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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]]: 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''.
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*** Agatha:
***# 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
*** 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
***#* Captain Hawkins — was flirting with her, which seems to be their little tradition, but not serious.
*** Tarvek:
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