History Characters / GirlGenius

Perhaps a ShoutOut to DocSavage?

* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter (Well, son.)

* RoyalBlood: [[spoiler: Apparently, he's the rightful heir to the Storm King.]]

* HeroicSociopath (debatably - the 'Heroic' part, that is)

* AndItWorked: The TropeNamer, because he's just that {{Badass}}.
* AntiVillain: That or an outright HeroAntagonist. YourMileageMayVary on which.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking
* AwesomeMcCoolname
* BadassLongcoat
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Ruling (large portions of) the World is not as fun as it sounds.
* CoolOldGuy
* CowardlySidekick (Klaus is depicted this way in a few of the Heterodyne stories.)
* DarkMessiah (Look back up at the description.)
* DeadpanSnarker (Not normally, but he gets some [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050209 really good]] lines when he's completely SurroundedByIdiots.)
* EmperorScientist
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: (The Klaus Defense League isn't all-female, but it does have more than its share.)
* EvilOldFolks
* GoodScarsEvilScars: His body is ''covered'' in Morally Ambiguous Scars.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters
* HeroAntagonist
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: He's been depicted pretty badly in most of the Heterodyne stories, ranging from a cowardly comic relief to a flat-out traitor to the Heterodynes. Fortunately for those who put on these plays, Klaus isn't a SlaveToPR and doesn't care what they say.
** CharacterizationMarchesOn: His portrayal in the Heterodyne Stories has shifted markedly to the worse since he started conquering stuff.
* JustTheFirstCitizen: He's running Europe. He's a ''baron''.
* LargeAndInCharge
* MemeticBadass
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* NecessarilyEvil: Yes, it really is necessary.
* PerpetualFrowner
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Notable for being the only Spark in the series to be (mostly) immune to its effects.
* ShirtlessScene: That Naughty Flashback Scene, among others.
* TheUnfettered
* WellIntentionedExtremist
* WildHair

* AmbiguouslyGay: His sister thinks so, anyway. [[strike:StraightGay]] BiTheWay if she's right (since he married a Geisterdame in the Twitter).
* AmusingInjuries
* AntiVillain: Feels bad about killing sparks, and a lot of them ''do'' need to die...
* {{Badass}}
* BewareTheSillyOnes: As much as he is a walking joke, Othar can be very effective.
* BoldInflation: Fans [[MemeticMutation never, ever]] say his name without adding ''[+ [[GentlemanAdventurer GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!]]+ ]''
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070924 Not just fans]].
* BraggartBoss
* CharacterBlog: He has a [[http://twitter.com/Othar?page=1 Twitter]]. May or may not be canon, but is certainly extremely quotable.
* ChivalrousPervert: Spends a good deal of time [[FoeYay hitting on Agatha]], to "save" her from the Wulfenbachs.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: One of the things that prevents him from being just an IneffectualSympatheticVillain; he is a genuinely good person, at least to ordinary people.
* GenreSavvy / WrongGenreSavvy: It varies.
* ...And did we mention he is a GentlemanAdventurer?
** No, no, no. It's pronounced ''[+ [[GentlemanAdventurer "GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!"]]+ ]''
* GottaKillThemAll
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Which you can follow on Twitter!
* IGotBetter
* IdiotHero
* LargeHam
* LongLostSibling: [[spoiler: Sanaa Wilhelm aka Sanaa Tryggvassen.]]
* LordErrorProne
* MadeOfIron: ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090617 and how.]]''
* [[spoiler:MentalTimeTravel, possibly from the twitter into regular continuity]]
* OvershadowedByAwesome: He's plenty effective, provided he isn't going up against uber badasses like Gil, Klaus or Agatha.
* RomanceGenreHeroes (The Terrorist)
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: The effects of the Spark on him are a lot more apparent in the Twitter than in the comic.
* ShirtlessScene
* SunglassesAtNight: Or whatever that visor thingy is.
** There's a fan theory that it's there to protect bystanders from the power of his amazingly pretty BlueEyes.
* TragicHero: A heroic goal, ruined by his lack of self awareness and obsession.
* UnreliableNarrator / ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: His Twitter is considered canonical, but it's from his point of view and he's insane.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

* WhatBeautifulEyes: So beautiful that they make his normally imposing self look [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080125 pretty girly]].
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim

