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It's basically the french answer to [[Alan Moore|Alan Moore's]] [[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen|Extraordinary Gentlemen]] and [[Watchmen]]. Its inspiration comes from the idea that the superhero concept has actually its roots in European [[Pulp Magazine|Pulp Litterature]], whose codes and tropes the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|modern american comic books]] modernized. The work is filled with [[Viewers Are Geniuses|obscure references]] to now-forgotten novels, films and pulp comics ; needless to say, it makes for an interesting reading.
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* [[All Myths Are True]] : And all fictions too ! The main difference with [[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]] is that there's an equal mix of historical and fictional characters in the story.
* [[All There in the Manual]] : The little tidbits at the beginning and end of the books are more or less required to have the faintest idea of what's going on and of how exactly the Brigade's History differs from our own.
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* [[Big Bad]] : Mabuse is the main antagonist. Big Brother (that is, Stalin) is one as well.
* [[Bi the Way]] : YMMV about whether Georges Spad counts as an example. The reveal about her past relationship with Palmyre is supposed to play out that way... But then again, Georges Spad dresses in an overly androgynous fashion that was pretty common for bi-curious individuals of that era.
* [[Blood Knight]] : The Baron Brun, big time. It's actually a blood ''[[
** Félifax, the Tigerman, is also an example.
* [[All Your Powers Combined|By your powers combined]] : Inverted with the titular Chimeric Brigade. The protagonist is powerless on his own, he has to ''divide himself'' into four different entities who have superpowers. It's explained that his superpower is actually to go into his subconscious and attain the jungian archetypes that structure society.
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* [[Crapsack World]]
* [[Deconstruction Crossover]] : the comic tries to explain why the superhero myth, which actually had its groundings in pulp european litterature, came ro be forgotten in Europe and completely delegated to American culture. The comic's answer is that the elitism of the so-called "gentleman justicers" is what eventually allowed the Shoah and the other atrocities of [[WW 2]] to happen. European superheroes and supervillains alike decided to completely step out of public affairs out of shame for what they did, and felt that the Americans had the moral upground.
** Amongst other examples, Garou-Garou decides to flee to America halfway through the comic out of despair. Since he has the same power as [[X
* [[Eldritch Abomination]] : {{spoiler|The Xenobia seems like one at first, but it's only because she's completely confused. When the heroes manage to give her a proper brain, she becomes a perfectly peaceful being who leaves this plane of existence to find its own.}}
** The Vampyre Queen seems a closer match.
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]] : Averted with {{spoiler|Nous Autres (the USSR)}} ; characters expect them to have enough standards not to {{spoiler|pactize with Mabuse (the Nazis)}}. They really don't. Sadly a [[Real Life]] example as well.
* [[Evil Counterpart]] : The Gang of Mabuse and his accolytes seems to be set up like one for the Chimeric Brigade.
** Its fits even better later on : {{spoiler|they actually share the same superpower, used to have the exact [[Psycho Rangers|same number]] of members and all of them fell into the same [[Five
** [[Lampshaded]] as a plot-point : {{spoiler|the Hyperworld Club thinks that the [[Evil Counterpart]] and [[Psycho Rangers]] tropes work a little too well between these two, and realizes that it means they have the exact same powers.}}
* [[Genius Bonus]] : At one point during 1939, the Joliot-Curie decide to work on a new scientific weapon : Frederic baptizes it an "atomic bomb." Artistic liberties with History ? Nope. This actually happened ; the Manhattan project wass only responsible for creating an atomic bomb that works, by the whole idea was originally due to the Joliot-Curie. This fact is not often brought up Today (most likely because the Joliot-Curie, much like Einstein, were ashamed to have been part of the bomb's creation).
* [[Lawyer
** Kind of subverted later when part of his suit is torn off and very clearly reveals the superman symbol.
* [[Steampunk]] : [[Played With]], the series is set in a post-steampunk era where Radium is the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that makes the crazy machines work. The authors coined it [[Radium Punk]]. Subverted in that it's implied to be part scientific but also part magical, the perfect balance. {{spoiler|At the end of the series, the Golem organizes a magical embargo on Europe, which means everything that works with [[Steampunk]] and [[Radium Punk]] will no longer function, and atomic energy will be pretty much the same as in the real world.}}
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