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{{quote|''Monsters are real.''
''They exist.''
''Vampires, werewolves, witches, mummys and other night creatures... All of them are real.''
''But... Chsssst! It's a secret.''
''They're cities that officially don't exist. They don't appear in any human map. They're inaccessible places, protected by impregnable mountains, laberintic forests, terrible rivers and ancient magic. But they're beings that can get there... and live there. Beings that have something in common: they want to live peacefully, far away from humans, that plague that spreads across the entire planet.''
''That beings are... Monsters! And they populate these cities throughout the world: Miedópolis, La Nuit Noir, Aaaah! City, Monsterland, Bloodgrad, Forever Halloween, Maldiciünd...''
''But we are interested in another city. Maybe is not one of the biggest, since only live there fifty monster families. Maybe is not one of the most famous, since even in some monster maps doesn't appear. But as you get to know it... Sure it'll become your favourite! It's Villa Susto... where they reach the adventures of the Mini Monsters. Who are the Mini Monsters? If you want to know... keep reading.''}}
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* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: "El Perfeccionator" is focused on [[Gadgeteer Genius|Frank]].
** "Historias para no Dormir" (Sleepless Stories) is composed of several stories focusing on different characters.
**
* [[A House Divided]]: The principal reason why [[The Rival|Morty's Gang]] are a failure is because the members don't get along with each other, only being together to try to humiliate Frank's Gang, which they don't succeed due to disputes. This is clearly intended to serve as a [[Foil]] to the Frank's Gang's [[True Companions]] unit.
* [[Adorkable]]: Gus has everything about this trope: He's cute, sweet, innocent, cries very easily, has geek tendencies, a stutterer, and is one of the youngest characters in the comic
** [[Gadgeteer Genius|Frank]] is also this trope. As is [[Cute Witch|Piruja]].
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Holy shit, yes. The only one who tries to act reasonably is [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Mr. Abra]], and is an [[Inept Mage]] who is quickly overruled by his students.
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** Mienai is a fairly nice guy when [[The Sociopath|Morty]] isn't around.
* [[All-Ghouls School]]: Villa Susto’s local school. It’s a monster town, so…
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: [[Cute Witch|Piruja]] and [[Perky Goth|Guillotine]]. Piruja has a deep crush on [[Spoiled Brat|Victor]], who doesn't give a crap about her and considers her an [[Abhorrent Admirer]]. Meanwhile, Guillotine is currently dating the [[The Sociopath|sociopathic]] zombie [[The Rival|Morty Vivente]] (Granted, she's not exactly innocent and Morty treats her well, but ''still''...). By contrast, [[Rose-Haired Girl|Henrietta]] completely [[Averted Trope|averts]] this, following the [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]] trope by falling for the [[Nice Guy|endearingly nice]] [[Gadgeteer Genius|Frank]].
* [[All Just a Dream]]: {{spoiler|The "Una Noche de Pesadilla" (A Nightmare Story) story}} turns out to be this.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Billy and Quasim, though they have very good reasons to be in this trope.
* [[All for Nothing]]:
** In the second album, it becomes evidently clear {{spoiler|Miss Hit never had any chance to truly erase Henrietta and fulfill her plans even when she technically succeeded.}} The subsequent [[Villainous BSOD]] afterwards is not surprising at all.
** A [[Laser-Guided Karma|karmic]] example happens with {{spoiler|Victor}} in the fourth album. {{spoiler|He betrays Frank's Gang and suffers numerous indignities at the hands of Morty's Gang to get tickets to come back to Miedópolis, only for Morty to reveal he had no intention of giving them to him and was using him as a means to hurt Frank.}}
* [[All There in the Manual]]: There's several information about the characters and setting that isn't present in the comics.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Although he is a male character and isn't really popular, Morty definitely fits this trope [[Ax Crazy|to insane levels]]. His girlfriend Guillotine is more of a [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]].
