History Awesome / Worm

* Taylor's evolution throughout the story. She starts out a nervous, bullied, insecure girl who wants to be a hero and slowly turns into a Smart, Terrifying, Bad-ass villain with a code of honor and a fearsome reputation.

%% Scourge

* When the Undersiders discover that Noelle has been set loose, Skitter is coming off the wake of being caught and blinded in an explosion, shot twice (admittedly while wearing her bulletproof spidersilk costume), being trapped in a burning building, falling out the window of said burning building, and getting kicked in the chest by Imp. [[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/scourge-19-2/#comment-11375 In the words of Saintsant commenting on 19.2]], she then "proceeds to give not even the vestigial shadow of a fuck." Quick stop at a hospital for a checkup, quick dropping off of Dinah at home, and then she leads her team right up to [[EnemyMine the PRT headquarters]] to volunteer for the fight against the second-deadliest opponent she's ever faced.

* When the Undersiders discover that Noelle has been set loose, Skitter is coming off the wake of being caught in an explosion, shot twice (admittedly while wearing her bulletproof spidersilk costume), being trapped in a burning building, falling out the window of said burning building, and getting kicked in the chest by Imp. [[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/scourge-19-2/#comment-11375 In the words of Saintsant commenting on 19.2]], she then "proceeds to give not even the vestigial shadow of a fuck." Quick stop at a hospital for a checkup, quick dropping off of Dinah at home, and then she leads her team right up to [[EnemyMine the PRT headquarters]] to volunteer for the fight against the second-deadliest opponent she's ever faced.

* When the Undersiders discover that Noelle has been set loose, Skitter is coming off the wake of being caught in an explosion, shot twice (admittedly while wearing her bulletproof spidersilk costume), being trapped in a burning building, falling out the window of said burning building, and getting kicked in the chest by Imp. [[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/scourge-19-2/#comment-11375 In the words of Saintsant commenting on 19.2]], she then "proceeds to give not even the vestigial shadow of a fuck." Quick stop at a hospital for a checkup, quick dropping off of Dinah at home, and then she leads her team right up to [[EnemyMine the PRT headquarters]] to volunteer for the fight against the deadliest opponent she's ever faced.

* When the Undersiders discover that Noelle has been set loose, Skitter is coming off the wake of being caught in an explosion, shot twice (admittedly while wearing her bulletproof spidersilk costume), being trapped in a burning building, falling out the window of said burning building, and getting kicked in the chest by Imp. [[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/scourge-19-2/#comment-11375 In the words of Saintsant commenting on 19.2]], she then "proceeds to give not even the vestigial shadow of a fuck." Quick stop at a hospital for a checkup, quick dropping off of Dinah at home, and then she leads her team right up to the PRT headquarters to volunteer for the fight against the deadliest opponent she's ever faced.

%% Queen

* Taylor fights Mannequin of the Slaughterhouse Nine, a tinker that has drastically modified his body and is as perfect a counter to her power as can be imagined and has just murdered two paramedics and a doctor in front of her. Taylor, unbelievably angry at her people being hurt, tells him that she will make him pay and after a grueling and vicious fight, she actually manages to win!

* Bitch's hideout is threatened by the Pure and Taylor is caught without her costume. So she surrounds herself with carefully directed insects, which not only conceals her identity but intimidates her opponents with a giant, creepy-looking, apparently-bulletproof human-shaped swarm and scares them off.

* Bitch's hideout is threatened by the Pure and Taylor is caught without her costume. So she surrounds herself with carefully directed insects, which not only conceals her identity but intimidates her opponents with a giant, creepy-looking apparently-bulletproof human-shaped swarm and scares them off.

* Bitch's hideout is threatened by the Pure and Taylor is caught without her costume. So she surrounds herself with carefully directed insects, which not only conceals her identity but intimidates her opponents with a giant, creepy-looking human-shaped swarm that scares them off.

* Taylor has a rematch with Lung, a villain who becomes more powerful and harder to beat as he fights and has already taken down her allies. Lung is extremely pissed at her for terrible injuries in their first encounter. He begins to toy with her, not taking her or her power seriously. Taylor tells him not to underestimate her, and smashes a caterpillar covered in a very powerful hallucinogen in his eye, briefly incapacitating him. Before he can recover and attack, She slowly and methodically CUTS OUT HIS EYES WITH A KNIFE knowing that it will take weeks for him to regenerate them.

* While a few don't agree with how far she went to get the Mayor to support them, no one can deny how amazing Taylor was when she was sent to fight him. She takes on two heroes and calmly comes up with clever strategies and tactics on the fly in response to their powers. She easily wins what should have been a tough fight and is extremely BRUTAL when she takes down Triumph. The heroes finally realize after this fight that she is beating people she should have no chance against and assigned her a Thinker 1 status due to her amazing planning.

