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* Schanulleke: Wiske's rag doll, who magically comes to life in a few issues.
* Sus Antigoon: Suske's ancestor, an [[Off the Wagon]] ghost powered by alcohol.
* Arthur: Lambik's [[Long-Lost Relative|long lost twin]], who was [[Raised Byby Wolves|raised by birds]].
* Krimson: The villain.
 
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* [[Abnormal Limb Rotation Range]]: Characters sometimes do impossible things with their arms and legs. Usually for one gag.
* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: A lot of "Suske and Wiske" titles have alliterative titles. A LOT!
* [[Adventures in Thethe Bible]]: "De Kale Kapper" (''The Bald Barber'')
* [[Alien Invasion]]: The aliens in "De Gezanten Van Mars", "De Stervende Ster", "De Wolkeneters" (''The envoys of Mars, The Dying Star, The Cloud-Eaters'')
* [[All Just a Dream]]: A hypnotist sends Suske, Wiske and Lambik into a dream adventure in "De Tartaarse Helm" (''The Tartan Helmet'') and they get so caught up in the adventure that they eventually forget that they are dreaming.
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** Another Vandersteen character, the dog Bessy, makes a cameo in "De Zwarte Zwaan". (''The Black Swan'')
** Marcel Kiekeboe of [[De Kiekeboes]] has a cameo appearance in "De Speelgoedspiegel" (''The Toy Mirror'')
** Snowy from "[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]" passes by in "De Kleurenkladder" (''The Colour Mess'')and Lambik sadly notes: "Poor animal. It's just as if I recognize you from somewhere, but I don't know from where. You've lost your owner too, huh?" (Hergé has died a few years before the publication of this album).
** At the end of "The Krimson Crisis" the characters from the comic strip "Nero" make a cameo appearance.
* [[Atop a Mountain of Corpses]]: Jerom singlehandedly defeats an entire army of (relatively) intelligent apes in "De Tamtamkloppers" (''The Tamtam Knockers'') and is later found by his friends on top of one of the piles. He informs them that "the fight was so monotonously easy that he fell asleep while fighting".
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** [[Peter Paul Rubens]] makes an appearance in "De raap van Rubens" (''The Apprentice of Rubens'') and "De Krimson Crisis".
** [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]] appears as a character in "Het Spaanse Spook" (''The Spanish Ghost'') and "De Krimson Crisis". Vandersteen was nicknamed "Bruegel of the comic strip".
** [[Vincent Vanvan Gogh]] appears as a character in "De Kleurenkladder". (''The Colour Mess'')
** Soccer trainer Raymond Goethals and astronaut [[Dirk Frimout]] in "De Stervende Ster" (''The Dying Star'')
** Cyclist [[Eddy Merckx]] in "Het Kostbare Kader" (The Valuable Picture'')
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* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Whenever Suske seems to have some success with other girls Wiske is instantly jealous.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Mr. Van Zwollem is completely mad and is aided by his daughter Anne-Marie.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: The characters never age, although Suske and Wiske were originally a lot younger, almost toddlers with babylegs. [[Depending Onon the Writer]], they're estimated age would range from early teens to young adults.
* [[Contemporary Caveman]]: Jerom was originally a frozen villain from the Stone Age, but later became part of the cast. In many of the early albums he was always dressed as a caveman. Later he changed his outfit and became more civilized, in a rare example of [[Character Development]] for a main cast member.
* [[Conveniently an Orphan]]: Wiske has no parents and is raised by her aunt, Sidonia. Suske too is an orphan and is adopted by Sidonia. Vandersteen often told interviewers that he gave Suske and Wiske an aunt because real parents would never allow them to go on adventure. Indeed, Suske and Wiske never go to school, though they'd sometimes mention homework.
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* [[Cruella to Animals]]: Lambik hates Tobias the dog
* [[Crossing the Desert]]: Suske and Wiske do this in "Prinses Zagemeel". (''Princess Sawdust'')
* [[Cultural Translation]]: The comic strip is made in Flanders, but also hugely popular in the Netherlands. Unfortunately many concessions had to be made: since the 1960s the characters speak standard Dutch and use the Dutch airline KLM to travel instead of the Belgian one. Very specific references to Flanders were removed and replaced by more general references to Dutch society and culture. Like many tropes for this series, however, it's [[Depending Onon the Writer]].
* [[Deserted Island]]: The island in ''"Het Mini-Mierennest"'' (''The Mini-Anthill'').
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Jerom, who could rival [[Superman]] when it comes to [[Powers As The Plot Demands]].
** [[Deus Exit Machina]]: To make the stories a bit more exciting: Jerom has so far been poisoned, drugged, cursed, put asleep, sent on vacation, working a new job, etc. to keep his power away from solving the plot too quickly.
* [[The Door Slams You]]: Sidonia once slams the door so violently that Lambik's head, hands and feet are sticking through from behind it.
* [[Dressing Asas the Enemy]]: An often used tactic
* [[Drop in Character]]: Theofiel Boemerang, a vacuum cleaner salesman that the cast never seems to get rid off.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]:
** In the first album, "Rikki en Wiske in Chocowakije" Wiske is teamed up with a much older brother, Rikki. Vandersteen abandoned this character after only one album because he felt that Wiske needed a companion of her own age.
** Suske and Wiske are five year olds with chubby baby legs in the early albums. In later albums they could be ten to eleven years old, teenagers or perhaps even twenty-something, [[Depending Onon the Writer]].
** Jerom was in a villain in his debut album "De Dolle Musketiers" (''The Mad Musketeers''). He also wore cave men clothing and only gradually, over the course of many albums, would start wearing modern suits.
** In "Het Eiland Amoras" (''Amoras Island'') Professor Barabas originally was very fat and had a stuttering problem. Vandersteen cured him from this speech impediment because parents complained that their children started copying this behaviour.
