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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 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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