Line #107 ComicBook/Lanfeust


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3	''Lanfeust de Troy'' is a French heroic-fantasy comic series by Arleston and Tarquin, published by Soleil Productions. It features the eponymous hero Lanfeust in the world of Troy, and his efforts to save said world from total dominion by an evil army. The main feature of this series is that each inhabitant has a single magical power, be it useful or useless (melting metal, boiling/freezing water, teleporting, [[EmbarrassingSuperpower farting from their ears]]...); however, their power can only be used if a sage, a person who underwent a special rite to lose their power to become a magical conduit, is around and alive.
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5	Sometimes, one person can have the ultimate power, that consists of every single power ever. This is the case for Lanfeust, a young blacksmith gifted with the power of melting metal by looking at it, who, while mending the sword of a passing aristocrat, discovers that touching the sword's pommel, made with the ivory of the Magohamoth, the source of all magic in the world, grants him the ultimate power. Accompanied by Nicolède (the village sage), C'ian (Nicolède's older daughter and Lanfeust's fiancée, who can heal any wound after nightfall), Cixi (Nicolède's younger daughter, who can make water evaporate or freeze) and Hébus (a wild troll Nicolède enchanted), Lanfeust goes to Eckmül, Troy's capital, in order to study his power. But what he'll find there will be ''a tad'' bigger than that...
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7	The original series was followed by:
8	* ''Trolls of Troy'' (''Trolls de Troy'') (1997-) A prequel series of sorts involving the adventures of Hebus's grandfather Tetram, his adoptive human daughter Waha, and her would-be boyfriend Profy.
9	* ''Gnomes of Troy'' (''Gnomes de Troy'') (2000-2014) - A comedic SpinoffBabies.
10	* ''Lanfeust of the Stars'' (''Lanfeust des Étoiles'') (2001-2008) - A sequel series about the adventures of Lanfeust, Cixi, Hébus, and Thanos beyond the world of Troy.
11	* ''Conquerors of Troy'' (''Les Conquérants de Troy'') (2005-2014) - A distant prequel about the the colonisation of the world of Troy.
12	* ''Lanfeust Quest'' (2007-2010) - A manga version of the original series.
13	* ''Lanfeust Odyssey'' (2009-2018) - The sequel series after Lanfeust returns to Troy.
14	* ''Cixi of Troy'' (''Cixi de Troy'') (2009-2011) - A series that focuses on Cixi from when she leaves the main band to when we meet with her again.
15	* ''Legends of Troy'' (''Les Légendes de Troy'') (2010-2014) - A series of stories set on Troy by different artists.
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17	Other media includes:
18	* ''Jeu d'aventures de Lanfeust et du monde de Troy'' (2005) - TheRoleplayingGame using rules similar to the MediaNotes/D20System.
19	* ''Trolls de Troy : La Cité de la mort rose'' (2007) - A PointAndClickGame for PC
20	* ''Lanfeust de Troy'' (2007) - An action Adventure game for the Platform/NintendoDS
21	* ''Lanfeust Quest'' (2013-2014) - A 26 episode season of a DenserAndWackier, LighterAndSofter AllCGICartoon, loosely based off the manga version.
22	* ''Trolls of Troy'' (2013-2014) An animated series loosely based off the series of the same name.
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25	!!The ''Lanfeust'' universe provides examples of:
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27	* AllTrollsAreDifferent: Huge, anthropophagist, fur-covered humanoids with SuperStrength and a violent aversion to water. (It might make them clean and thus alienate their flies.) They can be enchanted by a sage, turning them into obedient servants, but DON'T let them get drunk. Trolls actually developed a highly advanced culture built around [[HeroicComedicSociopath Heroic sociopathy]]: they can perfectly function in civilized human society, but unless they [[MoralityPet take a fancy to some of the locals]], they may kill people at random [[ForTheEvulz to pass time]]. White trolls in Darshan, however, are AlwaysChaoticEvil.
28	* BadToTheBone: Some trolls use big bones as blunt weapons.
29	* BigEater: Trolls will eat anything that moves and drink everything that doesn't. It's not that they're evil, they're just very hungry. At one point, it is said they can eat or drink ''anything'' except [[WeaksauceWeakness water]] (it might make them CLEAN!). When a troll tries to eat something and it ''doesn't'' get digested properly it's a major plot point.
30	* BlessedWithSuck: Some people have useless or ridiculous powers like making colorful farts.
31	%% * BoisterousBruiser: Trolls, every last one of them.
32	* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Trolls are AlwaysChaoticEvil creatures but sages can "enchant" them to have a strong companion.
33	* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: The brutish trolls prefer to fight with brutal weapons such as clubs, giant bones, or axes.
34	* CannotCrossRunningWater: Parodied; Trolls from Troy avoid getting wet at all cost, but there is nothing supernatural about it: they are all ThePigPen and water could make them clean (thus alienating the flies they keep as pets). As such, water is often used to contain them, like by teleporting a tribe on a island or creating magical downpours around a building to keep a couple of young trolls in.
35	* CharmPerson: A common spell used to make trolls very strong servants. Problem is, it doesn't stand up to alcohol. There's a stronger enchantment that can hold even if the troll drowns himself in booze, but by strongly diminishing their savagery, which weakens them. Granted, considering [[OneManArmy what trolls are]], most of the time, it's not a problem.
36	** A subversion happens with Hébus himself. His enchantment breaks several times, usually at the worst possible moment, and has to be re-done in a hurry. By the end of the first series, [[spoiler:it's explicitly stated that he wasn't re-enchanted after the last time it broke… but he's warmed up enough to his human buddies that he mostly behaves.]]
