History Webcomic / CincoElementos

* AbsoluteXenophobe: The king of Nimbo looks like one. When, after a long time they have appeared in his kingdom, he meets Belenus and his team, he shouts at them, insults them, asks if they came for war, threatens them, threatens to attack their homelands and expels them from his kingdom.

* BloodKnight: Lluvia is happy at the perspective of [[spoiler: going through the League again]] because she will be able to kick asses.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Sirona and Belenus, Kaji and Chisp's grandparents.

* ConLang: The Ancient Language. Ken Válbrandur's book is written completely like this. [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands Lluvia and Sôkar also happen to know some of it, because Sôkar's anthropologist grandfather did teach them a bit.]] So does Benjamin. And Adler.

* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Lluvia can control her razor-sharp umbrella with her powers (it has water inside). [[spoiler:It's also a Sword Cane.]]

* [[HealingHands Healing Teeth]]: Ouroboros has a healing bite. It's quite effective.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: [[PaperMaster Dino]] can imprison your soul inside [[EldritchLocation a paper sheet]]. Don't make him mad. He also has shown a great battle prowess while fighting [[spoiler: Desangrador/Ébola]].

* HeroicBSOD: Often comes with certain {{Wham Line}}s.

* HeroicSacrifice: When Zap is about to be killed by Finalmigo, Kaji intercepts it, and Finalmigo pierces his body.

* HotBlooded: Igna, Benjamin's wife, couldn't be anything else than a fire elemental.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Kru believes Benjamin to be this, and Benjamin in turn believes Kaji to be this.

-->'''Rain:''' Right, the card... I left it home so I wouldn't lose it.
-->'''Briz:''' They don't give you any cards. You're a liar.

* TheInfiltration: the (9 person) team tried to infiltrate Coral Town so they could reach Angelo's museum to find out more about him, [[spoiler: being the man who made the Five Elements portrait of Heliopolis and all that]].

* InfinityPlusOneElement: Alcahest is theorized to be a variant of this, see InverseLawOfComplexityToPower below. Though its existence is hypothetical [[spoiler: at first, and even when it's now clear that Lluvia is an alcahest elemental, she can't use those powers yet.]]

* InformedAbility: "Sokar can move in darkness just fine". He can't.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Zap could have this as his element: "I'm the architect because I'm a lightning elemental".

* IntoxicationEnsues (from a giant snake's poison) [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, which according to Matarratas "could be a whole new level to discover":
--> '''Zap''': Matarratas is a bird! A bird! [...] He wasn't a person! He was a mouse in disguise!! He tried to kill his best friend with his eye!![[note]]Reference to the author's previous manga Raruto. ItMakesSenseInContext.[[/note]] [...] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext My glass... is a clown!]] [[EpilepticTrees I wanna have a navel!]]

* {{Jerkass}}: All the main cast and many others have their oportunity. Special mention to Hiedra, who appears in the League and doesn't even need provocation.

* KarmaHoudini: Lluvia is a total bastard with everyone, all the time. Nothing ever happens to her.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Kaji never remembers anything after the Dusk Virus powerups.

* MagicAntidote: the Dawn Project, initiated by Colonel Ébola, and then continued by Desangrador [[spoiler: (Ébola in disguise)]] and Matarratas with the goal of creating an antidote that would allow virus elementals to touch living beings without harming them. [[spoiler: Turns out it was a ploy to re create the Dusk virus, planned by Ébola [[ManipulativeBastard all along]].]]

* {{Masquerade}}: The premise of the comic.
** The government has ordered a massive blood exam on the whole country. Every person must assist, and there are soldiers in every frontier to prevent prople from skipping it. Something big is going on.
*** Sota theorizes it's due to Lluvia. It happened after Bombastus found out about her, [[spoiler: and he killed himself so Alphonse could not get intel from him about her]].

* MentorArchetype: Benjamin for Kaji, Desangrador for Matarratas, Igor Adler and his SS comrades for Ember, Kru for Benjamin...

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Kru]] was said to be this by the Elemental Sages, helping them against the "sect" that researched about the Five Elements.

* MonochromaticEyes: Many characters have this, mostly for the art style.

* MorphWeapon: Hugin is able to merge with Sokar's Wascythe to increase it's power greatly and give it a self-conciousness.
* MrExposition: Matarratas and Kaji do this from time to time, but the main Mr. Exposition is Dino.
** "This old man... never wastes an opportunity to talk about science"

* MundaneUtility: Karol works as oven in a bakery. Lightbulbs have light because light elementals give it to them.

* MyEyesAreUpHere: Rubeola says something like this to Kaji once. It doen't seem to bother her much, actually.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: It looks like a running theme with virus elementals: Matarratas means literally Ratkiller / Rat Poison, Desangrador means Bleeder, Varicela means Chicken Pox, and of course, Dr. Ébola.

* NeverMyFault: Lluvia extends this to "it's all Kaji's fault, always". Dino is fond of blaming Kaji for everything as well.

* NoSell: The enemies in the Labyrinth are inmune to Matarratas's virus-based attacks.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: In a flashback, Benjamin tells Kaji that when you die, the elements that compose your body return to nature to create more life, and your "soul" just stops existing.

* OhCrap: Many times, the most famous may be one of Lluvia when she tried to drown Kaji, only for him to vaporize the water in an instant and then punch her in the face.

