History Characters / GirlGeniusAssorted

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:She only wanted the help of Franz's group to get herself past a door designed for dragons. After that, she considers them boring, in the way, and competition for the treasure. She isn't terribly fond of her students either. Thus, her minion, Hector, betrays them and gives her control over one of the traps to help her kill them all.]]

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:She was searching for an AmplifierArtifact called the Iram Solis, which magnifies any flame passed through it. Franz kills her with it when she betrays the rest of the team.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:She only wanted the help of Franz's group to get herself past a door designed for dragons. After that, she considers them boring, in the way, and competition for the treasure. She isn't terribly fond of her students either. Thus, her minion, Hector, betrays them and gives her control over one of the traps to help her kill them all. Franz proceeds to incinerate her with his fire breath and the very artifact she was trying to obtain for her betrayal.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:She only wanted the help of Franz's group to get herself past a door designed for dragons. After that, she considers them boring, in the way, and competition for the treasure. She isn't terribly fond of her students either. Thus, her minion, Hector, betrays them and gives her control over one of the traps to help her kill them all.]]

* SadistTeacher: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230213 Shoots]] one of her students for getting a question wrong, then immediately backpedals when she realizes that the material wasn't covered in their lessons. Previously taught Agatha and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230303 gleefully claims she flunked her]] (though Agatha was still wearing the power-limiting locket and hadn't broken through at the time). [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230329 Declares]] her entire class failed the midterms when Franz's drunken dancing interrupts her.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:She only wanted the help of Franz's group to get herself past a door designed for dragons. After that, she considers them boring, in the way, and competition for the treasure. Thus, her minion, Hector, betrays them and gives her control over one of the traps to help her kill them all.]]

* 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.

* HunterOfMonsters: Franz adds "notorious monster hunter, specializing in dragons" to her titles. Apparently from a family of monster hunters ("Wyrmhaut" mean wyrm [dragon] hide). Notably, she isn't fanatical about it and is quite respectful and cordial towards Franz, addressing him by his formal title of Lord Scortchmaw, while Franz admits most dragons aren't as nice as him and are "flat out monsters".

* NorseByNorsewest: He's from Norway.

-->'''Pr. Wyrmhaut:''' A good tailor can do '''amazing''' things with '''pockets!'''

-->'''Pr. Wyrmhaut:''' As near as I can tell, he killed the dragon, but was mortally wounded. We spent '''years''' wondering what happened to him.

* SpikesOfVillainy: Long, dangerous-looking spikes sprout from the shoulders of her coat, and smaller ones from her thigh-high boots. And she's certainly a dangerous and amoral Spark. Although in her line of work (which include hunting monsters), the spikes are certainly justified as a defense against being swallowed whole.

-->A good tailor can do '''amazing''' things with '''pockets!'''

-->As near as I can tell, he killed the dragon, but was mortally wounded. We spent '''years''' wondering what happened to him.

[[folder:Moloch von Zinzer]]
!!Moloch von Zinzer, Mechanic
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[[caption-width-right:136:''"I am nobody's happy little helper, you got it?"'']]
A mechanic who served in army of a Spark beaten by Klaus and ended up "on the beach" after his WalkingTank ran into Bang's team. First met right at the beginning when he and his brother steal Agatha's locket. He is later mistaken for the Spark that created Agatha's first clank. He turned up again in Castle Heterodyne and seems to have fallen into the role of Agatha's minion by default.

* ActionSurvivor: He starts out as a mere soldier whose brother steals an OrphansPlotTrinket from the main character in the first chapter, so you'd expect him to last about five minutes. But after his brother's death by said trinket, getting mistaken for a Spark, and eventually ending up imprisoned in a sentient castle built by a family of murderous sociopaths, he's still kicking thanks in part to large amounts of luck and talent for dealing with Sparks. The Castle has started calling him the Head Minion.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Among the minions in any case. While he hasn't kicked anyone's ass, his position as Agatha's Chief Minion was secured by delivering {{Dope Slap}}s to the other Castle Prisoners that were getting out of line.
* BadassNormal: Not a Spark, not a Jäger, not specially trained, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080917 he just doesn't want to die]]. Downplayed as he's not that badass.
* BeleagueredAssistant: He spends a lot of time insisting that he is ''not'' the minion to one of the craziest and most dangerous sparks around.
-->'''Theo''': '''Hit the first switch!!!'''\\
'''Moloch''': Yeah yeah, here it goes..\\
'''Snaug''': Psst... it's "yes, master".\\
'''Moloch''': ...Not even if it got me out of the castle '''''tonight'''''.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** He was quite nasty in his earliest appearances, so he was much more deserving of the abuse he got early on. Being in Castle Heterodyne around more AxCrazy folks seriously mellowed him out, to the point that he's currently considered a nice guy. Or perhaps his brother's influence (plus, y'know, his belief that Agatha had ''murdered'' him) was corrupting and he improved in its absence.
** The very first thing he does when he meets up with Agatha again in Castle Heterodyne [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080312 is to apologize for his behavior back then]], claiming he was really scared and under a ''lot'' of stress. Agatha forgives him.
** In his very first appearance, he's actually rather friendly and reasonable, and trying hard to keep his brother in line. (The novelization, which tells this scene from his POV, emphasizes this.) It was only after his brother died holding Agatha's locket that he started getting nasty. Since he believed that the locket was responsible for his brother's death (which it probably was) and that Agatha had intentionally let his brother steal it to cold-bloodedly murder him (''not'' true, but a reasonable conclusion given what he knew) it's pretty understandable that he's being less than pleasant with her.
* ChekhovsGunman: In the future windows we see, Moloch states that "they survived (the destruction of the gunboat that he and his brothers piloted)". Several pages before that in the present time of the comic, he states that he saw "Bruno and the kid" escape into the forest. Whoever these two characters are, they are important enough for Agatha to search through time to track them down.
* ChewToy: He didn't start out that way, and it's not physical abuse. He was one of the soldiers who stole the OrphansPlotTrinket. The Karmic Chess Master moved him next to Agatha. He tried to play rough. Now his nerves are the butt of every joke the fates can manage. Examples: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080312 The tables are turned]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080324 his Genre Savvy fails]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080402 the rain of fear begins]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080625 the Castle has some fun]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080630 the Castle gets serious]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080901 Genre Savvy does no good at all]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090902 Genre Savvy says it all]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100115 Nightmare rising]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100118 Especially when it works as planned]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100813 Fool for love]], and many, many more.
* CluelessChickMagnet: To a lesser degree than one might expect in this crazy universe, but despite his general scruffiness and not having been seen to ''try'' to get girls, he's clearly attracted both Violetta and [[TheIgor Snaug]], with bonus {{UST}}-source Sanaa Wilhelm. Promo art from the updated version of spinoff card game ''The Works'' suggests [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180418 that he also gains the affection of a fourth]], specifically, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120413 Miss Baumhund]].
* ColorCodedCharacters: His outfit is mostly grey and his hair is black. He wore bright red early on.
* CombatPragmatist: His solution for dealing with an enemy riding a clank is to simply [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121119 hit the driver with a brick]] rather than engage in the kind of drawn-out fight that the [[BloodKnight Jägers]] would prefer. Fits with his [[OnlySaneMan overall pragmatic approach to life]].
* CrushBlush: When he learns that his crush was not as secret as he thought.
* CutTheJuice: his solution to being told that some run-away machinery can't be shut off. Earned him a DopeSlap.
* DeadpanSnarker: At times. Pointing to one particular example, Agatha needs to recharge the castle if she wants to stop Mechanicsburg from getting overrun, and to do ''that'' she needs to get to the top of a tower. But there's an army of hostile clanks between her and the tower. So she aims her {{BFG}} at them and fires, wiping them all out and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero knocking over the tower.]] His response? "How is it ''possible'' that this could surprise ''any'' of you people?"
* TheDragAlong: Often, though he becomes increasingly good at dealing with it (though not without a lot of bitter resignation). [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121112 Sometimes it even happens literally]].
* DueToTheDead: Those who died in the Castle don't get used as raw material, he decrees. And even hardened criminals ''listen'' when he says so.
* TheEngineer: He doesn't have The Spark, but he does have a great deal of skill in machinery and problem solving. He knows that, given enough time, he can solve most problems with a lot of hard work and a bit of [[MundaneSolution common sense]]. [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Webcomics]], since traditionally tank crewers (the closest real-world equivalent to his assignment) would become VERY adept at fixing their vehicles. Mostly because the alternative was either fiery unpleasant death, or a long walk back through hostile territory.
* ExtremeOmnivore: It's at least implied he's able to casually down "beverages" that would kill most people. Like, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031126 for example,]] bubbling green slime in a vat clearly labeled "DO NOT DRINK" - the ''remnants'' of which are [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031128 shown]] to have '''[[AteTheSpoon eaten through the steel cup]]''' just '''''seconds''''' after he finished it!
* FireForgedFriends: Became this with Agatha as they quickly patched things up and saved each other's lives multiple times while in Castle Heterodyne.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Possibly. He's able to drink stuff that should kill any normal man [[spoiler:and the Castle has suggested that he drink the Jägerdraught. While he isn't a Jäger in the future windows that we see, he does end up back in Agatha's employ and isn't seen in the distant future, so it's possible that he will become a Jäger. Though he has also displayed some sparky tendencies too, such as laughing MadScientist style after fixing the Castle's massive water wheel...]]
* FreudianExcuse: It's clear he's not actually a coward or at the very least he is very courageous, but he often just wants to escape and hide from his problems. Given that many of brothers [[spoiler:died due to conflicts between sparks, it makes sense that he wants as little to do with them as possible.]]
* GenreBlind: Although being GenreSavvy is more or less his defining characteristic, he has a ''huge'' blind spot when it comes to being Agatha's Chief Minion. He never realizes that the things he's saying are setting him up perfectly as the only person capable of doing the next assignment, or at least to be stuck right in the middle of it.
* GenreSavvy:
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080901 "I have been around way too many Sparks!"]]
** It's becoming so prominent that [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121126 it's starting to become his defining personal characteristic]].
---> '''Von Zinzer:''' [[{{Beat}} ...]] How is it '''''POSSIBLE''''' that this could surprise '''''ANY''''' of you people?
* HeelFaceTurn: See CharacterizationMarchesOn above. A generous soul might call him the first villain of the series. Even if not, he's more morally grounded now than he used to be.
* {{Irony}}:
** Had Moloch never stolen Agatha's Locket, he never would have gone through the series of events that led him to become her Chief Minion. It's really his own fault.
** As the third novel notes, Moloch has only himself to blame for being Agatha's Chief Minion, when he offered her help after the Castle's blood test, he automatically wound up in the very position he hates so much.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Or at least of a less jerky jerk than it seemed.
* LethalChef: He's fortunately never asked to handle cooking duty once he joins up with Agatha, but he was stuck on kitchen duty prior to her entry in Castle Heterodyne, and by all accounts he was bad at it - Sanaa said that his machines would probably taste better, and Mittelmind said that everyone knew that being served ''after'' Sanaa would get a boiled sponge as a meal. Possibly related to his ExtremeOmnivore tendencies, as it's clear that his sense of taste in general is just off.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: Early on in Castle Heterodyne, just seeing Sanaa causes him to both repeatedly injure himself ''and'' [[FailedASpotCheck fail to notice that Agatha, the woman who (inadvertently) made his life spiral out of control, is right there]].
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: He has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120817 eight brothers]].
* MilitaryMoonshiner: Mentioned in the novelizations.
* MinionShipping: With Violetta and Snaug, with a bit of Sanaa to the side.
* MuggingTheMonster: Though not even the "monster" in question (Agatha) knew at the time just who and what she was. The mugging arguably kicked off the plot, as Agatha's spark was no longer restrained by Barry's spark-suppressing amulet.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Averted, in that he's a perfectly normal person with a demon's name. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120817 Turns out]] his mother got his name out of Literature/TheBible...despite not having actually ''read it'', at least not enough to understand the context.
* NumberTwo: To his ''intense'' dismay, he's the highest-ranked minion in Mechanicsburg, due to being Agatha's top minion.
* ObliviousToLove: Partly because, by his own admission, he has very little experience with women, and partly because he's more or less been under constant threat (and thus had more important things to pay attention to), Moloch is completely oblivious to any affection directed his way, even though one of them is rather blatant about it and another is not particularly subtle either. He's also distinctly oblivious to his ''own'' romantic feelings - he notes that he feels the same way about Snaug as he does about Sanaa, but he chalks it up to "not being used to being around beautiful women." He naturally fails to notice that this tacit admission of attraction ''and'' the compliment to her appearance [[CluelessChickMagnet just gets Snaug to fall harder for him]].
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: During the Battle of Mechanicsburg he gets through explosions, the Empire's massive clank army, and what's described as all of the Baron's most dangerous Sparks and monsters to get various repairs done across town for the Castle. Unfortunately for him, this later puts a damper in his attempts to convince Agatha that it would be impossible for them to pass through it all alive.
* OnlySaneMan: First the only sane man in the Castle, then the only one in the entire town of Mecanicsburg.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: He hasn't been seen since the timeskip. He's probably one of the thousands trapped inside the Mechanicsburg Time-Bubble, but given he's the comic's ultimate example of an ActionSurvivor, it's possible that he may pop up somewhere down the line.]]
* SarcasticDevotee: He is certainly loyal to Agatha, but if someone does something stupid he certainly enjoys pointing it out.
* SeenItAll: When he shows up in Castle Heterodyne, his reaction to pretty much everything is "Did you guys ''really'' not see this coming?"
* ShipperOnDeck: Agatha/Gil.
* TheSoCalledCoward: Though largely self proclaimed - Von Zinzer makes it clear throughout the Mechanicsburg arc that he's only there out of self preservation, and he balks at anything and everything that's he thinks is sure to get him killed. However, he also recognizes that sticking with Agatha is the safest thing to do, and despite his claims that he'd never become a minion and that he's going to run for the hills the first chance he gets, he never falters to do what Agatha needs of him bravely and loyally. Amusingly, this means that everyone ''else'' sees him as Agatha's badass Head Minion while he keeps trying and failing to convince them that he wants to be as far away from danger as possible.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: One of the hallmarks of his GenreSavvy is to look at a situation and either say that someone should do a very simple action to deal with the problem or to do the simple action himself. One example is listed above under CombatPragmatist, where he specifically advises doing so when all the parties in question are supposed to do is stop a tank to get parts from it (of course, he tried telling that to [[BloodKnight Jagers]]...)
* StepfordSmiler: When we first see him in the castle, he seems a bit ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080220 off]]''. Could be blamed on LoveMakesYouStupid, given his massive crush on Sanaa.
* TemptingFate: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101203 "Aaah! Jinx!"]]
* TheReliableOne: What allows him to survive as long as he does is his ability to accomplish most tasks given to him (even if he complains about it a lot) ironically this gets him in the position he hates so much.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120402 Astounding Sanaa in the process]].
* UnfazedEveryman: Another character aspect that overlaps with SeenItAll and GenreSavvy.
* TheVonTropeFamily: Averted. Despite his name implying that he's nobility, he says that he's the younger son of a farmer, and was living as a common mercenary before he first crossed Agatha's path.

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[[folder:The Circus]]
!!Master Payne's Circus of Adventure
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->''"Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to a show like ''no other!'' It is true that we bring you the ''usual amusements''--sleight of hand, thrills, jokes both cheap and witty--but these can be had from any ragtag troupe or twopenny dreadful and I can see that ''you'' are an audience that demands ''more'' and ''we shall provide it!'' [...] For before you tonight is that glittering company known throughout the world and beyond as '''''Master Payne's [[AC:circus of]] Adventure!'''''"''

A traveling Heterodyne Show that takes Agatha in for a while after she saves them from a wandering monster-clank. Zeetha was originally one of them, but decided her place was with her student when the rest of the Circus was PutOnABus.
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[[folder:The Muses]]
!!The Nine Muses of R. Van Rijn
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A set of clanks, built by Master Van Rijn, "The Greatest Spark of All Time" for "the Greatest King of All Time", Andronicus Valois. Their numbers include Otilia, Moxana, Tinka, Prende, Orotine, Mawu and Liza (the non-twins) and Artimo. Ludicrously advanced, even by modern Spark standards, most have been lost or gone missing due to people's attempts to replicate their technology.

For details of Otilia, see Von Pinn's entry.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Most of the Muses so far have recognized Tarvek as the heir to the Lightning Crown. However, Orotine, the Muse of Geometries, gave a non-committal statement when asked by Krosp if she supports either Tarvek or Martellus, only stating that Martellus was "a distant third, at best". If Martellus is third and Tarvek is (presumably) above him, who exactly is first or second? [[spoiler:If the GURPS tie-in book is canon, then Gilgamesh is also descended from the Storm King and may be the true heir to the Lightning Crown.]]
* DeathByDespair: Moxana starts heading this way, thanks to being separated from Tinka.
* FemBot: Unlike most (gender-neutral) clanks, the Muses were explicitly designed in both form and personality to be female, and are referred to as such by other characters.
* LivingMacGuffin: A minor case. Finding the Muses that remain and replicating the technology used to make them is a long-term goal of Tarvek's.
* LostTechnology: Their tech is far more advanced than anything a Spark of the modern day could develop. Tarvek's the only one who can reverse-engineer it, and only to a point.
* OffWithHerHead: Tinka is decapitated by Vrin and her Geisterdamen, but given she's a clank, and that Otilia's severed head could continue to sustain a functioning Clank intelligence [[spoiler:(the Castle, not Otilia herself)]], odds are good that Tinka could be repaired.
* PhraseCatcher: Apparently even after three hundred years, people who see Orotine for the first time always feel the need to point out she's a Muse to her. [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore She's come to expect it.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:There is a final muse called the Muse of Vengeance, created to wipe out the Heterodynes for their crimes against Europa and their part in the Storm King's downfall (or at least to be unleashed against enemies of the Immortal Library.) It has long remained inactive, but the librarians have recovered its heart as a precaution since some of their leaders fear Agatha is probably every bit the monster her ancestors were.]]
* ShockAndAwe: Tinka and Prende have both displayed the ability to zap folk, though higher amounts of voltage burn off any clothing or wigs they might have on them.
* SignatureHeadgear: One of Orotine's distinguishing features is she's always wearing a fancy hat emblazoned with the Fleur de Lis.
* SilentSnarker: Moxana may not be able to speak anymore, but she can still get her point across. After Krosp manages to outwit Master Payne, she rearranges her chessboard to signify he's been put in checkmate.
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Somewhere between type 3 (comparable to humans) and type 4 (SuperIntelligence), which is to say ''significantly'' higher than most other Clanks, and an accomplishment by Van Rijn still unmatched in the comic's present day. Moxana and Tinka have regressed significantly in their state of disrepair, but still show occasional flashes of great acuity.
* StealthHiBye: They can move with astounding quietness if they need to. Even Smoke Knights like Violetta and Madwa have difficulty detecting their presence if they choose not to be noticed.
* TheVoiceless: Moxana, who communicates exclusively through playing cards and hand signs. She used to be able to speak at some point, but apparently lost the ability to after being separated from Tinka.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Of the set, Otilia is stuck in Mechanisburg, Prende is (last seen) in Paris, Orotine is in England; Moxana and Tinka were last seen in Sturmhalten, before it was overrun by monsters and the Baron's forces. And Tinka had been decapitated. And at least one of them was deactivated by an unidentified Spark. The fate of the rest is unknown.
* YouAreTooLate: They were programmed never to give Andronicus Valois a straight answer, merely hint towards what he should do. When they actually ''did'' give him a straight answer, it was because there was nothing that could be done to stop it.
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[[folder:The Muse of Time]]
!!The Muse of Time, the Mysterious Entity
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The Muse of Time, also known as the Enigma, is a very mysterious clank that can time travel. [[spoiler:Albia confirms, or at least ''believes'' with great certainty, that Lucrezia Mongfish is her true identity.]]
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* BodyHorror: When Agatha finds her in Van Rijn's lab, she looks like a hideous combination of a robotic skeleton and a Devil Dog from Castle Heterodyne.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** She first appeared in a time window pointing at Agatha and proclaiming "... Like that?!" to someone offscreen.
** In her first appearance, she has hands that look very similar to the dragon from Theo's Heterodyne Boys story. They also look similar to the hands of the Geisterdamen's mistress from Lady Vrin's flashback.
** [[spoiler:In Van Rijn's notebook, we're shown that one of the Muse of Time's forms looks very similar to Agatha and wears what looks like a Heterodyne symbol on her eye. A later flashback of Albia's confirms that this is a version of Lucrezia, albeit one that's taken a severe beating.]]
* MysteriousStranger: Almost nothing is known about her and she has only shown up twice in the series.
* RobotHair: In her first appearance she has long wires coming from her head that have been styled into braids. In her second appearance, she has disheveled human-like hair.
* SealedEvilInACan: While not enough is known of her to call her "evil", Van Rijn was able to trap her in his lab below Paris where she stayed for over 200 years before the Lucrezia-copy in Agatha's head influenced/instructed her host into restoring the Muse's power, allowing her to escape.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: In her first appearance she spooked Agatha, causing her to run into the alley where her locket was stolen, kicking off the plot.
* TimeMaster: She has the ability to travel through time seemingly at will.
* TricksterMentor: When she appeared in front of Van Rijn and stayed long enough to talk, she would sometimes teach him new things.
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[[folder:Moloch von Zinzer]]
!!Moloch von Zinzer, Mechanic
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[[caption-width-right:136:''"I am nobody's happy little helper, you got it?"'']]
A mechanic who served in army of a Spark beaten by Klaus and ended up "on the beach" after his WalkingTank ran into Bang's team. First met right at the beginning when he and his brother steal Agatha's locket. He is later mistaken for the Spark that created Agatha's first clank. He turned up again in Castle Heterodyne and seems to have fallen into the role of Agatha's minion by default.

[[folder:Old Man Death]]
!!Old Man Death, Sandwich Shop Proprietor and Undefeated Retired Jäger Auxiliary
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[[caption-width-right:203:"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Never. Lost. A fight.]]"]]

An old man who runs a gourmet sandwich shop with his granddaughter. Used to run with the Jägers and put them to shame. His hat is therefore very significant to Jägers, as the more important and badass the hat's owner, the more awesome and badass the hat. As such, he has to put up with the occasional attack on him for it, often enough at least for there to be a [[RuleOfThree three tries only rule]].

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: {{Squick}}s his granddaughter with the tale of how he met her grandmother.
* BadassNormal: He is a human who can put Jägers to shame.
* ChefOfIron: Again, he makes gourmet sandwiches and out-fights Jägers. Often at the same time.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: He plays this...to the '''JÄGERS''', with his HatOfAuthority as the reward.
-->'''Old Man Death:''' I'm just a '''human'''. Rode with the '''Jägers'''. ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Never. Lost. A. Fight.]]''
* DramaticIrony: Tells his granddaughter that he'd be more impressed if any of the jägers he fights nowadays used cunning or stealth to steal his hat, but that it will never happen since jägers don't do subtle. Maxim's third, and successful, attempt starts with stealth (hiding in a herring barrel) and ends with him (sort of) tricking Old Man Death into giving over the hat (by ordering a sandwich that is a hat-related historical reference) and escaping quickly (by ordering the sandwich to go).
* ForegoneConclusion: It was obvious that Maxim was going to get Old Man Death's hat as soon as you saw it- while the purple hat with red trimming looked out of place on an old man in an orange shirt and an apron, it already matched Maxim's outfit perfectly. It actually looked pretty similar to his old hat, only more ornate.
* FormerTeenRebel: As was mentioned, "rode with the Jägers", i.e. was an auxiliary to the most badass and evil army in Europe. Now runs a sandwich shop.
* GracefulLoser: He's apparently fine with losing his hat, he really didn't care about it, and he tells his granddaughter "your grandmother always hated that hat".
* HashHouseLingo: He knows the ingredients of the most obscure sandwiches you can imagine. And there is apparently a story behind every one of those oddly named sandwiches. The "Red Heterodyne" (Fried bat wing with mushroom sauce on pumpernickel) apparently stemmed from the long-dead Red Heterodyne getting trapped in a cave network for several years after a raid gone bad, forcing him to live on bats and mushrooms until he could get out, by which point he'd developed a taste for them. The "Prince of Sturmhalten's Big Bet" (Hat sandwich) stemmed from Prince Viden of Sturmhalten saying that he'd eat his hat if Dante "The Good" Heterodyne could get a cathedral built in Mechanicsburg which, long story short, Dante did and so Prince Viden did.
* HatOfAuthority: Played with, his hat is nothing special and it announces no official position, but the fact that it is '''his''' makes it irresistible to the Jägers. [[spoiler: And once Maxim wins it off him, he immediately becomes the new target.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: Or at least, as noted below, he cares more about his reputation as a sandwich-maker than winning his latest fight with a Jäger.
* MemeticBadass: Among the Jägers, at least. [in-universe]
* MysteriousPast: Exactly how, why, and when he stopped marauding, moved to Mechanicsburg and set up his shop isn't clear, although he claims it was due to his meeting his princess wife-to-be: "..she sort of ''abducted'' me. Took me away from all of that, you know."
* NoodleIncident: The story behind the names of all the other sandwiches he can make, except the bat-and-mushroom "Red Heterodyne" as noted above.
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: It's doubtful that "Old Man Death" is his given name, and the only other thing he's addressed as (by his granddaughter) is "Grandpa".
* PapaWolf: The fight with Maxim over his hat was going fine, and was fairly friendly, until Maxim tried to hit on the waitress, his granddaughter.
* ParentalSexualitySquick: He induces this in his granddaughter... who apparently misses the fact that she's technically royalty according to the story as well.
* RetiredBadass: He just wants to run his sandwhich shop these days.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Maxim forces him to choose between his reputation as a sandwich-maker and his hat. He chooses his reputation. Apparently he didn't have another hat in the store to make the sandwich with or he was unwilling or unable to leave his shop to get another one. Alternatively given that he claims to have considered just tossing the hat several times and states that his wife hated it, he may simply have seen the opportunity to get rid of it.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:König]]
!!Bärenkönig, Acting Leader of the Swartzwalders
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Leader of a group of sentient bear constructs, and tentatively named the Swartzwalders by the fandom after their previous appearance in the non-canon Girl Genius card game The Works. He considers himself their temporary leader, and has been long awaiting the arrival of the bears' true "Master".
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->[[center: '''[[Characters/GirlGenius Main Character Sheet]]''' | [[Characters/GirlGeniusProtagonists Protagonists]] | [[Characters/GirlGeniusAntagonists Antagonists]] | Characters/{{Mechanicsburgers}} | '''Assorted''' ]]

[[folder:The Professoressa]]
!!Dr. Kaja Foglio, Professor of Interpretive History, Artist, Official Biographer of the Lady Heterodyne
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A professor at the Transylvania Polygnostic University who decides she will interview Agatha and write her official biography when they run into each other in Paris. She is the presenter behind the stories in the "Radio Play" side stories.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The December 2020 side story focuses on the Professoressa and the Storyteller and is set after the main comic.
* AuthorAvatar: She is a stand in for Kaja Foglio, just as the Storyteller is the stand in for Phil.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The December 2020 side story involves her inquisitiveness about the Mechanicsburg Solstice resulting in her stumbling into filling in for Agatha as the "Heterodyne". It results in her getting a lot more than she bargained for, and she only reason she gets away unscathed is thanks to the Castle's help.
* IdenticalStranger: Not quite identical, but she looks sufficiently like Agatha for the Revelsmeister to comment on it when he ropes her into the Solstice celebration.
* MeetCute: A filler image depicts her meeting Phil Foglio's in-comic character by having her accidentally drop a book on his head from the top of a high shelf. The book is titled "[[LampshadeHanging How They Met]]".
* MissedHimByThatMuch: In the Solstice story, she comes even closer to meeting Agatha than the Storyteller has, but is unconscious at the time. That being said, she did meet Agatha in person in Paris.
* SignatureHeadgear: Her top hat with winged goggles is quite nice, and even gets complimented by one of her husband's cousins.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Storyteller]]
!!Prof. Creator/PhilFoglio, Storyteller and Creative Historian
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[[caption-width-right:250:Now, this isn't a ''Heterodyne Story'' like your mama tells you when she tucks you into bed at night ... well, not exactly.]]

