History ComicBook / Grandville

** There's also a music hall troupe called the Baxendales, who are clearly based on ''Comicbook/TheBeano'''s ''The 3 Bears'', as drawn by Leo Baxendale.
** As well as DI [[Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians Pongo Dearly]], a fox detective named [[Series/TheBasilBrushShow Basil]], and two uniform coppers: a black and white cat named [[Comicbook/TheDandy Korky]] and a basset hound named [[ComicStrip/FredBasset Fred]].
** The Great Detectives exhibit at Madame Taussauds includes Comicbook/{{Blacksad}}, [[Comicbook/{{Elephantmen}} Hip Flask]], and Comicbook/InspectorCanardo.

** An aardvark appears in ''Mon Amour'' as one of the "usual suspects" of sex pests, spouting pseudo-mystical misogynistic garbage. While he's named WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} and wears glasses, the author's notes confirm that the primary reference is Comicbook/{{Cerebus}} and the beliefs of Dave Sim.

* CarnivoreConfusion: There's a scene involving [=LeBrock=] asking for a full English breakfast, which included meat. This is weird as there are, in fact, non-carnivorous anthropomorphic characters. The fourth book also mentions that some anthropomorphic animals do deviate from the diets of their -non-anthro counterparts. See also FurryConfusion. Taken to the limit in ''Force Majeure'', which opens with a scene in a seafood restaurant, in which all the staff, and most of the clientele, are fish or crustaceans.

* FurryComic

''Grandville, [[LongTitle A Detective-Inspector [=LeBrock=] of Scotland Yard Scientific-Romance Thriller]]'', is the title of a series created by [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} British]] comic artist Creator/BryanTalbot. Inspired by [[http://tinyurl.com/n3vthfx Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard's]] work of FunnyAnimal sketches (whose stage name was ''J.J. Grandville'', the [[MeaningfulName basis of the graphic novel's title]]), he made the graphic novel, along with inspiration from works of Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, Creator/QuentinTarantino and ComicStrip/RupertBear.

** As the series progresses, there are increasing hints that civilization used to be human-dominated until... ''something''... happened during classical antiquity that led to the overthrow of the human civilization and its replacement with one dominated by animals, with humans relegated to a persecuted minority that has very often been subjected to pogroms and genocides.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: "Better" is debatable. Tiberius Koenig appears to be a red ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'', and he is by far one of the most deplorable villains in the entire series, along with being one of the more memorable, fleshed out villains.

** The Great Detectives exhibit at Madame Taussauds includes Comicbook/{{Blacksad}}, [[Comicbook/{{Elephantmen Hip Flask]], and Comicbook/InspectorCarnardo.

* ChristmasEpisode: ''Noel''. Notably, [[spoiler:aside from a MacGuffin,]] the idea of Christmas [[DoTheyKnowItsChristmastime doesn't play a huge role in the main events of the plot]] besides the fact that it's winter and the final scene has [=LeBrock=] at a Christmas party.

* ActionGirl: Billie in '' Bête Noire'' and ''Noel''. In the former, she rescues people from the rampaging automata, is quite prepared to fight her way out of a gang war, and when that doesn't seem possible, escapes with a daring motorcycle stunt instead. In the latter, she knocks out Apollo's guards during the mission to rescue Bunty by elbowing and headbutting them.

* AnimalStereotypes and AnimalMotifs: Largely averted. For example, the cops aren't canines at all. On the other hand, the emperor is a lion. Archie himself fits the stereotype of a steadfast and doughty badger.

* AuthorAvatar: The fourth book introduces a piscine "true crime" writer named Byron Turbot. [=LeBrock=] is not impressed.
** He later [[CreatorCameo shows up]] in the fifth book, hoping to serialise the criminal cases of [=LeBrock=]. Once again, [=LeBrock=] is not impressed.

* ChristmasEpisode: ''Noel''. Notably, [[spoiler:aside from a MacGuffin,]] the idea of Christmas doesn't play a huge role in the main events of the plot besides the fact that it's winter and the final scene has [=LeBrock=] at a Christmas party.

* ShoutOut

** As well as DI [[Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians Pongo Dearly]] and two uniform coppers: a black and white cat named [[Comicbook/TheDandy Korky]] and a basset hound named [[ComicStrip/FredBasset Fred]].

