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[[File:blake_et_mortimer.jpg|frame|Mortimer, left, and Blake, right.]]
'''Blake and Mortimer''' (1946-) is a Belgian comic created by Edgar P. Jacobs, a friend and collaborator of Hergé (the creator of ''[[Tintin]]''). The comic, which mixes traditional mystery and espionage stories with [[Science Fiction]] elements, stars two middle-aged
After the death of Jacobs in 1987, the comic has been continued by other authors and artists, including Jean Van Hamme, the creator of ''[[Thorgal]]'' and ''XIII'', Yves Sente and André Juillard.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Jessie Wingo in ''The Strange Encounter''
** Interestingly, women were almost entirely absent from the series while the original author was alive, and those few there were ''never'' had action-oriented parts. It was a man's world, and then some.
** Jacobs had included female characters in ''Le Rayon U''. The reason he did not do the same for ''Blake And Mortimer'' was that publication laws for youth-oriented series had become stricter after World War II: it was
* [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]]: Atlantis.▼
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The animated series.
▲* [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]]: Atlantis.
* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: ''The Adventures of Phillip and Francis'' by Pierre Veys and Nicolas Barral, published by Dargaud, the same publisher as the original books. Published albums include ''The Empire Under Threat'', ''The Machiavellian Trap'' and the (supposedly) upcoming ''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|The Yellow "M" vs. Godzilla]]''
* [[Anonymous Ringer]]: It's obvious that the hostile superpower in ''SOS Meteors'' is the Soviet Union, but the country is never mentioned by name.▼
* [[Ancient Egypt]]: ''Mystery of the Great Pyramid'', obviously.
▲* [[Anonymous Ringer]]: It's obvious that the hostile superpower in ''SOS Meteors'' is the Soviet Union, but the country is never mentioned by name.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Olrik (Incidentally, his look was based on Jacobs himself)
* [[Atlantis]]
* [[Back
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Averted with Mortimer, played straight in ''The Atlantis Enigma'' with the [[Big Bad]] (apparently, Jacobs's beard of evil is black and pointy).
** And the Traitor in ''The Time Trap'' (who also sports a pointy black beard).
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** ''The Sarcophagi from the Sixth Continent'': Acoka.
** ''The Curse of The Thirty Denarii'': Reiner von Stahl/Belos Beloukian
* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: In ''The Time Trap'', the rebels of the 51st century have armed themselves with ancient weapons from the 20th and 21st centuries found in underground stockpiles.▼
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Olrik}} in ''The Yellow M''.
▲* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: In ''The Time Trap'', the rebels of the 51st century have armed themselves with ancient weapons from the 20th and 21st centuries found in underground stockpiles.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Ramirez}} in "The Strange Encounter.
* [[Clear My Name]]: Blake in ''The Francis Blake Affair''.
* [[Cool Plane]]: The Swordfish.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil|Covers Always Spoil]]: The cover of ''{{spoiler|The Curse Of The Thirty Denarii (Volume 1)}}'' is the last panel of the book.
* [[Curse of the Ancients]]: "By Jove!"▼
* [[Crapsack World]]: The future in both ''The Time Trap'' and ''The Strange Encounter'' is not a nice place.
▲* [[Curse of the Ancients]]: "By Jove!"
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Agnès in ''The Time Trap'' is a quintessential damsel in distress--a medieval maiden in need of rescue from rampaging peasants.▼
* [[Dead Man Writing]]: Miloch sends Mortimer a letter like this.
* [[Dirty Communists]]: Voronov.
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* [[Discreet Drink Disposal]]: Mortimer discreetly pours on the floor a cup of sake that he (rightly) suspects of being drugged in ''Professor Sato's Three Formulae''.
* [[Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe]]: Both heroes.
▲* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Agnès in ''The Time Trap'' is a quintessential damsel in distress--a medieval maiden in need of rescue from rampaging peasants.
* [[The Dragon]]: Olrik, when he's not working alone.
