History Characters / GirlGeniusMechanicsburg

The chief of the Mechanicsburg city watch created by Pluto Heterodyne. As Heterodynes have an expectedly odd outlook on how a city law enforcement group should operate Pluto made the members of the watch invisible and long lived, which drove many of them to desperation out of loneliness with Drozek as one of the very few original watch members still remaining. Jagers and other constructs can usually see members of the watch so they did have plenty of company in Mechanicsburg prior to the Baron banning Jagers from the city.

* GenreSavvy: The Jagers approach town ominously but seem to be thinned out. Mitko knows instantly that the Jagers making a show of arriving in Mechanicsburg are only a handful and the rest are already positioning themselves throughout town even though his younger family members are surprised.

* FailedASpotCheck: After demanding no parties while Mama Gkika is watching his hoard, [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20221003 he takes no notice of the Jagers carrying party supplies]].

* TenMinuteRetirement: Carson had mere days in retirement enjoying time with his grandson while his son took over the family tradition of being the Heterodynes' seneschal before the Other's attack on the Castle became a harbinger of the dark times ahead. After that happened, he arranged and led a shadow government for Mechanicsburg, essentially rendering the nominal Wulfenbach-appointed city administration impotent. He has since (semi) retired again, letting his grandson Vanamonde, now an adult, take over.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Rejoice!" For context, he is demanding revelry while beating down a host of attackers because the [[ForDoomTheBellTolls Doom Bell]] has heralded the return of a Heterodyne scion in the middle of a multi-sided invasion battle.

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Vanamonde was a side-extract along with Gil's ultimate target in extracting from the time distortion field: Tarvek Sturmvoraus. Tarvek was poisoned by throwing knife from the fleeing Martellus while in pursuit, and Van had caught Tarvek's fall after he collapsed from the virulent effects. That was the position the two were in when the [[TimeStandsStill Take-Five Bomb]] detonated.]]

* ExplosiveLeash: The method of containing the prisoners is to latch a choker around their neck that's explosive and bearing the Heterodyne emblem. Since Agatha's suppression locket looks nearly identical, it allows her to easily walk in the front door when passed off as a new prisoner.

* CardCarryingVillain: The Castle proudly admits that it's old Masters were villains. That Bill & Barry were heroes was always something that confused it. One scene has the Castle and the Beast worrying that [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210802 Agatha might not be evil]].

* MoralMyopia: PlayedForLaughs. Since the Castle builds it's worldview around it's Heterodyne, it seems to believe in a sort of InUniverse ProtagonistCenteredMorality (that ''isn't'' self-centered).

* AIIsACrapshoot: The Sins are not... Terribly reliable. They've wiped out multiple of the families who they were supposed to serve. But they were made by the ''Heterodynes'', so, comes with the territory.

* ValuesDissonance: An InUniverse example. While the reader isn't told which four sins were added to round out the roster to eleven (beyond that one was named Gomorrity, and that it isn'trelated to sodomy), Vidonia is told one of them and finds it surprisingly mundane and not worthy of being considered a sin. Ivo points out that even the [[SevenDeadlySins traditional seven]] aren't so bad, depending on who's writing or reading the list.

* BoxedCrook: Though the remaining survivors are technically free once the castle is fully repaired, this happens in the middle of the siege of Mechanicsburg. With most of the Barons forces directly outside the town walls, and Agatha being able to provide a sanctuary, plenty of minions and freedom for their respective sciences, the survivors opt to work for her instead of fleeing.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Mittelmind [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090427 immediately agrees to follow Agatha's orders]], even though Sparks are constantly trying to dominate over everybody else, because[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090506 he is not dumb enough to defy a Heterodyne within her own castle]].

'''Moloch''': ...Not even if it got me out of the castle '''''tonight'''''.

** It's becoming so prominent that [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121126 it's starting to become his defining personal characteristic]].

Giant killer clanks that inhabit Castle Heterodyne. They're mobile, and they dispense agony and death, but whether they're "FunSize" is subjective.

* SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom: {{ZigZagg|ingTrope}}ed with the "Fun-Sized" bit. They'd only be a "fun size" if you're a [[MadScientist Heterodyne]], but the rest of their name is pretty accurate.
** That said, they are the [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230531 most popular ride]] in the Castle on Kid's Day

* BreakTheHaughty / SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Mittlemind and Mezzasalma enjoy breaking idealistic young Sparks.

First seen organizing the guilds of Mechanicsburg to assist Agatha's work in the coffee shop she quickly assigned herself to be Van's assistant seeing as the town has a Heterodyne and he's much busier than he used to be.

* BavarianFireDrill: She passes herself off as Van's assistant and it takes him at least a day to even question her presence. In this case she decided he needed one and assigned herself the position while he's not even sure what her name is but her competence meant he went ahead and used her.
* BeleagueredAssistant: While Van is actually extremely competent Vidonia assigns herself to him when Mechanicsburg is under attack and Van spends several days without sleep, so by the time she's dragging him off to get a bit of sleep he's not as on the ball as he is normally and she acts incredibly annoyed with him questioning her identity as though ''he's'' the one acting strange by not knowing it.
* ChessmasterSidekick: Despite the fact that she was never formally hired and assigned herself to Van she is incredibly competent at organizing the guilds and getting them to do things they protest, despite the fact that she doesn't technically have any authority. Van takes a while to even question her presence due to how useful she is.

* LimitedWardrobe: While Vidonia does change her shirt a couple of times she seems to always wear her trilobite earrings and a long white cape.
* SpottingTheThread: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220928 Notices]] Vipsania is uninterested in researching the archives of Castle Heterodyne, unlike the other visiting librarian, Aldin Hoffman. She questions Hoffman, who reveals Vipsania wasn't a full librarian yet, was the SoleSurvivor of three trips and isn't on official Library business this time.

* BerserkButton: Frank is an extremely laidback dragon, but some few things will set him off: obviously, [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130111 people threatening the Heterodyne]]; rival dragons [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121003 encroaching on his territory]]; people [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220831 taking undue interest in his books]]; and people making deals with him and then [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220907 implying they may be unable to hold up their end of the bargain]], or [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220912 thinking he might cheat his way out of an agreement]].

* HiddenDepths: A 2022 side-story reveals that Franz's most valuable treasures are ''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220905 rare books]]''.

[[AC:Castle Heterodyne Inhabitants]]
[[folder:Fun-Sized Mobile Agony and Death Dispensers]]
!!The Fun-Sized Mobile Agony and Death Dispensers

Giant killer clanks that inhabit Castle Heterodyne. They're mobile, and they dispense agony and death, but whether they're "FunSize" is subjective.

* FluffyTheTerrible: The Heterodynes dubbed these huge killing machines "Fun-Sized".
* FunSize: Very much {{subverted|Trope}}. They're ''huge.''
* InUniverseNickname: Moloch calls them [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080901 "devil dogs"]] (but in [[Literature/AgathaHAndTheVoiceOfTheCastle the novelization]]'s version of the same scene, he calls them "steam cats"). Later on, some characters start calling them "kitties".
* MechanicalMonster: In [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080903 Moloch's words]], "They're really fast, really strong, and really ''solid.''"
* MegaNeko: They are very large clanks with a catlike appearance.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Like most things in Castle Heterodyne, they stop antagonizing Agatha when they learn she's their Lady.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Agony and Death Dispensers" is a fairly accurate description of their intended use.
* PantheraAwesome: The Heterodynes modeled these giant killer clanks after tigers and other big cats.
* SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom: {{ZigZagg|ingTrope}}ed with the "Fun-Sized" bit. They'd only be a "fun size" if you're a [[MadScientist Heterodyne]], but the rest of their name is pretty accurate.

[[folder:Prisoners (in general)]]
!!Prisoners from the Castle[=/=]Roving Band of Heroic Repairmen
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[[caption-width-right:300:"[[DueToTheDead Requiescat in pace]] and all that rot... [[RobbingTheDead DIBS ON HIS BOOTS!]]"]]

A thoroughly mixed bag of Sparks, constructs, criminals and psychopaths sentenced to repair Castle Heterodyne, thus killing two birds with one stone from the Baron's perspective. Provides a ready pool of minions (or mooks) for whomever is currently ascendant.

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-> See [[Characters/GirlGeniusProtagonists Protagonists]] for Moloch.

[[AC:Jägerkin]]
->See [[Characters/GirlGeniusProtagonists Protagonists]] for Ognian, Maxim, Dimo, and Ivo.
[[folder:Jägers (in general)]]
!!The Corps of Jägermonsters
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[[caption-width-right:350:An army of Jägers led by General "Mamma" Gkika, rallying to their Lady.]]
Feared footsoldiers of the Heterodyne family, who drank the Jägerdraught and were transformed into their present state. Their fondness for fighting is matched only by their fondness for hats, and are recognizable by their mostly humanoid but just monstrous enough appearance, and a distinctively maintained Mechanicsburg accent.

