History ComicStrip / KabouterWesley

* FairyGodmother: The friendship fairy.

* CurbStompBattle: {{Implied|Trope}}. After a friendship fairy challenges Wesley to a battle to the death, the episode cuts to a perfectly fine Wesley, commenting on how surprisingly quick it went.

* CurbStompBattle: Implied|Trope. After a friendship fairy challenges Wesley to a battle to the death, the episode cuts to a perfectly fine Wesley, commenting on how surprisingly quick it went.

Kabouter Wesley (“Gnome Wesley”) is a Belgian series of short comics written and drawn by Jonas Geirnaert, first published from 2008 to 2010 in Belgian magazine ''Humo''. From fall 2009 onwards, the comics were adapted as cartoon shorts on television for ''Man bijt hond''.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Parodied when a robot appears in front of Wesley and claims to be from the future. Which time period? Next Wednesday.

-->'''Wesley''': (beat) And what is the practical use of that?

* BigNever: One episode has Wesley asks an ice cream seller for an ice cream, to which the ice cream seller replies this trope. What follows is an extremely long ChaseScene in which Wesley keeps following the seller for several years to get an ice cream.

* BottleEpisode: In one comic, a popped light bulb caused the entire story to play out in pitch black darkness, with only the speech bubbles being visible. Wesley {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s it like this:

** The impulsive gnome who runs over Wesley's house, mentions in his backstory an uninhabited planet called Vognor 7, and the episode ends with the gnome and his mother leaving for Vognor 8. In a later episode, Wesley meets some aliens that come also from a planet called Vognor.

* CurbStompBattle: Implied. After a friendship fairy challenges Wesley to a battle to the death, the episode cuts to a perfectly fine Wesley, commenting on how surprisingly quick it went.

-->'''Fitted carpet dealer''': Pssst... Gnome Wesley, it's me, the fitted carpet dealer. I come to rescue you!

-->'''Wesley''': Yes...

* {{Jerkass}}: Wesley. He has a tendency to beat the crap out of everyone, even for petty reasons. This is also zigzagged, as he is seen to have a caring side towards others sometimes. At least, until he loses his patience.
* MediumAwareness: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in a short in which Wesley comes across several things that, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall according to his remarks]], are extremely difficult to animate. Examples include an extremely detailed vintage car, six firefighters on a motorcycle and a dog with six legs that starts to juggle with star shaped tetrahedrons while doing back flips. The short ends with Wesley apologizing to the animators by offering them a bouquet of flowers [[BaitAndSwitch which continuously change colours.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: How is a pig that looks like a poorly drawn cat hidden from pig exterminators? Hat, glasses and beard. Then it gets subverted when it turns out the “pig in disguise” was an ''actual gnome'' who owns a tree where he let the pig hide itself behind.

* TalkingAnimal: Many of the characters Wesley encounters are talking animals. Famous examples include the pig that looks like a badly drawn cat, the silly hedgehog, the stealing dolphin, the crying penguin, the pizza-delivering rhinos and the mountain goat that is actually the king of Mongolia.

** Wesley is getting shot at, three kilometers away, two gnomes are filling the worlds largest water balloon:

* WidgetSeries: Antropomorphic animals might be some of the ''least'' weird things to happen.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: In the cartoons, every single character except for Wesley himself (who is voiced by its creator Jonas Geirnaert) is voiced by Jelle De Beule.

** Wesley is getting shot at, three kilomters away, two gnomes are filling the worlds largest water balloon:
--->'''Gnome''': Almost nothing can go wrong now.

-->''(cut to the two of them sitting in the same prison cell)

** In fact, this could be called Medium ''Conversion'' Awareness: the gag was originally created as ''comic'', while the cartoon series was already in production, meaning the cartoonist deliberately made it to force the animators to transform the [[StylisticSuck badly drawn cartoon]] into something actually well-animated. [[TheEnd The final panel of the comic]] explicitly confirms this, with the words "End of this gratuitous fuckery towards the guys who have to animate Gnome Wesley".

* BottleEpisode: In one comic, a popped light bulb caused the entire story to play out in pitch black darkness, with only the speech bubbles being visible. Wesley [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it like this:

** The magic watering can from the "Turbo turbo"-episode is mentionned again in another episode, where it appears as part of a newspaper offering.
* CurbStompBattle: Implied. After a friendship-fairy challenges Wesley to a battle to the death, the episode cuts to a perfectly fine Wesley, commenting on how surprisingly quick it went.
* ComedicSociopathy: If you say “Turbo Turbo” to the magic watering can, it gets set on fire, which is incredibly painful. Everyone else finds it gut-bustingly hilarious.

