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''El Eternauta'' ("''The Eternaut''") is the most famous Argentinian Comic, (alongside ''ComicStrip/{{Mafalda}}'', of course. And maybe ''ComicBook/{{Cybersix}}'', [[AdaptationDisplacement assuming people remember]] it ''was'' an Argentinian comic book). It was first published in a weekly basis from [[TheFifties 1957 to 1959]] in the Hora Cero magazine, scripted by Creator/HectorGermanOesterheld and featuring art by Francisco Solano López.

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''El Eternauta'' ("''The Eternaut''") is the most famous Argentinian Comic, (alongside ''ComicStrip/{{Mafalda}}'', of course.''ComicStrip/{{Mafalda}}''. And maybe ''ComicBook/{{Cybersix}}'', [[AdaptationDisplacement assuming people remember]] it ''was'' an Argentinian comic book). It was first published in a weekly basis from [[TheFifties 1957 to 1959]] in the Hora Cero magazine, scripted by Creator/HectorGermanOesterheld and featuring art by Francisco Solano López.
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* {{Robinsonade}}: Referenced repeatedly by Juan Salvo at the beginning of the story, as quoted on this page. Oesterheld explained that he was a fan of Creator/DanielDefoe and Creator/JulesVerne and had started El Eternauta as his own version of RobinsonCrusoe; but that the story did not stay that way for long.

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* {{Robinsonade}}: Referenced repeatedly by Juan Salvo at the beginning of the story, as quoted on this page. Oesterheld explained that he was a fan of Creator/DanielDefoe and Creator/JulesVerne and had started El Eternauta as his own version of RobinsonCrusoe; Literature/RobinsonCrusoe; but that the story did not stay that way for long.
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* {{Robinsonade}}: Referenced repeatedly by Juan Salvo at the beginning of the story, as quoted on this page - Oesterheld was apparently a fan of Creator/JulesVerne. But the story does not stay that way for long.

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* {{Robinsonade}}: Referenced repeatedly by Juan Salvo at the beginning of the story, as quoted on this page - page. Oesterheld explained that he was apparently a fan of Creator/JulesVerne. But Creator/DanielDefoe and Creator/JulesVerne and had started El Eternauta as his own version of RobinsonCrusoe; but that the story does did not stay that way for long.
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* Robinsonade: Referenced repeatedly by Juan Salvo at the beginning of the story, as quoted on this page - Oesterheld was apparently a fan of JulesVerne. But the story does not stay that way for long.

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* Robinsonade: {{Robinsonade}}: Referenced repeatedly by Juan Salvo at the beginning of the story, as quoted on this page - Oesterheld was apparently a fan of JulesVerne.Creator/JulesVerne. But the story does not stay that way for long.

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* LaResistance: Both the first and second parts of El Eternauta develop around this trope.



* NothingIsScarier: The crash? Just a mundane car crash. The sudden blackout? A fuse. The first thing that made the gang realize that something was wrong was the sudden silence. All the noises you can hear in a city, even at night, suddenly stopped.



* LaResistance: Both the first and second parts of El Eternauta develop around this trope.
* NothingIsScarier: The crash? Just a mundane car crash. The sudden blackout? A fuse. The first thing that made the gang realize that something was wrong was the sudden silence. All the noises you can hear in a city, even at night, suddenly stopped.


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* Robinsonade: Referenced repeatedly by Juan Salvo at the beginning of the story, as quoted on this page - Oesterheld was apparently a fan of JulesVerne. But the story does not stay that way for long.
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Most of the alien technology is so advanced that even the scientist of the group, Favalli, doesn't have a clue on how it works. Grade 1 in the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness.

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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Most of the alien technology is so advanced that even the scientist of the group, Favalli, doesn't have a clue on how it works. Grade 1 in the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness.
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* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: The radio dashed the gang's hopes: there will be no rescue. No in the short term, at least. Lucas began to lose it: everything will run out, and they will die like rats! Juan cried the names of Elena and Martita. So Favalli halted it: yes, circumstances are bleaker than they thought, but they can still survive if they keep cool heads. Let's build a hazard suit to protect themselves against the snow, and gather resources.
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* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The aliens silenced all radios worldwide. They don't use them for their own means: there's nothing but static. The idea was simply to difficult large-scale resistance. By the end of the story, after their defeat and escape, the radio works was again [[spoiler:It's a trap!]]
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* LyingToProtectYourFeelings: Martita is helping her mom to takes notes of their stock of food, and points to Juan that her friend Susanita must be doing the thing at her home. Juan agreed... but thought that it was most likely that Susanita and all her family were dead.
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* LeFilmArtistique: Le ''Bande Dessinée'' Artistique. The Eternauta Remake of 1969 was lampooned and censored in Argentina because of ([[AnviLicious among]] other things) its mind-blowingly dark, gritty, groundbreaking, insane and sometimes abstract or downright incomprehensible art by Alberto Breccia, possibly the most talented comic artist ever born in Argentina. The French [[FrenchBelgianComicBooks BD]] avant-garde artists just [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible loved his style]], and its success allowed a French edition of both the remake and the original version. Several has been done since.
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* NothingIsScarier: The crash? Just a mundane car crash. The sudden blackout? A fuse. The first thing that made the gang realize that something was wrong was the sudden silence. All the noises you can hear in a city, even at night, suddenly stopped.
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* BigBlackout: The first consequence of the snow, besides the deaths, was a general blackout.

