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Посмотреч/Упоминания

  • Воздушный авианосец: Замок Вульфенбах — дирижабль-город размером больше километра, способен базировать на борту другие дирижабли (в том числе те, которые сами несут эскарду летающих дронов) для ремонта и заправки, а также в качестве челноков, потому что сам никогда не приземляется. Единственный в сеттинге самолёт также стартует с Замка.
  • Два тебя — суперзлодейка Иное занимается перезаписью своей личности в головы подходящих носителей (включая собственную дочь, по совместительству главную героиню). Технический вариант: оказавшись в двух телах, перво-наперво визжит от восторга в два голоса и обнимается сама с собой, а потом рассуждает в стиле «Эта я помню важные факты, надо рассказать их остальным себе, а потом моя жизнь станет не такой важной». Да, она вполне может пожертвовать собой ради самого дорогого ей человека — ради самой себя.
  • Декольте до пупка — Агата ненадолго появляется в почти расстегнутой белой рубашке, на которой видно ее обширное декольте, когда она просыпается после событий в Штурмхальтене.
  • Диссонирующее спокойствие — мало что может заставить Хиггса сменить его постное выражение лица.
  • Диссонирующее спокойствие — Барри во флэшбеках отличается спокойствием каменной глыбы в стрессовых ситуациях. Хотя чего у него там в душе́ творится на самом деле — одно Иное знает.
    • Как минимум в прологе первой книги — он жутко напряжён и с огромным трудом удерживает себя в руках, понимая, что если потерявшего жену и ребёнка Билла переклинит — Барри не сможет его остановить. Но держится, да.
  • Лишние детали — Агата Гетеродин как-то чинила самолёт (уже падающий) отсоединением и выкидыванием буквально лишних деталей. Успешно.
  • Лови!: обнаружив себя в одной клетке с очень злой Гейстердамен, Агата метнула той в руки маленького клаца, который незамедлительно шарахнул гейстершу током.
  • Любовь мешает творчеству — Гил обвиняет Агату в этом после того, как она ломается из-за смертельной болезни Тарвека. Она удивительно сильная и умная сумасшедшая ученая, но так сильно беспокоится, что не может придумать изобретение, которое могло бы помочь.
  • Магический пейджер — медальон Зиты, повторяющий выражение её лица. Поначалу считали за визуальную шутку, ан нет, действительно копирует и может использоваться для передачи.
  • Метод утёнка — инверсия: взбешенная Агата орёт на Гила, перечисляя все свои проблемы: я, мол злобная искранутая девица с гиперболоидом, полным городом прислужников, ордой ягеров, замком, набитым всякой смертельно опасной хренью… и осознаёт, что это не так уж и плохо.
  • Небесный океан — троп используется с упоительнейшей наглостью. Впрочем, некоторая отмазка в сюжете есть: глазастые фанаты обнаружили на полках Вульфенбаховских складов аж кейворит! Ещё бы им не плавать в воздухе, с такой-то сумрачной наукой.
  • Непреднамеренное совпадение — аристократ из стимпанкового мира летает на чудовищных размеров дирижабле и железной рукой усмиряет смутьянов, повстанцев и прочих леворюционеров, не считаясь ни с честью, ни с обычаями — лишь бы не нарушалась стабильность. В масштабах вселенной его титул не так уж велик, и уму, таланту и военной мощи нашего антизлодея (или всё же героя с плохой репутацией?) в нём заметно тесновато. Нестор дер Фунье, впоследствии Нестор Гуда из пановского «Герметикона» или барон Клаус Вульфенбах?
  • Поцелуй на удачу — когда Гил собирается выйти из условно (очень условно) безопасного замка и прорваться через битком набитый врагами город, его соперник в делах любовных Тарвек сам же просит Агату: «Дай ты парню мотив сражаться!» Поцелуй сработал как надо: окрылённый юноша мчался через город, круша всё и вся на своём пути.
  • Сёма, шоб ты сдох! — Я спасу вас обоих, не сомневайтесь, — взволнованным шепотом обещает Агата в очередной раз рискнувшим жизнью ради неё Гилу и Тарвеку, обнимая парней. А потом продолжает на полной громкости, ухватив их за воротники: — А ПОТОМ Я ВАС ПРИБЬЮ!
  • Сладкоежка — не оставляйте Зиту рядом с тортиком, если не хотите, чтобы в ней проснулась бездонная и бессовестная обжора! А учитывая, что она молниеносная смертоносная неудержимая амазонка, анекдотическая фраза «когда я ем, я глух и нем, хитёр и быстр и дьявольски умён» — как раз про этот случай.
  • Такой серьёзный, что уже смешно — вечно невозмутимый авиатор (и Ягер-генерал) Хиггс. Например, когда с совершенно серьёзным и торжественным видом надевает своему начальнику совершенно смехотворную шляпу (без оной Гильгамеша не признают). Из-за этого моменты, когда он всё же теряет эту свою невозмутимость, смешны вдвойне.
  • Шрифт характеристики — речь Замка Гетеродин выделяется не шрифтом, а уникальной формой пузырей (прямоугольники со скруглёнными углами и сдвинутой двойной рамкой, с неправильными фигурами по краям). Искры не отстают — в сумеречном состоянии плывут границы пузырей. Также свой стиль пузырей как минимум у ягеров, Франца и Зверя (угловатая линия вместо ровной, пока Зверь был полноценным поездом, углы были намного острее), муз (скруглённая прямоугольная рамка, у сломанных — условно овальная из прямых углов, с осыпающимися прямоугольниками), и дрин (ягеровская угловатая линия, но двойная рамка и собственный шрифт).
  • Эхо могущества — Муза Времени говорит и так зловеще, а тут ещё и эхо. А самые мурашки побежали по спине, когда Ван Рейн заговорил в ответ и понял, что от его-то слов никакого эха нет!

Упоминания

  • Грандиозное зимнее платье — в рождественской главе Агата, Тарвек и Джил одеты в рождественские платья, отделанные мехом, а над их головами парит дингбот, несущий омелу.
  • Скрытое оскорбление — в замке Гетеродинов Агата во время поисков потайной комнаты рассуждает вслух: «Попробуем думать как жестокий, параноидальный, безнравственный маньяк с манией величия». После чего спрашивает у Тарвека, как бы он устроил вход в потайное помещение. Тот с легкостью открывает проход в комнату… и только потом понимает, что его только что оскорбили.
  • After Action Patch Up: (Перевязка ран после битвы) After the fight with Dr. Merlot, Zola leaps to provide this for Gil. Да и Ягеры его не просто так к Гкике водили.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: (И всё-таки они друг друга любят)
    • The love/hate relationship between Gil, Agatha, and Tarvek runs so deep that a list of specific examples would probably end up getting its own page.
    • Klaus and Gil, as well: when Klaus sends a small army to take him prisoner as all hell’s about to break loose in Mechanicsburg, Gil’s reaction is «he does care!». When he has to enslave Gil with his own personality to ensure the boy doesn’t do anything reckless, his expression tells how much he hates having to do it. Being on the brink of dying for having left the hospital during heavy attacks is only a very small bother for him once he sees Gil destroy a army of clanks singlehandly while declaring himself future ruler over the Empire, declaring it was worth it with pride written all over his face. And when Lucrecia gets the idea of simply using Gil for a «lovers reunion» between her and Klaus, the latter goes straight into Papa Wolf mode.
    • Tarvek, who has maintained for years that he really really hates his childhood friend and rival Gil (who is mind-controlled after he is captured by the Baron), had an adorable one.
  • Badass Boast: (Крутая похвальба) Lots and lots.
    • Gil gives us one of the more effective examples.
    • Gil can also keep his boasts very short:
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Gil: This is not a trick! I did not get lucky! I am Gilgamesh Wulfenbach — AND I AM IN CONTROL!