37	* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Darshanide gods exist simply because Darchanides believe in their existence. See GodsNeedPrayerBadly below.
38	* ConditionalPowers: It's rare, but a few characters can only use their magic power under certain conditions. C'ian can only use her magic during the night, Glin can only use it when he's angry and Léandre can only use it when he's scared.
39	* DragonVarietyPack: Troy has plenty of dragons with numerous different designs. There are at least traditional European dragons, wyvern-like dragons, humanoid dragons, bat-like dragons and feathered dragons. They also come in various colors, but it's mentioned that white is an unusual color for dragons.
40	* DumbMuscle: Trolls have natural SuperStrength, but almost all of them are complete idiots who can get headaches simply by attempting to think.
41	* EveryoneIsASuper:
42	** It's close to ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' in comic form. Almost everyone on the world of Troy has the potential for magic power, enabled by people who train as sages at a WizardingSchool. Sages learn some charms and spells at school and "turn off" their own powers to allow people within a certain range to use theirs. They are valuable resources; for example, when trolls attack caravans, they often focus on the sages. There are also a few nations with cultural differences in how magic manifests.
43	** [[{{Wuxia}} Darshanites]], rather than having individual powers, subconsciously pool their power to create gods that intercede in daily life on that continent.
44	** The Baronies are opposed to magic for [[BurnTheWitch cultural]] [[WitchHunt reasons]] and don't allow sages among them. It's unclear whether people from there would discover their individual talents if they spent enough time in foreign lands, or whether people born there can't have magic powers at all, or what.
45	* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Troy's wildlife is incredibly diverse and inventive in the ways it tries to eat you. And let's not go into the trolls...
46	* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: The Darshanide gods exist simply because there are people who believe in them. The more people revere the god, the more powerful he or she becomes, hence why Gods of trading, childbirth, war or sex are pretty much eternal. However, a god nobody believes in will disappear forever.
47	* HalfHumanHybrid: Humans and trolls can have hybrid offspring.
48	* HatesBaths: All trolls. They hate to ''take'' baths, but love to drink bathwater: as Hebus explains when he drinks C'ian and Cixi's bathwater, "It's like stew: when you're not allowed to eat the meat, you can still drink the broth."
49	* ImAHumanitarian:
50	** Trolls are known for their monstrous appetites regarding any kind of meat and are known for eating humans. They are not even above eating other trolls.
51	** The narration notes that colossal crabs sometimes eat each other.
52	* InformedAttribute: The most common Troll breed is called the "redhead trolls". While most of them do indeed have ginger hair, some of them have brown, grey or blond hair, but are still considered "redhead trolls".
53	* MadeOfIron: Most things that can kill or permanently cripple a human are mere annoyances to a troll. It ''is'' possible to kill them by inflicting a clearly fatal wound and preventing them from getting treatment, but otherwise they'll always recover eventually.
54	* MetaPower: Every human has a randomly determined magic power, some more useful than others (heating metal by looking at it, teleporting, making people thirsty, farting from the ears...). These powers only work when in range of a sage, who ritually abandoned their own powers to become relays for magic. During Thanos' takeover of the world, the imprisoned sages attempted a mass reverse ritual, but were interrupted.
55	* MundaneUtility: Depending on the power you get, it pretty much determines your job. Lanfeust, who can melt metal, is a blacksmith, one girl whose power is to make people thirsty works in a tavern.
56	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Used as mounts, they come in various shapes and forms, some being individual mounts and other being large enough to serve as airplanes.
57	* PhysicalGod: The Darshanide gods, in addition to be a FantasyPantheon.
58	* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Trolls dislike "subtlety". Given their SuperStrength and NighInvulnerability, they solve most problems by charging at it/swinging blunt objects at it/eating it. Human powers, given their unpredictability, are pretty much the only reason humans have survived, see EverythingTryingToKillYou.
59	* PunnyName: Every troll's name is such that, if you add "troll" to the front or end, you get a word or phrase; Hébus gives Trolleybus, Haïgwépa for Highway Patrol, Puitépée for "puits de pétrole" (oil rig), Gnondpom for "trognon de pomme" (apple core) and so. Some other characters, like the Darshanide ambassador, also count, but it's [[AllThereInTheManual hard to figure out]].
60	* RidiculousCounterRequest: While in a cell, the troll chieftain says he wants to speak to the warlord holding them prisoner. The guard answers, "And I want to frolic among the Darshanid shah's harem."
61	* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/{{Lanfeust}} Here.]]
62	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The series is pretty cynical, people die, messily, and yet remains quite funny. Which is notable because unlike many examples, it starts out that way. The [[FirstEpisodeTwist first issue prominently features]] a MilesGloriosus, speculation about the PowerPerversionPotential of Lanfeust's abilities, Lanfeust's leg getting chewed off by a HordeOfAlienLocusts, Lanfeust personally killing hundreds of bandit {{Mook}}s, and more, equally funny and horrific, sometimes on the same page.
63	%%* SpinOffBabies: ''Gnomes of Troy''.
64	%%* {{Troperiffic}}: Uses, and occasionally deconstructs, a great many HighFantasy tropes.
65	* UndergroundMonkey: There are multiple troll breeds: the most recurring one is the redhead troll. We also get a good sight of the Darshanide white trolls, who have the colors of pandas and are slightly weaker than redhead trolls, but still quite dangerous. There are even more troll breeds, but they barely get any focus.
66	* VillainousGoldTooth: There's a slave trader with a gold tooth.
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68	!!''Lanfeust de Troy'' provides examples of:
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70	* AcidAttack: Hebus's manages to dissolve some of Averroes's soldiers by peeing on them.
