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3	!!The duo
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9	* BrainsAndBrawn: They're both intelligent and {{Badass}}, yet Fantasio, with his GadgeteerGenius side, may be a bit less physical. At least, this is how he describe their duo in [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio the movie.]]
10	* CelibateHero: Fantasio is a bit more into women than Spirou but [[MarriedToTheJob always finishes by privilege his career]]. Meanwhile Spirou is more of a ChasteHero, but some stories implies it's because he's picky, or [[SingleTargetSexuality faithful]] to TheOneThatGotAway.
11	* ChickMagnet:
12	** Ironically for Spirou, given the CelibateHero entry, despite it being mainly shown in the last 20 years (and in one-shots). Girls tend to be attracted, with or without the feeling is reciprocal. In ''Le petit Spirou'', [[{{Kidanova}} there were Suzette, Zoé, Marine and Ludivine]]. In the main series, there were Luna [[note]]Also in the second animated series in her case[[/note]], Iorana, Seccotine, Miss Flanner and Blythe. In one-shots, there were Tian (''Les géants pétrifiés''), Kassandra and Mieke (''Hope against all odds''), Audrey and Ursula (''Le groom vert de gris''), Louise Garoin (''La grosse tête''), Gisèle (''La lumière de Bornéo''), Momo (''Spirou à Berlin'') and Elena (''Pacific Palace''). In the second animated series, there is the Uhr queen, but [[ChasteHero Spirou]] literally [[RejectedMarriageProposal ran away from her marriage proposal]].
13	** Fantasio was sometimes into girls who [[AllLoveIsUnrequited did not love him back]]. Like Madeleine (in ''Hope against all odds''), Louise (''La grosse tête''), and Elena (''Pacific Palace''). But usually his feelings are mutual. With Ororéa and Noa Noa in the main series, in adaptations and one-shots, with Seccotine (too). In others one-shots, there were Mr.Calloway 's assistant (''Les géants pétrifiés''), Glu-Glu, Ursula and Aniota (''Le groom vert de gris''), and Clothilde (''Fantasio se marie''). Not to mention ''all female passengers'' in ''Panique en Atlantique''.
14	* DistressedDude: Both been kidnapped, imprisoned, and tied up many times. [[IHaveYourWife Fantasio]] a little bit moreso.
15	* FamedInStory: They're not just reputed reporters, Spirou is the official mascot of the magazine of the same name. As a result, [[RecursiveCanon people can read their stories in comics]] and tend to recognize them easily.
16	* GoodOldFisticuffs: Their usual way to defend themselves when confronted to bad guys, which often happens. They've been trained to boxing in the first album (''Four stories''), and in ''Hope against all odds'', it's a boxing champion who shows Spirou how to hit with a right hook from under. Anyway and throughout his story, Spirou used said right hook with [[MegatonPunch devastating effects]].
17	* HeterosexualLifePartners: They usually live together with common possessions (like cars). Sometimes girls enter their lives, but no matter if the stories with them go good or bad, [[StatusQuoIsGod they never last and the duo stay together alone.]]
18	* IKnowKarate: In the short story ''La foire aux gangsters'', Soto Kiki, a Japanese bodyguard [[spoiler: (actually a yakusa)]], once teach them judo. Since, it became handy to improve their usual fighting style.
19	* ImprobableHairStyle: Fantasio's IdiotHair and Spirou's tuft of hair.
20	* IntrepidReporter: They're reporters, and certainly intrepids.
21	* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
22	** Zantafio used [[MindControlDevice zorglwaves]] to erase from Spirou and Fantasio's memories the fact that they had a Marsupilami as a pet, from ''Le faiseur d'or'' on in 1968. In ''La colère du Marsupilami'' (2015) though, they finally recover their memories of him. Zantafio teased Spirou on the fact that he may have made him forget others persons and events, like if Spirou got married for instance. But as far as we know, it was indeed a joke.
23	** [[spoiler: TimeTravel shenanigans made Spirou forget the events of ''Paris-sous-Seine'' and ''Aux sources du Z'' along with Miss Flanner's existence. [[RippleEffectProofMemory Fantasio is the only one to remember her]], presumably because he went back in time to {{Retcon}} those moments.]]
24	* LimitedWardrobe:
25	** For the first 60 years of his existence, Spirou was mostly in his bellboy uniform. Since, he's usually seen in tennis shoes, blue jeans, and a red top.
26	** Between TheSixties and TheNineties, Fantasio was the most often in his combo blue jacket-black pants- red bow tie. Since TurnOfTheMillennium, he's rather in a dark blue suit with a tie.
27	* MeaningfulName: In Walloon dialect, Spirou means squirrel, or a mischievous young boy, which Spirou was at first. And Fantasio was created to bring, well, fantasy in his life.
28	* OnlyOneName: If they are refered to by their [[LastNameBasis last names]], or [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname nicknames]], stay a riddle for ages.
29	* RedOniBlueOni: Spirou and Fantasio are usually dressed in spades of red and blue, albeit with [[InvertedTrope inverted]] temperaments, the collected and rational one being Spirou, the headstrong and wild one Fantasio.
30	* LaResistance: Both are resistants in the real life résistance network "Comète", in stories set during WWII (''Le groom vert de gris'' and ''Hope against all odds''). They have, in both stories, the occasion to protect Jewish citizens, help lost British and American parachutists, and barely avoid imprisonment and executions. [[note]]In RealLife, the first editor in chief's magazine, Jean Doisy, was actually a resistant known as Le fureteur, and Spirou's magazine was suspended between 1943 and 1944 by the occupying forces for being too subversive. The first fan club of Spirou had then a code of honor that inspired some young readers, inciting them to be resistants as well. Two paid it of their life, like related in the comics ''Les amis de Spirou''. [[/note]] In ''QRN sur Bretzelburg'' and ''Des haricots partout'', Spirou and Fantasio join and help resistants of dictatorships in Bretzelburg and Catung, respectively.
31	* VagueAge: Bellboys were usually 15 to 25, and cub journalists usually no older than 25 either (what Fantasio is in many stories, as he still has to prove his worth). Sometimes Fantasio is hinted to be the eldest, notably in the [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio the movie]] where actors are 10 years apart. Also in ''Hope against all odds'', Fantasio has to circulate with a fake certificate protecting him from Compulsory Work Service. Said work was compulsory for men between 21 and 50, meaning he is more than 21. In the meantime, Spirou (who's canonically between 12 and 18 during the war's years in this story) is "a bit too young" for this work according to Gestapo agents who then let him go. Bad guys in general tend to call Spirou a "kid", and the narration sometimes describes the duo at a young age. In ''Les chapeaux noirs'', Fantasio states that Spirou is a bit young to drink alcohol. Since, the duo is a bit older in the main series, and around the same age. They are shown as being of the age of drinking alcohol and driving cars, so they can be anywhere between 18 and 30. This is lampshaded in ''Spirou chez les fous''. When asked for an age related discount when he's buying a train ticket, Spirou thinks that he cannot remember how old he is.
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36	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/VincentRopion (1992 series), Laurent Vernin (2006 series)
37	!!!'''Played by:''' Sacha Pinault (''Le petit Spirou'', 2017), Thomas Solivérès (''[[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio Les Aventures de Spirou et Fantasio]]'', 2018)
38	The main character of the series, a young and adventurous bellboy, later reporter, involved in various adventures with his BestFriend Fantasio.
