History Webcomic / TheGlassScientists

* UpperClassTwit: One of the reasons why Jasper isn't as impressed with Frankenstein's [[{{Romanticism}} Romantic]] lifestyle as the other lodgers is because he and his family have encountered posh, city types much like her that think they could forgo their comfortable lifestyles for the "purity of nature", only for their lack of survival skills to nearly kill them off]] [[{{Irony}} as nature dictates.

* BigEater: Jasper, as shown [[http://www.theglassscientists.com/?comic=page-11-2 here]] and [[http://www.theglassscientists.com/?comic=page-02-4 here.]]

* TheDarknessGazesBack: [[http://www.theglassscientists.com/?comic=page-01 On the very first page]], staring out of a sewer grate, courtesy of a nestful of soot-mice.

** [[http://www.theglassscientists.com/?comic=page-05 The werewolf.]] Subverted when it turns out that it's not trying to bring about doom, just escaping from a TorchesAndPitchforks mob.

* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: Ladies and gentelmen, [[http://www.theglassscientists.com/?comic=page-01-6 the lab where Jekyll first made his potion]]. It is gloriously stacked with glass, and the glass is gloriusly full of bubbling, colourful liquids. Mad, erm, Rouge Science at its finest!

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: When Hyde is confronted by Frankenstein's Monster he attempts to put on his standard Cockney accent. [[http://www.theglassscientists.com/?comic=page-05-4 While drunk on absinthe.]]

* TalkingToThemself: Hyde, as seen [[http://www.theglassscientists.com/?comic=page-04 here]], argues with Jekyll as a peeved conscience.

* TeleportationMisfire: The society apparently has a teleporting cat, and going by poor thing's [[http://www.theglassscientists.com/?comic=page-15-2 expression and place of landing]], it doesn't really control it.

* TransformationSequence: Jekyll transforms into Hyde in [[http://www.theglassscientists.com/?comic=page-14-3 Chapter 3, Page 14.]]
* TrashcanBonfire: As seen [[http://www.theglassscientists.com/?comic=page-02 here]], in Bethnal Green.

** Frankenstein represents {{Romanticism}}. She possesses a powerful passion for her studies that overrides her common sense. She is against traditional, bureaucratic methods of the scientific community and encourages the lodgers to leave the safe conditions of their labs and explore the world. She was even responsible for single-handedly ruining the general public's trust in science due to her mad experiments and seems to take pride in it (even if such a lifestyle is what made her so violently ill in the first place), her hatred for Jekyll stemming from his desire to make it SafeSaneAndConsensual when it should be scary to the ignorant. Jasper even refers to her as a "Romanticist", comparing her to the [[UpperClassTwit idealistic rich-men]] that would glorify his family's poverty and leave their comfortable lives for the "purity of nature", [[RealityEnsues only to nearly die due to their lack of survival skills]].

* UpperClassTwit: One of the reasons why Jasper isn't as impressed with Frankenstein's [[{{Romanticism}} Romantic]] lifestyle as the other lodgers is because he and his family have encountered posh, city types much like her that think they could forgo their comfortable lifestyles for the "purity of nature", [[RealityEnsues only for their lack of survival skills to nearly kill them off]] [[{{Irony}} as nature dictates]].

* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:After being trapped in Jekyll's mind for two weeks, Hyde figures out a way to nab control for himself by taking advantage of Jekyll's slip ups from stress. This gives him free reign of their shared body, allowing him to consume the potion to become himself. Unfortunately, a livid Jekyll later works out how to perform the trick for himself and takes over Hyde's body, vowing to lock Hyde up in his subconscious ''permanently''.

* DeathbyOriginStory: [[spoiler: Rachel’s little brother [[{{PosthumousCharacter}} Eli]] dies in an accident before the events of the comic start, causing Rachel to be more overprotective over Hyde as a result.]]

* ItsAlwaysSunnyatFunerals: [[spoiler: Eli’s funeral is on a sunny day.]]

* ItsAlwaysSunnyatFunerals: [[Spoiler: Eli’s funeral is on a sunny day.]]

* ItsAlwaysSunnyatFunerals: [[Spoiler: Eli]]’s funeral is on a sunny day.

