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Blacksad (Comic Book)
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Blacksad is a series of (seven so far) comic albums created by Spanish authors Juan DÃaz Canales (writer) and Juanjo Guarnido (artist and ex-Disney animator; he was the lead animator for Sabor in Tarzan and Helga in Atlantis: The Lost Empire), and published by French publisher Dargaud. Though both authors are Spanish, their main target audience for Blacksad is the French market and thus they publish all Blacksad albums in French first; the Spanish edition usually follows about one month later. Because of this it is considered both a Spanish and French comic book.In an anthropomorphic rendition of America in the 1950s, private investigator John Blacksad, a black cat, is embroiled in stories of mystery and intrigue. The albums come critically acclaimed and are a dedicated homage to the Film Noir genre. There have been five albums published so far (the first three in English in an omnibus edition by Dark Horse Comics, the fourth in a standalone hardcover): Somewhere Within the Shadows (French: Quelque part entre les ombres, 2000) has Blacksad investigating the murder of an old flame. In Arctic Nation (2003) Blacksad is hired to investigate the disappearance of a young girl in a racially charged atmosphere. In Red Soul (Âme Rouge, 2005) Blacksad watches over an old friend in the midst of the Red Scare, and falls in love. A Silent Hell (L'Enfer, Le Silencenote Literally "Hell, Silence" 2010), sets him in New Orleans trying to track down a musician, before assassins do. Amarillo (2013) is a direct sequel to the fourth book, where Blacksad tries to track down the guy who stole an expensive car he was ferrying. They All Fall Down (Alors tout tombe, October 2021-November 2023) is a two-part story that finds Blacksad in New York City involved in nefarious goings on with unions, organized crime, and the dark parts of the city, including Solomon, a construction magnate with many plans for the city.Canales and Guarnido have confirmed that they are working on the sixth and seventh installments in the series — both books have been stuck in a bit of a Development Hell though, the sixth installment having been originally set for release in 2017, but later pushed back, due to both creators being busy with other projects. With the sixth book released in October 2021, the seventh one is tentatively planned for release in November 2023.A Tabletop Roleplaying Game, Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game (Blacksad: Juego de Rol), was published by the Spanish company Nosolorol Ediciones in 2015. A Kickstarter campaign for an English edition was held in 2020 which raised €17,220, tripling its original goal of €5,000 and funding new cases for the game.A video game, Blacksad: Under the Skin, was released by Pendulo Studios and YS Interactive and published by Microids in 2019 for PC, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One. Under the Skin is an Interquel, taking place chronologically between Arctic Nation and Red Soul. | |
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Inspector Lestrade | |
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Inspector Lestrade: The fox police lieutnant becomes a particularly nasty example of this trope in the second part of They All Fall Down, as detailed in Took a Level in Jerkass below. | |
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One Last Smoke | |
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One Last Smoke: Blacksad offers a dying Mook a cigarette in Somewhere Within The Shadows. The mook happens to be a non-smoker, and instead spends his last moments giving crucial information so that Blacksad can kill the boss who ordered the mook's death. | |
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Rescue Romance | |
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Rescue Romance: This is the nature of Blacksad's past relationship with the deceased Natalia Wilford, as he helped her get rid of a stalker. They started a relationship afterwards but it wore off after some time, and they broke up before her untimely death. Chad and Luanne may also count in book five: though they already flirted with each other before, their relationship really picks up after each of them saves the other's life once. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: At the end of Red Soul, Otto compares his life to a type of predatory fish which deliberately allows itself to be consumed by smaller fish at the end of its life to atone for preying upon them. It makes for a convenient analogy, but obviously there's no such fish like this. In They All Fall Down, Blacksad has lunch with a naked mole-rat mechanic named Farumfer, but is turned off his sandwich by Farumfer digging into a tin of worms. Mole-rats are rodents unrelated to moles and, unlike true moles, don't eat worms; they eat tubers. | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: All Alma wants is a dedicated man who will take her to Niagara Falls. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Blacksad walks down a university hallway to very admiring glances from the female students, and extreme disapproval from their boyfriends. When he comes back, the couples are in full argument mode. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: Ivo Statoc makes a big point to Blacksad about how much of a "cold-blooded" bastard he truly is. He's a toad. | |
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The Hyena | |
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The Hyena: Played with in the case of Neal. He laughs at Blacksad's jokes, but when he's stuck in a car between a parrot who tells racist jokes and an increasingly angry black cat, his sense of humor takes a leave of absence. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: the FBI agents from the third album, who reappear in the fifth. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: In Arctic Nation, Huk, a canine member of the Arctic Nation is in an affair with the leader's wife. Weekly catches them having sex from behind i.e. "Doggy Style". In Amarillo, a bus driver who appears in a couple of panels at the Greyhound bus station is a greyhound. | |
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Heroic Dog | |
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Heroic Dog: All the cops are canines - nearly all of them dogs, with at least one fox on the force. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun All over the place in Arctic Nation. The beauty mark on Dinah, Karup's family pictures where Huk is shown embracing Karup's wife and Karup being around boyscouts sets up the Pedo Hunt and Huk's betrayal, General Lee's sword and Weekly's picture of Huk and Jezebel having sex. Red Soul, while body-guarding a client, they walk through an art gallery showing a red painting by an artist named Sergei that is stated to be headed for East Berlin soon. Sergei is a Soviet spy sneaking American nuclear secrets back to the Union underneath his paintings. A Silent Hell, Lenoir drops a pamphlet of Life Everlasting. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: After offering Blacksad to come work for him instead of pursuing his revenge fails, Statoc instead tries to buy him off. Blacksad rejects him again and makes a point of defying Statoc's attempt to invoke this trope. | |
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Sexy Cat Person | |
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Sexy Cat Person: Natalia Wilford, Alma Meyer, Luanne Eva Lange and Donna Blacksad. All of whom fit this trope to a T. They are all drawn as conventionally attractive Cat Folk, with even Blacksad himself being presented as a Hunk on occasion, like the Funny Background Event with all the boyfriends arguing with their girlfriends for looking at him. Blacksad and Weekly watch a leopard exotic dancer in the opening of A Silent Hell. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: In Somewhere Within the Shadows, Blacksad visits the Cypher Club. A baboon and a leopard are seen arguing in the background (in an inversion, one panel has the two in the foreground, while the focus is on Blacksad in the background). The confrontation goes from shouting in the first panel we see them, to strangling each other in the last... In Red Soul, when Blacksad goes to visit Liebber at Columbia he walks past a row of couples. All the girls instantly take notice of him and when he walks by them a few pages later they're all arguing with their boyfriends for taking such obvious interest in him. In Arctic Nation, when Blacksad and Weekly sit down at a bar, a bloodhound in the stall next to them notices Weekly's odour and quickly leaves as the smell makes him nauseous. | |
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Art Imitates Art | |
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Art Imitates Art: One panel in the Red Soul references Norman Rockwell's painting "Connoisseur". | |
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Furry Confusion | |
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Furry Confusion: There are many anthropomorphized species in the series, but apparently insects and aquatic species (such as fish and sharks) are not among them as Ivo Statoc collects non-anthro insect specimens and there are aquariums. | |
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Carnivore Confusion | |
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Carnivore Confusion: We see Karup grilling sausages in a photos, but in a world of sapient animals, one has to wonder what are these sausages made of. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Amarillo reveals that John and Donna Blacksad's father is still around, but hasn't been in contact with his children for a while except through rare letters. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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In the second album there is possibly a Lampshade Hanging. Blacksad is at a drive-in, watching an awful B-Movie about killer giant ants. In this film, the scientist is a giant anteater, the chief of the military forces is a lion and the President of the USA is an eagle. | |
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Sexual Karma | |
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Sexual Karma: When Blacksad has sex it's implied to be very romantic and fulfilling. Whereas when we see Huk and Jezebel having sex it's shown to be much less wholesome. | |
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No Cartoon Fish | |
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No Cartoon Fish: There are anthropomorphic mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians, but fish (as seen in an aquarium near the end of Red Soul) and invertebrates (as seen with a bug collection in Somewhere Within The Shadows) remain realistically animalistic. | |
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Frame-Up | |
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Frame-Up: After strangling Iris Allen to death, Shelby leaves an unconscious Weekly next to her corpse, with the murder tool wrapped around his hand. Weekly wakes up and panics when he realizes what's going on, but when he tries to flee the scene, he walks right into police officers with their weapons drawn. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Neal, a lawyer who practices narcissism and womanizing almost as a religion, is shown to be genuinely friendly with Blacksad's kid nephew. | |
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Medication Tampering | |
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Medication Tampering: In A Silent Hell Sebastian's heroin dealer is being paid by a man dressed as this world's version of the Grim Reaper to give Sebastian his own heroin. The dealer confesses to Blacksad that Sebastian is likely not gonna survive, likening the dope to rat poison. Weekly finds Sebastian's trail but Blacksad arrives too late to stop him from injecting himself. | |
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Breaking Old Trends | |
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Breaking Old Trends: Unlike the previous albums, They All Fall Down doesn't have any Color Motif. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Statoc's henchman is not above blackmail or murder (he did charge Blacksad with a knife) but he is a bit more remorseful of the latter than his boss. The Arctics are violent white supremacists but they seriously doubt their leader Karup when he is implied to be a pedophile. They end up hanging him when Huk persuades them that the rumors are true, which was part of Jezebel's revenge plan. The weasel mafia in They All Fall Down are as dirty as any organized crime association, buying votes and ordering hits on people that cross them. But even they're visibly disturbed by Logan pushing a hobo's face onto a scalding skillet to teach him a lesson (of course, it could've also partly been a case of Pragmatic Villainy: doing something so brutal to their potential recruits is sure to scare them off, which it does). | |
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Abandoned Warehouse | |
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Abandoned Warehouse: This is where the titular racial extremist group meets up in Arctic Nation and the location of the climax of the story. | |
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Implied Death Threat | |
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Implied Death Threat: In the first book, the snake's boss threatens him via mentioning how useless insects are pinned and stuck to a case. | |
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Best Served Cold | |
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Best Served Cold: Jezebel and Dinah have been waiting a long time to enact their vengeance. | |
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Murder by Mistake | |
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Murder by Mistake: Intending to assassinate Otto, Ribs kills a similar looking owl, Otero. | |
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| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_35a858b3 | type |
Cluster F-Bomb | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_35a858b3 | comment |
