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4	!!!''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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6	* GaiasVengeance: The Polters attacking Emelka in reaction to the ravages caused by the Noxines.
7	* GaleForceSound: Miranda yelling for Kabrok blows Amalia's hair.
8	* GenderBender: [[spoiler:Evangelyne and Amalia]] as well as a few extras during the Brâkmarian Gobbowl arc, thanks to a magic potion. Unusually, all of them are strictly female-to-male gender benders. {{Justified\|Trope}} since women aren't allowed to even ''watch'' Gobbowl matches, let alone participate, in Brâkmar. The vendors make a killing selling the potions to female sport fans.
9	* GenderBlenderName: [[spoiler:Marylin, a.k.a. The Mmmmmmmmmporpg.]]
10	* GeneHunting: The most part of the first season revolves around Yugo searching for his origin.
11	* GhibliHills: The Forbidden Forest next to Emelka. Honestly, the Polters are even reminiscent of the {{Nature Spirit}}s from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''.
12	* TheGhost: The king of Bonta.
13	* GiantMook: The Trool wrestlers, especially the champion, Mirkool alias "Wargl".
14	* GiantSquid: Grougaloragran's chosen form to restrict the access to Oma Island.
15	* GigglingVillain: Nox, Dark Vlad and Qilby are all known to break into manic giggles regularly and nigh-involuntarily.
16	* GirlInTheTower: Spoofed in season 1 episode 4.
17	* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: The Brâkmarian prosecutor.
18	* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:Qilby]]
19	* AGlassInTheHand:
20	** Xav the Baker crushes a loaf of bread in anger in episode 8.
21	** Rushu crushes his cup at the beginning of the "Rush".
22	* GlassShatteringSound: During the credit roll for season 2 episode 14, Amalia ''tries'' to sing the show's theme song and [[CameraAbuse shatters the camera lens]] on the last note.
23	* GlobalCurrency: Kamas.
24	* GloryDays: Kabrok's main source of depression.
25	* AGodAmI:
26	** Willow, in episode 14.
27	** Also Nox, depending on how much wakfu he drains from the Eliacube.
28	* GodhoodSeeker: The Siblings/Brotherhood of the Forgotten consist mainly of demigods who feel vindictive toward their divine parents and whom their leader Oropo intends to topple and replace the current ruling gods of the World of Twelve. Oropo himself intends to become a "supreme god".
29	* GoGoEnslavement: Evangelyne in "Vampyro".
30	* GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy: [[spoiler:Rubilax's power of growing more and more with each hit is turned against him]] in season 1 episode 22. Something similar happens to him in season 2 episode 9.
31	* {{Golem}}: Several; some are ImprovisedGolems (see below). For the more permanent ones:
32	** A ''Bread'' Golem in episode 8.
33	** A Stone Golem in episode 23. [[spoiler:Who keeps picking a new head, with a new power, each time one is destroyed.]]
34	** Another golem is described as the MidBoss of the Dragon-Pig's lair in season 2 episode 5.
35	* GoodColorsEvilColors: While normal Xelors sport a white/grey/blue color theme, Nox himself (and his minions) has a dark grey/black/brown one.
36	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Yugo's boxers sport a pair of Tofus.
37	* GrandTheftMe:
38	** What Shadofang plans with Evangelyne's body in "Vampyro".
39	** [[spoiler:What Rubilax manages to do with Sadlygrove]] pre-season 2.
40	* GratuitousEnglish:
41	** Every other word that comes out of Yugo's mouth is "[[CatchPhrase cool]]", though it's more of a French colloquialism than intentionally gratuitous English.
42	** Rubilax uses the English word "sexy" to describe Evangelyne in episode 22.
43	** "[[ZergRush Le Rush]]" in the Shushu world.
44	* GratuitousJapanese: Season 2 episode 22 has a whole fight with a Japanese song as background music, worthy of any {{Shonen}} {{Anime}}.
45	* TheGreatFlood: Ogrest's Chaos.
46	* GreenAroundTheGills: Sadlygrove whenever he's aboard a boat.
47	* GreenThumb: The Sadida people.
48	* GroinAttack:
49	** Very narrowly avoided in episode 16, when a big stalactite falls right between Sadlygrove's legs -- which Rubilax finds uproariously funny.
