History ComicBook / Lanfeust

* ''Jeu d'aventures de Lanfeust et du monde de Troy'' (2005) - TheRoleplayingGame using rules similar to the UsefulNotes/D20System.

* ''Lanfeust de Troy'' (2007) - An action Adventure game for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS

* DropTheHammer: Most, if not all of the trolls use blunt weaponry.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Darshanide gods exist simply because Darchanides believe in their existance.

* DumbMuscle: Trolls have natural SuperStrength, but they are all complete idiots who can get headaches simply by attempting to think.

* PlotHole: It's revealed that the reason why Thanos is sensitive to the Magohamoth, just like Lanfeust, is because [[spoiler:they have the same grandfather, making them cousins. The problem is that the reason why Lanfeust is sensitive to the Magohamoth to begin with is because he was genetically modified while in his mother's womb, meaning that being cousins shouldn't justify the fact that Thanos is sensitive to the Magohamoth, since ''he'' was not modified himself. What is particularly jarring is that both contradicting revelations happen in the same scene. The Dolphantes act like they modified Lanfeust and Thanos's grandfather (which would make sense), despite saying a minute earlier that they modified Lanfeust's direct parents' genes while Lanfeust's mother was pregnant.]]

* PandaingToTheAudience: Darshanide trolls (white-furred, with black spots over the eyes), which are a subversion of how this trope usually works, because they're at least as savage and brutal as regular trolls, although they are smaller.

* GoldTooth: There's a slave trader with a gold tooth.

* LuringInPrey: One monster encountered by the heroes is a swamp-dwelling beast whose lure is part of its back and shaped like a female dragon, luring male dragons to mate with it and be eaten. It's defeated after Tetram manages to twist its eyes around so its sees the lure and promptly attacks itself.

* PokemonSpeak: The creature guiding the heroes to the Magohamoth always says "Gloof", so they call the creature a "Gloof".

** Hébus' [[EvilLaugh "Hyuk hyuk hyuk"]]

** ''Cixi de Troy'' seems to run on this. The '''first''' volume gives us a hot Amazon [[AmazonBrigade Brigade]] who are big believers in GirlOnGirlIsHot and {{Stripperiffic}} outfits.

!!''Lanfeust'' and ''Trolls de Troy'' provide examples of:

* AdoptTheFood: Waha is a young human girl who was "accidentally" adopted by man-eating trolls who took her as a baby, planning to eat her but always pushing it for later (because she was too small a morsel), and finally starting to consider her a daughter. In the AnimatedAdaptation, the scatterbrained trolls don't even ''remember'' she was adopted to begin with and fully consider her a troll (albeit a hairless one).

* DeathByDepower: In the ''Trolls de Troy'' spinoff, one of the sages has the power to become likeable to anyone in short range, including trolls. While he survives in the troll village and nearly succeeds in getting the BigBad's plan to enslave them to succeed, the other sage relaying his magic power is moved out of range, leaving the first one surrounded by suddenly very angry trolls.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Venerable Fuquatou discovers that the courtesan blackmailing him is looking for Waha ([[spoiler:their daughter!]]) in order to use her in her brothels, he kicks her out of the dragon they're flying on.

* GodivaHair: Described as a "genetic trait" of mermaids in ''Trolls de Troy'', and even applies if they're turned upside-down.

* InterspeciesRomance
** Well, not exactly ''romance'' per se, but one of the manuals give this as an explanation for the perpetual presence of darshanide trolls around [[ReallyGetsAround Shlikäh, the Goddess of Pleasure]]. Then comes the explanation of why she saved Hébus and perpetually "cured" him of his appetite for human flesh: she started finding the darshanide trolls boring and a bit small and wanted to try a regular troll. She was [[BiggerIsBetterInBed thoroughly satisfied]], though [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments she couldn't sit for three days afterwards]].
** Another example, from the prequel series: Pröfy is actually half-troll. His mother, a full troll, once caught a human nobleman but felt more lusty than hungry at the time... Several days later, the man eventually escaped with his life. And several broken bones. And no clothes whatsoever.

