Line #43 Film/TheAdventuresOfSpirouAndFantasio


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3	''The Adventures of Spirou and Fantasio'' (''Les Aventures de Spirou et Fantasio'' in French) is a 2018 [[LiveActionAdaptation live-action]] adventure/comedy film based on the FrancoBelgianComics series ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'' (the Creator/AndreFranquin era of it, more precisely[[note]]Champignac, Seccotine, Zantafio and Zorglub are Franquin creations[[/note]]), directed by Alexandre Coffre.
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5	Spirou (Thomas Solivérès), a thief disguised as a bellboy, meets Fantasio (Alex Lutz), a journalist that been losing momentum. They have to work as a team, when Count Pacôme de Champignac (Creator/ChristianClavier) is [[KidnappedScientist kidnapped]] by MadScientist Zorglub (Creator/RamzyBedia). Between Europe and Africa, the two men will search for the eccentric inventor, helped by Seccotine (Géraldine Nakache), Fantasio's rival, and the squirrel Spip.
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7	Despite the SharedUniverse of the Franquin comics, it has no ties to either ''Film/HoubaOnTheTrailOfTheMarsupilami'' or ''Film/GastonLagaffe'' (which aren't connected either).
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9	!!''The adventures of Spirou and Fantasio'' contains examples of:
10	* AdaptationalContextChange: In the comic book, [[HypnoRay zorglwaves]] and the [[JetPack Fantacopter]] were respectively Zorglub and Fantasio inventions. Here, they're both attributed to the Count of Champignac. Zorglub needs Champignac's help to make the waves actually work after he stole him the formula, and that's why he kidnap him. And the Fantacopter becomes the Champicopter for that reason.
11	* AdaptationalDiversity: Zorglub recruited only white men as Zorglmen in the comics, but here, people who work for him also include women (notably his [[TheDragon dragon]] Marie) and persons of color.
12	* AdaptationalDyeJob: The usually blonde Seccotine is now a brunette. When the group [[CrossingTheDesert cross the desert]], she also drop [[AdaptationalHairstyleChange her iconic ponytail]].
13	* AdaptationalExplanation: Why Spirou usually wears a bellboy outfit despite not being one is never really explained in the comic. Here, it's because he needed it to infiltrate an hotel in the first place, then did not have the occasion to change clothes throughout the whole story.
14	* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the original story, Zorglub forces the Zorglmen to [[SdrawkcabSpeech speak backwards]] in order that witnesses do not understand them, but the readers still could. Here, Zorglub sometimes speak backwards as a form of a VerbalTic when he's nervous, and it's transmitted to Zorglmen for some reason.
15	* AdaptationalJerkass: Pretty much everyone, but the most changed character is Spirou, who is now a pickpocket who posed as a bellboy in order to infiltrate a luxury hotel and steal the guests's jewelry.
16	* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
17	** Champignac and Zorglub used to be co-workers in the comics, but as Zorglub always looked younger anyway, he ends up having been Champignac's assistant.
18	** Seccotine used to know the Count through Spirou and Fantasio. There, it's hinted she knows him since childhood through her mother. The latter is stated to live in Champignac's castle, thus it can be supposed she's the Count housekeeper. And maybe more than that according to some DoubleEntendre comments by the Count.
19	* AdaptationalWimp: In nearly all albums, Spirou and Fantasio get caught at least once in a hand-to-hand combat with villains (and usually win). The first is even a [[GoodOldFisticuffs boxing expert]]. Here, Spirou is the only one who could eventually have the occasion to fight, and he prefers to run away (in front of Gantagwa's policemen). When confronted to Marie, he simply throw suitcases at her (albeit it can be because of a WouldntHitAGirl case). [[DarkActionGirl She clearly have the upper hand anyway]], and it's [[KillerRabbit Spip]], of all people, who win the brawl. Later on, when facing Zorglub, the later have no difficulties to simply [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower throw away Spirou like a rag doll]].
