History Characters / GirlGeniusAntagonists

* TheVirus: Uses Slaver Wasps for mind control.

* CapturedSuperEntity: One version of her was trapped and tamed by [[spoiler: Zola, allowing her to become "the Queen of the Dawn" using Lucrezia's slaver wasps]].

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Seems to be completely incapable of working with anyone without turning on them. Her response to a genuine offer of assistance is to plan to vivisect the girl who offers (though the girl in question manages to outwit her quite thoroughly).

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Lu/Agatha had managed to [[spoiler:break past Agatha's locket and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190809 take over her body]]]] in England, using this as a chance to sabatoge the exorcism machine. The only reason this plan didn't work is because she decided to brag about it to Agatha's friends ''while she was doing it.'' Had Lucrezia not been such a [[{{Pride}} tremendous show-off]], she might have actually won.
* DirtyOldWoman: She flirted with Tarvek, Lars and Martellus in Agatha's body despite being technically old enough to be their mother [[spoiler:and potentially old enough to be their ''ancestor'' if one factors the time travel aspects she allegedly has.]] In the novels, which show off her P.O.V., she's definitely planning on going a little further than just ''flirting''.

* EnlightenedAntagonist: [[spoiler:When the copy of her possessing Agatha achieves second breakthrough and possibly more, Tarvek desperately hopes that achieving enlightenment will cause her to realize that her evil schemes will not make her happy. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.]]
* EnlightenmentSuperpowers:
** [[spoiler:The copy of her possessing Agatha manages to grow her spark into a flame, achieving second breakthrough and more. Unlike the previous people to achieve it, she manages to do so without even requiring an external dimensional energy source.]]
** [[spoiler: The copy of her in the Anevka clank also manages to achieve second breakthrough, despite using a non-sparky mechanical brain, somehow mentally controlling the surrounding dimensional energy.]]

* TheHeavy: Of Volumes 2-7 (20) through 2-10 (23). Despite being the NonActionBigBad of much of the comic, the England and Rat Island arcs have her -- specifically her Clank/[[spoiler:Anevka]] form -- play a more direct antagonistic role as the heroes try to take back Prendee's Lantern from her.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Offers to "ride along" in Zola's head so she can leave Agatha to die, especially since Agatha's brooch supresses her. Turns out, Zola can control and supress her ''even without external mechanisms'' which means that unless Zola is unconscious, Lucretia can't do anything with that body while Zola gains all her knowledge.

* IShallTauntYou: She tries to provoke Queen Albia into killing her current host before she can question her by taunting the queen about what she did to her sister queens. Queen Albia admits that it almost worked.

* NonActionBigBad: Most Sparks in this series are dangerous fighters. Lucrezia isn't, and when she's forced into combat, she's quickly overpowered (especially given that her opponents usually ''are'' master fighters, such as Tarvek and Zola). Although [[spoiler:we've now seen an older time-traveling(?) cyborg version of her gleefully blasting Albia's fellow god-queens and the version of her in Agatha is a master swordswoman.]]

* ShowingOffTheNewBody: Close to a nanosecond after seeing a mirror, Lucrezia-in-Agatha takes off her dress and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060208 checks herself out]]. It even provides the page pic. The novelizations take it a step further and have Lucrezia nude in this scene.

* TookALevelInBadass:
** Klaus notes that the Other's work superficially resembles Lucrezia's designs, but improved beyond anything he ever saw.
** The first time Lucrezia fights Zeetha and Violetta, she has no skill in combat and is only able to keep up with them due to the post revival rush making her UnskilledButStrong. By next time they fight, her combat skill has surpassed Violetta's.

* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:When the version of her in Agatha's head is ''finally'' being driven out, she begs Agatha to let her stay, saying there's still stuff she can teach her, and even calling her 'daughter' in an extremely rare moment. Agatha, naturally, is having none of it.]]

* FatalFlaw: Ego. Lucrezia's got an inflated sense of self even by spark standards that make it far easier to manipulate someone as intelligent as her than it really should be. She was willing to risk outing herself in her disguise as the princess when her improvements to the healing engine hooked up to Klaus were being attributed to doctor Sun, and her ego wouldn't let anyone else claim credit for her work even when it was a bad idea to do so.

[[folder:Lucrezia]]

Lucrezia Mongfish is from a long line of cheerily sociopathic Sparks, known specifically for their skill in biology, and is Agatha's mother. She was a long-time antagonist of the Heterodyne Boys before giving up her father's work and marrying Bill. She was apparently kidnapped when the Other attacked Castle Heterodyne and killed her infant son (signaling the start of the attacks), but returned twenty years later when her mind was downloaded into Agatha's brain. She seems to be the Other (an interpretation Klaus agrees with), but the situation remains unclear.
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[[folder:Ferretina]]
!!Ferretina, the Weasel Queen
The main antagonist of the "Revenge of the Weasel Queen" side story.
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* TheBeastmaster: She created and leads an army of giant bunny rabbits called lapinemoths.
* BenevolentBoss: Agatha assumed she controlled her lapinemoths with fear and mind control. Unfortunately for her, Ferretina controlled her army with good dental coverage.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: She may be one of Agatha's more comical enemies but she is one of the few who have come close to killing her and her friends.
* CleavageWindow: Her top barely covers her, yet it still has a hole in to expose more cleavage.
* FreudianExcuse: Her Spark father turned her into a weasel hybrid and she was chased away from her home village for her freakish appearance.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation[=/=]IJustWantToHaveFriends: She was driven away from her home village due to her appearance and the lack of human companionship caused her more evil, animalistic side to emerge. However, she longed for someone to see her as a person and not a monster. Unfortunately, Othar was not that person, [[spoiler:but luckily Agatha's fashion clank was.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Her father's experiments turned into a human-weasel hybrid.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Agatha's fashion clank praises her clothing, she quits being a villain and the two of them run off to Paris to start a fashion shop. Later, during Agatha's trip to Paris, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161205 we see that they've done pretty well for themselves.]] (See second panel)]]
* HiddenDepths: While she's probably not a Spark, she's knows enough about science to create an army of killer rabbit constructs. [[spoiler:She's also a skilled and talented fashion designer.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: She regularly kidnapped tall, lusty young men... because [[BaitAndSwitch they tasted better when they were grilled with cheese.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Suffers no consequences for killing and eating villagers and she gets to open a successful fashion shop in Paris. See the background of the second panel of [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161205 this]] comic]]
* ObviouslyEvil: She first appeared claiming to be a victim of the Weasel Queen. Our usually GenreSavvy heroes [[IdiotBall don't suspect]] that the [[PaperThinDisguise bestial woman wearing bones and fur who gets irritated at any criticism directed at Ferretina]] might not be trustworthy. In their defense, they ''do'' tend to meet a lot of strangely dressed people.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfit is very skimpy, especially her top that leaves her {{Underboobs}} exposed and still has a CleavageWindow.
* UnkemptBeauty: A wild, half-animal woman who's [[{{Stripperiffic}} half dressed in furs and rags]]. Subverted in that it's revealed she actually does put a lot of effort into her appearance.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: She fell in love with Othar after he defeated one of her giant rabbits. However, after she bared her soul to him, hoping to win his heart, [[WrongGenreSavvy he assumed she was a vile seductress plotting to kill him]] which lead to her [[WomanScorned angrily deciding to put him in an elaborate death trap]].
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[[folder:Othar Tryggvassen]]
!!Othar Tryggvassen, ''[+GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!+]''
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A man possessed with a quest to eradicate all Sparks, including himself (eventually), for the damage they do to the world. Harder to kill than Film/JamesBond.
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* AllPowerfulBystander: According to the Twitter, Othar is a deist who belives that God is the Ultimate Spark.
* AmbiguouslyGay: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100324 His sister thinks so, anyway]], and Othar noticeably changes the subject rather than deny it. Bi if she's right (since he married a Geisterdame in the Twitter).
* AmusingInjuries: No matter what happens to him, Othar bounces back almost immediately.
* AntiHero:
** Othar Tryggvassen is a bizarre character; he has the external looks and speech of TheCape, while his goals and actions better fit the NinetiesAntiHero. By all accounts he does have some genuine heroism under his belt, though this is a big counterbalanced by his life goal of killing all Sparks. So he often fights both genuine villains ''and'' random people minding their own business.
** To illustrate: once in his Twitter blog, the father of one of his Sparky enemies [[https://twitter.com/Othar/status/504224492 pleaded that no parent should see their kid die]]. Othar agreed, so [[https://twitter.com/Othar/status/506603822 he killed the dad first]]. "Call me Herr Sensitive."
* AntiVillain: Feels bad about killing Sparks, and a lot of them ''do'' need to die…
* BadBoss: He has no qualms about conscripting his 'sidekicks', though in his mind they ''want'' to join, and their careers tend to be so short he expresses hopes that a particularly promising individual might last ''six months''. Though apparently his sidekicks rarely ''die'', according to the novels, because they quickly realize that [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor the job isn't as glamourous up close.]] Plus, Othar is a ChasteHero who is absolutely resolute to not dally with an assistant, which actually ends up being a disappointment to many of his companions, who ''actually want him to''.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Othar is generally friendly and cheerful off-the-job, and fair on it. Don't make him kick your ass. He can.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: As much as he is a walking joke, Othar can be very, very effective in a CrazyIsCool way. Note that Castle Heterodyne rather likes the guy ''because'' they both approach this trope from different directions.
* BoldInflation: Fans [[MemeticMutation never, ever]] say his name without adding '''[+ [[GentlemanAdventurer GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!]]+]''' And [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070924 not just fans]].
* BoomerangBigot: Hates Sparks and wants to rid the world of them all, despite being a Spark himself. He fully [[NoPlaceForMeThere intends to kill himself when all the other Sparks are dead]].
* BraggartBoss: Despite the hazards to life and limb one has to imagine Othar's sidekicks are most likely to get talked to death.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Even by the standards of Sparks. Which is saying quite a bit. On the other hand, as Sparky plans go, "Kill all the other Sparks one by one and then myself" is actually pretty logical and well-considered, and even other some Sparks admit the notion is a pretty well thought out plan for a valid experiment.
* ButtMonkey: '''FOUL!!!'''
* CharacterBlog: He has a [[http://twitter.com/Othar?page=1 Twitter]]. May or may not be canon but is certainly extremely quotable. (His [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210820 reappearance]] in the August 2021 strip ties directly to the continuation of the Twitter feed from October 2020, so that part is ''probably'' canon.)
* ChasteHero: Aside from his marriage to a Geister in the alternate timeline, according to the novels he actually is completely resolute in his desire to avoid dallying with his female sidekicks. This ends up being rather disappointing for most of them, since the romance was ''the whole point of even joining up in the first place''.
** While this is because he is a gentleman first and foremost, there's also the question of what happens if he accidentally produced a child. Since he's a spark, he may have sparky children ''which he would have to kill by his own logic.'' Even if they weren't sparky, no one knows how the spark gene works by Othar's own admission. It may skip generations in his family (Tarvek's, Albia's, and Voltaire's families for example do skip generations while it never seemed to skip any of the Heterodynes and his sister Sanaa doesn't have the spark either). It's no wonder that he refuses to have a relationship with his assistants.
* ChivalrousPervert: Spends a good deal of time hitting on Agatha, to "save" her from the Wulfenbachs. Well, that's how it might appear, turns out he's a ChasteHero who actually prefers to ''not'' dally with his rescues or his female assistants.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: One of the things that prevents him from being just an IneffectualSympatheticVillain; he is a genuinely good person, at least to ordinary people. Sometimes ends up saving the very people he wants to kill, but don't count on this.
--> [[http://twitter.com/othar/status/401612282 Confound it!]] An entire train full of helpless Sparks AND dangerous monsters AND a handy chasm nearby. Someone is tempting me. So not fair!\\
[[http://twitter.com/othar/status/414634042 This is ridiculous]]. There were only two and a half innocent people on this train ([[FantasticRacism Jäger =0.5 person]]). Surely I can skip the last one. Yeah.\\
[[http://twitter.com/othar/status/417353242 No. I can't]]. This is what being A Hero is about. I should never have taken that aptitude test back at the university. I wanted to be a chef.
* ComicallyInvincibleHero: The others are fully aware that he's probably unkillable. [[spoiler:Gil even takes the opportunity to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120305 exploit it]].]]
* DestinationDefenestration: Happens to him repeatedly while on [[CoolAirship Castle Wulfenbach]]. It never sticks.
-->'''Othar:''' '''FOUL!'''
* DitzyGenius: It's sometimes hard to remember, through all the TestosteronePoisoning, that he's a genuine Spark, and has the intelligence to go along with it. He's able to help Agatha find an obscure part needed to repair something (though the fact that he forgot its name meant he had to tear it out of a clank himself to find it) and his moments of lucidity show he can be crafty and tactical when he recognizes SeriousBusiness.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: He has plenty of admirers of all genders. [[FemaleGaze Especially when he's]] [[ShirtlessScene not wearing his trademark sweater.]]
* FantasticFightingStyle: "Othar Tryggvassen's Twitter" establishes that Othar is a Genserhersker of the school of Norwegian Sweater Fighting. The only thing that prevents this from being IKnowKungFaux is that Othar is consistently shown to be one of the most lethal hand-to-hand combatants in the setting.
* ForWantOfANail: Despite his vigor, Othar is actually pretty old. According to his Twitter, it turns out that he retired to an island for a few decades to live with his Geister wife, Oslaka, that he saved from the sewers in Paris. When she died, he left the island to find [[spoiler:all of Europa in ruins and not a single person in sight (not even any bodies). His consciousness was sent back to inhabit the body of his past self right before he saved Oslaka by an aged Tarvek to save the past somehow,]] so his presence will determine the course of the story.
* FreudianExcuse: As the novels explain, Othar's hometown was often ravaged by the mad inventions of the local Spark lords, which goes some way to explaining his attitude toward them. Furthermore, the insanity of the spark and the type of events that follow sparks like the plague hasn't helped him. Then he started to go on his adventures and was proclaimed a hero all the while he was picking up assistants who couldn't keep up and started dying on him. Eventually he picked up a homeless Geister that had been abandoned by her sisterhood in the sewers of Paris. It's implied that he was in love with all of his assistants and he took this one to be his wife. They retired to an island for decades and he left only after she passed away from natural causes. [[spoiler:He found Europa had burned to ashes and everyone and everything was dead. All he found was an aged Tarvek who tried to explain what happened. However, when Tarvek tried to send him back in time, Othar attacked him in a paranoid rage, Tarvek managed to send him back, but he wasn't able to provide Othar any details. Othar knows that all of Europa is doomed without his help, but he hasn't seen the post-epilogue stories that show that Agatha will beat the Other. For all he knows, everything he is doing is in vain. All he does know is that sparks will cause the BadFuture, but he has no information as to why or how, so he kills all sparks he comes across on the ''chance'' that they have something to do with causing Europa's destruction either by helping to directly cause it or by being a distraction or SpannerInTheWorks hurting the good guys. The problem is that he's so insane that he can't sort out who is working with or helping the Other directly or indirectly, so he comes to blows with "villains" like the Wulfenbachs who, in fact, are more on the heroic side of the equation.]]
* GeniusBruiser: He's both incredibly tough and a Spark, as pointed out [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121121 here]].
* GenreSavvy / WrongGenreSavvy: +90% the first. The rest of the time, he's brain-locked by his one glaring flaw; he's incapable of understanding that he's often the HeroOfAnotherStory.
* '''''{{GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER}}!''''': The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] -- and an unusual example given that he's an AntiVillain antagonist.
* GottaKillThemAll: His solution to the Sparks is to kill them all, individually.
* HandWave: PlayedForLaughs when Vole seemingly shatters his spine with a diving kick. Othar springs right back up and decks Vole, to the astonishment of Tarvek. Othar then remarks that he is wearing "Special trousers. ''Very'' heroic."
* HeroAntagonist: Played with. Othar is here in 'Antagonists' because he's often pitted against the protagonists, but he really ''is'' a hero to the common folk: rescuing innocents, vanquishing monsters, and -- in short, hero work. Unfortunately, most of Agatha's social circle are on his hit list, so there's obviously a certain amount of EnemyMine when they ''do'' happen to be working together.
* HeroicBuild: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151123 He wouldn't be a Hero without it!]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Invoked. You can follow his heroic story on Twitter! OTOH, his one glaring flaw is that he is not only unaware of this trope, but completely unwilling to accept its possibility.
* HeroWithBadPublicity / VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's managed to become ''both''. The common folk love him. Considering how his "crusade" puts him in conflict with Sparks that are genuinely dangerous to the populace and Othar is motivated to clean up the "Sparky menace" to protect the non-Sparks (and the common folk are unaware of his being a mass-Spark-murdering maniac), this is not unjustified. On the other hand?
--> [[http://twitter.com/othar/status/550270322 What a double edged sword a reputation is]]. Save thousands, thwart evil, bring peace... kill one corrupt quester and it's all out the window.\\
[[http://twitter.com/othar/status/556062672 Now I'm just "The Guy Who Killed A Quester."]] It demonizes me, and ignores all of my finer points. Bit of a resume stain, to be honest. Sigh.\\
[[http://twitter.com/othar/status/559607812 Questers are usually pillars of honesty]]. Therefore it's understandable that people are skeptical when you badmouth one. My rep vs. theirs.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: This is actually what makes him insane. Othar is unable to comprehend that Klaus isn't the villain. Even back in the day, Klaus wasn't the TokenEvilTeammate. That was Lucrezia. Klaus was the pragmatic, jaded teammate. Klaus may be a tyrant, but his rule is much freer and safer than the anarchy that came before it. In present time, Othar also can't process that Gil is the TokenGoodTeammate of Agatha's team with Tarvek being the TokenEvilTeammate and Agatha being the pragmatic one. He has their roles backwards in his head.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: He's a Spark hellbent on the eradication of all Sparks, himself included. Although his particular focus seems to be more in sabotaging the devices of others rather than building any of his own.
* IdiotHero: Othar is utterly fearless (not to mention foolish) in times of peril.
--> [[http://twitter.com/Othar/status/5538674658 Like all prisoners in the castle, I'm outfitted with an exploding collar. Ha! The fools, my head is the least dangerous part of my body]].
* ImplacableMan: Nothing seems to stop Othar... not for long, anyway.
--> '''Agatha:''' I went to all that trouble to rescue him. And you've killed him!\\
'''Gil:''' I ''wish.'' I've seen him survive ''worse.''
* InSpiteOfANail: According to his Twitter account a Spark's experiment with time travel and alternate realities has revealed that every Othar has some kind of predisposition to deciding to wipe out Sparks. He briefly wonders if there's something about the Othars that causes them to simply have suicidal craziness before dismissing the idea.
* IndyPloy: Planning is for schemers! Schemers and dastards!
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Othar apparently has "special trousers" (very heroic) that allows him to NoSell having an irate Jäger landing on him and breaking his back. No, we have no idea what that means either.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** This is not to say that Othar isn't dangerously insane and regularly murderous. He is. He really, ''really'' is. It's just that most of the people he's killed either have attacked him or otherwise been an asshole in his presence; Sparks in particular, especially as he boasts of all the Sparks he's killed. Doesn't change the fact that he tried to summarily execute Agatha the ''instant'' he learned she was a Spark.
** Squibs, a much put upon minion in the side story 'Small Problems', [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140122 sums it up best:]]
--->'''Squibs:''' Let me see if I understand this. He thinks that all the problems in Europa are caused by the ''mad scientists'' who build all the ''monsters.'' The mad scientists who vie with each other to see who can be the first to turn the population into wombat bats or clam people or ''stylish furniture.'' The raving lunatics who set off life-size chocolate volcanoes and unleash flash floods of porridge upon innocent villages. Othar wants to destroy these people, and ''you'' think ''he's insane?!''
** And Klaus secretly acknowledges that Othar has a point, and that the only difference between their "[[MightMakesRight Peace Through Violence]]" approaches is that Klaus gives his enemies a chance to avoid execution by ''not'' being murderous jerks. When Othar first got started, Klaus got into the habit of subtly directing Othar in the direction of dangerous Sparks who hadn't technically violated the Peace. He only dragged Othar onto Castle Wulfenbach for a little ''Literature/DocSavage''-esque brain surgery because the idiot started killing Sparks that ''were'' doing their best not to threaten the Peace.
** Also there's the ''slight'' problem of Othar ''being a Spark exactly like all his foes'', meaning his chosen means and methods of achieving his goals are [[DestructiveSavior the most complicated and destructive]] available to him at any given time. For example, to cover his and Agatha's [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040917 escape from Castle Wulfenbach]], he turned loose and/or on every experiment he could find. And Agatha just got finished destroying a ''[[PuppeteerParasite Hive Engine]].'' If Wulfenbach had been any less awesome, that touch of genius could likely have wiped out all of Europa ''before sunset.''
** As of the Mechanicsburg Arc, he does at least seem to be of the opinion that while all Sparks need to die, there are some that need to die ''sooner'' than others. As Agatha seems to be following the legacy of her heroic father and uncle, Othar seems to be willing to bump her and her friends to the back of the queue for now.
** His Twitter feed sheds some light on this. If taken as canon, Othar is capable of giving up his obsessive quest. He fell in love with a Geister and retired to an island with her for decades. When she died, he left the island behind [[spoiler:to find all of Europa dead. Very little plants, animals, or people remained. All he found was Tarvek who sent him back in time to stop it. While Othar is still insane and didn't trust Tarvek, him doing nothing for decades led to that future and that certainly ampified his insanity and caused him double and triple down on his obsessive quest to kill all sparks.]]
** Also, ironically, according to the novels, not only is Othar's plan to kill all Sparks and then himself ''a relatively thought out plan by Spark standards'', many Sparks are ''conflicted'' about this plan (or at least admit he has a point in his own tiresome way), as his hypothesis is compelling, his methodology seems sound, and many argue that it would be a valid experiment.
* LargeHam: Most Sparks chew scenery when in TheMadnessPlace -- Othar does it ''all the time''.
-->'''Othar:''' So -- all the vipers are in residence!\\
'''Gilgamesh:''' I can't ''believe'' you still ''talk'' like that.
* LargeHamTitle: ''[+GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!+]''
* LongLostSibling: [[spoiler: Sanaa Wilhelm, aka Sanaa Tryggvassen]].
* LordErrorProne: When it comes to the actual adventuring he does a good job, but he frequently grabs the wrong end of the stick and seems somewhat dim (or at least scatterbrained) for a spark--at least compared to the main characters and most of the actually threatening villains. Given some of the stuff we've seen minor antagonists get up to Othar seems practically stable for a Spark.
* MadeOfIron: ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090617 and how]].''
* MentalTimeTravel: Possibly from the twitter into regular continuity.
* MoralMyopia:
** The typical Spark acts like a stereotypycal MadScientist and Othar acts like a stereotypical adventure hero, but there's little practical difference between the two breeds of Madboy. Othar has [[TheIgor groveling minions]] with a high mortality rate, only he calls them "spunky girl sidekicks". He does [[InHarmsWay dangerous things that put others at risk]], only they're usually acts of sabatoge instead of inventions. Lastly, he has a mad hypothesis that he thinks will change the world, and that hypothesis is "no more Sparks = world peace". Interestingly, a footnote in the second novel mentions that many Sparks actually see Othar's quest as a sort of experiment.
** This goes both ways; Othar being much like the typical Spark also makes the protagonist Sparks much like Othar. That they're not so different is pointed out by Violetta on one occasion:
--->'''Tarvek:''' I... keep forgetting he's a ''Spark.''\\
'''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121121 Violetta]]:''' Really. So you've ''completely missed'' the fact that he's overbearing, self-aggrandizing and ''certain death to be around?''
* MundaneUtility: According to the Twitter account, Othar once had to revivify his Uncle Vladikix.
-->'''Othar:''' He was the only one who knew the old family recipe for Lingonberry Snap.
* NoPlaceForMeThere: Success in his lifelong dream -- destroying every MadScientist for the sake of ordinary humanity -- would, of course, require one last HeroicSuicide.
* NorseByNorsewest: He's from Norway.
* ObfuscatingStupidity:
** He acts like such an idiot all the time that people forget he's one of the most unstoppable people in Europa. He does have his moments of clarity, though, where the act seems to come down, usually when something genuinely surprises him -- such as when he meets Sanaa. It's also worth noting that he's apparently a ''fantastic'' orator. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160325 See for yourself.]]
** In the novels, when Klaus conscripts Othar into entering Castle Heterodyne to retrieve Gil, the Baron notices that he completely drops his usual bombastic bravado when its explained that Agatha is likely being controlled by the Other. This unnerves him greatly as it suggests that Othar has been treating his encounters and captures by the Empire as [[ILetYouWin nothing but a game]]. [[spoiler:It's because he does. Othar has seen a future where he simply stopped interacting with the world's politics and that indirectly led to the death of all of Europa and victory for the Other. Any viable threat of the Other brought to his attention drives him '''sane''' because him doing something to stop the Other directly is the only thing he can do that '''matters'''.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation:
** Dropping him out of sight, by whatever means, never seems to stick. At least twice, he manages to get back up onto Castle Wulfenbach by unknown means after being thrown off and then survives being pushed over the side of a much smaller airship.
** And when Castle Heterodyne is introduced to him, its immediate response is to drop him into a bottomless pit. So far as it is concerned, surviving this is one of a Hero's RequiredSecondaryPowers, so it feels totally justified in pulling this stunt. And sure enough, Othar immediately reappears unscathed.
** This is something he's apparently so well known for in-world that when he ends up being defenestrated while handcuffed to someone else, Gil used the opportunity For Science, demanding [[spoiler:Tarvek]] figure out the trick on the assumption that Othar would magic himself to safety per usual. On the plus side, he did manage to get himself out of the handcuffs... [[spoiler:While busy fighting Vole]]... Without the person he was handcuffed to finding out how. [[spoiler:Even more amusing and impressive in retrospect, since it turns out the guy he got himself unhand-cuffed from is no slouch in a fight and very good at misdirection.]]
** He also manages to find his way into Gil's super secret lab, a place nobody else in-story (including Klaus) seemed to be aware of, simply because he is a hero and finding secret villain lairs is what heroes are good at.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: He's plenty effective, provided he isn't going up against uber badasses like Gil, Klaus, or Agatha.
* PlotArmor: An InUniverse version, apparently. The man simply cannot be killed. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040714 Many]], many people have tried. But since he's the HeroOfAnotherStory, he's effectively immortal.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The codifier of what this looks like ''[+FROM THE OUTSIDE.+]''
* PutOnABus: Though technically he was in Mechanicsburg when the [[spoiler:Take Five bomb]] went off, his previous track record of inexplicable self-extrication strongly suggests he's not on that particular bus. [[spoiler: As it turns out, he ''was'' frozen in the Take Five bomb time stop, but he was the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151123 the first]] [[TheBusCameBack to be successfully extracted]] without undergoing RapidAging]].
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: The effects of the Spark on him are a lot more apparent in the Twitter than in the comic.
* ShirtlessScene: When first encountered he is only wearing trousers. When he turns up again however he seems to stick to sweaters. After being broken out of a [[TimeStandsStill time stop]], he is left shirtless until Gil insists that he wears something, much to the disappointment of the women and one male fan.
* SunglassesAtNight: Or whatever that visor thingy is. There's a fan theory that it's there to protect bystanders from the power of his amazingly pretty blue eyes; another theory (given his white hair, pale skin, and extremely light eyes) is that he's an albino and needs it to protect his eyes from the light.
* TestosteronePoisoning: Big, manly, aggressive and has a tendency to barrel towards danger, just because.
* TragicHero: A heroic goal, ruined by his lack of self awareness and obsession.
* UncertainDoom: In the future, he is considered to be "lost".
* UnexplainedRecovery: ''Constantly''. The only explanation we've ever gotten is "Special trousers. ''Very'' heroic''."
* UnreliableNarrator / ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: His Twitter is considered canonical, but it's from his point of view and he's insane.
--> [[http://twitter.com/othar/status/825310181 "That letter is a fraud! Othar Tryggvassen may do things that lesser men find objectionable or slightly illegal, but I never apologize!"]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Killing all Sparks one by one and ending with himself might not be the best of ideas, but it's not exactly the worst one either.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: So beautiful that they make his normally imposing self look [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080125 pretty girly]].
* WrongGenreSavvy: He seems to firmly believe himself to be the dashing hero of a science fiction romance. He's right, but he ''never'' realizes that he's ''also'' the HeroOfAnotherStory, let alone that ''Agatha'' is a fellow hero and not a potential sidekick. Thus, he's developed similarly delusional views of the main characters: Agatha is currently going through an independent phase(how cute!) of sidekickdom, Tarvek is the handsome villain she's redeeming by ThePowerOfLove, and Gil is the schemer who is behind it all. Though he miiight be coming around to the idea that Agatha is the kind of girl who wants [[OneTrueThreesome multiple boyfriends]].
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A Geisterdamen encountered early on by Agatha in her misadventures, later an acolyte of Othar Tryggvassen (GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!)

* AllThereInTheManual: Since most Geisterdamen look nigh-identical anyway, it's hard to tell, but the novel confirms Eotain is one of the first two Agatha met, and the ones in the cells in Sturmhalten.
* TheBusCameBack: She and the other Geisters fled Sturmhalten before the Baron's forces showed up. They didn't reappear until Agatha's time in Paris, with Eotain leading the charge. Then she reappears when Gil and Tarvek head back to Paris after the mess in England.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She really loved her giant spider, Bwoosee, and gets in some angry raging at the heavens when Dimo crushes it.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: The Queen of Dawn sending her and the other Geisterdamen in Paris because she wasn't properly the Other proved to be enough for Eotain to defect, using Agatha's existence as a loophole to get around the total obedience they're supposed to have.
* MookPromotion: Eotain starts off as just one Geisterdamen warrior, but with the Other's mass purge and Vrin's death, she winds up in charge of a lot of them.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Eotain often appears alongside a cohort, Shurdlu.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Killing all Sparks one by one might not be the best of ideas, but it's not exactly the worst one either.