** Victor is a deconstruction. He has the [[Vampires Are Sex Gods|looks]], the [[Spoiled Brat|wealth]], and ''definitely'' the [[Jerkass|attitude]] that come with this trope. However, he has neither the [[Smug Snake|charm]] nor [[No Social Skills|social skills]], which makes everyone hate his guts and
* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]: If there's something [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Victor and Frank]] have in common, is that their families are embarrassing ''as hell''. In the third album's longest story, the Von Piros and the Einsteins meet and, needless to say, it doesn't end well.
** Piruja doesn't have it as bad as the above two, but she's exasperated at her mother's constant [[Serial Romeo]] [[Anything That Moves]] behavior.
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* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Piruja thinks Lupo and Nieve's bickering is this. While they [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|deny it]], they're clearly [[Luminescent Blush|blushing]]. This dies down after their adventure, though.
* [[Beta Couple]]: [[The Sociopath|Morty]] and [[Perky Goth|Guillotine]], weirdly enough. They may be [[Unholy Matrimony|huge jackasses]], but are definitely more stable than [[All Love Is Unrequited|Victor/Piruja]] and [[Will They or Won't They?|Frank/Henrietta]]. Later on, there's [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|Lupo/Nieve]] thrown into the mix.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Piruja
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: The Frank’s gang are good most of the time, but mess with them and they will kick your ass, or at least try to do so.
* [[Big Bad]]/[[Arc Villain]]:
** EL Veneno de Porcelana: [[Big Bad Ensemble|Rattus Sapiens and Quasim]].
** El Perfeccionator: [[Fiery Redhead|Miss Hit]].
** El Partido de Calabacesto: [[The Rival|Morty Vivente]]. {{spoiler|Usurped by [[I'm
** Cazador de Monstruos: [[The Hunter|Flan Helsing]].
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Frank has this with his gang, especially Gus.
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* [[Black Comedy]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Frank gets put through hell in "El Perfeccionator". He recovers, though.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Orchestrated by Frank in the first album when concerning Victor joining the gang, putting him through tests to take his ego down and integrate himself in the town. It didn't work, but Victor joins
** One could argue the whole series is trying to do this to [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist|Victor]].
** Miss Hit in "El Perfeccionator", [[Alas, Poor Villain|in the most painful way possible]].
* [[Brick Joke]]: In the third album's longest story, Frank makes a joke at his sister Francesca's expense by telling her [[Big Friendly Dog|Victor's dog Chopped]] is someone suited for her. Four pages later, we see her playing with said dog, and looking happy about it.
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Lupo is slow due to his constant sleepiness, but he is very far from being stupid.
* [[Bring My Brown Pants]]: Happens to Frank twice, with the second one leading to the birth of his pet Caca ("Poo") Einstein.
* [[The Bully]]: Quasim is the fearsome bully of Villa Susto, being a [[Dumb Muscle|dumb]] [[The Brute|brute]] with [[Super Strength]] who picks on little kids (particularly poor [[The Cutie|Gus]]). The only one who has been able to knock him out is Henrietta's evil [[Split Personality]] [[Jekyll and Hyde|Miss Hit]].
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Frank and Henrietta definitely have feelings for each other, but they can't tell their feelings because of [[Twice Shy|shyness]]. Also, [[Super Powered Evil Side|Miss Hit]] does not help at all. Unsurprisingly, all people think [[Everyone Can See It|they're a couple]], and Frank constantly [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|denies it]].
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* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Guillotine is this to Piruja, being one of her redeeming qualities.
* [[Cool Loser]]: While the members of
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Villa Susto. Cute and rosy (somewhat) on the outside, but [[Quirky Town|there's a lot of weird shit underneath]].
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Downplayed in "El Perfeccionator". While the story remains comical, things like split personalities and Frank's [[Character Development]] makes the story slightly darker compared to the other ones. Not to mention the character of [[Knight of Cerebus|Miss Hit]].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Everyone in the comic has acted like this at least once. [[Sleepyhead|Lupo]] is pretty much the king of this trope.
* [[Deconstruction]]: Features quite a bit of this.
