History Comicbook / Orphanimo

* IncrediblyLamePun: quite a few.

* WallCrawl: in the first album, Sharp modifies a vacuum cleaner into a device that allows you to scale vertical surfaces with the help of suction cups. It's even referred to as the [[Franchise/SpiderMan Spiderman]] costume.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Roger, twice. First he manages to saw his own truck in half when he wants to scare the police away. Later, when he uses his wrecking ball bomber, he gets hit by his own wrecking balls and crashes on [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai Easter Island]].

%%* TheBaroness: Ursula

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Vic
** TheLancer / TheSmartGuy : Sharp
** ActionGirl: Gri Gri
** KidAppealCharacter: Jay Jay
** TheChick: Trish
** TeamPet: Bruno and Minky (Trish’ stoat)

* GreenAesop
* HalloweenEpisode: Te land, ter zee en in de vlucht.

* MegaCorp: Z-oil and Vallalkozo inc.
* McGuffin: The plans of the V-building, stored on a chip, implanted in Praline.
* NerdGlasses: Sharp, the computer expert of the group, wears glasses.

* [[NeverFoundTheBody Never Found Jimjim's Body]], and as long as they don't, Alice refuses to believe Jimjim's dead.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Grimelda and Patricia

* WeaselMascot: Minky
* WellDoneSonGuy: Douglas Zemeckis to Hanz.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to Be Ghosts?]] To show Ursul that Vallalkozo isn't real.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Alice's hair is pink, Trish's is purple. Alice's hair is actually a wig, so that is rather justified. And since no one else has technicolor hair, Trish's hair is most likely dyed.

* OverlyLongName: Grimelda ''Atamutanmutamor''

* BaldWomen: [[spoiler: Alice]], though she wears wigs most of the time.

* CrashingThroughTheHarem: at the beginning of the first album, Vic, Sharp and Jay Jay do this on purpose in order to escape from a group of angry beach volleybal players that are pursuing them (see ThePeepingTom for the reason why). They run through a changing room where several woman are taking a shower. The 3 kids pass through without trouble, but the women are absolutely not amused about the adult men coming in and make this painfully clear to them.

* TheBaroness: Ursula

* BattleCry: Orphanimo, the title of the series, is also a battle cry used by the orphans. It’s an portmanteau of “Geronimo!” (Jimjim’s old battlecry) and Orphan.

* RecycledInSpace / WhatCouldHaveBeen : had the series continued, the characters would eventually have visited Mars. This is even lampshaded by Hanz when his father is about to call his security and have Alice, Vallalkozo and the Orphans arrested (he states he had rather locked them in the rocket and send them to Mars, but that would have been a different story).

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The orphanage is threatened by a rich and powerful industrial named Vallalkozo, who has already demolished almost the entire original city center and replaced all the buildings with skyscrapers. His latest plan is to build a colossal V-shaped building to top it all off, but he needs the ground the orphanage stands on to do so. Alice however wont’ sell her ground and the orphans are not afraid to mock or challenge Vallalkozo. The situation soon escalates, and Vallalkozo has the orphanage isolated from the outside world by digging away all the ground around it (which he already owned, leaving the orphanage on a small pile of ground suspended above a deep pit by the sewer pipes. In a twist of events however, when Vallalkozo and Alice first meet face to face, Vallalkozo instantly falls in love with her. This makes it harder for him to continue his attempts of buying the orphanage. Meanwhile, his assistant Hanz is secretly plotting to take over Vallalkozo's company behind his back.

* WallCrawl: in the first album, Sharp modifies a vacuum cleaner into a device that allows you to scale vertical surfaces with the help of suction cups. It's even referred to as the [[{{Spider-Man}} Spiderman]] costume.

* ChildhoodMemoryDemolitionTeam: Not exactly a team, but Vallalkozo does hire a demolition expert named Roger to destroy the orphanage, even though he doesn't own it yet. His attempts to do so get more extreme over the course of the series, but are stopped every time.

* BilingualBonus / MeaningfulName: Vallalkozo is Hungarian for 'contractor'.

* SwallowTheKey: played with. Vic tries to lure a cop named Andrea to their house so they can prove it really is on a pat suspended on sewer pipes. To force her to come along, he handcuffs himself to her and pretends to swallow the key (which he keeps hidden in his mouth), but in the heat of the action he does accidentally swallow it.

''ORPHANIMO!!'' is a Belgium comic book series, consisting of 2 series of 6 albums each. All albums follow a continuing story line, with each new album starting where the previous one left off.

The orphanage is threatened by a rich and powerfull industrial named Vallalkozo, who has already demolished almost the entire original city center and replaced all the buildings with sky scrapers. His latest plan is to build a colossal V-shaped building to top it all off, but he needs the ground the orphanage stands on to do so. Alice however wont’ sell her ground and the orphans are not afraid to mock or challenge Vallalkozo. The situation soon escalates, and Vallalkozo has the orphanage isolated from the outside world by digging away all the ground around it (which he already owned, leaving the orphanage on a small pile of ground suspended above a deep pit by the sewer pipes. In a twist of events however, when Vallalkozo and Alice first meet face to face, Vallalkozo instantly falls in love with her. This makes it harder for him to continue his attempts of buying the orphanage. Meanwhile, his assistand Hanz is secretly plotting to take over Vallalkozo's company behind his back.

