Aborted Arc: After the beginning two-parter of Season 2 ominously shows that she survived, Shadofang doesn't show up again aside from a gag in the credits.
In episode 22, Sadlygrove (suffering from a heat stroke) is wary of the mirages he's been seeing, so he gives one a good kick (barefoot) — only that one wasn't a mirage.
Shortly happens to Yugo in season 2 episode 1, from a gerbil's bite.
In season 2 episode 5, Sadlygrove gets bitten by the Evangelyne pig.
Ruel gets his foot stomped by his grandmother in season 2 episode 7.
All Part of the Show: Sadlygrove believes the Voice Thief attacking a candidate to be part of the song audition.
All There in the Manual: The series is based off of a Tactical MMORPG by the same name, which is in turn based off an older Tactical MMORPG called Dofus.
All Webbed Up: Happens to the heroes in episode 13, thanks to Grufon possessing an arachne.
Almost Kiss: One between Yugo and Amalia during Season 3 Episode 4.
Always a Bigger Fish: Spoofed and exaggerated in season 2 episode 21. A monster pursuing the girls is replaced by a bigger one not once, but four times in short succession.
The Eliacube. Nox planned to use it to boost his time-manipulation powers and travel back 200 years. And when Yugo gets his hands on the Cube in episode 26, it boosts his usual portal power, teleporting the whole Giant Clock mecha to Mt. Zinit. The prequel episode "Noximilien" reveals that Nox had no particular talent for magic before he found the Eliacube. And as of season 2: Qilby merges with it to replace his missing arm and boost his powers...
All the cheerleaders (including Eva and Amalia) in the Bontarian Gobbowl arc wear bunny-eared headbands.
Anguished Outburst: After Nox finally succeeds in gathering enough Wakfu to time travel, only to realize he can only go back by 20 minutes, he begins to cry and scream in rage.
The Anime of the Game: A Western Animation example, though the Wakfu universe is technically cross-media. Subverted somewhat in that the game was originally supposed to be released in early 2009, before the series started, but it wasn't released until 2012. The game is also explicitly set a decade or so before the series. (Yugo's adoptive father Alibert is one of the few NPCs in the game, and Yugo is upstairs in his house as an infant.)
Anti-Magic: A special device with mobile eyes can nullify magic powers. One is seen in the prison of the Justice Knight, and another in the wrestling arena of the Trool Fair.
Arcadia: Amakna, Emelka and the outer boundaries of Bonta.
The Brâkmarian nobles. They were planning to use The Mmmmmmmmmporpg as a weapon against Bonta.
Remington's nemesis, Ush Galesh, who is, in addition to being one of wealthiest individuals in Bonta, is an insatiably sadistic murderer and just happens to be the son of Ecaflip, and therefore a demigod.
Centuries before the start of the series, Ogrest caused a Class 1 (possibly a mild Class 4 for the biosphere itself) in the form of The Great Flood which reshaped the entire planet's topography from a large continent into scattered islands. And he's still slowly causing sea levels to rise and threaten the remaining landmasses into the present day, until the heroes confront him in the OVAs.
The OVAs in question see a particularly dynamic Class 0 in the form of the entirety of Mount Zinit being lifted into space, causing meteor chunks to rain down on the World of Twelve, and the mountain being permanently transported into Shukrute.
Nox in Season 1 has quite a bit of this around him:
He's successfully inflicted several Class 0's by wiping out entire countries in the process of draining wakfu from living things over the course of his 200-year quest.
And when he goes after the Tree of Life, by that act alone he threatens to cause a mild Class 3a, as the Sadidas as a species have a No Ontological Inertia relationship with the Tree. He succeeds in partly draining the Tree to the point that it starts dying and the Sadidas start perishing with it, but Nox's cosmic Reset Button reverses it all before we can see the full effects.
Grougaloragran believes reversing time isn't possible, and Nox's attempt to do so will only cause a Class X-X4 by ripping apart "the fabric of the world". This is subverted, as Nox successfully reverses time without any such consequences.
This comes from two angles in Season 2:
Qilby intends to drain the World of Twelve of its wakfu, which it has "just enough" of to get the Zinit off the ground and ready to cruise the Krosmoz again. The guy insists the world won't be destroyed though, it'll just be a bit, erm... ravaged.
