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* [[Captain Oblivious]]: The Caliph. A well-meaning and debonair ruler, he never suspects a thing.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I want to be Caliph instead of the Caliph!"
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: When the series were taken over by Tabary after Goscinny's death; while the stories remained mostly comical, they started having more coherent adventures with Iznogoud occasionnallyoccasionally switching from [[Villain Protagonist]] to [[Anti-Hero]].
* [[Chew Toy]]: Iznogoud.
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: comicallyComically inverted; Iznogood looks, acts and IS evil, he actually possesses almost all the deffectdefect requieredrequired to be a villain, and people of Bagdad are perfectly aware of his desire to overthrow the Caliph... but the Caliph himself never suspects a thing, instead seeing Iznogoud as a devoted, good, trustworthy friend. He even once admitted he often received anonymous letters trying to warn him about it, but never believed them. Ironically, the Caliph is the only person Iznogoud bothers acting good with.
* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Iznogoud is a quintessential example of this trope.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Iznogoud.
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* [[Gratuitous English]]: "Iznogoud" = English "is no good". Also a [[Meaningful Name]] and a [[Punny Name]].
* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|The Guards ARE Crazy]]
* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: The Caliph spends much of his time contentedly asleep. His advisorsadvisers know he's worried when he turns in his sleep more than twice a day.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: almostAlmost every story ends this way.
* [[Human Chess]]: In one story, Iznogoud finds out that there is an island inhabited by two man-eating giants. He tricks the Caliph to come with him to the island, and they find out that the giants are vegetarians. Then Iznogoud asks the giants what they do to the people who come to the island. Guess what they do to them?
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Dilat Larat, Iznogoud's henchman. While he acts and looks dumb most of the time, he tends to have sudden [[Let's Get Dangerous]] moments where he reveals he can be very competent when needed. He's also [[Genre Savvy|far more lucid than his master about the fact they can't win]].
* [[Identical Stranger]]: One of Iznogoud's many schemes involved using a merchant, who looked just like Caliph. In the end of the story, we see the partner of the merchant, and he looked exactly like Iznogoud.
* [[Jerkass Victim]]: The three Caliph's brothers that Iznogoud made disappear. While Troiround wasn't really developpeddeveloped enough to say if he was evil or not, Dheround truly was a bulliebully that kept making deadly pranks to Iznogoud and mocking him for his small size and big nose. Katround was even worst, being a crazy man obsessed with making people disappear and attempting to litterallyliterally erase Bagdad (including his well-intentioned older brother).
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk]]: atAt several points, Iznogoud saved Dilat from death or traps, only to then reveal he did this only because he needed him for specific purpose.
** An extreme example in "Who Killed the Caliph ?", where Iznogoud shows up to save Dilat from execution and catch the ExecutionnerExecutioner trying to get Dilat paying him for mercy. Disgusted, Iznogoud states that mercy can't be bought and has to be given or received. He then notices a tortured prisonnerprisoner, and orders him free, causing Dilat to believe he might have some mercy after all... then Iznogoud appoints the tortured new ExecutionnerExecutioner and orders him to torture the former one.
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Unless he makes a point of wearing a disguise, Iznogoud is always depicted in the same outfit.
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* [[Unknown Rival]]: Everyone know that Iznogoud want to be Caliph instead of the Caliph....except the Caliph.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Iznogoud verges from this to a Type VI [[Anti-Hero]].
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Like all villains created by Goscinny, Iznogoud is particularly susceptible to it. The fact he lives in a Palace where he (a megalonaniac aggressive [[Evil ChancelorChancellor]]) seems to be the [[Only Sane Man|only one with some degree of sanity]] doesn't really help.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Iznogoud is a thoroughly despicable character.
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Iznogoud occasionally wins... very briefly.
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