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==== ''[[~~Girl Genius (Webcomic)|~~Girl Genius]]'' provides examples of the following tropes: ====

==== ''[[Girl Genius]]'' provides examples of the following tropes: ====

* [[Kill It ~~With~~ Fire]]

* [[Kill It with Fire]]

** Sleipnir's pipes... guess [[Incredibly Lame Pun|you can't start a fire without a Spark]].

** [[Wreathed in Flames]]: The Torchmen

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** Using a book titled ''Using Found Objects as Weapons'' as a bludgeon is probably the best example.

* [[Large Ham]]

** ''All'' sparks [[Chewing the Scenery|chew scenery]] when in [[The Madness Place]]. ''Othar Tryggvassen, [[Gentleman Adventurer~~|GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER~~]]'' is like that ''all the time''.

** ''All'' sparks [[Chewing the Scenery|chew scenery]] when in [[The Madness Place]]. ''Othar Tryggvassen, [[Gentleman Adventurer]]'' is like that ''all the time''.

** Jägers get in on the hamminess when there's no Spark around. And when a Spark is going nuts ''and'' there's an excited Jäger in the room, the ensuing [[Ham to Ham Combat]] can knock down walls.

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: An officer in one of the many armies that invade Mechanicsburg tells his soldiers not to keep their eyes of the captured civilians, to treat them with respect, and to execute them all. Right before the [[Brown Note|Doom bell]] knocks all the soldiers out.

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* [[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]]

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: The Unstoppable Airman Higgs is, [[Department of Redundancy Department|in fact,]] [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|unstoppable.]]

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: The Unstoppable Airman Higgs is, [[Department of Redundancy Department|in fact,]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|unstoppable.]]

* [[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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* [[Living Labyrinth]]: Castle Heterodyne

* [[Living Legend]]: Quite a few.

** Othar Trygvassen, ''[[Gentleman Adventurer~~|GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER~~]]'', very well known and generally viewed as a hero. Except by the main protagonists.

** Othar Trygvassen, ''[[Gentleman Adventurer]]'', very well known and generally viewed as a hero. Except by the main protagonists.

** 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''.

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** Old Man Death took multiple Jägerpunches to the face and was still able to outfight the Jäger who provided them.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: "Sparks", whose erratic genius has literally reshaped the world. Practically half the cast are mad scientists of one sort or another, though the ones that come closest to the classic villain type are probably Prince Wilhelm Aaronev and the late Lucrezia Mongfish.

** There's even a mad ''social'' scientist, who complains that the mad "hard" scientists [[Hard On Soft Science|get all of the funding and attention]].

** There's even a mad ''social'' scientist, who complains that the mad "hard" scientists [[Hard on Soft Science|get all of the funding and attention]].

{{quote| "I told the baron, give me a thousand orphans, a hedge maze and enough cheese and I can--"}}

** Agatha awakening to her mad science is what starts and drives the entire story forward, and raises the question [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EomvxZF6Tto ...or will her newfound mad science DESTROY THEM ALL!]

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** Lucrezia Mongfish is officially referred to as "The Villain's Beautiful Daughter" in the stories told about Agatha's parents. Agatha herself is arguably one, and she's already run into at least two Mad Scientist's ''Handsome Sons''.

** 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!]]) [[Added Alliterative Appeal|actually asks Agatha]] if she's one of these.

** Othar Tryggvassen ([[Gentleman Adventurer|Gentleman]] [[All the Tropes Wiki Drinking Game|Adventurer!]]) [[Added Alliterative Appeal|actually asks Agatha]] if she's one of these.

** And most offspring of mad scientists are mad scientists themselves.

* [[Magitek]]: "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science!"

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* [[Mama Bear]]: Von Pinn, ''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040903 and how].'' She's actually {{spoiler|the Muse of protection, downloaded into a construct body.}}

* [[The Man They Couldn't Hang]]: Well, The Jägers They Couldn't Hang, but otherwise Da Boyz. [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050513 Definitely Da Boyz.]

* [[Marriage to A God]]: The original Heterodyne was supposedly married to a local battle goddess.

* [[Marriage to a God]]: The original Heterodyne was supposedly married to a local battle goddess.

* [[Master Apprentice Chain]]: Gilgamesh is taught by Klaus himself (among the others), and we know some of people who taught the baron himself.

