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!!!''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' provides examples of the following tropes:

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* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown:
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080926 Here]] Violetta expresses her fury by kicking the wounded Tarvek -- who is not actually down, but can't really fight back because they are on the same side.
** It's all over the place, really -- unless someone's bitten by ChronicHeroSyndrome or in a hurry.
--->'''Tarvek:''' Oh, nonono ''no'', you do ''not'' "give up!" '''YOU ''DIE!'''''
** [[spoiler:Martellus]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140411 repeatedly shoots Rerich]] at point blank range after unnecessarily attacking him with ten spark hounds and injuring Rerich to the point that he is no longer able to move.
* KidnappedFromBehind:
** Agatha is grabbed and taken away while Tarvek and the rest of the group are looking out at the newest attack on Mechanicsburg with their backs to her kidnapping which delays their realizing what has happened.
** It happens again in Paris with slightly more justification -- her friends are fending off an attack by a clockwork android, but it turns out the villain is controlling more than one body so another version of himself snatches Agatha [[WeNeedADistraction while her friends are shooting in the other direction.]]
* KidnappedWhileSleeping: While Tarvek is sleeping off the effects of not sleeping at all during the siege of Mechanicsburg and getting poisoned and painfully healed twice he gets kidnapped by the Immortal Library and doesn't wake until he's secured on their ship and far away.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Beausoleil, after having murdered Simon Voltaire and severed him from the Paris network, encounters his grief-enraged daughter Colette, who is in full-tilt MadnessPlace as her [[TheSparkOfGenius Spark]] breaks through (and her ballroom dress disintegrating from the static discharge from her interface to the City). He begins to taunt her about her being new to this, but she cuts him off with a snap of her fingers. Across all of Paris, all of his duplicate bodies are killed in a myriad of violent ways, except the one in front of Colette. This last Beausoleil keels over in pain from sensing the slaughter.]]
* KillItWithFire:
** Sleipnir's pipes... guess [[{{Pun}} you can't start a fire without a Spark]].
** WreathedInFlames: The Torchmen
* KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand: Tarvek correctly identifies Higgs as [[spoiler:the Secret Jäger General]], which prompts Higgs to escalate to being confrontational. Tarvek then deliberately puts Higgs' readied hand on his own throat, telling him to just get it over with if Higgs really thinks Tarvek is an enemy of his [[spoiler:Lady Heterodyne]]. Higgs decides to reveal Tarvek's correctness in a roundabout way, [[spoiler:by giving him a [[NeckLift choke-lift]], a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech brutal dress-down about the deviousness of his family]] and how he's the most so of the whole lot, and this is from [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld generations of observation]]]]. He makes sure Tarvek is chokedly terrified he might actually make the kill for a moment before placing him back down and approving how thoroughly wrapped around Agatha's finger he is with a [[spoiler:characteristic Jäger-style]] SlasherSmile.
* KlatchianCoffee: Agatha discovers coffee in a Mechanicsburg coffeehouse and goes sparky. She also goes into BulletTime -- reading a book on coffee, editing it, and devising a way to rebuild the coffee machine in the time it takes a waitress to say ''three words''. And then there's the coffee she makes instead. It appears to be a perfect encapsulation not only of the taste, but of everything that pure coffee ''is''. The one person that tastes it goes into a HeroicBSOD since he will never be able to enjoy any other coffee ever again. He also apparently can't sleep for at least a week, making him a nervous and tired wreck the next time he appears.
* {{Kneecapping}}: Higgs uses this move against Zola. Unfortunately for him, she is too high on combat drugs to fall down.
* KneelPushTrip: Agatha and Krosp do a variation on this (Krosp is short enough that he doesn't have to kneel) with Othar, pushing him out of their small airship.
* KnightTemplar: Othar. He wants to kill all sparks (ending with himself), because he thinks they are [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040922 "the cause of everything wrong in the world today."]]
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: The surviving pirates who'd been escorting Tarvek absolutely ''lose it'' with delight when they realise that, since Gilgamesh Wulfenbach came to retrieve him in person, the AxCrazy woman accompanying him can only be THE legendary Captain Bangladesh [=DuPree=]. According to Gil it happens a lot.
-->'''Pirate:''' It ''is'' her! She ''stabbed my mom once!''
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Once [[spoiler:Colette]] has taken control of Paris, Terebithia advises the Queen of the Dawn to get while the getting's good. Her plans failed, but "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170623 it took two Storm Kings, two Masters of Paris, and a Heterodyne to slow [her] down]]", so she shouldn't feel too bad about it.
* KubrickStare: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180704 Higgs gives one to Tarvek when it becomes obvious]] the latter has guessed that [[spoiler:Higgs is in fact the secret Jäger-General]].
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* LadyAndKnight: Spoofed with Tarvek and [[NinjaMaid Violetta]].
-->'''Violetta:''' I'm responsible for this slug's continued existence.\\
'''Tarvek:''' This useless nitwit is my loyal servant. Ow! ''Quitit!''
* LampshadeHanging: Many. Using a book titled ''Using Found Objects as Weapons'' as a bludgeon is probably the best example.
* LargeAndInCharge:
** Jäger generals.
** Sergeant Nak ("Big Green Hairy Guy" gorilla-like construct).
** Klaus himself is a quite impressive bruiser too.
** Otilia, the Muse of Protection, is much larger that the rest of her line, and quite capable of fighting almost anyone. Except Airman Higgs.
* LargeHam:
** ''All'' sparks [[ChewingTheScenery chew scenery]] when in TheMadnessPlace. ''Othar Tryggvassen, [[GentlemanAdventurer GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER]]'' is like that ''all the time''.
** One of Klaus Wulfenbach's chief advisors, Doctor Chouteh, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110525 appears to be in a constant state of hamming it up]] and has yet to speak a single line in anything approaching "indoor volume".
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141219 Humongulus]] is now slicing the ham! This is in fact how slicing ham is done!
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** An officer in one of the many armies that invade Mechanicsburg tells his soldiers not to take their eyes off the captured civilians, to treat them with respect, and to execute them all. Right before the [[BrownNote Doom bell]] knocks all the soldiers out.
--->'''Civilian man:''' And what about the one giving orders?\\
'''Civilian woman:''' ''[holding a {{rolling pin|OfDoom}}]'' Oh, ''him'' we treat with respect.
** The Duke Strinbeck acts like a total ass to the crew of the Pink Airship, threatening to shoot them, followed by flaying their entire families alive. A bad move when they have a need to get rid of any unnecessary weight -- ''especially'' when his threats are to try and make the airship stay put when doing so is (obviously) certain death.
* LastGraspAtLife: When [[spoiler: Colette]] killed all of Beausoleil's bodies in Paris one of their deaths is depicted with just a [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170616 gloved hand reaching desperately out of the muck he's being suffocated in.]]
* LastSecondWordSwap:
** 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 switching that out to Chief Advisor to the Heterodyne:]]
--->'''Tarvek:''' I am the St--[-er-]--I am the ''chief advisor'' to your Lady Heterodyne.
** 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]]
** Higgs says the following while talking to a MadScientist, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100409 swapping out the word mad at the last minute because she obviously is that:]]
--->'''Higgs:''' So you're not ma-[-er-]-''upset'' then?
** This one is a running gag as Agatha has done that as well with another spark that she fought. He was just happy that he learned something about magnets from her trick.
* LatexPerfection: Despite being a very scaly fish monster with a large crest, Trogulus is able to wear a mask of his human mentor Professor Homlomium that [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181123 fools even those who had been working with Homlomium for years.]] Well, the mask is implied to be Spark work, at the very least.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** After Agatha fools Gilgamesh once again, [=DuPree=] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140407 points out]] that he should have seen it coming.
--->'''[=DuPree=]:''' I mean, if they ever write this down, they ain't gonna be calling it "'''Boy''' Genius".
** After Agatha's adventures in Paris, where she's wondering where to go next in her quest to [[spoiler:free Mechanicsburg]] Wooster pops up and mentions that, as he keeps telling her, [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170721 she needs to go to England.]]
--->'''Agatha:''' Well, Mister Wooster, it seems like you've been trying to get me to England for ''years.'' Very well, let's be off.
** [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20231020 Krosp remarks at one point that]] "It's just like Sturmvoraus and that ''other'' chump [meaning Gil] are here! [[spoiler:While as yet it hasn't been mentioned in the canon comic, the Foglios have basically confirmed that Zeetha's father, 'Chump', is Klaus Wulfenbach, and Zeetha and Gil are fraternal twins]].
* LeaveBehindAPistol: Gil gives Moloch von Zinzer a [[CyanidePill poison pill]] upon his departure to Castle Heterodyne, underestimating the degree of von Zinzer's ActionSurvivor skills and GenreSavvy. It has yet to be revealed if Zinzer still has it and what he will do with it.
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: With a somewhat unexpected pair of lovebirds in [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100906 this strip]].
* LegallyDead: Since resurrection/reanimation is fairly common in Europa, it plays havoc with various royal or noble titles, as succession obviously depends on the previous occupant of the role dying. Thus the ruling houses of the continent -- the Fifty Families -- decreed that any member of a lineage who dies and is resurrected is automatically removed from the line of succession. Or, as Gil puts it, "With them, once you're dead, you're ''dead''-- ''even'' if someone zaps you back later." This obviously doesn't stop certain blue-bloods getting resurrected on the sly and hoping no one finds out, but Baron Wulfenbach ''always'' does and is able to hold it over them. (Ironically, in the story it's an open secret that the Baron himself is a construct, and the backstory implies he's the result of all three sons of the Wulfenbach family dying in a lab accident, getting stitched back together, and reanimated. All of which should automatically disqualify ''him'' from ruling as well -- but he chooses not to play by the Fifty Families' game, and no one dares to call him on it.)
* LegCling: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230515 The "flashback" panel]] of Dr. Hengst von Wyrmhaut (Monster Hunter) escaping Mechanisburg, as told by Hector, features him with a DamselInDistress clinging to his leg. The actual true story, as told by Franz, is a lot less glamorous.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Agatha discovers that if she hums a certain series of notes, she can improve her focus while working on various projects. This tune pops up throughout the series, in various forms. It's been hinted that this is a Heterodyne thing, the song itself may even be InTheBlood (while there is a river "Dyne" that plays a key role in the creation of the the Heterodyne family, "heterodyne" in real life means "relating to the production of a lower frequency from the combination of two almost equal high frequencies"). Unknown if anyone has actually tabulated and played her song in real life, though.\\\
The novels explain that it isn't actually a fixed song, but rather a sophisticated humming designed to harmonize with any background noise (quite possibly including the mental kind, given its efficacy in suppressing [[spoiler:The Other in Agatha's head]]) in such a way that it cancels it out, leaving the hummer with no distractions as they focus on whatever it is they're focusing on (usually something Sparky). And yes, everything this implies only makes the Heterodynes even more impressive.