[[folder:The Other]]
[[quoteright:146:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_other.bmp]]

The mysterious force of mysteriousness that almost conquered Europa before vanishing mysteriously. May be Agatha's mother.
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!!Tropes associated with The Other:
* AmbiguouslyHuman:
** Various flashbacks involving her show her inhabiting a large number of cyborg bodies, with some of her forms being mostly human-like while others are overtly mechanical in nature.
** In the novels' version of Lucrezia's first encounter with Zola, the copy in Agatha is incredibly blasé at the idea of killing herself to get rid of Agatha as so long as other copies of herself exist to continue her plan. The author notes that this behavior suggests that the original Lucrezia had either gone completely mad or was no longer human, or more likely both.
* AmbiguousSituation: It is left ''extremely'' ambiguous as to what, precisely, the Other is, what its relation is to Lucrezia Mongfish, and what its goals are.
** [[spoiler:There are hints that the Other might actually be a time displaced version of clank-form Lucrezia, who would become known as the Muse of Time/Enigma, and it was that version of her that attacked Castle Heterodyne and most of what has happened is due to a stable time loop in action. The very first hint of Time Muse Lucrezia being the Other was during the flashback of the Geisterdamen before they did the brain uploading of Lucrezia on Agatha. The Geisterdamen claim that they got direct orders from their goddess, and one of them is shown being choked by the Muse of Time's black clawed hand.]]
** As to the Lucrezia situation, the Other identifies herself as Lucrezia, acts like her, talks like her, uses her inventions albeit massively improved upon... but that still leaves the fact that ''someone'' broke into her secret lab when the Castle was attacked, and ''something'' murdered all her guards and burned all her notes.
** Not helping is a line in the novels from the Other's P.O.V. suggesting [[spoiler:whatever it is, it's not even human, since it remarks on the nature of the Girl Genius world like an outsider, rather than someone who lived there all her life.]]
** Eventually, it's [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181223 revealed]] beyond a doubt that [[spoiler: Lucrezia ''is'' the Other, and almost certainly is the Muse of Time to boot]]. However, even then, there are many ''many'' questions left unanswered: [[spoiler:what happened to Lucrezia, who Albia was actually rather fond of, to turn her into the "shattered" soul that tried to kill Albia and the other Queens]]? [[spoiler:When exactly did Lucrezia become the Other, and most importantly was it before or after her marriage to Bill and alleged HeelFaceTurn]]? [[spoiler:Why was she hunting the Queens in the first place]]? [[spoiler:Why and how did Lucrezia become a cyborg, and eventually the Muse of Time]]? And [[spoiler:how do the Geisters fit into place, seeing as they seemed to know her when she was still fully human, and after becoming the fully-robotic Muse of Time, but perhaps not in any of her many, many "techno-zombie" forms]]?
* BerserkButton:
** Calling it a fraud, as Zola discovers. When it happens, the Other threatens to turn her into an EmptyShell.
** Questioning her motivation makes her explode. When the Klaus overlay does it, she goes on a rant, and when Albia does it she rants at how the queen has no idea what she's been through.
* BigBad: The most dangerous entity in the entire series. Even Klaus didn't beat it--it stopped fighting before he came back.
* BodyHorror: The version of Lucrezia we see in Albia's flashback [[spoiler:has clearly been through the proverbial wringer. She's got a lot of cybernetic enhancements, possibly including her legs. And that's just the stuff we get to see. A later glimpse shows it got mangled even further after that.]]
* BrainUploading: The novels clarify that [[spoiler:this is in a sense what the Summoning Engines do. They don't "summon" anything, they just create an identical copy of the Other inside the mind of whoever they're used on.]]
* CivilizationDestroyer: The Other came very close to destroying all of Europa, and successfully destroyed the civilizations [[spoiler:of most of the ancient immortal god queens with only two queens and their lands and people known to have survived, though Zeetha is from a people whose civilization survived the destruction of their immortal queen.]]
* ClassicVillain: Lucrezia/The Other is practically selfish {{Pride}} given flesh, is constantly trying to decieve people, lacks any remorse, and seeks to dominate everyone. In terms of personality she's practically the opposite of Agatha -- in fact when [[spoiler:possessing our heroine]], the reason people can tell is because "Agatha" is acting unlike herself in every way.
* ColonyDrop: During the first go around, the Other's tactics went thus: Drop a lot of giant fiery rocks from orbit on the target and utterly ''destroy'' them, send [[PuppeteerParasite Hive Engines]] in similar shells built to withstand the impact, then let them activate, leaving no chance to resist the Slaver Wasps. The tactic proved so devastating it took Barry Heterodyne three whole years to figure out what was going on, because the attacks were so violent they left no evidence to examine.
* CompellingVoice: Most of the Other's creations (such as the Geisterdamen and revenants) are built to be unable to disobey a command if it's made in Lucrezia's voice.
* CreativeSterility: Gil notes that the Other hasn't rolled out any new technology in its war with him. [[spoiler:Later revelations outright state that harnessing the spark requires an organic body. It is very likely that the Lucrezia copy stuck in Anevka's clank body is the one at war with Gil, therefore limited in what it can do. In addition, the copy in Zola could be impacted by the fact that Zola isn't a Spark herself.]]
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Apparently, the reason why she could never achieve the second breakthrough despite knowing how it worked: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191021 you need a fully organic mind]] and it didn't have that until it possessed Agatha.
* DemonicPossession: Through the power of BrainUploading, the Other is able to possess people with a copy of her personality.
* DiabolusExNihilo: The Other just appeared out of nowhere one day, blew up Castle Heterodyne, and ran off into the night. Over the next three years, it wiped out damn near all the Great Houses with ruthless efficiency, with no warning, offer, threats or attempt at parley.
* DrivingQuestion: The Other's identity, motivations and objectives are arguably the biggest mysteries in the story.
* EnemyWithin: To [[spoiler:Agatha herself]] after the incident at Sturmhalten.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Even when she was trying to be "good", she showed a lack of comprehension, simply assuming there must be something to that strategy, because the heroic Heterodyne Brothers always won. The notion that parents must care for and look after their children is completely alien to Lucrezia. Lucrezia-In-Agatha [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150424 proposes Klaus-In-Gil]] to sacrifice their children for the sake of getting back together, and is legitimately shocked by [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150427 his explosion of fury]]. Much later, another Lucrezia's copy mocks Albia [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220805 for putting herself in danger to save her daughter Neena]].
* EvilIsNotAToy: Inverted. The SealedEvilInACan finds out that its unsealer is not a toy.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: She appears to have this mindset as the motivation for enslavement.
* FamilialBodySnatcher: The only successful instances of BrainUploading (bar the Anevka Clank) have been in Lucrezia's blood relatives, with it hinted there were many, many failures before the Geisterdamen found Agatha. The novels confirm the one in Aaronev's possession was both broken and designed only to work on Agatha.
* FatalFlaw: Ego. Lucrezia's got an inflated sense of self even by spark standards that make it far easier to manipulate someone as intelligent as her than it really should be. She was willing to risk outing herself in her disguise as the princess when her improvements to the healing engine hooked up to Klaus were being attributed to doctor Sun, and her ego wouldn't let anyone else claim credit for her work even when it was a bad idea to do so.
* FeetOfClay: There seems to be a faction of Geisterdamen (allied with a faction of the Knights of Jove) led by a "Loremistress Milvistle" who see The Other as a fraud.
* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:Even sealed away by Agatha's locket, the Other still pushes away at her mind. Toward the end, she started getting so strong even the locket was no longer effectual.]]
* TheFogOfAges: Several thousand years means the Other has forgotten some of the simple joys of life, like music or chocolate.
* FreakOut: A momentary response to realizing she forgot how much she loved chocolate as a human.
* GodhoodSeeker: Her ultimate end goal is to ascend to godhood and make everyone worship her (also, presumably, "show them all". And have all the chocolate.)
* GrandTheftMe: Does this at least to Agatha. Might have done this to Lucrezia. Or she did it to it. ''Really'' unclear.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Lucrezia / the Other regards the possibility of Barry Heterodyne's return with trepidation (meaning fear). Never mind that he hasn't been seen in over a decade. The very idea of TemptingFate and summoning him causes the Other to momentarily panic.
* IGaveMyWord: The novels reveal [[spoiler:the reason Slaver Wasps didn't affect Sparks the first time around was deliberate. The Other made an agreement with the Knights of Jove. Of course, in the Other's absence, ''other'' Sparks decided to tinker with the schematics...]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: On meeting Zeetha, the Other declares she knows better than to fight her.
* MeaningfulName: After a while, all the usual suspects for who could be destroying Europe were dead by its hand, meaning that all the devastation was caused by some ''other'' party.
* MesACrowd: [[spoiler:So far the Other has wound up in Agatha, a Clank designed to look like Anevka Sturmovarus, and Zola, with varying degrees of control over each. In the novels, Vrin mentions she had ''other'' bodies she visited the Geisterdamen in.]]
* MoodWhiplash: When the Other first makes an appearance she's all smiles and motherly comfort for her faithful Geisterdamen, who are weeping with joy at her return -- her mood changes swiftly once the Other realises things have gone to hell in her absence.
* OutsideContextProblem: Was this even to the God-Queens. The Other was [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181221 somehow able to subvert]] their network of [[MagicMirror magic mirrors]], wielded [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181219 weapons utterly beyond even their comprehension]], and effortlessly countered their own attacks.
* PaperThinDisguise: When it even bothers trying to be Agatha, the Other doesn't really put a lot of effort into it. Her nadir in this department comes when trying to convince Tarvek to assist her during a three-way fight with [[spoiler:Zola]]. Which is a bit odd, since the Lucrezia who Klaus knew was an excellent actress.
-->'''The Other:''' I AM THE AGATHA GIRL!\\
'''Tarvek:''' Yes, [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba and I'M the Queen of Skral!]]
* PsychopathicManchild: Lucrezia was a barely-restrained one. The Other has had [[spoiler:hundreds, if not thousands of years]] and has not gone through a single moment of emotional growth, still acting like a spoiled teenager on a rampage.
* ReligionOfEvil: Is the goddess of one.
* SatanicArchetype: She's pretty much a demon in all but name at this point (as [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190911 Albia points out]]), much with all her manipulating people and possessing bodies. She's even the force behind false idolatry (as Christians traditionally beleived demons were); Loremistress Milvistle too considered her [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210903 "some kind of Devil"]]. Besides, the role of the Other itself is more or less the role of an ultimate yet unseen enemy (much like the Devil).
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: As with all Sparks.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Beacon Engine, [[spoiler:Van Rijin's Hermitorium.]]
* SmugSuper: The Other, or Lucrezia, is very confident in itself / herself and its abilities. Klaus manages to figure out who they are when they're impersonating Agatha because only Lucrezia gloats like that.
* SpikesOfVillainy: On her return, the Clank Lucrezia has modified her body so it can suddenly be covered in lots of spikes, should anyone get too close.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Likes to refer to people as "dear" or "darling" even as she's trying to kill them. It helps to show when she's in the driver's seat and not Agatha, who never uses either word.
* TrappedInTheHost: Happened to her twice. First time, with Agatha, she got trapped by [[spoiler:Agatha's locket]] and remained trapped for most of the comic. Second time, she tried uploading herself to Zola, who [[spoiler:had her family prepare for this and Zola was able to get all Lucrezia's ''memories'' uploaded to her instead]].
* TheVirus: Uses Slaver Wasps for mind control.
* TimeAbyss: As of 2021 we finally get firsthand confirmation that the entity brain-downloaded by the summoning engines into various bodies is really [[spoiler:Lucrezia who has gone through hundreds if not thousand years. She speaks of five hundred years as if it was nothing, but she hints at other entities who would further scoff at that]].
* VirtualGhost: An explanation of her possessing is that what is overlayed over the victim is an artificial copy of her personality.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Clank Lucrezia wasn't seen from Sturmhalten until the Londinium arc: [[spoiler:She escaped the town and was keeping low key, amassing forces. Now she's back, trying to strike Albia, and more recently she has been attempting reactivating one of the mirrors the Queens used, with some success.]]
* WickedWasps: The Slaver Wasps are its most ubiquitous servants, make up the bulk of its armies, and are the main threat associated with it in-universe.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** The Other is (''apparently'') responsible for the attack on Castle Heterodyne that killed [[spoiler:Lucrezia's first child]]. And then there are all those missing Spark girls...
** It's very strongly implied that The Other [[spoiler:deliberately conceived Agatha as an escape clause in case anything happened to Lucrezia, and that Agatha was only saved by some effort on the part of Barry.]]

[[folder:Eotain]]
!!Eotain, Geisterdamen Warrior
A Geisterdamen encountered early on by Agatha in her misadventures, later an acolyte of Othar Tryggvassen (GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!)

* AllThereInTheManual: Since most Geisterdamen look nigh-identical anyway, it's hard to tell, but the novel confirms Eotain is one of the first two Agatha met, and the ones in the cells in Sturmhalten.
* TheBusCameBack: She and the other Geisters fled Sturmhalten before the Baron's forces showed up. They didn't reappear until Agatha's time in Paris, with Eotain leading the charge. Then she reappears when Gil and Tarvek head back to Paris after the mess in England.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She really loved her giant spider, Bwoosee, and gets in some angry raging at the heavens when Dimo crushes it.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: The Queen of Dawn sending her and the other Geisterdamen in Paris because she wasn't properly the Other proved to be enough for Eotain to defect, using Agatha's existence as a loophole to get around the total obedience they're supposed to have.
* MookPromotion: Eotain starts off as just one Geisterdamen warrior, but with the Other's mass purge and Vrin's death, she winds up in charge of a lot of them.
* RunningGag: Identifying Agatha as an actor.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Eotain often appears alongside a cohort, Shurdlu.

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[[folder:Ferretina]]
!!Ferretina, the Weasel Queen
The main antagonist of the "Revenge of the Weasel Queen" side story.

* TheBeastmaster: She created and leads an army of giant bunny rabbits called lapinemoths.
* BenevolentBoss: Agatha assumed she controlled her lapinemoths with fear and mind control. Unfortunately for her, Ferretina controlled her army with good dental coverage.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: She may be one of Agatha's more comical enemies but she is one of the few who have come close to killing her and her friends.
* CleavageWindow: Her top barely covers her, yet it still has a hole in to expose more cleavage.
* FreudianExcuse: Her Spark father turned her into a weasel hybrid and she was chased away from her home village for her freakish appearance.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation[=/=]IJustWantToHaveFriends: She was driven away from her home village due to her appearance and the lack of human companionship caused her more evil, animalistic side to emerge. However, she longed for someone to see her as a person and not a monster. Unfortunately, Othar was not that person, [[spoiler:but luckily Agatha's fashion clank was.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Her father's experiments turned into a human-weasel hybrid.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Agatha's fashion clank praises her clothing, she quits being a villain and the two of them run off to Paris to start a fashion shop. Later, during Agatha's trip to Paris, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161205 we see that they've done pretty well for themselves.]] (See second panel)]]
* HiddenDepths: While she's probably not a Spark, she's knows enough about science to create an army of killer rabbit constructs. [[spoiler:She's also a skilled and talented fashion designer.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: She regularly kidnapped tall, lusty young men... because [[BaitAndSwitch they tasted better when they were grilled with cheese.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Suffers no consequences for killing and eating villagers and she gets to open a successful fashion shop in Paris. See the background of the second panel of [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161205 this]] comic]]
* ObviouslyEvil: She first appeared claiming to be a victim of the Weasel Queen. Our usually GenreSavvy heroes [[IdiotBall don't suspect]] that the [[PaperThinDisguise bestial woman wearing bones and fur who gets irritated at any criticism directed at Ferretina]] might not be trustworthy. In their defense, they ''do'' tend to meet a lot of strangely dressed people.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfit is very skimpy, especially her top that leaves her {{Underboobs}} exposed and still has a CleavageWindow.
* UnkemptBeauty: A wild, half-animal woman who's [[{{Stripperiffic}} half dressed in furs and rags]]. Subverted in that it's revealed she actually does put a lot of effort into her appearance.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: She fell in love with Othar after he defeated one of her giant rabbits. However, after she bared her soul to him, hoping to win his heart, [[WrongGenreSavvy he assumed she was a vile seductress plotting to kill him]] which lead to her [[WomanScorned angrily deciding to put him in an elaborate death trap]].

[[folder:Othar Tryggvassen]]
!!Othar Tryggvassen, ''[+GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!+]''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/97580bef44dacd4ed95cfee801f90a11.png]]

A man possessed with a quest to eradicate all Sparks, including himself (eventually), for the damage they do to the world. Harder to kill than Film/JamesBond.

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Lucrezia Mongfish is from a long line of cheerily sociopathic Sparks, known specifically for their skill in biology, and is Agatha's mother. She was a long-time antagonist of the Heterodyne Boys before giving up her father's work and marrying Bill. She was apparently kidnapped when the Other attacked Castle Heterodyne and killed her infant son (signaling the start of the attacks), but returned twenty years later when her mind was downloaded into Agatha's brain. She seems to be the Other (an interpretation Klaus agrees with), but the situation remains unclear.
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!!Lucrezia Mongfish specific:

* AbusiveParents: She seemingly conceived Agatha specifically to use her as a spare body, as the Summoning Engine was specifically designed to place a copy of Lucrezia's mind within Agatha. Likewise, none of the Lucrezia copies have ever acknowledged Agatha as their daughter and see her as nothing more than a pawn or a hindrance.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:If she really was the Muse of Time like Albia claims, then she was captured and trapped alone in Van Rijn's secret lab for over 200 years. This would explain her various rants about suffering alone for a long time without anyone rescuing her and the Other's apparent hatred of Sparks.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:The version of her we see in a Albia-centered flashback is in the process of a gleeful murderous rampage.]]
* BadBoss:
** She regularly treated the Geisterdamen, who viewed her as a goddess, poorly when they [[YouHaveFailedMe failed her]]. After Barry rescued Agatha from them, she went on a murder spree where she killed off a sizable portion of the Geisterdamen population and forced thousands of them into exile into Europa to carry out her plans. Similarly, when Lady Vrin, her most staunch supporter, became a potential hindrance to her schemes, she ordered her to die without hesitation, causing her to asphyxiate.
** While as during her marriage with Bill, she regularly abused the Jägers and treated them like they were pets. The Jägers were forced to put up with it for the sake of their love stricken master.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Mongfishes really didn't get along. So far Lucrezia (or the Other) has met her niece and her nephew, and tried to kill both of them simply for being the children of her sisters. Though, that was because one of them, Serpentia (Theo's mother), left her for dead in an exploding lab... so Lucrezia says, several decades after the fact.
* BodySnatcher: Her area of expertise. She mastered the art of swapping people's minds and her greatest accomplishment was discovering how to switch organic minds with the artificial programming of clanks. After becoming the Other, she put these skills to use for herself, making a machine that forces her mind into others earning her the moniker "thief of souls" from Madame Von Pinn/Otilia.
* ControlFreak:
** Multiple people have stated that she loved to control people and manipulate them into doing her bidding. Her Slaver Wasps were created specifically so that no one infected by them could disobey orders given by her voice.
** After marrying Bill, she couldn't stand the idea of being constantly watched by Castle Heterodyne, so she moved her lab to the Castle's lowest levels and successfully transplanted the area's subsystem into the Muse of Protection, imprisoning it in her lab. This meant the Castle couldn't observe her actions in her lab and she could feel like she had obtained some measure of control over the construct.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Seems to be completely incapable of working with anyone without turning on them. Her response to a genuine offer of assistance is to plan to vivisect the girl who offers (though the girl in question manages to outwit her quite thoroughly).
* ChronicVillainy: Another theory about how/why she became the Other. She claimed to be pulling a HeelFaceTurn in marrying Bill, but just a few years later, well... the Castle was destroyed, she disappeared, and the Other started ravaging Europa.
* DamselInDistress: Claims to have been this when "all went wrong" and that no one, not her husband or father or Klaus, came to save her, and indicates this has something to do with why she's gone so far off the deep end. However, her words also imply that whatever happened to her was the result of her own actions and, depending on how you interpret them, started with her trying to TakeOverTheWorld.
* DatingCatwoman: Why someone as incorruptibly good as Bill Heterodyne would be compelled to marry someone as insidious as Lucrezia Mongfish can only be attributed to this trope. She also had a former attraction to Klaus that she tries to play on in the present day.
* DemonicPossession: Yet another theory regarding her relationship with the Other. Getting the feeling there are a lot of theories?
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Lu/Agatha had managed to [[spoiler:break past Agatha's locket and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190809 take over her body]]]] in England, using this as a chance to sabatoge the exorcism machine. The only reason this plan didn't work is because she decided to brag about it to Agatha's friends ''while she was doing it.'' Had Lucrezia not been such a [[{{Pride}} tremendous show-off]], she might have actually won.
* DirtyOldWoman: She flirted with Tarvek, Lars and Martellus in Agatha's body despite being technically old enough to be their mother [[spoiler:and potentially old enough to be their ''ancestor'' if one factors the time travel aspects she allegedly has.]] In the novels, which show off her P.O.V., she's definitely planning on going a little further than just ''flirting''.
* DirtyCoward: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100730 According to Von Pinn]], Lucrezia always was a "coward at heart."
* DracoInLeatherPants: In-universe, with the Heterodyne Boys plays and their depiction of Lucrezia. She's a vain, petty, melodramatic cowardly, maniacal villain... and utterly adored by the audiences. Right up until the third act when she invariably falls in love with Bill, at which point they lose interest in her. Funnily enough, her outfit in the notoriously saucy "Socket Wench of Prague" is noted to be leather...
* EnlightenedAntagonist: [[spoiler:When the copy of her possessing Agatha achieves second breakthrough and possibly more, Tarvek desperately hopes that achieving enlightenment will cause her to realize that her evil schemes will not make her happy. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.]]
* EnlightenmentSuperpowers:
** [[spoiler:The copy of her possessing Agatha manages to grow her spark into a flame, achieving second breakthrough and more. Unlike the previous people to achieve it, she manages to do so without even requiring an external dimensional energy source.]]
** [[spoiler: The copy of her in the Anevka clank also manages to achieve second breakthrough, despite using a non-sparky mechanical brain, somehow mentally controlling the surrounding dimensional energy.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The novels imply that, as evil as she is, she still loves Bill. When she mentions Bill to Zola, she actually starts to cry.
* EvenBadWomenLoveTheirMamas: Strangely, even after turning good, Lucrezia still seems to be fond of her father. Or least thinks more favourably about him than she does her sisters.
* EvilMatriarch: Safe to say, planning to have your daughter RaisedAsAHost is pretty horrible parenting, as is repeatedly trying to kill said daughter for not wanting to host your mind.
* FaceHeelTurn: Lucrezia [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150424 eventually]] claims to 'Klaus' that hers was a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal (or at least she perceives it as one). Note the wording of her ranting. There's two distinct ways it can be interpreted -- the first being the obvious one that her evil plan as the Other went horribly wrong, leaving her 'stranded' somehow, or her definition of "winning" was finally living a happy family life with Bill, only to get kidnapped, her son murdered, and forced into being the Other. Which is the case is left unclear.
* FirstNameBasis: Almost everyone refers to her as "the Lady Lucrezia" when they're being formal. {{Justified|Trope}} as she dropped her maiden name "Mongfish," and calling her by her married name as "Lady Heterodyne" might cause confusion with her daughter.
* GigglingVillain: Befitting someone with her childish personality, she's mentioned as giggling a lot.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: And that's her [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100224 nephew]].
* HateSink: Lucrezia has yet to be presented with any kind of positive or endearing traits. So far, she's just a cruel, abusive, manipulative monster.
* TheHeavy: Of Volumes 2-7 (20) through 2-10 (23). Despite being the NonActionBigBad of much of the comic, the England and Rat Island arcs have her -- specifically her Clank/[[spoiler:Anevka]] form -- play a more direct antagonistic role as the heroes try to take back Prendee's Lantern from her.
* HeelFaceTurn: Before the series started, she tried to turn good when she agreed to marry Bill Heterodyne, and even drugged Klaus and sent him away so he wouldn't be a distraction. This is one of the most confusing parts of her character, since if she really never had any interest in redemption, she would have just killed Klaus.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The Heterodyne stories portray her as the cranky but kind daughter of a comically evil villain. Even before becoming the Other, there's no hint that Lucrezia was anything other than a nasty piece of work, even after marrying Bill and supposedly turning over a new leaf.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Offers to "ride along" in Zola's head so she can leave Agatha to die, especially since Agatha's brooch supresses her. Turns out, Zola can control and supress her ''even without external mechanisms'' which means that unless Zola is unconscious, Lucretia can't do anything with that body while Zola gains all her knowledge.
* InformedAbility:
** In-universe. Klaus often described Lucrezia as incredibly strong and brilliant as a Spark, which confuses Gil since [[spoiler:during his new war against her he's seen her try nothing new of her own. All of the Other-tech is the same as what the Heterodynes fought or made by one of her followers. This turns out to be because he's actually fighting Zola, who has access to all of Lucrezia's old knowledge thanks to hijacking one of her copies but is not herself a Spark.]]
** Similarly, Klaus believes her to be devious, cunning, and an excellent faker. Based on what we've seen of her/the Other in the comic, the former two are not debatable, the latter most certainly is.
* IShallTauntYou: She tries to provoke Queen Albia into killing her current host before she can question her by taunting the queen about what she did to her sister queens. Queen Albia admits that it almost worked.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She's trapped in this mindset. Decades after she drugged Klaus and exiled him, damaged Castle Heterodyne and possibly murdered her own son, killed countless Sparks and others across Europa, not to mention mind-controlling any survivors, she returns to steal her daughter's body... and then has the gall to claim she's the injured party, since she didn't win and no one came to rescue her from her own mistakes.
* {{Jerkass}}: The Jägers didn't like her because she treated them, and everyone else, like property. Given some of the characters they served through the centuries, that's saying ''a lot''.
* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When Agatha and Carson [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070810 discuss]] the death of Lucrezia's first son when the Other attacked Castle Heterodyne, Agatha initially disbelieves that Lucrezia would cause her own son's death.
-->'''Agatha:''' But that makes ''no sense!'' Not if the Other was--\\
''[[ExplainExplainOhCrap No.]]''
* LastGirlWins: ''Technically''. She was definitely the woman Bill married, after several other romances. It just didn't last too long.
* LoveRedeems: She tried to invoke this by marrying Bill Heterodyne. It apparently didn't work so well, since she (maybe) became the Other and started one of the most destructive wars in recent history.
* MadScientist: Well, ''duh,'' she's a [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder Spark]], but Lucrezia is more of a "classic" Mad Scientist in contrast with the heroic Sparks, who are more {{Reluctant Mad Scientist}}s. The prologue to ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheSiegeOfMechanicsburg'' has her work with BrainUploading much to the chargin of her test subjects, Otilia and Castle Heterodyne.
-->'''Otilia/Von Pinn:''' "''[[ThisIsUnforgivable That which you have done here is blasphemy!]]''"\\
'''Lucrezia:''' "[[InsultBackfire Oh, I know!]] It's so ''exiting''! I'm positively giddy!"
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Who is herself a MadScientist. Who has a beautiful daughter. Who is a MadScientist. Oy.
* MasterActress:
** Klaus says she is, but this comes off as an InformedAbility since she likes to gloat and is so different from the person she's impersonating. Although maybe if she knew ''anything at all'' about the girl she is pretending to be, she'd do better. And, as already noted, it's not at all certain that the Lucrezia that Klaus knew is the same one now attempting the impersonation.
** The version of her possessing the former body of Anevka, on the other hand, is much more successful at pretending to be a sad, worried princess and conning people into underestimating her in her few scenes, allowing her to scene with the version inside of Zola while Zola is unconscious and sneak in to knock out Klaus.
* MissingMom: And Agatha would have been much better off if she had '''stayed''' missing.
--> '''Lucrezia:''' Daughter! Wait! Let me '''STAY'''! I can '''TEACH YOU'''!\\
'''Agatha:''' You've taught me '''PLENTY''', mother -- AND I'M '''''NOT VERY HAPPY''''' ABOUT THAT!
* MysteriousPast: Even without the mystery of what happened that night in the lab, she clearly knew about Skifander, since it's where she dumped Klaus, and was interacting with the Geisterdamen for years before she married Bill, via the same sort of gate found in the Red Cathedral...
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Replace her last name with Borgia, and you very much have a real-world counterpart. Yikes.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Lucrezia went missing before the Other attacked the Heterodynes. While her mind might have come back, her body sure hasn't.
* NoblewomansLaugh: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100219 One]] of her somewhat-[[LargeHam hammy]] moments.
* NonActionBigBad: Most Sparks in this series are dangerous fighters. Lucrezia isn't, and when she's forced into combat, she's quickly overpowered (especially given that her opponents usually ''are'' master fighters, such as Tarvek and Zola). Although [[spoiler:we've now seen an older time-traveling(?) cyborg version of her gleefully blasting Albia's fellow god-queens and the version of her in Agatha is a master swordswoman.]]
* OffingTheOffspring:
** Her first child with Bill, Klaus Barry, was killed in the attack on Castle Heterodyne, and it's ''strongly'' implied that this was deliberate on her part. Even Agatha, having already seen how evil she can be, had some trouble with that idea. It is also of note that in all the time she's been around, never once has Lucrezia or the Other even mentioned her son in any capacity.
** Later, when she discusses plans with Zola, she openly states that she considers Agatha, ''her own daughter'', a liability, as her ability to control her own brain is gradually winning out over Lucrezia's, to the point where Agatha is even pulling things out of Lucrezia's mind. Lucrezia originally planned to kill Agatha and ride along with Zola instead, but that turned out not to be practical.
* PaperTiger: Lucrezia is a sadist who loves to torment and dominate everyone around her, but she's also a coward at heart with a low tolerance for pain.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: To Klaus. A {{ZigZagg|ingTrope}}ed case in that ''Lucrezia'' was the one who dumped ''Klaus'' and not vice versa. Though she does seem to want to get back together with him, on the condition that the Baron [[spoiler:is infected with one of her slaver wasps]].
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Even by the already low standards of most Sparks, a lot of Lucrezia's actions suggest an amazingly childish personality, even though she's a grown woman.
--> ''[[{{Squee}} EEEEEEE!]] We're going to win!'' ([[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060920 Vol. 6 p. 80]])
* ReallyGetsAround: If the way everyone talks about her (when not in the context of the Other) is anything to go by. We know she had a fling with Klaus before marrying William, and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160525 according to Violetta]] she was "hot stuff" with the Knights of Jove.
* ShowingOffTheNewBody: Close to a nanosecond after seeing a mirror, Lucrezia-in-Agatha takes off her dress and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060208 checks herself out]]. It even provides the page pic. The novelizations take it a step further and have Lucrezia nude in this scene.
* TermsOfEndangerment: She does this to a lot of people, but does it to Klaus especially often.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Klaus notes that the Other's work superficially resembles Lucrezia's designs, but improved beyond anything he ever saw.
** The first time Lucrezia fights Zeetha and Violetta, she has no skill in combat and is only able to keep up with them due to the post revival rush making her UnskilledButStrong. By next time they fight, her combat skill has surpassed Violetta's.
* {{Tsundere}}: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100219 Kind of]].
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She's only really worried about the Heterodynes, the Wulfenbachs, and Albia, since they're the only ones strong enough to oppose her. Everyone else is just a distraction. [[spoiler:She really should have been paying more attention to Tarvek, who put a KillSwitch in the clank that a copy of her was hiding in, and Martellus, who engineered a biological RestrainingBolt in Agatha's body that Lucrezia forgot about. Failing to notice these ultimately gets her exorcised after her second breakthrough in Albia.]]
* TheVamp: She flirts more than fights, as Zola says.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Certainly one of the reasons she married Bill.
--> '''Lucrezia:''' Besides, they always win. There must be ''something'' to their philosophy.
* VillainousBreakdown: According to Queen Albia, she is used to believing that she cannot be stopped, so a big enough setback is liable to shake her up.
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:When the version of her in Agatha's head is ''finally'' being driven out, she begs Agatha to let her stay, saying there's still stuff she can teach her, and even calling her 'daughter' in an extremely rare moment. Agatha, naturally, is having none of it.]]
* VoicesAreNotMental: {{Implied|Trope}} (as comics and novels can't ''fully'' show sound). Lucrezia made a point of having a daughter to pull GrandTheftMe on so that her new body would have her CompellingVoice to use on her servants.
* WeakButSkilled: Lucrezia is a master swordswoman, but the copies in Agatha and Anevka's robot body are unable to use those skills to the fullest as Agatha is barely trained as a fighter and Anevka's body is still subject to Tarvek's commands.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It hasn't been revealed what happened to Lucrezia, the ''real'' Lucrezia, after she disappeared during the Other War. All three versions we have tabs on in the present, posessing Zola, Agatha, and Anevka's robotic body, are copies of her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Silas Merlot]]
!!Silas Merlot, Beleaugred Professor
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[[caption-width-right:200:"That... that was Miss Clay! It's her fault I'm here! She ruined my life!"]]
Assistant and second-in-command to Tarsus Beetle.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He seems to finally breakthrough as a spark out of sheer rage of seeing Agatha again. He always wanted to be a spark and was jealous of their abilities. [[spoiler:It gets him killed like many other sparks as he can't control his obsession and the Castle murders him to protect Agatha.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: After discovering Dr. Beetle's hidden notes about Agatha's heritage, he burned down Beetleburg's hall of records with the Baron's cryptography team inside, fearing the Baron would punish him if he knew the truth while not expecting the Baron to punish him for his actions in covering the truth. Agatha would later point out that had he gone straight to the Baron after making the discovery it's likely it would have gotten him into Klaus's good graces and netted him a big reward.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Claims his sentencing is this. Historians would later argue that it was actually disproportionately ''low'', because among the things he burned in the archives was all records of what the Heterodyne Boys had been up to between their disappearance and Agatha being settled in Beetleburg, but the Baron had outlawed more appropriately harsh punishments.
* EvilIsPetty: The first thing he did after becoming in charge of Beetlesburg was expel Agatha simply because he didn't like her.
* ExposeTheVillainGetHisJob: What Silas presumably was hoping for by revealing the Slaver Engine his master was hiding. If it was, it worked in the worst way possible.
* ForScience: In likely an attempt to imitate Sparks, his big experiment at the start of the series was trying to turn chalk into cheese. It just earned him mockery from his peers and subordinates.
* GreenEyedMonster:
** He lives in bitterness and jealousy over the fact that he's not a Spark and feels that he gets overlooked and left out of Beetle's important plans because he's "a mere mortal."
** The novels would later suggest that his erratic personality and his odd experiments is him trying to emulate Sparky traits.
* HatedByAll: No one in Beetleburg really liked the petty, ill tempered man. The novels theorize that the main reason Dr. Beetle took him on as his main assistant was that his poor reputation made him the target of everyone's ire while the tyrant doctor looked all the more benevolent in comparison.
* InsaneTrollLogic: When Agatha meets him again in Castle Heterodyne, he thinks it's "unfair" that Klaus sent him there just for arson and killing his inspectors.
* {{Jerkass}}: As the novelization puts it, even without the jealousy and having to work under Dr. Beetle, he was just "born mean".
* KickedUpstairs: Klaus puts him in charge him not as a promotion but as a punishment, threatening to ship him off to Castle Heterodyne at his first mistake.
* KilledOffForReal: Crushed by Castle Heterodyne while trying to kill Agatha and her friends.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The Baron sent him to Castle Heterodyne for arson and murdering his research team. Agatha straight up tell him he deserved what he got.
* NeverMyFault: Blames Agatha for him getting sent to Castle Heterodyne, despite him being the one who burned down all of Beetle's records and murdered the Baron's men in a vain attempt to protect himself.
* SanitySlippage: He was never all there to begin with, but his fear of Klaus and hatred of Agatha turns him into a bitter, paranoid murderer.
* SpannerInTheWorks: The Baron wanted to interrogate Beetle and had some unspecified plans for him, but Silas's early reveal of the Slaver Engine that Beetle was hiding resulted in Beetle fighting and dying. Likewise, Silas's burning of Beetle's records kept the Baron from learning about Agatha months ahead of time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tarsus Beetle]]
!!Doctor Tarsus Beetle, Tyrant of Beetleburg
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[[caption-width-right:220:"Know Enough to Be Afraid"]]

