone for over 50 years, none of the characters have aged one bit. Some of the anniversary specials acknowledge for how long they have been by showing the characters suffering from health issues, but any other comic shows them perfectly fine.
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* ContinuityNod: Any appearances by returning villains are punctuated by a side note pointing to the last story in which they starred. And then there is the book ''Venganza Cincuentona'' where a dozen of the most iconic MonstersOfTheWeek return to fight the heroes together.
* ContinuityPorn: The 50th aniversary special, which includes the return of many earlier villains and some other references to earlier comics. However, it's not without its problems:
** Some of the returning villains (El Rana, Bíchez) were clearly DeaderThanDead at the end of their respective stories, and there's either [[HandWave a very poor explanation]] or no explanation at all of why they are still alive.
** It's mentioned at the beginning of the story that Mortadelo and Filemón have been catching baddies for 50 years. There's a problem when you see that both the protagonists and the villains [[NotAllowedToGrowUp don't seem to be older at all]].
** Many (if not most) of the recurring villains were portrayed in their original stories as pretty much [[TheJuggernaut unstoppable]], only to be [[VillainDecay easily defeated]] here.
** The worst CharacterDerailment by far is the one suffered by "Chapeau el Esmirriau". Not only he does he suffer from a huge VillainDecay (he's the closest Ibáñez has ever been from a MagnificentBastard), but he seems to have lost his definining traits, such as his trademark silences (it has been said that he speaks more during the two pages he appears in the special that during the 44 that his original album had).
** And it's worth noting how all of the returning vilains who were portrayed as smokers in their original stories [[{{Bowdlerise}} aren't smokers anymore]]... including Professor Von Iatum, an alien conqueror disguised as a scientist, whose cigarettes were established in the original album as his tool for breathing in the Earth.
* ContinuityPorn: The 50th aniversary special, which includes the return of many earlier villains and some other references to earlier comics. However, it's not without its problems:
** Some of the returning villains (El Rana, Bíchez) were clearly DeaderThanDead at the end of their respective stories, and there's either [[HandWave a very poor explanation]] or no explanation at all of why they are still alive.
** It's mentioned at the beginning of the story that Mortadelo and Filemón have been catching baddies for 50 years. There's a problem when you see that both the protagonists and the villains [[NotAllowedToGrowUp don't seem to be older at all]].
** Many (if not most) of the recurring villains were portrayed in their original stories as pretty much [[TheJuggernaut unstoppable]], only to be [[VillainDecay easily defeated]] here.
** The worst CharacterDerailment by far is the one suffered by "Chapeau el Esmirriau". Not only he does he suffer from a huge VillainDecay (he's the closest Ibáñez has ever been from a MagnificentBastard), but he seems to have lost his definining traits, such as his trademark silences (it has been said that he speaks more during the two pages he appears in the special that during the 44 that his original album had).
** And it's worth noting how all of the returning vilains who were portrayed as smokers in their original stories [[{{Bowdlerise}} aren't smokers anymore]]... including Professor Von Iatum, an alien conqueror disguised as a scientist, whose cigarettes were established in the original album as his tool for breathing in the Earth.
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* ContinuityNod: Any appearances by returning villains are punctuated by a side note pointing to the last story in which they starred. And then there is the book ''Venganza Cincuentona'' "Venganza Cincuentona" where a dozen of the most iconic MonstersOfTheWeek return to fight the heroes together.
* ContinuityPorn: The 50thaniversary special, anniversary special "Venganza Cincuentona", which includes the return of brought back many earlier of the previous villains in the series to claim revenge on Mortadelo and Filemón and has some other references to earlier comics. However, it's not without its problems:
** Some of the returning villains (El Rana, Bíchez) were clearly DeaderThanDead at the end of their respective stories, and there's either [[HandWave a very poor explanation]] or no explanation at all of why they are still alive.
** It's mentioned at the beginning of the story that Mortadelo and Filemón have been catching baddies for 50 years. There's a problem when you see that both the protagonists and the villains [[NotAllowedToGrowUp don't seem to be older at all]].
** Many (if not most) of the recurring villains were portrayed in their original stories as pretty much [[TheJuggernaut unstoppable]], only to be [[VillainDecay easily defeated]] here.
** The worst CharacterDerailment by far is the one suffered by "Chapeau el Esmirriau". Not only he does he suffer from a huge VillainDecay (he's the closest Ibáñez has ever been from a MagnificentBastard), but he seems to have lost his definining traits, such as his trademark silences (it has been said that he speaks more during the two pages he appears in the special that during the 44 that his original album had).
** And it's worth noting how all of the returning vilains who were portrayed as smokers in their original stories [[{{Bowdlerise}} aren't smokers anymore]]... including Professor Von Iatum, an alien conqueror disguised as a scientist, whose cigarettes were established in the original album as his tool for breathing in the Earth.comics.
* ContinuityPorn: The 50th
** Some of the returning villains (El Rana, Bíchez) were clearly DeaderThanDead at the end of their respective stories, and there's either [[HandWave a very poor explanation]] or no explanation at all of why they are still alive.
** It's mentioned at the beginning of the story that Mortadelo and Filemón have been catching baddies for 50 years. There's a problem when you see that both the protagonists and the villains [[NotAllowedToGrowUp don't seem to be older at all]].
** Many (if not most) of the recurring villains were portrayed in their original stories as pretty much [[TheJuggernaut unstoppable]], only to be [[VillainDecay easily defeated]] here.
** The worst CharacterDerailment by far is the one suffered by "Chapeau el Esmirriau". Not only he does he suffer from a huge VillainDecay (he's the closest Ibáñez has ever been from a MagnificentBastard), but he seems to have lost his definining traits, such as his trademark silences (it has been said that he speaks more during the two pages he appears in the special that during the 44 that his original album had).
** And it's worth noting how all of the returning vilains who were portrayed as smokers in their original stories [[{{Bowdlerise}} aren't smokers anymore]]... including Professor Von Iatum, an alien conqueror disguised as a scientist, whose cigarettes were established in the original album as his tool for breathing in the Earth.
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** One example is ''20,000 leguas de viaje sibilino'', where they have to deliver an important key to a city in Galicia (north-western Spain), but instead of going straight ahead they are told to go around the world to avoid potential spies. What is the key for? [[spoiler:The bathroom of the Super's in-laws' house.]]
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** One example is ''20,000 leguas de viaje sibilino'', where they have to deliver an important key to a city in Galicia (north-western (northwestern Spain), but instead of going straight ahead they are ahead, they're told to go around the world to avoid potential spies. What is the key for? [[spoiler:The The bathroom of the Super's in-laws' house.]]
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** The comic (1958–1968) included billboards of "Chicle Duglas" in the background.
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** The Issues of the comic (1958–1968) from 1958 to 1968 included billboards of "Chicle Duglas" in the background.
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** The comic (1958–1968) included billboards of "Chicle Duglas" in the background.
** In TheEighties, Mortadelo and Filemón, along with some other Ibáñez characters, were used as the image of a chocolate spread, "Tulicrem". Some one-page stories were written to promote the brand.
** The comic (1958–1968) included billboards of "Chicle Duglas" in the background.
** In TheEighties, Mortadelo and Filemón, along with some other Ibáñez characters, were used as the image of a chocolate spread, "Tulicrem". Some one-page stories were written to promote the brand.
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* CreditsBrandProducts: The comic (1958–1968) included billboards of "Chicle Duglas" in the background.
** In TheEighties, Mortadelo and Filemón, along with some other Ibáñez characters, were used as the image of a chocolate spread, "Tulicrem". Some one-page stories were written to promote the brand.
** In TheEighties, Mortadelo and Filemón, along with some other Ibáñez characters, were used as the image of a chocolate spread, "Tulicrem". Some one-page stories were written to promote the brand.
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* AmusingInjuries: Very, very common, especially the CranialEruption. None of the main characters is safe, if they are in the scene you can be almost certain that they are going to get hurt in the most ridiculous ways. Often results in InstantBandages.
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* AllForNothing: Many of the missions Mortadelo and Filemón are sent to will end up being not as vital as they were told. Needless to say, when this happens, they make their anger obvious.
** One example is ''20,000 leguas de viaje sibilino'', where they have to deliver an important key to a city in Galicia (north-western Spain), but instead of going straight ahead they are told to go around the world to avoid potential spies. What is the key for? [[spoiler:The bathroom of the Super's in-laws' house.]]
* AmusingInjuries: Very, very common, especially the CranialEruption. None of the main characters is safe, if they are in thescene scene, you can be almost certain that they are going to get hurt in the most ridiculous ways. Often results in InstantBandages.
** One example is ''20,000 leguas de viaje sibilino'', where they have to deliver an important key to a city in Galicia (north-western Spain), but instead of going straight ahead they are told to go around the world to avoid potential spies. What is the key for? [[spoiler:The bathroom of the Super's in-laws' house.]]
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** At the end of one episode, Filemón tells the VillainOfTheWeek that he will now be arrested for "deceit, breaking and entering, and spoiling our view". (To view" (to which the villain responds with an InsanityDefense.)InsanityDefense).
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** It is a RunningGag that characters, after being put through the grinder in some kind of situation, will be approached by an innocent character [[InnocentlyInsensitive who makes a comment that could be misinterpreted as mocking in the wrong context]]. They will '''always''' retaliate with either a [[RantInducingSlight rant]] at best and a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown or other DisproportionateRetribution at worst, more often than not the latter. For example, in one story the protagonists have been repeatedly abused while chasing one of Bacterio's escaped lab animals (a hen). An old friend offers them a free meal at a restaurant which is known for its chicken dishes. The protagonists figure that he is mocking them, and use the friend's head as a battering ram in the process of demolishing the restaurant.
