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* [[Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone]]: With a somewhat unexpected pair of lovebirds in [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100906 this strip].
* [[Leitmotif]] / [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Agatha discovers that if she hums a certain series of notes, she can improve her focus while working on various projects. This tune pops up throughout the series, in various forms. Unknown if anyone has actually tabulated and played her song in real life, though.
* [[Leonine Contract]]: Beetle and Wulfenbach.
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]:
* [[Let Them Die Happy]]: These [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100929 plants] are trying to do this.
* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]: Gilgamesh orders that his [[Nice Hat]] should be hidden in a safe place -- [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120116 and never spoken about again.]
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* [[Lingerie Scene]]: The creators admit the work contains "lots of running around in Victorian underwear". Most of the time, Agatha is the offender.
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: The entire comic is postulated as a course on the life of Agatha Heterodyne, as taught by the Professors Foglio at Transylvania Polygnostic University ("Know enough to be afraid.") They stick mostly to the truth -- though this very admittance means that it's possible that, in the "real" universe where this story takes place, not every woman has large breasts.<br />That is, the first print collection, "Agatha Heterodyne & The Beetleburg Clank", and the original printed comics, are presented as an unauthorized but accurate record published by TPU, Phil Foglio having witnessed Agatha's "Battle Circus" himself; later, he is indeed in town when the Battle Circus episode occurs. However, Phil Foglio is also shown telling the tale as fiction in the street right on page one. (An alternative tryout sketch released online seems to have Agatha herself telling the story to her grandchildren.) Maybe that's after he was accidentally sent back in time or something. But also, in the "radio play" episodes of the webcomic, Studio Foglio are repeatedly shown escaping as they perform the last seconds of the episode just as the real and angry Agatha Heterodyne and her friends are about to catch them and stop the show.
** Some of side stories are supposed to be [[In-Universe]] fiction, or at least embellished (and sanitized) accounts of the events, e.g. ''The Crown of the Sleeping King'' as part of "Penny Sparklies" about Trelawney Thorpe.
* [[Little No]]
** Type 1 from [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070101 Wooster to Bangladesh].
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* [[Living Legend]]: Quite a few.
** Othar Trygvassen, ''[[Gentleman Adventurer]]'', very well known and generally viewed as a hero. Except by the main protagonists.
** Trelawney Thorpe, "Spark of the Realm".
** Klaus Wulfenbach is fine with having a reputation as a terribly villainous evil emperor if it keeps the peace.
** The Heterodyne Boys had a wonderfully heroic reputation, beloved in no small degree because their family very much did ''not''.
*** Aldin & Jiminez Hoffmann were inspired by them (well… at least Jiminez was), walk down this path, and began to collect their own fame as "The New Heterodyne Boys". Maybe working with the Library helps too.
** Agatha, Gil, and Tarvek are all rapidly building themselves reputation, what with being stuck in the middle of the most epic story since the Heterodyne Boys defeated the Other.
* [[Living Motion Detector]]: The clank in [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080908 this] comic.
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* [[Losing Your Head]]: {{spoiler|Tinka}} Also [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100818 here], with {{spoiler|Castle Heterodyne}} in the body of a mechanical Muse. Also an example of [[Arc Words]].
* [[Love Bubbles]]: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110817 Bubbles ''and'' roses.]
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: In the order of appearance in each branch, it looks this way:
** The main one [[Love Triangle]], of course, is Agatha, Gil, and Tarvek. That's stable, but if it's ever resolved, in whichever way, the authors won't need much effort to [[Pair the Spares]].
*** Agatha:
** Possible Minion [[Love Triangle]] in Moloch, Violetta, and Snaug. Although, Violetta [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|denies romantic interest]] in Moloch, and [[All Love Is Unrequited|he's smitten]] by Sanaa Wilhelm. [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100616 Suuuure] she isn't interested... which turns the one centered on Moloch into a low-grade [[Love Dodecahedron]].▼
***# Lars — but of course {{spoiler|he's dead now}}.
***# Martellus von Blitzengaard — he is really interested, but she considers him a walking trouble.
***# Dr. Rakethorn — it's not clear how serious he is, Agatha considers him distracting when shirtless, and that's about it.
*** Gil:
***# Princess Xerxsephnia von Blitzengaard — quietly, yet persistently pursued Gil for a long while.
***# "[[Even Heroes Have Heroes|one of his heroes]]" Trelawney Thorpe the "[[Captain Patriotic|Spark of the Realm]]" — some mutual interest, though looks much less serious than British papers want to believe, while Ms. Thorpe's relationship with {{spoiler|late Wooster}} was more serious than she used to believe.
***#* Wooster did show attachment to Ms. Thorpe, apparently obvious enough for his other colleagues to taunt him when she seems interested in Gil with Queen's approval (not clear whether and how much she reciprocated beyond being friends and colleagues).