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!!''Lanfeust'' and ''Trolls de Troy'' provide examples of:

* AcidAttack: Hebus's manages to dissolve some of Averroes's soldiers by peeing on them.
* AdoptTheFood: Waha is a young human girl who was "accidentally" adopted by man-eating trolls who took her as a baby, planning to eat her but always pushing it for later (because she was too small a morsel), and finally starting to consider her a daughter. In the AnimatedAdaptation, the scatterbrained trolls don't even ''remember'' she was adopted to begin with and fully consider her a troll (albeit a hairless one).
* AffectionateParody: Of {{Fantasy}} in ''Lanfeust de Troy'' and SpaceOpera in ''Lanfeust des Étoiles''.
* AfraidOfNeedles: Hebus is a nine-foot-tall troll. He gets pierced by arrows, sliced by swords and axes and burned by magic nearly on a daily basis. Yet, he has such a fear of needles that his reaction when faced with a deadly illness is to take a butcher knife, cut his leg and say "It has to go in the blood, right? Then pour it there, that's better!"

* AngelUnaware: [[spoiler: Sphax, Cixi's dragon, is actually the Darshanite god of ambassadors, sent by his fellow gods to bring Lanfeust in Darshan.]] He doesn't mind the ignorance.
* AnnoyingArrows: Averted with humans, arrows and crossbow bolts are quite lethal when used against them. Played straight with trolls; Hébus refers to arrows stuck in his hide as "toothpicks".
* AnArmAndALeg:
** At the beginning of the adventure, Lanfeust gets a leg devoured by a creature. He has to spend a whole day with a missing leg before C'ian can use her magic to heal him back.
** When Lanfeust attempts to save C'ian from [[spoiler:a forced wedding]], he repeatedly loses his limbs during the fight. Thankfully it happen during nighttime, so C'ian can grow his limbs back as fast as he loses them.
* AssShove: The giant troll is defeated when Or-Azur rams a pointy branch and his sword up his backside. According to Hébus, the hemorroids are the weakpoint of trolls.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Lanfeust, after inhaling the Magohamoth's breath.]]
* BadassBoast: Thanos has some pretty nice ones [[spoiler: while posing as Averroes]]
-->"Tomorrow, the virgins of Or-Azur won't be anymore... And torrents of blood will flood the castle's moat."
* BadassBookworm: Thanos is a pirate king and thus no slouch in battle, but he's also quite intelligent and versed in magic, due to his former training as a sage.
* BadassBystander:
** When Lanfeust attempts to interupt [[spoiler: C'ian's forced wedding with Bugrenne]], some members of the audience draw their swords to fight Lanfeust.
** When Thanos's army [[spoiler:invades Eckmul]], a random civilian uses her power to give diarrhea to some of Thanos's soldier. The narration notes that others citizen attempted to strife against the evil army.
* BadassNormal: The Or-Azur baron mixes this and TookALevelInBadass. He starts as a vain and weak young noble, but [[spoiler: after Thanos kills his father and falling in love with C'ian]], he turns into a ballsy and cunning warrior and is one of the only human main characters with no magic.

* BehemothBattle: The climactic battle is fought between giant energy clones of [[TheHero Lanfeust]] and [[BigBad Thanos]] over Eckmül.
%%* BettyAndVeronica: C'ian and Cixi.
* BigBad: Baron Averroes, [[spoiler:who then turns out to be Thanos]].
* BigEater: The trolls. Trolls will eat anything that moves and drink everything that doesn't. It's not that they're evil, they're just very hungry. At one point, it is said they can eat or drink ''anything'' except [[WeaksauceWeakness water]] (it might make them CLEAN!). When a troll tries to eat something and it ''doesn't'' get digested properly it's a major plot point.
* TheBlacksmith: Lanfeust starts the story as a blacksmith because his power is to melt metal.