Cluster F-Bomb: The dialogue in the English translation of Amarillo is somewhat more profane than the translations of the book before it. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_35a858b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_35a858b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_35a858b3 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_37499c8 | type |
OnceAnEpisode | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_37499c8 | comment |
Once an Episode: Every story has a classic American song in the background ("Cemetery Blues", "Strange Fruit", "That Old Black Magic", "Summertime", "Route 66", and "The Birth of the Blues"). | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_37499c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_37499c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_37499c8 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | type |
Batman Gambit | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | comment |
Batman Gambit: Jezebel in Arctic Nation is in the middle of one several decades in the making. A key factor in this plot is marrying her own father, while keeping him from discovering this particular bit of information. She succeeds at most of her goals, but her sister is killed in the process and her niece rendered an orphan. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_3a967286 | type |
Handsome Lech | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_3a967286 | comment |
Handsome Lech: In the space of one book, Neal hits on three different women. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_3a967286 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_3a967286 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_3a967286 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_3d699462 | type |
Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: Most fights are short and rather brutal. Either the biggest animal wipe the floor with smaller one or the smaller one is armed and sucker punch the big animal. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_3d699462 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_3d699462 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_3d699462 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e | type |
Bittersweet Ending | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Since this a Film Noir comic series, this is the best you can usually hope for at the end of each story. Somewhere Within The Shadows, Blacksad's former flame is obviously still dead, but he was able to bring vigilante justice to the man who murdered her, even if he and Smirnov had to go behind the law to do it, which neither of them are proud of. Arctic Nation, Blacksad is able to rescue Kylie and cripple the eponymous white-furred supremacist organization, but Kylie's mother was killed, leaving her an orphan, the sole survivor of the complicated revenge plot that involved Kylie's kidnapping to begin with is left broken, and The Line is still a Dying Town. Red Soul, Blacksad is able to prevent his friend, Otto, from being murdered and stops the hydrogen bomb blueprints from being leaked to the Soviet Union, but in the process was forced to abandon a potential Love Interest and discovers Otto is actually a former Nazi, who is left a shell of his former self from the experience (although he returns to Germany to try and repent for his sins). The would-be assassin also killed an innocent lookalike and escapes justice. A Silent Hell, Blacksad isn't able to prevent Sebastian's murder, but Faust's crimes become known to others, he's going to die broken and alone regardless, Blacksad is at least able to prevent one of the musicians from being killed, and it's assured that Sebastian's widow and child will be financially stable. Amarillo, Chad decides to stop running away from his crimes and face justice, preventing Blacksad from being arrested for the murder he committed, but Neal ended up accidentally dying, and it's ambiguous whether or not Chad's story ends up published. Blacksad also ends up totalling two cars he borrowed with no way to repay the owners. They All Fall Down, Solomon gets away with his crimes and successfully completes his bridge, becoming more popular than ever in the process. However it's revealed that Rachel Zucco, masquerading as the chief engineer's assistant, sabotaged the bridge during construction to ensure that it wouldn't be sturdy enough to withstand strong winds; as a result, it is completely destroyed during a rainstorm at the end of the book, ensuring that Solomon's reputation would be ruined and that he would go down in history as a man best remembered for the catastrophic failure of his most ambitious project. Also, Alma and Blacksad are shown to reconcile and run off in the rain to happily speak about what is strongly implied to be Blacksad's daughter that Alma conceived during Red Soul, which means they could be a family, but it's left ambiguous whether or not Blacksad and Alma get back together along with whether or not the former leaves with her for Europe especially with Smirnov's Fox lieutenant most likely still gunning for him to frame him over Shelby's murder of Dill's caretaker. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | type |
Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | comment |
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Delivered non-verbally via headshot. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_424d15ad | type |
Love Hurts | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_424d15ad | comment |
Love Hurts: In five books, we get to meet several couples, but of these only one is happy and does not suffer from any tragedy: Smirnov and his wife. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_424d15ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_424d15ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_424d15ad | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_455341fe | type |
Cradling Your Kill | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_455341fe | comment |
Cradling Your Kill: In Amarillo, after Chad accidentally caused Neal to get hit by a bus. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_455341fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_455341fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_455341fe | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_475d592d | type |
You Dirty Rat! | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_475d592d | comment |
You Dirty Rat!: The bar patron who helps Blacksad track down Leon Kronski and tries to kill him, turning out to be working for Statoc, is a rat. Blacksad (who's a cat) notes that he's always mistrusted rats in his internal monologue. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_475d592d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_475d592d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_475d592d | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: Solomon keeps Shelby in his employ by threatening to deprive Shelby's polio-stricken son of the iron lung he needs to live. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4873d055 | type |
Use Your Head | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4873d055 | comment |
Use Your Head: Blacksad pulls this on an attacker in Somewhere Within The Shadows. It is very effective. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4873d055 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4873d055 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4873d055 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49cf2258 | type |
Hanging Around | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49cf2258 | comment |
Hanging Around: Arctic Nation features a fair few lynchings perpetrated by the eponymous hate group. The story starts off with a black-feathered bird being strung up on a lamp post while Blacksad looks on, and during the climax, Hans Karup is betrayed by the Nation and subjected to his own lynching. Only the intervention of a disguised Blacksad prevents his ally, Weekly, from facing his own turn on the rope after Karup. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49cf2258 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49cf2258 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49cf2258 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49d59be9 | type |
Scenery Porn | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: This series is gorgeous. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49d59be9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49d59be9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49d59be9 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | type |
Combat Pragmatist | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | comment |
Combat Pragmatist: Blacksad fights dirty when odds are bad. In the first issue, he tries fighting bare-fisted against the Big Bad's thugs, only to find they're much too tough for that. In his rematch, he ambushes them and clobbers them with a fire hydrant instead. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_49fb5ccb | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4a3e547f | type |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At the beginning of Arctic Nation Blacksad is writing and monologuing about how he should publish his memoirs. Then he looks in the readers direction and mentions that he "Wouldn't be surprised if it ended up published as a detective novel." He was looking at a hanging body, but the 'Leaning' effect is there. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4a3e547f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4a3e547f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4a3e547f | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4ab9c868 | type |
Pretty Little Headshots | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4ab9c868 | comment |
Pretty Little Headshots: In the first story, even though Blacksad's old flame was murdered via a shot to the head, there's only a bit of blood and a small hole instead of brains and stuff being splattered all over the wall… … which might be explained by the fact that she was lying down on her bed and the shot was downwards. The nastiness would have splattered the pillow under her head rather than the wall. Played straight when he shoots Ivo Statoc in the head, while the target is standing up and facing him. There's barely any blood where the victim lands. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4ab9c868 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4ab9c868 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4ab9c868 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4c977bea | type |
Humanoid Female Animal | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4c977bea | comment |
Humanoid Female Animal: Men look like bipedal animals, many female characters almost look like normal humans only with more fur and ears on the head. But only the beautiful women follow the trope — the rest have more variety, like the mouse cleaning lady of the first album, the doe teacher in the second, or the old lady ape in the fourth. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4c977bea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4c977bea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4c977bea | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4d3827ef | type |
Not Quite Saved Enough | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4d3827ef | comment |
Not Quite Saved Enough: Kenneth Clarke hired Blacksad to track down Logan, a hired assassin who is after him. Blacksad manages to stop Logan from stabbing Clarke in the metro, but while the detective is busy subduing the assassin, Shelby (who had remained unseen until then) grabs the unsuspecting Clarke and throws him in front of an incoming train. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4d3827ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4d3827ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4d3827ef | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | type |
Wham Shot | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | comment |
Wham Shot: The short story "Spit At The Sky" has a hen asking for help bringing to justice the man who tricked her sons and sent them to their deaths. Blacksad muses that he knows this man and he's tricked him once too, and many other young men. Only at the very end is it shown that this man is Uncle Sam. In Red Soul, Blacksad gets into a fight with Lazlo Herzl and rips open Herzl's sleeve... revealing a number tattoo. Suddenly Herzl's motives for trying to kill Lieber fall into place. The last panel of book six. Blacksad has just watched a performance of Macbeth, and the actress who played Lady Macbeth in Iris Allen's stead unmasks herself while saluting the audience. The last panel of the second part is one as well: as Solomon's bridge collapses, it's revealed that the engineer's assistant, a peacock, sabotaged it to ensure it wouldn't be able to withstand strong winds. Said peacock then proceeds to remove her fake beak and feathers, revealing herself to actually be Rachel Zucco. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b | type |
The Atoner | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b | comment |
The Atoner: Otto Liebber in Red Soul. He worked for the Nazis in World War II under an extremely misguided notion that he was helping to better the world. He eventually realizes he was in the wrong, and has spent the rest of his life trying to rectify this... badly. Chad ends up becoming one in the end of Amarillo when he gives himself up the police to prevent Blacksad from taking the blame for his crimes. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4f6d87f7 | type |
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4f6d87f7 | comment |
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Karup and his wife. Both of his wives. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4f6d87f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4f6d87f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_4f6d87f7 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51460d4e | type |
Cops Need the Vigilante | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51460d4e | comment |
