History Characters / GirlGeniusAntagonists

* 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.]]

* RobotGirl: [[spoiler:More so than she appeared.]]

* EntertaininglyWrong: He 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.]]

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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.

* 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.]]

* 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 the 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.

* MadScientist: Well, ''duh,'' she's a [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder Spark]], but Lucrezia is more of a "classic" Mad Scientist in contrast with the 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.

* DirtyCoward: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100730 According to Von Pinn]].

* EvilMatriarch: Safe to say, planning to have your daughter RaisedAsAHost is pretty horrible parenting, as is repeatedly trying to kill said daughter.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: She's the daughter of Demonica Mongfish, meaning she's also Agatha's cousin.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Wulfenbach has ''wolf'' in it.

[[folder:Zola Dorée]]
!!Zola La Sirene Dorée, AKA Zola "Heterodyne", AKA Zola Anya Talinka Venia Zeblinkya Malfeazium[[spoiler:, AKA The Queen of the Dawn]]

** 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, if you look at the speech bubbles in [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040922 the scene]] where he's about to shoot Agatha, you'll notice that he's in the Madness Place (the Sparky state of hyperfocus) - in other words, his crusade to kill all Sparks is just ''his own'' Sparky mad science experiment. Also, a footnote in the second novel mentions that many Sparks actually see Othar's quest as a sort of experiment.

* HunterOfHisOwnKind: He's a mad scientist, although his particular focus seems to be more in sabotaging the devices of others rather than building any of his own.

* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Othar apparently has "special trousers" 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.

* 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.

* PsychoForHire: Herr Baron understands that sometimes you need butchers. In one of the novelizations he also mentally commends her as an "ever-reliable public voice of unreason."

* 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.

* UniformityException: Lady Vrin dresses in a purple gown, instead of the light blow bodice and loincloth that most Geisters wear.

* ProfessionalMaidenName: {{Implied|Trope}} to be {{ZigZagg|ingTrope}}ed, insofar as you consider "demonic cyborg-goddess" a profession. There are [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050511 a]] [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071010 few]] [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100405 times]] that Agatha calls her "Lucrezia ''Heterodyne''", implying she dropped her maiden name after marrying William, but 2/3 of the only times Agatha does this is when introducing herself to Castle Heterodyne. Meanwhile Agatha usually refers to her as "Lucrezia ''Mongfish''" when [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060602 naming]] [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140312 her parents]], as do the [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051207 Geisters]]. Pretty much nobody calls her by her married name.

* 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. ]]

* SecretKeeper: He knew Barry had returned to Beetleburg with Agatha, and knew who she, Lilith and Adam were.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: He's plenty effective, provided he isn't going up against uber badasses like Gil, Klaus or Agatha.

** He acts like such an idiot all the time 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 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'''.]]

** 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 that 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.]]

* 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 have both of them lose 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" 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.

* 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).