71	%%* AffectionateParody: Of {{Fantasy}} in ''Lanfeust de Troy'' and SpaceOpera in ''Lanfeust des Étoiles''.
72	* AfraidOfNeedles: Hebus is a nine-foot-tall troll. He gets pierced by arrows, sliced by swords and axes and burned by magic nearly on a daily basis. Yet, he has such a fear of needles that his reaction when faced with a deadly illness is to take a butcher knife, cut his leg and say "It has to go in the blood, right? Then pour it there, that's better!"
73	* AngelUnaware: [[spoiler: Sphax, Cixi's dragon, is actually the Darshanite god of ambassadors, sent by his fellow gods to bring Lanfeust in Darshan.]] He doesn't mind the ignorance.
74	* AnnoyingArrows: Averted with humans, arrows and crossbow bolts are quite lethal when used against them. Played straight with trolls; Hébus refers to arrows stuck in his hide as "toothpicks".
75	* AnArmAndALeg:
76	** At the beginning of the adventure, Lanfeust gets a leg devoured by a creature. He has to spend a whole day with a missing leg before C'ian can use her magic to heal him back.
77	** When Lanfeust attempts to save C'ian from [[spoiler:a forced wedding]], he repeatedly loses his limbs during the fight. Thankfully it happen during nighttime, so C'ian can grow his limbs back as fast as he loses them.
78	* AssShove: The giant troll is defeated when Or-Azur rams a pointy branch and his sword up his backside. According to Hébus, the hemorroids are the weakpoint of trolls.
79	* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Lanfeust, after inhaling the Magohamoth's breath.]]
80	* BadassBoast: Thanos has some pretty nice ones [[spoiler: while posing as Averroes]]
81	-->"Tomorrow, the virgins of Or-Azur won't be anymore... And torrents of blood will flood the castle's moat."
82	* BadassBookworm: Thanos is a pirate king and thus no slouch in battle, but he's also quite intelligent and versed in magic, due to his former training as a sage.
83	* BadassBystander:
84	** When Lanfeust attempts to interupt [[spoiler: C'ian's forced wedding with Bugrenne]], some members of the audience draw their swords to fight Lanfeust.
85	** When Thanos's army [[spoiler:invades Eckmul]], a random civilian uses her power to give diarrhea to some of Thanos's soldier. The narration notes that others citizen attempted to strife against the evil army.
86	* BadassNormal: The Or-Azur baron mixes this and TookALevelInBadass. He starts as a vain and weak young noble, but [[spoiler: after Thanos kills his father and falling in love with C'ian]], he turns into a ballsy and cunning warrior and is one of the only human main characters with no magic.
87	* BehemothBattle: The climactic battle is fought between giant energy clones of [[TheHero Lanfeust]] and [[BigBad Thanos]] over Eckmül.
88	%%* BettyAndVeronica: C'ian and Cixi.
89	%%* BigBad: Baron Averroes, [[spoiler:who then turns out to be Thanos]].
90	* TheBlacksmith: Lanfeust starts the story as a blacksmith because his power is to melt metal.
91	* BloodyHilarious: Whenever there's a carnage scene, or pretty much almost any death, expect to see liters of blood covering the place or gushing out of people's and creatures' bodies.
92	** After the Haruspex reads in the entrails of a ''still living'' guard, his men ask him what to do with him...
93	-->"Since he's still alive, just sew him up. We ain't monsters."
94	* BreathWeapon: Swoog can breath fire.
95	* BridalCarry:
96	** A rather twisted example: when Cixi [[spoiler:kills Bascrean]], she passes out and [[spoiler:Thanos]] takes her to his room by carrying her in his arms.
97	** After the fight against the giant troll, C'ian falls from a branch into [[spoiler: Or-Azur's]] arms. She stays there for a few seconds.
98	* CatapultToGlory: Hebus penetrates into the Or-Azur castle by being launched from a catapult.
99	* ChildhoodFriend: Technically both C'ian and Cixi for Lanfeust
100	* TheChosenOne: Lanfeust, as well as Thanos.
101	* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Darshanide gods exist simply because Darchanides believe in their existance.
102	* ClingyJealousGirl: Both C'ian and Cixi get jealous when Lanfeust is next to another girl. The latter is rather Hypocrite because she's very flirting with other men. According to her, [[DoubleStandard for girls]] [[ImAManICantHelpIt it's just sexual]] but [[InvertedTrope boys are more romantic and it's cheating]].
103	* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
104	** Being a sadist, Thanos enjoys giving painful death to people. He notably [[spoiler:orders Cixi to kill Bascrean by using her power to boil his blood.]]
105	** Murne (Thanos' lieutenant) dies after LaResistance uses enchanted flesh-laying eggs insects enchanted to assassinate Thanos [[spoiler:and fail]]. The guy is actually ''eaten to the bone'' by larvae.
106	* DepravedBisexual: In the first book, Lanfeust's group is attacked by a group of bandits who are lusting on Ci'an and Cixi. At least one of the bandits seems also interested in Lanfeust.
107	* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Lanfeust sticks a rapier in Barbulio's neck, C'ian quickly heals Barbulio but realises too late that by doing so, Barbulio is now stuck with a rapier through his neck. Even after the rapier's extremities are cut off, he still has a metal stem permanently stuck inside his neck.
108	* DirtyCoward: When Thanos [[spoiler:takes control of Eckmul, Plomynthe doesn't hesitate to join him after being captured. Thanos accepts him at his side while telling to Plomynthe that's he' too much of a coward to betray him. Plomynthe doesn't even deny it.]]
109	* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:Falordelle]] denounces the presence of Lanfeust's group to Thanos's authorities just because [[spoiler:Lanfeust does not return her feelings]].