20	* AgeLift: Spirou and Fantasio are usually around the same age, but here Fantasio is the oldest by about 10 years. Similarly, Zorglub and the Count were co-workers and of the same generation. But here, Zorglub is the youngest, as he was the Count assistant.
21	* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Intentionally. According to the director, the movie shall remind of the [[TheSixties 60's]], when the comics raised in popularity. As a result, clothing, vehicles, and some devices such as headphones, mostly look from TheNewTens. [[AdaptationalExplanation There is even a justification to explain why]] Fantasio ends in a [[TheSixties 60's]] costume. But, at the same time, all hotels dress their bellhop workers in costumes no longer in use since the TheForties. Plus no one seem to possess a cell phone, despite they would be often quite handy, notably in the desert.
22	* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: In the last scene, Fantasio and Seccotine pick Spirou at the hotel where he is a (actual) bellboy, after they hear of a potential scoop. Spirou drop everything to follow them.]]
23	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[BelligerentSexualTension Fantasio and Seccotine argue often,]] and yet show some real concern from time to time. In two separated scenes, one of them is subjected to a death threat: Fantasio is stuck in a car about to explose [[spoiler: and a {{Brainwashed}} Seccotine walks straight to a LavaPit]]. Both frantically try to save the other one despite Teddy, the guide, and Spirou respectively told them it was too dangerous.
24	* BadBoss: [[EstablishingCharacterMoment In his introduction scene alone]], Zorglub sacrifice a [[RedShirt henchman]] to his malfunctioning Zorglwaves. Then he send in a LavaPit, through a TrapDoor, half of his scientists squad due to [[YouHaveFailedMe the failure of the experiment]]. Oh, and another minion as well, [[EvilIsPetty because he misspelled his name]].
25	* BeardOfEvil: Zorglub has prominent mutton chops.
26	* BecomingTheMask: Spirou posed at first as a bellboy with a stolen uniform, and defined the job as being a lackey. [[spoiler: The last scene show him being hired as an actual, and apparently skilled bellboy in the very same hotel of the beginning. [[SubvertedTrope Until he decides that he had rather be an adventurer anyway]], and flee the hotel.]]
27	* BelligerentSexualTension: Fantasio and Seccotine are in a rivalry that they present as strictly professional, but [[EveryoneCanSeeIt no one is fooled]].[[spoiler: They finally get a RelationshipUpgrade in the last scenes.]]
28	* BondVillainStupidity: The {{Mooks}} and scientists hired by Zorglub help him to create the zorglwaves, [[MassHypnosis then spread them on the whole world]] while only Zorglub will be protected from the waves with a special headband. [[DidntThinkThisThrough No one see anything wrong with that]]. The only exceptions are Claude and Marie who realize what this means at the last minute, and run away, but this is futile as distance don't change anything to Zorglwaves 's influence.
29	* TheCameo: [[https://www.youtube.com/@MrPoulpe Monsieur Poulpe]], a youtuber who play the part of a sweeper henchman in the very first scene.
30	* CanonForeigner: Claude and Marie, the HalfIdenticalTwins who are CoDragons to Zorglub.
31	* ChewingTheScenery: Ramzy Bedia as Zorglub, big time. Complete with EvilLaugh.
32	* ClothesMakeTheLegend:
33	** The opening credits show the making of Spirou's [[IconicOutfit red uniform]]. Then, he steal it in his first scene without viewers can see what he wore before. Spirou needed to infiltrate the hotel, and does not have the occasion to change his clothes throughout the course of the movie, explaining why he wears a bellboy's uniform despite he's not one. [[spoiler: At least until the last scene, where he actually has been hired as one.]]
34	** Fantasio's [[TheSixties 60's]] looking red bow tie and blue jacket [[OutdatedOutfit seemed very old fashioned]] in TheNewTens, explaining he arrives at the hotel in a more modern outfit. But Spirou immediately [[WatchWhereYoureGoing ruins it with coffee]]. The luxury hotel staff then lend him other clothes that are this IconicOutfit (presumably, they had it in their wardrobe since the last fifty years). Fantasio does not have the occasion to change clothes later, explaining his outfit.
