History Literature / AgathaHAndTheClockworkPrincess

* IWantGrandkids: Oggie in fact wants great-great-great grandchildren, and frequently tries to help his descendants.

* MakeAnExampleOutOfThem: Anyone who messes with warning signs in the Baron's territory and gets caught tends to end up becoming a sign themselves.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Dame Aedith talks in this fashion.

* NothingIsScarier: The way in to Passholdt is unnervingly quiet. The circus waits for hours by the only bridge leading to it, and not a single person comes over it. And as Lars explains, while looking around the town there were several farms outside which had apparently just been abandoned. [[spoiler: The circus eventually learns all too well what the problem is.]]

* BerserkButton: Agatha accidentally hits one of Zeetha's in a moment of snarky GenreSavvy, refusing to insist she learn how to wield one of Zeetha's swords since she knows she'd learn [[YouAreNotReady she wasn't prepared to do so]]. Zeetha goes into a rage, but she does eventually explain her problem. Skifander tradition involves learning to wield the swords, and her much more skilled cousin had a fatal accident trying.

* EverythingsWorseWithSharks: A bizarre shark-like construct, with mouths at both ends, is one of the many horrific things in the Wastelands. Fortunately for the circus, it ran into Da Boyz first, and wound up being dinner.

* TheDeadHaveNames: Averted. When Tarvek and Clank!Lucrezia discuss one of Anevka's dead servants, Tarvek admits he has no idea what the man's name was. Lucrezia decides to name him after a cat of hers that she murdered.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: A variation is told with Baron Wulfenbach and two snake-like constructs. Klaus was wearing body armor under his coat, and chose to spare the life of the construct who was able to go against her nature and not try to kill him.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Jägers take up human hobbies to reconnect with their lost humanity. Oggie tries to set up his descendants on dates ([[StopHelpingMe which has led to Phil being the last of his line]]), while Dimo apparently knits multicolored socks.

* IWantGrandkids: Oggie in fact wants great-great-great grandchildren.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: There are very few in the Circus who actually ''like'' Pix, possibly on account of her being rude, haughty, self-focused, loud, and just generally unpleasant.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Dame Aedith finds a small box-like device that she tries out. Seconds later, a large and overly friendly bat appears and tries to sleep on her head. Agatha examines the box and finds it's designed to summon bats, with someone having added a note stating it works "exceedingly well".

* NothingIsScarier: The way in to Passholdt is unnervingly quiet. The circus waits for hours by the only bridge leading to it, and not a single person comes over it. And as Lars explains, while looking around the town there were several farms outside which had apparently just been abandoned.

* UnstoppableRage: The Jaeger Generals, when they think Agatha has died. It takes Klaus over half an hour of sustained fighting to subdue them.

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The footnotes -- and Folgio's own appearance -- treat this as a history the authors are compiled.

* VaguenessIsComing: The Storm King's Muses were very specifically programmed to never ''tell'' him what to do, just give him general advice. This leads to them being frustratingly vague, which is why he is happily surprised when they come into his chambers one night and simply explain the Heterodyne's plans. [[spoiler:Because it is too late to stop it]].

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Jagers take up human hobbies to reconnect with their lost humanity. Oggie tries to set up his descendants on dates ([[StopHelpingMe which has led to Phil being the last of his line]]), while Dimo apparently knits multicolored socks.

* AdaptationExpansion: More than in ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheAirshipCity''

* SheCleansUpNicely: Inverted when Agatha is invited to dinner with Prince Aaronev. Her circus friends make her look as plain and unappealing as possible to make sure she doesn't have to worry about any unwanted advances. Tarvek (being an expert on fashion) is initially mildly put out and thinks they tried to send the wrong girl...until he realizes that it was completely intentional, and is impressed by the genius of it: Perfectly neutral, too ugly to attract attention, but not so much that the prince would take it as an intentional insult.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Jagers take up human hobbies to reconnect with their lost humanity.
* IWantGrandkids: One Jager in fact wants great-great-great grandchildren.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Inverted when Agatha is invited to dinner with Prince Aaronev. Her circus friends make her look as plain and unappealing as possible to make sure she doesn't have to worry about any unwanted advances.
* {{Whatevermancy}}: In the prologue of Clockwork Princess [[spoiler: the Storm King refers to Sparks as Thinkomancers.]]

A novelization of the second major StoryArc of the award-winning webcomic series ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''. It follows the webcomic ''very'' closely, often having a distinct 1:1 mapping between panel and paragraph, but it does have a few interesting departures.

* DirtyBusiness: Woosley realizes this after the fact.