In Season 3, Oropo's plan is to inflict a Class X-4 on the Home of the Gods by combining the Eliacube and six Eliatrope Dofus to form a dimension-destroying bomb. It's also strongly suggested he'd inflict some kind of Apocalypse How on the World of Twelve to cut off the population's prayers will feed the gods' powers.
Artifact of Attraction / Artifact of Doom: The Eliacube. In "Noximilien", it induces unhealthy obsession in Igôle, then with Nox, leading to paranoia and delusions of grandeur. The loss of his family is more the last straw pushing him over the edge after a long descent than a real trigger for his madness. Whether the artifact can really talk to Nox or the Xelor is just hearing voices is left unclear, but the latter is more likely.
No wonder Yugo is extremely wary of using the Cube at the beginning of season 2, even in order to discover the fate of his people, fearing that he could become like Nox.
Qilby on the other hand, knows how to get the most mileage out of the Eliacube with no apparent detrimental effects. His particular brand of insanity wasn't caused by the Eliacube.
Artificial Limbs: Qilby fusing with the Eliacube as a replacement arm.
Can be seen in episode 14, when the tribe's old chief, Botan Ficus, tells his story. The flashback is in a primitive/tribal art form.
Also, a minor one in episode 12 ("Gobbowl Hell 3"), with an artist making a very stylized painting of the heroes.
During the brawl in episode 19, there's a few shots who clearly mimics the style of Street Fighter IV art.
The specials, like "Noximilien" or The Legend of Ogrest, are in a different art style than the main series.
Ascended Extra: Several minor characters get their own graphic novels in the WAKFU Heroes series: Kabrok & Miranda (Le Corbeau Noir), Percimol, Remington & Grany, Maskemane, Elaine & Encre Noire (Tangomango).
Aside Glance: Ruel glances at the audience from time to time. For example, when Grovy asks him "Who's this 'courtesy' guy?"
Asteroids Monster: Mocked during the season 1 Title Sequence, with Yugo jumping onto some sort of gelatinous cube monster who splits into many smaller, cutesy-looking cubes.
Asshole Victim: Prince Armand gets brutally beaten by Rubilax-powered berserk Sadlygrove during the Brotherhood's stay in the Sadida Kingdom, but it's hard to feel any sympathy for him given that Sadlygrove would not have given into Rubilax's temptation if Armand didn't cheat during their friendly sparring and use all of his Sadida powers to wipe the floor with the Shushu Guardian in front of Evangelyne and Amalia, despite both of them agreeing to a clean hand-to-hand match beforehand. Moreover, Sadlygrove didn't even want to fight him in the first place to respect the girls' wish, but Armand mocked his sense of honor, the one thing Grovy would defend at all costs, to override that resolve.
Aura Vision: Dragons do this; it's how Grougaloragran chose Alibert to be Yugo's adoptive father. Eliatropes can do it, too.
Author Avatar: Xav the Baker is inspired by the character designer of the series, Xavier Houssin. Xav's wife and children are also inspired by his own family.
Awesome, but Impractical: Time Travel turns out to be this. Contrary to belief, it is possible, but judging by what Nox had to do for so little reversed time, the amount of wakfu necessary to go back any meaningful length to the past would require easily entire planets' worth of it.
Badass Boast: Rushu and Goultard allow themselves duelling Badass Boasts:
Rushu: The gods are too weak for me to worry about them, you little worm! And it's the same for you: you're just a shadow of your former self! Goultard: Which is still more than enough to sent you back from where you're coming. With your slip as handkerchief to wipe out your own tears.
Nox wastes his minions for the slightest objections or speaking at the wrong time.
Rushu terrifies even the major Shushus. He's seen using minor ones as projectiles, and incinerates a bunch of his minions just because they're in the way and he's in a hurry.
Bad Guy Bar: To some extent every bar in Brâkmar. Though you have to make a reservation before starting a Bar Brawl.
Bad Moon Rising: In season 2 episode 5, the moon shortly appears to have a pig's face on it, as a warning of the Dragon-Pig's ire.
In season 1 episode 6, the battle against the ghouls inside the inn. Note that the heroes are also busy getting dressed while brawling, so this gives them a little privacy.
In season 2 episode 5, Sadlygrove's fight against the GolemMid-Boss is only shown through its image on the map fissuring.
