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* AntiHero: Canardo. He is often well-meaning, but is also cynical, greedy and alcoholic.
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* TheAlcoholic: Canardo. Big time.
* AntiHero: Again, Canardo. He is often well-meaning, but is also cynical, greedy and alcoholic.
* AntiHero: Again, Canardo. He is often well-meaning, but is also cynical, greedy and alcoholic.
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* FamousNamedForeigner: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin.
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* FamousNamedForeigner: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin.Rasputin, named after RasputinTheMadMonk.
* FatCat: Rasputin.
* FatCat: Rasputin.
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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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* PunnyName: Canardo, a pun on the French word ''canard'' for ''duck'' and ''Series/{{Columbo}}''.
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* ShoutOut: Canardo's entire persona is modelled after Inspecter Columbo from the TV series ''Series/{{Columbo}}''.
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Inspector Canardo is a long running comic series written and drawn by Benoît Sokal. The eponymous protagonist is an antropomorphic duck DefectiveDetective AntiHero, who often treads on the gray areas of justice while trying to cope with the problems of a world populated by {{Funny Animal}}s.
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''Inspector Canardo'' is a long running comic series written and drawn by Benoît Sokal. The eponymous protagonist is an antropomorphic duck DefectiveDetective AntiHero, who often treads on the gray areas of justice while trying to cope with the problems of a world populated by {{Funny Animal}}s.
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* [[GirlOfTheWeek Girl Of The Album]]: Canardo picks up a good number of attractive women over the course of the series: even those that are not one-night things will be gone with no explanation by the time of the next album.
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* BusmansHoliday: The Sinking Island album has Canardo win a holiday on the eponymous island, only to end up investigating a murder.
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* KavorkaMan: Canardo himself.
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* KavorkaMan: Canardo himself.himself, though since a majority of men are fairly unattractive too, thanks to the art style, he may very well be considered handsome in-universe.
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* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: Occurs in ''The Girl who Dreamt of the Horizon''. A seductive lady thinks Canardo is getting "excited", but he says he just has a revolver in his pocket. After they're interrupted by a motorcycle gang's attack, she is surprised to find out he wasn't kidding.
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No Circular Links.
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* 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 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.far.
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* LetsGetDangerous: Bronx the bear seems harmless despite his huge size, because he is too stupid to get angry at anyone. [[BerserkButton Except]] when he hears the song ''Lili Marleen''.
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* NotSoHarmless: Bronx the bear seems harmless despite his huge size, because he is too stupid to get angry at anyone. [[BerserkButton Except]] when he hears the song ''Lili Marleen''.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: or at least major assholes.
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* CatsAreMean
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* 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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* SeriousBusiness: Winemaking.
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* BreakTheCutie: Happens a lot. Rasputin's daughter in ''Mark of Rasputin'' suffers a horrible breakdown when she realizes that her father is a CompleteMonster.
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* BreakTheCutie: Happens a lot. Rasputin's daughter in ''Mark of Rasputin'' suffers a horrible breakdown when she realizes that what her father is a CompleteMonster.is.
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* FunnyAnimal: Most of the characters are these, but sometimes [[TalkingAnimal talking but otherwise normal]] animals and even humans are seen.
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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.
** 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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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: Garenni's wife.]]
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* KavorkaMan: Canardo himself.
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* PutOnABus: Garenni
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* EvilOverlord: Rasputin is this in his debut appearance. He and his men ride through Siberia, killing, looting and raping. After he loses a daughter, loses his eyesight and nearly dies, he does become a bit more sympathetic, but eventually returns to his violent ways.
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* TheVillain: Rasputin is this in his debut appearance. He and his men ride through Siberia, killing, looting and raping. After he loses a daughter, loses his eyesight and nearly dies, he does become a bit more sympathetic, but eventually returns to his violent ways.
