History ComicBook / Lanfeust

* SuddenlySexuality: In the main series, Cixi has no interest in anyone but men, but ''Cixi de Troy'' portrays her as bisexual.

''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, [[EmbarrassingSuperpower farting from their ears]]...) ; however, their power can only be used if a sage, a person who underwent a special rite to lose their power to become a magical conduit, is around and alive.

!!Tropes:

* 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]] [[ImAManICantHelpIt it's just sexual]] but [[InvertedTrope boys are more romantic and it's cheating]].

* DoomedByCanon: In her spin-off series, Cixi gets pregnant with Thanos' child never mentionned in the main series. [[ConvenientMiscarriage You guess what happens next...]]

* 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.
* EveryoneIsASuper: It's close to ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' in comic form. Everyone on the world of Troy has the potential for magic power, enabled by people who train as sages at a WizardingSchool. Sages learn some charms and spells at school and "turn off" their own powers to allow people within a certain range to use theirs. They are valuable resources; for example, when trolls attack caravans, they often focus on the sages. There are also a few nations with cultural differences in how magic manifests.

* EyeScream: Thanos puts out Lanfeust's eyes (with an ivory blade, when he melts the metal one). Just one at first to torture hi, then the other one because [[KickTheDog "I hate one-eyed people"]].

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

* 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.]].

-->"The more the medicine is disgusting, the more the patient thinks it works."

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

* 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.

* MeaningfulName

* {{Pirate}}

* PunnyName

** Franchise/{{Zorro}} characters show up once or twice. Cixi spends an episode as a black-clad masked vigilante riding a... flying... bat... thing... named Tornado. (actually referred to as [[OurDragonsAreDifferent a dragon at some point]]).

* SpinOffBabies: Gnomes of Troy
* SuddenlySexuality: In the main series, Cixi has no interest in anyone but men, but Cixi of Troy portrays her as bisexual.

* VerbalTic: Or-Azur's manservant has "Créfieu", a very distored variant of the rural French swear "Sacré vingt dieux" (Holy twenty gods).

* VillainTeleportation: Thanos' power : he can teleport instantly to any location he memorized... Minus his clothes.

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

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

* SuddenlySexuality: In the main series, Cixi has no interest in anyone but men, but Cixi of Troy portrays her as [[BiTheWay Bisexual.]]

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The series is pretty cynical, people die, messily, and yet remains quite funny. Which is notable because unlike many examples, it starts out that way. The [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler first issue prominently features]] a MilesGloriosus, speculation about the PowerPerversionPotential of Lanfeust's abilities, Lanfeust's leg getting chewed off by a HordeOfAlienLocusts, Lanfeust personally killing hundreds of bandit {{Mook}}s, and more, equally funny and horrific, sometimes on the same page.

''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, [[EmbarrassingSuperpower farting from their ears]]...) ; however, their power can only be used if a sage, a person who underwent a special rite to lose his/her power to become a magical conduit, is around and alive.

Sometimes, one person can have the ultimate power, that consists of every single power ever. This is the case for Lanfeust, a young blacksmith gifted with the power of melting metal by looking at it, who, while mending the sword of a passing aristocrat, discovers that touching the sword's pommel, made with the ivory of the Magohamoth, the source of all magic in the world, grants him the ultimate power. Accompanied by Nicomède (the village sage), C'ian (Nicmlède's older daughter and Lanfeust's fiancée, who can heal any wound after nightfall), Cixi (Nicomède's younger daughter, who can make water evaporate or freeze) and Hébus (a wild troll Nicomède enchanted), Lanfeust goes to Eckmül, Troy's capital, in order to study his power. But what he'll find there will be ''a tad'' bigger than that...

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Venerable Fuquatou discovers that the courtesan blackmailing him is looking for the mutant siren "sisters" of Waha in order to use them in her brothels, he kicks her out of the dragon they're flying on.

* HideousHangoverCure: In order to pay the nomads, Nicomede cooks a magical one to cure their massive hangover following a party. It's pretty bland, but then he adds animal droppings in it...

* 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 Nicomède sees a legendary library). Lanfeust is immune due to him having the ultimate power.

* BigBad: Baron Averroes, [[spoiler:who then turns out to be the Mad Titan, Thanos]].

* BigBad: Baron Averroes, [[spoiler:who then turns out to be Thanos. Not that big purple tyrant]].

* BigBad: Baron Averroes, [[spoiler:who then turns out to be Thanos. Not [[ComicBook/Thanos that big purple tyrant]] ]].

* BigBad: Baron Averroes, [[spoiler:who then turns out to be Thanos]].

* SuddenlySexuality: In the main series, Cixi has no interest in anyone but men, but Cixi of Troy portates her as [[BiTheWay Bissexual.]]

* CruelAndUnuSualDeath:

** 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 [[CrowningMomentOfFunny she couldn't sit for three days afterwards]].

''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...) ; however, their power can only be used if a sage, a person who underwent a special rite to lose his/her power to become a magical conduit, is around and alive.

* AngelUnaware: [[spoiler: Sphax, Cixi's dragon, is actually the Darshanite god of ambassadors, sent by his fellow gods to bring Lanfeust in Darshan.]]
* AnnoyingArrows: Averted; arrows and crossbow bolts are quite lethal when used against humans. Played straight with trolls; Hébus refers to arrows stuck in his hide as "toothpicks".

* {{Fanservice}}: Cixi is the main example, but it's hard to find a page without at least one scantily clad and/or buxom woman.

* EyeScream: Thanos puts out Lanfeust's eyes (with an ivory blade, when he melts the metal one).
* {{Fanservice}}

* ShownTheirWork: At one point, Cixi must freeze seawater in order to form a bridge to escape an attack. She complains that's it's much harder to freeze due to the salt.

* TheUnFavorite: Cixi views herself as this

Sometimes, one person can have the ultimate power, that consists of every single power ever. This is the case for Lanfeust, a young blacksmith gifted with the power of melting metal by looking at it, who, while mending the sword of a passing aristocrat, discovers that touching the sword's pommel grants him the ultimate power. Accompanied by Nicomède (the village sage), C'ian (Nicmlède's older daughter and Lanfeust's fiancée, who can heal any wound after nightfall), Cixi (Nicomède's younger daughter, who can make water evaporate or freeze) and Hébus (a wild troll Nicomède enchanted), Lanfeust goes to Eckmül, Troy's capital, in order to study his power. But what he'll find there will be ''a tad'' bigger than that...

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Thanos doesn't appear at all in the first album. The only antagonists are random brigands. Also, Cixi was more immature.
** Hebus 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).

* SecondLove
** Cixi to Lanfeust.
** Or-Azur to Ci'an.

** Hebus had [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] when not enchanted in the early albums. This was dropped later as none of the wild trolls have red eyes.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Thanos doesn't appear at all in the first album. The only antagonists are random brigands. Also, Cixi was more immature.

'''''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...) ; however, their power can only be used if a sage, a person who underwent a special rite to lose his/her power to become a magical conduit, is around and alive.

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

* BehemothBattle: The climactic battle is fought between giant energy clones of [[TheHero Lanfeust]] and [[TheBigBad Thanos]] over a major city.