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** Though she got the name because after a while, all the usual suspects for who could be destroying Europe were dead by her hand, meaning that all the devastation was caused by some ''other'' party.
* [[Mood Whiplash]] / [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Whether it stems from Lucrezia's "inherent" insanity, or a result of all those mind transfers, but she is obviously unstable. When the Other first makes an appearance she's all smiles and motherly comfort for her faithful Geisterdamen, who are weeping with joy at her return - her mood changes swiftly once the Other realises things have gone to hell in her absence. Later does much the same with Theo.
** This seems to
* [[Religion of Evil]]: Is the goddess of one.
* [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder]]
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* [[The Worf Effect]]: Outside of ripping some poor nobody's arm off, he tends to get beat up a lot. Even Othar gets to take a shot at him.
=== Zola ===
=== Zola La Sirene D'oree AKA Zola "Heterodyne" AKA [[Overly Long Name|Zola Anya Talinka Venia Zeblinkya]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Malfeazium]] ===▼
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Once everyone had heard there was a Heterodyne girl running around, she stepped in (along with a conspiracy) to provide one. Agatha was... not happy about that.
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** Post-Movit Zola has these pretty often.
* [[The Starscream]]/[[Always Second Best]]: She has ambitions and is good at both cloak-and-dagger stuff and improvisation, but… pushes her way into the top tier, then finds herself not quite on top of the situation at best and terrifyingly out of her depth at worst and barely escapes in one piece. Repeatedly.
** As an impostor, she came close to success, but was overrun by the real heir. Then she started a fight, and managed to nearly kill three incredibly dangerous warriors, but had to run away more dead than alive.
** Then she ascended [[From Nobody to Nightmare]] by usurping The Other, and entered Paris with a grand entance... only to be upstaged by Agatha again, and then be casually asked as to where she's been (Tarvek told Grandmother who they're dealing with [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170102 only minutes ago], but it's never safe to assume Grandmother doesn't know something) and be just as casually disarmed.
* [[Sweater Girl]]
* [[Unsportsmanlike Gloating]]
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* [[Up to Eleven]]: The scene where she downs the [[Psycho Serum]] is literally called "Zola goes up to eleven." [[One of Us|Ah, Foglios, we love you]].
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: ''Hoo'' boy...
* [[Villain Decay]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. She undecays completely over the span of two strips, and then some. Then goes from an incredibly dangerous intelligent opponent to an incredibly dangerous ''physical'' one when she downs the Moveit 11. Then, she decays AGAIN to an extent when she goes completely utterly psycho, and undecays yet AGAIN when she gets back to the hospital. Then becomes a major threat, but not too subtly to be marked as such. Then tries to act up before about half of the "
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: She is "''very good'' at improvising when things go wrong."
* [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]]: If [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110103 this page] is of any indication.
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* [[Proper Lady]]
* [[Sanity Has Advantages]]: Remember how the pecking order on Castle Wulfenbach was to large degree defined by "degree of sparkiness", and how Klaus personally doesn't think much of "mundane" nobles and their games? This factor does not seem to hinder Seffie at all, and she is constantly dealing with nobility - [[Mad Scientist]] and not. From what we have seen, she plays the voice of sanity and is heeded as such, running negotiations with the crazier big fish quite well.
=== Simon Voltaire ===
Usually called just "Master of Paris". Thanks to his implants and perhaps other mad science, he is at least 200 years old and doesn't look decrepit in the least. He personally knew Storm King and van Rijn.
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Tropes associated with
* [[Electronic Eyes]]: His right eye appears to be replaced with big artificial one.
* [[Heroic Neutral]]: He maintains Paris as the [[Truce Zone]] of Europa. With an iron hand.
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Neural Interface]]: When he's connected, the city systems become extension of himself. It's just too taxing to do without a need.
* [[Old Master]]: One of the oldest [[Mad Scientist]]s - and humans in general - alive.
* [[Power Is Sexy]]: Old Voltaire certainly has a reputation on top of imposing looks and confidence. He's at least two centuries old, yet has a lot of offspring of different looks and ages - down to Colette, who seems to be in late twenties.
* [[Shout Out]]: To the Marquis de London, possibly.
=== Colette Voltaire ===
Master of Paris considers her a prospective "worthy heir". Tagged in The Works only as "Hero" and "Spy", but not "Spark", so probably ''not'' a [[Mad Scientist]]. Then again, when plugged in, for a while it looked like she began to break through, so she may just be a "late bloomer".
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* [[Neural Interface]]: A port implanted in her neck allows connection to the city systems, though she isn't supposed to "drive" the city without oversight of "Papa".
* [[Spirited Young Lady]]: She is adventuring, and prefers to drive a steam-car herself.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: A stylish no-nonsense lady who has enough of admirers that some of them even started a ''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160115 club]'', though she dismisses them as [[Power Is Sexy|liking not as much herself as her status]] and thus social climbing.
=== Princess Terebithia ===
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{{quote|'''Ishtvan''': Could it ''always'' do that?
'''Martellus''': How should ''I'' know? Knowing my Grandmother's parties, ''probably''. }}
* [[McNinja]]/[[Old Master]]: She's good enough to
* [[No Name Given]]: Until old Voltaire met her, she was mentioned only as "Grandmother" (other than by title). Given that most of the clan seems to be trained as Smoke Knights, it's likely to also be an allusion to [[The Hashshashin|"the Grandfather" of Assassins]].
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