%%* LeonineContract
* LetsGetDangerous: The Unstoppable Airman Higgs is, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment in fact,]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin unstoppable.]]
* LetThemDieHappy: These [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100929 plants]] are trying to do this.
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Gilgamesh orders that his hat should be hidden in a safe place -- [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120116 and never spoken about again.]]
-->''[seconds later]''\\
'''[=DuPree=]:''' I heard there was a ''hat!''\\
'''Gil:''' You're ''delusional''.
* LickedByTheDog: The wasp weasels seem to ''really'' like Tarvek, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120613 much to his chagrin]].
* LifeOrLimbDecision:
** When [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060719 Dimo is hit in the hand]] by a spray of [[PoisonIsCorrosive Corrosive Poison]] from glowing slug-like monsters, he feels it moving up his arm and urges Oggie to "Hurry!". Oggie dutifully chops Dimo's limb with his axe. Oggie shortly wonders if it was the right arm, but seeing it literally melt a few seconds later confirms there was no mistake.
** Tweedle takes a poisoned smoke knight dagger to the left hand. He eventually cuts it off to stop the poison, and creates a prosthetic replacement for it.
* LightningBruiser:
** [[spoiler:Airman Higgs]].
** After the TimeSkip, Gil's new rather tall and imposing female-figure bodyguard clank "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131127 Bohrlaika]]" is quite nimble, packs an electo-sword that can cleanly cut off an arm off an enemy HumongousMecha war clank, and is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131129 no worse for wear]] after missing the fact that the arm is about to fall on her when she is reiterating her surrender demand.
* LightningCanDoAnything: The writers love this trope.
* LightningReveal: The Baron's ''real'' forces are [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121019 revealed]].
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Von Zinzer comments on it about Violetta and Tarvek bickering. "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080926 Are you sure you're not married?]]" To which Violetta (who is actually a cousin of Tarvek's) responds by almost puking.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Bang and Gil, to the horror of Klaus. After the time skip, Gil [[spoiler:finds nothing odd about waking up with Bang in bed with him. Apparently she had been struggling to stay awake as much as him, but she doesn't have his training, so she can't just do a few mental exercises and be good]]. [=DuPree=] acknowledges it [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150410 during a tea break with Zeetha and Violetta]].
* LingerieScene: The creators admit the work contains "lots of running around in Victorian underwear". Most of the time, Agatha is the offender. [[AuthorAppeal Not that surprising]], when one of the creators is a big fan of such underthings, and the other is her husband, plus both having a background of having drawn pornographic comics before.
* LiteralGenie: A mild case in the form of [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080822 Castle Heterodyne.]]
* LiterallyShatteredLives: When [[spoiler: Colette]] killed all of Beausoleil's bodies in Paris one of their deaths is depicted as them [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170616 shattering in an explosion of little shards.]]
* LiteralMetaphor:
** When he was young, Gilgamesh Wulfenbach built a clank for [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120314 "picking up girls".]]
--->'''Gil:''' Well, when I was a kid, we heard some of the older guys talking, but we were kind of... um... unclear on the concept, and, ''well...''\\
'''Zoing:''' Itworkz! it''workz''!\\
'''[=DuPree=]:''' That is so just like you... soooo ''pathetic''.
** When something is pounding on the gates of Mechanicsburg, a soldier reports that "It's a ram." Agatha is still surprised when she sees the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120917 ovine monstrosity]] butting the gate and realizes, "''AAH!'' It's a ''RAM!''"
* LittleNo:
** Type 1 from [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070101 Wooster to Bangladesh]].
** A mix of type 1 and 3 from [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101020 Higgs to Zola]]]].
** LittleNo meets ThisIsGonnaSuck meets OhCrap when [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110218 Castle Heterodyne decides to put out a fire.]]
* LivingBattery: Agatha drinks water from the Dyne and is super-charged as a temporary power source. Airman Higgs and the Castle note that Ingeous Heterodyne tried something similar once. Then he exploded. Agatha not only survives, she remarks that she has to try it ''again''.
* LivingCrashpad: Jägers are ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060512 polite]]'' about this.
-->'''Martellus:''' Fortunately, I landed on an idiot.\\
'''Sparkhound:''' And I helped!
* LivingDistantAncestor: Oggie the Jäger was HappilyMarried to a [[MayflyDecemberRomance human woman]] soon after his transformation and has a long line of descendants from her, including his great-great-grandson the [[AuthorAvatar Storyteller]]. In an uncharacteristically serious moment, he [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200417 admits]] that he doesn't feel like his wife is gone as long as he can see glimpses of her in them.
* LivingLabyrinth: Castle Heterodyne
* LivingLegend: Quite a few.
** Othar Tryggvassen, ''{{GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER}}'', very well known and generally viewed as a hero. Except by the main protagonists.
** Klaus Wulfenbach is fine with having a reputation as a terribly villainous evil emperor if it keeps the peace.
** The Heterodyne Boys had a wonderfully heroic reputation, beloved in no small degree because their family very much did ''not''.
** Agatha, Gil, and Tarvek are all rapidly building themselves reputations, what with being stuck in the middle of the most epic story since the Heterodyne Boys defeated the Other. When Agatha visits Paris, she learns that ''everybody's'' slapping her name and image on commercial products, and the opera house is staging a production based on her adventures to date.
* LivingMotionDetector: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080908 The Tigerclank]] in Castle Heterodyne.
* LivingStructureMonster: Heterodyne Castle is alive, and is one giant death trap for anyone who is not The Heterodyne. The ''proven and acknowledged'' Heterodyne to be exact, since even Agatha has a few troubles with it until she could prove her heritage. And before Agatha arrives to repair it, convict work crews are sent in to attempt repairs, or die trying. Usually the latter.
* LongLostRelative: Agatha, Theophilus [=DuMedd=], and [[spoiler:Zola]] are maternal first cousins; their mothers being the Mongfish sisters Lucrezia, Serpentina, and Demonica. Agatha and Theo are both glad to finally have a living relative, [[spoiler:Zola not so much.]]
* LongHairedPrettyBoy:
** Maxim, the beautiful male ''Jägermonster.'' See the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081121 Cinderella]] breather episode, where Maxim is supposed to be one of the "ugly" stepsisters, but it doesn't quite turn out as planned.
** Also, Higgs is deemed as very attractive by multiple people in-universe and he has a pony tail.
* LookBehindYou:
** Gil quickly distracts Agatha from a rather raunchy book that would likely make her irritated with him [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040206 with a well timed recommendation of another on his shelves]].
** When Tarvek gets [[spoiler:reanimated]] and attacks Moloch, the latter saves himself by pointing to something, ''"Uh... [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100118 hey, check it out]]."'' calming the man down instantly. Though in this case not only does the target look, but there's actually something to see.
* LoopholeAbuse:
** Not a weapon. That's a ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080606 chair]]''!
** The Baron's ''Pax Transylvania'' basically amounts to "Don't Make Me Come Over There." As long as rulers turn over any of the Other's technology discovered in their territory, pay taxes, permit the transportation of goods and passengers, hold to some basic humanitarian laws insisted on by the Empire, and above all keep the peace and don't attack each other, they're free to rule their lands as they wish. ''However,'' less scrupulous and Sparky rulers get away with treating their subjects appallingly, since they're not attacking neighbouring countries and thus not breaking the peace. The novelizations reveal that since Klaus in turn couldn't send in his own forces to deal with them, as that would be breaking his side of the bargain, he took to using an unwitting Othar Trygvassen, directing him towards eliminating Sparks that Klaus couldn't touch himself.
** The Corbettites are about to be ordered by their leader to give up Agatha to Martellus, but are conflicted because they promised her sanctuary as a passenger on their railway. They decide they can't hand her over if they can't find her and have one brother lead her party down to the catacombs to get nice and lost.
** Also highly likely this is what slaver-wasp victim Klaus is doing during the Siege of Mechanicsburg in regards to whatever orders he's been given by clank-Lucrezia.
* LosingYourHead:
** [[spoiler:Tinka]] Also [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100818 here]], with [[spoiler:Castle Heterodyne]] in the body of a mechanical Muse. Also an example of ArcWords.
** Subverted with the [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050413 Monster Horse Beastie]]]]; suffering this fate barely slows it down.
* LostSuperweapon: Subverted when the legendary Storm King returns from the dead bearing his LegendaryWeapon, only to have Simon Voltaire NoSell its effects. Voltaire points out that he's one of the intellectual descendents of the Spark who created the weapon in the first place, and has the benefit of two hundred years spent studying the operating principles of the weapon, improving on the design, and developing countermeasures.
* LoveBubbles: Bubbles ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110817 and]]'' roses.
* LoveTriangle:
** Agatha, Gil, and Tarvek. The existence of the triangle has now been openly stated, and Agatha's subjects are taking bets over who's going to win (Or if she'll choose [[MarryThemAll both]]). There was also a low-grade one involving Lars, but [[spoiler:DeathOfTheHypotenuse made sure that only Gil and Tarvek remained to vie for her affection]].
** Possible Minion LoveTriangle in Moloch, Violetta, and Snaug. Although, Violetta [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend denies romantic interest]] in Moloch, and [[AllLoveIsUnrequited he's smitten]] by Sanaa Wilhelm. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100616 Suuuure]] she isn't interested... which turns the one centered on Moloch into a low-grade LoveDodecahedron. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120730 Confirmed by Moloch himself]]:
--->'''Moloch:''' So, Sanaa? Yeah, she's smart and tough and I like being around her -- but since I feel the same way about ''you'', [Snaug,] I ''obviously'' don't know ''anything'' about romance. Stupid, huh?
** Backstory one with Lucrezia, Klaus and Bill; Lucrezia dealt with the hypotenuse in a way that seems to have backfired.
** Princess Larana ''believes'' to be stuck in something like this and while she IS in one, she isn't in the one she thinks she is. She is deeply attracted to Hoffmann who has a crush on fellow student Colette, but both Larana and Hoffmann acknowledge that he will probably never become her boyfriend. She herself has to marry the prince of Moligarchy - which Hoffmann is, thanks to a convenient adoption but unbeknown to her. Her expression when she finds out that she isn't in a LoveTriangle as Hoffmann explains that she has to marry him and that he understands that she doesn't want to (all while she tries to confess her feelings) are [[HilarityEnsues absolutely hilarious]].