110	* DoomedByCanon: In her spin-off series, [[spoiler:Cixi gets pregnant with Thanos' child]] never mentioned in the main series. [[ConvenientMiscarriage You guess what happens next...]]
111	* DoorFu: Hebus the troll tries to break open a steel porticullis, and when that fails, to bend it. Cut to a guard leaning against the gears smugly mentioning he'll never get through, then back to Hebus simply grabbing and then lifting the grate, pulling the unfortunate guard's body into the gears as the mechanism is reversed.
112	* TheDragon: Thanos appears to be this to Averroes, until [[spoiler:we learn that they're the same guy.]]
113	* DrivenToSuicide: As the Or-Azur castle is invaded by Averroes's army, some women decide to kill themselves via poison to avoid being raped by the invading soldiers.
114	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Hébus had [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] when not enchanted in the early albums. This was dropped later as none of the wild trolls have red eyes. Trolls in general were shown as savage, monstrous beasts when not enchanted in the early days, when later books (''Trolls de Troy'' in particular, obviously) portrayed them as decently civil and good-natured, but also walking disasters with a certain disregard for the life of things more fragile than them (unless they take a liking to it). Trolls also originally had their personalities altered to make them more loyal to whoever enchanted them. This is motly seen when Hébus is enchanted back and forth by Thanos and Nicèlede and his loyalty keeps shifting after each enchantment. In later stories, trolls keep their original personalities when enchanted, but they are magically forced to obey the first person who gives them an order after they are enchanted.
115	* EleventhHourSuperpower: After being absorbed by the Magohamoth, Lanfeust can use the ultimate power at will without a sage or the ivory pommel.
116	* EntitledToHaveYou: Bugrenne proposes to C'ian, despite her making it clear that she is not interested in him and that she's already in a relationship with Lanfeust. Bugrenne goes as far as putting C'ian through a forced wedding and trying to have Lanfeust killed.
117	* EveryoneHasStandards: A prostitute refuses to offer her services to Thanos's soldiers because they happily serve an evil tyrant.
118	* EyeScream: Thanos puts out Lanfeust's eyes (with an ivory blade, when he melts the metal one). Just one at first to torture him, then the other one because [[KickTheDog "I hate one-eyed people"]].
119	* FacialCompositeFailure: Lanfeust and his group get wanted posters which are weirdly stylized. Thanos's soldiers even think that the Hébus on the poster is Or-Azur's servant with a few exaggerations, even though the two of them aren't even similar.
120	* {{Fanservice}}:
121	** Cixi. Among others, she appears nude in one scene, to C'ian's anger, Lanfeust's astonishment, and to our great delight.
122	** ''Cixi de Troy'' seems to run on this. The '''first''' volume gives us a hot AmazonBrigade who are big believers in GirlOnGirlIsHot and {{Stripperiffic}} outfits.
123	* FastballSpecial: While trapped in Thanos's pirate lair, Lanfeust asks Hébus to throw him to a grid in the ceilling so he can make an escape route.
124	* FemaleGroinInvincibility: Used in the ''Cixi of Troy'' spin-off. When the titular character has to fight a PirateGirl, she has the reflex to kick her opponent between the legs, which has absolutely no effect. Another PirateGirl points out that this technique doesn't work with women.
125	* FortuneTeller: The Haruspex can read the future in the entrails of creatures (and yes, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruspex that's a real thing]]); notable in the fact that he is ''always'' right. He can also do it with ''human'' entrails, and will ''gladly'' do it if said human was an asshole.
126	* FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss: Shlikah gives a tap on Hébus's butt right before having sex.
127	* FreezeFrameBonus: In the second tome, a drawing of a Vitruvian Troll can be seen with text near it. Some of the text is upside-down. The normal text says "Don't you have anything better to do than read stuff that has nothing to do with the story?" and the upside-down text says "If you can read this, it means: 1) you have good eyes or 2) you're holding the book upside-down."
128	* FreudianExcuse: Discussed. When Bascréan accuses Lanfeust of being responsible for Thanos's comeback, Hebus tells Bascréan to shut up and says that maybe Thanos is evil because Bascréan stole his toys when they were children. Bascréan denies this implausible possibility.
129	* FullFrontalAssault: Thanos can't teleport his clothes... yet he's still dangerous.
130	* GainaxEnding: Of the TV series. Lanfeust [[spoiler:defeats his arch-enemy, Thanos, but for a price: all of his friends are dead, the land is devastated and the moon is sliced by half. Then, Lanfeust time-travels to the past, long before the fight, and defeats Thanos in a different way. His friends are alive, and the land is safe. When the heroes celebrate their victory, the camera shows us the moon... that is still sliced.]]
131	* GiantEnemyCrab: Lanfeust and his friends face a bunch of dangerous giant crabs appropriately called "Colossal crabs".
132	* AGodAmI: How Thanos reacts to the ultimate power.
133	* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: The Darshanide Gods need believers to exist. The first time the heroes visit the divine court, they witness the goddess [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Renaud Lynrenö]] fading into nothingness as her last believer dies.
134	* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler:Sphax, the dragon Lanfeust magically created]], turns out to be a Darshanide god all along. [[spoiler:Lanfeust accidentally teleports Sphax by trying to create a white dragon, who then decides to pretend to be a normal dragon for a while]].
135	* GreenThumb: A random Eckmul guard has the power of making plants grow out of people.
136	* {{Hellhound}}: Thanos' cheyreks. He likes to sic them on random ''innocent'' people to make an example.
137	* HideousHangoverCure: In order to pay the nomads, Nicolede cooks a magical one to cure their massive hangover following a party. It's pretty bland, but then he adds animal droppings in it...
