Wakfu/Tropes G-I

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Wakfu provides examples of the following tropes:

 * Gaia's Vengeance: The Polters attacking Emelka in reaction to the ravages caused by the Noxines.
 * Gainaxing
 * Subtle, but it's definitely there with Prince Adale's Bridge Bunnies. It helps that they are pretty busty compared to the series' standards.
 * Amalia has some as well when she jumps up fast enough.
 * Gender Bender: as well as a few extras during the Brâkmarian Gobbowl arc, thanks to a magic potion. Unusually, all of them are strictly female-to-male gender benders. Justified Trope since women aren't allowed to even watch Gobbowl matches, let alone participate, in Brâkmar. The vendors make a killing selling the potions to female sports fans.
 * Gender Blender Name:
 * Gene Hunting: The most part of the first season revolves around Yugo searching for his origin.
 * Genre Savvy: in the Dragon-Pig's lair. Because he usually is the Butt Monkey, no-one listens to him. Which is a mistake.
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: Has its own page.
 * Ghibli Hills: The Forbidden Forest next to Emelka. Honestly, the Polters are even reminiscent of the Nature Spirits from Princess Mononoke.
 * The Ghost: The king of Bonta.
 * Giant Squid: Grougaloragran's chosen form to restrict the access to Oma Island.
 * Giggling Villain:
 * Girl in the Tower: Spoofed in season 1 episode 4.
 * Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: The Brâkmarian prosecutor.
 * The Glasses Come Off:
 * A Glass in the Hand
 * Xav the Baker crushes a loaf of bread in anger in episode 8.
 * Rushu crushes his cup at the beginning of the "Rush".
 * Glass-Shattering Sound: During the credit roll for season 2 episode 14, Amalia tries to sing the show's theme song and shatters the camera lens on the last note.
 * Global Currency: Kamas.
 * Glory Days: Kabrok's main source of depression.
 * A God Am I
 * Willow, in episode 14.
 * Also Nox, depending on how much wakfu he drains from the Eliacube.
 * Go-Go Enslavement: Evangelyne in "Vampyro".
 * Gold Tooth: All of McDeek's teeth after he starts absorbing Ruel's treasure.
 * Golem: Several; some are Improvised Golems (see below). For the more permanent ones:
 * A Bread Golem in episode 8.
 * A Stone Golem in episode 23.
 * Another golem is described as the Mid Boss of the Dragon-Pig's lair in season 2 episode 5.
 * Good Colors, Evil Colors: While normal Xelors sport a white/grey/blue color theme, Nox himself (and his minions) has a dark grey/black/brown one.
 * Goofy Print Underwear: Yugo's boxers sport a pair of Tofus.
 * Gosh Hornet: Elaine steps onto a hive and the typical running and jumping into a nearby pond ensues in episode 21 of season 2.
 * Grand Theft Me
 * What Shadofang plans with Evangelyne's body in "Vampyro".
 * pre-season 2.
 * Gratuitous English
 * Every other word that comes out of Yugo's mouth is "cool", though it's more of a French colloquialism than intentionally gratuitous English.
 * "Le Rush" in the Shushu world.
 * Gratuitous Japanese: Season 2 episode 22 as a whole fight with a Japanese song as background music, worthy of any Shonen Anime.
 * Gray Eyes: Sufokian general Frida Mofette.
 * The Great Flood: Ogrest's Chaos.
 * Green Around the Gills: Sadlygrove whenever he's aboard a boat.
 * Green Thumb: The Sadida people.
 * Groin Attack
 * Very narrowly avoided in episode 16, when a big stalactite falls right between Sadlygrove's legs -- which Rubilax finds uproariously funny.
 * gets kicked by Evangelyne below the belt line in season 2 episode 3.
 * Also happens to Ruel in episode 16 of season 2 by a bratty Iop child.
 * Ground-Shattering Landing
 * Group Hug: One happens in season 2 episode 3 when Yugo, Amalia, and Ruel find out that.
 * Growling Gut
 * Yugo in episode 6.
 * Yugo, Ruel and in season 2 episode 5, lengthily, to the point Amalia complains.
 * Guns Akimbo: Remington Smisse's dual Shushu pistols.
 * Guys Smash Girls Shoot: Evangelyne and Amalia primarily attack from a range, while Ruel, Yugo and Sadlygrove favor more close combat. Cléophée subverts this somewhat.
 * Hammerspace Hideaway: Ruel's Havresac.
 * Hand Behind Head: Yugo does this in episode 6.
 * Hand or Object Underwear: In season 2 episode 11, the gender-bent Fanservice Extra trying to sneak in the stadium covers her chest with an arm when the potion stops having effect. Later,.
 * Happily Adopted
 * Yugo, by Alibert.
 * Elaine, by Encre Noire.
 * Harmony Versus Discipline: The concepts of Wakfu (life, creation, nature) and Stasis (death, destruction, machines).
 * Hartman Hips: Oh, dem hips...
 * Hat Damage: Yugo's hat takes quite the beatdown in episode 26.
 * Have You Seen My God?: Besides the 12 main gods there is also the goddess Eliatrope who apparently vanished along with the Eliatropes.
 * Head Pet
 * Az, from times to times.
 * Some Sadidas have whole bird nests in their hair.
 * Encre Noire sometimes rides his adopted daughter Elaine's head.
 * Heart Symbol: Seen occasionally floating around Sadlygrove when he looks at Evangelyne.
 * Henpecked Husband: Kabrok
 * Heroic Sacrifice: in episode 25.