** Lanyon too emits sparkles when exaggerates the posh manners of the upper-class.

* FantasyKitchenSink: The TGS-universe is a place where basically AllMythsAreTrue and all kinds of psedoscientific theories (except phrenology) are legitimate scientific fields of study. You can also expect to run into various figures from Victorian horror and sci-fi literature. Aside from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, you'll also meet Mr. Griffin, the Invisible Man, Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature, and Dr. Moreau. And of course, there are all sorts of fantastical creatures, from biblical monsters like the Leviathan, to several kinds of werewolves, to small critters like the mud Phoenix and soot mice.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Just how different remains to be seen... But it's certainly much larger than a normal wolf, to start with.
** Part of the problem with Jasper's werewolf form is what Jekyll calls the worst case of wolfsbane poisoning he's ever seen, which is part of what makes Jasper different, the transformation now occurring on any night where the moon is visible and causing rapid shifts between various levels of human and wolf forms.
** Morcant is another type of werewolf. She has a much longer life-span, stretching out over centuries. Her kind usually live in packs and stay out of human society. According to the creator, were she ever to meet Jasper, she'd consider him a tiny baby and he'd be terrified of her.

''[[http://www.theglassscientists.com/ The Glass Scientists]]'' is an ongoing GaslampFantasy webcomic about mad science, magical secrets, and monsters both within and without. It has a short stand-alone prequel, ''Webcomic/BleedingHeart''. The writer and artist is Sabrina Cotugno AKA Arythusa, who previously worked on ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' and as a director on ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' and ''The Owl House''.

* FreudianTrio: The comic seems to be going this route on Jekyll and Hyde's relationship rather than them simply being a good/evil split.
** Hyde is the Id, being aggressive, selfish, impulsive and cowardly.
** Jekyll is the Ego, being outwardly nice and affable but inwardly struggles to suppress his insecurities and dark desires.
** The mental version of Lanyon that resides in Jekyll's mind is the Superego. He's the personification of everything Jekyll thinks a gentleman should be and he wants Hyde dead, thinking that Jekyll would be better off without him.

* BigWhat: Both Jekyll and Hyde's reaction when they hear Lanyon's plan to frame Hyde in order to get the Lodgers released from jail.

* BlackMarket: The Blackfog Bazaar, where a rogue scientist can get all ingredients they need, no matter how illegal they are. Jekyll doesn't visit it because of his, and its, reputation, and only gives into letting Hyde go after serious temptation.

* TheDogBitesBack: After enduring Frankenstein's abuse, it is not until [[UngratefulBastard she belittles him after he successfully diagnosis her and makes the cure for her]] does Jekyll lose what little patience he has left, allowing Hyde to slip through and giving her a particularly spiteful TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

** The Leviathan skeleton also seems to have these. If it's ever fully reanimated, that is probably a sign of certain doom.
** Again subverted with Frankenstein's creature. He has glowing eyes in the dark, and people are running away from him, but he isn't doing anything particularly threatening.

* PurpleProse: Hyde, as a narrator, indulges when he waxes poetic about the vicious, cutthroat slums of London.

-->'''Hyde:''' Oi! Wodder ''yew'' lookin' at? Yew gotta ''problem'' wit' me? I'll ''fight'' ye, just yew ''watch!''
-->'''[[spoiler: The Creature:]]''' Good lord, what is ''that?'' Are you trying to do some kind of ''Cockney Accent?''

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Inverted with Jekyll - it's him who has red eyes, not Hyde.

* RedOniBlueOni: Hyde and Jekyll. Hyde is energetic, extrovertic Red, while Jekyll, an image of politeness and self-control, is Blue. Ironically, their color schemes are reversed, with Jekyll wearing red and having red eyes, while Hyde has eyes and clothes of Green (not blue, but a cool color nonetheless).

** Frankenstein represents {{Romanticism}}. She possesses a powerful passion for her studies that overrides her common sense. She is against traditional, bureaucratic methods of the scientific community and encourages the lodgers to leave the safe conditions of their labs and explore the world. She was even responsible for single-handedly ruining the general public's trust in science due to her mad experience and seems to take pride in it (even if such a lifestyle is what made her so violently ill in the first place), her hatred for Jekyll stemming from his desire to make it SafeSaneAndConsensual when it should be scary to the ignorant. Jasper even refers to her as a "Romanticist", comparing her to the [[UpperClassTwit idealistic rich-men]] that would glorify his family's poverty and leave their comfortable lives for the "purity of nature", [[RealityEnsues only to nearly die due to their lack of survival skills]].
** Jekyll represents UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment. While Frankenstein believes that science is meant to make the ignorant fearful, Jekyll believes in the [[ScienceIsGood inherent goodness in deconstructing the unknown]], creating a bureaucratically-funded [[IslandOfMisfitEverything institution]] for researchers of [[MagicPoweredPseudoscience fringe science]] with the intent of regaining the general public's trust. With that said, his attempts to uphold this idealized system is shown to wear on him, turning to [[TheAlcoholic drinking]] and forcing himself to [[BeneathTheMask hide behind a facade]] that contradicts his beliefs (he's an agnostic pretending to be Anglican), his tastes (he goes to high-brow operas for conversation, but he actually prefers low-brow penny-dreadful plays), even his own nationality (he speaks in a posh accent when he's from Glasgow). Even his own belief in science betrays him in the form of Hyde, the product of an experiment gone wrong that embodies his own repressed id that torments him in his every waking moment.