138	-->'''Nicolede:''' The more the medicine is disgusting, the more the patient thinks it works.
139	* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Thanos gives [[FakeDefector Cixi]] a nasty one when she joins him: [[spoiler:no less than executing his own brother by boiling the blood inside his body.]]
140	* IHaveYourWife: After Thanos takes over Eckmül and the local sages start a ritual to give up their sage powers (denying Thanos the way to concentrate more magic), Thanos threatens their families in case some of them consider suicide to escape his wrath.
141	* ImStandingRightHere: Lanfeust claim to be an atheist in front of [[spoiler:the whole Darshanide pantheon]]. Cue massive DeathGlare.
142	* InterspeciesRomance: Well, not exactly ''romance'' per se, but one of the manuals give this as an explanation for the perpetual presence of darshanide trolls around [[ReallyGetsAround Shlikäh, the Goddess of Pleasure]]. Then comes the explanation of why she saved Hébus and perpetually "cured" him of his appetite for human flesh: she started finding the darshanide trolls boring and a bit small and wanted to try a regular troll. She was [[BiggerIsBetterInBed thoroughly satisfied]], though [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments she couldn't sit for three days afterwards]].
143	* InThatOrder: The [[ComicBook/BarbeRouge Redbeard]] knockoffs have trouble with RapePillageAndBurn.
144	-->"We rob'em, burn'em and rape'em, right cap'n?"\
145	"Noooo, that's what you did ''last'' time!"\
146	"Oh yeah, that wasn't much fun, especially towards the end."
147	* ITasteDelicious: After C'ian heals Lanfeust and Hebus after they've been partially eaten by mermaids, Hebus tastes a few remains. He thinks that Lanfeust tastes a bit bland but finds himself delicious.
148	* KatanasAreJustBetter: After he loses his sword, Lanfeust forges himself a new one and gives it the shape of a katana. Granted, at the time they're in the [[FarEast knockoff of China/Japan/Every Asian country related trope you can think of]]. {{Subverted\|Trope}} when he sees the katanas forged by the ''personal smith of the emperor'': he describes them as "cute toys", breaks in half one of the very obviously expensive swords in front of the shocked shop clerk, before forging an Eckmülian longsword for himself which only looks superficially like a Darshanide blade.
149	* LaserGuidedKarma: After healling Ci'an, Rognar decides to denounce Lanfeust's group's presence in the Baronies after they leave him. Then he dies in a stupid way right after getting a reward for snitching on them and his money is collected by an apathetic soldier.
150	* LethalHarmlessPowers: Cixi's power is turning water into ice or steam by changing the water's temperature. This doesn't seem too dangerous at first. Until Thanos tells Cixi that the human body is mainly composed of water. Then, Thanos orders Cixi to boil the blood of Thanos's own brother to prove her loyalty to him.
151	* LickingTheBlade: After Averroes decapitates Baron Or-Azur, he licks the blood on his axe.
152	* LotusEaterMachine: The Magohamoth creates illusions to trap those who reach him into their greatest desires. The group falls prey to it (Or-Azur sees his father's castle, Ci'an and Hébus see their respective villages and Nicolède sees a legendary library). Lanfeust is immune due to him having the ultimate power.
153	* MacGuffin: The fragment of the Magohamoth's horn. [[spoiler:It gives Lanfeust and Thanos the ultimate power]].
154	* NoMouth: When Thanos gets tired of Karsya's corporal parroting everything Karsya says, he magically makes the corporal's mouth disappear.
155	* NotTheIntendedUse: Hébus attacks with crossbows by throwing them.
156	* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: There's a moment where Nicolede catches his daughter Cixi and Lanfeust about to have sex. He's furious at Cixi, because Lanfeust is already in a relationship with Cixi's sister. He's also angry at Lanfeust for his inability to resist temptation.
157	* {{Pirate}}:
158	** Thanos's occupation when we first hear of him.
159	** As well as {{space pirates}} in ''Lanfeust des Étoiles''.
160	** Cixi runs into (and joins) a band of man-hating female pirates.
161	* PirateGirl: Cixi runs into (and joins) a band of man-hating female pirates.
162	* PottyFailure: There's a woman whose power is to give people diarrhea. She uses it on Thanos's soldiers as they invade Eckmul.
163	* PsychicTeleportation: Everyone on the planet is OnePersonOnePower, that's due to being psychic, but was first described as magic. The powers are as varited as healing at night, melting metal, boiling and freezing water, or causing PottyFailure. The BigBad Thanos has the ability to teleport to any location he's seen previously, which he uses to good effect to impersonate that TinTyrant he's thought to be working for. This ability is later upgraded to teleporting to anywhere Lanfeust uses his Magohamoth powers, but he won't know where he's going (and once blindly teleported into the polar tundra, immediately coming back half-frozen demanding warm clothes).
164	* PunnyName:
165	** Also, mentioned once in the book and [[AllThereInTheManual another time in the manual]], the Darshanide goddess of labyrinths is [[Franchise/TombRaider Larakröft]]
166	** The Darshanide god of healing is called Anth-Ybio, as in "Antibiotic".
167	** Two random aerial soldiers from Thanos's army are called Thangosharly and Alfazulu, as in "Tango Charlie" and "Alpha Zulu", common code names in aviation.
168	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A common trait for almost every bad guy in the series, mooks included, is that they are rapists.
169	* LaResistance: After Thanos takes control of Eckmul, the Haruspex forms a secret group to fight back against Thanos and his army.
170	* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Thanos is introduced in the second book.
171	* SecondLove:
172	** Cixi is Lanfeust's second love interest.