* BloodyHilarious: Whenever there's a carnage scene, or pretty much almost any death, expect to see liters of blood covering the place or gushing out of people's and creatures' bodies.
** After the Haruspex reads in the entrails of a ''still living'' guard, his men ask him what to do with him...
-->"Since he's still alive, just sew him up. We ain't monsters."
* BoisterousBruiser: Trolls, every last one of them.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Trolls are AlwaysChaoticEvil creatures but sages can "enchant" them to have a strong companion. Nicolède does this to Hebus in the first album.
* BreathWeapon: Swoog can breath fire.
* BridalCarry:
** A rather twisted example: when Cixi [[spoiler:kills Bascrean]], she passes out and [[spoiler:Thanos]] takes her to his room by carrying her in his arms.
** After the fight against the giant troll, C'ian falls from a branch into [[spoiler: Or-Azur's]] arms. She stays there for a few seconds.

* CatapultToGlory: Hebus penetrates into the Or-Azur castle by being launched from a catapult.

* ChildhoodFriend: Technically both C'ian and Cixi for Lanfeust
* TheChosenOne: Lanfeust, as well as Thanos.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Both C'ian and Cixi get jealous when Lanfeust is next to another girl. The latter is rather Hypocrite because she's very flirting with other men. According to her, [[DoubleStandard for girls]] [[ImAManICantHelpIt it's just sexual]] but [[InvertedTrope boys are more romantic and it's cheating]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
** Being a sadist, Thanos enjoys giving painful death to people. He notably [[spoiler:orders Cixi to kill Bascrean by using her power to boil his blood.]]
** Murne (Thanos' lieutenant) dies after LaResistance uses enchanted flesh-laying eggs insects enchanted to assassinate Thanos [[spoiler:and fail]]. The guy is actually ''eaten to the bone'' by larvae.
* DeathByDepower: In the ''Trolls de Troy'' spinoff, one of the sages has the power to become likeable to anyone in short range, including trolls. While he survives in the troll village and nearly succeeds in getting the BigBad's plan to enslave them to succeed, the other sage relaying his magic power is moved out of range, leaving the first one surrounded by suddenly very angry trolls.
* DepravedBisexual: In the first book, Lanfeust's group is attacked by a group of bandits who are lusting on Ci'an and Cixi. At least one of the bandits seems also interested in Lanfeust.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Lanfeust sticks a rapier in Barbulio's neck, C'ian quickly heals Barbulio but realises too late that by doing so, Barbulio is now stuck with a rapier through his neck. Even after the rapier's extremities are cut off, he still has a metal stem permanently stuck inside his neck.
* DirtyCoward: When Thanos [[spoiler:takes control of Eckmul, Plomynthe doesn't hesitate to join him after being captured. Thanos accepts him at his side while telling to Plomynthe that's he' too much of a coward to betray him. Plomynthe doesn't even deny it.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:Falordelle]] denounces the presence of Lanfeust's group to Thanos's authorities just because [[spoiler:Lanfeust does not return her feelings]].
* DoomedByCanon: In her spin-off series, [[spoiler:Cixi gets pregnant with Thanos' child]] never mentioned in the main series. [[ConvenientMiscarriage You guess what happens next...]]
* DoorFu: Hebus the troll tries to break open a steel porticullis, and when that fails, to bend it. Cut to a guard leaning against the gears smugly mentioning he'll never get through, then back to Hebus simply grabbing and then lifting the grate, pulling the unfortunate guard's body into the gears as the mechanism is reversed.
* TheDragon: Thanos appears to be this to Averroes, until [[spoiler:we learn that they're the same guy.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: As the Or-Azur castle is invaded by Averroes's army, some women decide to kill themselves via poison to avoid being raped by the invading soldiers.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Hébus had [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] when not enchanted in the early albums. This was dropped later as none of the wild trolls have red eyes. Trolls in general were shown as savage, monstrous beasts when not enchanted in the early days, when later books (''Trolls de Troy'' in particular, obviously) portrayed them as decently civil and good-natured, but also walking disasters with a certain disregard for the life of things more fragile than them (unless they take a liking to it). Trolls also originally had their personalities altered to make them more loyal to whoever enchanted them. This is motly seen when Hébus is enchanted back and forth by Thanos and Nicèlede and his loyalty keeps shifting after each enchantment. In later stories, trolls keep their original personalities when enchanted, but they are magically forced to obey the first person who gives them an order after they are enchanted.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: After being absorbed by the Magohamoth, Lanfeust can use the ultimate power at will without a sage or the ivory pommel.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Bugrenne proposes to C'ian, despite her making it clear that she is not interested in him and that she's already in a relationship with Lanfeust. Bugrenne goes as far as putting C'ian through a forced wedding and trying to have Lanfeust killed.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Venerable Fuquatou discovers that the courtesan blackmailing him is looking for Waha ([[spoiler:their daughter!]]) in order to use her in her brothels, he kicks her out of the dragon they're flying on.
* EveryoneHasStandards: A prostitute refuses to offer her services to Thanos's soldiers because they happily serve an evil tyrant.