* AmazonBrigade: The "Forty Elephants"[[note]]Who were ''real'', by the way[[/note]] are an all-female gang of cutthroat thieves, feared by the inhabitants of London.

* MonsterMash: Downplayed, but Dr. Jekyll, a werewolf, and Frankenstein's monster are all in the same city togethe and are later joined by Dr. Moreau and his hybrid monsters.

** This also happens to Jekyll, when he’s exhausted from lack of sleep. His native Glasgow accents slips out.

''[[http://www.theglassscientists.com/ The Glass Scientists]]'' is an ongoing GaslampFantasy webcomic about mad science, magical secrets, and monsters both within and without. It has a short stand-alone prequel, ''Webcomic/BleedingHeart''. The writer and artist is Sabrina Cotugno AKA Arythusa, who previously worked on ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' and as a director on ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''.

''[[http://www.theglassscientists.com/ The Glass Scientists]]'' is an ongoing GaslampFantasy webcomic about mad science, magical secrets, and monsters both within and without. It has a short stand-alone prequel, ''Webcomic/BleedingHeart''. The writer and artist is Sabrina Cotugno AKA Arythusa, who previously worked on ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' and currently works as a director on ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil.''

** Jekyll represents UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment. While Frankenstein believes that science is meant to make the ignorant fearful, Jekyll believes in the [[ScienceIsGood inherent goodness in deconstructing the unknown]], creating a bureaucratically-funded [[IslandOfMisfitEverything institution]] for researchers of [[MagicPoweredPseudoscience fringe science]] with the intent of regaining the general public's trust. With that said, his attempts to uphold this idealized system is shown to wear on him, turning to [[TheAlcoholic drinking]] and forcing himself to [[BeneathTheMask hide behind a facade]] that contradicts his beliefs (he's an atheist pretending to be Anglican), his tastes (he goes to high-brow operas for conversation, but he actually prefers low-brow penny-dreadful plays), even his own nationality (he speaks in a posh accent when he's from Glasgow). Even his own belief in science betrays him in the form of Hyde, the product of an experiment gone wrong that embodies his own repressed id that torments him in his every waking moment.

* UngratefulBastard: Both Frankenstein, who constantly berates and condescends to Jekyll, despite his efforts to help her - and the lodgers once she persuades them that the Society is holding them back and that they could survive on passion alone, they all decide to stop working on their presentations and abandon Dr. Jekyll. The only one who sticks by Jekyll seems to be Jasper, something Jekyll appreciates.

** Jekyll's friend Lanyon emits sparkles as well.

* ChekhovsGun: Rachel first appears covered in blood and holding a kitchen knife. The first time it's just to play a prank on Jekyll. Then the kitchen knife appears again, this time as she is [[spoiler: plunging it into the shoulder of one of Dr. Moreau's monsters, splattering it with blood.]]

* FantasyKitchenSink: The TGS-universe is a place where basically AllMythsAreTrue and all kinds of psedoscientific theories (except phrenology) are legitimate scientific fields of study. You can also expect to run into various figures from Victorian horror and sci-fi literature. Aside from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, you'll also meet Mr. Griffin, the Invisible Man, [[spoiler:Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature, and Dr. Moreau]]. And of course, there are all sorts of fantastical creatures, from biblical monsters like the Leviathan, to several kinds of werewolves, to small critters like the mud Phoenix and soot mice.

** Again subverted with [[spoiler:Frankenstein's creature]]. He has glowing eyes in the dark, and people are running away from him, but he isn't doing anything particularly threatening.

* MonsterMash: Downplayed, but Dr. Jekyll, a werewolf, and Frankenstein's monster are all in the same city together.
** [[spoiler: Later joined by Dr. Moreau and four monsters he's created from different animals. ]]

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: When Hyde is confronted by [[spoiler: Frankenstein's Monster,]] he attempts to put on his standard Cockney accent. [[http://www.theglassscientists.com/?comic=page-05-4 While drunk on absinthe.]]

* RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: Frankenstein and Henry Jekyll respectively.

* UngratefulBastard: When Frankenstein tells the lodgers that the Society is holding them back and that they could survive on passion alone, they all decide to stop working on their presentations and abandon Dr. Jekyll. May I remind you that they were all demonized by the world at large (which was ''Frankenstein's fault'') and that it was Jekyll and the existence of the Society that allowed them to thrive unmolested by torches and pitchforks. The only one who sticks by Jekyll seems to be Jasper, something Jekyll appreciates.