* BigBad
* CompellingVoice: The Geisterdamen and revenants cannot disobey a command if it's made in her voice.
* CompleteMonster: Between what she did to Europa and what she did to her own daughter...
* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler: Inverted. The SealedEvilInACan is finding out that its unsealer is not a toy.]]
* GrandTheftMe
* ReligionOfEvil: Is the goddess of one.
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder
* SealedEvilInACan
* ShowingOffTheNewBody
* TermsOfEndangerment: She does this to a lot of people, but does it to Klaus especially often.
* TheVamp
* TheVirus: Uses slaver wasps for mind control.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

* CapuletCounterpart: This is what most people think she was to Bill. That's how she's depicted in the stories, anyway.
* {{Civillain}}: One interpretation of her apparent repentance in That Naughty Flashback Scene.
* ChronicVillainy: Another...
* DemonicPossession: Yet another. Getting the feeling there are a lot of theories?

* LukeIAmYourFather
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter
** Who is herself a MadScientist. Who has a beautiful daughter. Who is a MadScientist. Oy.
* MagnificentBastard. Perhaps not The Other in general, but Lucrezia? Definitely.
* MoralEventHorizon: Crosses it the moment she enters the story as an active character.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* PsychoExGirlfriend: To Klaus.

* AssShove / TrouserSpace: [[spoiler:Lucrezia]] notes (after knocking her out, restraining her, and presumably [[{{Squick}} searching her]]) that some of her equipment was "in rather ''uncomfortable places'', I'd imagine".
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* BoobsOfSteel: She's ''stacked''. She's also a better fighter than either the Other or Violetta (she hasn't been pitted against Zeetha yet).
* [[spoiler: TheChessmaster: Recent events have proven her to be the genuine article.]]
* DistressedDamsel: Almost professionally.
** DamselScrappy
* FakeUltimateHero
* GrapplingHookPistol
* HartmanHips
* TheLoad: Apparently fulfilled this role in all of Gil's adventures with her in Paris, and now that she's been nabbed by Agatha she's slipping into it again.

* MagnificentBitch
* [[spoiler:MoralEventHorizon: Crossed [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100712 here]]. She's just stolen Lucrezia's power- but she plans to do exactly what Lucrezia would have done with that power anyway, only with herself in control. We're talking about enslaving millions of innocent people here. She hasn't committed enough truly horrendous acts to be classed as a CompleteMonster yet, but she's clearly moving in that direction. One thing's for sure: there can be no more doubt that Zola is evil, Evil, EVIL.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Her real last name is [[spoiler:Malfeazium. And her mother was Demonica.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090406 This is how it's done]].
** Judging from Gil and Tarvek's reactions, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091014 she's apparently an absolute MASTER.]]
*** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100623 Recent events]] have pushed her into epic-level GRAND-freaking-master territory. This trope may need to be re-named "The Zola."

* PrincessesPreferPink: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]].
* ShoutOut: One of the times Gil had to rescue her it was from a [[PhantomOfTheOpera crazy man in an opera house]]. Apparently it was also one of the few times it ''wasn't'' her fault she was in trouble.
* SlasherSmile: When [[spoiler:the Castle dies]], she has a frighteningly Sparky look of triumphant glee on her face. Also [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100714 here.]]
* [[spoiler:TheStarscream]]

* VictoryGloating
* VillainDecay: [[spoiler:Subverted. She undecays completely over the span of two strips, and then some.]]
* WaterWorks
* XanatosSpeedChess: She is "''very good'' at improvising when things go wrong."

* AIIsACrapshoot: The castle is badly damaged, but since it was originally imbued with intelligence by a Heterodyne even the fixed parts aren't exactly sane.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The castle has a very ''slaughter focused'' view of the world.
* DeathCourse
* EverythingTryingToKillYou
* EvillyAffable
* TheGenieInTheMachine
* GeniusLoci
* HauntedCastle
* HeroicSociopath
* JackassGenie: Castle Heterodyne prefers to interpret all orders it's given in whatever way allows it to have the most fun, for which read: "cause the most casualties and destruction".
* MalevolentArchitecture
* MaximumFunChamber
* NothingButSkulls
* RoboticPsychopath
* ShipperOnDeck / IWantGrandkids: There is a reason young Heterodynes try to not bring dates home. Currently shipping [[OT3 Agatha x Gil x Tarvek]].
* SupervillainLair

