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[[File:babbagelovelace_2696.png|frame|You only wish Computer Science was this [[Rule of Cool|cool]].]]
In [[Real Life]], Charles Babbage was an eccentric genius who designed the world's first computers while Ada, Countess of Lovelace, was a mathematician who wrote the first computer programs before any computers were actually built. Sadly, Babbage's computers were never built and Lovelace died when she was 36.
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As it turns out, [[Real Life]] sucks, so what actually happened was that Babbage and Lovelace built a [[Steampunk|Difference Engine that takes up an entire building]] and use it to [[They Fight Crime|fight crime]]. That is, if you define crime as street music and poetry.
The comic ([http://2dgoggles.com/ found
=== ''The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage'' provides examples of: ===▼
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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer|Absurdly Spacious Hardware]]: The Difference Engine is so large that debugging code requires crawling inside of it.
* [[Adorkable]]: Babbage, Babbage, Babbage.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't remind Ada that she's Lord Byron's daughter. Except maybe on Tuesdays.
* [[Buffy-Speak]]:
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'''Ada''': It would indeed be difficult...
'''Brunel''': Would Darwin be able to mess around with his..uh, barnacles he won't talk about?
'''Ada''': Um, that one I'm not sure about...
'''Brunel''': WOULD FARADAY BE ABLE TO DO THAT WHATSIS WITH THE THINGAMAJIG?
'''Ada''': NO! NO HE WOULD NOT! }}
* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]: Babbage gets a [http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-and-babbage-vs-the-organist-pt-1/ downright alarming one] at the beginning of ''The Organist''.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Charles Babbage has a tendency to be distracted from pressing issues by relative minutia
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Fan Service]]: Well, footmen were selected for their fine physiques, so the shirtless minion drawings are [[Sarcasm Mode|not prurient interest, but historical, of course!]]
* [[The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles]]: As expected from a Steampunk work.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: The Organist bears a strange, yet totally coincidental resemblance to Mr. Bruce of ''The Correspondents."
* [[Serious Business]]: MATHEMATICS!!!
* [[Shout
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Notes after each comic reveal the sources of historical and mathematical in-jokes and [[Reality Is Unrealistic|too-good-to-be-true-but-actually-are stories]] of Babbage's and Lovelace's life.
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Well, she ''is'' the daughter of Lord Byron.
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'''Babbage''': Exactly! It's operated by a crank!
'''Ada''': Indeed. }}
* Stealth Pun: The Coniform Collector of Tympanic Violations.
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** The alternate history suggests that with the aid of the Difference Engine England is able to defeat the [[War of the Worlds|Martian horde]]...
* [[Suckiness Is Painful]]: The Organist.
* [[This Is Your Brain
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