History YMMV / Blacksad

* HilariousInHindsight: Smirnov's police colleagues are mostly dogs, but count among them [[WesternAnimation/Zootopia one fox with an incredibly smug smile]].

* NightmareFuel: The trip that Blacksad has when he nearly drowns in ''A Silent Hell''.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The lynx with the chest tattoo of mermaids who saves Blacksad from drowning in the fourth volume. He is not named and appears in only one page, but has already become quite popular.

** ''Arctic Nation'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Huk]] is TheStarcream to Hans Karup, the leader of the [[TheKlan racist Arctic Nation]], of which Huk is the spokesman. Huk also inspires lynchings against [[FantasticRacism "black" animals]] and praises the lynchings in public as a defense of the noble "white race." While seemingly loyal to Hans Karup, Huk schemes to overthrow him and steal his wife in the bargain. During his affair with Karup's wife Jezabel, Huk has the daughter of Karup's black maid kidnapped to frame Karup (who is suspected to be a pedophile), but murders her mother when he decides she might talk. He then tricks Karup's followers into lynching him, taunting Karup he'll see to Karup's wife and then tries to hang Blacksad's friend, a journalist who'd been spying on Huk. Manipulating a harmless old crow into helping him, Huk decides to [[WouldHurtAChild murder the little girl]] as well and shoots his unwilling accomplice when he demands Huk save the girl from a burning building before leaving her to burn.

** ''Arctic Nation'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Huk]] is the DragonAscendant of Hans Karup, the leader of the [[TheKlan racist Arctic Nation]], of which Huk is the spokesman. Huk also inspires lynchings against [[FantasticRacism "black" animals]] and praises the lynchings in public as a defense of the noble "white race." While seemingly loyal to Hans Karup, Huk schemes to overthrow him and steal his wife in the bargain. During his affair with Karup's wife Jezabel, Huk has the daughter of Karup's black maid kidnapped to frame Karup (who is suspected to be a pedophile), but murders her mother when he decides she might talk. He then tricks Karup's followers into lynching him, taunting Karup he'll see to Karup's wife and then tries to hang Blacksad's friend, a journalist who'd been spying on Huk. Manipulating a harmless old crow into helping him, Huk decides to [[WouldHurtAChild murder the little girl]] as well and shoots his unwilling accomplice when he demands Huk save the girl from a burning building before leaving her to burn.

** ''Somewhere Within the Shadows'': [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Ivo Statoc]] is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive powerful businessman]] who serves as the [[BigBad primary villain]]. Most of the other villains in the series get tragic backstories or redeeming traits, but Statoc is evil and depraved to the core. He made film star Natalia Wilford his mistress, but when he found out she cheated on him, he personally tortured her lover to death, killed Natalia in cold blood, [[ILoveTheDead had his way with her corpse]] afterwards, and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney threw money at it to make it go away]]. When one of his associates has had enough and tries to blackmail him with his crimes, Statoc arranges the man's death. Later, he taunts Blacksad by boasting that unlike his foe, he isn't limited by such [[VirtueIsWeakness silly things like ethics and moral scruples]], and is so successful because of his cold-bloodedness. The only thing that really interests him is pure, unadulterated power.

* CompleteMonster: Ivo Statoc is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive powerful businessman]] who serves as the [[BigBad primary villain]] of the first volume, ''Somewhere Within the Shadows''. Most of the other villains in the series get tragic backstories or redeeming traits, but Statoc is evil and depraved to the core. He made film star Natalia Wilford his mistress, but when he found out she cheated on him, he personally tortured her lover to death, killed Natalia in cold blood, [[ILoveTheDead had his way with her corpse]] afterwards, and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney threw money at it to make it go away]]. When one of his associates has had enough and tries to blackmail him with his crimes, Statoc arranges the man's death. Later, he taunts Blacksad by boasting that unlike his foe, he isn't limited by such [[VirtueIsWeakness silly things like ethics and moral scruples]], and is so succesful because of his coldbloodedness. The only thing that really interests him is pure, unadulterated power.

