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=== The comic provides examples of: ===
* [[Art Evolution]]: [http://photos11.flickr.com/17308964_b16eceaa49_m.jpg look]▼
* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Happens to Condorito on a semi-regular basis, as he tends to catch women skinny-dipping, interrupting them during a bath or accidentally catching them in variable states of undress. Sometimes he gets to go away with it, other times he's beaten into a pulp.
* [[Anthropomorphic Shift]]▼
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Garganta de Lata ("Tin Throat") makes [[The Simpsons|Barney Gumble]] look sober by comparison.
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Condorito's trademarked T-Model Ford automobile. The poor car is practically a rattling pile of rust and bolts kept together with wire and soldering iron... and it still manages to work.
** Condorito did his best to find, buy and fix such a rare car like a T-Model Ford because he didn't wanted to die like Julius Caesar. (He died without owning a T-Model Ford!)
▲* [[Anthropomorphic Shift]]
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Chacalito ("Little Jackal") debuted in a late 1970s story as a throwaway character, but nearly a decade later he was reintroduced as Pelotillehue's local psychopath.
** During the 1980s and 1990s, two pretty girls called Maca and Potoca were used as recurring extras for jokes involving nudity, [[Barely-There Swimwear]] or risky situations. The reason? They were meant to take the place of Condorito's girlfriend for jokes too risky for her.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Pin soda, whose slogan of "Tome Pin y haga ¡Pun!" (Drink Pin and do Pun!) is a direct parody of popular sodas "Bilz y Pap" and their "Tome Bilz y haga Pap" slogan. ("Pun" is Chilean slang for a farting noise.)▼
* [[Brick Joke]]: Played straight and inverted for laughs.
* [[Broken Aesop]]: Oh, where to begin? Always played for laughs, though.
▲* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Pin soda, whose slogan of "Tome Pin y haga ¡Pun!" (Drink Pin and do Pun!) is a direct parody of popular sodas "Bilz y Pap" and their "Tome Bilz y haga Pap" slogan. ("Pun" is Chilean slang for a farting noise.)
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Condorito's trademarked "¡Reflauta!" when he's surprised, or his fourth wall breaker "¡Exijo una explicación!" (I demand an explanation!) comment after getting a downbeat ending.
** Don Chuma's "No se fije en gastos, compadre" (Don't mind on the expenses, fella) when he lends money to Condorito and his hilarious "¡Por las canillas del mono!" (By the monkey's shins!) when he's scared or surprised.
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* [[Deliberately Monochrome|Deliberately Orange And Black]]
* [[Dem Bones]]: [http://imageshack.us/f/72/manolnelesqueletn.jpg/ "Manolín el Esqueletín"].
* [[Face Fault]]: The comic's trademarked way to close a punchline. The victim of the punchline pratfalling with a loud ¡PLOP!▼
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Pepe Cortisona is the local source of this, especially during the late 1990s and early 2000s.▼
* [[Fan Service]]: Most of the women seen in ''Condorito'' are young and [[Hourglass Hottie|beautiful]], providing plenty of eye candy during stories set at pools, beaches and nudist camps, and the occasional Accidental Pervert joke. From the late 1980s on, these jokes escalated more and more until finally showing full and detailed nudity, which didn't please the older fans at all.
** Originally averted on Yayita's case, as René Rios had forbidden his team of artists to give her "sexy" atributes or flirting atitudes, after his death in 2000 Yayita immediately joined the fanservice and [[Gag Boobs]] bandwagon.
▲* [[Face Fault]]: The comic's trademarked way to close a punchline. The victim of the punchline pratfalling with a loud ¡PLOP!
* [[Feather Fingers]]: Matías, Condorito's pet parrot.
* [[Franchise Zombie]]: After René Rios' death, the comic's quality plummeted really hard, and recently it got even worse. The franchise still survives... somehow.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Pepe Cortisona, full stop.
** Condorito often comes up as such, too.
▲* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Pepe Cortisona is the local source of this, especially during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Plenty of jokes involving people (male or female) losing their clothes, interrupted while taking a bath, stripping for a medical checkup or being observed while undressing, with the predictable and sometimes unpredictable results. And then we have the ones with girls posing nude for Condorito (who furiously tries to keep people away from his atelier) or the hilarious nudist camp jokes, where the point isn't showing eye candy but rather showing people trying to do normal chores or mundane activities while naked.
** Like for example, Condorito working as the nudist camp's guard and having to pin his badge on his own skin. Ouch.
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* [[Perpetual Poverty]]: Originally, Condorito's and Cone's lives were like this. Condorito was constantly shifting jobs and their house was a makeshift wooden shack built on an empty yard, while their (very few) belongings were either makeshift or picked from the trash. Despite this, they managed to live a quite happy life.
* [[Progressively Prettier]]: Originally, Yayita was supposed to be a typical [[Girl Next Door]] type of character: pretty but not breathtakingly gorgeous, and dressed in a fashionable yet discreet way. Now she flirts with every man on sight, looks like a supermodel, wears tight, minuscule clothes that show part of her underwear and even her nipples through the fabric and tends to appear naked or partly naked on a semi-regular basis. Rather than pleasing the fans, this [[Out of Character]] change enraged them.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: A few characters were removed because of complaints from the readers. The most (in)famous ones were a full amputee called "Cortadito" ("Choppy") and a very amoral Jewish loan shark called "Don Jacoibo" (sometimes called "Don Salomón" instead).▼
** Other retired characters were Lucifer, Yayita's hellish cat; Don Guiussepe, a jolly Italian inmigrant who owned a grocery store, and Chin-Chu-Lin, a stereotypical Chinese immigrant with buck teeth and a ponytail.▼
* [[Punny Name]]: Comegato ("Cat Eater"), Huevoduro (literally, "hardboiled egg") and the towns of Pelotillehue, Cumpeo and Buenas Peras.
** Incidentally, Cumpeo is the name of an [[wikipedia:Río Claro|actual Chilean town]].
** British explorers Sir Faifoclocti, Lord Esquiusmi and Lord Eggon.
▲* [[Put on a Bus]]: A few characters were removed because of complaints from the readers. The most (in)famous ones were a full amputee called "Cortadito" ("Choppy") and a very amoral Jewish loan shark called "Don Jacoibo" (sometimes called "Don Salomón" instead).
▲** Other retired characters were Lucifer, Yayita's hellish cat; Don Guiussepe, a jolly Italian inmigrant who owned a grocery store, and Chin-Chu-Lin, a stereotypical Chinese immigrant with buck teeth and a ponytail.
* [[Recurring Extra]]: Most, if not all, of the artists working on the comic created their own set of nameless "filler" characters to be recycled at need, rather than keep creating throwaway characters for every story.
** Two of them, a couple of young and beautiful girls called "Maca" and "Potoca", are worth mention, as they were Yayita's unofficial replacement on jokes involving nudity or very revealing clothes, reaching [[Those Two Guys]] status during the time their creator worked in the comic book.
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