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{{quote|'''Martellus:''' You were Prince Huvart Desplains, Protector of West Lesalle. Go now, to your rest.}}
** It even shows in the small details. In one scene during the Corbetite arc one of Martellus' Sparkhound constructs is whining about having to ditch his favorite suit of armor to escape a magnetic trap and is asking if his new suit of armor can be red, because he likes red. Martellus sarcastically replies that he'll make it shiny red with golden tassels if the idiot will just ''move''! Except that later on during the Paris arc we see that minion again, and his new suit of armor ''is'' shiny red with golden tassels. Even when made under stress and when it's not at all important, Martellus keeps his promises to his people.
* [[Bad Boss]]: Martellus once threw a would-be [[Grand Vizier]] out of an airship to his death. Admittedly, that was more of a case of [[Too Dumb To Live]] because said advisor had 1) ordered an artillery barrage on a sacred monastery and neutral sanctuary that Martellus was trying to negotiate with 2) responded to Martellus' objections to this idiocy by bragging about his 'genius' at establishing a 'show of strength' 3) got a significant fraction of Martellus' fleet destroyed when the Corbettites returned fire 4) openly stated ''in hearing of the rest of the command staff'' that he considered his new king to be an idiot who should just do everything his chief advisor told him like a good little puppet and
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] / [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130626 Turned out] to be more competent than previously suspected. Didn't just about everyone in that family?
{{quote|'''Violetta''': Those are ''Tweedle's?'' But he was always- I mean- He made these little ''bear things''. They... they sang.}}
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