{{quote| '''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date{{=}}20110204 Dr. Sun]:''' He does his teachers ''proud''.}}

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** Another one that [[Unholy Matrimony|makes a lot of sense]]: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120224 DuPree and Vole.]

* [[Mission Control Is Off Its Meds]]: Castle Heterodyne acts as this to the prisoners repairing it, due to its fractured personality.

* [[Mission Impossible Cable Drop]]: Gil does this [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120227 here].

* [["Mission Impossible" Cable Drop]]: Gil does this [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120227 here].

* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100324 In this strip], unless it's just good-natured teasing between siblings. Or not mistaken, since his objection to Sanaa's statement isn't Gil's gender, it's that he's "a foul villain". [[Bi the Way]] at the most, though, since he was [http://twitter.com/Othar/status/967741669 married] to a [http://twitter.com/Othar/status/1097578474 Geisterdame] for a while in the [[Character Blog|Twitter]].

* [[Mobile Maze]]: Castle Heterodyne. "We're doomed! The door we came through -- [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090304 it never led HERE before!"]

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* [[Monster Clown]]: Whatever [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110209 this thing] originally was made for, among other things, probably.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]

** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070117 The calming pie] is [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]. (Warning: spoilery. And the pies may contain nutmeg.)

** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070117 The calming pie] is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. (Warning: spoilery. And the pies may contain nutmeg.)

** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110207 Say-...]

* [[Mook Horror Show]]: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041103 The flashback of Zeetha wiping out a whole pirate ship] sure looks like this in a couple panels.

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** Not to mention Othar Trygvassen, Gentleman Adventurer; he's been tossed out of two airships on-screen, within the same chapter. Gil doesn't even consider the possibility that he died, having seen him come back from the same or worse so many times.

** Gil is also [[Genre Savvy]] enough to find it suspicious {{spoiler|his father's}} body [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120120 is never found.] {{spoiler|Between what the readers were told before and Boris's comments that the Baron ordered his son to be immediately named head of the empire should he be suspected dead, it's indeed almost certain his death is a ruse.}}

* [[Never Bring a Knife To A Gun Fight]]:

* [[Never Bring a Knife to A Gun Fight]]:

{{quote| '''Zola:''' Bringing a knife to a gun fight doesn't seem very smart, now does it?

'''Agatha:''' Well, I suppose it isn't that much worse than bringing a gun to a clank fight. }}

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** The novelizations have a lot of these, usually referring to some strange thing that some Spark had built or what said Spark attempted to do with said strange invention.

* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Othar. Being thrown out of an airship and surviving is among the ''least'' of his feats. From the radio play:

{{quote| '''Othar:''' ''Ha!'' It'll take ''more'' than [[Distressed Dude|being tied to a]] [[Stuff Blowing Up|lit keg of explosives]] [[Hollywood Acid|and tossed into a pit of acid]] filled with [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|mutant]], [[Required Secondary Powers|acid-resistant]] [[Shark Pool|flying pirahnas]] armed with [[Kill It ~~With~~ Fire|flame-throwers]] [[Sword and Gun|and]] [[An Axe to Grind|battle axes]] while [[Poisonous Person|venomous]], [[Mecha Mook|mechanical]], [[Macross Missile Massacre|missile-launching]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Morris dancers]] armed with [[Freeze Ray|liquid nitrogen harpoon guns are overhead]]; [[Horse of a Different Color|riding]] [[Big Creepy Crawlies|giant]], [[Everything's Worse ~~With~~ Bees|rabid killer bees]] [[Death Ray|with side-mounted death rays]] to kill '''[[Large Ham|Othar Tryggvassen!]]'''

{{quote| '''Othar:''' ''Ha!'' It'll take ''more'' than [[Distressed Dude|being tied to a]] [[Stuff Blowing Up|lit keg of explosives]] [[Hollywood Acid|and tossed into a pit of acid]] filled with [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|mutant]], [[Required Secondary Powers|acid-resistant]] [[Shark Pool|flying pirahnas]] armed with [[Kill It with Fire|flame-throwers]] [[Sword and Gun|and]] [[An Axe to Grind|battle axes]] while [[Poisonous Person|venomous]], [[Mecha Mook|mechanical]], [[Macross Missile Massacre|missile-launching]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Morris dancers]] armed with [[Freeze Ray|liquid nitrogen harpoon guns are overhead]]; [[Horse of a Different Color|riding]] [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|giant]], [[Everything's Worse with Bees|rabid killer bees]] [[Death Ray|with side-mounted death rays]] to kill '''[[Large Ham|Othar Tryggvassen!]]'''