* EyeScream: Thanos puts out Lanfeust's eyes (with an ivory blade, when he melts the metal one). Just one at first to torture him, then the other one because [[KickTheDog "I hate one-eyed people"]].
* {{Fanservice}}: It's hard to find a page without at least one scantily clad and/or buxom woman.
** Cixi. Among others, she appears nude in one scene, to C'ian's anger, Lanfeust's astonishment, and to our great delight.
** ''Cixi de Troy'' seems to run on this. The '''first''' volume gives us a hot Amazon [[AmazonBrigade Brigade]] who are big believers in GirlOnGirlIsHot and {{Stripperiffic}} outfits.
* FemaleGroinInvincibility: Used in the ''Cixi of Troy'' spin-off. When the titular character has to fight a PirateGirl, she has the reflex to kick her opponent between the legs, which has absolutely no effect. Another PirateGirl points out that this technique doesn't work with women.
* FortuneTeller: The Haruspex can read the future in the entrails of creatures (and yes, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruspex that's a real thing]]); notable in the fact that he is ''always'' right. He can also do it with ''human'' entrails, and will ''gladly'' do it if said human was an asshole.
* FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss: Shlikah gives a tap on Hébus's butt right before having sex.
* FreezeFrameBonus: In the second tome, a drawing of a Vitruvian Troll can be seen with text near it. Some of the text is upside-down. The normal text says "Don't you have anything better to do than read stuff that has nothing to do with the story?" and the upside-down text says "If you can read this, it means: 1) you have good eyes or 2) you're holding the book upside-down."
* FreudianExcuse: Discussed. When Bascréan accuses Lanfeust of being responsible for Thanos's comeback, Hebus tells Bascréan to shut up and says that maybe Thanos is evil because Bascréan stole his toys when they were children. Bascréan denies this implausible possibility.
* FullFrontalAssault: Thanos can't teleport his clothes... yet he's still dangerous.
* GainaxEnding: Of the TV series. Lanfeust [[spoiler:defeats his arch-enemy, Thanos, but for a price: all of his friends are dead, the land is devastated and the moon is sliced by half. Then, Lanfeust time-travels to the past, long before the fight, and defeats Thanos in a different way. His friends are alive, and the land is safe. When the heroes celebrate their victory, the camera shows us the moon... that is still sliced.]]
* GiantEnemyCrab: Lanfeust and his friends face a bunch of dangerous giant crabs appropriately called "Colossal crabs".
* AGodAmI: How Thanos reacts to the ultimate power.
* GodivaHair: Described as a "genetic trait" of mermaids in ''Trolls de Troy'', and even applies if they're turned upside-down.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: The Darshanide Gods need believers to exist. The first time the heroes visit the divine court, they witness the goddess [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Renaud Lynrenö]] fading into nothingness as her last believer dies.
* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler:Sphax, the dragon Lanfeust magically created]], turns out to be a Darshanide god all along. [[spoiler:Lanfeust accidentally teleports Sphax by trying to create a white dragon, who then decides to pretend to be a normal dragon for a while]].
* GreenThumb: A random Eckmul guard has the power of making plants grow out of people.

