Girl Genius: VIII Will Show Them All!

[Mando Knight]

Kingbot was doing Agatha's little Heterodyne hum before... I think that might have something to do with direct control over the dingbots, since the tune allowed Agatha to direct her clanks by using the organ...

[golentan]

'Course, if IT turns on her she's only magnified the problem.

Also, a Nice Hat is the single best method of determining who's in charge. Which method of determining who gets the Hat is best is a matter of some dispute.

[ChowGuy]

Kingbot is a nice pun on Dingbot. I vote for that (or I would if I had a vote...).

Obviously his name is Dong.

Hopefully as in Ding Dong, not Konkey Dong. Well he does have a thing for the blond chick at least. Just keep him away from tall buildings!

[Zazu Yen]

Notice how when the crown came out the two Dingbot Prim's eyes turned blue? The other dibgbots eyes turned when the KingDing (Ding King, Kingbot, King Dong, Emperor Dingbot or whatever we settle on), Heterodyned. The Primes needed extra persuasion.

Actually they started turning blue when they kneeled at it's gesture, but went full blue when the crown sparked up.

One Dingbot to rule them all, indeed. They seem to have no choice in the matter.

It looks like the K.D. pointed at the downed dog clank, but we'll just have to see what they're going to do with it.

[memnarch]

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Theo's face just takes the cake.

[BRC]

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Moloch's knowledge of Sparks seems to carry over to Robo-sparks.

[Knight13]

That just might be the doomiest doom ever.

[golentan]

That just might be the doomiest doom ever.

They are doomy dooms of doom.

Got to agree that Theo's face makes this strip.

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"Doomed, Doomed, we're all DOOMED!!"

I'm wondering what Moloch is talking about. I don't recall him ever seeing the dingbots in action before. Maybe there's something out there like the dingbots which he's encountered previously, and has bad experiences with. Given that Sparks tend to forget to put safe parameters in their creations, that's certainly possible. Hopefully Agatha programmed KingDingBot to be more careful.

Hopefully.

[ChowGuy]

Well the most unusual thing about that is Moloch and the sparks being on the same page about something. Then again, they have different reasons - the sparks are afraid the dings will take away their jobs, and Moloch is afraid they won't.

[Gez]

Moloch may simply prefer to keep these Sparks running in circles rather than doing, you know, Sparky things.

[Zazu Yen]

Come now, Moloch is Minion Prime and very Genre Savvy, if he hasn't seen it directly at least he can extrapolate the most likely results with some accuracy. And we don't know what he saw while in the employ of Duke D'omas all that time ago.



"They are building! Designing!"
"Spitting in the face of the creator!"
"Warping science!"
"They're taking our JOBS!"

Priceless.

[Ganurath]

Theo, Theo, Theo... Time to learn the number one rule for surviving Unsupervised Sparks:

Moloch is always right.

[Zazu Yen]

They've lead on that it's the Dingbots, but I hope that familiar BOOM! is not Zola getting to the top of the shaft. I'm thinking it is though, and she's making extra sure no one is coming up after her. Particularly likely if her inner Lucrezia has informed her of the self-destruct off switch.

We may soon learn where Higgs allegiance lies.

[small pumpkin m]

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dun dun DUNN!


Presumably people with more free time that me will explain how this fits into their neatly constructed theories of Higgs' background.

[slayerx]

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dun dun DUNN!


Presumably people with more free time that me will explain how this fits into their neatly constructed theories of Higgs' background.

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oh that's easy... all you have to do is start with "Higgs is familiar with the layout of der kestle", and the theories practially write themselves.

[golentan]

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Higgs is a heterodyne boy. Higgs is lucrezia's dad. Higgs is Wulfenbach Sr. Higgs is der kestle. Higgs is the time travelling son of Barry and Lucrezia's Dad, who was/will be used as the template for der kestle's brain.

Aren't crazy theories fun? (note, only the first two are actual theories I hold)

[Coidzor]

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Personally, I just like to think Higgs is God and slumming it. Pretty much shooting straight to the top of the crackpot without going into bat insane territory, like Cthulhu or the embodiment of Furryism's penetrating all levels of the internet.

[TigerHunter]

Higgs is Gil and Zeetha's mother!

[Aquillion]

Time Lord.

Come on, people, it all makes sense.

[Coidzor]

Time Lord.

Come on, people, it all makes sense.

I didn't think Time Lords were particularly known for their patience? Granted, I've only seen a bit of Doctors 9 and 10...

[ChowGuy]

People, have you forgotten who's still unaccounted for? Higgs is ... Von Pinn! huh? No the original Von Pinn, not the Von Pinn who is actually Otilia, who is actually Der Kestle. Of course, it's possible he's in Klaus Barry's now grown body, and Klaus Barry is actually Der Nutty Kestle? nah...

[HandofShadows]

Higgs does seem rather concerned about Gil. But it's VERY clear that he has a huge connection to Der Kastel and Agatha's family. And he knows something Der Kastel did NOT know (the hidden path to lab). Figuring out what the story behind Higgs will be interesting. Nice to see other people are catching on Higgs is far more than he seems.

[lord_khaine]

Higgs does seem rather concerned about Gil. But it's VERY clear that he has a huge connection to Der Kastel and Agatha's family. And he knows something Der Kastel did NOT know (the hidden path to lab). Figuring out what the story behind Higgs will be interesting. Nice to see other people are catching on Higgs is far more than he seems.

We really cant expect anything said by Higgs to be the truth, considering how many secrets he seems to be keeping.

Looking out for Gil might just be a excuse to go check up on Agatha

[Tiger Duck]

I liked original "The unstoppable Higgs" more than "Mystery past" Higgs.

And I still hope that they are 2 different peoples.

[Mauve Shirt]

Higgs is Lucrezia's son by Klaus, and is attached to both families. Also he's a Time Lord.

[Megaduck]

Higgs is Agetha from the future who's had a sex change.

[The Glyphstone]

There were actually four Wulfenbach brothers, not three. Klaus was assembled out of the eldest three, but everyone forgot about the baby.

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And regarding theories, let's not forget "Higgs is actually Klaus Barry"...

OK, so most of the group is going to go and try to rescue Agatha, Gil, Tarvek, etc, etc, and just let the dingbots work on the Devil Dog unsupervised except for the scientists. Right. I see no way that could go bad.

Theo is VERY pragmatic. I like that.

And where the heck is Snaug?

[Oracle_Hunter]

"New" Theory - Higgs is a Cylon Sleeper Agent.

He's exhibiting classic cylon Sleeper Agent tendencies - secret knowledge, implausible explanations for the same, unexplained deference from enemies (e.g. Tarvek, Der Kestle).

AFAIK, Higgs & Other Agatha haven't been "formally introduced" yet. All it will take is her (or someone else) invoking the key word to spur a Reveal.