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1''Reflets d'Acide'' (sometimes nicknamed "RDA") is a French humor audio [[WebOriginal webseries]] [[AffectionateParody parodying]] the [[FantasyWebOriginals fantasy genre]] and [[TabletopRPG RPGs]]. Its creator [[NoNameGiven is only known through the nickname "JBX"]]. ''Reflets d'Acide'' started in 2003, and now has one season of 16 episodes. A second season is in the works, the first episode was released in December 2022. The series and some bonus stuff can be downloaded [[http://www.synopsite.com/ on the official website]].
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3The adventure is based on an amateur fantasy RPG called ''Reflets d'Acier'' and the four main characters are inspired by the creator and his friends characters in ''Reflets d'Acier''.
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5The story begins in a tavern with a warrior half-demon called Wrandrall trying to recruit companions for a quest. After hiring Zarakaï ([[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame "Dwarf Master", a kind of warrior]]), Enoriel ([[MagicMusic Elven bard]]), Zehirmahnn ("Zorlim", a kind of Fire Genasi with martial and magic fire-related skills) and Guertrude (female [[BarbarianHero Human Barbarian]]), the group goes to an underground dungeon, following instructions of a mysterious map carried by Wrandrall...
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7The webserie is famous in the French-speaking world for the jokes, puns, shout-outs, rhymes and verses, etc. it contains. Recently, it has been adapted into a comic.
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10!!''Reflets d'Acide'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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12* AerithAndBob: Zarakaï the Dwarf, Enoriel the Elf... and Roger the Bartender.
13* AffablyEvil: Alia-[=Æ=]nor's human form has a sweet, little girl-like voice, acts polite and courteous toward everyone (including thieves who attempt to attack her) and seems to have a liking for romance, to the point the Narrator was initially shocked he had to use her as a villain. Despite this, she's probably one of the most vicious and cruel characters in the whole serie.
14* AffectionateParody: The whole point is to spoof the fantasy genre.
15* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Mortis, once you find out about his origin.]]
16%%* AllTrollsAreDifferent
17* AmbiguouslyGay: Subverted; Enoriel tends to have slightly effeminate mannerism (which isn't exactly surprising [[{{Elfeminate}} for an Elf]], however), but he hates being mistaken for a female, has no problem with using violence and [[spoiler:is actually the only one in the group who is known to have had a relationship with a girl in the past]].
18* ArtifactOfDoom: Wrandrall's sword, which [[spoiler:harbours a part of his demonic father soul]].
19* ArtificialLimbs: Zarakaï has an adamantium leg.
20* AscendedExtra
21** Roger (cf ChekhovsGunman below).
22** Also, the animals of the forest (a chaffinch and a frog) were used early in the saga, and JBX decided to reintroduce them after some fans on a forum started to imagine in-universe jokes and stories with them. He even added the additional animals that the fans imagined in their stories (an otter and a duck).
23* AudibleSharpness: {{Justified|Trope}} as it is an audio serie; this is a way to show that characters unsheathed their weapons.
24* AuthorAvatar
25** Zehirmann is the character that the creator plays in the RPG which inspired the serie.
26** Kyo Shin Zammurato was the author's first attempt to play a samurai parody in the aforementioned RPG. He found it so hilarious he introduced him in the saga.
27* AxCrazy: Guertrude and Zarakaï, although the second is more "[[BludgeonedToDeath hammer-crazy]]".
28* BarbarianHero: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Guertrude is a female one, but she died at the end of the first episode.
29* BaritoneOfStrength: Zehirmann has the deepest voice of the main characters and is a solid element in battles, easily and quickly beating a decent number of ennemies with his fire-related powers, on top of surviving a fall through several traps that ended in an acid bath. He is also the best-equipped member in the team, and the most eager to fight along with Zarakai.
30* BattleCry: "Tata Yoyo!" (Zarakaï)
31%% * BigBad: [[spoiler:Bélial]]
32* BitchInSheepsClothing: Alia-[=Æ=]nor's human form obviously looks NOTHING like a villain. She talks like a sweet girl, enjoys beautiful things, acts feminine, to the point the Narrator is initially shocked to have to use her as a villain... only to be relieved when she mercyless kills thieves attempting to rob her, such revealing how dangerous a cruel she is.
33* BittersweetEnding: Season 1 ends with [[spoiler:Belial defeated and RetGone, his army defeated, Alia-Aenor reformed, and all the population of Maender-Alkoor resurrected, including Zarakai and Tricheulieu. However, Enoriel and Zehirmann have both been forcefully sent back to their respective native places, separating them from the rest of the group, and Wrandrall was dragged along by his father, leaving him RetGone as well with none of the other characters even being able to remember his name.]]