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  • He also gets a similar one moments earlier, facing down an entire army of war clanks alone:
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Gil: I am Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, son of Klaus. I will say this only once—leave now, or you will die.

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  • Dr. Sun’s threat towards DuPree. Notable not for being elaborate, but for such conviction that it frightens an unrepentant Ax-Crazy psycho.
  • Zola is a beautiful chemical killing machine.
  • Tarvek uses a very short (but effective) one on Gil:
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Tarvek: ... You came running in and saw someone you hate and fear trying to kill her — of course you reacted. Gil: I do not fear you. Tarvek: Really? You should.

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  • Agatha, showing that she learned the «hamming the bunch of unruly minions into obedience» part of her family business.
  • Another from Agatha; very dramatic.
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Agatha: I do not need rescuing. I AM THE HETERODYNE!

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  • Deliberately Monochrome: (Строгий монохром) Volume 1, «The Beetleburg Clank», makes wonderful use of this. Before Agatha’s locket is removed, the comic is almost entirely in grayscale; the only color is some blue around the sound effects of Sparks' machines (and Agatha’s green eyes). Right after the locket is removed, the colors are present but dim, as her Spark starts to assert itself although she still gets headaches — but in her most Spark-ish moments, the colors are bright and clear. By Volume 2, when the headaches have stopped, the entire comic is in full color. (Bright searing color, see Art Evolution above.) One flashback in Volume 2 shows the color fading the moment Agatha puts her locket back on. Originally, the first volume was black and white (it was a print comic) and that was the end of it. The retconned color is just full of symbolism.
  • Dude, Where’s My Respect?: (Ты меня уважаешь?) Gil suffered from this regularly until he ascended to his father’s title. «What do I have to do?! I just took down an entire army of clanks, and still I get treated like a halfwit child!»
  • Gentle Giant: (Добродушный гигант) Punch, apparently, though most people who didn’t know him assume he’s just Dumb Muscle. Also possibly a Genius Bruiser, though the evidence for that comes from the Jägers who are… not the best at determining who’s «schmott». Appears to be confirmed when we meet him again after the Time Skip.
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Belloptix: But… didn’t he have a… lighter side? Maxim: Oh yah! He build very amuzing toys for de orphan cheeldren!

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  • Gilligan Cut: (Гиллигановский монтаж)
    • «There’s no male guard on this ship that can resist the charms of a beautiful princess!»
    • «Do you really think he’d just hand it to her?»
    • «Vot? Hyu wants de hammer?» «…Yes?»
  • Go-Go Enslavement: (Раздеть женщину)
    • Agatha ends up in the Leia-style slave bikini for one gag panel in the opening of «Revenge of the Weasel Queen Part 2».
    • She’s also stripped down to her corset here, though it’s for different reasons than the usual (the villains want to analyse her voice when she angrily demands her clothes back).
    • The King of the Silver Lands seems to be big on this, as he has all of the captive heroes stripped down to attire akin to Slave Leia from Star Wars.
  • Gone Horribly Right: (Всё пошло слишком так) The guy that wanted to steal the hammer for the Doom Bell? Mama gives it to him willingly.
  • Hair-Raising Hare: (Ушастик-ужастик) The Weasel Queen’s Lapinomorphs.
  • Happily Adopted: (Счастливо усыновлённый) Agatha calls Punch and Judy her parents, in spite of knowing that they aren’t her biological parents.
  • Happily Married: (Счастливо женаты) Master Payne and the countess. Also Balthazar’s parents. And Punch and Judy, though it may not be strictly official in their case.
  • Hidden Depths: (Скрытые глубины) Practically everyone in the comic gets a chance to show that they’re not just the weirdos they are initially presented as in the narrative.
    • The Jägers, who at first appeared to be little more than comic relief and have since been revealed to have more layers than an onion. It’s even been lampshaded in canon.
    • Given what he will do for those he cares for, one wonders if Tarvek might have avoided the worst of his family heritage.
  • In My Language, That Sounds Like…: (Неприлично для иностранца) Zeetha, daughter of Chump. And, yes, she knows what it means in our language. It’s been pretty much established that «Chump» was/is Klaus, which makes it highly likely the name is not a coincidence.
  • I Take Offense to That Last One: (Вот сейчас обидно было!) Agatha’s new set of advisers in Mechanicsburg have no objection to being called «bandits» by Vanamonde, but take umbrage at his prefixing this description with «old».
  • Lightning Bruiser: (Реактивный громила)
    • Airman Higgs.
    • After the Time Skip, Gil’s new rather tall and imposing female-figure bodyguard clank «Bohrlaika» is quite nimble, packs an electo-sword that can cleanly cut off an arm off an enemy Humongous Mecha war clank, and is no worse for wear after missing the fact that the arm is about to fall on her when she is reiterating her surrender demand.
  • Реактивный громила — много кто, от суперсолдат разных мастей до порядком раздраконенных Искр вроде обоих Вульфенбахов, Мартеллия или Отара, но на фоне всех выделяется некий Аксель Хиггс. На вид обычный пилот и простой крутой смертный, но однажды взбесившийся робот буквально вмял его в стену — Хиггс вылез из образовавшейся дыры в форме себя слегка запачканным и разнес обидчика на гайки одним ударом. А позже, когда упоровшаяся психостимулятором Зола ранила того, кто ему был небезразличен — выдал ей таких незамедлительных люлей, что она не могла уследить за его движениями. На самом деле является Ягер-генералом, то есть представителем первого поколения ягермонстров - бессмертных суперсолдат трансильванских князей.
  • Like Brother and Sister: (Как брат и сестра) Bang and Gil, to the horror of Klaus. After the time skip, Gil finds nothing odd about waking up with Bang in bed with him. Apparently she had been struggling to stay awake as much as him, but she doesn’t have his training, so she can’t just do a few mental exercises and be good. DuPree acknowledges it during a tea break with Zeetha and Violetta.
  • Look Behind You: (У тебя за спиной!)
    • Gil quickly distracts Agatha from a rather raunchy book that would likely make her irritated with him with a well timed recommendation of another on his shelves.
    • When Tarvek gets reanimated and attacks Moloch, the latter saves himself by pointing to something, «Uh… hey, check it out.» calming the man down instantly. Though in this case not only does the target look, but there’s actually something to see.
  • Made of Iron: (Распутинская живучесть?) Most of the cast for comedic effect, although there are a couple of outstanding examples:
    • Any Jägermonster. They’re ridiculously strong, immortal, nearly impervious to pain, and are regularly put through walls and shot repeatedly over the course of an average story-line. Dimo, Maxim, and Ognian are hanging from a gallows when they’re first introduced. They’ve been up there for days and are in no apparent danger or discomfort.
    • Airman Third Class Axel Higgs. When Gil first hears how his father was saved by him, including Higgs breaking several bones, falling from impossible heights and so on, he believes it is exaggeration. When he actually watches him fight, he is taught better. To the point it’s fairly clear that Higgs is something more than human. After the time-skip, it’s revealed that he’s a human-looking Jäger, known as the «sneaky» Jägergeneral, and in fact one of the oldest and most dangerous characters in the comic.
    • Old Man Death took multiple Jägerpunches to the face and was still able to outfight the Jäger who provided them. He even somewhat lampshades it, explaining that he is possibly the only human that rode with the Jägers for years and survived it.
  • Mad Scientist: (Безумный учёный) «Sparks», whose erratic genius has literally reshaped the world. They start out gifted, but only become able to warp the laws of physics on their own after they experience what is called a «breakthrough». A very rare few individuals have broken through a second time, unlocking Enlightenment Superpowers. A spark’s normal sanity can vary heavily between individuals, but all of them lose it a little when they get creative and enter a mental state known as The Madness Place.
    • 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 get all of the funding and attention.
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«I told the baron, give me a thousand orphans, a hedge maze and enough cheese and I can—»

