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* [[Balloonacy]]: Achille Talon's father escapes [[Meddlesome Patrolman|annoying cops]] by blowing into a breathalyzer balloon until it becomes an improvised blimp and he takes off with it.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Papa Talon losing his beer.
* [[Big Applesauce]]: In the album ''L'appeau d'Ephèse'' (it's a pun; "ça coûte ''la peau des fesses''" (
* [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce]]: Achille Talon once forced himself to ingest a dish made from all the most potent spices in the world, just so he could belch out the lethal digestion gasses right in Lefuneste's face.
* [[Blue Blood]]: The marquise Virgule de Guillemets, Achille's (platonic) fiancee.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Achille Talon is probably the most [[Egregious]] offender in all French-Belgian comics. See [[Medium Awareness]].
* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: In order to fly to Polynesia on short notice and on a shoestring in ''Le Grain de la folie'', Lefuneste and Major Lafrime hire a veteran German [[WW 1]] pilot, who gets them there
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Achille and Lefuneste. Usually to each other.
* [[The Cavalry]]: Shows up on time to save the day in ''La Main du serpent'', something the [[Genre Savvy]] Achille matter-of-factly hangs a lampshade on.
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* [[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
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Talon and his
* [[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''.
** At one point, a crook wants to nail Achille in between the eyes with his gun. He aims, they have a silent
{{quote|I CAN'T DO IT! I CAN'T NAIL HIM BETWEEN TWO EYES HIDDEN BY A NOSE LIKE THIS!}}
* [[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 storm--and so there was one.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Rue de Manconne" seems perfectly innocent until you
** Naughty tentacles are invoked in a simile.
** "L'Etang Tacule" is a spoonerism for "The state screws you in the ass".
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* [[In Name Only]]: The obscure [[Animated Adaptation]] from the late '90s starred Achille (under his English name, Walter Melon) as a "hero for hire" who substituted for various action hero [[Expy|expies]].
* [[Intimidating Revenue Service]]: The plot of ''Ne rêvons pas'' is set in motion by the visit at Achille's place of a persnickety tax assessor. In a subversion of the trope, Achille's father, acting as his tax advisor, turns the tables on the assessor and assails him with a mountain of paperwork.
* [[Intoxication Ensues]]: Inverted. Lefuneste once claimed to have embraced the
** In another, Achille burns some old wood he found in the attic brought back by an ancestor who traveled to India. The entire neighborhood gets high on cannabis fumes.
* [[Latin Land]]: Platopabo ("Uglyplateau") in the album ''Le trésor de Virgule'' published in English as ''Magnesia's Treasure''.
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