35	* ConvenientDecoyCat: Or rather convenient decoy squirrel. Zorglub suspect the Count of Champignac of trying to run away from the hotel in a laundry tray after he noticed the contents moved, but it's Spip he find in it, and walk away-not realizing Champignac was really indeed inside.
36	* CrazyJealousGuy: Fantasio is certain -despite her denial- that [[ImaginaryLoveTriangle Seccotine has an affair with Zantafio,]] is not happy to see her with Teddy despite he's simply a guide she hired, and is even offended to see her hugging Spirou in Zorglub's dungeon. [[note]]Actually a ruse to slip the weapon "Metomol" in his pocket, to let them escape.[[/note]] Let's say that this behavior makes clear how Fantasio actually feels about her.
37	** To be fair, [[TheTease Seccotine herself]] sometimes provoke this. Notably when she let Fantasio be mistaken on the identity of the person who wait for her in a hotel room (Champignac, but he thinks it's Zantafio.) Or posing as a flight attendant in an airport, and assuring she don't know what Fantasio is talking about when he accuses her to be actually a reporter. Then Seccotine announces, loud enough for him to hear her, that she brought her [[BarelyThereSwimwear "smallest bikini"]] with her.
38	* CrossingTheDesert: Spirou, Fantasio and Seccotine end up in a desert without a vehicle, food, [[ThirstyDesert and barely any water]]. If they never reached an oasis, this could have ended quite badly.
39	* DamselInDistress: In comics, Seccotine used to avert this. The only time she was ever captured was in ''Adventures down under'', along with Fantasio, and they soon managed to escape. Here she is immobilized three times by zorglwaves (despite never being confronted to them in the original) and kidnapped two times straight afterwards, [[AdaptationalWimp needing guys to get out of the situation]].
40	* DeadpanSnarker: The Count once [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] that the need of Zorglub to make his henchmen shout his OverlyLongName at every entrance certainly hide an inferiority complex.
41	* DepravedDentist: How Zorglub try to make the Count of Champignac talk: torture him in a dentistry act. [[HarmlessVillain But he only manage to hurt himself.]]
42	* DressingAsTheEnemy: After they escaped their dungeon, Spirou and Fantasio respectively dress as a scientist and a henchman.
43	* EscapeArtist: After he's been [[ChainedHeat handcuffed]] with Fantasio, Spirou needs exactly 30 seconds to free both of them, then chain together with the same pair of handcuffs the policemen who arrested them instead.
44	* EvilOverlooker: A variant: Zorglub watches [[BreakingTheFourthWall the audience]] instead of the heroes on the poster despite his typical FloatingHeadSyndrome. This was carried on the cover of the tie-in comics, [[https://branchesculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/spirou-le-triomphe-de-zorglub-non-adaptation-du-film-bocquet-cossu-sentenac-corgic3a9-couverture.jpg?w=741 ''Le triomphe de Zorglub.'']]
45	* {{Facepalm}}: Claude and Marie when they realize that Seccotine is still alive despite [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat they shoot her car with a bazooka.]]
46	* FakeDefector: [[spoiler: Seccotine apparently betrays Spirou and Fantasio in order to get an exclusive interview with Zorglub. However, her actual goal was [[TheInfiltration to infiltrate his base]]. She did not revealed the trick to Fantasio due to his tendency to [[CassandraTruth not believe her.]]]]
47	* AFriendInNeed: After a PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Spirou walks away]] and Fantasio protests that he won't let his friends down. [[AdaptationalJerkass Spirou]] snarks that he did not knew they were friends. However, a few scenes later, Fantasio is stuck in [[EveryCarIsAPinto an accidented car about to explode]]. Despite the danger, [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack Spirou help him to escape]] [[MeaningfulEcho while stating that he]] [[FriendshipMoment won't let his friends down]].
48	* TheFullNameAdventures: "The Adventures of Spirou and Fantasio".
