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Wakfu provides examples of the following tropes:
"The Justice Knight: Justice calls for... Justice!
 * Darkest Hour: The season 1 finale.
 * Dark-Skinned Redhead:
 * A Day in the Limelight
 * Episode 20 is mostly spent exploring Evangelyne's psyche.
 * Sadlygrove gets one two episodes later.
 * Deadly Dodging: Another use of Yugo's portals, by going through them or having the enemy going through them. A good fighting tactic against Igôle in episode 21,.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Evangelyne; Ruel
 * Death Course
 * The treasure room security in episode 9.
 * The Dragon-Pig's lair in season 2 episode 5.
 * Death Glare: Ruel's grandmother will give you one if you ever say the word "borrow". Or "discount". Or "refund". Or... well, any suggestion you could pay less than her tariff.
 * Delayed Causality
 * Sadlygrove's sword slashes often go according to this, but they split stuff immediately just as often according to Rule of Drama. For example in episode 20, when he.
 * Also, the snow sculptures sliced in halves by Ruel in episode 17.
 * Remington's boomerang has this effect on buildings.
 * Demonic Possession: Shushu guardians technically exist to prevent this from happening, but Sadlygrove is not very good at it, and has been possessed by Rubilax on more than one occasion.
 * In episode 6.
 * Rubilax has also possessed in episode 7.
 * In episode 25,.
 * Grany Smisse has this happen to him on purpose in season 2.
 * In season 2 episode 2, we learn that . This is remedied a few episodes later.
 * Anathar was the Shushu possessing . Anathar later does the same thing to.
 * Demon Lords and Archdevils
 * Rushu the Lord of Shushus;
 * Osamodas, who, while being technically regarded as a god, is just a very powerful demon.
 * Department of Redundancy Department:

Jactance: This is literally literal!!"

"Amalia: Why is she always the one getting kidnapped? I'm the princess!"
 * Depth Deception
 * Played with in episode 14 with Moon's entrance, with shadows and a close-up obfuscating temporarily the fact that the monkey isn't quite the expected size.
 * Also when Rubilax in episode 22; it isn't immediately obvious that.
 * Despair Event Horizon
 * In episode 25, when . Everything from Eva's reaction, to the fact that even Rubilax is visibly saddened by it combines to create an utterly crushing moment. And as if to defy the very idea of a Despair Event Horizon, it proceeds to get worse.
 * Arguably manages to cross it twice. The first time  and the second.
 * Destructive Saviour: It seems that every time our Five-Man Band tries to save a village from invaders, they level at least half of it in the fight anyway.
 * Detect Evil: Grougaloragran can see auras and detect evil. Unfortunately, the heroes accidentally spurs the ancient dragon to attack by.
 * Determinator
 * Sadlygrove. He seems to have gotten this from his mentor,.
 * Also, Nox, in an obsessive, highly demented sort of way.
 * Deus Ex Machina: Twice in episode 25. First when, and second when . Both were conveniently too late to prevent.
 * Devour the Dragon: for a power boost when he realizes  is stronger than him.
 * Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Grany Smisse is used as a diversion to distract Rushu.
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: kicks  ass almost effortlessly
 * Died in Your Arms Tonight: Episode 25 has.
 * Disney Villain Death: in episode 3 of season 2.
 * Distracting Disambiguation: While fighting a villain named "The Black Raven", Yugo makes the point that all ravens are black. The team then immediately drops what they're doing in order to work on a better name for him.
 * Distressed Damsel
 * Parodied in episode 4, with Sadlygrove lured into the cursed castle by a promise of Damsels in Distress... to end up in the role, captured by the Ugly Princesses.
 * This happens more often to Evangelyne than Amalia. Even lampshaded in episode 18:

"Yugo: Look at his cape! It's moving by itself!"
 * Distressed Dude
 * Sadlygrove in season 1 episode 4, "Miss Ugly".
 * Yugo in season 2 episode 4,.
 * Ruel in season 2 episode 5, "The Dragon-Pig".
 * Divine Intervention: Spoofed in episode 16 when Ruel asks Enutrof himself for a miracle to, promising to "double his offerings" if his prayer is answered. This results in.
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the episode "Cléophée", Sadlygrove tries to use Rubilax in the ring (by making him grow bigger). After a couple of failed attempts, he adds "I'm sorry, this is the first time this has happened to me."
 * Does Not Like Shoes
 * Amalia is most usually barefoot (except during both Gobbowl arcs, in the polar region in episodes 17-18, or when dressed in full princess regalia).
 * Sadlygrove seems to have lost his shoes sometime after episode 22.
 * The Doll Episode: Nox shows his talent for mechanical Puppet Shows in the bonus episode, but that was just the precursor to his puppet shows recreating in episode 24. Logically it should be touching that he's made a puppet show to remind him of that, but it's just really, really creepy.
 * Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: In season 2 episode 9, quickly learns that lacking respect for Rushu is suicidal.
 * Doomed Hometown: Emelka. Within the first episode, it's wrecked by a monstrous possessed berserker and attacked by vengeful forest spirits that turn many inhabitants into plants. Sure, they got better, but then they're paid a visit by a crazy time mage right afterwards...
 * Door Step Baby: Yugo
 * Dragged Off to Hell:, as seen in season 2 episode 4.
 * The Dragon: Anathar, to Rushu.
 * Dramatic Gun Cock: A very shotgun-esque one by the bamboo squirt guns in episode 13 of season 2.
 * Dramatic Thunder
 * Dramatic Unmask
 * The Black Raven tries one, but the drama fails a bit from the helmet being shortly stuck.
 * The Masked Gobbowler has a straighter example.
 * Dramatic Wind: Lampshaded in episode 6.

"Yugo: I love the stars. Sometimes it feels like my real home is somewhere up there."
 * Drill Tank: Ruel has one that he uses in episode 25.
 * Driven to Suicide: in the credits of episode 26. After realizing that, he simply lies down and dies next to . Of course,.
 * Dropped a Bridge on Him:
 * Drunken Boxing: Pandawas
 * Dub Name Change: The German dub renames the entire Five-Man Band.
 * Yugo -- Yago (This one's justified in that "Yugo" is considered offensive slang in Germany.)
 * Tristepin Percedal -- Tristamax Percidral
 * Evangelyne -- Angelya
 * Amalia -- Amaya
 * Ruel Stroud -- Ruel Struut
 * Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Qilby
 * Dumb Muscle: The Iop class, including Sadlygrove.
 * Dungeon Crawling: A few of the heroes' adventures. The Dragon-Pig's lair in season 2 episode 5 hangs a lampshade on the whole thing, with a map alluding of the traps to come, and a few meta references to online RPGs.
 * Dynamic Entry
 * Earn Your Happy Ending: Debatable. On the one hand the overall tone of the season 1 ending fits with this trope, on the other hand.
 * The Easy Way or the Hard Way: Remington Smisse, on his first confrontation with Evangelyne. With rhymes to boot.
 * Eenie Meenie Miny Moai: A fox version thereof in episode 15 of season 2.
 * Egg MacGuffin
 * 's dofus in the second half of season 1.
 * in season 2 episode 6, passing the baton to Shinonome's dofus for the rest of the second season.
 * Egopolis: Rubilaxia.
 * Elemental Powers: Yugo and Nox use space and time, respectively, and the Sadidas control plants (the Chinese element wood). On the minor characters' side, Vampyro (or rather ) can control darkness/shadows, and (if you really want to stretch the definition of "element") Chouquette can control pastries.
 * Embarrassing First Name: The Mmmmmmmmmporpg's true name is . It's also his Berserk Button.
 * Embarrassing Nickname: Sir Sadlygrove Percedal has a real name much cooler than his nickname, which is either "Grovy" or "Dally" depending on if you subscribe to fansubs or the official English translation. It's even worse in the original French: Sadlygrove's name is originally Tristepin (an almost literal translation), and his nickname is "Pinpin". His master,, calls him "Pipoun". Guess you can't go lower than that for a fearsome warrior.
 * Empathic Environment
 * Empathy Doll Shot: In the village devastated by Rubilaxia.
 * Enemy Mine: Evangelyne and Remington Smisse against in "Rubilaxia".
 * Energy Ball
 * Razortime fire balls of "Pure Stasis". It's the most deadly weapon the heroes have faced so far.
 * Adamaï can also shoot small wakfu balls (though they're the same color as Stasis), notably in his fight against Igôle.
 * Episode Title Card: With the start of season 2.
 * "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Season 1, episode 5 "Vampyro".
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The "Female Captain".
 * Everyone Meets Everyone: The first two episodes.
 * Everything's Better with Chocolate: McDeek is defeated by chocolate.
 * Everything's Better with Princesses
 * Amalia, who is also a Rebellious Princess.
 * Episode 4 is packed with both real and fake ones.
 * Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Devons-nous en dire plus ?
 * Evil Laugh
 * Nox has an especially demented one.
 * Evangelyne does an honorable attempt in episode 13.
 * Lampshaded in season 2 episode 3 when Remington berates Grany for copying his laugh.
 * Evil Makeover:
 * Evil Plan: While its evilness is arguable, Nox's plan is to drain the wakfu of more or less everything in order to.
 * Evil Weapon
 * Rubilax; see Sealed Evil in a Can.
 * Season 2 episodes 2-3 are loaded with weapon Shushus of every kind.