50	** [[spoiler:Rubilax himself, in Sadlygrove's body,]] gets kicked by Evangelyne below the belt line in season 2 episode 3.
51	** Also happens to Ruel in episode 16 of season 2 by a bratty Iop child.
52	** Eva does this to one of the wrestlers at the Trool Fair.
53	%%* GroundShatteringLanding
54	* GroupHug: One happens in season 2 episode 3 when Yugo, Amalia, and Ruel find out that [[spoiler:Sadlygrove is still alive... except it's quickly subverted, since the body is still inhabited by Rubilax]].
55	* GrowlingGut:
56	** Yugo in episode 6.
57	** Yugo, Ruel and [[spoiler:Sadlygrove]] in season 2 episode 5, lengthily, to the point Amalia complains.
58	* GunsAkimbo: Remington Smisse's dual Shushu pistols.
59	* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Evangelyne and Amalia primarily attack from a range, while Ruel, Yugo and Sadlygrove favor more close combat. Cleophelia subverts this somewhat.
60	* HalfArcSeason:
61	** The first two seasons are pretty much this. It involves the heroes having to travel to one or more places, meeting many WackyWaysideTribe on their way.
62	** Averted with Season 3, though, which has no filler episodes (since the plot wouldn't allow it), and thus is only half as long.
63	* HammerspaceHideaway: Ruel's Havresac.
64	* HandBehindHead: Yugo does this in episode 6.
65	* HandOrObjectUnderwear: In season 2 episode 11, the gender-bent FanserviceExtra trying to sneak in the stadium covers her chest with an arm when the potion stops having effect. Later, [[spoiler:the same thing happens to a topless Amalia, who grabs a gobbowl shield to hide herself]].
66	* HappilyAdopted:
67	** Yugo, by Alibert.
68	** Elaine, by Encre Noire.
69	* HarmonyVersusDiscipline: The concepts of Wakfu (life, creation, nature) and Stasis (death, destruction, machines).
70	* HartmanHips: Oh, [[MemeticMutation dem hips]]...
71	* HatDamage: Yugo's hat takes quite the beatdown in episode 26.
72	* HaveYouSeenMyGod: Besides the [[FantasyPantheon 12 main gods]] there is also the goddess Eliatrope who apparently vanished along with the Eliatropes.
73	* HeadPet:
74	** Az, from times to times.
75	** Some Sadidas have whole bird nests in their hair.
76	** Encre Noire spends most of "A Fistful of Kamas" atop Ruel's head, though not really out of his choice. He sometimes rides his adopted daughter Elaine's head too.
77	* HeartSymbol: Seen occasionally floating around Sadlygrove when he looks at Evangelyne.
78	* HelpImStuck: In season 3 episode 6, Amaila gets stuck in a trapdoor because her butt. Yugo and Elely pull her arms to no avail. She gets out only when Yugo teleports behind her and pushes her butt through the hole.
79	* HenpeckedHusband: Kabrok
80	* HeroicSacrifice:
81	** [[spoiler:Sadlygrove]] in episode 25.
82	** Also [[spoiler:Phaeris]] in the manga.
83	* HighHeelHurt: In "Miss Ugly," as part of an "ugly princess disguise," Evangelyne has to wear high-heeled sandals. As she's an ActionGirl and totally unaccustomed to them, this results in several embarrassing slips and falls for her, including one down a full flight of stairs.
84	* HoldUpYourScore: Sadlygrove in episode 4, when he's judging the beauty... ahem, ugly pageant.
85	* HoldYourHippogriffs: For any Earth-based expression using an animal, it is replaced with a species from the world of ''Wakfu'' -- though the name used is always close enough to keep the meaning readily understandable. And it's not just animals: the first spoken line in the entire series is roughly, "What the bwork?"
86	* HollywoodMirage: Happens to Sadlygrove in episode 22.
87	* {{Homage}}:
88	** Episode 5; the title can be translated as "The Magnificent Five", which is an obvious reference to the 1960s western ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]''. The episode itself is about the FiveManBand [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers teaching a village how to protect themselves]] from pillagers, which mirrors the plot of the film.
89	** The first season's three-episode Gobbowl arc was largely inspired by the "Rugball" arc of ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'', including its typical PastelChalkedFreezeFrame.