In season 2 episode 7, the start of the fight inside the gondola. Rule of Funny more than anything else here, to point out that the air pirates are no match against the heroes.
Battle in the Rain: The final battle in episode 26, with Adamaï and Yugo versus Nox, happens in the rain at Mt. Zinit. It is used to great visual effect when Nox stops time, and the raindrops first stop falling, hang in the air... and then rise upward when he reverses time.
Bear Hug: Canar and Renate gives one to runaway princess Amalia when she comes back to the Sadida kingdom. She soon begs them to not squeeze her so hard.
Beat Them at Their Own Game: Anathar with his red/black Shukrute portals instead of Yugo's blue/white Wakfu portals. He is even able to surpass the two-simultaneous-portal limitation.
"Be Quiet!" Nudge: After Sadlygrove starts to blurt out that he'd already seen Evangelyne naked, Eva, while denying, casually chokes him with an arm around his neck to stop him from adding a word.
Rubilax threatening to turn Evangelyne into a ghoul is what provokes Sadlygrove's Unstoppable Rage in episode 22. In fact, almost every time Grovy's Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass comes out, it's in response to Eva being in danger (or being hit on).
Don't call The Mmmmmmmmmporpg by his birth name. No, seriously, don't. Unless, well, you want the whole town razed.
Qilby doesn't take being called a traitor very well.
Bewitched Amphibians: Plenty weird frog hybrids are found in the tower of the Ugly Princesses. They are all former princes who tried to break their curse with a kiss, except it happened to be insincere.
Beyond the Impossible: Nox's whole plan of traveling back in time, something which even the god of time, Xelor himself, can't do. He succeeds in going back in time, but only by twenty minutes.
The OVAs have a Big Bad Ensemble between Lady Echo, the mysterious leader of the Siblings, an organization that wants to protect the World of Twelve from destruction, and an insane dofus-infused Ogrest, whose tears are flooding said world.
Big Ball of Violence: Sadlygrove manages to invoke this by scribbling very fast on a blackboard while explaining his strategy to fight the Trool wrestlers.
In episode 24, when Sadlygrove frees Evangelyne from Deserboss' Tentacle Rope.
Ruel and his Drill Tank in episode 25. Though he manages to save Evangelyne, he's too late to save Sadlygrove.
Goultard the Barbarian, in season 2 episode 24, shows up just as Sadlygrove and Rubilax are about to be crushed by Rushu.
The Big Damn Kiss: After 2 seasons, 3 special episodes, and 8 to 9 years of time chronologically of Unresolved Sexual Tension, Yugo and Amalia finally kiss in episode 7 of season 3.Shame that Yugo's hangups about his physical age makes him say it was a mistake 5 minutes later.
Bittersweet Ending: Season 1 ends with Nox being defeated. However his life's ambition to see his family again proved fruitless and all the damage he inflicted along the way can't be undone.
Sadlygrove's sword is the prison for a demon. While it makes it a potent weapon, it can in turn possess him if he lets his guard down.
Qilby is practically the embodiment of this: As one of the original six Eliatropes and their dragon siblings, Qilby is immortal. Unlike the other five, Qilby remembers all his past lives. This might seem pretty useful, and probably was for a while, but after thousands of years, being unable to forget has driven him well and truly insane.
Blind Mistake: This is the whole schtick of Chamberlain Thickdruft of the Sadidas. His eyes aren't visible under his hair, and he's old, so his eyesight is bad either way. He keeps confusing random people for Princess Amalia — and then accuses said people of trying to trick him with disguises.
Bling of War: The Justice Knight's armor and weapons are made out of gold.
A Bloody Mess: In episode 13, to fit with the overall horror-spoof theme, Sadlygrove spreads red berry juice everywhere.
Body-Count Competition: Sadlygrove and Rubilax have an impromptu one in season 2 episode 9. Problem is, Sadlygrove can't count.
Bond Villain Stupidity: Rushu. Wanting to play games with the heroes gives them a chance to escape, although Remington and Grany don't quite make it.
Boomerang Comeback: Attempted by Yugo with his wakfu shield in season 2 episode 25, but Qilby manages to parry it on the return.
Born-Again Immortality: The Eliatrope council, without the memory retention. Except for Qilby...