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** It is a RunningGag that characters, after being put through the grinder in some kind of situation, will be approached by an innocent character [[InnocentlyInsensitive who makes a comment that could be misinterpreted as mocking in the wrong context]]. They will '''always''' retaliate with either a [[RantInducingSlight rant]] rant at best and a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown or other DisproportionateRetribution at worst, more often than not the latter. For example, in one story the protagonists have been repeatedly abused while chasing one of Bacterio's escaped lab animals (a hen). An old friend offers them a free meal at a restaurant which is known for its chicken dishes. The protagonists figure that he is mocking them, and use the friend's head as a battering ram in the process of demolishing the restaurant.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall / MediumAwareness: Happens occasionally. The most prominent example is in "Robots bestiajos", where Mortadelo directly asks the reader to turn the comic sideways so that the characters can easily walk up the side of a building. Another example has a character comment on events he could not possibly witness first-hand, by simply looking into the panel next to his.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall / MediumAwareness: BreakingTheFourthWall[=/=]MediumAwareness: Happens occasionally. occasionally.
** The most prominent example is in "Robots bestiajos", where Mortadelo directly asks the reader to turn the comic sideways so that the characters can easily walk up the side of abuilding. building.
** Another example has a character comment on events hecould not couldn't possibly witness first-hand, first-hand by simply looking into the panel next to his.
** The most prominent example is in "Robots bestiajos", where Mortadelo directly asks the reader to turn the comic sideways so that the characters can easily walk up the side of a
** Another example has a character comment on events he
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* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Some of Mortadelo's disguises grant him abilities which he does not have when undisguised. For example, his ghost disguise allows him to phase through walls, he can [[WallCrawling climb buildings]] while disguised as a lizard, breathe underwater with a fish disguise, or fly when disguised as a bird. Also, his iceberg disguise allowed him to cheat a thermal detector.
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* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Some Many of Mortadelo's disguises grant him abilities which he does not have when undisguised. For example, his ghost disguise allows him to phase through walls, he can [[WallCrawling climb buildings]] while disguised as a lizard, breathe underwater with a fish disguise, or fly when disguised as a bird. Also, his iceberg disguise allowed him to cheat a thermal detector.
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* ComedicHero: Subverted because they tend to fail.
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* ContinuityPorn: The 50th aniversary special, which includes the return of many former villains and some other references to former albums, not without its problems:
** Some of the returning villains (El Rana, Bíchez) were clearly DeaderThanDead at the end of their respective album, and there is either [[HandWave a very poor explanation]] or no explanation at all of why they are still alive.
** It is mentioned at the beginning of the story that Mortadelo and Filemón have been catching baddies for fifty years. There is a problem when you see that both the protagonists and the villains [[NotAllowedToGrowUp don't seem to be older at all]].
** Many (if not most) of the recurring villains were portrayed in their original album as pretty much [[TheJuggernaut unstoppable]], only to be [[VillainDecay easily defeated]] in the special.
** By far the worst Character Derailment is the one suffered by "Chapeau el Esmirriau". Not only he suffers from a huge VillainDecay (he is the closest Ibáñez has ever been from a Magnificent Bastard), but he seems to have lost his definining traits, such as his trademark silences (it has been said that he speaks more during the two pages he appears in the special that during the 44 that the original album had).
** And it is worth noting how all of the returning vilains who were portrayed as smokers during their original album [[{{Bowdlerise}} aren't smokers anymore]]... including Professor Von Iatum, an alien conqueror disguised as a scientist, whose cigarettes were established in the original album as his tool for breathing in our planet.
** Some of the returning villains (El Rana, Bíchez) were clearly DeaderThanDead at the end of their respective album, and there is either [[HandWave a very poor explanation]] or no explanation at all of why they are still alive.
** It is mentioned at the beginning of the story that Mortadelo and Filemón have been catching baddies for fifty years. There is a problem when you see that both the protagonists and the villains [[NotAllowedToGrowUp don't seem to be older at all]].
** Many (if not most) of the recurring villains were portrayed in their original album as pretty much [[TheJuggernaut unstoppable]], only to be [[VillainDecay easily defeated]] in the special.
** By far the worst Character Derailment is the one suffered by "Chapeau el Esmirriau". Not only he suffers from a huge VillainDecay (he is the closest Ibáñez has ever been from a Magnificent Bastard), but he seems to have lost his definining traits, such as his trademark silences (it has been said that he speaks more during the two pages he appears in the special that during the 44 that the original album had).
** And it is worth noting how all of the returning vilains who were portrayed as smokers during their original album [[{{Bowdlerise}} aren't smokers anymore]]... including Professor Von Iatum, an alien conqueror disguised as a scientist, whose cigarettes were established in the original album as his tool for breathing in our planet.
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* ContinuityPorn: The 50th aniversary special, which includes the return of many former earlier villains and some other references to former albums, earlier comics. However, it's not without its problems:
** Some of the returning villains (El Rana, Bíchez) were clearly DeaderThanDead at the end of their respectivealbum, stories, and there is there's either [[HandWave a very poor explanation]] or no explanation at all of why they are still alive.
**It is It's mentioned at the beginning of the story that Mortadelo and Filemón have been catching baddies for fifty 50 years. There is There's a problem when you see that both the protagonists and the villains [[NotAllowedToGrowUp don't seem to be older at all]].
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** Andit is it's worth noting how all of the returning vilains who were portrayed as smokers during in their original album stories [[{{Bowdlerise}} aren't smokers anymore]]... including Professor Von Iatum, an alien conqueror disguised as a scientist, whose cigarettes were established in the original album as his tool for breathing in our planet.the Earth.
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* CompositeCharacter: In the animated version, they had the Agente Bestiájez fulfilling the roles of many one-off characters in the comics, probably so that they could reuse his design and voice actor.
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* CompositeCharacter: In the animated version, they had the series, Agente Bestiájez fulfilling fulfilled the roles of many one-off characters in the comics, probably so that they the staff could reuse his design and voice actor.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Roughly 30% of the frames show one character punishing another in some ridiculously over the top way.
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* BadassBoast: Mortadelo does them sometimes, but it is always PlayedForLaughs as it is all too obvious that he is making it up. Take, for instance, this one from ''El Tirano'':
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* BadassBoast: Mortadelo does them sometimes, but it is they're always PlayedForLaughs PlayedForLaughs, as it is it's all too obvious that he is he's making it things up. Take, for instance, this one from ''El Tirano'':
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* BadBoss: Superintendente Vicente, in spades. Much of the humor depends on him sending two agents on suicide missions or missions that would require small armies to properly complete (such as stopping a military invasion or investigating the entire New York City for information on a terrorist plot), providing them with inadequate weapons or means of transportation, and then sadistically punishing them for their perceived failures. At times he has even punished the protagonists because they wanted a day off or because they wanted to take a break between missions.
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* BadBoss: Superintendente Vicente, in spades. Much of the humor depends on him sending two agents on suicide missions or missions that would require small armies to properly complete (such as stopping a military invasion or investigating the entire New York City for information on a terrorist plot), providing them with inadequate weapons or means of transportation, and then sadistically punishing them for their perceived failures. At times times, he has even punished the protagonists because they wanted to get a day off or because they wanted to take a break between missions.
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** Mortadelo's sister to Filemón in the second movie.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Ofelia, to Mortadelo. Mortadelo's sister to Filemón in the second movie.
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** The list of forces the Superintendent calls to find Mortadelo and Filemón after one of their escapes:
-->'''Super:''' Security personnel! Civil Guard! Mossos![[note]]Catalonia's regional police force[[/note]] Ertzaintza![[note]]Basque Country's regional police force[[/note]] Goat shepherds! '''[[LargeHam GET THEEEEEEEEM!!!]]'''
-->'''Super:''' Security personnel! Civil Guard! Mossos![[note]]Catalonia's regional police force[[/note]] Ertzaintza![[note]]Basque Country's regional police force[[/note]] Goat shepherds! '''[[LargeHam GET THEEEEEEEEM!!!]]'''
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-->'''Super:''' --->'''Súper:''' Security personnel! Civil Guard! Mossos![[note]]Catalonia's regional police force[[/note]] force.[[/note]] Ertzaintza![[note]]Basque Country's regional police force[[/note]] force.[[/note]] Goat shepherds! '''[[LargeHam GET THEEEEEEEEM!!!]]'''
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* {{Angrish}}: A very common reaction of the characters whenever something goes wrong, commonly "GRFJTX!".
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* {{Angrish}}: A very common reaction of the characters whenever something goes wrong, commonly wrong. The Angrish line used most often is "GRFJTX!".
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* AnimatedAdaptation: The series got two major ones. The first, a trilogy of animated films produced between 1965 and 1970 (the first two are actually compilations of short films that were intended to be a TV show); and an actual 26 episode TV show broadcast in Spain between 1994 and 1995, that replicates the stories panel by panel and uses the same dialogues.
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* {{Angrish}}: A very common reaction of the characters whenever something goes wrong, commonly "GRFJTX!".
* AnimatedAdaptation: The series got two major ones. The first, a trilogy of animated films produced between 1965 and 1970 (the first two are actually compilations of short films that were intended to be a TV show); and an actual26 episode 26-episode TV show broadcast in Spain between 1994 and 1995, that which replicates the original stories panel by panel and uses with the same dialogues.dialogue.
