De Cape et de Crocs: Difference between revisions

* [[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]]!

* [[Hot Gypsy Woman]]: Hermine

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]

* [[Hurl It Into the Sun]]: {{spoiler|Prince Jean's}} fate. Though it's mentioned that [[wikipedia:Cyrano de Bergerac (writer)|the sun is an inhabited planet like the moon]].

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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..."}}

** Cenile's gold scene is likely a [[Shout-Out]] to a similar scene in La Folie des Grandeurs.

** 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}}.

* [[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.