History Headscratchers / GirlGenius

* A minor quibble, but how did one cup of coffee in Mechanicsburg accomplish CaffeineBulletTime when massive loads of stimulants administered in Sturmhalten (presumably, one of the Moveit formulations) didn't?

** That's because all we ''know'' about them is that they're humans who've been given the Jaegerdraught, they have a built in fanatical loyalty to the Heterodynes (probably something in the draught), they have pointy teeth, and a unique culture/religion involving each having a personal NiceHat. The draught/potion is made from the waters of the Dyne river, amongst other things. And that's all we know.

** Othar strike me as a {{Deconstruction}} of the usual heroes of ScienceIsBad stories, particularly ''Franchise/DocSavage''; being a HunterOfHisOwnKind who quite understandably comes off as AxCrazy and WrongGenreSavvy to the main characters. If he was taken seriously at all, he'd be quite a chilling villain, but instead he's a LargeHam to make him more funny than dangerous.

* Why is Gil (or anyone) even considering the possibility that he was infected while in Paris? Gil was onboard Castle Wulfenbach for at least several months after Klaus realized that there were other types of revenants and started testing for them? He went to the trouble of testing DuPree but never thought that Gil was worth testing? Which is more plausible; the idea that Klaus ''is'' infected and gave Gil a false positive or the idea that Klaus never once bothered to test the second most important person in the entire empire? Additionally, Gil is highly trained and has a good deal of experience with chemistry and human anatomy and he doesn't believe that there was anything in Tarvek's formula that would kill a human. Isn't it more likely that Klaus, realizing that DuPree was given the antidote to the wasps, poisoned her himself?
** I'm not sure about people with an outside perspective, but ''Gil'' grew up seeing Klaus be Always Right, and his only source for Klaus being wasped is Tarvek, who he still mistrusts. He's also ''just now'' hearing this, and is in a state of some distress. I'm sure he'll see the holes in the story once he has a chance to ''think''. (As for Dupree, the "poison" might just be more side effects from that dose.)

* So this is kinda bugging me. Why did Agatha the Corbettite monk, Brother Ulm, about her past? I would understand why she wouldn't lie in during confession if she was religious, but we have no indication before that moment that that is the case. Last time she was in a religious sanctuary, the Mechanicsburg Cathedral, she seemed rather annoyed by all the ceremonial stuff, so why does she suddenly care when she gets on the train? Maybe she was just tired at the Cathedral and annoyed and she just wanted to vent her frustrations on the train, but there has to be more to it than that right? She had no real reason at the time to tell them about being the Heterodyne because she just needed to be brought to Paris, so why invite risk by telling a Brother who she was even if he was obligated to not share that information? Surely Wooster would know that people could be rejected by the monks and told Agatha about that.

** Also, remember that in this universe, science is inextricably mixed with science, MUCH more than it is in real life. Everything from biology to chemistry in the Girl Genius universe is completely tied with engineering. You don't look a body and find out what's wrong, you build a machine to look at the body and find out what's wrong. You don't perform surgery, you build a machine to perform surgery. The universe there is totally different than ours, and engineering is indistinguishable from science there.

*** He makes a lot of temporary and outright false promises of loyalty to people and is willing to betray or manipulate people to keep himself and the ones he really cares about safe, but he's shown doing this less and less to Gil and never at all to Violetta or Agatha (except possibly for altering her massage at Sturmhalten). As such, he seems to hold a small group of people as his true companions and is willing to literally die for them (at least Agatha, see his comments to Gil prior to the Si Val Valeos treatment), but considers everyone else worth lying to and exploiting if necessary.

[[/folder: Wasp Protection]]
* So, it seems all you need to do to avoid being turned into a Revenant is wear a mask (as exhibited by the Vespiary squads.) So why doesn't everyone? Or at LEAST people like Wulfenbach's troops or anyone who is expecting to go into battle against The Other. I could see peasants not wearing them because they figure the odds of them encountering are low (and real life has shown that people exhibit a STARTLING lack of willingness to protect themselves from infection), especially by the time of the comic where the Other has been vanished for something close to 20 years. But still, I'd think a war like the Other War would instill a fear of those wasps in everyone for at least a generation. Even worse,, the Baron's men attack a hive engine on his castle and NONE of them are wearing protection. Not a single one. Why?

* So, it seems all you need to do to avoid being turned into a Revanent is wear a mask (as exhibited by the Vespiary squads.) So why doesn't everyone? Or at LEAST people like Wulfenbach's troops or anyone who is expecting to go into battle against The Other. I could see peasants not wearing them because they figure the odds of them encountering are low (and real life has shown that people exhibit a STARTLING lack of willingness to protect themselves from infection), especially by the time of the comic where the Other has been vanished for something close to 20 years. But still, I'd think a war like the Other War would instill a fear of those wasps in everyone for at least a generation. Even worse,, the Baron's men attack a hive engine on his castle and NONE of them are wearing protection. Not a single one. Why?

So, it seems all you need to do to avoid being turned into a Revanent is wear a mask (as exhibited by the Vespiary squads. So why doesn't everyone? Or at LEAST people like Wulfenbach's troops or anyone who is expecting to go into battle against The Other. I could see peasants not wearing them because they figure the odds of them encountering are low (and real life has shown that people exhibit a STARTLING lack of willingness to protect themselves from infection), especially by the time of the comic where the Other has been vanished for something close to 20 years. But the Baron's men attack a hive engine on his castle and NONE of them are wearing protection. Not a single one. Why?

** Even from the start Tarvek's MORALITY is clearly established. He's a light shade of gray. He doesn't like to hurt people for no reason (like "Madame Olga"), he tries to do right by people he feels he needs to exploit (like paying for Tinka), and he even goes out of his way and puts himself in danger later on to save someone he has no need to save (Jorgi). He's willing to be underhanded when necessary and will get violent when angry or threatened, but genuinely doesn't seem like he does that except as a last resort.
His allegiances and goals, however seem to change as the story progresses.