* LoyalPhlebotinum: Practically everything that the Heterodynes made. This is, of course, one of the reasons the family was/is so dangerous. Many dangerous Sparks are taken out by their own creations and thus don't cause lasting threats. The Heterodyne family can always be assured loyalty and safehaven with their creations. This is subverted for The Beast. Also subverted for a few pages when Agatha's little clanks start a war against each other to find a king and stop listening to her (which she solves by making a tiny clank with a crown).
%%* LuckBasedSearchTechnique: Krosp [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060410 plays straight man... uh, cat.]] Subverted by [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031006 Agatha]] and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101124 Tarvek]]. These are super-genius Mad Scientists, after all!
* LudicrousGibs: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070905 The reason Othar doesn't turn his enemies inside out anymore.]]
* LudicrousPrecision: Agatha calculates that another 45.3 seconds of being energized by the Dyne water would have resulted in her exploding if she hadn't vented it into the stricken Gil and Tarvek.
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* MacGyvering: A minor but prevalent Spark trait at the best of times, this runs on RuleOfFunny and so gets more and more extreme the further the story is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080104 from]] [[https://twitter.com/Othar/status/1317066710 canon]].
* MadArtist: The tailor clank in the "Revenge of the Weasel Queen" fillers.
* MadeOfIron: Most of the cast for comedic effect, although there are a couple of outstanding examples:
** Any Jägermonster. They're ridiculously strong, immortal, nearly impervious to pain, and are regularly put through walls and shot repeatedly over the course of an average story-line. Dimo, Maxim, and Ognian are hanging from a gallows when they're first introduced. They've been up there for days and are in no apparent danger or discomfort.
** Airman Third Class Axel Higgs. When Gil first hears how his father was saved by him, including Higgs breaking several bones, falling from impossible heights and so on, he believes it is exaggeration. When he actually watches him fight, he is taught better. [[spoiler:To the point it's fairly clear that Higgs is something more than human.]] After the time-skip, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he's a human-looking Jäger, known as the "sneaky" Jägergeneral,]] and in fact one of the [[spoiler:oldest]] and most dangerous characters in the comic.
** ''Othar Tryggvassen, [[GentlemanAdventurer GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER]]'' who can, among other things, NoSell falls from truly ridiculous heights (although he does attribute that to "very heroic" special trousers.) He's tough enough that when the Baron needs him captured, the person sent to do it is an Imperial monster hunter, a woman normally tasked with taking down enormous, hulking, inhuman monstrosities.
** Old Man Death took multiple Jägerpunches to the face and was still able to outfight the Jäger who provided them. He even somewhat lampshades it, explaining that he is possibly the only human that rode with the Jägers for years and ''survived it''.
* TheMadnessPlace: The trope namer, for good reason. All Sparks can be pretty crazy when they're in a "Spark-induced fugue state," as one character puts it delicately. They vary in their ability to control it, some being manically sociopathic and some retaining their ability to reason (to some degree). The most dangerous Sparks are by far the ''latter'' kind, since they can bend their madness to practical goals. It's not for no reason that Klaus, Gil, Agatha, and Tarvek are among the most potent sparks in the setting.
* MadScientist: "Sparks", whose erratic genius has literally reshaped the world. They start out gifted, but only become able to warp the laws of physics on their own after they experience what is called a "breakthrough". A very rare few individuals have broken through a ''second'' time, unlocking EnlightenmentSuperpowers. A spark's normal sanity can vary heavily between individuals, but ''all'' of them lose it a little when they get creative and enter a mental state known as TheMadnessPlace.
** Practically half the cast are mad scientists of one sort or another, though the ones that come closest to the classic villain type are probably Prince Wilhelm Aaronev and the late Lucrezia Mongfish.
** There's even a mad ''social'' scientist, who complains that the mad "hard" scientists [[HardOnSoftScience get all of the funding and attention]].
--->"I told the baron, give me a thousand orphans, a hedge maze and enough cheese and I can--"
** There are also sparks that are more mad about art than science.
** Agatha awakening to her mad science is what starts and drives the entire story forward, and raises the question [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EomvxZF6Tto ...or will her newfound mad science DESTROY THEM ALL!]]
* MadScientistLaboratory: Several, most notably those belonging to Baron Wulfenbach and Prince Aaronev. And all of the ones in Castle Heterodyne.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter:
** Agatha herself qualifies. And she's a mad scientist herself. Her mother Lucrezia was one as well, and a mad scientist herself too.
** For a SpearCounterpart flip, Tarvek and Gil qualify as "Mad Scientists' Handsome Sons"... and are also Mad Scientists in their own right.
** Dr. Mongfish had at least two other daughters besides Lucrezia; Serpentina (Theo's mother), and Demonica ([[spoiler:Zola's mom]]).
** Othar Tryggvassen ([[GentlemanAdventurer GENTLEMAN]] [[DrinkingGame/TVTropes ADVENTURER!]]) actually asks Agatha if she's one of these.
** If you haven't noticed, offspring of mad scientists are often mad scientists themselves. Sparkiness is genetic, it seems.
* {{Magitek}}: Referenced in a (non-canon) BreatherEpisode. "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science!"
* MagneticHero: Any and all Sparks; their manic vision pulls normal people into their service. The only ones able to withstand this are good minions whose entire purpose for existence seems to be to keep the Sparks focused on not blowing up their labs.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction:
** It takes four panels for Higgs to react to getting stabbed [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101027 straight through his torso]]. (Needless to say, gore warning.) Of course, this is the "Unstoppable" Higgs, AmbiguouslyHuman Airman Extraordinaire.
** A pretty hilarious case when [[spoiler:Lucrezia in Agatha's body]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191007 runs Oggie through Zeetha's sword.]] Jägers are already {{Super Soldier}}s, and Oggie is boosted by a SuperSerum at the time, so the worse it does is making him... nostalgic.
--->'''Oggie:''' A sword? Right through ze ''chest''...\\
'''[[spoiler:Lucrezia]]:''' ''That's right!'' And I--\\
'''Oggie:''' Hoo! Dot takes me back, yah! Iz just like how hy met my ''vife''!\\
'''[[spoiler:Lucrezia]]:''' Hu--\\
''[Oggie knocks her out with an elbow jab]''\\
'''Oggie:''' Miz Zeetha? Hoy, vake up, sweetie -- ken hyu take hyu sword back now? Hy... hy gots to go ''lie down a leedle''.
%%* MakeMyIndexLive: This mythos is a major part of the premise.
* MakerOfMonsters: Most Sparks end up transforming wildlife and/or people into monsters with which to terrorize the local populace, unless they spend their time making terrible machines instead. The most talented do ''both''.
* MalevolentArchitecture: Castle Heterodyne. It was designed by an AxCrazy [[MadScientist Spark]], and it [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070725 shows]].
-->'''Zola:''' Avoid any floorstone marked in ''white.'' It is a trap that will kill you. Do not stand under any part of the ceiling marked in ''white.'' It is a trap that will kill you. ''Duck'' under any opening taller than ''one meter.'' It is a trap that will kill you. Do not touch ''any'' metal surface. It is a trap that will kill you.\\\
'''Zola:''' This place is dangerous, twisted, and worst of all-- [...] It likes to think it has a ''sense of humor''.
%%* MaliciousSlander
* MamaBear: Von Pinn, ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040903 and how]].'' She's actually [[spoiler:the Muse of protection, downloaded into a construct body.]] The "bear" part gets much more [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101210 literal]] later on.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Defied. There is a lot of in-universe speculation and gossip to the effect that Agatha's older brother Klaus was in fact Klaus Wulfenbach's son, based on the name and the fact that Klaus and Lucrezia were an item at one time. This conveniently ignores that the name was Bill's idea, that Klaus Wulfenbach was at the time a good personal friend to and staunch supporter of the Heterodynes and exactly the kind of person Bill would name his firstborn after, and that Klaus Wulfenbach had been gone without a trace for over ''two years'' when young Klaus was born. Carson is driven to quiet despair by the number of people who can't do basic math.
* ManipulativeEditing: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060602 The message recorded]]: "Lucrezia is the Other. Tell the Baron, and also everyone." [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061011 The message played back]]: "The Baron is the Other."
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Well, The Jägers They Couldn't Hang, but otherwise Da Boyz. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050513 Definitely Da Boyz.]]
* MarriageToAGod: The original Heterodyne was supposedly married to a local battle goddess.
* MarryThemAll:
** It'd solve everything, really. On the personal level, they're both in love with her, she's in love with both of them, and Gil and Tarvek aren't even THAT jealous of each other (for example accepting that the other would do the best they could for Agatha, and that if they had to, or Agatha chose the other, they would step back). Diplomatically, a Wulfenbach/Heterodyne alliance would have enough power to rule the world, and the nobles would fall all over themselves to be ruled by a Sturmvoraus/Heterodyne combined house, due to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080204 a prophecy]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070713 they all believe in]]. The in-universe betting pool [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120718 has it at 5:1 odds]].
** The Heterodynes may have made something of a habit of this sort of behavior. The Castle seems very fond of the idea (and mentions that the master bedroom sleeps ''six''), "she's the Heterodyne" is apparently [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090311 all the justification Agatha would need]], and [[MeaningfulName Satyricus]] Heterodyne kept a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100924 seraglio]].
* MascotsLoveSugar: Agatha's wasp eater tries to eat a waffle cone [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151102 whole while in Paris]] and is seen eating chocolate truffles and other sweets in the dining car on the train to Paris.
* MasterApprenticeChain: Gilgamesh is taught by Klaus himself (among others), and we know some of the people who taught the baron himself.
-->'''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110204 Dr. Sun]]:''' He does his teachers ''proud''.
* MauveShirt: Sergeant Scorp of the Baron's Vespiary Squad. Also an unquestionably CoolOldGuy, right down to the superb facial hair.
* MaximumFunChamber: Castle Heterodyne contains several; in fact, most of the castle counts.
* McNinja:
** Smoke Knights, followers of the Way of Smoke, serving the heir of Storm King.
** Baron Wulfenbach's "stealth fighters", [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120620 a rival school]] - though arguably, they are shown to be a lot less competent than the Smoke Knights both in this and previous examples, acting more as a humorous foil for the Jägers and the heroes. They are also more like a military unit, whereas the smoke knights tend to fight as individuals, protecting the individual family patron they are assigned to.
* MeaningfulName:
** WordOfGod has it that Theopholous [=DuMedd=] was originally "doomed" to be [[AnyoneCanDie killed off]] in volume 3, but the Foglios so enjoyed him that he stuck around.