* OneHitKill: Most of the common enemies in the Labyrinth suffered this from the main cast. [[spoiler: Also, Lluvia killed Finalmigo in one hit once she stoppped laughing.]]

* OnlySaneMan: Pi, the sanest guy known among Dino's friends, [[spoiler: and the only serious member of his League team.]] He has become even more serious since his marriage.

* ParentalSubstitute: Rubeola is this to Matarratas. Also Desangrador, until the second arc.

* PassingTheTorch: In Benjamin's own words: [[spoiler: "I thought everything would turn alright... I failed, Kaji, I messed everything up. I made grave mistakes... I can't keep this up... You are the only one I can entrust this to..."]]

* PlausibleDeniability: Kaji, a fire elemental, has red eyes and hair, wears red gloves, and his shirt is red and has the fire symbol prominently placed. But when he's [[spoiler:west of the Ocean, where fire elementals are extinct]], he'd better wear his shirt back to front (with the symbol covered by his backpack) lest he's recognized as a fire elemental.

* PowerLevels: Attacks are classified in levels from 1 to 5. Subverted because the levels aren't defined by the power of the attack, but for how the element is used wich in tern defines how difficult is to master. There's also Level A, wich symbolizes the elemental's "animal energy", and can consist on elemental summons, transformations, or even fusions with the particular animal.

* TheQuietOne: Lolo, the guide to Leona City, seems like this, but he is actually a party beast. We don't get to see him like this until the end of the second arc, but Leo informs us about the things he does.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Matarratas gives one of the [[DisappointedInYou most spectacular speeches ever]] to [[spoiler: Kaji as they fight in "Virus and Fire".]]

* TheReveal: Lluvia is [[spoiler: an alcahest elemental, having caused a fire at school when she was little]].

* [[ReviveKillsZombie Vaccine Kills Virus Elemental]]: Matarratas had to infect himself with new viruses after Hiedra shot him with a [[MagicAntidote powerful vaccine]].

* RunningGag: Strange shaped rocks, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Matarratas and Zap's bitter relationship]], Sokar kicking people in the nuts, Zap's anecdotes from the orphanage, and also references to the author's first work Raruto (a parody of Naruto).

* SecretKeeper: Zap keeps silence about Kaji's book. Eventually, Lluvia, Matarratas and Sokar become this as well. [[spoiler: And then, Dino and his former League Team, Rubeola, as well as possibly Lambda, join the bunch.]]

* ShooOutTheClowns: Although the most goofy member of the cast is Zap, for whom this trope doesn't apply, a lot of the more minor characters get this. Since the main characters join the League in arc 4, their classmates are only ever seen in two or three [[ReactionShot reaction scenes]] (except for Sauce and Flama, who get some continuity-mandated screentime at the end of arc 4; and Mierdófilus, who still gets a scene in arc 5, plus a short side story at the end of it).

* SpiderSense: It looks like young shadow elementals can feel the changes in their host's energy, even if the host is far away.

* TheStrategist: SS captain Faraday seems to be this. In Dino's team, this is [[TheSmartGuy Pi's]] job.
** [[spoiler: Benjamin takes the gold in this. If only his sanity weren't so qestionable these days...]]

* SuckySchool: Beluga Town's: their teachers are lazy jerks and the education plan doesn't seem to be pretty good. Interestingly, the "out of date textbooks" quirk is inversed, due to the new kingdom's politics about forgetting history.

* SuperMode: The Dusk Virus seems to be this. [[PsychoSerum With some drawbacks.]]

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The main cast in their objective. Even more now that they share so many secrets [[spoiler: and that they will compete in the League, as a team.]] HilarityEnsues.

* TickleTorture: Nizo and Tarantula do this to Kaji and Lluvia. While they are sleeping, inside the Labyrinth. [[BossFight Fighting Finalmigo.]] [[OhCrap Not cool.]]

* TrainingFromHell: Dino puts Kaji through this to make him learn Katai. If he could't burn 100 papers at the same time without expanding the fire and without wasting energy, all the remaining papers would cut him at once.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Lluvia threatened to kill Fósforo if Kaji refused to fight her in the Elemental League.

* TheUnreveal: A minor one in chapter four, that [[{{Foreshadowing}} turns into a big one in hindsight]]: As Kaji's narration says "I guess all of us have secrets. Secrets that, sooner or later, will come out to light", Dino is about to use Leo's power analyzer to snoop on Kaji's blood, but the machine breaks right at that moment. It's only after you know about [[spoiler: the Dusk virus]] that that moment becomes significant.

* VirusAndCureNames: Subverted - The Dawn Project wasn't about creating a cure for the Dusk virus (in fact, the virus is implied to have been extinct back then), but about creating a PowerNullifier that would allow [[PoisonousPerson virus elementals]] to touch other people. Then again, the Dawn Project [[spoiler: was actually a cover to recreate the Dusk virus.]]
* TheWallAroundTheWorld: The Ocean, seemed as an uncrossable infinite sea, is considered this, specially because some theories say thet if you manage to venture deep enough the mist will somehoe bounce you back without you even noticing and you wll eventually be back to square one. This is the reason the world is called "a finite home" in the very first panel of the story.
** After the Day Zero, the government under the new king actually built a wall all over the coastline, making it impossible to cross over to the ocean. Almost as if there ''was'' something beyond that the King wanted suppressed...