 * Hold Up Your Score: Sadlygrove in episode 4, when he's judging the beauty... ahem, ugly pageant.
 * Hold Your Hippogriffs: For any Earth-based expression using an animal, it is replaced with a species from the world of Wakfu -- though the name used is always close enough to keep the meaning readily understandable. And it's not just animals: the first spoken line in the entire series is roughly, "What the bwork?"
 * Hollywood Mirage: Happens to Sadlygrove in episode 22.
 * Homage
 * Episode 5; the title can be translated as "The Magnificent Five", which is an obvious reference to the 1960s western The Magnificent Seven. The episode itself is about the Five-Man Band teaching a village how to protect themselves from pillagers, which mirrors the plot of the film.
 * The first season's three-episode Gobbowl arc was largely inspired by the "Rugball" arc of Space Adventure Cobra, including its typical Pastel-Chalked Freeze-Frame.
 * A good chunk of episode 14 is a homage to King Kong, complete with Captured by Cannibals, Distressed Damsel, Beauty and The Beast and Monkeys. Only the monkey's size is not really the same.
 * Home Base: The Justice Knight's hideout.
 * Hopeless Suitor: Armand toward Evangelyne, who has absolutely no interest in the prince and considers him an egotistical dick with pig breath.
 * Hope Spot
 * A minor one in episode 24. For a little while it looks like the Sadidas might be able to defeat Nox's minions before they can construct a portal to bring in his giant clockwork-spider doom-fortress. Unfortunately.
 * Far, far worse in the finale, when.
 * Horned Humanoid: Osamodas
 * Horrifying the Horror
 * Rubilax in full rampage mode stops dead on his tracks at the mere sight of (and tries to inconspicuously slither away while in the body of a giant worm -- hilarious).
 * Several cases in succession with the chase from episode 21 of season 2, turning it pretty much into a Benny Hill scene.
 * Horror Hunger: Subverted with "The Thursters" as they are a race of intangible ghouls who are cut off from ever touching what they treasure, stranding them in an eternal, lonely thirst.
 * Horse Archer: Or rather, Dragoturkey Archer. Evangelyne is riding a dragoturkey the first time we see her wielding her bow. She's riding one again in episode 24 and in season 2 episode 2.
 * Horse of a Different Color: The most common steed in this world is the dragoturkey ("dragodinde" in the original French). Also, some of these large birds can fly.
 * Hot Mom
 * Amalia's mother was quite the looker,.
 * Let's not forget Helen, Xav's wife.
 * And as seen at the end of the first season credits:.
 * Hot Skitty-On-Wailord Action: The backstory of the Dragon-Pig has him being the result of a romance between a dragon and a sow....
 * How Dare You Die on Me!: In episode 26:


 * Hufflepuff House: Sufokia
 * Human Hummingbird
 * Done by some characters when about to fall, notably Evangelyne in episodes 4 and 20.
 * Also Yugo starting to cook under the desert sun in episode 21.
 * Hurricane Kick: against the Dragon-Pig.
 * Hurricane of Puns: Some of the character entries on the Wakfu official website. The one for the Dragon-Pig is especially bad about it.
 * Hypocritical Humor: Occasionally shows up.
 * In season 1 episode 8, Evangelyne scolds Sadlygrove for his bad table manners... just before starting wolfing down herself.
 * Season 2 episode 5 has the "I Warned You" example below.
 * I Am Not Shazam: In-universe example. The names of the races and the gods that they follow are often used interchangeably. For example, an Enutrof's Fingers (a follower of the god Enutrof), is often just called "an Enutrof".
 * I Am Who?: Yugo finding out he is the last of the Eliatropes.
 * The Igor: Igor, who speaks with a strong Eastern-European accent, clearly evokes this. He's not a hunchback, however, but a huge Shushu mirror.