An incredibly unlucky traveling storyteller who by strange coincidence always seems to end up near the latest disaster.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The December 2020 side story focuses on the Professoressa and the Storyteller and is set after the main comic.
* AuthorAvatar: He and the above-mentioned woman are the stand-ins for the Foglios.
* TheBard: The storyteller is a traveling bard who has multiple random encounters with the protagonists throughout their journey, they find him and a way to escape the maze beneath Sturmhalten when they hear him singing while imprisoned in the local dungeon. He's memorized a great number of tales in addition to spinning his own.
* BlackSheep: The rest of Oggie's descendents definitely act more Jäger-adjacent than he does, and most think as little of his profession as everyone else.
* TheBore: The Great Hospital at Mechanicsburg hires him to help get difficult patients to sleep, much to his disgruntlement. This gets him volunteered to help get Klaus to sleep soon after. About the only person who doesn't find his storytelling dull is Tarvek (who is moved to ManlyTears instead).
* TheChewToy: He's arrested and thrown in an oubliette in Sturmhalten for "unflattering portrayal of a royal", mocked for being boring, pestered by Oggie, frozen in the time-stop, used as a guinea pig from removal from said time-stop by Wulfenbach scientists...
* DeadpanSnarker: When listening to a Wulfenbach troop reciting what he thought happened at Sturmhalten (thanks to having inhaled some of the Circus' hallucinogenic gas).
-->'''Trooper:''' It was unbelievable!\\
'''Storyteller:''' ''(glowering at the man)'' That, I'll grant you.
* DirectLineToTheAuthor: The novelization confirms that the Storyteller is supposed to be Phil Foglio, and the series is him re-telling what he knows of Agatha's rise to power. Though he also admits in-story that he's been exposed to so many mind-altering chemicals and energies that [[UnreliableNarrator he can't be sure exactly what happened]].
* MeetCute: A filler image depicts him meeting Kaja Foglio's in-comic character by having her accidentally drop a book on his head from the top of a high shelf. The book is titled "[[LampshadeHanging How They Met]]".
* MissedHimByThatMuch: On occasion, the Storyteller comes very close to Agatha, without ever interacting with her (being nearby when Agatha saw the Muse of Time, being present when Agatha unleashed her dangerous Carnival on the Baron, being at Mechanicsburg during the siege).
* SharedFamilyQuirks: When he turns something the Professoressa says into a sex joke, she smirks "It is ''so obvious'' that you two are related." When Oggie does the same thing, she repeats it.
* TheStoryteller: Well, duh. The comic begins with him telling a story (presumably the ''Girl Genius'' story) to some kids.
* TemptingFate: He tells Oggie he'll find a girlfriend as soon as Oggie finds a Heterodyne. And then he sees the giant hologram of Agatha bursting out of Prince Aaronev's castle...
* UnwantedAssistance: Is a great-great-great grandson of Oggie. It's Oggie's "assistance" with trying to help the family line along that has in fact led to the Storyteller being one of the ''last'' of said line. Then again, judging by the rest of his family when they visit for the Solstice, it seems more of a matter of him being a bit of a BlackSheep.

[[/folder]]

!!Other

!!Other
[[folder:The Circus]]
!!Master Payne's Circus of Adventure
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->''"Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to a show like ''no other!'' It is true that we bring you the ''usual amusements''--sleight of hand, thrills, jokes both cheap and witty--but these can be had from any ragtag troupe or twopenny dreadful and I can see that ''you'' are an audience that demands ''more'' and ''we shall provide it!'' [...] For before you tonight is that glittering company known throughout the world and beyond as '''''Master Payne's [[AC:circus of]] Adventure!'''''"''

A traveling Heterodyne Show that takes Agatha in for a while after she saves them from a wandering monster-clank. Zeetha was originally one of them, but decided her place was with her student when the rest of the Circus was PutOnABus.

!!Corbettites

[[folder:Corbettites as a whole]]
!!Corbettite Order

A monastic order dedicated to the operation of a passenger rail line network throughout Europa. Staunchly neutral and quite able to defend their neutrality, they serve a vital role in transportation through the politically volatile realm.

* BadassNormal: The majority of Corbettites are perfectly normal (for a given value of "normal") people who joined up for a variety of reasons. Doesn't make them any less dangerous, especially since they're the ones keeping Spark-created blasphemies under lock and key; even the infamously rogue House Heterodyne trust them to keep such things safely secured, and won't cross them.
* BadassPreacher: Corbettite trains can, will, and on many occasions have shot their way through a wide variety of horrific constructs and clanks wandering the Wastelands that threatened their railways. The monks are so well regarded for their toughness that when the Old Heterodynes accidentally made something so dangerous that it scared ''them'', they entrusted it to the Corbettites for safekeeping. And the monks were able to successfully extract concessions from them (which the Heterodynes actually ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness honored]]'' for centuries) in return for doing so.
** In addition, the Corbettites provide free "assassin disposal" services and are skilled enough to be able to take down ''Smoke Knights'' [[AssassinOutclassin by surprise]].
** When one character asks why the Corbettites would build a massive crypt filled with all manner of incredibly deadly traps, the immediate answer is "Because it would be awesome."
** When Martellus' fleet [[TooDumbToLive foolishly opens fire on their fortress depot]], the Corbettites [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141027 immediately return fire and destroy eight of his airships with a single shot]]. Notably, while Martellus can be an idiot, he's not this big an idiot; a subordinate went behind his back to order the attack. Martellus personally tossed him out of the command airship for his stupidity.
--->'''Father Gerät''': Yes, it has been a long time since we faced the trials of raiders...\\
'''Corbettite''': Exactly, and are we strong enough to stand against them?\\
''(massive explosions)''\\
'''Father Gerät''': ...I meant, will we find the strength to ''spare'' any of them?
* BindingAncientTreaty: Between the Corbettites and the Heterodyne family. So long as the Corbettites keep some artifacts that are so dangerous that the Heterodynes couldn't trust themselves to protect them without being tempted to use them again safely locked away, no Heterodyne troops will attack Corbettite trains, railways or stations. The agreement has been in place for centuries, and has never once been broken.
* DoomsdayDevice: Their secondary mission is to find and collect these (and science GoneHorriblyWrong) to be locked in the vault, being the only group who can trusted not to use them.
* RailEnthusiast: Explained in ''Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle'' as to why some of them signed up -- it's a chance to drive big shiny trains ''really'' fast.
* SecretGovernmentWarehouse: Have several vaults that contain various dangerous Sparky creations that are entrusted to them because everyone in Europa knows that they can be trusted to never try to use them.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Gives one to Vipsania Perrault when she seeks their assistance via bribing individual brothers to help her loot an abandoned DragonHoard containing a dangerous Spark device. The first brother she talked to who "wasn't too holy to take a bribe" is dragged away by other members, the second misses their second meeting because he was ReassignedToAntarctica, and the third is sealed up in a room. Brother Marcus explains that when someone shows up asking questions and trying to bribe members of the Order, they will try to scare them off first, then assist them if they continue.
* SeekingSanctuary: If a traveler gets on one of their trains and gives the monks an honest explanation of who they are, where they're going, and why, then they are entitled to sanctuary and safe passage until the train gets to their stop.

[[folder:Brother Ulm]]
!!Brother Ulm, Corbettite Train Conductor
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A brother and confessor of the Corbettite Monks, who serves as the Conductor aboard the Wyrm of Limerick, a rail liner with a massive dragon head figurehead on the front of its locomotive.

* BadassPreacher: Presumably, he has received the same training that enables his brothers to dispatch [[TheWorfEffect Smoke Knights]] skulking around the train looking for Margarella.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:After nearly dying when the Beast was finally unplugged (which involved an explosion), he was instead uploaded to be a construct consciousness in the Corbettites' brand-new super-locomotive that Agatha also helped complete and perfect, in a manner similar to [[GeniusLoci Castle Heterodyne]].]] Though it's ambiguous whether the procedure involved full BrainUploading or just WetwareCPU.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: He was on the verge of pressing the "Confessional Eject" button instead when Agatha was in there, but thought better of it.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After trying to kill Agatha for fear of her causing his order trouble at their base, his punishment is to accompany her around and do her no harm, while also making sure she doesn't cause trouble.
* DysfunctionalFamily: When commiserating with Agatha in the confessional.
-->'''Brother Ulm''': [[VerbalTic Sure, and]] my own family is a ''gift'' from the ''Almighty''... which is a fine thing, since I certainly wouldn't have ''paid'' for them.
* FieryRedhead: He can vary from kindly priest to steam-headed rather quickly. Especially if he thinks there's a threat to the Corbettites.
* HazyFeelTurn: Becomes much more antagonistic towards Agatha when forced to take her with the other passengers to the Corbettites' headquarters because he fears she'll unleash some Heterodyne creation they have locked up there. While he's less on her side, he's still not a bad guy.
* IrishPriest: Complete with usage of irish colloquialisms like "Sure, and" or "boyo".
* IronicHell: [[spoiler: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] and in fact [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], with his transformation into locomotive being utter heaven for a Corbettite monk.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He dies stopping The Beast, when ripping out its brain results in a large explosion... [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150511 Or so it seemed]].]]
%%* UndyingLoyalty: To the Corbettite order. [[spoiler:Taken to the most literal extreme.]]%%ZCE
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Worried about letting Agatha into the stronghold, he goes to quietly shoot her. Another monk stops him.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He discusses this with Wooster upon realizing that maybe Agatha's not evil like the old Heterodynes were (and after she's not the one to release the monster).

[[folder:Brother Matthias]]
!!Brother Matthias, Corbettite Train Engineer
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-->'' Not ''every'' Spark is crashing around trying to take over Europa, you know! ''Some'' of us get to work on ''trains!'' Beautiful, shiny, ''wonderful'' trains! Other Sparks ''beg'' us to build lines into their territories! ''Muhahahaha!''''

The chief engineer of the Wyrm of Limerick, as well as a Spark. He is by far the most...eccentric of the Corbettites, and as such Brother Ulm tries to keep him away from passengers as much as possible.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: His propensity to go off on a sparky tangent despite immediate peril he must focus on seems to be infectious as both Tweedle and Agatha get swept up in his tangents too.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' insinuate that his train will ever be late.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Especially in regards to trains. To the point where he cares more about how awesome the Beast is than the fact that his order needs to take it out. Thankfully his rant on the subject still gives Vadaxus the information he needs.
* MadScientist: The Wyrm's [[spoiler:flamethrower]]? His doing. Just ''look'' at his manic evil smile in his picture: That's some Spark-level evil grinning.
* RailEnthusiast: Brother Matthias likes trains quite a bit, to the point that he sees working on them as far more fulfilling than the things most other Sparks get up to, like [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140627 ruling empires.]]

[[folder:Father Gerät]]
!!Father Gerät, Abbot of the Depot Fortress of Saint Szpac
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The Abbot of Saint Szpac, and Ulm's superior. He describes himself as an administrator, and isn't as worried about the theological implications of the Order's work.

* BilingualBonus: "Gerät" is German for "device".
* SwissArmyAppendage: Father Gerät's prosthetic arms have been seen as a tentacle, a water nozzle, a hammer, pincers, claw machine-style grabbers, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a hand]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gerät's a reasonable man, and is willing to hear Ulm out when he's caught attempting to kill a passenger. He's also not keen at all on being ordered by a higher power in the church to obey "King" Martellus, and most certainly [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial did not see one of Agatha's entourage knock Martellus out]].

[[folder:Brother Vadaxxus]]
!!Brother Vadaxxus, Saint Spzac Depot Head Chef
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The head cook and military leader of the Depot Fortress of St. Spzac.

* AlmightyJanitor: When he's not leading the battle against whatever is besetting the Fortress, he's the head cook. He says preparing food for all the Corbettites at the fortress makes planning a battle look easy in comparison.
* ElectronicEyes: Steampunk/Gaslamp Fantasy variant. Vadaxxus's left eye is not the one he was born with.
* FrontlineGeneral: Vadaxxus is out front leading the Corbettites against the Beast.

[[folder:Humongulus]]
!!Humongulus, Saint Spzac Depot Yard Hauler
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[[caption-width-right:215:This is in fact how pulling is done!]]
-->Greetings, brother! Humongulus is here to punch and lift things!

An [[HumongousMecha enormous Clank]] in service to the Corbettites. He works at their monastery lifting platforms into position. A one-shot taking place apparently after the series proper depicts Humongulus now residing in Mechanicsburg, working at a newly-constructed Corbettite trainyard and still more than happy to take any sort of challenge posed to him, be it a show of strength or a brawl with Franz.

* BigDamnHeroes: He shows up just in time to stop the Beast from reclaiming its lost cars.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Becomes fast friends with Franz following their fight.
* FearOfThunder: "[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230116 Humongulus does not fear the rain! But the lightning...]]"
* GracefulLoser: When Franz manages to get the upper hand during their fight by exploiting the fact that Humongulus insides are not waterproof, he happily surrenders and compliments Franz for his ingenuity.
* GratuitousLatin: Parodied. Humongulus will spout off the occasional Latin phrase, but if you translate it, it will usually be fairly modern vernacular.
-->'''Humongulus:''' What is this? Humongulus cannot move! ''Non est frigidus!''[[labelnote:Lat.]]"Not Cool!"[[/labelnote]]
* HumongousMecha: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's right there in the name, after all.]] Humongulus is one of the biggest Clanks seen to date.
* LargeHam: In every sense of the word. Particularly when it comes to his lifting abilities.
* NoodleIncident: Brother Ulm explains that, since he joined the monastery, Humongulus hasn't leveled any mountains in decades...
* OddFriendship: With Franz, despite resembling a knight.
* ThePhilosopher: Humongulus has given a lot of consideration to whether or not lifting things truly induces happiness or if he simply does it because it's what he was created to do and doesn't know anything else. It's enough that it makes Franz ask himself the same question.
* PretentiousLatinMotto: Parodied, with a gratuitous dose of YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe; Humongulus has a motto scrawled on his chest reading "Dost thou even lyft?"
* SeriousBusiness: Lifting things. It's what he exists for, and he's damn good at it. He once considered becoming the best at setting things down, but decided that it lacked panache.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Combines a stilted, overly formal speaking style with TestosteronePoisoning-style boasts.
* TestosteronePoisoning: Humongulus tends to be a playful poke at extreme bodybuilders, and is constantly boasting about his lifting abilities.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Humongulus rarely lets a sentence go by without mentioning himself in third person.

[[folder:Brother Marcus]]
!!Brother Marcus, Corbettite Train Conductor
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A brother in the order who joins Vipsania and Franz on their journey to the DragonHoard of Hydrargyros the Godburner, providing a reference book on dragons and assistance transporting the loot in exchange for the dragon's flame-enhancer and any other dangerous Sparky creations.

* BearerOfBadNews: Reveals Franz is the LastOfHisKind, or just about.
* LanternJawOfJustice: A prominent square jaw.
* OnlySaneMan: Frequently acts as a calming influence on the group and keeps them focused on the task at hand.

!!Loyal Order of the Knights of Jove
Various characters involved in the highly factional Storm King conspiracy (which is why others are on both the [[Characters/GirlGeniusProtagonists Protagonists]] and [[Characters/GirlGeniusAntagonists Antagonists]] pages as well).

[[folder:The Fifty Families]]
!!The Fifty Families

The former ruling elite of Europa consisting of fifty noble houses all vying to have one of their own declared Storm King. Many of them were decimated by during the Other War while the rest were conquered by Baron Wulfenbach. Chafing under the Baron's rule, the Families united and secretly began conspiring to overthrow the Wulfenbach Empire.

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* AristocratsAreEvil:
** Their main goal is to get rid of Klaus and reinstall the Storm King as Europa's ruler in order to halt the meritocracy that's slowly growing under the Wulfenbach Empire and protect their various elitist traditions, caring little about the death and destruction their actions have caused or the fact they are likely inviting war and chaos to tear the continent apart.
** They assisted Lucrezia in the Other War since, though she was causing mass destruction and enslavement, she was also wiping out a lot of the "upstart" Spark Houses. It's almost certain that if she hadn't disappeared then she would have eventually [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness wiped them out as well]].
** In general, most of the Fifty Families are made up of people who are of incredibly low morality and are completely blasé about murder, betrayal and inflicting pain on others, even when it's done on their own family members.
* ArtisticLicensePolitics: Often the term "royal" is used for all among the Fifty Families, despite many of them being nobility (dukes, counts, (reigning) princes, etc.) instead of royalty (kings, queens, (heir) princes, princesses, etc.). Granted [[TruthInTelevision "royal" is sometimes used for reigning nobles IRL,]] but mostly in common parlance and not anything formal. It would be weird, as an example, for '''Duke''' Strinbeck to say [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080801 "my royal personage"]] IRL (unless he was a king's relative who also happened to be a duke).
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The majority of the members shown so far are directly or indirectly related to one another, and most of them have tried to murder each other at some point either for personal benefit or mere enmity. Tarvek is shown to have been to related at least five other families and most of them, including his own, have tried to kill him at one point or another with it being made clear that this behavior isn't abnormal.
* DeathIsCheap: Averted. While resurrection is common in the ''Girl Genius'' universe, one of the major rules of nobility is that when you die you're removed from the line of succession, and your heir immediately inherits your titles and holdings even if you get revived.
* EnemyMine: Most of the Fifty Families were bitter enemies but they've joined together in their hopes of defeating the Wulfenbach Empire.
* EvilReactionary: By and large, the Fifty Families want to take over the Baron's empire because they want a "proper" monarch like in the "good old days" of the [[TheGoodKing Storm King]]. Unfortunately, some factions are willing to collaborate with [[BigBad the Other]] to do so.
* TheGhost: Only about a fifth of the Fifty Families have been introduced, most of whom are lower-ranking members of their respective Houses.
* GoneHorriblyRight: When several of the families decided to go ahead with their plan to overthrow Klaus ahead of schedule, they manipulated a large number of small rebellions into erupting simultaneously to act as distractions. Said rebellions quickly grew out of control and caused numerous other rebellions to pop up all over Europa, which completely derailed almost all of the Families’ plans.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The Fifty Families' and Storm King conspiracy are prominent secondary antagonists right behind the Other but their current scheming and past dealings with Lucrezia are responsible for a lot of the tragedies in the story.
* ItsThePrincipleOfTheThing: Europa's nobility actually have little issue with how Klaus runs Europa nor does Klaus harass them unless they start causing trouble. The main reason they scheme to overthrow him, and potentially trigger a country-destroying war, is because he refuses to "play the game" and acknowledge that social rank is important or legitimate. Had Klaus declared himself emperor after taking Europa, the Fifty Families would have proudly served him as slaves. According to the novels, a couple members of the Storm King conspiracy defected to the Empire after learning Gil has a claim to a royal title through his mother's side.
* LeeroyJenkins: The Storm King conspiracy's original, long-term plan to overthrow Klaus was fairly well-hidden and had a legitimate chance of succeeding. However, the appearance of Agatha and her injuring the Baron caused many members of the conspiracy to panic or try to take advantage of the situation, with some speeding up their plans to take Castle Heterodyne while others decided to go off-script entirely and try to kill Klaus or conquer parts of the Empire for themselves. This early playing of their hand not only caused them to reveal themselves to the Empire before they were ready to confront it but it also caused a lot their existing plan to fall apart.
* MotiveDecay: Apparently, the Knights of Jove started off as a loyal order dedicated to the Storm King, which then got hijacked by the Other. After she was gone, it was mostly reduced to a few old farts who just used it as an excuse to hang out, drink and mutter about "the good old days". Then Zola's backers came along...
* {{Realpolitik}}: "The game", as the Families call it, is a never-ending, centuries-long series of wars, alliances and shady dealings between the nobles done in attempt to get one of their own declared Storm King.
* TheRemnant: They're a shell of their former selves after the timeskip caused by Klaus' Take-Five Bomb. After the Other was done, there were only seventeen of the prior great houses left, and that's assuming the strife between then and the modern day hasn't whittled them down further.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Their standard criticism of [[BenevolentDictator the Baron]]'s regime is that, being an unrecognized authority without a royal title, the Baron's empire [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060526 "won't last a day when he's gone"]] (as his status as JustTheFirstCitizen means his government only exists as long as he does). Eventually the Baron steps out of the picture, and [[spoiler:(as predicted) [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131021 the empire sank]] with it's captain. However, the reason why the empire collapsed is exactly ''[[SelfFulfillingProphecy because]]'' the Fifty Families refused to recognize it and [[LeeroyJenkins tripped over each other]] when [[GoneHorriblyRight trying to take power]]]].
* SecretKeeper: An evil version. The Families knew that Lucrezia was the Other, with some being fanatically loyal to her, and they managed to hide it from Klaus for almost two decades.
* SuperSupremacist: Many Families insist that only a Spark can be Storm King, even though Andronicus Valois wasn't one, and it's implied that Sparks are often given precedence in inheritance.