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  • There are also sparks that are more mad about art than science.
  • Agatha awakening to her mad science is what starts and drives the entire story forward, and raises the question …or will her newfound mad science DESTROY THEM ALL!
  • Mad Scientist Laboratory: (Зловещая лаборатория) Several, most notably those belonging to Baron Wulfenbach and Prince Aaronev. And all of the ones in Castle Heterodyne.
  • Mama Bear: (Родительский инстинкт) Von Pinn, and how. She’s actually the Muse of protection, downloaded into a construct body. The «bear» part gets much more literal later on.
  • Mauve Shirt: (Лиловые рубашки) Sergeant Scorp of the Baron’s Vespiary Squad. Also an unquestionably Cool Old Guy, right down to the superb facial hair.
  • Mexican Standoff: (Мексиканская заминка) Subverted between Klaus and Dr. Beetle.
  • Mini-Mecha: (Мини-меха) Ol' Vorthang’s Sunday Best, an armor museum piece in Mechanicsburg, was restored to operation by Agatha during the Battle of Mechanicsburg for her personal use.
  • Modesty Towel: (Прикрыться полотенцем) Agatha actually invokes the trope while on the Corbettite Railways, using it as a ploy to distract anybody entering her compartiment, giving time for Krosp (and later Wooster) to take them out if they happen to be hostile. Unluckily, all those coming to visit are either allies or just train attendants, and thus she gives each of them an eyeful for nothing. She has pretty much given up on the pretense when an actual assassin shows up.
  • Monster Clown: (Зловещий клоун) Whatever this thing originally was made for, among other things, probably.
  • Mood Whiplash: (Эмоциональные качели)
    • The calming pie does its intended purpose. (Warning: spoilery. And the pies may contain nutmeg.)
    • Say-…
    • Agatha gets whiplash herself.
    • After a hilarious scene of Gil simultaneously fighting DuPree and brewing potion, next time we see him we get… Klaus towering over him with a wasp-detector.
  • Mook Horror Show: (Кошмар головореза) The flashback of Zeetha wiping out a whole pirate ship sure looks like this in a couple panels.
  • Moral Myopia: (Готтентотская мораль)
    • Klaus and heroes often suffer from this trope. For example, the Storm King Conspiracy and the Other are hated for their murderous, violent, manipulative and underhanded behavior and tactics. While the heroic or neutral characters tend to be much more benevolent and restrained, they also have little in the way of hesitation in using similar methods as their enemies to achieve their goals.
    • Bang was a murderous, sadistic pirate long before she met Klaus, but he and Gil often look the other way regarding her actions while severely punishing others for lesser infractions.
    • Merlot blames Agatha for the fact that he killed a few dozen people and got punished for it.
  • Mugging the Monster: (Не на того напали)
    • Oublenmach tries to break into what turns out to be a Jägermonster bar, brandish his weapon and threaten the staff into giving him what they consider a sacred relic. The next time we see him, he’s subjected to a Neck Lift by Mama Gkika.
    • The last surviving hostile Spark in Mechanisburg found himself «a charming pair of innocent hostages»: Zeetha, daughter of Chump and Axel Higgs. Next time we see him, he’s wearing his BFG as a scarf.
  • Mushroom Samba: (Глазами сумасшедшего) The Circus pumps out a hallucinogenic gas during their escape from Sturmhaven, shout «The Heterodynes are back!» and we get this little gem.
    • Van has a small one when he tries some of Agatha’s new coffee.
  • Must Have Caffeine: (Кофеман) Vanamonde von Mekkhan spends all his time in a coffee shop in Mechanicsburg, and certainly does enjoy his coffee. During the first attack on Mechanicsburg, there’s a caffeine dispensing assistant at his side. He has even written a textbook on coffee preparation (under a pseudonym): Bean There, Done That.+его сестра
  • Offing the Offspring: (Я тебя породил, я тебя и убью) What Lucrezia purportedly did to her own son, and now plans for her daughter.
  • Oh, Crap!: (Осознание катастрофы)
    • Klaus, realizing Lucrezia has enslaved him and when Agatha activates the Battle Circus.
    • In a subverted Big Damn Heroes moment:
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«Who in blazes is that?» «Why, I am OTHAR TRYGGVASSEN, Gentleman Adventurer!» «Uh oh.»

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  • Amusingly invoked here.
  • And here
  • Everyone is thinking it as the Baron puts a Wasp Weasel in Gil’s face and watches it shriek. Even you and Gil.
  • Maxim as he realizes that, since he has Old Man Death’s hat, every Jäger around is going to fight him for it.
  • Mamma Gkika when she sees that the previously unstoppable falling object heading toward the cathedral contains Baron Wulfenbach himself — or the fact that he seems to be carrying a bomb. Probably both. Most of those who saw the contraption for the first time have a small Oh Crap moment when they realize that the castle’s defenses weren’t stopping it.
  • Brother Ulm has this reaction, when it turns out that his new passanger is Agatha Heterodyne. He almost presses the ejection button.
  • An unfortunate assassin gets this, when after popping into Agatha’s train car, he realizes he’s surrounded by Zeetha, Krosp, Wooster, Margarella and Violetta, all of whom have weapons trained on him.
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Assassin: Uh-oh… Erm… sorry, wrong room?

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  • Gil wants to know how long they have before the multistoreyed thing over Mechanicsburg pushes through into this reality. Hard to tell, says the Castle, which can’t see it…
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Castle: How many centimeters high would you say it appears?

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  • Straight-up followed by the castle having one itself when Gil gives it visual input:
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Castle: That’s much be— AAAAAAAH!

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  • A wave of energy disables all mechanisms in the area, and Agatha’s standing near the epicenter. Violetta realizes the implications involving a certain Other-suppressing locket.
  • When the castle decides to put out the fire in one of it’s room by using the water from its cistern, the cast that is standing right underneath it is more than likely thinking this and This Is Gonna Suck.
  • A wordless one when Albia takes back control over the British commandos Lucrezia brought in. This is even lampshaded on the same page.
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Albia: We suspect she is used to thinking she cannot be stopped.