"Rushu: You think you can upset me your insults?
 * Ignored Enemy: Happens to the Black Raven in episode 3, while our heroes discuss how (un)intimidating his name sounds, even coming up with alternative suggestions on their own.
 * I Have You Now, My Pretty: Happens twice to Evangelyne, first with Vampyro, and then with the pirate captain Smisse Monde.
 * "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
 * Evangelyne tries this on a Rubilax-possessed Sadlygrove in season 1 episode 19. However, he only starts regaining his senses
 * Attempted by Amalia in season 2 episode 21. Doesn't work much.
 * I Meant to Do That
 * Sadlygrove, during the duel against Prince Armand.
 * Kriss Krass, during the match against the Masked Gobbowler.
 * Immortality Inducer: The Eliacube to Nox.
 * I'm Okay
 * Given by Yugo several times in season 1 episode 21 after he constantly falls or runs into things.
 * Amalia protests this in season 2 episode 12, after she's been put in a full-body cast and the two commentators basically start her obituary.
 * The Imp: Grufon qualifies as the harmless kind while sealed in the map... but in episode 13.
 * Important Haircut
 * Kriss at the end of episode 12.
 * Evangelyne at the end of season 2's first episode.
 * Improbable Weapon User: Almost every character has his own improbable weapon.
 * Ruel uses a shovel (and fake gold pieces) to fight.
 * Amalia, like many Sadida, uses a veggie doll.
 * The Black Raven uses a spear/sword which is twice as big as him.
 * Xav the baker use a wooden baker plate.
 * Goultard uses a broken sword tied to a chain.
 * In "Vampyro", even the Tofu is used as a weapon!
 * That's how it works in the original game, too. There's only a few exceptions, like swords and unarmed combat. There's even a class which is designed to fight with giant clockwork needles!
 * Nox's Clockwork Mecha of Doom is at its simplest a giant ambulatory pocket watch.
 * Improvised Golems
 * Rubilax's stone clones fit in this category.
 * Adamaï summons a stone golem to fight in both episode 15 of the first season, and episode 1 of the second season.
 * In a Single Bound
 * Sadlygrove possessed by Rubilax.
 * Goultard
 * Indy Escape: In the Dragon-Pig's lair, as a staple of any Temple of Doom. You can tell it's going to be this from a glance at the map before it's even shown on screen.
 * Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress: Yugo's portals work this way, but given his ability to orient them any way he wishes, it's quite effective.
 * Innocuously Important Episode: Episode 6 of season 1, "Vampyro", looks similar to any other Wacky Wayside Tribe Filler, but it introduces several elements that will prove important by season 2, especially.
 * Instant Ice, Just Add Cold
 * Whenever Evangelyne uses an ice arrow, lots of ice form around the point of impact.
 * Nausea encases Rubilax in ice with a magic potion in episode 7.
 * McDeek's freezing ray in episode 9.
 * The classic comic-relief-encased-in-a-square-block-of-ice happens to Sadlygrove (and Rubilax) in episode 17 after falling in a frozen lake. Adamaï melts the ice with his fire breath.
 * Insult Backfire: The Iop King uses the ongoing insult of his race being Dumb Muscle to his favor towards helping Quilby, claiming that the Iops' brains are too small to consider treachery.
 * Interspecies Adoption: Elaine
 * In the End You Are on Your Own: Yugo against Nox in the season finale.
 * I Shall Taunt You: Goultard is not afraid to mock even a Physical God:

Goultard: By Iop, no! I know you're way too stupid to understand even half of it."


 * And that's saying something when you come from a species known for being dim.

": I wouldn't want to play the "I warned you" card... (deep breath) BUT I WARNED YOU!"
 * It Always Rains At Funerals: In episode 22 of season 2.
 * It Has Been an Honor: Evangelyne in episode 7, when surrounded by an army of evil dolls.
 * I Want Them Alive: Nox specifically orders Igôle to bring back Adamaï "without damaging him too much", since he wants to drain his wakfu. Thus explaining why Igôle would swallow whole the dragonet with no more damage than locking his shapechange.
 * I Warned You: In season 2 episode 5,.