39	For tropes applying to him in ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'', see [[Characters/GastonLagaffe here]].
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41	* TheAce: He can defeat outnumbered bad guys, [[AcePilot can pilot planes, the fantacopter or mini submersibles]], is skilled at boxing and diving, survived many perils ([[ItMakesSenseInContext including surfing on a tidal wave, with his hands tied behind his back]]) all while being intelligent, and a NiceGuy.
42	* AdaptationalJerkass:
43	** [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio In the movie]], he's a pick pocket with StickyFingers, [[note]]He steal his uniform, jewelry, wallets, a car, plane tickets and even Spip, found in a plane's transportation cage, during all the movie's duration [[/note]] describing the bellboy job as "being a lackey". Spirou's OnlyInItForTheMoney attitude is his initial motivation to run after the kidnapped Champignac, who possess a mushroom worth millions, then stay only because Fantasio suggest to pay him for. He tend to have a WithFriendsLikeThese attitude with Fantasio, is a big DeadpanSnarker, have a ItsAllAboutMe and IWorkAlone behavior, [[spoiler: going as far of making Zorglub fall in his LavaPit with no qualms, despite the latter survives the experience]]. Spirou theoretically redeems in the end, but seeing him abandon his job without warning don't make him look quite responsible. As the original Spirou was more prone to pursue pickpockets than being one himself, it can explain for a good part the movie under performance.
44	** In the one-shot ''La grosse tête'', big time. First, Spirou do a home invasion to read the novel Fantasio is working on (a biopic adapting ''La mauvaise tête'' album), instead of simply asking the latter (and not taking no for an answer). Once the book is adapted and becomes a success in theaters, Spirou goes through AcquiredSituationalNarcissism, despite being usually modest, all with an EntitledBastard attitude. It results in Spirou starting to date Louise Garoin, despite he knows Fantasio is currently pinning on her, and while not being this much into Louise to begin with. A far cry from his ShipperOnDeck habits when Fantasio is involved with women, or Spirou SingleTargetSexuality's attitude towards his rare love interests. Also, despite his ChronicHeroSyndrome, Spirou is now indifferent to the fate of Bretzelburg, while this country experiments [[FromBadToWorse an even worse military dictatorship]] than in ''QRN sur Bretzelburg''. Spirou, Fantasio and the Count then accidentally swallow a TruthSerums concocted by the latter and experiment a BrutalHonesty moment. Even after the effects wear off, [[VitriolicBestBuds Spirou stays mad at Fantasio and argue with him constantly]], while openly dismissive of him and his journalistic ambitions.
45	* AdaptationalWimp: [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio Still in the movie]], Spirou prefers at first running in front of Gantagwa's policemen. When confronted to [[DarkActionGirl Marie]], it seems for a second that Spirou will use his GoodOldFisticuffs, [[BaitAndSwitch but he renounces]], and [[ThrowABarrelAtIt throw suitcases, the fantacopter, then Spip at her]]. She clearly has the upper hand anyway, and it's [[KillerRabbit Spip]], of all people, who won the brawl and saved Spirou. Later on, when facing Zorglub, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower the later have no difficulties to simply throw away Spirou like a rag doll.]]
46	* BatmanGrabsAGun:
47	** Every time she showed up, Miss Flanner tended to make Spirou act out of character. In ''Paris sous-Seine'' , she provoke Spip's apparent death and while she [[EvilGloating gloats]] about [[IRegretNothing her absence of regrets]], Spirou punches her, making it the first and last time he WouldHitAGirl. [[spoiler: It's even worse in ''Aux sources du Z'' , as in the end, Fantasio discovers that [[IChooseToStay Spirou chooses to stay in the past]], to marry Miss Flanner and to never interact again with his friends. While said friends are usually all that count to him, and they still do since Fantasio apparently went back in time to [[{{Retcon}} erase those events ]].]]
48	** Still in ''Aux sources du Z'' [[spoiler: there's the ForcefulKiss Spirou gives to Seccotine. In the main series at least, he did not show any attraction towards her before or after this scene, despite stating that "he always wanted to do that". If anything, it was Seccotine who seemed attracted to him in ''Machine qui rêve''. It was also contradictory with both Spirou apparent [[ChasteHero asexuality]] and NiceGuy attitude, who won't exceed consent.]] [[note]]To say the least, it resembles more to [[SlapSlapKiss Fantasio to do that to Seccotine]], if he wanted to shut her up. [[/note]]
49	** In the beginning of ''La femme Léopard'', Spirou is briefly TheAlcoholic despite being usually TheTeetotaler who CantHoldHisLiquor. And barely in legal age to drink alcohol, as he states in the meantime that he is too young to be something else than a bellboy. Granted, he's [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]] after learning [[TheOneThatGotAway Audrey's disappearance. ]] Thus it express [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness how much of a concern it is to him.]] [[spoiler: Spirou give up drinking at the end of the album.]]
50	** In [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio the live-action movie]], he goes a lot against his own codes as well. In it, Spirou is a thief (despite usually honest), a loner who reject first Fantasio's friendship (despite his usual UndyingLoyalty to him), [[{{Greed}} greedy]] (while selfless originally, with a ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules policy), a DeadpanSnarker (while usually a NiceGuy), self-centered (while originally helpful), and he's running away from fights (despite usually courageous to the point of recklessness). [[spoiler: In the second part of the story, he TookALevelInKindness, yet deserts his job and tries to kill Zorglub despite his ThouShaltNotKill policy. These changes were not well-received and were certainly a major factor in the movie under performance.]]
51	* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: If ''ComicBook/LePetitSpirou'' is taken into account. As a child, Spirou was a DirtyKid (he provides the page image), and [[ThePrankster an unruly brat]] who made sometimes destructive practical jokes. Nothing of this remains when he's an adult, as he since become a law-abiding ChasteHero.
52	* BerserkButton: Just don't threat Spip if you want to live. In the short story ''L'héritage'', Spirou wakes up in a room of his uncle's old house after being chloroformed. He spotted a stuffed squirrel and, red with anger, Spirou started to threaten the bandit who dared doing this...until the actual Spip showed up, indicating that the stuffed one was another squirrel. In ''La vallée des bannis'' , Spirou watches out to avoid Fantasio presence as the latter, plagued with murderous rage, [[FightingYourFriend try to kill him]]. However as soon as Spirou hears Spip's screams of terror, he rushes right in this direction forgetting all carefulness, allowing Fantasio [[spoiler: to knock him out]]. In ''Paris sous Seine'', [[DisneyDeath Spip seems to have drowned]], and Spirou swears that he responsible for Paris's flooding won't get away with it, and that Spip's death must be avenged. When he faces said responsible, Miss Flanner, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Spirou punches her]] despite his WouldntHitAGirl policy and the fact that she's an old, terminally ill woman.
53	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Unfortunately for Spirou, all villains know that, to make him cooperate, they must take [[IHaveYourWife Fantasio or Spip]] (The Count of Champignac and Seccotine to a lesser extend) in hostage. But God helps bad guys once Spirou's friends are out of danger despite the fact that he's usually a nice, forgiving person. As evidenced by his BerserkButton above, offenses towards Spirou's pets infuriate him particularly. In ''La colère du Marsupilami'', Zantafio [[EvilGloating gloats]] about how the Marsupilami was desperate to be abandoned by brainwashed Fantasio and Spirou. The latter punches Zantafio in the face in retaliation, yelling that the Marsupilami was their friend.