173	** Or-Azur becomes the second love of Ci'an, who was Lanfeust's first love.
174	* ShownTheirWork: At one point, Cixi must freeze seawater in order to form a bridge. She complains that's it's much harder than normal water because of the salt.
175	* SiblingYinYang: Nicolède's daughters are opposite in several ways. C'ian has a sweet and sensitive personality, is responsible, doesn't like violence, wants to have children, wears non-revealing blue dresses and has blonde hair. Cixi on the other hand, likes to annoy, tease and flirt with people, acts like a spoiled child before her CharacterDevelopment, finds it fun to see people fighting, is interested in sex but doesn't want children, wears red {{Stripperiffic}} outfits and has black hair.
176	* SkewedPriorities: When Thanos's army invades Eckmul, Cixi is worried that they might mess up her villa.
177	* SpitTake: When Nicolède realises that the creatures the group is eating are the animals that are supposed to guide them to the Magohamoth, C'ian spits out the meat she was eating.
178	* TinTyrant: Averroes never removes his armor or face-concealing helm, [[spoiler: for a good reason: he's Thanos]].
179	* UndignifiedDeath: Rognar dies in a rather random and embarrassing way for a fictional character. He trips in the stairs and falls on some spears.
180	* TheUnFavorite: Cixi believes that her father favors C'ian over her, though her father denies it. It's unclear who correct.
181	* VerbalTic:
182	** Or-Azur's manservant has "Créfieu", a very distorted variant of the rural French swear "Sacré vingt dieux" (Holy twenty gods).
183	** The Haruspex likes to end his sentences with "Karaka-X", with X being a syllable riming with the last word of the sentence.
184	* VerbalTicName: The creature guiding the heroes to the Magohamoth always says "Gloof", so they call the creature a "Gloof".
185	* WalkOnWater: One of Thanos's men has the power to walk on water and tries to use it to escape the heroes while they're on a boat. [[DidntThinkThisThrough He didn't take into account that getting far away from Nicolede would disable his power and leave him to drown, since people need to be close to a sage to use their power]].
186	* WeddingSmashers: When C'ian is forced to marry Bugrenne, Lanfeust interupts the ceremony and has to fight through the guests and Bugrenne's guards to save her. When Lanfeust loses hope as he's facing too many people at once and C'ian is unable to heal him with her magic, Hébus arrives in time to massacre some of Lanfeust's opponents and forces Bugrenne to divorce C'ian right as the wedding ceremony is completed.
187	* WhaleEgg: Gloofs look like blue dogs, but they come from cocoons that are themselves contained in avian-like eggs.
188
189	!!''Trolls of Troy'' provides examples of:
190	* AdoptTheFood: Waha is a young human girl who was "accidentally" adopted by man-eating trolls who took her as a baby, planning to eat her but always pushing it for later (because she was too small a morsel), and finally starting to consider her a daughter. In the AnimatedAdaptation, the scatterbrained trolls don't even ''remember'' she was adopted to begin with and fully consider her a troll (albeit a hairless one).
191	* DeathByDepower: One apprentice sage has the power to become likeable to anyone in short range, including trolls. While he survives in the troll village and nearly succeeds in getting the BigBad's plan to enslave them to succeed, the other sage relaying his magic power is moved out of range, leaving the first one surrounded by suddenly very angry trolls.
192	* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Venerable Fuquatou discovers that the courtesan blackmailing him is looking for Waha ([[spoiler:their daughter!]]) in order to use her in her brothels, he kicks her out of the dragon they're flying on.
193	* GodivaHair: Described as a "genetic trait" of mermaids in ''Trolls de Troy'', and even applies if they're turned upside-down.
194	* InterspeciesRomance: Pröfy is half-troll. His mother, a full troll, once caught a human nobleman but felt more lusty than hungry at the time... Several days later, the man eventually escaped with his life. And several broken bones. And no clothes whatsoever.
195	* LuringInPrey: One monster encountered by the Tetram and Waha is a swamp-dwelling beast whose lure is part of its back and shaped like a female dragon, luring male dragons to mate with it and be eaten. It's defeated after Tetram manages to twist its eyes around so its sees the lure and promptly attacks itself.
196	* PimpingTheOffspring: "Waha's story" introduces Waha's biological mother, looking for her daughter. It turns out she's a former prostitute turned madam, and wants her daughter to succeed her after "working her way up the ranks". [[spoiler:This disgusts even the Venerable Fuquatou, who throws her off his flying mount the minute he learns of her intentions.]]
197
198	!!''Lanfeust of the Stars'' provides examples of:
199	* AlienBlood:
200	** Due to InconsistentColoring, goules are shown to have blue and black blood on top of red blood.
201	** Pathacelces have black blood.
202	* AntagonisticOffspring: Glin, Cixi and Lanfeust' son, is extremely hostile towards his father, resenting him for being absent for sixteen years of his life and being, generally speaking, akward to be around with. [[spoiler: Takes a turn for the worse when Thanos kidnaps him and corrupts him into a violent drug addict who's ready to betray ''his own mother'' to get more drug.]]
203	* ApologeticAttacker: After being [[spoiler:enchanted, Hébus]] is forced to attack Cixi, all while apologizing.
204	* TheArtifact: The [[DramatisPersonae characters introduction]] doesnt update after the second issue. Quam doesnt appear despite joining the heroes and [[spoiler:Glace]] still appears despite their death in the sixth issue and not being mentionned afterward.
205	* AssimilationBackfire: [[spoiler: Prince Dheluu, who already and unknowingly hosts the conscience of a Dolphante inside his body, absorbs Thanos as a form of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness. Unfortunately for him, Thanos' conscience reaches the Dolphante's one and he regains all his magic, allowing him to turn the tables on Dheluu himself.]]
