Line #39 ComicBook/Pafman


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2	[[caption-width-right:276:[[SarcasmMode A hero you can trust]]]]
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4	''Pafman'' is a Spanish comic series created by Joaquín Cera. It features the adventures of Pafman, [[WordOfGod the world's dumbest superhero]], and [[FunnyAnimal Pafcat]], his MadScientist sidekick.
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6	Pafman began in 1987 as a weekly 2-page comic with self-contained stories in the ComicBook/{{Mortadelo\|YFilemon}} magazine. The series changed to a 4-pages format and, later, Cera started to create long stories beside the self-contained ones. In 1996 Ediciones B (the publisher) closed all its magazines and discontinued all its comics except ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' and ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}''.
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8	In 2004 Pafman came back with a long-story album per year but, since then, the series is being threatened of cancellation because of low sales.[[note]]Pafman's sales are pretty good for the Spanish market, but Ediciones B seems to be used to the big figures of Mortadelo y Filemón and, somewhat, thinks that Pafman's aren't high enough.[[/note]]
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11	!! Pafman contains examples of:
12	* AllGermansAreNazis: Averted in the story titled 1944 in wich the characters specifically say to the readers that this is not the case.
13	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Constantly, for example in one strip some readers are constantly complaining about inaccuracies in the plot, until the characters just decide to beat them.
14	* BuxomBeautyStandars: Tina Tonas, the niece of Pafman, is vey well-endowed and is a DudeMagnet due to it (to his annoyance).
15	* CivilizedAnimal: Pafcat is a furry cat who behaves human most of the time, but he had been seen trying to catch rats on occasion.
16	* DistractedByTheSexy: A very sexy villain takes Pafman on a date, waiting for the best chance to [[TheVamp take him off-guard and kill him]]. Pafcat tries to warn Pafman several times that she's an assassin, but Pafman is too focused on his enemy's beauty to even realize.
17	* EvilWearsBlack: The series's main antagonist is the Enmascarado Negro ("The Black Masked"), a guy who is always totally dressed and masked in black. Lampshaded at the end of a short story in which Pafman, disappointed with being a hero, joins the villains and declares: "I've even dyed my suit black so I'll look more evil".
18	* ExactWords: PlayedForLaughs
19	-->'''Pafman:''' (After somebody has knocked at the door) Pafcat, go to see who is at the door.\
20	(Pafcat watches and comes back)\
21	'''Pafman:''' There isn't anybody?\
22	'''Pafcat:''' Yes, it's (character), but since you only said "go to see who is at the door"...
23	* FreakLabAccident: If you put a scientist, a cat and a kg of plutonium in a washing machine, you get Pafcat.
24	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Happens in almost every page of the comic.
25	* HeroicBSOD: Pafman, near the end of "En Tierra Mediocre", he ended so depressed for [[spoiler: his allies betrayal, who start to pummel him]] that he completely ignored their attacks, absorbed by his HeroicBSOD.
26	* HurlItIntoTheSun: One strip ends with Pafman and Pafcat sending a monster that feeds on energy to the Sun [[spoiler: you can guess it's a ''very'' bad idea. The strip ends with a vignette of the two in darkness, while a newspaper mentions that, how the monster is having fun crushing countries poking with the pinkie, and ends blaming and insulting the two protagonists.]]
27	%%* MadScientist: Pafcat.
28	* MediumAwareness: In one of the strips Pafman knows the true nature of the villain (he is an antrophomorfical couch) by reading the script (but he initially claims not being able to read to fool the villain).
29	* MirandaRights: In one comic the main characters say the lines "everything you say could be used against you" against someone. The guy ask what that does mean, so they take the speech balloon that contains this question and smash it in his face.
30	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Lampshaded when a centaur villain presents himself as "Professor Sagittarius" and the main character complains "(All villains) are either professors or doctors."
31	* {{Nephewism}}: Tina Tonas, niece of Pafman. The father of Tina plays a significant role in one strips, though.
32	* NewJobAsThePlotDemands:
33	** Mafrune, a character who appears in this and other series of the author was used a generic secondary character, his profession being wathever the plot demanded, but in the last strips his job is fixed as a policeman boss of the characters.
34	** Also Malfendi, one of the recurring villains. His job changing between stories (and even between vignettes) is a RunningGag.
35	* {{Pun}}: The series' preferred type of humour.
36	* SharePhrase: ''¡Vamos a morir vivos!'' ("we're gonna die alive!") Since [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands Commisionner Mafrune]] says it for the first time in ''Pafman Redevuelve'', a different variation of the phrase appears in each book (Professor Fuyu says it with his [[SpeechImpediment characteristic pronunciation]] in ''La Noche de los Vivos Murientes'', Pafman says it in singular rather than in plural in ''Pafman in USA'', etc.). This is often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], to the point that in ''Agente Cero Cero Patatero'', the [[TheFaceless Black Masked]] refuses to say it (he was supposed to say "they're going to die alive"), and the [[InteractiveNarrator narrator cow]] threatens with unmasking him and finally showing his face. After he says it, he walks away thinking "mental note: [[DisproportionateRetribution kill the narrator cow]].
37	* TooDumbToLive: Almost everybody in the series, but specially Pafman.
38	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Pillina and Lupo, two minions who die in almost every strip they appear.
39	* {{Slapstick}}: The series is rife with slapstick comedy. Even though Tina is usually free from slapstick, she gets this trope in Pafman In USA in spades (she even {{Lampshades}} it in the comic telling that she is not used to "these kind of things" like Pafman and Pafcat after getting blown up in an explosion with them).
40	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield?: The adventures of Pafman takes place in Logroño, a megacity only similar to its real-life counterpant in the name, that has a jungle, a beach, a Statue of Liberty and whatever thing you could name.
41	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim?: Enmascarado Negro has no problem doing just that to the niece of Pafman. Even his minions are shocked.

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