* WhamEpisode: "Under the Rain"

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Amor (a heart elemental) is getting prepared to fight some birds during a the Labyrinth, while boasting about the power of love. The birds beat the crap out of her before she can end her speech.

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: Once Ember is revealed to be a SS soldier, he beats captain Pierre Curry in one hit.]]

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Grandfather and Many Scientists]]: If Matarratas could talk to the Five Elements in person, he would tell them this.
** Altough he doesn't know this, [[spoiler:he was killed by Ébola, not the five elements.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: Level 3 consists in using a specific weapon to manipulate your element. Also, umbrellas are a popular one for water elementals. Advanced users can create a weapon out of his element, but also apears to be always the same one.

* SwordCane: Lluvia's level 3. It's actually a [[WeaponOfChoice sword umbrella]]

** Ébola's guardian/assistant spiderlike creature, Haselti, has two pairs of eyes, one happy and one aggressive, which he oppens or closes according to his mood.

** Stating that Kaji and his father are similar. Beating Lluvia in a fight. Defying Matarratas' intelligence, saying anything offensive towards his dead relatives, specially his grandfather Sebastian. Talking abour "legends" during Leo's class. Talking casually about Benjamin in front of Ember.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Macaco town, specially its leader [[FlyingOnACloud Sun Wuko]]. The place is full of monkeys, naturally. Friendly people too, when they aren't afraid of you.

* FiveManBand: The Five Elements. Also the protagonists might be this, even if Lluvia hates Kaji with passion, and the roles can't be clearly defined.

[[caption-width-right:227:''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B40zMYgRTNc "¡Que comience la era de los elementos!"]]''\\

''5 Elementos'' (''5 Elements'') is a Spanish "manga", written by Jesús García Ferrer (aka Jesulink), set in a fantastic world. This world is ruled by elementals, people with the power to control nature's elements (going from fire to viruses to shit. No, really).

* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Leo Davín]] had been a minor character used for comic relief until he showed HiddenDepths near the end of arc 4. Then in the last chapters of arc 5 he makes up his mind to help the main characters [[spoiler:cross the sea]]. In the hopeless fight against the arc's final boss, he makes a HeroicSacrifice [[spoiler:using [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Level 5]] to become sand and drown Briz, while at the same time causing an earthquake to break the wall and send the main characters' ship into the ocean.]]

* AntiVillain: In a way, [[spoiler: Mierdófilus]] after he becomes the head of the elemental mafia, as he's using the resources of the mafia to help the heroes.
-->'''[[spoiler: Mierdófilus]]:''' You see, little ones. The world is changing and the mafia is changing along with it. In fact, we have your friend's money. If it's his, I don't see why we should keep it here. We'll give it back to him in full. In fact, if he's in trouble and according to you he's been unfairly imprisoned, we can help you set him free. The government plays with its rules... we play with ours.
* ApologeticAttacker: Sôkar when fighting big!Uroboros, as he doesn't want to kill him, but he's left with no other choice.

** Arc 2: [[spoiler: Anpepón, the Mentalist Soldier]]

** Desangrador said he was going to do this to Anpepón after he attacked the main cast. [[spoiler: It's actually a case of CantKillYouStillNeedYou. He also ends up killing him.]]

** Colonel Tiburón, water elemental, had Magnum Aquashot, an extremely strong water cannon from his mouth.

* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: The Kimikoho is a special eye technique that allows virus elementals to see all the elements that compose nature and every being or thing, thus making them able to manipulate them with ease. [[spoiler: Matarratas inherited it from his grandfather, Sebastián Flu Rattengift.]]

%% * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Both Anpepón and the main cast have suffered this.

** "When using the dreamworld technique, (Anpepón) is so vulnerable that a mischievous 13 year old kid with bad ideas could beat him".

** Zap asks Sôkar how to say "five" in Ancient, just to replicate a Spanish joke with that number. But Sôkar only knows the Ancient numbers up to four. Turns out the Ancient numbering system is in base 5, meaning there are only single-digit numbers up to four.

* ChekhovsSkill: When Kaji had a heart attack, Matarratas taught Zap how to reanimate somebody by using electric shocks. Later, that ability comes in handy when he has to revive [[spoiler: Sôkar]]
* TheChewToy: Mierdófilus. That doesn't mean he can't [[ADayInTheLimelight steal the spotlight from time to time]]. However, as of the final chapters, Mierdófilus [[spoiler:has become the boss of the Elemental Mafia, and is actively helping the heroes.]]

* ChromeChampion: Karbô has a skin made of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene graphene]] (atom-width graphite), two hundred times stronger than steel.

* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Kaji just [[PaperThinDisguise wraps a scarf around his face and says that he is a steam elemental called Vaporín ("Steamy")]] to enter the Labyrinth. It turns out that there is a kid called Vaporín, and Kaji looks almost like him. Of course, once the real Vaporín shows up, the examinator thinks he is an impostor.
* ColonelBadass: The four Colonels at the time of Day Zero. We got a good sample of their power in Belenus's Chronicles. [[spoiler: And when the cast was fighting Desangrador, they were really fighting Colonel Ébola.]]