* AffectionateNickname: The Jägers have taken to frequently calling their Lady Agatha "Sveethot" (IE: Sweetheart).
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Jäger skin tends to be all manner of colors.
* AmazonChaser: The more dangerous and violent a lady is, the more they'll be in luv with her. The ones on Castle Wulfenbach adore Von Pinn, no matter how violently she disembowels them.
* TheDreaded: Having served as the Heterodyne's head monsters for several hundred years, the people of Europa are not terribly fond of them. In places where the Baron's presence isn't so strong, and the memory of the old Heterodynes linger, the typical response to a Jäger is to try and kill them. Even in Wulfenbach-dominant regions, the mere implication that the Baron may send the Jägercorps to deal with an unruly vassal is often enough to pacify them.
* FunetikAksent: Deys gots the Mechanicsburg aksent. It even applies to ''sound effects'' around dem.
* TheGadfly: Most Jäger traditions are maintained to annoy people.
* GratuitousGerman: The word "Jägermonster" in German translates to English as "hunter-monster" or perhaps "infantry-monster".
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: The Jägers often had regular human auxiliaries fighting alongside them during the Old Heterodyne days, and the two considered each other close comrades-in-arms. "Riding with the Jägers" is how the old auxiliaries usually announce this membership. Though not practiced currently, a few characters were extended the same regard by true Jägers when dying or getting greivously wounded in service to Agatha: [[spoiler:Lars and Zeetha, for example]].
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Having served alongside the maddest of the madboys, it's generally a sign that if something can scare these guys, it's time to ''run''.
* IGaveMyWord: They swore to serve the Heterodynes forever, but when Bill and Barry disappeared, they signed up with the Baron, knowing it was the only way to keep them safe. A few of their kind, such as Da Boyz, were sent into the wild to keep up the search, despite knowing there was probably no chance of succeeding, just so they could say they had kept their word. [[spoiler:[[TheRightfulKingReturns And then Agatha shows up.]]]]
* InterserviceRivalry: With the Lackya, the green-eyed footmen on board Castle Wulfenbach, during the Jägercorps' time under the auspices of Baron Wulfenbach. The Jagers think they're uptight and effete ("nancy-boy feetsman"), while the Lackya don't care much for their unruly behavior. But when the Slaver Wasps come around, all nonsense is dispensed with.
* LongLived: They can last, with the proper maintenance from the Heterodyne, upward of hundreds of years.
* MadeOfIron: Side-effect of not dying of the Jägerdraught is becoming near impossible to kill. Of course, this does have the leedle problem that Jägers can be overconfident in the face of a problem, or in some cases not outright notice something's trying to kill them in the first place.
* MauveShirt: Some minor Jagers do reappear occasionally. [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030505 Zudok,]] for example, took almost a whole [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131007 ten and a half years]] to pop up again.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: The only real moral alignment of the Jägers is "Loyal". They served the Heterodynes for centuries, and they'll serve the Heterodyne centuries more.
* NightmareFetishist: The people of Mechanicsburg consider the Jägers' inhuman features to be attractive. One of [[spoiler: Higgs's]] regrets is that [[spoiler: he]] didn't at least get the teeth.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Horrific Abominations of Mad Science though they be, at the end of the day, Jagers are still a BadassArmy and BandOfBrothers. This also extends to anyone they deem worthy of respect, [[spoiler: As Maxim showed when he retrieved Lars' body.]]
* TheNoseKnows: They've got an astoundingly good sense of smell, capable of discerning a Heterodyne instantly.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Jägers can live a very long time; it's strongly implied that many of the Generals were among the first Jägers. Even the regular rank-and-file have a few centuries on them: Ognian has an impressive family of descendants over several generations.
* SignatureHeadgear: A Jäger without a hat might as well not ''be'' a Jäger. And there are rules about how one goes about acquiring them (gotta be a battle trophy off a worthy opponent, can't just pop into a little shop and buy one). Conversely, they'll respect someone with a nice hat, or even give one as a sign of respect (or at least, what they ''think'' is a nice hat). A good way to make them angry is to knock it off their head. They also use it as a gauge to whether or not a battle plan is a good idea: Will they lose their hat? If yes, bad plan.
* SkewedPriorities: Jägers are very protective of those hats of theirs, and a plan's general worth can be balanced on whether or not they'll still have a hat at the end of it, everything else be damned.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Most people look at Jägers and see dumb, slavering monsters. Slavering, maybe, monsters, yeah, but while most of them aren't exactly gifted in the brains department, they are by no means stupid. The Baron's attempts to dupe them and keep them away from Mechanicsburg fails because of this.
* SuperSerum: The highly toxic concoction that transformed them from mere humans into Jägers is known as the Jägerbrau. Amongst the ingredients is raw water from [[spoiler:the River Dyne's eldritch spring.]] It killed the majority of people who imbibed it, but the rest got all the wondrous Jägerperks... [[spoiler:Except Higgs who just got the super-physicality, super-durability, and immortality.]]
* SuperStrength: Jägers are capable of impressive feats of physical exertion; the Generals are in fact capable of wielding [[{{BFG}} Clank]] [[MoreDakka autocannons]].
* SuperToughness: It takes a frightening amount of bodily injury to incapacitate a Jäger.
* UndyingLoyalty: To the Heterodynes, and deys gots the oath to prove it! This started even before becoming Jägers; it has been noted that the consumption of the the Jägerbrau was always explicitly voluntary.
* WasOnceAMan: Originally human before taking the SuperSerum. Some remain more human-looking than others, like Oggie and Jenka, and [[spoiler:Higgs]] never transformed at all.

[[folder:The Jäger Generals]]
!!Generals Zog, Khrizhan, Goomblast, Koppelslav, "Mamma" Gkika and "the Spymaster"
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The leaders of the Jägermonsters. There were originally [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120514 eight of them]], however General Øsk was reported to have lost his hat and life battling the Polar Ice Lords' Doom Wyrm, leaving only seven:

1-3. "Dose three old ogres". When the story begins, they seem to act as military advisers for Klaus, and live aboard Castle Wulfenbach. There are three of them, General Zog (the most normal-looking one), General Khrizhan (the one with the gold-capped tusks who seems to be in overall command) and General Goomblast (the ''freaking massive'' one with an impressive wide mouth and array of teeth).

4. "Mamma" Gkika is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/info/cast/cast08.php another general]], and one of only two female Jägers seen so far. In the Jägerkin's current holding pattern, she runs the Mechanicsburg bar/hospital where incapacitated Jägers wait for a Heterodyne to come along to heal them up.

5. General Koppelslav, a large red Jäger who appears in Mechanicsburg in a council of the generals after Agatha is proclaimed the new Heterodyne. Long known only as "Gargantua" since a hostile Wulfenbach soldier calls him that, before his name was finally confirmed in the fourth GG print novel.

6. General Zadipok, whereabouts unknown...

7. And a "tricky general" who is said to be [[SecretKeeper "keeper of many secret things."]] He apparently wishes to remain hidden until the Other is removed from Agatha's mind. It's finally revealed that [[spoiler:he now goes by the name Axel Higgs.]] And that [[spoiler:unique among Jäger, he's remained human-looking all these centuries.]]

