History ComicBook / Lanfeust

!!''Lanfeust'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* DoingInTheWizard: In the sequel ''Lanfeust des Étoiles'', the magic power of the inhabitants of Troy is retconned as PsychicPowers.

* TheDragon
** Thanos appears to be this to Averroes, until [[spoiler: we learn that they're the same guy.]]
** Thanos become this to Prince Luhu in ''Lanfeust des Étoiles''.

* HappyRain: "There it is, your ET shower!" (though the pun unfortunately doesn't work in English).

* IdenticalGrandson: Or identical niece. Cian's daughter, Cixi, shares her aunt's name, appearance and personality.

** The BigBad of ''Lanfeust des Etoiles'' is named after the mascot of a cookie brand.

* RecycledInSpace: ''Lanfeust of the Stars''

* 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.]]

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

* WhamEpisode
** In ''Lanfeust Odyssey'', [[spoiler:a possessed Lanfeust kills Nicolede in full view of everyone in Eckmul]].
** Before that, in ''Lanfeust of the stars'', Lanfeust and Swiip end up [[spoiler:eighteen years in the future]]. It is never fixed, meaning Lanfeust [[spoiler:has now the same age as his son, leading Cixi to eventually break up with him since she's spent the years making a name for herself in the future]].

* FiveManBand
** TheHero -- Lanfeust
** TheLancer -- Cixi (as the one who [[spoiler:leaves them, apparently defects to the evil side, but actually fight from the inside.]]
** TheBigGuy -- Hébus
** TheSmartGuy -- Nicolède
** TheChick -- C'ian
** SixthRanger -- Or-Azur and Sphax

A 26 episode season DenserAndWackier, LighterAndSofter 3D cartoon has also aired, loosely based off the manga version.

A 26 episode season DenserAndWakier, LighterAndSofter tv show has also aired, loosely based off the manga like comic.

** [[{{Wuxia}} Darshanites]], [[UnfortunateImplications rather than having individual powers]], subconsciously pool their power to create gods that intercede in daily life on that continent.

* ImStandingRightThere: Lanfeust claim to be an atheist in front of [[spoiler: the whole Darshanide pantheon]]. Cue massive DeathGlare.

* ImStandingRightThere: Lanfeust claim to be an atheist in front of [[spoiler: the whole Darshanide pantheon]]. Cure massive DeathGlare.

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: Huge, anthropophagist, fur-covered humanoids with SuperStrength and a violent aversion to water. (It might make them clean and thus alienate their flies.) They can be enchanted by a sage, turning them into obedient servants, but DON'T let them get drunk. Trolls actually developed a highly advanced culture built around [[HeroicComedicSociopath Heroic sociopathy]]: they can perfectly function in civilized human society, but unless they [[MoralityPet take a fancy to some of the locals]], they may kill people at random [[ForTheEvulz to pass time]].

** 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. Some other characters, like the Darshanide ambassador, also count, but it's [[AllThereInTheManual hard to figure out]].

* CashCowFranchise

* 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.

* 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.

'''''Lanfeust de Troy''''' is a French heroic-fantasy comic series by Arleston and Tarquin, published by Soleil Productions. It features the eponymous hero Lanfeust in the world of Troy, and his efforts to save said world from total dominion by an evil army. The main feature of this series is that each inhabitant has a single magical power, be it useful or useless (melting metal, boiling/freezing water, teleporting, farting from the ears...), but sometimes, one person can have the ultimate power, that consists of every single power ever. This is the case for Lanfeust, a young blacksmith who, while mending the sword of a passing aristocrat, discovers that touching the sword's pommel grants him the ultimate power.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Lanfeust]]

* TinTyrant: Averroes never removes his armor or face-concealing helm, [[spoiler:for a good reason: he's Thanos]].

The series has also been RecycledInSpace (''Lanfeust des Étoiles''), rewritten as a manga (''Lanfeust Quest''), and as SpinoffBabies (''Gnomes de Troy''). And recently, given a sequel, in the form of ''Lanfeust Odyssey''... [[CashCowFranchise Annnnnnnd another series]] has just come out: ''Cixi de Troy''. This one focuses on Cixi from when she leaves the main band to when we meet with her again. There is also a prequel series of sorts, involving the adventures of Hebus's grandfather Tetram, his adoptive human daughter Waha, and her would-be boyfriend Profy (''Trolls de Troy'').

* 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 [[{{Wutai}} 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.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Both C'ian and Cixi 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]] [[IAmAManICantHelpIt it's just sexual]] but [[InveertedTrope boys are more romantic and it's cheating]].

* ClingyJealousGirl: Both C'ian and Cixi 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 it's just sexual but boys are more romantic and it's cheating]].

** Cixi. Among others, she appears nude in one scene, to C'ian's anger, Lanfeust's astonishment, and to [[ViewersAreHorny our great delight]].

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Thanos

** ''Cixi De Troy'' seems to run on this. The FIRST volume gives us a HotAmazonBrigade who are big believers in GirlOnGirlIsHot and {{Stripperiffic}} outfits.