** Both Victor and Morty deconstruct the [[Alpha Bitch]] trope, despite being male. Victor's attitude leads him to be ostracized by others, to the point even his friends can't stand him. Morty meanwhile is an [[Ax Crazy]] [[The Sociopath|sociopath]] whose insanity and cruelty makes him a terrible leader and thus unintentionally sabotages himself and his gang.
** Frank deconstructs [[Insufferable Genius]], as his obsession with his intellect is a coping mechanism for his poor self-esteem brought by his physical appearance.
** [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] is deconstructed with {{spoiler|Miss Hit}}, more specifically the "evil side is the inferior/expendable one" plot. {{spoiler|Miss Hit is sick of dealing with Henrietta's [[Ill Girl]] status, and her evil plan is a way to reassert her superiority after a lifetime of feeling weak. When she's faced with the truth that the "weak" personality she hated so much is her real self, whether she likes it or not, she completely shuts down in a way that makes her [[Alas, Poor Villain|pitiable]] despite her previous acts.}}
** The Muerte Chunga team (Morty's Gang) deconstruct [[Opposing Sports Team]] in the fourth album. Not only do their dirty tactics bite them in the ass many times, their collective [[Stupid Evil|assholery and stupidity]] means they spend most of the match fighting [[With Friends Like These...|each other]] rather than focusing on their rivals, only managing to score due to occassional clever thinking and sheer dumb luck. {{spoiler|Their dysfunction is precisely the reason why they end up losing the match in the end, just like what would happen in [[Real Life]].}}
* [[Did You Actually Believe?]]: In the fourth album. {{spoiler|When Victor asks for the deal Morty and him made (joining his gang in exchange for tickets to Miedópolis), they [[Evil Gloating|smugly state]] they never intended to keep the bargain, and only used him to piss off Frank and get his brains.}} Douches.
* [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)|Double Standard: Abuse; Female on Male]]: Subverted. Miss Hit decking Frank is [[Played for Laughs]], but at no point this is seen as admirable or justifiable, and Miss Hit is clearly portrayed as a psychopath. The fact the series applies [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]] only furthers the subversion.
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* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: Henrietta's reaction to Mienai poking fun at [[Split Personality|split personalities]] in "Una Noche de Pesadilla".
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Besides the [[Art Evolution]] that happens progressively throughout the comic, Frank's Gang were shown to be more jerkish than they're shown in future albums. [[Characterization Marches On]], indeed.
* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Lupo and Skin, especially the former.
* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: Piruja may be clingy and easily-infatuated, but she ''definitely'' can't stand her mom's [[Extreme Omnisexual]] behavior.
** In one small story, she gets angry at Victor for constantly drinking her potions for a class project, showing even her crush on him has some limits.
** Piruja's mom herself may be an [[Extreme Omnisexual]] who hits on married men and even ''giant spiders'', but if said suitor tries to hurt her daughter, [[Mama Bear|she WILL turn on them without second thoughts]].
* [[The Faceless]]: The adults, with the exception of Victor’s grandmother.
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** And then there's Mr. Abra.
* [[Fictional Sport]]: Calabacesto (Pumpkinball). It’s the main theme of the fourth album.
* [[Five Second Foreshadowing]]:
** In the second album, after Miss Hit's [[Villainous Breakdown]], Frank briefly looks at Victor's truth mirror and mutters he didn't really lose {{spoiler|Henrietta}} after all. {{spoiler|He then baits Miss Hit into looking at the mirror, revealing Henrietta to still be the dominant personality.}}
** In the fourth album, Gus makes a rock model to serve as the Fresita team's fifth member, turning it into a girl due to Momses' protests. {{spoiler|Not long after, Piruja arrives to serve as the team's missing fifth member.}}
* [[Flanderization]]: Frank being a ([[Bungling Inventor|sort of]]) [[Gadgeteer Genius]] was merely alluded in the first album. From the second album onwards, this has become Frank's main character trait. [[Tropes Are Tools|And that is a good thing, actually]]. Same with Lupo's [[Sleepyhead|constant sleepiness]], among others.