* {{Hellhound}}: Thanos' cheyreks. He likes to sic them on random ''innocent'' people to make an example.
* HideousHangoverCure: In order to pay the nomads, Nicolede cooks a magical one to cure their massive hangover following a party. It's pretty bland, but then he adds animal droppings in it...
-->'''Nicolede:''' The more the medicine is disgusting, the more the patient thinks it works.
* ImAHumanitarian:

* IceMagicIsWater: Cixi's power is to change the temperature of nearby water, so she can create ice, water or steam from, well, ice, water or steam.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Thanos gives [[FakeDefector Cixi]] a nasty one when she joins him: [[spoiler:no less than executing his own brother by boiling the blood inside his body.]]
* IHaveYourWife: After Thanos takes over Eckmül and the local sages start a ritual to give up their sage powers (denying Thanos the way to concentrate more magic), Thanos threatens their families in case some of them consider suicide to escape his wrath.

* ImStandingRightHere: Lanfeust claim to be an atheist in front of [[spoiler:the whole Darshanide pantheon]]. Cue massive DeathGlare.
* InterspeciesRomance
** Well, not exactly ''romance'' per se, but one of the manuals give this as an explanation for the perpetual presence of darshanide trolls around [[ReallyGetsAround Shlikäh, the Goddess of Pleasure]]. Then comes the explanation of why she saved Hébus and perpetually "cured" him of his appetite for human flesh: she started finding the darshanide trolls boring and a bit small and wanted to try a regular troll. She was [[BiggerIsBetterInBed thoroughly satisfied]], though [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments she couldn't sit for three days afterwards]].
** Another example, from the prequel series: Pröfy is actually half-troll. His mother, a full troll, once caught a human nobleman but felt more lusty than hungry at the time... Several days later, the man eventually escaped with his life. And several broken bones. And no clothes whatsoever.
* InThatOrder: The [[ComicBook/BarbeRouge Redbeard]] knockoffs have trouble with RapePillageAndBurn.
-->"We rob'em, burn'em and rape'em, right cap'n?"\\
"Noooo, that's what you did ''last'' time!"\\
"Oh yeah, that wasn't much fun, especially towards the end."
* ITasteDelicious: After C'ian heals Lanfeust and Hebus after they've been partially eaten by mermaids, Hebus tastes a few remains. He thinks that Lanfeust tastes a bit bland but finds himself delicious.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: After he loses his sword, Lanfeust forges himself a new one and gives it the shape of a katana. Granted, at the time they're in the [[FarEast knockoff of China/Japan/Every Asian country related trope you can think of]]. {{Subverted|Trope}} when he sees the katanas forged by the ''personal smith of the emperor'': he describes them as "cute toys", breaks in half one of the very obviously expensive swords in front of the shocked shop clerk, before forging an Eckmülian longsword for himself which only looks superficially like a Darshanide blade.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After healling Ci'an, Rognar decides to denounce Lanfeust's group's presence in the Baronies after they leave him. Then he dies in a stupid way right after getting a reward for snitching on them and his money is collected by an apathetic soldier.
* LethalHarmlessPowers: Cixi's power is turning water into ice or steam by changing the water's temperature. This doesn't seem too dangerous at first. Until Thanos tells Cixi that the human body is mainly composed of water. Then, Thanos orders Cixi to boil the blood of Thanos's own brother to prove her loyalty to him.
* LickingTheBlade: After Averroes decapitates Baron Or-Azur, he licks the blood on his axe.
* LotusEaterMachine: The Magohamoth creates illusions to trap those who reach him into their greatest desires. The group falls prey to it (Or-Azur sees his father's castle, Ci'an and Hébus see their respective villages and Nicolède sees a legendary library). Lanfeust is immune due to him having the ultimate power.
* MacGuffin: The fragment of the Magohamoth's horn. [[spoiler:It gives Lanfeust and Thanos the ultimate power]].

* NoMouth: When Thanos gets tired of Karsya's corporal parroting everything Karsya says, he magically makes the corporal's mouth disappear.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Hébus attacks with crossbows by throwing them.

* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: There's a moment where Nicolede catches his daughter Cixi and Lanfeust about to have sex. He's furious at Cixi, because Lanfeust is already in a relationship with Cixi's sister. He's also angry at Lanfeust for his inability to resist temptation.

