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* [[Fortune Teller]]: Corto's mother was one, and so is his friend Golden Mouth.
* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: Corto never quite got over his love for Pandora Groovesnore in "The Ballad of the Salty Sea".
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Corto meets the [[Red Baron]].
* [[Identity Amnesia]]: Happens to Corto in "Because of a Gull".
* [[Magical Realism]]: Real locations and historical events coexist with magic elements and pure fantasy.
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* [[La Résistance]]: "Concerto in O' Minor for Harp and Nitroglycerin" is about the Irish uprising against British rule.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Corto is often joined by characters so weird that they make even him and Rasputin look balanced by comparison.
* [[Recycled in Space|Recycled in World War I]]: The plot in "Under the Flag of Gold" turns out rather like that of {{spoiler|''[[Kelly's Heroes]]''}}, with Corto masterminding a plan that unites [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|small units of French and Scottish soldiers, two American ambulance drivers, a Greek gunboat crew, '''and''' an Austro-Hungarian artillery observer]] to, {{spoiler|ahem, "retrieve" lost gold from}} northern Italy in 1917.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: The series is curiously impossible to classify, oscillating between a dream-like, nostalgic, elegiac tone on one hand and bitter, realistic cynicism on the other. Corto himself can sound both like [[Spaghetti Western|the Man with No Name]] and a hopeless romantic.
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