* ColossusClimb: The yótum is as big as your average skyscraper. [[{{Unwinnable}} And there is no weak spot.]]

* ConLang: The Ancient Language. Ken Válbrandur's book is written completely like this. [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands Lluvia and Sôkar also happen to know some of it, because Sôkar's anthropologist grandfather did teach them a bit.]] So does Benjamin. And Adler.

** The Five Elements were famous for this. Also Lluvia to Bombeta and Fósforo in the Elemental League. [[spoiler: And much later, Ember to Pierre Curry.]]

** This is a nearly constant side effect of being Ken Válbrandur. Most fights were meaningless and quick to him.

* DamageSpongeBoss: Both Finalmigo and the yótum, [[spoiler: even if both of them are later [[OneHitKill destroyed in one hit]]]]

* DarkestHour: The end of chapter 37. Let's see: [[spoiler: Lluvia and Matarratas had been captured by Bombastus' "children", Sôkar is on the verge of death since his shadow bond with Lluvia has been cut, Zap is all alone against a foe much more powerful than him, and Kaji has lost his fire powers and is also close to death]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: Matarratas may be quite jerkish, but he isn't evil. And Sôkar is probably the nicest guy around.

* {{Determinator}}: Lluvia keeps attacking the yótum, even if it's totally useless.

** Adler's Level A Ornáguila. It's a giant fire eagle which Adler uses as transport.

* EmergencyTransformation: While fighting Karbô, Zap finally revives [[LivingShadow Sôkar]], [[spoiler: who binds with him so they can face Karbô]].

* FlatEarthAtheist: [[MeaningfulName Leonardo Davín]] is quite skeptical about legends in general, even considering that he lives in a world of elemental embodiments and superpowers.

* GreenEyedMonster: Desangrador is quite frustrated by the fact that the Kimikoho allows [[spoiler: Matarratas]], as it did with Sebastián, to find and create the most complicated formulas with ease.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: [[PaperMaster Dino]] can imprison your soul inside [[EldritchLocation a paper sheet]]. Don't make him mad. He also has shown a great battle prowess while fighting [[spoiler: Desangrador/Ébola]].

** [[spoiler: Mierdófilus is leading a huge group to do exactly the same (minus the museum part) after escaping the elemental mafia.]]

* InTheBlood: The Kimikoho and the [[spoiler: Dusk Virus]] seem to work like this.
** "I'm [[spoiler: Dr. Bombastus']] daughter, you tard"

* TheJuggernaut: Karbô, graphene elemental, a nigh-invulnerable [[TheBrute gargantuan man]].

* KeepingTheEnemyClose: Late king Hangul decided to make Ébola a colonel, despite being the prime suspect of poisoning colonel Hacha, invoking this trope. It would eventually backfire. Horribly.

* TheLancer: Alphonse, aka Aither Kilin was this to Ken Válbrandur in the Five Elements. He backed his decisions up and helped keep the peace in the team. [[spoiler: Too bad he killed Válbrandur for being a pacifist]]

** Alanka can't remember anything before waking up on comic. He just remembers he was "Be"'s friend, but can't even remember who that person is. [[spoiler: Turns out to be Belenus Llamaviva, aka Ken Válbrandur.]]

* LightningBruiser: Karbô, a rock golem-like giant man who moves almost as fast as Zap.

* LotusEaterMachine: The Labyrinth is a dreamlike mental world created by [[PsychicPowers Anpepón]] to test the students of the Beluga School. It's full of {{Death Trap}}s and YourMindMakesItReal, but they rescue you if something awful ever happens (at cost of failing the test, of course).

* MadScientistLaboratory: Matarratas has a secret lab, with a sign that Rubeola made to annoy Mat. Kinda subverted because Matarratas is not crazy, and he believes works there with Desangrador to make an antidote so virus elementals can touch living beings without harming them. [[spoiler: Desangrador's fits better, because he actually is Colonel Ébola, the most murderous psychopath in the story so far.]]
* MagicAntidote: the Dawn Project, initiated by Colonel Ébola, and then continued by Desangrador [[spoiler: (Ébola in disguise)]] and Matarratas with the goal of creating an antidote that would allow virus elementals to touch living beings without harming them. [[spoiler: Turns out it was a ploy to re create the Dusk virus, planned by Ébola [[ManipulativeBastard all along]].]]

* MassOhCrap: The main cast when they found the yótum.

** Ébola's guardian/assistant spiderlike creature, Haselti, has two pairs of eyes, one happy and one aggressive, which he oppens or closes according to his mood.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: It looks like a running theme with virus elementals: Matarratas means literally Ratkiller / Rat Poison, Desangrador means Bleeder, Varicela means Chicken Pox, and of course, Dr. Ébola.

** But as stated by Sôkar's father in the same chapter, that's no more than a guess. After all, since [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts aren't really ghosts]], there's no way to know for sure. At least until we really learn [[spoiler: how Aya works]].
* ObviouslyEvil: Desangrador. Turned out he wasn't. [[spoiler: Turned out he is Dr. Ébola.]]

** Also when Zap and Sôkar thought they had defeated [[NighInvulnerability Karbô]] for good, only to have him get up and strike back at them.

** [[spoiler: Kaji destroys the yótum with one attack when the Dusk Virus activates for the first time.]]
* OneManArmy: All of the Five Elements, specially their leader, Ken Válbrandur [[spoiler: since his childhood.]].