206	* BaitAndSwitch: At one point, we hear Dheluu and Ophredla ([[spoiler:actually an impostor]]) saying things that imply that they are doing something kinky and sexual. We even get a close-up panel of Ophredla looking excited and saying "I love your games". Then the next panel reveals that Dheluu was merely playing a video game.
207	* BearHug: After Hébus breaks free from [[spoiler:Thanos's enchantment]], he gives a strong painful hug to Lanfeust and Swiip.
208	* BigBad: Prince Dheluu. [[spoiler: Surprisingly hijacked by BigBadWannabe Thanos in the final issue.]]
209	* BittersweetEnding: Dheluu and Thanos are gone, the threat to galaxy is over and Lanfeust and Hebus get to return to Troy and have it removed from maps to keep it safe... but he has to leave his wife Cixi forever.
210	* BloodFromTheMouth: When Lanfeust, Swiip and Qam are trying to [[spoiler: travel back to the present]], Qam passes out and coughs up blood. Lanfeust believes she died, but she quickly turns out fine.
211	* CatapultNightmare: Lanfeust brutally wakes up from a nightmare.
212	* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of "Le sang des comètes" depicts Lanfeust wearing armor and wielding a sword, ready to strike at something offscreen. At no point do the armor or the sword actually appear in the comic.
213	* CreepyGood: The dolphantes inhabit rotting creature corpses, giving them scary zombie-like appearences, but they are on the side of good.
214	* DarkIsNotEvil: The masterminds behind Lanfeust's birth appears as a bunch of grotesquely rotten living corpses... until we learn that they need to possess bodies to survive, and since they think that possess living sentient beings is unethical they rely on corpses, even if they decompose fast and force them to rely on replacements.
215	* DemotedToDragon: Thanos becomes Prince Dheluu's [[TheDragon Dragon]] after being the BigBad from the previous story.
216	* DoingInTheWizard: The magic power of the inhabitants of Troy is retconned as PsychicPowers.
217	* EyeScream: Thanos has one of his eyes destroyed by Lanfeust. Prince Dheluu later replaces it with an organic prosthetic.
218	* FightingYourFriend: Halfway through, [[spoiler:Thanos puts an enchantment on Hebus, forcing him to work as his ruthless lieutenent, known as '' TheButcher'' during this time period. Ice's death removes the enchantment.]]
219	* HappyRain: "There it is, your ET shower!" (though the pun unfortunately doesn't work in English).
220	* IAmAHumanitarian: Qam says that her people eat male children. [[SubvertedTrope It's actually a joke though.]]
221	* InconsistentColoring: It seems like the colorist couldn't decide if goules have red, blue or black blood.
222	* INeedAFreakingDrink: When Lanfeust learns that he's [[spoiler:an artificial being]], Hébus gives him a drink. Despite the shock, Lanfeust pours his drink on the floor because his body can't stand alcohol.
223	* InformedAttribute: Normal rorskals are described as being blue, but they are clearly purple.
224	* JerkassHasAPoint: Acknowledged by Cixi and Lanfeust, while Glin's behaviour is far too immature [[spoiler: and has disproportionate consequences in the long run]], he's kinda right in the fact that after sixteen years full of events and changes, Lanfeust doesn't feel right alongside them, and it would be better if they separated.
225	* KillItWithFire: Pathacelces are weak to fire.
226	* KillSat: When Lanfeust and Thanos are unable create a fire blast powerful enough to kill frost creatures, Lanfeust and Swiip opt to mentally hijack a satellite to destroy the ice creatures with a solar beam.
227	* LiteralMinded: An angry customer asks a waiter to "give the whip" to Cixi (who is posing as a waitress). The waiter literally hands over a whip to Cixi rather than actually whipping her like the customer wanted.
228	* LoveHurts: Glace ends up falling in love with Thanos, which causes much mental suffering for her since she know he's a heartless monster who's unable to love anyone. It gets worse when [[spoiler:she sees a vision of the future of Thanos killing her, which turns out to be true]].
229	* MadeOfIron: Lanfeust and Qam come across a creature with a highly resistant body. Lanfeust concludes that this creature is literally mainly composed of metal.
230	* NightmareSequence: Lanfeust has a dream where he's surrounded by every attractive women he met during his adventures. When things are getting sexual, the women turn into human-sized chickens and eat Lanfeust alive, causing him to wake up.
231	* OneWingedAngel: During the final battle, [[spoiler: Thanos merges with his own organic ship (the fourth evolution of a particular lifeform) and proceeds to evolve into a colossal SlayingMantis seemingly made of diamond, impervious to all damage. Turns into ClippedWingAngel when he evolves further... and goes back to larval state, leaving him as a tiny white worm easily crushed by Lanfeust.]]
232	* PlotHole: It's revealed that the reason why Thanos is sensitive to the Magohamoth, just like Lanfeust, is because [[spoiler:they have the same grandfather, making them cousins. The problem is that the reason why Lanfeust is sensitive to the Magohamoth to begin with is because he was genetically modified while in his mother's womb, meaning that common ancestry shouldn't justify the fact that Thanos is sensitive to the Magohamoth, since ''he'' was not modified himself. What is particularly jarring is that both contradicting revelations happen in the same scene. The Dolphantes act like they modified Lanfeust and Thanos's grandfather (which would make sense), despite saying a minute earlier that they modified Lanfeust's direct parents' genes while Lanfeust's mother was pregnant.]]
233	* ProjEggTile: When Lanfeust and his friends learn that the hen produces eggs that [[spoiler:can kill pathacelces]], they build custom guns made to shoot said eggs.
