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** Given the setting, it's not entirely unsurprising that this attitude exists. Bang has encountered people [[TooDumbToLive with these attitudes towards her]]. Consequently, the people who replace them do not share these opinions, and are exceedingly polite towards Bang for good measure. Klaus is well aware of this, and doesn't mind.
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** Given the setting, it's not entirely unsurprising that this attitude exists. Bang has encountered people [[TooDumbToLive with these attitudes towards her]]. Consequently, the people who replace them do not share these opinions, and are exceedingly polite towards Bang for good measure. Klaus is well aware of this, [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste and doesn't mind.mind]] since the replacements tend to be at least a little smarter.
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* AdaptationExpansion: More than in ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheAirshipCity''; for example, Agatha and Lars' relationship is given more time to develop.
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* AdaptationExpansion: More than in ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheAirshipCity''; for example, ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheAirshipCity''. For instance, Zeetha has more opportunities to talk about Skifander and evidently become close friends with Agatha, and Agatha and Lars' relationship is given more time to develop.develop.
* AdaptationalSkimpiness: In the comic when Lucrezia is admiring her 'new body' she strips down to her underwear, while in the book she strips ''naked,'' nearly short-circuiting Tarvek, and makes a show of getting slowly dressed again in order to get an (ahem) rise out of him.
* AdaptationalSkimpiness: In the comic when Lucrezia is admiring her 'new body' she strips down to her underwear, while in the book she strips ''naked,'' nearly short-circuiting Tarvek, and makes a show of getting slowly dressed again in order to get an (ahem) rise out of him.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Inverted when Agatha is invited to dinner with Prince Aaronev. Her circus friends make her look as plain and unappealing as possible to make sure she doesn't have to worry about any unwanted advances. Tarvek (being an expert on fashion) is initially mildly put out and thinks they tried to send the wrong girl... until he realizes that it was completely intentional, and is impressed by the genius of it: Perfectly neutral, too ugly to attract attention, but not so much that the prince would take it as an intentional insult.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Inverted when Agatha is invited to dinner with Prince Aaronev. Her circus friends make her look as plain and unappealing as possible to make sure she doesn't have to worry about any unwanted advances.advances; they put her in a good dress but with a colour (sea-foam green) that would be terrible on almost anyone and ''hideous'' on Agatha, and while her hair is stylish and her makeup flawless, she looks totally uninteresting. Tarvek (being an expert on fashion) is initially mildly put out and thinks they tried to send the wrong girl... until he realizes that it was completely intentional, and is impressed by the genius of it: Perfectly neutral, too ugly to attract attention, but not so much that the prince would take it as an intentional insult.
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* SuperstitiousSailors: Klaus has channeled this to improve the quality of his Navy by creating his own superstitions. Good luck things are minor, insignificant coincidences, like two ships signaling readiness simultaneously. Bad luck things are things that genuinely could cause problems, like not stowing unused tools, failing to check safety lines, and lighting a match near flammable gasses.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: Many of the members of Master Payne's Circus are minor Sparks who conceal this by pretending to be actors pretending to be Sparks.
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* BrickJoke: See below under GoneHorriblyRight; Dame Aedith is later shown being harassed by the bat while trying to do her knife-act in Sturmhalten.
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** See below under GoneHorriblyRight; Dame Aedith is later shown being harassed by the bat while trying to do her knife-act inSturmhalten.Sturmhalten.
** Master Payne's discussion on weak, uneducated Sparks posits the question of what, exactly a Sparky small-town cobbler is going to do with his gift. At the end of the book, it is revealed that one of the minor Sparks in the circus ''is'' a cobbler, who was run out of town for making very comfortable shoes that make people compulsively want to dance if they stand still too often, which can be awkward at funerals.
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** Master Payne's discussion on weak, uneducated Sparks posits the question of what, exactly a Sparky small-town cobbler is going to do with his gift. At the end of the book, it is revealed that one of the minor Sparks in the circus ''is'' a cobbler, who was run out of town for making very comfortable shoes that make people compulsively want to dance if they stand still too often, which can be awkward at funerals.