** Most likely Sleipnir O'Hara wasn't supposed to be kept around either. Agatha needed a roommate to introduce her to the world of the Baron's flying castle, so the Foglios gave her someone to "sleep near".
** The town of Mechanicsburg (Which is only minimally anglicized German for "mechanical castle") is integrated with the, indeed, mechanical Castle Heterodyne.
** Bangladesh [=DuPree=]. ''Bang duPrey''. Or ''Du-praved''.
** Heterodyne: The principle of periodic functions upon which theremins and radio modulation rely. Possibly related to the ThemeMusicPowerUp.
** Portentius Reichenbach's [[{{Pun}} Portentous]] Operatic Masterpiece: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080204 The Storm King]].
** ''Othar Tryggvassen, [[GentlemanAdventurer GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER]]''. His surname roughly means "Safe Waters" in the North Countries where he's said to be from.
** Doctor Chouteh (pronounced shout-ay) is a LargeHam of ridiculous proportions.
** Agatha's foster parents are called ''Adam and Lilith'' and it doesn't look like they are very god-fearing. Not to mention their surname, ''Clay''. (Note that they almost certainly picked these names for themselves.)
* MechaMooks: Soldier clanks abound in many Sparks' armies. Special mention goes to The Watch in Beetleburg... which were sadly outclassed by the [[http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Wulfenbach_clank Wulfenbach Battle Clanks]], a Toy Soldier-esque machine that comprises the mainstay of the Wulfenbach ground forces.
* MechanicalEvolution: Inverted; Agatha tends to compulsively construct little Clanks termed "dingbots". These dingbots can then go on to construct more dingbots, but dingbots are only so bright, so each successive generation gets less and less advanced, and less bright, and by the third or fourth generation the dingbots produced are nonfunctional.
* TheMedic:
** Mamma Gkika
** Although we haven't seen this happen yet, the Heterodynes to the Jägers.
** Dr. Sun ''is'' a doctor. As well as a Spark.
** We also have [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110124 this]] exchange:
--->'''Gil:''' Let me take a look at that.\\
'''Tarvek:''' ... Already doing it.\\
'''Gil:''' Hey! I '''am''' a doctor, you know.\\
'''Tarvek:''' '''pft'''. And '''who isn't'''?
* MegaNeko: Castle Heterodyne has a lot of giant cat clanks living in it. One of them becomes [[spoiler:Otilia's]] new body, at least for the time being.
* MeleeATrois: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100716 Tarvek vs. Zola vs. Lucrezia!Agatha.]]
* {{Melodrama}}tic: '''EVERY. SINGLE. SPARK.''' ''Can'' get this way. The only Spark we've not seen like this -- yet -- is Klaus.
* MementoMacGuffin: Agatha's locket.
* MentalTimeTravel: Othar, in his Twitter.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Dr. Tarsus Beetle, who kept Agatha at the university because he knew the truth about her, dies in the first story arc.
* MexicanStandoff: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030108 Subverted between Klaus and Dr. Beetle]].
* MidairRepair:
** Gilgamesh and Agatha while testing Gil's flying, or rather ''falling'', machine. Of course because they're sparks, it starts to become midair redesigning the device before Zoing points out to Agatha that they are still falling. It's the first time that Agatha consciously sparks out (but is not aware she is a spark).
** Tarvek is forced to do the same thing... while tied up to a Spark fighting with a mad Jäger on board. He finally makes the machine fly ''inches'' from the ground.
* MilesGloriosus: Subverted with the Jäger 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.]]
* MilkyWhiteEyes: Geisterdamen and possibly other geistercreatures.
* MiniMecha: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120711 Ol' Vorthang's Sunday Best]], an armor museum piece in Mechanicsburg, was restored to operation by Agatha during the Battle of Mechanicsburg for her personal use.
* MinionMaracas: Agatha demonstrates the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090311 proper technique]].
* MinionShipping:
** There's been strong fan support for Violetta×Von Zinzer, minion in denial and retainer/definitely-NOT-minion of Tarvek and Agatha, respectively. Shipping a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] McNinja who hates her job with a world-weary ex-soldier just ''works''.
*** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100616 Lately]], canon [[ShipTease seems to agree]]. But then, he [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091109 jumped]] to Fräulein Snaug (repeating the Agatha×Gilgamesh×Zola case).
*** Oh boy, now he's on Sanaa, with Fräulein Snaug suggesting MurderIsTheBestSolution.
*** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120730 And here]], he makes it worse, by outright telling Snaug that while he's apparently in love with Sanaa, he feels the same about Snaug too.
** Also, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100915 Zeetha and Higgs]]. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101018 Totally]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130320 canon.]]
** When Sparks do it, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100906 others begin to inconspicuously look for blast doors]].
** Another one that [[UnholyMatrimony makes a lot of sense]]: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120224 DuPree and Vole.]]
** [[BlatantLies ...it's]] [[ForScience for science!!!]] Herr Baron. Yeah, just look at a couple of unnamed random crew in issue September 29, 2014.[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140929 here]]
* MissingMom: Missing mothers for everyone!
** The identity of Gilgamesh Wulfenbach's mother is unknown, although heavily hinted to be [[spoiler: the Queen of Skifander]].
** Similarly, we've never met Tarvek's mother and don't know much about her beyond being on the royal House Valois lineage (thus making Tarvek such too). In one of the print-novels, it's strongly implied that [[spoiler:Tarvek's sister murdered her.]]
** Zigzagged with Agatha. For most of her life, Agatha didn't have any contact with her parents, or even know who they were. Eventually resolved (although Agatha probably wishes it hadn't) when [[spoiler: a copy of her mother's personality [[GrandTheftMe gets downloaded into her head]]]], and it turns that her mother was always a self-centered, genocidal-dominatrical, infanticidal, mass-murderer... [[MindScrew unless she actually wasn't]], as it's not at all clear whether the entity now calling itself Agatha's mother is [[DemonicPossession actually the]] [[ThatManIsDead same one]] that married Agatha's father all those years ago.
* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: Castle Heterodyne acts as this to the prisoners repairing it, due to its fractured personality; One more lucid fragment may send a prisoner to go repair something, but a more insane fragment in that section may end up killing the prisoner in the attempt.
* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: Gil does this [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120227 in a flashback]] to surreptitiously modify the blueprints of ''Castle Wulfenbach'' to make space for a secret lab.
* MistakenForGay: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100324 Othar, unless it's just good-natured teasing between siblings]]. Or not mistaken, since his objection to Sanaa's statement isn't Gil's gender, it's that he's "a foul villain". Bisexual at the most, though, since he was [[http://twitter.com/Othar/status/967741669 married]] to a [[http://twitter.com/Othar/status/1097578474 Geisterdame]] for a while in the [[CharacterBlog Twitter]]. Of course, he's also [[UnreliableNarrator borderline delusional]], so good luck trusting anything he says.
* MistakenForQuake: when Agatha finally manages to reboot Castle Heterodyne, the invading forces think they're experiencing an earthquake until they discover that it's actually the castle fighting back, seen [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130114 here]].
* MisterMuffykins: Jenka is not a fan of the little dogs most society women favor as pets, and as such keeps her [[SuperSoldier Jäger]] [[BearsAreBadNews Bear]] Fust with her even when she's playing the part of [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151214 "Lady Jenka".]]
-->'''Jenka:''' Ta da! So today I am ''Lady'' Jenka--mysterious und eccentric beauty!\\
'''Agatha:''' Eccentric? \\
'''Jenka:''' Well, yes. ''Most'' society ladies favor ''little dogs''. Have you ''seen'' those things? So ''noisy''--and they never really eat ''anybody''.
* MobileMaze: Castle Heterodyne. "We're doomed! The door we came through -- [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090304 it never led HERE before!"]]
* ModestyBedsheet:
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080407 Gil]], while lying on the bed injured and naked.
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100816 Von Pinn]], in a similar situation.
* ModestyTowel: Agatha actually invokes the trope while on the Corbettite Railways, using it as a ploy to distract anybody entering her compartiment, giving time for Krosp (and later Wooster) to take them out if they happen to be hostile. Unluckily, all those coming to visit are either allies or just train attendants, and thus she gives each of them an eyeful for nothing. [[spoiler:She has pretty much given up on the pretense when an ''actual'' assassin shows up.]]
* MomentKiller:
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090511 Merlot]], in the page that is aptly titled [[AlmostKiss Smoochus Interruptus]].
** The Jäger generals [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110318 assume]] that Gil and Agatha won't enjoy making out with her mother watching, [[spoiler:and that will be enough motivation to quickly remove the copy of the Other's mind from Agatha]].
* MonochromaticEyes:
** The geisterdamen have all-white eyes.
** Vole's may be all-black, since it's hard to tell whether he has white pupils or just reflections.
* MonsterClown: Whatever [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110209 this thing]] originally was made for, among other things, probably.
* MoodWhiplash:
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070117 The calming pie]] is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. (Warning: spoilery. And the pies may contain nutmeg.)
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110207 Say-...]]
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120718 Agatha gets whiplash herself.]]
** After a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120312 hilarious scene]] of Gil simultaneously fighting [=DuPree=] and brewing potion, next time we see him we get... [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120404 Klaus towering over him with a wasp-detector.]]
* MookHorrorShow: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041103 The flashback of Zeetha wiping out a whole pirate ship]] sure looks like this in a couple panels.
* MoralMyopia:
** Klaus and heroes often suffer from this trope. For example, the Storm King Conspiracy and the Other are hated for their murderous, violent, manipulative and underhanded behavior and tactics. While the heroic or neutral characters tend to be much more benevolent and restrained, they also have little in the way of hesitation in using similar methods as their enemies to achieve their goals.
** Bang was a murderous, sadistic pirate long before she met Klaus, but he and Gil often look the other way regarding her actions while severely punishing others for lesser infractions.
** Merlot blames Agatha for the fact that he killed a few dozen people and got punished for it.
* MoreHeroThanThou: Tarvek and Gil [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091111 have a brief exchange]] about who gets to be this.
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: A few different characters.
** Agatha kicks the story off with this.
** Tarvek also qualifies.
** [[spoiler:Airman Higgs]] seems to be the new, most prominent example.
** Also, Da Boyz and [[spoiler:Zola]] use ObfuscatingStupidity.
** Gil (especially in his Paris days), Agatha's "parents", Wooster, Von Pinn, Dr. Sun, Dolokov, the Circus, Sanaa... it's probably easier to list which characters AREN'T more than they appear.
