User blog comment:Mnenyver/Klaus's Mistakes/@comment-399212-20090710034054


 * quickly figures out how to rescue them*

Re: Agatha taking after her father's side rather than her mother's... I don't think that's true without qualification. I don't know that much about Barry's guns (let alone anything about what Bill came up with, apart from Punch & Judy), but at least the guns in Dragon King of Mars were depicted as non-lethal. Furthermore, the dingbots self-replicate, which can be an extremely dangerous trait (possibly averted due to their feeding on mechanical energy only), and leads to them coming in swarms.

It just occurred to me that beetles are, in a gross sense, intermediate between trilobites and hymenoptera.

BTW, I think a discussion of each spark's style would be appropriate on their main pages.

— Zarchne 00:39, 23 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I like that idea! Spark styles are fairly important to the story, after all. And true, Agatha has the potential to be extremely dangerous (well, witness her battle with the Baron). However, her goals and intent mitigate that, just as the heroism of the Heterodyne Boys turned their hugely destructive spark to good use. Actually, this is true for all sparks. They all have the potential for massive destruction, which is why I guess they're called "madboys". --mnenyver 02:48, 23 June 2008 (UTC)