* {{Action Survivor}}s: Sentencing is based on points. Try to rack up too many points too fast and you'll get killed for sure, play it too safe and you'll never get out, making for some very savvy survivors.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Depending upon whom has the upper hand (or the gun) at the moment.
* TheIgor: Snaug.
* [=~I'm a Humanitarian~=]: "Snapper" Boikov and "[[http://twitter.com/Othar/status/6120430016 Jack A'Horned]]".
* MadScientist: Goes without saying. There's even a mad ''Social'' scientist.
* TheMole: Professor Ticktoffen, who is apparently the "inside man" for both the Baron and the Knights of Jove.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: with a big side order of murderers, sadists, and psychopaths.
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Mezzasalma, Diaz and Mittlemind.

* BigManOnCampus: Theo.
* BlueBlood / ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Anyone without at least one of the two is at the bottom of the social heap.
* FieryRedhead: Sleipnir O'Hara
* GildedCage: They're happy, healthy, and well treated, but it's also true that they are hostages. At least one of them regretted having to ''leave'', though ''he'' may have had [[TownWithADarkSecret other]] [[BigScrewedUpFamily reasons]].
* HostageSituation
* TheLibby: Zulenna Luzhakna.
* MeaningfulName: [=DuMedd=] was originally [[RedShirt "doomed"]], until the Foglios got [[MauveShirt attached]], and Sleipnir was Agatha's roommate- someone to "sleep near".

* AdultChild: Oggie.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Dimo is green,and Maxim is purple. Oggie is normally coloured by human standards, which makes him the odd one out by Jaeger standards.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable: Oggie, and to a lesser extent Maxim.
** BadassBeard: Dimo.
** BadassCrew
** BadassLonghair: Maxim.
* BerserkButton: "Dot... vas... my.... ''HAT!''"
* {{Bishounen}}: Maxim, the purple one, was originally designed as an in-joke for [[AuthorAppeal Kaja]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Da Boyz have funny accents, are generally not too bright and more than a little goofy. Then something happens, and suddenly all the goofiness is gone and you're reminded that Da Boyz are in fact 200+ -years-old {{SuperSoldier}}s...
* CuteLittleFangs: Until they open their mouths and reveal that the "little" fangs are ''[[SlasherSmile huge]]''.
* [[CuteMonsterGirl Cute Monster Boys]]
* DumbBlonde: Oggie, though being male he'd technically be a "Dumb ''Blond''".
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: [[strike:Apparently]] Obviously.
* FunetikAksent
* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:Dimo, after losing his arm in the Stormhalten Riot.]]
* IWantGrandkids: Oggie wants great-great-great grandkids.
* LargeHam: "'''''SCHTOP!''''' Hyu horr'ble monstery ting of '''EVIL!'''"
** [[{{Seppuku}} "Hyu knife, brodder!" "Right here, brodder!"]] "* sigh* Ve didn't gets ''caught,'' hyu ''eediots."'' "Whew!"
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Maxim.
* TheManTheyCouldntHang
* NiceHat: Like all Jägers.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Mostly because of Dimo, but they're smarter then most Jägers because of the [[TookALevelInBadass time they spent by themselves]].
* OnlySaneMan: Dimo.
* PermaStubble: Dimo.
* PowerTrio: Dimo=Superego, Maxim=Ego, Oggie=Id.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Even though they are human.
* PsychoForHire: But in a good way!
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: They don't look particularly old, but WordOfGod is that they're between 250-300 years old, and Oggie has at least one adult great-great-grandchild.
* ShipperOnDeck: Agatha/Gil is the Jägerkin {{OTP}}.
* SlasherSmile: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050520 Dimo is particularly good at this]].
* SuperSoldier
** SuperSerum: Confirmed by WordOfGod to be humans transformed by the "Jägerdraught".
* UndyingLoyalty
* WeaponOfChoice:
** AnAxeToGrind / BladeOnAStick: Oggie's [[RuleOfThree triple-poleaxe]].
** CoolSword: Maxim's cavalry saber, possibly augmented with a PowerFist ([[ShrugOfGod not even the Foglios know what that metallic glove thing is]]).
** KnifeNut: Dimo uses throwing knives (and sometimes [[BareFistedMonk his own claws]]).