* MoreThanMindControl: Sparks can be almost irresistibly charismatic when they put their minds to it. Also, while The Other can use actual mindcontrol on people, the citizens of Mechanicsburg do react with absolute obedience to a strong Spark that might be a Heterodyne.
* MotivationalKiss: Gil gets one [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110817 here]] (continued to the next page).
* MotorMouth:
** Movit #11 causes this, increasing with dosage.
** Coffee does this to Agatha. Increasing dosage was deftly averted.
** Prince Aaronev's sedative also had a truth serum effect (or the truth serum had a sedative effect, it's not fully clear which effect was intended); Agatha blabs for almost three full pages of unrestrained and meandering truth before she passes out. So much for "Lady Olga".
** Punch, after his voice is repaired.
* MrFanservice: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080407 Gil]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080924 Tarvek]], Klaus, and more.
* 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 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 by Mama Gkika.
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120413 The last surviving hostile Spark]] in [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110926 Mechanisburg]] found himself "a charming pair of ''innocent hostages''": [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041103 Zeetha, daughter of Chump]] and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100217 Axel Higgs]]. Next time we see him, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120416 he's wearing his BFG as a scarf.]]
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Anevka, to a degree.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070625 Volume Seven, Page 52]]. That must be good coffee.
* MushroomSamba: The Circus pumps out a hallucinogenic gas during their escape from Sturmhaven, shout "The Heterodynes are back!" and we get this little [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070129 gem.]]
** Van has a small one when he [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070620 tries some]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070622 of Agatha's]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070625 new coffee]].
* MustHaveCaffeine: Vanamonde von Mekkhan spends all his time in a coffee shop in Mechanicsburg, and certainly does enjoy his coffee. During the first attack on Mechanicsburg, there's a caffeine dispensing assistant [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110530 at his side]]. He has even written a textbook on coffee preparation (under a pseudonym): ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070528 Bean There, Done That]]''.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Basically the FatalFlaw of every Spark in the world. Entering "TheMadnessPlace" grants them incredibly powerful focus, but it makes them entirely oblivious to the potentially disastrous results of their creations.
** Specifically, Aaronev Sturmvoraus and his dying daughter, though certainly said by others in this world.
* MyGodYouAreSerious: Turns out the Castle wasn't being facetious when it told Gil to look very carefully for something amiss at the spot where [[spoiler:an enormous EldritchAbomination was looming. It was expecting centimeters-tall creatures.]]
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Krosp I, Emperor of All Cats used to be the Trope Illustrator.
* MythArc: One of the best webcomic examples. The foreshadowing starts with the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021111 fourth strip]] of the first chapter (In November of 2002), with hints about the phenomenon scattered over many, many volumes -- and a full explanation has still not been given by late 2019, over 17 real-time ''years'' later.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Practically half the cast.
** Klaus and Gilgamesh Wulfenbach;
** Lucrezia and her sisters Serpentina and Demonica;
** Master Payne;
** Von Pinn;
** Possibly subverted with Moloch.
** the Heterodyne family tree is loaded with examples, including; Faustus, Saturnus, Egregious, and Vlad “The Blasphemous.” In Universe, “The Heterodyne” seems to qualify all by itself.
** If these things are any indication, ''all'' strong Spark families tend to be this way.
** The Queen of England is only mentioned in hushed tones, even though the only British member of the cast is Wooster. It's implied that she is immortal and that she exercises mind control over the entirety of the English Isles.
*** Confirmed: Queen Albia is Eternal
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: After a blow to the foot, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091009 Agatha cuts loose]] with a string of SymbolSwearing, followed by a small asterisk. The accompanying caption:
-->"* Oooh, what naughty little devices, to turn upon your creator! Oh! Indeed, my foot is in such excruciating pain! I shall construct a device that will give you ''such a whack,'' see if I don't!"
* NavelDeepNeckline:
** Agatha's entire cleavage makes a brief and remarkably subtle appearance in the last panel of [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070219 this page as the shirt she's wearing is unbuttoned past her breasts]].
** In Vrinn's first appearance she's wearing a nightgown open to her navel, on account of having been dragged into the royal family's presence in the middle of the night.
* NearAndDearBabyNaming: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070810 2007-08-10]]: Klaus Barry Hetrodyne was "named at '''''Master William's insistence'''''", for his friend Klaus, because it's William and Lucrenzia's son, not being [[AncestralName named after his father]] and former lover of Lucrenzia, as people think.
* NecessarilyEvil: Any Spark who wants to be a good guy sometimes has to turn into a raging madboy just to keep the million separate interests from coming apart. Klaus, Gilgamesh, and Agatha have all found this out. Tarvek, who considers himself an AntiVillain, even took part in an unwitting demonstration:
-->'''Tarvek:''' ''[smashing two feuding Dingbots together furiously]'' I am ''not'' enjoying this -- but I can keep it up ''all day'' if necessary!\\
'''Gil:''' Hee hee!... That's a ''really'' good impression of [[TheChainsOfCommanding my father!]]
* NeckLift:
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030127 Merlot finds out this way]] that Baron Wulfenbach despises traitors.
** Von Pinn [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030718 introduces herself]] to Agatha by giving her a personal demonstration of this trope.
** Mamma Gkika [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110518 also explains through this method]] (with "slammed-into-a-wall" bonus) to [[spoiler:Oublenmach]] why it's a bad idea to wake her up too early in the morning.
** Vole reminds [[spoiler:Tarvek and Gil]] that you should never, ''ever'' take a Jäger lightly, by catching the ''two of them'' in a strangling neck lift -- [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110729 one in each arm]].
** Higgs [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180706 gets in on the action]] after Tarvek identifies him as [[spoiler:The Secret Jäger General]]. Tarvek dares Higgs to [[KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand just kill him if there is any doubt about Tarvek's allegiance to Agatha]] by placing Higgs's hand around his throat... [[spoiler:And then Higgs [[ThenLetMeBeEvil decides to remind Tarvek]] about how ineffectual a corporeally normal human is to a Jäger by choke-lifting him one-handed straight up. He then [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech disparages the Surmvoraus family as inherently devious snakes]] to which Higgs has had generations of observation to attest, and that Tarvek is by far the most dangerous ever from that family... and then fakes Tarvek out by putting him back down and saying he'll serve Agatha nicely while wearing a characteristic Jäger SlasherSmile.]]
** [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190920 Clankrezia lifts a knocked-out Zeetha by the neck]] with her remaining hand (Zeetha had cut the other on the previous strip). Thankfully, Oggie stops her before she can deliver a killing blow.
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight:
** Zola vs. Agatha:
--->'''Zola:''' Bringing a knife to a gun fight doesn't seem very smart, now does it?\\
'''Agatha:''' Well, I suppose it isn't that much worse than bringing a gun to a clank fight.
** And [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110713 later]], "It's harder to break things with a knife."
* NeverFoundTheBody:
** A plot point has significant individuals from the past killed by a machine made from "farm machinery and pork products", which turns them into a string of sausages. Hard to confirm that.
** Not to mention, ''Othar Tryggvassen, [[GentlemanAdventurer GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER]]''; he's been tossed out of two airships on-screen, within the same chapter. Gil doesn't even consider the possibility that he died, having seen him come back from the same or worse so many times.
** Gil is also GenreSavvy enough to find it suspicious [[spoiler:his father's]] body [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120120 is never found.]] [[spoiler:And sure enough, Klaus soon reappears very much alive.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Before she was even aware of who she really was, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040310 Agatha lashed out at a minion grabbing her butt.]] [[spoiler:Turns out her Command Voice inherited from her mother prompted that minion to let go - and also possibly (as he was a revenant of the Other) to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040326 activate the Slaver Engine]] that was brought onto Castle Wulfenbach for study.]]
** Bang [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061108 blows up the machine at Sturmhalten]]]] that was [[spoiler:keeping The Other suppressed in Agatha's head, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061110 causing Lucrezia to take back control and cause problems for everyone.]]]] Ironically, the course of action she ''joked about'' would have saved everyone ''a truckload of grief''. Admittedly, whether [[PsychoForHire Bang]] qualifies as a 'hero' is debatable to say the least, but she was on the good guys' side[[note]]Alright, it's TheEmpire, but they're better than [[BigBad The Other]][[/note]] at the time, so it still counts.
** Zeetha's presence during the standoff at the circus camp at the end of the Sturmhalten arc [[spoiler:distracts Klaus long enough for Lucrezia to wasp him.]]
** Dr Sun takes down the Baron's escape clank -- ''by himself'' -- and enforces Klaus's bed rest in order to stop him killing himself from the strain. Awesome -- [[spoiler:''until'' we learn that, in keeping Klaus in the hospital, Sun's unwittingly exposed him to Anevka!Lucrezia, which is more or less what Klaus feared. Oops.]]
** Boris tried to invoke this trope when Wooster revealed the Baron's plans to invade Mechanicsburg and kill Agatha to the Jägergenerals, but [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100827 as far as Wooster was concerned it was entirely intentional]];
--->'''Boris:''' Do you know what you've done!?\\
'''Wooster:''' Destabilized Britain's greatest rival, and saved an innocent girl's life. A mighty good day's work, I'd say.
** If Agatha's mini-clank hadn't succeeded in freeing the three Geisterdamen from their prison cell, Agatha would have escaped without getting [[spoiler:a copy of Lucrezia downloaded into her head.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Lucrezia-copy inside Agatha's head gets herself shut down by assuming the locket she finds in the possession of Klaus is just symbolic decoration, and putting it on.
* NinjaLog: Violetta can effortlessly snatch anything from anyone's grip and switch it with another thing without anyone noticing, including the audience. Later, another Smoke Knight pulls a similar trick, complete with the log. Another Smoke Knight comments that it's common ability among them.
* NoblewomansLaugh:
** Zeetha [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081205 in the second panel]].
** Lucrezia [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100219 in the first panel]].
** Martellus' uplifted cat [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210419 in the fourth panel of the second row.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Back when they were children Tarvek tried to help his friend Gil uncover his mysterious family history. In response Gil's father secretly revealed himself to Gil and convinced his son that Tarvek was evil due to his family history and that him finding out about Gil's parantage would be horrible resulting in Gil betraying Tarvek (while thinking Tarvek was trying to use him ans never considered him a friend) and Tarvek being sent back to his abusive and murderous family that has been trying to assassinate him ever since.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown:
** Holy crap. ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110117 Tarvek?!]]''
** Also, Higgs to Zola.
* NoNameGiven:
** The Mechanicsburg Assistant is never addressed by name. Eventually it's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]. In the ''Girl Genius'' print-novels she is given a name and a backstory.