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  • When Gil sees the eldritch horrors emerging into the time-stopped Mechanicsburg, the Castle remarks that the last time something like that showed up, they were much smaller, had tentacles, and «had hats». Obviously, this is just another goofy Noodle Incident the likes of which this comic so loves, as an Eldritch Abomination in a funny hat is, well, funny. Later on, Gil realizes it was describing the Dreen.
  • Agatha and co. have tracked the stolen Prende’s Chronometric Lantern to a previously-empty island which now appears to have ancient ruins on it, much to their surprise. While they wonder if the records have been falsified and if so, why, an amused Bang points out to Krosp that there’s another possible explanation — after all, the Lantern manipulates time. Who knows what the thieves might have been up to? Cue massive Oh, Crap reaction from Krosp.
  • Ominous Pipe Organ: (Зловещая органная музыка) At one point a flipped-out Agatha directs a small army of clanks (including Transforming Mecha and Luggage) with a high-falutin calliope. Doubles as visual Awesome Music. And perhaps a literal version of Autobots, Rock Out!.
  • Only Sane Man: (Единственный нормальный человек)
    • Von Zinzer. Good news is, he has a lot of experience dealing with Sparks, which also gives him lots of Genre Savvy, though he’s also somewhat fatalistic — he’s resigned to the fact that having to work for Sparks means he could be blown up, eaten, ripped apart or otherwise brutally killed at any time. No wonder he can be so snarky. Given the large number of Sparks and Spark minions he has recently been hanging around with, he is sometimes literally the only person in the room who is not crazy. He regularly hangs lampshades on it, too.
    • Krosp has also been this at times. Just not when the string is going to escape.
  • Единственный нормальный человек — Молох фон Цинцер. Окружён Искрами, безумцами, суперсолдатами, шпионами, а он просто хочет спокойно жить…
    • Безвестный военный, отказавшийся пропускать Гила, несмотря на его шляпу. Благодаря чему и пошёл на повышение (если выжил).
    • Agatha spends some time in the role, although she’s not actually very sane, and (ahem) certainly not a man. Especially during the Mechanicsburg arc, where she was trying to pull. In general, she, her father and her uncle are typically set up as the only «sane» men where Sparks (and especially their family of Sparks) are concerned: while as much of a Mad Scientist as any other, unlike most Sparks Agatha has a strong moral code, takes responsibility for the consequences of her actions, and won’t usually do things just because she can. While she loves building Death Ray Cannons, she yet has to actually use it like the name implies instead of shoot the scenery. Also, unlike most she’s more than capable of ignoring the urge to do mad science if there’s something more pressing to pay attention to. Usually when there’s another Spark in a scene, Agatha will be the «normal» one or even the Straight Man in comparison.
    • Klaus, and to a lesser extent Gil, in regards to politics and Europa as a whole. A lot of mention is made of the fact that Klaus is basically a babysitter for an entire continent of childish megalomaniacs, selfish nobles and rampaging monsters — not to mention feuding henchmen and an absolutely psychotic dragon. He even becomes more or less a literal babysitter since he has requested that all royals give him their future heirs so he can raise and teach them in his castle — as a way to ensure that the next generation isn’t warmongering and batshit crazy. It gets the point that while he’s actually a very composed person, he has to play up the brutal tyrant act just to get things done, which Gil lampshades.
    • Before Time Skip, Tarvek Stormvoraus is the only known important player in his family who doesn’t spend all his time plotting the murder of rivals. He’s even used his extensive logistical and assassination training to prevent Wulfenbach soldiers being wasped!
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: (Смена поведения – это серьёзно)
    • Bangladesh DuPree not choosing at once the «let’s blow everything up» option gets her second-in-command worried. She was just fooling around, however.
    • On a much more serious note, later on when Agatha is trying to power up the Castle, Gilgamesh’s behavior is extremely off, and even Franz notices it despite having never met him. Turns out that he’s been brainwashed by Klaus.
    • When it is revealed that Klaus’s mucking about with the space-time continuum has attracted the attention of an Eldritch Abomination, Castle Heterodyne freaks out. The Castle is worried.
    • When Gil orders DuPree to hunt the librarians together with him after they trespassed into the airship, not only gets he horrifically angry, but even the Ax-Crazy Blood Knight Bangladesh asks about whether or not he feels OK and lampshades that she herself is also having one since she is so confused by his behavior that she is for once listening to his rambling.
    • When one of the Old Heterodynes holds to a promise to never terrorize someone’s lands, you know whatever it was that compelled them to make such a promise to begin with was something horrible indeed. That is the case with Robur Heterodyne and whatever timey-wimey device he made that resulted in the Dreen appearing, and his promise to the Corbettite Order in exchange for their aid in dealing with it.
    • Krosp is seriously disturbed by Martellus’s cat. How disturbed? He’s not hungry. This causes everyone to turn to him, and Agatha to look into what’s going on.
    • The librarians of the Uncorruptible Library are generally willing to trade their lives to protect a sufficiently precious book, so when librarian Vipsania Perrault proposes setting a book on fire as bait, Lumi expresses astonishment. Vipsania is still closing her eyes as the book is set alight.
  • Our Werewolves Are Different: (Оборотни) The exact details have not been explained, but lycanthropy has been mentioned to be a thing, and one of the Knights of Jove has demonstrated the ability to shapeshift into a wolfman form. (Or he’s normally a wolfman all the time and the Sparky armor he is forced to discard was making him look human…)
  • Our Zombies Are Different: (Зомби) Several different types. Besides «traditional» zombies of the Type F or Type V variety, they also have Jägermonsters and Constructs, which are essentially Type A creations, and Revenants, which despite the name are more a cross of Type T and Type P, Parasite than Type R zombies: infected by a slaver wasp, they are like sleeper agents, going about their business and not even realizing they are infected until triggered to fight on the behalf of «the Other».
  • Overly Long Name: (Длинное имя)
    • «I am Zola Anya Talinka Venia Zeblinkya Malfeazium.»
    • In the «Cinderella» omake, Cinderella’s full name is really Sleeping Beauty Snow White Rapunzel Ozma Rose Red Riding Hood Rumpelstiltskin. (No, really. Just don’t ask.)
    • Boris Vasily Konstantin Andrei Myshkin Dolokhov. A case of All There in the Script, since his full name isn’t disclosed in the comic, and comes from The Works and the novelization.
  • Please Put Some Clothes On: (Одеть женщину)
    • Gil is very polite about it when he encounters a subordinate who’d gone Sleepwalking:
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Gil: Oh, there is one thing… If you’re going to be working with me, I’d appreciate it if you wore clothes. Agatha: [realizing she’s still in her underwear] EEP!

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  • Violetta phrases it a little less politely in one strip.
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Violetta: All right, you buffoon — I dug around in the back room and found you some clothes. So get dressed!