** Remember that "animal" in this work refers to any elemental being different from the "human" elementals. [[spoiler: For example, Alanka, a fire demon, is Kaji's, and formerly Válbrandur's, level A.]]

* RemovedFromThePicture: [[spoiler: Belenus, aka Ken Válbrandur, is missing his head on his Heliopolis' Portrait depiction. It has been burned off, apparently by [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Benjamin]] and the mark connects with H. Arian's left eye]]. Angelo is not amused.

** [[spoiler: Ken Válbrandur is Belenus Llamaviva, Kaji and Chisp's grandfather and Alanka's partner.]]

** [[spoiler: Desangrador is Ébola]]

** Also taking KV, the initials of Ken Válbrandur, to mean "kulos vuenos" ("nice butts" misspelled blatantly). And Kaji's various nicknames: his surname is Llamaviva (Livingflame), and he got as nicknames Llamamuerta (Deadflame), Llamamoco (Snotflame), and even Llamabesos (Kissflame).

* SchoolForScheming: [[spoiler: Ébola / Desangrador]]'s job as a teacher is only a facade.

** And none of them nor Adler told anyone that Kaji is the one that killed the yótum.

* SecretSocietyGroupPicture: Heliopolis' Portrait. [[spoiler: It depicts the Five Elements without their masks, but Ken Válbrandur's face is burned. Of course.]]

* ShooOutTheClowns: Although the most goofy member of the cast is Zap, for whom this trope doesn't apply, a lot of the more minor characters get this. Since the main characters join the League in arc 4, their classmates are only ever seen in two or three [[ReactionShot reaction scenes]] (except for Sauce and Flama, who get some continuity-mandated screentime at the end of arc 4; and Mierdófilus, who still gets a scene in arc 5, plus a short side story at the end of it).
** On the other hand, this trope is played with for [[spoiler: Chisp and Glasses]] as well as [[spoiler: Mierdófilus]], since their long-running comedic storylines (dating back to arc 3 in the latter's case and arc 2 for the former) in the end manage to tie into the main storyline and influence it in small but significant ways.

* StepfordSmiler: Anpepón Anatolia is a type 2.

* SuperSmoke: Dr. Ébola has the power of turning into a huge cloud of toxic miasma. [[FacelessEye With big evil eyes.]]

** The Five Elements weren't much better. Hard headed and direct but enthusiastic Hallormour argued with cold, distant and pragmatic Arian many times and they would usually end threatening each other. Hot blooded Bore didn't help much with that. Fortunately, they all were bound by, if not friendship, their mutual respect for Válbrandur, his ideas and his power. [[spoiler: Except Alphonse.]]

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Lluvia threatened to kill Fósforo if Kaji refused to fight her in the Elemental League.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Even if Kaji was never your typical morally right protagonist, it goes overboard when he chooses keeping Ken Válbrandur's book from fire over saving Lluvia when she was left unconscious and being kidnapped. After that, he forbids Zap from following the bad guys while carrying Sôkar, when it'd do him harm to be far from her, and he was quite weak already. And if that wasn't enough, he goes as far as to fight Matarratas when he tries to follow them.]]

** Also Finalmigo and the yótum.

** Altough he doesn't know this, [[spoiler:he was killed by Ébola, not the five elements.]]

[[caption-width-right:227:''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B40zMYgRTNc "¡Que comience la era de los elementos!"]]''\\

''5 Elementos'' (''5 Elements'') is a Spanish "manga", written by Jesús García Ferrer (aka Jesulink), set in a fantastic world. This world is ruled by elementals, people with the power to control nature's elements (going from fire to viruses to shit. No, really).

Now with a [[Characters/CincoElementos character sheet]] that NeedsWikiMagicLove

* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Leo Davín]] had been a minor character used for comic relief until he showed HiddenDepths near the end of arc 4. Then in the last chapters of arc 5 he makes up his mind to help the main characters [[spoiler:cross the sea]]. In the hopeless fight against the arc's final boss, he makes a HeroicSacrifice [[spoiler:using [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Level 5]] to become sand and drown Briz, while at the same time causing an earthquake to break the wall and send the main characters' ship into the ocean.]]

* AntiVillain: In a way, [[spoiler: Mierdófilus]] after he becomes the head of the elemental mafia, as he's using the resources of the mafia to help the heroes.
-->'''[[spoiler: Mierdófilus]]:''' You see, little ones. The world is changing and the mafia is changing along with it. In fact, we have your friend's money. If it's his, I don't see why we should keep it here. We'll give it back to him in full. In fact, if he's in trouble and according to you he's been unfairly imprisoned, we can help you set him free. The government plays with its rules... we play with ours.
* ApologeticAttacker: Sôkar when fighting big!Uroboros, as he doesn't want to kill him, but he's left with no other choice.

** Arc 2: [[spoiler: Anpepón, the Mentalist Soldier]]

** Desangrador said he was going to do this to Anpepón after he attacked the main cast. [[spoiler: It's actually a case of CantKillYouStillNeedYou. He also ends up killing him.]]