At the end of the first series the orphans save the orphanage by attaching it to a giant air balloon (which Vallalkozo ordered in an attempt to move the house without demolishing it in an attempt to get on Alice's good side) and lifting it into the sky, planning to take it to someplace else. They also take Vallalkozo’s dog with them since she has fallen in love with their dog, Bruno. They don’t know however that the microchip containing the blueprints for the V-building is in her collar. Therefor Vallalkozo and Hanz go in persuit of the fleeing Orphans with the (unwilling) help of the rivaling brothers Orville and Wilbur Blériot and their hot air balloons. The second series is all about the attempts of the orphans to reach an island Vallalkozo has given to Alice. Along the way, Vallalkozo, Hanz and the Blériot brothers crash on a stranded war ship and are presumed dead for a while, and the orphans accidently end up on the north pole. Once they reach their island, they are confronted with Z-Oil, the oil company that Jimjim was protesting against 30 year ago, and it's owner, Douglas Zemeckis. It turns out one of their drilling rigs is near the island. Moreover, there are some illegal activities going on on the drilling rig, as Z-Oil is secretly working on the creation of a luxuary resort on the planet Mars, using rockets powered by nuclear waste to get there. A plan that Vallalkozo's ex-wive Ursula has a hand in as well.

* AnimalTalk: the animals in Orphanimo can all talk to each other, but not to humans. Bruno lampshades this in the last album when the talks to a group of gorilla’s in what he calls “global animal language”.

* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: played with in ''Banzaï potvis!'', when Valllalkozo is assumed dead while he actually crashed on a deserted war ship, and Ursula organizes a "funeral" for him. Vallalkozo does not actually attend it, but he does watch it on a navigation system turned into an improvised tv. Although he is outraged at Ursula's obvious attempt to take over his company (since she knows he is in fact still alive), he is honestly touched when the coffin is lowered into the grave and admits Ursula does have a sense of drama.

* BigRedButton: To launch the rocket to mars. [[spoiler: Unsurprisingly, Ursula gets knocked into it.]]

* ChristmasEpisode: It isn't explicitely stated it's Christmas, but it snows during 'The white Album' and the kids sing 'Bruno the rednose reindeer'. It also appeared in December. But the next album in the series is the HalloweenEpisode...

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Agent Andrea is a well-known Flemish actress, who plays a similar role in the series ''Flikken''. And the kids in the orphans' class in the third album are Flemish TV presentators on a kids' channel.
* CompressedHair: played with. In the third album, when the kids don't know yet that Alice is actually almost bald and wears wigs, Grigri notices the small hairnet Alice is wearing while making breakfast and wonders out loud how she can possibly compress al her hair underneath that. Her remark makes Alice realize she forgot to put her wig on.

* EvilPoacher: the whalers from the album "Banzai Potvis" can be considered this. They look like a bunch of dirty, modern day pirates, so they are probably no licenced professionals, and they don't hesitate to attack the balloon carrying the orphanage when the orphans try to interfere with their whale hunting.

* {{Flashback}}: every album contains flashbacks of Alice's and Jim Jim's live 30 years ago, in reversed order. The first album shows Jim Jim getting lost at sea, and every album following the first one shows a previous moment of their lives together untill finally, in the second last album, we get to see how they first met.

* HollywoodHacking: Averted. Although Sharp is a computer expert and he does manage to hack the controlls of the automatic Window cleaning platform on the outside of Vallalkozo's building, he clearly states he cannot hack the main computer of the building itself to shut down security or get insight in Vallakozo's plans (especially not because he only has a laptop to work with).

* HumanPopsicle: in the tenth album, the orphans end up on the north pole. There they find the frozen body of Alice’ ancestor Archibald. When they thaw him out, it turns out he is not dead but was only in suspended animation. Later, he and his ''mammoth pet'' fall through the ice again, but the orphans leave him because he didn't like the 21st century.
* ImprobableAge: the orphans seem to be capable of things you don't except from children their ages (they appear to be somehwere between 8 to 10 years old, although Jay Jay is stated to be 3 years old in the first album).

* MaleGaze: The first album starts with the boys using a teleguided zeppelin to spy on showering girls.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: you can safely jump from a flying house or a skyscraper, as long as you have a rope around your waist, nothing will happen.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: although we learn their real names in the first album, and Alice does call them by their full names most of the time, the orphans only use their nicknames when referring to themselves or each other.
* OrphanageOfLove: the orphanage where the series is set. It’s small and humble compared to the big skyscrapers surrounding it, but to the orphans it’s their only true home.