[[folder:Grandma]]
!!Terebithia, Matriarch of the Knights of Jove
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The grandmother of Tarvek, Anevka, Violetta, Martellus and Xerxsephina, Terebithia is the leader apparent of the Knights of Jove and the Smoke Knights not loyal to Lucrezia. Absolutely ''hates'' Lucrezia, at least according to Violetta, and would rather refocus on the original objective of the Knights of Jove.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: She's one of [[BigScrewedUpFamily Tarvek's relatives]]? That's a bad sign. She's working against [[BigBad the Other]]'s influence? Well, that's a ''good'' sign. But she's weirdly cozy with [[spoiler:Zola/the Queen of the Dawn]]? That's yet another bad sign.
* BluffTheImpostor: Upon meeting Mister Obsidian she immediately attempts to stab him in the face even though he had the correct [[TrustPassword code phrase]], [[MadeOfIron only for the dagger to snap in two.]] He mostly takes it in stride, but Grandma retorts to his [[ServileSnarker snark]] that [[JustifiedTrope disguises are easy and that anyone can learn a code phrase.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: As expected from anyone of Tarvek's extended family, let alone the ''head'' of it, she has her own plan that she's willing to throw others under the bus to attain.
* CoolOldLady:
** A subdued version as far as the setting goes - she apparently throws some ''wild'' parties. And she has some rather impressive dresses.
** It is worth noting that she's the head of a family so unruly Tarvek once commented the only way to keep them in line would be to kill them, a family that's produced folks like Martellus, so she has to be doing ''something'' right.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: She '''''runs''''' it and apparently has no problems with her kids and grandchildren killing each other and the in-laws. She once threw a party while Paris was under attack and half the city was flooded in the chaos. She even uses such events to make her parties more spectacular and gain power. She has spies everywhere. All this indicates that she is well aware of what is going on, well more than the grand majority of the general population, but is so high and almighty that she neither fears nor cares about the problems the lower classes face. If you aren't good enough to survive in her court, then relative or not, you deserve what comes to you. From what we heard of him, her husband wasn't any better.
* DefectorFromDecadence: An odd variation where she hasn't defected to the "good guys", but rather she still defected away from the most evil side. Unlike her (presumed) son-in-law Wilhelm and many other men of the cabal, who was madly loyal to Lucrezia, Grandma has been described as "hating Lucrezia", is outright opposed to and plotting against her, has taken control of at least a major part of the Knights of Jove away from The Other's objectives, and has basically ordered that all of her subordinates put aside rivalries and other cross-purpose agendas to take out anyone still loyal to Lucrezia, likely having performed a major purge of Lucrezia loyalists in the Knights of Jove during the timeskip. All of that said.. [[spoiler:She cheerfully assists Zola!Lucrezia!The Queen of the Dawn in escaping from Paris when the latter woman's take-over plans get at least temporarily thwarted by Colette Voltaire becoming the new all-powerful Mistress of the city. Or at least being caught by Colette's forces, as always with this character, her motives for doing so remain vague, as it's entirely possible that she plans on acquiring Lucrezia's secrets via Zola still having Lucrezia trapped in her head.]]
* DirtyOldWoman:
** When Tarvek, disguised as a servant, makes a joke about her whipping him, she cheerfully states that he sounds "just like his grandfather", which immediately makes Tarvek wish for BrainBleach.
** During TheReveal that she is close to Simon Voltaire, he calls her a "scheming flirt" as an InsultOfEndearment, implying she's always been like this.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: She was usually referred to mainly as "grandmother" though this is because most of the time, she was with her family. She's revealed to be named Terebithia when Simon Voltaire, Master of Paris, refers to her as such. Given their FirstNameBasis with one another, they've had a history and still soft spots for one another.
* EvilMatriarch: Probably. She's in charge of the Knights of Jove, which is not in any way a pleasant organization, but ''how'' evil is still an open question. For example, it's unclear whether she supports Tarvek or Martellus over each other, or, given [[spoiler: the return of the original Storm King]] someone else.
* GoodParents: "Good" being in relative terms considering she's still a member of her family and just as much a schemer as her kids and numerous grandkids, but she's certainly a better parent/grandparent than Tarvek and Anevka's father ever was. She definitely cares about her grandkids, and the feeling is mutual - [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161114 when she and Tarvek finally reunite,]] their discussion is quite cordial and even heartwarming, with Tarvek even concerned for her health. Specifically, bursitis in her dominant shoulder, which she complains hampers her ability to use a whip, while Tarvek notes that he told her to use her cane instead, though Grandma remarks that said cane makes her look old. Of course, they have this conversation immediately after she had Tarvek kidnapped and forcibly dragged to her.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Whatever her ultimate goal is, it's not known to us. As noted above, she's been said to "hate Lucrezia" but other than that her plans are unknown; it's not even clear which of her relatives, if any, she would prefer to see become Storm King.
* HiddenDepths: When she learns that Archimedes' Lever has started spewing lightning, she knows exactly what it means ([[spoiler:Andronicus Valois is still alive]]) and immediately begins making plans to take advantage of this fact. How much of this is fore-knowledge as opposed to shrewd guess-work is currently unknown.
** She's also well-acquainted with Simon Voltaire, the Master of Paris. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170220 She has invited him to several of her parties (though he never showed up despite promising to).]] Their quieted dialogue indicates they care a good deal about one another and even may have been intimate in the past. [[FirstNameBasis Furthermore, they're on first-name basis with one another]] and refer to one another [[InsultOfEndearment in affectionate insults]] all while she supports him and gently clasps his hand.
* LifeOfTheParty: Given that Martellus believes that having a death ray built into a party sleigh is totally in character for her, she must have thrown some truly wild parties in her time.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She's getting up there in years and is shown to be suffering from arthritis, but still manages to efficiently run one of the world's most widespread spy networks, on top of being strong enough to crush a pistol with her bare hands (as Zola finds out the hard way).
* WhipOfDominance: She's a stern EvilMatriarch that has quite the reputation for using a whip. When she talks to Tarvek about whipping her servants into shape, she makes it clear it's not just an expression when she says she can't do it as well anymore because "her shoulders aren't what they used to be". She also implies she used her whip on her husband for kinky reasons, [[BrainBleach much to Tarvek's distress]].
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[[folder:Dio Zardeliv]]
!!Dr. Dio Zardeliv, Uncle Tick-tock
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Violeta's great-uncle Dr. Zardeliv is a Spark and professor whose study is focused on time, making him very in demand after Mechanicsburg was frozen by the Take-Five Bomb. Last seen in the company of the rogue Other allied Smoke Knight Madwa Korel.
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* FakingTheDead: After leaving the Immortal Library he and Madwa killed one of the librarians he was with and doctored his corpse to look like Zardeliv.
* KilledOffForReal: His body was found on the smuggler's submarine he and Madwa used to get to England and was identified by Violeta, though Madwa's supposed body was found as well and she turned up alive.
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[[folder:Malek]]
!!Malek, A Stonemason at Heart
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A Smoke Knight based out of Paris who serves Martellus von Blitzengaard.

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* DistractedByTheSexy: Varpa is able to distract him even though he knows that that's what she was sent to do, he's still following Agatha he's just not paying as much attention as he ought to.
* HiddenDepths: He studied Ecclesiastical Architecture at University and considers himself a stonemason at heart, as he puts it ''"Being a Smoke Knight is what I do not what I am."''
* HiddenWeapons: None of his weapons are seen unless he's using them. It's likely Smoke Knights often wear capes to help make hiding weapons easier.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Skewered from behind [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161017 while talking to Violetta.]]]]
* ImpossibleThief: Smoke Knights are all capable of this and at one point he and Varpa are able to take Agatha's notes, read them over, and return them without being noticed by the two very good warriors on guard.
* McNinja: He's a Smoke Knight.
* OffscreenTeleportation / OffscreenRealityWarp: All part of the a good Smoke Knight's repertoire.
* OneHeadTaller: Malek is one of the taller Smoke Knights while Varpa is one of the shortest and they grow attached while working together and making out.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Malek is generally quite good at his job, but is used to working alone. Working with a partner [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160509 leads to potentially fatal mistakes:]]
-->'''Varpa:''' Are you ''trying'' to kill us?!\\
'''Malek:''' I'm used to working ''alone!'' I get ''nervous'' when someone's ''watching!''
* StealthExpert: He and Varpa follow Agatha's group for a couple of days and are only noticed by the Smoke Knight in the group even though the rest of the group is made up of a couple of Sparks, a WarriorPrincess, a [[TheSpymaster Master Spy]] a SuperSoldier and a clever seasoned adventurer.
* StealthHiBye: He is a Smoke Knight so this is a basic part of his repertoire, he and Varpa were able to look over Agatha's notes while Dimo and Zeetha were on watch without even being noticed, though Violetta was aware of their presence.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:The Geisterdamen announce their presence in Paris and the fact that they've been alerted to Agatha's group by spearing him through the chest with some kind of hook on a rope and yanking him out of the carriage to toss him away off the rooftops.]]
* WorfEffect: The Geisterdamen [[spoiler:occasionally need to show the audience just how deadly they are. Even top level Smoke Knights can be sneak killed by them. ]] Though, to be fair, he was distracted at the time.
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[[folder:Varpa]]
!!Varpa, Poet and Smoke Knight
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A Smoke Knight who serves Xerxsephina "Seffie" von Blitzengaard.

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* BadassCape: Her dark purple cape is hooded so that she can hide her hair and eyepatch.
* BlowGun: She uses a blow gun to take out a Geisterdamen with poison.
* EmotionSuppression: After Malek, who she'd been growing to care about, is unceremoniously killed and tossed off a roof by a Geisterdamen she has a conversation with Zeetha that hints this is part of a Smoke Knight's training though she takes a minute to get there herself.
-->'''Zeetha:''' This could be a rough fight, are you going to be okay?\\
'''Varpa:''' Of course. Smoke feels nothing. —and when they are dead I will be ''very'' okay.
* EyepatchOfPower: Though her low hood usually hides the eyepatch.
* HandwrapsOfAwesome: Varpa keeps her hands wrapped in bandages to prevent injury while fighting and to make handling poisons safer.
* HiddenDepths: She writes poetry about cheese, publishing it under a pseudonym.
* HiddenWeapons: None of her weapons are seen unless she's using them except the knife at her belt.
* HoneyTrap: How she interpreted Seffie's order to "get in [Malek's] way a bit." In a twist, Malek was aware of what she was doing and didn't seem to mind.
-->'''Malek:''' Does this mean no more kissing?\\
'''Varpa:''' ...''less'' kissing.
* ImpossibleThief: Smoke Knights are all capable of this and at one point she and Malek are able to take Agatha's notes, read them over, and return them without being noticed by the two very good warriors on guard.
* InstantSeduction: Her Lady knows she's capable of this when she sends her to get in Martellus' Smoke Knight's way, and indeed by the time she's seen again the two appear to be in the early stages of a relationship though they've known each other for at most a day and a half.
* KissOfDistraction: She's been distracting Malek from the mission Martellus sent him on with kisses but they've hit it off even though they know they're working against each other.
* McNinja: As are all other Smoke Knights she is essentially a European ninja.
* OffscreenTeleportation / OffscreenRealityWarp: All part of the standard competent Smoke Knight repertoire.
* StealthExpert: She and Malek follow Agatha's group for a couple of days and are only noticed by the Smoke Knight in the group even though the rest of the group is made up of a couple of Sparks, a WarriorPrincess, a [[TheSpymaster Master Spy]] a SuperSoldier and a clever seasoned adventurer.
* StealthHiBye: All part of a Smoke Knight's repertoire. She and Malek were able to look over Agatha's notes while Dimo and Zeetha were on watch without either of them noticing.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: The last we see of her, she's going to try and cross a revenant-infested Paris to reach Seffie's location. She's not there when we/the other characters finally arrive at said location, and the next time we see Seffie accompanied by a Smoke Knight attendant, it's not Varpa.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Veilchen]]
!!Veilchen, Smoke Knight

One of the Smoke Knights who worked for Tarvek's faction. He "parted ways" with the rescue party leaving them in an oubliette and told Violetta about the hunt on Tarvek's Smoke Knights when he was wounded himself. Seems to be a very popular dude.

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* TheAce: Tarvek explicitly calls him "one of the best."
** InformedAttribute: He doesn't have chance to prove his competency and get GameBreakingInjury because he forgets the monster they escaped.
* BaldOfEvil: He's more of a [[NothingPersonal cold-blooded professional]], but the archetype is here.
* GameBreakingInjury: His right arm is broken after the mission in the Sturmhalten sewers, forcing him to rest.
* IdiotBall:
** Sure, he escapes from an oubliette in pretty badass fashion, but forgets about the pursuing monsters that caused him to fall into the thing in the first place.
** He also manages to forget that if you sneak through a sewer, you're going to pong a bit afterwards.
* LaserGuidedKarma: See VillainBall below. He gets that after he abandoned the group for their fate.
* McNinja: As a Smoke Knight, he's basically a European ninja.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The monster catches him and he screamed. Next time he appears he reports to Tarvek.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lord Selnikov]]
!!Lord Rudolph Selnikov, Commander of the Knights of Jove
One of the Knights of Jove, Lord Selnikov assists Anevka in her attempt to usurp her brother. He also leads the Knights in their attack on Mechanicsburg, consequently getting himself killed by Gil.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: He and Lady Selnikov despised one another, and Lord Selnikov is implied to have frequently cheated on her whenever she was away. The moment he realizes being reanimated will mean the end of his marriage he perks up and ask Dr. Sun is if he can have a plaque reading "Reanimated Abomination of Science" bolted to his forehead.
* BadassNormal: He's got no Spark, and is past his prime, but he's still surprisingly capable.
* BrainInAJar: Thanks to a mix of Gil's lightning stick and Vole's method of "recovering" his body, it's what he's been reduced to.
* DeathIsCheap: He was killed by Gil's attack, but revived since the Baron determined he'd possess information that would be of use to them.
* DirtyOldMan: Missed the news about his brother in-law being killed because he gave his staff orders to leave him alone for several hours, while his wife was away in Paris. Ahem.
* HiddenDepths: While not a Spark, the novels mention he does actually have a reasonably sharp brain, once it gets going.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: He's not too fond of his wife or his brother in-law, Prince Aaronev.
* OhCrap: Practically his default expression.
* PragmaticEvil: During the attempted take-over of Mechanicsburg, he stated he wanted to make it at least look like he wanted to do it without bloodshed. He also advised against antagonising the Jägermonsters. He also switches sides to Wulfenbach rather readily, citing how despite them being so ruthless, it's a step up from being in the DecadentCourt of the Knights of Jove.
* SecretKeeper: He is one of few that knows about Spark-infecting wasp. The others are Prince Aronev and the creator of the device himself. Well, and Tarvek, but he wasn't ''supposed'' to know.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Seffie]]
!!Princess Xerxsephina von Blitzengaard
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Xerxsephina "Seffie" von Blitzengaard is the far more level-headed sister to Martellus von Blitzengaard, acting as the liason between Baron Gil Wulfenbach and the Knights of Jove after the TimeSkip and the resurgence of the Long War.
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* ArrangedMarriage: She's trying to set one up between Gil and herself. She's well aware he's obsessed with Agatha, but is insistent that it would help stabilize everything if the two largest factions were joined by marriage. Gil is annoyed to note that she's right.
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20171108 She elaborates to Tarvek later]] that she knows she'll end up in a political marriage one way or another, so she might as well choose ''who'' she wants to marry, and Gil is the best choice by far. It may not sound like a great marriage on paper, but she's determined to make it work.
* AffablyEvil: Evil is a big stretch, but she is manipulative and can be uncaring towards others livelihoods. Nevertheless, she's unfailingly charming. Gil regards her as an old friend, and Tarvek (who hates his family as a rule) says that she's a doll, while acknowledging that she's all the more dangerous for it.
* BadassNormal: She isn't a spark but that doesn't hinder her ability to scheme and manipulate others, such as Gil or her brother. It also doesn't stop her from being just as crazy as a Spark.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She's [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151030 decidedly not a fan of Gil's crush on Agatha]]. Later, when Queen Albia is attempting to [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200610 encourage a romance between Gil and Trelawney Thorpe]], Seffie is apoplectic.
* EvilLaugh: She's working on her harmonics.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: She has a couple of moments during the attack on Paris. First, she tells her grandmother that she shouldn't beat the servants... because it's bad for her shoulder. Next, when Colette has trouble controlling the gargoyles, she asks her to avoid killing Martellus, because she needs him alive for her master plan. On the other hand, usefulness seems to overshadow affection in this family as a rule.
* MaskOfSanity: Possibly. While she seems affable enough even if a bit eccentric due to wanting to perfect maniacal laughter, she COMPLETELY loses it when the tea she is drinking "becomes cold" and she smashes the cup against the table several times. Of course, the real trigger is her being confronted with the fact that Gil loves Agatha rather than her. When she comes out of it, she apparently doesn't process that she broke the cup and casually blames it on one of her underlings.
* TheMatchmaker: Encourages Tarvek's crush on Agatha to get Agatha out of the way for her own crush on Gil, which also means she's opposing Martellus' claim to the Lightning Throne, as his claim basically hinges on him wedding Agatha.
* MenLikeDogsWomenLikeCats: When Tweedle decided to make an {{Uplifted|Animal}} cat, Seffie was [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20201012 all over the kitty]], and noted that Tweedle is "more of a ''huge hairy dog monster person''" (in reference to his Knights of the Hunt).
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She's a bit hands-on when it comes to Gil. Not too much, not even enough for him to mention it, but enough to earn her a few glares.
* RedOniBlueOni: She is (at least when the subject isn't Gil) a more level-headed counterpart to her heavy-handed and brutal brother.
* SecretKeeper: Surprisingly, Gil trusts her enough to use her as a diplomatic messenger, even giving her papers meant to be placed "under the rock in catacombs." Furthermore, she appears to know [[spoiler:that Gil has his father riding around in his head]].
* StalkerWithACrush: She has a borderline-psychotic crush on Gil and has been intercepting his letters since she was a child.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: Inadvertently starts a new fashion trend in Britain when she shows up at the Queen's court with candy in her hair, claiming it's fashion, rather than just admitting she slipped and fell and it got stuck in her hair.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Like Klaus, Lucrezia, Vole, Martellus, and who knows how many others, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130807 Seffie underestimates Agatha]].
* XanatosSpeedChess: She's very flexible in her planning, to the point of tossing ''the entire Knights of Jove agenda'' in the circular file after everything went pear-shaped and forming an alliance with the heir of the Empire they'd been planning to replace.
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[[folder:Margarella]]
!! Lady Margarella Selnikov, Sturmvoraus Dissident
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Lady Margarella Selnikov (or "Aunt Marglotta" to Violetta) is the widow of Lord Rudolf Selnikov, a member of the Knights of Jove, and sister to Prince Aaronev.
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* ActionSurvivor: She's made it as far as Agatha's auspices without being offed by Smoke Knights, but she certainly is not fighter material. Subverted when it turns out [[spoiler: she's orchestrated at least some of the railway attacks that seemed to be after her, in order to get to the Corbettites' base, and takes one of their members hostage]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141022 as seen here.]]
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: Turns out she was looking in the wrong vaults all along...]]
* AwfulWeddedLife: It's made more explicit in the novels, but she and her husband did not have a happy union.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Turns out she was trying to get to the Corbettite fortress to go through their weapons stash, and deliberately leading the assassins to her.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Freeing the Beast? NOT a good idea. Violet herself verifies she is DEFINITELY dead.]]
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Goes well with her rather black travel dress as well.
* PetTheDog: As far as Violetta knows, either Margarella never tried to kill her or [[DamnedByFaintPraise didn't try particularly hard]], which counts as this in her book when compared to [[BigScrewedUpFamily the rest of their family.]]
* {{Protectorate}}: Thanks to Agatha's ChronicHeroSyndrome. She remains so even after her identity is revealed by Wooster.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: She supports Tarvek over Tweedle, due to Tweedle being an absolutely horrible Storm King by any measure. She's on the lam because of it. This is [[ZigZaggingTrope zigzagged]]. It turns out [[spoiler:she's not remotely a good person at all.]] And then ''later'' it turns out [[spoiler: she wasn't working for either side, but the resolutely neutral Library. Except that the Library at the time was neutral in Tarvek's favor, so she may have still been a Tarvek loyalist after all.]] It's complicated.
* VillainousBreakdown: Loses it when [[spoiler:her targeted Corbettite vault doesn't contain whatever it is she's looking for. She runs around [[IdiotBall frantically opening other vaults willy-nilly]], until she gets to the one containing [[KilledOffscreen The Beast]]..]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wolkerstorfer]]
!!Count Wolkerstorfer, Magnet Demon

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[[caption-width-right:236:"Have you seen my '''magnet'''? "]]
Count Wolkerstorfer is an absent-minded member of the Knights of Jove, with a sparky propensity for magnets. He is first seen attacking the Wyrm of Limerick, a Corbettite rail liner, and later plays an important role in the defeat of the Beast of The Rails.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Wolkerstorfer has a few memory retention problems... He is nearly derailed from his mission in finding Lady Selnikov by Krosp until he runs through his memory again.
* AffablyEvil: Appears genuinely personable and friendly, even while attacking the Wyrm of Limerick on behalf of Martellus.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: As a result of his forgetfulness, he tends to lose track of things in the middle of conversations.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: In many ways a forgetful {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. But he's AMAZING with magnets, and he's still capable of fending off major attacks singlehanded.
* DitzyGenius: He's ditzy even by [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Spark standards]], but he's a genius even by their standards too.
* EyeBeams: How he kills Baron Oomfumf. His mech's cyclopean eye rakes the Baron's [[BuffySpeak tuba trombone battle wagon thing]] with a beam.
* ForScience: Seems to be his default mode of thought, though he's a lot calmer about it than many such individuals.
* HumongousMecha: We haven't seen Wolkerstorfer himself, just his huge bulbous mech... unless that ''is'' his body. It's anyone's guess where Sparks are concerned.
* MagneticWeapons: Wolkerstorfer is ''all'' about this, though not the typical rail/coil guns, but much more reality-breaking sparky applications. Martellus even calls him a "''demon'' with magnets".
* NothingPersonal: It appears you really have to work at it to get him to form a grudge; after confronting Agatha and the Corbettite Monks and having them do some [[StopHittingYourself fairly serious damage]] to his mecha, he later cheerfully assists them in their fight against The Beast. He couldn't be angry over it, because from Agatha's and Matthias's invention he learned something ''fascinating'' about magnets!
* TheyCalledMeMad: He seems to be not very well-regarded by his peers due to his inability to focus, leading to this response (following the offending party's death by eye beam).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mister Obsidian]]
!!Mister Obsidian, Hired Muscle

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"Mister Obsidian", the only alias we know him as, has a rather apt name, being seemingly impervious to physical attacks. First appearing as a spy seemingly working for the Library, but actually working for Terebithia to bring Tarvek back to his family, by force if necessary.
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* AffablyEvil: Very much all business but tries to be polite where possible. He even complains that he rarely gets the chance to be nice when doing his job.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: ''Curb-stomps'' Tarvek with ease without even needing to ''evade'', with the first "holy crap" moment when ''Tarvek breaks a wrench over his head without the guy even moving''.
* ImplacableMan: See image to the right. This guy takes the ''cake''.
* MadeOfIron: He outclasses ''Higgs'' by virtue of being so durable that ''he simply doesn't even react to being hit'', nevermind take any kind of damage. This trope might be close to ''literal'' in his case, if he's a construct. So far his capabilities border on NighInvulnerable.
* NamesToRunAwayFrom: ''Mister Obsidian''. With the latter word being generally associated with materials that are ''extremely durable''.
* ServileSnarker: After Grandma attempts to stab him in the face [[BluffTheImpostor in order to kill a would-be impostor]], he expresses that she's "as suspicious, homicidal and unapologetic as ever".

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Van Rijn]]
!!R. Van Rijn, Royal Advisor to King Andronicus Valois
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R.[[note]]Possibly "[[Creator/RembrandtVanRijn Rembrandt]]", but this is yet to be confirmed in-comic.[[/note]] Van Rijn was a legendary Spark, surpassing his peers of the day (ie, 200-odd years before the events of the comic), and even Sparks of the modern day. He is best known for two things: being the close advisor of the original Storm King, and for constructing nine clanks of exquisite craftsmanship, the Muses.
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: In Voltaire's story, Van Rijn was described as having carted away Andronicus' corpse to give him a proper burial after the Shining Coalition finally defeated him. Flash-foward 200 years, and Andronicus is alive again, but as a decaying HumanoidAbomination. What and why Van Rijn did this, or if he was even involved, is left up to speculation.]]
* BeyondTheImpossible: Managed to make ''sentient clanks'' in the form of the Muses, something that's considered widely to be impossible even 200 years later.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: 200 years later, the exquisite craftsmanship and intricacy of his Muses remain unsurpassed by other clank designers. Although there have been hints he got a leg up thanks to his conversations with [[spoiler:The Muse of Time]].
* {{Bookworm}}: He founded an autonomous library of extreme bibliophiles.
* DirtyOldMan: The [[spoiler:Muse of Time]] refers to him as a "presumptuous old lecher".
* TheGhost: His inventions and legacy feature heavily in the comic's plot, but Van Rijn himself has been dead for centuries by the present, and even in flashbacks, the kind of person he was is deliberately kept extremely ambiguous. (Though we do eventually get to see what he looked like.)
* ImmortalitySeeker: He sought to trap [[spoiler:The Muse of Time]] in order to force from her the secret of immortality. Although it's been hinted that [[spoiler: this was not done entirely for his own sake.]]
* MadScientist: He was a Spark, so this is a given.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Well, technically someone finally did... 200 years later.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: At the very least, he constructed the Muses, forged the Storm King a powerful electrified sword, built an industrial sausage-works and was a talented painter and sculptor.
* TheParanoiac: Explicitly stated to be one in a footnote in one of the Girl Genius print novels, and there have been hints of this in the comic; his notebook is larded with codes within codes.
* PosthumousCharacter: By the time Agatha finds him, he is a long-mummified husk.
* ShroudedInMyth: Again according to the novel, not much was known about the guy even when he was alive.
* TheSlowPath: Possibly, in his dealings with the entity he named The Muse of Time.
* SweetTooth: Among the hidden secrets inside his notebook Agatha finds numerous recipes.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Sparks are well-known for Tampering in God's Domain, but Van Rijn was still greatly unnerved after he created the Muses about just what it was he'd created. Then they kindly told him it was alright.

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[[folder:Andronicus Valois]]
!!Andronicus Valois, The First Storm King
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A legendary ruler who commanded the Knights of Jove and ruled a large chunk of Europe roughly 200 years ago. Super-Spark Van Rijn constructed the Muses for him. He beat back the forces of Bludtharst Heterodyne as head of the "Coalition of the West," for which he was hailed as the "Storm King" and received the blessing of the "Five Good Emperors." According to an opera written about his life, he fell in love with Euphrosynia Heterodyne when he saw her menaced by her fiancé, Ogglespoon (who was her fiancé by arrangement with her father, not by her choice, supposedly). He tried to rescue her, only to be thwarted by a bonsai hedge maze. He then vowed to search for her forever, leading to the downfall of the Knights of Jove and his empire.