Ruler of Beetleburg and Headmaster of the Transylvania Polygnostic University. Agatha attends TPU under his supervision and acts as his assistant.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Agatha is genuinely distraught when Beetle is killed, enough so to trigger her [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder breakthrough]].
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Despite his placement on this page, not really a lot is known about Beetle's ultimate goals or motivations. He greatly disliked the Baron's rule, and seemed to be planning to use Agatha to further his goals, but at the same time, Barry trusted him enough to entrust Agatha to his care, and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060324 apparently gave him reason not to trust the Baron]].
* BigBadWannabe: Was preparing to mount a challenge to Klaus' power... With his forces being completely outgunned, and the Baron fully aware of his plotting.
* CompensatingForSomething: Gil notes that his clanks are ludicrously oversized, Beetle's way of compensating for his lack of height. Beetle objects to this assessment, loudly.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: His favored means of dealing with criminals in his city is to stick them in a giant bell jar and then leave them there until he needs to reuse the jar. People frequently die of exposure, starvation and/or dehydration before that happens.
* CurbStompBattle: His defenses get effortlessly swatted down by the Wulfenbach forces.
* DeaderThanDead: His demise is used to showcase that in the Girl Genius universe 1) [[DeathIsCheap being dead need not be permanent]], and 2) [[KilledOffForReal it still can be]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killed when Gil knocks his own bomb back at him.
* HumongousMecha: His greatest creation is a twenty-meter clank named Tock.
* MadScientist: Third generation Spark.
* MasterApprenticeChain: Had at various points in his life taught Klaus and Lucrezia, along with Bill and Barry Heterodyne, and later Agatha.
* PetTheDog: Beetle's sheltering and care of Agatha certainly appears to be this. It's only much, much later that the audience learns he intended to use her as a weapon.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: As the Tyrant of Beetleburg, his word was law. This was why Agatha was allowed to attend whatever lesson she pleased, even if her teachers didn't like her.
* SecretKeeper: He knew Barry had returned to Beetleburg with Agatha, and knew who she, Lilith, and Adam were.
* StarterVillain: To the point where Agatha never even faced him, since he got thwarted by the Baron before he even got to the part of his plan that involved her.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Beetle was the one who inspired Lucrezia's experiments with mind-transferral, meaning a good deal of issues in the story can in some way be traced back to him.
** Still later, its his ill-advised plot against Klaus Wulfenbach that ultimately attracts the Baron's attention to Agatha, thus kicking off the plot.
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: He's universally acknowledged as the greatest clank engineer of his generation. Unfortunately, he failed to take into account that later generations would use his designs as the starting point for their own work. Thus, when he tried using them to rebel against Klaus, he was trying to fight state of the art Wulfenbach Battle Clanks with models that were thirty years out of date, and the obsolete models quickly lost.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Resents his former protege Klaus for annexing Beetleburg into the empire, despite the fact that the takeover was peaceful and he was allowed to remain in control of local affairs.
* TheWorfEffect: Klaus figures out his plot to use a [[PuppeteerParasite Hive Engine]] to strike against the empire and crushes it effortlessly well before it was ready to go, establishing just how smart and powerful the Baron truly is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Other]]
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The mysterious force of mysteriousness that almost conquered Europa before vanishing mysteriously. May be Agatha's mother.
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[[folder:Aaronev VI]]
!!Aaronev Wilhelm Sturmvoraus VI, the Prince of Sturmhalten
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The ruler of Sturmhalten, and the father of Tarvek and Anevka Sturmvoraus. He's pledged loyalty to Lucrezia Mongfish and does her work in the Knights of Jove. He's also a complete nutcase.

* AxCrazy: In his royal theatre, the spot where the Prince sits has a ''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051019 built-in machine gun]]'' aimed at the stage, in case the play is too "boring".
* TheCaligula: He's an insane prince obsessed with un-sealing a SealedEvilInACan, even at the cost of his own family. This isn't even getting into how he treats visitors to the principality.
* DirtyOldMan:
** Requests the circus to stage "The Socket Wench of Prague" - the play obscene enough to chase the performers out of a town in a usual case, and orders them to "tart it up" as well.
** He's also obsessed with [[spoiler:Lucrezia, and tries to resurrect her in the body of ''his own daughter'']], with the implication of fully intending to go all the way.
* FeudalOverlord: He poses as a "good little vassal" of the Baron's empire, but in reality, his town is [[spoiler:housing such an absurd amount of Other tech that it may as well be ruled by the Other ''themselves'']].
* GoldDigger: Well, at least [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060113 Lady Vrin suspects so]], but apparently he was trying to seduce Lucrezia to use her [[spoiler:slaver wasps]].
* KarmicDeath: He's killed by [[spoiler:Anevka]], one of the girls forced into the "Holy Machine", right as he's forcing yet another girl in.
* KingBobTheNth: The fourth or sixth Prince Aaronev Sturmvoraus of Sturmhalten, depending on if you use the novel's counting or the comic's.
* MiddleNameBasis: Like his son Tarvek, people generally [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060206 use]] his middle name Wilhelm in casual conversation.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: If Tarvek's flashback ([[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060911 SPOILERS!!]]) is trustworthy, then Wilhelm was genuinely distressed when his daughter Anevka almost died after he hooked her up to the "Holy Machine".
* OffingTheOffspring: By accident, in the case of [[spoiler:the "real" Anevka]].
* PervertDad: {{Implied|Trope}}. He had an affair with Lucrezia. He then tried [[spoiler:downloading Lucrezia's personality into his own daughter]]. Yech.
* SealedEvilInACan: Not himself, but [[spoiler:the Other]], who he's devoted his life to un-sealing.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only shows up in Volume 5 (and [[spoiler:dies that volume]]), but he's the one who housed the Geisterdamen and their "Holy Machine" in Sturmhalten, making him more or less the one responsible for [[spoiler:[[BigBad the Other]]'s comeback]].
* TownWithADarkSecret: Is the prince of one, where the "dark secret" in question is that [[spoiler:almost everyone there is a Revenant infected by Slaver Wasps]].
* UndyingLoyalty: To Lucrezia. Aaronev is a villainous example, in that this loyalty drives him to the point of obsession with his family's [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051118 "sacred task"]] of unleashing a {{Sealed Evil|InACan}} onto the world.
* WouldHurtAChild: Would hurt several children, in fact -- mostly girls. So many girls that (as Tarvek [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210906 later explained]]) ''it led to a gender imbalance among Sparks''.

[[folder:Anevka Sturmvoraus]]
!!Princess Anevka Sturmvoraus
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Tarvek's debatably-living sister. After an ill-conceived MadScience experiment of her father's left her at death's door, her brother constructed a new robotic body that she could operate from within her life-support tank.

* AxCrazy: Can become this if in a bad mood.
* CameBackWrong: One possible interpretation of her actions after [[spoiler: having her heavily-damaged body placed in a portable life-support pod and hooked to a puppet-clank, which eventually replaced her without even realizing it; however, we never get a chance to see what she was like before her father strapped her into the Summoning Engine. Maybe she was ''always'' like this..]]
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: It's all but outright stated that the only reason she hasn't killed her brother is because he's one of the few people who could repair her body if something happened.
* ClothingDamage: When she kills her father, it burns her dress.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060911 The real princess died ages ago.]] What we see is her personality imprinted into the robot she originally used to interact with the world. She didn't even realize she died!]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Her initial appearance has her being polite and considerate towards Agatha, which almost immediately vanishes, showing that Anevka ([[spoiler:or rather the clank that thinks she's Anevka]]) is a dangerous and violent psychopath.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Well, princess, but in the novel, Tarvek mentions that when she's in a bad mood, she tends to kill whoever's nearby.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: While she mainly did it for her own agenda (but also for revenge), her father did deserve to be fried.
* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: That she killed her father -- even ''if'' [[KickTheSonOfABitch he deserved it]] -- is used to highlight just how ruthless and amoral she is.
* ManInTheMachine: A variant. [[spoiler:Subverted--the "man" died years ago, and the machine didn't even notice]].
* PerpetualSmiler: Her mouth is designed to look like it's perpetually smiling.
* PsychoElectro: Anevka is a little too fond of using her shock abilities on anyone who gets in her way.
* PutOnABus: She hasn't been seen since [[spoiler:Tarvek deactivated her in Sturmhalten. He then removed her CranialProcessingUnit and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060915 replaced it]] with one containing the Other's personality. ''And hasn't mentioned that to anyone yet.'' This is concerning to say the least, especially as Other!Anevka was [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110516 last seen]] controlling Klaus via slaver-wasp.]]
** TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Turns out the Clank Lucrezia that attacked [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190909 Agatha's group]] trying to stop them from getting the Lucrezia in Agatha's mind out is actually [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191014 the Other in Anevka's body herself.]] Once Tarvek learns this, he shows that he can still control her body in spite of all the modifications.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:She's nothing more than a replacement for '''real''' Anevka, there to make Prince Aaronev feel less guilt over using his own daughter as a guinea pig. Also for Tarvek.]]
-->'''Tarvek:''' I am -- ''[[spoiler:was]]'', very fond of my sister. I want you to know -- my father was not the only one comforted by your presence.
* RobotGirl: Her mechanical body is designed to look like a human woman. [[spoiler:She's more robot than she appeared.]]
* RoboticPsychopath: More than happy to kill family members if it gives her an advantage.
* SelfMadeOrphan: She killed her father and it's strongly implied in the second novelization that she did the same thing to her mother.
* ShockAndAwe: She can re-route her power system to deliver lethal electric shocks...
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:The real Anevka died long ago, leaving her personality imprinted on the robot half. This personality is unaware her human parts have perished entirely.]]
* TheseusShipParadox: [[spoiler:One of the heartbreaking human examples. Initially, Anevka's remains -- contained in the carboy carried by footmen -- controlled the clank body attached to the carboy by cables like a puppet, but as she weakened, the clank did more and more on her own. In the end, the clank didn't even notice when she died. The only one aware of the whole process was Tarvek, and apparently the clank was so much like his sister even ''he'' is unsure exactly when she died]].
* UnlimitedWardrobe: She goes through many very fabulous costumes.
* VillainousBreakdown: After having nearly gotten away with her plan, she has a complete freak-out when Tarvek reveals [[spoiler:what she really is.]]
* VillainousPrincess: The princess of Sturmhalten and batshit crazy.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler:Once it's revealed that the real Anevka died and her clank body unknowingly grew self aware, the story treats her like she was nothing but a ReplacementGoldfish Tarvek kept around to make himself feel better about failing to save his sister. However, she was still a perfect copy of Anevka's mind, fully sentient with human emotions and capable thinking and acting independently. When Tarvek stashes her CranialProcessingUnit away in a cupboard to reuse her body for Lucrezia, he tells her to "Sleep well, Anevka", so apparently he wasn't intending to just throw her away like trash.]]

[[folder:Bangladesh [=DuPree=]]]
!!Bangladesh [=DuPree=], Wulfenbach Airship Captain
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[[caption-width-right:190:"Oh yeah! Klaus ''always'' knows where the party is!"]]

A pirate queen in the pay of the Baron, though even he finds her taste for violence and random slaughter distasteful. Nevertheless he keeps her about as she is a very skilled warrior and hunter and sometimes, you need a butcher.

* AffablyEvil: She's made of fun. Always. Even while [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040901 skewering someone]].
* AllForNothing: Bang's mother was deposed in a coup, in response to which Bang built up a massive bloodthirsty fleet of pirates. Just as she was ready to go home and take her throne back by force, ''someone'' killed pretty much all her pirates, destroyed her fleet and burnt down her castle. Unable to figure out who the son of a chump[[note]]Actually the literal daughter of a Chump[[/note]] that did this was, Bangladesh swore to find them and get revenge.
* AxCrazy: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031203 Her defining character trait even before we knew her name.]] She's usually the first suspect when anything is demolished.
--> '''Baron Wulfenbach:''' [[TranquilFury DuPree]]... When I say the words "alive and unharmed"... do ''any'' neurons actually ''fire'' in that brain of yours?\\
'''Bangladesh [=DuPree=]:''' Um... No sir!\\
'''Baron Wulfenbach:''' I thought not.\\
'''Bangladesh [=DuPree=]:''' [[NotMeThisTime But I can't take credit for this one]]...
* BadassNormal: She doesn't have a Spark and generally avoids using advanced technology, but she's still capable of holding her own against fighters like Von Pinn and Gilgamesh.
* BigSisterBully: Yep, Bang is like a big sister to Gil. A nasty, spiteful, teasing, irritating, bossy, troublemaking big sister. Who will utterly wail on anybody who tries taking over her right to beat him upside the head for being an idiot. Heaven help them if they actually have a chance at hurting him: a wild Bang is a scary one.
* BloodKnight: Subverted. She gives off this impression, but her love of fighting is really just an extension of her desire to hurt people and destroy things. When against an opponent that actually has the advantage, she comments it is "no longer fun."
* BunnyEarsLawyer: One might forget she is an airship captain, what with being such a ditzy-acting BloodKnight... until a probably wasped airship captain nearly leads our heroes into the enemy's [[TimeStandsStill time trap]] where they could kill the heroes at their leisure. Bang [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210517 thwarts the rogue captain]], takes charge and averts catastrophe with deft and decisive orders (with the crew quickly and wisely complying when realizing her infamy), all while still catering to her nature as a pirate at heart.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When she finally reunites with her father, who is rather unexpectedly [[spoiler:the apathetic airship captain]], she gives him a lot of crap for leaving her and her mother ten years prior.
* ColorCodedCharacters: She wears white and red.
* ComedicSociopathy: Say what you want about The Baron's pet psychopath... she is big fun.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Klaus is explaining to Bang that Agatha is still alive despite Bang having supposedly returned with her charred corpse (actually that of the late Madame Olga), Bang comments "Wow. She sure ''looked'' dead."
* DarkActionGirl: One of the best hand-to-hand fighters in the comic, not least because she fights dirtier.
* TheDragon: Even if you don't consider Klaus a villain, she's his "wet work" specialist -- the person you send when you want wreckage and corpses to result.
* DisappearedDad: It turns out [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220218 she has one]], which... frankly explains a ''[[ThisExplainsSoMuch lot]]'' about her bratty childish mannerisms and genuine loyalty to Klaus, a stern but ''deeply'' responsible father figure in her life.
* DramaticIrony: Bangladesh, per the novels, is only working for Klaus while he finds the person who killed all of Bang's pirates and wrecked her family's lovely castle, with the agreement that Bang gets to kill them when she does. The problem? [[spoiler:Said person is Zeetha, Klaus' own daughter.]] Just for added irony, when Bang and said person do meet... they actually have a civil conversation over tea (during which [[spoiler:Zeetha]] observes that Bang is "going to be ''so'' fun to fight!"). And then when she finally finds her quarry, leaves the Wulfenbach Fleet, and sets out to give chase... she gets headed off by Agatha discreetly threatening to go [[BewareTheNiceOnes Old Heterodyne]] on her if she hurts ''any'' of Agatha's friends.
* EmotionalBruiser: Sort of. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120118 Turns out she really had developed an attachment to good ol' Klaus]].
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Her attempt to get close to Zeetha to enact revenge for her wiping out her fleet is torpedoed by Agatha, forcing her to help the team retrieve Prende's Lantern.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120224 Et tu, DuPree]]? It just took some time to find [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120307 the perfect match]].
** She also ''genuinely'' cares for Klaus and Gil, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120118 breaking down in tears]] when she believes the Baron was killed (though threatening to kill Gil for making her cry later), and her relationship with Gil is very much LikeBrotherAndSister. In fact, she sets her hostility aside when meeting with Zeetha and Agatha after the timeskip, and expresses her hope they can fix whatever Klaus did to him.
** She also takes Tarvek aside and asks him as well. She's really asking just about anyone she thinks she can trust.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Turns out that she ''really'' objects to mind control, [[spoiler:and is not at all impressed when she finds out what Klaus did to Gil...]] She eventually explains that the objection is due to her disliking fighting against people who didn't choose to be in the position in which they have to fight her. If anything, it takes all the fun out of the fight in her eyes.
** She's also quite honest. Why lie when you're ''proud'' of what you do? By the same token, she does ''not'' react well when she's lied to.
* EvilCounterpart: To Zeetha. Both are [[ActionGirl Action Girls]] who follow a Spark, extremely competent fighters, and each one is a BoisterousBruiser, but Bang is a PsychoForHire while Zeetha is a SpiritedCompetitor (who granted, does border on BloodKnight at times). And both are [[FriendlyEnemy eagerly awaiting]] the time when a fight between them is justified.
* FreakyIsCool: Upon seeing [[OneWingedAngel Vole's new body]], she just [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140804 lights up in delight]]. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140806 She even describes his monstrous new form as "gorgeous".]]
* FriendlyEnemy: Is cultivating such a relationship with Zeetha in the aftermath of the Beast of the Rails arc. Both are eagerly anticipating testing each other's mettle in a fight (but can't at that time due to [[SacredHospitality Sanctuary rules]] at the Corbettite depot). Bang is also hopeful that Agatha and Tarvek can fix whatever is wrong with Gil. [[spoiler:Still seems to have this attitude after finding out that Zeetha was the one who destroyed her headquarters and fleet and killed most of her crew. She seems more excited to have a cool battle to the death with her than angry at her, despite the fact that finding out who destroyed her base was the only reason she served the Baron in the first place. Really, they're practically ''friends''. They even help each other come up with new combat moves and counters to enemy attacks!]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: If her [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090126 encounter with Grantz]] is any indication, Bang's not particularly popular among the Baron's forces.
* GenkiGirl: A big [[CheerfulChild lighthearted kid]], even if she is the AxCrazy sort that [[KidsAreCruel would torture a rat just to hear it squeal]].
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The Pirate Queen, that is.
* GoodCopBadCop: Tends to play this with Gil. She's Bad Cop. And she isn't acting.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: The first word is debatable, the last two really aren't.
* HiddenDepths: Appears to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120118 truly be distraught]] over failing to rescue the Baron from the destruction of the hospital.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: As terrible as she can be... even she knows not to invoke the wrath of a Heterodyne, as her demeanor before and after [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200928 this page]] exhibits.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: When using a RebusBubble to ask Gil what means she was allowed to use to kill anyone besides Gil or Sun that came in, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070718 cheese was one of her suggestions.]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: She has it ''hard'' for [[spoiler:Captain [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120224 Vole]]]]. Especially when he gets transformed into a huge, hulking beast who is barely kept under control.
* TheInsomniac: After the time skip, when Gil stops sleeping, Bang tries to keep up with him. Unfortunately she doesn't have his training, so she can't just do a few mental exercises and be good for a few days.
* InsultBackfire: ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheClockworkPrincess'' mentions that Gil said her captain's quarters had a "Debauched Barbarian Princess" look. Once she learned what the word "debauched" meant, Bang took it as a compliment.
* JerkassHasAPoint: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061101 Bang's reasoning]] on why the Baron can't be the Other is... unique: The Other would never leave a minion free to do anything against orders. However, Bang still has the free will to constantly ignore Klaus's orders ''not'' to kill people, therefore she hasn't been wasped and mind-controlled, therefore Klaus can't be the Other. He finds this a less than comforting chain of reasoning, but can't really counter it.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Bang spends most of the series giddily committing acts of murder and violence with everyone treating it like a funny quirk of hers or begrudgingly allowing her to get away with it. However, after stabbing Tarvek as a joke Agatha had one of her dingbots secretly inject her with a paralyzing serum and she quietly tells her that she never understood why Gil keeps her around and that she'll kill her if she ever touches one her people again.
* KillItWithFire: The third novel gives a glimpse into Bang's mentality, where she thinks everything would like ever-so better if she were to set it on fire. On seeing Gil's handiwork disposing of Klaus' would-be assassins, she's forced to review how easy it'd be to set Gil on fire.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Gil, to the horror of Klaus. After the time skip, Gil finds nothing odd about waking up with Bang in bed with him. There's also a case to be made that she sees Klaus as a sort of surrogate father-figure. [[spoiler:Considering what her ''actual'' father is like, Klaus being a father figure to her is probably for the best.]]
* MoralMyopia: Bang is one of the more vicious and bloodthirsty characters in the comic, happily engaging in murder and torture on a regular basis. Despite this, Klaus and Gil have a friendly, almost familial relationship with her and they give her a lot more leeway with her violent activities than they do other maniacs they encounter.
* MoreDespicableMinion: She can barely be contained by the WellIntentionedExtremist Baron Wulfenbach or his son, and loves violence.
-->'''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050103 DuPree]]:''' Isn't that always the way? Management thinking it knows what works in the '''field?''' Why, if '''I''' were here '''alone''' -- and you people were still standing around -- half of you'd be '''dead!'''
* MundaneSolution: Upon hearing how the monstrous new Vole is at risk of killing himself if they don't subdue him before he rips out all of his water and nutrient feeds, Bang asks why they don't just let him pull out a few first to weaken him so that they ''can'' subdue him. Bang laughs at the fact that ''Sparks are so smart they fail to find simple solutions.'' Then she thinks she's [[SpotTheImposter Spotted an Imposter]] and ''forcefully asks where the REAL Gil is''.
* NoodleImplements: We never find out what she planned, but one of her [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070718 methods of killing people involves cheese]].
* NotMeThisTime: She's a default suspect for any cases of [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050209 death]] and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040126 destruction]] around her, [[PsychoForHire for an obvious reason]]. Bang doesn't even see it as a problem.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Zeetha suggests that Bang [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150415 might be doing this]]. See SmarterThanYouLook.
* PerkyFemaleMinion: Perky, gleefully sociopathic, and prone to acts of butchery.
* PirateGirl: Ex-pirate queen.
* PsychoElectro: In the first arc, she gets her hand mangled and ends with a medical device meant to facilitate faster healing. By the time of her next appearance, she has modified it to electrocute people Joker-style.
* PsychoForHire: Herr Baron understands that sometimes you need butchers. In the novelization ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheClockworkPrincess'', he also mentally commends her as an "easly-refuted public voice of unreason."
* RebusBubble: During the time that she has her jaw wired shut. She's quite fluent.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: Klaus hopes to avoid this, but he's prepared to deal with Bang if she ever decides to go back to piracy. [[spoiler:Ultimately averted. Gil does accept her quitting without trying to kill her.]]
* {{Revenge}}: She agreed to work for the Baron in return for his assistance in identifying the person that destroyed her pirate fortress. Upon learning that it was [[spoiler:Zeetha]], she goes in for the hunt, despite fully expecting to be the one killed.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: "Pirate Queen" isn't just a title; she is a genuine blue-blooded member of the Fifty Families, forced to piracy due to failing fortunes. The rest of the families consider her an embarrassment... not because she's a pirate, but because she does ''work'' (though given how much she enjoys her job, it's hard to call it "work").
* SkyPirate: That was her career before running afoul of the Baron. He decided to hire her on as one of his tools in his cabinet of necessary evils.
* SlasherSmile: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040123 Good]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070101 Lord]]...
* SmarterThanYouLook: She comes across as and ''is'' a ''very'' violent [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} goof]], but she occasionally demonstrates a surprising degree of intelligence when motivated. Re-purposing one of Gil's medical devices into an electrocution weapon, for example, though her crowning moment was when Vole was out of control after being removed from the time field -- Gil didn't want him to rip out his life support cables, but Bang points out that letting him pull out ''some'' of them will weaken him and let them get him under control. This becomes especially prominent after the TimeSkip, where circumstances frequently force her to set aside her playful attitude and take matters seriously.
* StayInTheKitchen: The second novel states she's sometimes on the receiving end from some people. Klaus is aware of this, but does little to actively discourage it, mainly because the people who end up replacing these incredibly stupid people are obviously going to be smarter (and as a bonus, much more polite toward Bang, in gratitude for the promotion).
* {{Strawman}}: An InvokedTrope in-universe -- Klaus notes to himself that Bang's over the top "let's just kill everything and burn down the town for good measure" arguments are easy to refute, and make him look far more reasonable by comparison. Not that Bang is intending to make him look good; she just honestly doesn't understand why he doesn't let her [[MurderIsTheBestSolution kill everyone]].
* SweaterGirl: ''God,'' the sweater is tight.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Bang exasperates Tweedle's personal assassin, Jaron, so much during their duel that he ends up begging/yelling in annoyance for her to kill him or shut up already.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While's it arguable whether the Wulfenbach Empire is good or evil, Bang's high ranking presence among them is probably the best argument one can make if they want to say they're the latter. Although at the very least, Klaus is able to at least point her in the general direction of even ''worse'' people, thus keeping her on something of a leash.
* TooMuchInformation: Oh, Bang! [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050211 That's]] so [[{{Squick}} cute]]!
* TortureTechnician: She shows her interest right during [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040121 her introduction]].
-->'''Bangladesh:''' Do I come into your lab and tell you how to torture rats?\\
'''Gil:''' [[BluntYes Frequently]].\\
'''Bangladesh:''' Exactly! So I know what I'm doing!
* UndyingLoyalty:
** To Baron Klaus Wulfenbach. If the Baron tells her to do something, she does it. End of story.
** And also [[spoiler:to Gil, it seems, post TimeSkip. She [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131218 acts as a buffer]] against Bohrlaika for Gil.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Bang does this twice.
** She set the entire plot in motion by attacking Moloch's unit, which would later end up with his brother encountering Agatha, which would lead to her locket getting stolen, which would then lead to her being ousted as Bill's daughter, which later ended up with her escaping, meeting Master Payne's Circus, her getting trapped in Sturmhalten and getting her mother's mind downloaded into her body.
** Then when Agatha set her projection to play the Heterodyning frequency to keep herself in control, Bang destroys THAT, allowing Lucrezia to attempt to escape, which later led to Klaus getting wasped because Agatha still had the Spark Wasp Engine with her. In fairness, she had no way of knowing that the machine was keeping the Other contained, and it appeared to be forcing mind-controlled people to attack her boss. Still, she should have sent in a device team so that the Baron could study it (she even suggests this before revealing she was just joking).
* WhamLine:
-->'''Bangladesh:''' Sure, sure. But this can't wait, Herr Baron. [[spoiler:My term of service to the empire is over. ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181024 I quit.]]'']]
* WildCard: Her childish psychopathy and bungling is what kicked the plot off. [[spoiler:Now that she's off the Empire's leash and nominally after Zeetha, Agatha's best friend and teacher and Gil's long lost sister, it's even worse. Only the threat of Agatha to herself and the threat of the Other to Europa are keeping her contained and working with the heroes.]]

[[folder:The Beast]]
!!The Beast of the Rails
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A sentient train that was created by Agatha's grandfather Saturnus Heterodyne. It constantly hungers for coal and any form of metal, and to roam freely across the land devouring new and interesting things; after Saturnus gave the Beast to them, the Corbetite Monks tried to use it on their railway network but were finally forced to trick it and seal it in one of the Vaults in their Depot-Fortress.

* AxCrazy: When it first appears, this thing seems to be giving ''Castle Heterodyne'' a run for its money in this department, with the added danger that it doesn't obey the resident Heterodyne, or possibly doesn't believe that Agatha ''is'' a Heterodyne. Although [[spoiler: in the end, it only kills one person (Lady Selnikov) and even that wasn't particularly intentional.]]
* BackseatDriver: [[spoiler: Reduced to being an impotent one of these with the Brother-Ulm train following its defeat.]]
* BadassDecay: In-universe. Once an [[VillainousGlutton all-consuming]] engine of [[TheDreaded terror]], [[spoiler: now only its little mechanical "brain" survives in dingbot form, which accompanies Agatha on her further journeys.]]
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' interrupt its meal.
* BoxedCrook: After Agatha brings it to heel, she keeps it around in the form of [[spoiler: a super-intelligent speech-capable dingbot]].
* CastFromHitPoints: When preparing to do something spectacular, the Beast can shorten itself for extra energy, by digesting its own wagons.
* CoolTrain: It goes without saying, really.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After being defeated by [[spoiler:Agatha and reduced to a small dingbot body, the Beast gradually becomes fiercely protective of her and even makes an friendship with the Castle.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Continues to hurl threats even as its brain is finally physically ripped from its mangled body.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Seems to have a soft spot for cute animals, considering it was shocked and dismayed when it thought Krosp was attacking it and tried to shoo him away.
* ExtremeOmnivore: According to Brother Ulm, one of the main reasons the Corbetites fear it so much is because it can subsist on literally ''anything'', as opposed to normal trains that can only run on coal.
* GiantEyeOfDoom: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141128 The first thing we see of it]]
* HeelFaceTurn: "Heroic" is probably a [[HeroicComedicSociopath strong word]] for the Beast, but [[spoiler:after being reduced to Dingbot form it seems to have accepted its lot as Agatha's minion.]]
* HumiliationConga: The process of its defeat. [[spoiler:It started when it was swarmed by the [[BearsAreBadNews Swartzwalders]] who had no metal on them to [[SelectiveMagnetism manipulate]]. Then its energy reserve cars were cut off by Count Wolkerstorfer and dropped down a cargo lift shaft. Then it got grappled by Humongulus when it tried to magnetically lift the cars back out of the shaft. Then it had its cab ripped open. Then its core brain was unplugged, and eventually revealed to be stored in a glass jar where it impotently yells at people.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe / SpoiledBrat: Generally comes across as a super-powered child in desperate need of some discipline.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Made of ''train grates''.
* PsychopathicManchild: Much like the ''other'' living Heterodyne object we've seen so far, it is positively ''giddy'' at the prospect of devouring the Corbetites and Martellus.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: After its defeat in the Battle of the St. Spzac Train Yard, Agatha reforged it into an advanced dingbot in a spheroid chassis with a little smokestack. It's since teamed up with the similarly en-mobilized fragment of Castle Heterodyne that Agatha recovered in paris as ThoseTwoGuys. It is much more mindful of its loyalties to its creator in this state. Particularly since its new body doesn't have a mouth, and thus it has no means of eating things to get stronger.
* SelectiveMagnetism: It has the power to selectively manipulate metal items in order to consume them. This includes Martellus' gold crown, which he notes isn't a ferrous metal and [[LampshadeHanging asks how it's doing that]]. It later pins almost all of the people around in place by holding the bits of metal in their clothes.
* ShowsDamage: since the Beast uses mass conversion to power its attacks, it is possible to judge its remaining power by its length -- the more wagons it has, the longer it can keep fighting.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Announces its intention to simply storm away from the fight at the Corbettite Fortress-Depot, but is then [[spoiler: swarmed by Krosp's newly-acquired army of [[BearsAreBadNews Swartzwalders]].]]
* SmugSnake: Constantly reaffirms its superiority and talks down to Agatha and her allies, even as the battle turns more and more against it.
* TakingYouWithMe: Threatens this when it gets desperate [[spoiler: claiming it will blow everyone up while pinning them in place, but Brother Ulm and [[UpliftedAnimal Konig]] manage to grab its power core anyway.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: [[spoiler: After it is rendered unto a super-dingbot and is joined by the Castle super-dingbot, the two become this.]]
* VillainousGlutton: Is called a glutton in-story, and it itself describes its gobbling up of resources as someone ravenous would his dinner.