* In ''Insinuation'', Bitch gives the hurt command to her dogs to hurt Taylor and scare her off of joining the Undersiders. She is bitten bad enough to need stitches, and Bitch has the ability to turn her dogs into huge monsters, and is known for having killed someone before. Reminded of the bullies at school, Taylor refuses to back down, knocks Bitch over before she can give a command to her dogs, and kicks the crap out her. Something that actually earns Bitch’s respect for the sheer guts it took to do that.
* Taylor endures severe bullying at school, made worse by the fact that one of her chief tormentors is her former best friend, who inexplicably turned on her and made her life hell. In ''Hive'' she encounters Emma with her dad at a store, with Emma putting on a fake smile and pretending like nothing is wrong. What does Taylor do? Thinking back to all of the fake smiles she was given by her, she shocks herself by instantly punching her in the face and knocking her on her ass!
* In ''Hive'', Taylor has a rematch with Lung, a villain who becomes more powerful and harder to beat as he fights and has already taken down her allies. Lung is extremely pissed at her for terrible injuries in their first encounter. He begins to toy with her, not taking her or her power seriously. Taylor tells him not to underestimate her, and smashes a caterpillar covered in a very powerful hallucinogen in his eye, briefly incapacitating him. Before he can recover and attack, She slowly and methodically CUTS OUT HIS EYES WITH A KNIFE knowing that it will take weeks for him to regenerate them.
* In ''Buzz'', Bitch's hideout is threatened by the Pure and Taylor is caught without her costume. So she surrounds herself with carefully directed insects, which not only conceals her identity but intimidates her opponents with a giant, creepy-looking human-shaped swarm that scares them off.
* In ''Extermination '': [[spoiler:[[NighInvulnerability Levia]][[TheJuggernaut than]] has just shrugged off many of the strongest parahumans in the setting and is now attacking a shelter full of civilians. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark Nobody else is around and her tracker is broken]]. Taylor is heavily injured, already [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood considered]] a villain and the civilians include a [[AdultsAreUseless teacher]] who stood by as her life was made [[TheBully a living hell]]. [[ForegoneConclusion She refuses to be like the teacher who stood by, and]] [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu attacks]] saving many lives.]]
* In the Interlude of ''Parasite '': After they discover Shadow Stalker’s true identity, Taylor refuses to seek revenge. When Regent takes [[PeoplePuppets control]] of her for a mission, he fakes driving her out of town for his team. In actual fact he puts her through a HumiliationConga by exposing all her misdeeds that he can and revealing her nature to her family, culminating in nearly having her kill herself, all because she messed with [[PetTheDog his teammate]] and he knows she'd never do it herself.
* In ''Infestation'', Taylor defends her new territory from the Merchants, having her swarms form in human shapes and slowly surrounding, scaring, and mauling them with her bugs, while she calmly drinks tea.
* In ''Plague'', Taylor fights Mannequin of the Slaughterhouse Nine, a tinker that has drastically modified his body and is as perfect a counter to her power as can be imagined and has just murdered two paramedics and a doctor in front of her. Taylor, unbelievably angry at her people being hurt, tells him that she will make him pay and after a grueling and vicious fight, she actually manages to win!
* In ''Snare '': When Cherish starts revealing chunks of her past to screw with her, Lisa responds by calmly reading her opponent for every single piece of information Cherish intended for use as leverage and smirks at how stupid she was.
** [[spoiler: When the Undersiders are captured by the 9 and Taylor is about to be killed, Brian is so angry that he has a 2nd trigger event, kills Burnscar, and rescues them. What is more amazing is that he was able to do this even after having been terribly tortured by Mannequin and Bonesaw.]]
* In the interlude of ''Prey'', Skitter rescues Sierra and Charlotte from some traitorous minions and we finally see an outsider perspective on Taylor. She is described as a terrifying figure with a face covered in a shifting mass of bugs, who speaks in a voice of the legion, and casually describes how she can rot the flesh off of people. We know that Tayler was bluffing, but you realize just how scary she can be when she casually asks “Hand or knee?”.
* In ''Colony'', the Undersiders take on the Chosen and kick their ass so badly, they force them to pay a tax for daring to enter their new territory, which is now the entire city.

* While a few don't agree with how far she went to get the Mayor to support them, no one can deny how amazing Taylor was in ''Colony''. She takes on two heroes and calmly comes up with clever strategies and tactics on the fly in response to their powers. She easily wins what should have been a tough fight and is extremely BRUTAL when she takes down Triumph. The heroes finally realize after this fight that she is beating people she should have no chance against and assigned her a Thinker 1 status due to her amazing planning.
* In ''Monarch'', the heroes have begun a counterattack with SEVEN suits designed by the greatest Tinker in the world and capture Bitch and several members of the Travelers. Taylor has an amazing debut as the new leader of the Undersiders by bringing the fight against the heroes. Using a great synergy of powers and tactics, they OWN the heroes with Skitter and Trickster taking out half of them by themselves. Her plan culminates in the kidnapping of the director of the PRT and temporarily shutting down the Dragon suits, giving them leverage to get their teammates back.