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* InsultBackfire: Gil apparently once said that Bang's quarters had a "Debauched Barbarian Princess" look. He meant it as an insult, but once Bang learned what the word "debauched" means, she worked hard to live up to it.
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* InsultBackfire: Gil apparently once said that Bang's quarters had a "Debauched Barbarian Princess" look. He meant it as an insult, but once Bang learned what the word "debauched" means, meant, she worked hard to live up to it.
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* InsultBackfire: Gil apparently once said that Bang's quarters had a "Debauched Barbarian Princess" look. He meant it as an insult, but once Bang learned what the word "debauched" means, she worked hard to live up to it.
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* MasterActress: Pix; able to fool Gilgamesh Wulfenbach a genius and leader into thinking she's just an ignorant peasant and keeping to the script even when there is a ''very'' good chance she'll get killed in the attempt. The rest of the book goes into her other exploits but this is one of her EstablishingCharacterMoment.
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* MasterActress: Pix; able to fool Gilgamesh Wulfenbach a genius and leader into thinking she's just an ignorant peasant and keeping to the script even when there is a ''very'' good chance she'll get killed in the attempt. The rest of the book goes into her other exploits but this is one of her EstablishingCharacterMoment.
* {{Matricide}}: It's worryingly {{implied|Trope}} that Anevka killed her mother (and [[ButForMeItWasTuesday doesn't think too much of it]]) in a line of dialogue she has with Tarvek.
-->"Is maudlin sentimentality supposed to make me feel guilty about killing you? Because if it didn’t work for Mummy—"
* {{Matricide}}: It's worryingly {{implied|Trope}} that Anevka killed her mother (and [[ButForMeItWasTuesday doesn't think too much of it]]) in a line of dialogue she has with Tarvek.
-->"Is maudlin sentimentality supposed to make me feel guilty about killing you? Because if it didn’t work for Mummy—"
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Anevka kills her father without hesitation to stop him from putting Agatha in the summoning engine, and it's worryingly {{implied|Trope}} that Anevka killed her mother (and [[ButForMeItWasTuesday doesn't think too much of it]]) in a line of dialogue she has with Tarvek.
-->"Is maudlin sentimentality supposed to make me feel guilty about killing you? Because if it didn’t work for Mummy—"
-->"Is maudlin sentimentality supposed to make me feel guilty about killing you? Because if it didn’t work for Mummy—"
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* BadSanta: This universe’s version of Saint Nick is believed to be a spark assisted by a construct named “Blank Peter,” who gets worn down every year and repaired with replacement parts from naughty children.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: How the nobility became nobility. A footnote explains their ancestors were thugs and bandits who went around making other people's lives miserable, until people started giving them things to make them stop.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: How the nobility became nobility. A footnote explains their ancestors were thugs and bandits who went around making other people's lives miserable, until people started giving them things to make them stop.
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* {{Matricide}}: It's worryingly {{implied|Trope}} that Anevka killed her mother (and [[ButForMeItWasTuesday doesn't think too much of it]]) in a line of dialogue she has with Tarvek.
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Preceded by ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheAirshipCity'' and followed by ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheVoiceOfTheCastle''
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Preceded by ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheAirshipCity'' and followed by ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheVoiceOfTheCastle''''Literature/AgathaHAndTheVoiceOfTheCastle''.
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** Vriin gives Agatha a lot of information about The Other, and the geisterdamen, but the way she phrases it means it's still not absolutely clear what happened with Lucrezia and The Other. Likewise, on one or two occasions the narration briefly goes to the Other / Lucrezia's point of view... but doesn't give anything away.
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** Vriin Vrin gives Agatha a lot of information about The the Other, and the geisterdamen, Geisterdamen, but the way she phrases it means it's still not absolutely clear what happened with Lucrezia and The the Other. Likewise, on one or two occasions the narration briefly goes to the Other / Lucrezia's point of view... but doesn't give anything away.
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* BottledHeroicResolve: Lucrezia indulges.
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* BottledHeroicResolve: Lucrezia indulges.indulges in quite a few stimulants to keep herself up and moving around her priestesses. When she's put away and Agatha is back in control of her body she crashes '''hard'''.