--->'''Vanamonde:''' ''[heavily sleep-deprived]'' Who are you again?\\
'''The Assistant:''' Oh, now don't start.
** The pirate-ish airship captain who [[spoiler:is contracted to take Tarvek to England]] appears for a fairly extended period without being named, but finally it's revealed to be [[spoiler:Jeanne Hawkins]].
* NoodleImplements:
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030829 "Thank goodness you had all those clockwork ducks, Klaus".]]
** Regarding [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050523 Agatha's first Fortune-Telling]], all we know is that it involved the recipient talking about a tea cozy, "only one spoon", and something lasting for 43 hours.
** Used to hilarious effect in [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080206 "The Storm King" Opera synopsis.]] The roller-skating giraffe pretty much speaks for itself.
** Why does one need a hammer [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090731 to cure Verictus Panteliax's Chromatic Death]]? Unfortunately, we never find out, since Tarvek has some other kind of disease (which is much worse, by the way).
** Which activity in a RomanceNovel is only possible with [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151028 special shoes]]?
* NoodleIncident:
** Apparently, the Baron [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080526 has used the Med Clank]] before. After what happened ''last time'', he promised to put it away.
** ''The Socket Wench of Prague'' is a great big one for readers. All we know is that it's (at least) heavily suggestive at times.
** The other Heterodyne plays and stories are just as bad. ''Why'' does ''Race to the West Pole'' end with Klaus in a barrel?
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151111 Apparently Zeetha's cousin turned out to be the prophesized holy one of a race of people.]]
** The novelizations have a lot of these, usually referring to some strange thing that some Spark had built or what said Spark attempted to do with said strange invention.
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110719 The Great St. Valentine's Day Riot.]]
** "And ''that'' was the last time Professor Phosphorous visited the fireworks factory. Or ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081105 anything else]]'', really."
** "The Nuremberg Pudding Incident", rumored to have involved the Professora herself. One of the official scents is based on it.
** The Opera Synopsis again, where practically every event mentioned is a Noodle Incident. The logistics of someone being trapped in a bonsai hedge maze will likely forever be a mystery to us. In a Reddit AMA with the Foglios, a reader asked if the bonsai hedge was [[spoiler:an artistic license take on the thorn barrier erected by the Castle after Klaus froze time in Mechanicsburg. The response: "It is now." It must have taken such actions before.]]
** About half the things Gil, Tarvek, and Zola [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090320 did in]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091016 Paris]].
** The entire concept of [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040305 the Island of the Monkey Girls]] was one for a long time. It was eventually confirmed to be a night club in Paris... but when a fan asked what [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090218 Zola thought Gil could have done]] to get himself imprisoned in the Castle, where the Empire sends people it [[ThrownDownAWell wants to disappear]], the only explanation supplied was "Zola was Head Waitress at the Island of the Monkey Girls Theatre and Showbar in Paris." So ''that's'' still an enigma.
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151028 The Lusty Loves of Lady Heterodyne]] apparently includes a scene that is impossible without "the right shoes".
** The real Heterodyne Boys adventure stores. We know they fought many people (as Heroes, not madmen), visited many place, fought the "Other" after incident at Mechanicsburg Castle, went missing, Barry came back and joined by Klaus and Lucrezia. Apparently, the Boys and Lucrezia have gone to Skifander before as proven when Lucrezia taunts Zeetha.
--->'''Lucrezia-[[spoiler:in Agatha]]:''' I know better than to fight you, Skifandrian.
** The advisers of Mechanicsburg point out that it's a new record for a new accepted Heterodyne to not kill anyone in the first two minutes of their rule. It remains to be seen if this applies to the Heterodyne Boys.
** The story of Baron Wulfenbach's exile. He suddenly disappeared before Lucrezia and Bill got married and came back few years later after Bill, Lucrezia and the Other are gone. Finding everything is in chaos, he resolved to impose order by amassing forces and built his TheEmpire. What happened between he disappeared and he got back is ripe source for gossips. (Though in real life, thanks to a sketch drawn by Mr. Foglio, fans at least know ''where'' he was sent: [[spoiler:Skifander.]]
** We get a interesting one while the group is in the [[spoiler:the hidden library]]. Even Agatha notes that she has "much to learn about the rich and varied history of Jägers".
--->'''Agatha:''' Maybe it's a Jäger Shredding Machine!
--->'''Dimo:''' No vay. Dey melted dot down.
** [[HeroOfAnotherStory Jiminez]] [[GeniusDitz Hoffman]] does these on regular basis.
*** Did something [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151104 that]] messed the order of books and left behind [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160210 a machine that could process and decypher books while destroying the originals]] in Incorruptible Library. It is also implied that he also did [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160125 some "disasters"]] in there before.
*** He also saved the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151109 Moligarchy King and brokered peace between Arguron and Moligarchy]], became Moligarchy Prince and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151116 betrothed]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160115 to]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160205 Larana]].
*** He also constantly dragged his brother, [[{{Bookworm}} Aldin Hoffman]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160516 to his]] adventures much to Aldin's displeasure.
** Aldin Hoffman [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160203 hid]] in his room for a week after an outside professor gave her demonstration. And so did half of senior shelvers.
** One of the standalone stories set vaguely in the future refers to Othar as "[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220829 the lost hero]]".
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Othar. Being thrown out of an airship and surviving is among the ''least'' of his feats. From the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090617 side-story]] "Revenge of the Weasel Queen":
-->'''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]] battle axes while [[PoisonousPerson venomous]], [[MechaMooks mechanical]], [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile-launching]] ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Morris dancers]]'' armed with [[FreezeRay liquid nitrogen harpoon guns are overhead]]; [[HorseOfADifferentColor riding]] [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant]], [[ScaryStingingSwarm rabid killer bees]] with ''[[DeathRay side-mounted death rays]]'' to kill '''[[LargeHam Othar Tryggvassen!]]'''\\
'''Ferretina:''' ''Whoops!'' Silly me, I forgot to turn the ''[[ShockAndAwe lightning generators]]'' on!\\
'''Othar:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Er...]] not a ''whole lot'' more, I'll admit.
* NoSell:
** [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111125 Gilgamesh versus the Doom Bell]]. Rather than filling him with enough "existential despair" to knock him out, like it does to every other human in the bar, the sense of victory he feels on hearing it is enough to send him into his madness place temporarily. (Victory because it means Agatha has succeeded).]]
** Any physical attacks to date launched against [[spoiler:Grandmother's agent Mr. Obsidian]], to the point that metal tools break against his skin.
** One of [[EldritchAbomination the Dreen]] shrugs off an attempted squashing by a twenty-foot tall GiantMecha and then obliterates its attacker with a single energy blast.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: The average Jäger has no qualms about being in everyone's space like they're old friends. Dimo in particular has learned to weaponize this by [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050725 looming threateningly]] over people often by [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050805 perching]] [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050916 on something]] a person he wants unsettled is next to so as to surprise them with a well timed comment and when they turn they're faced with an uncomfortably close Jäger that is crouched like they're ready to pounce with all their very sharp teeth showing in a menacing grin.
* TheNoseKnows:
** Jägermonsters;
** Krosp;
** The Revenant-detecting weasels.
* NotAGame:
** The Castle warns Agatha that claiming to be the Heterodyne is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080704 not]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080707 a]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080709 game!]]
** Gil declares to her that he is playing no game.
* NotBad: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100226 Zeetha has this reaction]] to [[McNinja Violetta]] replacing a hostage [[ImpossibleTheft held by an antagonist]] with [[ReplacedWithReplica a dummy]].
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090925 Spark mode Agatha]] doesn't even bat an eyelash at the fact that her two ([[LoveTriangle rival]]) paramours are nearly nude.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Tarvek denies having any part in the plan to usurp the Wulfenbachs by installing a fake Heterodyne -- ''his'' plan was orders of magnitude better!
* 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!"]]''
* NothingButSkulls: The floor of the chapel in Castle Heterodyne is covered by the skulls of those who claimed to be a new Heterodyne master -- and failed. The Castle even left a nice empty spot for Agatha's skull...
* NothingIsScarier: "But I don't see anything!" [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050706 "Don't say that like it's a good thing!"]]
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: After the TimeSkip, everything has changed. [[spoiler:Mechanisburg is sealed, along with the Baron, Gilgamesh now leads the crumbling Wulfenbach Empire, and Agatha is on the run from everyone.]]
* NotInTheFace:
** Played with:
--->'''Castle Heterodyne:''' No! Not in the facing!
** Agatha's reindeer clank also says "Not the face!" after jumping down a ledge. It tries again when faced with Bohrlaikha, but gets KilledMidSentence.
* NotSoDifferentRemark:
** Lucrezia feels this way about her and Klaus, since they've both used force to try and bring the world under their command to bring peace, and both [[spoiler:possessed their offspring in pursuit of this.]]
** Tarvek comes to realize that this is the case with him and [[spoiler:Higgs]], due to their similar romantic difficulties (specifically, [[spoiler: the fact that neither of them had ever truly fallen in love before they met Agatha and Zeetha, respectively]]).
* NotSoInnocentWhistle: "Why do you even ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081020 have]]'' one of [[TheNudifier those]]?!"
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Actually, most Sparks ''are''. The only reason Agatha isn't is because [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110124 they wouldn't let her take the tests]].
* TheNudifier: The Wacky Weave Destabiliser. (Un)Fortunately Zeetha wears special underwear.
* NumberOneDime: Hats, to the Jägers.
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[[folder:O]]
* OccamsRazor: Invoked as Agatha and crew were [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120827 wondering why the Baron was invading instead of his old plan of flattening the city.]]
-->'''General Zog:''' Occam's Razor!\\
'''Agatha:''' Yes, you're right of course--\\
'''General Zog:''' [[SubvertedTrope Hit vas forged by Old Occam Heterodyne!]]\\
'''Agatha:''' Ah... What?\\
'''General Zog:''' Seriously -- who ''vouldn't'' vant it? Hoo-- [[AbsurdlySharpBlade dot ting ken cut through anyting]]!
* ObfuscatingStupidity: A ''lot'' of people.
** Most especially Zola.
--->'''Tarvek:''' What? No! That was that ''idiot'' from the Island of th... ''[[[BeatPanel makes a face]]]'' She ''is'' good.
** Some of the Jägerkin are considerably smarter than they appear. Then again, they may only hide it because it is implied that Jägerkin aren't exactly in favor of "smot guys".
** More specifically, while he doesn't act "stupid" per se, [[spoiler: The Secret Jäger General "Higgs"]] hides in plain sight as a legally-enlisted low-level military minion of whatever Europan empire is currently most appropriate.