Cops Need the Vigilante: Commissioner Smirnov gives Blacksad free rein to avenge Natalia's death after he tried to investigate her murder through the official channels but was quickly shut down when it got too high up. After Blacksad kills the wealthy businessman responsible for the murder in a Vigilante Execution, Smirnov even covers for him by lying right in front of the two employees who saw Blacksad carry out the act. He is not especially proud of it, though. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51460d4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51460d4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51460d4e | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51dc66f6 | type |
Hardboiled Detective | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51dc66f6 | comment |
Hardboiled Detective: Blacksad, of course. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51dc66f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51dc66f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51dc66f6 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51df5ca1 | type |
Animal Metaphor | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51df5ca1 | comment |
Animal Metaphor: Hans Karup is the leader of Artic Nation, an organisation of white furred supremacists which discriminates against black people, as in those with black fur. The thing is however, that Karup is a polar bear, and underneath their white fur, their skin colour is black. With this interesting fact, Artic Nation's racism is simply that, judging a person on their outward appearance rather than what lies beneath. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51df5ca1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51df5ca1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51df5ca1 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51ed5fb9 | type |
Straw Hypocrite | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51ed5fb9 | comment |
Straw Hypocrite: Invoked by Jezebel, who told Huk that Hans Karup, despite being an outspoken white supremacist in public, was secretly screwing their black maid. He wasn't, but given how deeply racist Huk himself is, this might have played into his motivation for having Karup framed and killed. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51ed5fb9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51ed5fb9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_51ed5fb9 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_52db461d | type |
Significant Anagram | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_52db461d | comment |
Significant Anagram: Leon Kronski is killed and buried under the name of "Noel Krisnok" to hide his true identity. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_52db461d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_52db461d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_52db461d | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_543a0278 | type |
Villain Respect | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_543a0278 | comment |
Villain Respect: Ivo Statoc shows his respect to Blacksad for having the wits and brawns to pass through his security detail and proposes to hire him, regardless of the fact that he murdered Blacksad's old flame. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_543a0278 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_543a0278 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_543a0278 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_554063c6 | type |
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_554063c6 | comment |
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Blacksad struggles with this when confronting Ivo Statoc, subverting it when he does kill him with a bullet to the head. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_554063c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_554063c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_554063c6 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5730ba86 | type |
Pop the Tires | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5730ba86 | comment |
Pop the Tires: Successfully used by one of the FBI agents in Amarillo, only for the target car to veer out of control and into their own car's way. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5730ba86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5730ba86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5730ba86 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5798bfbf | type |
Reassigned to Antarctica | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5798bfbf | comment |
Reassigned to Antarctica: the two FBI agents from the third book were reassigned to Albuquerque, New Mexico sometime before the fifth book, which they blame on Blacksad. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5798bfbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5798bfbf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5798bfbf | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45 | type |
Fantastic Racism | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: The mongoose henchman from the first book makes the mistake of pursuing his target into a reptilian bar, where the bartender tells him that furry sorts aren't welcome there while the rest of the patrons close in on him. What drives the events of Arctic Nation. The neighbourhood "the Line" in which Blacksad tries to find a kidnapped child is the battlefield between two racist groups, the "Arctics", who are white fur supremacists, and the "Claws", a Black Panther expy. The racial tensions in the Line are an important plot point to the story. Played with, because the characters think of literal color over race, so one can find dogs in each group. As a black and white cat, Blacksad doesn't have friends in either group. One character in Amarillo (a parrot) keeps insulting "coloreds" while sharing a car with Blacksad. It takes less than a page for him to get a black eye courtesy of a very pissed-off black cat. The moles union in They All Fall Down are racist to most races that aren't one of them but mostly birds, part of it is classism as the moles and rodents are blue collar workers while birds are high city officials, even though as seen with Cotten in Arctic Nation it is not an end all be all and Farumfer mocks that mentality. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_58e43f17 | type |
Cats Are Mean | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_58e43f17 | comment |
Cats Are Mean: Adolf Hitler was a cat (although this is likely a shout-out to Maus). See No Celebrities Were Harmed below. Totally averted by Blacksad and Alma, though. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_58e43f17 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_58e43f17 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_58e43f17 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_599f943f | type |
Karma Houdini Warranty | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_599f943f | comment |
Karma Houdini Warranty: By the end of They All Fall Down, Solomon has successfully gotten away with his crimes, completed his bridge and his popularity is higher than ever. Then, in the last few pages, it is revealed that his bridge has been sabotaged by the engineer's assistant, causing it to be completely destroyed during a rainstorm, ruining Solomon's greatest project and reputation in an instant. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_599f943f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_599f943f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_599f943f | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_59a9605d | type |
Never Smile at a Crocodile | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_59a9605d | comment |
Never Smile at a Crocodile: Ribs from Red Soul is a gavial contract killer. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_59a9605d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_59a9605d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_59a9605d | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5bca5a56 | type |
Surprise Incest | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5bca5a56 | comment |
Surprise Incest: Hans Karup unknowingly married one of his own daughters after she came of age. She was actually aware of their family relationship, and wouldn't let him touch her. The marriage was in fact all part of a decades-long revenge plot to hurt him for previously leaving their mother to her death. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5bca5a56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5bca5a56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5bca5a56 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5ca80293 | type |
Pragmatic Villainy | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5ca80293 | comment |
The weasel mafia in They All Fall Down are as dirty as any organized crime association, buying votes and ordering hits on people that cross them. But even they're visibly disturbed by Logan pushing a hobo's face onto a scalding skillet to teach him a lesson (of course, it could've also partly been a case of Pragmatic Villainy: doing something so brutal to their potential recruits is sure to scare them off, which it does). | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5ca80293 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5ca80293 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5ca80293 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5eb8a669 | type |
"Angry Black Man" Stereotype | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5eb8a669 | comment |
"Angry Black Man" Stereotype: In Arctic Nation there seems to be a burgeoning Black Panthers expy (which counts with animals with black fur) in response to the white fur supremacists in the district. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5eb8a669 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5eb8a669 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5eb8a669 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f173ee4 | type |
I Kiss Your Hand | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f173ee4 | comment |
I Kiss Your Hand: Blacksad kisses the hand of Smirnov's wife when they meet. Weekly kisses Rose's hand when they meet in a bar. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f173ee4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f173ee4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f173ee4 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f3bb274 | type |
Late-Arrival Spoiler | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f3bb274 | comment |
Late-Arrival Spoiler: The cover of They All Fall Down Part 2 prominently shows Alma whose return in the previous part was a surprise. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f3bb274 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f3bb274 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f3bb274 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | type |
Intrepid Reporter | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | comment |
Intrepid Reporter: Weekly. He's also a bit of a pervert. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_606244c2 | type |
Parental Incest | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_606244c2 | comment |
Parental Incest: Jezebel's Batman Gambit relies on her marrying Karup, her own father. However, Karup is unaware of her true identity and she refuses to sleep with him.. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_606244c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_606244c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_606244c2 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_61d054a0 | type |
Animal Stereotypes | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_61d054a0 | comment |
Animal Stereotypes: The authors state that the species of each individual character was carefully chosen to represent who the character really is, and that the connection between the animal chosen and the personality of the character isn't always as obvious as the "cops=dogs" example. For instance he made bikers a bunch of sheep because of the gregarious aspects of the animals and character who are either ugly or disfigured are less anthropomorphic to underline it. In the second album there is possibly a Lampshade Hanging. Blacksad is at a drive-in, watching an awful B-Movie about killer giant ants. In this film, the scientist is a giant anteater, the chief of the military forces is a lion and the President of the USA is an eagle. Politicians in general are often depicted as birds. Senator Gallo is a rooster, Solomon is a falcon, the mayor of New York City is a turkey, and the aforementioned President is a bald eagle. Perhaps this has something to do with their egos reaching for the literal skies. Solomon's chauffeur/bodyguard is a hound with a great sense of smell, allowing him to detect intruders even in a landfill. A subway building site is almost entirely staffed by animals that live underground, like moles and rats. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_61d054a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_61d054a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_61d054a0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | type |
I Have Your Wife | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | comment |
I Have Your Wife: Shelby, Solomon's enforcer, wants to quit, but Solomon points out how easy it would be to deprive Shelby's polio-stricken son of the iron lung he needs to live. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6220d661 | type |
Loony Fan | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6220d661 | comment |
Loony Fan: Natalia was stalked by a florist who sent her hundreds of flowers as well as threatening cards. She hired Blacksad to make it stop and Blacksad quickly found the florist, beat him up, and judging by the giant shears between the legs, threatened to cut off his privates. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6220d661 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6220d661 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6220d661 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_627264e0 | type |
Death Glare | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_627264e0 | comment |