* AlmightyJanitor: The hidden general, [[spoiler:Higgs, who has been serving in various inconspicuous positions throughout the militaries of Europa for hundreds of years.]]
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Mamma Gkika takes it a step further by having a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120502 "fun color change-y hepidermoose [epidermis]!"]] She [[HiddenInPlainSight kept on the down low]] by staying Mechanicsburgher-colored, but now can "mek vit the pretty colors again".
* AmazonianBeauty: Mama Gkika is the only [[spoiler: publicly known]] general who is still conventionally attractive, and she ''towers'' over any normal human or non-general Jaeger.
* ArchEnemy: While the Heterodynes, and thus the Jägers, were enemies with pretty much anybody, the one enemy the generals '''hate''' is the Other's insects. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110316 This is because]] the Jägers [[UndyingLoyalty serve of their own will]] while the slaver wasps use MindControl.
* AttackAttackAttack: [[DefiedTrope Defying]] this is part of what separates the Generals from regular Jägers. Although they still love a good fight, they also know when it's better ''not'' to.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Jäger. '''Generals'''. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030430 Unlike their normal brothers and sisters]], it seems at least General Gkika has enough strength and constitution to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121119 wield]] a [[{{BFG}} Clank Gun]].
* BarBrawl: Mamma Gkika organizes one every evening to let the incapacitated Jägers in her care blow off steam. Except for Thursdays; Thursdays are Poetry Slam night.
* BigRedDevil: General Koppelslav has this look and wears SpikesOfVillainy.
* BloodKnight: Cunning old Jägers they may be, they are still Jägers and enjoy a good fight as much as any of their subordinates. However, the large difference between them and the grunts is that the Generals are not driven to the insane frenzy like the grunts are (on account of their age and wisdom) and are able to make decisions and do strategy. In fact, given what [[spoiler:Vole underwent through]], it's heavily implied that by the time they reach their age and have undergone decades or even centuries of blood lust and the emotional consequences of it, they mellow down considerably.
* CavalierCompetitor / SpiritedCompetitor: They don't hold grudges over any finished campaigns. And apparently keep kill-counts, arguing with each other over which foes did "count" and which weren't enough of a sport. Goomblast also liked the idea of CombatByChampion, though his opponents declined.
* CombatPragmatist: The Generals make a game of who can [[BodyCountCompetition score the most kills]] in a battle. General Khrizhan points out the others' cheating, not because he thinks it's unfair, but because he doesn't want to get called out for doing ''everything'' the others are doing.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Downplayed, as Mamma's definitely not a girl, but she is pretty good-looking and the most humanlike of the Generals except for [[spoiler:Higgs]], and to a lesser extent Jenka.
* DarkActionGirl: Mamma seems to be half way between this and LadyOfWar.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They would very much enjoy working for a "fun" Heterodyne again, but even they hate MindControl enough to hear out the possibility of Agatha being the Other and would refuse to work for any Heterodyne willing to use it.
* FemmeFatalons: Seen on Mamma [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080423 here]]. And she keeps them perfectly lacquered even [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111230 when]] in "[[NonuniformUniform uniform]]".
* FourStarBadass: All of the Generals are brutally competent warriors. Four of them working together can [[CurbstompBattle utterly crush]] an entire airship of elite Wulfenbach air-assault troops.
* FunetikAksent: Being Jägers, this is to be expected.
* GentleGiant: All of the generals seem perfectly capable of being personable and making very polite conversation over a pot of tea (Zog's a bit rusty). [[spoiler:This is actually [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160902 what makes them generals.]] Jägergenerals are in fact the ''mature'' form of common Jägers; this usually takes hundreds of years, and most Jägers die before reaching it. Though almost all Jägergenerals possess unique physical characteristics, the most important difference between a Jäger and a Jäger''general'' is that a Jägergeneral is no longer ''[[BloodKnight driven]]'' to fight as a Jäger is, but only fights when they ''choose'' to, and can thus fight rationally enough to lead others in combat]]. They are, however, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031103 still Jägers]].
* GeniusBruiser: The generals seem far more on the button as far as politics are concerned than many people, never mind Jägers. Case in point: [[spoiler:when it's revealed that Klaus plans to destroy Castle Heterodyne because Agatha's possessed by the Other, and Boris tries to deceive them into going along with it]], they ask Boris to tell them what he knows rather than killing him out of hand. Turns out their intelligence and wisdom is the result of centuries of experience. And [[spoiler:Higgs]] is a master of disguise and subterfuge, and has been [[spoiler:hiding out posing as lowly crewmen and soldiers in half of Europa's military.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight:
** This is how Mamma Gkika's remains hidden. It's underneath a much gaudier tourist trap of the same name, filled with show girls dressed up as fake jägers.
** The "sneaky" general manages to stay hidden in plain sight as well, [[spoiler:disguising himself as lowly soldiers in the various armies of Europa.]]
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Common jägers are [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]] in their own right, and [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]] to boot. But when the Generals start brawling among themselves, they [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031103 run for the hills]].
** [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121029 However]], when the [[EldritchAbomination Dreen]] show up, even the ''Generals'' run for the hills...
* ICallHerVera: Mamma Gkika's axe, "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111230 Dollink]]".
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Koppelslav sports large organic-looking [[SpikesOfVillainy shoulder-spikes]] which he can tear off and throw with deadly accuracy. It's not clear if they are part of his body or his outfit.
* LargeAndInCharge: It is implied that the Generals are amongst the oldest Jägers, and thus the gradual effects of the Jägerbrau makes them slowly get larger and more physically powerful. This confers them even greater strength, as shown by General Gkika being able to heft (and presumably fire) a Wulfenbach battle clank's autocannon (previously shown to be too much for ''three'' regular Jägers).
* LightningBruiser: At least, General Goomblast. A [[spoiler:Wulfenbach]] assault team seeing a huge Jäger General with a light fencing sword didn't realize why they should be terrified. Oh, and he also seems to be ambidextrous.
* MasterSwordsman: General Goomblast is capable of disarming his enemies such that their own (poisoned) swords impale them. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120523 While fighting six on one]].
* TheMedic: Mamma Gikka is the person Jägers turn to if they need medical attention.
* MildlyMilitary: According to the novels, Jägers have no proper rankings or chain of command outside of the Generals, who are respected by virtue of being the oldest and strongest of their kind. It's also noted that the Generals have no clear hierarchy between themselves either.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: While standard for most Jägers, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110316 Goomblast]] takes it a bit further.
* TheNoseKnows: With Krosp not believing the Dead Olga ruse will work because Agatha smells different as {{Foreshadowing}} context, the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050214 nonchalance over learning that Agatha is dead]] becomes this: they can smell the body isn't her, and quickly act casual over "Agatha's" loss.
* OlderAndWiser: A requirement for being a Jäger General. They're all around centuries old and while still a love good fight, they have mellowed out considerably and with age comes wisdom, including an understanding and appreciation for strategy, politics and tactics. Furthermore, it's implied that an emotional requirement is the understanding of how much being a BloodKnight can suck. In fact, given how [[spoiler:when Vole notes the horrible actions he did and Higgs remark that all of them do that and then they grow up]], that this is likely something most Jägers realize if they ever reach the age.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Koppelslav was nicknamed "Gargantua" by fans (although it was a hostile Wulfenbach soldier who called him that) until the novels revealed his real name.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Almost literally, their ages are in the neighborhood of 600-700 years. [[JustifiedTrope Apparently, this a partial requirement for being a General; after centuries of living, they are now fully matured and have a great deal of wisdom and experience to match their superhuman strength.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: They are willing to hold off formally aligning with Agatha when Boris calls them on how much upheaval it would cause at the current moment (though their main concern was Agatha's opinions on them starting a war). Once [[spoiler:Wooster tells them about the Baron's plans to kill Agatha in the interim]], Khrizhan neither accepts nor denies the accusation until getting copies of the Baron's orders. And finally, instead of killing Boris on the spot, Zog insists he tell them about Agatha being the Other first.
* SeenItAll: Par with the course, given their age. Khrizhan is only mildly surprised by [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030707 Gil's flying machine crashing into his study.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: Agatha/Gil, although Zog got beaten up by Khrizhan for suggesting they push it along. They also approve of Agatha/Tarvek - a little romantic rivalry is fun for all.
** Koppelslav bets on Agatha taking ''[[{{Polyamory}} both]]''. He's certainly not the first.
* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: While Wulfenbach and all his minions are all treating Agatha as if she were [[TheDreaded The Other]] regardless of explanation of her [[GrandTheftMe situation]], the Jäger Generals are willing to risk it to help their [[UndyingLoyalty beloved]] returned mistress expel The Other from her head and carry the day.
* SlasherSmile: Goomblast has a mouth a shark would be envious of. Most Jäger Generals can sport one once they get in the mood. [[spoiler:Even Higgs.]]
* StrongerWithAge: After [[spoiler: Vole [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140801 artificially aged hundreds of years]]]] it seems clear that this is why the Generals look so much more mutated than regular Jägers. In fact, some of them were the first ever consumers of the "Jägerdraught".
* SuperSoldier: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091102 Implied]] to be among the ''first'' Jägers. [[spoiler: Higgs has explicitly confirmed that he was among the very first to undergo the process.]]
* SuperSerum:
** Mentioned as the source of change and confirmed by WordOfGod. They are humans transformed by the "Jägerdraught", a concoction that includes [[PsychoSerum raw River Dyne water]] as an ingredient. Perhaps due to advanced years causing additional mutation, side effects of repair or perhaps because they might have been in the original batch, most Generals are a LOT less human than the regular Jägers. Though if what [[spoiler: Vole]] went through is any indication, it's likely a result of growing mutations with age.
** On the other hand, apart from her aqua hair, sharp teeth and pointed ears, Mamma Gkika can almost pass for human (and in fact does, [[HiddenInPlainSight hiding in plain sight]] among her human showgirls who dress up as Jägers).
** And on the very far end of the spectrum, [[spoiler:Airman Higgs]] is completely indistinguishable from a human. He's not actually happy about that, he'd at least like the teeth. It does, however, lend greatly to [[spoiler:conducting espionage in the interest of House Heterodyne.]]
* SurroundedByIdiots: Khrizhan and Gkika both have moments where they display this attitude.
* TeamMom: Even part of her name; "Mamma Gkika"
* UndyingLoyalty:
** As with the rank-and-file Jägers, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110316 explicitly explained]] to be a ''choice'' on the Generals' part. They are not compelled to serve the Heterodynes; rather, every Jäger has made a conscious choice and vow to serve the Heterodynes for life - a very ''long'' life - before they drank the Jägerbrau. It's a gamble, but "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120502 de vuns]] vot ''live'' gets ''all kinds'' ov goodies", evidently including toughness and immunity to aging. So strong is their loyalty that they'll stick with the Heterodynes even when the current masters are "[[WhiteSheep boring]]". Many of the Generals are implied to be some of the first Jägermonsters.
** Of note is that the Jäger Generals consider anyone who fights for and protects a Heterodyne is just as worthy of their loyalty. [[spoiler:When Zeetha was mortally wounded fighting Zola to protect Agatha, Generals Gkika and Higgs considered it worthy enough that they [[EmergencyTransformation gave her the Jägerdraught]] and begin turning her at least partially into a Jäger in order to save her life.]]

