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Line 10: The series is notable for its realistic depiction of aircraft, even as the stories themselves are pure fiction. ----- {{tropelist}} ~~=== Contains examples of: ===~~ * [[Ace Pilot]]: All three characters, and others beside. Line 34: * [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Tumbler. * [[Dirty Communists]]: Those make repeated appearances in the adventures taking place in [[The Fifties]], starting with "Pilotes d'essai". Later on, the series dropped overt ideological references for its villains. * [[Dodge Byby Braking]]: A Soviet pilot in a Mig-29 pulls the stunt against both Buck Danny and Sonny Tuckson--twice--in "Les Agresseurs". * [[Dressing Asas the Enemy]]: Buck does it once, to escape by jet from a hostile [[Banana Republic]]. Sonny does it on two occasions. * [[Eagle Land]]: Played completely straight. * [[Ejection Seat]]: [http://adproject.free.fr/wordpress/?p=343/ This blog] calculates that, by the 51th installment, Buck and Tumbler have ejected ten times each, and Sonny eight times. Including the times they didn't eject, they scrapped a total of 51 planes worth about 480 million dollars. * [[~~Everythings~~Everything's Better ~~With~~with Penguins]]: While the characters are assigned to a secret base in Alaska, Sonny spots what he thinks is a group of trespassers. When soldiers are sent to arrest them, they turn out to be penguins. Out of spite for being called out on his stupid mistake, Sonny adopts the one they bring back. * [[The ~~Generals~~General's Daughter]]: Subverted in "Mission Apocalypse", in which Sonny is asked to wine and dine the admiral's daughter, who turns out to be a pushy, overbearing and grossly overweight woman. * [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: Lady X being a villainess, she uses a cigarette holder. * [[Holiday in Cambodia]]: The Asian countries where the characters go are typically war-torn or, at best, lawless. * [[Hollywood Mirage]]: Tumbler has one while stranded in the Arabian desert (though at that point it was bordering on hallucinations caused by thirst). Sonny has a somewhat more realistic one while in an Air Force base in the southwestern US, when he spots what he believes to be a natural lake in the distance, which turns out to be reflected sky. Line 51: * [[Mook Face Turn]]: While stranded behind the DMZ in North Korea, Buck Danny talks a female soldier into helping him escape and defect to the South. * [[No One Could Survive That]]: Lady X should have died several times over but she always manages to come back in a later adventure. * [[Parachute in Aa Tree]] * [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Sonny, sometimes inappropriately so. * [[La Résistance]]: The characters get to fight alongside Chinese partisans against the Japanese. * [[~~Shamgri~~Shangri La]]: "Top Secret" and "Mission dans la vallée perdue" take place in a remote Tibetan valley where a rocket scientist is being held prisoner by a Buddhist sect. * [[Schematized Prop]]: The early albums frequently featured schematics and technical data of the aircraft depicted in the stories. * [[Shown Their Work]]: The authors started out as pilots for the Belgian company Sabena and made sure to get the technical stuff right. Line 65: [[Category:Belgian Comics]] [[Category:Comic Books]] [[Category:Franco -Belgian Comics]] [[Category:Military and Warfare Comics]] [[Category:The Forties]] [[Category:Buck Danny]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~