54	* TheCape: Spirou is already usually a helpful person with a ChronicHeroSyndrome, in a distinctive costume. But he fits the trope with a T in ''Supergroom'', as a NonPoweredCostumedHero, despite the costume not including a literal cape.
55	* CharacterTics: During Franquin's run, Spirou had a tendency to chew on things and fidget with his foot when agitated or anxious.
56	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Spirou is supposed to have normal strength, yet, it's easy for him to deliver a MegatonPunch or defeat outnumbered bad guys.
57	* ChasteHero: This is lampshaded in ''Luna Fatale'', when Don Cortizone discovers that his men are decimated because of the LovePotion of a female Triad agent. Deciding that Spirou is the only one he knows who can resist such a HoneyTrap, he forces Spirou to go undercover and investigate. And it works. Also in ''The dark face of the Z'', the actress Blythe Prejowleski ask Spirou to [[RansackedRoom trash her hotel suite]], in order to let her keep an image of a temperamental [[ThePrimaDonna prima donna]]. Moments later, Blythe Prejowleski ask Spirou to follow her again in her room, [[DoubleEntendre but with apparently different ideas in her mind.]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint However Spirou don't get it at all]] and trash the new suite again before leaving, [[ObliviousToLove not realizing that it was not what Blythe wanted from him.]]
58	* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Spirou usually helps those who need it, and can't suffer injustices committed in front of him. In ''QRN sur Bretzelburg'', Marcellin Switch must refrain Spirou from intervening, and thus attract attention, after they witnessed an arbitrary arrest. In ''Dans les griffes de la Vipère'', Spirou is disguised and on the run, yet an old lady requires to be helped to cross the street. Spirou assisted her to do so, and it turned out that the lady actually needed to see him up close. Right after that, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished she denounces him.]] In the [[{{Elseworld}} parallel series]] ''Hope against all odds'', Louis and Suzanne, two kids that Spirou happen to know, are arrested and [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust put in a train for deportation as they're jewish.]] Spirou first witnesses it, tries to intervene, and when asked by guards if he's jewish, he answers that he does (it's a lie) in order to be deported with the children. [[spoiler: It could have ended badly if Spirou did not happen to have a knife, used it to open the train window and escape with the two kids.]]
59	* CostumeEvolution:
60	** For the first 30 years, Spirou would wear the full uniform at all times except in bed or bath, or in a few occasions like diving or going on exploration. [[TheArtifact And yet, he stopped working in an hotel as soon as 1940]], two years after the publication began. [[ClothesMakeTheLegend It was justified in that the distinctive costume helped to identify the character]], and that red attracts attention.
61	** Except for a short period in Fournier's run where he would be in a civilian (yet mostly red) outfit, for the next 30 years, Spirou would wear the bottom of the uniform mixed with a civilian top (white pullover with a red jacket). This version ditched the gloves. He wore this in the first animated series too, except that the cap was dropped.
62	** [[TurnOfTheMillennium From the 2000's on]], he started to go full civilian. In Morvan and Munuera's run, Spirou was usually in blue jeans, tennis shoes and a red top to keep the color scheme. It was the case too in the second animated series, except the pants were red.
63	** Yoann and Vehlmann's run subverted this. Normally, Spirou would wear civilian clothes in their stories too (most often blue jeans, a red jacket, black shirts and tennis shoes). However, in each album, [[ReimaginingTheArtifact he ends in the full uniform for one reason or another]], from contractual obligation to be given nothing else to wear. In one -shots, he could wear the uniform or not DependingOnTheWriter.
64	* CostumeInertia: As said above, Spirou would wear his full uniform for 27 years after stopping being a bellboy (and partially for 30 more years) . In one-shots, he wears it or not depending on the context. In stories set in the past (like ''Hope against all odds'' and ''Le groom vert de gris''), it's justified as they focus on the period when Spirou still worked in a hotel. In other works, Spirou is still a bellboy (''Panique en Atlantique'' and ''Pacific hotel'') for some reason. In ''Panique en Atlantique'', he explains that he needs to pay his bills. Sometimes, [[AdaptationalExplanation there are in universe explanations]], such as in ''Hope against all odds'', where Spirou decided to wear his uniform at all times [[TheOneThatGotAway in remembrance of Kassandra]], who liked him in it. In the movie version of ''Le petit Spirou'', he decides to be an adventurer instead of a bellboy, yet he will keep on wearing the uniform. Once again his girlfriend liked it, but the costume pleased Spirou as well.
65	* CustomUniform: Between 1967 and 1998, Spirou would keep the pants, shoes and cap of his original uniform, but with a white pullover and a red jacket, and without the gloves.
66	* DependingOnTheWriter: Spirou's personality could fluctuate over years, still globally the same, but with preoccupations that could change a bit. During the Fournier and Yoann/Vehlmann runs, he had ecologist concerns (about the nuclear danger in the first run and sustainable development in the second). [[AuthorTract Of course, this reflected the author's own concerns.]] He's also more or less HotBlooded, and this last trait tended to show up recently. Morvan/ Munuera and Yoann/Vehlmann runs have the most of his BewareTheNiceOnes moments, where he can lose his temper completely. In the Yoann/Vehlmann one, was also when he tended to [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] the most. In ''The dark face of the Z'', when asked about the utility of his [[SpaceBase moon base,]] Zorglub answers that Earth pollution will sooner or later push humanity to relocate in space. Spirou sarcastically answered that his time would have been better used to decontaminate Earth first.
67	* {{Determinator}}: Did Spirou already searched for stolen car plans in [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles a rhinoceros horn, in the savanna?]] Certainly. Did he follow for miles an inflated rubber mask, then tried to get it back (and a compromising briefcase) on a cliff? At the risk of falling when free climbing ([[spoiler: and he does fall, getting a three months EasyAmnesia in the process]]), all in order to [[ClearTheirName clear Fantasio's name]]? He did. Did Spirou try to get out of the valley of banished with Fantasio, who was under a HatePlague and actively [[FightingYourFriend tried to kill him]] ? You bet. Did Spirou, while 100 feet into the sea depths, try to get back to the surface to warn Fantasio that the guy with them on their boat was [[AloneWithThePsycho Vito Cortizone]], despite not having air anymore? He did that too. Did he try to get back a sucked up Spip into the dark immensity of the flooded Seine (and under hostile robots's attacks), having to renounce only when Fantasio dragged him away? It happened. Did Spirou try to find back the Marsupilami into the vast jungle, just because he did not want the latter to feel left behind? Once again he did, to the point that even Fantasio did not find that it was reasonable, [[spoiler: [[ForYourOwnGood and tried to get Spirou back to the civilisation after tied him up.]]]]
68	* FieryRedhead: This last trait showed up essentially from the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000's]] on, as Spirou used to be more prone to get angry in Morvan/Munuera and Yoann/Vehlmann runs. In the first run, he was by far [[HotBlooded the most violent]], daring to [[WouldHitAGirl punch a woman]], while his fights with bad guys resemble NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. In the second, he can get remarkably angry, notably in ''Alerte aux Zorkons'', when he yells a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to both Zorglub and Champignac, prompting the latter to remark: "That boy has a temper".
