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* [[Older Than She Looks]] or possibly [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Gold Mouth looks "surprisingly young ... and yet there are very old women in Bahia who swear that she has always looked this way." She claims, too, to have known Corto's great-grandfather. He points out that this would have to make her over a hundred years old.
* [[Pirate]]: When first encountered in "The Ballad of the Salty Sea", Corto and Rasputin are pirate captains in the Indonesian archipelago.
* [[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.
* [[Red Baron]]: Corto meets the original one.
* [[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.
* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: a poignant, dramatic scene can be followed by a light-hearted one, often involving [[Comedic Sociopath|Rasputin]]. Strangely enough, it works.
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