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  • She may be too busy saving your stupid life to notice, but you’re not going to walk around in front of my lady without pants!
  • After freeing Othar Tryggvassen — Gentleman Adventurer! — from the frozen time bubble, and explaining to him the new situation in Europa, Gil Wulfenbach asks him, for goodness sake, to put a shirt on… because his Shirtless Scene is a big distraction for Gil’s subordinates, who are busy Eating the Eye Candy rather than doing their jobs. They’re all quite disappointed.
  • Plot Armor: (Сюжетная броня) While named characters do die, it’s still a rare occurrence, compared to the casualty rate of the Mooks. To show that this is not due to the characters following the What Measure Is a Mook? trope, they often try but fail to kill their significant enemies. It’s become a minor Running Gag for characters to complain their gun pulls to the left just after they only wounded their opponent with it.
  • Poison and Cure Gambit: (Создать проблему и продавать решение) Given a Mad Scientist twist — the man who administered the poison is the cure, and it only works if he’s alive, so Agatha needs to stay close and keep him safe. Until she subverts it with a substitute. By the next page.
  • Poor Communication Kills: (Коммуникативная неудача) Subverted in some cases, played straight in others.
    • Instead of explaining to Agatha that Othar is an insane serial killer of Sparks, Gil basically tries to cow her into ignoring that he and his father are imprisoning a well-known hero. When Agatha worries for Othar’s safety during an evacuation, Gil tries to brush it off again. He does begin to explain after she gives him a hard look but by then she was already going back to save Othar.
    • Agatha’s possession by the Other is set up as a big secret that could cause all sorts of problems, but Zeetha goes out of her way to mention it to Gil at the very first opportunity. However, Klaus is not aware of the true situation, and is unlikely to be willing to talk about it now that he’s been wasped, and knows that talking would allow her to control him.
    • Subverted again, and significantly, here. Dimo has just informed the Jägergenerals and Klaus’s leadership about the situation, which will presumably reach Klaus’s ears presently. Whether Klaus believes him remains to be seen. The generals seem confident that Agatha can beat the Other.
    • The Uncorruptible Library figures out that Gil is underneath some form of mind control. Not realizing it is actually his father’s doing, they assume that he is a revenant and decide to kidnap Tarvek instead of negotiating with Gil. The Knights of Jove take advantage to hijack their kidnapping scheme, causing all sorts of trouble.
    • Agatha sends out a bunch of messenger clanks to warn Klaus Wulfenbach about her possession by the Other. The only surviving messenger clank gets intercepted by Albia’s agents. Due to a mixture of this trope and Bystander Syndrome, the message never makes it to its intended audience, or even to Queen Albia herself. Albia’s agents decide that keeping the message to themselves is an excellent way to make Klaus’s life harder. By the time they are ready to send it higher up, Agatha and Klaus have both been frozen in time, making them think it isn’t relevant anymore. When they start seeing signs that it might be relevant again, they again decide to ignore it to cause Gilgamesh Wulfenbach trouble. By the time the clank resurfaces, its original purpose has become completely irrelevant.
  • Powered Armor: (Силовая броня)
    • The fighting-augmentation exoskeleton, an exoskeleton that speeds up and amplifies Agatha’s movements as well as responds to attacks.
  • Power Trio: (Золотое трио)
    • Also Agatha, Gil and Tarvek, which have subtropes such as Blonde, Brunette, Redhead and Two Guys and a Girl.
  • Золотое трио — троица главгероев: рубака Гильгамеш, профессиональный убийца Тарвек и безумная изобретательница Агата.
  • Precursors: (Предтечи) There is an ancient civilization predating even the God Queens. They mastered a science revolving around dimensions, space, and time, allowing them to construct a Portal Network that even modern Sparks struggle to understand.
  • Proud Warrior Race Guy: (Воинственная раса) The Jägers in general, with varying degrees of «proud» and «warrior» for individuals. For example, when Boris beats the crap out of a Jäger messenger to find out where the generals were meeting, their response was surprise and respect, saying that he’d «earned» the right to talk with them. Also, they take their oath of loyalty very seriously. General Goomblast even explains that the reason the Jägers hate the Other’s bugs is that they force people to obey.
  • Psychic Powers: (Псионические способности) Second stage Sparks have abilities that are, for all intents and purposes, magic. Their brains tap into another dimension with energies that can be controlled by the mind, allowing them to use Telepathy, live indefinitely, and bend the environment to their will.
  • Public Secret Message:
    • Jenka and Füst are confronted during an apparent rampage in the town of Zumzum by Da Boyz who declare that they were «… Charged by the ancient contract vit' de job ov savin' all dese people!» Considering that the Jägers only started serving Baron Wulfenbach about 15 years ago, reference to an ancient contract by any of them can only mean one thing: the Jägertroth. Not missing a beat, Jenka beats feet out of there to meet in a more discrete location with them to get apprised.
    • The Baron tells the Storyteller a strange variant on an old tale, involving a witch riding on a wolf’s back. He tells the Storyteller that Gil has a copy of a long-lost book to motivate the man to go to Gil. When Tarvek and Gil hear the story, Tarvek immediately gets what it means: the Baron has been wasped by the Other, a message he couldn’t have told them directly.
  • Puppeteer Parasite: (Разумный паразит) Slaver wasps. Early versions just turned people into mindless revenants. Later versions could create sleeper agents who behaved otherwise normally unless given a command by the Other. The latest version can even infest Sparks, who were otherwise immune due to drastically different mental states from normal people.+паук
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: (Зловещие красные глаза)
    • The Monster Horse
    • Ferretina, the Weasel Queen
    • Also, the Dingbots in Bomb mode.
  • Retired Badass: (Крутой в отставке) An old Mechanicsburg sandwich-maker shows up in one of the side stories. He is nicknamed «Old Man Death» — by the Jägers. Turns out he used to run with them back in his youth — and never lost a fight. He still can forcibly boot one out of his shop now, leading to the «three tries» rule.
  • Retirony: (Ирония отставки) Do not total your points out loud if you’re on a labor team in Castle Heterodyne. If you talk about how your sentence is almost up, the Castle is likely to go out of its way to invoke this on you.
  • Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: (Награда для предателя) Klaus Wulfenbach despises traitors, as Merlot humiliatingly learns. Klaus promotes him to replace Dr. Beetle, telling him that as soon as he makes a single mistake, he’ll be sent to Castle Heterodyne. And sure enough, later on Agatha finds him in Castle Heterodyne. He’s not happy with her.
  • Rhymes on a Dime: (Говорит стихами) Paris’s «Child Wagon» clanks, designed to round up hordes of naughty children, talk in rhymes.
  • Schizo Tech: (Шизотех)
    • And how. Telegraph, radio, telephone? Nope. Motor cars? One seen so far. Heavier-than-air aircraft? Two prototypes. Strong AI, lasers and resurrection are perfectly possible, though.
    • This trope works against the development of artillery. Sure, Sparks have found numerous ways to turn a glut of grounded energy into concentrated destruction — Agatha once built a death ray with enough power and range to blast out of Mechanicsburg and through a mountain… but in trying to overspecialize and overcompensate in pure power, Sparks tend to create surface-to-blimp weapon prototypes that are finnicky at best and disastrous at worst. As such, there are no standardized forms of artillery, so it’s never mass-produced in a world with slow-flying giant targets.
  • Self-Deprecation: (Самоирония)
    • Phil Foglio’s Author Avatar is repeatedly shown to be an incredibly boring storyteller, to the point that in the Mechanicsburg hospital he’s put to work telling stories to sick kids… because they fall asleep without the need for medication.
    • The Author Avatar of the colorist, Cheyenne Wright, is a Large Ham and the Laughably Evil ruler of an underground kingdom.
  • Shipper on Deck: (Внутрисеттинговый шиппер)
    • Moloch (and practically everyone else) ships Agatha×Gil; Violetta ships Agatha×Tarvek (cue Ship-to-Ship Combat).
    • Then there are Zeetha, «Jäger girls», Jägers, the crowd…
    • Castle Heterodyne appears to ship 'em both. Really, it ships Agatha×Anything with a viable set of male reproductive organs, though it prefers guys who are strong, violent, and sparky. It’s implied that this was the way the «old» Heterodynes operated, since the castle comes equipped with «harem quarters» and it’s mentioned that the master bedroom «only sleeps six.»
    • Tarvek ships Higgs×Zeetha. Higgs' blush in the 2nd panel argues he’s right.
    • Agatha also ships Higgs and Zeetha, going so far as to plan an elaborate display for Queen Albia (involving a horde of Jägers and a giant mech suit) to allow Zeetha and Higgs the opportunity to dance together.
    • The supporting cast now has a betting pool. Most root for Gil, Tarvek or a One True Threesome, except for a Jäger who bets on himself.
    • Zeetha ships Larana X Jiminez Hoffman.
  • Shirtless Scene: (Рубашка не нужна) A fair number with Gil and Tarvek, and a few others (the Baron comes to mind). Tarvek did one long one wearing but a bedsheet, and Gil did a shorter scene wearing first just that, then… less. The battle of most skin exposed continues.
    • Professor Mittlemind is also technically an example of this in every scene he appears in, but.. yeah.
  • Shoulders of Doom: (Самоубийственные наплечники) Zeetha approves.+Гил в сцене с чужой одеждой у ягербара
  • Show Some Leg: (Отвлечь с помощью женщины) Zulenna attempts it, though it’s subverted on the next page.
  • Single Tear: (Скупая мужская слеза) Vanamonde sheds one after just one sip of the perfect cup of coffee.
  • Slasher Smile: (Улыбашка)
    • The Jägermonsters' mouths open literally from ear to ear and are full of very big fangs.
    • Most Sparks pull off magnificent examples of this at least once when they’re in their element.
    • Bangladesh DuPree seems to wear it professionally.
    • Zola develops an impressive Slasher Smile after taking the Movit #11.
    • Invoked by Sparafucile in this strip:
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Sparafucile: You see, at the university, I studied behavioral psychology. With a minor in theater. My dissertation combined the two. Maxim: …Vitch means? Sparafucile: Which means that all I usually have to do is smile like this— [demonstrates] and I don’t have to kill anybody!