34* BreakingTheFourthWall: Several times the characters answer or comment the {{Narrator}}'s words. They also say their stats, skills, alignment.... {{Justified|Trope}}, as the story isn't really an actual fantasy adventures but people playing a RPG. These sequences are just players speaking to the GameMaster.
35** There is a different and weird example in the beginning of the first episode, during which NPC patrons of the inn listen and react to the non RP discussion between Wrandall's player and the narrating GameMaster.
36* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Enoriel, Zarakaï and Zehirmann try to fight and stop Bélial. He kills them, but later [[BackFromTheDead they are resurrected by a divine intervention]]]].
37* BrokenBridge: An ogre blocks the bridge and let cross anyone who pays him.
38%% * TheBrute: Guertrude is a female exemple.
39* CharacterAlignment: [[http://www.synopsite.com/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=58 According to the official website :]][[invoked]]
40** Wrandrall is TrueNeutral, [[spoiler:though he later evolve toward NeutralGood]].[[invoked]]
41** Zehirmann is NeutralGood.[[invoked]]
42** Zarakaï is NeutralGood, but LawfulGood with the party.[[invoked]]
43** Enoriel is TrueNeutral.[[invoked]]
44** Trichelieu is NeutralGood, but acts ChaoticGood.[[invoked]]
45* CarryABigStick: Zarakaï's weapon is a warhammer.
46* ChekhovsGun:
47** Wrandrall carries a sword mentionned as cursed since the beginning. [[spoiler:He is suddently possessed by his sword in the eleventh episode]].
48** Alia-[=Æ=]nor takes Zarakaï's ring of bartender summoning in the fourteenth episode. [[spoiler:She uses it in the next episode to escape Hell, by summonning and immediately unsummoning Roger the Bartender]].
49* ChekhovsGunman
50** Roger the Bartender first shortly appears in the first episode. He isn't seen again until the sixth episode and becomes an important support character, even having his own subplot since the seventh episode.
51** In the sixth episode the characters visit a graveyard and read the names on tombstones. These dead are reanimated in a later episode.
52* CrazyPrepared: Zehirmahnn owns so many magic items for so many different situations that he could make Batman jealous. For example, when he accidentally activates different traps at the same time, a regeneration ring allows him to heal his wounds and his armor turns out to be enchanted to be self-repairing.
53* DeadpanSnarker: The {{Narrator}} and Enoriel.
54* DeadSidekick: Guertrude in the first episode.
55* DeathTrap: Everywhere in the stairs down to the "Gouffre de... AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH" (see below).
56* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession: Wrandrall, shortly, thanks to a bit of Bélial' soul in his sword]].
57* DeusExMachina: Several times.
58** Most of those moments are of the kind "I suddendly remember I can do this" or "I have the specific item which can help us now".
59** One of those is [[spoiler:the sudden apparition of Trichelieu's Goddess after he prayed her, who cancels his {{metamorphosis}} and [[BackFromTheDead resurrect the dead characters]]]].
60** Lampshaded ''and'' subverted in the end of the fifteen episode; it looks like there is gonna be one when [[spoiler:Bélial is turned back into an Archangel at the end of episode 15, and Enoriel even complains about it; but Bélial quickly turns back into a demon.]]
61* DirtyOldMonk: Trichelieu the Cleric. Altough he is a former cultist of the Goddess of Carnal Pleasures.
62* DiscOneNuke: Wrandrall has a cursed sword that allows him to slice even minotaurs in half in a single strike. He's also a level 1 character and supposed to be weakest, least experienced member of the group.
63* DoubleEntendre: About 9 out of 10 of Trichelieu's sentences are sexual ones, and they're always funny.
64* TheDragon
65** Mortis is a kind of this to [[spoiler:Bélial]].
66** Alia-[=Æ=]nor is quite literally this to Mortis himself.
67%%* DungeonCrawling
68* {{Elfeminate}}: Zarakaï's favourite insult to Enoriel is "faggot".
69* ElvesVersusDwarves: Enoriel and Zarakaï. Nothing else to say.
70* EvilLaugh
71** [[spoiler:Mortis and Bélial, during several minutes]].
72** The {{Narrator}}, too, from times to times.
73* EvilSoundsDeep: Alia-Aenor (only her dragon form though. Her human form, however, has a high-pitched little girl voice) and Bélial are examples of this.
74* EvilVersusOblivion: Alkor vs. Bélial in the backstory.
75* FantasticRacism: Most of discussions between Enoriel and Zarakaï are insults.
76* FantasyWorldMap: [[http://www.synopsite.com/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=132 On the official website]]. The adventure occurs in the region of Maender Alkoor (in the West of the middle of the map).
77* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are multiple clue suggesting long before TheReveal that [[spoiler:Enoriel and Alia-Aenor know each other]], including Alia-Aenor singing the same song than Enoriel and Enoriel expressing shock when he learns the black dragon's identity.
