History GirlGenius / TropesUToZ

** When watching a Heterodyne play in London, Agatha gets teary about [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061215 the death of Lars,]] which happened nearly ''fourteen years'' before in real time -- but as she points out, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200701 while it's been years for some of the other characters, for her it literally was last month.]] ]]

** Klaus claims that [[spoiler:Gil]] has been infected with a slaver wasp [[spoiler: since his time in Paris in youth.]] [[note]]Attentive readers might have noticed that the wasp eater was probably reacting to Klaus, who we saw being wasped, instead of Gil.[[/note]]

** Revelation that the Enigma, one that appears at [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021111 the very beginning of the comic]] and sets everything in motion, is [[spoiler:Van Rijn's .[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150914Muse of Time]]... But also predates [[spoiler: Van Rijn instead of being created by them]]

** Revelation that it was [[spoiler: Lucrezia who attacked and killed most of the ancient God-Queens. Thousands of years before she was even born.]]

** Queen Albia, from her Well of Memories: "Oh. '''OH'''. How...how could we have...We have not examined this memory in ''centuries!'' We did not ''know!'' We did not ''remember!'' But...it ''was she!'' [[spoiler: It was ''Lucrezia!'' '''''Lucrezia Mongfish!''''' [who killed the ancient queens and sabotaged their mirrors] ]]
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200228 "Within fifty cycles of your star - everyone on this world. Dead."]] [[spoiler:We know from Othar's Twitter that the world went to hell after he retired with his Geister wife and that he was sent back to time by an aged Tarvek to help stop the BadFuture. We also know Agatha will win due to the epilogue stories, so it's clear Othar's presence will or has in someway saved the future. However, this line is an indication that we are finally nearing the true turning point which will determine how and why the heroes will beat the Other.]]

** Zeetha!!
** [[spoiler:Gil has been infected with a slaver wasp ''since his in-backstory trip to Paris''.]] [[UnreliableExpositor Maybe.]][[note]]The "maybe" is because Klaus tested Gil with a wasp eater, which reacted to Gil. However, the audience has seen Klaus himself be wasped, and the wasp eater isn't reacting to ''him''.[[/note]]

** If the December 27, 2013 update is anything to go by, [[spoiler:Klaus has somehow ''possessed'' his son]].
** The May 15, 2015 update ''heavily'' implies that [[spoiler:the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s who previously appeared in Mechanicsburg when Robar Heterodyne conducted his time experiments were the Dreen; it remains to be seen if the (much bigger) one currently attracted by Klaus' TimeCrash of the same city is some form of Dreen as well.]]
** And on September 15, 2015... [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150914 The Enigma]]. Last seen at the very beginning of the series, with the mysterious portal that effectively started Agatha's whole adventure. According to the book, the "Enigma", as the fans have called it, is the Muse of Time -- but it apparently predates Van Rijn.]]

** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170331 Andronicus's mace]] [[spoiler:has been corrupted along with him and now ''can turn foes into animated corpses'']].

* WasJustLeaving: {{Invoked}} by Krosp I, Emperor of all Cats, tries to direct Wolkerstorfer's mid-evil monologue DerailedTrainOfThought by suggesting that Wolkerstorfer was just leaving when he rants about completely forgetting what you were doing. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

** Princess Zulenna of Hoflung-Borzoi: after she gives her life to save Agatha and the other students, Klaus orders her reanimated, and she never appears again. Tarvek later mentions her death, but nothing about her revival [[spoiler:- although it's possible https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210818 she has turned up again ...]]

* VillainEpisode: Volume VI is more or less the villain episode of the comic. Near the end of the previous volume, Agatha [[spoiler:was hooked up to a machine and possessed by The Other aka Lucrezia Mongfish]], so the following volume naturally focuses on The Other instead of her. Agatha ''is'' able to come back at some points, but it's only around the end of the volume that Agatha regains control of her body.

* UpToEleven: The "Movit" series of stimulants comes in a verity of intensities, the strongest of which appears to be 11. Previously, it was thought that the strongest was 6, which itself is one above the common 1-5 scale. As one might imagine, the further up the scale, the more one blurs the line between "powerful stimulant" and "lethal injection." That section of the story is even called "Zola Goes up to Eleven".
-->'''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101013 Tarvek:]]''' Wait-- I thought it only went up to six!