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  • The Smart Guy: (Умник) Practically all of the characters are pretty smart. Krosp is an example of the rare GG smart guy who’s also the Only Sane Man of the group.
  • Умник — Тарвек Штурмфораус — смесь «Проныры» с «Планировщиком». Научными знаниями и техническими навыками в среде Искр никого не удивишь, зато острый аналитический ум, обширные социальные связи и умение выкручиваться из любой ситуации здорово выделяют Тарвека из рядов тупых технарей, привыкших решать все свои проблемы с помощью луча смерти помощнее.
  • Spikes of Villainy: (Злодейские шипы)
    • Jägers, while not evil as such, like this style. Although he’s one of the good guys, Gil receives some spare epically spikey shoulder pads as they were the only clothing on hand at the time. Even the hat has spikes of its own.
    • Later, one Jäger general wears long, bone-looking shoulder spikes. At least in his case, these are quite functional.
    • Agatha’s Humongous Mecha here has spikes on it. Well, she is the protagonist, but she is also a Heterodyne.
    • Professor Blintzie von Wyrmhaut has long, dangerous-looking spikes sprouting from the shoulders of her coat, and smaller ones from the top of her thigh-high boots. And she’s certainly a dangerous and amoral Spark. Although in her line of work (which includes hunting monsters), the spikes are certainly justified as a defense against being swallowed whole.
  • Squishy Wizard: (Хлипкий маг) Averted. For no explained reason, Sparks appear to be stronger, faster, better coordinated (okay, this one is more understandable), and tougher than any normal human. This isn’t counting Sparks that may have modified themselves.
  • Stripperiffic: (Одевается в секс-шопе)
    • While a great many female characters don’t seem to have a problem showing a little skin, the «Weasel Queen» shows a lot of it.
    • Zeetha spent some time roughing out in Mechanicsburg and the Castle while wearing just a leather bikini and boots. But then again, it wasn’t her fault.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: (Родомагия)
    • The Spark is hereditary, and the most powerful Sparks in the series descend from a handful of noble lineages: Heterodyne, Wulfenbach, Mongfish, and the various Valois lineages are the most important.
    • As a very odd example, children of fertile constructs inherit their parent’s Super-Strength.
  • Super-Soldier: (Суперсолдаты)
    • The Jägermonsters, who were created by the old «bad» Heterodynes as shock troops but then had to obey the «good» Heterodynes due to the oath of loyalty they take very seriously (though are still capable of breaking; look at Captain Vole). One of the ingredients of the Jägerbrau used to transform people into Jägers is water from the river Dyne, which Heterodynes are known for drinking and gaining superhuman strength as a result.
    • And don’t forget Von Pinn. Or else.
    • And Airman Higgs is looking mighty super, recently…
  • Суперсолдаты — отряды из боевых конструктов есть на службе у любой уважающей себя Искры. Самые меметичные и колоритные — оркоподобные солдаты Гетеродинов Ягермонстры: сильнее, быстрее и ловчее человека, бессмертные и страшно живучие. Так как Гетеродины перерабатывали в Ягеров исключительно наиболее верных своих слуг, служат своим хозяевам они совершенно добровольно и безо всякого промывания мозгов.
  • Super-Speed: (Суперскорость) The various Movit tonics, while not exactly granting super speed, give people temporarily increased speed and energy with some implied physical toll later on. Half a bottle of Movit #6 got Tarvek on his feet for hours though he was fatally ill, and a few sips of Movit #11 turned Zola from a reasonably good fighter into a crazy battle goddess. And then Airman Higgs shows us all what super speed really is.
  • Supervillain Lair: (Твердыня тьмы) Any Spark who reaches a certain level of power will build themselves one of these, with Mechanicsburg and Castle Heterodyne being one of the most prominent examples. One of the novelizations explains that Klaus Wulfenbach not only tolerates that his fellow Sparks construct such lairs, but even encourages them — as every minute they spend building or improving their lair is a minute where they aren’t unleashing Mad Science on the surrounding countryside.
  • Твердыня тьмы — у барона фон Вульфенбаха, являющегося по совместительству диктатором всея Восточной Европы, эту роль выполняет замок Вульфенбах в обеих его версиях — и обычный замок, стоящий в Трансильвании на ручье Вульфенбах, и куда чаще используемый одноименный циклопический дирижабль, на котором расположена мобильная база барона.
    • У его предшественников на тёмновластелинском поприще, князей Гетеродинов, и титул посолиднее, и база помасштабнее: в свою Твердыню Тьмы они превратили весь город Механиксбург, управляемый злобным ИИ, созданным на основе личности одного из князей. В ходе сюжетных перипетий сабж достаётся протагонистке Агате.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: (Подозрительно конкретное отрицание)
    • Sheesh, whose adolescent slave-girl fantasies are we indulging here anyway? Not mine!
    • Also, this gem here:
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Wooster: Do you get all your plans from bad Heterodyne farces, now? Agatha: Shut up. It’ll work. Wooster: But you could— Agatha: I’m trying to keep a low profile here. This is a «normal person» plan. Building a steam-powered grab-and-subdue clank out of the stove would be too showy. Margarella: Wait. You could do that? [beat] Agatha: Of course not! Margarella: Aaaah! You could do that!

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  • The «Two Good Omens Fan Art Pages» in the Short Story section.
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  • Take a Third Option: (Выбор третьего варианта) Try an incredibly risky procedure with only stuff made for killing someone or take him to another hospital, which may or may not have the requisite stuff anyway? Alternatively…
  • Take Over the World: (Завоевание мира) Baron Wulfenbach has already taken over the world — or at least the bulk of Europe, where the story is set — by the time the story starts, and he never wanted to. There have been various competing and overlapping conspiracies trying to replace him ever since, one of the more prominent using Zola and evidently Tweedle as its intended figureheads; Tarvek was planning something as well, but the reader never gets to hear the specifics.
  • Tap on the Head: (Сотряс — не простатит, за часок пролетит)
    • Lars, meet Jäger:
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Agatha: Oh. Lars gets hysterical after a fight. It’s hard to calm him down. [BONK!] Oggie: No, it ain’t!