Death Glare: One FBI agent to the other when he suggests flipping a coin for who writes the report after having crashed the car. Blacksad himself gives them a lot. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_627264e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_627264e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_627264e0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Blacksad wants to take the blame for Chad's crimes in order to let him and Luanne be free. But Chad ultimately refuses and surrenders to the police. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_64713b04 | type |
Pedophile Priest | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_64713b04 | comment |
Pedophile Priest: Karup is the director of the church's children choir. He may or may not be a pedophile... point is, by the end all the townsfolk, and the members of the local KKK analogue, believe it. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_64713b04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_64713b04 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_64713b04 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_64972c10 | type |
Flashback Effects | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_64972c10 | comment |
Flashback Effects: Usually, flashbacks are shown in some kind of monochrome — sepia tone or blue-based — to distinguish them from the present. Special mention, though, goes to the effects towards the end of Arctic Nation. The oldest flashbacks look like pure sepia tone photos, but as they approach the present day, they gradually become more and more colored like reality. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_64972c10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_64972c10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_64972c10 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_67f34057 | type |
The Pig-Pen | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_67f34057 | comment |
Averted with Weekly; he's The Pigpen, but he's still a good guy. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_67f34057 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_67f34057 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_67f34057 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6a60948a | type |
Expressive Ears | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6a60948a | comment |
Expressive Ears: Like their real-life animal counterparts characters ears will go back when they are threatened (or are being threatening), they'll droop when they are sad, and perk up when excited. Blacksad often swivels his ears like a cat does to hear things better. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6a60948a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6a60948a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6a60948a | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Senator Gallo is a cockerel, and is also an obvious Shout-Out to Senator Joseph McCarthy. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6fb4d332 | type |
Invulnerable Knuckles | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6fb4d332 | comment |
Invulnerable Knuckles: Averted with Blacksad, he tends to hurt his hands punching rather strong enemies. Big animals like Leeland the hippo or Karup the polar bear however can just deck full strength anyone without issue. In They all fall down he spends multiple panels preparing ice for his hand after he hit a lizard in the head while. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6fb4d332 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6fb4d332 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_6fb4d332 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7142b38a | type |
The Grim Reaper | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7142b38a | comment |
The Grim Reaper: Death himself doesn't show, but Faust LaChapelle dons a costume in his image to go around incognito. Death apparantly looks like a man with a goat skull in the Blacksad universe, merging some of the imagery with that of traditional Western depictions of Satan. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7142b38a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7142b38a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7142b38a | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_71e8a5c5 | type |
Trauma Conga Line | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_71e8a5c5 | comment |
In Amarillo, Abraham insultingly tells Chad he should leave his magnum opus manuscript in some bathroom where it can better serve a purpose as toilet paper. At the end, after the Trauma Conga Line he's put through, Chad does decide to abandon his life's work in a public washroom, with the final page showing a passerby picking it up and reading it as they leave. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_71e8a5c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_71e8a5c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_71e8a5c5 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_727b5779 | type |
Cat Folk | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_727b5779 | comment |
Natalia Wilford, Alma Meyer, Luanne Eva Lange and Donna Blacksad. All of whom fit this trope to a T. They are all drawn as conventionally attractive Cat Folk, with even Blacksad himself being presented as a Hunk on occasion, like the Funny Background Event with all the boyfriends arguing with their girlfriends for looking at him. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_727b5779 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_727b5779 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_727b5779 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_72c07237 | type |
Swiss-Cheese Security | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_72c07237 | comment |
Swiss-Cheese Security: Statoc's building seemed pretty easy to break into. Although this may reflect Statoc's confidence that he could sway Blacksad with money. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_72c07237 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_72c07237 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_72c07237 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38 | type |
Covers Always Lie | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: The cover of They all fall down, part 2 features Alma on the cover of the comic looking back at Shelby who's glaring at her, but she does not encounter him at all and has little to no involvement with Blacksad or his case. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "Vengeance is a dish best served cold." in Arctic Nation. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7842867 | type |
Vengeance Feels Empty | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7842867 | comment |
Vengeance Feels Empty: Jezebel Karup sets up a years-long revenge scheme against her abusive father for leaving her mother to her death, even marrying him as part of the plan, then framing him as a child molester so the town will lynch him. However, in the process she ends up making her niece an orphan, nearly gets said niece killed as well, and at the end of the day none of it will ever bring her own mother back. As Blacksad confronts her over all the collateral damage she's caused, she seems to have a Heel Realization: | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7842867 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7842867 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7842867 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_786d6cf6 | type |
You Wouldn't Shoot Me | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_786d6cf6 | comment |
You Wouldn't Shoot Me: Statoc reminds Blacksad that he's not the sort of person who would shoot someone in cold blood, and so can't pull the trigger. He is quickly proven wrong. Blacksad also notes that without the jolt of contempt he felt from Statoc's upfront taunting, he probably wouldn't have pulled the trigger. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_786d6cf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_786d6cf6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_786d6cf6 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_79503ae9 | type |
Stout Strength | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_79503ae9 | comment |
Stout Strength: Ted Leeman, the corrupt hippo detective in A Silent Hell seems like a sweaty, obese sloth whose bark is worse than his bite. When Blacksad outsmarts him and reveals himself, Leeman unleashes a brutal beating on Blacksad and tanks three shots to the gut to show his immense strength. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_79503ae9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_79503ae9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_79503ae9 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7a4013f3 | type |
Deuteragonist | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7a4013f3 | comment |
Amarillo literally means "yellow", and is the one with Blacksad going on a sunny roadtrip, while the Deuteragonist of the story is a young lion. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7a4013f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7a4013f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7a4013f3 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7b6e47a5 | type |
Armor-Piercing Question | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: Blacksad to Jezebel, "What about Kaylie? Did she deserve this?" | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7b6e47a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7b6e47a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7b6e47a5 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7cc8d769 | type |
Sore Loser | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7cc8d769 | comment |
The lizard henchman of the first volume. Most of his background implies he was just a guy from the ghetto who got hired to be a valet for a man he despised. Then he saw a gruesome murder that gave him finally a chance to blackmail himself a cozy life, which Blacksad seems to have planned that too (the henchman never realized Blacksad's motives to investigate, since he didn't know that Blacksad and Natalia were once in a relationship before she met Statoc). He ends up lamenting that while his boss was a Sore Loser, himself was just a loser. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7cc8d769 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7cc8d769 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7cc8d769 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7cf2f728 | type |
Boomerang Bigot | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7cf2f728 | comment |
Boomerang Bigot: Oldsmill is a white tiger but his black stripes shouldn't give him any special treatment, however he is rich enough no one in the Arctics want to shun his support. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7cf2f728 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7cf2f728 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7cf2f728 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7ee61bec | type |
Mature Animal Story | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7ee61bec | comment |
Mature Animal Story: A méchoui is referred as a hate crime. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7ee61bec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7ee61bec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_7ee61bec | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8042e814 | type |
Actually Pretty Funny | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8042e814 | comment |
Actually Pretty Funny: In Arctic Nation, a pair of (literal) white supremacists approach a crow, heckling him to get out of a bar where colored people are banned. The crow quips back with the fact that he's blind, and therefore can't see their 'immaculate white pelts'. Surprisingly, they laugh it off and let him go, moving onto Blacksad. We later find out they work with him. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8042e814 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8042e814 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8042e814 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_80a247a9 | type |
Breather Episode | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_80a247a9 | comment |
Breather Episode: Amarillo. However, it's solely one for the hurting Blacksad as there is still plenty of murder and mayhem to go around for everyone else. By the end Blacksad doesn't have that much of a good time either. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_80a247a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_80a247a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_80a247a9 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_819b6384 | type |
Sympathetic Murderer | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_819b6384 | comment |
Sympathetic Murderer: By the end of Amarillo, Chad has directly or indirectly caused four deaths. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_819b6384 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_819b6384 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_819b6384 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8341ccb1 | type |
World of Funny Animals | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8341ccb1 | comment |
World of Funny Animals: The world of Blacksad is pretty much America in the 50's, except that everyone is an animal. Not that much of a funny world since the series also features a lot of the bad side of the 50's like racial tensions, the Red Scare and so on. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8341ccb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8341ccb1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8341ccb1 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: Samuel Gotfield is a Type C before he goes completely mental. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8485d41a | type |
Interspecies Romance | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8485d41a | comment |