49	* TheGhost: Zantafio, [[ClashingCousins Fantasio's evil cousin]], is alluded to many times. He's apparently [[AdaptationalJobChange a TV anchorman]], and Fantasio believes [[AdaptationOriginConnection Seccotine gave him one of his scoops]] and that they had an affair. He seems in general to have made Fantasio's life a misery.
50	* HarmlessVillain: Zorglub is usually hilariously ineffective.
51	* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: When Fantasio manage to join Seccotine and her guide, Teddy, in the desert, the later, puzzled, ask if Fantasio is her fiance. She answers with exasperation: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "Certainly not!"]]
52	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Zorglub end {{Brainwashed}} by his zorglwaves and is nearly killed by them.]]
53	* HollywoodMirage: The heroes bump into an assortment of them during the CrossingTheDesert scene. Seccotine even confuse Spip with a flask made of fur.
54	* JokerImmunity: [[spoiler: TheStinger reveal that Zorglub survived his fall into the LavaPit, and laboriously emerge from the TrapDoor.]]
55	* JustBetweenYouAndMe: [[DefiedTrope Defied]]. A scientist ask Zorglub if he'll make a speech [[spoiler: before turning Champignac and Seccotine into zorglmen]], but he answers he won't.
56	* KillerRabbit: At the airport, Spirou find Spip in a transportation box and throw him to Marie, who's after him. The latter is initially amused by Spip's cute appearance, but the squirrel start to bite her face ferociously.
57	* IHaveYourWife: A variant. Zorglub notice that threatening Count of Champignac is useless as he just won't reveal the zorglwaves formula. Instead, he decide to torture Seccotine with his [[DepravedDentist instruments of dentistry]]. As Champignac have a [[LikeASonToMe fatherly affection for her]], he choose to talk.
58	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: Fantasio tries vainly to stop Seccotine to plunge into lava when she's brainwashed, but she just immobilize him on Zorglub's order.]]
59	* ImStandingRightHere:
60	** Spirou met Fantasio while running away from the hotel while the latter want to get in. Their opposing moves block the revolving doors of the building. Spirou complains "What an idiot!", and Fantasio warns him he heard this.
61	** After the HeIsNotMyBoyfriend response of Seccotine, Fantasio protests that he heard her.
62	** In the desert, Seccotine, exhausted, describe an HollywoodMirage of a fountain and say she's ready to share its water with Fantasio, but not Spirou. Why? He's "too red haired". Spirou reminds her he's standing right here.
63	* {{Irony}}: After the airport police has arrested and [[ChainedHeat handcuffed together]] Fantasio and Spirou, the latter warn him he will never see him again after all this. Very unlikely for a 70 years old duo.
64	* LampshadeHanging: Marie, while after Spirou, once snark him and his "ridiculous red uniform", emphasizing how out of place it can look.
65	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: [[VitriolicBestBuds Spirou and Fantasio]], [[BelligerentSexualTension Seccotine and Fantasio]], and [[SiblingRivalry Claude and Marie]], are as many duos who tend to quarrel often.
66	* LongingLook: While Fantasio watches Seccotine swimming in a pond, Spirou identifies his look as the one of [[LoveEpiphany "a man in love".]]
67	* MomentKiller: [[spoiler: In Zorglub's lair, Fantasio admits to Seccotine he's been stupid to not believe her. Moved, she assures [[InsultOfEndearment he has been stupid, yet cute…]]And brutally, Spirou has to remind them that Zorglub's {{Mooks}} are coming.]]
68	* MythologyGag:
69	** One of the very first sentences said by Spirou, "At your service", was also his first in the original strip by Rob-Vel.
70	** Blink and you miss it, but in the hotel corridor, a poster announce dedications by Kodo le tyran ("Kodo the Tyrant"), from a 1979 comics of the same name.
71	** In the airport, the newspaper that Spirou and Fantasio use to [[NewspaperThinDisguise hide behind]], title that a Mesozoic traveler has find a dinosaur egg on an ice field. In the album [[Recap/LeVoyageurDuMesozoique ''Le Voyageur du Mésozoïque'']] ("The visitor from the Mesozoic ") the count of Champignac bring back a dinosaur's egg from Antarctica.