* {{Pirate}}:
** Thanos's occupation when we first hear of him.
** As well as {{space pirates}} in ''Lanfeust des Étoiles''.
** Cixi runs into (and joins) a band of man-hating female pirates.
* PirateGirl: Cixi runs into (and joins) a band of man-hating female pirates.
* PokemonSpeak: The creature guiding the heroes to the Magohamoth always says "Gloof", so they call the creature a "Gloof".
* PottyFailure: There's a woman whose power is to give people diarrhea. She uses it on Thanos's soldiers as they invade Eckmul.

* PsychicTeleportation: Everyone on the planet is OnePersonOnePower, that's due to being psychic, but was first described as magic. The powers are as varited as healing at night, melting metal, boiling and freezing water, or causing PottyFailure. The BigBad Thanos has the ability to teleport to any location he's seen previously, which he uses to good effect to impersonate that TinTyrant he's thought to be working for. This ability is later upgraded to teleporting to anywhere Lanfeust uses his Magohamoth powers, but he won't know where he's going (and once blindly teleported into the polar tundra, immediately coming back half-frozen demanding warm clothes).
* PunnyName:
** Every troll's name is such that, if you add "troll" to the front or end, you get a word or phrase; Hébus gives Trolleybus, Haïgwépa for Highway Patrol, Puitépée for "puits de pétrole" (oil rig), Gnondpom for "trognon de pomme" (apple core) and so. Some other characters, like the Darshanide ambassador, also count, but it's [[AllThereInTheManual hard to figure out]].
** Also, mentioned once in the book and [[AllThereInTheManual another time in the manual]], the Darshanide goddess of labyrinths is [[Franchise/TombRaider Larakröft]]
** The Darshanide god of healing is called Anth-Ybio, as in "Antibiotic".
** Two random aerial soldiers from Thanos's army are called Thangosharly and Alfazulu, as in "Tango Charlie" and "Alpha Zulu", common code names in aviation.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A common trait for almost every bad guy in the series, mooks included, is that they are rapists.
* LaResistance: After Thanos takes control of Eckmul, the Haruspex forms a secret group to fight back against Thanos and his army.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Thanos is introduced in the second book.
* SecondLove:
** Cixi is Lanfeust's second love interest.
** Or-Azur becomes the second love of Ci'an, who was Lanfeust's first love.
* ShownTheirWork: At one point, Cixi must freeze seawater in order to form a bridge. She complains that's it's much harder than normal water because of the salt.
* SiblingYinYang: Nicolède's daughters are opposite in several ways. C'ian has a sweet and sensitive personality, is responsible, doesn't like violence, wants to have children, wears non-revealing blue dresses and has blonde hair. Cixi on the other hand, likes to annoy, tease and flirt with people, acts like a spoiled child before her CharacterDevelopment, finds it fun to see people fighting, is interested in sex but doesn't want children, wears red {{Stripperiffic}} outfits and has black hair.
* SkewedPriorities: When Thanos's army invades Eckmul, Cixi is worried that they might mess up her villa.

* SpinOffBabies: ''Gnomes of Troy''.
* SpitTake: When Nicolède realises that the creatures the group is eating are the animals that are supposed to guide them to the Magohamoth, C'ian spits out the meat she was eating.
* TinTyrant: Averroes never removes his armor or face-concealing helm, [[spoiler: for a good reason: he's Thanos]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Cixi
* {{Troperiffic}}: Uses, and occasionally deconstructs, a great many HighFantasy tropes.

* ShoutOut: Waaaaaaaay too many to count: to previous works of the authors, TV series, video games, etc.
** Ci'an and Cixi are the names of the last two Dowager Empresses of China.
** Early in the third book, Lanfeust sings the song from the French "Ricoré" advertisement. He gets interupted just before the part where the brand's name is said.
** At one point, the Magohamoth sword gets its blade stuck in a stone, Lanfeust retrieves it while referencing the [[Myth/ArthurianLegend legend of King Arthur]].
** Franchise/{{Zorro}} characters show up once or twice. Cixi spends an episode as a black-clad masked vigilante riding a bat-like dragon named Tornado.
** [[Franchise/TombRaider Larakröft]], Darshanide Goddess of Labyrinths, comes to mind.

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Thanos is a power-hungry sadist who has natural white hair despite being a young adult.

