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** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081103 Here] the crowd calls {{spoiler|Zeetha}} the Baron's daughter, which according to [[Word of God]] is actually true -- if the sketch of her father which looks exactly like Klaus is to be believed.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]
** The list of Heterodyne names in the crypt includes [[The Caligula|Caligula]], the [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060712 Red Heterodyne], the '''[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Black]]''' Heterodyne, Mordred, Oxalof, and [[Everything's Better with Bob|Bob]]. Also, the world is full of people with weird names like Gilgamesh, Moloch, and Theopholous living right alongside people with ordinary names like Bill, Barry, and Agatha; no one comments on it or seems to consider it odd.
** In a side-story: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090619 Flopsy, Mopsy, and Nietzsche].
* [[After-Action Patchup]]: After the fight with Dr. Merlot, Zola leaps to provide this for Gil.
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* [[Behind the Black]]
** Gil didn't notice Agatha [[Big Damn Kiss|launching herself at him]] while he was yelling at Tarvek?
*** He'd probably started yelling before turning and only spun around to dramatically punctuate his final words, at which point Agatha would already be on top of him.
** Lampshaded [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071109 here], where Jenka points out that they should have heard the army of giant clanks (helpfully called War Stompers too) marching up to their tower.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Gil & Tarvek, to Agatha.
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** The Spark itself. If you have it, you can warp the laws of physics with the contents of the average [[Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard|Store Cupboard]]. Bad part? ''[[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|You go insane to varying degrees whenever you do it]]''. The natural result of that is that most Sparks, and Agatha in particular, have to deal with being shunned, used, or attacked by most everyone they meet. And that's if they don't get killed by one of their own creations.
** Agatha before her breakthrough, when she wore the locket to suppress her Spark. It undoubtedly saved her life, but it also made her completely incompetent and destroyed her self-esteem.
** Tarvek framed his cousin Violetta for incompetence so that she'd get relieved from being his bodyguard and [[Reassigned to Antarctica|sent to Mechanicsburg]] - immediately before a wave of assassination attempts began that killed twelve of his bodyguards in under three years. This very likely saved her life, but since he hadn't ''told'' her what he was doing it also gave her an inferiority complex that took her several years to start shedding.
* [[Bling of War]]: Most troops are trying to look cool -- some, too hard. Jägers tend to dress in less unified fancy clothes, with their own peculiar taste. Of "Da Boyz", Maxim wears the most fashionable set -- he's an ex-cavalry officer, after all.
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Played straight with Lucrezia and Zola; [[Playing with a Trope|played with]] by Von Pinn. Averted with Agatha (who's a strawberry blonde, therefore crossing into [[Heroes Want Redheads]]).
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** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050420 Steam-powered feet?] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111019 Steam-powered feet!]
** So, about [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031001 Gil's intercepted mail]... [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151030 Surprise!]
** 2011: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110912 Violetta dreams about dressing up for a party]. 2020: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200520 Violetta finally gets to dress up for a party].
* [[Broken Angel]]: The muses, the delicate creations of the greatest spark of the time. Most of them are destroyed or damaged while sparks tried to reverse engineer them. Known examples are [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051107 Tinka], studied by Tarvek, and [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100120 Otilia], found beneath Castle Heterodyne. She manages to cause some trouble in her "broken" state though.
** Also Castle Heterodyne, damaged in the Other's attack.
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'''{{spoiler|Tarvek}}:''' Good Heavens. }}
* [[Can't Live Without You]]: When Gil supports both {{spoiler|Agatha and Tarvek}} when they get infected by Hogfarb's Immolation.
* [[Cannot Talk to Women]]: ''Hilariously'' averted at Albia's royal ball. Tarvek "gentlemanly" agrees to give Gil the first dance with Agatha... because Tarvek's relying on Gil's
* [[Cartwright Curse]]: Being a suitor to Agatha is hazardous to your health.
* [[Catch Phrase]]
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** Old Man Death has a mini-flashback of people who rode with the Jägers -- like the Seneschal. Still not sure if he's in there, though.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Averted beautifully [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051118 here]. Anevka pumping out enough electricity in her arm to {{spoiler|flash-fry her father}} releases enough waste heat to send her entire outfit and wig bursting into flames.
** For that matter, Anevka is mostly a Muse replica. Prende later also used built-in shocker on high power and torched her own wig and clothes (well, what was left of them after almost two centuries).
* [[Cool Airship]]
** ''Castle Wulfenbach'', of course.
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** In the novelization, Agatha thinks she knows why Gil is denying having a [[Death Ray]].
{{quote|'''Agatha:''' I'm sure that next time you'll build a much bigger one, but trust me, right now any Death Ray, will do, no matter how--
'''Gil:''' [[
** [[Napoleonic Wars|Baron Wulfenbach is not on good terms with England.]]
* [[A Dog Ate My Homework]]: "[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090717 Sorry, professor, my latest experiment] ''ate my lecture notes''..."
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