History GirlGenius / TropesKToO

* When Gil sees [[spoiler:the eldritch horrors emerging into the time-stopped Mechanicsburg]], the Castle remarks that the last time something like that showed up, they were much smaller, had tentacles, and "had hats". Obviously, this is just another goofy NoodleIncident the likes of which this comic so loves, as an EldritchAbomination in a funny hat is, well, funny. Later on, Gil realizes it was describing [[spoiler:the Dreen]].

* LadyAndKnight: spoofed with Tarvek and [[NinjaMaid Violetta]].

* MilesGloriosus: Subverted with the Jager generals, whose apparent reluctance to wade into combat in [[spoiler:Mechanicsburg]] seems to have been down to keeping an eye on each other's antics rather than any kind of actual reluctance to fight. Once the fighting starts, [[spoiler:they mostly argue over details.]]

** [[spoiler:Before TimeSkip,]] [[InsufferableGenius Tarvek Stormvoraus]] is the only known important player in [[DeadlyDecadentCourt his]] [[BigScrewedUpFamily family]] who doesn't spend all his time plotting the murder of rivals. He's even used his extensive logistical and assassination training to prevent Wulfenbach soldiers being wasped!

* MuggedForDisguise: Agatha tries this more than once after escaping the King of the Silver Lands, who had stripped her to [[GoGoEnslavement a slave Leia bikini]], but none of the guards that she mugs have pants that will fit over her hips. As a result, she's stuck in the bikini bottom and a guard's shirt and boots unti she finally manages to get a ballgown by battling a horde of socialites.
* MuggingTheMonster: Oublenmach tries to break into what turns out to be a [[SuperSoldier Jägermonster]] bar, brandish his weapon and threaten the staff into giving him what they consider a sacred relic. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110518 The next time we see him]], he's subjected to a NeckLift.

* MuggedForDisguise: Agatha tries this more than once after escaping the King of the Silver Lands, but none of the guards that she mugs have pants that will fit over her hips. As a result, she remains in a guard's shirt and boota and the lower half of a slave Leia bikini until she finally manages to get a ballgown by battling a horde of socialites.

* MuggingTheMonster:
** Oublenmach tries to break into what turns out to be a [[SuperSoldier Jägermonster]] bar, brandish his weapon and threaten the staff into giving him what they consider a sacred relic. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110518 The next time we see him]], he's subjected to a NeckLift.

* MuggedForDisguise: This doesn't work so well for Agatha, who discovers that her Heterodyne hips are too generous to fit
* MuggingTheMonster: Agatha tries this more than once after escaping the King of the Silver Lands, but none of the guards that she mugs have pants that will fit over her hips. As a result, she remains in a guard's shirt and boota and the lower half of a slave Leia bikini until she finally manages to get a ballgown by battling a horde of socialites.

* MuggingTheMonster:

** In the "Cinderella" omake, Cinderella's full name is really Literature/SleepingBeauty [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]] Literature/{{Rapunzel}} [[Literature/LandOfOz Ozma]] [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndRoseRed Rose Red]] [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood Riding Hood]] {{Literature/Rumpelstiltskin}}. (No, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081124 really]]. [[LampshadeHanging Just don't ask]].)

-->'''Othar:''' ''Ha!'' It'll take ''more'' than [[DistressedDude being tied to a]] [[StuffBlowingUp lit keg of explosives]] [[HollywoodAcid and tossed into a pit of acid]] filled with [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke mutant]], [[RequiredSecondaryPowers acid-resistant]] [[SharkPool flying pirahnas]] armed with [[KillItWithFire flame-throwers]] [[SwordAndGun and]] [[AnAxeToGrind battle axes]] while [[PoisonousPerson venomous]], [[MechaMook mechanical]], [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile-launching]] ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Morris dancers]]'' armed with [[FreezeRay liquid nitrogen harpoon guns are overhead]]; [[HorseOfADifferentColor riding]] [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant]], [[BeeAfraid rabid killer bees]] with ''[[DeathRay side-mounted death rays]]'' to kill '''[[LargeHam Othar Tryggvassen!]]'''\\

* OurHeroIsDead: And buried, complete with digging up the body and ''cloning a replica'' to make sure it's really her. [[spoiler:The corpse was doctored to make it look like Agatha, but the cloning gave the deception away, as the cloned body was not hers.]]

--->''"I am the St--[-er-]--I am the ''chief advisor'' to your Lady Heterodyne."''

** When Tarvek is trying to get to Agatha's side quickly he starts saying he's the Storm King, before [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120328 swithing that out to Cheif Advisor to the Heterodyne:]]
--->''"I am the St--[-er-]--I am the ''chief advisor to your Lady Heterodyne."''

* LastSecondWordSwap: After the Corbettites defuse the situation between Martellus, Klaus-In-Gil, and Lucrezia-In-Agatha with cake laced with heavy sedatives, Bang (who also ate the cake) [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150515 stops short of saying "piece of cake"]]. [[spoiler:She's probably secretly hoping that Agatha stays free and finds a way to undo Klaus's mind control on Gil because she ''really'' hates mind control, and didn't want to clue Gil in on the Corbettites' hand in Agatha's escape]]

** [[ActionSurvivor Von Zinzer]]: "Uh... [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100118 hey, check it out]]." -- though in this case not only does the target look, but there's actually something to see.
%%** Gil does this to Agatha in the last panel [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040206 here]].
** When Tarvek gets [[spoiler:reanimated]] and attacks Moloch, the latter also saves himself by pointing to something, calming the man down instantly.

* NotHimself: When Agatha is being cruelly flirtatious Tarvek notes that she's acting very strange about a half second before realizing that, ''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101129 "You're acting--gah! You're acting like Lucrezia!"]]''

%%** GoLookAtTheDistraction: Gil does this to Agatha in the last panel [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040206 here]].

* LookBehindYou: [[ActionSurvivor Von Zinzer]]: "Uh... [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100118 hey, check it out]]." -- though in this case not only does the target look, but there's actually something to see.

** Also basically ''all'' of the Heterodynes (prior to Bill and Barry) have these. Well, except for Bob.

** When Agatha, Gil, and Tarvek attend a ball in London, Gil: (i) genuinely worries about Tarvek when Tarvek doesn’t dance with Agatha; (ii) seeks love advice about Agatha from the Muse of Geometry but ends up discussing his relationship with Tarvek instead; and (iii) admits that he trusts Tarvek and looks forward to seeing whatever he’s been scheming lately. At this point the Foglios are going full “will they are won’t they.”

** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130329 Recent developments]] imply lower odds.
** Once Gil gets Tarvek [[spoiler:out of the time bubble]], he not only happily hugs him, they also talk quite friendly with each other despite their rivalry, Agatha as well is concerned for both whenever characters mention one of them. So the odds may be up again.