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Jäger. Generals.
* BarBrawl: Mamma Gkika organizes one every evening to let the incapacitated Jägers in her care blow off steam. Except for Thursdays when they have a Poetry Slam...
* DarkActionGirl: Mamma seems to be half way between this and LadyOfWar.
* FemmeFatalons: Seen on Mamma [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080423 here]].
* FunetikAksent
* GentleGiant: All of the generals seem perfectly capable of being personable and making very polite conversation over a pot of tea (Zog less so). They are, however, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031103 still Jägers]].
* GeniusBruiser: Perhaps due to their age the generals seem far more on the button as far as politics are concerned than many people, never mind Jägers.
* HiddenInPlainSight: This is how Mamma Gkika's remains hidden, it is underneath a much gaudier tourist trap of the same name.
* MostCommonSuperpower: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080425 Mamma Gkika]] [[{{Understatement}} is hot.]]
* NiceHat: General Zog (like most Jägers) has one. Fandom is divided as to whether Goomblast's skullcap (seemingly riveted to his skull) counts. Khrizhan lacks one, a very rare thing in a Jäger. However, in [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080512 this strip]], we're told he had to abandon a very impressive uniform in Mamma Gkikka's sometime in the past. Gil's hat may be built out of (or on) Khrizhan's.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Almost literally, their ages are in the neighborhood of 600-700 years.
* ShipperOnDeck: Agatha/Gil, although Zog got beaten up by Khrizhan for suggesting they push it along.
* SlasherSmile: Goomblast has a mouth a shark would be envious of.
* SuperSoldier
** SuperSerum: Confirmed by WordOfGod to be humans transformed by the "Jägerdraught". Perhaps due to advanced years causing additional mutation or perhaps because they might have been in the original batch, the Generals are a LOT less human than the regular Jägers.
*** On the other hand, apart from her [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair aqua hair]], sharp teeth and pointed ears, Mama Gkika can almost pass for human (and in fact does, [[HiddenInPlainSight hiding in plain sight]] among her human showgirls who dress up as Jägers).
* UndyingLoyalty

* ActionGirl / DarkActionGirl: Hard to call exactly but it has to be one of these two.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Grey skin, not that impressive but it does give us ''yet another'' choice of Jäger skin tone.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable: Does not look like the super scary badass she is.
** BadassCape
* {{BFS}}: Her weapon of choice.
* BreastPlate: Not initially, but contrast her [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050606 first appearance]] with her [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071217 later one.]]
* CloserToEarth: She comes across as being calmer and careful than Da Boyz.
* CoolMask
* CuteMonsterGirl
* DropInCharacter: Shows up every once and while, with very little warning of her appearance.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Füst. And he is awesome.
* FunetikAksent
* MostCommonSuperpower
* NiceHat: No Jäger should be without one.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: No actual word on her age, but the last generation of Hetrodynes don't seem the type to make Jägers and she seems to have seniority over Da Boyz.
* SuperSoldier
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl

* BelligerentSexualTension: Abner and Pix start out this way, then get together soon after Agatha joins the circus.
* BlueBlood: Marie
* ChivalrousPervert[=/=]HandsomeLech: Lars apparently has a... ''colorful'' history.
* CircusOfFear: Not usually; they're decent people. But after '''''[[UnstoppableRage SHOWTIME!]]''''', things get... interesting.
* FlyingDutchman: Embi, of the Wandering Jew variety.
** Assuming he wasn't sending Agatha out for a crate of balloon juice about that.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Marie again.
* HappilyMarried: Master Payne and Marie, with a little bit of VitriolicBestBuds mixed in
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Lars]]
* LovableCoward: Lars starts out as this.
** Arguably, the whole circus is this. They play heroes on stage, but they don't do any actual heroics - traveling the Wastelands is dangerous enough without it.
* TheMasquerade: [[spoiler:Many of them are minor Sparks, hiding from the Baron and from potential BurnTheWitch situations.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Embi
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Master Payne.
* PieInTheFace: Shockingly, this is plot-relevant!
* PutOnABus
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Master Payne.
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder

* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa: Still able to defend himself against a Jäger.
** BadassNormal: He is a human who can put Jägers to shame.
** MemeticBadass: Among the Jaegers, at least.
** RetiredBadass
* ChefOfIron: Again, he makes gourmet sandwiches and out-fights Jägers. Often at the same time.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: He plays this...to the '''JÄGERS''', with his NiceHat as the reward. To quote:

* ForegoneConclusion: It was obvious that Maxim was going to get Old Man Death's hat as soon as you saw it- while the purple hat with red trimming looked out of place on an old man in a red shirt and an apron, it already matched Maxim's outfit perfectly. It actually looked pretty similar to his old hat, only more ornate.
* HashHouseLingo: He knows the ingredients of the most obscure sandwiches you can imagine.
* NiceHat: Played with, he freely admits his hat is nothing special, but the fact that it is his makes it irresistible to the Jägers.
* NotSoDifferent: When he gets angry enough, he starts talking in the same FunetikAksent as the Jägers.
* RapeAsComedy: Describes his retirement as following being "sort-of" abducted and ravished by a wild princess. His story doubles as ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt, RapeIsLove and RapeIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale. Though he seems to be [[UnreliableNarrator having a little too much fun]] telling the story, so possibly he was just trying to {{Squick}} his grand-daughter.

* ActionGirl
* ActionSurvivor: (Before she even got to the castle apparently)
* FanGirl: for her brother (no, not like that), at least, when she isn't furious with him.
* [[spoiler:LongLostRelative: To Othar.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: [[FoeYay Othar/Gil]]
* WhatAreYouInFor: Asks this to Agatha when they first meet.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]: Apparently dyed.

* ArthurDent
* {{Badass}}: The ''cast page'' calls him "The Unstoppable Higgs". That probably qualifies him as a MemeticBadass too, actually.
* CosmicPlaything: The only possible explanation for what the man went through to rescue Klaus. I mean come ON, a ''nesting goose?''
* {{Determinator}}: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070330 "Let me tell you about Airman Higgs..."]]
* GoNagaiSideburns
* [[spoiler: HiddenDepths]]: [[spoiler: Otlila/the Castle recognizes him, which means that there is a lot more to him than we believed. We just don't know what yet.]]
** [[spoiler: He called Tarvek "sir." [[MagnificentBastard We know what Tarvek is like.]] There may be a connection we don't know about yet...]]
*** [[spoiler: It seems he's seen older Heterodynes drink from the Dyne and specifically compares Agatha's reaction to "Old Igneous"]]
* ImplacableMan
* MadeOfIron: Gets bashed into a wall by a powerful clank and dusts himself off like it was nothing [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100217 here]]
* TheMagnificent
* MinionShipping: With Zeetha. It may or may not be one-sided- Zeetha seems thoroughly smitten by Higgs' smooth talking and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090225 quick thinking]] (badassery notwithstanding), but Higgs alternates between [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100505 snarky apathy]] and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080609 justified fear]] with regard to Zeetha.
* NiceHat: Apparently he's a crewmen [[ShoutOut of the ship]] RozenMaiden.
* SmokingIsCool: That is one badass pipe.
* StealthPun: His name and title/rank. All I'll say is that in an old navy, a third mate (or seaman, third class) is also known as a bosun. [[DontExplainTheJoke You'll have to figure the rest out yourself.]]
* ZenSurvivor: Despite everything he's gone through, his expression of perpetual apathy has slipped exactly four times since his first appearance: Getting bitten by [=DuPree=], explaining his tale while being ''heavily'' drunk, being threatened by Zeetha, and finding out his new boss is Gil.