* WeaselMascot: The Wulfenbach Bug Squad (aka the Vespiary Squad) of course! Apart from their uniform's slaver-wasp skull, ''this'' is their main hat. Their charges are all [[WeirdScience modified weasels]], without which the Squad could not do their job as wasp detectors and exterminators. Although they have eight legs, they ''are'' still, very much, weasels of some description (however big they get). And, they are sooo cute (for a given definition of cute).

* WeCanRuleTogether: In an unusual twist on this trope Lucrezia offers to join Klaus rather than asking him to join her, however since they are both [[spoiler:possessing their children]] at the time, this only ends up hitting his BerserkButton.
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040107 Defied by Othar]], and immediately subverted by Klaus (who wishes he could invert it).

* WeaselMascot: The Wulfenbach Bug Squad (aka the Vespiary Squad) of course! Apart from their uniform's [[NiceHat slaver-wasp skull]], ''this'' is their main hat. Their charges are all [[WeirdScience modified weasels]], without which the Squad could not do their job as wasp detectors and exterminators. Although they have eight legs, they ''are'' still, very much, weasels of some description (however big they get). And, they are sooo cute (for a given definition of cute).

** The Baron cloned Olga's body, [[spoiler:assuming her to be the believed-dead Agatha]]. Nothing on what happened to the new body...
** While in Sturmhalten, Agatha sent out four messenger dingbots to the Baron. One was shown successfully escaping the monster that destroyed the first three... and was not shown or mentioned again. Especially not by the Baron, who seems just as misguided as before several volumes later. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20190206.jpg Much later, it's back.]]

** Princess Zulenna of Hoflung-Borzoi: after she gives her life to save Agatha and the other students, Klaus orders her reanimated, and she never appears again. Tarvek later mentions her death, but nothing about her revival [[- although it's possible https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210818 she has turned up again ...]]

** The monster horse that appeared during Master Payne's Circus story: we never know why it was/turned into such a hideous abomination, and it was never addressed again. Likely just because a spark felt like it, and because monsters are so common in this setting that it is a mundane hazard.
** A little earlier we have Princess Zulenna of Hoflung-Borzoi, she gives her life to save Agatha and the others, gets put in a healing chamber and seems to set up a plot point about Klaus getting grief from the Fifty Families about resurrecting one of their number - although it's possible [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210818 she has turned up again ...]]

* WhatTheHellHero: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090715 "TRULY YOU ARE YOUR MOTHER'S CHILD!"]] More understandable than some, since the one calling Agatha out [[spoiler:murdered her step-parents in cold blood,]] but everyone Von Pinn worked with considers her tough but fair, and likes her. And she is the closest thing Gil had to a mother. Agatha's response is a heck of a lot of guilt.

** Queen Albia, from her Well of Memories: "Oh. '''OH'''. How...how could we have...We have not examined this memory in ''centuries!'' We did not ''know!'' We did not ''remember!'' But...it ''was she!'' [[spoiler: It was ''Lucrezia!'' '''''Lucrezia Mongfish!''''' [who killed the ancient queens and caused their mirrors to stop working] ]]

** "You were infected before you even ''met'' her." [[spoiler:Although later events show this was almost certainly a Blatant Lie.]]

** "The girl is still dangerous, and my son is still too much of a fool to see it." The wham part? It came from the mouth of [[spoiler:'''Gilgamesh Wulfenbach''']].
** "And they used to be men. Sometimes even ''they'' forget ''that.''" [[spoiler:This is Higgs' response to Gil when the latter asks the former what he knows about the Jägers. We technically did know this as the Castle explained the Jaegerdaught to Moloch, but it is further proof that Higgs is a Jaeger general as he wasn't there for that explanation.]]
** "They're '''not''' omniscient. My father says they're simply '''tangential''' to time as we know it, and... ''[[TheReveal "And... they had hats..."]]''" [[spoiler:This is Gil [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150515 realizing what the Dreen are.]]]]
** "No. Your "Storm King", or whatever his imagined claim, is ''not'' the ''true'' Storm King. The Lantern ''must not be moved''." [[spoiler:Said by Muse Prende in the true vaults.]] In the end, The Lantern is moved [[spoiler:and the ''original Storm King, Andronicus Valois'', appears as an undead from within Prende's chamber.]]

** Tarvek: "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180704 Oh are you going to threaten me?]] Then here, do it right. Because if you don't believe by now that I will do anything for Agatha then it all ends here anyway. Doesn't it, [[spoiler:General?" (Note, this is said to ''Airman Higgs''.)]]