The series has concluded with five books released. The first book is simply titled ''Grandville'' released in October 2009, while the second book is titled ''Grandville: Mon Amour'' (''My Love'' in French) that was released in December 2010. The third book, ''Grandville: Bête Noire'' ("Black Beast") was published in 2012. The first book focuses on solving a murder of a British diplomat, which is soon revealed to be part of a wider conspiracy. The second book is Archie tracking down a mad, escaped convict named Edward "[[AxCrazy Mad Dog]]" Mastock. The third book is set in France, beginning when [=LeBrock=]'s French colleague Rocher asks for help solving a murder case, but [[TheConspiracy it quickly turns out to be more than it seems]]. A fourth album, ''Grandville: Nöel'' was released at Christmas 2013, in which Archie investigates a cult led by a charismatic unicorn, and its connection to a sinister political movement. The final book is ''Grandville Force Majeure'' ("Superior Force"), published in 2017. All five books were collected as ''Grandville L'Intégrale'' ("The Whole") in 20201.

The series has concluded with five books released. The first book is simply titled ''Grandville'' released in October 2009, while the second book is titled ''Grandville: Mon Amour'' (''My Love'' in French) that was released in December 2010. The third book, ''Grandville: Bête Noire'' ("Black Beast") was published in 2012. The first book focuses on solving a murder of a British diplomat, which is soon revealed to be part of a wider conspiracy. The second book is Archie tracking down a mad, escaped convict named Edward "[[AxCrazy Mad Dog]]" Mastock. The third book is set in France, beginning when [=LeBrock=]'s French colleague Rocher asks for help solving a murder case, but [[TheConspiracy it quickly turns out to be more than it seems]]. A fourth album, ''Grandville: Nöel'' was released at Christmas 2013, in which Archie investigates a cult led by a charismatic unicorn, and its connection to a sinister political movement. The final book is ''Grandville Force Majeure'' ("Superior Force"), published in 2017.

* ActionGirl: Billie the prostitute from ''Noel''. She knocks out Apollo's guards during the mission to rescue Bunty by elbowing and headbutting them.

** [[spoiler: The French kingpin of Parisian crime Tiberius Koenig decided he will make [=LeBrock=]'s remaining life miserable only after he found out Archie killed one of his brothers while visiting Grandville. And he didn't even like the said brother, it was just a matter of principle to always retaliate with extreme force whenever someone messed with his criminal empire, intentionally or not.]]

* CarnivoreConfusion: There's a scene involving [=LeBrock=] asking for a full English breakfast, which included meat. This is weird as there are, in fact, non-carnivorous anthropomorphic characters. The fourth book also mentions that some anthropomorphic animals do deviate from the diets of their -non-anthro counterparts. See also FurryConfusion.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Popular Unity Party in ''Noel'', complete with swastikas.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Chance Lucas' daughter became wrapped up in a hyper-religious cult that eventually commits mass suicide. When [=LeBrock=] meets him, he's on a personal mission to take down the guy who did it.]]

** For those who haven't read the first book, much of the story is a metaphor for TheWarOnTerror.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThink: One of Billie's defining traits is her extreme awareness of the fact that as a prostitute (and a very cynical and life-savvy one), she is "damaged goods" that is very unlikely to ever find true happiness in life. It takes a lot of effort on [=LeBrock's=] part to even make her begin to reconsider this, let alone actually change her attitude to herself.

* FantasticSlurs: French animal people call the humans as "doughfaces".

** The end of the fourth book, features Tiberius Koening reading a blood-stained newspaper about Apollo, and remarking, "My God, if they think ''he'' was unique; [Film/Batman1989 whatever would they think of me?]]

* FreudianExcuse: Koenigin was emotionally (and possibly physically) abused by his [[AbusiveParents parents]], forced to sleep in the basement, and was constantly picked on by his [[BigBrotherBully older siblings]] until he turned eleven, when he quite literally [[TheDogBitesBack bit back at the world]], starting with two of his brothers

** The fourth book reveals that the divergence occurred much earlier, [[spoiler: sometime around the Biblical Flood. When Noah's Arc reached dry land, the arc was somehow occupied by sapient animals instead of humans and animals]]. Exactly what happened there, nobody is sure. It also reveals that the Christianity in the Grandville universe posits [[spoiler: Noah]] as God and is ignorant of the notion of the Abrahamic God as we know it, though it does have Jesus as an unknown specie. Knowledge to the contrary has been systematically destroyed over the centuries [[spoiler: except for one copy of the gospels that states that Jesus was a ''human'' and a single copy of Genesis in Hebrew that includes the first six chapters before Noah and the flood]].