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[[File:de-cape-et-de-crocs.jpg|frame|[[Badass Spaniard|Don Lope]], [[Hot Gypsy Woman|Doña Hermine]], [[Cunning Like a Fox|Armand de Maupertuis]], and [[Rascally Rabbit|Eusèbe]].]]

 

A 10-volume French comic series written by Alain Ayroles (also author of the [[Fractured Fairy Tale]] comic ''[[Garulfo]]'') and illustrated by Jean-Luc Masbou.

In Europe of the XVII th century, two noblemen united by [[Heterosexual Life Partners|an indestructible friendship]], Don Lope de Villalobos Y Sangrin, a rash and impulsive Spanish wolf, and Armand Raynal de Maupertuis, French Gascon fox poet, dash into an epic adventure in search of the treasure of the Tangerine islands. During their trip, which will lead them to the borders of the world, and even elsewhere, they will meet their companions of adventure: Eusèbe, a naïve but cunning rabbit, Raïs Kader, who hides a generous personality under surly airs, and promises Lope a duel to the death but becomes his friend, Doña Hermine, Don Lope's lover, who hides [[Slap Slap Kiss|a similar feeling]], Séléné, Cenile's adopted child, who lives an idyll with Armand, and Bombastus, learned German so cultivated as to be annoying. Besides this heterogeneous troupe, they will also meet Andreo, Séléné's brother and his servant, Plaisant, a troop of pirates without scruples, a ruthless ''capitàn'' and strange exiles from the moon...

 

* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Most of the selenite population (except the mimes).

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Prince Jean and [[The Vamp|his sister]].

* [[Atlantis]]: Mentioned (as being a myth). At one point, our heroes are stranded on a tiny patch of rock in the middle of the ocean, which is later shown to be the roof of a Greek-type building with statues, but nothing else is made of it.

** It is referenced later as having been in contact with the Selenite at some point.

* [[Dead Little Sister|Kidnapped Daughter]]: Rais Kader's motivation for the treasure hunt: to get enough gold to raise an army, with which to storm Maracaibo where his daughter Yasmina is held.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Armand.

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: The war at the end of volume 8, in red.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Everything [[Meaningful Name|Aldrin de Redondie]] says only describes what he is doing and thinking at the moment.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: When the Rais' men lose the map, he orders his ship's mast to be sharpened, so he can impale a dozen or so sailors as an example.

* [[The Ditz]]: Séléné

* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: Mendoza

* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Séléné; Andreo

** Obvious for the audience, maybe not for the characters. Though Lope's father probably knew his name.

** Also the Rais Kader, which translates to Boss Kader.

* [[Expressive Hair]]: The Rais Kader's mustache. Droopy when depressed or confused, horizontal otherwise.

* [[Evil Twin]]: <s>Two</s> Three sets, we have yet to see {{spoiler|Eusèbe's.}}

** Maybe more Athos than D'Artagnan.

** Also, astronauts. They're musketeers [[In Space]]!

* [[Food Porn]]

* [[Foe Yay]]: Lope and Mademoiselle.

** Also, ''everything'' the spooneristic smugglers say is astonishingly vulgar once decoded.

* [[Gold Fever]]: Cénile.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]] / [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|Eusebe's rock.}}

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Lope and Armand. Also, Andreo and Plaisant.

* [[Hot Gypsy Woman]]: Hermine

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Armand sees Don Lope barrel past on an amputee's cart waving his sword, chasing a sedan chair blinded by Eusebio, asking how one can engage in such farcical behavior. Then he points his sword at Plaisant, on which are skewered several vegetables and a squid.

** When the pirates threaten to eat the remaining captives, Lope says they wouldn't hesitate to feed on human flesh... [[Big Badass Wolf|while looking as realistically rabid wolf-like as you please.]]

* [[It's All About Me]]: Prince Jean

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Boney Boone wants to be called ''Captain''. Later inverted since he's trying to pass for a civilian, leading to: "Captain Boone!" "That's '''Mister''' Boone!"