[[folder:Jenka]]
!!Jenka, Jäger Scout/Ambassador of Mechanicsburg
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The female Jäger (one of only two we have met so far, the other being Mamma Gkika) who seems to be Da Boyz immediate superior officer, but who spends quite a bit of time away from them (or maybe a liaison officer, which would fit well with her sporadic appearance). She was away when Da Boyz were caught by Othar and then left again to get orders about Agatha, and has since put in sporadic appearances. Her mysteriousness, femaleness and general awesome has lead to a lot of speculation about her nature and origins.

* ActionGirl / DarkActionGirl: Hard to call exactly but it has to be one of these two.
* {{Ambadassador}}: Sometimes her duties call her to engage in more diplomatic venues. She's got [[WomenAreWiser more patience for it than her brothers-in-arms]].
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Grey skin, not that impressive but it does give us ''yet another'' choice of Jäger skin tone.
* ArrowCatch: On her first appearance, when a panicked guard shoots at her. She doesn't even flinch.
-->'''Jenka:''' [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry I forgive. Once]].
* BadassAdorable: Does not look like the super scary badass she is.
* BadassCape: She wears one that also obscures her mouth. [[spoiler:Because she actually has entirely normal teeth, thanks to Andronicus Valois [[TheToothHurts ripping out her "luffly fangs."]]]]
* BearsAreBadNews: Füst, her ursine mount. And he is awesome. She states he's a Jäger-bear, implying he too has had some of the Jäger Draught
* {{BFS}}: Her weapon of choice.
* BilingualBonus: Füst is Hungarian for 'smoke', ie her pet is Smokey the Bear. Doubles as a StealthPun
* BreastPlate: Not initially, but contrast her [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050606 first appearance]] with her [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071217 later one]].
* CoolMask: Part of her cape.
* CursedWithAwesome: She's one of only two Jägers [[spoiler:without fangs because Andronicus Valois, the first Storm King, ripped them out. This enables her to go on diplomatic missions, as she's the only Jäger capable of speaking without a lisp. She's still pissed about losing her fangs, though]].
* CuteMonsterGirl: What we can see of her anyway. Later confirmed during the [[spoiler: Paris]] arc when we see her with her mask off.
* DropInCharacter: Shows up every once in a while, with very little warning of her appearance.
* FunetikAksent: Her accent is often noticeably less pronounced than the other Jägers. For example, while she says "is" as "iz" like any other Jäger, she often says "you" normally instead of "hyu". Given that Da Boyz are/were a roaming band of Jägers on special assignment, and are now sticking close to Agatha (in both cases, not part of a larger Jäger group), it's entirely plausible that Jenka often has to travel through hostile territory to meet up with them. A less-pronounced accent may help in staying unnoticed if necessary. Confirmed when she shows up in [[spoiler: Paris]] disguised as a (more or less) regular human. She serves in many ways and therefore must wear many faces. It helps that she can speak without a lisp because [[spoiler:Andronicus Valois, the first Storm King, ripped out her fangs]] -- though she's really rather mad about that.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: She [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050606 rides]] a war-''bear'', [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070326 Füst]]; it's implied at one point that he may have also taken a dose of the Jäger-draught.
* ManOfAThousandFaces: It's all but stated she's this when Agatha meets her again in Paris after the TimeSkip, which led to her being, among other things, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151214 the official head diplomat for Mechanicsburg.]] Though it's never made entirely clear if it's a Jäger ability, or she's just good with disguises.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: She is in charge of Da Boyz, and the Jägers are pretty big on AsskickingLeadsToLeadership. This is also demonstrated in the fight with [[spoiler:Andronicus Valois, the first Storm King]]; he hates Da Boyz, but he's actually scared of Jenka.
* PraetorianGuard: Apparently she used to be part of one for [[spoiler: Euphrosynia Heterodyne.]]
* PrettyInMink: When she shows up in Paris, she is wearing a rather impressive ensemble, which no longer covers her mouth, which also makes her virtually unrecognizable to Agatha.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: No actual word on her age, but she seems to have seniority over Da Boyz, and by human standards they are ''old''. [[spoiler:She's also old enough that ''she knew Andronicus Valois personally'', and was apparently Euphrosynia's "retainer" of some description.]]
* ShipTease: At the underground Paris party, she makes Dimo dress up nice and then calls him "darling." It's hard to tell if this means they have a relationship, or if she was just needling him.
* StealthHiBye: Unlike most Jägerkin, she understands the need to be "soobtle".
* SuperSoldier: Again, Jäger.
* TheToothHurts: [[spoiler:Andronicus Valois]] ripped out her [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170419 "luffly fangs."]] She's still pissed about it hundreds of years later, though it makes it easier for her to pass off as ''not'' a Jäger.
* UndyingLoyalty: By now, "Jägermonster" should clearly be synonymous with "Loyal to the death to the Heterodynes".
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Going by what she says to Agatha, the fact that Jenka in her guise as a Parisian socialite travels around with a Jäger-bear is seen as nothing more than "''eccentric''". And then only because most society ladies prefer little dogs.
* WomenAreWiser: She comes across as being calmer and more careful than Da Boyz.

[[folder:Jorgi]]
!!Jorgi, Strike Team Commander
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The Jäger who commands the forces that take over the Wulfenbach Heliolux Air Fleet as the Wulfenbach Jägers return to Mechanicsburg to serve the new Heterodyne, bringing an end to their service to the Wulfenbach empire. He also helps Tarvek rescue the Vespiary Squad that is being slain by those under the Other's control.

* ApatheticStudent: His father was adamant about his children being educated, and was also a philosopher whose constant speechifying about the duality and the politics of non-being as related to platonic reality drove Jorgi to join up with the Jägers. His erudite upbringing may have contributed to his being command material, however.
--> Hey- Hyu leesen to a guy like dot for fifteen years, ''hyu'' vill vant to ''burn down de vorld'', too.
* CheshireCatGrin: He frequently smiles to show off as many of his very sharp teeth as possible.
* CuteLittleFangs: When Jorgi's mouth is closed two of his lower fangs stick out a little, helping mark him as a Jäger even though he has a very human face.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Part of the reason he's around is to show what generals in waiting look like. There's a reason the generals made him a Commander. He even mentions he likes fighting in an off-handed way, dismissing it as supposedly being the most important part of being a Jaeger. [[spoiler:This reflects both Dimo's and Vole's paths to become generals.]] There's a time to fight and then there's a time to think or talk.
* FunetikAksent: Jorgi talks in the usual Jäger combination of lisp and accent.
* HiddenDepths: He is quite a bit more intelligent than the average Jäger, even easily understanding a Spark's messy notes on their experiments, and a good cook but he doesn't want his brothers to even know he's literate.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: He casually starts joking with Tarvek when he can't even stand due to broken legs and a messed up shoulder. When he reveals his injuries all he really has to say about it is that it's no big deal since Jägers heal fast.
* NotAfraidToDie: When he realizes the ship he's in is about to blow up and he can't even properly crawl to escape he's entirely unfazed and urges Tarvek to hurry up, escape and be good to Agatha.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He threatens to kill Tarvek if Tarvek reveals to the horde that Jorgi can not only read, but comprehend a Spark's convoluted notes and had a very good education as a human at his father's insistence.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Not so much for Agatha and her allies but he's a Jäger with red eyes and there is a reason most of Europa is terrified of Jägers.
* SecretKeeper: Jorgi knew about Tarvek being the heir to the Storm King and Agatha having an anima of the Other in her head while those things were still meant to be private information, to Tarvek's surprise.
* ShipperOnDeck: Jorgi is cheering for Tarvek to win Agatha's affection, though he's ultimately happy with whomever his Heterodyne chooses so long as she's happy and they treat her good.
* SuperSoldier: The [[SuperSerum Jägerdraught]] gave him a HealingFactor, MadeOfIron, TheNoseKnows, OlderThanHeLooks, ProudWarriorRaceGuy, and SuperStrength.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: He treats it like it is, carrying on a conversation with Tarvek as Tarvek is trying to drag him and Ruxala out of a burning airship while they're being chased and attacked which drives Tarvek a bit mad.
* UndyingLoyalty: Loyal to the Heterodynes and ecstatic about getting to organize the Wulfenbach Jägerkin's takeover of multiple Wulfenbach airships in order to return to serving them.