[[folder:Boris Dolokhov]]
!!Boris Vasily Konstantin Andrei Myshkin-Dolokhov, Chief Aide to Baron Klaus Wulfenbach
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[[caption-width-right:180:"That means ''I'll'' have to run things. And I ''hate'' running things."]]
The head of The Baron's administrative staff, Boris is a microcosm of how the Baron operates, and why it may be preferable to the previous system.

Originally a librarian with an eidetic memory serving a Spark (far from a calm profession in and of itself) his master decided to add an extra pair of arms, strength, speed, balance... and turn him into the ultimate juggler. When the Baron took down his former master, he was given a far less demeaning job. He is now the Baron's right hand man and chief administrative secretary.

This is a job that he has excelled in. His brilliant and utterly humorless mind and enhanced physical abilities make him exactly the sort of person that a man like the Baron would need at his side, showing the Baron's talent for getting the right monster for the right job.

He and the Jägers have a love/hate relationship, as in: They love to pick on him, he hates their attitude.

* BadassBookworm: All the modifications intended to make him a juggler are ''extremely'' useful in combat. Boris is perfectly capable of beating the tar out of a Jäger, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100820 especially if he wants information]].
* BattleButler: To the Baron.
* BlessedWithSuck / CursedWithAwesome: His modifications could be seen as either or both. Boris himself hasn't been seen to complain about it, though, at least not since the Baron freed him from his original Spark.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: He's put in command of the empire when the Baron is out of commission and Gil is missing and hates it.
* TheComicallySerious: Utterly humorless but often at the heart of very funny moments..
* DualWielding: Make that ''quadruple''.
* EnigmaticMinion: When last seen before the two-and-a-half year time-skip, he's sneaking around asking provocative questions of the captured Lord Selnikov regarding [[spoiler:Sparks and slaver wasps]]. And when he turns up again (see below) [[spoiler: it's not at all clear in how official a capacity he's acting.]]
* FamousNamedForeigner: Shares last names with the main characters from ''Literature/TheIdiot'' and ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', respectively.
* FriendlessBackground: It's AllThereInTheManual that ''part'' of his hostility to the Jägers comes from envy of their [[BandOfBrothers camaraderie]], while he himself is a one-off construct with no one else quite like him. (The rest, of course, is straight-up [[RedOniBlueOni personality clash]].)
* HazyFeelTurn: Following the TimeSkip, he's (possibly) left Wulfenbach employ and is now working for or with [[spoiler: the Immortal Library under Paris]]. What exactly that means for his personal morality is left ambiguous.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Not by choice. His former master wanted him to be able to juggle.
* MundaneUtility: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100823 Extra hands are very useful for preparing one's tea]].
* NumberTwo: He takes on certain duties in the event of the Baron's absence or incapacity.
* OverlyLongName: Six of them.
* PhotographicMemory: It helped when he was a Spark's assistant and even more when he helps to run the empire.
* PutOnABus: Conspicuously absent from the Wulfenbach halls of power following [[spoiler:the timeskip, to the point of suffering from a case of ChuckCunninghamSyndrome. [[TheBusCameBack He ends up making a rather impressive entrance]] helping out Agatha and her companions [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160106 in (or rather under) Paris.]] And this is ''after'' Füst the bear shows up again after being absent for even more time than him. Paris must have a rather nice bus stop. ]]
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: When hearing the situation from Dimo in the company of the Jäger Generals, Boris pretty much sees no difference between Agatha and the Lucrezia copy in her head, despite the detail of the Heterodyne Locket and the idealistic faith and UndyingLoyalty the Jägers have for their Lady Heterodyne.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:When Wooster clues the generals in on his plans to destroy Mechanicsburg]]. "DO YOU '''KNOW''' WHAT YOU'VE ''DONE?!''"

[[folder:Eotain]]
!!Eotain, Geisterdamen Warrior
A Geisterdamen encountered early on by Agatha in her misadventures, later an acolyte of Othar Tryggvassen (GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!)

* AllThereInTheManual: Since most Geisterdamen look nigh-identical anyway, it's hard to tell, but the novel confirms Eotain is one of the first two Agatha met, and the ones in the cells in Sturmhalten.
* TheBusCameBack: She and the other Geisters fled Sturmhalten before the Baron's forces showed up. They didn't reappear until Agatha's time in Paris, with Eotain leading the charge. Then she reappears when Gil and Tarvek head back to Paris after the mess in England.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She really loved her giant spider, Bwoosee, and gets in some angry raging at the heavens when Dimo crushes it.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: The Queen of Dawn sending her and the other Geisterdamen in Paris because she wasn't properly the Other proved to be enough for Eotain to defect, using Agatha's existence as a loophole to get around the total obedience they're supposed to have.
* MookPromotion: Eotain starts off as just one Geisterdamen warrior, but with the Other's mass purge and Vrin's death, she winds up in charge of a lot of them.
* RunningGag: Identifying Agatha as an actor.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Eotain often appears alongside a cohort, Shurdlu.

[[folder:Francisia Monahan]]
!!Doctor Francisia Monahan, Ruler of Rats
An English Spark and member of the Queen's Society, [[TheMole who is one of Lucrezia's spies in the organisation]].

* BadBoss: [[spoiler:She tested the toxic "effluvia" on all of her minions, [[TranformationHorror which turned them all into hideous mutants]].]] This is, of course, part and parcel of being a "classical" Spark.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: {{Downplayed}} (since '''all''' sparks tend to be [[MadScientist a little eccentric]]), but the beaked-mask-wearing, rat-obsessed Monahan [[spoiler: is only the ''second'' character to give Lucrezia [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder a taste of her own medicine]], albeit temporarily. And that's before her ascension to Queendom.]]
* CrazyCatLady: Replace cat with rat and she is essentially this. She is fairly obsessed with her rats, to the point that they are practically her children.
* EnlightenmentSuperpower: [[spoiler: Once Lucrezia "helps" her figure out how to use the "cursed waters" as a power source she [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220330 ascends to Queendom]], allowing her to resist the Lantern's time freeze among other things.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She genuinely adores her rats, and even feels bad when her attempts at enhancing them cause them to explode.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She may be a BadBoss, but even she finds [[spoiler:Lucrezia's selfish backstabbing narcissm]] disgusting.
* GasMaskLongcoat: Wears a face-concealing mask revealing only her hair, along with a labcoat.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler: Much like Albia, takes this form upon her ascension to Queendom]]. [[spoiler:Gets dialed up [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220620 later on]] as she and a similarly ascended Lucrezia clank became larger than even the island they were on as they fought it out.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After betraying Lucrezia and ascending to Queendom, she sides with Albia in the ensuing battle and Albia accepts her as a new "sister", coaching her in gaining full mastery of her new powers. Although the fact that she was secretly aligned with Loremistress Milvistle raises the question of how evil she was in the first place.]]
* TheMole: A member of the Queen's Society of Sparks for years, with none suspecting she secretly remained loyal to Lucrezia. She was responsible for locking up Agatha's surviving helicopter dingbot carrying the undoctored message from Sturmhalten, which was initally intercepted by Wooster, in order to prevent Albia and the world at large hearing it. [[spoiler: She's ''also'' a mole for Loremistress Milvistle, the rogue Geister leader working against Lucrezia, and ends up kicking "Luci"'s clank body into the "cursed waters".]]
* MalevolentMaskedWoman: Never takes her mask off, and she's working for Lucrezia, and thus clearly bad news.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Bears the title 'doctor', yet works for Lucrezia, which requires a near-total lack of any sense of morality.
* NoSell: [[spoiler:Lucrezia attempts to MindRape and transfer her own personality onto Monahan. Turns out, she was expecting this (and had in fact built the 'upgrade' allowing Lucrezia to do this herself), and it has no effect.]]
* PestController: Commands an army of [[RodentsOfUnusualSize giant rats]] which provide security for her island lab. She seems more attached to them than any of her would-be-allies.
* RedRightHand: [[spoiler: She has Mismatched Eyes, and neither of them is a natural color (one gold, one purple).]]
* SayingTooMuch: Makes the mistake of admitting to Ms. Steelgarter that she can't be of immediate help to her when "Luci" betrays her, causing Steelgarter to side with Lucrezia.
* SmarterThanTheyLook: She's an eccentric [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Rat Lady]], yet is the first of Lucrezia's agents we see to recognise her ''severe'' case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, fully expecting 'Luci' to turn on her as soon as she decides YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness. [[spoiler:And when this inevitably happens, [[TheStarscream she's more than ready for it.]]]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: If she hadn't intervened, one of Lucrezia's personalities would have ascended to Queendom wholly unopposed, which would have led to no end of troubles for the protagonists.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220321 As it turns out]], she's been working as TheMole for [[TheGhost Loremistress Milvistle]] all along, and almost destroys clank-body Lucrezia after an attempted MindRape.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Delivers a ''killer'' putdown to Lucrezia [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220323 upon betraying her.]]]]
* TheSparkOfGenius: She's a Spark. Where else would all the giant rats come from?
* VillainousFriendship: Appears to be an old friend of Lucrezia's and apparently met her at college. Even goes so far as to call her '[[AffectionateNickname Luci]]'. [[spoiler:But this was all a cover, Monahan ''loathes'' Lucrezia and gladly betrays her.]]
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[[folder:Ferretina]]
!!Ferretina, the Weasel Queen
The main antagonist of the "Revenge of the Weasel Queen" side story.

* TheBeastmaster: She created and leads an army of giant bunny rabbits called lapinemoths.
* BenevolentBoss: Agatha assumed she controlled her lapinemoths with fear and mind control. Unfortunately for her, Ferretina controlled her army with good dental coverage.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: She may be one of Agatha's more comical enemies but she is one of the few who have come close to killing her and her friends.
* CleavageWindow: Her top barely covers her, yet it still has a hole in to expose more cleavage.
* FreudianExcuse: Her Spark father turned her into a weasel hybrid and she was chased away from her home village for her freakish appearance.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation[=/=]IJustWantToHaveFriends: She was driven away from her home village due to her appearance and the lack of human companionship caused her more evil, animalistic side to emerge. However, she longed for someone to see her as a person and not a monster. Unfortunately, Othar was not that person, [[spoiler:but luckily Agatha's fashion clank was.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Her father's experiments turned into a human-weasel hybrid.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Agatha's fashion clank praises her clothing, she quits being a villain and the two of them run off to Paris to start a fashion shop. Later, during Agatha's trip to Paris, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161205 we see that they've done pretty well for themselves.]] (See second panel)]]
* HiddenDepths: While she's probably not a Spark, she's knows enough about science to create an army of killer rabbit constructs. [[spoiler:She's also a skilled and talented fashion designer.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: She regularly kidnapped tall, lusty young men... because [[BaitAndSwitch they tasted better when they were grilled with cheese.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Suffers no consequences for killing and eating villagers and she gets to open a successful fashion shop in Paris. See the background of the second panel of [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161205 this]] comic]]
* ObviouslyEvil: She first appeared claiming to be a victim of the Weasel Queen. Our usually GenreSavvy heroes [[IdiotBall don't suspect]] that the [[PaperThinDisguise bestial woman wearing bones and fur who gets irritated at any criticism directed at Ferretina]] might not be trustworthy. In their defense, they ''do'' tend to meet a lot of strangely dressed people.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfit is very skimpy, especially her top that leaves her {{Underboobs}} exposed and still has a CleavageWindow.
* UnkemptBeauty: A wild, half-animal woman who's [[{{Stripperiffic}} half dressed in furs and rags]]. Subverted in that it's revealed she actually does put a lot of effort into her appearance.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: She fell in love with Othar after he defeated one of her giant rabbits. However, after she bared her soul to him, hoping to win his heart, [[WrongGenreSavvy he assumed she was a vile seductress plotting to kill him]] which lead to her [[WomanScorned angrily deciding to put him in an elaborate death trap]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Geisterdamen]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Geisters on march under Sturmhalten.]]

Mysterious pale ladies from Places Unknown, who ride giant spiders and serve the Other.

* AccidentalMurder: On one hand, they didn't intend for all those girls they plugged into the Summoning Engine to die. On the other hand, they [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060120 didn't seem all too sad]] about it.
* AllThereInTheManual: In the second novel, Vrin's monologue gives a few more details as to how they operate. More details are also given about them in Othar's Twitter-based adventures.
* AmazonBrigade: So far, there's no indication that male Geisters exist, and they are rightfully feared as Lucrezia's elite troops, with a single Geister able to give ''[[WarriorPrincess Zeetha]]'' a run for her money.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's unclear if they are humans, aliens, constructs, or whatever.
* DittoAliens: All Geisterdamen tend to look entirely alike. It's hinted they may be clones, though Othar at least claims they aren't literally identical.
* EvilCounterpart: Seem to serve as these to the Jaegermonsters, being an elite fighting force sworn to serve a single figure for the duration, which they do so with (mostly) undying devotion. Just the Geisterdamen serve the Other, who's far worse than any Heterodyne's ever managed. And they're not quite as goofy or lovable. [[spoiler:Also, unlike the Jaegers, at least some of them are Wasped.]]
* FantasticCasteSystem: They have one. Most of the warriors, or the ones the Other left alive after it was through venting on them, were sent to Europa to find Agatha.
* ForeignCuisine: They hate the local food in Europe, and have got by largely on cheese they made themselves. From spider-milk (because using cow-milk would just be ''stupid''.)
* GiantSpiders: We're talking flippin' enormous here. Their spiders tower over trees and buildings, and the Geisterdamen ride them to get about.
* GratuitousGerman: "Geisterdamen" in German translates to "ghost ladies".
* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: [[ZigZaggingTrope Not always "babies", but still young children]]. They frequently kidnapped young Sparky girls in search of their "Holy Child", hooking them up to their machine to see if they were the one they were looking for. Usually they weren't and the process would kill the girls.
* LadyLand: As the name might suggest, no Geistermen ([[GratuitousGerman Geisterherren]]?) have been sighted to date.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal:
** After the Other carried out a massacre upon them over their [[YouHaveFailedMe failure to thwart]] [[TheDreaded Barry Heterodyne]]'s OneManArmy assault to liberate baby Agatha, a few of her priestesses chose to interpret her as a devil, impersonating their goddess to steal the Holy Child's power. They set up their own faction within the Geisterdamen and rebelled, destroying the portal used to send their forces to Europa.
** The Queen of Dawn forms her own faction within the Other's forces. Since the Geisterdamen are technically loyal to the Other rather than directly herself, she enacts ThePurge with an UriahGambit. The confused, betrayed, and leaderless survivors end up turning on both the Queen of Dawn and the Other, using their Holy Child as a loophole around the Other's control.
* NotAlwaysEvil: Although the majority of Geisters are slavishly loyal to the Other, a few were able to break her spell. Loremistress Milvistle for one saw the Other as some kind of demon and rebelled against her to protect the infant Agatha. Later on, a group following [[spoiler:Eotain, with the help of Othar Trygavassen (''Gentleman Adventurer!'')]] are able to rebel and defect to the good side.
* ReligionOfEvil: They worship the Other, in many aspects. Exactly what the tenets of that religion are isn't clear, but again, they worship [[BigBad the Other]]. They also ''lead'' worship as they have a weaker command voice that works on revenants. Additionally, they had a chapel devoted to her in Sturmhalten where they'd strap young girls into the Summoning Engine, usually killing them in the process.
* StealthExpert: Part of how they got their name. Their giant spiders are ''alarmingly'' quiet, most people don't ever hear them coming. They're good enough to get the drop on ''Smoke Knights''.
* UndyingLoyalty: Supposedly, to the Other, who they are programmed to obey, but it's clear that loyalty is not 100% concrete all the time. [[spoiler:Being wasped probably helps, though]]. In Othar's Twitter adventures, [[spoiler: Oslaka willingly goes off to live with Othar, and Eotain claims that after the massacre of many of her sisters in Paris, she's done following the Other]].
* VillainousValour: Lady Vrin watched Anevka shut down her fellow Geisters with her voice, and her first response it to [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060828 jump right at her]].
-->''"'''I''' am not some first-rank priestess to be manipulated by '''voice alone.''' I know my Lady and I know my '''duty! DIE, MONSTER!'''"''
* WouldHurtAChild: There's a reason girl Sparks in Europa tend to go missing, and that reason is these gals, grabbing them to try and use the Summoning Engine to bring the Other back, not knowing it was broken (and only meant to work on Agatha).
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Not native to Europa. Exactly ''where'' they come from is amazingly unclear, just that it's somewhere very far away. After the Other came back from... wherever it was, it sent a lot of them to Europa to find Agatha, with the condition they couldn't go home until they'd found her (and it's entirely possible this was just BS on the Other's part to begin with).
* UniformityException: Lady Vrin dresses in a purple gown, instead of the light blue bodice and loincloth that most Geisters wear.

[[folder:Klaus Wulfenbach]]
!!Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, (Reluctant) Lord of the Pax Transylvania
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[[caption-width-right:201:''"I swear, it's like running a kindergarten."'']]

