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* BespectacledCutie: Wears big round glasses and is an attractive, pleasant, innocent young woman.
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* TheBusCameBack: Like Fantasio, he's seen again in Delaf's 2023 continuation, albeit for a shorter role. In one strip, he appears in the end, when Fantasio go back to their home, and Spirou asks how his day was (exhausting, due to Gaston). In another, while Fantasio was ready to leave after Prunelle came back, Spirou noted the latter still looked depressed. Spirou then guilt Fantasio into staying at the editor board, for emotional support. But he refuse to stay himself to support Fantasio as well, despite Spip's accuser glare.
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* PutOnABus: His partner Paul the Acrobat was only seen in one comic and never appeared again after that.
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* PutOnABus: His partner Paul the Acrobat was only seen in one comic and never appeared again for decades after that.that. In the 22th album, TheBusCameBack and Paul has quite on the contrary an important role in the last pages, given that he stole original picture plates Franquin did for ''Spirou magazine'', and it's up to Gaston to get them back.
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* SeenItAll: In one strip, he's seen spending one day at work surrounded by Gaston's endlessly insane antics. When he returns home and Spirou asks him about his work day, his reply is "You know, the usual".
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* SeenItAll: In one strip, he's seen spending one day at work surrounded by Gaston's endlessly insane antics. When he returns home and Spirou asks him about his work day, his reply is "You know, the usual".usual", in a perfectly deadpan look.
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* SeenItAll: In one strip, he's seen spending one day at work surrounded by Gaston's endlessly insane antics. When he returns home and Spirou asks him about his work day, his reply is "You know, the usual".
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* TheBusCameBack: He reappears in Delaf's 2023 continuation, covering for Prunelle after Gaston's antics finally cause him to snap and take some medical time off.
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A burglar who sometimes targets the Spirou offices during his nightly actions. This never ends well for him due to Gaston's antics.
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* FriendlyEnemy: The office staff tend to treat his appearances as friendly visits due to his burglaries never ending well, usually sending him off with some freebies instead of handing him to the police.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: His brushes with Gaston's antics usually leave him in such a dismal state that the office workers see him less as a villain and more as yet another victim of Gaston's antics. The worst he ever got from them was a harsh glare from Prunelle.
* PutOnABus: His partner Paul the Acrobat was only seen in one comic and never appeared again after that.
* RunningGag: His attempts to burglarize the Spirou offices are as doomed as the Mesmaeker's contract signing.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: His first appearence was meant to establish him as a clumsy person, but this trait never appeared again after that and he pretty much became "Gaston's second friend" and had a rather flat personality. In later comics, he's given yet another personality trait, which is being depressed, reflecting the author's mental state.
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* ProneToTears: Sometimes.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Several translations make him Gaston's cousin, even though they aren't related in any way in the original French version.
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* TheSlacker: Gaston is considered the UrExample of this in FrenchBelgianComics. He is an icon of slacking at work, and this is his defining trait apart from his whimsical childish spirit and eccentric inventor.
* WalkingDisasterArea: The whole comic centers on Gaston being this. He causes destruction, chaos and pollution, even if he doesn't mean it.
* WalkingDisasterArea: The whole comic centers on Gaston being this. He causes destruction, chaos and pollution, even if he doesn't mean it.
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* TheSlacker: Gaston is considered the UrExample of this in FrenchBelgianComics.FrancoBelgianComics. He is an icon of slacking at work, and this is his defining trait apart from his whimsical childish spirit and eccentric inventor.
* WalkingDisasterArea: The whole comic centers on Gaston being this. He causes destruction, chaos andpollution, pollution anywhere he goes, even if he doesn't mean it.
* WalkingDisasterArea: The whole comic centers on Gaston being this. He causes destruction, chaos and
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* CatchPhrase: "Rogntudju!" (a mangled version of "Nom de Dieu"). The English translation changes it to "Fragmaggots!"
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* CatchPhrase: "Rogntudju!" (a mangled version of (an [[{{Angrish}} anger-mangled]] "Nom de Dieu"). Dieu!" - "In the name of God!"). The English translation changes it to "Fragmaggots!"the less blasphemous "Fragmaggots!".
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Usually he's friendly and upbeat, he gets along with everyone, and is by far the most likely to see the humorous side of Gaston's antics (even joining in on occasion). Push him too far though, and he can flip out worse than Prunelle.