[[AC:Mechanicsburg Townsfolk]]

[[folder:Doctor Sun]]
!!Doctor Sun Jen-djieh, Chief of Staff at the Great Hospital of Mechanicsburg
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[[caption-width-right:180:"You are a terrible patient!"]]
One of Klaus's old friends. A Spark who runs the Great Hospital in Mechanicsburg. Prone to threatening to beat some sense into his friends and students who are being foolish -- and then backing it up if need be.

* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Is able to give a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to a two story clank.
* BareFistedMonk: Capable of taking down clanks with his bare hands.
* CombatMedic: Able to fight a clank with his bare hands and revive a person from their severed head.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's well known for "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110204 Sun-ny bedside manners]]".
* DoctorsOrders: He has no doubt at all that his authority extends over Klaus when he's injured. He believes that Klaus shouldn't be trying to micromanage his empire when he's so heavily injured (and all things considered, he's probaby quite right).
* DrJerk: People make jokes about his Sun-y bedside manner.
* TheExile: The novelisation explains that he's on "extended vacation", with the threat of painful death should he ever return to China, for being "contaminated" by foreigners (I.E. The Heterodyne Boys).
* MadDoctor: A benevolent if grouchy one. When presented with a "patient" who's been reduced to a severed head he takes it as only a minor challenge.
* MasterApprenticeChain: He [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110204 strongly implied]] that ''he'' was the guy who ''taught {{Realpolitik}} to Klaus''. Who taught Gil ([[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080307 directly]]) and Tarvek ([[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110422 indirectly]]). So in a way, both the setting as we know it and main plotlines can be traced back to him.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero[=/=]NiceJobFixingItVillain: It really all depends if you are taking Agatha's POV or Klaus', but him taking down Klaus and forcing back to bed after the Castle is "killed" can be seen as this. [[spoiler:Unbeknownst to Dr. Sun, Klaus was desperate to defeat Agatha because he had been wasped. He figured killing her as soon as possible would render that fact pointless and, thus, save his empire. However, according to Tarvek, he couldn't just TELL anyone this because of the mind control. So to Klaus, Dr. Sun broke it, but to Agatha, him stopping Klaus fixed her problem. Given that there are multiple versions of the Other running around and Agatha is generally the one in control of her body and not Lucrezia, Dr. Sun probably would have stopped Klaus regardless (if he had all of the facts on hand) as Agatha dying would have increased the chances of the Other winning. Also, Dr. Sun putting Klaus in isolation in a high-pressured healing engine ensured that Klaus was no longer potentially vulnerable to being controlled by the Other for the time being and the Empire would be handled by competent subordinates, Boris especially.]] The villain part is subverted. While Dr. Sun technically serves Klaus, his first line of duty is to his patients. After he gets trapped in Mechanicsburg during the siege, he hesitates for a split second before reporting the medical situation of the town. He isn't out to help Agatha, but to save lives.
* NotSoAboveItAll: As the novel shows, if you give Sun a corpse to dispose of, he'll instantly start smiling and pointing out all those ''convenient closets'' he just happened to have lying around his hospital.
%%* OldMaster: Clank. Bare hands.
* PutOnABus: Klaus offhandedly mentioned he escaped Mechanicsburg. Despite that, he has has yet to reappear in the story. Given he's one the best doctors on the continent, he's probably stationed at a well stocked and major hospital as opposed to a lowly field station or Castle Wulfenbach.
* ShoutOut: His name is an old transliteration of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di_Renjie Di Renjie]], the inspiration for ''Literature/JudgeDee''.

[[folder:Drozeki]]
!!Watch Chief Drozeki
The chief of the Mechanicsburg city watch created by Pluto Heterodyne. As Heterodynes have an expectedly odd outlook on how a city law enforcement group should operate Pluto made the members of the watch invisible and long lived, which drove many of them to desperation out of loneliness with Drozek as one of the very few original watch members still remaining. Jagers and other constructs can usually see members of the watch so they did have plenty of company in Mechanicsburg prior to the Baron banning Jagers from the city.

* FriendOnTheForce: Ivo Sharktooth, Private Jäger has a friend on the force in The Chief. Though he looks in on The Chief mostly to make sure he doesn't go mad since no humans can see him.
* InvisibleMonsters: Invisible construct, who looks human enough mostly to those who can see him but has a remarkably long life. The only other known surviving member of the original watch ditched the profession to become an assassin due to how convenient their powerset is for such work.
* InvisibleToNormals: Drozeki can only be reliably seen by the Jägerkin and is the sole remaining member of the watch created by Pluto that were designed to be invisible and quickly forgotten if interacted with without special equipment.

[[folder:Eleven Deadly Sins]]
!!The Eleven Deadly Sins
The Storm King's Muses were so famous that one of the Heterodynes got jealous and decided he'd try to outdo Van Rjin. He did outdo him in one respect, in that he made more clanks, but that's really it. The "Eleven Deadly Sins" are not remotely as sophisticated, just violent killing machines that were gifted to the families of the Blood Circle. And if you're wondering why it's ''Eleven'' sins and not the SevenDeadlySins, apparently the Heterodynes were so evil that ''they invented four more.''

* AIIsACrapshoot: The Sins are not... Terribly reliable. They've wiped out multiple of the families who they were supposed to serve. But they were made by the ''Heterodynes'', so, comes with the territory.
* ClimaxBoss: One of them ends up being [[spoiler:the final adversary of the Ivo Sharktooth mini-arc, under the command of Hadrian. Ivo keeps it busy until Van uses his override.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hadrian]]
!!Hadrian Greenclaw, Mechanicsburg Crime Lord
The nephew of Charlemagne Greenclaw, school friend of Vanamonde, and a member of the Blood Circle in Mechanicsburg. Is in fact the instigator of the events of "Ivo Sharktooth, PJ", being the supposed BigBad of the arc, having had his uncle and the rest of the Blood Circle leadership assassinated, and to take control of the Eleven Deadly Sins. Only it turns out he had purely good intentions for all of this - the Blood Circle were planning to assassinate Agatha, thinking she would be as "bad for business" as her father and uncle, and Hadrian, who was absolutely loyal to Agatha, put an end to the plot as well as deactivated all but one of the Sins. Unfortunately, he assumed Vanamonde was in on the plot.

* GoodAllAlong: Was loyal to Agatha and instigated the theft of the trophy to deal with the Eleven Deadly Sins.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Turns out he really should've talked about the plot with Vanamonde first before trying to kill him. He assumed Van knew ''everything'' going on in the city, and because Van wasn't moving against the Blood Circle, that Van was ''complicit''.
* UndyingLoyalty: Certianly more of it than the other crime lords in Mechanicsburg. They cynically assumed the worst about Agatha being too much of a goody-two-shoes like her father and uncle, and were planning to assassinate her, so Hadrian pre-empted them. He conveniently assumed their power afterwards, and made himself one neat point of contact for Agatha with her town's criminal underworld.

[[folder:Mitko]]
!!Mitko, Mechanicsburg Militia Gunner
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[[caption-width-right:200:It's the Jägers! They're coming '''home'''!]]

A gunner captain in the Mechanicsburg Militia who has proudly been part of many successful campaigns. These days he uses a walking stick to get around and seems to be training his son to take up his position while commanding from Gunnery Post XI.

* ChestOfMedals: His jacket has thirty-seven badges indicating victorious battles.
* GenreSavvy: The Jagers approach town ominously but seem to be thinned out. Mitko knows instantly that the Jagers making a show of arriving in Mechanicsburg are only a handful and the rest are already positioning themselves throughout town even though his younger family members are surprised.
* OldSoldier: A grandfather and veteran who is still competently serving in the town militia.
* SeenItAll: Mitko has a long history of living in Mechanicsburg and dealing with Sparks and Constructs, his response to the attack on town is to grin since he knows all the tricks Mechanicsburg has hidden even with the obvious defenses disabled.