90	** A good chunk of episode 14 is a homage to ''Film/KingKong'', complete with CapturedByCannibals, DamselInDistress, BeastAndBeauty and Monkeys. Only the monkey's size is not really the same.
91	* HomeBase: The Justice Knight's hideout.
92	* HomeworldEvacuation: An alien variation. It's revealed in Season 2 that the Eliatropes aren't originally from the World of Twelve: they were forced to evacuate into space from their original homeworld onboard [[spoiler:the Zinit]] due to the war against the Mechasms driving them out, draining wakfu from planets they passed by to fuel their ship. The Council of Twelve ultimately decided to settle on the World of Twelve and make it their people's new home, although [[spoiler:Qilby]] wanted their people to remain SpaceNomads cruising the Krosmoz. It's later again revealed that [[spoiler:Qilby ''wanted'' the Homeworld Evacuation to occur so that he could explore the Krosmoz]].
93	* HopelessSuitor: Armand toward Evangelyne, who has absolutely no interest in the prince and considers him an egotistical dick with pig breath.
94	* HopeSpot:
95	** A minor one in episode 24. For a little while it looks like the Sadidas might be able to defeat Nox's minions before they can construct a portal to bring in his giant clockwork-spider doom-fortress. Unfortunately [[spoiler:it's all a distraction. The horde of minions aren't even building a portal, they're just there to keep the Sadidas occupied while one of Nox's other minions mind-controls a group of Sadidas into building a portal for him (working them to death in the process). The good guys don't realize this until it activates]].
96	** Far, far worse in the finale, when [[spoiler:Yugo, Adamaï, and Nox travel 20 minutes back in time. For a brief moment Yugo thinks that they might be able to prevent Sadlygrove's death, only to discover that they fell a few minutes short]].
97	* HornedHumanoid: Osamodas
98	* HorrifyingTheHorror:
99	** Rubilax in full rampage mode stops dead on his tracks at the mere sight of [[spoiler:Goultard]] (and tries to ''inconspicuously slither away'' while in the body of a giant worm -- [[Funny/{{Wakfu}} hilarious]]).
100	** Several cases in succession with the chase from episode 21 of season 2, turning it pretty much into a ''[[Series/TheBennyHillShow Benny Hill Show]]'' scene.
101	* HorrorHunger: "The Thursters" are a race of intangible ghouls who are cut off from ever touching what they treasure, stranding them in an eternal, lonely thirst.
102	* HorseArcher: Or rather, Dragoturkey Archer. Evangelyne is riding a dragoturkey the first time we see her wielding her bow. She's riding one again in episode 24 and in season 2 episode 2.
103	* HorseOfADifferentColor: The most common steed in this world is the dragoturkey ("dragodinde" in the original French). Also, some of these [[GiantFlyer large birds can fly]].
104	* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: The backstory of the Dragon-Pig has him being the result of a romance between a dragon and a sow....
105	* HowDareYouDieOnMe: In episode 26:
106	-->[[spoiler:'''Evangelyne:''' You wanted to enter the legend? Just you wait I'm gonna put you in it!]]
107	* HufflepuffHouse: Sufokia
108	* HumanHummingbird:
109	** Frantically flapping arms is done by some characters when about to fall, notably Evangelyne in episodes 4 and 20.
110	** Also Yugo starting to cook under the desert sun in episode 21.
111	* HurricaneKick: [[spoiler:Sadlygrove]] against the Dragon-Pig.
112	* HurricaneOfPuns: Some of the character entries on the ''Wakfu'' official website. The one for the Dragon-Pig is especially bad about it.
113	* HurtFootHop: A good one in season 1 episode 22: Sadlygrove is suffering from heat stroke in the desert, and is convinced the ruin he's stumbling toward is just another mirage. So he gives a good kick to its stone wall — barefoot. Cue the one-legged dance.
114	* HypocriticalHumor:
115	** In season 1 episode 8, Evangelyne scolds Sadlygrove for his bad table manners... just before starting wolfing down herself.
116	** Then in episode 10 she calms Amalia down after finding out the boys have been playing with her Doll. Amalia then argues how she would feel if the guys were playing with her bow. Cut to the guys doing just that, and now Amalia is stopping Eva from killing them.