** Colonel Tiburón, water elemental, had Magnum Aquashot, an extremely strong water cannon from his mouth.

* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: The Kimikoho is a special eye technique that allows virus elementals to see all the elements that compose nature and every being or thing, thus making them able to manipulate them with ease. [[spoiler: Matarratas inherited it from his grandfather, Sebastián Flu Rattengift.]]

%% * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Both Anpepón and the main cast have suffered this.

** "When using the dreamworld technique, (Anpepón) is so vulnerable that a mischievous 13 year old kid with bad ideas could beat him".

** Zap asks Sôkar how to say "five" in Ancient, just to replicate a Spanish joke with that number. But Sôkar only knows the Ancient numbers up to four. Turns out the Ancient numbering system is in base 5, meaning there are only single-digit numbers up to four.

* ChekhovsSkill: When Kaji had a heart attack, Matarratas taught Zap how to reanimate somebody by using electric shocks. Later, that ability comes in handy when he has to revive [[spoiler: Sôkar]]
* TheChewToy: Mierdófilus. That doesn't mean he can't [[ADayInTheLimelight steal the spotlight from time to time]]. However, as of the final chapters, Mierdófilus [[spoiler:has become the boss of the Elemental Mafia, and is actively helping the heroes.]]

* ChromeChampion: Karbô has a skin made of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene graphene]] (atom-width graphite), two hundred times stronger than steel.

* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Kaji just [[PaperThinDisguise wraps a scarf around his face and says that he is a steam elemental called Vaporín ("Steamy")]] to enter the Labyrinth. It turns out that there is a kid called Vaporín, and Kaji looks almost like him. Of course, once the real Vaporín shows up, the examinator thinks he is an impostor.
* ColonelBadass: The four Colonels at the time of Day Zero. We got a good sample of their power in Belenus's Chronicles. [[spoiler: And when the cast was fighting Desangrador, they were really fighting Colonel Ébola.]]

* ColossusClimb: The yótum is as big as your average skyscraper. [[{{Unwinnable}} And there is no weak spot.]]

* ConLang: The Ancient Language. Ken Válbrandur's book is written completely like this. [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands Lluvia and Sôkar also happen to know some of it, because Sôkar's anthropologist grandfather did teach them a bit.]] So does Benjamin. And Adler.

** The Five Elements were famous for this. Also Lluvia to Bombeta and Fósforo in the Elemental League. [[spoiler: And much later, Ember to Pierre Curry.]]

** This is a nearly constant side effect of being Ken Válbrandur. Most fights were meaningless and quick to him.

* DamageSpongeBoss: Both Finalmigo and the yótum, [[spoiler: even if both of them are later [[OneHitKill destroyed in one hit]]]]

* DarkestHour: The end of chapter 37. Let's see: [[spoiler: Lluvia and Matarratas had been captured by Bombastus' "children", Sôkar is on the verge of death since his shadow bond with Lluvia has been cut, Zap is all alone against a foe much more powerful than him, and Kaji has lost his fire powers and is also close to death]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: Matarratas may be quite jerkish, but he isn't evil. And Sôkar is probably the nicest guy around.

* {{Determinator}}: Lluvia keeps attacking the yótum, even if it's totally useless.

** Adler's Level A Ornáguila. It's a giant fire eagle which Adler uses as transport.

* EmergencyTransformation: While fighting Karbô, Zap finally revives [[LivingShadow Sôkar]], [[spoiler: who binds with him so they can face Karbô]].

* FlatEarthAtheist: [[MeaningfulName Leonardo Davín]] is quite skeptical about legends in general, even considering that he lives in a world of elemental embodiments and superpowers.

* GreenEyedMonster: Desangrador is quite frustrated by the fact that the Kimikoho allows [[spoiler: Matarratas]], as it did with Sebastián, to find and create the most complicated formulas with ease.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: [[PaperMaster Dino]] can imprison your soul inside [[EldritchLocation a paper sheet]]. Don't make him mad. He also has shown a great battle prowess while fighting [[spoiler: Desangrador/Ébola]].

** [[spoiler: Mierdófilus is leading a huge group to do exactly the same (minus the museum part) after escaping the elemental mafia.]]

* TheJuggernaut: Karbô, graphene elemental, a nigh-invulnerable [[TheBrute gargantuan man]].

* KeepingTheEnemyClose: Late king Hangul decided to make Ébola a colonel, despite being the prime suspect of poisoning colonel Hacha, invoking this trope. It would eventually backfire. Horribly.

* TheLancer: Alphonse, aka Aither Kilin was this to Ken Válbrandur in the Five Elements. He backed his decisions up and helped keep the peace in the team. [[spoiler: Too bad he killed Válbrandur for being a pacifist]]

** Alanka can't remember anything before waking up on comic. He just remembers he was "Be"'s friend, but can't even remember who that person is. [[spoiler: Turns out to be Belenus Llamaviva, aka Ken Válbrandur.]]

* LightningBruiser: Karbô, a rock golem-like giant man who moves almost as fast as Zap.

* LotusEaterMachine: The Labyrinth is a dreamlike mental world created by [[PsychicPowers Anpepón]] to test the students of the Beluga School. It's full of {{Death Trap}}s and YourMindMakesItReal, but they rescue you if something awful ever happens (at cost of failing the test, of course).