[[folder:Vidonia Orkalina]]
!!Vidonia Orkalina, The Seneschal's Assistant
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[[caption-width-right:200:''I'' am the person who is putting you to bed. For the first time in '''''days''''' because you've already done everything you '''''possibly can''''' and you need to '''''sleep now''''', or you will be of no use whatsoever to this town when the attack comes!]]
First seen organizing the guilds of Mechanicsburg to assist Agatha's work in the coffee shop she quickly assigned herself to be Van's assistant seeing as the town has a Heterodyne and he's much busier than he used to be.

* AllThereInTheManual: Vidonia's name was only revealed in the novelization as she was too busy and too uninterested to properly introduce herself. She finally introduces herself properly in a sidestory in the DistantFinale involving Franz. It took over ''eleven years''.
* BavarianFireDrill: She passes herself off as Van's assistant and it takes him at least a day to even question her presence. In this case she decided he needed one and assigned herself the position while he's not even sure what her name is but her competence meant he went ahead and used her.
* BeleagueredAssistant: While Van is actually extremely competent Vidonia assigns herself to him when Mechanicsburg is under attack and Van spends several days without sleep, so by the time she's dragging him off to get a bit of sleep he's not as on the ball as he is normally and she acts incredibly annoyed with him questioning her identity as though ''he's'' the one acting strange by not knowing it.
* ChessmasterSidekick: Despite the fact that she was never formally hired and assigned herself to Van she is incredibly competent at organizing the guilds and getting them to do things they protest, despite the fact that she doesn't technically have any authority. Van takes a while to even question her presence due to how useful she is.
** A side story set in [[FlashForward the future]] reveals she's been made "Right Honorable Minister of Civic Punctuality".
* LimitedWardrobe: While Vidonia does change her shirt a couple of times she seems to always wear her trilobite earrings and a long white cape.
* SpottingTheThread: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220928 Notices]] Vipsania is uninterested in researching the archives of Castle Heterodyne, unlike the other visiting librarian, Aldin Hoffman. She questions Hoffman, who reveals Vipsania wasn't a full librarian yet, was the SoleSurvivor of three trips and isn't on official Library business this time.

[[folder:The von Mekkahns]]
!!Carson and Vanamonde von Mekkahn, Former and Current Seneschals of Mechanicsburg
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[[caption-width-right:301:"Welcome, my lady... [[LegacyOfService if my lady you be.]]"]]
The Von Mekkahn family is as synonymous with Mechanicsburg leadership as the Heterodyne family itself is, with many of them serving as seneschals to the Heterodynes. Carson von Mekkahn was the seneschal of Castle Heterodyne until he retired and passed the job on to his son, who died just days later when the Other attacked. When Baron Wulfenbach politely took over Mechanicsburg a few years later, Carson made it seem that the von Mekkahn family had gone extinct in the Other's attack, going into hiding under the alias of "Carson Heliotrope" and running Mechanicsburg in secret. Carson has since retired again and his grandson, Vanamonde, now runs the town from a coffee shop. After Agatha Sparks out in Vanamonde's coffee shop, Carson helps her enter Castle Heterodyne.

* BaldOfEvil: Carson, sort of. He probably wasn't both bald and evil simultaneously, but he's bald now and apparently served the evil Heterodynes ''before'' Agatha's heroic father and uncle -- he rode with the Jägers in his youth and could describe Agatha's grandfather's usual reaction to invading war clanks. The print-novel version also has a nasty set of scars up there; see PeoplePuppets below.
* BluffTheImpostor: Carson [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070516 tries this]] on Agatha at first, asking if Punch ever mentioned him. He is quite surprised that she knows Punch couldn't talk, though this still isn't enough to convince him. The novelisation notes that if Agatha had told Carson about everything that had happened to her until that point, he would have believed her then and there.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Vanamonde was a side-extract along with Gil's ultimate target in extracting from the time distortion field: Tarvek Sturmvoraus. Tarvek was poisoned by throwing knife from the fleeing Martellus while in pursuit, and Van had caught Tarvek's fall after he collapsed from the virulent effects. That was the position the two were in when the [[TimeStandsStill Take-Five Bomb]] detonated.]]
* ExactWords: When the Wulfenbach Empire moved in the townsfolk reported that the Heterodynes' seneschal and Carson's son had died in the attack by the Other. They did not mention that Carson had retired to spend time with his grandson and passed the seneschalship to his son, meaning that he was presumed dead and able to secretly run a shadow government until Vanamonde came of age.
* FascinatingEyebrow: Young Vanamonde has shown a strong skill in this.
* FormerTeenRebel: Carson. Again, rode with the Jägers in his youth, under the old evil Heterodynes. Is now retired, lives with his daughter-in-law, and seems to have mostly spent his days soaking up rays on the balcony before being introduced in the comic.
* TheGoodChancellor: Carson and Vanamonde both are/were eminently capable civic administrators, spymasters, and have Mechanicsburg's best interests at heart.
* LegacyOfService: The most prominent case in an entire city filled with legacies of service to the House of Heterodyne. Their family have been seneschals to the Heterodynes for generations.
* MoreExpendableThanYou: Vanamonde figured that it was safer for him to drink Agatha's freshly made coffee than let her have a second go around.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Vanamonde is addicted to coffee.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: To outsiders, Vanamonde looks like a young loafer who does nothing but laze around and drink coffee. In reality, he wrote a definitive book on coffee (under a pen name), is (according to Carson) "more competent than he appears", and, oh yeah, secretly runs Mechanicsburg.
* PeoplePuppets[=/=]UnusualUserInterface: Part of Carson's duty as seneschal. He has special holes drilled in his skull that let him use the Throne of Faustus Heterodyne to become Castle Heterodyne's puppet so that Agatha can talk to it in the crypt. Vanamonde's skull hasn't been prepared for such a thing yet, but the Castle is looking forward to it.
* PutOnABus: The Von Mekkahns were trapped in [[spoiler:the effect area of Klaus's Take Five Bomb]] that entrapped the vast majority of Mechanicsburg. [[spoiler:TheBusCameBack as noted above.]]
* PsychicLink: Carson didn't even notice he had this until [[spoiler:he felt Castle Heterodyne die]].
* {{Retirony}}: Inverted by Carson, who retired just in time to miss dying in the Other's attack. His replacement, who was also his son, died instead. (Vanamonde is his grandson.)
* SeenItAll:
** Carson.
--->'''Carson:''' Don't try to boggle ''me'', Mister ''Talking Cat''. This is ''Mechanicsburg''. You are ''by no means'' the strangest thing in ''this'' town.
** This is something of a front; the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070425 first]] time he sees Krosp talking he does look a little surprised.
* SkepticNoLonger: Agatha's performance in the coffee shop (and her "perfect" coffee) make Vanamonde a believer. By the time Agatha cows Castle Heterodyne from punishing Herr Diamant for expressing his skepticism through sheer force of will, Carson is convinced she's real too. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Herr Diamant as well.]]
* SkewedPriorities: Vanamonde's main duties are to serve Agatha and make sure that Mechanicsburg has everything she needs to fulfill her Sparky desires, which means he also has to make sure that the town has the finances to do so. As such, he's prone to try spinning the results of Agatha's misadventures in ways that coud boost local tourism, whether she likes it or not. In particular, [[spoiler:he wants to turn the enormous statues of Agatha that Gil created over the time-skip into a brand new line of souvenirs, despite Tarvek correctly pointing out that she loathes them.]]
* SoProudOfYou: Carson says as much to Vanamonde before he dares to drink the perfect coffee.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There's some disagreement on whether it's spelled Mekkahn, Mekkan, or Mekkhan.
* TenMinuteRetirement: Carson had mere days in retirement enjoying time with his grandson while his son took over the family tradition of being the Heterodynes' seneschal before the Other's attack on the Castle became a harbinger of the dark times ahead. After that happened, he arranged and led a shadow government for Mechanicsburg, essentially rendering the nominal Wulfenbach-appointed city administration impotent. He has since (semi) retired again, letting his grandson Vanamonde, now an adult, take over.
* TooCleverByHalf: Hadrian Greenclaw's plan to get rid of those conspiring to asassinate Agatha included killing Vanamonde, since the current seneschal likes to portray himself as knowing everything that goes on within the town, Greenclaw assumed that he had to know about the plot and be in on it.
* UndyingLoyalty: They come from a long line of seneschals to the Heterodyne family; so much so that they're almost as synonymous with Mechanicsburg leadership as the Heterodyne family itself. Insulting the family is one of the few ways to get Carson and the Castle on the same page.
-->'''Diamant:''' ''[[AintTooProudToBeg Carson! Call it off!]]''\\
'''Castle:''' Heh heh heh. I think you've annoyed ''him'', too!