69	* IconicOutfit: Spirou's uniform, [[TheArtifact that stayed on him for way more long time than justified by his functions.]] The reason was, apart from the fact that red attracts attention, the distinctive costume was ideal as well to stay in memories.
70	* IdealHero: He has a strong sense of honor, [[ThouShaltNotKill pushing him to refuse to kill anyone]] and even goes as far as SaveTheVillain if necessary. A good example is in ''Dans les griffes de la Vipère'', where Spirou was literally bought by an evil MegaCorp. He tries to run away from it and take refuge in Champignac. However, as the corporation agents harass Fantasio, Seccotine, the Count and even Champignac's inhabitants at large to get him back, [[HeroicSacrifice Spirou decides to give himself up to the agents]]. What matter to him, is [[PleaseIWillDoAnything the promise that his friends would be left alone]], despite his only fault was to neglect [[ReadTheFinePrint to read the fine prints on his contract.]]
71	* IncorruptiblePurePureness: As mentioned above, he's upright, and his first fan club had a strict code of honor (that could be his in most aspects). [[note]]It recommended to be frank, straight, to have guts, be disciplined, faithful to God and country, friend of the weaks, be useful, knowing to do without, not being afraid to get their hands dirty but keep a clean heart, always in a good mood. [[/note]] In ''L'homme qui ne voulait pas mourir'', Zantafio touches an ArtifactOfDoom that wake up an hostile [[OurZombiesAreDifferent army of zombies]], given that he is impure. But the touch of a "wise man" can stop this, and Tanzafio assures that only Spirou can do that. And effectively, when he touches the artifact, it makes all zombies fall asleep.
72	* LastNameBasis: In some stories, it's hinted that "Spirou" is actually his last name. In ''Machine qui rêve'', Fantasio wonders why nobody ever addressed them by their first names, and what Spirou first name can be (jokingly suggesting old fashioned ones). In ''Le petit Spirou'', his parents and grandparents are referred to as "Mr./Mrs. Spirou", hinting that it is this family's name.
73	* MistakenForServant: Throughout his story, it happened to Spirou [[RunningGag more than once]] because of his [[CostumeInertia uniform]]. Other people tended to either ask him to carry their luggage when they spotted Spirou into a hotel lounge, to press the lift button if they shared the same cage, or thought that the friends he was with had a servant in livery. A [[TheEighties 80's]] short story even [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this, as Spirou is dragged by the doorman into a luxury hotel one Christmas night, while he happened to go by. The doorman mistook him for a local staff member, and since then, Spirou prefer to wear either a [[CustomUniform customized version of the uniform]] or civilian clothes (albeit the most often in [[ColorCodedCharacters red]]).[[note]][[https://ibb.co/hMY1GZh Franquin parodied it in a 1976 poster]], where Spirou arrives (in uniform) as a guest in a luxury hotel, and warns he'll kick the first one who'll call him a bellboy.[[/note]]
74	* MultipleChoicePast: Depending on continuities, his past could have been described very differently. None has been designed as official so far.
75	** In his first apparition, Spirou was a {{Golem}} BornAsAnAdult from a PortalPicture. In his first strip, the director of the Moustic Hotel searches for the best bellboy possible, [[TerribleIntervieweesMontage but applicants do not give him satisfaction]]. Instead, the director go straight to [[DirectLineToTheAuthor Luc Lafnet (co-creator with Rob-Vel)]] and ask the latter to draw such a bellhop.Then the artist sprinkles him with "eau de vie", [[ArtInitiatesLife making Spirou coming out of the picture.]] Currently, this version is mostly [[CanonDiscontinuity decanonized]], making the character fully human. In 1983, in the story ''La jeunesse de Spirou'', this was dismissed as « pure fantasy ». In 2005, in ''L'homme qui ne voulait pas mourir'', Spirou tell the story of coming out from a PortalPicture to his psychiatrist as [[AllJustADream a recurring nightmare he has since his teenage years.]]
76	** In WWII stories such as ''Hope against all odds'' and ''Le groom vert de gris'', [[ParentalAbandonment Spirou is orphaned]]. In the first story, he grew up in an orphanage since he was a baby, not even knowing if his parents were dead or abandoned him. In the second, he states that his parents are dead and he never met them either, forcing him to work at a very young age. It's probably the case in [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio the movie]] too, as the Count deduces that Spirou never met parental authority right after their encounter. Later, Fantasio asks what Spirou's parents are thinking of him being a pickpocket, and he does not answer. If his parents died or abandoned him is once again left to interpretation.
77	** The short story ''La jeunesse de Spirou'' showed for the first time Spirou as a child, in a rather unique way. He still has a MysteriousPast, as he was abandoned as [[DoorstopBaby a baby in front of a luxury hotel]]. But a couple of bellhop workers adopted him, and Spirou goes to school with [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether all the friends and foes]] he had later. This past was later rewritten differently in ''Le petit Spirou'' , by Tome and Janry, the same authors than the present version, which canonicity is now uncertain.
78	** In ''Le petit Spirou'', for the first time, Spirou was raised by his biological parents and had even an extended and numerous family (the most prominently present being his grandparents), whose all members wear the same uniform as him. There is no doubt he is with his natural parents, due to StrongFamilyResemblance, but also because a strip shows Spirou being born. Albeit it's a story told by Grand-papy, and he assures that Spirou was born with his cap on his head. Of course, [[UnreliableNarrator the latter doubts the truthfulness of this story]].
79	** The movie adaptation of this series even stress the fact that everyone, from father to son, was a bellhop in Spirou's family. [[FollowInMyFootsteps He's expected to respect the tradition,]] and feel overwhelmed by the burden of the heritage, due to his desire to be an adventurer instead. In the album ''L'homme qui ne voulait pas mourir'', Spirou is invited by his psychiatrist to speak about his childhood. He then said he was getting along well with everybody, but his gymnastic teacher. It sounds exactly like Mr. Mégot, being a first hint in the main series that adult Spirou did have the childhood described in ''Le petit Spirou''.
80	** The album ''Fantasio se marie'' presents a unique version of his past. In it, Spirou pretends to be orphaned, but his mother is actually alive. She's a RichBitch, and Spirou rebelled against his original environment. [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules He was ashamed]] about the way his grandfather made a fortune (by denouncing others people during WWII, then take their goods).[[DisownedParent It pushed Spirou to cut all ties]], go and take a bellboy job while RejectingTheInheritance. If he must see his mother again, he wears his old uniform ("a lackey uniform", according to her) just to piss her off.
81	** In "Fondation Z", an {{Elseworld}} story RecycledInSpace, Spirou lives this time in a distant future, his parents work for the administration, [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Seccotine is his sister, and the Count of Champignac their grandfather.]] [[spoiler: This story turned out to have been a {{Prequel}} all along. With FakeMemories, Spirou is sent to a reproduction of Earth in TheFifties, along with similarly brainwashed Fantasio, Spip, Zantafio, Zorglub, Seccotine, and the Count. Spirou apparently forgot his blood ties with the latter two, and his parents entirely as they were not sent there. It explain his MysteriousPast for a good part.]]
82	* NeverBareheaded: From 1938 to 1998, as he would not wear his cap only when sleeping or bathing, and sometimes indoors. [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated in ]] ''Le petit Spirou'', where Grand-papy once assured that Spirou was born with his cap on. His parents were even worried at first when they did not spot the hat immediately! However, Grand-papy is hinted to be an UnreliableNarrator.