** The circus pretends to be simple performers when in truth they're [[spoiler:mostly Sparks]].
** Astonishingly enough, Tarvek [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091125 seems to be in this category]]. Considering that he's an InsufferableGenius with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder who's spent an inordinately long time on the Face side of the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor, it's shocking that it took this long.
** Agatha began the comic with an item that forced her to Obfuscate Stupidity. [[spoiler:It's a locket given to her by her Uncle Barry to suppress her Spark, so that The Heterodyne Boys' numerous enemies wouldn't try to kill/manipulate/etc. her.]]
** Gil appears to have spent most of his life doing this. As a child he hid his Spark, and in Paris he pretended to be a much worse student than he really was. It was only after returning from school that he was finally able to stop doing it and fully be himself.
** Wooster apparently tried this, or at least Obfuscating Normal, on Gil, to infiltrate Castle Wulfenbach. Gil was onto him, but played along until he could make more use of Wooster as a [[spoiler:British secret agent.]]
* ObliviousToLove: Holy crap [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120730 Moloch is dense]].
%%* OddlyVisibleEyebrows
* OddReactionOut: [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091026 20091026]]: 2 out of 3 Sparks aren't accompanying Agatha and the last one is only because all the good excuses were taken.
* OddShapedPanel: Quite common.
* OfCorsetsSexy: Usually on Agatha.
* OffhandBackhand:
** Used by both Wulfenbachs, Wooster, and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100301 Zeetha]].
** And then [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120716 Tarvek on Othar.]]
** Gil gives Bang an [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120312 offhand backfoot]]
** Larana silences Madame Velix with an [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160812 offhand elbow]].
** Tarvek does it with an [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191014 offhand failsafe phrase]] he had on his sister's surrogate clank body.
* OffingTheOffspring: What [[spoiler:Lucrezia]] purportedly did to her own son, and [[spoiler:now plans for her daughter.]]
* OhCrap:
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080305 "This must be how my father feels -- ALL THE TIME!"]]
** Klaus, [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061206 realizing Lucrezia has enslaved him]]]] and [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061225 when Agatha activates the Battle Circus]].]]
** In a subverted BigDamnHeroes [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100315 moment]]:
--->"Who in blazes is ''that''?"\\
"Why, ''I'' am OTHAR TRYGGVASSEN, '''Gentleman Adventurer'''!"\\
"Uh oh."
** Amusingly invoked [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100602 here.]]
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110713 And here]]
** ''Everyone'' is thinking it [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120404 as the Baron puts a Wasp Weasel in Gil's face and watches it shriek. Even you and Gil.]]]]
** Maxim as he realizes that, since he has [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable Old Man Death]]'s hat, every Jäger around is going to fight him for it.
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130426 Mamma Gkika]] when she sees that the previously unstoppable falling object heading toward the cathedral contains Baron Wulfenbach himself -- or the fact that he seems to be carrying a bomb. Probably both. Most of those who saw the contraption for the first time have a small Oh Crap moment when they realize that the castle's defenses weren't stopping it.
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140312 Brother Ulm]] has this reaction, when it turns out that his new passanger is Agatha Heterodyne. He almost presses the ejection button.
** An [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140604 unfortunate assassin]] gets this, when after popping into Agatha's train car, he realizes he's surrounded by Zeetha, Krosp, Wooster, Margarella and Violetta, all of whom have weapons trained on him.
--->'''Assassin:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Uh-oh...]] Erm... sorry, wrong room?
** Gil wants to know how long they have before the multistoreyed ''[[EldritchAbomination thing]]'' over Mechanicsburg pushes through into this reality. Hard to tell, says the Castle, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140618 which can't see it...]]
--->'''Castle:''' How many centimeters high would you say it appears?
** Straight-up followed by the castle having one itself when Gil gives it visual input:
--->'''Castle:''' That's much be-- '''[[SuddenlyShouting AAAAAAAH!]]'''
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150417 A wave of energy disables all mechanisms in the area, and Agatha's standing near the epicenter. Violetta realizes the implications involving a certain Other-suppressing locket.]]
** When the castle decides to put out the fire in one of it's room by using the water from its cistern, the cast that is standing right underneath it is more than likely thinking this and ThisIsGonnaSuck.
** [[spoiler:When Zola tells Lucrezia that [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110223 Barry is no threat]]]] both are horrified by how badly she just [[TemptingFate tempted fate]].
** A wordless one [[spoiler: when [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190913 Albia takes back control over the British commandos Lucrezia brought in.]]]] This is [[LampshadedTrope even lampshaded on the same page.]]
--->'''Albia:''' We suspect she is used to thinking ''she cannot be stopped.''
** 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]].
** Agatha and co. have tracked the stolen Prende's Chronometric Lantern to a previously-empty island which now appears to have ancient ruins on it, much to their surprise. While they wonder if the records have been falsified and if so, why, an amused Bang points out to Krosp that there's another possible explanation -- after all, the Lantern manipulates ''time''. Who knows what the thieves might have been up to? [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210510 Cue massive Oh, Crap reaction from Krosp.]]
* OhMyGods: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090520 Here]], in the second panel.
* OhNoNotAgain: When Agatha's trying to snap Gil out of a stupor:
-->'''Agatha:''' ''Hey, Gil!'' All of Paris is about to go up in flames, and Zola has her head caught in a ''bucket! Up and at 'em, Hero Boy!''\\
'''Gil:''' Hm? A bucket? ''Again?'' Okay, I'm comin'.\\
'''Agatha:''' ''[shooting a sideways glance at Zola]'' Yeeeess. I ''suspected'' as much.
* OhTheHumanity: In Paris there is a poster with Agatha, an airship and the text "eau de humanity".
* TheOldConvict: Tiktoffen is the "man in charge" in the sentient, sapient and homicidal [[MalevolentArchitecture Castle Heterodyne]]. Subverted, as he's actually only been in for three years -- but he's still the longest-serving prisoner. People don't tend to last long inside Castle Heterodyne, especially since half the time it's actively trying to kill them. Fixing parts of the Castle gives you points and takes months off your sentence, but it's worth noting that the Castle has been noted to [[RetIrony specifically target convicts who are close to finishing their sentence]], and that in the fifteen or so years that the Castle has been used as a prison, only two people have been depicted or mentioned as scraping together enough points to get out. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that Tiktoffen came the the Castle willingly, and has an Sparkish implant in his wrist that lets him nullify at least the worst of the Castle's deathtraps.]]
* OldMaster:
** Old Man Death from the "Maxim Buys a Hat" side-story. He rode with the Jägermonsters in his youth, has ''never'' lost a fight, and can still keep up with them to this day -- impressive for a (presumably) baseline human. As a result, his hat has become an object coveted by Jägers striving to prove themselves, but they only get [[RuleOfThree three tries]]. He also counts as a CoolOldGuy and BadassNormal.
** The former Seneschal Carson von Mekkhan has been around during the time of Agatha's grandparents. Trust him, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070516 you are NOT the weirdest thing he has seen.]]
** Dr. Sun Jen-dijeh. He's able to intimidate [[AxCrazy Bangladesh DuPree]], and as for Klaus... Klaus has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091223 every reason to fear and respect Dr. Sun]]. Dr. Sun also expresses complete confidence that he can [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070614 give Gil a thrashing]]. And when he says "Strict bedrest" -- [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091223 he really means it!]] Dr. Sun is quite capable of singlehandedly disassembling any number of clanks -- and he ''taught'' Klaus and Gil quite a lot about martial arts.
* OminousFloatingCastle: ''Castle Wulfenbach'' certainly qualifies, although it floats because it's a gigantic zeppelin.
* OminousMultipleScreens: The command center of the Master of Paris in the Awful Tower has the [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161209 walls covered in screen depicting the goings on all over the city.]] While the Master is benevolent he's also quite dangerous and his control over his city is both renowned and feared.
* OminousPipeOrgan: At one point a flipped-out Agatha directs a small army of clanks (including TransformingMecha and [[{{Literature/Discworld}} Luggage]]) with a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061229 high-falutin]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070117 calliope.]] Doubles as visual SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic. And perhaps a literal version of AutobotsRockOut.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Though Sparks do specialize, it appears that most of the really strong ones can stitch a living being out of spare body parts as easily as they can build a mechanical [=AI=]... or design an electric death ray or a giant airship. Only minor Sparks appear to be ''restricted'' to a discipline, as opposed to simply being ''best'' at one.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: This transpires when knowledge of Tarvek's ... "adorning" of Lucrezia-controlled Agatha becomes widely known. Even Gil heard about it. He still does it in his head sometimes, so he has only himself to blame for it.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Multilayered.
** Agatha's father Bill was best friends with Klaus, the dictator ruling the continent, from before he became a dictator. Her mother Lucrezia also had an affair with Klaus when she was engaged to Bill, and she at least flirted with this one prince named Aaronev Wilhelm at some point.
** Both Klaus and Aaronev had sons (though not with Lucrezia) named Gil and Tarvek who went to grade school with each other, and later had a rivalry when they went to the same university. They both met Agatha at different points and both fell in love with her before they had to part ways. Then the two both snuck into a broken castle where they met both each other and Agatha again. Agatha didn't know Gil and Tarvek knew each other until [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090805 this]] [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090807 point]].
** In said castle, there was a girl named Zola who was trying to impersonate Agatha. Zola was not only Agatha's cousin on their [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100628 mothers' sides]], but was also an [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090320 actress]] at a place that Gil visited when he was in university.
** Klaus had a janitor named Dimitri, who used to be an evil MadScientist who taught other Mad Scientists in the ways of evil. Dimitri was [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190513 fraternity brothers]] with Agatha's paternal grandfather, and was also a [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190722 close friend]] with her mother Lucrezia's family. On top of that, he was the teacher of Tarvek's cousin Martellus, and he also created the talking animal that Agatha made friends with when staying at Klaus' place.
* OneGenderRace: There are no female dragons. This is because all dragons are one-off Spark creations, and even at their most unhinged, Sparks aren't crazy enough to want to see what happens if they start breeding.
* OneSteveLimit: Avoided in unusual fashion.
** One of Agatha's ancestors and one of the Sparks who attack Mechanicsburg share the first name ''Igneous''.
** Only slightly more prosaically, two minor characters (one in Mechanicsburg and one in England) are named "[[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Hadrian]]".
** Tarvek answers to his middle name because he shares his first name (Aaronev) with his father. Counting Tarvek, there have been five Princes of Sturmhalten named Aaronev Sturmvoraus.