A former friend and traveling companion to the Heterodyne Boys, Klaus disappeared shortly before Agatha's parents married and returned several years later to find Europa in utter chaos. He restored order to the continent, not by negotiating and being nice like his vanished friends, but by imposing his Iron Will on an ever increasing area of the globe.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: His concealed reaction to Theo's story about The Other being a robot dragon from Mars who turned Lucrezia Mongfish into Von Pinn, as well as to his own less-than-flattering portrayal in the current round of Heterodyne stage-plays. It's implied in the comic and stated outright in the second novel that the reason Klaus lets the latter go on is because he likes the Heterodyne stories, and finds Story!Klaus hilarious. More importantly, he knows that the stories are being spread simply because his enemies can't do ''anything'' to challenge him save mudslinging.
** Theo provokes another small smile upon announcing that he's avoiding grease-trap cleaning duty to work on his automatic grease-trap cleaning device.
** When [[spoiler:Trelawney Thorpe responds to his talk of what Agatha could do if she snapped by using the example of ''exactly what he did to found the Empire'']], he actually ''chuckles'' and it even makes him decide that [[spoiler:she would be the perfect consort for Gil who isn't Agatha.]]
* AlmightyJanitor: He could easily declare himself Emperor of Europa, but he hates games of nobility so much that he refuses to accept or acknowledge any title other than the low ranking one he inherited from his family.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Tyrannical emperor-scientist? Sure. But he has many NobleDemon qualities, and takes no joy in his supremacy.
* AmbiguousSituation: His reasoning for brainwashing Gil is never made clear. [[spoiler:There are a few options: 1. he did it because he truly believed Gil was wasped, 2. he did it because Lucrezia ordered him to, 3. he didn't trust Gil to run the Empire despite not having been wasped because he was afraid of Agatha/Lucrezia influencing him, 4. he wanted Lucrezia to think Gil was under enough control that she would hold off wasping him so that he could inoculate himself against the same type of slaver wasps that got him, or 5. some other possible reason. The overlay claims that it was installed to keep Gil interacting with Agatha, whether Agatha herself or the Lucrezia in her head. However, both Tarvek and the Klaus overlay admit that the overlay isn't a representation of the real Klaus. The overlay itself may be unaware of the true Klaus's motivations or perhaps just incorrect about them. It's also unclear if Klaus wanted Gil to remove the overlay eventually, he was hoping to do it himself when the time freeze was reversed, or he wanted it to be permanent. Likewise, it's unclear if Klaus WANTS the time freeze reversed in order to cure him of his slaver infection or if he hoped to be frozen in time forever, but it's also ALSO unclear if he knew that extra dimensional beings would be pissed about him freezing time. The only thing we can say for relative certainty is that he probably wanted Agatha/Lucrezia frozen in time.]] Until such time Klaus is released, his motivations will be unknown [[spoiler:especially since the Klaus overlay has been purged from Gil before it could give any clear answers besides saying that it didn't want Agatha and Gil to be married regardless of if the Lucrezia copy was purged from her mind.]]
** At least one of those questions was answered by the novels: [[spoiler:The overlay was ''Clank!Lucrezia's'' idea, because she ''knew'' Klaus would hate doing it, and because while she didn't have access to another Spark-controlling wasp, the overlay would prevent Gil from reuniting with Agatha as an ally. She also believed it would allow her to bring Gil under her permanent control later, not knowing that Bang had already fed him the innoculation draught, and that the overlay would support using the draught to start curing the Empire's personnel of wasp infection at the first opportunity.]]
* AntiVillain: He may have used military might to bring Europa under his iron-fisted rule, but when you consider the alternative...
** It's also "iron-fisted" only in the sense that he doesn't let [[AristocratsAreEvil the nobility]] and assorted Sparks do whatever they want (and his treatment of other Sparks is pretty permissive; no re-arranging the landscape, no human experiments, no screwing with Other technology -- as long as they follow those rules, ''he'll keep them in parts, tools, minions and cheese''). Generally, he leaves people to live their lives, works to scour the worst threats in the wilderness, and permits popular entertainments to mock him as a coward, traitor and/or usurper. The general public doesn't seem to notice not only the discrepancy, but the fact that he lets these defamations persist unedited.
** [[spoiler: After the time-skip, his reign is described as "[seeming] like some lost golden age"... after just two and a half years.]]
* ArtificialHuman: The three sons of the Wulfenbach family were involved in a lab accident, so Klaus was stitched together out of them all and reanimated. It's not clear if this is supposed to be a secret; he doesn't seem to care.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Provoking him is not recommended, not least because he's a big believer in making an example of those who violate his rules by employing overwhelming force.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Klaus Wulfenbach appears to be one of the most capable fighters in the series as well as being the ruler of the Empire. According to in-universe memes, he's even stronger than Gilgamesh, though he hasn't been seen in personal combat as often.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: How his Spark manifests itself. The most obvious use is the ability to dismantle and improve the designs of other Sparks. But it also lets him "find the right monster for the right job." He can also figure out what secretive things his vassals are doing to try and undermine him or break the rules, such as figuring out Professor Beetle was fiddling with a [[PuppeteerParasite Hive Engine]] just by the logistics involved, and how he "always finds out" when a noble dabbles in resurrection in violation of the bylaws of aristocracy against it (which Klaus [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem cares nothing about anyway]]).
* BadBoss:
** Even though we never see direct evidence for this, there is this little exchange after [[CurbStompBattle Gilgamesh beats the shit]] out of Captain Vole:
--->'''Gilgamesh:''' My father once wrote a monograph on how to communicate in the workplace.\\
'''Dimo:''' ... iz dat so?\\
'''Gilgamesh:''' All seven [[UsefulNotes/ThePope popes]] ordered it '''burned'''.
*** The novels reveal that the monograph was entitled "Don't Make Me Come Over There."
** He's probably not a bad boss compared to the average Spark... but that's an incredibly low threshold. He is well known for kidnapping people into his employ, and then sending them into almost certain death if they fail him. But by the same token he also works to keep his best people alive. And he's shown that he's ''very'' good at finding a genuinely productive use for a wide variety of horrific monsters. (See Bangladesh [=DuPree=].)
* BadassLongcoat: A staple of his wardrobe.
* BattleCouple: Can be safely inferred to have formed one with [[spoiler: Queen Zantabraxas of Skifander]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Klaus '''''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040114 DESPISES]]''''' ruling Europa, and is only doing it because all the alternative candidates are crazy and/or evil. He wistfully remembers the "good old days" when he was TheLancer of the Heterodyne Brothers as they traveled and explored -- and especially the ''occasional'' fight. However, the current state of affairs -- [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040806 "No more negotiating. No more promises. No more second chances."]] -- is '''entirely''' his design.
* BenevolentDictator: His ''de facto'' regime is built out of brute force, yes, but his rule is actually very moderate. Europa's people enjoy a surprising amount of freedom under him, and his laws effectively amount to "don't do anything that violates the peace". Keep in mind that democracy isn't the norm in the setting and that the continent before Klaus was stuck in constant brutal warfare.
* BloodKnight: He hates politicking, so enjoys the opportunity for a good straight-forward fight.
* TheCasanova: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181210 Much to his son's disbelief]], he has left this reputation in the English court, rumored to have romanced [[DivineDate Albia herself at some point]] before returning to the mainland.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040114 Ruling (large portions of) the world is not as fun as it sounds]].
--> '''Othar:''' What, ''tyrant?'' Does your empire give you no pleasure?!\\
'''Klaus:''' No. It gives me no pleasure.
* ClothingDamage: He has some after fighting Othar for a while.
* CoolOldGuy: When he's not trying to put you down to preserve order.
* CoveredInScars: He is implied to be a construct made out of three Sparks. However, if the stories about the [[WeirdnessMagnet Heterodyne Boys]] have any truth to them, he may have acquired them simply by accompanying them on their adventures (though a mix of both is the most likely explanation). This is supported by the fact that other heroes in the webcomic, such as [[GentlemanAdventurer Othar Trygavassen]] and [[HeroOfAnotherStory Hoffman]] tend to [[WalkingDisasterArea find danger and adventure wherever they go]].
* CowardlySidekick: Klaus is depicted this way in many of the Heterodyne plays/stories; see above under ActuallyPrettyFunny.
* DarkMessiah: He found the European continent in chaos. In order to fix it, he led a grand violent conquest and used his power to keep order in every town. Step out of the line he drew and you will face his wrath. The crazy part? It ''[[TheExtremistWasRight worked]]''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not normally, but he gets some [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050209 really good]] lines when he's completely SurroundedByIdiots.
* DisappearedDad:
** Gil grew up not knowing who his father really is. [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Klaus did this to keep his son alive.]]
** Evidence suggests that he may also be this to [[spoiler:Zeetha]].
* TheDreaded:
** Even ''Jägers'' are afraid when he takes the field personally.
--->'''Gkika:''' Attack mit ''everything!!''
** Upon seeing Gil cutting through an enemy army like a hot knife through butter, an onlooker had this to say:
--->'''Councilor:''' Hmph. His father would have hit the wall and started another sweep by now.
** Very much an InvokedTrope. Klaus is ''extremely'' formidable but plays up his reputation even more, in order to reduce the amount of actual bloodletting he has to do. He's so formidable that even Bang will not cross him.
--->'''Klaus:''' Dupree, if you come in here, I will ''kill you''--''[[ShoutOut with the]] power [[Series/{{Firefly}} of my mind]]''.\\
'''[=DuPree=]''' I... I'm pretty sure he can't really ''do'' that.
** The novels play this up as well. There are several epigraphs at the start of chapters that show folk tales about him after he built his empire; they mostly resemble traditional fairy tales like ''TheFarmerAndTheViper'' that go in a different direction than the original because Klaus is too badass to be beaten IE, he'll give ''anyone'' a single chance to go straight, but he takes precautions -- and if you abuse his trust, you're research material. He's gotten fewer and fewer chances to do research...
** Early on in the novels, it is noted how people gave it even odds on who would win if his empire and Albia's went to war. Once we reach England, we learn just how ''terrifying'' she is, having had ''thousands'' of years to establish a reputation for invincibility. It only took him a few years in comparison to do the same.
* EmperorScientist: Klaus actually laments having to become a dictator, since it leaves him with so little time for his research.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: More like "cynicism cannot comprehend good," but still. His only flaw. Given the world he lives in, "good" and "evil" are relative terms, and years dealing with {{Realpolitik}} and the pit of vipers that are Europa's noble houses he simply can't help but search for an ulterior, if not necessarily sinister motive in everything everyone does. When his troops are allowed to withdraw from [[spoiler:Mechanicsburg]], he just assumes this is either some kind of strategic maneuver or else part of some elaborate sadistic game [[spoiler:the Heterodyne]] is playing. He rejects out-of-hand the possibility that this is an actual act of mercy. [[spoiler:The possibility that Agatha is nowhere near as evil and sadistic as her ancestors is something that doesn't even occur to him at all. He has a point, too -- Lucrezia ''is'' exerting more influence over Agatha than even she herself is comfortable with, and through her has made a damn-near successful attempt at enslaving him. It doesn't help that the information he has at the moment does point to Agatha being evil, or that his relationship with her mother had such a bitter ending. In the end, Agatha did let them go out of mercy, but the Castle only let it happen to mess with Zeetha and Higgs. There was an ulterior motive but not by the entity he thought.]]
** In all fairness, nothing the audience or the characters have seen thus far contradicts his statement that "nothing [in Mechanicsburg] is at it seems and everything is a cruel joke."
** However, his cynicism is truly shown when it's revealed that [[spoiler: even if Agatha is without Lucrezia, he would still distrust her and not have her near Gil because he believes her families' malevolence is [[VillainousLineage inherited]] or at least does not want to take that chance. Enough to where he's willing to further interfere in the relationship. Although that overlay is not the true Klaus, and upon actually meeting Agatha acknowledges it has assumptions built into it.]]
* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: Klaus was able to maintain his Peace for ''nineteen years'' -- but the very day word gets out that Agatha Heterodyne squished him with a chicken house, '''all hell broke loose''' -- '''''EVERYWHERE AT ONCE.'''''
* ExactWords: When Klaus decides to go into Mechanicsburg alone, one of his advisors claims that if he gets killed, the Empire will fall without his leadership. Klaus then claims that he won't be killed [[spoiler:but fails to mention that he's going in there to freeze time. Indeed, once he is removed from the political scene due to the time freeze, his Empire crumbles apart. Doubles as FalseReassurance.]]
* TheExtremistWasRight: The former [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]], back when it was called "And It Worked", because he's just that badass. Yes, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040806 Klaus conquered his empire by naked force]]. On the other hand, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040804 Europa was being torn apart by constant war]], and his reign is second only to that of the Heterodyne Boys for general quality of life, especially for the common man. He builds up the infrastructure of his subject regions, and about the only things he actually bans are war and messing with Other technology. [[spoiler: After the time-skip, his reign is described as "like some lost Golden Age out of antiquity" -- after only two and a half years.]]
* FallenHero: {{Downplayed}} as he isn't exactly evil. He was originally a {{Lancer}} to Bill & Barry in their heroic adventures, but after returning from exile he brought peace ''his'' way: military force. He also finds himself pitted against Agatha, seeing her mostly as [[VillainousLineage Lucrezia's]] daughter, even though it's more accurate to call her ''[[HeroicLineage Bill's]]'' daughter.
* FeelingTheirAge: When he belatedly realizes that Agatha was the Spark in Beetleburg and not Moloch, he mutters that he must be getting old.
* FourStarBadass: His knack for finding the right monster for the job meshes neatly with planning battles. At multiple points during the battle for Mechanicsburg the heroes are suspicious of how they've been able to hold out as long as they've have against him. Klaus deploying a massive army against them is viewed with equal suspicion, as they know he simply doesn't need that much manpower to defeat them.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The leader of a small noble house, which was destroyed in the Other War, and sidekick to the Heterodyne Boys to the conqueror and absolute ruler of all Europa.
* GeniusBruiser: Klaus is both a highly intelligent man and ''very'' strong -- he can, for example, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040730 punch out Jägers]]. This probably has to do with the fact that he is a construct.
* GenreSavvy: The Baron has left standing orders that if he ever disappears for any length of time, Gil would be appointed as Baron immediately. This is presumably to [[spoiler:limit the damage the Other can do if he gets... subverted]].
* GoodScarsEvilScars: His body is ''covered'' in Morally Ambiguous Scars. (The worst of them likely from the reassembly job which created him from the remains of three brothers.)
* HappilyMarried: Implied. While he does mention that Spark women are troublesome, when he laments being in charge of an empire, the first thing he mentions was not having seen his wife in years. She's actually [[spoiler:the Queen of Skifander]].
* TheHeavy: For much of "Act 1" of the comic, especially the Siege of Mechanicsburg (Vols. XII-XIII), Klaus is the one standing in Agatha's way. The Other is too trapped with [[spoiler:Agatha's locket]] to do much directly against the heroes in Act 1 -- though if you asked Klaus, he'd say the Other is completely active and that her name is Agatha.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Played with. People love to ''mock'' him, because he lets them get away with it, and he gets a lot of crap flung at him by the current generation's Heterodyne stories. However, Master Payne (one of the purveyors ''of'' such stories) [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050803 respects the hell out of him for everything he's done for Europa]], and it's likely that he's not alone.
* HeroAntagonist: He has some very good reasons not to want Agatha running around free, and is otherwise a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Traps Mechanicsburg in a temporal stasis field with himself inside it, attempting to neutralize Agatha as a threat while preventing the Other from using him as a slave. Sadly, it turns out it was a ''NiceJobBreakingItHero''ic Sacrifice; even the ''Heterodynes'' -- well known for their {{Unfettered}} thirst for power -- not only refused to meddle with time, but made a treaty with the ''SaintlyChurch'' to keep others from doing it. Reason? '''ClockRoaches.''']]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Over the course of the comic his actions and responses have gotten darker, and they were not exactly light to begin with. Also present in his backstory, as keeping the peace in Europa has made him a very cynical person. He long ago decided that he'd be lawful rather than good, and cross the GodzillaThreshold whenever necessary -- but those decisions were trapping him in a cycle of increasingly reflexive and despicable acts.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: He's been depicted pretty badly in most of the Heterodyne stories (at least since he started conquering stuff), ranging from a cowardly comic relief to a flat-out traitor to the Heterodynes. Fortunately for those who put on these plays, Klaus isn't a SlaveToPR and doesn't care what they say. Though [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110516 he's well aware]] of this. (Again, see ActuallyPrettyFunny.)
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** He left Silas Merlot in charge of Beetlesburg as a punishment for selling out Dr. Beetle, threatening to send him to Castle Heterodyne at his first mistake. He likely thought that Silas would muck up in some minor way or just spend the rest of his life keeping his head down, unaware of how truly unhinged and desperate he was. When Silas discovered Beetle's journals about Agatha being the last Heterodyne, he immediately panicked, burning Beetle's Hall of Records to the ground and murdering the Baron's cryptography team to keep it under wraps. Had Klaus just killed or ignored him then he likely would have known about Agatha's true origins long before it became an issue.
** He made a deal with the damaged Castle Heterodyne for it to act as his prison, sending it a steady supply of dangerous Sparks and criminals to repair it. This gave the Baron his greatest threat to use against those who go out of line, being able to send them to be slave labor in an insane, death trap filled castle that will kill for fun. However, this ends up biting him in the backside when Agatha manages to fix the castle during his attempt to destroy Mechanicsburg. The repaired Castle cuts off all ties with him and frees its prisoners, leaving Agatha with an army of Sparks and minions to use against him. What's more, it was ''Sparks'' who had been making repairs on the Castle for almost 15 years, making it even more dangerous when it's finally fully restored.
** He transferred a copy of his mind into [[spoiler:his son to "protect" him from Agatha due to believing his son to be making the same mistake he made with Agatha's mother, falling in love with a manipulative monster. He set it up to automatically override and take control of Gil whenever in her presence, and the copy cannot stop this even if he wants to. Since Tarvek and Agatha's plan to free Gil of his control requires him to be in charge of Gil's body when it happens, that means they can force him to do so by maneuvering Gil where they need him while Agatha is out of the room, then having her return once he's in position.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: His basic justification for just about any of his actions. Sadly, he's right; everyone ''knows'' he's right, even Agatha herself has admitted he's right a few times. He doesn't have the charisma the Heterodyne Boys did and thus can't use [[DefeatMeansFriendship their methods]], meaning he has to resort to threat of force to prevent Europa from sinking back into war. That doesn't mean anyone -- ''himself included'' -- likes the situation or thinks it makes him any less a {{Jerkass}}. Over the course of the comic, he resorts to increasingly extreme measures due to increasingly worsening events.
* InspectorJavert: More or less the only reason he's an antagonist is that he has ''very good reason'' to not want an "untried Heterodyne heir" running amok through Europe. He also believes her to be The Other, given that the last time he met Agatha she was [[GrandTheftMe possessed by the Other]] who outright confessed to being the Other.
* ItsPersonal: Klaus was not happy when he learned of Agatha's existence, and not just because she was a political time bomb. It's heavily implied he was legitimately hurt and angry his friends did not tell her about him. Granted, later revelations show they had good reasons to hide her from him, [[spoiler:mostly due to Agatha's mother being his old flame Lucrezia]]. However, later revelations note that [[spoiler:even without Lucrezia, he still views her as a threat. His reasoning seems to be that the malcious natures associated with both the Heterodyne and Mongfish lines to be [[VillainousLineage in their blood]] along with how life can drive someone mad. This ironically means that he did not trust his own friends' goodness nor Agatha's raising, so the Bros had a good point.]]
* JustTheFirstCitizen: He's running most of Europe. He's a ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron baron]]''. For those unfamiliar with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_and_noble_ranks nobility rankings in Europe]], that would be like having your own army and calling yourself a Lieutenant (literally the lowest officer's rank possible). To put it into perspective, the only nobility lower than a Baron are unlanded knights, and a Baron's fief is typically about as much land as one can see from the top of their castle (though this may be an ExactWords twist, as one ''can'' see most of Europa from the top of [[CoolAirship "Castle" Wulfenbach]]), and they always answer to higher nobility like Counts. Yet Klaus is ruling more land than freaking ''UsefulNotes/{{Charlemagne}}'' and his empire in its heyday. Martellus claims this was a mistake on Klaus' part. If he had declared himself Emperor, Martellus believes the nobles would have gladly sworn loyalty to him. By refusing the title, Klaus refused to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141031 "play the game."]] That was an insult the nobility couldn't forgive. However, the revelation that Gil has the title of "highness" [[spoiler:due to his mother being the Queen of Skifander]] (due to Gil refusing to take on the title of "Baron" when his father was presumed dead, so Boris had orders to use one of his other legitimate titles instead) was actually enough to cause several houses to ''immediately become supporters of the Wulfenbach regime'' due to Gil's claim to an actual legitimate royal title they can get behind.
* KnightTemplarParent: He can approach this at times. Refusing to see any difference between Agatha and her insane (possessed?) mother, he is willing to use MindManipulation on his own son to make absolute certain Gil cannot come near her without [[spoiler: being overridden by a copy of Klaus's own personality]]. And when Lucrezia threatens his son's life, he coldly informs her that he will break the Corbettite law of sanctuary and kill everyone there if necessary.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's tall, broad shouldered, and rules most of a continent.
* LoopholeAbuse: It's never explicitly spelled out, but [[spoiler: being hit by a slaver wasp that can infect Sparks has left him forced to do this regarding whatever commands Lucrezia has given him. But he's ''damned'' good at it]].
* LoveObstructingParents: Towards Gil regarding Agatha, due to fearing that the evil on both sides of her ancestry is [[VillainousLineage inherited]]. It really doesn't help that he is absolutely convinced that his son [[HistoryRepeats is repeating]] the exact mistake he himself made with Agatha's mother. However, while he does recognize Agatha as not being Lucrezia, he still does not want her near Gil.
* MadeOfIron: Despite being bedridden and with severe injuries across his entire body after getting crushed, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070706 the man's response to the injury report is "hmph. I've had worse."]]
* MixAndMatchMan: The circumstances leading to Klaus's reassembly have not been revealed at this time, but what is known is that the late Baron and Baroness Wulfenbach (re)created their heir from their three sons in typical Frankenstein fashion.
-->'''[[http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Baron_Klaus_Wulfenbach#cite_note-7 Phil and Kaja]]:''' Yes, he's a construct. Yes, he is really made from three brothers.\\
'''Phil:''' He was assembled and revived by his parents.'
* MoralMyopia: Klaus might be the only person maintaining the peace of Europa but that doesn't mean he's a pillar of morality, with him not being opposed to using similar tactics as the evil nobility he despises. He openly hates the hassles of diplomacy and being a big believer in using force and fear to keep people in line.
* MrFanservice: The Klaus Defense League was founded to counter all the 'The Baron is AN EVIL BRAIN-CORER!' talk; the Wulfenbach Estrogen Brigade overlaps considerably, but is not perfectly congruent, and seem to operate more in guerrilla mode. So there are those who love him for his ''mind'', and those who love him for his ''body''...
* MyGreatestFailure: He spent decades obsessing over his last night with Lucrezia, wondering what he could have done differently in to not get drugged and sent away so that he would be able to stop her plan. Eventually, he decides his mistake was entering into a relationship with her in the first place.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Wulfenbach" has ''wolf'' in it, "Klaus" starts with ''K,'' and his title is ''"Baron."'' He's just as formidable as the name makes him sound.
* NecessarilyEvil: Yes, it really is necessary, and he doesn't like it one bit. As put [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050803 by Master Payne]]:
-->'''Payne:''' Could you burn down ''people'' -- women and children -- even if you ''knew'' they had become ''monsters''?\\
'''Agatha:''' I... no... I don't know.\\
'''Payne:''' The '''Baron''' can. The Baron '''has'''. I ''[[EvilVirtues respect]]'' him for that, but I don't want to ''be'' him. No sane man ''would''.
* NonAnswer: In [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160905 Gil's words]], he has a habit of explaining things without explaining anything.
* NotSoDifferentRemark:
** Subverted. [[spoiler:Like Lucrezia, he also downloaded a copy of himself into his child's brain. When Lucrezia in Agatha points this out, he retorts that he hasn't taken full control and continues to leave his son in charge most of the time. He also resorted to this out of [[GodzillaThreshold desperation]] to "protect" his son from Agatha, whom he believes to be a manipulative monster like her mother, whereas Lucrezia uses it as her basic modus operandi and would have complete control of her daughter's body if Agatha's locket wasn't suppressing her.]]
*** The funny thing is, according to the novels, [[spoiler:the copy/overlay wasn't Klaus' idea, it was ''Lucrezia's'', specifically Clank!Lucrezia, who ordered him to do it just because Klaus would hate doing it.]]
** Played straight, but in a retroactive sort of way with his son. After Gil snaps from Vole's taunting, he rants on how everyone underestimates him just because he tries to be nice and reasonable. He comes to the conclusion that if he has to act like a ''stage villain'' to get people to take him seriously, then he'll show them what kind of ''mad-boy'' they're dealing with, all while beating up the Jäger. He suddenly stops and comes to the conclusion that this is how his father feels ''all the time.'' In short, Gil seems to be how Klaus is underneath and just shows how years of Realpolitik and TheChainsOfCommanding can wear someone down ''a lot.''
* NoodleIncident:
** The details of how he went from being the long lost ruler of a ransacked stretch of land to conquering most, if not all, of Europa within seemingly a decade of his return hasn't been revealed. Although we've now learned that [[spoiler: he had two [[HumanoidAbomination Dreen]] helping him right from the start.]]
** The four years that the Baron spent living in Skifander has yet to be shown.
* PapaWolf:
** For all of the morally ambiguous things he does in regards to Gil, he does it all because he truly loves and cares for his son. As such, threatening his well-being will bring a blatant reminder on why this man singlehandledy conquered Europa.
** Perhaps the crowning example of this is when [[spoiler: the implanted personality he put in his son awoke and Lucrezia has temporary hijacked Agatha. When Lucrezia attempts to [[WeCanRuleTogether convince Klaus to sacrifice the lives of their children so they can establish an empire together]], Klaus [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150427 snaps at her]] before pinning her down. Granted, both are knocked out a moment later by the sedative-laced cake, but it was still awesome.]]
---> '''Klaus:''' Sanctuary or no -- I will '''burn this fortress and every soul in it''' -- before I allow '''you''' or '''anyone else''' to '''harm my son.'''
** It is strongly implied that the reason Klaus fled Skifander '' and'' created the Empire was to protect his son. While it is said early in the story that Klaus would [[HumanResources dismantle Gil and make a better son]] if he failed Klaus's tests, it's pretty clear that Klaus has done everything to make Gil as sharp as possible. Klaus has made many improvements to Gil, give him immunities to as many poisons and diseases that he could, taught Gil everything that he knows, gave him the best education besides, allowed him to experience hardships on his own without cuddling him, and encouraged free thinking and innovation. The part where he fails is that he is so overbearing and controlling that Gil has developed a slight inferiority complex and all encompassing rage and obsession when he reaches his mental limit to the point that he was rebellious enough to want to elope with a ''Heterodyne'' at the drop of a hat (though, to be fair, Gil didn't know she was a Heterodyne, but that didn't change his mind much when he did learn about that).
* ThePatientHasLeftTheBuilding: When Dr. Sun says Klaus is a terrible patient, he's not remotely kidding. Klaus' control freak nature means he refuses to stay in bed and just ''heal'', even when his injuries are so bad he can't even smile without hurting himself, because only ''he'' can properly manage his empire. No matter what happens or what the situation is, Klaus tries to get out of sitting around healing by any means necessary. The novels mention his chief medical officer has had to deal with this so much, she's made it the law that Klaus be sedated and/or restrained if he suffers so much as a ''paper cut'', just so he'll let the damn thing heal. His reaction to this development was to invent cutless paper so that she'd stop drugging him and let him work.
* PayEvilUntoEvil:
** According to the novels, when dealing with some of the more crazy Sparks, if he doesn't send them to a lab he can get particularly... ''creative'' with their punishments.
** One of the sources of friction between him and the Heterodyne boys was that he had no objections to giving unrepentant maniacs a taste of their own medicine, while Bill and Barry hated killing anyone. See also Dr. Vapnoople. Which his brain-coring of the man is pretty monstrous, once the man's intelligence is restored it becomes ''extremely'' clear why Klaus inflicted such a fate on him.
* PerpetualFrowner: Klaus has a range of facial expressions ranging from disdain to fury. He ''knows'' how to smile, but he usually doesn't have much reason to:
** He does take amusement in his son's confusion over why he's in trouble. He also objects to Bang protecting him... until learning her jaw is wired up. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070716 He has an almost child-like expression of glee on his face]].
** He was proud to see [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071203 Gilgamesh wipe out some of the Empire's enemies when he was out of commission]].
** Lampshaded by Gil, who is [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181210 baffled]] by the suggestion his father was a dashing romantic in his youth, and seeks clarification by exaggeratedly pulling his lips down and saying "''Klaus'' Wulfenbach. His mouth does ''this'' all the time."
* PetTheDog: Klaus may be a tyrant, but he's not a bad person, and there are several moments where he shows this.
** What does he do after his minions kill someone for opposing him? ''Resurrect them!''.
** Prisoners of war can [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071207 join the Wulfenbach army,]] or go home with a month's pay!
** Complete the project he assigned you and he will cover the cost of hiring laborers. Fail through stupidity or stubbornness, and he'll put someone else in charge and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040112 ''make you one of the laborers'']].
** During the Jaegers' time with the Baron, he actually threw them a massive party around the holiday season as a way to make up for the lost Jaegerstomp tradition back in Mechanicsberg.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: He's stated in-universe, repeatedly, to be a ruthless, brutal, iron-fisted dictator who has conquered massive stretches of Europe ([[https://external-preview.redd.it/xV7k72k9ky3bQNQ_SizJrYC4_fkTkTMAkdFk4P9z_Qs.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=814f136487335c617aeb1b02ae81649f6df7896c as seen here]]) with naked force and holds his empire together through terrifying intimidation. The funny thing is that he doesn't run death camps, capture damsels, loot and/or destroy homes, control travel, tax people into poverty, or even ''confiscate weapons'' unless they're the kind that make '''craters''' (and even ''that'' has wiggle room -- if you want to test superweapons, come work for him and he'll ''pay you to do it''). He doesn't even punish people for calling him a mass-murdering monster. The most reasonable dictator you've ever heard of. Justified as his enemies are always [[HeroWithBadPublicity trying to make him look bad]]. He doesn't help his case, however, by punishing failures. Moloch, for example, was sent to Castle Heterodyne for pretending to be a spark. As soon as Moloch started working for Agatha, he turned out to be a brilliant mechanic who could've served Klaus very well. [[spoiler:Two and a half years after his empire collapsed, people are begging for the stability he provided to come back.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Klaus withheld the truth of Gil's origins from him for years to protect him. The novel reveal that shortly after he revealed Gil to the world as his son and heir, there were multiple assassination attempts on his life.
* PutOnABus:
** This was Lucrezia's intent, anyway. But he came back before the main series even started. WordOfGod states that the place he was sent was [[spoiler:Skifander]].
** [[spoiler:Later, he puts himself and entire Mechanicsburg in TimeTemporalStasis with Take-Five Bomb. That being said, his overlay surfaces every so often via Gil, and everyone seems to treat it as if it is the Baron himself.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: For all he's called a dictator, his rule brought an end to the long war and established the [[http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Pax_Transylvania Pax Transylvania]] that [[spoiler: after his removal from power and the deterioration of his empire is described as a lost golden age.]] He really only seems to have two rules, no making war and no playing with SealedEvilInACan. A spark that rebels against him (and not for the first time) is shocked Klaus is no longer offering chances to surrender.
* RevealingSkill: One of the Baron's unique talents is ''noticing'' Revealing Skills. Every Spark has a [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031217 distinct]] [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060320 style]] to their creations, much like an artist. Klaus' ability to notice these styles gave him some very good leads as to the identity of [[BigBad the Other]] (though the fact that styles can run in families threw him off a bit).
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Notable for being the only Spark in the series to be (mostly) immune to its effects. When it does pop up, it seems to manifest in smaller, more contained ways like an occasional bout of dorkiness and (according to Gil) a surprising love for waffles.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: In a sense. He has a distaste for the [[DecadentCourt Fifty Families']] power games, and disregards the "rules" of it whenever they're in the way.
* SelfDeprecation: Gil is certainly likable. Klaus fondly says he got it from his mother.
* SeriousBusiness: According to the novels, sports. He once had a goalie executed for taking a bribe.
* ShipperOnDeck: His overlay offers to help [[spoiler:Trelawney Thorpe win Gil's heart, mainly because he wants to keep Gil away from Agatha at all costs, believing that the Heterodyne and Mongfish families have evil [[VillainousLineage blood]] and he sees Agatha as dangerous if she snaps.]]
* ShirtlessScene: That Naughty Flashback Scene, among others.
* SiblingFusion: One lab accident led to the grieving parents stitching the remains of their three dead sons into one substitute child. Given his success as an adventurer and ruler of Europa, it's hard to argue with the results.
* SourOutsideSadInside: The persistently bitter Klaus is a man who hates his job, misses his wife and hasn't seen his friends in years.
* SoProudOfYou: He doesn't say it directly to Gil, but when the latter single-handedly faces down an army of war clanks, Klaus makes no bones about the way he feels.
--> '''Klaus:''' Anything--being paralyzed for ''life''--would be an acceptable price for seeing what I have seen my son do today.
* SuperIntelligence: Even by Spark standards, according to the RPG his parents grafted bits of his brothers' brains to what they could recover of his own and it allows him unparalleled parallel processing ability [[spoiler: one of the reasons he can resist the Spark Wasp.]]
* SuperStrength: Apparently Klaus [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070119 can effectively handle guns]] normally hoisted by his tall imposing [[MechaMook Battle Clanks]]... Guns that even [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030430 kick a trio of Jägers back with the recoil]].
* TooCleverByHalf: The seemingly infallible Klaus has made multiple mistakes throughout his life. Every one of them demolished his life like a monster caught in a burning windmill.
** One was sleeping with Lucrezia Mongfish; [[spoiler:this got him [[SlippingAMickey drugged]] and [[HumanMail shipped]] to Skifander]].
** Another was failing to notice Agatha's semi-suppressed Spark; [[spoiler:this resulted in his empire being shaken to its core and he himself getting squished by a chicken house]].
** The one that gets him [[spoiler:frozen in time and his empire toppled completely]] is failing to realize that the two previous mistakes are [[spoiler:only ''partially'' related -- that though Agatha kind of ''is'' Lucrezia at the moment, Agatha wants her crazy mother '''''[[EnemyWithin out of her head by any means necessary]].''''']]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He really likes waffles.
* {{Ubermensch}}: He doesn't care about the rules of aristocracy, the conventions of rulership or petty things like legitimacy. He does what he knows are right, regardless of the views of others.
* TheUnfettered: In his own words, ''"I did it alone. Because I had to. [[TheExtremistWasRight And it worked]]."''
* VetinariJobSecurity: He's indisputably the best ruler that Europa's had in two hundred years, if not ''ever.'' You'd need to be mad to want to overthrow him. Unfortunately, most of the major movers and shakers in Europa are [[MadScientist Sparks]]. Worse, the Fifty Families -- the ''rest'' of said movers and shakers -- are [[AristocratsAreEvil old-school royalty]] who despise how Klaus has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090227 reduced their power]] and fondly remember YeGoodeOldeDays when ''they'' gave the orders. You can guess [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized where]] this is going.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Seen sympathetically, for once. Klaus ''is'' struggling to make the world better, and keeps being presented with one SadisticChoice after another. He's had to cross a ''lot'' of moral lines as well as a GodzillaThreshold or three. He's abandoned 'building a better world' -- aside from trying to prepare ''Gil'' for that task.
* WhenHeSmiles:
** It's like the world bows. However it's usually out of ''abject terror'', in the comic's run, he's only smiled three times; a PsychoticSmirk when he realizes that his most competent underling (and he has a ''lot'' of damned good ones) [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060329 underestimates]] his son, a boyish smile of childish glee and probably the most innocent we've seen him [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070716 when he learns that same underling's jaw has been wired shut]], and a CheshireCatGrin when his son [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071203 finally]] crawls out of his dorky shell and '''[[SoProudOfYou kicks some ass]].'''
** The [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030929 one time]] he smiles out of actual amusement is ''still'' indicative of his badassitude and love thereof -- see ActuallyPrettyFunny.
** In the novelization he nearly busts a gut laughing(due to his wounds, ''[[LiteralMetaphor literally]]'') when Gil reveals that Bang's jaw ''isn't'' broken; he (and Doctor Sun, who actually performed the procedure) just wanted to shut her up for the foreseeable future.[[note]]Though in the original comic it ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070406 was]]'' in fact broken, by Airman Higgs after she deliriously attacked him.[[/note]]
** He smiles ''twice'' when discussing the matter of [[spoiler:having his son and Trelawney Thorpe marry]].
* WildHair: Gil has it too.
* WorldsBestWarrior: Since the disappearance of the Heterodyne Boys, Klaus has been the most powerful warrior in Europa. He's significantly better than his son (according to Carson) and [[spoiler: his daughter]] (according to their fight), both of whom are ''among'' the best. Even the [[SuperSoldier Jägers]] fear his strength.
* YouCanAlwaysTellALiar: There is a thing he does whenever Lucrezia catches him at something that Lucrezia has learned to recognize.
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[[folder:Knights of the Hunt]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:The Knights in their human forms.]]
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A force of elite bio-modified warriors loyal to Martellus von Blitzengaard who serve as his minions. They can shapeshift between human and wolf forms.
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* AffablyEvil: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210428 Norville]] thinks of Gil as a nice guy who would get along well with Martellus if they just sat down and talked for a bit, maybe even had some sandwiches. Well, that, ''and'' if Tarvek was killed.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: It isn't clear if they're ''humans'' modified to turn into ''wolves'' or vice versa.
* TheDreaded: The confidence of ''Smoke Knights'' vanish [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20171213 the moment]] they see it's the Knights of the Hunt they're up against.
* EliteMooks: They're very tough for minions. Tarvek is able to [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20171220 beat]] [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20171222 them]], but not without several close calls on his part.
* EvilCounterpart: In a way, to the Jägers. They're both an army biologically modified elite fighters, they're both a race([[AmbiguouslyHuman ?]]) of {{Boisterous Bruiser}}s, and they're both fanatically loyal to their respective Master/Mistress.
* MonsterKnight: On one hand, they're artificially-made [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] who serve an evil MadScientist. On the ''other'' hand, they're loyal warriors of their (self-declared-)King, who in turn considers them "good men" worthy of [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170424 respect in death]] and of his friendship.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The Knights of the Hunt are bio-engineered fighters able to switch between a human form and a wolf form at will.
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[[folder:Madwa Korel]]
!!Madwa Korel, Rogue Smoke Knight
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The master of a rogue Smoke Knight cell that still serves The Other even after Grandmother divested the Knights of Jove cabal of her/it/them and all followers.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: The freed Storm King grabs her arm and does ''something'' unpleasant to it, leaving a blackened remnant. Interestingly, it's fully restored later on.]]
* DidntSeeThatComing: Madwa was fully prepared for many complications when stealing Prende's Lantern, able to lay hands on it even with the interference of Agatha and her allies, but [[spoiler:the fact the lantern was [[SealedEvilInACan keeping the revived Storm King in a state of stasis]] was not one of them, and she gets her hand rotted to a skeletal state when she's unexpectedly grabbed by him]].
** An {{Inversion}} occurs later on, in that she ''does'' see it coming, which is precisely why it takes her off-guard. [[spoiler:Madwa surprises Raketorn and the sea-dwellers he's running away from with Prende's lantern, catching them all in a time stop before they even know she's there, and realises to her surprise that she apparently also caught Violetta in the act of sneaking up behind her to stab her InTheBack, leaving her helpless and frozen, before dismissing the smoke knight's immobilised presence when trying to decide how to deal with the interlopers... only to then remember that the lantern only freezes time for any being caught in its light and [[RightBehindMe Violetta's merely pretending to be immobilised]] right before she gets shanked]]. In her defence, she did note that she was ''very'' tired from non-stop patrolling right before then, leading to her slip-up.
* EnemyMine: Not her specifically, but standing orders from "Grandmother" state that all Smoke Knight cells still loyal to the cabal are to set aside [[DecadentCourt rivalries and cross purposes]] to seek out and destroy Madwa's cell (and any other rogue Other-loyal cells) should they be encountered.
* EvilCounterpart: To Violetta. While Violetta is a loyal Smoke Knight tasked with guarding Tarvek (and therefore also Agatha), Madwa is a rogue Smoke Knight whose loyalty is to the Other.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: She is all set to kill the pilot that smuggled her past England's patrols to keep him quiet, up until being impressed by the fact that he knew all along and was too apathetic to care.
-->'''Madwa:''' Well, ''now'' I kind of want to keep him.
* ImpossibleThief: Think Violetta's pickpocketing ability, only better.
* MasterPoisoner: Her poisons are well known to other smoke knights. Made from extremely rare ingredients, to boot.
%%* McNinja: As per all Smoke Knights.
* NinjaLog: She leaves this when she avoids incoming attacks. Yes, the model is similar to the person it stands for.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She's an old woman, but still an expert smoke knight.
* OhCrap: Has a brief moment of this [[spoiler:when she realizes that Violetta is right behind her, knife raised and isn't in the time stop field projected by Prende's Lantern. Even she isn't quick enough to avoid getting a knife in the back.]]
* OldMaster: In a profession that may not exactly have a long lifespan, Madwa is an old woman and still at the top of her game.
* ShoutOut: Of the ironic variety. Madwa has a diamond tattoo on her forehead -- in ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', this tattoo is worn by Suk doctors, who have been conditioned to be incapable of harming their patients. Madwa, of course, does nothing ''but'' harm her "patients" (though it's likely she actually is also a skilled medic, as this seems to be part of Smoke Knight training).
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: A dead body is pulled off a crashed submarine in England and identified as being her, but the reader never sees the corpse, and she's already shown how sneaky and deceptive she can be.]] It eventually turns out that [[spoiler: yes, she's still alive.]]
** [[spoiler:Violetta exploits the mechanics of Prende's Lantern to fool Madwa long enough to get into position to stab her and retrieve the Latern. Knowing Madwa it's entirely possible she survived, but also knowing Violetta, she would ''make sure'' the elder Smoke Knight is KilledOffForReal. Violetta afterwards indicates that, as far she she can tell, Madwa is genuinely dead.]]
* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:While fooling Madwa and taking her down is undeniably impressive regardless of the circumstances, Violetta herself is quick to point out that it only worked because she was exhausted.]]
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[[folder:Martellus von Blitzengaard]]
!!Martellus von Blitzengaard, Usurper of the Lightning Throne
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A cousin of Tarvek and the self-proclaimed Storm King.
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Tweedle is immune to the [[spoiler:sedative-laced Corbettite cakes, which poses a problem for our heroine (who was not immune). However, an [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial invisible hand came out of nowhere]] and konked him with a blackjack.]]
* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Agatha helps him replace his left hand with a mechanical one after it's poisoned by a rebel Smoke Knight.]]
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: He was able to retain his hold on the Storm King title once Tarvek was written off pretty much by being a better killer than the assassins they sent after him.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: He states that Tarvek was only using Agatha for his own ends. When Agatha asks if he's any better, he says "Of course not. But '''I'll''' be '''honest''' with you about it, which I can see '''he''' never was."
* TheAtoner: Makes a point to stop pushing Agatha and wait on her to help him first. He refuses to be (intentionally) impolite or wake her up early in the morning for it. Agatha, still thinking he just wants to use her, [[HonorBeforeReason calls him an idiot.]] He still fails, however, as he still tries to flirt instead of just admitting what he feels.
* AttackAttackAttack: Martellus will attack his foe with absolutely no consideration for defense or feasibility of victory. [[TheDreaded Dreen]]? Smush it, it's done with. Wulfenbach clank brigade? Charge! Gil Wulfenbach himself? Damn the dead sparkhounds, my crippled hands, and crippled mecha that came here to extract me! KILL HIMMMMMM!!!!
* BadBoss: In fairness, the guy he threw out the window ''was'' being a condescending idiot, to a ''Spark'' no less, when being TooDumbToLive is a recognized form of death in the setting, had fired on the Corbettites, and Martellus [[MustHaveCaffeine hadn't had his coffee yet]]. Plus, the guy got a bunch of Martellus's men killed pointlessly ([[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes who he does care about]]), so execution isn't completely unjustified.
* TheBeastMaster: His Sparky specialty seems to lie in modified animals.
* BelligerentSexualTension: He tries to invoke this with Agatha; after a conversation with a Jaeger, he decides that the best way to impress her is to "be a bigger monster." Unfortunately for him, Agatha is not the monster her ancestors were, and therefore she doesn't appreciate his [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace aggressive flirting]]. To his credit, he learns quickly and gives up on this particular strategy.
* BigBadWannabe: He's kind of been outclassed ever since his [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121031 first appearance]]. And since then he's been treated as a chew toy by both Agatha and Gil. [[spoiler: Except now King Valois, Baron Wulfenbach, and Master Voltaire are all dead or incapacitated, and Tarvek isn't in the best position to reclaim his position as top condender for the Storm King's throne, so Martellus has it on lock for the time being.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily:
** As with all the Valois clans, he is deeply involved in their backstabbing scheming.
--->'''Martellus:''' Every single time I think I have killed the person responsible for usurping my command, I find there's someone else '''higher up''', still '''fighting''' me. Now, don't get me wrong, I can kill family members all day and '''know''' I'm making the world a better place -- But smoke knights take time and money to train -- And I'd rather not waste too many of them. So, will killing '''you''' solve my problem, or--
** And then immediately subverted by the arrival of his little sister, who he seems to show genuine affection for, and who seems to reciprocate. Though she's still willing to risk him as bait.
* ButtMonkey:
** His introduction is... a bit embarassing. Despite having a showy entrance, he is completely outplayed by Klaus, his clank suit gets destroyed by a Dreen, and he's basically forced into a bit player role for the rest of the battle. It's only until Klaus suddenly shows up that he suddenly seizes his moment, nabs Agatha and surprises Tarvek with a poisoned knife, and even then it turns out this really ended up being surprisingly helpful for almost everyone involved.
** Goes through a decent amount of this during the Corbettite arc, despite also being a serious threat at the time. The monks' general mocks him, the rampaging monster-train humiliates him more than once, Agatha subjects him to a GroinAttack ''and'' [[spoiler:he loses an army of bears to Krosp. And then he gets talked down to by Klaus-in-Gil and Lucrezia-in-Agatha. And as a final insult, he gets blackjacked by Violetta, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial without any]] of the [[IllPretendIDidntHearThat Corbettites seeing her]].]]
** This seems to be a recurring thing for him. While he ends the Paris arc in a good place, having done more to solidify his position as the Storm King, he's also despised by Agatha's group, Agatha is moving well out of his reach (England), his own sister is plotting behind his back to make sure Agatha hooks up with Tarvek instead of him (in a misguided attempt to get herself with Gil), the Empire, with Gil as its head, is unlikely to recognize him as Storm King despite his heroics in Paris given Gil would obviously favor Tarvek as long as Tarvek is an option (as evidenced by Martellus sending assassins after Tarvek to get rid of him), AND he loses said top assassin and many of his beloved sparkhounds in said assassination attempt.
** In ''[[ThrowTheDogABone spite]]'' of all of this, he eventually [[spoiler:claims the crown of the Storm King through defeating his ancestor, albeit with help.]] But then, see below under HoistByHisOwnPetard.
* CasanovaWannabe: Several of his associates and family members imply that he has rather terrible luck with women. His blunt approach to everything seems to be a large part of the problem.
* CatchAndReturn: Does this with two poisoned knives (caught by handles) at once.
* CharacterDevelopment: Since his arrival in England, he's shown some hints of this, including nixing a suggestion to have Agatha subdued and captured again -- because he wants her to see him as a genuine ally.
* CompositeCharacter: InUniverse, a Heterodyne show put on by Master Payne's Circus of Adventure combines Martellus' title and mechanical arm with Wilhelm Sturmvoraus' familial relations to an "evil mechanical daughter", namely Anevka Sturmvoraus.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Although he may seem like a goofy oaf at first glance, he has shown to be an exceptional combatant and strategist, in addition to being able to fight off and even kill a handful of Smoke Knights with no difficulty. And he is still a Spark after all, which is why Tarvek (reluctantly) keeps Gil from fighting him and even recruits him to help get The Other out of Agatha.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:Trying to control Agatha by altering her body-chemistry makes him just as dependent on physical contact with her as she (originally) requires from him. He's damned lucky that Agatha, while she hates him and ''immediately'' created an alternative for touching him, prefers not to let him die.]]
* DragonAscendant: He was Dimitri Vapnoople's apprentice when the latter man caused all kinds of trouble in Europa with his rampaging armies of animal constructs.
* EnemyMine: Offers an alliance, since even if he considers Tarvek and Gil to be rivals for control over Europa, the fact remains that the Other is slowly but surely winning, and her victory would leave none of them an empire to fight over.
* EntertaininglyWrong: He [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130531 promises]] Agatha that [[AtLeastIAdmitIt he'll be honest with her about not being any better than Tarvek,]] assuming his cousin never was. However, Tarvek ''has'' been [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101129 up front about not being a good person.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Although he is initially presented as an EvilCounterpart to Tarvek (their Sparky predilections and means of education are even in contrast, as Tarvek's signature is reverse-engineering [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots the Muses]] which he learned to do from Van Rijn's notes while Martellus's is [[TheBeastMaster modified animals like his Sparkhounds]] which he learned from his mentor Dr. Vapnoople), he mirrors Gil better. Like Gil, he's blunt, physically powerful, not good with people, and tends to treat his peers like children. At the same time, he has people he cares about and harming them or worse leads to both of them losing their shit. Unlike Gil, he's perfectly willing to use murder as a first solution, [[spoiler:administers various types of mind control]] on people he can't kill for whatever reason, and where Gil tends to treat those who can't keep up with him as children to be corralled and protected, Martellus tends to treat those he sees as his "lessers" and as disposable pawns. It's Lampshaded by Tarvek's "Martellus insider" Norville, who thinks Gil and Martellus would get along well if Tarvek was dead.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Gets pissed off when his men are suddenly turned into zombie-like revenants thanks to a weapon [[spoiler:wielded by Andronicus]]. [[AFatherToHisMen He genuinely considered some of them his friends]] and when he has to put down them down, he tells them who they once were before telling them to rest.
** And he appears to be genuinely fond of his sister, and has openly praised her intellect.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** He also claims he would set aside his crown in an instant if it would end the machinations of the Other once and for all. Agatha doesn't trust him an inch but decides she does believe him about that, likely because of the above.
** He is fully aware that most of [[BigScrewedUpFamily his family and erstwhile allies]] are as much or more of a stain on Europa as he is, and killing them is doing the world a favor.
* FluffyTamer: Oddly enough, he seems to be a Sparky version of this (though he probably wouldn't bother with cute names). As noted below, he created singing bears, bred his own Sparkhounds (and evidently {{uplifted|Animal}} at least one of them) -- and during the arc involving the Beast (a sentient train-like construct), his suggestions have involved animal behaviorist techniques (creating bait/toys to distract it). Maybe he'd be happier running a Manga/{{pet shop|OfHorrors}}...
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's been turning into this after getting handed several defeats by the protagonists; [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200518 in the 2020 strips,]] he, Agatha, Gil and Tarvek are going to a royal ball in London as a group. He's an able Spark with considerable power who is willing to join the fight against the Other, so they're willing to put up with him now that he's toned things down a notch. But they ''still'' don't like him.
* GroinAttack: Agatha gives him perhaps the single most deserved one '''''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141222 EVER]].''''' Shortly after meeting Agatha for the first time, he [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130603 did something to her]] so she would ''die'' without regular physical contact with him. Agatha quickly replicates the effect with a wasp weasel, but after such an intimate trespass, the thought of any contact with him drives her to screaming rage. Similar attacks can thus be expected.
* TheHeavy: He's the most present antagonist from Vol. XIII to around Vol. 2-2 (15). He's the one who kidnapped Agatha, meddled with her body, and [[spoiler:pressured the Corbettites into recognizing his claim]]. But after entering Paris, he takes a backseat as the TokenEvilTeammate of Agatha's party.
* HiddenDepths:
** When [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140411 interrogating a Jaeger he discovers fought his ancestor, the first Storm King]], he surprisingly takes time to ask questions about Euphrosynia and why she betrayed Andronicus. The question and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140414 exchange afterwards]] reveal that he is a romantic like the rest of his family. In fact, it could be seen that his motivations for bad behavior is for pragmatic reasons along with his own shortcomings messing with it.
** He does have some family he cares about along with the men who serve him he considers friends. The fact he acknowledges them as good men shows implies that he knows they are better morally than him. He ain't [[BerserkButton happy with what the Storm King forced him to do.]]
** And he's proven to be very sharp on the subject of the mentality of animal constructs; evidently he was Vapnoople's apprentice for a reason.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: It turns out that [[spoiler:his messing with his and Agatha's body chemistry resulted in him needing her physical touch to survive as much as she needs his. Or more so for a while, since she has the weasels she modified to alleviate the effect on her, while it took Martellus longer to create his own stopgap.]]
* IdiotBall:
** Grabs one when dealing with a mysterious creature at the Corbettitie base. He insists they won't be devoured since the monks have stated that the monster only eats metal. Not only do the monks point out that the creature wants revenge on them and thus they ''are'' very much in danger, but Tweedle has forgotten that his prosthetic hand is made of metal. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141222 Soon after that]], he grabs ''Agatha'' in a borderline IHaveYouNowMyPretty way... with [[GroinAttack predictable results]] (see previous entry).
** Decides to use Andronicus' sword [[spoiler:to attack the undead Andronicus in Paris]], which Agatha instantly calls out for how bad a plan it is. Sure enough he's eventually disarmed and the sword is picked up by the person they very much did not want to have it.
* InLoveWithTheMark: While he started out viewing Agatha only as a potential political tool, it turns out that [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200717 he's developed actual feelings for her]] -- not that she knows that, nor would she be likely to believe it if someone told her. Besides, as Krosp points out, [[AbhorrentAdmirer she (entirely justifiably) hates him]].
* InSeriesNickname: Tarvek calls him "Tweedle".
* KissOfDistraction: [[spoiler:Gives one to the copy of Lucrezia possessing Agatha, resulting in her saying that she will save killing him for last and distracting her long enough to attach a helmet designed to extract her from Agatha's head. Agatha is later both thankful and disgusted.]] Interestingly, [[spoiler:he appears likewise disgusted at having kissed Lucrezia]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191115 wiping his mouth]] after the aforementioned kiss.
* KlingonPromotion: Secures his claim to the Lightning Throne by killing [[spoiler:the undead Andronicus Valois]].
* KnightInShiningArmor: He tries to present himself as one of these upon meeting Agatha, with his army marching against the Baron's to protect Mechanicsburg.
* LargeHam: An InvokedTrope (unlike most Sparks) because he's playing the KnightInShiningArmor come to save the DamselInDistress.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: Tweedle takes a poisoned smoke knight dagger to the left hand. He eventually cuts it off to stop the poison, and Agatha creates a prosthetic replacement for it while sleep-sparking (as she'd be unlikely to ''voluntarily'' help the brute).
* LovePotion: As he said, in the fifth panel of [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130603 this]], [[spoiler:he was originally planning to control Agatha with a formula developed by his great aunt Rappaccini, which would have made her his adoring slave. The only downside is that it would have made her unbearably stupid. And since he recognized how strong a Spark she was, he realized she was too useful to do that to]].
* MadeOfIron: Took a chair to the back of his head from Agatha, only for him to shrug it off and tell her to stop it. Later recovered very quickly from being shot in the side. He also can still contribute Sparky ideas while recovering from a GroinAttack.
* MadScientist: He's a Spark, and was apparently the apprentice to [[spoiler:Krosp's creator, Dr. Dimitri Vapnoodle.]]
* MoralMyopia: Played straight and partially justified. Tarvek honestly isn't that much better than Martellus is, yet more people respect and like Tarvek than Martellus. Tarvek is much more sociable and affable than Martellus and is more willing to talk first while Martellus is okay with killing right off the bat. Tarvek is also okay with killing in cold blood and can and will beat and strangle people to death with his own two hands. That being said, Martellus is much better at keeping his family in line as they are more easily scared than manipulated into submission.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: As seems to be traditional within his extended family. His name means "Hammer from the Manor of Lightning".
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If Martellus didn't kidnap Agatha precisely when he did, then he, she, Krosp and Violetta would have been frozen in time by the Baron. This means that the Other could have successfully attacked Paris and London and the Beast could have destroyed the Corbettites. Similarly, if Gil had retrieved Agatha from the time field, then the Klaus imprint on his mind might have killed her on the spot.
* NobleDemon: Evil as he may be, he [[AFatherToHisMen genuinely cares for his men]] and is horrified when they're [[spoiler:zombified by the undead Valois.]] He puts them down with epithets before returning to fight the Storm King, this time ''utterly pissed off.''
* NotMeThisTime: He actually does this to ''himself''. When the Master summons his army, Martellus starts freaking out.
-->'''Martellus:''' Wait, it's all right... you've done nothing wrong...\\
'''The Master:''' ''Martellus von Blitzengard!'' I should have known!\\
'''Martellus:''' AH! It wasn't me Master Voltaire, honest!
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's introduced getting duped by the Baron and having his clank effortlessly destroyed by a dreen, but then he goes and kidnaps Agatha and stabs Tarvek with a poisoned knife.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: As with the rest of the Sturmvoraus family, his seemingly goofy manner is all just an act to cover up a more sinister agenda, which becomes obvious when he whispers to Tarvek that Agatha [[spoiler:should have been killed, since she will make a hard-to-control [[PuppetKing Puppet Queen.]]]] Violetta expresses surprise that he uses Spark Hounds, mentioning that he used to make miniature singing bears.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: While putting down rebellious [[BigScrewedUpFamily family members,]] he states he knows he can kill family members all day and know he's still making the world a better place. And he's not wrong in that either.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** His most secure bolthole inside his home fortress was set up by himself, without any minions. Agatha questions why he didn't just kill them, and Martellus points out that this is a world where death keeps very few secrets.
** He decides against using a special drug to turn Agatha into his adoring slave, since it would also destroy her intelligence and her Spark, and she's far too useful with those intact.
** Later, he orders his troops to not harm the mind-controlled civilians attacking them. When they complain, he points out [[VillainWithGoodPublicity they are being watched.]]
* PrinceCharmless: Despite all of his hoity-toity talk, he's more or less just a brute. He kidnaps Agatha soon after meeting her, experiments on her in her sleep, and spends a lot of the following time creeping on her. The dude makes Othar Tryggvassen look like a more plausible romantic choice.
* ProperlyParanoid: Has a deep-seated dislike of [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200918 Dr. Rakethorn]] because it's clear to see to everyone, with the possible exception of Gil and Agatha, that he and Ms. Thorpe are cutting in between Agatha and any potential lovers. He hasn't called it out directly, yet, because he is more diplomatic and less smug about noticing it than Tarvek. It just seems to annoy him.
* RoyalBlood: He is a descendant of the Storm King, and is next in line after Tarvek. Since Tarvek was written off as dead while trapped in the time bubble, he ascended to the throne.
* SmugSnake: He takes measures to ensure Agatha needs him alive, but [[spoiler:he [[UnderestimatingBadassery foolishly assumes]] that that alone will be enough to control her]].
* SpearCounterpart: To Zola. Both of them are cousins to one of the main characters (Tarvek for Tweedle; Agatha for Zola) who, as part of the Knights of Jove's conspiracy, seek to [[TheUsurper usurp their respective cousins' rightful titles]] for themselves. They both [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070427 introduce]] [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121105 themselves]] with flowery speeches in Mechanicsburg. They both show themselves to be very [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080404 prone]] to [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130524 violence]] when in privacy. They were both students of one of Lucrezia's affiliates ([[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190722 Vapnoople]] for Tweedle; [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100705 Milvistle]] for Zola). Interestingly, they both have their own {{Villainous Crush}}es on their [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110103 counterpart's]] [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141222 respective]] cousins.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: When observing the machine that Lucrezia has modified alongside Gil and Tarvek, he takes in Tarvek's observations on them trying to find said modifications and proposing to just ''rebuild'' the machine from scratch than risk trying to undo it and miss something. The two acknowledge his point.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Of Agatha's party during the Paris and England arcs, overlapping with being TheFriendNobodyLikes. But after the England arc, he no longer needs Agatha and seems to be getting back into his antagonistic role.
* TheUsurper: He took measures to have the cabal write Tarvek off after the Sturmhalten incident, since he was next in line to the Lightning Throne. Then he took measures to assassinate Tarvek. After the time skip, he maintains his grip on the throne [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership by killing anyone who tries to take it from him,]] but it's clear that ''no-one'' (except ''maybe'' his sister) actually wants him to be king. Multiple factions try to get to Tarvek, with varying levels of success, under the simple logic that [[DamnedByFaintPraise there's no way he can be worse than Martellus.]] His grip on the throne seems to be getting shakier. Krosp believes he won't survive the year, and the Muse of Geometries calculates his claim to be a [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210303 "distant third, at best"]]. Neither Agatha nor Gil will recognize him as the Storm King either, with Agatha stating "Not even if it will free Mechanicsburg," and Colette [[spoiler:in her official capacity as the new Master of Paris]] was careful not to state him as such either, only recognizing his questionable claim.
* VillainousCrush: Tweedle happens to be interested in Agatha, part because marrying a Heterodyne is part of the whole Storm King mythos, and part because [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200717 he's actually interested]] in her. Agatha on her side of things [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141222 makes it clear]] that she's ''not'' interested.
* VillainousFriendship: When his henchmen are [[ZombifyTheLiving zombified]] by Andronicus Valois, he [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170424 lays each of them to rest, reminding them of who they were, the good they did, and giving a brief blessing]] before returning to his battle with his ancestor. And when he does, he's ''pissed''. What had been a battle for the throne of the Storm King [[ItsPersonal is now personal.]]
* VillainousValor: Whatever his other faults, he is in no way a coward.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: What his aims are in the Paris arc: to use his grandmother's pageant-party to declare himself the Storm King publicly in a major city in such a way as to endear himself to people. His battle against [[spoiler:the undead Andronicus]] plays right into this, even though Agatha, the Jägers, Tarvek, the Master, and Colette really do more of the work. It pays off as [[spoiler:Colette, the new leader of Paris]] seemingly recognizes him as the Storm King afterwards. Of course, if he had been paying more attention to her wording, he would have realized she wasn't actually recognizing his claim, but just saying he could leave in peace.
* TheVonTropeFamily: So far the only major aristocratic character to carry the German "von", a sign of nobility, in his name.
* WrongGenreSavvy: His plan to become the Storm King is solid. He knows how to exploit the politics of the nobility, and he gets religious leaders to back him, solidifying his claim. The problem is the Storm King has a mythology all on it's own, much like King Arthur, that he is ignoring. He is less familiar with the Muses than Tarvek is, having to ask one of them their name rather than recognizing them on sight like his cousin. The Muse in question, Orotine, tells him that he will need more than realpolitik to become the Storm King.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Othar Tryggvassen]]
!!Othar Tryggvassen, ''[+GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!+]''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/97580bef44dacd4ed95cfee801f90a11.png]]

