Mimmoth

From Girl Genius

A mimmoth is a tiny Construct, a mammoth the size of a rat. Mimmoths competed with mice in much of the Girl Genius ecosystem, which is probably a good thing since they're at least cute and entertaining. They seem to be more apt than mice or rats to gravitate toward laboratories, and to gum up the works. Like all Constructs, they were originally created by a Spark.

It is known that mimmoths are tasty in a light butter sauce.^{[citation needed]} It may or may not be significant that one of the bits of junk food served by Master Payne's Circus of Adventure is mimmoths on a stick. This name may, however, be figurative, just as a corn dog is not actually a type of dog, and elephant ears are actually fried dough. It may or may not be significant that pierogi can also come stuffed with mimmoth meat in the non-canon work.

Professor Moonsock seems to have trained some of them, and these, it appears, are not supposed to be eaten.

The first known appearance of a mimmoth in the story is here, in the dormitory's kitchen, but they might have shown up earlier in the chaos of Beetleburg. Mimmoths are like growf dragons in What's New in that they can be found throughout the whole oeuvre of Girl Genius — keep your eyes peeled, you might spot a few!

[edit] Mimmoth Sightings

• First sighting, as mentioned above
• InfestingGil's flyer
• Looking down on the meeting in Gil's lab
• Inside a glass jar—with a neck much too small to fit a mimmoth through
• On top of Gil's tool rack
• Semi-hidden by bowl/vase
• Several in the background to the right of Dingbot Prime
• On the top shelf
• A white one being chased by a dingbot with a hammer
• Krosp chasing a herd
• Are Mimmoths running Moxana?
• Mostly hidden by the "Whatever!" in the upper right in Fan Fiction
• In the sewers of Sturmhalten
• Watching Agatha's morning run in Personal Trainer
• True mess of them, they're everywhere!
• Fairly close-up view
• On a keg
• Trapped in the Spiderroach web.
• Peeking out of the wall
• Panel 3 Big one in Tarvek's Arms in

[edit] Secret Blueprints

Mimmoths are described in the Glossary of the Secret Blueprints, where it is mentioned they get into machines and cause problems with their tusks.

[edit] The Works

Mimmoths are also several cards in "The Works", where they are described as Pests as well as Constructs. The "Instruction" for the cards seems to imply that mimmoths travel or swarm in herds — obtain one mimmoth and you usually get them all.