* [[Foil]]: Many examples.
** While Victor has potential ones in [[Gadgeteer Genius|Frank]] and [[Sleepyhead|Lupo]], the one who fits it best is [[Hair of Gold|Billy]]. Victor is a [[Spoiled Brat|well-groomed]] [[Jerkass]] [[Perpetual Frowner]], while Billy is a [[The Pig Pen|perpetually dirty]] and [[The Pollyanna|cheerful]] [[Nice Guy]]. This is driven home in the fourth album: {{spoiler|Victor has been in the two gangs, but is a complete prick to both of them, causing the others to wave between barely tolerating him and outright hating his guts. Billy doesn't (and doesn't want to) belong to neither of the two gangs, yet he's friendly to both, which makes him more well-liked (
** [[The Hero|Frank's Gang]] and [[The Rival|Morty's Gang]]. The former may seem like a dysfunctional [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] (and they ''are''), but they're also a [[True Companions|close-knit group of friends]] who have a strong sense of [[The Power of Friendship|teamwork]] when things are tough. The latter may seem like a cool [[Gang of Bullies]] in the surface, but deep down are a complete mess, with its members [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork|only united over their dislike of the Frank's Gang]], and [[A House Divided|utterly failing]] at working together. This is best shown in the fourth album with their respective Pumpkinball teams.
** Their respective leaders, Frank and Morty, also contrast with each other, and it shows their influence makes their teams what they are. Their contrasting natures are better shown through [[Spoiled Brat|Victor]] in the fourth album: Frank acts like a [[Tough Love|tough]] [[Big Brother Mentor]] towards him and they constantly [[Vitriolic Best Buds|exchange insults]], yet Frank ultimately cares for him, {{spoiler|even allowing him back to his gang after his betrayal}}. Morty [[Faux Affably Evil|acts friendly]] towards Victor at first, even having a conversation over their mutual dislike for Frank, but it's clear Morty doesn't give a rat's ass about him, {{spoiler|and is only manipulating him to get Frank's brains.}}
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** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160520030726/http://www.normaeditorial.com/libros_img/01203309101_G.jpg The cover] of the fourth album foreshadows the fact {{spoiler|Frank scores [[Down to the Last Play|the winning goal]] for his team.}}
* [[The Friend Nobody Likes]]: Victor is this to the Frank's gang (Except [[Hopeless Suitor|Piruja]]), only admitted because of pity. Frank even tells him this to his face.
** Piruja was portrayed as this in the first album, with the others only hanging out with her due to her
** [[Fridge Brilliance]] on the above: It could be possible the gang became much more accepting of her because, unlike Victor, she's a [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]] despite her clinginess, making her a way more tolerable member
** Mienai is this to the Morty's Gang. Since Mienai is portrayed as the ''[[Token Good Teammate|least]]'' awful member, this only highlights the other members as being [[Jerkass|
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Frank is considered this, but he’s more of a [[Bungling Inventor]] because his inventions totally lack common sense and have a tendency to fail.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: ''Dear God.''
* [[Gross-Out Show]]: Downplayed, but there's quite the [[Toilet Humor]].
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Frank is blonde, and he’s a very nice person. [[Beware the Nice Ones|Most of the time]].
** And then there's [[The Pollyanna|Billy]].
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* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Ruthlessly parodied with Piruja. She's seen as ugly and undesirable by everyone... because she has a wart in her face. She could be very well the minimonster version of [[Family Guy|Meg Griffin]] (only less of a [[Butt Monkey]]).
** Frank's physical appearance is so awful it breaks mirrors, creating a serious [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|inferiority complex]] on him. Except, apart from several scars, he doesn't look so much different from other minimonsters. Like with Piruja, this seems to be deliberate.
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Piruja's mom thinks it's a good idea to have a giant, [[I'm
* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: Taken Up to Eleven. In this comic, humans are the "monsters", and the monsters "humans".