117	** Season 2 episode 5 has the "IWarnedYou" example below.
118	* IAmNotShazam: In-universe example. The names of the races and the gods that they follow are often used interchangeably. For example, an Enutrof's Fingers (a follower of the god Enutrof), is often just called "an Enutrof".
119	* IAmWho: Yugo finding out he is the last of the Eliatropes [[spoiler:until Qilby appears. Also him being their reborn former king]].
120	* IconicOutfit: The Eliatrope hat which there are a lot of variations upon, but it always has the "ears" and very often the "tail" with the tuft at the end.
121	* TheIgor: Igor, who speaks with a strong Eastern-European accent, clearly evokes this. He's not a hunchback, however, but a huge Shushu mirror.
122	* IgnoredEnemy: Happens to the Black Raven in episode 3, [[NonSequitur while our heroes discuss how (un)intimidating his name sounds, even coming up with alternative suggestions on their own]].
123	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Happens twice to Evangelyne, first with Vampyro [[spoiler:(who definitely wants her body, but for Shadofang to possess)]], and then with the pirate captain Smisse Monde.
124	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight:
125	** Evangelyne tries this on a Rubilax-possessed Sadlygrove in season 1 episode 19. However, he only starts regaining his senses [[spoiler:after crushing both Eva's arm and bow.]]
126	** Attempted by Amalia [[spoiler:on a monkeyfied Yugo]] in season 2 episode 21. Doesn't work much.
127	* IMeantToDoThat:
128	** Sadlygrove, during the duel against Prince Armand.
129	** Kriss Krass, during the match against the Masked Gobbowler.
130	* ImmortalApathy: [[spoiler:Qilby]] [[Characters/{{Wakfu}} the Traitor]] has a supernaturally eidetic memory which forces him to perpetually retain all his past lives' memories across his reincarnation cycle, functionally making him eternal. As a result of several millennia of enduring this and knowing it will never stop, [[spoiler:Qilby]] doesn't give much of a damn about anybody's feelings except [[ItsAllAboutMe his own]] anymore. He's willing to callously sacrifice an entire world and all its inhabitants so he can continue selfishly cruising the stars and keep his overloaded brain distracted, even tormenting and trying to kill his extended siblings (knowing they'll only reincarnate with their memories wiped if they die); with the justification that [[StrawNihilist all mortal lifeforms are nothing but passing specks of dust that come and go constantly in the larger universe]].
131	* ImmortalityInducer: The Eliacube to Nox.
132	* ImOkay:
133	** Given by Yugo several times in season 1 episode 21 after he constantly falls or runs into things.
134	** Amalia protests this in season 2 episode 12, after she's been put in a full-body cast and the two commentators basically start her obituary.
135	* TheImp: Grufon qualifies as the harmless kind while sealed in the map... but in episode 13 [[spoiler:he becomes the NotSoHarmlessVillain kind when he gets free and possesses an arachne]].
136	* ImportantHaircut:
137	** Kriss at the end of episode 12.
138	** Evangelyne at the end of season 2's first episode.
139	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Almost every character has his own improbable weapon.
140	** Ruel uses a shovel (and fake gold pieces) to fight.
141	** Amalia, like many Sadida, uses a veggie doll.
142	** The Black Raven uses a spear/sword which is [[{{BFS}} twice as big as him]].
143	** Xav the baker use a wooden baker plate.
144	** Goultard uses a broken sword tied to a chain.
145	** In "Vampyro", even the Tofu is used as a weapon!
146	** That's how it works in the original game, too. There's only a few exceptions, like swords and unarmed combat. There's even a class which is designed to fight with ''giant clockwork needles''!
147	** Nox's Clockwork Mecha [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]] is at its simplest a giant ambulatory ''pocket watch.''
148	* ImprovisedGolems:
149	** Rubilax's stone clones fit in this category.
150	** Adamaï summons a stone golem to fight in both episode 15 of the first season, and episode 1 of the second season.
151	* InASingleBound:
152	** Sadlygrove possessed by Rubilax.
153	** Goultard
154	* IndyEscape: The classic boulder appears shortly in episode "The Dragon-Pig", along with most typical TempleOfDoom traps. You can tell it's going to be this from a glance at the map before it's even shown on screen. Note that here the tunnel is perfectly circular, hence there's no corners where to hide from the boulder, even if you're [[ForcedTransformation a small piglet]].
