History Characters / GunnerkriggCourtParentsAndCourtStaff

* UnreliableNarrator: Before he is properly introduced, his friends, Reynard, and Eglamore all have very different things to say about him, painting him as everything from a JerkWithAHeartOfGold to an egotistical and cold {{Jerkass}}. The latter two especially play up his bad sides but it's not hard to see their takes on his personality might be colored by the fact he won the heart of the woman they all loved.

* {{Adorkable}}: Tony isn't the only one who relaxes more in small company. When on an expedition with him as a teenager, she is like a more easygoing Annie, complete with goofy expressions and bouncing around.

* AnArmAndALeg: When he shows back up at the Court, [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1546 he has a prosthetic for a right hand]]. Chapter 53 reveals that [[spoiler:he cut it off- '[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1553 my final surgery]]'- to help build an antenna to bring Surma back from the afterlife.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:She [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1898 kisses Tony]] while still with Eglamore. Earlier strips had made it clear that she was unsatisfied with her previous relationship, but it comes as one hell of a surprise to Eglamore himself. He ends up blaming Tony, though Tony himself had been completely clueless about accidentally seducing Surma until she kissed him out of the blue. In her defense, they were out of contact with the Court and their friends at the time, so she wasn't ''able'' to break up with him properly until they returned (which she appears to have done almost immediately once they were back, so she wasn't sneaking around).]]

** To Diego: Realistic, tall/slim, remorseful doctor who accidentally hurt the women he loves, blames himself, thinks he's hated by someone who loves him and wants to die vs. cartoonish, short/fat, unrepentant roboticist who engineered the death of the woman he loved who hated him, claimed he "did nothing" (either he had nothing to do with it or killed her via inaction - failing to stop the plan or trying to her after the fact) even after his death. Also Tony is manipulated by the Court while Diego manipulated most of the Court's staff into killing Jeanne and her lover.

** Anja. [[AC:[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=553 SPANG]]]].

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:She [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1898 kisses Tony]] while still with Eglamore. Earlier strips had made it clear that she was unsatisfied with her previous relationship, but it comes as one hell of a surprise to Eglamore himself. He ends up blaming Tony, though Tony himself had been completely clueless about accidentally seducing Surma until she kissed him out of the blue.]]

** It's wasn't Anthony that cut off contact with Donald and Anja. [[spoiler:It was Surma that asked for it. She didn't want the court messing with their daughter and didn't want Anja seeing her waste away because of her pride.]] Anthony probably kept up the isolation due to inertia and his growing insanity and guilt.

** It's wasn't Anthony that cut off contact with Donald and Anja. [[spoiler:It was Surma that asked for it. She didn't want the court messing with their daughter and didn't want Anja seeing her waste away because of her pride.]] Anthony probably kept up the isolation due to inertia and his growing insanity.

** [[spoiler: His reasoning for taking away Renard is also sound in his perspective: Renard is dangerous and it would be irresponsible to accept Annie's word that he's totally harmless.]]

A LargeHam who has a Top Secret Doctorate, he [[CoolOldGuy teaches the coolest class]] at Gunnerkrigg: a [[VirtualWorlds full-sensory]] [[RaygunGothic pulp sci-fi]] [[SpaceOpera space battle]] [[HardLight simulator]]. The {{Troperrific}} plot of the simulation seems to runs on RuleOfCool rather than logic, which nearly proves [[MetaGuy too much for Annie's]] WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief.

* CoolOldGuy: Bob.
* PlantPerson: Marcia is a Dryad.

* TheyCallMeMrTibbs: She doesn't understand why people persist in calling her Ms. Bugsy.

* {{Jerkass}}: Most people see him as cold and arrogant, though his closest friend swears he has [[JerkassWithAHeartOfGold a Heart of Gold]] but NoSocialSkills. What is known is that he cut off contact with his school friends for fourteen years after leaving the Court, did not notify them of Surma's death, [[spoiler:does not tell his friends or daughter of his return to the Court, and takes his daughter to task for her appearance and schoolwork rather than engage with her as a father]].
* JerkassFacade: It's unknown how much of the coldness he has shown his daughter is genuine and how much is an act, but it is clear that he is playing up how much of a {{Jerkass}} he really is to hide something from the people around him. He lets it slip a little around Donald when he shows guilt over Surma's death and especially the impact it had on Antimony.
** He indicates [[spoiler: the Court was about to drop the hammer on Annie for her various transgressions, making it an open question as to how much of his punishments on her were his decision after all.]]
** Another problem Tony faces is his tendency to immediately clam up when in the presence of anyone but a ''very'' select group of people. [[spoiler: Kat hated his guts before spending some time alone with him, and afterwards, Annie finds the two of them laughing together. But since Annie was now there, Tony immediately shuts down and curtly departs.]]

* [[RenaissanceMan Renaissance Crab]]: Lindsey has a doctoral degree in structural engineering, and is also an accredited couples counselor.

* BadassInDistress: At the end of [[Recap/GunnerkriggCourtChapter67Evac "Evac"]], she's [[spoiler:hurled into ''orbit'', probably by [[FusionDance Coyotegrin]], with no way to get down.]]

* PetTheDog: A small one that only has weight due to [[TheStoic his character.]] Annie feels let down when Donald explains that her father's phone call to her was just to pass a message to Donald. He goes on to tell her that Tony could have gotten the message to him without her ever even knowing and that he involved her because he must have wanted to speak to her, if only for a moment. [[spoiler: This is later revealed to be untrue, as he contacted her via an etheric process that only reached her as a phone call and that he didn't want her involved at all. Because he felt he didn't deserve to see her after failing to save Surma.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:She [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1898 kisses Tony]] while still with Eglamore. Tony, for his part, didn't seem to realize what was happening until she literally sat in his lap and he does feel bad that she's cheating with him.]]