Bounty Hunter: Alibert and Ruel's previous occupation. It's when Alibert decided to quit because he was too soft-hearted that Grougaloragran left baby Yugo in his care.
Bowel-Breaking Bricks: In "Bellaphones Island", Encre Noire the octopus captain squirts a puddle of ink underneath him twice, the second time at the sight of a tidal wave about to engulf his ship.
Oh Crâ, episode 19. Sadlygrove, possessed by Rubilax, proceeds to crush both forearm and bow of Love Interest Evangelyne in one grasp. The tears of physical and emotional pain she show afterwards are enough to cause a My God, What Have I Done? moment in Sadlygrove, who is arguably also made a broken cutie.
And again in episode 25. Eva just can't catch a break.
She was this close to being even more broken when Amalia became a tree. It was averted that time, thank Crâ, but poor Eva seems like a Cosmic Plaything...
Sadlygrove with Evangelyne, shortly on their first encounter, then inside Eva's dream in episode 20, and in episode 24 after he saves her from Deserboss.
In season 2, Sadlygrove with Cleophelia on their first encounter, saving her from the Trool wrestlers.
Bring It: Sadlygrove to the Sadida warriors in episode 19.
Broken Pedestal: Yugo is initially in awe of the Justice Knights, but once he finds out how callous and hypocritical they are, and that even career criminals like Remington Smisse are capable of noble acts, he isn't quite as taken with them as he once was.
Bubble Pipe: Shanon Stone owns one with a cigarette-holder look.
Several Call Backs in season 2 episodes 2-3 to season 1 episode 6, with the return of Vampyro's castle and his ghouls.
Season 1 episode 9: "I don't like clicks..." Season 2 episode 5: "I really don't like clicks..."
Season 2 episode 18: "Another of that thing? We're gonna end up in our undies again."
Calvinball: Gobbowl. It seems pretty straightforward at first... but rules get thrown out the window about halfway through. In Bonta, a totem pole rises out of the ground and inflicts some effect chosen by the audience on the field, just for fun. And in Gobbowl, cheating is part of the sport.
The Cameo: Tons and tons. We can split them up in to types:
Internal cameos, which show characters from previous (or future) episodes out of context.
For example, you can see two of the princesses from episode 4 in the crowd in episode 10.
Goultard's mother is in the background in episode 3, heaving a heavy basket exactly like her initial appearance in a previous Ankama short film.
Ogrest, the monster that started the troubled age of Wakfu all by himself, makes a brief appearance in episode 26. You'd have to know the universe's backstory to understand what he's doing there, or even who he is, since it's not explained in the episode.
External cameos, which display some of the author's tastes in anime and series. Frequently in the background or in a crowd.
Camp Gay: Canar and Renate don't even try to be subtle about it. Renate himself is named after the fabulous Renato from the film/musical La Cage aux folles.
Cannot Kill Their Loved Ones: In the end, Oropo has an Omni-Man style downfall. He's willing to destroy an entire dimension along with all its inhabitants in the name of his cause, and he's engineered at least two major turning points in the World of Twelve's history that had truly apocalyptic ramifications with full knowledge of what would happen, but once members of his own Brotherhood whom he genuinely bonded with are directly put in harm's way by the culmination of his Evil Plan, he gradually realizes their lives aren't a price he can pay for the realization of his goals and he gives up.
Can't Live Without You: The Tree of Life holds the lifeforce of the whole Sadida people. Which means that when it is drained of all wakfu in episode 26, everyone of them turn into inert stumps, including Amalia.
Card-Carrying Villain: Rushu, and most of the Shushus. Rubilax used to be this, but he got over it through a combination of realizing that Being Evil Sucks, that he actually did care about his human companions, and that his inability to fully commit to being cruel and villainous got him absolutely no respect from the other Shushus so he might as well stick with the people who actually do.
Carpet of Virility: Male Evangelyne and Amalia from the Brâkmarian Gobbowl arc.
Cerebus Syndrome: The show starts off as very fun and colourful, and even the tragic Break the Cutie moment in episode 19 is created by somewhat silly circumstances (namely Sadlygrove insulting Armand's halitosis, and Armand spanking him repeatedly with a vine whip). But once you hit episode 24, Ankama takes all of your silly expectations of an innocent Saturday-morning kid's cartoon and utterly shatters them by delivering the darkest, most tense, and most heart-breaking season finale French animation has ever seen.