** The May 15, 2015 update ''heavily'' implies that [[spoiler:the {{EldritchAbomination}}s who previously appeared in Mechanicsburg when Robar Heterodyne conducted his time experiments were the Dreen; it remains to be seen if the (much bigger) one currently attracted by Klaus' TimeCrash of the same city is some form of Dreen as well.]]

** The May 15, 2015 update ''heavily'' implies that [[spoiler:the [[EldritchAbomination]]s who previously appeared in Mechanicsburg when Robar Heterodyne conducted his time experiments were the Dreen; it remains to be seen if the (much bigger) one currently attracted by Klaus' TimeCrash of the same city is some form of Dreen as well.]]

** The revelation of [[spoiler:what happened to Mechanicsburg after Klaus activated his bomb. In a nutshell, the bomb enclosed Mechanicsburg in a shield that [[TimeCrash ground time in Mechanicsburg to a halt]], meaning that while it's still the same day to Klaus, the Jaeger Generals, and everyone else still trapped in Mechanisburg, ''two years'' have passed outside. With Klaus stuck in Mechanicsburg, the Empire has collapsed, and what little is left of their authority is being controlled by Gil, who has suffered ''severe'' SanitySlippage.]]

** The May 15, 2015 update ''heavily'' implies that [[spoiler:the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s who previously appeared in Mechanicsburg when Robar Heterodyne conducted his time experiments were the Dreen; it remains to be seen if the (much bigger) one who is currently being attracted by Klaus' TimeCrash of the same city is some form of Dreen as well.]]

** A great deal of the plot regarding [[spoiler:the time after the TimeSkip]] is about who can claim the title of Storm King, especially with [[spoiler:Tarvek frozen in Mechanicsburg]]. Prende, one of the muses, finally reveals who the true Storm King is: [[spoiler:it is ''still'' Andronicus Valois who was mured in the Corbettite crypts, has been undead for the last 200 years and is guarded by Prende and the Muse's Lantern]].

* WeaselMascot: The Wulfenbach Bug Squad (aka the Vespiary Squad) of course! Apart from their uniform's NiceHat of a slaver-wasp skull, ''this'' is their main hat. Their charges are all [[WeirdScience modified weasels]], without which the Squad could not do their job as wasp detectors and exterminators. Although they have eight legs, they ''are'' still, very much, weasels of some description (however big they get). And, they are sooo cute (for a given definition of cute).

** [[spoiler:Gil has been infected with a slaver wasp ''since his in-backstory trip to Paris''.]] [[UnreliableExpositor Maybe.]][[note]]The "maybe" is because Klaus tested Gil with a wasp weasel, which reacted to Gil. However, the audience has seen Klaus himself be wasped, and the weasel isn't reacting to ''him''.[[/note]]

** Agatha first went into the Castle on [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071226 Dec 26, 2007.]] She ''left'' the Castle on [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111102 Nov 02, 2011.]] Three years, ten months, eight days, and approximately 582 comics. Maybe one day, in universe. The ringing of the Doom Bell, which starts immediately after Agatha leaves, takes about three weeks.

** Agatha first went into the Castle on [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080208 Feb 08, 2008.]] She ''left'' the Castle on [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111102 Nov 02, 2011.]] Three years, eight months, twenty-six days, and approximately 582 comics. Maybe one day, in universe. The ringing of the Doom Bell, which starts immediately after Agatha leaves, takes about three weeks.

** When watching a Heterodyne play in London, Agatha gets teary about [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061215 the death of Lars,]] which happened nearly ''fourteen years'' before in real time -- but as she points out, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200701 while it's been years for some of the other characters, for her it was literally was last month.]] ]]

* WayPastTheExpirationDate: Gil tries to mix up a cure for Tarvek in Castle Heterodyne, but quickly realizes that [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090810 everything stored there is nearly twenty years oldz thus expired, requiring a more drastic action to save him.]]

** "They're '''not''' omniscient. My father says they're simply '''tangential''' to time as we know it, and... ''[[TheReveal "And... they had hats..."]]''" [[spoiler:This is Gil [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150515#.Yjl69CcpDqs realizing what the Dreen are.]]]]

** "They're '''not''' omniscient. My father says they're simply '''tangential''' to time as we know it, and... ''[[TheReveal "And... they had hats..."]]''" [[spoiler:This is Gil realizing what the Dreen are.]]