History Creator / Gotlib

* OnlyOneName: Defied. It's a RiddleForTheAges what was the surname of [[Film/DrMabuseTheGambler Dr. Mabuse.]] Now we know: It's "Zischöne".[[note]]Vaguely German, "Sie Schöne" = you beauty[[/note]] Now if there wasn't this nagging feeling [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Gotlib just made it up...]]

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Momo, the slightly oversized pubic louse.

* [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign As Long As It Looks Foreign]]: The comic analogue to the trope. "No Japonais": An unlucky Samurai playing in the "Theatre of Nations" is DrivenToSuicide when everybody else misinterprets his Kanji as the signal for their act. About all languages that Joe Average can identify from their look (but not read - if you can actually read them, it's pure nonsense) are played through. [[UpToEleven And then some unknown, until the Caveman enters who speaks "Altamira".]]...[[StarfishLanguage And finally some step-dancing Martians speaking Wingding.]]

** Possibly also Perverse Mémère and her Kamawhateva book. And then she gets out her vibrator. Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz. Turns out it's a cookbook and she's pureeing Madeleine cream. (The Japanese vaguely hints at it, but it's more a [[CanisLatinicus Inu nihonicus]].)

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: He usually does comedy, but sometimes does dark and sad stories. And sometimes he mixes a bit of both. For example, there is one story which is a "sequel" to the "Literature/HopOMyThumb" fairytale in which the ogre, overcome with guilt, goes through a deep depression before deciding to seek redemption, as the reader realizes he eventually [[spoiler:becomes Santa Claus]].

* CaptainEthnic: Superdupont is a basically a bunch of French stereotypes in human form; so stereotypical in fact that even French people tend to agree ([[ActuallyPrettyFunny and find amusing]]).

* CaptainEthnic: Superdupont is a basically a bunch of French stereotypes in human form; so stereotypical in fact that even French people tend to agree [[(ActuallyPrettyFunny and find amusing)]].

* ExactWords: Pervers Pépère, on the toilet, sees a contact ad of a homosexual, something with loving pipes[[note]]French UnusualEuphemism for a blowjob[[/note]]. He arranges a meeting and gives the guy a present: A beautifully crafted meerschaum pipe. Still, ceci n'est une amused victim.

* MistakenForCheating: In the ''Rubrique-à-brac'' about marmots, Professor burp try to observe a couple of the titular animal in their burrow, but the marmot husband come after the professor and think his wife cheat on him.

* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: More correctly "fist fight", but we don't have all trope permutations. Superdupont fights against Bruce Lee, first with the good old [[WeightedGloves hidden horseshoe]], but then quickly gets out the semi-automatic and finally a cannon. [[CurbStompBattle Alas, Bruce is simply too fast for him.]]

* OnlyOneName: Defied. It's a RiddleForTheAges what was the surname of [[Film/DrMabuseTheGambler Dr. Mabuse.]] Now we know: It's "Zischöne".[[note]]Vaguely German, "Sie Schöne" = you beauty[[/note]] Now if there wasn't this nagging feeling [[AsLongItSoundsForeign Gotlib just made it up...]]

* {{Mockumentary}}: The animal-themed strips. For example, one starts out about rhinoceroses that suddenly acquire duck traits (migrate, taste good with oranges...) because someone messed up his files.

Gotlib was the PenName for Marcel Gotlieb. He was a French cartoonist whose FrancoBelgianComics are popular classics, who started out in cooperation with scenarist Creator/ReneGoscinny (of ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' fame), and later struck out on his own.