Chained by Fashion: Anathar, after escaping from the Justice Knight's prison, keeps the enormous manacles and chains around his huge wrists.
Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: Just before the Bontarian Gobbowl match, at the doors of the stadium, Ruel's team players get outfitted — which is okay since the gear is mostly put above their regular clothes. But Amalia and Eva also get to change into cheerleader outfits at the same time, while in the previous scene they were dressed as usual. When (and where) did they do that?
Remington does this to Evangelyne in season 2 episode 2.
Also happens to Amalia in episode 24 of season 2.
Cliffhanger: An infamous one at the end of episode 15, which acted as a mid-season break while Ankama and France 3 worked on finishing future episodes and scheduling. Not knowing what would happen to the heroes who were caught in dragon's breath, and knowing that the answer was only going to come six or seven months later was quite annoying.
Clock Punk: Not applicable to the whole setting, but frequent examples show up.
Nox's creations are all based on intricate clockwork design, from his Giant Mecha Watch, to his Clockwork Creatures like Razortime.
The cable-car manned by Ruel's grandmother.
The home base of the Justice Knight and his Justice Train.
Some Eliatrope design, like the interior of the Zinit, also evokes this trope.
Grougaloragran's humanoid form during the fight against Nox's puppets.
Nox's armor takes quite a beating in the same episode, revealing his Xelor wrappings.
Yugo during the season 2 finale, though mostly due to an awesome burst of power. By the time he's done with Qilby, he's only wearing his pants- having finally revealed what was under that hat.
Qilby's is also pretty torn up by the end of season two.
Grougaloragran as a Giant Squid makes heavy use of them.
Anathar can conjure pitch-black tentacles directly from Rushu's dimension through portals. They're agressive enough that they even seize their summoner if he gets too close.
A continuation of the cartoon following Season 2; fittingly in a format typical for Manga.
Also the WAKFU Heroes series of graphic novels featuring minor characters from the show: Le Corbeau Noir (Kabrok & Miranda), Percimol (the Dripple hero), Remington Arc 1 and 2 (Remington & Grany), Maskemane and Tangomango (Elaine & Encre Noire).
Companion Cube: The Eliacube, which is regarded as sentient by Nox. Whether it really is or not has been left unclear.
Qilby has a similar motivation to Rushu, but on a more galactic scale, prefers not to get his hands dirty unless he has to, prefers to manipulate others into his bidding, operates solo for the most part, and knows more about how the Eliacube works, whereas Nox only barely understood it.
Convection, Schmonvection: Brâkmar is built on volcanic ground, with lava rivers flowing below several parts of the town, which should make the whole city too hot to be liveable. The Gobbowl Stadium itself is above a lava lake.
Couch Gag: Yugo flies towards the episode's antagonist at the end of each Title Sequence of season 1. For episodes not centered on Yugo, it's Sadlygrove who jumps towards the antagonist.
Coup de Grâce: Narrowly averted in episode 26; Yugo wanted to finish off Nox but was distracted by Ogrest's roar.
Covered in Gunge: The Dragoturkey dung bath in episode 4 of season 1.
Crazy-Prepared: Pandiego de la Vega in episode 13 of season 2.
Creative Closing Credits: The credits of each episode have a small scene acted out by a character or characters from that episode alongside them. The first four episodes are simply the main characters introducing themselves, but the following episodes all have little skits attached.
Creepy Souvenir: Qilby's collection of various animals from all the planets the Eliatropes harvested.
Cruel Mercy: Amalia does this to Ruel in the first episode of Season 2. After realizing it was him that was causing all of the critters from underground to terrorize the Sadida people in his search for gold, she decides to not throw him in jail in exchange for all of the gold he found since it rightfully belongs to the Sadida people. Ruel pleads to have his head cut off instead, but she doesn't listen.
Cute Clumsy Girl: Evangelyne in high heels, in episode 4. Which gives you a hint that it's not really her when she's dancing in heels at the beginning of episode 22.
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it wasn't released until 2012. The game is also explicitly set a decade or so before the series. (Yugo's adoptive father Alibert is one of the few NPCs in the game, and Yugo is upstairs in his house as an infant.)