* MadScientistLaboratory: Matarratas has a secret lab, with a sign that Rubeola made to annoy Mat. Kinda subverted because Matarratas is not crazy, and he believes works there with Desangrador to make an antidote so virus elementals can touch living beings without harming them. [[spoiler: Desangrador's fits better, because he actually is Colonel Ébola, the most murderous psychopath in the story so far.]]
* MagicAntidote: the Dawn Project, initiated by Colonel Ébola, and then continued by Desangrador [[spoiler: (Ébola in disguise)]] and Matarratas with the goal of creating an antidote that would allow virus elementals to touch living beings without harming them. [[spoiler: Turns out it was a ploy to re create the Dusk virus, planned by Ébola [[ManipulativeBastard all along]].]]

* MassOhCrap: The main cast when they found the yótum.

** Ébola's guardian/assistant spiderlike creature, Haselti, has two pairs of eyes, one happy and one aggressive, which he oppens or closes according to his mood.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: It looks like a running theme with virus elementals: Matarratas means literally Ratkiller / Rat Poison, Desangrador means Bleeder, Varicela means Chicken Pox, and of course, Dr. Ébola.

** But as stated by Sôkar's father in the same chapter, that's no more than a guess. After all, since [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts aren't really ghosts]], there's no way to know for sure. At least until we really learn [[spoiler: how Aya works]].
* ObviouslyEvil: Desangrador. Turned out he wasn't. [[spoiler: Turned out he is Dr. Ébola.]]

** Also when Zap and Sôkar thought they had defeated [[NighInvulnerability Karbô]] for good, only to have him get up and strike back at them.

** [[spoiler: Kaji destroys the yótum with one attack when the Dusk Virus activates for the first time.]]
* OneManArmy: All of the Five Elements, specially their leader, Ken Válbrandur [[spoiler: since his childhood.]].

** Remember that "animal" in this work refers to any elemental being different from the "human" elementals. [[spoiler: For example, Alanka, a fire demon, is Kaji's, and formerly Válbrandur's, level A.]]

* RemovedFromThePicture: [[spoiler: Belenus, aka Ken Válbrandur, is missing his head on his Heliopolis' Portrait depiction. It has been burned off, apparently by [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Benjamin]] and the mark connects with H. Arian's left eye]]. Angelo is not amused.

** [[spoiler: Ken Válbrandur is Belenus Llamaviva, Kaji and Chisp's grandfather and Alanka's partner.]]

** [[spoiler: Desangrador is Ébola]]

** Also taking KV, the initials of Ken Válbrandur, to mean "kulos vuenos" ("nice butts" misspelled blatantly). And Kaji's various nicknames: his surname is Llamaviva (Livingflame), and he got as nicknames Llamamuerta (Deadflame), Llamamoco (Snotflame), and even Llamabesos (Kissflame).

* SchoolForScheming: [[spoiler: Ébola / Desangrador]]'s job as a teacher is only a facade.

** And none of them nor Adler told anyone that Kaji is the one that killed the yótum.

* SecretSocietyGroupPicture: Heliopolis' Portrait. [[spoiler: It depicts the Five Elements without their masks, but Ken Válbrandur's face is burned. Of course.]]

* ShooOutTheClowns: Although the most goofy member of the cast is Zap, for whom this trope doesn't apply, a lot of the more minor characters get this. Since the main characters join the League in arc 4, their classmates are only ever seen in two or three [[ReactionShot reaction scenes]] (except for Sauce and Flama, who get some continuity-mandated screentime at the end of arc 4; and Mierdófilus, who still gets a scene in arc 5, plus a short side story at the end of it).
** On the other hand, this trope is played with for [[spoiler: Chisp and Glasses]] as well as [[spoiler: Mierdófilus]], since their long-running comedic storylines (dating back to arc 3 in the latter's case and arc 2 for the former) in the end manage to tie into the main storyline and influence it in small but significant ways.

* StepfordSmiler: Anpepón Anatolia is a type 2.

* SuperSmoke: Dr. Ébola has the power of turning into a huge cloud of toxic miasma. [[FacelessEye With big evil eyes.]]

** The Five Elements weren't much better. Hard headed and direct but enthusiastic Hallormour argued with cold, distant and pragmatic Arian many times and they would usually end threatening each other. Hot blooded Bore didn't help much with that. Fortunately, they all were bound by, if not friendship, their mutual respect for Válbrandur, his ideas and his power. [[spoiler: Except Alphonse.]]

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Lluvia threatened to kill Fósforo if Kaji refused to fight her in the Elemental League.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Even if Kaji was never your typical morally right protagonist, it goes overboard when he chooses keeping Ken Válbrandur's book from fire over saving Lluvia when she was left unconscious and being kidnapped. After that, he forbids Zap from following the bad guys while carrying Sôkar, when it'd do him harm to be far from her, and he was quite weak already. And if that wasn't enough, he goes as far as to fight Matarratas when he tries to follow them.]]

** Also Finalmigo and the yótum.

** Altough he doesn't know this, [[spoiler:he was killed by Ébola, not the five elements.]]

* GoLookAtTheDistraction: [[spoiler:Part of Mr. Aquarrica's plan, he needed the teachers out of town, so his assistant told them the yotum was in the mountains.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Actually there's no radar, so the author can do whatever he wants. For example, the teachers seem to organize chicken fights. The kids swear as much as a normal Spanish kid their age (it's just that the Spanish "joder" is softer than the English equivalent "fuck"). But he does seem to have a radar: for example, a couple characters are [[CurseCutShort cut midword]] when saying [[CountryMatters "coño"]]. Also, the sentence "Let's play doctors" shows up twice with a character about to shot an injection to someone against their will (in fact, the second is replied with "Are you going to abuse me?").