'''''For "his" (in a way) appearance in Volumes 2-3 (16) and 2-4 (17), scroll to the bottom of this folder.'''''
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* {{Ambadassador}}: He loved diplomacy and negotiation and used warfare not to destroy his enemies but to get them to negotiate terms of peace with him.
* ArtifactOfDoom: His mace The Platonic Solid was corrupted in some fashion by Bludtharst Heterodyne.
* BadassNormal: Going from his dialogue in the second novel's prologue, he most likely isn't a Spark nor does he have a particularly high opinion of them. And yet, not only was he able to conquer most of Europa but he managed to do it with diplomacy, bringing legitimate peace to the continent for a time. Ironically, his descendants insist that being a Spark is a prerequisite for becoming Storm King.
* ChoiceOfTwoWeapons: Has two, [[HeroesPreferSwords a sword]] and [[CarryABigStick a mace]]. [[spoiler:Voltaire destroys them both to prevent the maddened Andronicus from becoming basically unstoppable.]]
** The sword, Archimedes' Lever and dubbed as "Slasher" by the Jägers, forged by Van Rijn, and basically capable of [[ShockAndAwe calling down lots of lightning]]. It was said that it was supposed to be so sharp that it could "cut day out of the night".
** The mace, Platonic Solid and dubbed "Smasher" by the Jägers, that can send energy to melt solid rocks and turn people into gruesome-looking mind-controlled zombies. We've heard two evidently contradictory stories about its creation/source: Violetta says it was a gift from Albia, Queen Of England, while Simon Voltaire says that Van Rijn made it along with the sword. Turning people into mind-controlled zombies is apparently the result of the Platonic Solid being corrupted due to the work of Bludtharst Heterodyne (as confirmed by the Castle itself.)
* DealWithTheDevil: The deal with Bludtharst Heterodyne to marry his sister Euphrosia, in exchange for both sides being at peace. [[spoiler:The Heterodynes never had any intention of following through with this, and betrayed him.]]
* EnemyMine: Part of the reason he was able to build his empire was the need for everyone to unite against the Heterodynes. Bludtharst Heterodyne even had "He Couldn't Have Done It Without Me" engraved on his tomb to rub this fact in.
* {{Foil}}: To Klaus. Both have large and impressive empires which try to focus Sparks toward productive goals, while building and maintaining infrastructure along the way. Andronicus conquered Europa with diplomacy and saw war as just a means to get his opponent to agree to peace talks. Klaus ended the Long War by conquering Europa with brute force and shows disdain towards negotiation. Also, both their declines in power can be attributed to Heterodyne women, with Andronicus' coalition collapsing because he put his faith in Euphrosynia and the Wulfenbach Empire lost control of Europa because Klaus refused to trust Agatha.
* TheGoodKing: He was universally regarded as a good monarch in his own time.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A light-hearted version in the novels. He instituted high fashion in order to keep the nobles distracted from fighting each other. Unfortunately, since he was King, he had to lead by example. While Valois utterly hates having to wear a dozen silk waistcoats, he does at least consider it a worthwhile price for relative peace. Taking half an hour just to undo his trouser buttons, on the other hand...
* TheHighKing: The title of "Storm King" is {{implied|Trope}} to involve power over other kings on the continent. He apparently has the authority to [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090227 restore the Fifty Families' to power],] and the dominion of the Storm King appears to be over the entire continent (while we know some kingdoms like Holfung-Borzoi still exist).
* LamarckWasRight: Dimo can confirm that he has Von Blitzengaard's voice and Von Sturmvoraus' nose.
* MirrorCharacter: In a sense, to Bill & Barry Heterodyne. They're both legendary heroes who one of the main characters (Tarvek/Agatha) claims the legacy of, they both brought untold peace to Europa, they both fell for TheVamp (Euphrosynia/Lucrezia) who (probably) led to their fall, and when they both disappeared, the continent was plunged into horrible war. However, the Heterodyne Boys were of the very family whom Andronicus battled to save Europa from; meanwhile, the arch-enemies of the Heterodyne Boys were the Mongfishes, who were members of the Knights of Jove that was originally meant to be the Storm King's honour guard.
* OhCrap: The novels show exactly ''when'' Valois realizes trusting the Heterodynes was a Bad Move: [[spoiler:The night before he's set to marry Euphrosia, the Muses come to him and outright tell him she's going to screw him over. And they can only tell him then and there because it's too late to do anything. At that point, Valois starts thinking, starts ''really'' thinking, about which one of the two lovers was the one who actually suggested marrying...]]
* ReallyGetsAround: By reputation at least. Multiple people have said that claiming descent from the Storm King doesn't mean much, because if the legends are true, ''half of Europa'' is descended from him. And his reign was only 8-10 generations ago. Apparently, at an impressionable age, the young Andronicus read a number of scholarly works that talked about a king being a fertility symbol, and [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong thought this was a mighty fine idea.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: As noted, a lot of what the audience "knows" about him comes from an opera of dubious historical accuracy. Violetta also doesn't know the abilities of his signature weapons because legend describes them in obtuse, fanciful language.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's incredibly obvious that there's some sort of major twist involving him. Considering everything we knew about him was told through the opera and third-hand comments, some kind of major reveal was practically inevitable.


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!!Tropes for "his" appearance in Volumes 2-3 (16) and 2-4 (17).
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The mad remnant of what was once Andronicus Valois.

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* ActuallyThatsMyAssistant: [[spoiler: Sees Agatha wearing her trilobite brooch and assumes she's the servant of the Heterodynes rather than 'The' Heterodyne.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: When he is reawakened in the present, he's an enraged, psychotic husk of his former self that proceeds to go on a rampage through the streets.]]
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Used to ''not'' be this, but he's now [[spoiler:a practically radioactive green, complete with the ability to melt someone's skin to mere bone on touch. Or subject it to rapid aging. Or something.]]
* BerserkButton: ''Jägers.'' He ''really'' hates them. [[spoiler:Da Boyz and Jenka eagerly tap-dance all over this button to distract him and get him so riled up that he can't fight properly.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Implied by Simon Voltaire, he was apparently corrupted by the enemies of the Shining Coalition, or at least his corpse was. [[spoiler:In the current era, he has ''utterly lost his mind,'' believing all his former allies are "oathbreakers and wizards", demanding to know "where his bride was taken", believing his love is still alive despite it being two centuries since he was last active.]]
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: [[spoiler:When he enters the story, he is confused by his surroundings, last remembers the long dead Van Rijn smirking over one of his machines, and assumes treachery. He finds the modern Paris to be astounding.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: An externally-caused version of this. [[spoiler:After trying to rid the world of the Heterodynes and their monsters, he ended up becoming a horrific, undead, maddened evil Heterodyne-made monster himself.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:Was apparently transformed into a maddened undead monstrosity by his enemies, which his allies were forced to put down. When he appears in the current era, he looks ''increasingly monstrous'' the longer he fights - he starts off looking human except with green, glowing skin, but by the time Voltaire destroys his weapons, he's degraded into some kind of walking skeleton, and ''after'' that he's practically falling apart.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Eventually gets worn down completely by Master Voltaire, Da Boyz, Jenka, Martellus and Agatha, before finally being finished off by Martellus. His final end is no less tragic than he was first defeated - a maddened undead monstrosity put down by his last remaining old friend, the Jägers who were his old foes back in his glory days, his descendant and the descendant of the woman he loved, mistaking her for Euphrosynia and spending his last moments utterly thrilled that he had "found her", only for Martellus to crush his skull moments after. Of course, being the glory hog that he is, Martellus doesn't even take a moment to mourn his ancestor and contemplate his tragic end, he goes straight to literally claiming his crown for himself. Then again, said ancestor did corrupt his close friends/followers into undead monsters, thus forcing Martellus to MercyKill them, so it's understandable he would spare little thought to him.]]
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler:He was already crazy to begin with after he was turned into some kind of monstrous construct, but he's so obsessed with Euphrosynia that he's demanding to know where she was "taken" (despite it being two centuries since she disappeared), and he's blaming Van Rijn for her disappearance, and angry at his former allies for not telling him anything, despite Voltaire quite clearly stating Euphrosynia's disappearance was entirely her fault and nobody actually knows what happened to her.]]
* NotQuiteDead / {{Immortality}}: [[spoiler:If Muse Prende is to be believed. It's not clear if Andronicus is actually immortal or some kind of time traveler or has been held in suspended animation, but he is most certainly beyond just human at this point. As it turns out, Pende's Latern was shining on him. Anything caught in its light is frozen in time. Removing the latern... turned out to not be a good idea.]]
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Putting him down the second time requires, in order, getting blasted multiple times by the Gendarmy, repeatedly electrocuted and buried in rubble by Voltaire, stabbed in the gut with his own sword by Martellus, having an ''entire building'' collapse on top of him, getting smacked around by the Jägers, Voltaire melting the weapons that grant him {{Immortality}}, Agatha blasting him with a WaveMotionGun, and, finally, having his head crushed by Martellus' final blow. To say it took everything the heroes had to put him down is not an exaggeration in the least.]]
** To hear Voltaire describe it, killing him the first time was almost as difficult, and that was back when he was just a normal human with a couple of Spark-made weapons, [[spoiler: rather than the OneManArmy HumanoidAbomination the readers see in the present]].
* SealedGoodInACan / SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Apparently was one of these. The jury is out as to ''which'', with the Paris incident leaning towards "corrupted evil insane undead monstrosity"]].
* ThereWasADoor: [[spoiler:This is how he decides to leave an underground chamber to go settle some matter. In Zeetha's words, his route is very direct.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: The very fact that [[spoiler:he still ''exists'' in some form]] is a spoiler.
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:Andronicus was... ''corrupted'' somehow according to Simon Voltaire. His closest confidantes ultimately had to sacrifice much to end his deranged rampage. For all intents and purposes, [[ThatManIsDead everyone considers him to be]] ''[[ThatManIsDead undead]]''.]]

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[[folder:Martellus' Cat]]

An orange female cat who was the mouser of the British submarine that evacuated most of the heroes from the self-destructing Royal Society dome. Initially fawning over Krosp, she was turned into a construct with sapience and human-level intelligence by Martellus von Blitzengaard, both (presumably) as a counterpart to Krosp and (explicitly) a role much like Agatha's weasel has in terms of keeping Martellus healthy. This also results in a 180-turn in her mental disposition towards Krosp. (Physically she's still attracted to him.) Has noticeable lightning bolt markings above her eyes.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It hasn't yet been explained why Tweedle elevated her intellect along with making her an Agatha-substitute.
* IntellectualAnimal: Similar to Krosp once made a construct, though she considers herself to be more intelligent than him.
* MeetCute: She and Krosp boop noses.. and start hissing at each other.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Literally her first piece of dialogue post-uplifting.
* NoNameGiven: She doesn't officially have a name yet.
* SitcomArchNemesis: With Krosp.
* ShoutOut: The aforementioned lightning bolts and her original uplifting setup are open homages to ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein.''
* UpliftedAnimal: Again, much like Krosp, though the difference is that we actually get to see what she was like before she was uplifted.

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!!Parisians
Tropes pertaining to the Master of Paris, his various minions/relatives, and other denizens of the City of Paris.

[[folder:Aldin Hoffman]]
!! Aldin Hoffman, member of Incorruptible Library
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[[caption-width-right:150:Aldin in his natural state.]]
Aldin is a member of Incorruptible Library. Assigned to keep eyes for Agatha and company when they arrived the Library.
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* ActionSurvivor: You need to be this if you are a librarian who constantly gets dragged into your brother's misadventures and especially if your brother cannot move on himself. It eventually earns him the ability to work for Agatha inside Castle Heterodyne after the DistantFinale.
* BashBrothers: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160701 With his actual brother]], albeit somewhat reluctantly.
* {{Bookworm}}: Pretty much a given for anyone who works in the Library.
* CassandraTruth: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160516 Nobody believes his stories]] about the adventures his brother drags him on. They're just ''that weird.''
--> '''Larana:''' Well, Aldin, if ''you'' didn't write such ''fantastical reports...''\\
'''Aldin:''' ''I am incapable of making things up!'' It ''all'' happened! No one ever ''believes'' me, but it ''happened!''\\
'''Larana:''' Even the--\\
'''Aldin:''' [[NoodleIncident Yes, even the thing with the naked mole rat queen.]]\\
'''Dimo:''' Hoo Hoo! Sounds spicy!\\
'''Aldin:''' It was ''not.'' I assure you.
* DeadpanSnarker: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160222 Here.]]
* DistressedDude: He apparently plays this role often, judging how often he ends up captured and dressed up by villainesses to the point that he has a reputation for it.
* GoGoEnslavement: Apparently [[VillainessesWantHeroes evil villainesses]] enjoy dressing him up in "silly loincloth outfits." And then we see why, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160805 the man looks like a classical gladiator.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He gets dragged into a wide variety of misadventures with his brother. To the point more than a few people consider he and his brother the next ''Heterodyne Boys.'' It gets to the point that his adventures get ''titles''.
* HiddenDepths:
** [[spoiler: It eventually becomes clear his shy and timid personality is partly a facade.]]
** He's an expert [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160525 lock picker]].
---> '''Agatha:''' "Master Safe Cracker?" Really? ''That's'' an interesting skill for ''a librarian''.\\
'''Aldin:''' [[NoodleIncident When you've been captured as often as I have]], [[HadToBeSharp you develop]] an interest in ''locks'' and ''escapology''.
* LetsGetDangerous: He's calm & competent once he's resigned himself to something. It's ''potential'' problems [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160506 that he has trouble with.]]
* NoodleIncident: We only get hints of all the crazy stuff Jim has dragged him into.
* SiblingYinYang: Would you believe that shy, serious {{Bookworm}} Aldin and gung-ho GeniusDitz adventurer Jiminez are [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160425 brothers]]?
* SitcomArchNemesis: Sort of displays this attitude towards his brother, thanks to getting dragged along on the latter's adventures.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Moloch (or probably Wooster). Both are Average Joes who complain about any bad luck and danger that have involuntarily befallen them.
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[[folder:Beausoleil]]
!!Count Drusus Beausoleil
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A Parisian professor of Philosophy and Ars Mechanica. He also serves as one of the Master's agents and a "voix de la raison"[[note]]Voice of Reason[[/note]] for the occasional "heroic type".
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: As retribution for killing her father and nearly destroying Paris, Colette messily destroys each and every last one of his [[RemoteBody remote bodies]] and makes him feel the pain of ''every single death'' in exquisite detail. By the time it's over, he's slumped on the ground and moaning in agony.]]
* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe: References the trope when he offers to do so to [[spoiler:Agatha on Du Quay's behalf. Du Quay dismisses it as a cliché and a distraction from his moment of triumph, but nevertheless suggests he bring her to the Velvet Dungeon for later]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Some of his bodies are subjected to this.]]
* DeathMontage: [[spoiler: We're treated to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170616 most of a page]] of the ways Colette killed his bodies.]]
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler: His plan to usurp Paris falls through thanks to Colette breaking through and taking over the city herself in the wake of Voltaire's death.]]
* DirtyCop: While he does do his duty to thwart various schemes against the Master, [[spoiler:he is also a key figure in one of those himself]]. He also embezzles from Voltaire's private cheese stock.
* DoppelgangerLink: When one of his clank doubles suffer, he and the other duplicates ''feel'' it. [[spoiler:Just look at the page image and imagine the unplesantness of having nearly all of them simultaneously destroyed in amusingly gruesome ways.]]
* FakeDefector: His standard operating procedure is to pretend to support any upstarts trying to usurp the Master so he can spy on them. [[spoiler: He's done this so many times that when he finally defects for real he feels the need to ''tell'' the Master that this time it's genuine.]]
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:He murders the Master of Paris, doing the deed with a sword decorated by the Heterodyne symbol in order to frame Agatha. Too bad for him, Dingbot-Castle is wise to it and ensures Colette doesn't fall for the frame-up once she ascends to power.]]
* ManipulativeBastard:
** He manipulates a bunch of his students into fighting one another in order to create a diversion in order to [[spoiler:abscond with Agatha in the confusion]].
** He worms his way into [[spoiler:Du Quay's trust, manipulates him into accepting Agatha as a prisoner by pointing out that she makes a good hostage against Gil, and looses her to rip apart Du Quay's attempt at overthrowing the Master.]]
** In order to motivate Agatha, he refuses to give Agatha the info she wants until she completes a task for the master. When she does so, he admits that they don't actually ''have'' what she wants.
** [[spoiler: He manages to betray and sabotage the Master himself right under his nose, forcing the Master to do his last resort.]]
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: He claims [[spoiler:his reason for turning against the Master was because the man was so stingy about sharing his technology secrets, which could have been used to improve his clank-bodies.]]
* NotWorthKilling: [[spoiler:Colette doesn't deem it worth her time to hunt down Beausoleil's real body outside Paris after destroying all his clank bodies, as whoever his new "masters" are will [[YouHaveFailedMe certainly not be happy on his failure to deliver Paris to them]].]]
* RemoteBody: He keeps a large supply of remotely controlled clank doubles. [[spoiler:And then Colette destroys them all (save the one in front of her). At once.]]
* SecretPolice: As one of the Master's agents, it is his job to deal with the occasional overly ambitious spark so the Master isn't interrupted from his work by yet another would be conqueror.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: [[spoiler:Just after he kills the Master, all manner of alarms start going off. He isn't reassured when they stop, and with good reason...]]
-->'''Beausoleil:''' ...Why does this not seem like a good thing?
-->'''[[spoiler:Colette:''' Think of it - AS A FINAL MOMENT OF SANITY!]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:When he tells Colette that she can't kill him because his true body is already outside Paris, she points out that his true masters will probably punish him for failing to usurp Paris on their behalf, and his reaction suggests he agrees.]]
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[[folder:Colette]]
!!Colette Voltaire, Master's Hand
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A daughter and agent of Simon Voltaire.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Has no interest in the many, many men pursuing her romantically (not even Hoffman, who she admits isn't after her for power like most of her other suitors), and in [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150826 one of her early appearances]] makes a joke to Agatha about how "their love can never be".
* BadassBoast: [[spoiler:"Paris is '''mine'''- and I will '''defend''' it."]]
* BadassFingerSnap: [[spoiler: Does this when killing Beausoleil's bodies.]]
* BadassNormal: She may not be a Spark but she is the leading candidate to become the next Master of Paris and one of the most respected members of her family. [[spoiler:And then her Spark [[SubvertedTrope starts breaking through]].]]
* ClothingDamage: [[spoiler:As Colette becomes more and more a [[TheMadnessPlace madgirl]], her clothes start catching fire and get rent apart by the electric arcs caused by her interface with Paris. By the time she's at full-tilt Madness Place while exacting revenge on Beausoleil, her clothes are so shredded that she's one soft breeze away from being essentially naked.]]
* DontYouDarePityMe: She rejects Violetta's sympathy for having a difficult family, because of the source.
-->'''Violetta:''' Whoof! And I thought my family was bad.
-->'''Colette:''' Your family ''is'' bad. Mine is noisy and embarrassing.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: She was a cunning leader and warrior from her first appearance, [[spoiler: and was already beginning to tap into the Paris network ''before'' her Spark broke through. When she does break through, with a little help from the Castle, she fully assumes her father's mantle as the Master of Paris]].
* GetOut: [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170619 Says this when destroying Beausoleil's last body.]]]]
* JustFriends: She's well-aware of Hoffman's infatuation with her and while she's appreciative of it (mainly since he was interested in ''her'' as an individual rather than her status), she states that she sees him more as an annoying younger brother. Jiminez ends up finding someone else and they end up engaged, with her smiling during it.
* TheMadnessPlace: [[spoiler:Once her Spark makes its initial breakthrough, she goes deeper and deeper into this state. She's able to pull out of it by the next day thanks to Tarvek and Agatha's help.]]
* NotListeningToMeAreYou: After Agatha has been traumatised by her meeting with The Master, Colette confesses her love for her, then takes Agatha's lack of response as confirmation that she's not pretending.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: What she does to Beausoleil after he murders her father is brutal, but there's no question that he deserved every second of it.]]
* PowerFloats: [[spoiler: When she is channeling the energy of Paris, she gets some impressive floating done.]]
* RemoteBody: She assembles a gigantic clank duplicate of herself to mislead her enemies into thinking she's achieved second breakthrough, even though she only recently achieved her first.
* SheIsTheKing: Opts to retain the title Master of Paris since Mistress of Paris makes her sound like a demimondaine[[note]]a term used for people who live hedonistic lifestyles[[/note]].
* TheSparkOfGenius: Averted. She, alas, is not a Spark like her father. [[spoiler:Except when she [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170206 starts breaking through]] in the middle of a BallroomBlitz in Paris.]]
* TheSpymaster: Serves as this for her father.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: [[spoiler:Soon after feeling her father's death, her nascent burgeoning Spark reaches the maximum level of TheMadnessPlace in exacting retribution on his murderer, [[SmugSnake Beausoleil]].]]
* UnwantedHarem: Because she is the daughter of the Master of Paris and prime fodder for marriage for power, she has quite an unwanted following.
* WetwareCPU: [[spoiler:Unlike her [[DentedIron father]], Colette still has the vigor of youth at the time her nascent spark emerges. As such, she is able to handle the mental burden of being plugged into all of Paris like her father used to be ages ago.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: Her father grooms her to be his successor for years. [[spoiler:When The Master finally kicks the bucket, she's plugged into the Paris control network ''and'' is in the middle of her Spark breakthrough, prodigiously learning the controls at an astounding pace.]]
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[[folder:Jiminez Hoffmann]]
!!Jiminez Hoffmann, Paris University Student and Honorary Prince of the Moligarchy
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A Parisian student who offers to help Agatha for extra credit.
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* AccidentalPervert: After he is [[spoiler: almost blinded by acid]], he and Agatha make a vision-enhancing helmet with different settings. One of the them is X-ray vision.
--> '''Hoffmann:''' I can zoom in between macro and microscopic vision! We even gave it different filters! It can do infrared, ultraviolet, and... ''[stares at Larana]'' And... Uhhhh...\\
'''Agatha:''' ''[changing the settings]'' And X-ray.\\
'''Larana:''' [[BigWhat WHAT?!]]\\
'''Hoffmann:''' Uh, yeah. X-ray. Sorry.
* AlmightyJanitor: Nominally speaking, he's just a student at the University of Paris, not even being an agent of the Library like his brother. His list of exploits still rivals that of the ''Heterodyne Boys'', and he's barely into his twenties. That being said, the University is shown to be something of an AcademyOfAdventure, and the comic implies multiple times that Hoffman would be dead a dozen times over if not for Aldin and Larana's help.
* ArrangedMarriage: Accidentally gets himself into one. He makes peace between two underground peoples that have been long at war by suggesting they form a political marriage. But both peoples are completely different species, with one being comprised of humans and the other being made up of mole people. As a result, he is adopted as a prince of the mole people and put into an arranged marriage with the other side.
* BashBrothers: He and Aldin practice a two-person "fighting style" called [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160701 heroic freestyle]].
* BattleCouple: With Larana, after they finally sort out their UnresolvedSexualTension.
* CoolHelmet: His vision-augmentation helmet after [[spoiler:he suffers the EyeScream incident below]].
* {{Determinator}} Nothing will stop him from adventuring. Whether it be broken legs, having his bones turned soft or literally being on fire.
* DisabilitySuperpower: [[spoiler:He and Agatha make a vision-enhancing helmet when Hoffmann is nearly completely blinded by acid. He eventually gets cat eyes as a permanent replacement.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: Colette admits that Hoffman's interest in her is at least genuine, unlike other would-be suitors who are [[GoldDigger after her family's political power]]. She's still not interested in him, though.
* DropTheHammer: Had one in his first appearance. It was a kinetic energy accumulator that he'd been hitting things with all day. [[DidntThinkThisThrough Setting it to "discharge" created a massive explosion]] that damaged sewers and water lines in the whole city block, leading to its confiscation by Master Voltaire.
* GeniusDitz: Though he is a Spark, he is also a space cadet, and also apparently can't tell the difference between "invincible" and "invisible".
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:He gets a faceful of acid from an old clank while exploring the Corbettite crypt. He's lucky the acid had lost most of its potency, and it still leaves him almost blind.]]
* GoodIsDumb: Not totally dumb, mind you, as he is a [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder Spark]]. He is an honest, good person who can neither scheme nor reduce his collateral damage. Which leads to [[spoiler: Aldin excluding him from his own]] schemes since he would almost certainly leak it to Agatha.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: According to Aldin, the two of them have gotten into so many crazy adventures that the library curators consider them to be the new Heterodyne Boys. Just like Aldin, it's to the point that their adventures have ''titles''.
* HumbleHero: He saves a king's life and puts an end to a war that has lasted generations. He insists it's no big deal. [[WhatTheHellHero And gets chewed out for it because that war was the only thing keeping the people involved from waging war upon the surface]].
* LastNameBasis: He is usually called by last names, except when his brother, Aldin, is around.
* LoveEpiphany: He eventually comes to realize that he has feelings for Larana... right around the time he mistakenly comes to think that she's in love with his brother, Aldin.
* NotMeThisTime: He releases monsters onto Paris often enough that the Master assumes he's behind the latest weirdness involving van Rijn's secret lab. He really wasn't.
* ObliviousToLove: From Larana.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: PlayedWith all around in regards to his arranged union with Larana. She loves him, but he's painfully oblivious to it and only sees her as a friend- at first. ''Then'' he starts to reciprocate, only to get the impression that she's in love with his brother. It takes an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove from Larana to finally sort things out between the two of them.
* SiblingYinYang: Would you believe that shy, serious and {{Bookworm}} Aldin and GeniusDitz, GoodIsDumb and adventurous Jiminez are [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160425 brothers]]?
* UnrequitedLove: He is one of Colette's many admirers. But she has no interest in him, viewing him in the same way one would an AnnoyingYoungerSibling.
* WeirdnessMagnet: His brother Aldin laments this fact. Trying to keep him out of trouble only makes it worse.
--> '''Aldin:''' Lady Heterodyne, if we take him back now, he will complain for ''months.'' He will actively seek me out, follow me around, and tell me at ''excruciating length'' why we shouldn't have "run away-" And while he is doing so, he will drag me into six "adventures" worse than this death crawl can ''ever'' be.
* XRayVision: His helmet has this, much to Larana's dismay.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Larana]]
!!Princess Larana Chroma of the Silver Lands
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Princess Larana is daughter to the King of the Silver Lands, a subterranean kingdom deep beneath Paris. Unlike her father, she sees infestation by Revenants to be a problem.
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* ActionGirl: She is a member of ''Deep Library's Hunting Party" who frequently goes to dangerous expeditions. She later proves to have a love of explosives.
* ArrangedMarriage: Self-arranged for an alliance to stop her father's plans with The Other. [[spoiler:The princess that "Honorary Prince" Jiminez Hoffman has been arranged with? She's it. He knows this, she doesn't, at first. When he tells her, he assumes she's not interested and takes her attempt to say otherwise as confirmation, then an explosion calls his attention away before she can correct him.]]
* CannotSpitItOut: Larana has it for Hoffman, who is [[ObliviousToLove clueless]] about it.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Lady Heterodyne, be my friend (Huge Grin, pictured at right). [[StuffBlowingUp I have exploded the tunnel and]] will do so to boats which we don't use. (Gasp) Mr. Hoffman, you are also here?
* FrontlineGeneral: Plans to lead her people into battle against [[spoiler: the newly risen Storm King, after usurping the throne from her father.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Everyone else in her father's court seem to either be revenants or in on the conspiracy. She's concerned enough about this being a big problem to take part in a plot to kidnap her own father and go into an arranged marriage with a prince of a recently accorded former enemy kingdom to enlist their aid. [[spoiler: And later outright usurp the throne and go into battle against the Storm King.]]
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: PlayedWith. They are heads over heels in love with each other, and from what is shown would make a pretty good match. This would make their arranged marriage an example of this trope, except that neither of them realizes how the other feels.
* PoliticallyActivePrincess: See OnlySaneMan above.
* StatuesqueStunner: She stands a good head above Agatha, Jiminez, and her own father. Easily seen [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160819 here]] with Agatha.
* StuffBlowingUp: Seems to be her specialty.
* TheUsurper: Technically. [[spoiler:She cites the "Ancient Tradition of Filial Usurpation" when dethroning her run-amok father to defuse the situation in the Incorruptible Library. The Library's war party returns just in time to help enforce her usurpation.]]
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: [[spoiler:When Hoffman gets sprayed in the face with acid by a Corbettite clank, her response is to break out the explosive charges on the clank with intent to collapse the passageway on it.]] She also previously got vehement when the Library sentry expressed hope that Hoffman would throw himself out of the lift due to his notoriety at the Incorruptible Library.
** While she planned all along to take her father out of power, [[spoiler: she outright usurps the throne as soon as he threatens Jiminez.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Master]]