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* BusinessTripAdultery: PlayedWith Lord Rudolph Selnikoff is quite blatantly having an affair, or at least regular dalliances, while ''his wife'' is away in Paris or whenever she is on 9ne of her adventures. This is part of the reason he managed not to notice Prince Aaronev's death, since he ordered his staff to give him time alone. [[DirtyOldMan For several hours]].
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* BusinessTripAdultery: PlayedWith Lord Rudolph Selnikoff is quite blatantly having an affair, or at least regular dalliances, while ''his wife'' is away in Paris or whenever she is on 9ne one of her adventures. This is part of the reason he managed not to notice Prince Aaronev's death, since he ordered his staff to give him time alone. [[DirtyOldMan For several hours]].
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* DirtyBusiness: Wooster realizes this after the fact.
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* DirtyBusiness: Wooster realizes his profession (as a spy, not a butler) is this after the fact.he tries to tank Gil's and Agatha's romance by lying about Gil getting engaged. He feels [[CuriousQualmsOfConscience oddly guilty about it]].
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* MadArtist: A rare subset of the Spark, who design things not in an attempt to see whether they can turn entire towns to ham, but simply because it makes the world look ''nicer''. Who cares if it doesn't change science as they know it? It's Art!
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* MadArtist: A rare subset of the Spark, who design things not in an attempt to see whether they can turn entire towns to into ham, but simply because it makes the world look ''nicer''. Who cares if it doesn't change science as they know it? It's Art!
* MasterActress: Pix; able to fool Gilgamesh Wulfenbach a genius and leader into thinking she's just an ignorant peasant and keeping to the script even when there is a ''very'' good chance she'll get killed in the attempt. The rest of the book goes into her other exploits but this is one of her EstablishingCharacterMoment.
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* NothingIsScarier: The way in to Passholdt is unnervingly quiet. The circus waits for hours by the only bridge leading to it, and not a single person comes over it. And as Lars explains, while looking around the town there were several farms outside which had apparently just been abandoned. Or in some cases, burnt out. [[spoiler: The circus eventually learns all too well what the problem is.]]
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* NothingIsScarier: The way in to Infiltrating Passholdt is proves unnervingly quiet. The circus waits for hours by the only bridge leading to it, and not a single person comes over it. And as Lars explains, while looking around the town there were several farms outside which that had apparently just been abandoned. Or in some cases, burnt out. [[spoiler: The circus eventually learns all too well what the problem is.]]
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* ThePrimaDonna: Pix is actually called as such. And she really is. Master Payne has seriously considered just dropping her into a lake, the only reason he hasn't is a magician doesn't do the same thing twice.
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* ThePrimaDonna: Pix is actually called as such. And such, and she really is. Master Payne has seriously considered considers at one point just locking her up in a chest and dropping her into a lake, the only reason he hasn't is a magician doesn't do the same thing twice.twice. Mind you Pix has the acting talent to back this up.
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* BusinessTripAdultery: PlayedWith Lord Rudolph Selnikoff is quite blatantly having an affair, or at least regular dalliances, while ''his wife'' is away in Paris or whenever she is on 9ne of her adventures. This is part of the reason he managed not to notice Prince Aaronev's death, since he ordered his staff to give him time alone. [[DirtyOldMan For several hours]].
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** Lord Selnikov, a man in his middle ages who has gone to seed, manages to get into an overrun Passholdt, grab what he was after and get out again.
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* TheWickedStage: When the rescue party barges into Lord Selnikov's pantry the on duty butler is rightly flumexed by the warrior woman, Jägers and constructs but when its mentioned that Lars is an actor the Butler is able to revert to his social programming and goes to hide the silverware.
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** When Klaus figures out that Agatha is in Sturmhalten, he provides a full chain of logic and calculates based on time versus distance and the fact that Passholdt is out of commission, on top of the fact that that Aaronev loves Heterodyne shows, that the circus is currently in Balan’s Gap. In the comic, his only reasoning is that Aaronev was fiercely loyal to Lucrezia, which made it seem like he was only going off a hunch, whereas the novel lays out a solid chain of reasoning where he establishes that Balan’s Gap is at the very least n excellent starting point for searching for Agatha.