Interspecies Romance: Affairs between different species of animal happen as frequently as those between animals of the same species. For instance, Natalia in the first book had an affair with a lion and a toad, Ivo Statoc the most powerful businessman in town. There is also the affair between Jezabel (a bear) and Huk (an arctic fox). There's also the love between Thomas Lachappelle (a goat) and Hannah Fletcher (a dog). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8485d41a | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_856a425a | type |
TheFifties | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_856a425a | comment |
The '50s: Later books made it clear with the second red scare, beatniks and reconstruction of Germany. It's also implied that Blacksad himself is a World War II veteran and Iris Allen, a middle-aged woman, was already an adult during the Great Depression. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_856a425a | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_85cefc44 | type |
Sympathetic Adulterer | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_85cefc44 | comment |
Sympathetic Adulterer: Played with in the album Arctic Nation. Jezebel refuses her husband Karup sexual relations, knowing full well that she's pretty much a social status symbol for the WASP police chief. She then seduces Karup's right-hand man Huk, telling him that Karup is actually cheating on her with their black maid Dinah. None of this is true: Jezebel and Dinah are sisters, and Karup's daughters. It's all part of a decades-long revenge scheme against their father for having left their mother to her death. Alma is in a relationship with her benefactor Gotfield but by the time she sleeps with Blacksad the only reason she didn't break up is Gotfield being too far gone after selling her and the others to the police to meet again. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_85cefc44 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_86af7ab0 | type |
Badass Biker | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_86af7ab0 | comment |
Badass Biker: A gang of them in the fifth book. Amusingly, all of them are sheep. They're a friendly bunch though, allowing Blacksad to ride with them when his car is stolen. The artist commented he was surprised to hear bikers enjoying the portrayal despite the Take That! to the gregarious aspect of a biker gang. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_86af7ab0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_86af7ab0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_86af7ab0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_87572663 | type |
Wrong Side of the Tracks | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_87572663 | comment |
Wrong Side of the Tracks: "The Line", which used to be prosperous during World War II. Then the armaments factories shut down and the district collapsed. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_87572663 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_87572663 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8b442f50 | type |
Did Not Get the Girl | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8b442f50 | comment |
Did Not Get the Girl: A result of Blacksad's necessary detainment in Red Soul. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8b442f50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8b442f50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8b442f50 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8b568cb7 | type |
Posthumous Character | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8b568cb7 | comment |
Posthumous Character: Natalia Wilford and Leon Kronski in the first album. The entire plot of said album revolves around Blacksad tracking down Natalia's killer and avenging her death. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8b568cb7 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8b68d9a7 | type |
Stalker with a Crush | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8b68d9a7 | comment |
Stalker with a Crush: When Blacksad meets her Natalia is harassed by a stalker, and hires Blacksad to get rid of him. Blacksad does so by shoving a gun in the guy's mouth and threatening to kill him. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8b68d9a7 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8c3241aa | type |
One-Hour Work Week | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8c3241aa | comment |
One-Hour Work Week: When he first meets Blacksad, Weekly claims that his articles are of such superior quality that he can get away with only showing up at the office once a week or so, which is how he got the nickname. Later on, he 'fesses up that it's actually because of an office rumor about his bathing habits. Since it's never established one way or the other whether his claim about the amount of time spent in the office is true, it's possible he's encouraged to stay away to save his coworkers from dealing with his...distinctive odor. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8c3241aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8c3241aa | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369 | type |
Took a Level in Jerkass | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369 | comment |
Took a Level in Jerkass: The fox lieutnant in They All Fall Down, especially in the second part, to the point it looks like he has a personal grudge against Blacksad. He immediately believes that Weekly murdered Iris in cold blood despite it being a painfully obvious frame-up and impedes Blacksad's investigation at several points, even trying to arrest him for the murder of Dill's nurse simply because John visited her shortly before her death) and remains utterly incompetent and clueless throughout the whole story. It culminates in Blacksad having to smash a chair on his head to avoid getting wrongfully arrested, and the fox lieutenant shooting at him in retaliation. His first appearance in the story also had him disbanding an (admittedly illegal) theatrical play in the city park by having police officers threathen the crowd with their batons. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8d718b9e | type |
Bears Are Bad News | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8d718b9e | comment |
Bears Are Bad News: Karup, a polar bear, is the leader of a white supremacist gang, and effortlessly beats up his right-hand man. One of Statoc's henchmen is a brown bear who beats the crap out of Blacksad with his rhino friend. Polyphemus is a lecherous sun bear who works at the circus, and Chad catches him in an Attempted Rape. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_8d718b9e | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_90b66e22 | type |
Femme Fatale | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_90b66e22 | comment |
Femme Fatale: Surprisingly, mostly averted for a comic so steeped in 1950s Film Noir. Of Blacksad's love interests, Natalia Wilford is The Lost Lenore for Blacksad whose worst crime was being a bit of a vain woman, and Alma Mayer is a Brainy Brunette Nice Girl. Jezebel Karup sort of fits the archetype, but is really a subversion of the trope since the people she seduced to lead them to their doom are the leader of a racist lynch mob who also happens to be her father and his even more vicious right-hand man, not the detective hero. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_90b66e22 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_91183950 | type |
Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_91183950 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism: Blacksad looks far more anthropomorphic than most characters. Sexy ladies are even more anthropomorphic. Inversely, the circus folk from the fifth album were deliberately drawn much less anthropomorphic than the rest of the characters, to emphasize their status as outcast freaks. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_91183950 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_927b2f11 | type |
The Bus Came Back | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_927b2f11 | comment |
The Bus Came Back: Alma from Red Soul makes a reappearance at the end of They All Fall Down, Part One. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_927b2f11 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_92b20172 | type |
Love Interests | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_92b20172 | comment |
Love Interests: Blacksad has one in the first and third album. The first example is posthumously, giving Blacksad his motivation for going on a quest for revenge against her killer, the second example is ultimately subverted. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_92b20172 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_92b20172 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9591377d | type |
Heel Realization | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9591377d | comment |
Heel Realization: Jezebel, once it dawns on her she made her niece an orphan. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9591377d | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_970c790a | comment |
An even more tragic example would be Shelby from the They All Fall Down two-parter. Not only does his only son, Dill, develop polio and requires an iron lung to survive, it's also revealed that Solomon is paying for Dill's treatment and basically forces Shelby into the role of his personal hitman. Then, in the second book, a city-wide power outage causes Dill to die in his sleep anyway, and an utterly broken Shelby lets himself fall to his death following a failed murder attempt on Solomon. Ouch. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_970c790a | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_985e118a | type |
Odd Couple | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_985e118a | comment |
Odd Couple: Big and stoic Blacksad with excitable and relatively small Weekly. Also the literal cat and dog combo of Blacksad and Smirnov. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_985e118a | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9bc66bb1 | type |
Belated Happy Ending | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9bc66bb1 | comment |
They All Fall Down, Solomon gets away with his crimes and successfully completes his bridge, becoming more popular than ever in the process. However it's revealed that Rachel Zucco, masquerading as the chief engineer's assistant, sabotaged the bridge during construction to ensure that it wouldn't be sturdy enough to withstand strong winds; as a result, it is completely destroyed during a rainstorm at the end of the book, ensuring that Solomon's reputation would be ruined and that he would go down in history as a man best remembered for the catastrophic failure of his most ambitious project. Also, Alma and Blacksad are shown to reconcile and run off in the rain to happily speak about what is strongly implied to be Blacksad's daughter that Alma conceived during Red Soul, which means they could be a family, but it's left ambiguous whether or not Blacksad and Alma get back together along with whether or not the former leaves with her for Europe especially with Smirnov's Fox lieutenant most likely still gunning for him to frame him over Shelby's murder of Dill's caretaker. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9bc66bb1 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: In Arctic Nation, Weekly confuses Karup's wife for his daughter and Jezebel notes that unlike Karup's first black wife he can't just abandon her, Jezebel is Karup's daughter who swore revenge about him literally abandoning his wife in the woods. In Red Soul, the painting "Red Soul" is said to be sent to Moscow at a later date, it's how Litvak sends the formula for the H-bomb to the communists. In Amarillo, Abraham insultingly tells Chad he should leave his magnum opus manuscript in some bathroom where it can better serve a purpose as toilet paper. At the end, after the Trauma Conga Line he's put through, Chad does decide to abandon his life's work in a public washroom, with the final page showing a passerby picking it up and reading it as they leave. In They All Fall Down, Part One, after spending an evening with Iris Allen, Blacksad muses that she's still in love with her long-dead husband. On his way home, he can't get the song "That Old Black Magic" out of his head. It's the song that was playing when he was with Alma during Red Soul. Guess who reappears in the book's very last scene. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: In the inside cover of Red Soul, you see Blacksad releasing the ashes of Cotten near Las Vegas, fulfilling The Promise he made to him in Arctic Nation. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9dfb8296 | type |
This Is Gonna Suck | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: The fox lieutnant comes back in They all fall down and being on Police Brutality duty he is not amused when he sees Blacksad defending the theater troupe he is asked to disband with batons. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9dfb8296 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_9dfb8296 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a0db7803 | type |
It's Personal | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a0db7803 | comment |
It's Personal: Natalia's death is personal to Blacksad so it's the only case he investigates without having a client paying him to do so. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a0db7803 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a0db7803 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Jezebel, after it dawns on her that her revenge has made Kylie, her niece, an orphan. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a1d3ebd7 | type |
Furry Reminder | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a1d3ebd7 | comment |
Furry Reminder: Blacksad meets a mole foreman at a subway building site who offers him a sandwich before opening a can of live worms to eat from himself. Blacksad has trouble hiding his disgust. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a1d3ebd7 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a2b38d3b | type |
Eye Scream | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: Huk is killed by a screwdriver through his eye. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a2b38d3b | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a4d189fc | type |