!!Simon Voltaire, The Master of Paris
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[[caption-width-right:297:''"Ugh, the same nonsense over and over again. How does Albia stand it?"'']]
The ruler of Paris. He is said to be very fond of art. Notable as being one of the few powerful sparks that Klaus has not had to deal with as he doesn't care much about what goes on outside his city, so his "Leave me and mine alone" policy works well alongside Klaus' "Don't make me come over there".
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* ArtAttacker: Fitting for being a large patron of the arts. When making a tactical move against the Geisterdamen attacking Martellus's masquerade, he flourishes as if revealing an artistic opus ("VOILÀ!"), and the scene [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170215 looks like a perspective picture]].
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He doesn't fight as much as when he was younger, but he is ''the'' Master of Paris, and has had to defend that title against all comers for ''centuries''.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Or at least one of his "youngest" children, Colette, thinks so. They aren't malignant screwed-up like the Valois clan, but they are obnoxious and embarassing (again according to Colette). Also, some of his "children" are decades old and geriatric.
* BlackAndNerdy: He's a Spark, and black. Self evident.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Like Klaus, he'd rather focus on his spark work, so he tries to leave incidents to his agents. He's very agitated when his agent fails to stop an incident involving Agatha taking control of the city, because it forced him to take matters into his own hands.
* {{Cyborg}}: Appears to be mostly mechanical from the neck down. This might be part of how he's lived for so long.
* DentedIron: He's an old man, and even his cybernetics have their limits and are breaking down. He's no longer able to fight like he did in the days of the Shining Coalition, [[spoiler: and after the battle with Andronicus, he's badly beaten enough to be taken down for keeps.]]
* FirstNameBasis: With the Matriarch of the Knights of Jove, Terebithia. Not only does it reveal the name to the readers, but as one of several hints indicating they may have had an intimate past.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The Master encourages people to study the means by which he controls Paris, since it allows him to ferret out weak points in his system. But whenever anyone uncovers too much, he will MakeAnExampleOfThem, leaving behind nothing but large craters.
* HermitGuru: Okay, so Paris does not really qualify as remote in the conventional sense, but getting to see The Master of Paris isn't easy.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: As we catch more glimpses of the story of the Shining Coalition, it becomes clear that it was an epic tragedy, easily worthy of its own webcomic, one that finally ends two hundred years later with the Coalition's last two members, one embittered and the other corrupted, facing off for the final time.
* IGaveMyWord: Agatha's rescue of his city only warranted 6 hours of study-time in Paris, with the other 2 days and 18 hours being time left over on the accounts of the Heterodyne Boys. Being their heir, she inherits this time because he ''pays his debts.''
* InadequateInheritor: Has kept himself alive for centuries because he has yet to find anyone he'd be willing to leave control of his city to. [[spoiler:After his murder, his daughter Colette, whom he believed showed promise and recently awoke her Sparkiness, is able to take control of city and assumes the title of Master.]]
* KilledOffForReal: Confirmed by The Castle. [[spoiler:He was already spent after the battle with Andronicus, but Beausoleil successfully murders him, using a sword that purges him from the systems of Paris. Fortunately, Colette is able to take over for him.]]
* KnowledgeBroker: Of sorts. It's stated that the Master doesn't particularly care what you do in Paris, provided you're not making a ruckus, but he insists on ''knowing''.
* LargeAndInCharge: He is quite massive and has very odd body proportions, even discernible through his very thick overcoat; it's eventually revealed that most of that bulk is cybernetics.
* MadArtist: Even if he isn't one himself, his city is more or less run for the benefit of them. His threatened use for criminals is "Raw Materials". During his response to the escalation in Paris, he [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170215 gets artistic in defeating a horde of Geisterdamen]].
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: He is very old and has many children. His children vary in age quite significantly, with some of them being ancient.
* TheMaster: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Of Paris!]]
* MemeticBadass: InUniverse, he's seen as being able to hold off Klaus and force the latter to recognize his authority in Paris. The "memetic" part comes because it's more of a puppet-theater joke - Simon is independent because Klaus knows he will never have any reason to come over there.
* NotSoAboveItAll: He made Hoffman roommates with troublemaker and ConspiracyTheorist Pierre van Stron just because he thought it would be funny.
* TheOmniscient: Or at least so he claims. According to Othar's twitter, his power depends on the fact that everyone accepts that nothing can happen in his city without his finding out. It's eventually revealed that he used to be omniscient in a way, when he could connect and become one body with the entire city itself, but he's generally too old for that in the present. Not that that'll stop him if things cross the GodzillaThreshold...
* PowerFloats: When he links in with the systems of Paris, he starts floating in an energy bubble.
* RealityWarper: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Whatever he's done to Paris, he can control and reshape the entire city to his whim when running at full power, in a similar way to Castle Heterodyne's control over Mechanicsburg.
* ReallyGetsAround: See MassiveNumberedSiblings. By most standards, and judging by the age and numbers of his children, his sex life is very active.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He is referred to as one of the oldest, wisest sparks around (Albia is the only known living Spark older than him), and he personally fought alongside the Storm King against the old Heterodynes as part of The Coalition of The West. This would make him ''200 years old'' at least. The reference in the Storm King Opera to "The Five Good Emperors" raises the possibility that he was already a powerful ruler at this time. He also refers to The Baron as "Young Klaus." He also has several "children" who are not so much unaffected by aging, and are geriatric. [[spoiler:It's hinted that he may be trying to create an heir that has inherited both his Spark and his sensibility. He has high hopes for Colette... which may be exactly what he's looking for since [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170206 her breakthrough has begun.]]]]
* SoProudOfYou: Is quite delighted when he learns that Colette studied much more about Paris' systems than he had chosen to teach her.
* TheSpymaster: It is almost impossible to do anything without his hearing about it. Almost.
* SternTeacher: How he deals with unruly foreign heads of state he can't kill, judging from a footnote about a visit from some rambunctious tsars the second novel gives. After a lengthy period of debauchment (which did make several businesses in the city much richer), they were summoned before the Master... who promptly sent then packing with ''homework''.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Klaus Wulfenbach. He keeps order through his [[MemeticBadass reputation]], he hates TheChainsOfCommanding and would much rather be left alone to his Spark work, and he distrusts Agatha because of his prejudice against the Heterodynes. The only difference between the two personality-wise is that the Master is willing to ''talk'' to Agatha and give her [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure three days in his city]].
* WetwareCPU: The legends of his ability to know everything that goes on in his city stemmed from the fact that at one point, he had literally hardwired himself into the control systems of Paris. As he grew older, he was forced to stop doing so and delegate control of various subsystems to subordinates for health reasons, but that doesn't mean he can't plug himself back in and assert admin privileges over everything if he has to.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Was once one of Andronicus Valois' closest and reliable allies [[spoiler:before the latter was changed into an undead monstrosity. He is determined to finish what he started, despite his extremely advanced age, so he can save his old friend from himself.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: He's getting very tired of dealing with "the same nonsense over and over."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vipsania Perrault]]
!!Vipsania Perrault, member of the Incorruptible Library
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An aspiring librarian in the Incorruptible Library of Paris. She strikes a deal with Franz Scortchmaw, Dragon of Mechanicsburg to recover a deceased dragon's hoard. There seems to be more to her than meets the eye...
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* ExactWords: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20221216 Vows]] none of her friends will throw any more stuff at Hector, only for Lumi to hit him with a stick. She points out she had just met Lumi and couldn't quite call her a friend just yet, and Lumi didn't throw anything.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Rides one of the Library's giant cats.
* InsistentTerminology: Takes offense to being called a thief, despite all the supporting evidence. When Lumi [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230313 realises she stole the alchemical device from her professor]]:
-->'''Lumi:''' I '''knew it!''' You ''are'' a thief!\\
'''Vipsania:''' I AM NOT! Well... at least... not ''professionally.''\\
'''Franz:''' Heh. Don't worry. With practice, you'll be a ''pro'' in ''no time.''\\
'''Vipsania:''' I don't '''want''' to be a "pro"!
* SoleSurvivor: The only survivor of [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20221207 three]] expeditions, though was deemed not at fault.
-->'''Brother Marcus:''' Bears, a weak staircase, and then '''''more bears''''', wasn't it?
[[/folder]]

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!!Wulfenbach Empire
[[AC:Castle Wulfenbach Students]]
[[folder:Castle Wulfenbach Students as a whole]]
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[[caption-width-right:241:Sleipnir O'Hara, Theopholous [=DuMedd=] and [[OverlyLongName Zaemae Yahyae Ahmad ibn Sulimaen al-Sinhaejae]]]]
A mixed bag of Sparks, nobles, and young people with connections to both, kept on Castle Wulfenbach to be schooled... and to [[PoliticalHostage discourage stupid behavior in their families]].

Many of them remain as of yet un-named but two, Sleipnir O'Hara and Theopholous [=DuMedd=], re-entered the story in Mecanicsburg. Three in particular have more characterization than the rest: Zulenna Luzhakna, Theopholous [=DuMedd=], and Sleipnir O'Hara.
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!!Tropes associated with the Castle Wulfenbach Students in general:
* ArrangedMarriage: Sleipnir had a political marriage waiting for her back home before she ran off with Theo. There are hints other students may be in a similar situation.
* BlueBlood[=/=]ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Anyone without at least one of the two is at the bottom of the social heap. Sleipnir also notes that Sparks matter more than lineage, though.
* GildedCage: They're happy, healthy, and well treated, but it's also true that they are hostages. At least one of them regretted having to ''leave'', though ''he'' may have had [[TownWithADarkSecret other reasons]]. As Tarvek put it, Castle Wulfenbach is ''the'' place to be -- especially for an ascending Spark.
* GoneHorriblyRight: According to the novels, the Baron mainly started up the program to keep the kids of various troublesome nobles and Sparks from getting underfoot. Ushering in a renaissance of intelligent and decent future rulers hadn't really been part of the plan at all.
* TheMole: Tarvek got kicked from Castle Wulfenbach because of this reason and he countered with basically "Who isn't?". The students not only being hostage, they are also spying on Wulfenbach from inside his base of operation. (Or at least, [[FeedTheMole sending the information the Baron wants them to have to their families]].)
* PoliticalHostage: In the manner of old-fashioned royalty, to keep their families in line, they're largely okay with it though.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zulenna]]
!!Princess Zulenna Luzhakna

A royal without the Spark, but with a strong sense of noble pride, as well as unshakable faith in the Baron. She starts out strongly antagonistic towards Agatha for a large number of reasons. However, she changes her tune when Agatha's heritage is revealed. The Heterodyne Boys personally designed her family's defenses, and thus she stays behind to buy Agatha and the others time to escape. She is killed by [=DuPree=], but Klaus orders her put in the cold room to be revived later.
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* AlphaBitch: Zulenna is the main enforcer of the pecking order amongst the students.
* FreudianExcuse: Sparks matter more than lineage. So, as non-Sparky Princess, her standing was not the highest and she became an AlphaBitch to compensate for what she lacks.
* HeroicSacrifice: When Agatha escaped, [[YouShallNotPass Zulenna stayed behind and stood up to Von Pinn]]. Then Bang subverted that to hell [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040901 a page later]]. Then Von Pinn [[DoubleSubversion double-subverted it]] and the ensuing squabble gave Agatha the time she needed to escape. [[ZigZaggingTrope And Klaus ordered her brought back to life]].
* LovableAlphaBitch: Revealed with her HeroicSacrifice; she may look down on anyone of lower station, but she gave her life to repay a family debt. Also in Tarvek's own words, she was always very nice to him, which is why he arranged things behind the scenes for her to even be on Castle Wulfenbach.
* TeamMom: Though Von Pinn is the official nanny, Zulenna does help mind the younger students; admonishing them to not believe everything in a story, and keeping them kempt at the dinner table.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She was killed by Bang after Von Pinn was unable to overcome her programming when Zulenna pulled a YouShallNotPass, but the Baron intended to revivify her [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem against the social by-laws about resurrecting aristocratic family members]]. And then... nothing (so far).
** No mention was made of Zulenna, but the closest thing to a reference to her was [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150608 the name-dropping of her homeland]], Holfung-Borzoi, which had forged a new alliance with a former enemy, [[spoiler: being overseen by Zola/the Queen of the Dawn]].
** She's later revealed to be a cousin to Tarvek and the only reason she was on Castle Wulfenbach was because he pulled strings, in order to keep her safe. He thinks she's dead dead though.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theo]]
!!Theopholous "Theo" [=DuMedd=], Head Boy of the Wulfenbach Academy Dormitory

A friendly Sparky boy, mostly in charge of wrangling the younger students. His mother was one of the Mongfish sisters, making him Agatha's cousin - a fact he is quite pleased to discover, considering she's the first family member he's had who's not dead, missing, or [[NoodleIncident a head in a jar]].
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: ''The Baron'' actually smirks on hearing Theo's story about The Other being a robot dragon.
* BigManOnCampus: As the Head Boy of the group. He's got both BlueBlood ''and'' the [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder Spark]], so he may technically be even higher in the pecking order than Zulenna.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: His parents died several years ago, apparently fighting pirates.
* GargleBlaster: A specialty of Theo's. Just one is enough to even [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081006 knock out Gil!]] Note that he somehow managed to make a 200 proof beverage that contains something ''other'' than alcohol, which is chemically impossible (A 200 proof drink is 100% ethyl alcohol by definition).
* GenreSavvy:
-->'''Theo''': Well, we're in a Heterodyne story now. These things happen.
* GetARoom: After Theo starts to really Spark out near fan-of-[[ForScience science]] Sleipnir, their resulting... ''chemistry'' leaves the other present characters ''very'' eager to leave and ''give'' them the room.
* LongLostRelative: Theo's mother was Lucrezia's sister, Serpentina, which makes Agatha his first cousin. Unlike the rest of the Mongfish family relationships, the one between Theo and Agatha is far more cordial and friendly. The Mongfish connection may explain why Theo doesn't have any living ''duMedd'' relatives, either. [[spoiler: He's also related to Zola the same way, as her mother was a ''third'' Mongfish sister. This has not been mentioned directly in any fashion]]
* MeaningfulName[=/=]JustForPun: [=DuMedd=] was originally [[RedShirt "doomed"]], until the Foglios got [[MauveShirt attached]].
* PutOnABus: After fleeing Castle Wulfenbach, he is mentioned in passing as the source of how Othar found out who Agatha really is, but that was it [[TheBusCameBack until the Mechanicsburg arc]]. [[spoiler:He's back on the really huge double-decker bus along with a lot of other characters caught in the fan-named Take-Five time-freeze bomb that was the cause of the TimeSkip.]]
* RelationshipReveal: He and Sleipnir are revealed to be more than just traveling companions, when she starts getting turned on by Theo sparking out in Lucrezia's secret lab.
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: He has the Spark.
* SinsOfTheFather: Lucrezia initially pretends to be overjoyed to see "Little Theo" again... until it turns out she remembers the time Theo's dad left her for dead in an exploding lab. And she didn't get along with her sister Serpentia ''either''...
-->'''Theo:''' ''(choking)'' Really?\\
'''Lucrezia:''' ''Really.''
* TheStoryteller: Well-known enough that Klaus is able to realize he was the one behind the break-in at his lab when the kid they caught mentioned a story.
* WhiteSheep / TokenGoodTeammate / OnlySaneMan: Not For Wulfenbach students, but for Mongfish family, along with Agatha. His grandfather Lucifer Mongfish was a long-time enemy of the Heterodyne boys, his aunt Lucrezia [[spoiler:was the Other]], and his other cousin is [[spoiler:Zola]]. We can only imagine how bad the rest of the Mongfishes were.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sleipnir]]
!!Sleipnir O'Hara
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A highly intelligent mechanic (not a Spark) who quickly befriends Agatha onboard the Castle.
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* AdrenalineMakeover: Between the adventure in Castle Wulfenbach and her re-appearance in Mechanicsburg, she gets her hair cut short, trades in her frumpy jumpsuit for a [[{{Sideboob}} revealing]] halter-top, and very... "fitted" bodice and pants.
* DeadpanSnarker: When questioned about whether Von Pin will have psychological problems adapting to [[BrainUploading having her mind transferred from the body she's used for decades into "a giant tiger clank with steel claws"]], Sleipnir responds that "given the similarities, I think it quite likely that she won't notice any difference at all."
* GetARoom: See this entry for Theo.
* MeaningfulName[=/=]JustForPun: Sleipnir was introduced as Agatha's roommate on Castle Wulfenbach - someone to "sleep near." This is lost in the novels where Agatha's roommate is Zulenna.
* PutOnABus: Similar to Theo, and TheBusCameBack in Mechanicsburg at the same time Theo did, and left again just like Theo with the [[spoiler:Take-Five bomb]].
* RedheadInGreen: Sleipnir spends much of the comic during her stay on Castle Wulfenbach in a green jumpsuit. Once in Mechanicsburg, she trades it for a haltertop - still green.
* RelationshipReveal: See Theo's entry.
* RunawayFiance: When Agatha met her on Castle Wulfenbach, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030609 she had an arranged marriage waiting for her back home]], but by the time she met up with Agatha again in Castle Heterodyne, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100906 she'd run off with Theo]].
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: She doesn't have the Spark, but she still has some similar tendencies. In addition to becoming his lover, she's also starting to become Theo's personal minion.
* WrenchWench: She's introduced wearing a jumpsuit after a duty shift doing mechanical work, and is handy as a Spark's minion.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Itto]]
!!Itto Wheelwright

One of the younger students on Castle Wulfenbach who likes Theo's Heterodyne Boys stories and is eager to have some adventure himself and to hang out with the older kids.
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* ItsAllMyFault: Itto tries [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030929 to invoke this]] when he realizes the Baron isn't buying his story of sneaking into the labs alone, though he still doesn't give up any names of other students.
* TheLoad: No one gets mad at him since they did pass up an opportunity to take him back to the dorms, but once they get into the Baron's lab he gets startled and freaks out, yelling and running away, alerting the Baron to the presence of the students and he is the only one that gets caught since he goes the wrong way. He does refuse to give up the older students, though the Baron is able to figure out Theo's involvement from things Itto says and just knowing Theo.
* MostDefinitelyNotAccompanyingUs: When the older Castle Wulfenbach Students decide to sneak into the Baron's lab so they can see what a wasp engine looks like Itto tries to invite himself along and is quickly told by Theo that there is no way they are taking him with them due to his age. He manages to follow them for a while before they catch him and Zulenna decides to allow him along, but not before stressing how dangerous the engine is and scaring him to the point that he no longer really ''wants'' to.
* TagalongKid: He's starting to try and join the older students when they try to sneak into forbidden parts of the castle.
[[/folder]]