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* TheVillain: Rasputin is this in his debut appearance. He and his men ride through Siberia, killing, looting and raping. After he loses a daughter, loses his eyesight and nearly dies, he does become a bit more sympathetic.sympathetic, but eventually returns to his violent ways.
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* CompleteMonster: Rasputin is this in his debut appearance. He and his men ride through Siberia, killing, looting and raping. After he loses a daughter, loses his eyesight and nearly dies, he does become a bit more sympathetic.
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* CompleteMonster: Rasputin is this in his debut appearance. He and his men ride through Siberia, killing, looting and raping. After he loses a daughter, loses his eyesight and nearly dies, he does become a bit more sympathetic.
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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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* OddballInTheSeries: ''Misty Wedding''. It is the only comic to have any humans as main characters. It also contains paranormalities that are otherwise not present in the series, such as DealWithTheDevil and PsychicPowers.
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* AntiHero: Canardo. He is usually well-meaning, but is cynical and has fairly gray morals.
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* AntiHero: Canardo. He is usually often well-meaning, but is cynical also cynical, greedy and has fairly gray morals.alcoholic.
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* MatureAnimalStory: The stories sex, drugs, violence and various grim themes such as suicide, insanity and rape.
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* MatureAnimalStory: The stories feature sex, drugs, violence and various grim themes such as suicide, insanity and rape.
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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]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath this]].
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: The early stories play Canardo's medium awareness for laughs several times.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: The early stories play Canardo's medium awareness for laughs several times.times, but the fourth wall has remained mostly intact in the albums.
* CerebusSyndrome: The early comics meander between a FilmNoir parody and a serious detective drama. As the series progressed to albums, the parody was toned down and the series focused on its more dramatic elements with a touch of DarkComedy.
* CerebusSyndrome: The early comics meander between a FilmNoir parody and a serious detective drama. As the series progressed to albums, the parody was toned down and the series focused on its more dramatic elements with a touch of DarkComedy.
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* BackupTwin: Or, to be precise, backup son. After Canardo commits suicide, his previously unseen son shows up, inherits his father's possessions and, after a brief misadventure, his entire life.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The final One A Suivre comic has an aged Canardo commit suicide.suicide. [[BackupTwin The next story features his son's transformation into his image]].
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* MatureAnimalStory: The stories sex, drugs, violence and various grim themes such as suicide, insanity and rape.
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* FamousNamedForeigner: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin.
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* SecondhandStorytelling: The early comics refer to UnInstallment episodes such as "Canardo's resurrection".
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: The early stories play Canardo's medium awareness for laughs several times.
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* GenerationXerox: Canardo himself commits suicide in one of the earlier stories. He is replaced by his son, and it doesn't take long for fate to make him exactly like his father.
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* AnyoneCanDie: And most of them do die, some [[DeathIsCheap more than once]].
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The first stories were published in the late 1970's. They were short episodes with a loose continuity, published in the comic magazine ''A Suivre''. The comics were satirical in tone and parodied detective movies heavily, but gradually CerebusSyndrome got hold on the series and started shaping it towards its current form.
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The first stories were published in the late 1970's. They were short episodes with a loose continuity, published in the comic magazine ''A Suivre''. The comics were satirical in tone and parodied FilmNoir detective movies heavily, but gradually CerebusSyndrome got hold on the series and started shaping it towards its current form.
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Inspector Canardo is a long running comic series written and drawn by Benoît Sokal. The eponymous protagonist is an antropomorphic duck DefectiveDetective AntiHero, who often treads on the gray areas of justice while trying to cope with the problems of a world populated by {{Funny Animal}}s.
The first stories were published in the late 1970's. They were short episodes with a loose continuity, published in the comic magazine ''A Suivre''. The comics were satirical in tone and parodied detective movies heavily, but gradually CerebusSyndrome got hold on the series and started shaping it towards its current form.
Sokal started writing longer Canardo stories in 1980's, resulting in the first Canardo albums. They established a more stable continuity and started to focus more on tense plots than parody. Over the course of 30 years, 19 albums of Canardo's (mis)adventures have been published.