* CompleteMonster: Ivo Statoc is the BigBad of the first volume. Most of the other villains get tragic backstories in which they were shaped or currupted into evil, but Statoc is the only one who was unambiguously bad and depraved from the start. He made Natalia his mistress and when he found out she cheated on him, he personally tortured her lover to death, killed Natalia in cold blood, [[ILoveTheDead defiled her corpse afterwards]] according to WordOfGod, and threw money at it to make it all go away. He outright taunts Blacksad by saying that unlike his foe he isn't limited by such silly things like ethics and moral scruples, and is so succesful because of his coldbloodedness. The only thing that really interests him is pure, unadulterated power.

** In fact, the characters themselves get shipped a lot, particularly Blacksad and Smirmov.

* CompleteMonster: Ivo Statoc is the BigBad of the first volume. A lot of the other villains get either tragic backstories in which they were shaped into evil, but Statoc is the only one who was unambiguously bad and depraved from the start. He made Natalia his mistress, and when he found out she cheated on him, he personally tortured her lover to death, killed Natalia in cold blood, [[ILoveTheDead defiled her corpse afterwards]] according to WordOfGod, and threw money at it to make it all go away. He outright taunts Blacksad by saying that unlike his foe he isn't limited by such silly things like ethics and moral scruples, and is so succesful because of his coldbloodedness. The only thing that really interests him is pure, unadulterated power.

* CompleteMonster: Ivo Statoc IS the BigBad of the first volume. A lot of the other villains get either tragic backstories in which they were shaped into evil, but Statoc is the only one who was unambiguously bad and depraved from the start. He made Natalia his mistress, and when he found out she cheated on him, he personally tortured her lover to death, killed Natalia in cold blood, [[ILoveTheDead defiled her corpse afterwards]] according to WordOfGod, and threw money at it to make it all go away. He outright taunts Blacksad by saying that unlike his foe he isn't limited by such silly things like ethics and moral scruples, and is so succesful because of his coldbloodedness. The only thing that really interests him is pure, unadulterated power.

* CompleteMonster: Ivo Statoc, the BigBad of the first volume. A lot of the other villains get either tragic backstories in which they were shaped into evil, but Statoc is the only one who was unambiguously bad and depraved from the start. He made Natalia his mistress, and when he found out she cheated on him, he personally tortured her lover to death, killed Natalia in cold blood, [[ILoveTheDead defiled her corpse afterwards]] according to WordOfGod, and threw money at it to make it all go away. He outright taunts Blacksad by saying that unlike his foe he isn't limited by such silly things like ethics and moral scruples, and is so succesful because of his coldbloodedness. The only thing that really interests him is pure, unadulterated power.

* FanYay: John Blacksad is quite the StupidSexyFlanders. Some gay readers have discovered the series after first encountering its FanYay.

* CompleteMonster: Ivo Statoc, the BigBad of the first volume.

* FridgeHorror: At the beginning of the first , Natalia's corpse sports one exposed breast. Presumably, her nightgown slipped before or after her death. Later, when we see her murder at the hands of Statoc, we see that her nightgown is ''closed'' and couldn't have slipped all by itself. According to WordOfGod, it was meant to imply that Statoc [[ILoveTheDead played with the corpse]].
** Also Ribs the gavial is wearing ''what'' skin boots?
* FridgeLogic: Wait a minute. Huk is an arctic fox whose coat changes from snowy white in the winter to brown in the summer months. What happens to his position in the Arctic Nation when summer comes around?
** [[StrawHypocrite He]] [[BoomerangBigot dyes it?]]
** Speaking of the Arctic, polar bears have white hair that covers their ''black'' skin.

** JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:Jezebel]].

* SoundtrackDissonance: Hannah singing "Summertime" to her baby as Blacksad races to find Sebastian dead of an overdose.

* AlasPoorVillain: The lizard hitman in ''Somewhere Within the Shadows.''

** [[StrawHypocrite He]] [[BoomerangBigot dyes it?]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: in book 4, a MushroomSamba give to Blacksad the vision of animals' fate in our world: die-cutted, eaten, used for experiments...

* TheWoobie: Kylie, her mother.

AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Karup is quite despicable in several ways, but [[spoiler: is he really a pedophile?]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Karup is quite despicable in several ways, but [[spoiler: is he really a pedophile?]]

* CompleteMonster: Ivo Statoc, the BigBad of the first volume might qualify.