A man possessed with a quest to eradicate all Sparks, including himself (eventually), for the damage they do to the world. Harder to kill than Film/JamesBond.
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* AllPowerfulBystander: According to the Twitter, Othar is a deist who belives that God is the Ultimate Spark.
* AmbiguouslyGay: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100324 His sister thinks so, anyway]], and Othar noticeably changes the subject rather than deny it. Bi if she's right (since he married a Geisterdame in the Twitter).
* AmusingInjuries: No matter what happens to him, Othar bounces back almost immediately.
* AntiHero:
** Othar Tryggvassen is a bizarre character; he has the external looks and speech of TheCape, while his goals and actions better fit the NinetiesAntiHero. By all accounts he does have some genuine heroism under his belt, though this is a big counterbalanced by his life goal of killing all Sparks. So he often fights both genuine villains ''and'' random people minding their own business.
** To illustrate: once in his Twitter blog, the father of one of his Sparky enemies [[https://twitter.com/Othar/status/504224492 pleaded that no parent should see their kid die]]. Othar agreed, so [[https://twitter.com/Othar/status/506603822 he killed the dad first]]. "Call me Herr Sensitive."
* AntiVillain: Feels bad about killing Sparks, and a lot of them ''do'' need to die…
* BadBoss: He has no qualms about conscripting his 'sidekicks', though in his mind they ''want'' to join, and their careers tend to be so short he expresses hopes that a particularly promising individual might last ''six months''. Though apparently his sidekicks rarely ''die'', according to the novels, because they quickly realize that [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor the job isn't as glamourous up close.]] Plus, Othar is a ChasteHero who is absolutely resolute to not dally with an assistant, which actually ends up being a disappointment to many of his companions, who ''actually want him to''.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Othar is generally friendly and cheerful off-the-job, and fair on it. Don't make him kick your ass. He can.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: As much as he is a walking joke, Othar can be very, very effective in a CrazyIsCool way. Note that Castle Heterodyne rather likes the guy ''because'' they both approach this trope from different directions.
* BoldInflation: Fans [[MemeticMutation never, ever]] say his name without adding '''[+ [[GentlemanAdventurer GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!]]+]''' And [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070924 not just fans]].
* BoomerangBigot: Hates Sparks and wants to rid the world of them all, despite being a Spark himself. He fully [[NoPlaceForMeThere intends to kill himself when all the other Sparks are dead]].
* BraggartBoss: Despite the hazards to life and limb one has to imagine Othar's sidekicks are most likely to get talked to death.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Even by the standards of Sparks. Which is saying quite a bit. On the other hand, as Sparky plans go, "Kill all the other Sparks one by one and then myself" is actually pretty logical and well-considered, and even other some Sparks admit the notion is a pretty well thought out plan for a valid experiment.
* ButtMonkey: '''FOUL!!!'''
* CharacterBlog: He has a [[http://twitter.com/Othar?page=1 Twitter]]. May or may not be canon but is certainly extremely quotable. (His [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210820 reappearance]] in the August 2021 strip ties directly to the continuation of the Twitter feed from October 2020, so that part is ''probably'' canon.)
* ChasteHero: Aside from his marriage to a Geister in the alternate timeline, according to the novels he actually is completely resolute in his desire to avoid dallying with his female sidekicks. This ends up being rather disappointing for most of them, since the romance was ''the whole point of even joining up in the first place''.
** While this is because he is a gentleman first and foremost, there's also the question of what happens if he accidentally produced a child. Since he's a spark, he may have sparky children ''which he would have to kill by his own logic.'' Even if they weren't sparky, no one knows how the spark gene works by Othar's own admission. It may skip generations in his family (Tarvek's, Albia's, and Voltaire's families for example do skip generations while it never seemed to skip any of the Heterodynes and his sister Sanaa doesn't have the spark either). It's no wonder that he refuses to have a relationship with his assistants.
* ChivalrousPervert: Spends a good deal of time hitting on Agatha, to "save" her from the Wulfenbachs. Well, that's how it might appear, turns out he's a ChasteHero who actually prefers to ''not'' dally with his rescues or his female assistants.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: One of the things that prevents him from being just an IneffectualSympatheticVillain; he is a genuinely good person, at least to ordinary people. Sometimes ends up saving the very people he wants to kill, but don't count on this.
--> [[http://twitter.com/othar/status/401612282 Confound it!]] An entire train full of helpless Sparks AND dangerous monsters AND a handy chasm nearby. Someone is tempting me. So not fair!\\
[[http://twitter.com/othar/status/414634042 This is ridiculous]]. There were only two and a half innocent people on this train ([[FantasticRacism Jäger =0.5 person]]). Surely I can skip the last one. Yeah.\\
[[http://twitter.com/othar/status/417353242 No. I can't]]. This is what being A Hero is about. I should never have taken that aptitude test back at the university. I wanted to be a chef.
* ComicallyInvincibleHero: The others are fully aware that he's probably unkillable. [[spoiler:Gil even takes the opportunity to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120305 exploit it]].]]
* DestinationDefenestration: Happens to him repeatedly while on [[CoolAirship Castle Wulfenbach]]. It never sticks.
-->'''Othar:''' '''FOUL!'''
* DitzyGenius: It's sometimes hard to remember, through all the TestosteronePoisoning, that he's a genuine Spark, and has the intelligence to go along with it. He's able to help Agatha find an obscure part needed to repair something (though the fact that he forgot its name meant he had to tear it out of a clank himself to find it) and his moments of lucidity show he can be crafty and tactical when he recognizes SeriousBusiness.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: He has plenty of admirers of all genders. [[FemaleGaze Especially when he's]] [[ShirtlessScene not wearing his trademark sweater.]]
* FantasticFightingStyle: "Othar Tryggvassen's Twitter" establishes that Othar is a Genserhersker of the school of Norwegian Sweater Fighting. The only thing that prevents this from being IKnowKungFaux is that Othar is consistently shown to be one of the most lethal hand-to-hand combatants in the setting.
* ForWantOfANail: Despite his vigor, Othar is actually pretty old. According to his Twitter, it turns out that he retired to an island for a few decades to live with his Geister wife, Oslaka, that he saved from the sewers in Paris. When she died, he left the island to find [[spoiler:all of Europa in ruins and not a single person in sight (not even any bodies). His consciousness was sent back to inhabit the body of his past self right before he saved Oslaka by an aged Tarvek to save the past somehow,]] so his presence will determine the course of the story.
* FreudianExcuse: As the novels explain, Othar's hometown was often ravaged by the mad inventions of the local Spark lords, which goes some way to explaining his attitude toward them. Furthermore, the insanity of the spark and the type of events that follow sparks like the plague hasn't helped him. Then he started to go on his adventures and was proclaimed a hero all the while he was picking up assistants who couldn't keep up and started dying on him. Eventually he picked up a homeless Geister that had been abandoned by her sisterhood in the sewers of Paris. It's implied that he was in love with all of his assistants and he took this one to be his wife. They retired to an island for decades and he left only after she passed away from natural causes. [[spoiler:He found Europa had burned to ashes and everyone and everything was dead. All he found was an aged Tarvek who tried to explain what happened. However, when Tarvek tried to send him back in time, Othar attacked him in a paranoid rage, Tarvek managed to send him back, but he wasn't able to provide Othar any details. Othar knows that all of Europa is doomed without his help, but he hasn't seen the post-epilogue stories that show that Agatha will beat the Other. For all he knows, everything he is doing is in vain. All he does know is that sparks will cause the BadFuture, but he has no information as to why or how, so he kills all sparks he comes across on the ''chance'' that they have something to do with causing Europa's destruction either by helping to directly cause it or by being a distraction or SpannerInTheWorks hurting the good guys. The problem is that he's so insane that he can't sort out who is working with or helping the Other directly or indirectly, so he comes to blows with "villains" like the Wulfenbachs who, in fact, are more on the heroic side of the equation.]]
* GeniusBruiser: He's both incredibly tough and a Spark, as pointed out [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121121 here]].
* GenreSavvy / WrongGenreSavvy: +90% the first. The rest of the time, he's brain-locked by his one glaring flaw; he's incapable of understanding that he's often the HeroOfAnotherStory.
* '''''{{GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER}}!''''': The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] -- and an unusual example given that he's an AntiVillain antagonist.
* GottaKillThemAll: His solution to the Sparks is to kill them all, individually.
* HandWave: PlayedForLaughs when Vole seemingly shatters his spine with a diving kick. Othar springs right back up and decks Vole, to the astonishment of Tarvek. Othar then remarks that he is wearing "Special trousers. ''Very'' heroic."
* HeroAntagonist: Played with. Othar is here in 'Antagonists' because he's often pitted against the protagonists, but he really ''is'' a hero to the common folk: rescuing innocents, vanquishing monsters, and -- in short, hero work. Unfortunately, most of Agatha's social circle are on his hit list, so there's obviously a certain amount of EnemyMine when they ''do'' happen to be working together.
* HeroicBuild: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151123 He wouldn't be a Hero without it!]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Invoked. You can follow his heroic story on Twitter! OTOH, his one glaring flaw is that he is not only unaware of this trope, but completely unwilling to accept its possibility.
* HeroWithBadPublicity / VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's managed to become ''both''. The common folk love him. Considering how his "crusade" puts him in conflict with Sparks that are genuinely dangerous to the populace and Othar is motivated to clean up the "Sparky menace" to protect the non-Sparks (and the common folk are unaware of his being a mass-Spark-murdering maniac), this is not unjustified. On the other hand?
--> [[http://twitter.com/othar/status/550270322 What a double edged sword a reputation is]]. Save thousands, thwart evil, bring peace... kill one corrupt quester and it's all out the window.\\
[[http://twitter.com/othar/status/556062672 Now I'm just "The Guy Who Killed A Quester."]] It demonizes me, and ignores all of my finer points. Bit of a resume stain, to be honest. Sigh.\\
[[http://twitter.com/othar/status/559607812 Questers are usually pillars of honesty]]. Therefore it's understandable that people are skeptical when you badmouth one. My rep vs. theirs.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: This is actually what makes him insane. Othar is unable to comprehend that Klaus isn't the villain. Even back in the day, Klaus wasn't the TokenEvilTeammate. That was Lucrezia. Klaus was the pragmatic, jaded teammate. Klaus may be a tyrant, but his rule is much freer and safer than the anarchy that came before it. In present time, Othar also can't process that Gil is the TokenGoodTeammate of Agatha's team with Tarvek being the TokenEvilTeammate and Agatha being the pragmatic one. He has their roles backwards in his head.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: He's a Spark hellbent on the eradication of all Sparks, himself included. Although his particular focus seems to be more in sabotaging the devices of others rather than building any of his own.
* IdiotHero: Othar is utterly fearless (not to mention foolish) in times of peril.
--> [[http://twitter.com/Othar/status/5538674658 Like all prisoners in the castle, I'm outfitted with an exploding collar. Ha! The fools, my head is the least dangerous part of my body]].
* ImplacableMan: Nothing seems to stop Othar... not for long, anyway.
--> '''Agatha:''' I went to all that trouble to rescue him. And you've killed him!\\
'''Gil:''' I ''wish.'' I've seen him survive ''worse.''
* InSpiteOfANail: According to his Twitter account a Spark's experiment with time travel and alternate realities has revealed that every Othar has some kind of predisposition to deciding to wipe out Sparks. He briefly wonders if there's something about the Othars that causes them to simply have suicidal craziness before dismissing the idea.
* IndyPloy: Planning is for schemers! Schemers and dastards!
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Othar apparently has "special trousers" (very heroic) that allows him to NoSell having an irate Jäger landing on him and breaking his back. No, we have no idea what that means either.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** This is not to say that Othar isn't dangerously insane and regularly murderous. He is. He really, ''really'' is. It's just that most of the people he's killed either have attacked him or otherwise been an asshole in his presence; Sparks in particular, especially as he boasts of all the Sparks he's killed. Doesn't change the fact that he tried to summarily execute Agatha the ''instant'' he learned she was a Spark.
** Squibs, a much put upon minion in the side story 'Small Problems', [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140122 sums it up best:]]
--->'''Squibs:''' Let me see if I understand this. He thinks that all the problems in Europa are caused by the ''mad scientists'' who build all the ''monsters.'' The mad scientists who vie with each other to see who can be the first to turn the population into wombat bats or clam people or ''stylish furniture.'' The raving lunatics who set off life-size chocolate volcanoes and unleash flash floods of porridge upon innocent villages. Othar wants to destroy these people, and ''you'' think ''he's insane?!''
** And Klaus secretly acknowledges that Othar has a point, and that the only difference between their "[[MightMakesRight Peace Through Violence]]" approaches is that Klaus gives his enemies a chance to avoid execution by ''not'' being murderous jerks. When Othar first got started, Klaus got into the habit of subtly directing Othar in the direction of dangerous Sparks who hadn't technically violated the Peace. He only dragged Othar onto Castle Wulfenbach for a little ''Literature/DocSavage''-esque brain surgery because the idiot started killing Sparks that ''were'' doing their best not to threaten the Peace.
** Also there's the ''slight'' problem of Othar ''being a Spark exactly like all his foes'', meaning his chosen means and methods of achieving his goals are [[DestructiveSavior the most complicated and destructive]] available to him at any given time. For example, to cover his and Agatha's [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040917 escape from Castle Wulfenbach]], he turned loose and/or on every experiment he could find. And Agatha just got finished destroying a ''[[PuppeteerParasite Hive Engine]].'' If Wulfenbach had been any less awesome, that touch of genius could likely have wiped out all of Europa ''before sunset.''
** As of the Mechanicsburg Arc, he does at least seem to be of the opinion that while all Sparks need to die, there are some that need to die ''sooner'' than others. As Agatha seems to be following the legacy of her heroic father and uncle, Othar seems to be willing to bump her and her friends to the back of the queue for now.
** His Twitter feed sheds some light on this. If taken as canon, Othar is capable of giving up his obsessive quest. He fell in love with a Geister and retired to an island with her for decades. When she died, he left the island behind [[spoiler:to find all of Europa dead. Very little plants, animals, or people remained. All he found was Tarvek who sent him back in time to stop it. While Othar is still insane and didn't trust Tarvek, him doing nothing for decades led to that future and that certainly ampified his insanity and caused him double and triple down on his obsessive quest to kill all sparks.]]
** Also, ironically, according to the novels, not only is Othar's plan to kill all Sparks and then himself ''a relatively thought out plan by Spark standards'', many Sparks are ''conflicted'' about this plan (or at least admit he has a point in his own tiresome way), as his hypothesis is compelling, his methodology seems sound, and many argue that it would be a valid experiment.
* LargeHam: Most Sparks chew scenery when in TheMadnessPlace -- Othar does it ''all the time''.
-->'''Othar:''' So -- all the vipers are in residence!\\
'''Gilgamesh:''' I can't ''believe'' you still ''talk'' like that.
* LargeHamTitle: ''[+GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!+]''
* LongLostSibling: [[spoiler: Sanaa Wilhelm, aka Sanaa Tryggvassen]].
* LordErrorProne: When it comes to the actual adventuring he does a good job, but he frequently grabs the wrong end of the stick and seems somewhat dim (or at least scatterbrained) for a spark--at least compared to the main characters and most of the actually threatening villains. Given some of the stuff we've seen minor antagonists get up to Othar seems practically stable for a Spark.
* MadeOfIron: ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090617 and how]].''
* MentalTimeTravel: Possibly from the twitter into regular continuity.
* MoralMyopia:
** The typical Spark acts like a stereotypycal MadScientist and Othar acts like a stereotypical adventure hero, but there's little practical difference between the two breeds of Madboy. Othar has [[TheIgor groveling minions]] with a high mortality rate, only he calls them "spunky girl sidekicks". He does [[InHarmsWay dangerous things that put others at risk]], only they're usually acts of sabatoge instead of inventions. Lastly, he has a mad hypothesis that he thinks will change the world, and that hypothesis is "no more Sparks = world peace". Interestingly, a footnote in the second novel mentions that many Sparks actually see Othar's quest as a sort of experiment.
** This goes both ways; Othar being much like the typical Spark also makes the protagonist Sparks much like Othar. That they're not so different is pointed out by Violetta on one occasion:
--->'''Tarvek:''' I... keep forgetting he's a ''Spark.''\\
'''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121121 Violetta]]:''' Really. So you've ''completely missed'' the fact that he's overbearing, self-aggrandizing and ''certain death to be around?''
* MundaneUtility: According to the Twitter account, Othar once had to revivify his Uncle Vladikix.
-->'''Othar:''' He was the only one who knew the old family recipe for Lingonberry Snap.
* NoPlaceForMeThere: Success in his lifelong dream -- destroying every MadScientist for the sake of ordinary humanity -- would, of course, require one last HeroicSuicide.
* NorseByNorsewest: He's from Norway.
* ObfuscatingStupidity:
** He acts like such an idiot all the time that people forget he's one of the most unstoppable people in Europa. He does have his moments of clarity, though, where the act seems to come down, usually when something genuinely surprises him -- such as when he meets Sanaa. It's also worth noting that he's apparently a ''fantastic'' orator. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160325 See for yourself.]]
** In the novels, when Klaus conscripts Othar into entering Castle Heterodyne to retrieve Gil, the Baron notices that he completely drops his usual bombastic bravado when its explained that Agatha is likely being controlled by the Other. This unnerves him greatly as it suggests that Othar has been treating his encounters and captures by the Empire as [[ILetYouWin nothing but a game]]. [[spoiler:It's because he does. Othar has seen a future where he simply stopped interacting with the world's politics and that indirectly led to the death of all of Europa and victory for the Other. Any viable threat of the Other brought to his attention drives him '''sane''' because him doing something to stop the Other directly is the only thing he can do that '''matters'''.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation:
** Dropping him out of sight, by whatever means, never seems to stick. At least twice, he manages to get back up onto Castle Wulfenbach by unknown means after being thrown off and then survives being pushed over the side of a much smaller airship.
** And when Castle Heterodyne is introduced to him, its immediate response is to drop him into a bottomless pit. So far as it is concerned, surviving this is one of a Hero's RequiredSecondaryPowers, so it feels totally justified in pulling this stunt. And sure enough, Othar immediately reappears unscathed.
** This is something he's apparently so well known for in-world that when he ends up being defenestrated while handcuffed to someone else, Gil used the opportunity For Science, demanding [[spoiler:Tarvek]] figure out the trick on the assumption that Othar would magic himself to safety per usual. On the plus side, he did manage to get himself out of the handcuffs... [[spoiler:While busy fighting Vole]]... Without the person he was handcuffed to finding out how. [[spoiler:Even more amusing and impressive in retrospect, since it turns out the guy he got himself unhand-cuffed from is no slouch in a fight and very good at misdirection.]]
** He also manages to find his way into Gil's super secret lab, a place nobody else in-story (including Klaus) seemed to be aware of, simply because he is a hero and finding secret villain lairs is what heroes are good at.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: He's plenty effective, provided he isn't going up against uber badasses like Gil, Klaus, or Agatha.
* PlotArmor: An InUniverse version, apparently. The man simply cannot be killed. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040714 Many]], many people have tried. But since he's the HeroOfAnotherStory, he's effectively immortal.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The codifier of what this looks like ''[+FROM THE OUTSIDE.+]''
* PutOnABus: Though technically he was in Mechanicsburg when the [[spoiler:Take Five bomb]] went off, his previous track record of inexplicable self-extrication strongly suggests he's not on that particular bus. [[spoiler: As it turns out, he ''was'' frozen in the Take Five bomb time stop, but he was the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151123 the first]] [[TheBusCameBack to be successfully extracted]] without undergoing RapidAging]].
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: The effects of the Spark on him are a lot more apparent in the Twitter than in the comic.
* ShirtlessScene: When first encountered he is only wearing trousers. When he turns up again however he seems to stick to sweaters. After being broken out of a [[TimeStandsStill time stop]], he is left shirtless until Gil insists that he wears something, much to the disappointment of the women and one male fan.
* SunglassesAtNight: Or whatever that visor thingy is. There's a fan theory that it's there to protect bystanders from the power of his amazingly pretty blue eyes; another theory (given his white hair, pale skin, and extremely light eyes) is that he's an albino and needs it to protect his eyes from the light.
* TestosteronePoisoning: Big, manly, aggressive and has a tendency to barrel towards danger, just because.
* TragicHero: A heroic goal, ruined by his lack of self awareness and obsession.
* UncertainDoom: In the future, he is considered to be "lost".
* UnexplainedRecovery: ''Constantly''. The only explanation we've ever gotten is "Special trousers. ''Very'' heroic''."
* UnreliableNarrator / ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: His Twitter is considered canonical, but it's from his point of view and he's insane.
--> [[http://twitter.com/othar/status/825310181 "That letter is a fraud! Othar Tryggvassen may do things that lesser men find objectionable or slightly illegal, but I never apologize!"]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Killing all Sparks one by one might not be the best of ideas, but it's not exactly the worst one either.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: So beautiful that they make his normally imposing self look [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080125 pretty girly]].
* WrongGenreSavvy: He seems to firmly believe himself to be the dashing hero of a science fiction romance. He's right, but he ''never'' realizes that he's ''also'' the HeroOfAnotherStory, let alone that ''Agatha'' is a fellow hero and not a potential sidekick. Thus, he's developed similarly delusional views of the main characters: Agatha is currently going through an independent phase(how cute!) of sidekickdom, Tarvek is the handsome villain she's redeeming by ThePowerOfLove, and Gil is the schemer who is behind it all. Though he miiight be coming around to the idea that Agatha is the kind of girl who wants [[OneTrueThreesome multiple boyfriends]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Quintillius Snackleford]]
!!Quintillius Harmon, Lord Snackleford