83	* NiceGuy: Spirou is usually courteous and peaceful, as well as sensible, and nice in general. Many people thought [[WideEyedIdealist he is even too straight for his own good]]. In ''Hope against all odds'', Mieke mocks him by calling Spirou "Mr. Virtuous", while implying that you cannot stay pure during a war. In ''Paris-sous-Seine'', Miss Flanner affirms Spirou is a true nice guy rather than just too nice, still, he shall not [[ApologisesALot apologize to someone who just wronged him]], it could just become worse after.
84	* NonPoweredCostumedHero: In the spin-off ''Supergroom'', Spirou, as the titular character, is dressed in a customized version of his bellboy uniform (and with a mask), and uses gadgets such as the fantacopter to help citizens. However, he sometimes enhances himself with the [[SuperSerum X1]] or [[GeniusSerum X4]] to increase his force or intelligence.
85	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: In stories where "Spirou" is not his last name, it's usually a nickname. At least, that's what he states in [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio the movie.]] In ''Hope against all odds'', he's NamedByTheAdaptation as his birth name is revealed to be Jean-Baptiste. Yet, at the Moustic hotel, Entresol, the tyrannic doorman, is also named Jean-Baptiste. That's why Fulgence, the bellboy already in service at the hotel, is horrified to hear his new coworker's name. He also spotted Spip in a cage, who was then named Spirou. But Fulgence joked that Jean-Baptiste should be the one named Spirou, as he owns a "spip" (squirrel in walloon) and is a redhead ("roux", in french). Finally Jean-Baptiste renounced to be an homonym of Entresol and decided to pay homage to Fulgence, fired right after his own appointment, by only responding to Spirou name from now on.
86	* OutdatedOutfit: His uniform, to the point that he provides the page image. When the creator, Rob-Vel, was a liner stewart in TheRoaringTwenties, bellboys, or rather bell's cabin boys as they were called in the navy, would wear such a red uniform. However, it was already out of fashion from TheForties on. It was kept on Spirou as the costume was intrinsically tied with him.
87	* TheParagon: This is how Jean Dupuis, his devoted christian original editor, defined him. Jean Dupuis thought American comics were too subversive, and the first Spirou fan club came with a code of honor to follow strictly.
88	* PintSizedPowerhouse: He 's usually smaller than Fantasio, and sometimes people mock him by remarks on his height such as calling him a "gnome" or "puny". Plus he was only three feet tall at 8, according to ''Le petit Spirou''. And still, you would not like to meet his MegatonPunch.
89	* RedIsHeroic: There is the usual color of his clothes, but also his hair color to boot.
90	* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: In many instances:
91	** In ''Le Gorille a bonne mine'', Doctor Zwart tries to corrupt him with gold nuggets from his mine. Spirou throw them away, before punching the doctor.
92	** In ''Spirou et Fantasio à New York'', Spirou declines the million dollars he just won, when he discovers it comes from TheMafia.
93	** In ''Fantasio se marie'', it's revealed than Spirou ran away from his rich family, RejectingTheInheritance, and taking the low paid job of bellboy initially. He was ashamed by the way his grandfather made a fortune, [[LesCollaborateurs denouncing people then despoiling them of their goods during WWII]].
94	* ShipperOnDeck: Usually, Spirou willingly gives a hand to Fantasio when it comes to ladies.
95	** In ''Vito la déveine'', as stated above, he gets wasted with a captain in Papeete despite Spirou CantHoldHisLiquor in his own admission. Actually, [[WeNeedADistraction the captain needed to be distracted]] while Fantasio was busy flirting with his assumed girlfriend, Noa Noa. Spirou confesses it, and tries to [[TakingTheHeat takes the heat]] by suggesting to the captain to hit him (Spirou promises to not defend himself) to unwind. But the captain finally brushed it off, stating that he always felt that Noa Noa was more into Fantasio than himself.
96	** In [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio the movie]], Spirou quickly identifies Fantasio and Seccotine's relationship as BelligerentSexualTension. [[LoveEpiphany After Spirou opened his eyes on the fact]], he then recommended to Fantasio to confess to her. [[spoiler: But they find themselves in Zorglub's secret lair before this happens. Then, everyone but Spirou is frozen by the zorglwaves. Spirou decides to take the case in hands and pull Fantasio and Seccotine in a liplock position before he reverses the waves' effects. Getting back to their senses is quite a surprise for Fantasio and Seccotine, but they quickly go along with the situation and keep on kissing.]]
97	* TheTeetotaler: Spirou never drink alcohol usually, to the point that he once dared to order [[LactoseOverLiquor orange juice in a saloon full of drunkards patrons in ''Les chapeaux noirs'', or milk in a russian bar (where it is vodka for everybody else).]] When he have to accept glasses to be polite, [[CantHoldHisLiquor it tend to go directly to his head.]] Like whisky in ''Le gorille a bonne mine'' (where Spirou states he not used to it), and vodka in ''Spirou chez les soviets'' where he must accept a glass [[DreadfulMusician under the menace of hearing a little girl playing violin.]] Or a homemade GargleBlaster in ''Alerte aux Zorkons'', which makes Spirou (but also Fantasio, to be fair) immediately drunk. He once gets drunk too in company of a captain in ''Vito la déveine'', but only by friendship for Fantasio. Spirou states on this occasion that he never drinks usually, as he can't stand alcohol.
98	* ThouShaltNotKill:
99	** Spirou has such a policy, evidenced in ''Luna Fatale''. The latter is TriggerHappy, and kills any Chinese mafioso who shows up. Horrified (especially when he learns that she killed more than one guy), Spirou, stating that he'd rather have "the whole China on his back than blood on his hands", prevents Luna from shooting once again. Then he asks her to give him her revolver. Granted, a Triad member then taunts Spirou, assuring he won't dare to use it, but [[BulletDancing he shoots using angles that cannot wound the mafiosi]], forcing them to retreat.
100	** In ''Hope against all odds'', despite Spirou has not come of age yet, he is reluctant to join the Belgian army as suggested by Fantasio, due that it is the soldier's job to kill their enemies. They finally join LaResistance, and must blow up a train full of nazis soldiers who came in reinforcement after the D-Day landings. But Spirou insists on blowing up a bridge instead to stop them, before the train drives on it. In the last volume, Spirou stops Mieke from killing a German soldier, who is just an unwilling teenager (it's even on the cover).
101	** In fact it often goes as far as SaveTheVillain when needed, and Fantasio only managed once to make him renounce it in ''Vito la déveine'', as Spirou worried that Chinese mafiosi may have been wounded by a bomb explosion. But Fantasio, depressed, convinces him to finally directly return to Papeete and let bandits deal with it.
102	** This respect for life extends to animals as Spirou prefers to chloroform rhinoceros rather than kill them to find plans in the horn of one of them. ''Tembo tabou'' states that Spirou and Fantasio are not hunters and never killed animals.
103	* UndyingLoyalty:
104	** First, Spirou is loyal to his LoveInterests ([[FirstGirlWins the first girl he had a relationship with]]) when he has one. No matter if the girl is someone he met for a short period of time ( a few weeks for Kassandra in ''Hope against all odds'', [[ExaggeratedTrope five minutes]] for Audrey in ''Le groom vert de gris''), or only happen to learn her name after her departure in Kassandra's case. After that girl vanishes without a trace, no matter if others such as Mieke or Ursula hit on him, [[SingleTargetSexuality Spirou just won't care]]. [[spoiler: When they both come back with severe PTSD, needing time before indulging into a relationship, Spirou accepts to faithfully wait for them in both cases, despite it apparently take years.]]
