Line #25 Trivia/GirlGenius


1	!Trivia tropes:
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3	* AscendedFanon: The Reddit AMA provided one:
4	-->'''[=PKSchefflera=]:''' Goofy question: Was the bonsai hedge maze in the Storm King opera actually a stage translation of Mechanicsburg's thorn wall?\
5	'''Phil:''' It is now.
6	* CreatorsFavorite: The Jaegers are apparently so loved by the authors that they [[CharacterFocus keep involving them]] in the plot. [[JustHereForGodzilla Not that anyone's complaining.]]
7	* {{Defictionalization}}: Some of the better in-comic T-shirt designs find their way into the Foglios' store. ("Fools! I will destroy you all! (Ask me how!)"). SF author Creator/CharlesStross is shown wearing one of these shirts on his trope page.
8	* DemandOverload: The creators did it to themselves, and it takes a bit of explaining. Basically, it started off as a print comic. When the Foglios turned it into a webcomic, they had two different archives updating at the same time: the "101 archive" where they digitized the original print run, and the "advanced class archive", where they continued the story where the print run left off. In July 2007, the 101 archive caught up with the beginning of the advanced class archive. The volume of readers [[ArchiveBinge archive binging]] the advanced archive was enough to crash the comic's server.
9	* TheMerch: Some shirts are available; [[https://www.offworlddesigns.com/fools-i-will-destroy-you-ladies-v-neck-t-shirt/ one of them]] says "[[TheyCalledMeMad FOOLS! I will destroy you all! Ask me how!]]"
10	* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: As the website's page for [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/funextras/stories/heterodyneboysintro.php the "original" Heterodyne Boys]] explained, Phil's old idea for ''Girl Genius'' was a near-future setting instead of the neo-Victorian GaslampFantasy that they actually went with.
11	* ThrowItIn
12	** When Phil was drawing the scene which first introduced the Baron, he filled an "empty" spot with a rather scruffy-looking soldier. As soon as anybody saw him, they liked him and wanted to see more. Thus were born the Jägers.
13	** Maxim of the Jägers was originally a silly little drawing of a {{Bishounen}} jäger for Kaja, who promptly informed him that he WOULD appear in the comic.
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15	! Misc. trivia
16	* Agatha is a [[http://www.behindthename.com/name/agatha Latin name]], coming from a Greek word meaning "good". However, the famous ''St.'' Agatha of Sicily was a third-century martyr, and her many patronages include...er...the bosom. Very apt, even if unintentional.
17	* The Danish Army's elite soldiers are called the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsmen_Corps_%28Denmark%29 Jaegers]]''. And they speak English like that.
18	** "Jaeger" in Germanic/Norse languages generally means "hunter". It's historically been quite common for such nations to call select elite or light units "Jaeger".
19	* Dolokov's name may or may not be a reference to the ManipulativeBastard and KarmaHoudini of ''Literature/WarAndPeace''.
20	* The whole story is full of modified {{historical domain character}}s:
21	** [[http://www.masterpaynemagic.com/ Master Payne]] is a real person, who has several personas and performs amusing magic tricks.
22	** Van Rijn, master Spark, artisan, the creator of the Muses, though few nowadays know his full name, [[Creator/RembrandtVanRijn "''Rembrandt'' Harmenszoon van Rijn"]].
23	** The circus cook, when his calming pie works -- magnificently -- on Agatha, exclaims, "Take ''that'', Brillat-Savarin!" Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) was a famous French expert on high-quality eating, famous for advocating a high-protein, low-carb diet (thus likely to disapprove of pies in general). He's also the origin of the saying, "You are what you eat."
24	* Othar Tryggvassen's name comes from the 10th Century Norwegian king [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Tryggvason Olaf Tryggvason]].

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