** Olrik himself often has a dragon of his own - Sharkey is the most notable.
* [[The Emperor]]: Basam Damdu, Acoka as well.▼
* [[The Empire]]: The Yellow Empire in ''The Secret of the Swordfish''.
▲* [[The Emperor]]: Basam Damdu, Acoka as well.
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: "Condouisez ploutôt oune brouette" quoth ''S.O.S. Meteors''.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Mortimer.
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* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]: The Yellow Empire is a Tibetan expy of Imperial Japan, with soldiers wearing Japanese-like uniforms and using [[Nazis With Gnarly Weapons|German weapons]]. They even manage to conquer most of the world in the beginning of the story.
* [[La Résistance]]: ''The Diabolical Trap'' has this in the distant future.
*
** The Free World Resistance in ''The Secret of the Swordsfish''. Their main secret base is situated underwater, in the strait of Hormuz.▼
* [[Lesser Star]]: Although the series is called ''Blake and Mortimer'', most stories involve Mortimer as the main protagonist, with Blake sometimes barely even showing up at all. This was deliberately corrected years after Edgar P. Jacob's death by ''The Francis Blake Affair'', which makes him the main protagonist for a change.
** Curiously enough, ''SOS Meteors'', where Mortimer is captured early in the book and Blake does most of the actions, was subtitled "Mortimer in Paris" in some editions.
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* [[Mind Control Device]]: The Mega Wave in ''The Yellow M''.
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Doyle-Smith}} in ''The Francis Blake Affair''.
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: ''The Francis Blake Affair''.▼
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]: The dinner-scene between Olrik and Blake in ''The Francis Blake Affair''.
▲* [[No One Could Survive That]]: ''The Francis Blake Affair''.
* [[Not My Driver]]: Happens to Duranton in ''The Necklace Affair''.
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Mortimer. Archeology, aeronautics, nuclear physics, you name it.
* [[Only Fatal to Adults]]: The alien virus in ''The Voronov Plot''.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: {{spoiler|Mr. Henry}} in ''S.O.S. Meteors''.
▲* [[La Résistance]]: In ''The Time Trap'', the insurgents against the totalitarian rule of the Supreme Guide.
▲** The Free World Resistance in ''The Secret of the Swordsfish''. Their main secret base is situated underwater, in the strait of Hormuz.
* [[Significant Anagram]]: {{spoiler|Capitaine Ilkor}}.▼
* [[Shout-Out]]: In the second "Thirty Denarii", Olrik is wearing the distinctive [[Tintin|Captain Haddock]] sweater.
* [[Shown Their Work]]
▲* [[Significant Anagram]]: {{spoiler|Capitaine Ilkor}}.
* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: Mortimer is served a drugged cup of coffee in ''Mystery of the Great Pyramid''.
* [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying]]: ''The Time Trap''. The scene was an homage to one of Jacobs's favorite movies, a stop motion dinosaur flick of the beginning of the 20th century...
* [[Stiff Upper Lip]]
* [[Throw-Away Guns]]: In ''The Yellow M'', Mortimer fires 4 shots at the intruder, realises that they have no effect, and throws the gun at him.▼
* [[Time Travel]]: ''The Time Trap''.▼
** Which leads to [[Time Travelers Are Spies]] : happens in the Middle Ages and in the far future for Mortimer.▼
* [[They Called Me Mad]]: {{spoiler|Septimus}}.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: in the latest book. We even learn that there was a [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|secret pact]] between them and the Yellow Empire.
▲* [[Throw-Away Guns]]: In ''The Yellow M'', Mortimer fires 4 shots at the intruder,
▲* [[Time Travel]]: ''The Time Trap''.
▲** Which leads to [[Time Travelers Are Spies]] : happens in the Middle Ages and in the far future for Mortimer.
* [[Video Phone]]: Their adventure "The Time Trap" depicts a dystopian far future in which communication takes place via camera-equipped wrist phones, for those who can afford them anyway.
* [[Villain Opening Scene]]: In ''The Secret of The Swordfish'', Olrik is the first character to appear on stage.
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