-->'''Fitted carpte dealer''': Sad that it didn't work out.

* GrammarNazi: One of two pig exterminators has the ability to ''hear'' dt-mistakes[[note]]A lot of Dutch verbs can end on either “d”, “t” or “dt”, depending on conjugation, but you can't hear that in conversation.[[/note]]. He keeps pointing out the other's mistakes.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: In the cartoons, every single character exept for Wesley himself (who is voiced by its creator Jonas Geirnaert) is voiced by Jelle De Beule.
* MediumAwareness: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in a short in which Wesley comes across several things that, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall according to his remarks]], are extremely difficult to animate.Examples include an extremely detailed vintage car, six firefighters on a motorcycle and a dog with six legs that starts to juggle with star shaped tetrahedrons while doing back flips. The short ends with Wesley apologizing to the animators by offering them a bouquet of flowers [[BaitAndSwitch which continuously change colours.]]
* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: One episode lacks every dialogue as it only features Wesley walking past multiple signs with unnecessary information while whistling. Finally, Wesley accidentaly falls into a pond and drowns.

* StrawMisogynist: One comic has Wesley getting a visit from the commission for equal opportunities because his adventures never feature women. Wesley replies that this is because he thinks women are stupid (which the commission agrees). After a woman is sought to participate, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Wesley urges her to clean his house...]]

-->'''Wesley''': Wow! It seems that someone didn't feel much to draw here.

* AllJustADream: Used in one comic where Wesley is obliged to temporarily use his freezer as a telephone due to technical work by the telephone company. When the work is done, he ends op calling with his cat. At the end, all of this turns out to have been just a dream [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext of Wesley's telephone]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied when Wesley is called by someone, who convinces him that he’s really his future self by stating how many times a day he pulls his own [[CurseCutShort pe-]]

* CallBack: In episode 15, there is a newspaper ad offering a magic watering can for 9.50. This item appeared in episode 4, where a spell could set the can and others on fire.

* BottleEpisode: In one comic, a popped light bulb caused the entire story to play out in pitch black darkness, with only the speech bubbles being visible. Wesley {{LampshadeHanging lampshades}} it like this:

** The two-part comic about the travel agency derives most of its humour from people banging their heads against low-hanging signboards and all needing several hours to recuperate from it.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In one comic, a mountain goat claims to be the king of Persia. When Wesley reminds him that Persia doesn't exist anymore, the goat corrects himself by saying he is the king of Mongolia, which is confirmed when two Mongolians come to visit their king. It should be noted that Persia is the former name of Iran, not Mongolia.

* GrumpyBear: There are a number of things that Wesley hates, like mushrooms, gardening, skiing, reading books, the film ''Film/{{Memento}}'', nice walks and all of nature. He is usually disliking things for the sake of it, and angrily shouting.

** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by a pig that Wesley mistakes for a cat because of this trope. Wesley agrees and says that it applies to him too.

* MediumAwareness: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in a short in which Wesley comes across several things that, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall according to his remarks]], are extremely difficult to animate.Examples include an extremely detailed vintage car, six firefighters on a motorcycle and [[UpToEleven a dog with six legs that starts to juggle with star shaped tetrahedrons while doing back flips]]. The short ends with Wesley apologizing to the animators by offering them a bouquet of flowers [[BaitAndSwitch which continuously change colours.]]

* MediumAwareness: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in a short in which Wesley comes across several things that are extremely difficult to animate, such as an extrely detailed vintage car, six firefighters on a motorcycle and a dog with six legs which starts to juggle with star shaped tetrahedrons while doing back flips. The short ends with Wesley apologizing to the animators by offering them a bouquet of flowers [[BaitAndSwitch which continuously change colours.]]

* AllJustADream: Used in one comic where Wesley is obliged to temporarily use his freezer as a telephone due to technical work by the telephone company. When the work is done, he ends op calling with his cat. At the end, all of this turns out to have been just a dream of Wesley's telephone.

* AnthropomorphicFood: In one comic, Wesley takes a talking and walking pita to his home, only to eat it after he has given the pita a tour of his house. Later, he takes home a small pack of chips without sauce and a cheese croquette, but those two end up eating Wesley (as well as the illegal chirory plantation inspector) instead of vice versa.

* AnthropomorphicFood: In one comic, Wesley takes a talking and walking pita to his home, only to eat it after he has given the pita a tour of his house. Later, he takes home a small pack of chips without sauce and a cheese croquette, but those two eat Wesley (as well as the illegal chirory plantation inspector) instead of vice versa.