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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 !"''
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Achille Talon drives a sputtering old jalopy which, as it turns out, is a real car, the 1903 Achilles.
* [[Artistic License Geology]]: for fun. Tutanémipartou sand + [[Bilingual Pun|Dontgo-Zisway]] volcano dust = [[Elements Do Not Work That Way|BOOM + madness smoke]].
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* [[Cliff Hanger]]: Copiously lampshaded at the end of many a page in the longer stories, and sometimes even played straight.
* [[Da Editor]]: Goscinny. Albeit one who is happy to use axes and sledgehammers to reprimand [[Schedule Slip|late authors.]]
* [[Darkest Africa]]: Lampshaded in ''Le coquin de sort'' (and somehow parodies ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)|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]]
* [[Doing in The Wizard]]: The album ''L'esprit d'Eloi'' (A pun on Montesquieu's "The spirit of the laws"). There is no ghost, of course.
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* [[Medium Awareness]]: Achille knows it often perfectly.
** Even giving conferences on the art of being a comic-book character.
* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: One story was commissioned by a bank, so the characters learn the importance of money and a banker saves the day.
* [[Multiple Reference Pun]]: Greg was an absolute master of it. One of his best examples is when Major Lafrime mobilizes his friends to put Talon into the election run and orders ''"colonne par cinq pour l'information"'' for launching a campaign. It makes a triple sense:
** Soldiers are ordered to be ''"en colonne par cinq"'' (line up five abreast) in the army;
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** The "5th column" was the overname for enemy spying during the [[WW 2|war]].
* [[Nightmare Dreams]]: What if the [[Big Bad|bad guy]] can ''provoke'' them to manipulate his victims?
* [[Nightmare Fuel
* [[No More for Me]]: Papa Talon, once. Just once. Beer is a serious thing.
* [[The Napoleon]]: A caricature of René Goscinny, portrayed as the irascible midget-boss of ''Polite (!) magazine'' where Achille Talon works. As for Napoleon, many fans thought then that Goscinny ''was'' tiny. It could be as well an [[Homage]] to Goscinny's character [[Iznogoud]].
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* [[Sim Sim Salabim]]: Lampshaded with the Nayghorjo-ray ("Nosethroatear") in ''[[Artifact of Doom|La main du serpent]]''. It's a modern country using submarines and a computer-selected crew for their operations... and a fakir.
* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Achille and Lefuneste.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Achille, naturally. It's lampshaded multiple times, but building a giant statue of himself in his garden probably takes the cake.
* [[Stealth Pun]]
* [[Stereotypes of Chinese People]]: Averted with Professor Fo-Pli ([[Punny Name|"crease"]]). Speaks perfect French, huge [[The Professor|specialist in chemistry and geology]], wears occidental outfit and quotes things such like ''"The wise man, and a few others before him, peremptorily told it: "better a little drawing than a long speech", and the television executives added: "adn it doesn't cost any more"."''
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* [[Use Your Head]]
* [[Wall of Text]]
* [[We Sell Everything]]: Vincent Poursan, the [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?|1000-jobs]] [[Honest
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: The medieval henchmen in L'Age Ingrat have second thoughts about continuing the immortality treatment, having not much to do but play cards all day and taking the occasional bath ([[The Dung Ages|14 in all]]).
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Vincent Poursan works in many different stores.
* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: The radio in La Traversée du Disert.
* [[Word Puree Title]]: The name of the series is actually supposed to be spelled ''Ach!lle Talon''.
* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: Just about every fight has the participants make comments in a conversational tone, related to whatever weapon they're holding.
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