72	** Still at the airport, there is an announcement in loudspeakers for passenger Itoh Kata. The latter is a Japanese illusionist and an EscapeArtist present in several albums. Ironically, his name is heard while Spirou himself just used [[EscapeArtist skills]] worthy of Itoh.
73	** Spirou once remark that the Champicopter should have a better name, and Fantasio suggest the Fantacopter. It was the name of the device in the comics, due to Fantasio being the original inventor.
74	** The original authors would often use SymbolSwearing due to the heavy censorship in publications aimed at children then. In the movie, one scene homages this, as the insults Fantasio uses to describe his cousin are covered instead by SoundEffectBleep from the plane he's in. This does not prevent others profanities in the dialogues to be heard, though.
75	** Spirou announce twice he shall change of clothes, but Fantasio forbids him to each time. It illustrate the paradox of the different writers, who either ignore the lack of realism of Spirou being in his bellboy uniform on a daily basis, or acknowledge this [[https://i.postimg.cc/YCKKt5jf/Sans-titre-3.jpg by putting him in a civilian version instead]].
76	** [[spoiler: The vehicle Fantasio and Seccotine arrive in during the last scene is the [[http://autoalmanach.ch/picts/album/turbotraction-1-rhino-de-spirou-creee-par-le-dessinateur-frankin-7-15040.jpg Turbotraction]].]]
77	** In the last scene, a guest of the hotel is reading the "Moustique", the actual name of the newspaper Fantasio and Seccotine work for. The title of the article relating[[spoiler: Zorglub's demise]] is titled [[Recap/ZCommeZorglub ''Z comme Zorglub'' ("Z is for Zorglub")]], how the album he appeared in was named. The titles of others articles are also those of previous albums such as ''L'Homme qui ne voulait pas mourir'' ("The man who did not want to die") and [[Recap/ToraTorapa ''Tora Torapa'']]. Not to mention an article [[LaserGuidedKarma reporting that Zantafio been fired.]]
78	* NamedByTheAdaptation: Zorglub is usually [[OnlyOneName only known as such]], without precision if it is a first or last name. Here it's his first name, and [[OverlyLongName Banovitchoskinovakoff]] his last name.
79	* NeverTrustATrailer: No trailers showed the actual reason why ({{Greed}}, as he thinks the Count have a mushroom worth millions) Spirou suddenly run after the kidnapped Champignac, risking his life in the process (he uses an experimental JetPack with no landing button). For viewers familiar with the comics, it can be put down to his ChronicHeroSyndrome. The original Spirou could totally try to rescue an innocent person (including a perfect stranger) just because it was the right thing to do. To those viewers, discovering the actual OnlyInItForTheMoney Spirou's motivation in the movie could be an unpleasant surprise.
80	* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Zorglub first try to be affable with Champignac, by receiving him for lunch. But it does not encourage the later to reveal how his waves work, though.
81	* NoodleIncident: Seccotine display colored stains on her chest, due to a failed experience of the Count of Champignac. What it was, why it never vanished and for how long she have it (apparently since her childhood) is not explained.
82	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Zorglub stay laughable as long as he can't make zorglwaves function properly. [[spoiler: But it's another deal as soon as he can make anyone obey.]]
83	* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Zorglub, when he notices that Spirou has just stolen his anti zorglwaves device, seconds before they are released on the whole earth. Cue to his BigNo.]]
84	* OriginsEpisode: The film choose to explain how the team of heroes was constituted. None are adventurers yet, Fantasio and Spirou met each other, then Champignac, for the first time. They become Zorglub's enemies, and Spirou find and adopt Spip.
85	* PajamaCladHero: The Count is kidnapped in his dressing gown and slippers, and stay in these during all the movie.