* TrappedInThePast: Fourth issue in ''Lanfeust of the Stars''.

* PlotHole: It's revealed that the reason why Thanos is sensitive to the Magohamoth, just like Lanfeust, is because they have the same grandfather, making them cousins. The problem is that the reason why Lanfeust is sensitive to the Magohamoth to begin with is because he was genetically modified while in his mother's womb, meaning that being cousins shouldn't justify the fact that Thanos is sensitive to the Magohamoth, since ''he'' was not modified himself. What is particularly jarring is that both contradicting revelations happen in the same scene. The Dolphantes act like they modified Lanfeust and Thanos's grandfather (which would make sense), despite saying a minute earlier that they modified Lanfeust's direct parents' genes while Lanfeust's mother was pregnant.

* HideousHangoverCure: In order to pay the nomads, Nicolede cooks a magical one to cure their massive hangover following a party. It's pretty bland, but then he adds animal droppings in it...
-->'''Nicolede:''' The more the medicine is disgusting, the more the patient thinks it works.
* ImAHumanitarian: Trolls consider human flesh a delicacy.

* MetaPower: Every human has a randomly determined magic power, some more useful than others (heating metal by looking at it, teleporting, making people thirsty, farting from the ears...). These powers only work when in range of a sage, who ritually abandoned their own powers to become relays for magic. During Thanos' takeover of the world, the imprisoned sages attempted a mass reverse ritual to regain their individual powers and fight, but were interrupted.

* FightningYourFriend: [[spoiler: Halfway through, Thanos puts an enchantment on Hebus, forcing him to work as his ruthless lieutenent, known as '' TheButcher'' during this time period. Ice's death removes the enchantment.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: During the final battle, Thanos merges with his own organic ship (the fourth evolution of a particular lifeform) and proceeds to evolve into a colossal SlayingMantis seemingly made of diamond, impervious to all damage. Turns into ClippedWingAngel when he evolves further... and goes back to larval state, leaving him as a tiny white worm easily crushed by Lanfeust.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Venerable Fuquatou discovers that the courtesan blackmailing him is looking for Waha ([[spoiler:her daughter!]]) in order to use her in her brothels, he kicks her out of the dragon they're flying on.

* EveryoneHasStandard: A prostitute refuses to offer her services to Thanos's soldiers because they happily serve an evil tyrant.

* StableTimeLoop: In ''Lanfeust of the Stars'' we learned [[spoiler:Lanfeust gave the absolute power to the Magohamoth in the past and the latter gave him back at the end of the first series.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Venerable Fuquatou discovers that the courtesan blackmailing him is looking for Waha [[spoiler:(her daughter!)]] in order to use her in her brothels, he kicks her out of the dragon they're flying on.

* VillainTeleportation: Thanos's power is the ability to teleport to any place he has visited and memorized. It's notable that the teleportation only applies to his body; so he always loses his clothes when he uses his power.

* AssimilationBackfire: [[spoiler: Prince Dheluu, who already and unknowingly hosts the conscience of Ghoma inside his body, absorbs Thanos as a form of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness. Unfortunately for him, Thanos' conscience reaches the Ghoma's one and he regains all his magic, allowing him to turn the tables on Dheluu himself.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Dheluu and Thanos are gone, the threat to galaxy is over and Lanfeust and Hebus get to return to Troy and have it removed from maps to keep her safe... but he has to leave his wife Cixi forever.

* DemotedToDragon: Thanos become this to Prince Dheluu in ''Lanfeust des Étoiles''.
* DoingInTheWizard: In the sequel ''Lanfeust des Étoiles'', the magic power of the inhabitants of Troy is retconned as PsychicPowers.
* {{Expy}}: Prince Dheluu is inspired by and named after the mascot of a cookie brand. A strong case of AdaptationalVillainy since every advertisement media portray such mascot as a heroic TheWisePrince.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Acknowledged by Cixi and Lanfeust, while Glin's behaviour is far too immature [[spoiler: and has disproportionate consequences in the long run]], he's kinda right in the fact that after sixteen years full of events and changes, Lanfeust doesn't feel right alongside them, and it would be better if they separated.