78* FreudianSlip: Happens to Trichelieu in almost every sentence he says. In fact, his lines are mostly made of this and {{Double Entendre}}.
79* GoodColorsEvilColors: The result of the "Show Alignment" spell. The target will be colored in a certain color, which suggests a precise alignement.
80%%* {{Gorn}}
81* GraveRobbing: Zarakaï suddenly goes looting a mausoleum after smelling mithril in it.
82* GraveHumor: « Ci-gît mon ami Sourdingue le nain ; moi qui fuyais au loin, lui qui chargea soudain, moi qui hurla "un dragon nain !", lui qui comprit "un ragondin". » ("Here lies my friend Clotheared the Dwarf; me who was fleeing, he who suddenly charged, me who screamed 'a midget dragon!', he who understood 'a coypu'."). There is several other examples.
83* HellishHorse: Parodied with Bélial's demonical horse, who seems to fit this trope... except he's named [[EmbarrassingNickname Grandadin]].
84* HalfHumanHybrid: Wrandrall is born from a woman and a demon. It isn't a spoiler, the fact is revealed by the {{Narrator}} in the first minutes of the first episode.
85* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Wrandrall's map goes through "la Forêt des éventrés" ("the Forest of Disembowelled Ones"), "le Fleuve des Glaires tièdes" ("the River of Lukewarm Phlegm"), "la Grotte de l'Herpès écorché" ("the Cave of Flayed Herpes"), "la Colline des Mille Gangrènes" ("the Hill of Thousand Gangrenes"), "le Mont Mucus" ("the Mucus Mount") and eventually "le Gouffre de... AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH -- appelé aussi le trou de la Mierdaille" ("the Chasm of... AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH -- also known as the Hole of Shit"). Apparently such names are common in the Chaotic Lands.
86* HurricaneOfPuns: Happens quite often, due to the phenomenal amount of (very good) puns in the saga.
87* IceCreamKoan: Kyo's proverbs don't often make any sense or/and are hidden jokes.
88* InconsistentEpisodeLengths: Episode 1 to 8 (inclusive) last between 10 and 17 minutes (respectively episode 4 and episode 3), though a length of about 12-13 is common. From episode 9 onward (21 minutes), the duration increases at each release, and eventually becomes longer than a hour (episode 14: 61 minutes, episode 15: 89 minutes, episode 16: 112 minutes).
89* InconvenientSummons: Each time Zarakaï summons Roger. [[spoiler:One of them almost kills him in the Gouffre de Aaah. Another time, it saves both Roger and his wife's life. Later, in the fifteenth episode, it saves Alia-[=Æ=]nor's life]].
90* InstantMessengerPigeon: [[spoiler:Roger is given this role one time. Discovering that an Undead army what marching to the city, the party summons Roger, tells him the message and immediately unsummons him]].
91* InteractiveNarrator: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since he is also the game master.
92* KatanasAreJustBetter: Kyo Shin Zamurato. {{Justified|Trope}}, as he is a {{Samurai}}.
93* KillItWithFire: Zehirmann's speciality. He has a flaming sword and masters several fire-related spells.
94%%* KillerGameMaster: [[spoiler:He usually don't succeed]].
95* LamePunReaction: The characters sometimes have this reaction, the most obvious one being Enoriel's reaction when he learns that Roger used to be called Bertrand, meaning that he would introduce himself as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Tavernier "Bertrand, tavernier"]] [[note]]''tavernier'' is french for ''bartender''[[/note]].
96* LiveItem: Wrandrall's map speaks.
97-->« Vous êtes ici ! » ("You are here!")
98%%* LoinCloth: Guertrude's clothes.
99%%* LovableCoward: Wrandrall and Enoriel.
100* LyingCreator: [[spoiler:JBX has always said that the series' last episode would be the 15th. It ended on a {{Cliffhanger}} ToBeContinued... in the 16th episode.]]
101* [[spoiler:LukeIAmYourFather: Bélial to Wrandrall after being freed]].
102* MagicMusic: Enoriel uses it from times to times. For example, he knows a song that when sung, prevents any bad encounter during its effect and uses it once (before forgetting to renew the spell and thus finally getting a bad encounter)
103* MeaningfulName
104** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Sacher-Masoch Sacher-Masoch]], [[spoiler:one of the bad guys]], is a priest of Shamrodia, Goddess of Torture and Physical Pain; he is rather masochist, too.
105** Mortis, the Necromancer king, has his name coming from a Latin word meaning "Death".
106* {{Metamorphosis}}: [[spoiler:Trichelieu becomes a talking wild goose after the bartender's wife makes him drink one of his own potions. He was knocked out and she tried to reanimate him, believing it was an healing potion]].