86	* ParentalAbandonment: The Count of Champignac quickly deduce that Spirou never knew parental authority when they met. Later, Fantasio ask Spirou what his parents think of him being a pickpocket, and the later stay suspiciously silent, suggesting a DarkAndTroubledPast.[[note]]Or maybe it's a MythologyGag, given that originally Spirou was a {{Golem}} BornAsAnAdult [[ArtInitiatesLife out of a drawing]], thus with no parents.[[/note]]
87	* PoorCommunicationKills: When in the beginning, Fantasio met Seccotine at the hotel by ContrivedCoincidence, they did not see each other for a year or so. Apparently, they used to get along well, but their relationship went sour as Seccotine accused him of having ghost her on phone, and even remembers bitterly that she swore to never meet him again. Later on, Fantasio explains to Spirou that he thinks that Seccotine, in the past, gave the last scoop he was working on to [[{{ArchEnemy}} Zantafio]]. And [[SleepingTheirWayToTheTop slept with him in addition]]. Seccotine denied both accusations, and given how Zantafio is in comics, it's quite likely he is the one who lied, effectively. Either to bother his cousin as [[ClashingCousins it is an old habit of his]], or to woo Seccotine he also had a [[VillainousCrush crush]] on-or both. Anyway, Fantasio did not believe Seccotine back then, causing a rift and the [[BelligerentSexualTension conflicted relationship]] they're in.
88	* PromotedToLoveInterest: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as in the comics and [[AnimatedAdaptation animated adaptations]], Seccotine already has ShipTease with Fantasio, usually under the prism of BelligerentSexualTension[[note]]She was the one after him tough, clingy as her name suggest, rather than the other way around like in this movie[[/note]]. But, DependingOnTheWriter, Seccotine has the same amount of ShipTease with Spirou (and Fantasio with others women). [[spoiler: This version is the first that make them an OfficialCouple in the end.]]
89	* PurpleIsPowerful: Purple is the color of Zorglub's suits, his lair, and the zorglwaves. Certainly to match his AGodAmI mentality.
90	* RaceLift: Zorglub and Seccotine are white Europeans in the comics. Here they're portrayed by two actors of North African descent, Ramzy Bedia (Algerian Kabyle, more precisely) and Géraldine Nakache (Algerian Jewish).
91	* RealJokeName: Spirou once reveal that this name is a [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname nickname]], and ask Fantasio what his real name is. The latter awkwardly reveal that Fantasio is his actual name.
92	* RuderAndCruder: The original story used SymbolSwearing or CallingMeALogarithm and was chaste to stay kid friendly. Here, and apart from a SoundEffectBleep, profanities are used in dialogues without filter. [[HotterAndSexier Also]], the Count of Champignac speak of Seccotine's mother in terms that let suppose that they are quite intimate. Seccotine herself is used to [[TheTease tease]] Fantasio by [[OperationJealousy describing Zantafio]] ReadyForLovemaking for her in a hotel room, or speaking about her BarelyThereSwimwear.
93	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Teddy, the guide hired by Seccotine, brutally abandon her with Spirou and Fantasio in the desert, calling them "fools". Without a vehicle, nor provisions, [[{{Jerkass}} which is borderline criminal.]]
94	* ShipperOnDeck: Spirou, big time, for Fantasio and Seccotine. First he smiles when Seccotine hugs Fantasio, relieved that he survived a car accident. And after Spirou has noticed Fantasio LongingLook at Seccotine in the desert, he advice Fantasio [[CanNotSpitItOut to talk to her.]] [[spoiler: Later in the villains's lair, everyone but Spirou is frozen by the zorglwaves. Spirou take advantage of the situation by putting [[KissingUnderTheInfluence Fantasio and Seccotine in position to kiss]], before he reverse the effects of the waves. Fantasio and Seccotine are initially surprised when they defroze, but [[BigDamnKiss blissfully indulge in the kiss immediately after.]]]]
95	* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler: In the situation described above, Fantasio start to awkwardly explain to Seccotine he did not exceed her consent, but [[KissingUnderTheInfluence they were under the influence of the waves]] when they came back to their senses. Seccotine answer is a ShutUpKiss, making clear she's not mad at him. ]]
96	* SiblingRivalry: Claude and Marie, the twins that are the right hand man and woman to Zorglub, bicker constantly for little to no reason.