105	** Same thing with his friends. Under a HatePlague, Fantasio is in a murderous rage in ''La vallée des bannis''. Others would left him behind (then maybe send help later), but Spirou persist into evacuate Fantasio at the same time than himself from the valley, [[FightingYourFriend despite the repeated attempts of Fantasio to kill him.]] And then there is the Marsupilami. Spirou and Fantasio learn years after that they sold him to a Palombian collector after being brainwashed into doing it. They check on site, and learn that the Marsupilami ran away and joined the jungle. And yet Spirou insists on finding him back, in order that the latter will be assured he was not abandoned willingly. [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles In front of the task's impossibility]], [[spoiler: Fantasio let Zantafio gives a shot of sleeping serum to Spirou, [[ForYourOwnGood then tie him up to bring him back home forcibly]].]]
106	* WorkingClassHero: Bellboy used to be a low-paid job that required no qualifications, explaining it was often done by children and teenagers. Prequel stories such as ''Hope against all odds'' and ''Le groom vert-de-gris'' make no mystery of Spirou being in dire straits, to the point he can't afford clothes other than his uniform in the first story. Even after he quit to join journalism, and presumably is better paid, he kept the uniform, and thus the working class image (it's even on purpose in ''Fantasio se marie'').
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110	[[quoteright:119:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e643a16e881bf29b8220715636ff5e33_1.jpg]]
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112	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Patrick Guillemin (1992 series), Sylvain Goldberg (2006 series)
113	!!!'''Played by:''' Alex Lutz (''[[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio Les Aventures de Spirou et Fantasio]]'', 2018)
114	The {{Deuteragonist}} and Spirou's best friend, always by his side since 1943. He's a fellow journalist and often plagued with bad luck.
115	For tropes applying to him in ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'', see [[Characters/GastonLagaffe here]].
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117	* AdaptationalBadass: In the one-shot ''Fondation Z'' that has a [[RecycledWithAGimmick recycled in space]] setting, Fantasio was a [[TheGunslinger badass]], serious stealth agent with a strong inspiration from [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]]. According to him, his memory was erased because he was a criminal or a "deviant", then he was reprogrammed with a new, cold and implacable personality. Fantasio then goes on a quest to recover his old personality.[[spoiler: It fails as Fantasio is sent, after a second LaserGuidedAmnesia, and with FakeMemories, to a reproduction of Earth in the TheFifties. However, if his personality was left untouched this time, he has since recovered the real one, more of a unlucky goofball.]]
118	* AdaptationalWimp: In the LiveActionAdaptation, Fantasio is dragged outside a hotel by security guards and don't even resist, despite being usually [[GoodOldFisticuffs skilled at fighting.]]
119	* ADayInTheLimelight: In 2011, a series centered on Fantasio's youth started in Spirou's magazine, showing him as a teenager rather than a kid like Spirou in ''Le petit Spirou''. Turned out that Fantasio's parents were divorced, that he had a younger (to be born) sibling, and [[WeUsedToBeFriends Zantafio and him got along well then]]. But the series was quickly canceled, and was not edited in albums due to being too short.
120	* AnywhereButTheirLips: Fantasio being more into women, he's sometimes shown (especially in one-shots) going farer with them than Spirou. He's notably the only one of the duo implied to have sex (with Glu-Glu and [[spoiler: Ursula]]) in ''Le groom vert de gris'', or to get engaged ([[spoiler: not for long]]) in ''Fantasio se marie''. Still, Spirou kissed a woman first in 1995 (the titular character in ''Luna Fatale''). Meanwhile and paradoxally, for years, none of Fantasio's flirt/girlfriend/one night stand/bride kissed him for real. Only on the nose (by the assistant in ''Les géants pétrifiés'', or [[spoiler: Ursula]]) , on the cheek (Ororéa in ''Le gri-gri du Nikolo-Koba'', and Glu-Glu, in ''Le groom vert de gris''), or the forehead (from an air hostess [[MindControlDevice under influence]], in ''L'ombre du Z''). In ''Le tombeau des Champignac'', Seccotine also used the zorglwave trick to get kisses from Fantasio, but on the cheek. [[spoiler: It would take as late as 2018 (more than a quarter of a century after Spirou), in [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio the movie]], and its tie-in comics ''Le triomphe de Zorglub'', to see Seccotine giving Fantasio his first proper [[TheBigDamnKiss big damn kisses]] on the lips, in both stories. The authors of the comics even stated it was because they wanted the scene to go down in history.]]
121	* BestFriend: To Spirou; in fact, they are close to the point expressed in the HeterosexualLifePartners entry.
122	* BlueIsHeroic: At first, Fantasio's jacket could be of any color, but always a cold one (like green or purple). By default, he adopted a light blue jacket between the TheSixties and TheNineties. Coupled with his red bowtie, it became his IconicOutfit. It became a dark blue costume since, and his alternative clothes (such as swimsuits, coats, pajamas, wet or time-travel suits, kimonos...) tend to be blue by default too. Very likely, it was to mark [[RedOniBlueOni contrast with Spirou's usual costume color.]]
123	* BornUnlucky: He's more prone than anyone else to hurt himself, fall, or be captured by the villains. He nearly worked as a lightning rod for Spirou, and Fantasio once [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded ]] it in ''La vallée des bannis''. He notably asks why, if they have to [[CrossingTheDesert cross a desert]], Spirou will get out of it with a godlike tan, while himself will be sunburnt.
124	* CharacterCatchphrase: At first, there was "Mille bombes !" ("A thousand bombs!") "Mille tonnerres !" ("A thousand thunders''! "Thunderation"! in the English version) , or "Mille millions !" ("A thousand billions!"), [[AbandonedCatchphrase but these tend to be abandoned]] since the TheSeventies.
125	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early in Franquin's run, Fantasio shifted from a total goofball to The ComicallySerious. With the obvious irony of later having to handle total goofball Gaston Lagaffe.
126	* TheChewtoy: DependingOnTheWriter, he could more or less be this, especially in Franquin and Tome and Janry's runs. Those were the runs where he suffered the most AmusingInjuries. But in general, a lot of plots were launched on the basis "Bad things are happening to Fantasio", whether he's framed for theft, kidnapped, brainwashed ([[PretendToBeBrainwashed or must pretend to]]), etc.
127	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: As his name suggests, he was initially this, his tendency to create bizarre inventions being the most characteristic trait. During the WWII era, he was depicted as a zazou (an european equivalent to being a pachuco), which indicated a quite eccentric personality. Since, CharacterizationMarchesOn, and these characteristics have been given to ComicBook/GastonLagaffe, while Fantasio became more serious.
128	* CompressedVice: In some runs, Fantasio sometimes display addictions he never had beforehand. In the album set in Tokyo, he's a total shopaholic, at least for manga related products. In Yoann and Vehlmann's run, he was a workaholic, to the point that he took his laptop computer in the deep jungle in ''La colère du Marsupilami'', in order to not miss emails.