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  • Violetta administers one to Agatha to keep her from charging a juiced-up Zola.
  • Agatha gives one to Martellus after he tells her that he performed an operation on them to make her physically addicted to him (to the point of death if she isn’t in contact) and that it can’t be solved by killing him and hacking off an arm. Of course you’d think that Agatha would remember that this isn’t a safe thing to do, but considering everything we’ve seen Martellus endure so far the danger probably isn’t that great.
  • Martellus is later at the receiving end of another one from Violetta.. er.. some highly mysterious invisible hand!
  • Agatha also lays out Captain Vole with a couple of blows from a large wrench, though again being a Jäger, he’s back on his feet in fairly short order.
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Bang: [tch] What, you’re surprised? She’s outsmarted us before. I mean, if they write this down, they ain’t gonna be calling it «Boy Genius».

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  • Played rather more straight when Master Payne’s Circus of Adventure presents a dramatic recreation of Agatha’s adventures for the English court, with Agatha herself now introduced as «Agatha Heterodyne—» «GIRL GENIUS!», much the same way that Othar Trygvassen is always referred to as «GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!»
  • Toilet Humor: (Туалетный юмор)
    • Avoided for the most part, though Krosp does do a stint cleaning up after the Circus’s horses.
    • Krosp is the butt again in the Sturmhalten sewers:
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Krosp: KILL ME!

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  • Gil got lessons from Dr. Sun, Agatha from Zeetha, and Ardsley Wooster apparently had a few well-hidden under his belt.
  • Boris Dolokhov goes from being the Baron’s amanuensis and being insulted by Jägermonsters to beating a Jägermonster until it was willing to give up classified information. The novelization says that he already was a skilled fencer before his previous employer gave him extra arms.
  • And Agatha has been steadily grinding her way up to a 20th level badass too.
  • Even Mauve Shirt Moloch has been doing well in Agatha’s presences. Even his seduction skills are improved.
  • Training the Gift of Magic: (Магия — врождённый дар/тренировки для Супермена?) The Spark is a rare, largely hereditary personal attribute that grants access to mad science that frequently verges on the magical — but a good technical education definitely helps. Sparks also need to learn to channel their own abilities relatively safely, and indeed some are lynched by the general populace if and when their abilities manifest uncontrollably for the first time.
  • Tranquil Fury: (Холодная ярость) Airman Higgs.
  • Trope Overdosed: (Троп на тропе)
    • Just look at the length of these pages. And it’s still growing.
    • On a micro scale, this page of the comic is linked to about 7,000 times from TV Tropes. Not necessarily a bad thing, as it’s a great page that nicely encapsulates the appeal of the comic as a whole.
  • Truth in Television: (Художественная правда) Moxana is based upon the Mechanical Turk, an eighteen-century chess-playing automaton. The Turk was a hoax, operated by someone inside it, but Moxana is a real version. +впрочем, возможность ручного управления есть. Но нужен кто-то реально маленький.
  • Underground City: (Подземная цивилизация) Skifander is eventually confirmed to be one, explaining why it’s been isolated for so long.
  • Undying Loyalty: (Верность до конца)
    • All Jägers seem to have it for the Heterodynes. The Jägergenerals explain this loyalty best. Vole is the exception, having stopped considering himself a Jäger.
    • Castle Heterodyne is exactly what you’d expect when a series of mad scientists who live For the Evulz design an artificial sentience — it is a self-aware house of horrors on a staggering scale. But it works exactly the way it was designed to, and that means undying loyalty to the Heterodyne.
    • Mechanicsburg is full of descendants of the horde of brigands and cutthroats who were loyal to the ancient Heterodynes. It’s In the Blood. This could probably be attributed as the power base of the Heterodyne family: while other sparks usually have their creations turn on them or require some manner of free will-stripping mind control, Heterodynes earn their minions' and creations' loyalty. That, and the aforementioned natural propensity to minionism.
    • This exhibition of undying loyalty extends to every sentient clank and construct seen so far that’s been made by someone of the Heterodyne lineage, not just the Jägermonster horde and the citizens of Mechanicsburg.
    • In the novelization, it’s revealed that Dr. Vapnoople’s creations, except for Krosp, were destroyed because their loyalty couldn’t be shifted to the Baron. Krosp didn’t only because he was able to escape.
  • Villain Episode: (Эпизод-фокус) Volume VI is more or less the villain episode of the comic. Near the end of the previous volume, Agatha was hooked up to a machine and possessed by The Other a.k.a. Lucrezia Mongfish, so the following volume naturally focuses on The Other instead of her. Agatha is able to come back at some points, but it’s only around the end of the volume that Agatha regains control of her body.
  • Wham Episode: (Арка, изменившая многое)
    • Zeetha being stabbed fatally by Zola in Castle Heterodyne
    • Klaus claims that Gil has been infected with a slaver wasp since his time in Paris in youth. note
    • The revelation of what happened to Mechanicsburg after Klaus activated his bomb. In a nutshell, within the bomb’s range‚ time has stopped, meaning that while it’s still the same day for Klaus, the Jaeger Generals, and everyone else still trapped in Mechanicsburg, two years have passed outside. With Klaus stuck in Mechanicsburg, the Empire has collapsed, and what little is left of their authority is in Gil’s control.
    • Post-time skip: Klaus has imposed an overlay of himself on Gil.
    • The Eldritch Abominations who previously appeared in Mechanicsburg when Robar Heterodyne conducted his time experiments were the Dreen; it remains to be seen if the (much bigger) one currently attracted by Klaus' Time Crash of the same city is some form of Dreen as well.
    • Revelation that the Enigma, one that appears at the very beginning of the comic and sets everything in motion, is Van Rijn’s Muse of Time… But also that it predates Van Rijn instead of being created by them.
    • A great deal of the plot regarding the time after the Time Skip is about who can claim the title of Storm King, especially with Tarvek frozen in Mechanicsburg. Prende, one of the muses, finally reveals who the true Storm King is: it is still Andronicus Valois, who was mured in the Corbettite crypts, and has been undead for the last 200 years, guarded by Prende and her Lantern.
    • Revelation that it was Lucrezia who attacked and killed most of the ancient God-Queens. Thousands of years before she was even born.
  • Wham Line: (Поворотная фраза)
    • An early one in the series.
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Gil: I think he [Dr. Beetle] threw a bomb at you.

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  • Klaus is a fountain of these.
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Klaus: Is she Lucrezia and Bill’s? Or a surprise on Barry’s part?