[[AC:Wulfenbach Personnel]]
[[folder:As a whole]]
* BigOlEyebrows: Among other things, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090123 Monster Hunter Grantz's]] massive eyebrows don't help identifying her as female, at all.
* GreenEyedMonster: Sergeant Nak gets quickly jealous of anyone who seems close with Grantz, with the added bonus of a VisualPun.
* MauveShirt: Sergeant Scorp of the Baron's Vespiary Squad survives a surprising number of appearances. Also an unquestionably Cool Old Guy, right down to the superb facial hair.
* MyBrainIsBig: Kleegon the Battlemaster, a project of the defeated Spark the Count of the Iron Ski who now works for the Baron, has had the top of his head removed and replaced with a foot tall cask to make room for his extra grey matter. His eyes were part of the lost bit and have been replaced by a single centered red one.
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[[folder:Dr. Dim Vapnoople]]
!!Doctor Dimitri Vapnoople, Soundly Defeated Spark
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[[caption-width-right:250:Pictured - one of Europa's most deadly maniacs.]]
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One of Baron Klaus's experiments in "pacifying" particularly mad/stupid/dangerous/annoying Sparks, reduced to a janitorial role aboard Castle Wulfenbach. At some point he created Krosp.
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* TheBeastmaster: Vapnoople's specialty as a Spark was creating and modifying biological life, his last creation being Krosp. Far from being a minor threat, the backstory heavily implies he was incredibly powerful in his prime, capable of going against Sparks of the caliber of Baron Wulfenbach and Queen Albia and posing a serious threat. [[spoiler: He gets better and doesn't dissappoint. His beastmaster abilities are such that he controlled monsters ''from other dimensions!'']]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: A guy who tinkers with animals, ForScience, he obviously can't be dangerous, right? ''Wrong.'' Even without those bears, the first novelization mentions he managed to ''hold out'' against the Baron for a good long while. Plus the fact that he was [[spoiler: subjected to the Baron's "only the worst of the worst" brain-coring experiments. Within seconds of getting fixed, [[TheBeastmaster his actions]] make Agatha realize ''why'' he was subject to those experiments.]]
* CanisMajor: The Sparkwolves employed by Tweedle in the present were originally his creation. That original incarnation formed a BadassArmy so dangerous Klaus had to wage a months-long war and wipe them out to nearly the last man to defeat it, and what remains are still the RedShirt-slaughtering EliteMooks of the Knights of Jove.
* ChekhovsGunman: In this case, one that took a '''decade''' of real-world time to fire: Vapnoople was introduced in an early chapter in [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031210 December, 2003]], where he's shown to have a penchant for making bears, and is distraught due to all the others being "taken away." In [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040319 March 2004]] it is revealed that having created Krosp, he was skilled in creating intelligent animal constructs. In hindsight, the appearance of [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140721 an army of intelligent bears]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150220 that were waiting for Krosp to show up and lead them]] as he had promised]] was probably inevitable.
* CombatPragmatist: [[spoiler: Rather than allowing his foes to slink off in terror of his victory, only to return later to seek revenge, Vapnoople finds that [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190524 a permanent solution is superior.]] It's all but stated that this pragmatism, especially when compared to the StupidEvil characterizing most other malevolent Sparks, is what makes him so dangerous.]]
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Once his intelligence is restored he and Agatha deliver one to Lord Snackleford despite the latter having achieved Second Breakthrough. He doesn't even break a sweat. He just as effortlessly subdues Agatha afterwards, requiring Krosp, Kjarl, and Tarvek to intervene before he can drag her to another dimension.]]
* TheDreaded: According to Wooster, he is the only modern Spark that Queen Albia actually feared.
* DumbIsGood: He committed many crimes as a Spark (to the point that Albia is ready to go into a violent rage upon seeing him), but is friendly and almost child-like after his brain-coring. This is subverted in the print novel, however; he no longer has the intelligence, but still has the mindset of a Spark, with bouts of megalomania and an obsession with revenge. And when [[spoiler:he gets better... it's confirmed that he was '''definitely''' evil when smart.]]
* TheExtremistWasRight: [[spoiler: So it turns out that the Baron had a very good reason to neuter the man's Spark, because with it Dimitri is every bit [[TheDreaded the villain]] that ''deserves'' to be lobotomized.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Baron Klaus experimented on his brain, effectively lobotomizing him and leaving him an imbecile who can no longer use his Spark. The novelization makes it worse - he still has the mindset of a Spark, and therefore treats being complimented on menial tasks as the highest accomplishment possible.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: A downplayed case. Martellus von Blitzengaard is his apprentice, and it's repeatedly implied that Martellus [[BewareTheSillyOnes is only as dangerous as he is]] because of Vapnoople having been his teacher. The Sparkhounds he even created would later go on to serve as the EliteMooks for the Knights of Jove. Furthermore, Vapnoople was a severe threat to not just the Wulfenbach Empire (Vapnoople's forces held out for ''six months'' against the Baron directly, and went into successful hiding afterwards for well over two decades afterward), but also to [[GodEmperor Queen Albia of England herself]], having managed to brainwash several of the [[{{Kaiju}} Great Cetaceans]] into attacking Londinium until a grisly ceasefire could be arranged. It's worth noting that he was also a close friend of the Mongfishes and that he knew [[spoiler:Lucrezia Mongfish]] was [[BigBad the Other]] the whole time.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Albia is stunned to find the terrifying Spark who once managed to brainwash several of the Great Cetaceans (an ancient race of '''massive''' [[HiddenElfVillage civilization-bearing]] whales who live in the depths of the ocean and who are even implied to [[spoiler:be the cetacean counterparts to [[PhysicalGod human Sparks who have achieved Second Breakthrough]]]]) into attacking England is now a friendly and innocent janitor whose brilliant mind has been, in her own words, "disassembled."
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: {{Inverted|Trope}}. "Dimitri Vapnoople" is a rather silly name, [[spoiler:but once his Spark is restored, he's a deranged, extremely intelligent and highly dangerous maniac]].
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When Kjarl [[spoiler:restores his Spark]], we see precisely why Baron Wulfenbach selected him for his brain-coring Spark investigative experiments: [[spoiler:he is an inveterate and legitimately ''terrifying'' SocialDarwinist madboy just as malignant as his old reputation suggests, who believes that monsters will winnow the weak, and acts to the fullest extent of his abilities to that end.]] A shock to everyone who was used to sweet dimwitted "Dr. Dim".
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: He was apparently a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190513 fraternity brother]] to Saturnus Heterodyne, Agatha's grandfather. At the same time, ([[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190722 according to Tweedle]]) he was an old friend of the Mongfish family. And, of course, he was Tweedle's teacher and Wulfenbach's janitor.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: He was paid unto by Baron Wulfenbach. [[spoiler: Deliberately inflicting psychologically degrading brain damage in the pursuit of understanding the physiological nature of the Spark sounds pretty heinous, enough for even another enemy of Vapnoodle to take pity on him afterwards... but then the Londinium arc shows that Vapnoodle was not at all undeserving of such a fate after his malignant intellect and top-class Spark were restored, and further backstory on his misdeeds are revealed.]]
* PetTheDog: Possibly with his relationship with his creation Krosp, but again the whole timeline of events has not been made clear. If Vapnoople created Krosp before the bears, then created the bears to serve his failed experiment, yes, it was a very nice thing to do. On the other hand, if the bears were made first, then Krosp was probably just a cog in Vapnoople's master plan, with the "cat king" thing being some sort of cover story. The print-novels make Vapnoople's motives a lot less ambiguous and less pleasant: he specifically says that the bears were bred to wreak bloody revenge on Baron Wulfenbach, and that he deliberately bred near-slavish loyalty into his creations. Plus there's the fact that his favorite apprentice was ''Martellus''.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: He deliberately steps though a portal into a monster-filled higher dimension, though his attempt to take his new "apprentice" Agatha with him is thwarted. He vows to return and get his revenge on both Agatha and Krosp.]]
* ScarsAreForever: His head is covered in a crosswork patching of scars from Baron Klaus' experiments.
* StoutStrength: He's ''very'' strong, able to effortlessly throw people around with one arm when he wants to.
* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler: Queen Albia of England]] has every reason in the world to hate and resent Dr. Vapnoodle for what he did to her country. Indeed, when [[spoiler: Krosp comes to her seeking asylum for Dr. Dim,]] she's ready to reject him outright... until she sees [[EvenEvilHasStandards what Klaus Wulfenbach did to him.]]
* TheSocialDarwinist: Turns out to have been a big one. [[spoiler: After his mind is restored, he immediately goes into a MotiveRant explaining that his monsters will [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190424 "scour the land" and "cull the herd", leaving the "remains of humanity" stronger and sharper than ever.]]]] Basically, he believed that the principles of antimicrobial resistance ("that which does not kill everything makes the survivors stronger") can and should be applied to human civilization.
* UpliftedAnimal: It seems that he specialized in making these, given his creation of Krosp. [[spoiler:And Krosp's army of uplifted bears.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the first print novel, when Agatha and Krosp flee Castle Wulfenbach, Krosp tries to take Vapnoople with them, but fails due to the man's damaged mind making him refuse to leave. We don't know what happened to him after that until ''much'' later when Krosp and his bears take him to Londinium after rescuing him from Castle Wulfenbach.
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[[folder:Higgs]]
!!Airman 3/c Axel "The Unstoppable" Higgs
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->''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070402 "Let me tell you about Airman Higgs."]]''

Higgs is first introduced as a lowlevel crewman who happened to be on the medical airship assigned to transport the wounded Baron to Mechanicsburg. Over time, it's become clear that this was a cover identity. After much prolonged hinting and implications about his ''true'' nature and identity, he finally explicitly confirms the truth to Agatha in person. (See various spoilers below.)

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* AlmightyJanitor:
** Higgs has a very wide range of skills. In particular he seems very good at winning. [[spoiler:After the time skip, he seems to hold a position more in line with his talents, both as Gil's personal attendant and as Agatha's spymaster and the missing Jäger general.]]
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180704 Tarvek guesses]] that he actually plays this role for half the armies of Europa, taking innocuous and low-level roles that let him coverly infiltrate various militaries as needed.
* AmazonChaser: Chasing a ''literal'' Amazon, Zeetha, [[AllAmazonsWantHercules and she chases back]].
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Looks normal enough, but is capable of feats of strength and stamina that would be virtually impossible for a normal human, even with the RuleOfCool-driven physics of this series. He's also frequently implied to be ''[[Really700YearsOld much]]'' [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]], particularly by the Castle. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that he's actually a Jäger, specifically their long-hidden 7th general. He is a curiousity amongst the Jägerkin, having acquired the [[SuperToughness durability]], [[SuperStrength exertive capacity]], and [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld long life]], but he never turned monstrous-looking like all the others. This peculiarity lends itself to his role as the Heterodynes' [[TheSpymaster Spymaster]].]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: It takes frustration enough to make him blow his top, plus [[spoiler: Agatha to finally repair Castle Heterodyne and take control of the town]], but he finally admits to his feelings towards Zeetha [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130318 here]].
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Downplayed, but still present [[spoiler: Higgs is the only know Jeagar to not exhibit any of the monsterous charactaristics they're famous for. He's more (or was) self-concious about this than you might expect, as it made him the odd-one-out amongst his brothers.]]
* BeneathNotice: Higgs infiltrates the target's armies by [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180704 signing up as some sort of low-ranking private]] and acting as a inocuous, bored grunt.
* BerserkButton:
** Messing with [[LoveInterest Zeetha]] is a really easy way to set him off, as Zola finds out the hard way.
** The Castle suggests that revealing anything about his MysteriousPast without his consent is another major button. Higgs later confirms it when [[spoiler: Tarvek privately outs him as the seventh Jäger general. The only reason Higgs didn't kill him on the spot is because [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou Tarvek is still useful to Agatha]].]]
* BishonenLine: He's [[spoiler:the seventh Jäger General and he's virtually indistinguishable from a normal human being, while most of the other generals became ''more'' monstrous as they got older. He later [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200221 confirms]] that he never gained any typical Jäger appearance traits when he drank the Jägerdraught in the first place. He did get the ones that counted: SuperStrength, SuperToughness, and [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld effective immortality]].]]
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He's become one for Gil over the course of the TimeSkip, as evidenced [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150930 here]].
* CosmicPlaything: The tale originally told about his rescue from the Baron definitely counts (he gets attacked by, among other things, a concussed pirate captain and a nesting goose) More recently it seems like he's been drawn into the events swirling around Agatha and Gil without any real desire to be. [[spoiler:Exactly how he prefers it to be interpreted.]]
* CoveredInScars: His arms and torso are dotted with criss-crossing marks from old wounds. He's not stitched together like Klaus, but that's probably just because he's harder to tear apart in the first place.
* DeathGlare:
** When Zola [[spoiler:stabs Zeetha]]. "[[spoiler:I [[OohMeAccentsSlipping vas]] starting to '''like''' her]]."
** Later on, when Tarvek [[spoiler:figures out he's a Jäger General]], he gives Tarvek one of these while [[spoiler:nearly choking him to death, before deciding to let him live because of how useful he is.]]
* {{Determinator}}: It is this which wins him his epithet. He's not as "invulnerable" as some cast members, but no matter how much you damage him, he ''will'' keep coming. [[spoiler:The fact that he's a Jägermonster helps, of course.]]
* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: After the TimeSkip both sides believes that he is a DoubleAgent working for ''them'', and nothing has been seen to determine which side his allegiance is with. [[spoiler: He's eventually confirmed to be the Secret Jäger General, and ultimately serves Agatha and the Heterodyne family as TheSpymaster.]]
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Once [[spoiler:Zola]] pissed him off, things (including Zola) got ugly.
* FreakinessShame: Inverted. [[spoiler: Despite how useful it is for his duties as Agatha's Spymaster, it's implied that Higgs has a slight complex about not having any of the usual physical traits of a Jäger, particularly the teeth.]]
* GameFace: A subtle version, but [[spoiler: in the comic where he confronts Tarvek about uncovering his SecretIdentity,]] you can see his grin becoming almost unnaturally wide and his teeth seem suspiciously sharp, [[spoiler:the only obvious physical signs we've seen that he is, in fact, a Jäger.]]
* GenuineImposter: He's forced into a [[spoiler:Jäger]] costume after having been confirmed to be one.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: In close quarters, he won't bother using a weapon. He really doesn't need one, either, seeing as how he can tear through anything up to and including Sparkhounds (which are tough enough to shrug off conventional blades and bullets like pebbles against a brick wall) without visible effort.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: He doesn't mind if you are suspicious and act with SelectiveObliviousness, but if you actually ''know'' his secret or start stating it outright, there is a high chance he will kill you, even if you are his girlfriend. The castle almost told Zeetha his secret because it [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor thought that would be funny]]. Higgs himself starts threatening Tarvek when Tarvek alludes to his secret in open.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Gil, strangely enough. He gives Gil relationship advice, shoots down Gil's ideas of a sparky GrandRomanticGesture, assists him in the restoration of Mechanicsburg [[spoiler: and only reacts with mild annoyance when he learns Gil knew he was really a Jäger]]. Only [[LikeBrotherAndSister Bang]] has comparable status with Gil following the TimeSkip.
* HerBoyfriendsJacket: He's the "boyfriend" in question; Zeetha possesses his jacket. He in turn was gifted her little face charm thingy that mimics her facial expression. Since it does so regardless of distance, it's a way for him to know if she's okay or not.
* IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou: The Castle states that if it told Zeetha exactly what his deal is, he'd do this. Since they like each other, it decides not to.
-->'''Zeetha:''' Aw. But.. Couldn't you just tell me something? I mean, maybe just enough to that he'd only have try and wound me a little?
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: While he doesn't use the stock phrase, [[spoiler:this definitely seems to be what Higgs is hinting at [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180706 here]] -- he makes it clear that he can quite quickly and easily kill Tarvek, but he holds off because he's helping Agatha.]] He's very clearly making the implication (and [[spoiler:Tarvek]] clearly understands) that [[spoiler:Higgs is not going to hold back if Tarvek even thinks about hurting Agatha.]]
* ImplacableMan: Fans came to love him from his impossibly badass introduction, told by Doctor Sun. In the Castle, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101025 it is made clear]] that Sun's story was vastly ''understating'' his capabilities.
* KubrickStare: In the rare cases where he gets angry, he delivers one of these to his victim.
* LetsGetDangerous: For the most part, he stays in the background and doesn't get actively involved. When he ''does'' get involved, he proves to be one of the most dangerous characters in the entire comic. [[spoiler:You don't become a Jäger General by inserting yourself into fights needlessly, but you also don't by not being extraordinary deadly when you do.]]
* LightningBruiser: His absurd durability is the very first thing readers learn about him. He's also, properly motivated, capable of throwing around car-sized monsters like sacks of flour and moving so fast a trained Smoke Knight can't react in time. [[spoiler:It's because he's actually a Jägermonster who curiously and sadly missed out on the whole monster-ization effect of the Jägerdraught.]]
* TheMagnificent: ''The Unstoppable'' Higgs.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Post TimeSkip him and Zeetha are official, and while we may not know much about him before the story, much less his age, what we do know is that he is ''definitely'' older than her 20-something. [[spoiler:He outright tells Tarvek that he's seen many generations of the Stormvoraus family line come and go, indicating he is much, much older than any human.]]
** [[spoiler: With regard to the problem of their relative lifespans, they really don't know. It's possible that the efforts Mamma Gkika went through to save Zeetha's life, including Jägerdraught, have rendered her similarly long lived. Or not, because it wasn't the full Jäger process either. They'll have to find out like anyone else.]]
* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler: When asked the question of whether "Axel Higgs" is his real name, he states that it wasn't his ''original'' name, but he considers it his real name now.]]
* MinionShipping: He has an immediate soft spot for Zeetha, which eventually passes from a Bash Buddies stage to an actual (if informal) relationship. Becomes even more pronounced when it becomes apparent that [[spoiler: he's a Jäger; they're ''both'' Agatha's minions.]]
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: There have been a lot of hints that Higgs is the HeroOfAnotherStory. Let's put the bits and pieces in a spoiler: [[spoiler: The Castle knows him well, and for apparently longer than one human lifetime, and appears to have in interest in preserving his secret so vested that it notes it'd have to kill Zeetha if it told her. He requests permission to leave his post, but it's not clear whether he asked Gil or Agatha. He's actually seen Igneous Heterodynes (who clearly predated Bill and Barry) drink from the Dyne - he compared that reaction to Agatha's. He knows the secret passages of Castle Heterodyne. The fight with Zola reveals distinctly superhuman strength, speed, and resilience to injury, and when upset he seems to have a trace of a Jäger (or at least East European) accent. The Jägers seem to be in on his secret, at least partly, since Dimo covers for him when Gil's asking awkward questions. Mamma Gkika seems to know him quite well and refers to his 'tricks' (a word also mentioned in reference to the mysterious, hidden seventh Jäger General.)]] Most recently, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140725 these]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140728 three]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160902 strips]] hint [[spoiler: that Higgs is, or at least was, a Jäger General.]] Note Higgs' reactions to what Gil says in the second strip and his use of "All" in the third. And [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180704 here]], Tarvek outright calls him [[spoiler: a "general."]] In the next strip, Higgs [[spoiler:does everything short of outright confirming to Tarvek that he is a General, complete with his face deforming like a Jäger's and saying that Tarvek will serve "the lady" quite well. He eventually outs ''himself'' to Agatha once Lucrezia is removed from her head.]]
* NotSoStoic: He ''has'' facial expressions: he just doesn't use them much, thanks to his SeenItAll life.
* OlderThanTheyLook: References old Heterodynes like he was there. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100419 "How time does fly"]]. he also tells Tarvek that [[spoiler: he's seen many generations of the Stormvaus line pass. Being a Jäger, he may very well have. He later reveals that he received the Jägerdraught, from Vlad the Blasphemous, who originally brewed it; he's among the oldest Jägers.]]
* OnlyAFleshWound: Higgs seems to function normally even when the wounds he took should be debilitating or lethal[[spoiler:, much like all of the other Jägers we've seen]].
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Or showing. When [[spoiler: Zeetha is stabbed]] he shows a trace of what seems to be a [[spoiler:Jäger accent]]. Muddying the issue is that [[spoiler:some Mechanicsburg citizens have the accent as well, having maintained it through the generations as a matter of pride.]]
* PunnyName: Higgs is an Airman, 3rd class. A Seaman, 3rd class is a Bosun -- so he's Higgs, Bosun. The mysterious missing particle. (Still don't get it? Ask a physicist.)
* PutOnABus: Suffers a relatively short-term case of this, when he [[spoiler: and Vole set out for Paris upon learning that Zeetha has been injured.]] He finally turns up [[spoiler: serving in uniform on board a British submarine, with Vole nowhere to be seen.]]
* Really700YearsOld: It's implied by a number of characters that he's actually much older than his appearance would suggest. [[spoiler: Eventually confirmed with his reveal as a Jäger, of whom even the youngest are a couple centuries old.]]
* SailorsPonytail: Complete with a bow at the end.
* ScarsAreForever: Has such an [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?&date=20110309 epic map of scars on his chest]] that it can be mistaken for ''hair'' at first glance.
* SeenItAll: He always looks rather bored, no matter what is going on. [[spoiler:Being a Jäger General, he really has seen the worst possible in Europa]].
** Only one thing has really ever unnerved him and that's [[spoiler: falling in love with Zeetha. He never grew close to anyone like that before and the new experience almost scares him.]]
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: He and Zeetha went through this stage.
-->'''Higgs:''' Uh--she--she ain't ''my'' Miss Zeetha, sir.\\
'''Tarvek:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Oh, heaven forbid]]. I'm sure you'd desert your post and hare off to save ''any'' green-haired amazon.
* ShipperOnDeck: He favors Agatha/Gil, even going so far as to give Gil relationship advice.
* SignatureHeadgear: Apparently he's a crewman [[ShoutOut of the ship]] ''Manga/RozenMaiden''. Later, after the TimeSkip, he has a similar hat, but with "Wulfenbach" labeled instead, signifying that he's moved up to a post on [[CoolAirship Castle Wulfenbach]]. His tendencies toward such apparel is [[spoiler:because he is a Jäger]].
* SlasherSmile: The only smile he has to offer is one of these while choking Tarvek one-handed. Both meant to intimidate and [[spoiler:clue him (and the readers) in that he's right about Higgs being a Jäger General, perhaps more right than he'd want: a mouth and teeth like that could ''only'' belong to a Jäger]].
* SmokingIsCool: That is one badass pipe.
* TheSpymaster: [[spoiler:Higgs is the missing seventh Jäger General, and announces himself as Agatha's spymaster.]]
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Quite possibly one of the most awesome examples of this trope ever, where Higgs calls out Gil (and apparently a lot of other male Sparks Higgs has known) for doing utterly ridiculous things to try and communicate with a girl they have a crush on instead of just ''writing a letter'', as seen [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150930 here.]]
-->'''Higgs:''' Now. Write. Use the pen. On the paper. '''Tell''' her what you want to say.\\
'''Gil:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' [[ComplexityAddiction I could build a machine that would project a simulacrum of myself that could explain]]--\\
'''Higgs:''' ''Why I smacked you''?\\
'''Gil:''' Or... I could... just write...
* TheStoic: Which makes the few rare times he loses his temper all the more terrifying.
* SuperToughness: He's repeatedly shown suffering AmusingInjuries that fit the cartoony art style but would definitely have damaged most of the cast. In the case of the fight with Zola, the injuries are no longer amusing... but he's still fighting. In fact, he's getting faster. [[spoiler:Being a Jäger helps.]]
* TokenHuman: Downplayed. He hardly looks out of place in Agatha's group. That said, [[spoiler:he is, to date, the only Jäger to partake of the drought, and survive with all the abilities it gives, but none of the physical transformations. At the very least, he regrets not getting the teeth.]]
* TranquilFury: The rare moments where Higgs gets angry are moments where he still remains absolutely calm... but also absolutely dedicated to ''destroying'' whatever has pissed him off.
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:As a Jäger, literally, to Agatha, seeing how she's the only known living Heterodyne]].
** He also seems to have this towards Gil to a lesser extent; [[spoiler: even putting aside the fact that it ultimately helps Agatha,]] he was still more than willing to accompany Gil on the first expedition into [[spoiler: the time-frozen Mechanicsburg]]. Possibly [[spoiler: [[ShipperOnDeck he sees no contradiction between serving both Agatha and Gil.]]]]
* UnfazedEveryman: He seems this at first, but as we see him more and more, it's obvious that his [[SuperToughness durability]] was not just there for a gag as originally depicted. He's still unfazed by a lot of stuff, though. [[spoiler: Ultimately {{Averted}} by the reveal that he's the hidden 7th Jäger General; he remains entirely unfazed, but he's definitely no everyman, he simply plays the role of one]].
* UnreliableNarrator: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070330 The story that initially earned him the fans' love and respect]] was related by him to the group of soldiers that found him. It hasn't quite... meshed with what we've seen of him. It turns out he's ''more'' badass, not less. Considering what we've seen him go through in order to reduce him to "walking wounded", what Higgs went through to get the injuries Dr. Sun mentioned has to have been far, ''far'' worse than what he reported.
* ZenSurvivor: He seems tranquil, or apathetic, or slightly bored most of the time. ''Most'' of the time. It's implied later on that this is due to [[spoiler: his long lifespan and the countless things he has seen.]] If his comments to [[spoiler: Vole]] about how "we all did" horrible things and then growing up, he may have done some stuff he grew to not be proud of as he got OlderAndWiser.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Oglavia Spudna]]
!!Madam Oglavia Spudna, Wulfenbach Spymaster
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Gil's spymaster after the TimeSkip. She is unnervingly good at her job.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Reason she became spy? She likes spying on people.
* CheshireCatGrin: Her most usual facial expression is this.
* TheDreaded: She's able to get a spy to spill the beans just by being ''[[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated alive]]'' and in the same room.
* EvilCounterpart: She has a similar hairstyle and build to Violetta, is Gil's spymaster
* IgnoredEpiphany: She listened a lecture from Othar that almost, ''almost'' made her reconsider her calling in life. And then she realised this wouldn't let her spy on people. "So nuts to that!"
* OhCrap : When a captured librarian realized who she was, the librarian were freaked out and eager to talk.
* OpaqueLenses: Never seen without goggles of this type. Combined with her [[CheshireCatGrin smile]], they make her look ''very'' creepy.
* PsychoPsychologist: It'd appear that she specializes in human psychology, and happens to be [[AdmiringTheAbomination impressed]] by the Other's use of MindControl.
-->'''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150610 Spüdna]]''': If she has indeed achieved the mass mental takeover of an ''entire population...'' Such a feat... ''So impressive...''\\
'''Gil''': ''Wrong lesson,'' Spüdna.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Based on rumors stated by a captured librarian.
* StealthHiBye: She can perform these as befitting of a spy. When Gil gave his permit to meet him, Spudna appeared with these and surprised the BattleButler.
* TokenEvilTeammate: She takes this role among Gil's forces from ''[[BloodKnight Bang]]'', suggesting that she has her people steal Agatha's Wasp Eater (the same Wasp Eater she needs to ''live'' without Martellus's "Touch of the King") to accelerate production of their own and brushes off Gil's refusal by saying she could just frame Martellus for it.
* TortureTechnician: And even wrote a book about ColdBloodedTorture in her youth.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ruxala]]
!!Ruxala, Vespiary Squad Weasel Wrangler
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[[caption-width-right:201:Protecting people from them is '''my''' job.]]