* AnimatedAdaptation: The series got two major ones. The first, a trilogy of animated films produced between 1965 and 1970 (the first two are actually compilations of short films that were intended to be a TV show); and an actual
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* ATeamFiring: A ''Top Comic'' album features a brief note about Mortadelo getting into a gunfight against a mobster called Joe Cegátez (translatable as "[[MeaningfulName Joe Sightlesson]]"). The note mentions that the gunfight took place in an elevator and 23 clips were emptied, but somehow [[EpicFail neither of the shooters suffered gun wounds]], which, as the note points out, "[[LampshadeHanging speaks to the two subjects' poor aim]]".
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Ofelia, to Mortadelo. Mortadelo's sister to Filemón in the second movie.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Many times, a mission will require that Mortadelo and Filemón to go down to the sewers, which are big enough to fit Mortadelo quite well (DependingOnTheWriter, Mortadelo's height can vary between 1.80 m -- 5'11" -- and 2 m -- 6'7").
* ActuallyADoombot: When they think they caught Mirake Tekasko, the BigBad of "Robots Bestiajos", it is revealed to be yet another of his robots with a rather...creative and unorthodox self-destruct mechanism.
* AdaptationExpansion: In the movies, Filemón is given a mother in the first and Mortadelo a sister in the second and an aunt in the most recent CGI-animated film. The comic books are inconsistent (almost with no continuity) about their families, but have been standardized fairly recently.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: A fairly common gag. Generally, the guy's foot gets really swollen, too.
* AlienInvasion: Featured in "Los invasores", "Expediente J" (both Type 1) and "Las tacillas volantes" (Type 2).
* AllClothUnravels: This is a common gag. Generally, they will start pulling the thread into a ball, but the thread belongs to a buff man's sweater or something. The owner of the garment will hit them (usually [[ButtMonkey Filemón]]) for ruining his clothing. If the mummy wrapping variation counts, they do that sometimes, too.
* AmusingInjuries: Very, very common, especially the CranialEruption. None of the main characters is safe, if they are in the scene you can be almost certain that they are going to get hurt in the most ridiculous ways. Often results in InstantBandages.
* AnachronismStew: Whenever historical events are portrayed, expect some out-of-place item, usually a contemporary one like a cardboard-made TV in old Rome. Other characters will invariably call it a [[ItWillNeverCatchOn fleeting style which will be out-of-fashion soon]].
* AndCallHimGeorge: In "En Alemania", they meet an extremely strong drunkard who mistakes them for some friends of his and constantly wants to hug them. He was so strong that his hugs were quite painful for them.
* AnimatedAdaptation: The series got two major ones. The first, a trilogy of animated films produced between 1965 and 1970 (the first two are actually compilations of short films that were intended to be a TV show); and an actual 26 episode TV show broadcast in Spain between 1994 and 1995, that replicates the stories panel by panel and uses the same dialogues.
** The 2014 movie is done in CGI animation.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** At the end of one episode, Filemón tells the VillainOfTheWeek that he will now be arrested for "deceit, breaking and entering, and spoiling our view". (To which the villain responds with an InsanityDefense.)
** The list of forces the Superintendent calls to find Mortadelo and Filemón after one of their escapes:
-->'''Super:''' Security personnel! Civil Guard! Mossos![[note]]Catalonia's regional police force[[/note]] Ertzaintza![[note]]Basque Country's regional police force[[/note]] Goat shepherds! '''[[LargeHam GET THEEEEEEEEM!!!]]'''
* ArtEvolution: %%The comic looked [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DBGRwBG2dbk/T2Gk4GhEfrI/AAAAAAAABW4/p9ewIdezEKk/s1600/mortadelo+y+filem%C3%B3n.gif like this]] in 1956. And [[http://www.oconowocc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/OLE-N-%C2%A6191-Mortadelo-Filemon.jpg this is the cover]] for one of their latest books.
** Ibáñez art style evolved during the first 15 years of the series. At first, the strip was black and white, resembling the art style from the American cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s with some traits of French comic books. The character design was also different, with a Filemón that resembled Literature/SherlockHolmes and a Mortadelo that had an umbrella and a hat from which he got his disguises. During this time, Ibáñez started to get more and more influenced by French and Belgium comic artists of the time, specially Creator/AndreFranquin. These influences got reflected in the series until the [[TheSixties mid 1960's]], when his own style got more or less defined.
** It is worth mentioning "''El sulfato atómico''", the series' first 44-page story released in 1969. The art style in this volume is the most detailed and elaborate that Ibáñez has ever drawn, which is one of the main reasons why it is considered his masterpiece. However, putting that much effort in that art style turned out to be too time consuming, so Ibáñez decided to go back to his less-detailed style so he could focus on the humour and be able to release more volumes a year.
* TheArtifact: Mortadelo calls Filemón "Boss", even though they have the same rank in the T.I.A. This is due to the fact that during the first 11 years of the series, both characters weren't T.I.A. agents, but owned a private detective agency in which Filemón was the boss and Mortadelo his sidekick and only employee. Ibáñez kept Mortadelo's habit after he changed the series' basic plot in "''El sulfato atómico''" in 1969. See ReTool below.
* ArtisticLicenseSports: In 2000 album "Fórmula Uno", the two agents have to compete undercover in a UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Grand Prix, but the team only has one car for both of them. Sharing cars had stopped being allowed in Formula One in UsefulNotes/TheSixties, and actually having two drivers in the car at the same time as the agents do here is probably illegal, not to mention nearly impossible to pull off considering how tiny [=F1=] cockpits usually are. Also, it is very unlikely that the FIA would allow them to enter a [[TheAllegedCar '58 car rescued from the scrapyard]] after crashing their original vehicle one too many times, but here they do. We can probably chalk that up to RuleOfFunny anyway, since the starting grid for the race features several other unorthodox vehicles.
* AsianBuckTeeth: All Asians, even in the latest releases.
** A non-Asian example is Prof. Bacterio. There is an episode in which Mortadelo burns up Bacterio's beard, revealing that he has enormous, very prominent buck teeth - which suggests to readers that Bacterio actually grows his beard in order to hide them.
* [[BaseballEpisode Association Football Episode]]: There is usually one for each World Cup, and one for each edition of TheOlympics. In most of them the agents get to participate, while attempting to stop a terrorist threat to the event.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The primary plot point of several comics and short stories, with Bacterio usually responsible. ''El Sulfato Atómico'' revolves about a chemical that does this to bugs.
* AuthorAvatar: Ibáñez sometimes plays a minor role in the plot, or is name-dropped, usually making Mortadelo wonder "Where did I heard that name before?".
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* BackwardsFiringGun:
** In "El tirano", Mortadelo modifies General Panocho's rifle to be this. However, Filemón demands to try it, not knowing that it has been rigged, and inadvertently shoots himself.
** A variation in "El premio No-Vel": VillainOfTheWeek Ten-Go-Pis infiltrates the TIA's headquarters and tampers with Filemón's gun, making it fire ''upwards'' and causing Filemón to shoot himself in the nose.
* BadassBoast: Mortadelo does them sometimes, but it is always PlayedForLaughs as it is all too obvious that he is making it up. Take, for instance, this one from ''El Tirano'':
-->'''Panocho:''' Oh, by the way! Do you understand hunting?
-->'''Mortadelo:''' You bet! I hunted a lot of polar bears in the Nairobi jungle!
-->'''Panocho:''' [[BigWhat WHAT!?]] There are no polar bears in the Nairobi jungle!
-->'''Mortadelo:''' Of course there aren't... now! Who do you think hunted them all?
* BadBoss: Superintendente Vicente, in spades. Much of the humor depends on him sending two agents on suicide missions or missions that would require small armies to properly complete (such as stopping a military invasion or investigating the entire New York City for information on a terrorist plot), providing them with inadequate weapons or means of transportation, and then sadistically punishing them for their perceived failures. At times he has even punished the protagonists because they wanted a day off or because they wanted to take a break between missions.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: In a short story, Mortadelo and Filemón grow tired of the secret entrance ways, and demand for them all to be removed or they will quit. Here is the Superintendent's reaction:
-->'''Super:''' I can't believe it! After so many years... trying to get rid of you two, turns out it was that easy. You may leave whenever you want.
* BatDeduction: This is how "''El Gang del Chicharrón''" BigBad Gedeón el Chicharrón deduces that a cat smoking is Mortadelo in disguise:
-->'''Gedeón''': Cats don't smoke. If they don't smoke is because they don't have money to buy cigarettes. If someone doesn't have enough to buy cigarettes, [[PerpetualPoverty it is because he is a T.I.A. agent]]. T.I.A. agents eat bread with mortadella. Mortadella sounds similar to Mortadelo. Therefore this cat is Mortadelo! I must get rid of it! ''(attempts to kick him, but hits the wall, the next panel shows a huge pile of cigarettes next to him)'' Brr! While I thought, he finished the pack and left.
* BavarianFireDrill: In "El Sulfato Atómico", Mortadelo tries to rescue Filemón from the Tiranian border guard by dressing as a Tiranian army general, and manages to walk into the guard post... until the border post commander salutes him [[OhCrap and he realizes he doesn't speak Tiranian]].
* BeenThereShapedHistory: When the main characters time-travel, they sometimes change history spectacularly.
* UsefulNotes/BerlinWall: They managed to cross it twice in ''In Germany'' (from East to West because they stink so much that the guards can't stand them, and from West to East by going really fast on a car), which Ibáñez wrote for the comic's German fans.
