History ComicBook / Logicomix

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Bertrand's grandmother had spent the entire first chapter extremely strict. Her house is full of rules, everything is run under her control and raised Bertrand in such a way that made him believe that only the Christian religion could find a solution to his problems. So, it was really satisfying when Bertrand tells her off when she is about to scold him for entering his grandpa's library (a forbidden place).
** Ludwig Wittgenstein isn't the greatest teacher to have around. He abused his students physically and verbally. Eventually, the villagers discovered this and kicked him out.

* AbusiveParents: Bertram's grandma was extremely strict, forbade him to visit certain parts of the house and imposed him rules and religious activities, like reading the Bible. It's no wonder that Bertram ended up atheist and kept things secret from her.
* AdaptedOut: Bertram's older brother (who was the one to introduce him to Euclidean geometry) isn't in the story. The authors were fully aware of this, since in that time, he was in a private school.

* BigNO: Evelyn lets one out as Russel defeats her at Croquet. Her husband jokingly replies that what he has done to her game is nothing compared to what he has done to mathematics. Meanwhile, Russel's wife Alys builds up hatred towards Evelyn, considering her to be covertly flirting.

** A couple of them appear in the first chapter, when Bertram was in his bed at Pembroke Lodge. For his 5-years-old self, this was a traumatic experience…

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Insanity runs in the family, for Russel s well as his wife Alys. For that reason, his grandmother is opposed to their marriage.

** Bertram's grandmother had spent the entire first chapter extremely strict. Her house is full of rules, everything is run under her control and raised Bertram in such a way that made him believe that only the Christian religion could find a solution to his problems. So, it was really satisfying when Bertram tells her off when she is about to scold him for entering his grandpa's library (a forbidden place).

* KidsAreCruel: Bertram's students have no intention on learning maths, disrespect their teacher and create a chaos in their classroom.

** The first example is Bertram's grandmother, an extremely strict woman who believes in Christian religion and that is the sole solution to all the problems. She tried to raise Bertram this way, but he ended up hating and tried to find the truth through logic.

* MasculineLinesFeminineCurves: There is a trend of the male characters being drawn with more defined muscles, sharp lines, and squares (e.g., Bertram Russell, Alecos Papadatos) and the female characters being drawn with rounder features and curves (e.g., Alice, Ann).
* MathematiciansAnswer: Frege does this when Russel first meets him; it gets lampshaded/discussed at this point. Surprisingly, it's not used anywhere else in the whole comic.
* MenActWomenAre: Regarding the time period, it would make sense for women not having major role in the mathematical field. Instead, men, like Bertram, Frege, Whitehead and Ludwig, are the ones who are constantly in the spotlight.

* ThePowerOfLust: Bertram's realization that he has developed feeling for Whitehead's wife is what made him rush towards her, admit that he loves her and asks to hear her say that as well. Later, he realises that that was all a marriage and that the problem was found on the book.

* TheReveal: When Bertram first arrived at Pembroke Lodge, he heard weird howls from the outside, but when he asked the servants about that, they all said that it was from his imagination. Later, [[spoiler: he finds outs that the howls are from deeply sick uncle]].
* RotatingProtagonist: Played with. While Bertram is always on the focus, the authors interrupt plenty of times the story to analyse his behaviour or to explain some element that the audience may not understand. At the middle of the graphic novel, the narration swifts from Bertram and follows Christos and Ann trying to find the rehearsal place. After they are done, the audience is back to Bertram and his quest for truth.
* RunningGag: The most frequent is the one where Bertram mentions tone of his biggest achievements, only to call it a "failure". Followed by Christos' look of annoyance.

* ShutUpHannibal: Bertram is determined to find out the truth about his parents and sister's death and looks for clues in his grandpa's library, a place forbidden by his grandmother. When his grandmother finds him looking in some books, she scolds him for daring to disobey her, but Bertram replies that he ought to know about his parents and that there's nothing she can do to stop, leaving her astounded.
* SkywardScream: Bertram lets an epic cry, accompanied by Shelley's "Alastora" while he stands upon a mountain in Wales.

* {{Understatement}}: While Bertram is at Frege's house and they discuss about the creation of a new language (far more logic than the previous one), Frege notices that one of his biscuits is missing and accuses his wife for only putting two. Bertram interrupts their argument, saying that he was the one who ate it, thinking it was a treat.

* WackyHomeroom: Bertram's class at Beacon Hill School is, much to his dismay, full of troublesome students.
* WorldLimitedToThePlot: Averted. Bertram, along with Alice (his first wife) are seen in travelling to German and France, in order to get in contact with various famous philosophers and mathematicians.

** When Bertram first met Ludwig, he was impressed by his passion for mathematics and hoped that together, they would finally continue with the ''Principles''. Then, his new student turned out to be so [[LargeHam hammy]] and insane, that he couldn't stand him and their bond got ruined.
** At first, everything went right with Bertram and his two wives. However:
*** Due to exhaustion and nervousness he developed while he and Whitehead were writing the ''Principle of Mathematics'', he started having feeling for Whitehead's extremely young wife and divorced Alice.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: This does tend to happen when RealLifeWritesThePlot.

* [[MadMathematician Mad Logician]]: Half of the point (as far as there is one) is the "logic and madness" theme.

* AdultFear: Seeing their kid being about to drown must have been painful to Dora. Thankfully, a local comes to rescue him. Weirdly enough, Bertram does absolutely nothing to save him and accuses his son's saviour.

* AuthorAvatar: All four authors show up as characters in the main "framing plot". None of them have MarySue tendecies, thankfully, and the story isn't really about them anyway.

* InTheBlood: Insanity runs in the family, for Russel s well as his wife Alys. For that reason, his grandmother is opposed to their marriage.