!!Lumi von Mekkhan
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Relative of Vanamonde, a Spark studying alchemistry at TPU. Joins Vipsania and Franz on their quest to loot a deceased dragon's hoard in ''Franz Scortchmaw and the Story We Haven't Named Yet''.
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* BigNo: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20221202 When she finds out there are no coffee shops nearby]].
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: At seven, while taking a piece of Franz's treasure hoard, she booped his snoot.
* LittleMissBadass: At age seven, she became the youngest Mechanicsburger to steal treasure from Franz's DragonHoard, as part of the initiation into the Lower Court Geartooth Goblins.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Like Van, she needs coffee to function.
* OhCrap: When it's pointed out she left her flying machine on the Corbettite train.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Seems to have a paralyzing fear of ghosts, with one only needing to say "boo" to send her into a shrieking fit.

[[folder:Franz]]
!!Franz Scortchmaw, Bone Gnawer of the Heterodynes, First and Most Dread of the Dragons
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[[caption-width-right:145:I said REJOICE!!!]]
Franz is the Great Dragon of Mechanicsburg. You may have seen him on the [[http://girlgeniusadventures.com/2013/03/01/570/ town arms]].

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: When the chemistry of his flame is changed to match Hydrargyros, he takes on Hydrargyros' arrogant personality. It wears off rather quickly, though.
* BreathWeapon: As indicated by his name, he can breath fire.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Rejoice!" For context, he is demanding revelry while beating down a host of attackers because the [[ForDoomTheBellTolls Doom Bell]] has heralded the return of a Heterodyne scion in the middle of a multi-sided invasion battle.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: After years of would-be adventurers attempting to pilfer from hs board, [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220829 he's started a business]] selling trinkets and gems.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Nominal protagonist of sidestory ''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220826 "Franz Scortchmaw Great Dragon of Mechanicsburg and the Story We Haven't Named Yet!"]]''
* DragonHoard:
** Franz serves as the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111226 guardian of the Heterodyne treasury]]. He uses (some of?) it in a giant bag [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120104 as a blunt weapon]] during the Battle of Mechanicsburg.
** In a 2022 side-story, Franz [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220829 explains]] to a would-be-interloper that all the gold and jewels that the old Heterodynes looted are just fancy trinkets that they never really much cared about at all. It was the ''act'' of looting they enjoyed more than the loot itself. Franz ''does'' have a [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220902 personal hoard]] that he's much more protective of, but it's not gold or jewels, it's ''[[HiddenDepths rare first-edition books]]''.
** Franz has some fun quoting Smaug when he senses someone creeping around the hoard, and chuckles over how much fun that particular line is to say. Unfortunately for would-be thieves, unlike Smaug, Franz is [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220826 equipped with a radar device]].
** When travelling on a train, he can't sleep until [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20221026 he empties a bag of coins on the bed.]]
* DragonsPreferPrincesses: When his flame is altered and he starts acting like Hydrargyros, he asks if anyone is a princess. And apparently discussed with Hydrargyros which kingdom has the best princesses.
* DrunkOnMilk: The [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody tampering with his internal forge to change the chemistry of his flames via various minerals]] results in him temporarily acting like he was utterly sloshed. At least until they accidentally stumble on the right formula, after which he starts [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide acting like the much more unpleasant Hydrargyros]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: First seen in an [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080616 off-hand appearance during Da Boyz educating Gil that all the monsters in the city are loyal to the Heterodynes]], he later has a major role in the Battle of Mechanicsburg.
* FailedASpotCheck: After demanding no parties while Mama Gkika is watching his hoard, [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20221003 he takes no notice of the Jagers carrying party supplies]].
* FriendOrIdolDecision: Has to make a decision between helping himself to Hydrargyros' gold hoard once he and the impromptu band of raiders have access to it, or helping Humongulous from under the pillar he threw at him earlier. Not only does he choose the latter, he surprises the resident Mechanicsburger that there was even a dilemma to be had to begin with.
* GuileHero: When tussling with Humongulus, he engineers the fight to end up underneath a water tower, sweeps Humongulus' legs and threatens to flood his internals with water. Humongulus is immensely impressed by this and concedes the fight.
-->Eh, dragons only get '''stupid''' when we're fighting ''other dragons.''
* HappinessIsMandatory: If you're not rejoicing after a new Heterodyne has been acknowledged, you're probably an enemy.
* HeroicSecondWind: He [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121004 doesn't hold up well]] against "Pretty Boy", the pompous red dragon in the Wulfenbach army attacking the city at first. Then Agatha gets the idea to give him a jolt. Then it ''is'' '''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121008 on!]]''' We don't see the details of the fight, but the end result is clear: Franz is next seen [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121130 wearing Pretty Boy's helmet]], still glowing blue with power.
* HiddenDepths: A 2022 side-story reveals that Franz's most valuable treasures are ''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220905 rare books]]''.
* IKissYourHand: On [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120831 meeting Agatha for the first time]] and introducing himself to her, he kisses the hand of the MiniMecha she's currently riding.
* LastOfHisKind: He's not quite the last, but a good majority of dragons have long since been killed by Knights and Monster Hunters. [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230227 He is not pleased when he finds this out.]]
* MoneyMauling: He uses a giant sack full of coin from the Heterodyne treasury he guards during the Battle of Mechanicsburg.
* NotAlwaysEvil: Is a BigFun NiceGuy, but admits most dragons aren't as nice as him.
-->We dragons don't generally play nice with the general population, you know? Most of us '''are''' flat out '''monsters'''.
* NotQuiteFlight: Franz [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121130 apparently can't fly by himself]]. So Barry Heterodyne made him what is essentially a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121203 giant penny-farthing that drives a pair of helicopter blade things]].
* OddFriendship: Franz has managed to strike up a somewhat cordial and respectful partnership with Humongulous, despite the latter being constantly mistaken for a knight.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The first time you see him, he just looks like a rather generic monster. Only once you see him more fully after the Doom Bell rings does he start to look more draconic. And once he throws down with Pretty Boy, he's explicitly called a dragon.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's "Scortchmaw", not "Scorchmaw". Yes, it's misspelled, but [[https://girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Franz_Scortchmaw that's how it officially is]]. You gonna argue with him?
* TemptingFate: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20221005 After all, anybody who wants to fight a dragon, well, they'd better be pretty tough.]]
-->'''Humungulus:''' Ooh! Ooh! Humungulus is tough! Let Humungulus try! It will be fun!
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: His normal personality is that of a lethargic, antique loving, easy going dragon. When a group, including at least one spark, tinker with his flame, his personality changes with it. Making his flame closer to that of a young dragon turns him into the LifeOfTheParty. Making his flame the same as Hydrargyros changes his shape and gives him a cruel, arrogant, and yet cowardly personality, just like the original Hydrargyros. Fortunately, the effect is temporary as his default alchemy starts burning through the chemicals that were tweaking it.
* UndyingLoyalty: Like every other Heterodyne monster, Franz is absolutely loyal to his lord/lady Heterodyne. He's even an icon of Heterodyne power as the "Great Dragon of Mechanicsburg".
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220919 Him walking around in broad daylight]].
-->'''Vipsania:''' It seems strange... You just ''walking down the street''.\\
'''Franz:''' Yeah? Well, it '''is''' strange!

[[folder:Wilhelm Diamant]]
!!Herr Wilhelm Diamant, Mechenicsburg Town Councilor
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[[caption-width-right:200:[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071026 I am your loyal servant until the end of days, my lady!]]]]
A member of the Mechanicsburg Inner Council which greeted Agatha upon the castle proclaiming her the new Heterodyne. While Mechanicsburg was under Wulfenbach rule he was in charge of transporting prisoners and supplies to the Castle and helped Agatha get in without being noticed.

* GovernmentConspiracy: He is part of the shadow government that actually runs Mechanicsburg and does its best to avoid the Baron and ignore his apointed governors.
* SkepticNoLonger: He is disbelieving that Agatha is a Heterodyne... until she shouts down Castle Heterodyne and averts it from killing him for voicing his insolent disbelief. He blubberingly declares his undying loyalty to Agatha once freed from the Castle's clutches.
-->'''Diamant:''' [[TheGrovel I AM YOUR LOYAL SERVANT UNTIL THE END OF MY DAYS, MY LADY!]]\\
'''Castle:''' Grovels ''nicely'', doesn't he?
* UndyingLoyalty: The castle critiques his loyalty as Wilhelm thinks all the Heterodynes are dead, but once he thinks Agatha might actually be one he works hard to ensure she's able to reclaim the town.
[[/folder]]


[[AC:Castle Heterodyne Inhabitants]]
-> See [[Characters/GirlGeniusProtagonists Protagonists]] for Moloch.
[[folder:Fun-Sized Mobile Agony and Death Dispensers]]
!!The Fun-Sized Mobile Agony and Death Dispensers

Giant killer clanks that inhabit Castle Heterodyne. They're mobile, and they dispense agony and death, but whether they're "FunSize" is subjective.