Marrying the Mark | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a4d189fc | comment |
Marrying the Mark: Jezebel goes as far as marrying her own father who she blames for the death of her mother (though she doesn't sleep with him), in order to have him killed by the KKK-like organization he's part of. Unfortunately, it also results in the death of her sister. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a4d189fc | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a53086b1 | type |
Suicidal Lemmings | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a53086b1 | comment |
Suicidal Lemmings: A Brick Joke occurring in Red Soul is a group of doomsday cultist lemmings that appear in a city scene. A newspaper article at the end states they've committed mass self-immolation. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a53086b1 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a876f7d5 | type |
MurderingTheHypotenuse | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a876f7d5 | comment |
Murdering the Hypotenuse: Natalia was involved in a Love Triangle with a movie writer named Léon and another man who killed both Natalia and Léon out of spite. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a876f7d5 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a99f4468 | type |
Bigot with a Badge | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a99f4468 | comment |
Bigot with a Badge: The Chief of Police in the Line district, Hans Karup, is in fact the leader of The Klan and wilfully turns a blind eye to any lynchings carried out by his fellow members. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a99f4468 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a99f4468 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a9b55780 | type |
Bigot with a Crush | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a9b55780 | comment |
Bigot with a Crush: Inverted in Hans Karup's backstory. In the present, he runs a white supremacist organization responsible for lynching black animals, but he was once an incredibly sweet man married to a black-furred woman. The Arctic Nation poisoned his mind, leading him to start abusing his wife while they were still together until he finally dragged her out of their house in the middle of winter and left her for dead. In the present, his current wife does tell his equally racist underling Huk that Karup likes to screw their black maid behind her back. This isn't true, but Huk (who was looking to get rid of him) believes it. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a9b55780 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a9b55780 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_a9b55780 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_aa83d0d6 | type |
Sub-Par Supremacist | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_aa83d0d6 | comment |
Sub-Par Supremacist: In Arctic Nation, white fur stands in for white supremacy, with The Klan-equivalent's iconography being a Nazi flag with the swastika replaced by a snowflake. When one goon tries to intimidate Blacksad (a black-furred cat with a white chin), Blacksad stands up to reveal he's a head taller than the goon, and easily sends him flying behind the bar. One prominent member of the Arctic Nation has a severely mentally disabled son, strongly hinted to be the result of inbreeding. | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_aa83d0d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_aa83d0d6 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ab89e132 | type |
Men Are Uncultured | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ab89e132 | comment |
Men Are Uncultured: Smirnov is surprised to see Blacksad in an art gallery, Blacksad is there because his current boss wants to invest in art (who himself fit this trope, commenting his sofa has better pattern than the paintings) as the commissioner is only there because his wife wants their kids to be cultured. Blacksad can appreciate the work put into paintings and enjoys jazz but sees the left leaning intellectuals less like artists and intellectuals but more people that should worry about the black listing and committees. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ab89e132 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ab89e132 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ab89e132 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_abad35b4 | type |
Soundtrack Dissonance | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: Hannah singing "Summertime" to her baby as Blacksad races to find Sebastian dead of an overdose. Or a poisoning, as it's mentioned that his sellers were ordered to sell him heroin so bad they compare it to rat poison. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_abad35b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_abad35b4 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ac0827be | type |
Private Eye Monologue | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ac0827be | comment |
Private Eye Monologue: Lampshaded at the start of Arctic Nation, when Blacksad notes his memoirs would read like a detective novel. | |
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1.0 | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Played straight in the first album; one of Ivo Statoc's henchmen is a lizard. He does get something of an Alas, Poor Villain moment though. | |
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Red Scare | |
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Red Scare: Red Soul deals with the Red Scare with Blacksad being embroiled in a communist conspiracy and getting in trouble with the law for being associated with them. The individual communists are presented in a better light than the communist hunters, though the suspicions of them spying for the Soviets are very true. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: In Album one where Statoc's mammal henchman follows the lizard henchman into a predominantly reptile bar. As the reptiles are happy to illustrate: Hairy guys like him are NOT welcome there. Huk in Arctic Nation when Karup is about to kick his ass all over the church after Blacksad outs Huk's relationship with the chief's wife. In album five: see Pop the Tires. Happens several times to Weekly in book six. First because his editor is getting tired of old journalism and then because the villains are on to him and he realizes it too late. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: Faust LaChapelle from A Silent Hell will never be punished for his crimes while he was a Snake Oil Salesman, as everybody who could expose him is either dead or a nobody without a voice. However, Faust's guilt is also consuming him, he has alienated his own son, and is dying of a congenital disease anyway. | |
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Die Laughing | |
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Die Laughing: Neal in Amarillo after Blacksad make one last joke to his detrimentin good nature. | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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Face–Heel Turn: Karup in his backstory. Jezebel recalls that her mother told her that Karup was one of the kindest persons she had ever seen, which is why her mother fell in love with him. He eventually wanted to attain power in The Line, and became increasingly racist and abusive over time to blend in with the white elite. He finally completed his Turn when he abandonned his wife in the middle of the woods in winter, causing their eventual daughters to develop an intense hatred for their father and setting up the plot of the novel to get revenge on him. | |
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Drop Dead Gorgeous | |
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Drop Dead Gorgeous: The first book begins with a murder scene: the victim is a woman, wearing vaporous night clothing, with one breast exposed. In the flashback to her murder, her night gown was noticeably closed. The writers revealed in a background making-of album that the implication was that the murderer played around with the corpse just for kicks. | |
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Film Noir | |
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Somewhere Within The Shadows introduces our protagonist and plays out like a straightforward Noir story. | |
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Right Through His Pants | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_b03634f8 | comment |
Right Through His Pants: After Blacksad and Alma's sexual encounter, the next scene shows Blacksad in a tank top and his suit pants while Alma is completely naked. | |
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No Historical Figures Were Harmed | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_b0855ef3 | comment |
No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Senator Gallo is a cockerel, and is also an obvious Shout-Out to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Adolf Hitler is present too, but remains unnamed. As in Maus, he is a cat. Abraham Greenberg is based on poet Allen Ginsberg, up to reciting one of Ginsberg's poems in book three. Chad Lowell and Billy Sorrows from book five are respectively based on Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Solomon from They All Fall Down is a very transparent satire of "master builder" Robert Moses, complete with an obsession with legacy, a tight and ruthless grip on New York municipal politics, and a preference for highways over urban transit and housing. Kenneth Clarke, similarly, bears a close physical resemblance to Transit Workers' Union president Michael "Red Mike" Quill, who led the NYC Transit Strike of 1966.note This makes Mayor Schumann an analogue for John Lindsay, though he also mentions it's an election year (likely '61 or '65) when speaking to Solomon, thus making him an incumbent and putting him in the place of Robert Wagner, Jr. | |
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Sexless Marriage | |
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Sexless Marriage: Karup and Jezebel. With good reason, given that Jezebel is Karup's daughter, although he doesn't know this. | |
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Tragic Villain | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_b5171e10 | comment |
Tragic Villain: The lizard henchman of the first volume. Most of his background implies he was just a guy from the ghetto who got hired to be a valet for a man he despised. Then he saw a gruesome murder that gave him finally a chance to blackmail himself a cozy life, which Blacksad seems to have planned that too (the henchman never realized Blacksad's motives to investigate, since he didn't know that Blacksad and Natalia were once in a relationship before she met Statoc). He ends up lamenting that while his boss was a Sore Loser, himself was just a loser. An even more tragic example would be Shelby from the They All Fall Down two-parter. Not only does his only son, Dill, develop polio and requires an iron lung to survive, it's also revealed that Solomon is paying for Dill's treatment and basically forces Shelby into the role of his personal hitman. Then, in the second book, a city-wide power outage causes Dill to die in his sleep anyway, and an utterly broken Shelby lets himself fall to his death following a failed murder attempt on Solomon. Ouch. | |
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Take That! | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Politicians in general are often depicted as birds. Senator Gallo is a rooster, Solomon is a falcon, the mayor of New York City is a turkey, and the aforementioned President is a bald eagle. Perhaps this has something to do with their egos reaching for the literal skies. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Ivo Statoc, gloating and mocking someone for having standards is not the smartest of moves. His assassin even says that he would not have gone through if he was not so smug about it. | |
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Color Motif | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_b869b5b1 | comment |
Color Motif: The albums themselves, along with their covers: Somewhere Within The Shadows introduces our protagonist and plays out like a straightforward Noir story. Arctic Nation takes place during a snowy winter and largely involves a white supremacist group. Given that this a world of anthropomorphic animals, its members have literal white fur. Red Soul is about the Red Scare, with the title coming from an abstract, red painting. A Silent Hell features both Blacksad almost drowning and a song called "Pizen Blues". Amarillo literally means "yellow", and is the one with Blacksad going on a sunny roadtrip, while the Deuteragonist of the story is a young lion. And on a series-wide level, the five covers so far have been black, white, and one of each of the primary colors. | |
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Blood from the Mouth | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_b8dbe475 | comment |
Blood from the Mouth: Neal the lawyer after he is hit by a bus. | |
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Non-Standard Character Design | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_b8f5a02 | comment |
Nonstandard Character Design: Huk and Rose (the skunk who flirts with Weekly) are just about the only people in the entire series to have a tail...until Amarillo, which introduced a lot of tailed background characters. | |
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Extra-Long Episode | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_b96fdd94 | comment |
Extra-Long Episode: They All Fall Down is currently the only story that's split into two parts, with the English translation further splitting each of the two parts into another two parts. The first part ends with some huge cliffhangers. | |
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It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans | |
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It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans at the end of the fourth album. | |
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Plucky Comic Relief | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_bcbf7aef | comment |
