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* PunnyName: Canardo, a pun on the French word ''canard'' for ''duck'' and ''Series/{{Columbo}}''.

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* PunnyName: Canardo, a pun on the French word ''canard'' for ''duck'' and ''Series/{{Columbo}}''.''Series/{{Columbo}}''[[note]]"Colombe" is also the French word for "dove"[[/note]].
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-->'''Foreign hooker:''' So you loser, is that right word?//

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-->'''Foreign hooker:''' So you loser, is that right word?//word?\\

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* CoolCar: Canardo drives a sweet white Cadillac.

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* CoolCar: Canardo drives a sweet white Cadillac. It made a hooker he gave a lift to try offering but canardo makes it clear he can't afford her and the car is the only good thing he owns.
-->'''Foreign hooker:''' So you loser, is that right word?//
'''Canardo:''' Yes, me loser.
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


-->'''Rasputin:'''I, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, declare [[KillEmAll that this village is no more.]]

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-->'''Rasputin:'''I, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, declare [[KillEmAll that this village is no more.]]
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-->'''Canardo:''' Next time rent a room at the ground floor, I'm not young anymore.
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* ShoutOut: Canardo's entire persona is modelled after Inspecter Columbo from the TV series ''Series/{{Columbo}}''.

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* ShoutOut: Canardo's entire persona is modelled modeled after Inspecter Lieutenant Columbo from the TV series ''Series/{{Columbo}}''.
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* SerialKillerBaiting: One story involves a serial killer murdering prostitutes. Canardo's friend (a brothel madam) lets herself be used as bait and is barely rescued in time from the murderer [[spoiler:who turns out to be the police commissioner with serious mental issues]].

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* AboveGoodAndEvil: When Rasputin orders his men to burn a village, Canardo asks him to stop because it's bad, Rasputin simply kicks him in the head from his horse and tells him that he is above good and evil.



* TimeTravel: Canardo does this in ''A Miserable Little Pile of Secrets''. He has a pocket-sized time machine, which is the only futuristic device seen in the series so far.

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* TimeTravel: Canardo does this uses a pocket-sized time machine in ''A Miserable Little Pile of Secrets''. He has a pocket-sized time machine, which This is the only futuristic device seen in the series so far.
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* AutopsySnackTime: Dr. Fatty hasn't been shown eating the treats Canardo bribes him with during the autopsy but he did say that he drinks the alcoholic stomach content of people that are brought to him.



* BreakTheCutie: Happens a lot. Rasputin's daughter in ''Mark of Rasputin'' suffers a horrible breakdown when she realizes what her father is.

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* BreakTheCutie: Happens a lot. Rasputin's daughter in ''Mark of Rasputin'' suffers a horrible breakdown when she realizes what how horrible her father is.


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* FoodAsBribe: Coroner Fatty takes a box of chocolates from Canardo in exchange for helping him.
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* EyeColorChange: Alexandra's orange eyes change to white when she's heartbroken from seeing her father, who she wanted to believe was a good person, execute a village of starving circus people.
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they also killed Bronx's mother by forcing her to sing until death.


* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Garenni.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: In ''The Suave Death'', a group of soldiers responsible for murdering Bronx's father is killed by none other than Bronx himself. The soldiers were expecting [[RedemptionEqualsDeath this]].

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* %%* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Garenni.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: In ''The Suave Death'', a group of soldiers responsible for murdering Bronx's father parents is killed by none other than Bronx himself. The soldiers were expecting [[RedemptionEqualsDeath this]].

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Seems pretty horrible if you ask me considering the guy torturing him says that the chickens will peck on the soft parts first which include eyes and genitalia. They also killed Bronx's mother by forcing her to sing until death


* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Ferdinand is set to be killed/tortured in the first book by having his body covered in chicken feed. Chickens are meant to eat it by throwing their beaks, and resulting him looking like a "boiled lobster".



* DeathSeeker: Lili Niagara want to die for most of ''The Suave Death'', but she specifically wants a quick death because she can't stand her pain.



* DrivenToSuicide: One A Suivre comic has an aged Canardo commit suicide. [[BackupTwin The next story features his son's transformation into his image]].

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* DrivenToSuicide: DrivenToSuicide:
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One A Suivre comic has an aged Canardo commit suicide. [[BackupTwin The next story features his son's transformation into his image]].image]].
** At the end of ''The Suave Death'', Canardo leaves his gun near a suffering Lili. Once he's far away, he hears her shooting herself.



* HoneyTrap: the title of one story, where Canardo supervises an attempt to blackmail a politician by recording his having brutal sex with a prostitute.

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* HoneyTrap: the title of one story, where Canardo supervises an attempt to blackmail a politician by recording his him having brutal sex with a prostitute.



* MixAndMatchCritter: ''Shaggy Dog Story'' has a cat-bird hybrid named Faust. He is likely made by the mad scientist of the story.



* PutOnABus: Garenni.

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* %%* PutOnABus: Garenni.



* TheBusCameBack: Garenni.

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* %%* TheBusCameBack: Garenni.

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* TheAlcoholic: Canardo. Big time.

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* TheAlcoholic: Canardo. Big time.Canardo drinks a lot to forget his miserable life.



* AristocratsAreEvil: or at least major assholes.

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* AristocratsAreEvil: or Or at least major assholes.



-->'''Rasputin:'''I, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, declare [[KillEmAll that this village is no more.]]



* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: Garenni's wife.]]

