Kalmbach provides examples of:
- Adjusting Your Glasses: Unusual method of gripping the frame of the right lens with the thumb and index finger.
- Attention Deficit... Oh, Shiny!: His thoughts tend to wander from time to time.
- Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: As in, three-piece pinstripe suit, pocketwatch, and fedora.
- Born in the Wrong Century: He can tell you most of the finer points of operating a steam locomotive, but can be completely lost when using a smartphone.
- Carpet of Virility
- The Comically Serious
"Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep a straight face with all this going on? But that just makes it funnier."
- Deadpan Snarker
- Does Not Like Spam: Rather picky eater, but not snobbish about it.
- The Engineer: He feels a bit more comfortable with machinery than with people.
- Enraged by Idiocy: More Tranquil Fury, when it's not a Rant Inducing Slight.
- '50s Hair: Standard side-part.
- Formally-Named Pet: Bubbie, Mandy, and Toby become Mister Bubbington, Purrncess Mandificent Fluffernutter von Derp, and Tobias Gingercatte.
- Germanic Depressives: Along with being stubborn and emotionally repressed, he shares this bit of his ethnic heritage also.
- Grammar Nazi: Comes with the desire for precision.
- Hates Small Talk: Not that he hates conversation altogether, just doesn't like talking solely for the purpose of avoiding silence. When on a topic of interest the opposite is possible.
- Hidden Depths: Outwardly a machinist/mechanic/electrician, but also an amateur opera singer and photographer.
- Humans Are Bastards: He never had a high opinion of his fellow man to begin with and recent events have only diminished it further.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Has three beloved kitties, as well as more than a few feline traits himself.
- Knight in Sour Armor: If you always expect the worst, then it is a good thing to be disappointed.
- Mad Scientist: Well, he would be, given the budget.
- Myers–Briggs: Type INTP-A Architect/Logician
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Deliberately Played for Laughs.
- Rail Enthusiast: Is a lifelong ferroequinologist, like his father and grandfather.
- The Spock: Can be a little obtuse and rather emotionally repressed.
- The Stoic: Complaining doesn't solve problems.
- Tall, Dark, and Snarky: 6'2", dark-haired, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.
- Gentleman Snarker: When his English side comes out.
- The Teetotaler: He doesn't have any moral objection to drinking, just that he hates the taste of alcohol and doesn't see the point of it in the first place.
- Troper Types: Trope Editor and a minor (for now) TLP Midwife
- Waxing Lyrical: He's prone to do this, along with Shout-Out to Shakespeare.
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Makes fun of examples of this trope by deliberately pronouncing the extra letters, rendering "Pointe" as "Pointy".
- Younger Than They Look: Was mistaken for a student teacher while still in high school, was almost served beer at a restaurant at 18, and has never been carded on the rare occasions while buying alcohol. The whiskers probably have something to do with it.