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  • Klaus delivers one In-Universe when he casually reveals that he’s married. Othar is (for once) completely flabbergasted, as apparently no-one has even heard of this.
  • «I believe the ignorant refer to them as slaver wasps.»
  • «Yes… but I vas starting to like her.» Also pulling double duty as a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner.
  • Violetta, in the last panel. The whole last row, really. We knew it all along, but the lady in the chair didn’t.
  • «Just go to sleep.»
  • «WRONG!»
  • «I AM the Storm King.»
  • «We thought you were lost! Like everyone in Mechanicsburg!»
  • «All right, out with it. We’ve lost what, six months?» «Two and a half years.»
  • «Martellus, there is no empire.»
  • The comic even manages to include a Wham Line that we can’t read.
  • «The girl is still dangerous, and my son is still too much of a fool to see it.» From the mouth of Gilgamesh Wulfenbach.
  • «And they used to be men. Sometimes even they forget that.» This is Higgs' response to Gil when asked what he knows about the Jägers. We technically did know this as the Castle explained the Jaegerdaught to Moloch, but it is further proof that Higgs is a Jaeger general as he wasn’t there for that explanation.
  • «They’re not omniscient. My father says they’re simply tangential to time as we know it, and… „And… they had hats…“» Gil realizes what the Dreen are.
  • «No. Your „Storm King“, or whatever his imagined claim, is not the true Storm King. The Lantern must not be moved.» According to the Muse Prende, in the catacombs below Paris. In the end, The Lantern is moved and the original :* Storm King, Andronicus Valois, appears as the undead interred in Prende’s chamber.
  • Vole isn’t sure he feels like fighting any more.
  • Geisterdame: Skifander
  • Jenka to Andronicus Valois: «Vell, dis leedle doggie vants to know vot hyu did vit her luffly fangs vunce hyu pulled dem!»
  • Tarvek: «Oh are you going to threaten me? Then here, do it right. Because if you don’t believe by now that I will do anything for Agatha then it all ends here anyway. Doesn’t it, General?» (Note, this is addressed to Airman Higgs.)
  • Trelawney Thorpe: «So long ago that nobody but she remembers, Albia was like you or me. A regular Spark. A strong one, but still a Spark. The kind we know today. This, the Queen’s Henge, this is what she created after she broke through again.»
  • Queen Albia, from her Well of Memories: «Oh. OH. How…how could we have… We have not examined this memory in centuries! We did not know! We did not remember! But… it was she! It was Lucrezia! Lucrezia Mongfish!» — who killed the ancient queens and sabotaged their mirrors.
  • «Within fifty cycles of your star — everyone on this world. Dead.» We know from Othar’s Twitter that the world went to hell after he retired with his Geister wife and that he was sent back to time by an aged Tarvek to help stop the :* Bad Future. We also know Agatha will win due to the epilogue stories, so it’s clear Othar’s presence will or has in someway saved the future. However, this line is an indication that we are finally nearing the true turning point which will determine how and why the heroes will beat the Other.
  • «If it was very bad… Heh… Why, then you would have Dreen.»
  • «So for now, they chose to focus their loyalty on the lady Hererodyne: their Holy Child. A loophole in their geas, if you like.»
  • What the Hell, Hero?: (Что за фигня, герой?) «TRULY YOU ARE YOUR MOTHER’S CHILD!» More understandable than some, since the one calling out Agatha murdered her adoptive parents in cold blood, but everyone who knew Von Pinn personally considers her tough but fair, and likes her. And she is the closest thing Gil had to a mother. Agatha’s response is a heck of a lot of guilt.
  • Why Won’t You Die?: (Когда же ты сдохнешь)
    • Zola quickly learns that Higgs is very hard to kill.
    • Martellus as the same reaction to DuPree.
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Tweedle: Die already! Bang: No!

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  • Yandere: (Яндере) Fraulein Snaug is getting a bit too enthusiastic about her crush on Moloch, responding with surprising aggression when he admitted his crush on Sanaa. Good thing Violetta clarified that she wasn’t involved with him. Even her reaction when she finds out she might have at least as much a chance with him as Sanaa does suggests she equates love with killing.
    • Also Tarvek’s cousin «Seffie». She claims she’s just interested in Gil purely for political reasons, but her behavior around him, including a tendency to look through his personal mail for love letters and to smash furniture when her main rival for his affections gets mentioned, suggests the situation is not so cut and dried.
  • You Are in Command Now: (Внезапное повышение в звании) Dimo is pressed into service as a General, because he’s the resident «schmot guy», and because all of the other Generals are unavailable.
  • Внезапное повышение в звании — Гил вызывает этот троп в армии, которая атакует его в одной из глав. Впрочем, новоявленный командир своему внезапному карьерному росту радовался недолго.
  • You Can’t Fight Fate: (Спор с судьбой) Brought up early on by, of all people, Bangladesh DuPree with regards to the visions seen from the electric phenomena, which appear to be portals/visions from the future.
  • You Shall Not Pass!: (Кому-то идти в заслон) Zulenna against Von Pinn. She actually succeeds until DuPree arrives.
  • A Mech by Any Other Name (Не меха) — Clanks, which are a steampunk version and vary in size from passing-as-a-pocket-watch to roughly-human all the way up to terrifyingly-large. The most common ones are humanoid, but there have also been examples of animal shaped (both normal and mythological) and there was even an entire circus caravan of trailers that sprouted limbs (and/or wings) and brought the pain on some very surprised soldiers.
  • Agent Peacock (Думать о красе ногтей) — Tarvek is looking more and more like one of these, particularly when his response to the possibility of Agatha’s becoming an Evil Queen is to speculate on how well she’d pull off the outfit. When Violetta is concerned he’s not feeling well at a party, his comment her sweet hairpiece needs adjusting assures her he’s fine, and when the new Master of Paris needed a new outfit, Tarvek had one pulled together in moments. Meanwhile, once he let the Obfuscating Stupidity fall, he became so well known for kicking tail that when his grandmother wanted to see him over his objections, the «messenger» she sent was completely invulnerable to attack by pointy and blunt objects, and he’s performed feats of endurance, skill, and strength that left the Jaegers in awe.
  • Crazy Is Cool: (Безумная клёвость)
    • Jägers are a race of Crazy Is Cool individuals.
    • Excited Sparks tend to act this way with an added Genius Bruiser flavor.
    • Snaug may also count. She sees dangerous, potentially-fatal experimentation as fun.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: (Такую возможность упустили!)
    • The near collapse of the Wulfenbach Empire, the Storm King conspiracy’s plan to turn Gil into their next public leader and the new war with the Other were all set up to be important plot points when the time skip first happened but were quickly pushed to the background or even forgotten about shortly after.
    • Despite Punch and Judy being revived and reunited with Agatha, they offer her no new insights on her parents, her uncle or their conflict with the Other, and haven’t shown upon again after Agatha sets out on her mission to free Mechanicsburg.
    • After years of the readers waiting for Agatha and her companions to get to England…they promptly get shuttled off to an enclosed lab and caught up in a conspiracy, while barely anything is seen of Londinium or its people; the most we get is Gil and Trelawny Thorpe taking a brief stroll through the streets, having lunch in a cafe and fighting off minions. Since Trelawny mentions that English people are far more accepting of Sparks (as without them the Sunken City wouldn’t be able to exist) it’s a shame that we never get to see much of English culture and society, in stark comparison to the time that Agatha and her companions spent roaming around and under Paris.
  • The Un-Twist: (Конец немного предсказуем)
    • Supposedly the Baron died when the battles in Mechanicsburg started and the hospital got bombed. Very few were surprised when the Baron showed up, very much alive, some time later.
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Gil and Tarvek: I knew it!

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  • Lady Margarella. Readers should know better. She lives and survives in a Decadent Court and was the wife of an important person(?) Just look at her character’s spoiler-ed bits. Seeing that some families in the comic are even color-coded, it wasn’t too difficult to figure out who she belonged to.
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Violetta: ... It's okay Auntie. You can drop the act. The Lady Heterodyne knows what our family's like.

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  • Ugly Cute: (Уродливо красивый)
    • The toothy, beady-eyed, eight-legged little revenant-detectors that were re-engineered from weasels.
    • Quite a few of the Jägers count as well.
    • The artwork itself can be this for some people, straddling the line between cute and Gonk.
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