155	* InertiaIsACruelMistress: Yugo's portals work this way, but given his ability to orient them any way he wishes, it's quite effective.
156	* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: Episode 6 of season 1, "Vampyro", looks similar to any other WackyWaysideTribe {{Filler}}, but it introduces several elements that will prove important by season 2, especially [[spoiler:Shadofang]].
157	* {{Irony}}: After being separated from the rest of the party for multiple episodes in season 3, Tristepin reaches the Feca demi-god's floor, who asks for his underwear to pass without a fight. Tristepin accepts the deal and is granted free passage. When Goultard says it would have been easier just to beat him up, Tristepin replies he's trying to not use violence as a first resort and says Yugo would have agreed. In fact, Yugo's first choice earlier in the same scenario was to use violence.
158	* InstantIceJustAddCold:
159	** Whenever Evangelyne uses an ice arrow, lots of ice form around the point of impact.
160	** Nausea encases Rubilax in ice with a magic potion in episode 7.
161	** [=McDeek=]'s freezing ray in episode 9.
162	** The classic comic-relief-encased-in-a-square-block-of-ice happens to Sadlygrove (and Rubilax) in episode 17 after falling in a frozen lake. Adamaï melts the ice with his fire breath.
163	* InsultBackfire: The Iop King uses the ongoing insult of his race being DumbMuscle to his favor towards helping Quilby, claiming that the Iops' brains are too small to consider treachery.
164	* InsultOfEndearment: Evangelyne's "Iop-brain" for Sadlygrove.
165	* InterspeciesAdoption: Elaine
166	* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: Yugo against Nox in the season finale [[spoiler:with Adamaï knocked out and the rest of the FiveManBand otherwise distracted, mostly because of Razortime]].
167	* IShallTauntYou: Goultard is not afraid to mock even a PhysicalGod:
168	-->'''Rushu:''' You think you can upset me your insults?\
169	'''Goultard:''' By Iop, no! I know you're way too stupid to understand even half of it.
170	:: And that's saying something when you come from a species known for being dim.
171	* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: In episode 22 of season 2. [[spoiler:It immediately stops once Ruel drops the act of playing dead.]]
172	* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Evangelyne in episode 7, when surrounded by an army of evil dolls.
173	* ItMakesSenseInContext: The main hero team call themselves The Brotherhood Of Tofu. To anyone not familliar with the plot this may sound like a food fanclub, but in-universe a Tofu is a bird-like creature, and Az, Yugo's almost-insperable pet, is one. The team wanted to have a name that would remind them of all they went through together once they have to part ways, and they ultimately chose Tofu due to their affection for Az and how it reminded them of the good times they shared. In a way, this kind of name is similar to ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'''s Band of Hawk group, and it quickly spreads in-universe: by the time of Season 2 many people and officials adress the team as the Brotherhood.
174	* IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt: Sadlygrove pulls one on the party's first visit to the Sadida kingdom, after Evangelyne advises them that in the royal palace, they should act like gentlemen and with courtesy.
175	-->'''Sadlygrove:''' Please Eva, who do you think I am? I am a knight; I know about "gentlemaning".\
176	''[stage-whispers to Ruel]'' Who's this "courtesy" guy?
177	* IWantThemAlive: Nox specifically orders Igôle to bring back Adamaï "without damaging him too much", since he wants to drain his wakfu. Thus [[JustifiedTrope explaining]] why Igôle would [[JustEatHim swallow whole]] the dragonet with no more damage than [[ShapeshifterModeLock locking his shapechange]].
178	* IWarnedYou: In season 2 episode 5, [[spoiler:Sadlygrove tries to warn Yugo, Amalia and Evangelyne of the dangers of the Dragon-Pig's lair, as he's the only one with experience in DungeonCrawling. They pay him no heed, used to ignoring the IdiotHero... until the three are struck with a ForcedTransformation]].
179	-->'''[[spoiler:Sadlygrove]]:''' [[LampshadeHanging I wouldn't want to play the "I warned you" card...]] ''[deep breath]'' '''[[HypocriticalHumor BUT I WARNED YOU!]]'''

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