***#* Captain Hawkins — was flirting with her, which seems to be their little tradition, but not serious.
*** Tarvek:
***# Sanaa Wilhelm — voiced the opinion that Tarvek is "awfully cute" (after {{spoiler|she misidentified him as Gil whom Othar was supposed to abduct}}) — even that was probably not entirely serious, but who knows.
***# Ruxala (the [[The Hunter|Vespiary]] girl in Mechanicsburg) — there was some [[Ship Tease]], and presumably they will work together… once she is out of stasis.
***# British Royal Princess Neena — [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200506 hotly defends the notion that "Prince Tarvek is nice"] and they [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200817 are on very good terms] back from Paris, and she wants him around in free time (Tarvek is as friendly as with Colette, and it seems to be no more than that).
▲** Possible Minion [[Love Triangle]] in Moloch, Violetta, and Snaug. Although, Violetta [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|denies romantic interest]] ([http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100616 suuuure]) in Moloch, and [[All Love Is Unrequited|he's smitten]] by Sanaa Wilhelm
* [[Loyal Phlebotinum]]: Practically everything that the Heterodynes made.
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* [[Mad Scientist Laboratory]]: Several, most notably those belonging to Baron Wulfenbach and Prince Aaronev. And all of the ones in Castle Heterodyne.
* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]
** Lucrezia Mongfish is officially referred to as "The Villain's Beautiful Daughter" in the stories told about Agatha's parents. Agatha herself is
** Dr. Mongfish had at least two other daughters besides Lucrezia; Serpentina (Theo's mother), and Demonica ( {{spoiler|Zola's mom}}).
** Othar Tryggvassen ([[Gentleman Adventurer|Gentleman]] [[All the Tropes Wiki Drinking Game|Adventurer!]]) [[Alliteration|actually asks Agatha]] if she's one of these.
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** Heterodyne: The principle of periodic functions upon which theremins and radio modulation rely. Possibly related to the [[Theme Music Power-Up]].
** Portentius Reichenbach's [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Portentous]] Operatic Masterpiece: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080204 The Storm King].
** Agatha is a [http://www.behindthename.com/name/agatha Latin name], coming from a Greek word meaning "good". However, the famous ''St.'' Agatha of Sicily was a third-century martyr, and her many patronages include... er... the bosom. Very apt, even if unintentional.
** Dolokov's name may or may not be a reference to the [[Manipulative Bastard]] and [[Karma Houdini]] of ''[[War and Peace]]''.
* [[Mechanical Evolution]]: Inverted; Agatha tends to compulsively construct little Clanks termed "dingbots". These dingbots can then go on to construct more dingbots, but dingbots are only so bright, so each successive generation gets less and less advanced, and less bright, and by the third or fourth generation the dingbots produced are nonfunctional.
* [[The Medic]]
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]
** Agatha activates her own "Lion" device to prevent the Castle A.I. from stopping her from intentionally dying. This permanently destroys the A.I. and lots of other systems. All over the city. Subverted because she found a part of the Castle A.I.. After hooking the A.I. back into the castle, it thanks her for the EMP blast since it destroyed the rogue programs, making it easier to control those parts of the castle. She still has to fix everything, though.
** Lampshaded by Violetta [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110214 on this page] when she discovers that {{spoiler|Gil and Tarvek have somehow missed the poison that was on the hairpin that Zola jabbed Agatha with}}. Although she was being a little unfair, seeing as how
** Dr Sun takes down the Baron's escape klank -- ''by himself'' -- and enforces Klaus's bed rest in order to stop him killing himself from the strain. Awesome -- {{spoiler|''until'' we learn that, in keeping Klaus in the hospital, Sun's unwittingly exposed him to Anevka!Lucrezia, which is more or less what Klaus feared. Oops.}}
* [[Noblewoman's Laugh]]
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** Jägermonsters and Lackya don't get along well. They're both bruisers who don't function well without a person to follow.
** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110422 Tarvek and Gil], just like Agatha [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080929 told] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090724 them].
** Tarvek and Violetta; despite the family power structure having set them up so that he's the brains and she's his (deftly-applied) muscle, it transpires that Tarvek [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110425 can pull smoke knight moves even on Violetta], and Violetta [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110907 has a talent for intrigue and projecting how power dynamics could be brought to play out] that can
** Martellus and Tarvek. Martellus gets a [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140411#.VX2OcjHF-V0 wistful look] -- [[Character Development|rather out of keeping with his earlier characterization]], but similar to one we've seen on Tarvek's face an introspective time or three -- when he mentions an implication that Euphrosynia Heterodyne actually '''loved''' Andronicus Valois, the original Storm King.
* [[Not So Harmless]]: {{spoiler|1=[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100623 Zola]}}
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