** [[spoiler:When Skitter is betrayed by Coil, she is teleported to a building surrounded with a small army of heavily armed mercenaries, immediately shot and the building is set on fire. In agony, choking on smoke, and with the only escape covered by soldiers she forces herself to think calmly and plan out a attack. She uses cockroaches to eat the wires of their lights, has her bugs form into humanoid figures to act as decoys to draw their fire, pulls the pins of grenades of soldiers, and engages in psychological warfare by talking through her swarm to freak out/disorient the soldiers creating complete chaos. She then attacks a solider from behind, forcing bugs down his throat and nose while she beats the crap of him, steals his keys, and escapes in all of the chaos. Special mention goes to the fact that Coil has to specifically order and remind the soilders not to use grenades, implying that in another reality she caught them with her bugs and threw them back. She probably already killed Coil in another reality and she doesn't even know it! ]]

** [[spoiler:The Undersiders are surrounded by Coils other villains and his entire army of mercenaries and Taylor negotiates showing them Tattletale to prove that he hasn't killed her. Then he orders his men to fire. Cue the Reveal that Tattletale and Taylor always knew that he would betray them and planned for it. Tattletale used her ability to manipulate Coil to miss the fact the she was gathering large amounts of money that he knew nothing about and waited until he had spent so much of his funds on rebuilding the city and buying info from the Dragon Slayers. Then she simply went to all of his mercenaries and offered to double their fee for simply doing nothing and working for her. She only wanted to wait until he used his ability to split off realities in front of them where he couldn't escape. When Coil offers to Triple their funds, Tattletale gleefully points out he doesn't have it and he should have remembered that mercenaries always follow the money. Taylor takes advantage of the discontent of the Travelers to turn Ballistic to their side and he incapacitates the rest of his former team. The confrontation ends when Taylor, always knowing that this might happen and mentally preparing herself for it, shoots him in the head and finally rescues Dinah. With with only one shot, The Undersiders have officially become the complete and utter rulers of the Underworld in Brockton Bay. ]]

* Taylor's evolution throughout the story. She starts out a nervous, bullied, insecure girl who wants to be a hero and slowly becomes a scary, smart, bad-ass villain with a code of honor and a fearsome reputation.

* In ''Extermination '': [[spoiler:[[NighInvulnerability Levia]][[TheJuggernaut than]] has just shrugged off many of the strongest parahumans in the setting and is now attacking a shelter full of civilians. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark Nobody else is around and her tracker is broken]]. She's heavily injured, already [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood considered]] a villain and the civilians include a [[AdultsAreUseless teacher]] who stood by as her life was made [[TheBully a living hell]]. [[ForegoneConclusion She refuses to be like the teacher who stood by, and]] [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu attacks]] saving many lives.]]

* In the interlude of ''Prey'', Skitter rescues Sierra and Charlotte from some traitorous minions and we finally see an outsider perspective on Taylor. She is described as a terrifying figure with a face covered in a shifting mass of bugs, who speaks in a voice of the legion, and casually describes how she can rot the flesh off of people. We know that Tyler was bluffing, but you realize just how scary she can be when she casually asks “Hand or knee?”.

* Taylor's evolution throughout the story. She starts out a nervous, bullied, insecure girl who wants to be a hero and slowly becomes a scary, smart, bad-ass villain with a code of honor with a fearsome reputation.

* In "Colony", the Undersiders take on the Chosen and kick their ass so badly, they force them to pay a tax for daring to enter their new territory, which is now the entire city.
* Taylor's evolution throughout the story. She starts out a nervous, bullied, insecure girl who wants to be a hero and slowly becomes a scary, smart, bad-ass villain with a code of honor that others take notice of.

* In ''Plague''m, Taylor fights Mannequin of the Slaughterhouse Nine, a tinker that has drastically modified his body and is as perfect a counter to her power as can be imagined and has just murdered two paramedics and a doctor in front of her. Taylor, unbelievably angry at her people being hurt, tells him that she will make him pay and after a grueling and vicious fight, she actually manages to win!

In Hive, Taylor has a rematch with Lung, a villain who becomes more powerful and harder to beat as he fights and has already taken down her allies. Lung is extremely pissed at her for terrible injuries in their first encounter. He begins to toy with her, not taking her or her power seriously. Taylor tells him not to underestimate her, and smashes a caterpillar covered in a very powerful hallucinogen in his eye, briefly incapacitating him. Before he can recover and attack, She slowly and methodically CUTS OUT HIS EYES WITH A KNIFE knowing that it will take weeks for him to regenerate them.

In Infestation, Taylor defends her new territory from the Merchants, having her swarms form in human shapes and slowly surrounding, scaring, and mauling them with her bugs, while she calmly drinks tea.

In Plague, Taylor fights mannequin of the Slaughterhouse Nine, a tinker that has drastically modified his body and is as perfect a counter to her power as can be imagined and has just murdered two paramedics and a doctor in front of her. Taylor, unbelievably angry at her people being hurt, tells him that she will make him pay and after a grueling and vicious fight, she actually manages to win!

Taylor's evolution throughout the story. She starts out a nervous, bullied, insecure girl who wants to be a hero and slowly becomes a scary, smart, bad-ass villain with a code of honor that others take notice of.

Taylor evolution throughout the story. She starts out a nervous, bullied, insecure girl who wants to be a hero and slowly becomes a scary, smart, bad-ass villain with a code of honor that others take notice of.