 * Evolving Credits: In Season 1, the last shot of the opening is Yugo (or Sadlygrove for the episodes focused on his character arc) flying towards a villain whose size is exaggerated for dramatic effect. The villain in question is always that particular episode's Villain of the Week (until the last episode, which uses Nox). In Season 2, the shot of Ruel throwing his shovel is replaced with after episode 5.
 * Exactly What I Aimed At: Evangelyne against Remington in season 2 episode 2 -- her light arrows didn't miss, she was aiming at crashing a house on him. Same thing with.
 * Expansion Pack Past: Ruel, who was among other things a Gobbowl star and a rockstar.
 * Expecting Someone Taller: The Sadida children in season 2 episode 6, about.
 * Expressive Hair: Sadlygrove's Shonen Hair, sometimes, like when it flops at the sight of Ruel's giant guard dog.
 * Expressive Mask
 * Smisse Monde and his pirates;
 * Remington Smisse;
 * The air pirates in season 2;
 * Justice Knight
 * Eyedscreen
 * Eyes Do Not Belong There: Anathar-possessed . Hell, just Anathar in general.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Qilby
 * Elaine
 * Extra Eyes: Almost everyone possessed by a Shushu.
 * Faceless Goons
 * Nox's Grouilleux.
 * The Sufokian Navy with their diving helmet gear.
 * Face Palm
 * Sadlygrove often inspires this to his friends, usually accompanied by them calling him a "Iop brain". Eva goes for the [[media:Wakfu_Facepalm_9735.jpg|two-handed facepalm]] in episode 19 when Grovy gets himself into a duel with Prince Armand.
 * Jay the Iop also spurs Kriss Krass to facepalm during the Bontarian Gobbowl match.
 * Rushu facepalms when he thinks Anathar has just crushed his precious Eliatrope prisoner.
 * Faceless Eye: Rubilax, as well as many other Shushus imprisoned in items.
 * Facial Composite Failure: The poster of Nox's minions done by Renate in episode 24 results in.
 * Fake-Out Make-Out: Kriss Krass to his friend Maude; it was used to hide the fact that she plays Gobbowl.
 * Faking the Dead:
 * Failed Attempt At Drama: Sadlygrove is a repeat offender.
 * One of the most drawn-out example is certainly during the Bontarian Gobbowl arc, after the start of the second quarter-time. Grovy seizes the ball to everyone's surprise and runs, along with a very uplifiting music, dramatic echo of Ruel's earlier psych-up speech and Split-Screen Reaction of everybody else... and he scores! Except it is revealed after a few seconds of shocked silence that
 * Fainting
 * This can happen to Ruel when he has no choice but to spend his money.
 * Slo-Mo the Brâkmarian referee faints twice at the sight of women actually playing Gobbowl.
 * Elaine faints after Evangelyne and Cléophée "delicately" propel their boat down a cliff.
 * Fan Disservice
 * Ruel's "ugly princess" disguise in season 1 episode 4. As well as the real Ugly Princesses in general.
 * Sadlygrove's Imagine Spot of.
 * Fan Service: Some notable instances:
 * Episode 4: She Cleans Up Nicely, Modesty Towel, Foot Focus, Male Gaze, and Impossibly Low Neckline.
 * Episode 6: Go-Go Enslavement, Sexy Backless Outfit...
 * The girls as Cheerleaders in the Bontarian Gobbowl arc.
 * Episode 22: Mating Dance, Shower Scene, Shirtless Scene...
 * Fanservice Extra: Many, many background characters.
 * Chochanna, the baking contestant from episode 8.
 * The Red Gobballs' Eniripsas (healers), as well as the Cheerleaders, Pit Girls and some female spectators during the Bontarian Gobbowl arc.
 * In season 2 episode 11, an extra who had been gender-bent by a magic potion suddenly returns to her female form... topless.
 * Fantastic Nuke: Grand-scale wakfu explosions.
 * Fantastic Science
 * The "magical science" of the Eliatropes.
 * Also how Nox studies time magic.
 * Fantasy Character Classes
 * Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Pandalusia is a mix somewhere between China and Japan.
 * Fantasy Pantheon: The twelve gods of the World of Twelve.
 * Farm Boy: Yugo being raised by Alibert, the owner of the local inn and mayor of the peaceful, rural Emelka.
 * Fastball Special
 * Ruel propels Yugo toward the Monster of the Week at the end of every season 1 Title Sequence (save a few with Sadlygrove).
 * Rushu and Anathar plain and simply use minor Shushus as projectiles -- while keeping count of their scores.
 * Faux Affably Evil: Rubilax
 * Fictional Sport: Gobbowl -- but apparently no longer as Ankama has held a real-life tournament.
 * Fighting From the Inside: Adamaï,
 * Finale Credits: Episode 26's credits show most of the secondary characters and what they've become. Awwwww.