* ThePeepingTom: in the first album, while on the beach, Vic, Sharp and Jay Jay try to spy on some women in the showers with a camera (the images of which are send to Sharp's laptop computer) connected to a remote controlled miniature zeppelin. Unfortunately for them, they accidently pick the men's shower instead and the beach volleyball players inside are not amused by the kids antics. They succeed later after having ditched the angry men by deploying the CrashingThroughTheHarem trope.

* PintsizedKid: the kids are roughly half the size of the adult characters, besides clearly being somewhere between 8 to 12 years old.
* ThePowerOfLove: Vallalkozo's falling in love with Alice marks a turning point in his evil carreer.

* {{Robinsonade}}: the Japanese kamikaze pilot from "Banzaï Potvis!", who spend 60 years trapped on a stranded war ship after crashing his plane. He is finally saved when Vallalkozo, Hanz and the Blériot brothers crash on the same ship.

** Two smoking cleaning ladies (who don't seem to do much cleaning) that work for Vallalkozo, are constantly talking about a certain 'Irma'. We never get to see Irma or hear more about her than the mere fact the cleaning ladies like to talk to her.

** As the foundations' pit for the V-building is dug, the Underground that turns out to be there becomes, well, aboveground. Every time it goes through the pit, something (nearly) hits it and gets dragged along, be it Vic on a rope, a car/sled,... or something else happens, like the tunnel being closed or the rails gone. At the end of Banzaï Potvis, the tram driver even lampshades it, when the 'thing' is Ursula in a limousine:
--->'''Station master''':"Okay, ik heb het door. Hoe noemen ze zoiets? (Okay, I understand. How do you call something like that?)

* SavingTheOrphanage: the main plot for the entire series.

* SelectiveMagnetism: When Roger is tasked to get the sewer pipes out of the pit, he uses a giant magnet, but accidently turns it on while driving through the city towards the pit. As a result, he attracts about all metal, including cars, telephones and street lamps, but when he leaves, only the pipes are on his truck. All other metal things lie in the pit.
* SeriesContinuityError: considering the fact that each album continues where the previous one left off, the whole series supposedly takes place within a time span of several days to possibly several weeks (see ExtremelyShortTimespan above). Yet, both the fourth album and the final album take place on october 31, the 30th anniversary of Jimjims disappearance.

* SwallowTheKey: played with. Vic tries to lure a cop named Andrea to their house so they can prove it realy is on a pat suspended on sewer pipes. To force her to come along, he handcuffs himself to her and pretends to swallow the key (which he keeps hidden in his mouth), but in the heat of the action he accidently does swallow it.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: several times, the dialogue in a panel would take much longer to say than the action shown in the panel would allow. A very notacible example comes from the eigth album; Vic falls through a hole in the roof (that was made by one of Rogers wrecking balls in the previous album) and passes through his bedroom before finally ending up in the living room downstairs. During his fall, he somehow has plenty of time to notice a roller skate under his bed and make a comment about it, and once downstairs he again has enought time to politely ask if someone would please catch him.

* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: escpecially in the second storyarc, both the heroes and the villains travel around the world at remarkable speed. A few examples; The balloon that carries the orphanage travels from the nameless city to Easter Island in less than a day, and drifts off to the north pole overnight. Vallalkozo is able to travel from the nameless city to his parents in the south seas and back in a matter of hours.
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: in the final album, it is revealed that Vallalkozo is in fact Jimjim, who has been suffering from amnesia ever since the accident at sea 30 years earlier]]
* VagueAge: the orphans. Jayjay is the only one who's age is mentioned; he's 3 years old. The other kids are clearly older, but how much is never stated (Vallalkozo revers to Vic as "9 years old" in the eight album, but it's unclear if that realy is Vic's age or if it's just a guess)
* WallCrawl: in the first album, Sharp modifies a vacuum cleaner into a device that allows you to scale vertical surfaces with the help of suction cups. It's even refered to as the [[{{Spider-Man}} Spiderman]] costume.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to Be Ghosts?]] To show Ursul Vallalkozo isn't real.

Belgium comic book series, consisting of 2 series of 6 albums each. All albums follow a continuing story line, with each new album starting where the previous one left off.

* SeriesContinuityError: considering the fact that each album continues where the previous one left off, the whole series supposedly takes place within a time span of several days to possibly several weeks. Yet, both the fourth album and the final album take place on october 31, the 30th anniversary of Jimjims disappearance.
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: averted in the first story arc, in which the orphans do go to school. More played straight in the secone arc, when they start traveling the world and nobody seems to care that they are skipping school to do so.

* BlondesAreEvil / BlondGuysAreEvil: played straight with Ursula, the reception lady, the mayor, Hanz and Douglas Zemeckis. Averted with Jayjay and Alice (she is blond in her flashbacks).

* TheBigBad: Vallalkozo during most of the series, and Douglas Zemeckis during the later part. In the second last album they briefly form a BigBadDuumvirate, which does not last long.

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* Robinsonade: the Japanese kamikaze pilot from "Banzaï Potvis!", who spend 60 years trapped on a stranded war ship after crashing his plane. He is finally saved when Vallalkozo, Hanz and the Blériot brothers crash on the same ship.