107* MirrorMatch: [[spoiler:The protagonists reflect in a mirror and have to fight and kill their exact opposites. Wrandrall the Half-Demon fights a half-angel, Zehirmann the Fire-Planar fights an ice-elemental, Enoriel the surface Elf fights a Drow, Zarakaï the lawful-good Dwarf fights a Chaos Dwarf and Trichelieu the perverted priest fights a young and pure virgin]]. Also qualifies as a PlayedWith Trope, since, as you read it above, [[spoiler: the protagonists' opposites ''literally''came out of a mirror.]]
108* MisplacedWildlife: In the beginning of the adventure, the group travels through a forest and hear several animal noises. Most of them are birds, but one of them is refered as a "Hylobates agilis". What is this creature? An agile gibbon, which is a Malaysian monkey (the setting is supposed to be MedievalEuropeanFantasy).
109%%* {{Mordor}}: The Chaotic Lands.
110* MuggingTheMonster: A bunch of thieves attempt to attack Alia-[=Æ=]nor as she's on her way to Maender-Alkor. [[spoiler:This doesn't end well for them, of course.]]
111* {{Munchkin}}: Zehirmann bears a lot of powerful magic stuff.
112* MundaneWish: After finding a mithril ring when [[GraveRobbing looting a mausoleum]], Zarakaï is granted by a ghost the power to use it to summon at will the creature he will choose now. Zarakaï chooses... Roger the Bartender (see AscendedExtra above).
113* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
114** Mortis ("Death" in latin)
115** Bélial (a "classical" demon)
116* {{Necromancer}}: Mortis
117* NeverSplitTheParty: At one instance the {{Narrator}}/GameMaster don't allow the group to split because there would be "characters everywhere", which would make the game very complicated to run further.
118* OnlySaneMan: Zehirmann is the wisest member of the group.
119* {{Pun}}s: A lot of them throughout the saga, which is reputed for them. Especially from Trichelieu.
120* PsychoExGirlfriend: [[spoiler:Alia-[=Æ=]nor to Enoriel.]]
121* {{Reincarnation}}: Trichelieu has been created by Guertrude's player after Guertrude's death.
122* RunningGag: The insults of Enoriel and Zarakaï, the bartender-summoning, the horny puns of Trichelieu, and a lot of others.
123%%* {{Samurai}}: Kyo Shin Zamurato
124* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Bélial the Demon, father of Wrandrall, is trapped in a mirror]].
125* ShoutOut: Tons of them. To put it in perspective: A website held by some fans went through the fourteen episodes of the saga, and compiled a lot of statistics about it. The number of "references" found? ''1681''.
126%%* StandardFantasySetting
127* StealthPun: A lot of them, too.
128%%* SummonMagic
129* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: The characters discussed so long about "how to cross the river without paying and with the less risks" (see BrokenBridge above) that the ogre fell asleep.
130* TapOnTheHead: Trichelieu receives several blows on the skull from his companions in order to make him shut up.
131* TeleportationRescue: Zarakai summons Roger the Bartender and his wife [[spoiler:after sensing they were in danger, threatened by Alia-Aenor]], teleporting them out of trouble.
132** Happens a second time later, when [[spoiler:Alia-Aenor uses Zarakai's ring to summon and immediatly unsummon Roger to escape Hell, where she was trapped by [[BigBad Belial]]]].
133* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: "Mort de masse" ("[[AreaOfEffect mass]] [[OneHitKill death]]") is the favourite spell of Alia-[=Æ=]nor.
134* TooDumbToLive: Guertrude. A level-1 Barbarian who decided to hunt, kill and flay a bear because she needed a blanket... Who had to flay who? That said, a barbarian may be usually a match for a bear in this world. A barbarian who rolls a "Critical Fumble" (which means a "Critical CriticalFailure") twice (which can only be attributed to bad luck, not lack of skill) in the first turn of the battle, not so much.
135* TheUndead: [[spoiler:An army of them is sent to destroy the town in which the adventure began]].
136* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Wrandrall is the son of a powerful demon and, as all his siblings, he has a map which will guide him to the place his father lies in order to release him. His companion are some, too]].
137* VoluntaryShapeshifting
138** The Doppelganger in fairy form.
139** Alia-[=Æ=]nor the female-Dragon transformed as a woman.
140* WhatTheHellHero: Zehirmann to Wrandrall, when the latter suggest to [[spoiler:summon Roger the Bartender to throw him down the trapped stairs in order to trigger the traps]].
141* YouAllMeetInAnInn: The beginning of the story. Wrandall even complains to the DM because how it is stereotyped.
142* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Bélial attempt to kill Mortis and Alia-[=Æ=]nor after having being freed]], because [[spoiler:they're the descendants of those who sealed him and as such have a piece of his soul. He succeeds with Mortis, but Alia-[=Æ=]nor escapes.]]
143* YoungerThanTheyLook: Zehirmann is the tallest member of the group and the wisest. He also says during his own presentation in the first episode that he isn't fully grown up yet.
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