** Ironically enough, those scenes were removed in the German version due to it being a pretty sensible topic at the time. The first instance was replaced by them arriving on the right side but being caught in a pro-green demonstration that delays them for an entire page, while the second was swapped by a (crudely drawn and mostly senseless) scene in which Mortadelo suddenly realises they have no money left and decides to sell half their car, in a hand-wavy attempt to explain away why its back is missing in the following page- the original Spanish version has Filemon very angry because Mortadelo had driven over a minefield believing it was an orchard.
* BerserkButton: Quite some.
** For starters, Mortadelo's baldness. Do not try to mock it, if you know what is good for you, especially if you're Bacterio.
*** Also, whenever some other MasterOfDisguise appears, Mortadelo will go into full-fledged disguise mode to prove that he is the one and only.
** It can't compare to Ofelia's weight. Even the slightest insinuation of Ofelia being anything more than "a little pudgy" (if even that) will end up with you running for your life.
** Don't tell Mortadelo and Filemón that they have to work with Bacterio, or that they have to test his new invention. They pretty much hate the guy, and they have seen too many of his inventions backfiring to ever trust them.
** Mortadelo and Filemón themselves are the Súper's own BerserkButton whenever they screw up... which is basically all the time.
** It is a RunningGag that characters, after being put through the grinder in some kind of situation, will be approached by an innocent character [[InnocentlyInsensitive who makes a comment that could be misinterpreted as mocking in the wrong context]]. They will '''always''' retaliate with either a [[RantInducingSlight rant]] at best and a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown or other DisproportionateRetribution at worst, more often than not the latter. For example, in one story the protagonists have been repeatedly abused while chasing one of Bacterio's escaped lab animals (a hen). An old friend offers them a free meal at a restaurant which is known for its chicken dishes. The protagonists figure that he is mocking them, and use the friend's head as a battering ram in the process of demolishing the restaurant.
* BlandNameProduct: Commonly for the lulz, a portmanteau of a well-name brand with some other unrelated word - "Pescadillac" combines luxury-brand Cadillac with "pescadilla", Spanish for whiting, which is not expensive. The same goes with "Alfalfa Romeo", mixing another high-end car brand, Alfa Romeo, with alfalfa, which is a plant farmers use to feed their livestock (and yes, the word for alfalfa is the same in Spanish and English). Sometimes only some letters are changed to ease a Spaniard's pronunciation.
* BlindMistake: Rompetechos (originally having his own comic-books, now a recurrent character in Mortadelo) is a WesternAnimation/MrMagoo -like guy who crosses paths with Mortadelo and Filemón because of a mistake - Rompetechos may be looking for a priest and, seeing Mortadelo's black clothes, will harass him nonstop, meddling with Mortadelo's activities.
* BlindWithoutEm: Mortadelo when his glasses are either lost or broken.
* BodyBagTrick: The comic moves this a step forward: Main characters need to infiltrate into a hospital. They see a slacker sleeping in the street. The characters impersonate nurses bringing the slacker in a pallet, claiming he needs urgent surgery for appendicitis. The slacker wakes up in the operating theater; when he leaves the hospital, he sees a peer loafing around and warns him: If the staff catches him sleeping, they will operate him for appendicitis!
* BodyCountCompetition: Invoked by VillainOfTheWeek Ten-Go-Pis in "El premio No-Vel", as the titular prizes are given out by himself to the criminal that manages to kill the most people in a determinate way.
* BookcasePassage: Secret doors are accidentally opened, commonly for comedic effect.
* BreakingTheFourthWall / MediumAwareness: Happens occasionally. The most prominent example is in "Robots bestiajos", where Mortadelo directly asks the reader to turn the comic sideways so that the characters can easily walk up the side of a building. Another example has a character comment on events he could not possibly witness first-hand, by simply looking into the panel next to his.
** In some stories, when a particularly violent or bloody scene is supposed to be happening (for instance, the duo being attacked by lions or huge guardian dogs, or receiving a severe beating by a big thug), Ibáñez himself will turn a corner of the panel so that the image is hidden and he warns: "Don't look, don't look! It's something frightening, believe me!".
* BreakoutVillain: Ibáñez introduced the rival organization ABUELA only once, as a one-time VillainOfTheWeek in "El plano de Alí Gu-sa-no". This didn't stop other writers to use it as the arch-enemy of the organization TIA.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: A subversion in "¡Llegó el euro!". Mortadelo and Filemón arrive at the small town of Fuentelnabo while trying to track down a money counterfeiter. The agents are told that the local hotel, the Fuentelnabo Palace, is an eleven-star hotel. They soon find out that it is not actually a rating: the 'Palace' is, in fact, a crappy small-town inn that has a hole on the roof of its dining room, from which eleven stars can be seen at night.
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* CampGay: All homosexual men are always depicted as very, very effeminate. They all look like this: flowered Hawaiian shirt, semi-long hair, long curled eyelashes, and cheesily talking about flowers.
** There is a member of the FEA - a rival organization of the TIA - who looks like that and is called Agent Pitiminí (from the common name given to a variety of rose). He opens a box, [[DontTouchItYouIdiot despite having been warned not to open it no matter what]], because he can't stand not knowing if there is a rose or a carnation inside.
* CanineCompanion: Played with. The pair often gets a trained detective dog to help them with their missions, but it always turns out that the dog is either too stupid or too smart to be of any use. Mortadelo and Filemón always end up getting rid of the dog, in an often abusive way.
** Also, Mortadelo or Filemón sometimes bring to the TIA offices a dog they claim to be their own pet, but it is only used in that particular chapter and the dog is never heard of again.
*** Filemón is known to have at least two different little female dogs, called "Menda" and "Secretaria". Both are used in different albums as a one-time joke to mock Ofelia. They have never appeared or even been mentioned again.
*** And yet another one, a big, aggressive guardian dog called "Butcher". Like the others, used for a one-time joke, never to be seen again.
* CanisLatinicus: Whenever Latin is needed, it is granted to be totally - and comically - faux Latin. Often combined with BinomiumRidiculus when it comes to plant or animal species.
** In "El Antídoto" ("The Antidote"), the Super has his head turned into a pig's head because of one of Bacterio's inventions, and the pair is sent to search for a medicinal herb to cure him (the titular antidote). Its botanical name is Hierbajus Apestosus Repelentus ("Stinkus Disgustingus Weedus").
** In "Contrabando" ("Smuggling"), Mortadelo disguises as a fly, and an entomologist captures him and tries to pin him on a board, classifying him as a Moscardus Cabezonus ("Botflyus Bigheadus").
** In "El 35 aniversario" ("35th. anniversary"), Mortadelo, disguised as a priest, mockingly baptises a bill he doesn't intend to pay as Incobrata Fallídez et Archivata ("Unpaid, failed and filed").
* CanonDiscontinuity: Ibáñez lost the rights to write the comic during the [[TheEighties late 80s]]. During that time, less known authors published some stories on their own (each with his own style, see DependingOnTheWriter below). When Ibáñez regained the rights, he dismissed most of the stories written by other authors (some of them are still among the official works, though).
* CartoonCheese: A painful aversion: An elderly woman mistakes a bar of soap for a piece of cheese that looks just like the soap (rectangular, not like a wedge) and gives it to [[ButtMonkey Filemón]], who unknowingly eats it...
* CatchPhrase: Mortadelo repeats his "¡Corra, jefe, corra!" ("Run, boss, run!") [[http://mortadeloyalgomas.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/4-aniversario-de-corra-jefe-corra.html quite a few times.]]
* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: This is Mortadelo's speciality. He holds an [[HyperspaceWardrobe indeterminate number of disguises]] under his coat and can instantly put them on in between comic panels.
* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: This happens in virtually every last panel of every story, with the two bumbling secret agents typically being chased by their boss, his secretary, the agency's scientist, or a combination thereof because they (again) screwed up their case big time. Sometimes, Mortadelo will also use his superhuman camouflage skills to hide as a cactus, cow etc. with Filemón hiding "in" him, and their suspicious pursuers in the vicinity looking around for them.
* ChekhovsArmoury: The first movie. You will just get amazed at how many details get reused later on.
* ChekhovsGun: Every other gag is this.
** But the prize goes to a scene where Mortadelo and Filemón were locked in a bank vault and Filemón ties to dig his way out with a Swiss-Army Knife. Mortadelo tries to tell something to Filemón but the latter dismisses him. He spends '''three days''' digging a hole and, when he comes out, he sees that Mortadelo is already out of the vault. How did he get there? The vault's door was unlocked and when Mortadelo tried to tell this to Filemón, he didn't want to hear.
*** This happens so many times that you nearly expect it to happen when Filemón starts to do something while not paying attention to Mortadelo. There is even one time when Filemón tries to open a door using a cable, and sixteen hours later, when he surrenders, Mortadelo mentions that he was "having some fun with his penknife" and ended up making a very artistic door.
** In "Las embajadas chifladas", at the final chapter Filemón got his neck elongated to a point where it was about half a meter long, and had to hide it inside his shirt. Much later, once everyone thought his neck [[AmusingInjuries had gone back to normal]], he used it to make [[ItMakesSenseInContext everyone think that Mortadelo was a snake charmer, revealing it while Mortadelo played the flute]]. And at the end of the story, he and Mortadelo got tied with a bomb near them. What did Filemón did? [[ChekhovsBoomerang He used his neck to take the bomb with his teeth]] and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome threw it to the]] BigBad.