An important official in Queen Albia's Society of {{Mad Scientist}}s. There's more to him than meets the eye.
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* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Manages to achieve second breakthrough, effectively making him a demigod, and later expresses panic and outrage that his summoned EldritchAbomination would dare to leave its "god".]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: His incompetent efforts to fight the protagonists may well make him look like a buffoon, but he ''is'' one of the ''very few'' Sparks to achieve [[spoiler:second breakthrough]].
* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: [[spoiler:By siphoning knowledge and energy from an EldritchAbomination from AnotherDimension, he successfully achieves second breakthrough, taking the next step past a Spark and effectively becoming a demigod like Queen Albia.]]
* FlamingHair: Gains it upon [[spoiler:second breakthrough]].
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: He always wears a visor which produces this effect. Interestingly, [[spoiler: after he levels up Spark-wise, his eyes actually become ''more'' normal-looking.]]
* KlingonPromotion: He is probably responsible for the death of the Society's official head, Lord Bunstable.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: He can manifest multiple arms as part of his VoluntaryShapeshifting.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: He doesn't kill "minions" or guest Agatha when conducting his purge of his fellow Sparks.]]
* SpikyHair: His original haircut before upgrading to FlamingHair.
* UnskilledButStrong: This is [[spoiler: Vapnoople's]] assessment after [[spoiler: Snacky makes his ascension- he wastes far too much of his new power flashily killing all the other Gray Hoods, leaving himself open to attacks from other quarters.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: Agatha wonders if his lies about creating a new golden age of wonder using an ExtradimensionalPowerSource might have a valid point. Since such a thing could theoretically turn ''everybody'' into a [[MadScientist spark]], she admits that it's an idea that should only be pursued cautiously.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When Agatha manages to banish his summoned EldritchAbomination back to where it came from, he starts panicking. Dr. Vapnoople then tells Agatha, his new "student", that the distraction of a VillainousBreakdown is the ''best'' time to strike and casually tosses Lord Snackleford into the closing rift.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler:One of the powers he gains upon his second breakthrough.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:He formed a SecretCircleOfSecrets gathering nearly all of his fellow British {{Mad Scientist}}s. He promised to bring a new age of enlightenment, delivering demigodhood to his cultists, and eventually the world. But as soon as they help him achieve it personally, he zaps them all to death.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Silas Merlot]]
!!Silas Merlot, Beleaugred Professor
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[[caption-width-right:200:"That... that was Miss Clay! It's her fault I'm here! She ruined my life!"]]
Assistant and second-in-command to Tarsus Beetle.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He seems to finally breakthrough as a spark out of sheer rage of seeing Agatha again. He always wanted to be a spark and was jealous of their abilities. [[spoiler:It gets him killed like many other sparks as he can't control his obsession and the Castle murders him to protect Agatha.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: After discovering Dr. Beetle's hidden notes about Agatha's heritage, he burned down Beetleburg's hall of records with the Baron's cryptography team inside, fearing the Baron would punish him if he knew the truth while not expecting the Baron to punish him for his actions in covering the truth. Agatha would later point out that had he gone straight to the Baron after making the discovery it's likely it would have gotten him into Klaus's good graces and netted him a big reward.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Claims his sentencing is this. Historians would later argue that it was actually disproportionately ''low'', because among the things he burned in the archives was all records of what the Heterodyne Boys had been up to between their disappearance and Agatha being settled in Beetleburg, but the Baron had outlawed more appropriately harsh punishments.
* EvilIsPetty: The first thing he did after becoming in charge of Beetlesburg was expel Agatha simply because he didn't like her.
* ExposeTheVillainGetHisJob: What Silas presumably was hoping for by revealing the Slaver Engine his master was hiding. If it was, it worked in the worst way possible.
* ForScience: In likely an attempt to imitate Sparks, his big experiment at the start of the series was trying to turn chalk into cheese. It just earned him mockery from his peers and subordinates.
* GreenEyedMonster:
** He lives in bitterness and jealousy over the fact that he's not a Spark and feels that he gets overlooked and left out of Beetle's important plans because he's "a mere mortal."
** The novels would later suggest that his erratic personality and his odd experiments is him trying to emulate Sparky traits.
* HatedByAll: No one in Beetleburg really liked the petty, ill tempered man. The novels theorize that the main reason Dr. Beetle took him on as his main assistant was that his poor reputation made him the target of everyone's ire while the tyrant doctor looked all the more benevolent in comparison.
* InsaneTrollLogic: When Agatha meets him again in Castle Heterodyne, he thinks it's "unfair" that Klaus sent him there just for arson and killing his inspectors.
* {{Jerkass}}: As the novelization puts it, even without the jealousy and having to work under Dr. Beetle, he was just "born mean".
* KickedUpstairs: Klaus puts him in charge him not as a promotion but as a punishment, threatening to ship him off to Castle Heterodyne at his first mistake.
* KilledOffForReal: Crushed by Castle Heterodyne while trying to kill Agatha and her friends.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The Baron sent him to Castle Heterodyne for arson and murdering his research team. Agatha straight up tell him he deserved what he got.
* NeverMyFault: Blames Agatha for him getting sent to Castle Heterodyne, despite him being the one who burned down all of Beetle's records and murdered the Baron's men in a vain attempt to protect himself.
* SanitySlippage: He was never all there to begin with, but his fear of Klaus and hatred of Agatha turns him into a bitter, paranoid murderer.
* SpannerInTheWorks: The Baron wanted to interrogate Beetle and had some unspecified plans for him, but Silas's early reveal of the Slaver Engine that Beetle was hiding resulted in Beetle fighting and dying. Likewise, Silas's burning of Beetle's records kept the Baron from learning about Agatha months ahead of time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tarsus Beetle]]
!!Doctor Tarsus Beetle, Tyrant of Beetleburg
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[[caption-width-right:220:"Know Enough to Be Afraid"]]

Ruler of Beetleburg and Headmaster of the Transylvania Polygnostic University. Agatha attends TPU under his supervision and acts as his assistant.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Agatha is genuinely distraught when Beetle is killed, enough so to trigger her [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder breakthrough]].
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Despite his placement on this page, not really a lot is known about Beetle's ultimate goals or motivations. He greatly disliked the Baron's rule, and seemed to be planning to use Agatha to further his goals, but at the same time, Barry trusted him enough to entrust Agatha to his care, and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060324 apparently gave him reason not to trust the Baron]].
* BigBadWannabe: Was preparing to mount a challenge to Klaus' power... With his forces being completely outgunned, and the Baron fully aware of his plotting.
* CompensatingForSomething: Gil notes that his clanks are ludicrously oversized, Beetle's way of compensating for his lack of height. Beetle objects to this assessment, loudly.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: His favored means of dealing with criminals in his city is to stick them in a giant bell jar and then leave them there until he needs to reuse the jar. People frequently die of exposure, starvation and/or dehydration before that happens.
* CurbStompBattle: His defenses get effortlessly swatted down by the Wulfenbach forces.
* DeaderThanDead: His demise is used to showcase that in the Girl Genius universe 1) [[DeathIsCheap being dead need not be permanent]], and 2) [[KilledOffForReal it still can be]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killed when Gil knocks his own bomb back at him.
* HumongousMecha: His greatest creation is a twenty-meter clank named Tock.
* MadScientist: Third generation Spark.
* MasterApprenticeChain: Had at various points in his life taught Klaus and Lucrezia, along with Bill and Barry Heterodyne, and later Agatha.
* PetTheDog: Beetle's sheltering and care of Agatha certainly appears to be this. It's only much, much later that the audience learns he intended to use her as a weapon.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: As the Tyrant of Beetleburg, his word was law. This was why Agatha was allowed to attend whatever lesson she pleased, even if her teachers didn't like her.
* SecretKeeper: He knew Barry had returned to Beetleburg with Agatha, and knew who she, Lilith, and Adam were.
* StarterVillain: To the point where Agatha never even faced him, since he got thwarted by the Baron before he even got to the part of his plan that involved her.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Beetle was the one who inspired Lucrezia's experiments with mind-transferral, meaning a good deal of issues in the story can in some way be traced back to him.
** Still later, its his ill-advised plot against Klaus Wulfenbach that ultimately attracts the Baron's attention to Agatha, thus kicking off the plot.
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: He's universally acknowledged as the greatest clank engineer of his generation. Unfortunately, he failed to take into account that later generations would use his designs as the starting point for their own work. Thus, when he tried using them to rebel against Klaus, he was trying to fight state of the art Wulfenbach Battle Clanks with models that were thirty years out of date, and the obsolete models quickly lost.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Resents his former protege Klaus for annexing Beetleburg into the empire, despite the fact that the takeover was peaceful and he was allowed to remain in control of local affairs.
* TheWorfEffect: Klaus figures out his plot to use a [[PuppeteerParasite Hive Engine]] to strike against the empire and crushes it effortlessly well before it was ready to go, establishing just how smart and powerful the Baron truly is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Other]]
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The mysterious force of mysteriousness that almost conquered Europa before vanishing mysteriously. May be Agatha's mother.
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!!Tropes associated with The Other:
* AmbiguouslyHuman:
** Various flashbacks involving her show her inhabiting a large number of cyborg bodies, with some of her forms being mostly human-like while others are overtly mechanical in nature.
** In the novels' version of Lucrezia's first encounter with Zola, the copy in Agatha is incredibly blasé at the idea of killing herself to get rid of Agatha as so long as other copies of herself exist to continue her plan. The author notes that this behavior suggests that the original Lucrezia had either gone completely mad or was no longer human, or more likely both.
* AmbiguousSituation: It is left ''extremely'' ambiguous as to what, precisely, the Other is, what its relation is to Lucrezia Mongfish, and what its goals are.
** [[spoiler:There are hints that the Other might actually be a time displaced version of clank-form Lucrezia, who would become known as the Muse of Time/Enigma, and it was that version of her that attacked Castle Heterodyne and most of what has happened is due to a stable time loop in action. The very first hint of Time Muse Lucrezia being the Other was during the flashback of the Geisterdamen before they did the brain uploading of Lucrezia on Agatha. The Geisterdamen claim that they got direct orders from their goddess, and one of them is shown being choked by the Muse of Time's black clawed hand.]]
** As to the Lucrezia situation, the Other identifies herself as Lucrezia, acts like her, talks like her, uses her inventions albeit massively improved upon... but that still leaves the fact that ''someone'' broke into her secret lab when the Castle was attacked, and ''something'' murdered all her guards and burned all her notes.
** Not helping is a line in the novels from the Other's P.O.V. suggesting [[spoiler:whatever it is, it's not even human, since it remarks on the nature of the Girl Genius world like an outsider, rather than someone who lived there all her life.]]
** Eventually, it's [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181223 revealed]] beyond a doubt that [[spoiler: Lucrezia ''is'' the Other, and almost certainly is the Muse of Time to boot]]. However, even then, there are many ''many'' questions left unanswered: [[spoiler:what happened to Lucrezia, who Albia was actually rather fond of, to turn her into the "shattered" soul that tried to kill Albia and the other Queens]]? [[spoiler:When exactly did Lucrezia become the Other, and most importantly was it before or after her marriage to Bill and alleged HeelFaceTurn]]? [[spoiler:Why was she hunting the Queens in the first place]]? [[spoiler:Why and how did Lucrezia become a cyborg, and eventually the Muse of Time]]? And [[spoiler:how do the Geisters fit into place, seeing as they seemed to know her when she was still fully human, and after becoming the fully-robotic Muse of Time, but perhaps not in any of her many, many "techno-zombie" forms]]?
* BerserkButton:
** Calling it a fraud, as Zola discovers. When it happens, the Other threatens to turn her into an EmptyShell.
** Questioning her motivation makes her explode. When the Klaus overlay does it, she goes on a rant, and when Albia does it she rants at how the queen has no idea what she's been through.
* BigBad: The most dangerous entity in the entire series. Even Klaus didn't beat it--it stopped fighting before he came back.
* BodyHorror: The version of Lucrezia we see in Albia's flashback [[spoiler:has clearly been through the proverbial wringer. She's got a lot of cybernetic enhancements, possibly including her legs. And that's just the stuff we get to see. A later glimpse shows it got mangled even further after that.]]
* BrainUploading: The novels clarify that [[spoiler:this is in a sense what the Summoning Engines do. They don't "summon" anything, they just create an identical copy of the Other inside the mind of whoever they're used on.]]
* CivilizationDestroyer: The Other came very close to destroying all of Europa, and successfully destroyed the civilizations [[spoiler:of most of the ancient immortal god queens with only two queens and their lands and people known to have survived, though Zeetha is from a people whose civilization survived the destruction of their immortal queen.]]
* ClassicVillain: Lucrezia/The Other is practically selfish {{Pride}} given flesh, is constantly trying to decieve people, lacks any remorse, and seeks to dominate everyone. In terms of personality she's practically the opposite of Agatha -- in fact when [[spoiler:possessing our heroine]], the reason people can tell is because "Agatha" is acting unlike herself in every way.
* ColonyDrop: During the first go around, the Other's tactics went thus: Drop a lot of giant fiery rocks from orbit on the target and utterly ''destroy'' them, send [[PuppeteerParasite Hive Engines]] in similar shells built to withstand the impact, then let them activate, leaving no chance to resist the Slaver Wasps. The tactic proved so devastating it took Barry Heterodyne three whole years to figure out what was going on, because the attacks were so violent they left no evidence to examine.
* CompellingVoice: Most of the Other's creations (such as the Geisterdamen and revenants) are built to be unable to disobey a command if it's made in Lucrezia's voice.
* CreativeSterility: Gil notes that the Other hasn't rolled out any new technology in its war with him. [[spoiler:Later revelations outright state that harnessing the spark requires an organic body. It is very likely that the Lucrezia copy stuck in Anevka's clank body is the one at war with Gil, therefore limited in what it can do. In addition, the copy in Zola could be impacted by the fact that Zola isn't a Spark herself.]]
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Apparently, the reason why she could never achieve the second breakthrough despite knowing how it worked: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191021 you need a fully organic mind]] and it didn't have that until it possessed Agatha.
* DemonicPossession: Through the power of BrainUploading, the Other is able to possess people with a copy of her personality.
* DiabolusExNihilo: The Other just appeared out of nowhere one day, blew up Castle Heterodyne, and ran off into the night. Over the next three years, it wiped out damn near all the Great Houses with ruthless efficiency, with no warning, offer, threats or attempt at parley.
* DrivingQuestion: The Other's identity, motivations and objectives are arguably the biggest mysteries in the story.
* EnemyWithin: To [[spoiler:Agatha herself]] after the incident at Sturmhalten.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Even when she was trying to be "good", she showed a lack of comprehension, simply assuming there must be something to that strategy, because the heroic Heterodyne Brothers always won. The notion that parents must care for and look after their children is completely alien to Lucrezia. Lucrezia-In-Agatha [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150424 proposes Klaus-In-Gil]] to sacrifice their children for the sake of getting back together, and is legitimately shocked by [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150427 his explosion of fury]]. Much later, another Lucrezia's copy mocks Albia [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220805 for putting herself in danger to save her daughter Neena]].
* EvilIsNotAToy: Inverted. The SealedEvilInACan finds out that its unsealer is not a toy.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: She appears to have this mindset as the motivation for enslavement.
* FamilialBodySnatcher: The only successful instances of BrainUploading (bar the Anevka Clank) have been in Lucrezia's blood relatives, with it hinted there were many, many failures before the Geisterdamen found Agatha. The novels confirm the one in Aaronev's possession was both broken and designed only to work on Agatha.
* FatalFlaw: Ego. Lucrezia's got an inflated sense of self even by spark standards that make it far easier to manipulate someone as intelligent as her than it really should be. She was willing to risk outing herself in her disguise as the princess when her improvements to the healing engine hooked up to Klaus were being attributed to doctor Sun, and her ego wouldn't let anyone else claim credit for her work even when it was a bad idea to do so.
* FeetOfClay: There seems to be a faction of Geisterdamen (allied with a faction of the Knights of Jove) led by a "Loremistress Milvistle" who see The Other as a fraud.
* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:Even sealed away by Agatha's locket, the Other still pushes away at her mind. Toward the end, she started getting so strong even the locket was no longer effectual.]]
* TheFogOfAges: Several thousand years means the Other has forgotten some of the simple joys of life, like music or chocolate.
* FreakOut: A momentary response to realizing she forgot how much she loved chocolate as a human.
* GodhoodSeeker: Her ultimate end goal is to ascend to godhood and make everyone worship her (also, presumably, "show them all". And have all the chocolate.)
* GrandTheftMe: Does this at least to Agatha. Might have done this to Lucrezia. Or she did it to it. ''Really'' unclear.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Lucrezia / the Other regards the possibility of Barry Heterodyne's return with trepidation (meaning fear). Never mind that he hasn't been seen in over a decade. The very idea of TemptingFate and summoning him causes the Other to momentarily panic.
* IGaveMyWord: The novels reveal [[spoiler:the reason Slaver Wasps didn't affect Sparks the first time around was deliberate. The Other made an agreement with the Knights of Jove. Of course, in the Other's absence, ''other'' Sparks decided to tinker with the schematics...]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: On meeting Zeetha, the Other declares she knows better than to fight her.
* MeaningfulName: After a while, all the usual suspects for who could be destroying Europe were dead by its hand, meaning that all the devastation was caused by some ''other'' party.
* MesACrowd: [[spoiler:So far the Other has wound up in Agatha, a Clank designed to look like Anevka Sturmovarus, and Zola, with varying degrees of control over each. In the novels, Vrin mentions she had ''other'' bodies she visited the Geisterdamen in.]]
* MoodWhiplash: When the Other first makes an appearance she's all smiles and motherly comfort for her faithful Geisterdamen, who are weeping with joy at her return -- her mood changes swiftly once the Other realises things have gone to hell in her absence.
* OutsideContextProblem: Was this even to the God-Queens. The Other was [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181221 somehow able to subvert]] their network of [[MagicMirror magic mirrors]], wielded [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181219 weapons utterly beyond even their comprehension]], and effortlessly countered their own attacks.
* PaperThinDisguise: When it even bothers trying to be Agatha, the Other doesn't really put a lot of effort into it. Her nadir in this department comes when trying to convince Tarvek to assist her during a three-way fight with [[spoiler:Zola]]. Which is a bit odd, since the Lucrezia who Klaus knew was an excellent actress.
-->'''The Other:''' I AM THE AGATHA GIRL!\\
'''Tarvek:''' Yes, [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba and I'M the Queen of Skral!]]
* PsychopathicManchild: Lucrezia was a barely-restrained one. The Other has had [[spoiler:hundreds, if not thousands of years]] and has not gone through a single moment of emotional growth, still acting like a spoiled teenager on a rampage.
* ReligionOfEvil: Is the goddess of one.
* SatanicArchetype: She's pretty much a demon in all but name at this point (as [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190911 Albia points out]]), much with all her manipulating people and possessing bodies. She's even the force behind false idolatry (as Christians traditionally beleived demons were); Loremistress Milvistle too considered her [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210903 "some kind of Devil"]]. Besides, the role of the Other itself is more or less the role of an ultimate yet unseen enemy (much like the Devil).
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: As with all Sparks.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Beacon Engine, [[spoiler:Van Rijin's Hermitorium.]]
* SmugSuper: The Other, or Lucrezia, is very confident in itself / herself and its abilities. Klaus manages to figure out who they are when they're impersonating Agatha because only Lucrezia gloats like that.
* SpikesOfVillainy: On her return, the Clank Lucrezia has modified her body so it can suddenly be covered in lots of spikes, should anyone get too close.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Likes to refer to people as "dear" or "darling" even as she's trying to kill them. It helps to show when she's in the driver's seat and not Agatha, who never uses either word.
* TrappedInTheHost: Happened to her twice. First time, with Agatha, she got trapped by [[spoiler:Agatha's locket]] and remained trapped for most of the comic. Second time, she tried uploading herself to Zola, who [[spoiler:had her family prepare for this and Zola was able to get all Lucrezia's ''memories'' uploaded to her instead]].
* TheVirus: Uses Slaver Wasps for mind control.
* TimeAbyss: As of 2021 we finally get firsthand confirmation that the entity brain-downloaded by the summoning engines into various bodies is really [[spoiler:Lucrezia who has gone through hundreds if not thousand years. She speaks of five hundred years as if it was nothing, but she hints at other entities who would further scoff at that]].
* VirtualGhost: An explanation of her possessing is that what is overlayed over the victim is an artificial copy of her personality.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Clank Lucrezia wasn't seen from Sturmhalten until the Londinium arc: [[spoiler:She escaped the town and was keeping low key, amassing forces. Now she's back, trying to strike Albia, and more recently she has been attempting reactivating one of the mirrors the Queens used, with some success.]]
* WickedWasps: The Slaver Wasps are its most ubiquitous servants, make up the bulk of its armies, and are the main threat associated with it in-universe.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** The Other is (''apparently'') responsible for the attack on Castle Heterodyne that killed [[spoiler:Lucrezia's first child]]. And then there are all those missing Spark girls...
** It's very strongly implied that The Other [[spoiler:deliberately conceived Agatha as an escape clause in case anything happened to Lucrezia, and that Agatha was only saved by some effort on the part of Barry.]]