234	* PunnyName: One of the Thirteen Princes the Prince Cenrhyr, which sounds like "pince-sans-rire", a French expression.
235	* RecycledInSpace: ''Lanfeust of Troy'' in Space.
236	* SeaOfSand: The desert in the planet Dezunge (also known as Abraxar) is a literal Sea of Sands, complete with sailing ships, whale-like creature, and islands.
237	* {{Shapeshifting}}: Pathaceles have the ability to take the appearence of any creature.
238	* SheIsTheKing: Out of the thirteen Merchant Princes, one of them is a woman, but insist on holding the title of "Prince", as much as she holds on her collection of fine pictures.
239	* SingleBiomePlanet: Abraxar is a planet composed entirely of deserts.
240	* SpitTake: When Qam jokes that her village eats male children, Swiip spits what he's eating.
241	* StableTimeLoop: We learns that [[spoiler:Lanfeust gave the absolute power to the Magohamoth in the past and the latter gave him back at the end of the first series.]]
242	* TongueTrauma: When Cixi gets annoyed by Glace, she uses her power to freeze Glace's tongue.
243	* TrappedInThePast: While [[spoiler:teleporting a whole planet, Lanfeust ends up teleporting himself and Swiip]] four thousands years into the past, and [[spoiler:Lanfeust cannot use his power to go back to the present, meaning they have to find another way]].
244	* TruthSerum: A pathacelce uses a serum on Oho Seth to force him to tell the truth. He ends up spouting unimportant secrets without saying what the pathacelces want to know.
245	* WhamEpisode: Lanfeust and Swiip end up [[spoiler:sixteen years in the future]]. It is never fixed, meaning Lanfeust [[spoiler:has a son who's about his age, leading Cixi to eventually break up with him since she's spent the years making a name for herself in the future]].
246
247	!!''Lanfeust Odyssey'' provides examples of:
248	* BigBad: Lylth the Eternal, a female space demon who feeds on magic and life-force, who enslaves everyone on Troye and nearly causes TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. [[spoiler: She was sent by Glin, still influenced by Thanos]]. She does remain by far the biggest and most pressing threat ever faced by Lanfeust.
249	* TheBigBadShuffle: In the first book, Sage Qynostre works for Sniyque who herself turns out to be working for the Banshee Queen. In the second book, both Sniyque and the Banshee Queen die. Qynostre seemingly becomes a DragonAscendant only to be killed by Lylth the Eternal who then remains the main antagonist for the rest of the series [[spoiler: until the penultimate book reveals a mysterious armored figure who's behind Lylth]].
250	* TheBusCameBack: Cixi returns in the seventh book. Qam and Glin returns in the next one. Sphax returns in the ninth one making his big return since ''Lanfeust of Troy''.
251	* TheCorrupter: Lylth's energy can make everyone submit to their darkest impulse. [[spoiler: Up to Lanfeust himself, to his horror and shame as she made him kill his beloved mentor.]]
252	* DarkerAndEdgier: The comics always had violence, gore, dark humor and a few moments of nudity, but the ''Lanfeust Odyssey'' series takes it even further by having more violence, a darker story, children killed onscreen and a few sex scenes.
253	* DivergentCharacterEvolution: A radical one with Cian's daughter Cixi who starts as a carbon copy of her aunt in both appearance and personality. After becoming the Magohamoth's guardian, she changes her name to Tseu-Hi, turns her hair red, dresses as a warrior and becomes wiser.
254	* FantasyGunControl: When reunited with Cixi on Meirrion, Lanfeust insists not to bring technology to defeat Lylth because he doesn't want to expose Troy to the rest of the galaxy.
255	* FeelingYourHeartbeat: In volume 1, Cixi asks her suitor Ignatius to play a prank on the man she is forced to marry. As he shows reluctance, she tells him that doing so would make her heart beat very fast and takes his hand to put it on her breasts so he can feel it. Young Ignatius is so aroused that he has to put his hand in a barrel of water to cool it off. Cixi then tells him that once he's done he can check how fast her heart is beating again ([[JizzedInMyPants and advises him to clean up the stain on his pants]]).
256	* GreaterScopeVillain: Thanos might have been KilledOffForReal, but his shadow still looms over Troy. [[spoiler: Glin is still under his influence, and turns out to have sent the new BigBad to Troye to avenge him, but he is quickly disposed off by side characters, making the whole ordeal a bit exagerated.]]
257	* HumanoidAbomination: Lylth the Eternal looks like a blue-skinned, yellow-eyed little girl, whose RapidAging makes her first look like a sexy, evil CuteMonsterGirl, then a monstrous, obese {{Gonk}}. But she is in fact an eldritch, soul-devouring, magic-eating horror, whose aspect is only skin-deep.
258	* MindManipulation: Lylth's most terrifying power is her ability to make everyone who looks at her spheres her slaves. Within weeks, all of Eckmul's continent has fallen under her thrall.
259	* OneCurseLimit: Discussed. Hébus is immune to Lilth's mind control, but he himself isn't sure if it's because he was already enchanted to begin with, or if simply being a troll makes him immune by default.
260	* IdenticalGrandson: Or identical niece. Cian's daughter, Cixi, shares her aunt's name, appearance and personality.
261	* SeriesContinuityError: Hébus says he remembers M'otha from when Lanfeust travelled four thousands years into the past, even though Hébus did not travel to the past, only Lanfeust and Swiip did.
262	* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:A possessed Lanfeust kills Nicolede in full view of everyone in Eckmul]].
263	* WouldHurtAChild: Lylth feeds on the souls of the children. She builds a temple just to slaughter every child in Eckmul alone.

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