** In "El cochecito leré", Mortadelo and Filemón must participate in a 1000-km car race to win a great prize for their organization, using a car developed by Bacterio. After an accident, [[HonestJohnsDealership Pepe Gotera]] and [[GreaseMonkey Otilio]] are the ones that repair the car, and they accidentally don't put the brake pedal back to the vehicle. This mistake causes Mortadelo and Filemón to be unable to stop after a policeman tells them to do so. There are no problems in the whole race, but, when they reach the goal, they have to brake, and they can't. Just then, the car starts to break down in pieces, due to Pepe Gotera and Otilio's shoddy work.
* ChewToy: Every member of the main cast.
** Extra points in Filemón's case.
** Doctor Bacterio also deserves a special mention, as everybody always does their best to make his life miserable. While he is often attacked for some of his genuine mistakes, the other characters attack him even when he simply tries to greet them politely or when he is minding his own business.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Irma, sort of. Her introduction was forced as a way to combat homosexual viewing of the main characters. The character was apparently disliked by the series creator and Brotherchucked when he gained full control of the series some years later.
*** It is also related to the CanonDiscontinuity mentioned above. The introduction of Irma coincided in time with the loss of publishing rights that Ibáñez suffered. As a result, most of the comic books where Irma appears are "apocryphal" and were not written by himself. If you see a comic book where Irma appears, most likely it wasn't written by him. When he eventually regained the rights, he got rid of the character who was now strongly associated with the "apocryphal" comic books.
** Likewise, Agent Bestiájez hasn't been seen in quite a while. He was among the least essential recurring characters, so his role could be eliminated altogether.
* ClingyMacGuffin: One of these features prominently in one of the issues, titled "The Warlock": a magical note, enchanted to kill anyone who reads it. The titular characters subsequently try to remove it by the most varied means, chucking it into the bin, shredding it, burying it, tying it to a rock and throwing it to the sea, and ''hitting it with a full discharge of a flamethrower''. And yet the note manages to never be actually harmed due to some kind of karmic immunity that causes people around it to suffer instead.
** They do manage to get rid of it. How? [[LaserGuidedKarma They send it back to the guy that commissioned the warlock to send the note to the Super]].
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Some of Mortadelo's disguises grant him abilities which he does not have when undisguised. For example, his ghost disguise allows him to phase through walls, he can [[WallCrawling climb buildings]] while disguised as a lizard, breathe underwater with a fish disguise, or fly when disguised as a bird. Also, his iceberg disguise allowed him to cheat a thermal detector.
** Averted, and PlayedForLaughs, in some instances when Filemón assumes that Mortadelo has the abilities of the disguise he is wearing and tries to take advantage of them, only to fail miserably, and have Mortadelo telling him "But, boss, it's only a disguise...".
* CollaredByFashion: Mortadelo.
* ComedicHero: Subverted because they tend to fail.
* ComedicSociopathy: In "Los mercenarios" the two main characters go so far as throwing their boss from the window when (they think) they are rich.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Constantly.
** In "La gallina de los huevos de oro" Mortadelo hits Filemón on the head, believing [[ItMakesSenseInContext that it is the hen they are looking for]] and comments that he will wake her up with an injection. Cue angry Filemón starting to run after him, ready to inject him with a dose of sulfuric acid. Mortadelo's answer?
--> Don't be mad, boss! You aren't a registered nurse and could get fined!
** One of the many secret entrances to the TIA offices has the duo dragging through a very narrow passage. Mortadelo finds the exit blocked by some sort of fabric and rips it off with a knife. It turns out that, in the other side, there was a very expensive painting that the Súper had on his wall. "The Titian! The Titian!", the Súper screams. "No, it's me, the Mortadelo", answers Mortadelo with a cheerful smile, "Don't you know me?"
* CompellingVoice: Hypnosis is shown in a fantasy-clichéd way particularly with the character Magín el Mago and in the second movie. The only way to break the spell is by slapping the victim.
* CompositeCharacter: In the animated version, they had the Agente Bestiájez fulfilling the roles of many one-off characters in the comics, probably so that they could reuse his design and voice actor.
* ContinuityNod: Any appearances by returning villains are punctuated by a side note pointing to the last story in which they starred. And then there is the book ''Venganza Cincuentona'' where a dozen of the most iconic MonstersOfTheWeek return to fight the heroes together.
* ContinuityPorn: The 50th aniversary special, which includes the return of many former villains and some other references to former albums, not without its problems:
** Some of the returning villains (El Rana, Bíchez) were clearly DeaderThanDead at the end of their respective album, and there is either [[HandWave a very poor explanation]] or no explanation at all of why they are still alive.
** It is mentioned at the beginning of the story that Mortadelo and Filemón have been catching baddies for fifty years. There is a problem when you see that both the protagonists and the villains [[NotAllowedToGrowUp don't seem to be older at all]].
** Many (if not most) of the recurring villains were portrayed in their original album as pretty much [[TheJuggernaut unstoppable]], only to be [[VillainDecay easily defeated]] in the special.
** By far the worst Character Derailment is the one suffered by "Chapeau el Esmirriau". Not only he suffers from a huge VillainDecay (he is the closest Ibáñez has ever been from a Magnificent Bastard), but he seems to have lost his definining traits, such as his trademark silences (it has been said that he speaks more during the two pages he appears in the special that during the 44 that the original album had).
** And it is worth noting how all of the returning vilains who were portrayed as smokers during their original album [[{{Bowdlerise}} aren't smokers anymore]]... including Professor Von Iatum, an alien conqueror disguised as a scientist, whose cigarettes were established in the original album as his tool for breathing in our planet.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Roughly 30% of the frames show one character punishing another in some ridiculously over the top way.
** There are many other frames in which the Súper threatens Mortadelo and Filemón with something if they don't comply with his orders. It usually involves watching something so horrible that they will go with obeying. One example is Creator/ChuckNorris' [[TakeThat films]].
** In ''20,000 leguas de viaje sibilino'' (in which they must go from Madrid to Lugo, going around the world), one of the stops is China. Two Chinese SecretPolice members believe M&F are two spies and attempt to make them reveal why they are there through Chinese torture methods (which are not exactly like the normal ones) until they pull out a torture system clearly based out on the Spanish Social Security system. This one works really well (though, Mortadelo just makes up a really bold lie so that they are healed).
** In one gag, Mortadelo tells Filemón that there is "nothing" over a window; Filemón proceeds to jump through said window to plummet hundreds of feet down a precipice, meaning that there was literally ''nothing'' past the window. Injured by the fall, Filemón proceeds to chase Mortadelo, trying to smash him with an enormous book titled "Nada, por Tedio Plomez Sopor", which roughly translates as "Nothing, by Tedium Boredom Sleepiness" (Tedio Plomez Sopor, being a gag name in Spanish). Filemón chases him saying "I'll show you what ''nothing'' means!"
** Sometimes, both of them are held in specially tiny spaces. This will result in either of the following: either they come out in the form of the place they have been held (and eventually threatened to be sent to another place which is even smaller) or the place where they were kept was [[HammerSpace much bigger than what it should be]] (one hilarious example has Filemón "practicing Formula 1 racing" while kept in a drawer, which results in one guy looking into that drawer and getting his big nose flattened by one Formula 1 racing car and shouted at ''from within the drawer'' to stay off the track).
*** Another one has Mortadelo practicing horse riding. Cue a horse coming out of the drawer.
*** Another one combines the two outcomings. The duo come out from the punish room in the shape and size of a shoebox, and the Súper scornfully asks them whether they have been bored. While stretching back to his size, Mortadelo comments that he has killed some time by taming lions. The Súper bursts into laughter, saying "Taming lions in a two feet square room!". Cue some TIA agents bringing a badly injured cleaning lady, who has been attacked by lions while cleaning the punish room.
** See SuckinessIsPainful for a few more examples.
* CranialEruption: From blows to the head, falling from great heights, you name it. The lumps sometimes come in layers of two or three.
** In one instance, we see a bunch of pre-historic men [[DuelToTheDeath fighting to the death]] with clubs. In present time, when their remains are discovered, there are cranial eruptions in their bare skulls.
* CrazyPrepared:
** In "Chapeau el Esmirriau", Chapeau's hat hides a HyperspaceArsenal full of all sorts of wacky weapons he can activate just in time to repel whatever Mortadelo and Filemón throw at him.
** Mortadelo once managed to avoid getting bitten by a vampire in the neck... by way of wearing a hidden second collar made of wrought iron.
* CreatorProvincialism: Played straight and averted: There are plenty of stories set in other countries or as world trips ([[HollywoodGeography Not that they are accurate or anything]]), but quite a few have evil criminals, aliens or whatever that just happen to hide/go to Spain for no real reason. Best example? ''Expediente J''. The evil aliens send a few havoc-causing {{phlebotinum}} rocks to Spain (And accurately, around the area the main characters live at that) and when their leader appears at the end, he assumes that has caused ALL of humanity to be a mess. What?
* CreditsBrandProducts: The comic (1958–1968) included billboards of "Chicle Duglas" in the background.
** In TheEighties, Mortadelo and Filemón, along with some other Ibáñez characters, were used as the image of a chocolate spread, "Tulicrem". Some one-page stories were written to promote the brand.
* CrossOver:
** With another popular Spanish character, Capitán Trueno, in the album ''¡Bajo el bramido de Trueno!''
** They also had an earlier, better one with ''ComicBook/ZipiYZape''.
** And with pretty much any other Ibáñez strip: ''13 Rue del Percebe'', ''Rompetechos'', ''Pepe Gotera y Otilio'', etc. Many of these strips have gone out of print, and their characters are no longer featured anywhere but in these cameos.