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: Garenni's wife.]]]] A satellite character trying and failing to commit adultery turned out to be great with guns when push come to shove.
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* FatCat: Rasputin.
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* HellHotel: The desert motel in ''The Girl Who Dreamed of the Horizon'' doesn't look too bad, but Canardo doesn't take long to figure out that the two owners have been disposing of several visitors to steal their belongings.

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* HellHotel: The desert motel in ''The Girl Who Dreamed of the Horizon'' doesn't look too ''too'' bad, aside from being worn-down, but Canardo doesn't take long to figure out that the two owners have been disposing of several visitors to steal their belongings.belongings. It turns out they [[MuggingTheMonster bit off more than they could chew]] when they killed a member of Rasputin's gang to take the drugs he was transporting.
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* HellHotel: The desert motel in ''The Girl Who Dreamed of the Horizon'' doesn't look too bad, but Canardo doesn't take long to figure out that the two owners have been disposing of several visitors to steal their belongings.
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* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: In the first album, Canardo and co. were barnyard animals who were perceived by the humans around them as normal animals. The next several albums following that went for a more midway setting with primarily FunnyAnimal characters surrounded by a few clearly human characters. Eventually, the humans disappeared completely, making Canardo's stories a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.

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* FunnyAnimal: Most of the characters are these, but sometimes [[TalkingAnimal talking but otherwise normal]] animals and even humans are seen.
** It almost seems like the characters' degree of anthropomorphism depends on who is looking. To Canardo Rasputin is an enormously fat, humanoid cat, but when humans see him, he is a large, non-humanoid feline somewhere between a tiger and a lynx.

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* FunnyAnimal: Most of the characters are these, but sometimes [[TalkingAnimal talking but otherwise normal]] animals and even humans are seen. \n** It almost seems like the characters' degree of anthropomorphism depends on who is looking. To Canardo Canardo, Rasputin is an enormously fat, humanoid cat, but when humans see him, he is a large, non-humanoid feline somewhere between a tiger and a lynx.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The original comics feature humans who apparently are not much unlike us. To them, Canardo and the others are just animals that are acting weird. After the first few albums the humans went missing completely, leaving behind a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
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The original comics feature humans who apparently are not much unlike us. To them, Canardo and the others are just animals that are acting weird. After the first few albums the humans went missing completely, leaving behind a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.
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* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Inspector Canardo is an {{Expy}} of Series/{{Columbo}}, while Rasputin is, of course named after RasputinTheMadMonk.

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* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Inspector Canardo is an {{Expy}} of Series/{{Columbo}}, while Rasputin is, of course named after RasputinTheMadMonk.UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk.
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* FamousNamedForeigner: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, named after RasputinTheMadMonk.

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* FamousNamedForeigner: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, named after RasputinTheMadMonk.UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Ferdinand is set to be killed/tortured in the first book by having his body covered in chicken feed. Chickens are meant to eat it by throwing their beaks, and resulting him looking like a "boiled lobster".


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* EyeScream: Rasputin gets his eyes badly damaged and becomes blind. He gets better.


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* FantasticRacism: One of the motivations of the villain in ''The Channel of Anguish'' is that [[spoiler:she]] hates ducks and wants to make them disappear.


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* HumanoidFemaleAnimal: The female funny animals are drawn even more like humans than the males.

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* BlindShoulderToss: Done by Ferdinand in the first book, where he throws a bottle behind him... it proves to not be such a mundane act, because he later learns [[spoiler:that this accidentally caused the death of a girl he liked, Gilberte, who had her head smashed with it as she was watching him from the bushes.]]



** The first book, ''Shaggy Dog Story'', actually revolves around Ferdinand, not Canardo. The next books focus on Canardo proper.



* TakeThat: L'affaire Belge is about comic drawing, some jabs are made at manga, some at schedule and when Canardo swap the urine test to avoid someone being barred for doping, the tester is glad to see the artist drew the old Belgian way: drunk.

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* TakeThat: L'affaire Belge ''L'affaire Belge'' is about comic drawing, some jabs are made at manga, some at schedule and when Canardo swap the urine test to avoid someone being barred for doping, the tester is glad to see the artist drew the old Belgian way: drunk.
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* CarFu: Canardo pulls this every now and then in the later stories.


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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Garenni.]]


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* TheBusCameBack: Garenni.
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Has nothing to do with familiarity with in-universe fiction.


* LaserGuidedKarma: In ''The Suave Death'', a group of soldiers responsible for murdering Bronx's father is killed by none other than Bronx himself. The soldiers [[GenreSavvy were expecting]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath this]].

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* LaserGuidedKarma: In ''The Suave Death'', a group of soldiers responsible for murdering Bronx's father is killed by none other than Bronx himself. The soldiers [[GenreSavvy were expecting]] expecting [[RedemptionEqualsDeath this]].

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* CatsAreMean

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* CatsAreMeanCatsAreMean: Rasputin is one of the worst antagonist of the series and a cat.



* PutOnABus: Garenni

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* PutOnABus: GarenniGarenni.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Attempted by the murderers of Bronx's parents but Canardo has none of it.
-->'''Canardo:''' Bronx packs a mean hook, you won't see death coming, soldiers. When in one of my drunken rant I would bring up this story I will simply say: They were assassins.


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* TakeThat: L'affaire Belge is about comic drawing, some jabs are made at manga, some at schedule and when Canardo swap the urine test to avoid someone being barred for doping, the tester is glad to see the artist drew the old Belgian way: drunk.
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* SeriousBusiness: Winemaking.

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* SeriousBusiness: Winemaking. Also comic book drawing where the doping is worst than bicycle competition.

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*DownerEnding: His adventures tend to end on a sour, if not downright tragic, note.

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