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Lucrezia Mongfish is from a long line of cheerily sociopathic Sparks, known specifically for their skill in biology, and is Agatha's mother. She was a long-time antagonist of the Heterodyne Boys before giving up her father's work and marrying Bill. She was apparently kidnapped when the Other attacked Castle Heterodyne and killed her infant son (signaling the start of the attacks), but returned twenty years later when her mind was downloaded into Agatha's brain. She seems to be the Other (an interpretation Klaus agrees with), but the situation remains unclear.
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!!Lucrezia Mongfish specific:

* AbusiveParents: She seemingly conceived Agatha specifically to use her as a spare body, as the Summoning Engine was specifically designed to place a copy of Lucrezia's mind within Agatha. Likewise, none of the Lucrezia copies have ever acknowledged Agatha as their daughter and see her as nothing more than a pawn or a hindrance.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:If she really was the Muse of Time like Albia claims, then she was captured and trapped alone in Van Rijn's secret lab for over 200 years. This would explain her various rants about suffering alone for a long time without anyone rescuing her and the Other's apparent hatred of Sparks.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:The version of her we see in a Albia-centered flashback is in the process of a gleeful murderous rampage.]]
* BadBoss:
** She regularly treated the Geisterdamen, who viewed her as a goddess, poorly when they [[YouHaveFailedMe failed her]]. After Barry rescued Agatha from them, she went on a murder spree where she killed off a sizable portion of the Geisterdamen population and forced thousands of them into exile into Europa to carry out her plans. Similarly, when Lady Vrin, her most staunch supporter, became a potential hindrance to her schemes, she ordered her to die without hesitation, causing her to asphyxiate.
** While as during her marriage with Bill, she regularly abused the Jägers and treated them like they were pets. The Jägers were forced to put up with it for the sake of their love stricken master.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Mongfishes really didn't get along. So far Lucrezia (or the Other) has met her niece and her nephew, and tried to kill both of them simply for being the children of her sisters. Though, that was because one of them, Serpentia (Theo's mother), left her for dead in an exploding lab... so Lucrezia says, several decades after the fact.
* BodySnatcher: Her area of expertise. She mastered the art of swapping people's minds and her greatest accomplishment was discovering how to switch organic minds with the artificial programming of clanks. After becoming the Other, she put these skills to use for herself, making a machine that forces her mind into others earning her the moniker "thief of souls" from Madame Von Pinn/Otilia.
* ControlFreak:
** Multiple people have stated that she loved to control people and manipulate them into doing her bidding. Her Slaver Wasps were created specifically so that no one infected by them could disobey orders given by her voice.
** After marrying Bill, she couldn't stand the idea of being constantly watched by Castle Heterodyne, so she moved her lab to the Castle's lowest levels and successfully transplanted the area's subsystem into the Muse of Protection, imprisoning it in her lab. This meant the Castle couldn't observe her actions in her lab and she could feel like she had obtained some measure of control over the construct.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Seems to be completely incapable of working with anyone without turning on them. Her response to a genuine offer of assistance is to plan to vivisect the girl who offers (though the girl in question manages to outwit her quite thoroughly).
* ChronicVillainy: Another theory about how/why she became the Other. She claimed to be pulling a HeelFaceTurn in marrying Bill, but just a few years later, well... the Castle was destroyed, she disappeared, and the Other started ravaging Europa.
* DamselInDistress: Claims to have been this when "all went wrong" and that no one, not her husband or father or Klaus, came to save her, and indicates this has something to do with why she's gone so far off the deep end. However, her words also imply that whatever happened to her was the result of her own actions and, depending on how you interpret them, started with her trying to TakeOverTheWorld.
* DatingCatwoman: Why someone as incorruptibly good as Bill Heterodyne would be compelled to marry someone as insidious as Lucrezia Mongfish can only be attributed to this trope. She also had a former attraction to Klaus that she tries to play on in the present day.
* DemonicPossession: Yet another theory regarding her relationship with the Other. Getting the feeling there are a lot of theories?
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Lu/Agatha had managed to [[spoiler:break past Agatha's locket and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190809 take over her body]]]] in England, using this as a chance to sabatoge the exorcism machine. The only reason this plan didn't work is because she decided to brag about it to Agatha's friends ''while she was doing it.'' Had Lucrezia not been such a [[{{Pride}} tremendous show-off]], she might have actually won.
* DirtyOldWoman: She flirted with Tarvek, Lars and Martellus in Agatha's body despite being technically old enough to be their mother [[spoiler:and potentially old enough to be their ''ancestor'' if one factors the time travel aspects she allegedly has.]] In the novels, which show off her P.O.V., she's definitely planning on going a little further than just ''flirting''.
* DirtyCoward: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100730 According to Von Pinn]], Lucrezia always was a "coward at heart."
* DracoInLeatherPants: In-universe, with the Heterodyne Boys plays and their depiction of Lucrezia. She's a vain, petty, melodramatic cowardly, maniacal villain... and utterly adored by the audiences. Right up until the third act when she invariably falls in love with Bill, at which point they lose interest in her. Funnily enough, her outfit in the notoriously saucy "Socket Wench of Prague" is noted to be leather...
* EnlightenedAntagonist: [[spoiler:When the copy of her possessing Agatha achieves second breakthrough and possibly more, Tarvek desperately hopes that achieving enlightenment will cause her to realize that her evil schemes will not make her happy. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.]]
* EnlightenmentSuperpowers:
** [[spoiler:The copy of her possessing Agatha manages to grow her spark into a flame, achieving second breakthrough and more. Unlike the previous people to achieve it, she manages to do so without even requiring an external dimensional energy source.]]
** [[spoiler: The copy of her in the Anevka clank also manages to achieve second breakthrough, despite using a non-sparky mechanical brain, somehow mentally controlling the surrounding dimensional energy.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The novels imply that, as evil as she is, she still loves Bill. When she mentions Bill to Zola, she actually starts to cry.
* EvenBadWomenLoveTheirMamas: Strangely, even after turning good, Lucrezia still seems to be fond of her father. Or least thinks more favourably about him than she does her sisters.
* EvilMatriarch: Safe to say, planning to have your daughter RaisedAsAHost is pretty horrible parenting, as is repeatedly trying to kill said daughter for not wanting to host your mind.
* FaceHeelTurn: Lucrezia [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150424 eventually]] claims to 'Klaus' that hers was a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal (or at least she perceives it as one). Note the wording of her ranting. There's two distinct ways it can be interpreted -- the first being the obvious one that her evil plan as the Other went horribly wrong, leaving her 'stranded' somehow, or her definition of "winning" was finally living a happy family life with Bill, only to get kidnapped, her son murdered, and forced into being the Other. Which is the case is left unclear.
* FirstNameBasis: Almost everyone refers to her as "the Lady Lucrezia" when they're being formal. {{Justified|Trope}} as she dropped her maiden name "Mongfish," and calling her by her married name as "Lady Heterodyne" might cause confusion with her daughter.
* GigglingVillain: Befitting someone with her childish personality, she's mentioned as giggling a lot.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: And that's her [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100224 nephew]].
* HateSink: Lucrezia has yet to be presented with any kind of positive or endearing traits. So far, she's just a cruel, abusive, manipulative monster.
* TheHeavy: Of Volumes 2-7 (20) through 2-10 (23). Despite being the NonActionBigBad of much of the comic, the England and Rat Island arcs have her -- specifically her Clank/[[spoiler:Anevka]] form -- play a more direct antagonistic role as the heroes try to take back Prendee's Lantern from her.
* HeelFaceTurn: Before the series started, she tried to turn good when she agreed to marry Bill Heterodyne, and even drugged Klaus and sent him away so he wouldn't be a distraction. This is one of the most confusing parts of her character, since if she really never had any interest in redemption, she would have just killed Klaus.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The Heterodyne stories portray her as the cranky but kind daughter of a comically evil villain. Even before becoming the Other, there's no hint that Lucrezia was anything other than a nasty piece of work, even after marrying Bill and supposedly turning over a new leaf.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Offers to "ride along" in Zola's head so she can leave Agatha to die, especially since Agatha's brooch supresses her. Turns out, Zola can control and supress her ''even without external mechanisms'' which means that unless Zola is unconscious, Lucretia can't do anything with that body while Zola gains all her knowledge.
* InformedAbility:
** In-universe. Klaus often described Lucrezia as incredibly strong and brilliant as a Spark, which confuses Gil since [[spoiler:during his new war against her he's seen her try nothing new of her own. All of the Other-tech is the same as what the Heterodynes fought or made by one of her followers. This turns out to be because he's actually fighting Zola, who has access to all of Lucrezia's old knowledge thanks to hijacking one of her copies but is not herself a Spark.]]
** Similarly, Klaus believes her to be devious, cunning, and an excellent faker. Based on what we've seen of her/the Other in the comic, the former two are not debatable, the latter most certainly is.
* IShallTauntYou: She tries to provoke Queen Albia into killing her current host before she can question her by taunting the queen about what she did to her sister queens. Queen Albia admits that it almost worked.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She's trapped in this mindset. Decades after she drugged Klaus and exiled him, damaged Castle Heterodyne and possibly murdered her own son, killed countless Sparks and others across Europa, not to mention mind-controlling any survivors, she returns to steal her daughter's body... and then has the gall to claim she's the injured party, since she didn't win and no one came to rescue her from her own mistakes.
* {{Jerkass}}: The Jägers didn't like her because she treated them, and everyone else, like property. Given some of the characters they served through the centuries, that's saying ''a lot''.
* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When Agatha and Carson [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070810 discuss]] the death of Lucrezia's first son when the Other attacked Castle Heterodyne, Agatha initially disbelieves that Lucrezia would cause her own son's death.
-->'''Agatha:''' But that makes ''no sense!'' Not if the Other was--\\
''[[ExplainExplainOhCrap No.]]''
* LastGirlWins: ''Technically''. She was definitely the woman Bill married, after several other romances. It just didn't last too long.
* LoveRedeems: She tried to invoke this by marrying Bill Heterodyne. It apparently didn't work so well, since she (maybe) became the Other and started one of the most destructive wars in recent history.
* MadScientist: Well, ''duh,'' she's a [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder Spark]], but Lucrezia is more of a "classic" Mad Scientist in contrast with the heroic Sparks, who are more {{Reluctant Mad Scientist}}s. The prologue to ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheSiegeOfMechanicsburg'' has her work with BrainUploading much to the chargin of her test subjects, Otilia and Castle Heterodyne.
-->'''Otilia/Von Pinn:''' "''[[ThisIsUnforgivable That which you have done here is blasphemy!]]''"\\
'''Lucrezia:''' "[[InsultBackfire Oh, I know!]] It's so ''exiting''! I'm positively giddy!"
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Who is herself a MadScientist. Who has a beautiful daughter. Who is a MadScientist. Oy.
* MasterActress:
** Klaus says she is, but this comes off as an InformedAbility since she likes to gloat and is so different from the person she's impersonating. Although maybe if she knew ''anything at all'' about the girl she is pretending to be, she'd do better. And, as already noted, it's not at all certain that the Lucrezia that Klaus knew is the same one now attempting the impersonation.
** The version of her possessing the former body of Anevka, on the other hand, is much more successful at pretending to be a sad, worried princess and conning people into underestimating her in her few scenes, allowing her to scene with the version inside of Zola while Zola is unconscious and sneak in to knock out Klaus.
* MissingMom: And Agatha would have been much better off if she had '''stayed''' missing.
--> '''Lucrezia:''' Daughter! Wait! Let me '''STAY'''! I can '''TEACH YOU'''!\\
'''Agatha:''' You've taught me '''PLENTY''', mother -- AND I'M '''''NOT VERY HAPPY''''' ABOUT THAT!
* MysteriousPast: Even without the mystery of what happened that night in the lab, she clearly knew about Skifander, since it's where she dumped Klaus, and was interacting with the Geisterdamen for years before she married Bill, via the same sort of gate found in the Red Cathedral...
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Replace her last name with Borgia, and you very much have a real-world counterpart. Yikes.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Lucrezia went missing before the Other attacked the Heterodynes. While her mind might have come back, her body sure hasn't.
* NoblewomansLaugh: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100219 One]] of her somewhat-[[LargeHam hammy]] moments.
* NonActionBigBad: Most Sparks in this series are dangerous fighters. Lucrezia isn't, and when she's forced into combat, she's quickly overpowered (especially given that her opponents usually ''are'' master fighters, such as Tarvek and Zola). Although [[spoiler:we've now seen an older time-traveling(?) cyborg version of her gleefully blasting Albia's fellow god-queens and the version of her in Agatha is a master swordswoman.]]
* OffingTheOffspring:
** Her first child with Bill, Klaus Barry, was killed in the attack on Castle Heterodyne, and it's ''strongly'' implied that this was deliberate on her part. Even Agatha, having already seen how evil she can be, had some trouble with that idea. It is also of note that in all the time she's been around, never once has Lucrezia or the Other even mentioned her son in any capacity.
** Later, when she discusses plans with Zola, she openly states that she considers Agatha, ''her own daughter'', a liability, as her ability to control her own brain is gradually winning out over Lucrezia's, to the point where Agatha is even pulling things out of Lucrezia's mind. Lucrezia originally planned to kill Agatha and ride along with Zola instead, but that turned out not to be practical.
* PaperTiger: Lucrezia is a sadist who loves to torment and dominate everyone around her, but she's also a coward at heart with a low tolerance for pain.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: To Klaus. A {{ZigZagg|ingTrope}}ed case in that ''Lucrezia'' was the one who dumped ''Klaus'' and not vice versa. Though she does seem to want to get back together with him, on the condition that the Baron [[spoiler:is infected with one of her slaver wasps]].
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Even by the already low standards of most Sparks, a lot of Lucrezia's actions suggest an amazingly childish personality, even though she's a grown woman.
--> ''[[{{Squee}} EEEEEEE!]] We're going to win!'' ([[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060920 Vol. 6 p. 80]])
* ReallyGetsAround: If the way everyone talks about her (when not in the context of the Other) is anything to go by. We know she had a fling with Klaus before marrying William, and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160525 according to Violetta]] she was "hot stuff" with the Knights of Jove.
* ShowingOffTheNewBody: Close to a nanosecond after seeing a mirror, Lucrezia-in-Agatha takes off her dress and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060208 checks herself out]]. It even provides the page pic. The novelizations take it a step further and have Lucrezia nude in this scene.
* TermsOfEndangerment: She does this to a lot of people, but does it to Klaus especially often.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Klaus notes that the Other's work superficially resembles Lucrezia's designs, but improved beyond anything he ever saw.
** The first time Lucrezia fights Zeetha and Violetta, she has no skill in combat and is only able to keep up with them due to the post revival rush making her UnskilledButStrong. By next time they fight, her combat skill has surpassed Violetta's.
* {{Tsundere}}: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100219 Kind of]].
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She's only really worried about the Heterodynes, the Wulfenbachs, and Albia, since they're the only ones strong enough to oppose her. Everyone else is just a distraction. [[spoiler:She really should have been paying more attention to Tarvek, who put a KillSwitch in the clank that a copy of her was hiding in, and Martellus, who engineered a biological RestrainingBolt in Agatha's body that Lucrezia forgot about. Failing to notice these ultimately gets her exorcised after her second breakthrough in Albia.]]
* TheVamp: She flirts more than fights, as Zola says.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Certainly one of the reasons she married Bill.
--> '''Lucrezia:''' Besides, they always win. There must be ''something'' to their philosophy.
* VillainousBreakdown: According to Queen Albia, she is used to believing that she cannot be stopped, so a big enough setback is liable to shake her up.
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:When the version of her in Agatha's head is ''finally'' being driven out, she begs Agatha to let her stay, saying there's still stuff she can teach her, and even calling her 'daughter' in an extremely rare moment. Agatha, naturally, is having none of it.]]
* VoicesAreNotMental: {{Implied|Trope}} (as comics and novels can't ''fully'' show sound). Lucrezia made a point of having a daughter to pull GrandTheftMe on so that her new body would have her CompellingVoice to use on her servants.
* WeakButSkilled: Lucrezia is a master swordswoman, but the copies in Agatha and Anevka's robot body are unable to use those skills to the fullest as Agatha is barely trained as a fighter and Anevka's body is still subject to Tarvek's commands.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It hasn't been revealed what happened to Lucrezia, the ''real'' Lucrezia, after she disappeared during the Other War. All three versions we have tabs on in the present, posessing Zola, Agatha, and Anevka's robotic body, are copies of her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vole]]
!!Captain Vole, Dishonorably Discharged Jäger
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[[caption-width-right:200:IT VILL BE '''GLORIOUS!!!''']]

The only Jägermonster ever to be kicked out from the Jägers. He bears a strong grudge against the House of Heterodyne over this, and is eager to kill Agatha as soon as he discovers that she's a real Heterodyne.
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Seems to have experienced this [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160831 during]] his RapidAging. He describes it at feeling like he was stuck for hundreds of years fighting. ''Bad'' fighting, as in slowed down, where the blows came and he couldn't stop them, nor stop trying to futilely swing back, as if fighting in a nightmare which he couldn't wake up for centuries on end. After experiencing that, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he himself states he doesn't want to fight anymore]], and his BloodKnight tendencies seem to have been obliterated entirely]].
* AxCrazy: "Ve vill burn Europa to the ground and und gnaw her bonez!" -- [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110722 his words]].
* BerserkButton: Vole renounced the Jäger, but still takes attempts to steal or damage his hat very, very seriously.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: With white pupils. Maybe. It's hard to tell if they're pupils or reflections; there are panels that make good arguments for each.
* BloodKnight:
** So much so that even the Jägers kicked him out for it. See UndyingLoyalty below.
** He undergoes a condensed {{Deconstruction}} of it though [[spoiler:while trapped in the time stasis. He describes the process of being unstuck and liberated as if being trapped in a cycle of non-stop fighting for centuries, unable to stop hitting or being hit. The ordeal wears down his blood lust to nothing and he's left with an odd-like calm as he reflects how horrible it felt.]]
* CombatPragmatist: A particularly clever version. He takes advantage of people [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110729 talking when they should fight]] and baits people to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110803 take advantage of their psychological weaknesses]].
* GrievousHarmWithABody:
** In the first two panels he appears in, he rips a man's arm off to prevent his hand from releasing a dead man's switch. It pretty much sets the tone for the character.
** He does this with [[spoiler:Gil against Tarvek]] when subverting TalkingIsAFreeAction.
* HiddenDepths: Much like Da Boyz above, he's much smarter than he looks and displays dangerous cunning. He's also capable of [[spoiler:stealing his gun back from the ImpossibleThief in the party]].
* LargeHam: When he wants to, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120224 Vole really can ham it up]].
* LiteralMinded: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080528 The result]] of Gil [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080307 ordering him to bring an enemy commander to Dr. Sun for interrogation]] certainly portrays him this way.
* NoTrueScotsman: Vole believes he's the only Jägermonster who remembers what the "monster" part stood for. Conversely, because of his crimes, the rest of the Jägerkin do not regard him as one of theirs.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Jägers become StrongerWithAge until they turn into Generals, and Vole [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140801 aged hundreds of years after being pulled out of the time field...]] Subverted in that even though he's become much stronger due to the effects of the artificial aging, much of his original BloodKnight tendencies have faded away. Thus, in many ways, he's actually ''less'' dangerous in his new form than he was before, in that he won't murder you just for the fun of it.]]
* TheOathBreaker: One of the only references we've had to the Jägertroth is the fact that Vole renounced it.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: He accompanies Higgs as the latter individual goes chasing after Zeetha and Agatha. Higgs finally turns up in England with no sign of Vole.]]
* SharpDressedMan: Vole's immaculate uniform stands out against his BloodKnight nature. In his case, it's a hobby he picked up to cope with the boredom of functional immortality. It's also why he gets so furious when Agatha throws coffee on him.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Tried to kill Bill and Barry because they were soft. Wanted a new pack of crueler, meaner, more psychotic Jägers to burn down Europa with. After [[spoiler: the ordeal with the time stasis? Not so much.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:'''Deliberately promoted to the role''' by Gil, who ''wants'' a superstrong lackey who'll constantly try to kill him, because that will emphasize to everyone else how dangerously crazy Gil is. Vole was actually a bit afraid of the notion, wondering if he could just be killed instead]].
* SuperSoldier: Has the full [[SuperSerum Jägerdraught]] package of AmazingTechnicolorPopulation ([[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Pale, bluish-white skin]] and BlackEyesOfEvil), CuteLittleFangs, FunetikAksent, MadeOfIron, TheNoseKnows, OlderThanHeLooks ([[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111007 close to 200 years]]), ProudWarriorRaceGuy, and SuperStrength.
* TakeALevelInBadass: See OneWingedAngel above.
* TestedOnHumans: Played with. Any attempt to extract lifeforms from the time stasis field around Mechanicsburg results in rapid aging and death to the extractee. The Wulfenbach scientists on site have tried this repeatedly on birds and rodents, and cannot collect enough readings to analyze for any possible counteraction before the subject dies of rapid aging. Gil decides to extract Vole, since he is a Jäger and is capable of extremely long life. Gil also reasons that he'd rather not do it on an innocent person, and Vole is [[PayEvilUntoEvil far from innocent]]. The extraction process gave the scientists all the data they needed on how to extract people without causing runaway aging.
* TookALevelInKindness: See OneWingedAngel above, subversion part.
* UndyingLoyalty: Averted. Vole was kicked out of the Jägers [[spoiler:for trying to kill Bill and Barry for not being the bloodthirsty monsters the rest of the family was]]. He serves Baron Wulfenbach willingly [[spoiler:as TheMole for Professor Tiktoffen, and he's not even all that broken up when he finds out he's dead too]].
* TheUnfettered: Devoted to being the biggest, nastiest, monster he can be and cause as much havoc as possible. However, it's [[DeconstructedTrope somewhat deconstructed]] when he is [[spoiler: recovered from being timelocked. He spent what felt like centuries in an unending nightmare of constant fighting, unable to stop fighting or the blows coming to him. In layman's terms, he experienced what it'd be like to be such a monster fighting other monsters for centuries, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor what his endgoal was.]] Upon reflection at how ''horrible'' the entire process felt, he realizes he doesn't have much desire to really fight anymore. Though Higgs implied that this newfound perspective makes him one of the candidates to be a Jäger General.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Outside of ripping some poor nobody's arm off, he tends to get beat up a lot. Even Othar gets to take a shot at him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zola "Heterodyne"]]
!!Zola "La Sirene Dorée," AKA Zola "Heterodyne", AKA Zola Anya Talinka Venia Zeblinkya Malfeazium[[spoiler:, AKA The Queen of the Dawn]]
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Once everyone had heard there was a Heterodyne girl running around, she stepped in (along with a conspiracy) to provide one. Agatha was... not happy about that.
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* AssShove: [[spoiler:Lucrezia]] notes (after knocking her out, restraining her, and presumably [[{{Squick}} searching her]]) that some of her equipment was "in rather ''uncomfortable places'', I'd imagine".
* BadassNormal: Lacks the Spark, but she's still a fully-trained Smoke Knight carrying enough weaponry under that pink camisole to arm a small nation. After getting dosed up on [[PsychoSerum Movit #11]], she's an even match for ''[[ImplacableMan Higgs]]'' in a one-on-one fight.
* BadToTheLastDrop: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110124 according to Gil]] she either poisons it or is just bad at making it.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: ''Averted''. After taking the Movit 11, her physical appearance goes ''steeply'' downhill.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Seems to be the cause of her [[MadLove attraction]] to Gil.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: She's the daughter of Demonica Mongfish, one of Lucrezia's sisters, meaning she's also Agatha's cousin, but that hasn't stopped her from trying to kill her multiple times.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Even though the first impression of her is a harmless, gullible [[spoiler: figurehead for the Storm King conspiracy]], she starts fighting, no holds barred, when Agatha and her team throw a spanner in the works.
* BoobsOfSteel: She's ''stacked''. She's also a better fighter than either the Other or Violetta. [[spoiler: After downing a PsychoSerum, she ''punches Zeetha in the face'' and then ''stabs her in the gut with her own sword'']].
* CassandraTruth: For once, is telling the complete truth to Lucrezia [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100705 on this page]]. Lucrezia learns this [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100712 to her own chagrin]].
* TheChessmaster: Over the course of events, proven to be the genuine article.
* DarkActionGirl: A fully trained Smoke Knight and the main rival to Agatha in the castle.
* DeadlyUpgrade: Via a PsychoSerum.
* DistressedDamsel: Back in Paris, she was a kidnapping victim almost professionally.
* DumbBlonde: Subverted due to ObfuscatingStupidity. Gil and Tarvek eventually conclude that Zola, as the fake Heterodyne that was groomed by the Knights of Jove for years, is probably a lot more dangerous than she lets on, and a later confrontation proves them entirely right.
* {{Determinator}}: Manages to survive a Movit 11 overdose and briefly kills the Castle itself, and to add, by that point 70% of the bones in her body are likely non-functional, she's running on fumes and has a murderous Higgs hot on her heels, and she ''still'' escapes.
* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Whatever the Other's deal is, Zola managed to sucker it and snatch some of its secrets.
* EvilCounterpart: She is one to her cousin, Agatha.
** Agatha spent most of her life unaware that she was a Heterodyne and still isn't quite comfortable with all the attention she's given. Zola was molded by the Order to be their fake Heterodyne and she loves making big, flashy scenes and being the center of attention.
** They both spent their youths looking less competent than they truly were. Agatha's Spark was suppressed by the locket, making her seem much less intelligent than she actually was while Zola was ObfuscatingStupidity when she was studying in Paris to keep her cover. Likewise, Agatha manages to subvert people's expectations of her as a Spark and a Heterodyne by being kind and mostly in control of herself while Zola, who isn't a Spark and was originally thought to just be a pawn of the Order, manages to be more violent, crazy and ambitious than most Sparks.
** Agatha doesn't like making people do things they don't want to do or forcing them into dangerous situations while Zola has no problem with using violence and mind control to make people do what she wants.
** Both Agatha and Zola are interested in Gil romantically, but for Zola it was a case of both their fake cover identities interacting while in Paris (and the 'real' Zola may not even care for him all that much) while Agatha has only ever known him in his true identity. Gil on his side sees Agatha as an equal and is in love with her because of it, while he always saw Zola's fake identity as a DistressedDamsel he constantly had to rescue and never anything else. By the time he realizes how competent Zola really is he's thoroughly repelled by her.
** Agatha had the Other forced into her mind and she constantly fighting to keep it from taking over. Zola willingly allowed the Other into her mind and she has the training and conditioning to control it and use it for her own benefit.
** She is also one for Violetta. Both are Smoke Knights who have agendas that don't fit The Order's. Violetta doesn't really want to be part of it while Zola wants to manipulate it.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Is on the receiving end of this trope ''twice'''.
* FakeUltimateHero: Was set up as a fake Heterodyne, with the ultimate idea of her backers being that she would just ''happen'' to run into their chosen Storm King, and by the time anyone might've figured out what was going on...
* FauxAffablyEvil: When in Mechanicsburg, manages to do a pretty good job [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070504 of playing the "kind princess in waiting."]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: She sure bears a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090408 strong familial resemblance to Lucrezia in that portrait]], doesn't she?
* GigglingVillain: Her evil banter gets odder over the Castle arc. And she [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110107 gets giddier]] as things continue.
* GrapplingHookPistol: Standard Smoke Knight equipment.
* HateSink: When we first meet her she's a false heir with an annoying personality -- right off the bat not a good look. As time goes on, however, she crosses the line from a nuisance to a psycho who wants to murder Agatha.
* TheHeavy: For Volumes VII through XI, she's the one providing the most direct opposition to Agatha and friends in Castle Heterodyne. Klaus is hospitalized and the Other is trapped thanks to [[spoiler:the locket]], so it's Zola that's doing most of the fighting for the Castle arc.
* HeroKiller: Zola has become this. To date she has critically wounded [[spoiler:Zeetha, Higgs, and Agatha]].
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Exactly what she's doing as [[spoiler:the Queen of the Dawn]] is unclear. Her appearance in Paris was part of some kind of plan, but the situation was already out of control before she got there and she never got the chance to do any scheming. It seemed the basic idea was that she would perform at the opera house and the staff would wasp the crowd, giving her more control over Paris. It fails because the Library attacks the Opera House when they get wind of the plot and [[spoiler:the new Master of Paris is more closely connected with the city than her father was, making such a move suicidal. She also uses the opportunity to purge her ranks of the Geisters who are loyal to the Other first and foremost.]]
* LethalChef: "Well, ''I'' always thought she just couldn't make coffee. [[ObfuscatingStupidity Now, I'm not so sure]]."
* TheLoad: Apparently fulfilled this role in all of Gil's adventures with her in Paris, and when nabbed by Agatha she slipped into it again.
* LongLostRelative: "Hello [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100625 auntie]]." To more aptly explain the family tree: [[spoiler: Her mother was Demonica, Lucrezia's sister. Their other sister, Serpentina, was Theo's mother. So Zola, Agatha, and Theo are all first cousins on their mothers' side. ]]
* MadeOfIron: When she [[spoiler: takes the PsychoSerum, she becomes so strong that it takes ''several'' NoHoldsBarredBeatdown[=s=] to make her flee.]]
* MadLove: Towards Gil, very much. Also later towards Tarvek, but [[PsychoSerum her sanity's slipping at the time]], so there's a chance she still thought he was Gil.
* MasterActress: Oh yes. Also involves the second part of the trope, where the audience thinks she might actually have {{Split Personalit|y}}ies. Of course, in this case, that's not so far-fetched.
* MeaningfulName: Twofold: depending on grammar of the phrase and context in Slavic languages "Zola" can mean either "cinder" or an alternative form of the root "-zlo-" -- "evil"[[note]]There's a Russian parody that exploits the pun[[/note]]. And she tries to be the evil Cinderella of this story, going from RagsToRiches with all these nefarious plans.
* {{Motormouth}}: After a double-dose of Movit 11.
* MuggleBornOfMages: Unlike her cousins Agatha and Theo, at least one Aunt (Lucrezia), and her grandfather in the Mongfish family, Zola is not a Spark. [[spoiler:This may be why the forces of the Other allied with the Queen of the Dawn have not really exhibited any breakthrough in Slaver Wasp technology, as observed by the Wulfenbach forces. Zola may have a captive essentia of Lucrezia in her head, but she herself is not a Spark.]]
* {{Mundanger}}: Zola doesn't have the Spark, nor is she a construct, but she ''is'' a well-trained [[spoiler:Smoke Knight]] who came ''very close'' to killing the protagonists.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Her real last name is [[spoiler:Malfeazium. And her mother was Demonica]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Zola is on the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110117 receiving end of one]] after a three way brawl between her, Agatha and Tarvek. After she [[spoiler: stabs Agatha with a brooch pin, Tarvek (who is EXTREMELY cross about the various misfortunes up to this point and possibly losing Agatha too)]] delivers one to Zola, releasing a world of hurt directly into her face before trying to throttle her. Only [[spoiler: Gil's misguided interference]] saves her life.
* ObfuscatingStupidity:
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090406 This is how it's done]].
** Judging from Gil and Tarvek's reactions, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091014 she's an absolute mistress of the technique]].
** [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100623 She's a Smoke Knight, and no one ever suspected]]]].
** She even manages to trick [[spoiler:''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100712 Lucrezia]]]]''.
** It's at least implied that she even managed this on her ''allies'', who ''knew she was doing it to others'', with the Knights of Jove seeing her as someone competently evil, but ultimately easy to manipulate.
* OnlyFriend: She invoked it.
* OverlyLongName: Her full name is [[spoiler:Zola Anya Talinka Venia Zeblinkya [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Malfeazium]]]].
* ThePowerOfHate: She attributes her MadeOfIron tendencies to this. And drugs. Lovely, lovely drugs.
* PrincessesPreferPink: An InvokedTrope as part of her role as a fake Heterodyne. Even her ''death ray'' is pink. Even the ''death beam'' is pink.
* PsychoPink: Her PrincessesPreferPink asthetic turns into this trope as she gets high on [[PsychoSerum Movit 11]] and gets a bit of [[spoiler:the Other]] in her brain.
* PutOnABus: Dropped out of sight for a long time following events in Mechanicsburg, then finally resurfaced [[spoiler: playing the part of "The Queen of the Dawn."]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Has a bit of a habit provoking them in the Castle arc. [[spoiler:Lucrezia]] would like to "thank" her for that, [[spoiler:Higgs]] delivered a beating on the spot, and [[spoiler:Tarvek]] intended -- perhaps still intends -- to strangle her to death with his bare hands.
* ShoutOut: One of the times Gil had to rescue her it was from a [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera crazy man in an opera house]]. Apparently it was also one of the few times it ''wasn't'' her fault she was in trouble.
* SigilSpam: Covered head to toe in Heterodyne trilobite symbols, overselling her Heterodyne "heritage".
* SlasherSmile:
** When [[spoiler:the Castle dies]], she has a frighteningly Sparky look of triumphant glee on her face. Also [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100714 here]].
** Post-Movit Zola has these pretty often.
* TheStarscream: For both The Order's fake Hetrodyne plan and Lucrezia.
* SweaterGirl: Once she gets inside The Castle.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: The last we've seen of her to date, her plans to take over Paris have failed and she's fallen into the clutches of Tarvek's Grandmother.]]
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Seemingly cannot resist letting people know she has beaten them.
* UnstoppableRage[=/=]ThePowerOfHate: Claims this is what's sustaining her after suffering some truly grievous injuries.
-->'''Tarvek:''' How are you even still moving?\\
'''Zola:''' HATE! Hate and [[PsychoSerum drugs]]! Lovely, lovely drugs! I'm a beautiful, chemical, killing machine!
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Post-timeskip [[spoiler:she's now known as the Queen of the Dawn and has a reputation for being a peacemaker. However, Gil and Tarvek suspect (without knowing the Queen's true identity) that she's been using slaver wasps and it's unlikely that Zola's ambition has faded over time.]]
* XanatosSpeedChess: She is "''very good'' at improvising when things go wrong."
* {{Yandere}}: Is one towards Tarvek, if [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110103 her plan for him]] is of any indication.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Agatha is genuinely distraught when Beetle is killed, enough so to trigger her [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder breakthough]].