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* ATeamFiring: A ''Top Comic'' album features a brief note about Mortadelo getting into a gunfight against a mobster called Joe Cegátez (translatable as "[[MeaningfulName Joe Sightlesson]]"). The note mentions that the gunfight took place in an elevator and 23 clips were emptied, but somehow [[EpicFail neither of the shooters suffered gun wounds]], which, as the note points out, "[[LampshadeHanging speaks to the two subjects' poor aim]]".
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Ofelia, to Mortadelo. Mortadelo's sister to Filemón in the second movie.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Many times, a mission will require that Mortadelo and Filemón to go down to the sewers, which are big enough to fit Mortadelo quite well (DependingOnTheWriter, Mortadelo's height can vary between 1.80 m -- 5'11" -- and 2 m -- 6'7").
* ActuallyADoombot: When they think they caught Mirake Tekasko, the BigBad of "Robots Bestiajos", it is revealed to be yet another of his robots with a rather...creative and unorthodox self-destruct mechanism.
* AdaptationExpansion: In the movies, Filemón is given a mother in the first and Mortadelo a sister in the second and an aunt in the most recent CGI-animated film. The comic books are inconsistent (almost with no continuity) about their families, but have been standardized fairly recently.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: A fairly common gag. Generally, the guy's foot gets really swollen, too.
* AlienInvasion: Featured in "Los invasores", "Expediente J" (both Type 1) and "Las tacillas volantes" (Type 2).
* AllClothUnravels: This is a common gag. Generally, they will start pulling the thread into a ball, but the thread belongs to a buff man's sweater or something. The owner of the garment will hit them (usually [[ButtMonkey Filemón]]) for ruining his clothing. If the mummy wrapping variation counts, they do that sometimes, too.
* AmusingInjuries: Very, very common, especially the CranialEruption. None of the main characters is safe, if they are in the scene you can be almost certain that they are going to get hurt in the most ridiculous ways. Often results in InstantBandages.
* AnachronismStew: Whenever historical events are portrayed, expect some out-of-place item, usually a contemporary one like a cardboard-made TV in old Rome. Other characters will invariably call it a [[ItWillNeverCatchOn fleeting style which will be out-of-fashion soon]].
* AndCallHimGeorge: In "En Alemania", they meet an extremely strong drunkard who mistakes them for some friends of his and constantly wants to hug them. He was so strong that his hugs were quite painful for them.
* AnimatedAdaptation: The series got two major ones. The first, a trilogy of animated films produced between 1965 and 1970 (the first two are actually compilations of short films that were intended to be a TV show); and an actual 26 episode TV show broadcast in Spain between 1994 and 1995, that replicates the stories panel by panel and uses the same dialogues.
** The 2014 movie is done in CGI animation.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** At the end of one episode, Filemón tells the VillainOfTheWeek that he will now be arrested for "deceit, breaking and entering, and spoiling our view". (To which the villain responds with an InsanityDefense.)
** The list of forces the Superintendent calls to find Mortadelo and Filemón after one of their escapes:
-->'''Super:''' Security personnel! Civil Guard! Mossos![[note]]Catalonia's regional police force[[/note]] Ertzaintza![[note]]Basque Country's regional police force[[/note]] Goat shepherds! '''[[LargeHam GET THEEEEEEEEM!!!]]'''
* ArtEvolution: %%The comic looked [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DBGRwBG2dbk/T2Gk4GhEfrI/AAAAAAAABW4/p9ewIdezEKk/s1600/mortadelo+y+filem%C3%B3n.gif like this]] in 1956. And [[http://www.oconowocc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/OLE-N-%C2%A6191-Mortadelo-Filemon.jpg this is the cover]] for one of their latest books.
** Ibáñez art style evolved during the first 15 years of the series. At first, the strip was black and white, resembling the art style from the American cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s with some traits of French comic books. The character design was also different, with a Filemón that resembled Literature/SherlockHolmes and a Mortadelo that had an umbrella and a hat from which he got his disguises. During this time, Ibáñez started to get more and more influenced by French and Belgium comic artists of the time, specially Creator/AndreFranquin. These influences got reflected in the series until the [[TheSixties mid 1960's]], when his own style got more or less defined.
** It is worth mentioning "''El sulfato atómico''", the series' first 44-page story released in 1969. The art style in this volume is the most detailed and elaborate that Ibáñez has ever drawn, which is one of the main reasons why it is considered his masterpiece. However, putting that much effort in that art style turned out to be too time consuming, so Ibáñez decided to go back to his less-detailed style so he could focus on the humour and be able to release more volumes a year.
* TheArtifact: Mortadelo calls Filemón "Boss", even though they have the same rank in the T.I.A. This is due to the fact that during the first 11 years of the series, both characters weren't T.I.A. agents, but owned a private detective agency in which Filemón was the boss and Mortadelo his sidekick and only employee. Ibáñez kept Mortadelo's habit after he changed the series' basic plot in "''El sulfato atómico''" in 1969. See ReTool below.
* ArtisticLicenseSports: In 2000 album "Fórmula Uno", the two agents have to compete undercover in a UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Grand Prix, but the team only has one car for both of them. Sharing cars had stopped being allowed in Formula One in UsefulNotes/TheSixties, and actually having two drivers in the car at the same time as the agents do here is probably illegal, not to mention nearly impossible to pull off considering how tiny [=F1=] cockpits usually are. Also, it is very unlikely that the FIA would allow them to enter a [[TheAllegedCar '58 car rescued from the scrapyard]] after crashing their original vehicle one too many times, but here they do. We can probably chalk that up to RuleOfFunny anyway, since the starting grid for the race features several other unorthodox vehicles.
* AsianBuckTeeth: All Asians, even in the latest releases.
** A non-Asian example is Prof. Bacterio. There is an episode in which Mortadelo burns up Bacterio's beard, revealing that he has enormous, very prominent buck teeth - which suggests to readers that Bacterio actually grows his beard in order to hide them.
* [[BaseballEpisode Association Football Episode]]: There is usually one for each World Cup, and one for each edition of TheOlympics. In most of them the agents get to participate, while attempting to stop a terrorist threat to the event.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The primary plot point of several comics and short stories, with Bacterio usually responsible. ''El Sulfato Atómico'' revolves about a chemical that does this to bugs.
* AuthorAvatar: Ibáñez sometimes plays a minor role in the plot, or is name-dropped, usually making Mortadelo wonder "Where did I heard that name before?".
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* BackwardsFiringGun:
** In "El tirano", Mortadelo modifies General Panocho's rifle to be this. However, Filemón demands to try it, not knowing that it has been rigged, and inadvertently shoots himself.
** A variation in "El premio No-Vel": VillainOfTheWeek Ten-Go-Pis infiltrates the TIA's headquarters and tampers with Filemón's gun, making it fire ''upwards'' and causing Filemón to shoot himself in the nose.
* BadassBoast: Mortadelo does them sometimes, but it is always PlayedForLaughs as it is all too obvious that he is making it up. Take, for instance, this one from ''El Tirano'':
-->'''Panocho:''' Oh, by the way! Do you understand hunting?
-->'''Mortadelo:''' You bet! I hunted a lot of polar bears in the Nairobi jungle!
-->'''Panocho:''' [[BigWhat WHAT!?]] There are no polar bears in the Nairobi jungle!
-->'''Mortadelo:''' Of course there aren't... now! Who do you think hunted them all?
* BadBoss: Superintendente Vicente, in spades. Much of the humor depends on him sending two agents on suicide missions or missions that would require small armies to properly complete (such as stopping a military invasion or investigating the entire New York City for information on a terrorist plot), providing them with inadequate weapons or means of transportation, and then sadistically punishing them for their perceived failures. At times he has even punished the protagonists because they wanted a day off or because they wanted to take a break between missions.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: In a short story, Mortadelo and Filemón grow tired of the secret entrance ways, and demand for them all to be removed or they will quit. Here is the Superintendent's reaction:
-->'''Super:''' I can't believe it! After so many years... trying to get rid of you two, turns out it was that easy. You may leave whenever you want.
* BatDeduction: This is how "''El Gang del Chicharrón''" BigBad Gedeón el Chicharrón deduces that a cat smoking is Mortadelo in disguise:
-->'''Gedeón''': Cats don't smoke. If they don't smoke is because they don't have money to buy cigarettes. If someone doesn't have enough to buy cigarettes, [[PerpetualPoverty it is because he is a T.I.A. agent]]. T.I.A. agents eat bread with mortadella. Mortadella sounds similar to Mortadelo. Therefore this cat is Mortadelo! I must get rid of it! ''(attempts to kick him, but hits the wall, the next panel shows a huge pile of cigarettes next to him)'' Brr! While I thought, he finished the pack and left.
* BavarianFireDrill: In "El Sulfato Atómico", Mortadelo tries to rescue Filemón from the Tiranian border guard by dressing as a Tiranian army general, and manages to walk into the guard post... until the border post commander salutes him [[OhCrap and he realizes he doesn't speak Tiranian]].
* BeenThereShapedHistory: When the main characters time-travel, they sometimes change history spectacularly.
* UsefulNotes/BerlinWall: They managed to cross it twice in ''In Germany'' (from East to West because they stink so much that the guards can't stand them, and from West to East by going really fast on a car), which Ibáñez wrote for the comic's German fans.