* TheCameo: He's made a couple of brief cameos in ''Spirou & Fantasio,'' most substantially in the 2016 album ''Wrath of the Marsupilami,'' where he unwittingly provides a clue as to what exactly had happened to the Marsupilami.
* TheCameo: He's made a couple of brief cameos in ''Spirou & Fantasio,'' most substantially in the 2016 album ''Wrath of the Marsupilami,'' where he unwittingly provides a clue as to what exactly had happened to the Marsupilami.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Usually he's friendly and upbeat, he gets along with everyone, and is by far the most likely to see the humorous side of Gaston's antics (even joining in on occasion). Push him too far though, and he can flip out worse even ''worse'' than Prunelle.
* TheCameo: He's made a couple of brief cameos in''Spirou & Fantasio,'' ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'', most substantially in the 2016 album ''Wrath of the Marsupilami,'' where he unwittingly provides a clue as to what exactly had happened to the Marsupilami.
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** Exemplified in one strip where what set him off into destroying the contracts before even a chance of signing them was seeing Gaston prance around the park to leafs blowing in the wind instead of being at work. Apparently he never heard of people having a day off or being on holidays.
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** In some of the first strips, he randomly swaps between addressing Fantasio with one of the French pronouns "vous" or "tu". He quickly settled to addressing almost all of his colleagues, including Fantasio, with "tu".
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** In some of the first strips, he randomly swaps between addressing Fantasio with one of the French pronouns "vous" "vous"[[note]]the formal form of "you"[[/note]] or "tu"."tu"[[note]]the familiar form of "you"[[/note]]. He quickly settled to addressing almost all of his colleagues, including Fantasio, with "tu".
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* BareYourMidriff: A rare non-fanservice example, Gaston is too lazy to straighten out his clothing, so his clothes always show off his navel.
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* FatalFlaw: Sloth. Gaston may be the biggest slacker in Franco-Belgian history.
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* FatalFlaw: Sloth. Gaston may be the biggest slacker in Franco-Belgian history. FellAsleepStandingUp: He occasionally falls asleep while standing up.
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* HeavySleeper: When Gason sleeps, he ''sleeps.''
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* HeavySleeper: When Gason Gaston sleeps, he ''sleeps.''''
* IconicOutfit: His green turtleneck sweater.
* LaboriousLaziness: Gaston invests a lot of time and effort to stay out of work, and goof around. One strip had him get so exhausted at trying to avoid Prunelle's demand to do a job that he ends up accepting the job anyway, as it'd be less tiring.
* IconicOutfit: His green turtleneck sweater.
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* WalkingDisasterArea: The whole comic centers on Gaston being this. He causes destruction, chaos and pollution, even if he doesn't mean it.
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* CasanovaWannabe: Often seen flirting with one of the secretaries, but for some reason or other (usually Gaston-related) it never works out.
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* CasanovaWannabe: Often seen flirting with one of the secretaries, but for some reason or other (usually Gaston-related) it never works out.
* TheDogBitesBack: He's Gaston's friend, but even he has limits to his tolerance for BunglingInventor antics. One strip has him struggle to carry a heavy travel bag while Gaston shows off his latest invention: a motorized suitcase... where so much space is taken up by the batteries that it can only contain a toothbrush. The last panel is Jules briskly driving the suitcase while Gaston is dragging the bag, sporting a black eye.
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Thas a huge stretch (also that's not flour, that's cement).
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* FieryRedhead: Sometimes averted, but in one strip. [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1026257833813632025#imgViewer He was so mad that Gaston never answered the phone]], most likely due to him having flour dried up on his body and getting stuck in it.
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* FireyRedhead: Sometimes averted, but in one strip. [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1026257833813632025#imgViewer He was so mad that Gaston never answered the phone]], most likely due to him having flour dried up on his body and getting stuck in it.
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* FireyRedhead: FieryRedhead: Sometimes averted, but in one strip. [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1026257833813632025#imgViewer He was so mad that Gaston never answered the phone]], most likely due to him having flour dried up on his body and getting stuck in it.
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* FireyRedhead: Sometimes averted, but in one strip. [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1026257833813632025#imgViewer He was so mad that Gaston never answered the phone]], most likely due to him having flour dried up on his body and getting stuck in it.
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-->'''Gaston:''' Well it all started when I added the Grand Marnier...
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-->'''Gaston:''' Well it all started when I added the Grand Marnier...
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* ButtMonkey: He is doomed to get into a scrape whenever he appears in the comic.