** Actually she does seem to want to hit on Kaji ([[TheJailBaitWait when she's 18 and he 13]]). In fact, in an ambiguously canon side story both end up together in a hot spring (her being drunk), and all of a sudden she goes "Have you ever touched a boob?" and really goes after him until Zap sneezes, electrifying the water.

%%* EvilAlbino: Kei.

* CrushKillDestroy: The robot teacher Lapicero (mechanical pen) becomes this when his software fails, or when he wants to scare someone. He is normally very nice to children. Then again, his software has a tendency to fail...

** So, [[spoiler: Dino]] is in charge of the research now...

* LightningCanDoAnything: Matarratas tells Zap to electrify Finalmigo to confuse his thought patterns. [[OmnicidalManiac It backfired]].
** Not to confuse its thought patterns, but to cut off the commands reaching it. Just, like any [[AIIsACrapshoot good AI]], the moment it goes rogue it's CrushKillDestroy time.

* CerebusRollercoaster: First chapters make you believe it is going to be just an AffectionateParody of manga. Later chapters switch from SugarWiki/{{funny|Moments}} to [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments se]][[TearJerker ri]][[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome ous]] more often. Word of God says this was completely intentional: since it's a webcomic, and Raruto (the author's previous manga, a parody of Naruto) had gotten quite some audience, Jesulink didn't want to scare them away by changing the style too suddenly.

* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Kaji just [[PaperThinDisguise wraps a scarf around his face and says that he is a steam elemental called Vaporín ("Steamy")]] to enter the Labyrinth. It turns out that there is a kid called Vaporín, and Kaji looks almost like him. Of course, once the real Vaporín shows up, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments the examinator thinks he is an impostor.]]

* FloatingPlatforms: [[DishingOutDirt Roco]] tries this to cross the lava pit in the Labyrinth. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments He falls.]]

* InformedAbility: "Sokar can move in darkness just fine". [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments He can't.]]

* TrueCompanions: The main cast is slowly turning into this. At the end of the depressing and shocking Belenus's Chronicles, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Lluvia of all people]] raises Kaji's morale by claiming they are frineds, and they will get out of danger together. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments It triggers a group hug.]]

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Amor (a heart elemental) is getting prepared to fight some birds during a the Labyrinth, while boasting about the power of love. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments The birds beat the crap out of her before she can end her speech]].

* AffablyEvil: SS Captain [[AnIcePerson Kold Briz]] has no trouble with having a polite chat with you while his subordinates are smashing your friends in battle, or even before freezing you where you stand by himself. But sure, push him long enough [[{{Pun}} and he will lose his cool]]. Even more, when he recognizes Kaji as his colleague's son, he tries to warn him to stop his "illegal activities", telling him the State has no weaknesses, that its only purpose is to make life better, and that turning against it is a useless path that will take you to darkness and shame. After fighting Kaji and Lluvia, he still makes him an offer of letting him go. But of course, you should never assume the guy is not evil.

* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Kaji just [[PaperThinDisguise wraps a scarf around his face and says that he is a steam elemental called Vaporín ("Steamy")]] to enter the Labyrinth. It turns out that there is a kid called Vaporín, and Kaji looks almost like him. Of course, once the real Vaporín shows up, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny the examinator thinks he is an impostor.]]

** Kaji's team for the League is called "Fire13". Guess which elemental branch all the members belong to.

* {{Familiar}}: Hugin and Munin, the Was family giant, dark, [[SesquipedalianLocuaciousness adequately verbose]], shadow elemental crows. They were not aware of Sokar's dirty business, but they decide not to tell his parents.

* FloatingPlatform: [[DishingOutDirt Roco]] tries this to cross the lava pit in the Labyrinth. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments He falls.]]

* TheWallAroundTheWorld: The Ocean, seemed as an uncrossable infinite sea, is considered this, specially because some theories say thet if you manage to venture deep enough the mist will somehoe bounce you back without you even noticing and you wll eventually be BackToSquareOne. This is the reason the world is called "a finite home" in the very first panel of the story.

** Nimbo's army has the six Great Captains, each being tougher than the previous one... except maybe for Noctio, [[ScienceCannotComprehendPhlebotinum since absolutely no one knows]] what the hell his element, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ununoctium ununoctium]], is or does.

* ScienceMarchesOn: Or rather, science terminology marches on. In chapter 74, published March 2016, a character called Noctio, whose element is ununoctium, is introduced. Now, ununoctium is a real-life super-heavy element first synthesized in 2002. But "ununoctium" was always a temporary name, and the final name of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oganesson "oganesson"]] was given only eight months later, in November 2016.

The mood is mostly comic, but it has moments of tension, suspense and drama. It has won the award to the best manga of Spanish author twice. It began in 9/24/2008 and is still ongoing.

* IntoxicationEnsues (from a giant snake's poison) [[XMeetsY meets]] the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, which according to Matarratas "could be a whole new level to discover":