 * Find the Cure: Episode 7.
 * Fingerless Gloves: Part of Evangelyne's season 2 outfit.
 * Fireballs: Bound to show up when Grougaloragran fights in humanoid form.
 * Five-Man Band
 * Yugo is The Hero;
 * Sir Sadlygrove Percedal is The Big Guy (and also The Ditz and the Idiot Hero);
 * Ruel Stroud is the Cool Old Guy with shades of The Smart Guy;
 * Evangelyne is The Lancer;
 * Amalia is The Chick;
 * And then there's Az the Tofu, a small bird-thing that can only be the Team Pet.
 * By that proxy, is The Sixth Ranger in season 1, and  in season 2.
 * Flaming Sword: Bourlof the Butcher
 * Flash Back
 * How the Ugly Princesses received their curse in episode 4.
 * Botan Ficus telling the backstory of the Kaniboules in episode 14.
 * Sadlygrove talking about his past adventures over in episode 22.
 * Qilby narrating in season 2 episode 6.
 * Ruel remembering his childhood in season 2 episode 7.
 * Flashback Effects: Various.
 * Mostly by using Art Shift, as with Botan Ficus or Quilby's flashbacks.
 * The scenes illustrating the Ugly Princesses' story are surrounded by Flower Motifs.
 * The ones from Sadlygrove in episode 22 use the same naïve and Super-Deformed style than Mini-Wakfu.
 * Ruel's flashback in season 2 episode 7 is desaturated, and with the sound and quality of a Super 8 film.
 * Floating Continent: The landscape of Rushu's World is mainly constitued of floating landmasses.
 * Floating in A Bubble: Yugo and Az in episode 15.
 * Flower in Her Hair: Amalia. It stays alive due to her Sadida powers, as seen when it begins to wilt in episode 7 after she has been poisoned. As if not enough, she sometimes adds another flower on the opposite side.
 * Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Parts of Incarnam.
 * Fluffy Tamer: Lotie the Osamodas (the little girl from season 1 episode 23).
 * Flynning: Intentionally used during the pirate assault in episode 18, as a parody of swashbuckling movies.
 * Fog Feet
 * McDeek the Genie, in his true form, has a long trail of purple smoke instead of legs.
 * Rushu, lords of the Shushus, is a special case: he can turn his lower body into searing flames.
 * The Fog of Ages
 * Grougaloragran
 * Follow the Bouncing Ball: The opening of episode 14 of season 2 has this -- with a Tofu, fittingly.
 * Food Porn: The show sometimes delves into this, with for example Yugo's blanquette or the feast at the end of the Bontarian Gobbowl arc. And then there's the whole of episode 8 and its bakery contest; even its Monster of the Week can make you salivate.
 * Foot Focus
 * Amalia is constantly barefoot, and close-ups are common.
 * Evangelyne has some moments, too (doing cartwheels in episode 4, fighting in nightgown in episode 6...).
 * Foreshadowing
 * After episode 25, you will not be able to rewatch the "Gobbowl Hell" arc with anything approaching the same frame of mind. The phrase takes on a whole different meaning.
 * in episode 20. He does it again during his rallying speech in episode 25.
 * There is possible foreshadowing for the end of season 1 as early as episode 2.
 * Yugo's talk with Amalia in episode 13:
 * Yugo's talk with Amalia in episode 13:


 * has been featured in the opening credits since the very beginning.
 * For the Evulz
 * This is the standard motivation for Shushus.
 * Remington Smisse sure likes to be a backstabbing dick for the sake of being a backstabbing dick. Even though every act of pointless villainy he commits ends poorly for him.
 * Four-Fingered Hands
 * Vampyro's ghouls have four fingers... but when they go back to humans, they get a normal five-fingered hands.
 * Ditto with Sadlygrove, when he lets Rubilax possess him.
 * And Adamaï while in humanoid form.
 * Freeze-Frame Bonus
 * Friend to All Living Things: Amalia
 * From Nobody to Nightmare: Nox. From a debt-ridden watchkmaker to a destroyer of whole civilizations.
 * Frothy Mugs of Water: Aktator the Pandawa is said to have fallen in a barrel of bamboo "milk" when little. In Dofus, Pandawas actually gain their strength by drinking bamboo alcohol.
 * Full-Moon Silhouette: Both Evangelyne and Remington is season 2 episode 3.
 * Funbag Airbag: Amalia and Evangelyne seem to have some little animals doing this to them...
 * Funny Background Event: Ankama put a lot of detail into every scene; you have to watch the episodes several times to notice a lot of things going on in the background.
 * Furo Scene: Happens in "The Voice Thief" (season 2 episode 14) with Amalia and Eva.
 * Fusion Dance: Ruel's grandmother and her Dhreller can merge before a fight.