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* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Exploding Closet]]: Wiske is [[Genre Savvy]] (or perhaps just knows the habits of the people she lives with): before opening a medicine cabinet, she places a basin before it and stands back, as the contents falls out of it.
* [[Eye Pop]]: Lambik's eyes do this in the [[Suske Enen Wiske]] album "De Dolle Musketiers" (''The Mad Musketeers'') when he first sees Jerom.
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The isle Amoras is an exact copy of the city Antwerp, where Vandersteen was born.
* [[FemBot]]: Tedere Tronica in "Tedere Tronica" (''Tender Tronica'').
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* [[Inner Monologue Conversation]]
* [[In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous]]: Characters frequently travel to the past with a time machine and usually encounter various historical characters.
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Lambik
* [[Living Toys]]:
** In "Bibbergoud", "Het Vliegende Bed", "De Dulle Griet", "De Poppenpakker" Wiske's doll Schanulleke comes alive. (''Shivergold, The Flying Bed, The Warrior Waif, The Dolltaker'')
* [[Long Neck]]: Lambik's neck becomes longer in "De Stalen Bloempot". (''The Steel Flowerpot'')
* [[Magic Mirror]]: Appears in "De Koning Drinkt", "De Knokkersburcht" and "De Woelige Wadden" ('' The King Drinks, The Knokkersburcht, The Turbulent Mudflats'')
* [[Man in Thethe Iron Mask]]: A main character and plot device in "De Dolle Musketiers". (''The Mad Musketeers'')
* [[Moral Dilemma]]: Characters often battle with it, but in the end they choose to do the right thing, though some might not agree exactly what 'the right thing' was.
* [[Nervous Wreck]]: Both Tante Sidonia and Krimson often have mental breakdowns. In Sidonia's case her entire body bends over backwards and freezes still while she is shaking. Krimson simply gets mad and has to be fed with pills.
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** At the end of "De Zingende Zwammen" (''The Singing Mushrooms'') the characters promote the toy "Op-Jerommeke".
* [[Punny Name]]: Many characters have names that are puns on Flemish dialect expressions.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Wiske's brother Rikki, who disappeared afther just one issue and was never mentioned again. It took almost 50 years for the bus to come back and finally reveal Rikki's fate.
* [[Race Against the Clock]]: In "De Gouden Cirkel" (''The Golden Circle'') the characters have to travel to various parts of the globe to collect stuff so they can save a very ill Professor Barabas.
* [[Relax-O-Vision]]: It employs a flowery curtain when Jerom becomes particularly violent (since Jerom [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body|using enemies as melee weapons]] does show up, one does wonder what's behind this curtain...)
* [[Running Gag]]: Several.
* [[Seven Heavenly Virtues]]: A major plot device in "De Zeven Snaren". (''The Seven Strings'')
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** [[Spinoff Babies]]: The series "Klein Suske en Wiske"<ref>Little Suske and Wiske''</ref>
* [[Squashed Flat]]: Jerom is squashed flat in "De [[I Jzeren]] Schelvis"<ref>The Iron Haddock</ref> due to the water pressure.
* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: Jerom has displayed enough [[Super Strength]] to beat a dragon over the head with a tank (After which he proceeded to smash the tank [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body|using the dragon]]), hold his breath long enough to make diving equipment obsolete, X-Ray vision, searchlights from his eyes, leaping over mountaintops, [[Super Speed]], and a whole slew of other powers that appeared once or twice. He spends a lot of time being nowhere near the plot just so the other characters can have some trouble.
* [[Super Speed]]: Jerom can run faster than sound, as demonstrated in "De Knokkersburcht". Lambik once ran so quickly in "De Stalen Bloempot" that he ran past himself!
* [[Take That]]: Mostly general targets, such as "lying politicians", "thieving tax collectors", "tyrannic police officers", "lazy bureaucratics", "posh nobleman and women", "French-speaking Flemings"...
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** "De Apekermis"<ref>The Ape Festival</ref> and "[[James Bond]]"
** "De Bevende Baobab"<ref>The Shaking Baobab</ref> and "[[Tarzan]]"
** "De Dolle Musketiers"<ref>The Mad Musketeers</ref> and "[[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]]"
** "Het Dreigende Dinges"<ref>the Threatening Something</ref> and "[[A Dog of Flanders]]"
** "Jeromba De Griek"<ref>Jeromba The Greek</ref> and "[[Zorba the Greek (Film)|Zorba the Greek]]"
** "De Jolige Joffer"<ref>The Jolly Maiden</ref> and "[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]"
** "De Junglebloem"<ref>The Jungle Flower</ref> and "[[The Jungle Book (Literaturenovel)|The Jungle Book]]"
** "Robotkop"<ref>Robot Head</ref> and "[[RoboCop (Film)|Robocop]]"
** "Big Mother" and "[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Big Brother]]"
** "Wattman" and "[[Batman]]"
** "De Rebelse Reynaert"<ref>The Rebel Reynaert</ref> and "Van Den Vos Reynaerde"
** "De Ringelingschat"<ref>The Ringeling Treasure</ref> and "[[The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)|The Ring of the Nibelung]]"
** "De Ruige Regen"<ref>The Rugged Rain</ref> and "[[Robin Hood]]"
** "De Schone Slaper"<ref>The Sleeping Beau</ref> and several [[Fairy Tales]]
** "De Speelgoedzaaier"<ref>The Toy Sower</ref> and "[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]"
** "De Straatridder"<ref>The Street Knight</ref> and "[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]"
** "De Texasrakkers"<ref>The Texas Rascals</ref> and "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
** "De Kale Kapper"<ref>The Bald Barber</ref> and "Samson and Delilah"
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