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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.
** 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.
** 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 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 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.
** 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 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.
* [[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]]).
* [[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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