129	* DeadpanSnarker: Fantasio sometimes comes off as this, notably in Franquin and Tome and Janry's runs. In the very beginning of ''Panade à Champignac'' , Spirou enters the redaction of the journal, in a complete mess because of ComicBook/GastonLagaffe 's antics. Spirou encourage Fantasio to stay calm, but the latter answers by asking how it possible given all Gaston's goofs, that he proceeds to enumerate. In ''La vallée des bannis'', Fantasio disapprove Spirou's idea to explore the valley instead of trying of running away from it, by ironize on how the situation would look dangerous for anybody else than Spirou. To Fantasio's credit, he's been already bitten by the mosquito who'll infected him with UnstoppableRage at this point.
130	* DependingOnTheWriter: To some authors (mostly, Franquin, Tome&Janry and Emile Bravo), he is a BumblingSidekick who slow down action with more or less important blunders, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero including provoking World War II by insulting a German diplomat in ''Hope against all odds'' ]], while [[AmusingInjuries hurting himself frequently]]. To others (notably Yoann and Vehlmann), he's a borderline HyperCompetentSidekick. Spirou would likely be dead if, in their album ''Le Groom de Sniper Alley'', [[spoiler: Fantasio did not save him from a giant rolling metallic ball at the least second. Moments later, he have the EurekaMoment that lead them straight to the treasure.]] Plus he rarely displays [[TheKlutz clumsiness]] in this run, except in ''La colère du Marsupilami'' album, but because his antics have to coax the Marsupilami, like the first time they met.
131	* DisguisedInDrag: Fantasio dons the same old lady disguise on three occasions (In a short story, in ''Diary of a naive young man'', in '' Spirou in Berlin''), most often for infiltration purposes. That's the case in one of the episodes of the second animated series, where Fantasio disguises as a young woman to infiltrate an all girls college. In ''Spirou et Fantasio à Moscou'', near the end, the duo must go unnoticed into the Bolshoi theater. Spirou ends in a Mephisto disguise, and Fantasio as a ballerina. In the album ''Une famille heureuse'', Fantasio and Spirou must escort incognito to southern France an artificial brain, hidden in a mechanized doll that will pass for their daughter. [[UndercoverAsLovers They must themselves pose as her parents,]] and Fantasio, [[DraggedIntoDrag much to his dismay, is chosen to be the wife]].
132	* GadgeteerGenius: He was initially this, having notably the [[JetPack Fantacopter]] to his credit. In the ''Le groom vert-de-gris'' continuity, he made a car motor that worked with frying oil, precursor prototypes of a car radio and a computer, and a high pressure washer that projects paint. It tended to be forgotten over time, except first by Nic & Cauvin in their run. Fantasio will use discoveries made by three scientists to construct the "aspison" (which can absorb any sound), or a kind of flying saucer, the Fantabulle. Also in the run by Tome and Janry, as Fantasio invent shoes equipped with sucker pads on soles, to walk on ceilings in ''La frousse au trousses'', or repair a wrecked steam locomotive in ''Adventures Down Under'' with a plane motor. However, he's often a BunglingInventor, the Fantacopter nearly sets an attorney's office on fire, and emptying the aspison produces sounds as destructive as a bomb. Meanwhile, the sucker pads sometimes drop. Or Fantasio ruins a day of work repairing the castle of Champignac's roof, with those same suckers. It's likely, too, that Fantasio was [[OvershadowedByAwesome overshadowed]] over the years by others, even more prolific other gadgeteers such as the Count and Gaston Lagaffe. Still, Fantasio kept an interest in technology and collect gadgets such as miniature radio sets or [[ShoePhone cameras hidden in a wrist watch or a pipe.]]
133	* GentlemanThief: His superhero persona in ''Supergroom'', Fantastik, has this theme. The costume ressemble Literature/ArseneLupin 's, and he uses gadgets such as his fantacopter, or soporific bombs.
134	* GoingForTheBigScoop: Especially in stories where he is a beginner in journalism, in order to prove his worth (or prove he's better than [[TheRival Seccotine]]). Anyway, it pushes Fantasio to introduce himself in dangerous dictatorships (Catung, East Germany, USSR...), or staging a fake burglary in a department store. Not to mention his idea to disguise as a gorilla in order to take photos of those animals from an unpublished angle.
135	* HairTriggerTemper: [[CharacterDevelopment This latter trait showed up from Franquin's run on]]. Some people apparently infuriate him solely by their presence, like Seccotine and Gaston Lagaffe. But many things can go on his nerves due to being a NervousWreck. Fantasio is nearly constantly angry in the album ''L'heureuse famille'' due to being DraggedIntoDrag, which led others characters to suspect he's a man. And after being lost in the titular valley in ''La vallée des bannis'' , he was nearly already, due to the situation, in a state of UnstoppableRage even before the venom of a mosquito that infected him with HatePlague took effect.
136	* HasAType: Maybe, as the two girls he was flirting with in the main series (Ororéa and Noa Noa) were of Polynesian descent. Also, given his attraction to [[BelligerentSexualTension Seccotine]], [[InherentlyAttractiveProfession Louise Garoin]], [[MsFanservice Ursula]] or [[NoNameGiven Mr Calloway's assistant]] in one-shots, [[EveryoneLovesBlondes Fantasio certainely have a thing for blondes, too. ]] Or even for girls with a glue name. In ''Le groom vert de gris'', his girlfriend is nicknamed Glu-glu, and her [[LaResistance resistant]] CodeName is Cléopâtre ("Cleopatra", a French brand of glue). Just like Seccotine, that also used to be the name of a brand of glue.
137	* IdiotHair: He always has nine hairs that point out.
138	* IHaveYourWife: Fantasio has been captured a couple of times, most often in order to blackmail Spirou. Granted, he often managed to escape by himself.
139	* IJustWantToBeYou: As said prior in the BornUnlucky entry, it's not easy to be OvershadowedByAwesome when he's paired with an IdealHero such as Spirou. Fantasio acts the most often as he doesn't mind or does not notice. Yet, in ''La vallée des bannis'', the enraging mosquito's venom pushes him to BrutalHonesty. Fantasio states how unfair it is that he's the only one who suffers AmusingInjuries, and, despite he always been around, and lived the same adventures, [[GreenEyedMonster he retires no glory as the magazine they are in is named after Spirou]]. In ''Vito la déveine'', Fantasio is depressed and admits to Vito Cortizone that Spirou is a "true hero" (described by Vito as determined, straight, dynamic, and virtuous), not like him. Fantasio's depression comes from the fact that a girl from Papeete, Noa Noa, was apparently more into an adventurer type captain than himself. Fantasio then regrets that he is a not quite seductive kind of [[PluckyComicRelief "clown"]], and despite years of adventuring together, Fantasio seems stuck in the shadow of his best friend. [[spoiler: However Fantasio is wrong: back in Papeete, turn out that Noa Noa was more into him, praising his humor.]]
140	* TheKlutz: To life threatening levels sometimes. He already broke a leg and an arm (in separate occasions), not to mention being put in plaster up to his eyes after falling in the stairs in ''L'horloger de la comète''. Spirou [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] it in ''Les pirates du silence'', after Fantasio tripped on a basket full of apples and made Spirou fall from a ladder. Spirou sarcastically remarks that he always admired Fantasio's skill. However it tends to be abandoned since the Morvan and Munuera's run on, where he displays way more dexterity.
141	* TheLancer: In addition of being Spirou closest ally, he's also his {{Foil}}, being [[NervousWreck nervous]], [[HairTriggerTemper bad-tempered]], and unlucky, while Spirou is calm, [[NiceGuy nice]] and an [[TheAce ace]].
