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

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

==K==

* [[Kill It with Fire]]

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

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* [[Kneecapping]]: Higgs uses this move against Zola. Unfortunately for him, she is too high on combat drugs to fall down.

* [[Knight Templar]]: Othar. He wants to kill all sparks, because he thinks they are [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040922 "the cause of everything wrong in the world today].

==L==

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Many.

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

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** 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]].

* [[Loyal Phlebotinum]]: Practically everything that the Heterodynes made.

==M==

* [[Mad Artist]]: The tailor clank in the "Revenge of the Weasel Queen" fillers.

* [[Made of Iron]]

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** Another one is Ancient [[God-Emperor|God-Queens]] and [[Portal Network]] of "Queen's Mirrors". At least one adventure of Heterodyne Boys involved a friendly "[[High Priestess]]". Andronicus "the Storm King" Valois and some of still-living Jägers met a High Priestess of Nyx. Albia of England mentioned Nyx as a "Sister Queen" (most likely older) killed almost five millennia ago. The official costume of Lady Astarte, Albia's "High Caretaker of the Sacred Well" very obviously resembles that of a "High Priestess" depicted in Heterodyne stories. The first Heterodyne found a small spring dedicated to a "warrior goddess". Dyne water can be used to temporarily induce the same state in which Albia implied to remain constantly, and to make Jägerdraught that makes people ageless among the other things (if they survive). Mechanicsburg had a "Queen's Mirror" device they all used... Albia also personally knew Luheia, Zeetha's ancestress (who sacrificed herself to take out a presumably equal enemy). Then there are Geisterdamen who know of Skifander, wear trinket somewhat resembling that of Skifandrian amazons and wanted their goddess back. And some strange people in England who got some secret grudge against Skifander. Oh, and Albia searches for the other Queens (she found one alive, plus descendant of another). And there's Embi, a guy who looks too well for his age of over 130, which he claims is a result of his sacred vow "to see the world before he died".

*** The two greater arcs are now linked, once Albia positively identified (she does see minds) the killer of Nyx and others as someone who is supposed to be much younger than that, and as such presumed to be a time traveller.

==N==

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Practically half the cast.

** Klaus and Gilgamesh Wulfenbach;

** Klaus and [[Gilgamesh]] Wulfenbach;

** Lucrezia and her sisters Serpentina and Demonica;

** [[w:Lucrezia Borgia|Lucrezia]] and her sisters Serpentina and Demonica;

** Master Payne;

** Von Pinn;

** Possibly subverted with Moloch.

** Possibly subverted with [[w:Moloch|Moloch]].

** Also basically ''all'' of the Heterodynes (prior to Bill and Barry) have these.

** If these things are any indication, ''all'' strong Spark families tend to be this way.

** ~~The~~ Queen of England is only mentioned in hushed tones, even though the only British member of the cast is Wooster. It's ~~implied~~ that she exercises mind control over the entirety of the English Isles.

** Before the time skip, the Queen of England was only mentioned in hushed tones, even though the only British member of the cast was Wooster. (It was a WMG that she exercises mind control over the entirety of the English Isles; this was Jossed after the time skip.)

* [[Naughty Tentacles]]

** "Impertinent mechanical squid!"

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* [[The Nudifier]]: The Wacky Weave Destabiliser. (Un)Fortunately Zeetha wears special underwear.

* [[Number One Dime]]: Hats, to the Jägers.

==O==

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: A ''lot'' of people.

** Most especially Zola.

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** 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]].)

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