* OnlyAFleshWound:
-->'''Gil:''' Seven broken ribs. Severe fracture, right leg. Fractured clavicle. Some crush injuries, but the kidneys appear unharmed. First and second degree burns on upper back and lower legs, third degree on the lower back. Four broken fingers, three broken toes, sprained and bruised muscles throughout -- major and minor lacerations, and a concussion.\\
'''Klaus:''' I've had worse.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname:
** Played with when Dimo and Violetta describe the Storm King's favorite weapons. Dimo calls the sword "Slasher" and the mace "Smasher", while Violetta corrects him with "Archimedes' Lever" and "The Platonic Solid". They both agree that both weapons were extremely powerful, and their full abilities were unknown.
** It's a long time before the reader learns that "Grandmother's" actual given name is [[spoiler:Terebithia]].
* OnlySaneMan:
** Von Zinzer. Good news is, he has a ''lot'' of experience dealing with Sparks, which also gives him lots of GenreSavvy, though he's also somewhat fatalistic -- he's resigned to the fact that having to work for Sparks means he could be blown up, eaten, ripped apart or otherwise brutally killed at any time. No wonder he can be so [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]]. Given the large number of Sparks and Spark minions he has recently been hanging around with, he is sometimes ''literally'' the only person in the room who is not crazy. He regularly [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121126 hangs lampshades on it, too]].
** Krosp has also been this at times. Just not when the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070917 string is going to escape]].
** Agatha spends some time in the role, although she's not actually very sane, and (ahem) certainly not a man. Especially during the Mechanicsburg arc, where she was trying to pull. In general, she, her father and her uncle are typically set up as the only "sane" men where Sparks (and especially ''their'' family of Sparks) are concerned: while as much of a MadScientist as any other, unlike most Sparks Agatha has a strong moral code, takes responsibility for the consequences of her actions, and won't ''usually'' do things just because she can. While she loves building Death Ray Cannons, she yet has to actually use it like the name implies instead of shoot the scenery. Also, unlike most she's more than capable of ignoring the urge to do mad science if there's something more pressing to pay attention to. Usually when there's another Spark in a scene, Agatha will be the "normal" one or even the StraightMan in comparison.
** Klaus, and to a lesser extent Gil, in regards to politics and Europa as a whole. A lot of mention is made of the fact that Klaus is basically a babysitter for an entire continent of childish megalomaniacs, selfish nobles and rampaging monsters - not to mention feuding henchmen and an absolutely psychotic [[TheDragon dragon]]. He even becomes more or less a literal babysitter since he has requested that all royals give him their future heirs so he can raise and teach them in his castle - as a way to ensure that the next generation isn't warmongering and batshit crazy. It gets the point that while he's actually a very composed person, he has to play up the brutal tyrant act just to get things done, which Gil lampshades.
** [[spoiler:Before TimeSkip,]] [[InsufferableGenius Tarvek Stormvoraus]] is the only known important player in [[DecadentCourt 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!
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Bangladesh [=DuPree=] not choosing at once the "let's blow everything up" option gets her second-in-command worried. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061108 She was just fooling around, however.]]
** On a much more serious note, later on when Agatha is trying to power up the Castle, [[spoiler:Gilgamesh's behavior is ''extremely'' off, and even Franz notices it despite having never met him. Turns out that he's been brainwashed by Klaus.]]
** When it is revealed that [[spoiler:Klaus's mucking about with the space-time continuum has attracted the attention of an EldritchAbomination]], Castle Heterodyne ''freaks out.'' ''The Castle is worried.''
** When Gil orders [=DuPree=] to [[spoiler:hunt the librarians together with him after they trespassed into the airship]], not only gets he horrifically angry, but even the AxCrazy BloodKnight Bangladesh asks about whether or not he feels OK and [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that she herself is also having one since she is so confused by his behavior that she is for once listening to his rambling]].
** When one of the Old Heterodynes holds to a promise to never terrorize someone's lands, you know whatever it was that compelled them to make such a promise to begin with was something horrible indeed. That is the case with [[spoiler:Robur Heterodyne and whatever timey-wimey device he made that [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160406 resulted]] in the Dreen appearing, and his promise to the Corbettite Order in exchange for their aid in dealing with it.]]
** Krosp is seriously disturbed by Martellus's cat. How disturbed? [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210416 He's not hungry.]] This causes everyone to turn to him, and Agatha to look into what's going on.
** The librarians of the Uncorruptible Library are generally willing to [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160624 trade their lives]] to protect a sufficiently precious book, so when librarian Vipsania Perrault [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20230616 proposes setting a book on fire]] as bait, Lumi expresses astonishment. Vipsania is still closing her eyes as the book is set alight.
* OrificeInvasion: The means that Slaver Wasps enter the body and enthrall someone is through the mouth.
* OrphansPlotTrinket: Agatha's locket.
* OurHeroIsDead: And buried, followed by digging up the body and checking the clothing and accessories to make sure it's really her. [[spoiler: The corpse is doctored to make it look like Agatha, and it indeed fools the Wulfenbachs. But then it occurs to Klaus that a living Heterodyne ''body'' still would be useful, and so he clones it, which gives the deception away, as the result is clearly not Agatha.]]
* OurFounder:
** In "Jägermonsters to the Rescue", it turns out that [[spoiler:in Agatha's two-year absence, Gil has topped Mechanicsburg's city walls with towering statues of Agatha]]. Dimo describes them as being over 150 meters tall. For the non-metrically inclined, that's ''500 feet''. The ones at the entrance of the valley are said to be even taller. A few from the Sturmvoraus family really hate Gil for this since they made it absolutely impossible to create a second Heterodyne imposter since literally all of Europe now knows what she looks like. Agatha on the other hand is... less than pleased.
--->'''Agatha:''' I... I am going to '''kill''' him.
** More prosaically, Agatha's father and uncle have a statue commemorating them in the middle of the Mechanicsburg town square. Zola uses it as a backdrop when she begins her public Heterodyne-heir impersonation.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: To begin with, since this is (at least nominally) Earth, they're all products of mad science, not a 'species'. Thus far we've seen the draconic stylings of three different Sparks: Franz, the Great Dragon of Mechanicsburg; a rather SmugSnake (sorry) who was part of the Wulfenbach forces attacking Mechanicsburg; and a 'great sky wyrm' that Gil kept after defeating the Polar Lords (during the time-skip). Franz and 'Pretty Boy' are capable of speech (and snarkiness), while the wyrm seemed to have a more bestial intelligence.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Just to be clear, no Spark would ''ever'' profane the very nature of life and death by fashioning a terrible creature of the night, a nosferatu craving the blood of the living. That would be wrong! Very, very wrong. Vampires are obviously, completely, totally mythical and do not exist in any real, concrete sense that might abruptly pop up and devour you. No matter what Dame Aedith or Carson von Mekkhan say.
-->'''Wooster:''' Um... we're not going to meet some ancient undead Heterodyne vampire or something, are we?\\
'''Carson:''' Oh, and wouldn't ''that'' be the perfect capper to my day.\\
'''Wooster:''' Um, actually, that wasn't a "Ho ho, don't be silly old chap."\\
'''Carson:''' I ain't being paid to ''lie'' to you, Brit.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The exact details have not been explained, but lycanthropy has been mentioned to be a thing, and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141128 one]] of the Knights of Jove has demonstrated the ability to shapeshift into a wolfman form. (Or he's normally a wolfman all the time and the Sparky armor he is [[MagnetismManipulation forced to discard]] was making him look human...)
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Several different types. Besides "traditional" zombies of the Type F or Type V variety, they also have Jägermonsters and Constructs, which are essentially Type A creations, and Revenants, which despite the name are more a cross of Type T and Type P, Parasite than Type R zombies: infected by a slaver wasp, they are like sleeper agents, going about their business and not even realizing they are infected until triggered to fight on the behalf of "the Other".
* OutGambitted: The Knights Of Jove swept in to rescue Agatha for their own nefarious purposes, at which point Klaus revealed virtually his entire army had been waiting in hiding for them to show up. And they weren't even the real reason he did it.
* OutOfFocus: Lots of characters have done this.
** Most notably, Gil dropped out of the story early in Volume 4, reappeared briefly at the end of Volume 5, and finally reentered the story for real in Volume 7.
** Lots of other characters from the first arc disappeared after it was over and have either not returned or only showed up again in the third arc. The end of the second arc also sent a large number of supporting characters offstage. It also happens within arcs: Klaus has done this more than once. Given the webcomic format, the size of the cast, and the demands of the story, it's inevitable that it will keep happening.
** This gets a non-canon lampshade [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050912 in a bonus picture]] that so perfectly encapsulates the trope that it's the page's image.
--->'''Gil:''' AAARGH! I haven't had any lines in '''months'''! Am I even still a '''main character'''?!
* OutdoorBathPeeping: [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender inverted]], Oggie's eventual wife [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200415 catching sight of him]] is what spurred her interest in him, at least going by FlashBack.
* OutscareTheEnemy: Veilchen [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060505 does something like this]].
* OutsideContextProblem: Before the Other War, conflicts between Sparks involved at least a few diplomatic messages (or loud declarations of imminent destruction) before war was declared. Nobody was prepared to deal with an unannounced [[DeathFromAbove meteor bombardment]] right on their heads, and by the time any target realized what was happening, it was already too late. For a continent full of blustering megalomaniacs who enjoyed making elaborate and overcomplicated war machines, an assailant who was efficient, ruthless and totally silent would have been beyond their capacity to withstand without the aid of the Heterodyne Brothers.
* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: From the Twitter of Othar Tryggvassen:
-->We can't just walk out, and I'll bet the garbage and mortuary wagons are routinely inspected. This calls for desperate, unsavory measures.\\
Chez Leon, one of the best restaurants in the city. The Master dines here frequently. Oslaka is puzzled. Didn't we just eat? Indeed we did.\\
The waiter and I spend twenty minutes discussing our meal choices. I demand only the freshest and most exacting dishes. He almost smiles.\\
The meal is brought. It' a masterpiece of presentation. The chef himself appears and compliments me on the suggestions I made. He weeps.\\
He waits for me to eat. I hesitate, and then ask for a bottle of ketchup. We are tossed out the city gates less than 3 minutes later.
* OverlyLongName:
** "I am Zola Anya Talinka Venia Zeblinkya Malfeazium."
** In the "Cinderella" omake, Cinderella's full name is really Literature/SleepingBeauty [[Literature/SnowWhite 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]].)
** Boris Vasily Konstantin Andrei Myshkin Dolokhov. A case of AllThereInTheScript, since his full name isn't disclosed in the comic, and comes from ''The Works'' and the novelization.
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