142	* LastNameBasis: According to ''Machine qui rêve'', where Fantasio wonders in the beginning why nobody ever addressed him by his first name.
143	* LockedOutOfTheLoop:
144	** In ''Le voyageur du mésozoïque'', Fantasio catches a big cold in the very beginning, and it distracts him a lot. Despite he is seen, with the main cast, [[https://bdi.dlpdomain.com/album/9782800100159-couv-M700x1200.jpg on the cover watching with excitation the baby dinosaur breaking the shell of his egg]]; [[CoversAlwaysLie Fantasio was actually not present in story.]] In fact, he's the only character to never notice a giant beast that does impressive damage (despite him sitting on his tail once). In the end, when Spirou announces that the dinosaur's getaway was finally settled out, Fantasio answers: [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "A dinosaur? What dinosaur?" ]]
145	** In ''Supergroom'', Fantasio fails to realize that the title character is Spirou. Hilariously, the latter did not try to hide the fact. He even points out evidence in front of Fantasio (like having the same red hair, the same bellboy costume, the same fantacopter and same pet squirrel, than the superhero). [[ComicallyMissingThePoint But Fantasio won't connect the dots]] , thinking that the fact that Supergroom has constructed the same JetPack than him, or possesses a squirrel also named Spip, is a ContrivedCoincidence.
146	* MarriedToTheJob: The apparent reason why Fantasio is single, in ''Vito la déveine'', he states that he's too often all over the earth, busy with journalism, to indulge into a relationship. In Yoann and Vehlmann's run, it's to the point he's a workaholic, unable to not consult professional mails, including in deep jungle.
147	* TheMisophonic: Not only Fantasio once designed the "aspison", destined to make sounds disappear, but in fact, [[AnythingButThat he seems to not bear the smallest, yet irritative sound]]. Like, in ''QRN sur Bretzelburg'', the sound of [[TortureTechnician Doktor Kilikil]] rubbing his beard the wrong way. Unfortunately for Fantasio, it inspire the latter into torture him by using sounds such as a the grinding sound of a chalk on a board, or of a fork on a plate.
148	* NervousWreck: In front of dangerous or overwhelming situations (and he faced a lot), Fantasio will lose his temper, or will become straight depressive. Doktor Kilikil identifies him as a quite nervous person right after they met, and uses the information against him as stated above. In general, Fantasio can't stand SensoryAbuse, and it's used against him by everyone who knows this Achille's heel. In ''Spirou à Berlin'', he's imprisoned by Zantafio, and the violent lights of the cellar go on and off at irregular intervals. It soon makes Fantasio go crazy (he can't see what he's doing without lights, and [[SleepDeprivation can't sleep when they are on]]).
149	* NoSmoking: In on-screen adaptations, Fantasio gives up his habit to smoke pipes, very likely to keep series and movies appropriate to younger audiences.
150	* PajamaCladHero: Fantasio is often prone to this:
151	** In ''QRN sur Bretzelburg'', Fantasio is kidnapped while wearing pajamas, a dressing gown, and having lost his slippers in the process. He quickly regrets it due to how cold his prison cell is.
152	** In ''Qui arretera Cyanure?'' (''Who'll stop Cyanure?''), Fantasio is woken up by a phone call for help by Catenaire, and jumps in his car in pajamas to save him. Cyanure captures Fantasio immediately after, making him finish the whole journey in his pajamas.
153	** In ''Le réveil du Z'' ("The awakening of Z"), Aurélien de Champignac teleports Spirou and Fantasio in 2062, while it was past bedtime and Fantasio was already in his pajamas.
154	** In the [[AlternateContinuity universe]] of the mini serie ''La femme léopard'' (''The leopard woman''), the titular character forces Fantasio, in the middle of the night, to do a round trip in car between Brussels and Paris. Which explains why, a few hours later, Fantasio interviews existentialists while in his pajamas.
155	* {{Paparazzi}}: Fantasio tendencies to GoingForTheBigScoop can go so far. In ''Les pirates du silence'', Fantasio visits Incognito City, where stars and billionaires live away from journalists. Taking photos is forbidden, but Fantasio carries on regardless thanks to [[GadgetWatches cameras hidden in his watch and pipe]]. In ''Diary of a naive young man'', he tries to infiltrate (including by being DisguisedInDrag) the Moustic hotel to take photos of a famous boxer and his fashion designer mistress. In ''Panique en atlantique'', he embarks on a cruise boat without a ticket, in order to take photos of the actress Marinella Cabotini, and her new boyfriend. In this story, [[SkewedPriorities Fantasio tends to value his camera more than his own life]].
156	* PluckyComicRelief: Initially, that was the reason why Fantasio was introduced in the story to begin with. In ''Vito la déveine'', he [[LampshadeHanging lampashaded]] it, deploring this status. Meanwhile, ironically, ComicBook/GastonLagaffe is his own PluckyComicRelief.
157	* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Fantasio is, of course, the wise guy to the StraightMan Spirou, usually. He highlights this [[TheAce ace]] by contrast, being a WalkingDisasterArea, whether because of Fantasio blunders, clumsiness, bad luck, or [[BunglingInventor malfunctioning inventions]]. However and at the same time, in the editorial board context, Fantasio is the StraightMan (and often the OnlySaneEmployee of the board) to his wise guy ComicBook/GastonLagaffe. The difference lies in the fact that Spirou reacts with [[NiceGuy leniency]] to Fantasio's antics, while the latter will be [[HairTriggerTemper infuriated]] by Gaston's. If they are compared to classic clowns duos, Spirou would be the White face (or sad clown), and Fantasio the August, who turns himself into the White face when confronted to his August Gaston. In the 20th century, clowns trio were launched and added "contra August" to the mix, he's an in between in behavior. In this interpretation, Spirou=White face, Fantasio=contra August, Gaston=August.
158	* StayInTheKitchen : Fantasio can be a bit chauvinist when it comes to Seccotine (as women were rare in investigative journalism in the TheFifties, when she first appeared). In ''La corne du rhinocéros'', he even hoped that working as a reporter did not prevent her from learning how to cook. 50 years later, [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Fantasio is still like this]], as in ''Paris-sous-Seine'', he and Spirou spot Seccotine who vainly tries to force a police barricade to investigate the flow. Spirou reminds him that they can, on their side, as they have an advantage. Fantasio answers that it is because they're men. Actually, Spirou meant that they have an amphibian vehicle.
159	* ThrowTheDogABone: [[LiveActionAdaptation The movie]] and the tie-in comics, ''Le triomphe de Zorglub'', were this, as Fantasio usually look not likely [[spoiler: to get the girl in the end. Yet, the two stories end with Seccotine kissing him, and presumably them having a RelationshipUpgrade after that. Furthermore, in ''Le triomphe de Zorglub'', Seccotine delivers him a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech right before. According to the authors, it had to be taken to a meta-level, as they consider Fantasio as a hero, despite a clumsy one.]]
160	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Fantasio is always depicted as (more or less) balding, and is described as such too. However, this usually affects men older than 45, and Fantasio does not seem to have reached this age yet. Fantasio may suffer [[PrematurelyBald precocious baldness]] (it can affect men as young as 20), and it won't be surprising given how unlucky he is.
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Context Characters / SpirouAndFantasioTheMainDuo