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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Iznogoud is a phonetic spelling of "is no good" in French.
* [[The Napoleon]]: Iznogoud is vertically challenged, and overcompensates with his ambition and bad temper.
* [[No Export for You]]: [[Averted]] quite a few times; In [[The Seventies]] and [[The Eighties]] by [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Egmont_:Egmont (media_group)media group)|Egmont]] and [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuen_Publishing:Methuen Publishing|Methuen]], in the 80's again by [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Dargaud |Darguard]] themselves, in [[The Nineties]] with Phoenix Press' [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Iznogoud Monthly Comic]], which ran [[Short Runners|for three whole months]]. Currently, [[Cinebook]] have the license, and have been putting two albums out a year since 2008.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Iznogoud's idea of disguising himself as a pumpkin seller is to carry a pumpkin around. And it works, too.
** It works so well his own guards won't let him back into the palace until he drops the pumpkin!
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* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|The Guards ARE Crazy]]
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Iznogoud in some stories.
* [[Two -Headed Coin]]: All of them, actually.
* [[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]].
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