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* BigBlackout: The first consequence of the snow, besides the deaths, was a general blackout. Even phones were caught by it.
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* BigBlackout: The first consequence of the snow, besides the deaths, was a general blackout.
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* ZeeRust: Alien technology seems quite outdated and camp-material, but, well, [[TheFifties the same thing happens with just any Sci-Fi comic of that decade]]. Actually, put in context, some thingamajigs still look pretty cool and/or deadly. The trope runs very straight for the futuristic Buenos Aires of the [[CanonDisContinuity mediocre and apocryphal Third Part made the 80s]].

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* ZeeRust: Alien technology seems quite outdated and camp-material, but, well, [[TheFifties the same thing happens with just any Sci-Fi comic of that decade]]. Actually, put in context, some thingamajigs still look pretty cool and/or deadly. The trope runs very straight for the futuristic Buenos Aires of the [[CanonDisContinuity mediocre and apocryphal Third Part made the 80s]].third part.
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* WhileRomeBurns: Unknown to the gang, the snow has began to fall, and everybody in the street is falling dead. A car whose driver died crashed, and someone screamed. "You sit down, Juan! It's probably just a car accident, we're not stopping the game for that. I told you: we called final raise!"
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* InnerThoughtsOutsiderPuzzlement: Juan Salvo was having such a good moment, reflecting on his life. He has a transformer factory at home that allows him to live well enough, he has a warm house in that winter night, his loving wife is reading at the bed, his sweet daughter Martita is sleeping at her room... and Favalli interrupted the inner monologue. "Well? Are you asleep, Juan?" Stop daydreaming and distribute the cards!
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* RedHerring: The gang hears in the radio about a nuclear test that produced massive ammounts of radioactive dust, which is being spread by the wind. When the snowing starts, they suspect it's the radioactive dust. Needless to say, it isn't. Not by a long shot.
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* ShoutOut: The gang was hearing Music/LouisArmstrong in the radio during the Truco game. Favalli changed the station in anger when he lose.
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* ClueFromEd: In the first pages the characters are casually playing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truco Truco]]. It is a popular card game in Argentina but not so elsewhere, so the translation to English had to add a brief explanation of the rules below.

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* ClueFromEd: In the first pages the characters are casually playing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truco Truco]].TabletopGame/{{Truco}}. It is a popular card game in Argentina but not so elsewhere, so the translation to English had to add a brief explanation of the rules below.
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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Despite of the insane death toll of the series, Martita and Pablo do not die in the series. Pablo is enslaved as a robot-man, though.
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Plans for making TheMovie [[DevelopmentHell have been tossed around for decades]]. It was announced on 2020 that a television series was being produced by Creator/Netflix and directed by renowned filmmaker Creator/BrunoStagnaro. The series will adapt the story to our contemporary setting instead of 1950s Buenos Aires, and is currently set to be released by Netflix on 2022.

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Plans for making TheMovie [[DevelopmentHell have been tossed around for decades]]. It was announced on 2020 that a television series was being produced by Creator/Netflix Creator/{{Netflix}} and directed by renowned filmmaker Creator/BrunoStagnaro. The series will adapt the story to our contemporary setting instead of 1950s Buenos Aires, and is currently set to be released by Netflix on 2022.
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Plans for making TheMovie [[DevelopmentHell have been tossed around for decades]]. It was announced on 2020 that a television series was being produced by [[Netflix]] and directed by renowned filmmaker [[Bruno Stagnaro]]. The series will adapt the story to our contemporary setting instead of 1950s Buenos Aires, and is currently set to be released by Netflix on 2022.

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Plans for making TheMovie [[DevelopmentHell have been tossed around for decades]]. It was announced on 2020 that a television series was being produced by [[Netflix]] Creator/Netflix and directed by renowned filmmaker [[Bruno Stagnaro]].Creator/BrunoStagnaro. The series will adapt the story to our contemporary setting instead of 1950s Buenos Aires, and is currently set to be released by Netflix on 2022.
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Plans for making TheMovie [[DevelopmentHell have been tossed around for decades]].

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Plans for making TheMovie [[DevelopmentHell have been tossed around for decades]]. \n It was announced on 2020 that a television series was being produced by [[Netflix]] and directed by renowned filmmaker [[Bruno Stagnaro]]. The series will adapt the story to our contemporary setting instead of 1950s Buenos Aires, and is currently set to be released by Netflix on 2022.
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* ClueFromEd: In the first pages the characters are casually playing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truco Truco]]. It is a popular card game in Argentina but not so elsewhere, so the translation to English had to add a brief explanation of the rules below.
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* CaptainObvious: The very first thing Juan Salvo says when he appears at Oesterheld's house, before explaining his origin or his odd way to appear out of thin air, is "I'm on Earth, it seems...". Poor Oesterheld was not sure what to answer to that.

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