* BaldOfEvil: Carson, sort of. He probably wasn't both bald and evil simultaneously, but he's bald now and apparently served the evil Heterodynes ''before'' Agatha's heroic father and uncle -- he rode with the Jägers in his youth and could describe Agatha's grandfather's usual reaction to invading war clanks.
* BluffTheImpostor: Carson tries this on Agatha at first, asking if Punch ever mentioned him. He is quite surprised that she knows Punch couldn't talk, though this still isn't enough to convince him.
* MulticoloredHair: Vanamonde
* ObfuscatingStupidity/ RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: To outsiders, Vanamonde looks like a young loafer who does nothing but laze around and drink coffee. In reality, he wrote a definitive book on coffee (under a pen name), is (according to Carson) "more competent than he appears", and, oh yeah, secretly runs Mechanicsburg.
* PeoplePuppets/ UnusualUserInterface: Part of Carson's duty as seneschal. He has special holes drilled in his skull that let him use the Throne of Faustus Heterodyne to become Castle Heterodyne's puppet so that Agatha can talk to it in the crypt. Whether or not Vanamonde's skull has been prepared for this yet is unknown.
* [[spoiler:PsychicLink]]: Carson didn't even notice he had this until [[spoiler:he felt Castle Heterodyne die]].
* {{Retirony}}: Inverted by Carson, who retired just in time to miss dying in the Other's attack. His replacement, who was also his son, died instead.
* SeenItAll: Carson

* SkepticNoLonger: Agatha's performance in the coffee shop (and her coffee) make Vanamonde a believer. By the time Agatha forces Castle Heterodyne to back down from punishing Herr Diamant for expressing his skepticism, Carson is convinced she's real too.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There's some disagreement on whether it's spelled Mekkahn, Mekkan, or Mekkhan.

* BigDamnHeroes: At least once [[spoiler: While dying]]
* CombatSadomasochist: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Oh]], ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040903 yes]]''.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100730 THIS!]]
* DarkActionGirl
* EnigmaticMinion
* FemmeFatalons
* FetishFuelStationAttendant
* HellBentForLeather
* HighClassGlass: Not your average monocle.
* MamaBear: '''DO NOT''' endanger the children under her protection.
** Even if you're one of them.
** [[spoiler: [[ParentsInDistress And it turns out the kids return her loyalty]].]]
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Averted. '''ALL''' the Jägers want her.
* NotQuiteDead: Seriously, someone like Von Pinn is a threat as long as they can move a finger.
* Really700YearsOld: It was recently discovered that, rather than having been made by Agatha's mother as was previously thought, Von Pinn has been around for a few centuries.
* SuperSoldier
* [[spoiler:WetwareBody]]: It now appears that she is [[spoiler:the [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Muse]] Otilia, transferred into a construct body as part of Lucrezia's experimentation. Why she did this, where the body's original mind, if any, ended up, and]] what this will mean is still up in the air.
[[/folder]]

* WhatAnIdiot: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080125 Ferretina]]. That is all.

* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080125 Ferretina [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080128 wanted it]]]]. That is all.

* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080125 Ferretina [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080128 wanted it]]]]]]. That is all.

* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080125 Ferretina]]]]. That is all.

* BadassBookworm: All the modifications intended to make him a juggler are <i>extremely</i> useful in combat. Boris is perfectly capable of beating up a Jäger.

Originally a librarian with an eidetic memory to a Spark (far from a calm profession in and off itself) his master decided to add an extra pair of arms, strength, speed, balance... and turn him into the ultimate juggler. When the Baron took down his former master he was given a far less demeaning job. He is now the Baron's right hand man and chief administrative secretary.

* BadassBookworm: When angered he has managed to beat up a Jäger.

* AmbiguouslyGay: His sister thinks so, anyway. StraightGay if she's right.

Originally a librarian with an eidetic memory to a Spark (far from a calm profession in and off itself) his master decided to add an extra pair of arms, strength, speed, balance... and turn him into the ultimate juggler. When the Baron took down his former master he was given a far less demaning job. He is now the Baron's right hand man and chief administrative secretary.

!Othar Tryggvassen, ''[+ [[GentlemanAdventurer GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!]]+ ]''

!Othar Tryggvassen, ''[+ [[GentlemanAdventurer GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!]]+ ]''
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A man possessed with a quest to eradicate all sparks, including himself (eventually) for the damage they do to the world. Harder to kill than JamesBond.

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Classy and unflappable Wooster is currently working for Gil, and thus is a Protagonist, but his ultimate loyalty is to the British Crown, an as of yet unknown force.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: One of the tallest protagonists, dark haired, and he's british, so snarky is a gimme.

Violetta is a Smoke Knight, although she herself says she's not very good at her job. Her job is to keep Tarvek alive, which is proving to be far more difficult than it should be considering he was confined to a hospital bed when she took that duty. Is some sort of relation to Tarvek.

* TheSpeechless: Punch