La Brigade chimérique: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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.

** [[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).

** 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.}}