'''[[Jerkass Woobie|Fer]][[Ms. Fanservice|reti]][[Half-Human Hybrid|na]]:''' Whoops! Silly me, I forgot to turn the [[Shock and Awe|lightning generators]] on!

'''Othar:''' [[This Is Gonna Suck|Er... not a whole lot more, I'll admit.]] }}

* [[The Nose Knows]]: Jägermonsters; Krosp

* [[Not a Game]]: The Castle warns Agatha that claiming to be the Heterodyne is [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080704 not] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080707 a] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080709 game!]

* [[Not Distracted By the Sexy]]: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090925 Spark mode Agatha] is not interested in nudity.

* [[Not Distracted by the Sexy]]: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090925 Spark mode Agatha] is not interested in nudity.

* [[Not Helping Your Case]]: Tarvek denies having any part in the plan to usurp the Wulfenbachs by installing a fake Heterodyne -- ''his'' plan was orders of magnitude better!

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: "But I see nothing!" [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050706 "Don't say that like it's a good thing!"]

* [[Not in ~~The~~ Face]]: Played with.

* [[Not in the Face]]: Played with.

* [[Not So Different]]

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** ''Everyone'' is thinking it {{spoiler|as The Baron puts a Wasp Weasel in Gil's face and watches it shriek. Even you and Gil.}}

* [[Oh My Gods]]: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090520 Here], in the second panel.

* [[Oh No Not Again]]: When Agatha's trying to snap Gil out of a stupor:

* [[Oh, No, Not Again]]: When Agatha's trying to snap Gil out of a stupor:

{{quote| '''Agatha:''' ''Hey, Gil!'' All of Paris is about to go up in flames, and Zola has her head caught in a ''bucket! Up and at 'em, Hero Boy!''

'''Gil:''' Hm? A bucket? ''Again?'' Okay, I'm comin'.

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* [[Old Master]]: Dr. Sun, quite capable of singlehandedly disassembling any number of clanks -- and who ''taught'' Klaus and Gil quite a lot about martial arts.

* [[Ominous Floating Castle]] (Type 3): ''Castle Wulfenbach'' certainly qualifies.

* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: At one point a flipped-out Agatha directs a small army of clanks (including [[Transforming Mecha]] and [[Discworld ~~(Literature)~~|Luggage]]) with a [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061229 high-falutin] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070117 calliope.] Doubles as a visual [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]. And perhaps a literal version of [[Autobots Rock Out]].

* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: At one point a flipped-out Agatha directs a small army of clanks (including [[Transforming Mecha]] and [[Discworld|Luggage]]) with a [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061229 high-falutin] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070117 calliope.] Doubles as a visual [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]. And perhaps a literal version of [[Autobots Rock Out]].

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: While all Heterodynes were maniacs, some weren't picky about who to kill, as evidenced by [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111130 this exchange]:

{{quote| "Two minutes and she hasn't killed''''' anyone'''''!"

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* [[Overly Long Name]]

** "I am Zola Anya Talinka Venia Zeblinkya Malfeazium."

** In the "Cinderella" omake, Cinderella's full name is really [[~~Sleeping Beauty (Literature)|~~Sleeping Beauty]] [[Snow White (~~Literature~~)|Snow White]] [[~~Rapunzel (Literature)|~~Rapunzel]] [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ~~(Literature)~~|Ozma]] Rose [[Red Riding Hood ~~(Literature)~~|Red Riding Hood]] [[~~Rumpelstiltskin (Literature)|~~Rumpelstiltskin]]. (No, [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081124 really]. [[Lampshade Hanging|Just don't ask]].)

** In the "Cinderella" omake, Cinderella's full name is really [[Sleeping Beauty]] [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]] [[Rapunzel]] [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|Ozma]] Rose [[Little Red Riding Hood|Red Riding Hood]] [[Rumpelstiltskin]]. (No, [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081124 really]. [[Lampshade Hanging|Just don't ask]].)