One of the Wulfenbach Vepiary Squad members who survived being hunted down after the Baron was wasped.
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* BadassNormal: Her job (aside of rounding up [[ZombieInfectee revenants]]) is fighting [[PuppeteerParasite slaver wasp]] warriors, which is a challenge even for superhumanly strong constructs. Observe a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120611 Ruxala]] outnumbered by these things and "distraught". [[OneHitkill Very efficient]], too.
* BerserkerTears: Ruxala [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120608 sat in tears]] until Slaver Wasp Warriors claw-stab her captain and walk in... carnage ensues.
-->'''Tarvek''': Ah--I'm... I'm sorry, you just seemed rather... ''distraught''—\\
'''Ruxala''': Of ''course'' I'm distraught! ''(still weeping, brains her ''third'' bug in a row, not even looking at it)'' They hurt ''my weasels!''
* {{Determinator}}: Despite being badly wounded Ruxala continues to carry out her job, even if that means using a walking stick and making her way around a notoriously dangerous city while heavily bandaged.
* OffhandBackhand: Ruxala offhand-[[BoomHeadshot headshots]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120611 a warrior wasp]] behind her back while ''[[BerserkerTears crying]]''.
* PutOnABus: Ruxala and most of her weasels were caught up in the Take-Five bomb and are stuck in the Red Cathedral. One weasel made it through the Queen's Mirror with Agatha.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Von Pinn]]
!!Mistress Von Pinn AKA Otilia, the Muse of Protection
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When first encountered Von Pinn seemed to just be another of the many monsters given jobs by the Baron. It eventually emerged, however, that she was the nursemaid at Castle Heterodyne when Agatha was born and this has made things rather ''interesting.'' Pursued by many Jägers as the height of womanhood and absolutely terrifying, Von Pinn seems to hate Agatha, fear what she is to become (whatever that is) and want to protect her.
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* ActionGirl: Punches in the same weight class as Jägers, or a little above.
* BigDamnHeroes: At least once.
* CombatSadomasochist:
** Oh, ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040903 yes]]''.
** Her attitude improved a lot the moment she was [[spoiler:transferred into a body without pain sensitivity]].
* CompellingVoice: She can do this when in her mechanical muse body, it isn't very effective in the other bodies she's worn.
* DarkActionGirl: If the way she looks isn't enough her response to getting stabbed in the hand is to run her hand down the blade to grab the hilt.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Dark, vicious, aggressive, but not evil.
* EnigmaticMinion: Has a complex agenda that we now know some of the details of, but not the whole story.
* FemmeFatalons: Her primary weapons.
* HellBentForLeather: Just look at her!
* HighClassGlass: Not your average monocle.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: The Other, or perhaps Lucrezia, is terrified of her, even after having shoved her mind into a body she could control. With good reason.
* LargeAndInCharge: Von Pinn is incredibly tall. [[spoiler:As Otilia, she was a full three metres.]]
* MagicalNanny: Well, SCIENCE! nanny, but yes. Of the "stern but fair"-variety.
* MamaBear:
** '''DO NOT''' endanger the children under her protection. Even if you're one of them.
** She's apparently the most protective of Gil. Had Agatha not been able to force Von Pinn to let her go, things would probably have gotten much worse before they got better, thanks to Agatha making a remark about ''really'' not liking Gil after first meeting him.
** [[ParentsInDistress And it turns out the kids return her loyalty]].
* MegaNeko: [[spoiler:Otilia's gone from a human(ish) body to that of an enormous mechanical cat. She likes being a cat clank better, even if it's not as good as her original, Van Rijn built body]].
* NotQuiteDead: Seriously, someone like Von Pinn is a threat as long as they can move a ''finger''.
* ParentalSubstitute: Yes, kids on ''Castle Wulfenbach'' had a [[MamaBear vicious guardian]] construct ''in loco parentis'' and were rather [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100512 attached]] to her.
* Really700YearsOld: Von Pinn was originally [[spoiler:the Van Rijn muse Otilia, built centuries ago for the Storm King]].
* SanitySlippage: When [[spoiler: her charge Klaus Barry Heterodyne was killed, she went completely insane and had to be locked up until the Baron found a use for her.]]
* SuperSoldier: Well, the programming of a legendary combat robot downloaded into a cybernetic body of notable resilience. Works out the same.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:As Otilia, while her design was for protection, she apparently wasn't much of a fighter, according to Tarvek. Von Pinn is most definitely a fighter. She takes another level once transferred into one of the Castle's "[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101210 Mobile Fun Dispensers.]]"]]
* WetwareBody:
** It now appears that she is [[spoiler:the [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Muse]] Otilia, transferred into a construct body as part of Lucrezia's experimentation]]. Why she did this, [[spoiler:where the body's original mind, if any, ended up]], and what this will mean is still up in the air.
** She has since had her [[spoiler: mind transferred out of her organic body, since it was dying, and transferred into a giant cat clank (with improvements) until her original Muse body is repaired]]. She [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101213 seems happy with it]].
* WhatTheHellHero: When Agatha [[spoiler:drops her down a bottomless pit]]. "TRULY YOU ARE YOUR MOTHER'S CHILD!"

[[/folder]]

!! Englishmen
Tropes pertaining to the nation of Great Britain and its residents.

[[folder:Englishmen as a whole]]
Residents of the nation of Great Britain, which, due to a Spark-related mishap centuries prior, has gone from an island nation to an archipelago with a number of underwater cities.
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* {{Atlantis}}:
** It's revealed when Agatha and co get to England that the island-nation was somehow set to sinking by a band of Sparks some 300 years ago. Rather than let this bother her, Albia simply rebuilt England as a [[VideoGame/BioShock Rapture-esque]] aquatropolis, and the nation is thriving, even as it continues to sink ever-deeper into the sea.
** This has caused them to be CrazyPrepared when it comes to sparks, too: They have a large dome where the best are collected and kept, not really so they can inspire and work together, but because that makes it conveniently easy to take them all out if things go awry. One of the labs allotted to Agatha is called "abominable" (as in, abominations unto science) and comes with all sorts of safety measures and a prepaid electrical bill.
* CharacterTics: Questioning the social status quo too much, such as suggesting they leave the increasingly unsustainable sinking cities of England, is met with a variant on "Her Majesty would never permit it."
* CommonTongue: Due to England's trade fleets, English is the ''lingua franca'' of much of the world.
* {{Determinator}}: Even with their island sinking under the ocean, the English absolutely refuse to abandon it, and accepted the challenge of living underwater. In fact, they consider [[HadToBeSharp the challenge of living underwater to be one of the reasons why they are one of the most powerful nations on the planet.]]
* MoreThanMindControl: Albia is capable of controlling the minds of many of her subjects directly, [[spoiler: including overriding Slaver Wasps affecting her soldiers,]] but the vast majority of her subjects appear to have a genuine devotion to her. Of course, she is a Mad Social Scientist. That's only to be expected.
* UndyingLoyalty: To their queen, Albia. Whenever an outsider suggests doing something differently, such as abandoning their sinking city, they simply say a variant of "Her Majesty would never allow that," and the matter is considered settled.
* TattooAsCharacterType: the more nautical characters appear to be heavily tattooed, and there is the “Queen’s Tattoo” which appears to serve as a mark of special distinction.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Queen Albia of England]]
!!Queen Albia, Her Undying Majesty
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[[caption-width-right:200:''That's the '''amazing''' thing about humanity - so much potential! '''Almost infinite!''''']]
The mysterious and seemingly immortal Queen of England.
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* AltarDiplomacy:
** Is attempting to pair Agatha off with Hadrian Rakethorn, and Gil with Trelawney Thorpe, which would effectively kill two birds with one stone -- by preventing the Hetrodyne uniting with the remaining might of the Baron's forces and creating a superpower big enough to threaten her rule, ''and'' ensuring that she has influence over two of the most powerful Sparks in Europa. Time will tell how effective this is.
** Her daughter Princess Neena also has a crush on Tarvek, but this seems less likely to be due to her, especially as she's not sent to accompany him to Europa as is the case with Trelawney and Gil.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: At the end of her first appearance, she mentions [[spoiler:[[TheCollector wanting to add Agatha to her 'garden']]]], but so far has been nothing but helpful to the young Heterodyne and her allies. However, Agatha hasn't tried leaving England yet, either.
* BerserkButton: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180312 According to]] the Klaus-overlay in Gil's mind, she doesn't like it when other people describe her [[ClarkesThirdLaw seemingly-supernatural abilities]] as "magic".
* BrawnHilda: One of her older forms, possibly her original, is a stout, bulky, redhead.
* ClarkesThirdLaw: Even by the setting's standards, her technology seems magical, to the degree that she can make things happen without any visible interfaces or machinery. According to Klaus Wulfenbach, her technology still follows the normal laws of nature, it is simply far more advanced than what most of the world has access to.
* TheCollector: [[spoiler: She maintains a "garden" of interesting individuals, the exact size of which is not yet clear; it may even be all of Londinium or even England. She hopes to lure Agatha and (some of) her companions into "voluntarily" becoming permanent residents.]]
* ColorFailure: After dealing with the strain of [[spoiler:helping finish off Clank!Lucrezia and repairing the gang's escape blimp]], [[PowerStrainBlackout a spent Albia goes literally greyscale]], a demonstration that she was well and out of power.
* ControlFreak: When Lucrezia, masquerading as Agatha, remarked that anything can happen, Wooster replied that's not the case in England: "Her Majesty wouldn't allow it." Gil also comments to Zola that going against her whims is "literally unthinkable". Although [[spoiler:this appears to be an exaggeration. When the action finally reaches England, we witness all sorts of things happening that Albia definitely would not approve of, and that she cannot directly fix even after learning about them. There have been hints that her power may be waning in some fashion.]]
* TheDreaded: Doctor Sun was horrified to learn that Gil threatened to destroy her and England to get her spy Wooster to submit to him, indicating that provoking her is a very bad idea. Later on, it's shown that pretty much everyone is terrified of the idea of crossing her. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190821 Even]] [[spoiler:the ''Lucrezia copy in Agatha's mind'']] is absolutely terrified of her.
* DueToTheDead: She is capable of speaking someone's name such that it will never be forgotten by anyone who hears it. She uses it as a high honor for soldiers who die in her service.
* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: Albia very much implies that this is responsible for at least some of her otherworldly abilities when she [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180302 meets Agatha.]] Trelawney Thorpe says that she started out as a MadScientist no different from any other, and then broke through a ''second time''.
-->'''Albia:''' Oho! Yes we thought so! We can ''always tell. You'' are one who has ''peeped into the infinite!''
* EveryoneHasStandards: As furious as she is at Dr. Vapnoople for his past crimes against England, she's absolutely ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180511 horrified]]'' to see what Klaus' lobotomy procedures have done to his brilliant mind.
* ExtradimensionalPowerSource: Implied to be the true nature of second breakthrough, being powered by a special form of energy she absorbs from a different dimension.
* EyeColorChange: Blue most of the time (and briefly brown), but at one point they turn ''gold''...the whites included.
* FakeMemories: She has the power to edit a target's memories, though according to Klaus, there are ways to detect it. According to Trelawney Thorpe, it is a power she is reluctant to use and will only do so when necessary.
* FlamingHair: Foglio drew a [[http://smg.photobucket.com/user/datalaughing/media/datalaughing_albia.jpg.html sketch of her]] for a fan which depicts her as a scantily-clad woman equipped with what appears to be this. When she is finally met in person, her hair appears normal...until a massive bout of Sparky glee over an experiment idea causes her hair to burst into flames for a single panel.
* FlashyTeleportation: Capable of teleporting both herself and others at will, with some orbs of light effects, apparently, and apparently without consent, as seen [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180319 when]] she briefly warps Agatha into the air during their first meeting.
* TheFogOfAges: A normal person has trouble with one century's worth of memories. A Spark can handle more, and Albia is the next step past a Spark, but even she can't handle the countless millennia she has been alive. In order to deal with this, the first thing she built upon her second breakthrough was a building designed to archive her memories.
* GiantWoman: When Agatha and Zeetha finally come into her presence, she's busy pruning the top of a fir tree. It's quickly revealed she can "compress" herself down to human size. Which, if either, is her default height is unknown.
* GodEmperor: She was once a member of an entire sisterhood of secretive and immortal god-queens. She is one of the very few to make her status openly known to the world at large, and one of the very few that is even still alive. She lost contact with most of them when the technology they used to communicate was (probably) sabotaged, and she has spent the past few centuries seeking out the surviving queens or their remnants.
* GoodParents: She's got several kids, and unlike pretty much every other parent we've seen, is absolutely loving and doting to her "pookies".
* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: Her unexplained shapeshifting abilities extend to her outfits. She often shifts her clothes based on who she's talking to, or even what they're talking about.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Her original form, a brawny AmazonianBeauty with a spear and shield, seems an awful lot like a [[RaceLift Race Lifted]] incarnation of UsefulNotes/{{Boudica}}, who was also a powerful monarch in Ancient Britain. Perhaps one who did [[AlternateHistory defeat the Romans]], or the GG-verse equivalent thereof.
* HolyHalo: Her Undying Majesty has little constant about her appearance outside of her hovering halo of glowing stars. Even this is slightly altered when she reveals a bit of just how dangerously sparky she could be with her very magic-like abilities and power.
* {{Immortality}}: She is known as "Her Undying Majesty" and is (far far) older than Simon Voltaire, who is well over two hundred years old. And, unlike the elderly cyber-assisted Master of Paris, Albia appears as a young and beautiful woman.
* InstantCostumeChange: Can go from gardening clothes to mourning garb to a Skifandrian outfit over the course of five panels. The changes appear to reflect her thoughts and/or the current topic of discussion.
* LargeAndInCharge: She tends to take on the giantess form when dealing with matters of State.
* LivingMoodRing: She can reflexively change her {{size|Shifter}}, appearance, and wardrobe to match the conversation, like manifesting WidowsWeeds when she learns of a death or literally [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180309 igniting]] with excitement.
* KaleidoscopeHair: Normally a grayish-blue color, it also appears as red, emerald, and brown at different points.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Albia has over a dozen daughters, from adolescent to elderly. It's implied that as each dies of old age they are replaced by Albia with a new Princess.
* MamaBear: [[spoiler:She [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220722 comes]] to the rescue of her daughter Princess Neena when she cried for help as she, Agatha and the rest of their company are surrounded on all sides by giant monsters and hostile ascendant god-queens - armed, and decked out in full wargear, literally size of a mountain and radiating with her full power]].
* ManipulativeBitch: She's a Mad Social Scientist, and her fingerprints are all over England. While the question of if she will ultimately be an antagonist or not remains to be seen, she is conspiring very effectively to split up Gil Agatha and Tarvek so that Agatha will remain in England as part of her collection. And the degree of fanatical devotion her subjects display tapdances on the line between UndyingLoyalty and [[MoreThanMindControl something far more sinister.]]
* PhysicalGoddess: An [[Immortality immortal]], [[RealityWarper nigh-omnipotent]] [[{{Sizeshifter}} shapeshifting]] being who [[MoreThanMindControl attracts the undying devotion of an entire country]]. Seems to fit the bill. [[spoiler:Although the island arc shows that she's clearly ''not'' invulnerable, and her power may even be waning]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She's the only known (semi-normal non-Jäger) person in Europa who is older than the 200+ year old Simon Voltaire. And even he doesn't know the secret to her longevity. It's eventually revealed it's due to her being a "second-stage" Spark, and she is in fact thousands of years old.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Has the sense during a massive Sparky rant to admit that it would be much better to let Agatha fix things with her and Gil's minds, as Albia's plan and methods involve much more potential for damage, even if Albia thinks it would be fun. Although [[spoiler: see above under The Collector.]]
** Unlike Voltaire, she is also more willing to give Agatha a chance, as she is quite friendly to her, even providing advice. Considering Agatha's family history and both Klaus' and Voltaire's hesitance to give her a chance to prove her moral character, this is a major contrast. Though it helps that Agatha is quite respectful to her, as she is aware that being in the presence of a ruler in their domain is not something to be taken lightly.
* RoyalWe: Utilizes this manner of speech, which is appropriate, since she ''is'' the Queen of England. Although an occasional "I" still slips in there.
* SizeShifter: She can shift sizes, apparently at will, [[ShapeshifterBaggage though doing so too quickly makes her burning hot to the touch.]]
* TheSocialExpert: Even among Sparks, who are all charismatic and can turn their genius to social engineering in a pinch. Even beyond her second breakthrough this is her specialty, since back when she was a normal Spark [[TimeAbyss in Doggerland]] she was a master of the art of knowing people's hearts and motivations.
* StatuesqueStunner: Even at human size, Her Undying Majesty still has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180226 a good foot or two]] over Zeetha in height. This may be a deliberate intimidation tactic; as previously noted, it's not at all clear what her "normal" size is.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Some of her outfits embody this trope, others are more conservative.
* TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: When she suffers a PowerStrainBlackout, most of her outfit disappears, leaving her naked except for her earrings and HolyHalo.
* {{Telepathy}}: She can examine other peoples' minds.
* TimeAbyss: Has been a Spark since ''before the English Channel existed'', which depending on your interpretation could put her at ''four hundred and fifty '''thousand years''' old''.
* VillainOverride: [[spoiler: Non-villainous variant. This turns out to be the reason why it's "literally unthinkable" to go against her: she is able to broadcast her will to all of her subjects in the surrounding area (how far this effect reaches is unknown) to the point that she can even temporarily override The Other's slaver-wasps. And beyond that, some her subjects (Trelawney among them) are able to voluntarily summon her to possess their bodies and channel her powers directly through them. This power is reseverved for emergencies where they desperately need to use her EnlightenmentSuperpowers for themselves; Albia cannot maintain this connection for long, as it soon begins to [[ExplosiveOverclocking damage]] the subject.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Seems to have a pretty liberal degree of control over form, including SizeShifter, EyeColorChange, KaleidoscopeHair and GorgeousGarmentGeneration.
* WeatherManipulation: Capable of conjuring tiny storm-clouds in the palms of her hands. She ramps it up to a ''giant'' one while [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180511 confronting Krosp and his legion of bears]].
* WeUsedToBeFriends: According to the print novels, Albia was one of Klaus's biggest supporters during his conquest/cleanup of Europa. However, as their two empires began to butt political and commercial heads, as well as the tendency of Sparks to seek hierarchical control over each other, their relationship fell apart and Klaus (and later Gil) are barred from entering England as long as she rules, and both sides are waiting for the other to start something so they can invade. Assuming that Lady Astarte [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181210 wasn't just winding Gil up]], they apparently used to be ''more'' than just friends...
** It's unclear whether or not the feelings were mutual, but Albia expressed liking ''[[AxCrazy Lucrezia Mongfish]]'', before she became The Other.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Princess Neena of England]]
One of England's many princesses and an old friend of Tarvek's from their time studying in Paris.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Her area of study and current profession.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: The queen shifts her appearance constantly and it's not even clear if her princesses are biologically related to her but Neena has dark skin, black hair and blue eyes.
* GeekyTurnOn: Flirts heavily with Tarvek over the subject of rare books.
* OhMyGods: She uses an "Oh my mom!" variant, what with Queen Albia being a GodEmpress.
* IWantMyMommy: When [[MeleeATrois caught up in a battle between two rampaging God-Queens and a horde of enormous monsters]], she calls out for "MAMA!". And since she's the daughter of [[RealityWarper Albia]], [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220722 she shows up immediately]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Trelawney Thorpe]]
!!Trelawney Thorpe, Spark of the Realm
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An agent in Albia's intelligence service.
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* ActionGirl: Who carries around explosives.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Nothing explicit has been said about her tastes, but, whilst she and Wooster show signs of some attraction to each other when they meet [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20171206 at the start of Second Story Volume 5]] and she very deliberately tries to seduce [[spoiler:Gil]], she also much more openly [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180216 flirts with the female pirate(ish) captain]] who ferries Tarvek and Gil to Londinium, with the latter being [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180202 a much more strongly implied]] AmbiguouslyGay character. However, she has been hinted [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190125 here]] that [[spoiler: she may genuinely like Gil]].
** And after [[spoiler:Wooster is killed by Lucrezia-in-Agatha]], she breaks down weeping.
* TheBerserker: Not to suicidal levels, but she's been shown to rather impulsively spring into action.
* CrazySane: Trelawney is able to remain relatively calm and focused even when she falls into the Madness Place like other Sparks. [[spoiler:Lucrezia]] is impressed by her self-control.
* FamedInStory: A number of novels have been written about her exploits, similar to those of the Heterodyne Boys. There's been disparaging comments in-story (from knowledgeable witnesses) as to how accurate they are.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: While her novels are said to be exaggerated, she really does have a very busy life.
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:Queen Albia sends her to capture Gil's heart to ensure Agatha has fewer reasons to leave England. Klaus-in-Gil has not only caught onto this, but encourages it, if more so as to keep Gil away from Agatha.]]
* InstantCostumeChange: She is able to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180112 casually rip off her elaborate full-length dress, leaving her wearing a far more practical catsuit.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Most of the time her speech patterns suggest a refined, upper-class British accent, however on [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20171206 one occasion]] that Wooster teases her on the subject, she replies "Watch yer gob, ya ratbag!".
* SecretKeeper: She serves as this for Albia, and chooses to share some of them with Gil.
* SpyCatsuit: As noted, this is her chosen outfit when she's in action. It's green.
* WillingChanneler: [[spoiler:As one of the Queen's sacred guardians, she can pray to her for help and be possessed by her. However, it puts a serious strain on her body, making it one of her last resorts.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lady Ariadne Steelgarter]]
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[[caption-width-right:201:The Smoke Knight caught me in their rooms she was ''better'' than we'd been told.]]

An English noblewoman. Has interests in both Science! and fashion. She was the financial backer for the airship expedition that "discovered" Skifander.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:It appears she's got some sort of covert agenda regarding Zeetha and/or Skifander.]]
** [[spoiler: Given that she's [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210301 now appeared]] in Madwa's company, it's probably safe to assume she's working for the Other.]]
%% * EnglishRose: Porcelain-like skin, modest figure, gentle eyes.
%% What about her character and relationships? This trope is not only about appearance. Nationality and character are just as important.
* TheFashionista: Has a very intense attitude when it comes to clothes.
* ForScience: As noted, she's a major supporter of The Queen's Society of Sparks. It's still not clear if she herself is a Spark.
* MeaningfulName: Along with her more obvious last name, in Myth/ClassicalMythology, "Ariadne" is associated with thread. The spider-motif also ties in whith her extra arms.
* MultiarmedMultitasking: Has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180528 four arms]]. Also [[spoiler: MultiArmedAndDangerous]]. Later on it's speculated that, aside from the typical mad science stuff, she may ''possibly'' be a Yajeena, an elite priestess from Skifander (who ''also'' had four arms before they were apparently all killed off), but Agatha and Zeetha decide it's almost impossible to tell one way or the other at this point. The fact she [[spoiler: instantly recognises Skifander, speaks the language, and is so delighted to find a portal there she forgets she's running from two angry near-Queens]] may be confirmation.
%%* ProperLady: Very much so.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hadrian Rakethorn]]
!!Dr. Hadrian Rakethorn, Agent of Her Undying Majesty's Secret Service
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The Spark Albia assigns to Agatha with the intent on distracting her from her current romantic interests and getting Agatha to stay as part of Albia's "garden". He has some kind of feud with Ardsley Wooster
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* ConvenientReplacementCharacter: He's a British secret agent who looks a bit like a [[TallDarkAndHandsome more buff version]] of [[spoiler: Ardsley Wooster]] and is introduced in the Londinium arc, which just so happens to be [[spoiler: when Lucrezia/Agatha [[KilledOffForReal zaps Wooster]]]].
* FemaleGaze: Induces and [[HoneyTrap invokes]] this straight out of the gate. His above image is literally his introduction, and judging from Agatha, Zeetha, and Violetta's expressions on the next panel, it works.
* HoneyTrap: Albia hopes to replace Gil and Tarvek's positions in Agatha's affections with Hadrian.
* MrFanservice: Seems to end up [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]] quite a lot, if [[SexySoakedShirt the above image]] didn't already tell you all you need to know. {{Justified}}, as he's been [[HoneyTrap instructed by Albia to seduce Agatha]] away from Gil and Tarvek.
* TheSparkOfGenius: The only edge he has on Wooster in what he's able to offer in service to their queen is that he's a spark, in all other aspects Wooster seems to be far more on top of things.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kjarl Thotep]]
!!Kjarl Thotep, Extradimensional Being
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[[caption-width-right:250:"[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190405 Oh dear.]] He ''was fun.'' Is? Will be? Ah, it's still all ''so confusing ...''"]]
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An alien from another dimension. He has long lived within the English undersea dome of the Queen's Society and built up a reputation as a ghost due to his invisible nature.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: When fully integrated into Agatha's world, he looks like a human, except with white hair, red skin, and yellow and purple irises.
* BenevolentAbomination: A thousands-of-years old being from a dimension outside of normal space and time -- who's actually rather jolly and helpful, once you get to know him.
* HumanAliens: He originates from a completely different plane of existence, but mostly looks like a large and oddly colored human.
* InSeriesNickname: Due to his mysterious nature, the Queen's Society referred to him as the "Boilerghast".
* InvisibleToNormals: Most people can't see him. Tarvek and Higgs are among the few who can.
* TheNameless: He remained nameless for two years since his first appearance; on the Girl Genius [[AllThereInTheManual website]], he was called Karl Thotep in the links to the sections of the plot where he is prominent. Finally, the Foglio settled on ''Kjarl'' Thotep.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He didn't know just how dangerous Dr. Dimitri Vapnoople was before his lobotomy and heals him.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Gil initially thinks of him as Tarvek's "imaginary friend", but he's real enough.
* OhCrap: Has this reaction after he restores Dr. Vapnoople's Spark and learns that he's [[spoiler:a terrifying SocialDarwinist and "master of monsters."]]
-->'''Kjarl:''' Oh, dear. He seemed like such a ''nice'' man.
* {{Seers}}: He has a different perception of time relative to the natives of Europa and can predict the future in broad strokes, ie, "perform Action X and it will somehow get everyone killed."
* SignificantName: "Kjarl Thotep" is a fairly obvious ShoutOut to Creator/HPLovecraft's [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]].
* TimeAbyss: Time works a bit differently for him than for the natives of Europa, but it is a fact that he was stuck in the temple beneath the dome for tens of thousands of years, predating even Queen Albia.
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Due to the nature of his existence, he has trouble deciding what tense to use when speaking with people.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: He originates from AnotherDimension. He was accidentally summoned by a civilization of {{Precursors}} while building their PortalNetwork and has been stuck in Europa ever since. He has been trapped for so long that the resident {{Mad Scientist}}s do not have the means to analyze where he came from and send him back home. He also figures he'll have racked up some serious parking tickets.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Takes pity on the lobotomized Dr. Vapnoople and somehow is able to restore his Spark and sanity... Unfortunately he had no idea Vapnoople is a [[MadScientist batshit insane]] (even by Spark standards) EvilutionaryBiologist.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Agatha believes that the way everyone perceived him before was derived from their minds' attempts to cope with viewing a higher-dimensional creature, and that it's entirely possible everyone saw something completely different while looking at him. But by making him fully compatible with their own world, everyone should see him the same way from now on. His ultimate appearance is almost human, albeit much larger and having [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation unusual colors]].
[[/folder]]

!!Other
[[folder:The Circus]]
!!Master Payne's Circus of Adventure
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->''"Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to a show like ''no other!'' It is true that we bring you the ''usual amusements''--sleight of hand, thrills, jokes both cheap and witty--but these can be had from any ragtag troupe or twopenny dreadful and I can see that ''you'' are an audience that demands ''more'' and ''we shall provide it!'' [...] For before you tonight is that glittering company known throughout the world and beyond as '''''Master Payne's [[AC:circus of]] Adventure!'''''"''