** Ironically enough, those scenes were removed in the German version due to it being a pretty sensible topic at the time. The first instance was replaced by them arriving on the right side but being caught in a pro-green demonstration that delays them for an entire page, while the second was swapped by a (crudely drawn and mostly senseless) scene in which Mortadelo suddenly realises they have no money left and decides to sell half their car, in a hand-wavy attempt to explain away why its back is missing in the following page- the original Spanish version has Filemon very angry because Mortadelo had driven over a minefield believing it was an orchard.
* BerserkButton: Quite some.
** For starters, Mortadelo's baldness. Do not try to mock it, if you know what is good for you, especially if you're Bacterio.
*** Also, whenever some other MasterOfDisguise appears, Mortadelo will go into full-fledged disguise mode to prove that he is the one and only.
** It can't compare to Ofelia's weight. Even the slightest insinuation of Ofelia being anything more than "a little pudgy" (if even that) will end up with you running for your life.
** Don't tell Mortadelo and Filemón that they have to work with Bacterio, or that they have to test his new invention. They pretty much hate the guy, and they have seen too many of his inventions backfiring to ever trust them.
** Mortadelo and Filemón themselves are the Súper's own BerserkButton whenever they screw up... which is basically all the time.
** It is a RunningGag that characters, after being put through the grinder in some kind of situation, will be approached by an innocent character [[InnocentlyInsensitive who makes a comment that could be misinterpreted as mocking in the wrong context]]. They will '''always''' retaliate with either a [[RantInducingSlight rant]] at best and a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown or other DisproportionateRetribution at worst, more often than not the latter. For example, in one story the protagonists have been repeatedly abused while chasing one of Bacterio's escaped lab animals (a hen). An old friend offers them a free meal at a restaurant which is known for its chicken dishes. The protagonists figure that he is mocking them, and use the friend's head as a battering ram in the process of demolishing the restaurant.
* BlandNameProduct: Commonly for the lulz, a portmanteau of a well-name brand with some other unrelated word - "Pescadillac" combines luxury-brand Cadillac with "pescadilla", Spanish for whiting, which is not expensive. The same goes with "Alfalfa Romeo", mixing another high-end car brand, Alfa Romeo, with alfalfa, which is a plant farmers use to feed their livestock (and yes, the word for alfalfa is the same in Spanish and English). Sometimes only some letters are changed to ease a Spaniard's pronunciation.
* BlindMistake: Rompetechos (originally having his own comic-books, now a recurrent character in Mortadelo) is a WesternAnimation/MrMagoo -like guy who crosses paths with Mortadelo and Filemón because of a mistake - Rompetechos may be looking for a priest and, seeing Mortadelo's black clothes, will harass him nonstop, meddling with Mortadelo's activities.
* BlindWithoutEm: Mortadelo when his glasses are either lost or broken.
* BodyBagTrick: The comic moves this a step forward: Main characters need to infiltrate into a hospital. They see a slacker sleeping in the street. The characters impersonate nurses bringing the slacker in a pallet, claiming he needs urgent surgery for appendicitis. The slacker wakes up in the operating theater; when he leaves the hospital, he sees a peer loafing around and warns him: If the staff catches him sleeping, they will operate him for appendicitis!
* BodyCountCompetition: Invoked by VillainOfTheWeek Ten-Go-Pis in "El premio No-Vel", as the titular prizes are given out by himself to the criminal that manages to kill the most people in a determinate way.
* BookcasePassage: Secret doors are accidentally opened, commonly for comedic effect.
* BreakingTheFourthWall / MediumAwareness: Happens occasionally. The most prominent example is in "Robots bestiajos", where Mortadelo directly asks the reader to turn the comic sideways so that the characters can easily walk up the side of a building. Another example has a character comment on events he could not possibly witness first-hand, by simply looking into the panel next to his.
** In some stories, when a particularly violent or bloody scene is supposed to be happening (for instance, the duo being attacked by lions or huge guardian dogs, or receiving a severe beating by a big thug), Ibáñez himself will turn a corner of the panel so that the image is hidden and he warns: "Don't look, don't look! It's something frightening, believe me!".
* BreakoutVillain: Ibáñez introduced the rival organization ABUELA only once, as a one-time VillainOfTheWeek in "El plano de Alí Gu-sa-no". This didn't stop other writers to use it as the arch-enemy of the organization TIA.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: A subversion in "¡Llegó el euro!". Mortadelo and Filemón arrive at the small town of Fuentelnabo while trying to track down a money counterfeiter. The agents are told that the local hotel, the Fuentelnabo Palace, is an eleven-star hotel. They soon find out that it is not actually a rating: the 'Palace' is, in fact, a crappy small-town inn that has a hole on the roof of its dining room, from which eleven stars can be seen at night.
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* CampGay: All homosexual men are always depicted as very, very effeminate. They all look like this: flowered Hawaiian shirt, semi-long hair, long curled eyelashes, and cheesily talking about flowers.
** There is a member of the FEA - a rival organization of the TIA - who looks like that and is called Agent Pitiminí (from the common name given to a variety of rose). He opens a box, [[DontTouchItYouIdiot despite having been warned not to open it no matter what]], because he can't stand not knowing if there is a rose or a carnation inside.
* CanineCompanion: Played with. The pair often gets a trained detective dog to help them with their missions, but it always turns out that the dog is either too stupid or too smart to be of any use. Mortadelo and Filemón always end up getting rid of the dog, in an often abusive way.
** Also, Mortadelo or Filemón sometimes bring to the TIA offices a dog they claim to be their own pet, but it is only used in that particular chapter and the dog is never heard of again.
*** Filemón is known to have at least two different little female dogs, called "Menda" and "Secretaria". Both are used in different albums as a one-time joke to mock Ofelia. They have never appeared or even been mentioned again.
*** And yet another one, a big, aggressive guardian dog called "Butcher". Like the others, used for a one-time joke, never to be seen again.
* CanisLatinicus: Whenever Latin is needed, it is granted to be totally - and comically - faux Latin. Often combined with BinomiumRidiculus when it comes to plant or animal species.
** In "El Antídoto" ("The Antidote"), the Super has his head turned into a pig's head because of one of Bacterio's inventions, and the pair is sent to search for a medicinal herb to cure him (the titular antidote). Its botanical name is Hierbajus Apestosus Repelentus ("Stinkus Disgustingus Weedus").
** In "Contrabando" ("Smuggling"), Mortadelo disguises as a fly, and an entomologist captures him and tries to pin him on a board, classifying him as a Moscardus Cabezonus ("Botflyus Bigheadus").
** In "El 35 aniversario" ("35th. anniversary"), Mortadelo, disguised as a priest, mockingly baptises a bill he doesn't intend to pay as Incobrata Fallídez et Archivata ("Unpaid, failed and filed").
* CanonDiscontinuity: Ibáñez lost the rights to write the comic during the [[TheEighties late 80s]]. During that time, less known authors published some stories on their own (each with his own style, see DependingOnTheWriter below). When Ibáñez regained the rights, he dismissed most of the stories written by other authors (some of them are still among the official works, though).
* CartoonCheese: A painful aversion: An elderly woman mistakes a bar of soap for a piece of cheese that looks just like the soap (rectangular, not like a wedge) and gives it to [[ButtMonkey Filemón]], who unknowingly eats it...
* CatchPhrase: Mortadelo repeats his "¡Corra, jefe, corra!" ("Run, boss, run!") [[http://mortadeloyalgomas.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/4-aniversario-de-corra-jefe-corra.html quite a few times.]]
* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: This is Mortadelo's speciality. He holds an [[HyperspaceWardrobe indeterminate number of disguises]] under his coat and can instantly put them on in between comic panels.
* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: This happens in virtually every last panel of every story, with the two bumbling secret agents typically being chased by their boss, his secretary, the agency's scientist, or a combination thereof because they (again) screwed up their case big time. Sometimes, Mortadelo will also use his superhuman camouflage skills to hide as a cactus, cow etc. with Filemón hiding "in" him, and their suspicious pursuers in the vicinity looking around for them.
* ChekhovsArmoury: The first movie. You will just get amazed at how many details get reused later on.
* ChekhovsGun: Every other gag is this.
** But the prize goes to a scene where Mortadelo and Filemón were locked in a bank vault and Filemón ties to dig his way out with a Swiss-Army Knife. Mortadelo tries to tell something to Filemón but the latter dismisses him. He spends '''three days''' digging a hole and, when he comes out, he sees that Mortadelo is already out of the vault. How did he get there? The vault's door was unlocked and when Mortadelo tried to tell this to Filemón, he didn't want to hear.
*** This happens so many times that you nearly expect it to happen when Filemón starts to do something while not paying attention to Mortadelo. There is even one time when Filemón tries to open a door using a cable, and sixteen hours later, when he surrenders, Mortadelo mentions that he was "having some fun with his penknife" and ended up making a very artistic door.
** In "Las embajadas chifladas", at the final chapter Filemón got his neck elongated to a point where it was about half a meter long, and had to hide it inside his shirt. Much later, once everyone thought his neck [[AmusingInjuries had gone back to normal]], he used it to make [[ItMakesSenseInContext everyone think that Mortadelo was a snake charmer, revealing it while Mortadelo played the flute]]. And at the end of the story, he and Mortadelo got tied with a bomb near them. What did Filemón did? [[ChekhovsBoomerang He used his neck to take the bomb with his teeth]] and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome threw it to the]] BigBad.