Plucky Comic Relief: Weekly's role in the story is mostly to provide the bulk of the more lighthearted moments. Case in point, after closing the case of Kylie's kidnapping, Blacksad's day is brightened by Weekly's funny confession about his nickname. | |
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PreciousPuppies | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_bd29e069 | comment |
Precious Puppies: Smirnov's children and Sebastian's son, all puppies, are quite cute. | |
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Sleeping with the Boss's Wife | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_bd3293fc | comment |
Sleeping with the Boss's Wife: Hans Karup's wife Jezebel is having an affair with Huk, his second-in-command in the Arctic Nation, the white supremacist cult they're both part of. Huk uses unsubstantiated allegations that Karup is a pedophile to engineer his betrayal and execution by his followers, even whispering that he'll take good care of Jezebel after he's gone. This backfires on Huk, as Jezebel later kills him for becoming too much of a loose cannon in her own years-long scheme against Karup. | |
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Cunning Like a Fox | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_bf414570 | comment |
Cunning Like a Fox: Smirnov's fox lieutenant has a very sly attitude about him. Huk, a polar fox, is scheming to usurp his boss. | |
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Imperiled in Pregnancy | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_c02a3bf2 | comment |
Imperiled in Pregnancy: In the Arctic Nation album, it is eventually revealed that Chief Karup's greatest crime after he became a white supremacist was to drag his heavily pregnant black wife out of her bed in the middle of the night and leave her behind in the cold winter woods to die. She survived, and his children would grow up yearning for revenge. | |
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"Nighthawks" Shot | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_c176e0ad | comment |
"Nighthawks" Shot: In They All Fall Down, Part One, when Blacksad and Iris decide to go to a bar, the scene transitions with a recreation of the famous painting. | |
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"The Villain Sucks" Song | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_c1d57cf7 | comment |
"The Villain Sucks" Song: "Pizen Blues" turned out to be this. It's the story of how a Snake Oil Salesman ended up causing massive poisoning, birth difformities and stillborn, using his wealth the salesman escaped law and renamed himself Faust Lachapelle, now a band producer who shamelessly exploited two musicians with birth defects from his past and had one sent to jail to cover his past. | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_c2288824 | comment |
In Arctic Nation, Huk, a canine member of the Arctic Nation is in an affair with the leader's wife. Weekly catches them having sex from behind i.e. "Doggy Style". | |
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We Can Rule Together | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_c420a553 | comment |
We Can Rule Together: Ivo Statoc tries to offer Blacksad a job in his employ when he's finally tracked him down and already dispatched his bodyguards; Blacksad refuses. | |
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Nice Guy | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Amarillo, Chad decides to stop running away from his crimes and face justice, preventing Blacksad from being arrested for the murder he committed, but Neal ended up accidentally dying, and it's ambiguous whether or not Chad's story ends up published. Blacksad also ends up totalling two cars he borrowed with no way to repay the owners. | |
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Half-Breed Discrimination | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_c59d9a4b | comment |
Half-Breed Discrimination: Played with in Arctic Nation in regards to Blacksad himself. There's racism between the anthropomorphic animals based on fur color rather than species, so polar bears hang out with snowfoxes and black horses with rottweilers, etc. John Blacksad just happens to be a mostly black cat with a prominent white snout, so he attracts the distrust of both the Arctic Nation and the Black Crows. | |
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Cliffhanger | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_c6b8d37a | comment |
Cliffhanger: How book six ends. Weekly is framed for murdering Iris Allen. Meanwhile, Blacksad has finally found Alma Mayer again. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | comment |
The leader of the biker gang in the fifth album is a Shout-Out to Marlon Brando's character in The Wild One. | |
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Rage Breaking Point | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_c819533b | comment |
Rage Breaking Point: In Amarillo, Blacksad (an anthropomorphic black cat) and Neal (a hyena) hitch a ride with a racist parrot who keeps making derogatory remarks about "niggers" before smugly adding a "Just Joking" Justification. Blacksad tries to ignore it at first, but eventually reaches over to give the driver a black eye. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: In Amarillo, one of the FBI agents is a fan of MAD, but his partner lambasts him for being a grown man reading comic books. Blacksad itself is, of course, a comic book aimed at a mature audience. | |
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Wicked Weasel | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ca2608c5 | comment |
Wicked Weasel: Averted with Weekly; he's The Pigpen, but he's still a good guy. Played straight with the snide ermine henchman in Arctic Nation. They All Fall Down introduces the weasel mafia, of which all its members are mustelids (although not technically all weasels; one of them is a wolverine). | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Ivo Statoc from the first book. A self-made-toad who has become the most powerful man in New York and murdered Natalia and her lover. He uses his goons and his money to cover his tracks and shows no remorse for killing Natalia. Faust Lachapelle from the fourth book once sold a faulty drug in Louisiana, resulting in many deaths and birth defects. He bribed the local judges to avoid being sued and decades later still kills anyone who seeks to blow the whistle on him. Solomon from the sixth book is leading the "modernization" of transportation in New York City, i.e. an apostle for highways and other roadworks to the detriment of public transport. He's ruthless in dealing with opposition to his plans, up to ordering the murders of his main opponents. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Word of God | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_cc4b45f6 | comment |
The authors state that the species of each individual character was carefully chosen to represent who the character really is, and that the connection between the animal chosen and the personality of the character isn't always as obvious as the "cops=dogs" example. For instance he made bikers a bunch of sheep because of the gregarious aspects of the animals and character who are either ugly or disfigured are less anthropomorphic to underline it. | |
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1.0 | |
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Playboy Bunny | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_cc8564b3 | comment |
Playboy Bunny: They All Fall Down features a high-class party with bar maids in bunny outfits. Naturally, the girls actually are bunnies, so the ears aren't technically part of the costume. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_cc8564b3 | |
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LeaveTheTwoLoveBirdsAlone | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_cdaf14c0 | comment |
Leave The Two Love Birds Alone: Lampshaded and played with in Red Soul. Blacksad jokes that his real reason for throwing Weekly out of his own apartment (to hide Alma from the FBI) probably sounded unbelievable to Weekly, and the weasel probably thinks that he only did so in order to have an intimate moment with Alma. A mere few seconds later, Weekly is actually proven right. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Antagonist Title | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_cde51255 | comment |
Antagonist Title: Arctic Nation is the group of white fur supremacists in the album of the same name who serve as Blacksad's antagonists. It's eventually revealed as a subversion; the real antagonist was Jezebel, who orchestrated everything that happened to get revenge on her father. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d01cffbc | type |
Badass Longcoat | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d01cffbc | comment |
Badass Longcoat: As a rendition of the 50's private eye archetype, Blacksad is wearing the prototypical beige trenchcoat, sometimes accompanied by a suit. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d01cffbc | |
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Broken Bird | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d08595d3 | comment |
Broken Bird: Luanne in Amarillo She was forced to have an abortion at a young age to avoid a family scandal. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Rescue Equipment Attack | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d162969e | comment |
Rescue Equipment Attack: In "Somewhere Within the Shadows", Blacksad's first encounter with the antagonist's goons goes very poorly for him, thus in their second fight, he has the advantage of using a metal fire extinguisher as an Improvised Weapon. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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In Spite of a Nail | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d243518d | comment |
In Spite of a Nail: Despite (almost) everyone being anthro animals, and having many specific issues due to that fact, general history seems mostly unchanged, what with World War II and the Red Scare. The comic also uses real world locations instead of inventing its own cities. Blacksad lives and works in New York City, grew up in Amarillo, Texas, and visits New Orleans among other places. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d243518d | |
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Cry into Chest | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d5eed41c | comment |
Cry into Chest: Dinah does this with Blacksad. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d5eed41c | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d7b34c31 | comment |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The fox who works for the police department is only known as "Lieutnant". | |
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1.0 | |
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| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d8085f48 | type |
Hollywood Voodoo | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d8085f48 | comment |
Hollywood Voodoo: Used by an old lady ape in The Hell, The Silence. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_d8085f48 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dbca2c99 | type |
Red Herring | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: One that does not last long in Arctic Nation, Black Claws are blaming the son of a rich white tiger who have kidnapped a girl that is rumored to be his daughter. The father laughs it off as saying that no women will sleep with his son, who is a mentally disabled cheetah, and even muses that the kidnapped girl might be Karup's. He's off by one generation. | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dbca2c99 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dc579c91 | type |
Contrived Coincidence | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: In Amarillo, Neal is Chad's book agent, and as he's looking for Chad in Denver, one of the first people he chats up is a roadrunner who mentions that he was just fired from his job at the circus and replaced by some scruffy beatnik lion (read: Chad). Blacksad, who's also looking for Chad for unrelated reasons, just happens to walking right within earshot to hear this. Later in the story, the two FBI agents who come looking for Blacksad as a murder suspect coincidentally happen to be the same two FBI agents whom Blacksad made enemies of in Red Soul, and are all too happy to nail the guy who got them Reassigned to Antarctica before. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dc579c91 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dc80f7d | type |
Bodyguard Crush | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dc80f7d | comment |
Body Guard Crush: How Blacksad and Natalia began their relationship. After driving off a creepy florist sending death threats to Natalia, Blacksad used his charms to get in a relationship with Natalia, which lasted a while before they had a falling out. | |
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1.0 | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: Abraham Greenberg, a poet and a murder victim in the fifth album, made a cameo reciting his poems in the third one. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dcbe8a6e | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ddbbcf6a | type |
Idiosyncratic Cover Art | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ddbbcf6a | comment |
Idiosyncratic Cover Art: The covers of both parts of They All Fall Down forms a larger picture. | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ddbbcf6a | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ddda6dd8 | type |
PedoHunt | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ddda6dd8 | comment |
Pedo Hunt: Karup becomes the victim of this. See below. | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ddda6dd8 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dfb71617 | type |
Male Gaze | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dfb71617 | comment |