!!''{{ComicBook/Inspector Canardo}}'' provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: And most of them do die, some [[DeathIsCheap more than once]].
* AntiHero: Canardo. He is usually well-meaning, but is cynical and has fairly gray morals.
* AntiVillain: Most of the one-off bad guys are these. In addition, even Clara has moments where she appears to genuinely care for Canardo, and Rasputin is broken and pathetic instead of evil in ''Misty Wedding''.
* ArchEnemy: Canardo vs Rasputin, and to some extent, Canardo vs Clara as well.
* BreakTheCutie: Happens a lot. Rasputin's daughter in ''Mark of Rasputin'' suffers a horrible breakdown when she realizes that her father is a CompleteMonster.
* CoolCar: Canardo drives a sweet white Cadillac.
* DeathIsCheap: Many characters have survived certain deaths with little or no explanation. Canardo himself has died roughly five times, even [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] it in one of the A Suivre comics - turns out the "blood" was just [[ABloodyMess tomato soup]].
* DrivenToSuicide: The final A Suivre comic has an aged Canardo commit suicide.
* FemmeFatale: Clara is a schemer who shifts her allegiances for personal gain and seems to have very little interest for the lives of the others.
* FunnyAnimal: Most of the characters are these, but sometimes [[TalkingAnimal talking but otherwise normal]] animals and even humans are seen.
* NotSoHarmless: Bronx the bear seems harmless despite his huge size, because he is too stupid to get angry at anyone. [[BerserkButton Except]] when he hears the song ''Lili Marleen''.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The revolutionaries in ''Black Tide'' resort to terrorism by hijacking an oil tanker and threatening to release the oil if their demands aren't met.
* 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.
The first stories were published in the late 1970's. They were short episodes with a loose continuity, published in the comic magazine ''A Suivre''. The comics were satirical in tone and parodied detective movies heavily, but gradually CerebusSyndrome got hold on the series and started shaping it towards its current form.
Sokal started writing longer Canardo stories in 1980's, resulting in the first Canardo albums. They established a more stable continuity and started to focus more on tense plots than parody. Over the course of 30 years, 19 albums of Canardo's (mis)adventures have been published.
!!''{{ComicBook/Inspector Canardo}}'' provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: And most of them do die, some [[DeathIsCheap more than once]].
* AntiHero: Canardo. He is usually well-meaning, but is cynical and has fairly gray morals.
* AntiVillain: Most of the one-off bad guys are these. In addition, even Clara has moments where she appears to genuinely care for Canardo, and Rasputin is broken and pathetic instead of evil in ''Misty Wedding''.
* ArchEnemy: Canardo vs Rasputin, and to some extent, Canardo vs Clara as well.
* BreakTheCutie: Happens a lot. Rasputin's daughter in ''Mark of Rasputin'' suffers a horrible breakdown when she realizes that her father is a CompleteMonster.
* CoolCar: Canardo drives a sweet white Cadillac.
* DeathIsCheap: Many characters have survived certain deaths with little or no explanation. Canardo himself has died roughly five times, even [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] it in one of the A Suivre comics - turns out the "blood" was just [[ABloodyMess tomato soup]].
* DrivenToSuicide: The final A Suivre comic has an aged Canardo commit suicide.
* FemmeFatale: Clara is a schemer who shifts her allegiances for personal gain and seems to have very little interest for the lives of the others.
* FunnyAnimal: Most of the characters are these, but sometimes [[TalkingAnimal talking but otherwise normal]] animals and even humans are seen.
* NotSoHarmless: Bronx the bear seems harmless despite his huge size, because he is too stupid to get angry at anyone. [[BerserkButton Except]] when he hears the song ''Lili Marleen''.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The revolutionaries in ''Black Tide'' resort to terrorism by hijacking an oil tanker and threatening to release the oil if their demands aren't met.
* 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.