** In "El cochecito leré", Mortadelo and Filemón must participate in a 1000-km car race to win a great prize for their organization, using a car developed by Bacterio. After an accident, [[HonestJohnsDealership Pepe Gotera]] and [[GreaseMonkey Otilio]] are the ones that repair the car, and they accidentally don't put the brake pedal back to the vehicle. This mistake causes Mortadelo and Filemón to be unable to stop after a policeman tells them to do so. There are no problems in the whole race, but, when they reach the goal, they have to brake, and they can't. Just then, the car starts to break down in pieces, due to Pepe Gotera and Otilio's shoddy work.
* ChewToy: Every member of the main cast.
** Extra points in Filemón's case.
** Doctor Bacterio also deserves a special mention, as everybody always does their best to make his life miserable. While he is often attacked for some of his genuine mistakes, the other characters attack him even when he simply tries to greet them politely or when he is minding his own business.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Irma, sort of. Her introduction was forced as a way to combat homosexual viewing of the main characters. The character was apparently disliked by the series creator and Brotherchucked when he gained full control of the series some years later.
*** It is also related to the CanonDiscontinuity mentioned above. The introduction of Irma coincided in time with the loss of publishing rights that Ibáñez suffered. As a result, most of the comic books where Irma appears are "apocryphal" and were not written by himself. If you see a comic book where Irma appears, most likely it wasn't written by him. When he eventually regained the rights, he got rid of the character who was now strongly associated with the "apocryphal" comic books.
** Likewise, Agent Bestiájez hasn't been seen in quite a while. He was among the least essential recurring characters, so his role could be eliminated altogether.
* ClingyMacGuffin: One of these features prominently in one of the issues, titled "The Warlock": a magical note, enchanted to kill anyone who reads it. The titular characters subsequently try to remove it by the most varied means, chucking it into the bin, shredding it, burying it, tying it to a rock and throwing it to the sea, and ''hitting it with a full discharge of a flamethrower''. And yet the note manages to never be actually harmed due to some kind of karmic immunity that causes people around it to suffer instead.
** They do manage to get rid of it. How? [[LaserGuidedKarma They send it back to the guy that commissioned the warlock to send the note to the Super]].
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Some of Mortadelo's disguises grant him abilities which he does not have when undisguised. For example, his ghost disguise allows him to phase through walls, he can [[WallCrawling climb buildings]] while disguised as a lizard, breathe underwater with a fish disguise, or fly when disguised as a bird. Also, his iceberg disguise allowed him to cheat a thermal detector.
** Averted, and PlayedForLaughs, in some instances when Filemón assumes that Mortadelo has the abilities of the disguise he is wearing and tries to take advantage of them, only to fail miserably, and have Mortadelo telling him "But, boss, it's only a disguise...".
* CollaredByFashion: Mortadelo.
* ComedicHero: Subverted because they tend to fail.
* ComedicSociopathy: In "Los mercenarios" the two main characters go so far as throwing their boss from the window when (they think) they are rich.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Constantly.
** In "La gallina de los huevos de oro" Mortadelo hits Filemón on the head, believing [[ItMakesSenseInContext that it is the hen they are looking for]] and comments that he will wake her up with an injection. Cue angry Filemón starting to run after him, ready to inject him with a dose of sulfuric acid. Mortadelo's answer?
--> Don't be mad, boss! You aren't a registered nurse and could get fined!
** One of the many secret entrances to the TIA offices has the duo dragging through a very narrow passage. Mortadelo finds the exit blocked by some sort of fabric and rips it off with a knife. It turns out that, in the other side, there was a very expensive painting that the Súper had on his wall. "The Titian! The Titian!", the Súper screams. "No, it's me, the Mortadelo", answers Mortadelo with a cheerful smile, "Don't you know me?"
* CompellingVoice: Hypnosis is shown in a fantasy-clichéd way particularly with the character Magín el Mago and in the second movie. The only way to break the spell is by slapping the victim.
* CompositeCharacter: In the animated version, they had the Agente Bestiájez fulfilling the roles of many one-off characters in the comics, probably so that they could reuse his design and voice actor.
* ContinuityNod: Any appearances by returning villains are punctuated by a side note pointing to the last story in which they starred. And then there is the book ''Venganza Cincuentona'' where a dozen of the most iconic MonstersOfTheWeek return to fight the heroes together.
* ContinuityPorn: The 50th aniversary special, which includes the return of many former villains and some other references to former albums, not without its problems:
** Some of the returning villains (El Rana, Bíchez) were clearly DeaderThanDead at the end of their respective album, and there is either [[HandWave a very poor explanation]] or no explanation at all of why they are still alive.
** It is mentioned at the beginning of the story that Mortadelo and Filemón have been catching baddies for fifty years. There is a problem when you see that both the protagonists and the villains [[NotAllowedToGrowUp don't seem to be older at all]].
** Many (if not most) of the recurring villains were portrayed in their original album as pretty much [[TheJuggernaut unstoppable]], only to be [[VillainDecay easily defeated]] in the special.
** By far the worst Character Derailment is the one suffered by "Chapeau el Esmirriau". Not only he suffers from a huge VillainDecay (he is the closest Ibáñez has ever been from a Magnificent Bastard), but he seems to have lost his definining traits, such as his trademark silences (it has been said that he speaks more during the two pages he appears in the special that during the 44 that the original album had).
** And it is worth noting how all of the returning vilains who were portrayed as smokers during their original album [[{{Bowdlerise}} aren't smokers anymore]]... including Professor Von Iatum, an alien conqueror disguised as a scientist, whose cigarettes were established in the original album as his tool for breathing in our planet.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Roughly 30% of the frames show one character punishing another in some ridiculously over the top way.
** There are many other frames in which the Súper threatens Mortadelo and Filemón with something if they don't comply with his orders. It usually involves watching something so horrible that they will go with obeying. One example is Creator/ChuckNorris' [[TakeThat films]].
** In ''20,000 leguas de viaje sibilino'' (in which they must go from Madrid to Lugo, going around the world), one of the stops is China. Two Chinese SecretPolice members believe M&F are two spies and attempt to make them reveal why they are there through Chinese torture methods (which are not exactly like the normal ones) until they pull out a torture system clearly based out on the Spanish Social Security system. This one works really well (though, Mortadelo just makes up a really bold lie so that they are healed).
** In one gag, Mortadelo tells Filemón that there is "nothing" over a window; Filemón proceeds to jump through said window to plummet hundreds of feet down a precipice, meaning that there was literally ''nothing'' past the window. Injured by the fall, Filemón proceeds to chase Mortadelo, trying to smash him with an enormous book titled "Nada, por Tedio Plomez Sopor", which roughly translates as "Nothing, by Tedium Boredom Sleepiness" (Tedio Plomez Sopor, being a gag name in Spanish). Filemón chases him saying "I'll show you what ''nothing'' means!"
** Sometimes, both of them are held in specially tiny spaces. This will result in either of the following: either they come out in the form of the place they have been held (and eventually threatened to be sent to another place which is even smaller) or the place where they were kept was [[HammerSpace much bigger than what it should be]] (one hilarious example has Filemón "practicing Formula 1 racing" while kept in a drawer, which results in one guy looking into that drawer and getting his big nose flattened by one Formula 1 racing car and shouted at ''from within the drawer'' to stay off the track).
*** Another one has Mortadelo practicing horse riding. Cue a horse coming out of the drawer.
*** Another one combines the two outcomings. The duo come out from the punish room in the shape and size of a shoebox, and the Súper scornfully asks them whether they have been bored. While stretching back to his size, Mortadelo comments that he has killed some time by taming lions. The Súper bursts into laughter, saying "Taming lions in a two feet square room!". Cue some TIA agents bringing a badly injured cleaning lady, who has been attacked by lions while cleaning the punish room.
** See SuckinessIsPainful for a few more examples.
* CranialEruption: From blows to the head, falling from great heights, you name it. The lumps sometimes come in layers of two or three.
** In one instance, we see a bunch of pre-historic men [[DuelToTheDeath fighting to the death]] with clubs. In present time, when their remains are discovered, there are cranial eruptions in their bare skulls.
* CrazyPrepared:
** In "Chapeau el Esmirriau", Chapeau's hat hides a HyperspaceArsenal full of all sorts of wacky weapons he can activate just in time to repel whatever Mortadelo and Filemón throw at him.
** Mortadelo once managed to avoid getting bitten by a vampire in the neck... by way of wearing a hidden second collar made of wrought iron.
* CreatorProvincialism: Played straight and averted: There are plenty of stories set in other countries or as world trips ([[HollywoodGeography Not that they are accurate or anything]]), but quite a few have evil criminals, aliens or whatever that just happen to hide/go to Spain for no real reason. Best example? ''Expediente J''. The evil aliens send a few havoc-causing {{phlebotinum}} rocks to Spain (And accurately, around the area the main characters live at that) and when their leader appears at the end, he assumes that has caused ALL of humanity to be a mess. What?
* CreditsBrandProducts: The comic (1958–1968) included billboards of "Chicle Duglas" in the background.
** In TheEighties, Mortadelo and Filemón, along with some other Ibáñez characters, were used as the image of a chocolate spread, "Tulicrem". Some one-page stories were written to promote the brand.
* CrossOver:
** With another popular Spanish character, Capitán Trueno, in the album ''¡Bajo el bramido de Trueno!''
** They also had an earlier, better one with ''ComicBook/ZipiYZape''.
** And with pretty much any other Ibáñez strip: ''13 Rue del Percebe'', ''Rompetechos'', ''Pepe Gotera y Otilio'', etc. Many of these strips have gone out of print, and their characters are no longer featured anywhere but in these cameos.
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