** [[Humans Are Bastards]]: The monsters definitely view them this way.
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* [[Karma Houdini]]: Quasim, due to his [[The Bully|intimidating nature]], doesn't get much comeuppance for his awful actions, especially in the first album. The second album, however, [[Karma Houdini Warranty|gives him some well-deserved punishment]].
** In the second album, [[Perky Goth|Guillotine]] mentions her boyfriend [[Alpha Bitch|Morty]] skips school constantly, getting away with it [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|due to him being the son of the school's principal]].
**
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Victor does this frequently, and ''always'' [[Laser-Guided Karma|pays for it]].
** More seriously, {{spoiler|[[Evil Redhead|Miss Hit]] rejecting Frank cruelly via letter, pretending to be her good self Henrietta}}, sending him into an [[Heroic BSOD]].
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** As does [[An Ice Person|Nieve]] stealing Lupo's younger sister Lupe's doll. This is more noticeable when it's shown Lupo and his family are very poor. No wonder [[Big Brother Instinct|Lupo]] got mad at her.
** [[Manipulative Bastard|Morty]] does this constantly in the fourth album.
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Lupo constantly trolls, mocks and snarks at Victor. Since Victor is a [[Spoiled Brat|spoiled]] [[Jerkass|jerk]], this comes across as hilarious and well-deserved (especially if Victor insulted him first). Heck, [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist|Victor]] in general is a frequent target of this.
** In the second album, [[Evil Redhead|Miss Hit]] punching [[The Bully|Quasim]] and knocking him out ''twice''. Sure, she's
** Quasim himself has a moment in the first album when {{spoiler|he punches [[Big Bad|Rattus Sapiens]] down the sewers, bringing him back to a normal rat.}}
** In the fourth, [[Beware the Nice Ones|Robert Louis]] punishing [[Gang of Bullies|Morty's Gang]] for cheating in an over-the-top way.
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* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: In the fourth album, Morty’s dirty tricks to win the match take a toll on him and his band. {{spoiler|They got beaten by Henrietta’s father; their rivals won the match, Morty lost his tickets to Miedópolis and he ends up with a thermometer in his ass}}. All of this is well-deserved, at least for Morty.
** Victor is an ''epic'' target of this trope.
** In later chapters, this ends up happening to [[Sleepyhead|Lupo]], of all people. He has spent most of the series trolling [[Spoiled Brat|Victor]] in a classic [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]] scenario. Once he encounters [[An Ice Person|Nieve]], he gets a taste of this with Nieve screwing him over with
** Nieve herself gets her karma when she has to deal with the others' crazy shenanigans.
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: Piruja teases both Lupo and Nieve with this.
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** [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: The villains are not exempt from screwing up either.
* [[Not So Different]]: The comic's [[Power Trio|spotlight trio]], [[Spoiled Brat|Victor]], [[Gadgeteer Genius|Frank]] and [[Cute Witch|Piruja]], are wildly different from one another, yet they have some things in common. Both have to deal with [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]] (who are [[Good Parents|well-intentioned]], but still), and they have very dysfunctional pets as their companions.
* [[Not So Similar]]: Victor and Morty. One would think that, with both being self-centered [[Rich Bitch|Rich Bastards]], they would get along instantly. The fourth album shows this couldn't be farther from the truth.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Victor and Frank, constantly picking each other. Also Lupo and Momses, but they get along much better than the other two. Basically, all the members in Frank's Gang, really.
** Piruja and Guillotine. Very little in common, yet they're best friends.
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* [[Stepford Snarker]]: Lupo, being incredibly snarky and dealing with a very poor family at the same time.
** Frank gets snarkier when he has to deal with [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|his family]].
* [[Straw Loser]]: Victor thought there wasn't a gang worse than Frank's. Then he meets Morty's Gang, who makes Frank's Gang look ''awesome'' by comparison.
{{quote|'''Victor''': This gang... is more pathetic than Frank's...}}
* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: Victor thinks this constantly. Not that he's much better, though.
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