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[[File:Achille_Talon_1.jpg|frame|<small>That short guy he's leaning on? That's [[Rene Goscinny]].</small> ]]
''Hop !''
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Achille Talon, according his author, ''"knows everything and improvises the rest of it. Apart of this, he's generous, petty, pacifist, aggressive, progressist, bourgeois, selfless, jealous, intrepid and a bit of a coward. In sum, honest and brave just like you and me..."''
The comic book was translated for different markets in the 80's and published in English under the title ''[[Walter Melon]]'' with little success, as it was so specifically French by its main character and its language. Readers hardly understood Talon's favorite interjections, "hop !" and "bof..." which simply express positive/negative moods.
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Achille Talon's father is one, but this is strictly [[Played for Laughs]]. He's remarkably good at holding his liquor.
* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]: In the end of ''l'Âge ingrat'', Grelot is arrested by [[The Longtarin|the cop]], just after his car exploded, for ''"scattering things on the public way, unpleasant behavior, setting a bad example to the younger generation, and, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|I'd almost forgotten]], kidnapping !"''
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* [[Darkest Africa]]: Lampshaded in ''Le coquin de sort'' (and somehow parodies ''[[Tintin|Tintin in the Congo]]''). All inhabitants of Doduduba ("Fatinbottom") speak an absolutely perfect French and the primitive bush village where everybody walks around half-naked with spears has a big contract with a pet food canning plant in Chicago.
* [[Depraved Dentist]]
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* [[Eagle Land]]
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: [[Shout-Out|Colorado Jules]] in ''Le trésor de Virgule''. Got a [[Tap on the Head]] that made him forget only a ''part'' of the information about the treasure. Immediately parodied by Virgule who argues him and tells him he's "of bad faith".
* [[Expy]]: Saint-Ogan's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190613221339/http://www.bedetheque.com/Couvertures/MonsieurPoche2_17082005.jpg Monsieur Poche]''.
* [[Fatherland]]: Zôtrland in the album ''Le Roi des Zôtres''
* [[Flowery Insults]]: Achille and Lefuneste often try to outdo one another in that regard.
* [[French Maid]]: Subverted; Virgule's maid Hécatombe is a huge woman built like a professional wrestler and [[Popeye (comic strip)|anchor arm tattoos]]... in the requisite maid outfit.
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Talon and his neighbor Hilarion Lefuneste. Always calls him ''cuistre'' (prig) but they're inseparable. Especially when they're fighting each other.
* [[Gag Nose]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when Lefuneste making fun of Achille Talon's nose ends up having the latter hired to play the title character in ''Cyrano de Bergerac''.
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* [[General Ripper]]: The commanding officer of the US garrison in ''Le Grain de la folie'' is obsessed by the [[Yellow Peril]].
** To the point where he chews out a subordinate for almost stepping on a butterfly ([[Eagle Land|as American soldiers are the protectors of the weak and the small]]), then chews them out again when he realizes the butterfly is yellow.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: In ''La Main du serpent'', Achille Talon correctly surmises that the other survivors of the submarine wreck were scattered by the storm. In fact, as another character observes, there was no storm. But Achille Talon replies that in adventure stories, there is ''always'' a
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Rue de Manconne" seems perfectly innocent until you read it out loud, at which point it translates to "(she's) fuckin' stupid".
** Naughty tentacles are invoked in a simile.
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: Fo-Pli.
* [[Our Gargoyles Rock]]: Gargouilla-la-gargouille in ''L'âge ingrat''.
* [[Overly Polite Pals]]: In one comic, both continuously insist the other go first, but here the stalemate goes on until they're both late, leading to a Big Ball of Violence. Amusingly, this came about after Achille read a book on etiquette, and it turns out the other guy was the author.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Papa Talon. Keeps an eye opened and a beer with the other.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: Greg didn't like them and projected a part of himself in Papa Talon who keeps a flag of the "Wild Anarchists Federation" in the attic.
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