De Cape et de Crocs: Difference between revisions

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* [[Cannibal Tribe]]: Subverted.

** [[Talking Animal|Sort of...]]

* [[Card Carrying Villain]]: Mendoza. Especially obvious when he rants about how Eusebe's appareance, personnality and behaviour represent everything he hates.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Mendoza. Especially obvious when he rants about how Eusebe's appareance, personnality and behaviour represent everything he hates.

* [[Carnivore Confusion]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] several times for laughs.

* <s>The Cat</s> [[The Cat Came Back|The Squid Came Back]]

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* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: {{spoiler|The pirates.}}

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Mendoza

* [[Commedia Dell Arte]]: Selene and the Pirates are forced to perform one of these in Volume 4 for the benefit of their Selenite captors; the performance is rather lackluster until Don Lope and friends burst on the scene to confront their rivals. Fortunately for all involved, the audience thinks it's [[All Part of the Show]].

* [[Commedia Dell'Arte]]: Selene and the Pirates are forced to perform one of these in Volume 4 for the benefit of their Selenite captors; the performance is rather lackluster until Don Lope and friends burst on the scene to confront their rivals. Fortunately for all involved, the audience thinks it's [[All Part of the Show]].

* [[Cunning Like a Fox]]

* [[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.

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* [[The Ditz]]: Séléné

* [[Dope Slap]]: One pirate [[Minion With an F In Evil|who doesn't realize they need to keep up the honest merchant act]] anymore gets one.

* [[Dragon in Chief]]: Mendoza

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

* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Séléné; Andreo

** Especially Andreo.

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** In a darker tone, Armand and Mendoza.

* [[Enemy Mime]]

* [[Everyone Calls Him Barkeep]]: The Maître d'Armes, even though he's obviously {{spoiler|[[Cyrano De Bergerac]].}}

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Maître d'Armes, even though he's obviously {{spoiler|[[Cyrano De Bergerac]].}}

** 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.

* [[~~Everythings~~ Squishier With Cephalopods]]

* [[Everything's Squishier With Cephalopods]]

* [[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.}}

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* [[Food Porn]]

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

* [[For Science]]: Bombastus' primary motivation.

* [[For Science!]]: Bombastus' primary motivation.

* [[Funny Animal]]

* [[Funny Background Event]]: All the time. One of the earliest examples is the living roots (?) escaping from the vats of the Kabbalist Kader visits at the beginning in Venezia.

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* [[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.]]

* [[I Ate What]]: Don Lope, learning he very likely just ate a dog.

* [[I Ate What?]]: Don Lope, learning he very likely just ate a dog.

* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Armand}} is about to jump from a cliff in despair from {{spoiler|losing Selene to the Maître d'Armes and being stranded on the Moon without his friends}} when {{spoiler|the Rock arrives to warn him that his friends have been captured by Mendoza}}.

* [[~~Its~~ All About Me]]: Prince Jean

* [[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!"

* [[It Runs On Nonsensoleum]]: Bombastus' flying machine and moon rockets fly because of the noise generated by explosions... at least, that's how he explains it.

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

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

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

* [[Large Ham]]: Captain Boone, but the others show some signs as well, especially during the theater sequence.

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

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** It apparently involves being framed for murder.

** It is supposed to be the subject of two upcoming prequel books by the same authors

* [[Non Human Sidekick]]: Eusèbe (himself Non-Human Sidekick of two Non-Human Main Protagonists) has a pet animated rock.

* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Eusèbe (himself Non-Human Sidekick of two Non-Human Main Protagonists) has a pet animated rock.

* [[Not So Stoic]]: Don Lope, upon the Rais Kader's disappearance.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Apparently, {{spoiler|Selene}} to {{spoiler|Armand}}

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* [[Pirate]]

** And corsairs, and freebooters...

* [[Precision F Strike]]: Only once in the whole series, addressed to a fish, and [[Bilingual Bonus|it's in Spanish]] ([[Son of a Whore|but not even hard to figure out]]).

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Only once in the whole series, addressed to a fish, and [[Bilingual Bonus|it's in Spanish]] ([[Son of a Whore|but not even hard to figure out]]).

* [[Princess Curls]]: Séléné; [[The Vamp|Mademoiselle]].

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: The pirates.

* [[Rascally Rabbit]]: Eusèbe.

* [[Red Oni Blue Oni]]: See [[Brains and Brawn]], above.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: See [[Brains and Brawn]], above.

* [[Reference Overdosed]]

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

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* [[Wham Line]]: {{spoiler|I love you... Maitre d'Armes! (Weapon Master)}}

* [[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.

* [[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]]''.

** 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).

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fontenoy Messieurs les mimes, tirez les premiers!]" "These dogs will know the fury of a janissary!" "''[[Badass Creed|No pasaran!]]''"