* {{Jerkass}}: While his temper and negative attitude are generally justified (he tends to get put through the wringer whenever he dares to step into the Spirou offices), he also always assumes the worst of everyone, never listens to explanations, and can get directly sadistic in his retaliations. The only times you see him smile tend to be when someone ''else'' is suffering. His movie incarnation is worse, lacking the humanizing moments that he after all did occasionally have in the comics.
* {{Jerkass}}: While his temper and negative attitude are generally justified (he tends to get put through the wringer whenever he dares to step into the Spirou offices), he also always assumes the worst of everyone, never listens to explanations, and can get directly sadistic in his retaliations. The only times you see him smile tend to be when someone ''else'' is suffering. His movie incarnation is worse, lacking the humanizing moments that he after all did occasionally have in the comics.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In one comic, he leaves the room laughing out loud after Gaston destroyed a model of the offices' future building project with his miniature Gaffophone.
* ButtMonkey: He is doomed to get into a scrape whenever he appears in thecomic.
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* DeadpanSnarker: When he leaves after his signing fails, he usually quips about the situation he's in.
* {{Jerkass}}: While his temper and negative attitude are generally justified (he tends to get put through the wringer whenever he dares to step into the Spirou offices), he also always assumes the worst of everyone, never listens to explanations, and can get directly sadistic in his retaliations. The only times you see him smile tend to be when someone ''else'' is suffering. His movie incarnation is worse, lacking the humanizing moments that he after all did occasionally have in thecomics. comics.
* IronicName: His name can be read in English as "messmaker", though it isn't his role in the comic, that would belong to Gaston, whose mess he usually gets himself into.
* ButtMonkey: He is doomed to get into a scrape whenever he appears in the
* DeadpanSnarker: When he leaves after his signing fails, he usually quips about the situation he's in.
* {{Jerkass}}: While his temper and negative attitude are generally justified (he tends to get put through the wringer whenever he dares to step into the Spirou offices), he also always assumes the worst of everyone, never listens to explanations, and can get directly sadistic in his retaliations. The only times you see him smile tend to be when someone ''else'' is suffering. His movie incarnation is worse, lacking the humanizing moments that he after all did occasionally have in the
* IronicName: His name can be read in English as "messmaker", though it isn't his role in the comic, that would belong to Gaston, whose mess he usually gets himself into.
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** Almost literal example when he gets forbidden from making flambee crepes in the office and uses a presidential parade as a distraction to do it anyway. The Grand Marnier bottle ignites as he pours it into his pan, fires off like a missile and explodes just meters away from the presidential limousine. He has a lot of explaining to do to the secret service agents who immediately arrest him.
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* GlassesGirl: She wears large glasses, but they don't make her look any less cute.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: He appears to be a serious no-nonsense business man, but some strips reveal that he has a hidden, sillier side.
** He once trolled Fantasio with a latex version of himself, similar to Gaston's latex replica. This results in Fantasio spending a whole day trying to get the fake De Mesmaeker's attention while the real one is dining somewhere else, laughing as he imagines Fantasio's reaction.
** At two occasions, he prioritizes a contract with Gaston over the one he's been trying to sign for years. One time for a soup, and another time for an astronaut capsule-shaped clock he found hilarious.
** There's a time where he sees Gaston's cat playing with a piece of paper Gaston is sliding under a door. While he finds it ridiculous that someone would pay their employees to do something like this instead of working, he actually gets excited about wether the cat is gonna catch the paper or not. He also finds it funny when the cat shredds the paper, until he sees that it's the contracts.
** He enjoys puppet shows and eating fries, which is not something people would imagine a rich business man to do.
** He once trolled Fantasio with a latex version of himself, similar to Gaston's latex replica. This results in Fantasio spending a whole day trying to get the fake De Mesmaeker's attention while the real one is dining somewhere else, laughing as he imagines Fantasio's reaction.
** At two occasions, he prioritizes a contract with Gaston over the one he's been trying to sign for years. One time for a soup, and another time for an astronaut capsule-shaped clock he found hilarious.
** There's a time where he sees Gaston's cat playing with a piece of paper Gaston is sliding under a door. While he finds it ridiculous that someone would pay their employees to do something like this instead of working, he actually gets excited about wether the cat is gonna catch the paper or not. He also finds it funny when the cat shredds the paper, until he sees that it's the contracts.
** He enjoys puppet shows and eating fries, which is not something people would imagine a rich business man to do.