Male Gaze: In Arctic Nation, Blacksad takes a good look at Dinah through his left-side mirror when she walks away from his car at the drive-in theater. Later she changes clothes in front of him and he notices that she has a patch of white fur on her chest, which actually becomes a plot point later on. | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_dfb71617 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e15138cf | type |
Mysterious Protector | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e15138cf | comment |
Mysterious Protector: In A Silent Hell, Blacksad is thrown into the sea and almost drowns, but is saved by another mysterious cat with an orange fur and a distinctive siren tatoo on the chest. Blacksad asks who he is but the cat doesn't give any definitive answer before going away, never to be seen again. The endpaper illustration shows Blacksad as a child being dragged out of the water by someone with the same tatoo. | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e15138cf | |
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Reptiles Are Abhorrent | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e24d2d5c | comment |
Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Played straight in the first album; one of Ivo Statoc's henchmen is a lizard. He does get something of an Alas, Poor Villain moment though. Ribs, the henchman of third album, is a croc. However, averted with Hewitt Mandoline, Blacksad's first employer in the same story, who despite looking a bit like a Nouveau Riche is a nice person. | |
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-1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e24d2d5c | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e3ada02f | type |
Gender Equals Breed | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e3ada02f | comment |
Gender Equals Breed: Although it appears that most romances are between members of the same species, this still holds true to a certain extent. For example, Smirnov looks like a German Shepherd, and his wife is some kind of collie. Their children - a little boy and a girl — follow their parents' breeds. And the same for Sebastian and his wife, Hannah - their son looks far more like Sebastian. | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e3ada02f | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e3c70df1 | type |
Mister Big | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e3c70df1 | comment |
Mister Big: Elmore Kupka, a diminutive koala bear who not only has a half-interest in the Sunflower Circus (and seems to have the greater influence amongst the performers), but also stars as "Elmore the Clown", a mute tramp-like character playing off his own size for laughs. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e3c70df1 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e3ebcc2d | type |
Animal Jingoism | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e3ebcc2d | comment |
Animal Jingoism: The short story, "Like Cats and Dogs" uses this extensively, showing a moose yelling at a cougar (whom he apparently caught cheating with his wife), a lion sexually harassing a gazelle bellhop, a fox hotel manager yelling at a rabbit bellhop, vulture and hyena hobos fighting over the contents of a garbage can, a pack of wolf gangsters harassing a group of sheep collecting Salvation Army donations on the street corner. However, it subverts this at the end, where Blacksad (a cat) is meeting with his friend, Smirnov (a dog), for coffee, and all the extras also having coffee together in the cafe are animals that would be enemies in reality (such as a pigeon and a hawk, a hare and a lynx, a leopard and an antelope, and an owl and a squirrel). They All Fall Down presents animosity between subterranean animals and flying animals. Kenneth Clarke, as a bat, has a foot in both camps and isn't really viewed as part of either world. | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e3ebcc2d | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e60bda | type |
The Klan | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e60bda | comment |
The Klan: The Arctic Nation is a mix between this and the Nazi Party. At the beginning they wear uniforms resembling Nazi party ones complete with red armbands, and later wear ones resembling those of the KKK. Because this is a World of Funny Animals, they're white fur supremacists. | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e60bda | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e69efe7f | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e69efe7f | comment |
Played with in the album Arctic Nation. Jezebel refuses her husband Karup sexual relations, knowing full well that she's pretty much a social status symbol for the WASP police chief. She then seduces Karup's right-hand man Huk, telling him that Karup is actually cheating on her with their black maid Dinah. None of this is true: Jezebel and Dinah are sisters, and Karup's daughters. It's all part of a decades-long revenge scheme against their father for having left their mother to her death. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e69efe7f | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e7502007 | type |
Pull-the-Trigger Provocation | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e7502007 | comment |
Pull The Trigger Provocation: Blacksad is about to kill Ivo Statoc, the rich businessman who raped and murdered his former girlfriend, but still has his doubts whether he can really go through with a Vigilante Execution even after he already put Statoc's bodyguards in the hospital to get to him. Fortunately, Statoc's arrogant gloating about his own coldblooded nature and flashing a confident smirk angers Blacksad enough to pull the trigger. | |
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Sidekick | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e899b102 | comment |
Sidekick: Weekly from the second album onward, Neal in the fifth album. | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e899b102 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e8e3807 | type |
Aside Glance | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e8e3807 | comment |
Aside Glance: Weekly in Red Soul, when Blacksad throws him out of his own appartment in order to be alone with Alma. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e8e3807 | |
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Wolf Whistle | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_e936259b | comment |
Wolf Whistle: in both cases, Blacksad's sidekick is whistling at a woman he shouldn't be looking at too closely: In Arctic Nation, Weekly upon seeing Jezebel. In Amarillo, Neal upon seeing Donna. | |
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1.0 | |
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Angry Collar Grab | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ea466005 | comment |
Angry Collar Grab: Early on in Somewhere Within The Shadows, the titular detective searches for a florist who sends dead threats to Natalia, and grabs him by the collar with pistol on mouth◊. | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ea466005 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_eab212a8 | type |
Period Piece | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_eab212a8 | comment |
Period Piece: The stories are set in The '50s, and deal with all sorts of period-appropriate situations like the Red Scare, The Klan, beatniks, post-war jazz, the repercussions of the end of World War II, and The Korean War. | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_eab212a8 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_eb8f64a6 | type |
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_eb8f64a6 | comment |
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Abe and Chad try to steal a bike from a biker gang, but get caught. Blacksad intervenes to keep the gang from mauling them. They thank him by stealing his car behind his back. | |
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1.0 | |
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Rhino Rampage | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ed72657e | comment |
Rhino Rampage: One of Ivo Statoc's enforcers in the first album is an enormous rhino. Blacksad notes that fighting him is like trying to hit a locomotive; trying to punch him just injures Blacksad's hand. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Starscream | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_eedee4d | comment |
The Starscream: Huk the polar fox to Karup, he plots to have him framed as a pedophile so he can execute him and become the new Arctic leader. He is half successful. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Owl-Knowing One | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ef32c307 | comment |
The Owl-Knowing One: Otero and Liebber from Red Soul are both renowned owl scientists. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_ef32c307 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f005bd1c | type |
Friend on the Force | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f005bd1c | comment |
Friend on the Force: Commissioner Smirnov is one of the few friends Blacksad has and helped him on cases. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f005bd1c | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f1492605 | type |
Redemption Equals Death | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f1492605 | comment |
Redemption Equals Death: When Cotten threatens to tell the rest of Arctic Nation about the kidnapping he is promptly shot. | |
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War Is Hell | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f1d6144a | comment |
War Is Hell: Subtly implied by Blacksad in Amarillo, when he mentions that he went to Europe without getting any good memories. | |
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Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My! | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f61cddc9 | comment |
Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: A pair of human women are seen walking down the street in one panel of Somewhere Within The Shadows. | |
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| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f6b698ac | type |
Complexity Addiction | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f6b698ac | comment |
Complexity Addiction: John would probably never have found the connection between Ribs and Laszlo if the latter didn't make a bomb way too complex for the hitman specialized in shanking to build. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f6b698ac | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f85354eb | type |
Attempted Rape | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f85354eb | comment |
Polyphemus is a lecherous sun bear who works at the circus, and Chad catches him in an Attempted Rape. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f85354eb | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f9375414 | type |
FacePalm | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f9375414 | comment |
Face Palm: Blacksad after Weekly whistles upon seeing Karup's wife, Jezebel. | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f9375414 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f9e257ff | type |
American Eagle | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_f9e257ff | comment |
American Eagle: In an in-universe B-Movie about giant ants menacing the States, the President of the United States is portrayed as a bald eagle. The short story, "Spit At The Sky" also depicts Uncle Sam as an anthropomorphic bald eagle. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fb6b207f | type |
You Killed My Father | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fb6b207f | comment |
You Killed My Father: This is what drives Jezebel Karup is actually her biological father who left Jezebel's mother for dead years ago after she became pregnant. Jezebel and her sister blame Karup for their mother's suffering and eventual death and hatched a complex revenge plot to get back at him. | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fb6b207f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fb6b207f | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fd1f1a63 | type |
Ridiculously Cute Critter | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fd1f1a63 | comment |
Ridiculously Cute Critter: All the children. Kylie, the little Zebra who plays with her, the children in Karup's choir, Smirnov's puppies, and Ray, Blacksad's nephew. And, despite not being a kid, Weekly. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fd1f1a63 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fd497706 | type |
Accidental Murder | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fd497706 | comment |
Accidental Murder: In Amarillo, Chad and Neal have a heated argument, Neal tries to step away, Chad grabs his suit's sleeve... which rips apart, causing Neal to stumble and fall in front of a moving bus. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fd497706 | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb | type |
Brick Joke | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: In the first scene of Amarillo, Abe Greenberg burns his own poetry and says that the place of Chad's novel (written on a roll of paper) is "in a bathroom so people can wipe their ass with it". In the end, Chad ends up leaving the roll in a bathroom of a train station in Chicago, where someone finds it and starts reading it. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fed07537 | type |
Mighty Whitey | |
| Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fed07537 | comment |
Mighty Whitey: Played with in Arctic Nation. Plus, considering Blacksad himself is a black cat... or more precisely, a black and white cat. Which explains why neither the 'Arctic Nation' nor 'The Black Claws' can stand him. He even makes a smart-ass comment about it; when the Arctic Nation first comes around to harass him, he points to the white patch on his face and says, "What, isn't this enough white for you?". Later when a black horse tries to cover the white patch with black paint, Blacksad very seriously threatens to shoot him in the gut. | |
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Blacksad (Comic Book) / int_fed07537 | |
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