A traveling Heterodyne Show that takes Agatha in for a while after she saves them from a wandering monster-clank. Zeetha was originally one of them, but decided her place was with her student when the rest of the Circus was PutOnABus.
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* ArmCannon: Ollie has a prosthetic hand that either can transform into a hand cannon or he has a separate hand cannon prosthetic. He is never seen with it in any stage but [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041105 mechanical hand]] or [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050408 weapon]] so it is unknown if it is two devices or one but it looks like he just removes the hand portion to access the cannon.
* AscendedExtra: Many of the circus are more fleshed out in the novelization, particularly Professor Moonsock, the troupe's animal trainer and de facto medic.
* TheBeastmaster: Professor Moonsock, who tames animals for the show's acts, and occasionally for defense (though the others are less receptive to those attempts).
* BelligerentSexualTension: Abner and Pix start out this way, then get together soon after Agatha joins the circus.
* BlatantLies: According to the novels, Yeti insists he's from some long-hidden civilization. No-one else believes him, on account of the fact his accent is ''suspiciously'' like that of someone from the Chinese portion of Istanbul...
* BlessedWithSuck: The circus is composed mostly of sparks who lost the SuperpowerLottery, their spark abilities held back by a lack of education or being so weak that they are barely considered sparks.
* BlueBlood: Marie is apparently distantly related to the Queen of England, and is often referred to as "the Countess."
* ChivalrousPervert[=/=]HandsomeLech: Lars apparently has a... ''colorful'' history.
* CircusOfFear: Not usually; they're decent people. But after '''''[[UnstoppableRage SHOWTIME!]]''''', things get... interesting.
* FlyingDutchman: Embi, of the Wandering Jew variety. Assuming he wasn't sending Agatha out for a crate of balloon juice about that.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Apparently the von Mekkahns' general appearance is well known as a [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050527 Vanamonde look alike]] appears early in one of the Heterodyne shows. It's possible Carson had the blond hair, black eyebrows that his grandson currently has in the past and the Circus picked up on that trait.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Marie again.
* HandicappedBadass: Trish Belloptrix is a spark who walks with the aid of a crutch and is confirmed in the novelization to be missing most of her left leg. That crutch transforms into a large gun to take out the monsters and clanks that threaten the circus in the wastelands.
* HappilyMarried: Master Payne and Marie, with a little bit of VitriolicBestBuds mixed in.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Lars]].
* HiddenInPlainSight: A lot about the circus. [[spoiler:Especially how they're mostly Sparks.]]
* InksuitActor: Master Payne is based on a [[http://www.masterpaynemagic.com Northwest stage magician of the same name]] who is a friend of the Foglios.
* KnifeThrowingAct: Dame Edith has a knife throwing act, unfortunately she has at least once turned her knives on the audience when she asked if anyone was a vampire and someone raised his hand, understandably thinking she was joking.
* LadykillerInLove: Lars, who gets a fairly obvious crush on Agatha. [[spoiler:He confesses it as he lies dying.]]
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Embi notes that most of his appeal to the audiences the circus pulls in is that he is short.
* LovableCoward:
** Lars starts out as this.
** Arguably, the whole circus is this. They play heroes on stage, but they don't do any actual heroics - traveling the Wastelands is dangerous enough without it.
* TheMasquerade: [[spoiler:Many of them are minor Sparks, hiding from the Baron and from potential BurnTheWitch situations]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Master Payne.
* NecessarilyEvil: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070115 Master Payne]]
* NervousWreck: Lars can be easily startled by some of the abominations of science encountered in the wastelands. Not helping is that his job is to scout the Wastelands ''for'' those abominations, leaving him a bundle of frayed nerves. Once he gets going, it's hard to stop him. Even with a pie. Though the Jaegers found a solution.
-->'''Lars:''' Horse! Pie! Horse! Pie!
* OlderThanTheyLook: Embi, who is apparently well over a hundred years old.
* PerformanceAnxiety: According to the novelization Yeti has stage fright even though he acts in the plays, it is unknown what his usual part is but in one performance he acts as Punch.
* PhonyPsychic: Madame Olga was a fortune teller traveling with the circus.
* PieInTheFace: Shockingly, this is plot-relevant! Taki believes there is no problem in life that cannot be solved by application of pie to the face, whether it's a dud act or a panic attack.
* PillowPistol: When Master Payne and Marie are woken by a Sturmhalten soldier banging on their carriage door he [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051123 slides a gun out from under his pillow to take with him to answer the door.]]
* ThePlotReaper: [[spoiler:Lars]], when Gil is about to come back into Agatha's life.
* PurposeDrivenImmortality: Embi credits his long life to the fact he made a sacred vow to see the world before he died, but didn't know just how big it was. Of course, that could just be a story he's trying out.
* PutOnABus: To England, specifically.
** TheBusCameBack: They've [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200615 finally showed up again]] at Albia's party in 2020, ''years'' after they were last seen.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A lovable kind.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Master Payne.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: While most weapons in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' are death rays or other creations of mad science one of the circus members, who looks to be the young Spanish woman who acts as their Thundering Engine Woman impersonator, prefers a revolver even though she herself is a Spark.
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Many of them are minor Sparks. Very few of them are any good at it.
* StageMagician: Master Payne himself, much like the [[http://www.masterpaynemagic.com/ real life stage magician he is based on,]] but with more tricks that rely in Sparky innovations and inventions.
* VampireHunter: Dame [=Ædith=] is one, or tries to be. This has caused the circus some problems, such as when she asked the audience if any of them were vampires and one man, assuming she was joking, raised his hand.[[note]] WordOfGod says she's just crazy and vampires don't exist in the GG-verse. Although, [[MadScientist Sparks]] being [[ForScience Sparks]], it's probably only a matter of time...[[/note]]
* WackyWaysideTribe: The trope is well-used: the circus establishes the post-apocalyptic world the Other left behind and works Zeetha, Dimo, Oggie and Maxim into the main cast. Plus jokes.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Yeti just wears a necklace and pants, though he is rather fuzzy so he may not feel the need to don a shirt.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Old Man Death]]
!!Old Man Death, Sandwich Shop Proprietor and Undefeated Retired Jäger Auxiliary
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[[caption-width-right:203:"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Never. Lost. A fight.]]"]]

An old man who runs a gourmet sandwich shop with his granddaughter. Used to run with the Jägers and put them to shame. His hat is therefore very significant to Jägers, as the more important and badass the hat's owner, the more awesome and badass the hat. As such, he has to put up with the occasional attack on him for it, often enough at least for there to be a [[RuleOfThree three tries only rule]].
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: {{Squick}}s his granddaughter with the tale of how he met her grandmother.
* BadassNormal: He is a human who can put Jägers to shame.
* ChefOfIron: Again, he makes gourmet sandwiches and out-fights Jägers. Often at the same time.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: He plays this...to the '''JÄGERS''', with his HatOfAuthority as the reward.
-->'''Old Man Death:''' I'm just a '''human'''. Rode with the '''Jägers'''. ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Never. Lost. A. Fight.]]''
* DramaticIrony: Tells his granddaughter that he'd be more impressed if any of the jägers he fights nowadays used cunning or stealth to steal his hat, but that it will never happen since jägers don't do subtle. Maxim's third, and successful, attempt starts with stealth (hiding in a herring barrel) and ends with him (sort of) tricking Old Man Death into giving over the hat (by ordering a sandwich that is a hat-related historical reference) and escaping quickly (by ordering the sandwich to go).
* ForegoneConclusion: It was obvious that Maxim was going to get Old Man Death's hat as soon as you saw it- while the purple hat with red trimming looked out of place on an old man in an orange shirt and an apron, it already matched Maxim's outfit perfectly. It actually looked pretty similar to his old hat, only more ornate.
* FormerTeenRebel: As was mentioned, "rode with the Jägers", i.e. was an auxiliary to the most badass and evil army in Europe. Now runs a sandwich shop.
* GracefulLoser: He's apparently fine with losing his hat, he really didn't care about it, and he tells his granddaughter "your grandmother always hated that hat".
* HashHouseLingo: He knows the ingredients of the most obscure sandwiches you can imagine. And there is apparently a story behind every one of those oddly named sandwiches. The "Red Heterodyne" (Fried bat wing with mushroom sauce on pumpernickel) apparently stemmed from the long-dead Red Heterodyne getting trapped in a cave network for several years after a raid gone bad, forcing him to live on bats and mushrooms until he could get out, by which point he'd developed a taste for them. The "Prince of Sturmhalten's Big Bet" (Hat sandwich) stemmed from Prince Viden of Sturmhalten saying that he'd eat his hat if Dante "The Good" Heterodyne could get a cathedral built in Mechanicsburg which, long story short, Dante did and so Prince Viden did.
* HatOfAuthority: Played with, his hat is nothing special and it announces no official position, but the fact that it is '''his''' makes it irresistible to the Jägers. [[spoiler: And once Maxim wins it off him, he immediately becomes the new target.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: Or at least, as noted below, he cares more about his reputation as a sandwich-maker than winning his latest fight with a Jäger.
* MemeticBadass: Among the Jägers, at least. [in-universe]
* MysteriousPast: Exactly how, why, and when he stopped marauding, moved to Mechanicsburg and set up his shop isn't clear, although he claims it was due to his meeting his princess wife-to-be: "..she sort of ''abducted'' me. Took me away from all of that, you know."
* NoodleIncident: The story behind the names of all the other sandwiches he can make, except the bat-and-mushroom "Red Heterodyne" as noted above.
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: It's doubtful that "Old Man Death" is his given name, and the only other thing he's addressed as (by his granddaughter) is "Grandpa".
* PapaWolf: The fight with Maxim over his hat was going fine, and was fairly friendly, until Maxim tried to hit on the waitress, his granddaughter.
* ParentalSexualitySquick: He induces this in his granddaughter... who apparently misses the fact that she's technically royalty according to the story as well.
* RetiredBadass: He just wants to run his sandwhich shop these days.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Maxim forces him to choose between his reputation as a sandwich-maker and his hat. He chooses his reputation. Apparently he didn't have another hat in the store to make the sandwich with or he was unwilling or unable to leave his shop to get another one. Alternatively given that he claims to have considered just tossing the hat several times and states that his wife hated it, he may simply have seen the opportunity to get rid of it.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:König]]
!!Bärenkönig, Acting Leader of the Swartzwalders
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Leader of a group of sentient bear constructs, and tentatively named the Swartzwalders by the fandom after their previous appearance in the non-canon Girl Genius card game The Works. He considers himself their temporary leader, and has been long awaiting the arrival of the bears' true "Master".
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* BearsAreBadNews: The only thing that could be scarier than a bear is a sentient bear designed to be a warrior.
* {{BFS}}: He has a curved saber that is easily as long as Dimo is tall. Since König is also quite large, it's a one-hander to him.
* BilingualBonus: "König" is "King" in german.
* BlingOfWar: His "crown" is a ring on a necklace, and he has a pair of bronze armguards to indicate his station. Or alternatively, it really is a crown, intended to be [[spoiler:worn by Krosp.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: König has significantly more body mass compared to the other Swartzwalders.
* MadeOfIron: When the Beast was finally vanquished and it exploded, he fared better than [[spoiler:Brother Ulm, who only survives by means of BrainUploading into the Corbettites' new super-locomotive.]]
* NoSell: He and the other bears aren't affected by The Beast's magnets due to not having metal on them.
* ThirdPersonPerson: He is "This Bear" when referring to himself.
* RetiredBadass: As soon as [[spoiler: Krosp appears on the scene]] he immediately and cheerfully steps down from his leadership position and takes a new job as [[spoiler: the engineer on the aforementioned super-train.]]
* SlasherSmile: Bears are not really designed to look happy, so even when this bear is meant to be happy, he still looks like he's sporting one of these.
* UpliftedAnimal: Though not to the intellectual level of Krosp, König and his fellow Swartzwalders are sentient nonhuman animals.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Like all Swartzwalders, he has very simplistic speech. However, it belies an intellect beyond just being DumbMuscle, as he was savvy enough to think that The Beast was bluffing.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Professor Blintzie von Wyrmhaut]]
!!Professor Blintzie von Wyrmhaut, Supreme Curator of Drachenzehen Hall, High Queen of Historians, and Artifact Hunter Extraordinaire
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-->Pardon '''me''', but '''I''' am a '''serious academic!''' Published in '''over thirty journals!''' --'''Most''' of them '''reputable''', and '''some''', I didn't even have to '''pay!'''

Former instructor at Transylvania Polygnostic, now curator of Drachenzen Hall. Currently leading a party seeking the Iram Solis, a dragon flame-enhancer held in the hoard of Hydrargyros the Godburner. Once taught Agatha at TPU.
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* BadassLongcoat: Complete with fur trim and adorned with spikes.
* BearerOfBadNews: Reveals Respiro the dragon was assassinated by his own guild due to resentment from the LimitedAdvancementOpportunities he caused from being head of the glassblowing guild for centuries.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Grey hair and eyes.
* CuteLittleFangs: Very prominent (almost Jaeger-like) canines.
* GogglesDoNothing: Wears goggles on her forehead and doesn't actually use them, even when observing Franz breathing fire.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Pulls a {{BFG}} from nowhere.
-->A good tailor can do '''amazing''' things with '''pockets!'''
* HunterOfMonsters: Franz adds "notorious monster hunter, specializing in dragons" to her titles. Apparently from a family of monster hunters ("Wyrmhaut" mean wyrm [dragon] hide). Notably, she isn't fanatical about it and is quite respectful and cordial towards Franz, addressing him by his formal title of Lord Scortchmaw, while Franz admits most dragons aren't as nice as him and are "flat out monsters".
* MadScientist: A teacher of these. Franz immediately assumes she wants the Iram Solis to attack Meachanicsburg.
* SadistTeacher: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230213 Shoots]] one of her students for getting a question wrong, then immediately backpedals when she realizes that the material wasn't covered in their lessons. Previously taught Agatha and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230303 gleefully claims she flunked her]] (though Agatha was still wearing the power-limiting locket and hadn't broken through at the time). [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230329 Declares]] her entire class failed the midterms when Franz's drunken dancing interrupts her.
* SearchingForTheLostRelative: Her Uncle Hengst [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230505 set out to slay Hrydrargryos and never returned.]] She FinallyFoundTheBody in Hyrdrargyros' lair.
-->As near as I can tell, he killed the dragon, but was mortally wounded. We spent '''years''' wondering what happened to him.
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: "Supreme Curator of Drachenzehen Hall, High Queen of Historians, and Artifact Hunter Extraordinaire (and also notorious monster hunter specializing in dragons)".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Muses]]
!!The Nine Muses of R. Van Rijn
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A set of clanks, built by Master Van Rijn, "The Greatest Spark of All Time" for "the Greatest King of All Time", Andronicus Valois. Their numbers include Otilia, Moxana, Tinka, Prende, Orotine, Mawu and Liza (the non-twins) and Artimo. Ludicrously advanced, even by modern Spark standards, most have been lost or gone missing due to people's attempts to replicate their technology.

For details of Otilia, see Von Pinn's entry.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Most of the Muses so far have recognized Tarvek as the heir to the Lightning Crown. However, Orotine, the Muse of Geometries, gave a non-committal statement when asked by Krosp if she supports either Tarvek or Martellus, only stating that Martellus was "a distant third, at best". If Martellus is third and Tarvek is (presumably) above him, who exactly is first or second? [[spoiler:If the GURPS tie-in book is canon, then Gilgamesh is also descended from the Storm King and may be the true heir to the Lightning Crown.]]
* DeathByDespair: Moxana starts heading this way, thanks to being separated from Tinka.
* FemBot: Unlike most (gender-neutral) clanks, the Muses were explicitly designed in both form and personality to be female, and are referred to as such by other characters.
* LivingMacGuffin: A minor case. Finding the Muses that remain and replicating the technology used to make them is a long-term goal of Tarvek's.
* LostTechnology: Their tech is far more advanced than anything a Spark of the modern day could develop. Tarvek's the only one who can reverse-engineer it, and only to a point.
* OffWithHerHead: Tinka is decapitated by Vrin and her Geisterdamen, but given she's a clank, and that Otilia's severed head could continue to sustain a functioning Clank intelligence [[spoiler:(the Castle, not Otilia herself)]], odds are good that Tinka could be repaired.
* PhraseCatcher: Apparently even after three hundred years, people who see Orotine for the first time always feel the need to point out she's a Muse to her. [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore She's come to expect it.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:There is a final muse called the Muse of Vengeance, created to wipe out the Heterodynes for their crimes against Europa and their part in the Storm King's downfall (or at least to be unleashed against enemies of the Immortal Library.) It has long remained inactive, but the librarians have recovered its heart as a precaution since some of their leaders fear Agatha is probably every bit the monster her ancestors were.]]
* ShockAndAwe: Tinka and Prende have both displayed the ability to zap folk, though higher amounts of voltage burn off any clothing or wigs they might have on them.
* SignatureHeadgear: One of Orotine's distinguishing features is she's always wearing a fancy hat emblazoned with the Fleur de Lis.
* SilentSnarker: Moxana may not be able to speak anymore, but she can still get her point across. After Krosp manages to outwit Master Payne, she rearranges her chessboard to signify he's been put in checkmate.
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Somewhere between type 3 (comparable to humans) and type 4 (SuperIntelligence), which is to say ''significantly'' higher than most other Clanks, and an accomplishment by Van Rijn still unmatched in the comic's present day. Moxana and Tinka have regressed significantly in their state of disrepair, but still show occasional flashes of great acuity.
* StealthHiBye: They can move with astounding quietness if they need to. Even Smoke Knights like Violetta and Madwa have difficulty detecting their presence if they choose not to be noticed.
* TheVoiceless: Moxana, who communicates exclusively through playing cards and hand signs. She used to be able to speak at some point, but apparently lost the ability to after being separated from Tinka.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Of the set, Otilia is stuck in Mechanisburg, Prende is (last seen) in Paris, Orotine is in England; Moxana and Tinka were last seen in Sturmhalten, before it was overrun by monsters and the Baron's forces. And Tinka had been decapitated. And at least one of them was deactivated by an unidentified Spark. The fate of the rest is unknown.
* YouAreTooLate: They were programmed never to give Andronicus Valois a straight answer, merely hint towards what he should do. When they actually ''did'' give him a straight answer, it was because there was nothing that could be done to stop it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Muse of Time]]
!!The Muse of Time, the Mysterious Entity
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The Muse of Time, also known as the Enigma, is a very mysterious clank that can time travel. [[spoiler:Albia confirms, or at least ''believes'' with great certainty, that Lucrezia Mongfish is her true identity.]]
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* BodyHorror: When Agatha finds her in Van Rijn's lab, she looks like a hideous combination of a robotic skeleton and a Devil Dog from Castle Heterodyne.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** She first appeared in a time window pointing at Agatha and proclaiming "... Like that?!" to someone offscreen.
** In her first appearance, she has hands that look very similar to the dragon from Theo's Heterodyne Boys story. They also look similar to the hands of the Geisterdamen's mistress from Lady Vrin's flashback.
** [[spoiler:In Van Rijn's notebook, we're shown that one of the Muse of Time's forms looks very similar to Agatha and wears what looks like a Heterodyne symbol on her eye. A later flashback of Albia's confirms that this is a version of Lucrezia, albeit one that's taken a severe beating.]]
* MysteriousStranger: Almost nothing is known about her and she has only shown up twice in the series.
* RobotHair: In her first appearance she has long wires coming from her head that have been styled into braids. In her second appearance, she has disheveled human-like hair.
* SealedEvilInACan: While not enough is known of her to call her "evil", Van Rijn was able to trap her in his lab below Paris where she stayed for over 200 years before the Lucrezia-copy in Agatha's head influenced/instructed her host into restoring the Muse's power, allowing her to escape.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: In her first appearance she spooked Agatha, causing her to run into the alley where her locket was stolen, kicking off the plot.
* TimeMaster: She has the ability to travel through time seemingly at will.
* TricksterMentor: When she appeared in front of Van Rijn and stayed long enough to talk, she would sometimes teach him new things.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Professoressa]]
!!Dr. Kaja Foglio, Professor of Interpretive History, Artist, Official Biographer of the Lady Heterodyne
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A professor at the Transylvania Polygnostic University who decides she will interview Agatha and write her official biography when they run into each other in Paris. She is the presenter behind the stories in the "Radio Play" side stories.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The December 2020 side story focuses on the Professoressa and the Storyteller and is set after the main comic.
* AuthorAvatar: She is a stand in for Kaja Foglio, just as the Storyteller is the stand in for Phil.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The December 2020 side story involves her inquisitiveness about the Mechanicsburg Solstice resulting in her stumbling into filling in for Agatha as the "Heterodyne". It results in her getting a lot more than she bargained for, and she only reason she gets away unscathed is thanks to the Castle's help.
* IdenticalStranger: Not quite identical, but she looks sufficiently like Agatha for the Revelsmeister to comment on it when he ropes her into the Solstice celebration.
* MeetCute: A filler image depicts her meeting Phil Foglio's in-comic character by having her accidentally drop a book on his head from the top of a high shelf. The book is titled "[[LampshadeHanging How They Met]]".
* MissedHimByThatMuch: In the Solstice story, she comes even closer to meeting Agatha than the Storyteller has, but is unconscious at the time. That being said, she did meet Agatha in person in Paris.
* SignatureHeadgear: Her top hat with winged goggles is quite nice, and even gets complimented by one of her husband's cousins.
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[[folder:The Storyteller]]
!!Prof. Creator/PhilFoglio, Storyteller and Creative Historian
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An incredibly unlucky traveling storyteller who by strange coincidence always seems to end up near the latest disaster.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The December 2020 side story focuses on the Professoressa and the Storyteller and is set after the main comic.
* AuthorAvatar: He and the above-mentioned woman are the stand-ins for the Foglios.
* TheBard: The storyteller is a traveling bard who has multiple random encounters with the protagonists throughout their journey, they find him and a way to escape the maze beneath Sturmhalten when they hear him singing while imprisoned in the local dungeon. He's memorized a great number of tales in addition to spinning his own.
* BlackSheep: The rest of Oggie's descendents definitely act more Jäger-adjacent than he does, and most think as little of his profession as everyone else.
* TheBore: The Great Hospital at Mechanicsburg hires him to help get difficult patients to sleep, much to his disgruntlement. This gets him volunteered to help get Klaus to sleep soon after. About the only person who doesn't find his storytelling dull is Tarvek (who is moved to ManlyTears instead).
* TheChewToy: He's arrested and thrown in an oubliette in Sturmhalten for "unflattering portrayal of a royal", mocked for being boring, pestered by Oggie, frozen in the time-stop, used as a guinea pig from removal from said time-stop by Wulfenbach scientists...
* DeadpanSnarker: When listening to a Wulfenbach troop reciting what he thought happened at Sturmhalten (thanks to having inhaled some of the Circus' hallucinogenic gas).
-->'''Trooper:''' It was unbelievable!\\
'''Storyteller:''' ''(glowering at the man)'' That, I'll grant you.
* DirectLineToTheAuthor: The novelization confirms that the Storyteller is supposed to be Phil Foglio, and the series is him re-telling what he knows of Agatha's rise to power. Though he also admits in-story that he's been exposed to so many mind-altering chemicals and energies that [[UnreliableNarrator he can't be sure exactly what happened]].
* MeetCute: A filler image depicts him meeting Kaja Foglio's in-comic character by having her accidentally drop a book on his head from the top of a high shelf. The book is titled "[[LampshadeHanging How They Met]]".
* MissedHimByThatMuch: On occasion, the Storyteller comes very close to Agatha, without ever interacting with her (being nearby when Agatha saw the Muse of Time, being present when Agatha unleashed her dangerous Carnival on the Baron, being at Mechanicsburg during the siege).
* SharedFamilyQuirks: When he turns something the Professoressa says into a sex joke, she smirks "It is ''so obvious'' that you two are related." When Oggie does the same thing, she repeats it.
* TheStoryteller: Well, duh. The comic begins with him telling a story (presumably the ''Girl Genius'' story) to some kids.
* TemptingFate: He tells Oggie he'll find a girlfriend as soon as Oggie finds a Heterodyne. And then he sees the giant hologram of Agatha bursting out of Prince Aaronev's castle...
* UnwantedAssistance: Is a great-great-great grandson of Oggie. It's Oggie's "assistance" with trying to help the family line along that has in fact led to the Storyteller being one of the ''last'' of said line. Then again, judging by the rest of his family when they visit for the Solstice, it seems more of a matter of him being a bit of a BlackSheep.

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* WhipItGood: Apparently has quite the reputation for using one.

-->'''Lumi:''' I '''knew it!''' You ''are'' a thief!
-->'''Vipsania:''' I AM NOT! Well... at least... not ''professionally.''
-->'''Franz:''' Heh. Don't worry. With practice, you'll be a ''pro'' in ''no time.''
-->'''Vipsania:''' I don't '''want''' to be a "pro"!

Former instructor at Transylvania Polygnostic, now curator of Drachenzen Hall, currently leading a party seeking the Iram Solis, a dragon flame-enhancer held in the hoard of Hydrargyros the Godburner. Once taught Agatha at TPU.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Gives one to Vipsania Perrault when she seeks their assistance via bribing individual brothers to help her loot an abandoned DragonHoard containing a dangerous Spark device. She is told the first brother she talked to was ReassignedToAntarctica, the second gets dragged away and the third is sealed up in a room. Brother Marcus explains that when someone tries to bribe members of the Order, they will try to scare them off first, then assist them if they continue.

!!Brother Marcus, Conductor in the Corbettite Order