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: {{spoiler|Armand}}

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: {{spoiler|Cenile}}

** The resident [[Mad Scientist]]'s name is [[Large Ham|Bombastus]].

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Armand stops rhyming and starts fighting in the final battle. It works.

* [[Long List]]

** "... les cornemuses, mais aussi les luths, les violes, les violons, les harpes, les clavecins, les hautbois, les bombardes, les flageolets, les pipeaux, les binious..."

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Everybody.

** Sometimes with a [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Spilorcio for instance, means ''miser''.

* [[Medium Awareness]]: Sort of. The beginning of the third book has Armand and the Rais on an curtained elevated platform reading documents, then three sharp raps are heard. They look up, clear their throats, and then start talking, as if they were on a stage. (The raps coming from Don Lope hammering on a shell to crack it open).

* [[Milking the Giant Cow]]: Many characters are seen gesticulating wildly in the background. The pirates ''define'' this with their panic attacks.

* [[Mighty Whitey]]: Inverted. The [[Noble Savage]] finds a tribe of primitive white-skinned men and is treated as a god before he convinces them otherwise.

* [[Money for Nothing]]: On the Moon, gold, jewels and other precious objects grow on trees. They use poems as currency.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Most everybody has one, but Bombastus keeps his the longest.

* [[Noble Savage]]: Twice subverted; the members of the savage tribe are caucasian. The only black-skinned member of their village is actually very educated.

* [[Rousing Speech]]: Cigognac's speech, also a CMOA in its own right. Captain Boone does this repeatedly as a morale-inducing method.

** On the evil side, Mendoza is good at this.

* [[Sand Is Water]]: The non-dark side of the moon.

* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Andrea keeps the one he got from his {{spoiler|very nearly}} suicidal attack on Mendoza.

** Bombastus refuses to acknowledge the pirate's theory of "gravitation" over his own. With [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] no less.

* [[Shoot the Rope]]: subverted. {{spoiler|"Well, I was trying to shoot him in the head..."}}

** A musical one: when Selene tells {{spoiler|the Weapon Master}} that she would like to be called {{spoiler|Roxane}}, she stands under the glow from the Earth {{spoiler|which is [[The Police|red]] because of an eclipse}}.

** Also, Don Lope's last name, Y Sangrin, refers to the wolf's name in the ''Roman de Renart'', Ysengrin (his wife is called Hermine by the way). Similarly, the fox's estate in this tale is called Maupertuis.

* [[Staring Through the Sword]]: how the pirates salute {{spoiler|Eusebe's rock being cast into space.}}

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: When Don Lope believes the Rais Kader gone, he cries out that he didn't have the right to deny him their duel. Later, the Rais tells an unconscious Lope that they still have their duel to fight.

* [[The Show Must Go Wrong]]

* [[Title Drop]]: Kind of, capes and fangs are mentioned in the same sentence.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Andreo is not able to see that the "honest merchants" he tries to hire on a treasure hunt are pirates.

** "Degrading! This is degrading!"

* [[True Companions]]

** When everyone else is delivering [[Pre Ass Kicking One Liners]] / [[Badass Boasts]], he claims he's going to "[[Curse of the Ancients|scold these rascals]]" [[Slasher Smile|with a great big smile]] and [[An Axe to Grind|an even huger haldberd.]]

* [[The Vamp]]: Mademoiselle

* [[Walk the Plank]]: {{spoiler|Mendoza}} inflicts this to {{spoiler|Eusebe}}.

** The pirates do this to Don Lope as well. When Armand sees blood and jumps off... [[Badass|it turns out Lope had bitten one shark and was getting ready to stab another.]]

* [[World of Ham]]: Given how often they seem to be actual theatrical performers...

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Don Lope is afraid of rats.

** The pirates are afraid of rabbits, ghost ships, and even ''[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|metaphysics]]''.

* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: Armand's first battle against Mendoza and against the Maitre d'Armes. In the other battles, it's mostly him monologuing (in rhyme no less).

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Plaisant, despite looking like he's in his forties, is actually the same age as Andreo and Selene.

 

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