97	* SlowerThanASnail: One of Champignac 's formula have this effect, and he test it on Spirou right when they met. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero That's the reason why the latter can't intervene]] when Claude and Marie enter the Count room moments later, to kidnap him.
98	* StickyFingers: Spirou, to the point Fantasio once realize that the latters's wallet is actually his.[[spoiler:[[ChekhovsSkill This becomes handy in the end,]] where Spirou can take his anti zorglwaves headband to Zorglub, [[ImpossibleTheft without the latter notices]].]]
99	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When Fantasio describe the [[ImaginaryLoveTriangle supposed relationship]] between Seccotine and Zantafio, Spirou [[ShipperOnDeck tease that Fantasio sound jealous and is "stuck" on the girl.]] Fantasio assures that [[BlatantLies he don't care]], and that his only point of contention with Seccotine lies in the fact that she stole one of his scoops and gave it to his cousin.
100	* ThrowTheDogABone: On a meta level. In the original stories, [[ButtMonkey Fantasio usually can't catch a break]], and he can't here either. [[spoiler: That's why the fact he gets the girl in the end can be seen as this.]]
101	* TieInNovel: Or rather tie in comics, under the form of RecursiveCanon. In ''Le triomphe de Zorglub'' ("Zorglub's triumph"), Spirou, Fantasio and Seccotine are involved in the shooting of a movie about them. Apparently the same described here, as Seccotine discovers that the actress playing her is [[AdaptationDyeJob dark-haired.]] [[https://cdn-s-www.estrepublicain.fr/images/B3F0BCFF-AECE-44EE-B060-D0E6CF45A116/NW_detail/title-1518212594.jpg And the real Spirou is horrified]] to read in the script that [[TakeThat he's been made a pickpocket.]] (Due to the bad boys appeal, according to Fantasio.)
102	* TrapDoor: Zorglub has one in his lair, that open directly on a LavaPit (given it's a VolcanoLair). He can open it by a pressure on the knob of his cane, and send here any of his henchman he's not happy of.[[spoiler: In the end, he tries to send here Champignac and Seccotine, but he's finally the one who'll fall through it.]]
103	* TruerToTheText: When it comes to costumes. Spirou's uniform was problematic as he stopped working as a bellboy since TheForties.[[note]]Not to mention, so painfully old-fashioned the he provide the OutdatedOutfit page image. [[/note]] In the previous animated adaptations, like he did for the last forty years in the comics, he wore [[https://i.postimg.cc/L62Rfqzg/Sans-titre-1.jpg civilian clothes]] [[RedIsHeroic in shades of red instead]]. But the movie plays straight his traditional uniform, under the pretext he have to infiltrate a hotel twice [[spoiler: (and he works in such a place when it ends).]] Similarly in cartoons and most recent comics, Fantasio sticked to [[RedOniBlueOni a blue scheme]] but without his bow tie, and had rather a regular tie instead. In a subversion, in the movie, he arrives in his first scene [[https://postimg.cc/crWdG1m5 in an outfit identical to the last he worn in the comics.]] But he have to change clothes two minutes later, and ends in his [[TheSixties 60's]] costume with a bow tie, which [[MythologyGag "suits him well"]] according to the hotel receptionist.
104	* WatchWhereYoureGoing:
105	** Seconds after they met, Spirou jostle Fantasio, soiling the latter 's suit and losing his loot on the floor in the process.
106	** In the airport, they bump into each other again while being chased respectively by Marie and the police. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero It allow the airport police to pick and arrest them.]]
107	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Spirou turn out to be afraid of planes, a quite IronicFear for a future adventurer. On the other end he's not afraid to pilot the Champicopter, despite the device [[CaptainCrash does not have a button for landing.]]
108	* WickedCultured: Zorglub listen respectively to Music/RideOfTheValkyries and ''The new world symphony'' during his lunch and while attempting to torture Champignac.
109	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: After Champignac successfully manage to fix the zorglwaves, then became {{Brainwashed}} into the first zorglmen along with Seccotine, Zorglub order them to walk into his LavaPit.]]

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