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* FluffyTheTerrible: The Heterodynes dubbed these huge killing machines "Fun-Sized".
* FunSize: Very much {{subverted|Trope}}. They're ''huge.''
* InUniverseNickname: Moloch calls them [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080901 "devil dogs"]] (but in [[Literature/AgathaHAndTheVoiceOfTheCastle the novelization]]'s version of the same scene, he calls them "steam cats"). Later on, some characters start calling them "kitties".
* MechanicalMonster: In [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080903 Moloch's words]], "They're really fast, really strong, and really ''solid.''"
* MegaNeko: They are very large clanks with a catlike appearance.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Like most things in Castle Heterodyne, they stop antagonizing Agatha when they learn she's their Lady.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Agony and Death Dispensers" is a fairly accurate description of their intended use.
* PantheraAwesome: The Heterodynes modeled these giant killer clanks after tigers and other big cats.
* SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom: {{ZigZagg|ingTrope}}ed with the "Fun-Sized" bit. They'd only be a "fun size" if you're a [[MadScientist Heterodyne]], but the rest of their name is pretty accurate.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Prisoners (in general)]]
!!Prisoners from the Castle[=/=]Roving Band of Heroic Repairmen
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[[caption-width-right:300:"[[DueToTheDead Requiescat in pace]] and all that rot... [[RobbingTheDead DIBS ON HIS BOOTS!]]"]]

A thoroughly mixed bag of Sparks, constructs, criminals and psychopaths sentenced to repair Castle Heterodyne, thus killing two birds with one stone from the Baron's perspective. Provides a ready pool of minions (or mooks) for whomever is currently ascendant.
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* ActionSurvivor: Living out your sentence is based on points, awarded for repairing the castle and remembering what is done and where. Try to rack up too many points too fast or state them out loud once you get close and you'll get killed for sure, play it too safe and you'll never get out. Suffice to say, this makes for some very savvy survivors.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: As the novelizations points out, just because many of them are entertaining maniacs, they are still dangerous maniacs who got put in the castle for a ''reason''.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Snaug is apparently either a Revenant...or just VERY susceptible to brainwashing. It's implied that she spent her childhood in one of Mittlemind's "containment tanks."]]
* BreakTheHaughty / SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Mittlemind and Mezzasalma enjoy breaking idealistic young Sparks.
* BoxedCrook: Though the remaining survivors are technically free once the castle is fully repaired, this happens in the middle of the siege of Mechanicsburg. With most of the Barons forces directly outside the town walls, and Agatha being able to provide a sanctuary, plenty of minions and freedom for their respective sciences, the survivors opt to work for her instead of fleeing.
* DeathIsCheap: Mittelmind is part machine and is able to be brought back to life in short order if something blows up in his face, assuming the body is mostly intact. [[spoiler:Diaz... isn't so lucky]].
* DumbMuscle: R-79, an incredibly strong construct. However, even he's smart enough to KnowWhenToFoldEm, and could see taking Sanaa hostage going badly a mile off (see TooDumbToLive below).
* DwindlingParty: Once Agatha enters the castle, their numbers start depleting quickly, thanks to Zola forcing most of them to charge after her through the still very dangerous, until then unexplored sections of the castle. Later on, Tiktoffen has most of the remaining survivors killed.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Professor Tiktoffen massacres a bunch of the other prisoners]] for various reasons, including one who liked [[WasOnceAMan turning people into beetles]], one who thought [[HumanResources orphan blood]] had medicinal properties, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking one who put his feet on his bed]].
* ExplosiveLeash: The method of containing the prisoners is to latch a choker around their neck that's explosive and bearing the Heterodyne emblem. Since Agatha's suppression locket looks nearly identical, it allows her to easily walk in the front door when passed off as a new prisoner.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Depending upon whom has the upper hand (or the gun, or the [[GeniusLoci Castle's]] obedience) at the moment. They seem to settle on helping Agatha when it becomes clear that staying loyal to her would give them a sanctuary, plenty of minions and a great deal of freedom for their experiments that the Baron had otherwise locked them away for.
* TheIgor: Snaug seems to be the only minion of this type still alive.
* ImAHumanitarian: "Snapper" Boikov and "[[http://twitter.com/Othar/status/6120430016 Jack A'Horned]]" have a rather pronounced taste for human flesh.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Silas Merlot was a brilliant if perfectly normal scientist who had the misfortune of sharing the world with those that can casually break the laws of physics. Despite a profuse dislike of Sparks his pet project of turning chalk into cheese was clearly him trying to mimic the outlandishness of sparky science rather than 'actual' science.
* KilledOffForReal: Diaz is brained with a marshmallow gun by Zola. Rather than trying to revive him, Mittlemind and Mezzasalma loot his corpse for body parts (though in fairness, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101122 some of those belonged to Mezzasalma ''first'']]). Granted, given his brain was destroyed, reviving him is stated to be impossible anyways.
* LaughablyEvil: Dr. Mittlemind is a complete raving loon of a social scientist, obsessed with turning towns into mazes, which got him and Snaug thrown in the castle, but his hamminess and actual threat level (which is low compared to folks like Zola) allow him to fall here.
* MadScientist: Goes without saying. There's even a mad ''Social'' scientist, Dr. Mittlemind, who has been known to grumble about funding going to the "flashier" sciences.
* MeaningfulName: Possibly if Snaug is pronounced like 'snog'. Kissing. A small [[{{Yandere}} hint]]? Probably would classify as a PunnyName, too.
* TheMole: Professor Tiktoffen, who is apparently the "inside man" for both the Baron and the Knights of Jove, and several other factions. [[spoiler: He's actually the inside man for ''himself''. And he knows how to keep the Castle from killing him. Of course, Agatha knows the [[AreTheseWiresImportant simple way]] to deal with that]].
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Mittlemind is technically dead.
* PetTheDog: Mittelmind has a very [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090706 twisted idea of what qualifies for this]].
** A more conventional one is when, during their repairs on the giant cat clank, Mittlemind allows Snaug to go with Moloch rather than making her work with him, recognizing that she had fallen for Moloch. All he commands of her is to not permanently harm Moloch.
* ThePurge: Tiktoffen has a lot of the unnamed prisoners murdered, either for what they did before they were sent to the castle, or for [[DisproportionateRetribution minor offenses against him]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: With a big side order of murderers, sadists, and psychopaths.
* RecruitingTheCriminal: Those that survive are [[spoiler: given a chance to join in repairing Mechanicsburg's defenses after the castle is fixed]].
* {{Retirony}}: The castle finds inflicting this on people who have almost acquired enough points to be allowed to leave amusing. Never total your points out loud!
* RobbingTheDead: They tend to be rather, pragmatic about their fellows’ deaths, as seen in the profile quote concerning Snapper. Some of the more Sparky types take it a [[OrganTheft step further.]]
* SanitySlippage: Occurs to Snaug, apparently. Her boss, Mittelmind, wipes her memory yearly for her birthday. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101215 This]] may be a hint of losing it or just her {{yandere}} getting stronger.
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Tiktoffen, Mezzasalma, Diaz, and Mittelmind are all sparks. Merlot seems to break through as well when he sees Agatha again out of ''sheer rage''.
* SeriousBusiness: Tiktoffen's Spark manifests in a fondness for architecture.
* SpiderPeople: Mezzasalma's lower body has been replaced with an arachnoid clank apparatus that serves as his means of ambulance.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Mezzasalma and Mittelmind, the two older sparks still alive in the group, have such a schtick going on.
* TooDumbToLive: Snapper, who tries to hold Sanaa hostage on Othar's arrival, [[spoiler:upon learning she is his sister]], apparently forgetting that she was sent to Castle Heterodyne for a good reason. Cue death by NeckSnap.
* VillainousBreakdown: Merlot was [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021202 a jerk early on]] and didn't get less so. Compare him then to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090511 now]]. He has totally lost it by [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090527 here]].
* {{Yandere}}: Fraulein Snaug, Doctor Mittelmind's minion, has it in for poor Moloch.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sanaa]]
!!Sanaa "Wilhelm" AKA [[spoiler:Sanaa Trygvassen]], Castle Heterodyne Prisoner
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[[caption-width-right:185:"He's only my '''stupid brother!'''"]]

One of the inhabitants of Castle Heterodyne. We first encounter her reporting on her repair efforts in Castle Heterodyne. She was the one who welcomed(?) Agatha to the Castle, but for the most part she mingles with Moloch von Zinzer and the rest of the Castle crew.
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